10 Smartest DC Characters
3. The Atom
A world-renowned physicist with a genius I.Q to boot, Ray Palmer is the kind of guy you want whenever you have problems to solve.
When the remains of a white dwarf star land on Earth, Ray finds it and uses it to make a lens that allows him to shrink anything down to whatever size he desires. There is a side effect to all this mind, and that's that whatever he uses it on has a terrible tendency to become unstable, before exploding.
But, never one to let that sort of thing stand in his way, he creates a compression matrix to keep the item of his choice stable, and this then becomes his suit, as he takes to saving the universe as the Atom.
He has a stellar career as a hero, fighting in such organizations as S.H.A.D.E and the Justice League, but all of this pails in comparison to the fact that he's one of the few that have gotten the better of Darkseid.
During Rock of Ages, and with the help of Green Arrow, Ray breaks through his invisible force field, into his optic nerve and releases a metric ton of white dwarf radiation right into Darkseid's brain.