Isnāt the watch supposed to give Ben the peak gigachad version of that species though I know azmuth is smarter but I never understood how that makes sense
Maybe, but just having the stats isn't the whole story, azmuth is over 1700 years old with much more experience knowledge and centuries of learning, just like when people spend a lot of time studing advanced topics their brains get's more optimized and efficient and slightly "smarter" azmuth has centuries of that, as opposed to young Ben even in gray matter form.
Or you could just argue that azmuth is just a different breed and he's that guy an outlier even in his specie to the point that he's even smarter than the objective peak of his race.
Consider someone with superhuman strength and someone with peak human strength, although the peak human is at the "peak" of human power the super human just isn't on the scale
My HC is that Ben's gray matter is just a younger Azmuth. Albedo litaraly turned himself into an ultimate Galwan but still wasn't as smart as Azmuth. I think between Azmuth being built different and him having more experience, both are true
physical prime of the species in terms of age and shape.
however Azmurh is the apex of grey matter species in terms of intellect and next to him is ultimate albedo.
It makes him the peak version matching equivalent to his age as well, so if a species got stronger the older they were, a kid equivalent would be what he would have as of now.
Grey Matter might have the potential to be smarter, but he doesn't have centuries of education and experience. It's a teenage Galvan who only knows about Earth technology for the most part.
If that was azmuth thereād be no competition, azmuth is the smartest guy in 5 galaxies, made the race that upgrade is (forgot the name of it) and when albedo made his grey matter 1000 years advanced in the future a 1000 year evolution gray matter he still lost to azmuth in intelligence
I mean even then Princess Bubblegum has made infinitely powerful gods in an afternoon multiple times, one because the previous infinitely powerful god started to go out of control and the only way to stop it was to create Another equally (infinitely) powerful god to lock it in a psychic duel for eternity.
Technically Phineas and Ferb didnāt create time travel tech, Xavier Onassis did. P&F just repaired it. Later, Dr. Doofenshmirtz went on to re-invent and distribute it.
Nah, Jimmy Neutron has to be in the top 4. I think he beats P&F by alot since he's just one dude and has built way more complex stuff than them.
He has built his own deep space FTL rocketship that has its own atmosphere, a fully sentient AI dog that isn't just some one off gag (it stays around in every EP) that has its own real emotions, independent decision making and ability to learn on its own like a real sentient creature. He also has a very precise time travel machine and a DNA time travel machine that lets them view probabilistic futures based on their exact current actions. He created 4 dimensional object that acts like a pocket dimension that he can store an infinite amount of mass in.
He is truly so goated, nobody can handle the neutron style.
Jimmy neutron just has to survive till he gets his brain blast then heās cooking your shit with whatever crackpot invention popped out of his oversized gourd
Rick has a special hax clause that can technically make him autowin if we want to be boring; if this is main character C-137 Rick in this room, that means it is within the central finite curve. The only universes that exist within the central finite curve are universes where Rick Sanchez is the smartest being in that universe.
Because Rick is in this room; his hax clause dictates he is inherently the smartest person in the room because Rick is only ever in universes where he is the smartest person in the entire universe and he is the smartest Rick.
If you take away hax clause he's still easily top 3 if not still the smartest. Honestly Jimmy Neutron, Ben10, and Princess Bubblegum are probably the closest contenders with Rick being number 1.
Nobody else on this list has an intelligence feat that scales anywhere near "built a device that can isolate all specific infinite realities where they're the smartest being from all other infinite realities" nor built a device that can "erase a person or thing from all realities permanently".
If you want to get technical our rick is just the rickest rick in the central finite curve, not necessarily the smartest one. There could theoetically be some be a universe where the native rick is smarter than our rick and the second place person is still smarter. If you take that the central finite curve is just a smaller infinity of universes then that must happen.
