I stopped reading the X-titles ages ago, so I had to look up Doctor Rao and M online. May I say that M has one of the most bizarre bios I've ever seen, even for a Marvel character? The bit about following her evil brother to another dimension and being impersonated by her twin sisters who merged into a single being was weird enough. Then I got to the part where it said, "Monet was enrolled in a private boarding school in the Swiss Alps, where she soon discovered the headmaster was secretly a vampire feeding on students," and I gave up. *g*
I've been going through the character bios on the official Marvel site, searching for characters with an official intelligence rating of 7 (the super-geniuses). Since there doesn't seem to be a way of searching by rating, my hunt has been pretty random. As it turned out, so have the ratings.
Eliot Franklin, Madame Hydra, and Moonstone are ones, although that's misleading, since it looks like they haven't been rated at all; one seems to be the default.
Marvel's got problems dealing with gender, race, sexual orientation, etc. This is disappointing but unsurprising, since Marvel comics are artifacts of a civilization that has problems with all those issues.
Re: This is not what you asked, but...
I've been going through the character bios on the official Marvel site, searching for characters with an official intelligence rating of 7 (the super-geniuses). Since there doesn't seem to be a way of searching by rating, my hunt has been pretty random. As it turned out, so have the ratings.
- Reed Richards, Tony Stark, Doctor Doom, Hank Pym, Hank McCoy, Emma Frost, and T'Challa all have an official intelligence rating of 7. So do Steve Rogers and Thor. (WTF?)
- Bruce Banner, Peter Parker, the Terrible Tinkerer, MODOK, Arnim Zola, and Magneto are all sixes.
- M, Charles Xavier, the Mad Thinker, and the Wizard are fives.
- Janet van Dyne, Doc Samson, and the Red Skull are fours.
- Sam Wilson, Bucky, and Wanda are threes.
- Eliot Franklin, Madame Hydra, and Moonstone are ones, although that's misleading, since it looks like they haven't been rated at all; one seems to be the default.
Marvel's got problems dealing with gender, race, sexual orientation, etc. This is disappointing but unsurprising, since Marvel comics are artifacts of a civilization that has problems with all those issues.