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Which Comic Character Is the Greatest Engineer?

Posted by Unknown on from the evil-geniuses-for-a-better-tomorrow dept.

ptorrone writes "From Bruce Wayne to Lex Luthor to Tony Stark — the most popular comic heroes are more than just beefy guys in skin tight suits, they're also business persons, titans of industry and brilliant engineers. While there will always be a lot of debate on who is the strongest or fastest, MAKE has an overview of their 14 top comic book engineers, scientists and hackers."

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  1. Greatest Engineer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    DILBERT!!!

  2. Dilbert is the closest to reality by Moof123 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Just saying,

    There are days i envy Dilbert, his company is better run than some I have worked at.

    1. Re:Dilbert is the closest to reality by captjc · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Plus all the insubordination has yet to cost anyone their job. I would love to call my boss and coworkers idiots to their face and deliberately sabotage them for my own amusement and face no consequences whatsoever.

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    2. Re:Dilbert is the closest to reality by Seumas · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Dilbert is a corporate tool intended to placate all of the cubicle-drones because they can have a chuckle and identify with him and think "well, gosh, things aren't so bad!" and move on with the status-quo.

  3. Easy by geekoid · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Girl Genius.

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  4. Re:My vote... by Master+Moose · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Am I the only one that would get frustrated that he would always give up with the equipment after just one attempt?

    He usually had a *sound* plan with a sure-fire method which was thwarted by poor execution or random variables that statically would not affect a 2nd, 3rd or 4th attempt at the same method.

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  5. Re:My vote... by gstoddart · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Wile E. Cyote is more like a script kiddie; he just uses the products without much change.

    Script kiddy?? I don't think so.

    The ACME Catalog didn't show him how to take the roller skates, bicycle helmet, #3 solid rocket booster, 200 feet of rope, a pulley system, an umbrella and a ramp ... put it altogether, and end getting burned, dropped off a cliff, crushed and then rained on (with accompanying lightining strike).

    Wil E. Coyote is a frigging Rube Goldberg machine waiting to happen. He didn't just run something as shipped ... He put it together into amazingly strange combinations.

    Script kiddie? You, sir, did not watch NEARLY enough Bugs Bunny growing up. (And, I, apparently far too much. ;-p)

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