Source: pastemagazine.com

1. Mr. Fantastic (Reed Richards)

There's no question about who deserves this top spot.

Reed Richards isn't just "built a robot suit" smart or "wins every combat encounter" smart. No, he's "could reinvent the way the universe works before breakfast" smart. Reed is a scientist who deals with the unknown mysteries of comic book science every single day, and he does it with style. The guy is brilliant in a way that's downright scary.

There's a reason one of the greatest threats to the Ultimate Universe was a Reed Richards turning evil. And that was the ultimate one, not even the fully intelligent Marvel Universe Proper one. The next closest we got to that was when another universe's Reed Richards decided he wanted to spread this new zombie virus he'd seen. And then he conquered the earth with super zombies. Really, we're all just glad our Reed Richards uses his genius for heroism. Because the alternative would be very bad, indeed.

Aaaaaaaand there you go. Ten superheroes who are smarter than me or you. Very good brain boys abound on this list, and we are very, very proud of them.