Though he later came around to more enlightened thinking!
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And did he do it to make the world a better place? No, he did it so he could retire to a tropical island full of naked women. He was instrumental in making first contact with those pointy-eared hobgoblins the Vulcans, as well as inspiring a new, peaceful era for humanity and basically laying the foundations for everything we associate with the Star Trek universe. Adhering to a strict, Midwestern value system, Superman only uses his powers for good, unless he’s been munching on the Special K, you know what I’m saying? Seriously though, for the definitive Superman-as-scientist, check out Grant Morrison’s All Star Superman.ĭrunkard…! Womanizer…! Drunkard again! In 2063, Cochrane makes Earth’s first warp speed flight to the accompaniment of Steppenwolf’s 1968 hit ‘Magic Carpet Ride’. And it’s filled with shit like robots and time-telescopes and those crazy test tubes that, when you walk past them, make you look all goofy like funhouse mirrors. He even maintains a fully tricked out laboratory in the Arctic. Strange visitor from another world, sure he beats up monsters and entrepreneurs, but at his heart, Kal-El is a scientist, applying deductive reasoning and observation to figure out the week-to-week WTF moments which make up most of his life. Neither was he above having plastic surgery to disguise himself and, you know, blowing shit out of orbit if it suited his purposes! Rock on, Sax, rock on. Across the three novels, Sax goes from being a cold, apolitical lab-coat to an emotionally alive eco-terrorist with an interest in the social sciences. Originally a physicist, he later develops an affinity for biology and becomes the ideological founder of the planet’s Green movement… As in, let’s turn red Mars into a green world humans can live all over. ‘Sax’, as he was known, was a key member of the first hundred Martian colonists. Saxifrage Russell, from Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars Trilogy… Which, I suppose, is why his theme tune is the saddest piece of music known to man. An emotionally withdrawn lover of hitchhiking, Banner has been described as living ‘in a constant state of panic, always wary that the monster inside him will erupt,’ which is just another way of saying the dude needs to relax, ya’know? I’ve always seen him as Richard Kimble meets MacGyver, a capable fugitive though he finds it difficult to form meaningful bonds with anyone. Holding a double doctorate in nuclear physics, Banner, in an ironic twist, volunteered for the gamma ray experiment which caused his metamorphosis. Naturally, it’s worth saying that these are just the first few which sprang to mind (not including Tony Stark, seeing as I *almost* watched Iron Man). So… I was watching The Incredible Hulk this evening and it got me thinking about my favorite fictional scientists.
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