The 10 Smartest Human Characters In DC Comics 

I dont know who wrote that but even if batman were twice as smart as lex there is no way he would ever admit that

@@extonjonas6820 well he did

@@extonjonas6820 Tom Taylor if I am correct.

@@extonjonas6820 I think he admitted that because he already had a feeling Batman was dead and no one could properly hurt his ego and use that against him since Batman was really dead

@@extonjonas6820 Lex knelt in front of Superman. DCeased changed a lot of characters.

Big missed opportunity

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@ThePark 627 and yet...people still do "That's what she said jokes." Just because a joke is cliches, that doesn't mean it cannot be effective.

@@HighHeelKnight Facts(has nothing to do with what you guys are saying) but it always makes me irritated when somebody says "oh you're still using mom jokes in 2020 or being racist in 2020" like it's just gonna stop being used due to what year it is.

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We’ll his detective skills are on par to Batman

Yeah, but most of the geniuses here are "generalists", with some specialists at the botton (I'm looking at you Blue Bettle). The Question is an amazing detective, but he's probably not the best engineer. For example, if we let any specialist in, Doctor Midnite would be here for his cunning medical skills.

Tim drake laught that

The Joker only really has general plans. He only really wants chaos. Also, as they said, he only really "outsmarts" him because Batman has lines that he won't cross.

joker stays taking an L

Joker just bugs bats.

Joker get beaten by Bats all the times. Bats only allows him to come back.

If he didn't the comics would be boring

Exactly and if anyone say bUt tHaT WAs eLsEWoRlDs, then just say gimme proof there isnt any

Even though it's elseworld ....the characters are pretty much the same and the time flow splits from the main universe when the anti life equation starts infaceting people .. that means its canon in my books

@@lethalintersection that's how dc elseworlds work theres one diverging point where the timeline splits Tom Taylor even said it was the exact same until Darkseids invasion where the split occured

DC needs to give batman his brain back from Lucius.

@@FriendlyBatDoom true ...nowadays everything was made by Lucius...it's frustrating

he was also my favourite 49bin!

Hes my favorite robin too

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@@Metalbloodlord why retcon doomsday clock? also my comment was a joke.

Woah Which arc is this?

@@142doddy JLA Morrison run. He was on another planet. That dude with jet pack (and Zeta beams) was in the issue and of course the JLA was dealing with Darkseid. This was after the expanded roster was scaled down so STEEL, Plastic Man, Oracle, Orion, and I think Big Barda were on the team but not Huntress and Catwoman. It's been so long ago and all those books are in my mother's house.

@@AirHarp man I've been recommended Morrisons JLA run so many times but it's such a big haul I've only read specific issues where I've heard something particularly noteworthy happens. I need to get around to doing a full run through

@@142doddy they were good. I do believe they have a the complete run in 3 TPB volumes

@@AirHarp a man after my own heart! Do RU-vid do PMs? If so could you send me a link to them?

I wouldn't read future's end.

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@@midnighteye2737 Who are you talking about

I wouldn’t watch Arrow, they don’t do the characters justice at all, apart from Oliver Queen and Deathstroke

When did that happen. Give me the issue reference.

@@dranzergigs8333 Justice League 23, the world forger was speaking to batman and said what I said in my comment

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@@wjt9090 I thought the presence directly acknowledged Batman

Sharath Nair damn you got proven boy

Yes!! Straight facts!!! He didn't see no Batman snooping around, did he?

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@@Metalbloodlord boy you keep saying this in every comment i check chileeee

@@citlallimartinez2362 Chill out NO not until Doomsday clock gets retconned because Doomsday clock was so bad it made me hate Superheroes

@@Metalbloodlord no one cares about your opinion, just stop being so damn annoying, I see you everywhere

@@ewilly05 I will stop when Doomsday clock is retconned

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Fr, literally EVERYONE rides his nuts like he creator of all life.

NightNative he is the creator of life. God coward to Batman.

@@themoofs6925 when Batman wants to get his hands dirty and build his own tech then talk shit.

NightNative wasn’t even talking shit bro lmao. Although Batman is more believable then god.

Idk about that last part, to you Bruce might not be the best father but to other people or cultures Bruce is a amazing father, teaching his kids right from wrong, self defense, putting them in amazing schools, traveling the world and always spending time with them. no matter how strict, Bruce would literally go to hell and back for his kids

@@silver______ Joker "killed" a Robin and he did nothing about the clown did it, just on personal level. He regularly takes in kids to fight crime instead of putting them into good foster homes with his unlimited resources. He trained and porked batgirl. He regularly gives passes to certain Gotham criminals of an attractive gender. He's a great "effective" hero when he wants to be but the dude is a bad Dad.

