Rank the following characters based on intelligence, wisdom, knowledge, and experience. Which ones would you go to for information?
Metron
Uatu
Thanos
Darkseid
Ganthet
Odin
Doctor Fate
Batman
Dr. Doom
Brainiac
High Evolutionary
Adam Strange
Captain Marvel (Mar-vell)
Apocalypse
Atom (Ray Palmer)
Reed Richards
Dr. Strange
DC Zeus
think MEtron travels through time alot or something and he watchs alot of shit in his tricked out lazy boy... but i agree i doubt he could have more wisdom than zeus and odin (the gods you mention)
Uatu is probably much older than that, maybe nearly as old as the universe itself.
Metron is around ten thousand years old I believe but he's traveled back in time to the beginning and has probably seen the end as well. Along with Phantom Stranger (who in retrospect I should have put in this list) he's the closest DC has to an Uatu.
A very subtle question; Wisdom doesn't *necessarily* equate to knowledge or experience: many knowledgable characters, such as Reed Richards and Ray Palmer, still lack certain intuitive insight that goes hand in hand with Wisdom; similarly, even very experienced beings, such as Braniac and Darkseid, while displaying forethought and extremely advanced planning, don't always reach beyond their "programming" and/or "unreasoning desire" to truly gain a new level of awareness beyond what they already have (even if they believe otherwise).
Even the gods -- Zeus and Odin -- who possess great knowledge and and/or have pursued a greater understanding, sometimes at great cost (Odin), are as known for their foolish mistakes, hubris, and lack of wisdom as they are for their relative comprehension.
Not going to try to put these characters in a definitive order, other than to agree with some posts above that Uatu and Metron are probably the "wisest" of those listed, on a "celestial" level, while Dr. Strange and Batman are the "wisest" on a more mortal level, relatively speaking.
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(Just citing your post as an example for what I am noticing)
Several posters seem to be confusing the idea of intellect/knowledge with wisdom/insight; none of those above questions have anything to do with wisdom. Just saying.
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