Source: ign.com

3. Amadeus Cho, The Totally Awesome Hulk

Amadeus Cho almost made my “smartest superheroes†list the other day. In fact, I only cut him from that list because it was too long.

Cho has been said to be the eighth smartest person in the Marvel universe, which puts him in some very good company. Born in Tuscon, Arizona, Cho was brilliant from a very young age. As a teen, he won an Excello Corporation-sponsored game show called Brain Fight. This turned out to be an evil mastermind’s ploy to find and kill anyone whose intelligence could rival his own, and Amadeus had to go on the run.

He would eventually meet up with The Hulk and try to stop the brute’s attack on Earth, alongside some of his former Champions teammates. One of those teammates, Hercules, would go on to be Cho’s best friend, and the two would spend much time adventuring together.

Later, The Hulk began to suffer from radiation-related problems that put him at risk of melting down. Amadeus found him, and drained off that new radiation, but curing Banner turned Cho into a new kind of Hulk. An awesome one.