Is Moon Girl really smarter than Victor Von Doom and Reed Richards?

[JasonEsta]

The recent article about Vision's daughter being Black/Latino these days mentioned Moon Girl being the smartest being on Marvel Earth. Is that true and when did this actually get confirmed?

[Knives]

I thought this had already been officialized a long time regardless of the opinion of the readers is true.

[JasonEsta]

Long time? I thought Valeria was smarter than both of them...now MOON GIRL has passed them up? LOL.

[kilderkin]

Strictly speaking both Valeria, reed and in fact banner are not on earth or in the universe at present

So in that regard it's still flexible

Of course doom has been suggested as smarter than reed (in some ways )too and he is on earth

It's a very vague concept I suppose but fun to mull over

[Michael Watkins]

I think Reed is smarter than Doom. It's part of why he wanted him dead.

[raidensix]

It's done to spur interest in the character and hopefully drive sales (similar to "Supergirl stronger that Superman" when she came back post-crisis).

[kilderkin]

I think Reed is smarter than Doom. It's part of why he wanted him dead.

A better scientific brain I agree

But doom had mastered magic which reed could not really (think mark w did a story on that)

So I feel smarter in some ways over reed

[Iron Maiden]

I thought this had already been officialized a long time regardless of the opinion of the readers is true.

I think it was all just a way to stir up interest in the title. I think it's fair to say she has the potential to exceed the adults some day but she's not there yet. Valeria has been shown to be more precocious back in Millar's Fantastic Four and created high tech stuff when she was 2 or 3. It's all a bit ridiculous though IMO for children to be at such an advanced level at that young an age....when most children are getting potty-trained. You can be born with the potential but there is still things to be learned. They can't match the life experiences of Reed whose explored and studied the Negative Zone or Doom's acquired knowledge of sorcery. Plus their acumen in various sciences.

[Kurolegacy]

I think it was all just a way to stir up interest in the title. I think it's fair to say she has the potential to exceed the adults some day but she's not there yet. Valeria has been shown to be more precocious back in Millar's Fantastic Four and created high tech stuff when she was 2 or 3. It's all a bit ridiculous though IMO for children to be at such an advanced level at that young an age....when most children are getting potty-trained. You can be born with the potential but there is still things to be learned. They can't match the life experiences of Reed whose explored and studied the Negative Zone or Doom's acquired knowledge of sorcery. Plus their acumen in various sciences.

Honestly, I think that would have been the better way to take things having that she has the potential to be the smartest person in the world rather than flat out saying it. It wouldn’t even be the first time that it’s been done as Peter Parker has even been stated by Reed to have potential that rivals his own. Hell it doesn’t even really make all that much sense how a puzzle from Banner (who while one of the smartest, isn’t above Reed) gages someone as being the smartest.

[Vegan Daddy]

Yes, though given her age she's probably not as cunning or resourceful and definitely not as experienced.

[pageturner]

sure i guess does it matter?

There is plenty of room for smart people. the rankings get kind of tedious after a while. Hank Pym was able to out think Reed and he is not smatter than him. Scott lang did the same to Doom and he is not smarter.

There are a dozen or so people who can be the right science wiz when needed.

[Skedatz]

It gets bandied about, but the test itself was put under suspicion in the pages as maybe not perfectly accurate or representative of whatever metric they're all going by.

[kilderkin]

I do think the naturally smart should not normally surpass those with enhanced brains

That said, I think it's been suggested reeds brains were also stretched by his mutation, maybe Valeria inherited that?

As for banner I've always felt he was smarter just less confident, even thanos suggested he was exceptional in the hulk vs thanos mini

However given that moon girl is inhuman and therefore not human in nature, maybe her genetics simply allow her to be more cognitive than a human of her age, don't think I've seen many Inhumans her age so who knows?

[Hypestyle]

she's smart, leave it at that. Have her come up with cool gadgets and strategies to save the day.

[Colossus1980]

Bendis said RiRi would have been bored out of her mind staying in high school and leap frogged her to MIT.

Meanwhile poor Lunella gets stick with kids her age group and teachers who are vastly inferior.

Why does Marvel mistreat the smartest person in the world with her age group? Can't even skip one grade. Tsk Tsk.