Prodigy, Prodigies or The Prodigy may refer to: *

Child prodigy A child prodigy is, technically, a child under the age of 10 who produces meaningful work in some domain at the level of an adult expert. The term is also applied more broadly to describe young people who are extraordinarily talented in some f ...

, a child who produces meaningful output to the level of an adult expert performer **

Chess prodigy Chess is a board game for two players. It is an abstract strategy game that involves no hidden information and no elements of chance. It is played on a square board consisting of 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid. The players, referred to ...

, a child who can beat experienced adult players at chess

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

* Prodigy, a persona of Spider-Man in the '' Spider-Man: Identity Crisis'' storyline *

Prodigy (Ritchie Gilmore) Karen Page Pagon Paibok Doctor Paine Dr. Thaddeus Paine is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character, created by Len Kaminski, first appeared in ''Morbius the Living Vampire'' #4 (Dece ...

, a Marvel Comics superhero *

Prodigy (David Alleyne) Prodigy (David Alleyne) is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Nunzio DeFilippis, Christina Weir, and Keron Grant, the character first appeared in ''New Mutants'' (vol. 2) #4 (October 2003). Prodi ...

, a Marvel Comics superhero commonly associated with the X-Men *

Franziska von Karma Franziska von Karma, known as in Japanese, is a character in the ''Ace Attorney'' series. She first appeared as the rival prosecutor to protagonist Phoenix Wright in '' Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Justice for All'', replacing former rival ...

, an ''Ace Attorney'' character also known as "The Prodigy" * In the video game

Elden Ring is a 2022 action role-playing game developed by FromSoftware and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. It was directed by Hidetaka Miyazaki with worldbuilding provided by the American fantasy writer George R. R. Martin. It was released o ...

, Miquella and Malenia are known as twin prodigies

Film

* ''The Prodigies'' (film), a 2011 French-British film * ''The Prodigy'' (film), a 2019 American horror thriller film

Television

* "Prodigy", a 2000 episode of ''Dark Angel'' * "Prodigy", a 2001 episode of ''Stargate SG-1'' (season 4) * ''The Prodigy'' (TV series), a proposed 2007 reality TV show that never aired * '' Star Trek: Prodigy'' (TV series), a 2021 children's science fiction TV series

Literature

* ''

Prodigy. ''Prodigy.'' is a British American comic book, comic book series created by Mark Millar and Rafael Albuquerque, who respectively write and illustrate the first volume, and published by Image Comics. The title was announced near the end of 2018 as ...

'', a 2018 comic book series * ''Prodigy'' (novel), a 2013 novel by Marie Lu * '' Beneath the Wheel'' or ''The Prodigy'', a 1906 novel by Hermann Hesse * '' Isaac Asimov's Robot City: Prodigy'', a 1988 novel by Arthur Byron Cover * " The Prodigies", an 1897 short story by Willa Cather

Music

Fender Prodigy The Fender Prodigy is a discontinued model of electric guitar produced by Fender from 1991 to 1993. It is one of Fender's attempts to compete with the superstrat-style guitars produced by Ibanez, Jackson/ Charvel, Carvin Corporation and Yamaha. ...

, an electric guitar produced from 1991 to 1993 *

Moog Prodigy The Moog Prodigy was a monophonic analogue synthesizer produced by Moog Music from 1979 to 1984. Of the 11,000 produced, versions released after 1981 included a control voltage/gate input on the back that allowed the VCF to be triggered and cont ...

, a synthesiser *

The Prodigy The Prodigy are an English electronic music band formed in Braintree, Essex, in 1990 by producer, keyboardist, and songwriter Liam Howlett. The original line-up also featured Rapping, MC and vocalist Maxim (musician), Maxim, dancer and occasi ...

, a British electronic music group, named after the Moog Prodigy synthesizer *

Prodigy (rapper) Albert Johnson (November 2, 1974 – June 20, 2017), known professionally as Prodigy, was an American rapper and record producer. He was best known for being in the rap duo Mobb Deep along with Havoc, yet Johnson still had a solo career, regu ...

, one half of the rap duo,

Mobb Deep Mobb Deep was an American Hip-hop, hip hop duo formed in Queens, New York (state), New York in 1990. Consisting of rappers/songwriters/record producers Prodigy (rapper), Prodigy and Havoc (musician), Havoc, they are considered to be among the pr ...

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

* ''

Prodigy Tactics ''Prodigy Tactics'' (originally titled ''Prodigy'') is a tactical role-playing video game developed by Hanakai Studio. The game features figurines representing characters in the game and uses cards to control their behaviors, such as attacking. Bo ...

'', a tactical role-playing game * ''The Prodigy'' (newspaper), the University of California, Merced student newspaper

People

, Albert Johnson (1974–2017), American rapper and member of Mobb Deep * Prodigy, Craig Crippen, a member of

Mindless Behavior Mindless Behavior was an American boy band who were best known for the singles " My Girl" and " Mrs. Right", produced by Walter Millsap. The band was put together in Los Angeles in 2008, by Keisha Gamble, Vincent Herbert and Walter Millsap. The ba ...

Tommaso Ciampa Tommaso Whitney (born May 8, 1985) is an American Professional wrestling, professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown (WWE brand), SmackDown WWE brand extension, brand under the ring name Tommaso Ciampa () and ...

(born 1985), ring name Prodigy, American professional wrestler * B.J. Penn (born 1978), known as The Prodigy, an American mixed martial artist

Science and technology

Prodigy (online service) Prodigy Communications Corporation was an online service from 1984 to 2001 that offered its subscribers access to a broad range of networked services. It was one of the major internet service providers of the 1990s. The company claimed it was t ...

, an early online service provider *

Ford Prodigy The Ford Prodigy is a low emission vehicle 72 mpg-US (3.3 L/100 km; 86 mpg-imp) diesel-hybrid concept car built in 2000 by Ford and aimed at establishing U.S. leadership in the development of extremely fuel-efficient (up to ) vehicles while ...

, a low emission vehicle concept car *

HTC Wizard The HTC Wizard (also known as the HTC Prodigy and the HTC P4300) is an Internet-enabled Windows Mobile Pocket PC smartphone designed by High Tech Computer Corporation of Taiwan. It has a touchscreen with a left-side slide-out QWERTY keyboard. The ...

or HTC Prodigy, a smartphone

Other uses

Prodigy Education Prodigy Education, Inc., formerly Prodigy Game, is a Canadian educational technology company focused on game-based learning. Its co-CEOs and founders are Alex Peters and Rohan Mahimker. It is the developer of the 2011 and 2022 '' Prodigy Math, ...

, Canadian educational technology company *

Prodigy Finance Prodigy Finance is a fintech platform that enables financing for international postgraduate students who attend a participating business school or postgraduate institution. Prodigy Finance's loans are collectively funded by a community of alu ...

, a financial company lending to students