Dilton Doiley
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Dilton Donald Doiley is a fictional character in the Archie Comics universe. He is the smartest teenager in Riverdale High School.
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First referred to as Theodosious in Pep Comics #27, then as Dilbert in Archie Comics #34, and finally as Dilton in Pep Comics #78.
He carries with him all the stereotypical nerdy teen attributes: studious, glasses, and high flown language. Yet while he is not particularly interested in dating, he is widely admired by Archie and the gang.
He has two (unnamed) cousins, both of whom share his high intellect. One is a loudmouth, bratty cousin; the other is a pretty girl who doesn't even wear glasses and has platinum blond hair. The bratty boy beats Dilton several times at chess, playing in the local library, and brags so loudly he gets himself and Dilton thrown out; the girl cousin has Archie solve a math problem, to the dismay of Betty and Veronica.
He is an amateur inventor and he has helped the gang many times with his various inventions. This especially goes for Moose Mason who will do anything to protect his "little buddy" - anyone bullying Dilton would face Moose's wrath. In current stories, this relationship is increasingly being portrayed as symbiotic, with Dilton standing up in favour of Moose - in one story, he even pounces on Reggie Mantle in defense of Moose, when the latter was insulting Moose.
During the early 1990s, Dilton briefly became the star of his own magazine named "Dilton's Strange Science". The magazine featured Dilton and Danni Malloy, a red-haired girl and amateur inventor, who shared his intellect and interests and served as his best friend and love interest. They shared a number of humorous science fiction stories, involving their inventions.
He has been seen in numerous stories where he tries to invent a female robot for himself with hilarious consequences.
More recently, Dilton has been dating Cheryl Blossom. They were paired together online, without knowing each other's true identity, fell in love, met in real life, and decided to continue their romantic relationship, though this is rarely shown.
Dilton also is the only character that has been compared in the comics to historical figures. In one story where he sent a rocket into orbit, he was compared to Albert Einstein and Wernher Von Braun.
Also, in various stories, Dilton is shown in relationships with tall and/or big females. He has even been known to occasionally date Big Ethel. In one story, the two both revealed that they were targets for mockery (Ethel for being tall, Dilton for being short). They understood each other's feelings, and decided to go to the dance together.
He has also kept company with girls who are not big. One is a precocious little girl named Athena, named for the goddess of wisdom; the other is sort of a Kirstie Alley look-alike named Edna Fishburg, who is involved in a dirty trick of Reggie's to humiliate Dilton. But when the relationship is out in the open, Reggie suffers the humiliaton and Dilton walks off arm in arm with Edna.
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