10 Smartest DC Characters
5. Mister Terrific
With fourteen PHDs to his name, it's safe to say that Mister Terrific falls on the side of super intelligence. But to think that's all there is to Michael Holt is an injustice to the man who collects new skills and abilities with such ease, it's almost embarrassing.
As he explains it, Terrific has "...a natural aptitude for having natural aptitudes", and this is something that has served him well his entire life.
By the age of six, he had already read the accumulated works of Niels Bohr, Albert Einstein, Max Planck, and Richard Feynman, and before he became a Superhero he was a self-made multi-millionaire, as well as a gold-winning Decathlete.
It would take the tragic deaths of his wife and unborn child, followed by thoughts of suicide and a meeting with the Spectre, before he would take the name Mister Terrific as a tribute to Terry Sloane, who bore the name originally.
With the help of his fancy nano-suit and his ever-present T Spheres, Holt became a valuable member of the Justice Society of America, and even though he was sent to a parallel universe in the New 52, he would eventually find his way back to Earth Prime during DC Rebirth.