Daniel Magger and the criminal he regularly gives a pass to is more or less considered a anti hero now, Bruce is very effective all the time saying he isn’t would just be stupid dude literally went to apocalypse and beat the shit out of a new god just for his son, Bruce easily has one of the strongest moral codes in the dc universe and is easily one of the most effective hero’s

@@thegooddinggleberry used to Like batman but got fed up with how he handles his enemies or how writers portray his character. No human should ever allow mass murderer alive. They keep on escaping the prison and killing people. It's a bs reason that if he kills someone he might turn into that thing.

And Trigon.

Obviously he doesn't want to do it stop asking then

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This channel likes to focus on Batman only, so just ask for Batman videos since he can beat all comic book hero's and villains at once with his pinky..

Nah he's smart but a lot of people are smarter and he's more of a detective and hardly uses modern day gadgets so we don't really know how smart he is outside that

@@chibuikechristopher324 it is stated that he's a much better detective then Batman not smarter but damn near close his gadgets can prolly hurt drakseid erm a scratch I'd say

Arsonist Or FlameonArso too bad he kind of sucks in the Arrow tv show

@@knrz2562 Facts.

He's less smart, but has less emotional baggage. Not much less, but less.

The riddler

Dude. You took the words right out of my mouth!

I think he is only good at prep

Nope. He MIGHT be "smart", but he isn't as clever as Batman or Luthor for example

Not best hand to hand

Nowhere close to best hand to hand.

Gideon Thomson wasn’t he top 5? I’d say that’s close

Trust me Lex is the smartest and the wealthie... wait a minute lex doesn't even have a dollar currently right? I mean he blew up all of his fortune and his company just to be perpetua's right hand.

@@ok-vr7by he's DEFINITELY top 5 in h2h. Let's stop with the hating now and if he wanted to stop holding back and stalemating other great fighters he could be basically unstoppable.

I hate that they wouldve definitely done that

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She is dumb

@@OK11_ actually she has a phd

@@OK11_ yea she is pretty and smart

I personally think he should have been top5 but, what can you do

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In the dc universe its literally measured in intelligence levels. 2nd level is average and a 6th level intellect is genius level. Brainiac is supposed to be a 12th level

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@@Metalbloodlord Are you high?

@@ok-vr7by No I am not Doomsday clock was so bad it made me hate superheroes

Yeah...... but Batman lol

He's a meta-human with superspeed powers, so no, not really. All the people that were mentioned on this list don't have any sort of superpowers, they just use their intellect to create things and gadgets to fight with.

Oh yeah hahah fair enough

U right if u think about that like in a second, if u had the flash's processing brain power u could've learned everything there is to learn and had a tremendous amount of time to think and prepare and would've been the smartest but hey comic book.

He is a master in forensics and investigation, he do not have PhDs but he is smart but bcs of his super speed thinks really fast it would seem like he is a genius but he is not he is just smart, pls note that i a big fan of the flash 😉

I agree!!!!

1. Lex. 2. Batman. 3. Mr T

@@atharv9913 Batman is 'smarter' than Lex, but Lex is more intelligent. Mr. T is both smarter and more intelligent than both according to Batman, Amanda Waller and even Lex.

@@asianfury519 Nah. Batman, lex never said that mr terrefic is more intelligent. Why would lex the most arrogant call himself dumber than someone. It Depends upon writers who write batman. Tom king's take on batman is known as pathetic in community so he wont even make him that intelligent. Other writers like chip, geff, taylor made batman smarter. Superman said in all star that mr terrefic is smarter but you know what Superman doom said? That batman is the most dangerous and smartest man as he is guided by some set of rules which prevent him to go all out. While lex or mr T wont hesitate to kill. Geff johns said that batman is smarter than Mr. Terrefic but tom king made batman so dumb that even riddler was stated to be more intelligent than batman and on level of lex (this doesnt make sense). Some writers made mr terrefic dumb too like he was stated to have an iq of 179 (even ted kodd has higher iq than him). So it depends on writers but generally out of 10, 8 writers made batman smarter as he is The OG. What intelligence feat did mr terrefic showed that bruce wayne didnt. From teleporters to time machine, boom tubes to dimensional rifts opener, AI's to reality manipulatiors, batman invented everything. Batman could even build dr manhattan machine (technically he was from other universe but our bruce wayne is smarter than that version so it actually counts.)

@@asianfury519 Yep. 👍🏿

DC mostly cause we got Brainiac and Lex Luthor

Valeria Richards and Dr Doom vs Brainiac and Lex Luthor

Micael Sega all I know lex Luthor is number 1. And spider man better be top 3 in marvel list

That's unfair insofar as Marvel has significantly more effective time travel and universe hopping and cloning technology and the Council of Reeds is already pre-established. Actual intelligence levels are whatever, but Marvel can cheat far more easily by just spamming a tonne of minds ad infinitum in order to brute force the problem.

