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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Villano" data-source="post: 1206276" data-attributes="member: 505">Nah, I don't think Spidey could make heads or tails of Reed Richards' inventions.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Actually, that's one of the things I like about Marvel.  They don't lump geniuses into one catch-all category.  Spidey is a genius when it comes to chemistry.  He's also handy with electronics since he constructed his Spider Tracers, but we have no idea if he really invented them or just put them together with store bought parts.  After all, you can probably buy the basics of the tracer at one of those "spy" stores that you see around.Tony "Iron Man" Stark is the one you turn to for robotics and weapons.  Hank "Beast" McCoy is your biologist (at least I think that's what he does).  You wouldn't ask Beast to build you a robot or Iron Man for a cure to a disease.I consider Batman to be like Spidey.  If you need something chemical or a computer, you go to him.  The Mr. Fantastic stuff seems unlike him.It reminds me of Futurama, when Bender went to Robot Hell and Leela had to play the Robot Devil in a fiddle contest to free him.  Fry said he didn't know she could play the fiddle.  Leela replied, "I can play the drums.  How different can they be?"You wouldn't want a nuclear physist performing brain surgery on you, would you? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />I didn't like the Super Power Disruptor.  It sort of imbodies what I mean by "dues-ex-machina".  It can take the power away from both Superman and GL even though GL's power comes from a gadget, his ring.  And, even though it can stop Superman (which means it'll take down virtually every bad guy around) we'll never hear of it again. Personally, I liked Supes and Bats.  I like the originals of the others better.I wouldn't hold my breath on that one.  I mean, how long has the poor Thing been waiting for that cure? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />In the DC universe, the only guy I can think that can match him, outside of the New Gods, is Brainiac.</blockquote>

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