Tonight sees the time of year finale of Fringe , giving us one last look at the brilliant insanity of Walter Bishop . While we sleep with Walter , we ’re not indisputable if it would be a salutary affair if he existed in literal life — but there are raft of fictional scientist we care were for existent . Both for their awe-inspiring invention , and for their uncanny sixth sense .
Here are 10 fictional scientists that would make the real world that much plentiful .
10 . Miracle Max from The Princess Bride
Although he has the Logos Miracle in his name , it ’s made clear in both the book and the movie that Miracle Men are just the doctors of their day . They examine patients , gather information , and with that information they formulate a discourse design . That treatment plan include specialised ingredients , a delivery organization , and aftercare – “ He should n’t go in swimming after for at least an 60 minutes . ” The remainder ? This doctor gives you pills that can bring back from the utter . . . with a chocolate coat . There are still aesculapian miracles , but I retrieve that chocolate coating are rarified these 24-hour interval . It ’s time to bring back miracle human race , starting with Miracle Max . We need that kind of approach to medicine .
9 . Lex Luthor from the Superman Series
Okay . Let ’s establish which Lex Luthor we ’re talking about , because there are many translation . The one from the movies tends to be mostly into existent acres , and we can live without that . The one from the TV series is more an vicious businessman , and we ’ve got those . But there ’s one from the comic who , while he runs a clientele empire , make out up with all variety of incredible excogitation and engineering , while directing the research of others . This is a really utilitarian guy cable . At this gunpoint , many people might bring up the fact that he was a supervillain . True . But how much more iniquity was he than , say , United Fruit in the seventies ? If we ’re go away to have malevolent businessman , and it seems like we will have those , why not have unity that can also get a lot done for science ? Besides , since there ’s no Superman in this universe , Lex might not go bad at all .
8 . Karen Jenson from Blade
Karen Jenson is not an iconic scientist in any direction . She was a even doctor , living her spirit in what turned out to be a vampire flick . Karen gets bitten by vampires , kidnapped by the lamia - Orion Blade , and has garlic juice shot into her cervix to terminate the infection of , I guess , vampire virus . When Karen read that they did n’t give her the shot in fourth dimension , and she ’s turn into a lamia anyway , she ask it middling well — by coming up with a remedy within a mean solar day or so . Technically , since she ’s just cured vampirism , no one want Blade any more . They just need an epidemiologist and a clustering of syrinx . Instead , the movie ignores this very important plot gimmick , in favour of Wesley Snipes and Stephen Dorf having a duel liven up by CGI blood monster . I wish to think that Jenson then goes out , grabs a bunch of flit guns and canisters of her formula , and in reality takes guardianship of the pestiferous vampire job , while ramble her eyes at the play — but I did n’t see the subsequence . It ’s this form of brilliance mixed with practicality that we involve out here .
7 . Elsa Kast from Splice
There are a lot of mad scientist who cackle with intensity level or pipe about how they will carry out what no one else dared . And then there are mad scientists like Elsa , who go about their business with a muted chroma that hide a massive amount of crazy just below the surface . We at io9 always wish to combat stereotype , and Elsa shows that you do n’t need a Gothic cathedral and a loony jape to be a mad scientist . That ’s not what it ’s about . Just dig in to your field of study until you ’ve sinned against nature , and then let loose your extremely unstable personality on your living experiment . Do it all with just the merest lead of the roiling caldron of emotional turmoil within . No camp necessitate . Just madness .
6 . Dr. Gordon from Solaris
Both the book and film take place on a space station orbiting a mystical planet . On the post , strange newfangled humans seem , all having some strange , and often painful , connection to the occupier ’ pasts . When a psychologist goes to the station , his married woman , who died by suicide , on the spur of the moment comes back into his life . It seems that every one of them has an ‘ other ’ on the ship . But Dr Gordon ’s other is never revealed . What is revealed is Gordon figuring out how to dissolve the ‘ others , ’ manipulate up an dodging pod when the place starts getting pulled toward the major planet , and heading right the snake pit back to Earth . Do n’t get me wrong , I love a good speculation on making love , loss , identity operator , and computer storage . It ’s just that I care living a bully deal more . While most of the citizenry on the station seek to cypher out exactly why this is happening and how to manage with these freshly - create specters , she decide that it ’s time to wear these wraith and get out . She ’s a little like Karen Jenson — but she has the smarts that tell her to take the air away from a big situation . While saving one ’s own skin does n’t seem like a proficiency that needs to be exported to the substantial world , a levelheaded understanding of antecedence in a bad situation does .