The Xman Spider Man is not as smart as Tony Stark, Bruce banner, or Hank Pym

Because with out Batman nothing would be possible

Because they wrote it?

Agreed.

He basically theres a reason why hes one of the DC trinity

I think that title of "the multiverse revolves around ........." is belongs to superman.

I don't.

I was confused too

I thought his name was Teo Morrow

@@me36adlucinor46 Exactly! Makes more sense to me.

Lmao i even corrected him when I first heard him say it 🤣🤣🤣🤣

DCeased isn't canon a lot of people were out of character. Lex frequently refers to himself as the smartest man alive in canon (because he is)

Facts🤣🤣

Same here

That’s tuff

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He's a master of mind and body, of course Darkseid would choose Batman over Lex.😏🤜🤛😎

It's because Batman cracked the code to Darkseid's hellspores, so that they (Batman, Big Barda, Superman) could save Kara from his grip in the animated superhero film, Superman/ Batman: Apocalypse, released in 2010. Darkseid, rather impressed by Batman's intellect and stratagem and though admitted defeated, respected him. But, it was that moment that rippled the chain of events to follow and Batman's role in Darkseid's plot to what we see in JLD: Apokolips War released in 2020

@@search4truth733 Batman was bluffing though.

@@saitamasins8321" Omega Landa7 XL9. That sound like a bluff to you?" Batman Superman/ Batman : Apocalypse

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I’d consider Vandal Savage a metahuman. Because immortality.

What about the chief (doom patrol)?

@@christopherjamescochrane2820 yes, him too

I could definitely get on board with your list. The 3 best scientific minds in DC here.

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As The World Forger said, Batman has one of the best strategic minds in all existence. This is coming from a 6th Dimensional being. insidepulse.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Justice-League-23-spoilers-5.jpg

How is the Question and Rorschach not on the top 10 list?

I'm sure many people knew Batman will be #1 before they even clicked on the video

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No the explanation sucks. First off, the batman who laughs is a alternate version of batman so he does not count. If there is an alternate earth where batman is an idiot does that bring down the average? Second point is that BMWL outsmarting lex does not even prove that he is smarter than him batman has been outsmarted by almost every villain he has on at least one once. I dont see joker on this list and he regularly gets the better of Batman

Exton Jonas you have a point there! I was just going off of doomsday clock when ozymandias came to lex Luthor an literally said he needed help from the smartest man in the world

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@KONCASS FOREVER What are you kidding me you like this trash

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Majority of the humans in the multiverse and majority of other sentient life in the multiverse.

Plastic Man

He’s a legend In my opinion the comics failed him,the JLU show saved him

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Its ok tho, we all are

Well he did say it's his personal list after all . Honestly I wonder which one of us isn't for a character we like a friend of mine has once claimed that Hawkman is the greatest hero for him

@@lexbryant4564 well everyone has their opinions:)

he loves Batman for a reason

cxvxn he literally said his opinion. Honestly in my opinion there’s no such thing as no bias. No matter what anyone says everyone is biased because that’s just how it works. We all have opinions on things.

That was a non canon elseworld story. Normal Lex would never admit anyone was smarter than him

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@@iloathepeoplewhorestilltal2774 Yes come on it's for the best

@@aarontruong354 before the twist Tom Taylor said it was an exact copy of the Main DC universe up until that point

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Let’s get ready to Rumble!!! I’m throw the first one out. Batman who laughs is a bat wank off.

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@@TheBoost103 agreed

DCeased is a non canon story. Lex was always known in the main DC continuity to be the smartest man. And he is. Doomsday Clock literally name drops him as the smartest man in DC. You can even argue Mr. Terrific and a few more to be smarter than OP Batman. But they aren't as popular.

Exactly Betts.

@@cactusblack5993 It's rumoured that Mr Terrific's status as 3rd smartest is just a ploy to throw people off his scent.

@@ThunderJuice But to have Batman over Lex? When Doomsday Clock literally says Lex is the smartest man. This is a bias list lol. Mr. Terrific does and comes up with things Batman doesn't. Again, it's popularity that puts OP Batman where he shouldn't.

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Except for the fact that if they actually portrayed him correctly he would outclassed oliver in every field Except for archery.

Terrific is actually the smartest. (he's the one that makes the list..)

​@@FriendlyBatDoomFacts.

It’s not that joker is smart, it’s just that he is unpredictable. That makes him op, especially against batman. And he keeps so many backups BECAUSE he is going against batman. One must know, MOST villains do that, having multiple back ups. It’s just that the pattern or the way joker works is foreign all the time that batman cannot predict it. That’s why joker is an anomaly.

