Dr. Horrible, with his PhD in Horribleness
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Something that always bothered me about comics is how the bad guy was almost always the intellectual who used their brain to solve / create problems while the good guys solved conflicts by punching things.
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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?).
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.
Why? That’s what american culture is.
We think scientists are evil and football players are heroic.
The only time american culture lauded scientists was post ww2, but that didn’t last very long and the national push for sciences declined by the 70s.
We also love rich and famous people, don’t forget.
Well I think a big part of that is also that the people who people like get famous and then being famous makes it easy to get money. So idk that it would be possible to have rich and famous people in general and not have society be obsessed with them. America is just weird in that their famous people are not the historically normal famous people. Like it used to be that the famous people were the ones making big impacts on societies. Now it’s who can put on the biggest spectacle.
Dr. Apu Nahasapeemapetilon.
Holds a Ph.D. in computer science. He graduated first in his class of seven million at ‘Caltech’ – Calcutta Technical Institute – going on to earn his doctorate at the Springfield Heights Institute of Technology, (SHiT -go turds!).
“Hello, and welcome to my dissertation defense. To begin I’ll provide my main argument in meme…”
Master Chief
Master Bator
Mrw this mf forgot Dr. Evil
There’s Doctor Strange, but he has a medical degree. Although surgeons take offense of you call them doctor, so he should really be Mr Strange anyway.
Even Dr. Seuss? 😢
Especially him.
He cheated on his sick sife leading to her committing suicide so definitely a villain.
Geisel’s wife Helen had a long struggle with illnesses. On October 23, 1967, Helen died by suicide. On August 5, 1968, Geisel married Audrey Dimond, a married mother of two children with whom he had been having an affair.
Oh wow. Yeah he definitely should be in that list.
And her suicide note, while crushing to read, really wiffs at the opportunity to rhyme and rub it in a little more.
he dropped out of his PhD program at Oxford.
thanks, just forwarded to my PhD friends
also, i have been telling them that i will gladly call them doctor if they call me master
Haha, I did the same thing. Still waiting.
They’re plotting your doom.
The PhD process is so miserable and long that it will turn any sane person to the dark side, yes.
And if you stay on in academia rather than get out of it, well you’ll end up pure evil, but at least you’ll be cloistered and can’t really do any harm to the real world.
Not exactly academia example, but I sometimes think about how Pol Pot’s former pupils later described him as rather chill teacher, and of similar anecdotal accounts on Mussolini as a teacher.
I work part-time with kids (and full-time in academia 🗿), teaching them robotics, and what I can say - little shits can drain your soul.
But given how often they’ve managed to escape containment, the reality is the checks and balances on the system are woefully lacking.
See, e.g., Ted Kaczynski.
If only they awarded Anakin the rank of master he would’ve never become Doctor Vader.
Baccalaureate Vader
Pretty sure that Dr. Frankenstein had an MD, not a PhD
He had neither. He dropped out of school to pursue his own experiments.
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.
I was never convinced that he actually went to school.
