Talk:Peak Human Intelligence/@comment-9597460-20130615005924/@comment-9597460-20130615013153

We have four levels of intelligence powers: Peak Human Intelligence, Enhanced Intelligence, Supernatural Intelligence and Absolute Intelligence. Coming up with distinct guidelines for each is probably futile, but I'd draw rough lines kind of like this:

Absolute Intelligence would be reserved for cosmic entities like the Watchers, Galactus, the Celestials and similar figures.

Supernatural Intelligence would be users who aren't cosmics but are so intelligent that they don't really have a place on earth. They can barely relate to ordinary human beings and the challenges of life on earth are really too small for them. Also, they all seem to be functionally immortal. Here I'd put beings like Doctor Manhattan, the High Evolutionary, Brainiac, [sealed-form] Washu and the Kree Supreme Intelligence.

Enhanced Intelligence would be the entire spectrum of comic-book geniuses that are still functionally human in their capabilities, personalities and desires, from Reed Richards and Lex Luthor down to people like Egghead and Dr. Malus. These are the people that can utilize comic-book "super-science" to do things that are impossible in our universe.

Peak Human Intelligence might include real-world geniuses like Stephen Hawking and comic-book geniuses that aren't known for super-science, for example, Shadowcat, who's a computer software genius, but who capabilities along those lines seem pretty-much real-worldish.

Not trying to be dogmatic here. I conceed there's lots that's arguable. Just trying to take all this seriously and made some actual sense of it. If that's even a realistic endeavour.