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quote: (post ) Originally posted by relentless1
Are u kidding me, batman has some of the greatest minds to contend with; lex, mr terrific, brainiac, Ray palmer, ivo, to morrow, John Henry irons etc etc
Apart from Lex, none of those are in opposition to him....I thought we were talking about their villains.
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quote: (post ) Originally posted by DarkSaint85
Apart from Lex, none of those are in opposition to him....I thought we were talking about their villains.
You obviously don't know much about Braniac.
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Feb 27th, 2015 05:06 PM
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quote: (post ) Originally posted by Star428
You obviously don't know much about Braniac.
You obviously don't know much about Batman.
Or Superman, and his rogue's gallery.
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Feb 27th, 2015 05:07 PM
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quote: (post ) Originally posted by Rezactic
Didn't even see that, I don't know jack about Beast, all I said was that he was on Marvel's top 8 where Otto wasn't.
But you said Otto didn't have the feats to be in the top 8, yet you don't even know Beast's feats....
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Feb 27th, 2015 05:12 PM
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Lol so we're just labelling all DC villains as Batman villains now?
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quote: (post ) Originally posted by riv6672
Well, Marvel has a majority of comics' greatest minds, so Peter's standing there is dependent on that. He's in the tougher division.
To paraphrase Daniel Tosh, Batman's the Patriots. Easy for him to make it to the play offs when he's got the Dolphins, the Bills, and the Jets to contend with....
so my response is to list all the great minds in DC, any questions??
Feb 27th, 2015 05:53 PM
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quote: (post ) Originally posted by JayDaDon
Punking Stark, The Avengers with his plans and going on to world domination with only Spidey being in his way to stop him puts him in the big leagues of geniuses. You say he needs ALOT more huh, name 5 things Beast did that were more impressive than that to land him in the top 8 geniuses of marvel.
Apparently Marvel doesn't think so.
Feb 27th, 2015 06:44 PM
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You realize by your logic only Doom would be in the big leagues of evil genius in marvel as guys like Magneto and red skull arent in the so called 8 smartest on marvel earth.
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quote: (post ) Originally posted by Rezactic
Apparently Marvel doesn't think so.
Apparently MODOK acknowledges Otto as his superior.
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quote: (post ) Originally posted by DarkSaint85
Apparently MODOK acknowledges Otto as his superior.
I'll admit that I've underestimated him.
Feb 27th, 2015 07:40 PM
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quote: (post ) Originally posted by relentless1
so my response is to list all the great minds in DC, any questions??
No questions.
I never said DC didnt have any great minds.
But
Marvel is the science universe.
Marvel has some of the best minds in comics, though, both heroes and villains. Their great minds are some of their top tier characters, front and center.
DC has great minds like Batman an Luthor, who are more planners and tech co opters than anything, and second stringers like Ray Palmer and John H. Irons who occasionally get the spot light.
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quote: (post ) Originally posted by riv6672
No questions.
I never said DC didnt have any great minds.
But
Marvel is the science universe.
Marvel has some of the best minds in comics, though, both heroes and villains. Their great minds are some of their top tier characters, front and center.
DC has great minds like Batman an Luthor, who are more planners and tech co opters than anything, and second stringers like Ray Palmer and John H. Irons who occasionally get the spot light.
Eh I don't think Marvel isn't any better with science than DC is, they just have well known guys like Doom and Reed, DC's top minds are cosmic level characters like Metron or Extant. Of course Marvel has cosmic level geniuses but their flagship brains are Earth characters.
Feb 28th, 2015 12:27 AM
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quote: (post ) Originally posted by riv6672
No questions.
I never said DC didnt have any great minds.
But
Marvel is the science universe.
Marvel has some of the best minds in comics, though, both heroes and villains. Their great minds are some of their top tier characters, front and center.
DC has great minds like Batman an Luthor, who are more planners and tech co opters than anything, and second stringers like Ray Palmer and John H. Irons who occasionally get the spot light.
You keep saying that, but I already matched most of Marvel minds with DC. DC is a universe of science as well. Luthor, Palmer, The Chief, Sivana, Ivo, the NUMEROUS Brainiac's, etc...
