[Jeritron]

What makes a typical successful hero. What people look for in it. I didn't think you meant what makes heroics. Obviously the guy walking out of dunkin donuts that runs into a burning building to save a kid is a hero, but he might be a moron.

I also think there can be heroes that aren't the archetypical hero. I think that fits in to the anti-hero persona. Wolverine, Punisher, or Spawn. These guys are the antithesis of typical heroes, except for the fact that they have the redeeming qualities to make them heroes.
And, even though they don't have book smarts they have street smarts. They're intelligent.

So basically that's the point I'm trying to make.

I'm talking top tier comic book superheros. Most of them is super, and that includes intelligence. Even if they're not a scientist or an astrophysicist, they're awful clever.