Smartest character in the series?

[Polyphase Avatron]

Everyone always argues about the strongest character, but what about the smartest?

Some candidates (I can't find the poll option):

- Bulma
- Dr. Gero
- Cell
- Elder Kaioshin
- Whis
- Shenron
- Porunga
- Piccolo
- Kami
- Namekian Grand Elder
- Vados

Or anyone else you have in mind?

[Khin]

It's Zuno.

[irreality]

Smart, in what sense? Seems like there are two types of smart here: has a lot of arcane/ancient knowledge or can cobble up physics altering science with a box of parts in a cave. Dr. Brief is also missing.

Cell, though: how is he smart in either sense?

[apex_pretador]

Battle smarts:

• Goku
  Vegeta
  Piccolo
  Super buu

Tactical smarts:

• Piccolo
  Super buu
  Krillin

Science smarts:

• Gero
  Bulma
  Dr Brief

Wise:

• Kami
  Guru
  Old Kaioshin

Blow up the planet smart : Freeza
Overall smart in every way : Zen buu from DBM (He has absorbed every type of smart people)

Cell, though: how is he smart in either sense?

TBH, I don't think cell (atleast after achieving perfection) has shown being smart in any way. But before achieving perfection, he's shown to be really smart, in the sense he escaped piccolo, hid his ki, absorbed #17, tricked vegeta into letting him be perfect.

[Retan]

I agree its probably Zuno, as far a wisdom and knowledge go.

[Low Tone G]

I agree its probably Zuno, as far a wisdom and knowledge go.

He is described to be omniscient but I shall make a bet that this statement will become false.
But until then I possibly have Akira Toriyama(Tori-bot) as the smartest in his good days when he doesn't forget things.

[Hitiro]

I'm surprised nobody has said Vegetto. He did trick Boohan into absorbing him so he could save the other people he absorbed.

[Hugo Boss]

I would argue it's either Bulma or Freeza. I don't count knowledge, but basically how the characters manage to survive difficult situations with less resources.

Bulma provides almost everything the heroes need and she used Beerus and Whis' taste for food in order to keep Beerus from destroying the Earth.

Freeza would be smart enough to win the battle on Earth if Whis didn't intervene.

Cell also has the potential to be pretty smart, but he is far too gifted. He defeated Gohan's arrogance, but was defeated by his own arrogance.

Perhaps I'm forgetting someone.

[Lord Beerus]

Zuno. Since he literally knows everything about the universe.

[omaro34]

Every time I think of wise, I think of Kami for some reason, maybe because he was one of the first very wise being introduced in the series.

Whis is up there in terms of knowledge as well.

But the obvious answer is Zuno, though he hasn't even been introduced in the Anime yet.

Maybe later on in Super there will be another being that has the ultimate knowledge of everything in all of the 12 universes in this series. He will be the Kami of all Kami's lol.

[Polyphase Avatron]

Every time I think of wise, I think of Kami for some reason, maybe because he was one of the first very wise being introduced in the series.

Whis is up there in terms of knowledge as well.

But the obvious answer is Zuno, though he hasn't even been introduced in the Anime yet.

Maybe later on in Super there will be another being that has the ultimate knowledge of everything in all of the 12 universes in this series. He will be the Kami of all Kami's lol.

The dragon god?

[FoolsGil]

Toss up between Bulma (Time Traveling Device) and Gero (Perpetual Energy Battery/Bio mechanical Life Creation)

[Eradicatethesaiyans]

What about Gohan? I always thought that he was pretty smart, maybe not as smart as Piccolo or Gero, but, the kid knew trigonometry at age four. He has to have some brains.

[floofychan333]

Probably Bulma, though she's not always smart when it's convenient. An example: When she wanted to watch the androids fight Goku and crew WHILE SHE HAD BABY TRUNKS IN HER ARMS. Stupidest non-Goku thing in the whole franchise.

[RandomGuy96]

Zarama is supposed to be able to grant any wish, which means he could know everything. So him I guess.

[TekTheNinja]

There different ways of being smart, but overall, I'd say Piccolo. Sometime he feels like the only one with any common sense in Dragon Ball.

[RandomGuy96]

There different ways of being smart, but overall, I'd say Piccolo. Sometime he feels like the only one with any common sense in Dragon Ball.

Except for all these times.

[Speedster]

Omniscience, relative omniscience, magic:
1. Zeno, Zarama
2. Super Shenlong/Porunga/Shenlong
3. Zuno
4. Whis, Vados
5. Elder Kaioshin
6. Kaio-sama
7. Grand Elder, Kami
8. Moori, Dende

Science & Tenchology:
1. Dr Myu (GT)
2. Dr Gero, Dr Briefs, Dr. Wheelo (DBZ movie 2)
3. Bulma
4. GT Trunks (he was basically the male equivalent of Bulma)
5. Gohan (EoZ, GT)

Fighting:
1. Vegetto
2. Goku, Hit
3. Vegeta
4. Piccolo/Kamiccolo
5. Super Buu, Freeza, Cell

[Lionel]

There's different facets to intelligence. You have academic genius types like Bulma, the philosophical erudite kind like Kami, then there's the tactical fighting insight. The overall most intelligent prize would have to go to Zuno since his wisdom is universally understood.

I don't know why Vegeta and Piccolo are ranked so highly yet someone like Krillin's name goes largely unacknowledged except for one mention. He's displayed just as much ingenuity and craftiness as any of them. Most of Piccolo's "smart moments" in a fight occur primarily during the Saiyan arc where they consisted mostly of diversionary tactics courtesy of someone else being the target of the enemy. And I'm not even sure why Vegeta is listed up close to the top -- apart from a bluff or two his approach to fighting has largely consisted of rushing the enemy and pummeling them. Now when it comes to war games he's not too bad. He makes a decent grand strategist.

[Kuririn Fan]

Dr. Gero.
That guy created bunch of robots in a cave, who are stronger than Legendary Super Saiyan.