Batman is considerably smarter than Iron Man is. Sure Iron Man can win when it comes to building a science project (although Batman would do just fine in that category) but there's so much more to intelligence than that.
Not only is Batman more versatile but his mind is way more analytically built than Iron Man is and would figure a problem out much faster. Batman's ability to learn and absorb knowledge is also better, this is someone who's mastered every fighting style, detective skills, and is more than capable in most fields of science, if Batman had spent his life study solely engineering and robotics he could of easily have surpassed Iron Man in these fields.
If Batman were smarter, he wouldn't be out there beating criminals with his fists - he'd be using his money to alleviate the problems that lead to criminals in the first place. He's not fighting the core issue, he's beating on the symptom.
That scan is rather questionable though.
Reed has random weapons that can dust Celestials, close black holes, and a whole lot of other things. Along with many dimensional relevant things. Time portals, dimensional portals, etc.
Even Galactus respects his intelligence.
Reed's modesty doesn't put Tony on Reed's actual ability to apply his intelligence. What we've seen from Reed puts Tony back in high school. Maybe their actual iq is similar, but what they can do with it is not.
If we're talking about who has used their intelligence to construct the better tech, Tony wins solidly--I don't think it's even debatable. Building godlike hyper-tech is simply what he does.
If we're talking about intelligence in the way of strategizing/planning for various scenarios, however, it's much closer. My gut would still point me toward Tony, but I can understand why some would choose Bats.
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Last edited by Galan007 on May 3rd, 2015 at 04:49 AM
Like I said, it seems more like modesty than anything. For Iron Man to catch up to what Reed has done based on a couple of statements isn't right. It's not that Tony is dumb or anything or any less, but Reed just has been doing ludacris bridges stuff his entire career. Minus Hickman's Avengers, how close do you think the two would be?
Not that I'm saying it has thread bearing but merely throwing it out there to ward off Batman fans shouldn't work without a little context to it. Modesty does happen in comics and it's not like Reed is full of ego. He's also wrong about that statement you used as well if we consider builders like Galactus.
That being said, Val would assblast both at the same time.
Pretty much split between Doom and Reed. During Secret Wars Reed was better and now Doom is back on top.
Though I don't know why Doom would say that considering how he stole Galactus' power was some pc level of retardation that it has to be genius. Straight up orange juice and a flashlight shit.
Minus Hickman, I'd still put them really close. Hickman just had Tony get back into the weapons-building business with a vengeance. He's been a futurist and plot-device engineer before Hickman with S.P.I.N. Tech, power drainers, temporal transposers, time machines, terraformers, armors that can go against Skyfathers and Abstract forces, etc.
Frankly, Val's more like Tony. And she seems elevated far more by lip-service than actual achievements. What has she built again? A light saber? Not sure why you hold her in such high regard given your objections with Hickman's treatment of Tony.
Val came up with the idea for the ship they'll use to survive the death of the multiverse--the one covered in LT's 'skin'. She's also been instrumental in its construction. /shrug
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the best way I've seen of describing Bats and his prep.
May 1st, 2015 07:05 AM
