Haha, I did the same thing. Still waiting.

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I don't know about DC (I know Batman and Mr. Terrific exist, but that's about it; also Blue Beetle might be somewhat of an Iron Man expy, I think?), but when it comes to Marvel...

Peter Parker is a world class chemist and engineer. He created his web fluid and designed his web shooters, which definitely counts as using his brain to solve crime.

Tony Stark, world class engineer, designed and built the armours he uses to fight crime.

Reed Richards is one of the topmost scientists and engineers in the world in practically any field. Using his brain to solve / create problems is what the Fantastic Four do (fighting crime is incidental, really).

Hank Pym, aka Ant Man, aka Giant Man, aka Yellowjacket (on a bad day), is up there with Richards at the top, when he isn't suffering from mental illness or depression. He discovered the particles that bear his name and give him (and others) his powers, which he uses to fight crime.

Bruce Banner is almost up there, above them when it comes to nuclear physics. He uses his mind to... OK, fine, I'll give you this one, most of the time.

Hank McCoy, aka Beast, also top level engineer and general scientist. He designs and makes most of the tools (except the ones made by Forge, or by Kitty Pryde) the X-Men use to, uh... well, mostly try to defend themselves and other mutants from human racists trying to kill them, or humans from mutant racists trying to kill them, and sometimes to try and take over the world, I think..? I don't know, I haven't read the X-Men in a long time but it seems they've been drifting from light to dark grey this last decade; but, still, he uses his brain, is what matters. Fists and feet too, but also brain.

And those are the top ones that come to mind, but with the exception of Captain America that's basically core Marvel right there.

I beat the system by skipping the Master's on the way to my PhD and then not getting the PhD in the end. Smoked a hell of a lot of dope, though.

You sound like you know from experience

He has an MD, not a PhD. He went to evil medical school.

Baccalaureate Vader

He did his dissertation on The Story of Darth Plagueis the Wise and singlehandedly caused the entire Jedi temple to jump out the window from his lectures on Darth Plageuis the Wise

First part to a series of videos

Even the The Doctor acknowledges that sometimes he does things that end up being evil in the end. The master doesn't care he just wants his best friend back.

now there's a sing-along blog that I haven't heard in a long time.

He's also only a villain in their universe, IRL he's known as a capitalist.

He brought that PhD, so he has one...

A real family man though.

I assumed Doolenschmirtz was a serial killer I never heard of

Tf. Til

I also dispute whether he was a villain.

if you leave out some letters from "Darth" out, tho...

Truly a self made man.

No one cares 😪

Here's some crayons, try not to choke on your own saliva.

I had a scholarship for the Ph.D. If it's free, it's for me. 7 years of pure suffering for FREE!

No it feels good bro

He cheated on his sick sife leading to her committing suicide so definitely a villain.

Especially him.

Hank Pym made Ultron, T'Challa's a king whose country hordes potentially life saving tech, Banner needs to chill, and Xavier has done and continued to do some insanely unethical shit

I don't know what Professor X's doctorate is in, but it sure as hell wasn't ethics.

Tony Stark (Iron Man), Reed Richards (Mister Fantastic), Hank McCoy (Beast from X-Men), Doctor Light (even has the Doctor in his name!) are more good guys with PhDs.

Dr Strangelove?

Depends.

Multiple versions of him have delved too deeply and caused universe incursions. Depends on how deep you follow the character and what you count.

Dr. Strange while "good" is a asshole

I was never convinced that he actually went to school.

As a boy, Frankenstein is interested in the works of alchemists such as Cornelius Agrippa, Paracelsus, and Albertus Magnus, and he longs to discover the fabled elixir of life. At the age of fifteen, he loses interest in both these pursuits and in science as a whole after he sees a tree destroyed by a lightning strike and a scientist explains the theory of electricity to him. It seems to him as if nothing can really be known about the world, and he instead devotes himself to studying mathematics, which he describes as "being built upon secure foundations." However, at the University of Ingolstadt in Bavaria, Frankenstein develops a fondness for chemistry, and within two years, his commitment and scientific ability allow him to make discoveries that earn him admiration at the university. He then becomes curious about the nature of life and his studies lead him to a miraculous discovery that enables him to create life in inanimate matter.

He had neither. He dropped out of school to pursue his own experiments.