Amadeus Cho - The Eighth Smartest Person on the Planet
The eighth smartest person on the planet, Amadeus Cho has a hyper mind which allows him to run a virtually limitless amount of calculations in his head. Recently, he shouldered Banner’s burden of being the Hulk, granting himself the power he always wanted and having to deal with his monster. After a climactic fight in the heart of Manhattan where he reconciled his personalities, he’s now a slimmed-down Hulk with a new superhero identity, Brawn, who leads the Agents of Atlas in defending Asia.
Physicals
- Knocks out Carmilla Black with a pipe to the back of the head (source) (The Incredible Hulk #110)
- Ducks under Thena’s blast (source) (The Incredible Hulk #116)
- Was hit by one of the bones of an exploding monster (source) (The Incredible Hercules #120)
- Ducks under an arrow shot by Hawkeye (source) (The Incredible Hercules #128)
- Ducks in time to trick one Amazon into accidentally hitting another with her mace (source) (The Incredible Hercules #138)
- Survives a backhand from Thor, though it takes him out of the fight and breaks some ribs (source) (Heroic Age: Prince of Power #2)
- Hurts a power-armored SHIELD agent with a kick (source) (Avengers #35)
Intelligence: General
- Amadeus Cho’s hyper mind is capable of performing simultaneous infinite calculations, taking into account all probabilities and quantum states to determine the most favorable outcome, realizing this is his natural ability (source)
- Reed Richards describes his mind (source) (The Incredible Hulk #100)
- Studies every government document, recording, and report concerning the Hulk (source) (The Incredible Hulk #110)
- Claims to see patterns better than 99.999999993% of people on Earth (source) (The Incredible Hulk #116)
- Ajak states he is smarter than some immortals (source) (The Incredible Hercules #118)
- Deciphers pre-cataclysm Atlantean tablets (source) (The Incredible Hercules #122)
- Opens a door with a SHIELD master combo lock (source) (The Incredible Hercules #126)
- Puts Jonas the Vision of the Young Avengers in check despite his 31st-century programming (source) (Mighty Avengers #31)
- Defeats Moonstone by snapping her breastplate, redirecting energy to zap her (source) (The Incredible Hercules #128)
- Dominates in Blackjack, winning a hundred grand from the casino in forty minutes (source) (The Incredible Hercules #129)
- Hephaestus admits he is smarter than him (source) (The Incredible Hercules #140)
- Mr. X reads his mind but cannot follow his thought process (source) (Thunderbolts #142)
- A machine scanning the entire multiverse approaches the speed of his mind, per Bruce Banner (source) (Heroic Age: Prince of Power #1)
- Galactus considers him clever (source) (Chaos War #3)
- Figures out he was in a dream made by Xemnu (source) ([Hulk] Totally Awesome Hulk #1.MU)
- Shoves a tank of sodium hydroxide into Fin Fang Foom’s mouth, reacting with his acid spit to foam up (source) ([Hulk] Totally Awesome Hulk #3)
- Defeats a horde of mind-controlled monsters by electrocuting them and frying their mind control devices (source) ([Hulk] Totally Awesome Hulk #4)
- Uses a vein in his neck to send a Morse code message to his sister Maddy while trapped in his mind by Dark Hulk (source) (Incredible Hulk #715)
- Sends another message using eye twitches (source) (Incredible Hulk #716)
Intelligence: Hypermind Calculations
- Calculates the exact way to shoot a mustard seed at a cop, throw pepper in his eye, and kick over a shelf of pies to escape (source) (Amazing Fantasy #15)
- Uses the front view mirror on his bike to reflect a laser sight back into the eyes of the aimer (source) (Amazing Fantasy #15)
- Calculates the Hulk’s landing spot from footprints left weeks before (source) (The Incredible Hulk #100)
- Blows up a missile with a small piece of adamantium shrapnel (source) (The Incredible Hulk #100)
- Finds an underground water line to put out a fire from above on the road (source) (The Incredible Hulk #107)
- Flicks a pebble at the right angle to trip a robot, causing it to shoot a water pipe and wash away (source) (The Incredible Hulk #110)
- Stops Hercules and Namora from causing 2,342 disasters that would flood and burn Greenwich Village (source) (The Incredible Hulk #111)
- Predicts when a chasm created by the Hulk will expand, splitting the island in half (source) (World War Hulk Aftersmash #1)
- Destroys three robots with a penny (source) (The Mighty Avengers #31)
- Detects Ares flying toward him from ripples in a water bowl (source) (The Incredible Hercules #112)
