Depiction of engineers in comic books and some cartoons has been much better than TV-shows for older audiences. after all there are many shows about doctors and lawyers and lame office jobs (the office)
Here are three popular engineer supervillains:
Doctor Octopus (Otto Octavius)
A nuclear Physicist/engineer that also must be involved with some kind of Biomedical work since he invented Brain-computer interfaced robotic arms that characterize him. Otto Octavius is irresponsible about his work, greedy and antisocial. Not much of a role model for kids in engineering, unless they are megalomaniac psycopaths.
Ivo Robotnik (Dr Eggman)
Dr Ivo 'Eggman' Robotnik is a gifted mechanical engineer with an IQ of 300. His research deals with making improved cyborgs of animal creatures whom he does not kill, city planning and general robot making. For some reason a pesky blue hedgehog called Sonic, who was the fastest kid in his PE class but didn't do much else with his life, spends every day sabotaging Robotniks plans. This sends a very bad message of brawns over brains to our kids. Allthough he is portrayed as a supervillain he really just is misunderstood. In fact he bears a deliberate resemblance to Teddy Roosevelt. Card carrying member of the bullmoose party and a feminist activist, we should learn to appreciate him more.
finally the baddest of the bad:
Anakin Skywalker (Darth Vader)
Young Anakin was raised in a third world planet and still managed to educate himself very well in areas of mechanical and aerospace engineering. Later in his career like most engineers he ended up in management where he proved his great leadership skills. And so he started wars and destroyed planets ...boohoohoo. He also built the biggest ship ever! too bad he didn't teach himself engineering ethics.
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hahaha nice
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