Has Marvel ever released a list of who is the smartest, officially? I mean, we've seen things say, Reed is number 1, Doom is number 2, I thought I read BP is number 4 (who is 3?), that kid who is the Hulk now is number 8 or 9. But has there ever been an official list?
(Of course, you ever notice these lists don't include villains except for Doom.)
As far as BP schooling Tony in the movie; it would be fair turnabout, since the (Teen) Iron Man cartoon had Tony schooling BP in Vibranium. (Tony was the one who figured out how to keep it from exploding, which is ridiculous. I get fresh eyes can sometimes see something new, but that was so simple it was ridiculous.) But it would surprise me to see Robert Downey Jr., willing to play that scene.
Very good observations, brother Kip. And I note that a lot of these lists leave out people like Professor Xavier [ correct me if I'm wrong but didn't X make Cerebro, among other things? ] and Peter Parker, too. I think Peter should be in the Top 20 big brains, for sure. Spider Trackers keyed to his Spidey Sense? That's sweet. Especially for a young teen.
Marvel would never make an official list of top brains. And yeah, such a list definitely should include the bad guys. Where does The High Evolutionary and The High Technician rank? Thanos? Galactus? The Supreme Intelligence? The Contemplator? The Celestial Madonna? The Watchers? Eternity? Odin? Zeus? Ra? Baast?
What about Loki? Pluto? Hades? The various Super Skrulls? The Shi'Ar super geniuses? The Mandarin, The Leader, Baron Zemo? Arnim Zola? Megatron? AIM's Supreme Scientist? Moondragon? Cypher? Warlock? Shuri? Shuri should be high up there. She's smart as hell.
You see where I'm going with this.
So nah...I don't see Marvel coming out with a hard and fast IQ thing. It's very. Very hard to make a straight comparison of intelligence anyway, because there are many forms of intelligence that aren't easily compared. How can you compare the megagenius of the Logical/Intellectual/Frontal Lobe Reed Richard with the Life harmonizing megagenius of Storm? Or the magic sync'd megagenius of Doctors Voodoo and Strange? Or the "I can do all the Intelligences at megagenius level" gifts of TChalla? Man of the Future Tony Starks may be fractionally less intelligent than Reed in the Logical/Intellectual area but he mobs all over Reed in the Interpersonal Intelligences.
And TChalla mobs all over both of them in every form of Intelligence that isn't Logical/Intellectual or Interpersonal...but he doesn't necessarily concede these two categories either. Imo TChalla is...going away...the most premier balanced megagenius of the MU.
And. For the love of Bast. Can we PLEASE stop underestimating Adam Brashear? Thanks.