- Calculates the exact time and spot for Hercules to punch the ground, erupting water for escape (source) (The Incredible Hercules #112)
- Throws an adamantium shard at Athena, tricking her into blasting a Celestial that blasts her (source) (The Incredible Hercules #116)
- Calculates movements to flip in mid-air and land on his feet while falling from the sky (source) (The Incredible Hercules #119)
- Directs a team of gods to outmaneuver a horde of monsters (source) (The Incredible Hercules #120)
- Sacrifices himself, knowing Hercules fights better without worrying about him (source) (The Incredible Hercules #120)
- Calculates bullet trajectories as they are fired to dodge them (source) (The Incredible Hercules #121)
- Calculates the exact spot to shoot to knock the Omphalos out of Hippolyta’s hands from inside a plane (source) (The Incredible Hercules #124)
- Figures out that Boltzmann Brains run on a new type of math, making his hypermind initially worthless (source) (The Incredible Hercules #133)
- Uses a D&D-style metaphor to learn the new math and outsmart Pythagoras Dupree, escaping prison (source) (The Incredible Hercules #135)
- Calculates when Hercules is about to be killed and throws a stick at Spider-Woman to make her blast Pluto (source) (The Incredible Hercules #139)
- Finds the exact spot on a robot dragon to hit with a pebble to make it fall apart (source) (The Incredible Hercules #140)
- Throws arrows into the air to avoid hitting him but hit Mr. X (source) (Thunderbolts #142)
- Calculates positions of power-armored SHIELD agents while jumping out a window to take them out (source) (Avengers #35)
- Calculates Shanna’s running speed while following her (source) (Savage Wolverine #4)
- Throws the golden mace through a column to stop a falling Ferris wheel, then ricochets it back to finish the Griffin (source) (Heroic Age: Prince of Power #1)
- Teleports out the exact amount of air to mask displacement, fooling Heimdall who senses air from teleportation (source) (Heroic Age: Prince of Power #1)
- Calculates Mjolnir’s speed after Thor throws it and dodges (source) (Heroic Age: Prince of Power #2)
- Ricochets Sekhmet’s khopesh off his mace to slice apart a balance (source) (Heroic Age: Prince of Power #3)
- Adjusts his mace on a moving platform to hit his opponent (source) (Heroic Age: Prince of Power #4)
- Performs a precise calculation (Kobe!) (source) (Totally Awesome Hulk #13)
- Calculates distance from Earth more accurately than a SHIELD device while lost in space (source) ([Hulk] Totally Awesome Hulk #16)
- Calculates how to stop secondary adamantium cyborgs using blood droplets as projectiles in space without leverage (source) ([Hulk] Totally Awesome Hulk #19)
- Calculates the vibrational frequency to counter a planet’s phasing teleporting a 60-square-mile city, factoring in people, buildings, and animals (source) ([Hulk] Champions #10)
- With Ironheart, calculates force to push a train car full of people without killing them (source) ([Hulk] Champions #17)
- Helps escape heat-seeking missiles (source) ([Hulk] Incredible Hulk #716)
- Breaks loose structural weaknesses of a damaged bridge to prevent it from falling (source) ([Dark Hulk] Incredible Hulk #716)
- Attacks Prince Phalkan precisely to hospitalize him for years (source) ([Dark Hulk] Incredible Hulk #716)
- Extrapolates energy signature of an interdimensional breach and enters it into the Atlas server (source) ([Brawn] War of the Realms: New Agents of Atlas #1)
- Figures out Sinder’s plan while fighting her (source) ([Brawn] War of the Realms: New Agents of Atlas #2)
Intelligence: Hacking
- Hacks into the Fantastic Four’s database to find video evidence of the Illuminati exiling the Hulk (source) (The Incredible Hulk #100)
- Hacks into satellites to check if the Hulk landed on the Illuminati’s planned world (source) (The Incredible Hulk #100)
- Cracks a video file of an LMD (source) (She-Hulk #18)
- Hacks into SHIELD’s mainframe to pinpoint She-Hulk’s location (source) (The Incredible Hulk #106)
- Wires 1.2 billion dollars from Angel’s bank account (source) (The Incredible Hulk #107)
- Finds SHIELD’s plan to bomb countries after seconds on their laptop (source) (The Incredible Hulk #112)
- Hacks a SHIELD computer from his laptop, causing it to explode (source) (The Incredible Hulk #112)
- Hacks into an Avengers jet from his laptop (source) (The Incredible Hercules #113)
- Creates a virus infecting SHIELD’s mainframe to drop helicarriers, open negative zone cells, erase data, and redirect Iron Man’s suit tubes (source) (The Incredible Hercules #114)
