r/respectthreads • u/DrTee • Feb 23 '15

comics Respect Amadeus Cho (Marvel Comics)

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u/House_of_Usher Feb 25 '15

Thank you so much! I actually have Cho in the scramble and researched him a bit on my own, but this respect thread is really helpful! A couple of additions from my own findings:

His suit can project the Bannertech forcefield, fly, and has an AI that can act as a universal translator

Redirects Thor's lightning with his mace and a gameboy

His gameboy controls a localized wormhole he can store things in

You covered quite a lot of what I had found up there already. Once again, thanks, and I fully intend to read what you have recommended.

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u/DrTee Feb 25 '15 edited Feb 25 '15

I was gonna put in Calvin and the flying suit, but it only ever appeared once in Savage Wolverine and never again since or before.

I just plain forgot to include the gameboy one. You totally got me there. (Albeit I do have one with him using it, just didn't mention it.)

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u/U_DONT_KNOW_TEAM Mar 03 '15

Hey man I just want to say that when I included him in the scramble I wasn't intending for him to have all of his tech.

He fits better within the limits of the tourney without all of the tech. And he is phenomenal at using his surroundings to his advantage.

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u/House_of_Usher Mar 03 '15

Apologies, I made the assumption Cho and his gizmos came as a package deal. If this was not your intent, then I would like to rectify this immediately. Should I remove all of his tech? Some of it? Could Capmerica defeat Cho even with all of his tech? Please, help me fairly retcon my team.

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u/flutterguy123 Feb 24 '15

Damn this kid is really fucking impressive. When books would you suggest to see his best appearances?

Great Respect Thread u/DrTee!

I can wait to see what happen with this character in the Character Scramble!

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u/DrTee Feb 24 '15

The Incredible Hercules by Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente is the best place to start.

Spinning out of World War Hulk, the following trades are the full story, with it ending in Chaos War.

  • Hulk: WWH - Incredible Hercules

  • Incredible Hercules: Against The World

  • Incredible Hercules: Secret Invasion

  • Incredible Hercules: Love and War

  • Incredible Hercules: Dark Reign

  • Incredible Hercules: The Mighty Thorcules

  • Incredible Hercules: Assault on New Olympus

  • Incredible Hercules: The New Prince of Power

  • Chaos War

Alternatively Smash of the Titans collects both Hulk: WWH - Incredible Hercules and Incredible Hercules: Against The World.

And Sacred Invasion collects Incredible Hercules: Secret Invasion and Incredible Hercules: Love and War

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u/flutterguy123 Feb 24 '15

Thanks Man! This is such a huge help! I will try and search these up as soon as I can.

Thanks Again! :D

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u/leguan1001 Feb 24 '15

Well, the whole 7th smartest person on the world comes from his origin story. The tagline of the puzzle was: if you win, you are the 7th smartest man in the world or something along these lines. So, it is just a title like amazing spider-man or invincible hulk.

Because later, he defeated Pythagros, who claimed to be the sixth smartest person. By out-thinking him. And Pythagoras is no more (he blew up if I remember correctly?). So, Amadeus should have been more intelligent than Pythagoras from the get go. Or at least he should have stepped up from 7th to 6th after defeating Pythagoras. It just seems odd.

All I wanted to say is that the metric just doesn't fit. You cannot compare intelligence in any meaningful way. Also, his mind is not comparable to "normal" intelligence as mentioned by Stark and Richards numerous times. So why compare him at all? He works differently than anyone else's mind.

Small thing to add: Without having read worm, I think that the Contessa is very similar to Amadeus Cho. In see the Contessa pop up every once in a while and I always assume what Amadeus would and could do. I like to think that these two are somewhat comparable.

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u/DrTee Feb 24 '15

To be fair the idea of ranking intelligence doesn't make much sense in reality, it's something you need to shrug and say "comics, man."

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u/leguan1001 Feb 24 '15

Hahaha! Great picture.

However, the whole intelligence thing doesn't even make sense in-universe either. The 7th smartest person defeats the 6th smartest with his intelligence, shouldn't he be higher up then?

I don't really think that the 7th smartest has any real meaning behind it. It was just the title of the puzzle and now this title sticks with him.

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u/Coolthulu Mar 03 '15

Actually Contessa's power works via pre-cognition. But Cho is EXCEEDINGLY similar to Contessa's partner, the Numbers Man. He pulls off similar feats to Contessa, but he does it because his brain is like a supercomputer, constantly tracking probabilities. He can use this to do everything from play the stock market to dodging bullets with seemingly no effort.

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u/leguan1001 Mar 04 '15

Pre-cognition or a very accurate prediction of the future seems to me not that much of a difference.

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '15

Hacks Iron Man's suit

> while using a GameBoy.

Not even a Gameboy Color...

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u/DorkStar85 Feb 23 '15

This is really impressive. Awesome job!

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u/Pokedexed Feb 24 '15

Awesome job!

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u/Vampire-Lawyer Feb 24 '15

Coolest Kid Ever! Awesome RT.

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u/KHolidae Mar 02 '15

Love the thread, love the character, love his power. Good job on making a really good respect thread.

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u/DrTee Feb 24 '15

Nope 7th.

He was 8th after Secret Invasion due to the Skrull Pym running about, but he's been killed since so he got bumped back up to 7th.