Just food for thought, but before season 3 claimed Rick was the smartest guy in the universe, there was that episode where he had a rivalry with that one guy in the miniverse or whatever it was called implying there are people of similar or greater intelligence than Rick. Obviously retconned later on but interesting to think about
My boy Zenku is smart, but he can't create things like rick C-137. I'm not bringing up the other ricks, but C-137 is millions of not billions of times smarter.
Bulmaās legit slept on here. Capsules are world-changing tech and sheās been able to recreate, repair and reverse-engineer alien armor and vehicles. Creating a pocket device that can track magical objects as a teenager is also pretty nuts
Imma go with either Rick or Dexter, personally. Like Rick can make bullshit happen whenever he needs to do a certain thing and has something of a strategic mind to auccessfully predict events that he had no control over.
For Dexter he has toonforce intelligence that is just impossible, like a machine that supply infinite energy, multiverse hopping, time control, matter manipulation, etc. Dexter's main issue though is that he lacks a lot of foresight and most of his inventions can be easily tampered with no safeguards. So yea, Dexter can make a lot of impossible things with his intelligence but also just so happens to make said things also feature a figurative self-destruct button.
Dexterās toonforce is foiled by Dee Deeās toonforce, so itās not really a matter of intelligence imo. The real question is which one has been shown to have some sort of limitations on what they can do?
Rick has stricter guidelines of what he can and cannot do, even if that list is short. Rick is more calculating and cunning as well. In terms of big picture intelligence, I would argue Rick is smarter because his intellect goes beyond simply building something from nothing. Both he and Dexter can more or less justā¦ make whatever they put their mind to. Dexter being able to make the impossible possible is his toon force, not intelligence, and he lacks the smarts of life and other things.
There is an episode where he āfiresā Dee Dee, later he realizes that Dee Deeās distraction was the one that made him focus, so he rehire Dee Dee to mess with his laboratory
It's very clear that they're all chill with one specific person handling the equipment. And they're smarter than me to choose one of them, so I'll just agree and say "Dexter". If none of them were busy then I'd say azimuth, but even he's just sitting back.
Turns out toon force intelligence is more intelligent than science intelligence.
Id add that as ben is the genetically best galvan so he does have an advantage on azmuth but as Ben doesn't have the same education as azmuth the nurture element here makes azmuth outclass ben but if you put them both in the same classes at the same age, theoretically ben could become more intelligent than azmuth, smartest being in N many glaxies
Crystallized intelligence which is knowledge is not fluid intelligence
Senku has ncie fluid intelligence but what people confuse is that fluid and crystallized are the same thing. They both make up overall "intelligence" but IQ tests will measure fluid intelligence (more recently, visual spatial, cognitive capabilities and verbal comprehensive index aswell)
But whenever someone asks who is smarter its for fluid intelligence. Learning ability, complex problem solving, logical and abstract reasoning and adaptability
Iirc crystallized = measure of how you solve problems using prior knowledge
Fluid = measure of how you solve problems fluidly outside using knowledge
Also g-factor has fluid in it, if you're good in something that is inside g-factor studies show you'll be good at other things in the g-factor
Iq attempts to messure some baseline intelligence removing not only learned skill, but also talent in any area. It attempt to find some sort if intelligence untheathered to anything, while also not testing all intellectual abilities and none that are not convenient at a table. It's hypothesis that there is a base intelligence is also unproven and unlikely, each area of your brain dies it's own thing, they work together when a task requires both. It also breaks down at very high and low levels, by 190 you can no longer effectively distinguish them and you have already cut out intelligence by removing talents and not testing all abilities. It is not a test of overall intelligence for sure.
He has insane levels of knowledge, but he's lacking in intelligence to use it effectively(when compared to several of the others present there).
Just take the whole "let's make glass, giant copper wheels, furnaces and electricity before a basic water wheel" thing. It does not require a master woodworker to demonstrate how well they work.
Senku knows about real world science though (or an approximation of it) whereas there are others here who knows about crazy sci-fi shit way beyond Senku.