- Wires money from SHIELD’s landline budget to give World War Hulk refugees $100,000 each (source) (The Incredible Hercules #116)
- Hacks into all SHIELD Hulk-related case files (source) (Hulk Family: Green Genes #1)
- Finds Jarvis by hacking his GPS (source) (Mighty Avengers #21)
- Hacks into Hank Pym’s files (source) (Mighty Avengers #21)
- Hacks into SHIELD, deactivating all detection systems in Avengers Tower (source) (Avengers #35)
Intelligence: Engineering
- Rips open a security robot and uses it to shut down surrounding robots (source) ([Hulk] Champions #10)
- Makes an iPhone for an alien (source) ([Hulk] The Incredible Hulk #713)
- Modifies M-11 to emit energy matching a magical dragon scale (source) ([Brawn] Atlantis Attacks #2)
Intelligence: Limitations
- Cannot comprehend dream time (source) (The Incredible Hercules #118)
- Initially cannot figure out the Boltzmann Brains’ new type of math (source) (The Incredible Hercules #133)
Equipment: Tape Recorder
- Hacks into a diner’s TV and flips through channels (source) (Amazing Fantasy #15)
- Maxes out the TV’s volume with a button push (source) (Amazing Fantasy #15)
- Hacks a SHIELD helicopter and shuts off its power with a button (source) (The Incredible Hulk #100)
- Makes a SHIELD helicopter fire its missiles (source) (The Incredible Hulk #107)
Equipment: Portable Super Computer
- Remotely controls Angel’s Amphibicraft (source) (The Incredible Hulk #111)
- Hacks into Starktech possessed by Zom (source) (The Incredible Hulk #111)
- After a power boost from Ghost, contacts Quicksilver from countries away (source) (Thunderbolts #143)
- Controls the localized wormhole in his suit (source) (Heroic Age: Prince of Power #1)
- Connected to Banner tech for teleportation to realms like Asgard (source) (Heroic Age: Prince of Power #1)
Equipment: Ant-Man Helmet Replica
- Made from spare parts from Hank Pym’s mobile laboratory (source) (Mighty Avengers #23)
- Blocks Swarm’s bee connection, though only slightly (source) (Mighty Avengers #24)
Equipment: Calvin Klein A.I. Suit - Enhanced Strength
- Beats up tribesmen armed with stone weapons (source) (Savage Wolverine #2)
- Throws the golden mace through a stone column to hold a falling Ferris wheel (source) (Heroic Age: Prince of Power #1)
- One-shots the Griffin with a strike from the Golden Mace (source) (Heroic Age: Prince of Power #1)
- Hurts Thor by hammering him with the Golden Mace (source) (Heroic Age: Prince of Power #2)
Equipment: Calvin Klein A.I. Suit - Calvin
- Turns on force field via voice command (source) (Savage Wolverine #2)
- Translates an unknown language using samples (source) (Savage Wolverine #2)
- Warns of nearby energy spikes (source) (Savage Wolverine #4)
- Diverts available power on command (source) (Savage Wolverine #5)
Equipment: Calvin Klein A.I. Suit - Other
- Other abilities listed by Calvin (source) (Savage Wolverine #2)
- Deploys a small but powerful grenade pellet (source) (Savage Wolverine #2)
- Allows hovering in the air (source) (Savage Wolverine #2)
- Grants full flight with enough power (source) (Savage Wolverine #5)
- Has a subspace pocket to store his mace (source) (Heroic Age: Prince of Power #1)
Equipment: Other Inventions
- Prototype GammaWorld forcefield for Gamma beings; smaller version numbs limbs (source) (The Incredible Hulk #110)
Equipment: BannerTech Force Field
- Ignores close-range pistol fire (source) (Fall of the Hulks #1)
- Ignores stone spears (source) (Savage Wolverine #2)
- Tanks additional hits (source) (Savage Wolverine #2)
- Protects him after being cratered by the Griffin (source) (Heroic Age: Prince of Power #1)
- Protects after shoulder bash by the Griffin (source) (Heroic Age: Prince of Power #1)
- Tanks a hit from Thor (source) (Heroic Age: Prince of Power #2)
- Destroyed by Thor’s lightning blast (source) ([Limits] Heroic Age: Prince of Power #2)
Equipment: BannerTech Teleporter
- Teleports from Olympus HQ to Oklahoma and Asgard (source) (Heroic Age: Prince of Power #1)
- Teleports to an underwater bunker to meet Iron Man, Black Panther, and Monica Rappaccini (source) (Totally Awesome Hulk #3)
- Teleports the Agents of Atlas away from Sinder’s volcano (source) (War of the Realms: New Agents of Atlas #2)
Equipment: The Golden Mace - Power Redirection
- Blasts the Griffin with redirected energy (source) (Heroic Age: Prince of Power #1)
- Destroys a wall with an energy blast (source) (Heroic Age: Prince of Power #1)
- Redirects a lightning blast from Thor (source) (Heroic Age: Prince of Power #4)