Mr. Terrific (which might sound like Mr. Fantastic to you, and it should) also known as Michael Holt is one of the smartest men on the planet in the DC Universe, number 3 to be exact (and even that’s been debated as being too low for him). His “power” is to possess super intelligence and to be a polymath, good at many different sciences (if not all of them).
Among his accomplishments are: figuring out the space time continuum by the time he was 6 years old, being able to make himself invisible to all technology, and the T-sphere: the multipurpose technology that can do everything from hacking other tech, to allowing Mr. Terrific to fly, to opening up dimensional portals, and even damaging the likes of Alan Scott, Captain Marvel, and Black Adam.
T-spheres can also create hyper realistic holograms (that can fool those with telepathy even), create force fields, and also deliver electrical shocks.
Mr. Terrific is also fairly athletic and is a black belt in 6 different martial arts, so he isn’t ALL brain.
In the New 52, the new universe of DC Comics, Mr. Terrific continues his reign of intelligence and is still a master of the space/time continuum and still possesses T-spheres. In this universe T-spheres can create gravity wells, can protect from mind control, can overload mind control, can erase memories, can still fly, can magnetize metal, can shoot light, can shoot electricity, can hit intangible beings, can destroy a high tech tank, and can still create force fields.
He is still very athletic, still the 3rd smartest man in the world, and has other tech such as advanced AI, dimensional travel (and a base in another dimension), a machine that dampens kinetic energy of earthquakes via absorption (and can also release said energy), and limited time travel (can uncontrollably see the future). He is still invisible to technology, can still hack, and can still create holograms like his pre-52 counterpart.
All in all, he is in fact Terrific and deserves more spotlight not for only being intelligent, but one of the rare black geniuses in comics.
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