Iron Man Finally Proves He's Smarter Than Reed Richards
Warning: contains spoilers for Thor #25!
Marvel's Reed Richards is widely considered the «smartest man alive» in the world, but he's just been replaced by Iron Man via the leader of the Fantastic Four's horrific scientific mistake. Mr. Fantastic has created flying cars, teleportation, advanced medical cures for diseases and more, and he's often the smartest individual in multiple universes (as seen when multiverse variants formed the Council of Reeds). But Thor #25 proves that Reed Richards may not be as worthy of the title as he thought.
Tony Stark and Reed Richards are not the only scientific geniuses in the Marvel Universe. Peter Parker is a scientific prodigy, who created his own Spider-Man webbing in a process that the top minds on the planet have difficulty replicating, and Bruce Banner is a foremost expert on gamma radiation. But Bruce's destructive nature as the Hulk prevent him from being held is as high esteem as his colleagues, and indeed the Hulk's latest rampage is what brings the Avengers together — along with Reed Richards and Tony Stark.
Related: Who Will Be Reed Richards In The MCU Fantastic Four?
In Thor #25, written by Donny Cates with art by Martin Coccolo, the Avengers gather together to discuss Hulk's latest attack, which ended with 17 civilians killed in El Paso, Texas. They realize Hulk and Thor are fighting in the Black Hand of God, the severed hand of a dead Celestial. Iron Man claimed to come across this information because his deep-space satellite network recorded "...A sound in space. Something so loud that its vibrational frequency completely fried one of my space babies." Iron Man claims it was a voice — the Hulk's voice shouting «Hulk smash.» Reed is truly astonished and wonders how Tony
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