Originally posted by Enyalus
And Digi, you saying "Trick's actually got a point though" just lost you approximately 87.4 cool points on the awesome meter. 😬
My allegiance is to the truth, friends. Occasionally it just comes from a more unlikely source than others. Besides, my awesome score is in the millions. I'll happily take an 87.4 hit to it.
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Seriously though, I'm not even an expert on Doctor Who, and I've seen dozens of feats that put him on level with anyone in mainstream comics in terms of knowledge. So yes, in a "Ready? Go!" scenario he loses to a fair number of even possibly meta-level people (if we assume peak for the screwdriver though, no one below, say, Iron Man could even hope to touch him through its forcefield generators). But his knowledge of technologies that shame all but the highest-end feats from others is formidable indeed.
A lot of times, ironically, it's some villain that creates something that the Doctor either changes, reverses, etc. that displays his knowledge, since he's not in the business of building doomsday weapons and such, but he knows the tech behind it perfectly. Like when he made an intellectual fool of a guy who had created a device that reversed aging and allowed for immortality by explaining it to him in about 2 sentences. And later in the episode, reworked the internal mechanics to reverse its affects, and chided himself for taking a full 30 seconds or so to accomplish it. Sh*t like that, except it happens every episode over the course of about 40 years of television, and also in his comic series.
Only Reed comes close in terms of frequent stories of "Lookie what I know and can build!" Everyone else, The Doctor's literally hundreds of feats ahead of the next closest competitor.
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Anyway, yeah, it's a good read with the IDW stuff, though it helps to know the character beforehand or a reader could become quite lost.