Who are the "hidden figures" of Marvel?

[PCN24454]

A recent post I made about the geniuses of Marvel really highlighted how few female super-scientists there were in Marvel. Even though there are a lot of smart Marvel women, they're rarely portrayed as being on par with characters like Tony Stark and Hank Pym.

Who are some genius Marvel women that you don't want to get overlooked?

Here are some of mine:

Jemma Simmons - anyone who's watched Agents of SHIELD would know how skilled she is with metahuman medicine; despite not having a background in physics, she picks quantum mechanics pretty quickly

Kitty Pryde - Kitty being proficient with computers is a surprisingly consistent character trait. She's even on par with a mutant whose ability revolves around hacking.

[Phoenixx9]

Moondragon--geneticist and sciences smart

White Queen Emma--said to be highly intelligent and once constructed a mind-tap mechanism powerful enough to enthrall the Phoenix Force Entity

Superia--super sciences and geneticist

[Sutekh]

Tilda Johnson / Nightshade. Once turned Captain America into a werewolf. With science. Can also build robots, because, again, science!

Bobbi Morse / Mockingbird. Said to be a top SHIELD researcher, before she become a field agent.

Definitely seconding Moondragon (made three different super-villains with cybernetics, etc.) and Emma (made psi-tech able to swap minds between people, among other stuff).

Edit: Ooh, I forgot Toni Ho! She was fun, so I'm mad at myself.

I don't really think of Shuri and Valeria and Moon Girl and Riri and Nadia as 'forgotten,' since they get a fair bit more recognition, recently. They are certainly geniuses, tho!

[a moment closer]

Toni Ho

Susan Storm

Valeria Richards

Shuri

[Revolutionary_Jack]

Moira MacTaggert, or as they call her now -- Moira X

[XPac]

The neat thing is that in a lot of top 10 smartest lists, women are actually represented surprisingly well.

Moon Girl is officially THE smartest person in the MU. Val and Iron Heart make the list now... and I'm pretty sure Shuri will be squeezing her way in there for movie synergy purposes as she's the smartest person in the MCU.

[Hypestyle]

there was a female scientist introduced in the Marvel Two in One revival when Reed, Sue and the kids were still missing...

[a moment closer]

there was a female scientist introduced in the Marvel Two in One revival when Reed, Sue and the kids were still missing...

Was it Dr. Amara Perera? The woman who got pregnant by Doom?

Edit: I just looked it up, it was Rachna Koul.

[a moment closer]

Monica Rappaccini

Nadia Pym

Dr. Kavita Rao

[Crimz]

Toni Ho

Susan Storm

Valeria Richards

Shuri

Sue isn't a scientist.

[a moment closer]

Sue isn't a scientist.

You're right, in the comics she isn't.

[Digifiend]

Was it Dr. Amara Perera? The woman who got pregnant by Doom?

That was in Infamous Iron Man.

Monica Rappaccini

Nadia Pym

Dr. Kavita Rao

Unstoppable Wasp is called Nadia Van Dyne, not Pym. Janet adopted her.

In fact I'd argue Janet counts for this list. She's not as smart as Nadia, but she picked up a lot of stuff from Hank and runs his Pym Labs company, and is in charge of the Ant-Man technology.

Also, Nadia ended up recruiting Finesse to G.I.R.L., so she counts as well.

[Hypestyle]

Was it Dr. Amara Perera? The woman who got pregnant by Doom?

Edit: I just looked it up, it was Rachna Koul.

hopefully Dr. Koul can show up somewhere, as part of a team. Is she married?

https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Rachna_Koul_(Earth-616)

[Frontier]

In fact I'd argue Janet counts for this list. She's not as smart as Nadia, but she picked up a lot of stuff from Hank and runs his Pym Labs company, and is in charge of the Ant-Man technology.

That doesn't necessarily make her a scientist. Not that Jan's dumb, but she'll always be more of a businesswoman than a scientist.

[kevlon]

Moondragon
Superia
Toxi Doxi