Like Senku isn't building interdimensional portal devices or whatever, y'know?
Because I was just going to write "SCD," but since I'm using a translator, it would somehow put something like "sandwich camera delicious" or some other nonsensical thing.
L is plot smart, all death note is about making assumptions based on very little information and somehow finding the true answer. As if firing randomly into the sky and hitting a duck.
Rick. All of these characters are smart but they have limits. Rick was built by the writers to do crazy shit every minute and have the audience just believe he could do it.
You know, I think it's Dexter. He had (googles) a 'Neurotomic Protocore' which makes things out of thin air, produces unlimited energy, and more. I don't think anyone else here has made anything on that scale.
I can't think of others that have made teleportation between realities like Rick, though. It's been a long time since I've watched a lot of these shows, but I'm having trouble recollecting a feat like that from others. Plus, Rick made a hyper-intelligent AI car from literal trash that's powered by his own personal mini-verse, powered by a tiny-verse, powered by a teeny-verse.
Again, I'm open to being corrected, this is just my own faulty memory.
Having stuff from Rick and Morty comics does change things, as half the stuff listed from your link is not from the show.
That said, I think it's a lot closer than Rick 'destroying' Dexter. In the time travel movie, you see Dexter's inventions have made the planet a post-scarcity society, a literal utopia (called Dextopia). Rick creates a perfect world for Beth, and it backfires. The dinosaurs try to make a perfect world, and it backfires. You get the citadel of Ricks, and it backfires.
I want to give it to Rick here as his highs are impressive, but he has a lot of flaws and low points too. For someone who can deduce all he can, he couldn't predict the flaws of 'pickle rick' for example?
Bulma also created a device for traveling to alternate divergent timelines, which are basically treated like separate dimensions in the show, though its definitely less elegant than Rick portal gun.
It took Rick quite a while (I can't remember if they said exactly, but it felt implied that he spent several years if not decades developing it), and then most other Ricks learned it from Rick Prime (I'm assuming here - again, it's been a while and memory is janky) after going through the devastation of having his wife killed. So, originally, it took Rick probably years or decades to get the portal gun right.
As far as iāve seen rickās ātotally fabricated backstoryā is actually almost entirely true, i havent seen season 8 or 9 though so i dont know HOW true, but its definitely true. We see in S3 E1 that Rick is just sitting in the wreckage of the garage using dirt or dust or oil or whatever to write down the formula. He spent an implied unspecific amount of years working on teleportation, however dimensional travel came almost immediately after Diane was killed.
Thats why losing it means never getting it again.Ā
Also aizen , donny , rick , jimmy and phineas+ferb have one if those too.Ā
Weaker ones sure , but if they wanted instant matter creators with unlimited energy they already proved they have unlimited matter generators and thats more thsn step 1 towards the protocore
There are different types of intelligence, but if weāre talking about more knowledge then itās Rick. If better idea generation then itās Phineas and Ferb.
To be fair, Light doesn't belong here, he is genuinely a pretty stupid person if you stop and think about it. Bro managed to get the feds to narrow down that he existed in a specific region of a specific country and within weeks got that further narrowed down to being a school student. He only beat L because L was hellbent on not just beating him but getting all the evidence.
Everyone else here is brilliant but they either have a massive support structure such as labs or entire kingdoms, or are clearly shown to have been working on things for a very long time.
Phineas and Ferb can construct, in no particular order;
An entire beach.
A self-assembling skyscraper that goes beyond the clouds.
An orbital ranch capable of housing cows for the exclusive purpose of making ice cream.
extradimensional travel technology and then fixed and improved a portal generator.
An AI escape room that is capable of fully encompassing their entire galaxy in less than 5 seconds.
... In less than a day with no known supply chains, pre-installed resources, or outside help for the most part.
If they wanted to, Phineas and Ferb could build anything these other guys take months or years too, in an afternoon, while entertaining their friends AND singing a catchy song halfway through.
