Timeline for Which Sci-Fi work introduced the idea of "Mad Scientists as villains"?
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| Dec 22, 2017 at 23:43 | answer | added | M. A. Golding | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 25, 2017 at 13:02 | history | edited | Rand al'Thor♦ |
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| Apr 6, 2015 at 15:38 | comment | added | Doctor Doom | @ADonda This one's better.. | |
| Apr 6, 2015 at 15:34 | comment | added | A. Donda | Seconding @Wrzlprmft: images.cryhavok.org/d/11215-2/Mad+Engineers+-+Inkthinker.jpg | |
| Apr 6, 2015 at 15:32 | comment | added | Izkata | @LightningRacisinObrit It's akin to Marvel/DC in that it's a mixture of sci-fi and fantasy. In at least one incarnation, aliens called the Xorda attacked Earth, which 12000 years later gave rise to the characters we know | |
| Apr 6, 2015 at 14:28 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackSciFi/status/585086638742704128 | ||
| Apr 5, 2015 at 14:34 | comment | added | Doctor Doom | @Lightning Whynot. There are robots, time travel (by 88mph and Chaos Emralds), Metal Sonic, Eggman's science experiments and toys.. | |
| Apr 5, 2015 at 14:23 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | Sonic the Hedgehog is sci-fi now? | |
| Apr 5, 2015 at 13:43 | comment | added | Wrzlprmft | Actually, they are mad engineers. | |
| Apr 5, 2015 at 3:20 | comment | added | Steve Jessop | FWIW, Time declared him the most influential celebrity of the 20th century, not necessarily the most famous. I think he quite clearly was also the most famous scientist of the 20th Century, for example in the sense of highest name-recognition. If he's not the most famous person of any kind, then he might be tied with a bunch of other people whom everyone (within experimental error) had heard of ;-) And he has the benefit of an early start: if you sample at the end of the century then everyone's heard of Madonna, but prior to 1980 not so much! | |
| Apr 4, 2015 at 20:29 | comment | added | goldilocks | Ditto on the Romanticism comment as that is a movement in modern western literature in which a decisive break from a deity ordered universe starts to become clear and explicit. | |
| Apr 4, 2015 at 10:46 | comment | added | Natural30 | You might also want to look into Romanticism in general: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanticism | |
| Apr 4, 2015 at 10:15 | answer | added | terdon | timeline score: 7 | |
| Apr 4, 2015 at 9:58 | comment | added | terdon | @SS-3.1415926535897932384626433 Einstein, Bronstein, Stein, Rosenstein, Epstein, Silverstein, Bernstein, the list goes on. You may as well search for a pattern in names ending in -son. It's just a very common Germanic name ending. | |
| Apr 4, 2015 at 9:18 | comment | added | Doctor Doom | @Bokuriu In which world do you live? It's quite popular fact, although we never really counted the popularity. Time magazine also declared it. | |
| Apr 4, 2015 at 9:10 | comment | added | Bakuriu | @SS By which metric is him the "most famous personality of the last century"? sure it's a famous one but I highly doubt it's the most famous... | |
| Apr 4, 2015 at 6:05 | vote | accept | Doctor Doom | ||
| Apr 4, 2015 at 4:34 | answer | added | jamesqf | timeline score: 13 | |
| Apr 4, 2015 at 3:49 | history | protected | user1027 | ||
| Apr 4, 2015 at 0:50 | answer | added | atorres | timeline score: -2 | |
| Apr 3, 2015 at 21:35 | answer | added | zwol | timeline score: 22 | |
| Apr 3, 2015 at 20:53 | answer | added | phantom42 | timeline score: 14 | |
| Apr 3, 2015 at 17:57 | answer | added | Jason Baker | timeline score: 22 | |
| Apr 3, 2015 at 17:56 | comment | added | KutuluMike | good call... i was thinking dr. strangelove myself but there's a bunch of people before him. | |
| Apr 3, 2015 at 17:55 | answer | added | KutuluMike | timeline score: 47 | |
| Apr 3, 2015 at 17:41 | comment | added | Jason Baker | @MichaelEdenfield I can't disagree with that, but for a less ambiguous definition of "villain" I'm going to go with Dr. Moreau | |
| Apr 3, 2015 at 17:37 | comment | added | KutuluMike | he's certainly not a cut-and-dry villain the way that you get in modern fiction, but I have a strong suspicion he's the origin of the "crazy scientist who does experiments without regard of the consequences" trope, which has just verged more and more to the evil side since then. | |
| Apr 3, 2015 at 17:19 | comment | added | Jason Baker | @MichaelEdenfield I don't that it's entirely fair to call Frankenstein a "villain" | |
| Apr 3, 2015 at 17:09 | comment | added | KutuluMike | -stein is a common suffix for German surnames. Both Frankenstein and Einstein were German names. | |
| Apr 3, 2015 at 17:03 | comment | added | KutuluMike | are there any sightings that pre-date Frankenstein ? | |
| Apr 3, 2015 at 16:53 | history | asked | Doctor Doom | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