DC actually has a deeper catalog of super geniuses.
Feb 28th, 2015 12:43 AM
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quote: (post ) Originally posted by relentless1
Are u kidding me, batman has some of the greatest minds to contend with; lex, mr terrific, brainiac, Ray palmer, ivo, to morrow, John Henry irons etc etc
Yeah, I made a thread about DC's hierarchy. Most of DC's geniuses are in this thread and there are a lot of them.
http://www.killermovies.com/forums/f77/t536839.html
Feb 28th, 2015 12:45 AM
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BTW, I'll post Desaad's post (which is rather extensive), so you have an idea of how formidable these geniuses can be.
quote: I'm not going to go through all of these, because to be frank a lot of them are superfluous and don't deserve mention based on their feats or the paucity of their appearances.
In your first tier 'mortal' guys, you're going to have the cosmically smart. Here you'll have Brainiac 1, Brainiac 3 (Lyrl), Brainiac 5, Sardath, Alexander Luthor, and probably T.O. Morrow. You'd also have Superman 1 Million and Batman 1 Million, most likely, if you care to count them. Each of those has done something truly astounding.
Brainiac 3 just created a Solaris-Class stellar supercomputer, Pulsar Stargrave, by collapsing a pulsar. This makes it the most sophisticated super computer in the universe. He's a 12th level intelligence, which puts him on par with Brainiac 5. Now Brainiac 1 just, on the fly, created a device to contain/hold a rampaging Pulsar Stargrave (ie, contain Solaris). He's also demonstrated the ability to shrink cities down, his tech was co opted to create a planet out of nothing, and he easily destroyed a star/sun. Brainiac 5 has created a number of crazy devices, perhaps most impressive being the "Concentrator", which literally absorbs/utilizes/concentrates every joule of energy in the ENTIRE universe into whatever effect the user wants. It's...disturbing. He's got other feats as well, of force fields and coming up with cures for this and that, outsmarting vast artificial intelligences, etc.
Sardath has created the Zeta Beam, which allows instantaneous transportation across the universe. He also invented the Omega Beam, which allows the transfer of VAST amounts of matter into energy, so much so that it was threat to the universe -- had Starbreaker gotten his hands on it, he would have converted all matter in the universe to energy and absorbed it all. Even normal Zeta Beam tech can teleport planets, though, as demonstrated in a recent issue of REBELS.
Alexander Luthor really only just has the one feat, but it's kind of a doozy. He created a device to literally manipulate the multiverse, combining and separating universes at his whim. Insanity.
T.O. Morrow is probably the only normally earth guy who deserves a mention here. He apparently learned to 'unlock the hidden space between dimensions' when he was 14 (ie, dimensional creation), he's created time machines and vast super computers that alter reality via time manipulation. He also turns iPods into death rays and creates synthetic souls (Tomorrow Woman, Red Tornado).
Metron is almost a cut above, but since Alexander Luthor got mentioned, I'll give him a shout out. He's created Boom Tubes and the Worlogog and the Moebius Chair, he helped develop the Mother Box (with Himon), controls Hypertime, etc.
Next would come the really big science guys. I this grouping might be The Chief, Ray Palmer, Prof. Ivo, Will Magnus, Professor Nichols, and maybe Mr. Terrific.
The Chief has invented a time machine, replaced the JLA's abilities with tech approximations, brought Rita back from the dead with just a piece of her skull, created nanobots that could literally do anything, including create a being so powerful that he was throwing his victims through the fourth wall into 'our' reality. And it looks like he's going to discover away to alter his genes so that he becomes Kryptonian.
Ray Palmer cracked the Hourman virus when Superman 1 Million said that only a Solaris class stellar computer could do so, created a time machine, created boom tube like teleportation devices, co created a device that made the user's wish come true, figured out how to neutralize a universe destroying cosmic phenomenon that hadn't ever been discovered, has been described as having a mind like the world's largest harddrive, and created the greatest shrinking technology in comics (in terms of power, range and versatility).
Prof. Ivo created Amazo and Tomorrow Woman, two of the physical most potent androids in comics, especially Amazo. He created a serum that made him immortal, he's created countless powerful androids.
