Quote Originally Posted by Huntsman Spider View Post
Hmm, yeah, those are good points there. It's one thing to have a wide range of knowledge or learning --- the definition of a polymath in real life --- but being on that super-genius-level in everything scientific really does stretch if not break the bounds of suspension of disbelief.
It's irksome in that Marvel went and made a super-polymath in Finesse, of the Avengers Academy, whose actual power was originally to be a multidisciplinary prodigy, able to master chemistry and gymnastics and 'learn a few languages' in her spare time, and then, because every freaking smart guy at Marvel *already had that power,* she got retconned into being Taskmaster Lite, with photographic reflexes, and her being a genius at a bunch of other things, including music and math and languages, mysteriously got abandoned for more fighty-fight nonsense, as if Marvel needed yet more punchy-folk.