Riddler is far smarter than Joker.

@Michael Terrell II First of all, Joker didn't exactly outsmart Lex Luthor and the Legion of Doom. I presume you are referring to Scott Snyder and James Tynion IV's Justice League issue #13? In that issue, Joker catches Luthor and the rest of the Legion off guard with his unpredictability. Luthor had a contingency storehouse in place, but he didn't realize Joker had discovered it ahead of time and took it off the board. It was unpredictability in this instance more than pure smarts. Also, please cite me an issue/storyline in which Joker outsmarts the entire JLA. To my knowledge, this has never happened either. As usually is the case with Joker, he makes plans ahead of time which he then unleashes upon Batman (and other heroes) when they least expect it, thus giving him a leg up and allowing him to keep the heroes guessing. I'm not saying Joker isn't smart. He is a genius in his own right. But, no, he is not smarter than Riddler. Even Joker himself has told Riddler that he is the one villain who challenges Batman's intellect and keeps his mind sharp (see Batman: Death of the Family). Also, saying Riddler cannot outsmart Batman isn't much of an argument. If Batman is truly the overall smartest human in DC, then logically any character will have an extremely difficult time outsmarting him.

@Michael Terrell II "He’s outsmarted several core members of the league, the teen titans, and the JLA in Batman endgame." Outsmarting several core members of the League and the Teen Titans does not automatically make him smarter than Riddler. That'd be like me saying I outsmarted a group of random people that Professor Steven Hawking never interacted with before, therefore I must be smarter than Steven Hawking. Also, most JLA members don't have half the intelligence as Batman (or Riddler for that matter), so it's a weak argument on its face. Again, saying Joker outsmarted the league in Endgame is disingenuous. He infected some of the leaguers with the Joker toxin, but we are never shown exactly how or when he does it. He infected them with poison, most likely when they didn't realize it, and It happens off panel with no explanation.

@Michael Terrell II The claim that Riddler is not able to outsmart Batman is false. He has outsmarted the Dark Knight on multiple occasions, including during the Batman: Hush, Batman: Zero Year, and Tom King's Batman: War of Jokes and Riddles story arcs, and in that latter story he even outplayed *Joker* by getting him to laugh again, which is what Riddler wanted from the beginning. (Disclaimer: I actually strongly dislike Tom King's Batman run; overall I think King went way too far off the rails in trying to do something different with the character.) Furthermore, Riddler has legitimately deduced Batman's true identity (see Hush), which is something Joker has never done. Joker had to hitch a ride on the Batboat and sneak into the Batcave in order to learn Batman's identity (i.e. there was no deduction involved). And of course Batman ultimately prevails against Riddler - same as he does against Joker and every other villain - because he's Batman. Lastly, and for good measure, the Riddler has even outsmarted the Flash - the fastest thinking character in the DCU and overall one of the smartest humans in the DCU (see Flash vol.4 #50). Bottom line: Both Joker and Riddler are geniuses, but Riddler is the smarter of the two. Joker's biggest strength is that, because of his insanity, he is somehow able to be more unpredictable than anyone. That doesn't make him smarter, it simply makes him more unpredictable. With that, I've gone on with this for far too long. Grace and peace.

Yup!

Facts

he’s not human

Professor Ivo as well

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He clearly said "humans". Superman is not a human.

Crazy he wasn't even mentioned considering he's making batman number 1

He should be there, i mesn hes played with batman like hes a dummy

He is not "part Joker", he is just Bruce Wayne with the morality of Joker.

@@zedisnotded8136 u got it right

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He's a Jokerized Batmam. The chemicals that Jokerize people don't make them smarter.

Mr. Terrific should have been number 1.

@@obiwankenobi4687 respectfully I disagree he is the third smartest behind number 2 batman and number 1 luthor. Blame his creator for making him say that. Even Ozymandias said that luthor and batman were the 2 smartest humans in dc. With that being said DC needs to give batman his brain back from Lucius and Mr terrific is an underrated character.

Jesus, just looked over a thousand comments all of them of batman fanboys saying he is N°1 and here i found a legit fan of Batman who knows what he is saying. Guess i got my hopes back.

@Michael Terrell II most people hate that he gets all the attention because he actually has to figure out a way to win without killing his opponents while everyone else can kill or has super powers. They only do this in batman's case intelligence=PLOT ARMOR while reed Richards and Black Panther come up with plans to defeat galactus and no one bats a eye.

@Michael Terrell II exactly but it mainly due to the fact that batman is MUCH MUCH more popular than them so they brush their achievements off as intelligence and boast about them later. Everyone hates number 1 be they are not number 1 it takes a lot of work to be number 1 that's why batman gets so much hate. When was the last time you heard someone say that they hate reed richards?