Will Magnus has created a device that creates portals between dimensions/universes, the responsometers of the Metal Men which basically means he created souls out of code, flying cars controled and powered by his thoughts, etc.
Professor Nichols created a time machine and a "Maybe Machine" that predicts the future based up suppositions/questions one asks it, a sort of "What if.."
I wouldn't have put Mr. Terrific on here but for the fact that lately Robinson has been giving him a bit of a push, as he was able to create a device that destroyed all the Black Lanterns in a tri state area -- the only tech feat I know of to have accomplished such a thing -- and he's currently working on a way to defeat the Starheart. He also figured out how to travel through time, and his T-spheres are crazy advanced.
Next level down might be the more 'normal' geniuses, and this one covers a wider range IMHO. At the top of this level, maybe even pushing up into the higher level, you've got Steel and Lex Luthor, and then more in the middle you've got Batman and Gizmo. Steel is the engineer of the group, retrofitting time machines (though not building them from scratch, which is a strike against) and building all kinds of crazy powerful suits and nanotech and what not.
Lex Luthor vacillates (Post-Crisis) between being a business man and being a genius. Many of his greatest 'works' have been attributed to his staff. Lately he's made a bit of a comeback as an evil genius, having combined time pool technology with kryptonian weaponry to change the sun to red and various things like that, but he's not a straight up scientist guy anymore, and I doubt he will be shown to be in the upcoming Action run with Paul Cornell. If you take Pre-Crisis into account you're talking about putting him up at the cosmic level as he's making time machines out of orange juice boxes and tin foil.
RIP is a specialist in time, and pretty much only makes time technology. He's good at what he does, but it's limited inherently, and doesn't deserve to be listed along with all the polymaths above.
Anarky is a tough one to gauge as he didn't have a huge number of appearances, but from what little saw -- the way he was able to calculate the coming of the great threat to reality and figure out a way to defeat it, creating a Boom Tube home-made, finding ways to alter the minds of everyone in Gotham...he's probably in "big science" level, albeit at the lower level.
Calc and Oracle are great hackers/computer people, but aren't polymaths on the level of any of the above. They are about equal, with an edge to Oracle.
Sivanna doesn't have very many appearances. I think writers generally think of him on the Big Science level, but from what he's actually done I'd put him at the very low end of that level or about on par with Lex Luthor. He's created dimensional travel, suspendium (frozen time particles), and weapons that have lifted entire cities and badly hurt kryptonian level foes.
And one thing to note -- Hiro, the asian Toyman, got revealed to be a robot all along during Johns' Action Comics run. He's just an artificial intelligence created by Schlott (who probably deserves a mention...he only really makes robots, but they are so sophisticated that no one on the planet can apparently tell that they are robots, including Superman and Batman).
Feb 28th, 2015 12:48 AM
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quote: (post ) Originally posted by Golgo13
You keep saying that, but I already matched most of Marvel minds with DC. DC is a universe of science as well. Luthor, Palmer, The Chief, Sivana, Ivo, the NUMEROUS Brainiac's, etc...
DC actually has a deeper catalog of super geniuses.
Jus curious but what have Chief, Sivana and Ivo done? All I know is that Ivo created Amazo
Feb 28th, 2015 12:49 AM
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Jus curious but what have Chief, Sivana and Ivo done? All I know is that Ivo created Amazo
Read the long post above.
Feb 28th, 2015 12:55 AM
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Doom > anyone in DC
Their geniuses are trash to him.
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Feb 28th, 2015 01:09 AM
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Doom can solve anything, but the infamous bat-kick. Bat-kick>>Doom.
Feb 28th, 2015 01:12 AM
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quote: (post ) Originally posted by Golgo13
You keep saying that, but I already matched most of Marvel minds with DC. DC is a universe of science as well. Luthor, Palmer, The Chief, Sivana, Ivo, the NUMEROUS Brainiac's, etc...
DC actually has a deeper catalog of super geniuses.
Yes, DC has a lot of super geniuses as well. But don't mistake your threads for a true comparison of companies.
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