The Problem With Smart Superheroes

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  @MyAramil · 1 month ago

  The problem with smart characters is.... the writers are often not smart enough to write smart characters.

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  @jayjwill1978 · 1 month ago

  The entire Ironman and Avengers series was pretty much Tony Starks guessing failing and fixing...

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  @Mcl_Blue · 1 month ago

  Tbh Reed being described as a genius while acting like a moron is pretty comic accurate. 😂

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  @SymbioteMaster4 · 1 month ago

  just because the character is smart, doesn’t mean they’re wise. That’s why in DND wisdom and intelligence are different stats.

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  @SaiphSDC · 1 month ago

  Great point, that smart people can still be wrong, it's just that they learn from that faster than the other guy.

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  @carlholman2204 · 1 month ago

  I have a 13 year old niece who was a fan of the Iron heart comics, 'Don't ask me why, cause I don’t know either' she watch the live act all the way until the end and blasted me with a hundred questions, the two that stood out the most was, "why did they make her a villain." And the other was "could've she have sold some of her tech for millions of dollars and became rich to make better armor that way?" I'm summarizing it but yeah, my '13 YEAR OLD' niece! Saw made more sence then that Fu°king show!

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• MI

  @minikawildflower · 1 month ago

  When Reed was like "We can handle Wanda" Maury determined that was A LIE

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  @hawkbirdtree · 1 month ago

  I guess in that multiverse Reed could've been a masterful conman who convinced everyone he was really smart when he was not.

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  @elliottorourke6616 · 1 month ago (edited)

  I think the best written intelligent character in fiction is columbo. It's never stated that he's a genius, quite the opposite he's presented as a fool and then is left to prove otherwise. His intelligence is more grounded not dependent on magical flashes of knowledge but more relying on hard work and the people around him not being as smart as they think they are.

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  @Cody-z4i3u · 1 month ago

  The great thing about Tony Stark is that in every movie, he has a new suit that fixes a previous problem

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  @reillymoran6727 · 1 month ago

  Mr Fantastic has an IQ of 267. Dr Eggman has an IQ of 300. Eggman is smarter than Mr Fantastic

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  @saurianwatcher4437 · 1 month ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0xOOBm0BAM&amp;t=760">12:40</a> my personal thought for why Strange defeated Dormamu is that since they said his realm is &quot;a realm beyond time&quot;, Strange&apos;s time loop is actually causing Dormamu to see and hear an additional Strange slightly out of sync with previous iterations. Strange just sees himself once because he and the stone come from a realm where time exists, but Dormamu is living each loop at the same time. Eventually the discordance just gets to be too much and Dormamu caves.

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