thanks, just forwarded to my PhD friends
also, i have been telling them that i will gladly call them doctor if they call me master
Haha, I did the same thing. Still waiting.
The PhD process is so miserable and long that it will turn any sane person to the dark side, yes.
And if you stay on in academia rather than get out of it, well you’ll end up pure evil, but at least you’ll be cloistered and can’t really do any harm to the real world.
But given how often they’ve managed to escape containment, the reality is the checks and balances on the system are woefully lacking.
Teaching young people can be counted as doing harm to the real world can it not?
Reminds me of:
As someone with a PhD, I can confirm both images are accurate.
*Dr. Doofenshmirtz
He brought that PhD, so he has one…
No, my point is that his name is misspelled in the meme.
And (American) lawyers clearly come from The Upside Down, because you get a doctorate before a masters.
Tf. Til
Yes, going off memory here, but IIRC the earliest legal degrees in the US was the LL.B. - I think HAAAAAHRVAAARD still awards them - but as the field became more of a post-baccalaureate graduate/professional program, the lawyers got butthurt about “only” getting a Bachelor of Laws, so they got the name changed at most schools to a Juris Doctorate. Meanwhile, the LL.M. has evolved into mostly a specialist tax law or international law thing, or a way to get obviously well-educated foreign lawyers a US degree more quickly so they could sit for a bar exam somewhere. Since it was never the biggest thing, and since almost all law professors just have a JD anyway, nobody worried about changing the name.
If only they awarded Anakin the rank of master he would’ve never become Doctor Vader.
He did his dissertation on The Story of Darth Plagueis the Wise and singlehandedly caused the entire Jedi temple to jump out the window from his lectures on Darth Plageuis the Wise
Something that always bothered me about comics is how the bad guy was almost always the intellectual who used their brain to solve / create problems while the good guys solved conflicts by punching things.
Why? That’s what american culture is.
We think scientists are evil and football players are heroic.
The only time american culture lauded scientists was post ww2, but that didn’t last very long and the national push for sciences declined by the 70s.
We also love rich and famous people, don’t forget.
comics
I don’t know about DC (I know Batman and Mr. Terrific exist, but that’s about it; also Blue Beetle might be somewhat of an Iron Man expy, I think?), but when it comes to Marvel…
Peter Parker is a world class chemist and engineer. He created his web fluid and designed his web shooters, which definitely counts as using his brain to solve crime.
Tony Stark, world class engineer, designed and built the armours he uses to fight crime.
Reed Richards is one of the topmost scientists and engineers in the world in practically any field. Using his brain to solve / create problems is what the Fantastic Four do (fighting crime is incidental, really).
Hank Pym, aka Ant Man, aka Giant Man, aka Yellowjacket (on a bad day), is up there with Richards at the top, when he isn’t suffering from mental illness or depression. He discovered the particles that bear his name and give him (and others) his powers, which he uses to fight crime.
Bruce Banner is almost up there, above them when it comes to nuclear physics. He uses his mind to… OK, fine, I’ll give you this one, most of the time.
Hank McCoy, aka Beast, also top level engineer and general scientist. He designs and makes most of the tools (except the ones made by Forge, or by Kitty Pryde) the X-Men use to, uh… well, mostly try to defend themselves and other mutants from human racists trying to kill them, or humans from mutant racists trying to kill them, and sometimes to try and take over the world, I think…? I don’t know, I haven’t read the X-Men in a long time but it seems they’ve been drifting from light to dark grey this last decade; but, still, he uses his brain, is what matters. Fists and feet too, but also brain.
And those are the top ones that come to mind, but with the exception of Captain America that’s basically core Marvel right there.
Not saying that that there are not intelligent good guys, but their intelligence is rarely what is highlighted or celebrated about them. It’s normally a side note or a quality leveraged by their more mundane alter ego rather than their more publicly visible super identity.
I’m sorry, what?
Peter Parker being seen as a nerd when out of his suit is one of the defining characteristics of Spider-Man.
Their intelligence the defining characteristic of Richards and Stark (also his money in the latter case, but he’s lost that on occasion without that making him not be Iron Man, in fact the one time he did stop being Iron Man was because his alcoholism was making him too irrational).
Banner’s intelligence is almost always a necessary counterpoint to Hulk’s brutishness.
Going to DC, Batman’s main asset is arguably his intelligence. Sure, he’s a ninja, sure, he’s a billionaire, sure, he’s dark and scary. But take all that away and his intelligence will still allow him to keep fighting crime.
Speaking of Batman, I forgot about Daredevil; sure, again, he’s a ninja with super-senses (except for sight), but we see a lot of him being a lawyer, and he sometimes wins in the court what he couldn’t win by beating people up. Also dude won against fucking Mephisto, obviously not by beating him with his little sticks, but through sheer conviction. It took Doctor Victor Von fucking Doom decades to beat that devil. Matt fucking Murdock beat him in four issues by essentially turning the other cheek.
Side notes? Far from it. (In Richards’ case, and arguably in Stark’s most of the time, heroing is the side note; the Fantastic Four almost never go looking for it, rather stumbling upon it from time to time, and Stark spends most of his time looking after his company, not seeking crime to fight.)
I should have been more specific. With a few exceptions (e.g. Reed Richards and Charles Xavier), the intelligence of the protagonists is mostly not revealed to or celebrated by the comic public. We, the reader, are aware of it, but their intelligence is not generally celebrated within the comic universe. What they are celebrated for, mostly, in the comic universe is their physical capabilites. I always thought that this his sends the message that intelligence is not as useful as being physical capable and / or that intelligence should be kept hidden and is not something to showcase or be proud of.
Was Frankenstein villain?
I bet the people attacked or killed by the monster he unleashed would have strong opinions about that.
I don’t remember the monster being aggressive. The main idea was that the monster was clever enough but left unattended. But I read the book 30 years ago so of course I don’t remember the details.
The book and movie have vastly different stories apparently. The book is on my list to read. The book is something about the monster hiding out in a shed in France or something?
Yes, there was something like that. The owner of the shed was blind so it was easier to start communication.
It’s been so long for me too. From a quick search, it looks like he kills Victor’s brother, new bride, and best friend, and he frames an innocent woman for one of them, who is later executed.
Wow, none of this sounds familiar. I need to read it again.
And so would Adam (the monster).
Dr. Strange is a villain?
he has an MD, not a PhD
they are totally different degrees. an MD doesn’t require research and only takes 3 years.
So it’s the research that does it. Don’t study, kids!
Depends.
Multiple versions of him have delved too deeply and caused universe incursions. Depends on how deep you follow the character and what you count.
Dr Strangelove?
Made an atomic bomb
Dr. Feelgood?
This is literally true because you cannot get a PhD if you don’t learn to navigate University politics, which is the singular largest corrupting influence in academia. If you fail to do that, they literally give you a Masters as a consolation prize for preserving your integrity.
I beat the system by skipping the Master’s on the way to my PhD and then not getting the PhD in the end. Smoked a hell of a lot of dope, though.
You sound like you know from experience
The reason I have a PhD is because I was about to drop out and get a real job, when one of our papers won an award and I backed my way into a thesis defense with a 30 page dissertation because it made my advisor look good.
What about us with the humble Bachelor’s?
No one cares 😪
I feel bad for Master Baits tho
No it feels good bro
Doofenshmirtz bought his PhD online.
I can think of like 5 dudes name “The Master” and none of them were good, though.
