Science Is Bad: Difference between revisions

* [[Lex Luthor]], [[Superman]]'s archenemy, has long been a barometer of the great bogeyman of the era: from the 30s through the atomic age, as a mad scientist he played on readers' fears of science run rampant. (Later, he'd be a corporate shark in the '80s and a corrupt politician at the turn of the millennium.)

** Though from the [[Silver Age]] until the [[Crisis on Infinite Earths|Crisis,]] Superman himself was portrayed as a scientist of great ability (having, at the very least, perfect recall and access to Kryptonian tech), regularly building robots and whatnot. His standard lament to Luthor in [[Pre Crisis|those days]] was his wish that Luthor would go straight and use his brilliance to help mankind instead of being a [[Jerkass]].

* Subverted by the [[Those Wacky Nazis|obvious Mengele analogue]] in a [[Badass Normal|Boba]] [[Star Wars|Fett]] comic, in which Fett accepted a challenge to wipe out the crew of a <s> Nazi</s> Imperial <s> flying concentration camp</s> genocide ship. The Mengele-wannabe is asked by his boss what experiment he's doing; Wannabe admits, "I gave up all pretense of science long ago. I do this for pleasure."

** [[Knights of the Old Republic (Comic Book)|Thousands of years earlier]] in ''Star Wars'' history, there was a Mandalorian [[Mad Scientist]] named Demagol who conducted cruel experiments on captured Jedi and on children (including ''his own daughter'') in an effort to imbue future generations of Mandalorian warriors with the ability to use [[The Force]]. His name was later adapted to "demagolka", the only word in the Mandalorian language for "war criminal".