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Vulpes Vulpes posted:Some rough chuckles with Cap and Jarvis drat. I was really hoping the butler was going to be a staunch leftist.
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Ten issues later, Captain America shrugs and watches as Kang the Conqueror detonates New York along with nine--tenths of the world's superheroes in a nuclear explosion because hey, nobody ever said life would be fair, and the best of the best will pick themselves up afterwards. He doesn't want to 'big brother' anyone.
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"Thanks, Jarvis. I know Hank's going to pull himself up by his boot flaps." "Bootstraps, sir." "I'm pretty sure it's boot flaps. See?" *Points toe out, wiggles foot* " >sigh< Of course, sir. More Ovaltine?"
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Darthemed posted:
Even with permission I don't think I'd ever be comfortable saying "thanks, black guy". Especially after I was told his name.
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I also wouldn't introduce myself as third smartest man in the world if I didn't want people to ask about one and two. Maybe number two is the person who's smart enough not to do that.
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Nipponophile posted:I also wouldn't introduce myself as third smartest man in the world if I didn't want people to ask about one and two. Maybe number two is the person who's smart enough not to do that. Considering one and two are almost certainly Reed Richards and Victor von Doom (the order is a matter of some debate), no bet.
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so smart they're the smartest people in the dc universe too
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The smartest person in the Marvel universe is Moon Girl. She's just also eight, so doesn't always apply those smarts in the right direction.
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site posted:so smart they're the smartest people in the dc universe too Sure, let's go with that. (Don't know the character, genuinely misread the quip style as Marvel. DC humor feels different than Marvel humor to me but that's almost entirely because my main exposures were Spider-Man and Batman, both Silver Age. Also Richards and Doom would immediately be claiming the world's smartest title when they arrived in DC, and Batman would let them)
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The smartest person in the DC Universe is that goon who saw Batman in a room and just turned around and left. The second smartest is Detective Chimp.
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All the really smart people know smarts is just a one dimensional attribute and studying is for chumps, MOM
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Darthemed posted:
This was Eric Wallace, apparently, who was himself indeed a black guy (which nobody asked but just feels important to know). Side-note, these two facts now constitute 100% of my knowledge about Eric Wallace.
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Mar 5, 2023 10:05
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Seems like a real waste having smart people out there punching dudes in the face instead of figuring out safe green energy (that doesn't blow the world up reed). At the very least they'd probably be more effective helping build equipment for 20 other superheroes instead of themselves. This is a very old observation, but I never really got the whole thing with 'superhero is the smartest person in the world!' It's not really an occupation that needs it.
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Superheroes are forever solving riddles or going, "of course! If I just magnetise the exterior of the Shrike's suit, his gravity detector will be worthless!". I think for a lot of superhero sub-genres it's actually pretty fundamental!
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MikeJF posted:Seems like a real waste having smart people out there punching dudes in the face instead of figuring out safe green energy (that doesn't blow the world up reed). They don't trust anyone else with their technology.
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*Hulk rubs chin* wait... if Hulk punch Leader hard in face, him die! It might be crazy enough to work.
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It feels kinda tautological or something, where the writer invents a made up super science problem that a villain is enacting just so the hero can make up some technobabble solution to it, which will or course require some fisticuffs and energy blasts to pull off. I appreciate early Hulk as well, where there's not so much of that, though of course Bruce Banner is some kind of genius as well.
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MikeJF posted:Seems like a real waste having smart people out there punching dudes in the face instead of figuring out safe green energy (that doesn't blow the world up reed). in dc comics this kind of thing actually does happen a lot
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I once made a tabletop character that was a super-smart gadgeteer with several lucrative contracts with the US Army and private superheroes, and she was out adventuring to test her prototypes. It struck me as an under-utilized archetype back then.
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Dareon posted:Considering one and two are almost certainly Reed Richards and Victor von Doom (the order is a matter of some debate), no bet. There's no way in hell either of those introduce themselves as "the second smartest man in the world", so my point stands.
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Nipponophile posted:There's no way in hell either of those introduce themselves as "the second smartest man in the world", so my point stands. On the other hand by calling himself third smartest Mr T is smart enough not to get involved.
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Dareon posted:I once made a tabletop character that was a super-smart gadgeteer with several lucrative contracts with the US Army and private superheroes, and she was out adventuring to test her prototypes. It struck me as an under-utilized archetype back then. I seem to recall part of Taskmaster's deal was he mostly did supervillain stuff as an opportunity to advertise his skills for his Henchman Training School. Get some news footage of him fighting Captain America and Iron Man so when smaller guys are looking at some professional development or the Red Skull's looking at whipping his crew into shape, they know Taskmaster has real experience fighting superheroes.
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Precambrian posted:I seem to recall part of Taskmaster's deal was he mostly did supervillain stuff as an opportunity to advertise his skills for his Henchman Training School. Get some news footage of him fighting Captain America and Iron Man so when smaller guys are looking at some professional development or the Red Skull's looking at whipping his crew into shape, they know Taskmaster has real experience fighting superheroes. I hope Taskmaster charges per minute (that his students are able to last against Captain America after they passed the final exams).
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MikeJF posted:Seems like a real waste having smart people out there punching dudes in the face instead of figuring out safe green energy (that doesn't blow the world up reed). Smart as in attire, not smart as in the brain.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Smart as in attire, not smart as in the brain. Accurate 
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https://twitter.com/Comrade_Bullski/status/1628172023254884356 A thread.
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I'd argue that since Mr. Terrific is wise enough to not claim to be the smartest man in the world, which would be impossible to accurately test for, he is in fact smarter than at least Lex Luthor. Unless he's claimed otherwise Batman also falls into that category.
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I think there was a comic or TV show that featured Mr. Terrific, Batman, and Lex, and it implied by the end that Mr. Terrific was smarter than both.
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Darthemed posted:
Is that Strange looking like he's about to change the transmission in a Morris Minor?
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Darthemed posted:
I hope the resolution to this demonic pact plot involves knowing the loving difference between "insure" and "ensure."
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Darthemed posted:
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Discendo Vox posted:I hope the resolution to this demonic pact plot involves knowing the loving difference between "insure" and "ensure." I can't tell if that bothers me more than the idea that a bunch of drunken adult dudebros would ... somehow strike a deal with the devil for the sake of moving the story along? Like it's written like they're a bunch of teenage girls having fun with a ouija board but it's drawn like they're in a brightly lit bar just talking to an emo kid. And it's just silly. Edit: Oh it's Mark Waid.
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    Superman: From Krypton to Metropolis (1982)
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Superboy: can't you just wear a hat?
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If an experiment can't be duplicated it doesn't even count as science.
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