There a reason that mad scientists are such a reoccurring videogame villain trope?
what does the N stands for
Simple villain archetype that is even better for video games than for movies/books, providing both whacky enemies and a doomsday device to stop.
>>736476972Nonce
allows for the most flexibility in minion designmachine vs nature is an easy narrative structure
Wily > Eggman > Cortex
>>736478834You really think you can top Pingas-man?
real talk, but why is wily so obsessed with robot masters?the robots he built, like the yellow devil, are massively more threatening and stronger
>>736477054 Nah It stands for **Neckbeard**, which is why he’s so defensive about the facial hair thing. Man carved an N into his forehead but couldn’t commit to a proper evil moustache. Skill issue desu.
>>736476941The mad scientist trope as you know it started with the animated superman cartoon in 1941It REALLY started with Frankenstein, but that was in literature.The reason it became a thing in 1941 was in part because there was an ongoing smear campaign against nikolai tesla for some funny's he was pulling that had pissed off a number of governments, including the USA.He was being put into a few places here and there to merge with the villain trope of Moriarty to make a dandy, well dressed villain, sometimes with an elegant mustache.This was another reference to tesla because he was rather meticulous about his appearance.Due to the weird electric fuckery tesla was doing, he served as an excellent source of inspiration and a great way to poke fun at someone the people in power had some issues with.the funnies, btw, were supposed plans for a doomsday weapon that he (from what little I know) had divided up the notes for into multiple sections and given those sections to different and competing governments, pissing them all off.I am working off of memory here but his inventions and the doomsday device are VERY important and influential on the creation of the mad scientist in superman.
>>736479334Because Light made a buch and the first, and he wants to 1 up that guy or prove that he's retarded by using his/other people's robot masters or making his own.>>736479336I thought bullies put the N there.
>>736476941>There a reason that mad scientists are such a reoccurring videogame villain trope?Look up what German and Japanese scientists did in the 1940s. You now have your bad guy trope for life.
>>736479658No. Mengele served as a bit of an inspiration for his strange fixation on weird stuff, but most of what you are talking about was simply too dark to be put into media.Once they started experimenting with the idea of a mad inventor after using Tesla and reaching back to older stuff, THEN they found plenty of inspiration simply by looking at science fiction, current tech, and the dreams of future tech.The thomas swift books, for example, provided many fantastical ideas that could be twisted into the evil creations of a mad scientist.Their original run was also well established at the time (from 1910 to 1941) and the next series after kept going for some time as well.
>>736476941The 1950s
>>736479545How come he was gangstalked this hard. Why didn't the government do anything to protect him? I'm sure some influential dude would see his potential and team up with him. No wonder he turned villain, when he lost all hope in humanity
>>736480073oh right that was the other thing.we had a lot of crazy fuckers doing crazy science in the 1950's that were a wellspring of ideas for mad scientists in media.christ the BULLSHIT that some of those fuckers pulled with chemistry and radiation is beyond retarded.You would have experimental chemist log entries that read like this:>dear diary, I have made a substance 10x more powerful than tnt and 100000x less stable>I recommend full leather coverings, a welders helmet, chainmail, and 15 buckets of sand be kept nearby>I decided to put a single droplet of the solution, cooled to -150 degrees, onto a piece of paper within a steel bucket>no reaction.>I decided to poke the bucket gently, and the entire thing exploded VIGOUROUSLY>I cannot wait to try this again at room temperatureshit like that
>>736480171did you miss the part where he was giving up plans to other governments?it wasn't severe gangstalking.they just wanted to see if he had anything.by this point he WAS a failed mad scientist that had gone bankrupt and seen his visions for the future of science (centering around electricity as the fundamental stuff of the universe or something like that) bulldozed by the discoveries of einstein and similar.He wanted a shit load of money to once again try his pie-in-the-sky ideas of making electric power free and wireless.Nobody was gonna give him that money anymore.But because a lot of his discoveries and ideas HAD been very important, there was still a chance that whatever new bullshit he had cooked up was something with value.So various governments did try to see if they could work out a deal.He refused, split up some of his notes like I said, and so they were pissed at him.When he died they grabbed all his remaining notes and classified them.They only got declassified in 2016.Some of his ideas in there (since I haven't looked) might have helped push our technology forward, but given how his own mind had decayed a bit with age and stubbornness he was behind the curve in a number of ways, so who knows how useful it was.the USA did worse shit to its first secretary of defense (appointed during WW2)He got fired for not wanting to recognize israel as a country, then locked up in a 1-man "medical care" for "being insane" on the 7th story or so of a building, and then invented "spontaneous suicide" minutes after his brother called and said he was going to take the former secretary home to care for him in the countryside.Its a dead end conspiracy theory but supposedly the issue was that the first secretary of defense had some evidence of president truman holding clandestine meetings with members of the Mob.The official documentation of events (what little there is) smells highly of bullshit.
Eggman is barely a mad scientist, dude just wants to make theme parks.
>>736476941Very fun characters.
>>736479334Most of the robot masters fought throughout the classic series weren't made by Wily. Usually, the robot masters he hijacked were in a position to cause significant damage or disruption if they went rogue, like Elecman being the sole manager of a massive power plant. So it was more a tactical choice to give him time or resources to complete whatever his latest project was.
>>736476941Fun character type for an antagonist. Keeps you wondering what all they're capable of, they can always pull some sci-fi bullshit out their ass that you didn't see coming
>>736479815surprised you didn't mention frankenstein
>>736476941I'd want to destroy the world too if I were bald
>>736484393I did?>>736479545second sentence
>>736487474holy shit I can't read
>>736488249its the plague of the gen-alphait will infect us all if we are not careful
>>736476941Because mad scientists are cool and you can do a lot of cool things with them'nuff said
>>736489968>noface>skeletonexcuse me?
>>736490902Yeah i don't get it eitherThe skeleton choices are pretty odd. Most of them are not actual skeletons
>>736479545>He was being put into a few places here and there to merge with the villain trope of Moriarty to make a dandy, well dressed villain, sometimes with an elegant mustache.>This was another reference to tesla because he was rather meticulous about his appearance.Just more antiwhite propaganda. How vile. But neat lesson anon, thanks.
>>736492990there was nothing anti-white about it dude.take that idea and cut it out of anything regarding these old portrayals.this was the final victory of edison over tesla, in a way.
>>736479565In the original character description, the "N" on his forehead stands for "Nerd" and was put there by his family to mock him for being interested in science instead of performing in the circus like the rest of them.
