She is highly intelligent and capable at accounting and money laundering, allowing her to deduce Walter's second life with little to no information at her disposal. Disgusted by Walter's moral decline which she has fallen victim to, Skyler is a pragmatist willing to do whatever it takes to keep her family together.
Walter White in 'Breaking Bad'
There's no denying that Walter White is a calculated genius when he isn't letting his ego get in his way.
Yes. He's not book smart like Walt, but he's street smart and unlike Todd, after working with Walt he was able to make blue meth as pure as 96%, the same purity as Gale who had a master's degree in organic chemistry with a specialty in X-ray crystallography.
Is Hank Smarter Than Walt? Walter, while smarter, had some series issues which Fring didn't. Fring was more disciplined. He had a better logical mind than Walter and never let his ego get in the way of winning.
145 is a good estimate of Walter White's IQ. That's just above genius level, which is 140. Somebody with an IQ of 145 is very capable of being a college professor or a chemist.
1. Lex Luthor. Lex Luthor is the most intelligent human being on Earth and one of the most intelligent beings in DC Comics. He has seemingly mastered every science known to the universe.
Super-Genius Intelligence: Tony is a phenomenal scientific genius and inventor with an IQ of 186.
They're both really intelligent in their own ways. Walt is clearly savvy when it comes to science, chemistry, and problem solving. Saul is privy to political matters, making deals, and he's generally intelligent when it comes to things on 'the street' (I hate using the term 'street smart'…
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Jack Welker (Michael Bowen) is the leader of a neo-Nazi gang and the most evil Breaking Bad character. He is a man who is motivated by the moment. He may seem like a man motivated by money, but he is motivated by pride and pleasure.
Throughout Breaking Bad, Jesse finds himself constantly suffering as a result of his involvement in Walter's business. He's beaten, nearly killed multiple times, imprisoned, and suffers severe anxiety and depression as a result of his experiences.
Up to this point, Gus is portrayed as the smartest person on the show, matched only by Walter White in Breaking Bad. In spite of this, Lalo is able to believably outmaneuver him at nearly every turn.
Walter White doesn't show one symptom of autism. He relates to the people around him just fine, has no sensory issues whatsoever, and expresses his emotions in a rather unremarkable way.
Gus Fring has a reasonable claim to being the smartest character on either show. He's an expert businessman, head of a criminal enterprise, and clever schemer.
Mike Ehrmantraut
It's the result of years of working as a police officer and even though he was corrupt, it took a lot of skill and smarts to pull off the things he did.
Chuck is a highly intelligent and dedicated lawyer who views the law as being sacred, and is very determined in helping his clients in any way possible. He founded HHM with George Hamlin and George's son Howard, and is well respected by his colleagues at HHM and other prestigious law firms.
After Saul manages to whittle down his 30-year sentence to a miraculous 7 years in the present timeline, we are shown a flashback of a conversation between Saul and Walt in Ed "The Disappearer" Galbraith's (Robert Forster) hideout as they wait for him to set up their new identities.
In Breaking Bad, Saul always appeared to be on the back foot in his interactions with Walt. Yes, he was clearly whip-smart, but he also appeared cowardly and afraid of what Walt could do.
Apart from his physical abilities, Peter is an intellectually-gifted scientific teen genius and has a prodigious aptitude in the physical sciences, with a high IQ level of around 250.
But hey, with all due respect to the Dark Knight, 'Batman's Theory of Relativity' doesn't pack quite the same punch.” Factinate backs this trivia by adding, “Bruce Wayne has an IQ of 192, beating out both Stephen Hawking (160) and Albert Einstein (160).
According to the University of Houston, he attended Harvard University at 11 years old and graduated at the age of 16. Da Vinci, famed painter and theorist, is estimated to have had IQ scores ranging from 180 to 220, according to parade.com.
Tony Stark is the smartest of them all, having been responsible for some of the most incredible inventions to have ever graced the Marvel universe, including the Arc Reactor and one of the most sophisticated artificial intelligence systems known to man.
Vision was meant to be the smartest and certainly the most righteous Avenger. He was even able to wield Thor's hammer in "Age of Ultron." But in actual battle scenes, he didn't prove himself very effective. He was absolutely useless in "Infinity War" and managed to survive only with Wanda's help.
Batman is universally hailed as the smartest man in D.C. Comics, with Lex Luthor his only real competition. Iron Man, by contrast, is at least the fifth or sixth smartest character in the Marvel universe, with Richards, Victor Von Doom, Bruce Banner and Hank Pym all believed to be more intelligent.