Then it’s settled? Deathstroke is the smartest person in the entire DCU because he’s beaten up everyone at least once?
Getting back to the main topic, though - Mr. Majestic should be on that list. He’s got Pre-Crisis Superman level and Reed Richards level intellect. He’s invented things that have allowed him to hide planets by physically moving them without destroying them.
ALL SKILL, BABY
Damn. If beating people up is the key to proving how smart you are, sign me up. I’ll grab my aluminum bat, take a trip down to the old folks’ home, and rack up record IQ points by sundown.
LMAO. 
anyway, i don’t think beings should count. (thanos, galactus, etc.)
still, batman gets my vote for top in DC. for marvel, um, not too sure. i’d say it’s a toss up between mr. fantastic, doctor doom, and tony stark.
jesus let it go.
Says the man with the “substantial proof”. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
-=sigh=- itll show up eventually…i told the guy to just assume im wrong til i find it.
good info thanks.
is tony stark even that smart?
i thought as far as marvel universe, there were two untouchable smarts, reed richards and doom. they are considered like THE SMARTEST people by IQ in THE WORLD
and then you have like super genius, lots of PHD’s and totally smart people like
sue storm (she’s hella smart too), spiderman, tony stark, bruce banner, hank mccoy? black panther? xavier? ant man etc
some people were smart and did shit with their intelligence like hank pym with the pym particles, spiderman and his webshooters LOL and tony stark with his ironman suit
other dudes like mccoy just do research and charles, is he even that smart? or did he read everyone’s minds? they don’t really emphasize that he’s really SMART, moreso just like… the dude who made the x-men
but like while reed and doom don’t really focus their intelligence into one thing, other guys like ironman made the ironman suit and specialized in their field.
DCU i dunno yooo but i would sooooo fuck wonder girl!
tony stark is hella smart. dude built iron man…no one else did. he’s got his brains in advanced tech, he not nessisarily super smart in science…but he has to know a good aspect of it to have iron man.
Nah he had help. I’ll show you. This is a composite of a few pages, btw and not a real page in the comic.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v392/KyosukeUrameshi/ironman.jpg
Anyway as you can see, don’t belittle that other guy. He died for Iron Man to be made. So yeah tony stark isn’t as smart as everyone thinks.
the white man holding down asians once again!
Once again…Asians run everything.
Doom is not smarter than Reed. It’s why Doom is obssessed with beating him. It’s also why Doom practices magic, because he knows he can’t fuck with Reed in science alone.
Luke Cage has street smarts.
ok wat happen to darkseid he should be way up there
The thread title should be changed to “smartest person in comics”. Which is Batman.
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That old Asian man is a physicist, and only helped Tony make the armor (he’s an electrical engineer from MIT, graduated when he was 15). Why the hell would a physicist be more hands on than an electrical engineer in designing and building an exoskeleton armor?
What’s with the Tony Stark hate? Just because you guys got daddy issues and you see him as “The Man” even though he’s a more effective superhero than most.
compare and contrast. Tony Stark vs Bruce Wayne.
Tony Stark: parents died in a car accident because of faulty breaks.
Bruce Wayne: parents died when they were shot during a mugging.
What do they do about it?
Tony Stark: buys out the company that manufactured the faulty breaks and corrects the error in design.
Bruce Wayne: dressed up as a bat and runs around the city with an underage boy to catch criminals, fails to even identify the suspect and get his revenge.
Tony Stark: Billionaire playboy.
Bruce Wayne: Billionaire. Playboy only as an act in public, in reality he hangs out with underage boys.
What happens to the villains they fight?
Tony Stark: He either reforms them (Black Widow, Hawkeye, Crimson Dynamo), buys them out, drives them to suicide (Iron Monger) or imprisons them in SHIELD protected high-tech maximum security facilities.
Bruce Wayne: Throws them into Arkham Asylum. A facility known more for its criminal escapees than reforming them, where villains like the Joker have escaped multiple times to kill and kill again and again.
All that money Bruce Wayne has (even more than Luthor!) and all the “crime-fighting” that Batman seems to be doing and still…Gotham City is the way it is? I’d fucking love to see what its like if Batman isn’t there.
Doom is obsessed with fighting Reed not because he thinks Reed is better than him, but because he knows Reed is the only human whose intellect provides a worthy enough of a challenge to him.
Doom’s greatest scientific achievement is the only working time machine in Marvel and is able to pretty much match Reed even though he doesn’t hold any college degrees or had an education just like Reed did. Not to mention he has to run a country and know enough arcane knowledge to best other sorcerers except for Dr. Strange.
What was Reed’s greatest invention? The ULTIMATE NULLIFIER, a weapon so powerful that it drove Galactus away from Earth…oh wait, he didn’t invent that! So that leaves us with…the Fantasti-car !!! Even though he spends 24/7 inside his lab.
He practiced magic because he comes from a culture that did. It’s arcane knowledge passed onto him. He doesn’t even take it seriously because he considers it beneath him.
If its just the numbers game, he can easily best Reed (Reed beats Doom most of the time through the help others anyway, something Doom considers beneath that of a monarch like him), but Marvel has to put that psychological nerf explanation on Doom like they did with Thanos (that both villains sub-consciously sabotage their plans that’s why they always fail). lame… at least he’s not Batman lame, that shit is just ridiculous.
P.S.
Batman sucks.
Seriously? Batman owns everybody left and right. He’s the single most broken, unbeatable superhero in the world.
And don’t you just love when people say the exact same thing about Superman and claim that he’s a boring character?
…at least Superman is more than just a walking plot armor made of 50% hype and 50% fanboy-nadium.