Avengers: Infinity War - Shuri Is The Smartest MCU Character

Bruce who?

Black Panther Letitia Wright Shuri
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Looking through the MCU's major and minor characters, there are fair few who probably qualify as geniuses. Tony Stark, Hank Pym and Bruce Banner are all among the world's most celebrated figures in science and technology; Peter Parker is a child prodigy; Rocket Raccoon is the king of invention; Ultron basically had the Internet in his brain; Loki was the poster boy for conniving brilliance... But none of them can compete with the real MVP of intelligent characters.

According to Avengers: Infinity War directors Joe and Anthony Russo - who have spoken to WIRED about their characters - the smartest character in the entire MCU is, in fact, Shuri, saying she “is the smartest person in the Marvel universe.” Pretty definitive, that.

Joe Russo went on:

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“She is the sister of T’Challa [and] the princess of Wakanda. And she is the brains behind Wakanda’s incredibly advanced technology.”

It's fair to say it, to be honest, because Shuri is the only character trusted to try and unknit Vision's consciousness from the Mind Stone and in the short time she's been in the MCU, she's already deprogrammed Bucky, healed Everett Ross and upgraded Black Panther's suit to nano-technology. She's a big deal in other words.

Could this be the Russos foreshadowing her becoming more important in Avengers 4? Brains will, after all, go a long way to helping bring Thanos down in the end.

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