The Spock: Difference between revisions

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== Anime and Manga ==

* "D" from ''[[Parallel Trouble Adventure Dual]]''.

* Hoshino Ruri from ''[[Martian Successor Nadesico]]'' is both The Spock and a [[Little Miss Snarker]].

 

== Comic Books ==

* Brainiac 5 of DC's ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes (comics)|Legion of Super-Heroes]]''.

* Metron of the [[New Gods]] who was explicitly based on Spock.

 

== Film ==

* ''[[Reservoir Dogs]]'' - Mr Pink is the most logical of all the crew, especially when he acts as the [[Foil]] to [[The McCoy|Mr White]]. The first scene shows him refusing to throw in money to tip the waitress, giving his ([[Your Mileage May Vary|logical]]) reason as to why. He is later distrustful of everyone, and disgusted that Mr White gave Mr Orange his real name and hometown, considering anybody, even the dying Mr Orange, could be the rat. {{spoiler|Not only is he right about everything, but he is the only character to survive the film.}} Subverted in that Mr. Pink is anything but cool—he's both logical and wildly neurotic.

* Dr. Egon Spengler from ''[[Ghostbusters]]''. In the sequel, he says that his parents did not believe in toys and he seems to be nigh-immune to the mood slime which makes the two most "positive" Ghostbusters try to kill each other. In the commentary for the original film, [[Word of God|Harold Ramis]] notes that he deliberately played Egon as a Spock-like character. He also notes that there is only one scene where he actually shows emotion, when Walter Peck tries to have the Ghostbusters arrested for an explosion that he caused himself.

 

== Literature ==

* Ivan of ''[[The Brothers Karamazov]]''.

* Elinor Dashwood, the protagonist of ''[[Sense and Sensibility (novel)|Sense and Sensibility]]'', in contrast to her sister [[The McCoy|Marianne]]. Possibly the [[Trope Maker]], considering this is one of the first known intentional uses of it (Austen intended the sisters' [[Emotions Versus Stoicism]] to be a metaphor for [[Romanticism Versus Enlightenment]]). Also one of the few examples where The Spock is right, and [[The McCoy]] has to learn to be more reserved rather than the other way around.

* Asher in ''[[Someone Else's War|Someone Elses War]]''.

 

* [[Trope Namer|Spock]] from ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]''. Every other Vulcan of [[Star Trek]] falls into this trope, including Tuvok from ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' and T'Pol from ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]''.

* Like [[The Kirk]] and [[The McCoy]], there's some [[Generation Xerox]] between the different series. Consider:

**He is so cold-blooded that he seems sometimes to regard human life in almost mercantile terms. But he is forgivable because he also [[The Needs of the Many|regards risking his own life flagrantly as "investment" and saving other people's lives as "profit."]]

 

* A rare main character example: Brutus from Shakespeare's ''[[Julius Caesar]]'', with either Cassius or Antony as [[The McCoy]]. A quiet, (literally) stoic, cool-headed intellectual who is a friend of Caesar's but is willing to do him in since, to quote the [[Trope Namer]], the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. ("Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more!")

* In Shakespeare's ''[[Troilus and Cressida]]'': Ulysses on the Greek side, with Agamemnon as [[The Kirk]] and Ajax as a fairly thickheaded variation on [[The McCoy]]. On the Trojan side, Hector fills this role, to Priam as Kirk and Troilus as [[The McCoy]]

 

== Toys ==

* [[An Ice Person|Kopaka,]] the resident [[The Stoic|Stoic]] in ''[[Bionicle]]''.

 

== Video Games ==

* Sasha Nein of ''[[Psychonauts]]''.

* Gale, in ''[[Shin Megami Tensei]]: [[Digital Devil Saga]]''.

* Stern, the Material of Wisdom in the ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's Portable]]'' games. Funnily enough, this made her the kindest one amongst the [[Humanoid Abomination|Materials]] and the first one to make a [[Heel Face Turn]] away from their [[Omnicidal Maniac]] side since she came to the logical conclusion that mindlessly destroying everything is stupid.

 

* Chou Yaru in ''[[Unicorn Jelly]]''.

* Vaarsuvius from ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'' ''tries'' to be this in order to become more effective and overcome a great obstacle, but seeing as how the elf is anything but emotionless and is in fact haunted by the memory of a great failure, the result is disastrous.

 

== Web Original ==

* The AI Delta from ''[[Red vs. Blue]]'' is logic personified. [[Literal Split Personality|Literally]]. Ironically, Delta is probably the most humane of the various Freelancer AIs, despite his noticeably incomplete understanding of human nature.

* In the ''[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe|Global Guardians]], Achilles is the The Spock, and is also the team leader. Guardsman is [[The Kirk]], while Arachne and Ultra-Man are [[The McCoy]].

 

== Western Animation ==

* Wind Whistler of ''[[My Little Pony]]''

* In ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]], Twilight'' Sparkle takes this role in the first two episodes, not caring about "pointless" things like friends or fun. [[Character Development|She ends up coming around at the end of the second episode]], and the rest of the season documents her learning about just how kick ass friends are. She occasionally lapses into this when academic subjects are mentioned, especially magic. She has a very logical, scientific view of the world and though her excellent education means that she's often right, it does leave her rather inflexible. Her tendency to dismiss information that she finds illogical in particular has been called on more than once.

 

== Real Life ==

* Dr. Herman Khan. His works in the 1950s on nuclear war examine the aftermath in extremely dry terms. He was considered a sort of monster by some to actually argue that, while extremely horrible, a nuclear holocaust would not be the end of humanity.

* Within the [[Power Trio]] of the Allied leadership of [[World War II]], [[Josef Stalin]] played The Spock to [[Franklin D. Roosevelt|FDR]]'s [[The Kirk|Kirk]] and [[Winston Churchill]]'s [[The McCoy|McCoy]]. When you're a dictator who sees himself as just [[I Did What I Had to Do|doing what it takes]] to ensure your country's survival (occasionally even half-admitting being [[Necessarily Evil]]), it sort of comes with the territory.

 

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