The 10 greatest fictional inventors of all time
By
BafflingBeerMan,
Posted on: 2010-09-19 17:02 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
Where's Mr. Fantastic?
Or Lex Luthor?
- CaptainFoamerang
Silverspar on Kelly Hu: A face that could melt paint off the wall *shivers*
Someone play my AE arc! "The Heart of Statesman" ID: 343405
They gave the name as Thomas Swift Jr, but the invention was one that Tom Swift Sr came up with.
And I have to admit that Tom, Jr.'s inventions blew Tom, Sr's out of the water for the most part, so he should be on there ahead of dear ol' dad.
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Yep, or even Brainiac.
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Originally Posted by CaptainFoamerang
Where's Mr. Fantastic?
Or Lex Luthor? |
No Captain Nemo?
"Tell my tale to those who ask. Tell it truly, the ill deeds along with the good and let me be judged accordingly. The rest is silence." -- Dinobot
Professor Butts could be replaced by Rube Goldberg.
As always "Top Ten List of...." is flawed.
Also Missing:
The Doctor
Doctor Doom
Roy Hinkley aka The Professor
Professor Challenger
MacGyver
We should have an Inventor or Scientist draft.
No Agatha Heterodyne? SCIENCE DEMANDS JUSTICE!!!
Also missing:
Montgomery Scott
Abigail Sciuto (if we're counting programmers)
Artemis Gordon
Dr. Hans Zarkov
Dr. Frank N. Furter
Dr. Emilio Lizardo
Dr. Clarke Savage
Buck "Buckaroo" Banzai, PhD
Professor Branestawm
Professor Calculus
Professor Utonium
Gadget Hackwrench
Is it time for the dance of joy yet?
"Greatest of All Time" has to be the most abused phrase on the internet (of all time).
Somewhere there's probably a "Top Ten Greatest Boxers of All Time" missing Mohammed Ali.
I wouldn't say Brain was a great inventor, seeing as most of his inventions failed or were horrible misused by said inventor.
He was more a schemer, that Brain!
"Ben is short for Frank."
-Baffling Beer-Man, The Tenacious 3: The Movie
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No Dr. Clayton Forrester?????????
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He didn't invent anything.
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Originally Posted by DreamWeaver
Also missing:
Montgomery Scott |
"You don't lose levels. You don't have equipment to wear out, repair, or lose, or that anyone can steal from you. About the only thing lighter than debt they could do is have an NPC walk by, point and laugh before you can go to the hospital or base." -Memphis_Bill
We will honor the past, and fight to the last, it will be a good way to die...
Brain's inventions worked perfectly... his plans for what to do with them, not so much. (Breaking into Fort Knox, for example, was easy... being defeated by the mere subatomic weight of gold and the strength of the average mouse hits hard.)
I also owe Brain for the best mark I received during my French degree for helping me disprove Barthes' theory of comedy... Narf.
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Necessity being the mother of invention, Mr. Scott can knock up just about anything you need whether it previously existed or not. Reactor parts, experimental weapons, whale tanks, bows and arrows, Scotty can figure out how to get the impossible done in 20% less time than he's quoted you.
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Originally Posted by DarkGob
He didn't invent anything.
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Is it time for the dance of joy yet?
Scotty didn't invent the whale tank, he built one -- big difference. He did invent transparent aluminum, but only from the perspective of 1986; from Scotty's frame of reference, it already existed.
"You don't lose levels. You don't have equipment to wear out, repair, or lose, or that anyone can steal from you. About the only thing lighter than debt they could do is have an NPC walk by, point and laugh before you can go to the hospital or base." -Memphis_Bill
We will honor the past, and fight to the last, it will be a good way to die...
People would disagree with me, and I would hear their arguments while giving my own......but where is Batman?
Anyone who can use materials to have a high tech suit still be considered to be state of the art 20 years later (Batman Beyond) deserves mention, even if it isn't his primary profession.
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I know it varies based on the interpretation, but doesn't a lot of his tech come from prototypes invented by other people within Wayne Enterprises? Certainly this is the case with TAS/Beyond and Begins.
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Originally Posted by Nightphall
People would disagree with me, and I would hear their arguments while giving my own......but where is Batman?
Anyone who can use materials to have a high tech suit still be considered to be state of the art 20 years later (Batman Beyond) deserves mention, even if it isn't his primary profession. |
"You don't lose levels. You don't have equipment to wear out, repair, or lose, or that anyone can steal from you. About the only thing lighter than debt they could do is have an NPC walk by, point and laugh before you can go to the hospital or base." -Memphis_Bill
We will honor the past, and fight to the last, it will be a good way to die...
Along with Brain, what about Dr. Doofenschmirtz?
"Ben is short for Frank."
-Baffling Beer-Man, The Tenacious 3: The Movie
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...not to mention Phineas Flynn and Ferb Fletcher themselves?
Though they've also had a crack at Batman's World's Greatest Detective title... (clicky)
Is it time for the dance of joy yet?
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Scotty invented a means to transport to a ship moving at warp speed. In the new movie, the original Spock shows the new Scotty the original Scotty's methods.|
Originally Posted by DarkGob
He didn't invent anything.
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Scotty invented a means to hold a person in a transporter buffer indefinitely, which he used to save himself when trapped on the surface of a Dyson sphere.
With Spock and some shaky theory, Scotty invented a way to cold start the Enterprise's engines... which also created a short time warp.
And as for the list, having Tony Stark but not Reed Richards or Doctor Doom is full of fail.
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... thus explaining the spread of Scotsmen throughout the galaxy.
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Originally Posted by DreamWeaver
Necessity being the mother of invention, Mr. Scott can knock up just about anything you need
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Dr. William Magnus.
Don't count your weasels before they pop dink!
Dick Seaton
However, it turned out that Smith was not a time-travelling Terminator
What, no Agatha Heterodyne?
or Gina Diggers?
Susan and Mary TEST!!!!!!
ummm Batman... Cmon...he created the Bat-vuvuzela... or prolly will >.>
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Where's Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth?