rank characters by intelligence

Dr. Man
Ozyman
Owl
Roscharch
Comedian
Jupiter

That's a tough question, although I would agree that Laurie shows the least intelligence.

Dr. Manhattan is a genius, but he's also endowed with powers that none of the others are. Clearly he was very smart before the accident, but we don't get much of a glimpse into that Jon. So the answer would depend on whether you mean pre- or post-accident Jon.

The Comedian is never shown to have any exceptional book smarts, but he's the most insightful about humanity of any of them.

Rorschach is an eloquent writer, but he misses a lot of things going on around him.

Ozymandias is obviously very smart, probably the smartest. But, as another poster pointed out, is he necessarily the smartest or simply the most cunning and/or detail-oriented? I mean, just about everything he predicted that led to his master plan, the Comedian predicted as well; it's just that the Comedian didn't feel it was right to go and kill millions of people in order to divert nuclear war.

Dan is clearly very smart, being a Harvard-educated engineer who can create amazing technological devices. But, as the cliche tends to go with characters like that, he is clearly pretty clueless when it comes to just about everything else.

Laurie and her mother, sadly, both seem pretty simple. There are a ton of brilliant men in this book and zero brilliant women.

1. Dr. Manhattan
2. Ozymandias
3. Nite Owl II
4. Rorschach
5. The Comedian
6. Nite Owl I
7. Silk Spectre I/Silk Spectre II





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