List of Fictional Scientists and Engineers - Scientists and Engineers in Comics

Scientists and Engineers in Comics

The universes created by DC Comics and Marvel Comics abound with scientists who became superheroes. They include:

• Lex Luthor - Arch-enemy to Superman In (DC Comics)
• Barry Allen, aka The Flash (The Flash) – Police scientist and superhero.
• Dr. Bruce Banner, aka The Incredible Hulk (Hulk) – Scientist who developed the "Gamma Bomb" for the US Government. An accident at the site of a test led to his becoming the Hulk. For a long period after, while in the form of Bruce Banner, he would look for scientific ways to rid himself of the transformation.
• Dilbert - Star engineer of the comic strip series, "Dilbert" in the Dilbert universe.
• Dilton Doiley (Archie Comics) – Teenaged inventor and scientific genius.
• Donatello (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) – The most intelligent of the four Turtles, he builds a lot of advanced devices, often in the heat of battle.
• Querl Dox, aka Brainiac 5 (Legion of Super-Heroes) – He is reputed to have a brain exponentially more powerful than a normal human.
• Forge (X-Men) – Mutant engineering genius.
• Jay Garrick, aka The Flash (The Flash) – Research scientist, superhero and founding member of the Justice Society of America.
• Gyro Gearloose (Duck universe)
• Victor and Janet Stein (Runaways) – Founding members of the Pride, parents of Chase Stein.
• Agatha Heterodyne, (Airship Entertainment, Girl Genius) - The heiress to the political background and scientific understanding of the Heterodyne Family.
• Ted Knight, aka Starman (Starman) – Astronomer, expert scientist and superhero.
• Will Magnus (Metal Men) – Creator of a team of advanced artificially intelligent robots.
• Dr. Henry (Hank) Philip McCoy, aka Beast (X-Men) – World-renowned biochemist and mutant superhero.
• Professor Ochanomizu, surrogate father of Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy
• Dr. Jon Osterman aka Dr. Manhattan (Watchmen) nuclear physicist transformed by accident into a godlike super-being. While publicized as a superhero, he functions as the ultimate weapon for the United States military.
• Ray Palmer aka Atom (The Atom) - Professor of Physics at Ivy University. Able to shrink his body to varying degrees, even to sub-atomic level, and able to alter his mass to near infinite levels.
• Peter Parker aka Spider-Man (Spider-Man) – Superhero with great knowledge of advanced sciences, who now teaches at the High School he went to.
• Ratchet (Transformers series) – Very skilled Autobot medic. In the G1 Comics, he sacrifices himself to kill Megatron.
• Reed Richards, aka Mister Fantastic (Fantastic Four) – Scientist and inventor, regarded as one of the most intelligent people on Earth, leader of the Fantastic Four.
• Victor Von Doom, aka Doctor Doom (Doctor Doom) - Evil Scientist, Engineer, Genius, Conqueror. Doctor Doom, like Mister Fantastic, is regarded as one of the most intelligent people on Earth, even though he is a villain.
• Ted Sallis, duplicator of the serum that created Captain America, transformed into The Man-Thing. Although he had serious problems with his personal ethics when it came to women and girls, he abandoned Operation Sulfer on moral grounds, and elected to remain as Man-Thing rather than allow innocents to be killed by the demon Thog.
• Alan Scott (Green Lantern) - Engineer and the first Green Lantern
• Doctor Sivana, full name Thaddeus Bodog Sivana - The World's Wickedest Scientist. Arch-enemy of Captain Marvel (DC Comics)
• Angela Spica, aka Engineer II (The Authority)
• Tony Stark, aka Iron Man (Iron Man) – An industrialist and electrical engineer of incredible ingenuity and inventive genius, whose technology to fight crime keeps him alive as well. He suffers from alcoholism.
• Othar Tryggvassen (Girl Genius) - A powerful "spark", or mad scientist, bent on destroying all sparks, including himself.
• Ludwig Von Drake (Duck universe) – Professor of science and psychology.
• Wally - Lazy and disillusioned engineer of the comic strip series in the Dilbert universe.
• Bruce Wayne, aka Batman (Detective Comics, Batman) - The World's Greatest Detective (reputedly) with incredible scientific knowledge and forensic and memory skills that are second to none.
• Professor Charles Francis Xavier, aka Professor X (X-Men) – The founder, mentor, and sometime leader of the X-Men.