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Message: <blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 6035116" data-attributes="member: 3400">It depends a lot on the writers. In fact, I'd say it's only been in the last 10 years or so that we've seen any writers really pushing Stark as being super smart outside of the realm of applied technology. Tony Stark may be exceptionally intelligent if you try to express it as one numeric value... however, that doesn't seem to translate into being smart about all aspects of his life. He wasn't a stellar leader in the Avengers when he was chairman and had difficulty managing the two lives he lived as Stark and Stark's bodyguard Iron Man. His intelligence doesn't stop him from screwing up his personal life on multiple occasions. I'm inclined to believe that Stark has a highly technical genius, but he lacks the same gift in social or emotional intelligence. Reed Richards seems to have a better balanced intelligence between super technical and social/emotional intelligences though even he gets so focused on what he's doing that he annoys his wife. Nevertheless, he seems better able to understand and work the nuances of social behavior and understanding much better than Stark. His excellent use of psychology on Doctor Octopus in one story line comes to mind. But, as another caveat, that doesn't prevent his curiosity from getting him and the rest of the FF into trouble - usually when his explorations lead to unpredictable discoveries (like the cosmic ray mutations we all know and love). For example, exploring the Negative Zone may be kind of stupid... but he cannot resist it.</blockquote>

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