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B-but mr fantastic isn’t even close to being a jock.
That’s why the Thing gives him Hyper-Wedgies when Dr. Doom’s out of Town!
Note: Batman and Superman are DC characters, and Spiderman and Reed Richards are Marvel. One more reason why I prefer Marvel over DC.
Wha-what about the Atom?
(For you non-nerds, the Atom is a DC character whose secret identity is Ray Palmer … physicist.)
Oh, you can’t trust anything he says; everyone knows atoms make up everything!
;-P
And the nerd-joke of the year award goes to you. XD
See also: Spitfire and the Troubleshooters, from the Marvel “New Universe” that flopped in the 1980s, starring as protagonists the protege/daughter of an engineer/mechanic and a bunch of MIT students.
Batman is portrayed as intelligent- doing complex chemical calculations- and one of his go-tos is Oracle, a computer geek who had similar physical skills. And you can’t fake major-newspaper-writer skills.
Which is about all I know about DC or Marvel- have seen the Avengers movies but that’s about it. You get your lifetime nerd card when you declare a history major but my interests lay in different nerd-approved areas of reading. Discovered mangas in my mid-20s if that mollifies anyone
To qualify as a superhero with a lifetime nerd card you need to be in the Marvel universe, have at least one address within New York at some point in your life as a hero, and lastly to some extent speak the seemingly random dialect known to the collective hero/villain archetype known as the “gadgeteer”.
As far as I’m concerned we don’t have a solid jock-nerd scale in the DCU. There needs to be more grey.
See http://www.superherodb.com/characters/
Hmm, I wonder where Tony Stark fits in her view? Both a typical party kid, and one of the greatest engineers in the Marvel universe.
Tony Stark (Iron Man) would probably also fall under “Rich kid with expensive toys.”
Two words, Millie: Squirrel Girl.