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| Topic Started: May 18 2009, 03:35 PM (2,070 Views) | |
| Gabriel Zero | May 18 2009, 03:35 PM Post #1 |
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A spin off from the discussion here. A tribute to a classic moment in Uncanny #147, so how smart do you think our favorite Canuck is? |
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| Ace | May 18 2009, 03:41 PM Post #2 |
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I think he has substantial brain power to work with, but that he hasn't properly utilized it over the years. He's worldly, but not well-educated in the traditional sense. He has the sort of life experience and information you gleam from traveling abroad, rather than someone like Beast who has spent years carefully studying and examining various forms of research in a very sterile environment. |
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| Gabriel Zero | May 22 2009, 06:49 PM Post #3 |
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Here is that page where Logan is fixing a machine to help Cyclops save the day. Nightcrawler says who ever built the machinery was a genius. (Supposedly Dr. Doom) Yet Logan finds a way to make it work. Special thanks to Jinzin for the find. 
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| Gorvar | May 23 2009, 05:18 AM Post #4 |
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i think Logan was well educated with the Howlett's (rich family and all) untill the claws popped up, so he has a bit of education behind him. But most of his wisdom comes from his travels and teachings from his sensei's all over the world. His tech level...i dont know, Spidey showed him how to hack a computer or Beast i dont know for sure. Other logical reason is he got trained in tech stuff for one of his covert op missions. |
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| Ahma | May 23 2009, 05:28 AM Post #5 |
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Aristotle defined intelligence as one`s ability to adapt; Wolverine is deffinately not stupid and more often than not, his wit is backed-up by his uncanny intuition. As a human predator he knows how people work and as a survivor of many perilous endeavours, he knows how situations tend to develop. Combining these two types of knowledge with the extermely accurate information his sharp senses provide him with endows him with superior analytical skills. He will thus have an edge in most situations and will also make the best of them. In short, our good ol` Canuckle is pretty darn intelligent! |
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| PDA | May 23 2009, 10:34 AM Post #6 |
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I think he's far more intelligent, with an inherent knowledge of people, languages, customs in the world than many of his writers over the years have chosen to depict him. And he's a man of some culture, as well, not just a cigar-smoking, beer drinking, barrel-chested, hairy biker-dude. In the early Claremont/Miller series, he's even shown to have an appreciation for the nuances of differing productions of a particular Japanese play. Even drunk in "Giant-sized X-Men #11," he's shown singing at the top of his lungs "Oh, Death, where is thy sting(alingaling)? Oh, grave, thy victory?" -- one of the solo pieces from Handel's "Messiah," which I, too, have sung on numerous occasions. It's so easy to make him an angry, fighting fireplug--all action and consequences be damned. He uses his intelligence, animal senses, and native wit as well as his fighting ability to do what needs to get done. Too often, he's just shown as a berzerker, and while I like that he sometimes loses that control, I would prefer to see him fight craftily and with all the training in special fighting styles that he's supposed to possess. |
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| Gorvar | May 23 2009, 11:37 AM Post #7 |
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He can also burp the Canadian anthem. X-men and Spider-man issues 4. Edited by Gorvar, May 23 2009, 11:37 AM.
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| Templedog | May 24 2009, 02:52 AM Post #8 |
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It has never been stated, but in his own way Logan is probably just as smart as Prof. X. |
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| idemandbacon | Jul 17 2010, 01:49 AM Post #9 |
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^Agreed Wolverine's intelligence have always been belittled. |
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| LoganActor | Jul 17 2010, 07:04 AM Post #10 |
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Yup. Logan's very very intelligent, actually. I forget the issue, but there was a scene where Hank did a brain scan on Logan during a Danger Room session, and said something along the lines of "It's like he's doing all this fighting, while in his mind playing multiple games of chess, and winning." |
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