[ SECRET POST #4789 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4789 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

It doesn’t help that fiction is always going super OTT with their “genius” characters. They always have to be the absolute smartest, 200+ IQs, way ahead of everybody, and capable of learning absolutely anything in less than a day.

Like, I straight up admit my hypocrisy here: I shipped Johnlock for years, and Tony Stark is one of my favorite characters. But I’ll be the first to admit that neither Sherlock nor Tony is a remotely realistic depiction of genius.

TBH, I usually find the most realistic depictions of very high intelligence to be characters who are…almost a little bit boring. (Which is NOT me saying they shouldn’t be written. I sometimes like a little bit of mundanity in a character if it makes them feel more real and grounded.)

[(Anonymous)]

See, Tony I like because he is super smart and also in other ways super, super dumb. He reminds me of a guy I went to school with who was incredibly intelligent and became a sought-after surgeon in his 30s...and then died because he liked to buy expensive cars and race them. On regular roads, not a racetrack. So dumb!

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, yeah. I like Tony for a lot of reasons that can largely be summed up by "He's a genius and an idiot and a total hot mess."

But the fact that he's a complex character doesn't really mean his genius, specifically, is well-written, IMO. He's still a savant to an absurd degree about pretty much every hard science out there. Within the context of something as OTT and unsubtle as the MCU, that kind of thing is fun and consistent with the story, so I'm happy to roll with it. But I still wouldn't call Tony's genius a well-written character element.