Smartest characters, show by show
The same five-part test applied to every character in a franchise, so the cast can be compared like for like.
- Smartest Death Note charactersL, Light, Near and Mello. A story built as a duel of minds, so its cast is the easiest to compare like for like.4 ranked
- Smartest Naruto charactersShikamaru, Itachi and Naruto. A power-scaling series in which the clever characters still have to face gods, which makes intelligence hard to isolate.4 ranked
- Smartest Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul charactersWalter White, Gus Fring and Saul Goodman. Three different kinds of intelligence, chemical, organisational and verbal, in one criminal universe.3 ranked
- Smartest Marvel charactersTony Stark, Reed Richards, Doctor Doom, Shuri and Doctor Strange. A universe of self-declared geniuses, where the title is handed out far more freely than the evidence supports.6 ranked
- Smartest Classroom of the Elite charactersAyanokoji, Horikita and Sakayanagi. A school that ranks students by how they think, with a hidden mastermind, a proud top student and a frail strategist on one scale.3 ranked
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