Who's smarter?

Who do you think is smarter? Batman or Beast from X-men?

Beast is more intelligent, but Batman is more observative.

Im pretty sure beast is up there in Genius level

Mmm, different kinds of smart. Beast's is medicinal; Batman's, analytical.

I...would go with Batman.

Great thread. But I'd agree with *Never*. Batman has shown some great ideas and mental thinking in comics/movies.

Beast would do better in exams but bats would apply what he knows in real life better.He's got more initiative. Bats isn't genius clever, he's(for the want of a more accurate term) streetsmart and full of ideas and is 'on the-ball' as we say in Britannia.

I don't know that much about Bats, but from what I've heard he's over powerful intellegence wise same as Supes was made over powerful strentgh wise. Basically the earilier comics of Bats have him being able to virtually make anything he felt he'd need, and solve any problem.

Yes, u all have a point. Batsie also made antidotes and other complicated things, so I can't really say that he is smartes then Beast but they would make great lab buddies 😄. Maybe Beast cuz he was a scientist from start. The thing is that they would cover eachother. There r some things that Batsie knows better and there r also thngs that Beast knows better. U see my point?

It's like comparing 2 common scientist, u put them together and they fill eachothers answers.

I'd have to say Bats has greater overall knowledge, and seems to use his knowledge of things more often in just about all his incounters (not just when he's in the lab or working on a problem that demands such knowledge) than beast, thus in my opinion Bats is smarter than Beast.

Originally posted by kal-el
Bats isn't genius clever, he's(for the want of a more accurate term) streetsmart and full of ideas and is 'on the-ball' as we say in Britannia.

Actually Batman is a "certified genius" 😄

I pretty much agree with there both brilliant, just in two different fields

bloodyhell never, you're killing me!who 'certified' him then ombre?

Originally posted by Viper
Beast is more intelligent, but Batman is more observative.

Aside from the word "observative", which I can't endorse without a dictionary present, I have to agree. Batman is street-smart to the highest degree, and Beast is a genius. You have to pick a definition for "smart" to really answer this.

Originally posted by kal-el
bloodyhell never, you're killing me!who 'certified' him then ombre?

Batman Wizard Special, 1998. Page 30, question 40 - "How smart is Batman?"?

"Pretty damn. Peterson says that even absent a college degree, Bruce 'probably has an IQ in the 210-220 range, which puts him just sub-genius. He's well-read, and although he may not know much about quantum physics, he has incredible concentrations of knowledge in areas that he needs to know about, like ballistics and anatomy.' "

Mmmm. Interesting, normally genius is measured (depending on "scale"😉 as anything above 140ish. See? http://home8.swipnet.se/~w-80790/Index.htm

145 - 154 Genius <<----

140 is genius? I thought it was 160. This site says that only 1% of people have about a 135 IQ. That makes me feel real special, 'cause that's me. I don't believe that 140 is the lower bracket. Most people know it to be between 160 and 200.
Batman may well be a genius. He never displays this in his civilian identity, and when he does show his intelligence, it's under very special circumstances. I think he is a genius to some extent. Do you know that he trained himself to have a photographic memory like Oracle? He skims pages extremely fast and counts on his subconscious to call up the info when he needs it. That's some kind of genius. He seems to know everything, because he's always taking in information. He's more obsessive about that sort of thing than Dr. Hank McCoy. As diligent as McCoy is when he has work to do, he isn't as neurotically driven as Batman, and he takes time to read for pleasure, whereas Batman does not.

Generally a genius is considered to have an IQ above 140. Einstein was 160, Napoleon was 145, and just for kicks George W. Bush is 125. Using the standard scale someone with an IQ around 220 would be considered one of the smartest men in the world.

125? Wow. You know, you can be really smart and still have some of the problems that George Bush has? The word switching, spoonerisms and losing track of his thoughts-- those are things a genius could have problems with, conceivably. However, no significantly smart person could have ALL the problems that moron has. I'd say his logic is faulty, but I can't even tell if he believes any of his rhetoric. He's a puppet, and it may be that he's just a notoriously lazy jerk who gives "assisted living" a new meaning, and he's put in a position where he has to justify to the public this evil agenda the puppet-masters are pushing that makes no sense to decent folk, thereby making him look really stupid. I figure it's all that, plus he's a damn moron.

Didn't really intend for this to turn into a political thread, just though I'd throw him in there since people bash him for being an idiot when really he's just not a very good public speaker.

Bleh, have graded at 135+ on Emode as well. Echoing Viper's comment, will just say that I am...a tad suprised that Dubya managed to graduate from Yale and Harvard School of Business considering he is very inarticulate.

"Noocular" instead "nuclear?" Phew 😮

And yes...140ish is generally regarded as the range for genius-level intellect. If you enjoyed that listing of IQs, consider this one:

http://members.shaw.ca/delajara/Cox300.html

Peruse those listed at 145 or so. Might surprise you 😄

I knew that Voltaire was quite the intellectual dynamo, but goodness!

Remember, Bats also owns a VERY widely known company `Wayne Corp.`