Thread:Mesektet/@comment-27729149-20160128170019/@comment-3581997-20160612053007

Intellect + Wisdom both push to the max to the point where they can plan out anything, even the absurdly complicated or circumstantial. With a talent for making even obscenely  complex plans working. Also usually a devil may care attitude.

Note, this is not merely about being really really smart, or getting off one or two good plans. It is when a hero or villain's main super-power is to be able to con everyone, even the audience, from the get go and play entire scenarios to their advantage.

Example: Dr. Aeon builds dooms day devices. He is very bright. But comically low on common sense. He is not a MB. A genius sure, but not a MB,

Ghost Widow is very wise and pensive, accounting for adapting to pressure on the spot. But her intellect while high, is no where close to her level of wisdom, and not something she relies on, this means she is also not a MB.

But Lord Recluse, the man who basically has the word of god super power to be the smartest, cleverest person in the room, no matter what A.I., mad scientists or 1000 year old wizards walk into that room, a man who has managed to remain king of villains even with an open invitation on the table to essentially "come at me bra" to an entire nation of super villains and still remain top dog, almost entirely just through his wits and ability to exploit those other villains; Yeah that would be a Magnificent Bastard.

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Or if you want more main-stream examples, Dr. Doofenshmirtz, no - he is just smart not obscenely perceptive.

Not Kraven the hunter, he is tricky but not particularly smart.

But Professor Moriarty, being both smart and tricky, as well as having proven over, and over and over again to be able to plan an entire books worth of events down to the letter without. That would be where Magnificent Bastard starts to show it's head.

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As a general rule MB goes not to just geniuses but characters who prove over and over again that they can shape an entire plot and have it play out to their advantage, purely through mental calulations.