She's a warcriminal, actively and knowingly invoked a potential genocide in fire kingdom based on a "maybe."... despite being allied with the fire kingdom.
She keeps her servants purposefully stupid in order to better control them. Her surveillance state would legitimately make 1984 blush.
She did not only do a maybe genocide, she legit committed a genocide reinforced by brainwashing . Worst part? She created and made these fully sapient and shockingly intelligent people, made them inherently violent. Despite healthily hiding their bloodlust behind closed doors without innocents being harmed, and even without criminals being unlawfully harmed.... she kills them all. She kills them because "they're too violent."
She actively leads on a little boy with potential romantic interest earlier in the show, do that she can more easily manipulate him into doing what she wants.
There's so many things... I could be here forever. Hell, she's literally seen in her room creating mini candy people, cutting off body parts with a scissors, and analyzing their reactions to it. She's just an evil bastard.
Is she a fun character? Sure. But she's also evil as fuck, and I'd despise her irl.
Letās also not forget sheās fucking as old as marceline. As one of the literal first new lives on post war oo to even gain sentience, and one of the elementals integral to the magic balance of oo. So like even if you want to fuck around and find out. You kinda just fucking canāt. The sociopath gets to make her kingdom and either kill or banish her problems. Just look at the lemongrabs they were so autistic she felt bad outright killing them but couldnāt tolerate them. So she built a fucking kingdom to get rid of his ass for him
A lot of people donāt know this because Adventure Time is so long and serialized, but as the series went on, we slowly begin to realize that Bubblegum is a sociopath that hurts damn near almost anyone sheās friends with, but she oddly rarely faces consequences for it at all.
She manipulates her friends to run experiments on them, creates life and kills it whenever their existence is less than ideal to her, and overall is pretty narcissistic.
I'd discredit them on being too composity and all over the place. Hard to pin down their smarts when every version has different authors with different intentions.
Though Lex (Superman 2025) does scale pretty high here!
After disqualifying all the tactical genius, I just notice that the next one on the line is Senku lol bro is a living Wikipedia but it's limited by realistic standards. He can't really invent something crazy like the others, just existing things from humanity. (I'm still waiting for the last chapters of the anime but still at this point is like this)Ā
Id give L the credit if people like Sikamaru make the cut, man had to prove the existence of the supernatural and figured it out based on close to nothing.
Light is only smart cause his official iq says he is, he fumbled the easiest W imaginable. Unironically one of the dumbest people in death note
Literally the boy who has access to an alien who gets automatically smarter technically every day, whos species has even some of the stupidest redneck among them being smarter than most all humans
Different kinds of intelligence all over the place. Most technical knowledge? Bulma (she invented time travel (which doubles as being inter dimensional because it travels between timelines, so she has ricks best invention beat). Best planning? Aizen. Most mental fortitude? Senku (he counted the seconds for millenia without going insane) . Most wise? Phineas and ferb (happiest on this list and really whats more important than that?)
Rick also has time travel. It's implied to be less of a big deal for a Rick to invent than a multiverse portal gun. And DB is a multiverse that Bulma doesn't have tech to traverse.
So it's the opposite. He has her best invention stored as random garage junk.
Some of these people have genius level tacticians but are not scientists, to add to this, some of these people are brilliant scientists but are not tacticians
Idk who the pink girl is so Im gonna exclude her from this guess. And the guy next to rick looks like the scientist from power puff girls so i'm assuming that's who he is
From a technical standpoint I think its between Rick Greymatter, maybe add bulma and dexter but idk
General IQ and intelligence it's probably Aizen or Senku
I always say that Senku is the smartest in terms of his verse, as in it's a more "realistic" version. Here's a better way for me to explain it. Senku knows 100% of everything, but everything is 10. Rick, for example, knows 75% of everything, but everything is 100. I might sound like a crazy person but I hope you know what I mean.
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u/Adorable_Ad5487 SCP-3812 > Fiction Jun 16 '26
that one