10 Smartest DC Characters
4. Ozymandias
When you're known as "the smartest man on the planet", then it's hard to dispute that you deserve a place on any list like this. In fact, many would argue that he deserves a higher placing and they'd have a point, if he didn't turn out to be a monumental numpty at the end of Watchmen, as Doomsday Clock has now elaborated.
Hiding his vast intelligence as a child by just pulling in average grades, it takes a confrontation with a bully that leaves his victim ruined for him to realize his mind is nothing to be ashamed of.
When his parents die he inherits their vast fortune, which eventually leads Adrian Alexander Veidt to change his name to Ozymandias, and embark of a career as a crimefighter.
When things don't go to plan, he reasons that the world needs saving from itself and sets in motion his ultimate plot.
To do so, he teleports a biologically-engineered, telepathic creature into the heart of New York City, killing millions and forcing the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. to join forces to protect the planet, while, at the same time, framing and murdering anyone who could possibly stop him.