15 Marvel Villains With High IQ Ranked

We always like to talk about which of Marvel’s greatest heroes have the biggest brains around, and we love to debate the intellectual differences between Iron Man and Mr. Fantastic, but what about the villain side of things? There are some extremely intelligent baddies out there in the Marvel Universe and it’s time they were given the spotlight!

When you think of intelligent Marvel bad guys, your mind probably first jumps to some of the big shots like Doctor Doom or Ultron. Both are great choices. Doom has an intellect that’s on par with Tony Stark and Reed Richards, but his massive ego and quest for power and domination always gets in the way of his brain power. Ultron is a highly sophisticated enemy that will always continue to get smarter the longer that he’s online. He’s constantly upgrading and learning new ways to cause trouble for the Avengers. But also don’t forget about the Mad Titan Thanos. He may seem like a brute force villain, but his intelligence and his past history makes him one of the greatest minds in the universe. And what about others? Doc Ock? Kang the Conqueror? The Leader? M.O.D.O.K.? How do they all stack up to each other in terms of brain power?

So join me today as I break down the best Marvel villains with the highest IQ. After I’m done, be sure to hit that big like and subscribe button for more awesome MCU and Marvel content like this! Thanks for watching CBR! Let’s get started.

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:41 Doctor Doom
02:03 Thanos
03:16 Superior Iron Man
04:23 The Maker
05:27 High Evolutionary
06:13 Doc Ock
07:14 Ultron
08:17 Kang the Conqueror
09:17 The Leader
10:21 Green Goblin
11:25 M.O.D.O.K.
12:35 Mister Sinister
13:23 The Mad Thinker
13:53 Arnim Zola
14:30 The Tinkerer

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Written by: Jacoby Bancroft
Narrated by: Jacoby Bancroft
Edited by: Ben Bromley

[cbr]

Do you think we'll see any of these villains in the MCU anytime soon?

[raven]

They need to bring Doctor Doom into the MCU. Or better yet just give him his own movie.

[bxnmxllxr]

Ultrons Intelligence is slept on he’s the fusion of Tony’s and Bruce’s brain

[timothymaroney]

I feel like Baron Zemo should be on this list. The dude has no powers, but has managed to defeat the Avengers in both the MCU and in the comics.

[lightyagamiunofficial]

I gotta say my favorite marvel villain is either green goblin or ultron(mainly Green Goblin due to how terrifying & menacing he can be seriously his intelligence & abilities hold no boundaries.)

[LeopoldsburgsJong]

love the list.
personal list wouldn't contain A.I. as those entries have a high IQ by default but that would be a personal list like everyone has his/her own personal view on things.
devo deserved the like

[solonvergara]

Spider-Man, the amazing Spider-Man 2, and Spider-Man no way home

[PriestLargo.]

Dr Doom and Kang The Conquer are probably one of the coolest villains in Marvel

[MisterSinister]

As much as I love Dr.Doom I'd put Thanos IQ over Doom's. Bruce Banner is like one of the top 5 smartest men on earth and it's stated in 'Thanos versus Hulk' that Banner's intellect is the level of kids in kindergarten on Titan. And Thanos is arguably the smartest Titan that has ever existed.

[meiralifson]

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[trexadvent]

Can you do a video about how and why we could see the Masters of Evil in the MCU with all of these villains in this video?

[reneed]

Green Goblin got waves in the fade to make Spidey sea sick

[jamonryan]

Who let the dogs out, j-pat-g that's who, mystery solved.

[trexadvent]

How do you think we will see some of these villains like the Mad Thinker coming to the MCU?

[jasonamrhein]

In the 60's Doom and Richards fastened themselves to a gizmo that would destroy the mentally weaker of the two, and Doom lost. Since I discovered this I always looked at Richards as having the intellectual edge between the two.

[tt]

Doom is one of my favourite marvel villains

[Panda-onzy]

2 movies where green goblin wasn't in a spiderman movie was the first 2 tom holland spider man movie and civel war.

[pvhtzvx]

Actually thanis is the smartest of them all since when he gets the infinity guantlet with the stones he gets cosmic awareness wich means that's he knows everything that is going on at all times everywere past present and future there is nothing that he doesn't know 😉

[OldF]

Doom got his his PHD on line in basket weaving for $29.99 So he can call himself Doctor ; )

[hannuala-olla]

Doctor Strange isn't a doctor? Can you become a world famous neurosurgeon like he was without being one?
I mean that's literally the reason for "doctor" in name of Doctor Strange, I recon.