Originally posted by ZebusKing
After reading the thread for an hour it seems that Vril is out of Stark's weight class.Also the feat of Stark blowing up the Phoenix force is out of context. Both Stark and Pym made the gun, and the Phoenix Force is the cosmic jobber of Marvel, even Xorn was able to smash it into a million pieces with an EMP so it's not that impressive.
LOL, based on what? Stop trying to detract from the PF FEAT because that's exactly what it was. Phoenix was portrayed as ultra uber in that series.
Here Reed states that he is only 'fractionally' smarter than Tony where single tasks are concerned, but goes on to say that Tony is the smartest there is when multiple tasks need addressed at the same time:
"Mister Stark, on the other hand, is this world's greatest multitasker..."
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This is likely why Tony was able to school Reed at multiple games of chess simultaneously:
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Reed later says that Tony is the best builder there is. Period.:
"There's no one --absolutely NO ONE-- who can do the things he does. If we're talking about building, well, then we should be taking our best builder."
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In fact, Tony hypothesized that the only reason Reed is fractionally smarter than himself is because Reed's powers allow him to make his brain(and intellect) physically larger as it suits him: