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== Web Original ==
* Both ''[[Cracked.com]]'' and [[Badass of the Week]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20131024174720/http://www.cracked.com/funny-284-nikola-tesla/ have entire pages devoted] [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/tesla.html to proving to the world] how much an underestimated genius Tesla was. ''Cracked'' [http://www.cracked.com/article_16072_5-famous-inventors-who-stole-their-big-idea.html in particular] [https://web.archive.org/web/20130820132812/http://www.cracked.com/funny-3345-historical-figures-who-were-actually-dicks/ likes to] [http://www.cracked.com/article_14870_7-great-men-in-history-and-why-you-should-hate-them_p2.html remind us] [http://www.cracked.com/article_18501_7-incredible-scientific-innovations-held-back-by-petty-feuds_p1.html of Edison's utter douchery] [http://www.cracked.com/article_18465_6-spectacularly-bad-ideas-from-historys-greatest-geniuses.html in regards] [http://www.cracked.com/article_18539_7-lost-bodies-work-that-would-have-changed-everything.html to Tesla].
* In the Chinese webfic ''Time to Shoot Down the Moon'' (written by a troper called T*sl*shark), the NATO extends Tesla's research and built "Coil Antennas" in Alaska and on the Moon to serve as a mean of long-range communication and detection, also generators of weaponized plasma lightning. The AI overseeing the Coil Antennas on the Moon is named Nick for some obvious reason, and many of the staff there belong to the Scientist's Vigilante, a secret organization founded by Tesla.
* The mad scientist’s time in Colorado Springs plays a vital role in the blog novel ''[[Flyover City]]!''
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