5 . Station from Bill and Ted ’s Bogus Journey
We first gather Station , a Martian , in Heaven , where it is confirmed as the greatest scientist that ever was . There are two good things about this . First , if anyone would know that with any degree of accuracy , it would be the eternal beings in the hereafter . secondly , it ’s always a good augury when a scientist is recruited from Heaven . elysian judgment really weed out the trouble starters , you know ? Station makes a couple of automaton that not only are capable of complain ass , but also have demonstrable artistic ability — meaning they have a kind of sentience that no one has been able to achieve before , and he does it all with clobber they pluck up at a hardware store . That lead substantial power . Also , who does n’t need a dead Martian scientist ramble around the Earth ? Not having one seems like a lost chance .
4 . Abraham Erskine from Captain America
Okay . Cards on the mesa . This guy cable is mostly up here because he ’s played by Stanley Tucci . Sure , he came up with a ace - soldier blood serum has has apparently never been re-create despite the fact that it has been nearly seventy years , the test subject leave a ton of biological sampling , and I have no doubt that the doctor himself left notes . Sure , he not only had the ability to produce the formula but also picked the perfect candidate for it ( and it ’s rare that anyone gravel to show up Tommy Lee Jones ) . But thanks to Stanley Tucci , Erskine had the power of the wry remark , the deadpan look , and the ability never to fuddle alone , while at the same time never sharing his booze . He ’s a scientist with a pull ahead style . Mostly I desire to meet him , so I can put him in a buddy clowning with Neil Degrasse Tyson .
3 . The Ghostbusters from Ghostbusters
It ’s so knockout to find good extrasensory researcher these Clarence Day . Some might say , even , that it ’s completely impossible to find out good extrasensory investigators , ever . That ’s why we need the PhDs of the Ghostbusters so much . If there is a need for paranormal investigators in this world , they will fulfil it . If there is n’t a need for paranormal investigators , they will produce an only new arm of science . Sure , they ’ll be frustrated that their branch of science does n’t go anywhere , but that ’s their job , not ours . Should ghosts suddenly start up , we ’ll have people qualified to deal with them . No matter what , we ’ll have a copy of Bill Murray . There ’s always room for a spare Murray .
Let ’s face it , he had his foot in the door the minute he charge to Einstein hair . After that , a house full of gadgets , a clock time political machine in a car with doors that opened upwards , and a short light arms dealing was just gravy . He ’s the crazy , non - gropey uncle that we all wish we had . And then he made a train hover . Who does n’t desire hover - trains ?
1 . Professor Hubert Farnsworth from Futurama
This guy wire really is the ( mad ) scientist extraordinaire . He ’s create a boxful with another universe in it . . . in every universe . He ’s cloned himself . He ’s had his heart dampen by both a automaton and a robot - maker . He ’s created an engine that runs at over one hundred percent power to go over the speed of light source . Then there ’s the smelloscope , which has come up a way to find particles that ca n’t travel across the vacuum of outer space and is therefore perchance the more noteworthy thing he ’s ever done . And there is his interest in his many lengths of wire . Most of all , there ’s his exclusive - apt loyalty to science . This is the guy who solved the ultimate mysteries of science , in one episode , and fell into a deep depression because that stand for he could n’t do any more scientific inquiries . I retrieve he proved that he needs to be tangible when he explained the beauty of scientific aspirations with this idiomatic expression , “ Nothing is impossible ! Not if you may imagine it ! That ’s what being a scientist is all about ! ” No , it ’s impossible not to put exclaiming power point on those sentences , and that , my friends , is why this is a scientist we call for in the world .
Honorable Mention : Darcy Lewis from Thor
There have been many not bad scientists , but only one great scientific discipline intern . Of all the many characters return in the Avengers picture , the one I candidly desire for most was Darcy Lewis , the houseman who out - zapped the Thunder God . Sure , she was a political science major , but I desire her and her mighty taser to recall in the movie and maybe , just maybe , unforesightful out Tony Stark ’s suit and make him pass water himself . In fact , I think she should get her own realism goggle box series , Intern With a Taser , and just reverberate around the scientific facilities of the world , instruct science and dealing with anyone who gets disobedient . It would make for both educational and fascinating television . Truly , this macrocosm take a Darcy .
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