OOTS #1274 - The Discussion Thread

[WanderingMist]

or for that matter, him utterly brushing off the Deva trying to warn him about V's deal with the devil (and demon and daemon). Roy's assumption that he knows what's going on has often led him to overlook stuff he really should pay attention to.

That's just Roy being impatient, not him thinking he's smarter than the Deva. If they hadn't literally been in the process of Resurrecting him, he would have listened.

Not to mention the high plot-relevant time Roy outsmarted himself by consistently knocking back the Oracle's (likely genuine) attempts to help.

Considering what happened the first time Roy went to the Oracle (Xykon being located in his throne room, for those who don't remember), it's obvious why he did what he did was not out of any sense of intelligent superiority, but rather practicality. While Roy did outsmart himself, it was only because a previous experience told him he needed to outsmart the oracle to get any useful information.