10 Lies You Always Believed About The Fantastic Four
4. Reed Richards Is The World's Smartest Person
There is no room for doubt that the Fantastic Four's leader, Reed Richards, is one of the most brilliant minds on Earth. He's patented over a thousand inventions, created a quantum calculator, and figured out how to turn urine into drinking water. (He was terribly proud of that discovery.) When he was labelled as the world's smartest person, no one contested it (save for Doctor Doom).
He may be one of the greatest geniuses to ever live but that doesn't mean Reed is the top dog. The cosmic radiation in Reed's DNA was passed onto his daughter, Valeria Richards, granting her with intelligence that exceeded his own by the time she was two years old.
But guess what? Valeria isn't the world's biggest brainbox either. When renowned scientist and occasional Hulk, Amadeus Cho, performed an intelligence test on the superheroine, Lunella Lafayette, in Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur #12, he was astounded to learn her genius exceeded anyone else's on the planet including Bruce Banner, Hank Pym and, of course, Reed Richards.
Technically, Reed is still the world's smartest man but that's only because the only people cleverer than him are children.