Characters Who Are Both Scientists and Magicians

[ouroboros]

Wally Wood's two-part WIZARD KING featured a sorcerer named Alcazar. In the first part he just does magic, but he also seems involved in scientific stuff in the second part. to which I devoted a detailed review here. The same essay contains a link to an essay on the first part of WIZARD KING, too.

[DrNewGod]

Does Darth Vader count?

If so, seems like all the Sith and Jedi would count.

[Gray Lensman]

If so, seems like all the Sith and Jedi would count.

While Jedi and Sith seem to be stand-ins for wizards, I'd put the bar for being a scientist/engineer much higher in such a universe - like doing something that isn't able to be done by nearly anybody. Merely flying a starfighter or using a blaster isn't enough, nor is fixing up a droid.

[Venomous Mask]

Joseph Curwen from Lovecraft's The Case of Charles Dexter Ward is both a pre-modern scientist and sorcerer.

[PaulBullion]

Doctor Doom doesn't have a diploma, does he?

Doom may be many things, but Doom is not a liar. If he calls himself Doctor Doom, he at least forced a Latverian school to give him one. Also, Doom is the most brilliant robotics expert of our time. He'd be a scientist by a different definition, the way Leonardo Davinci was.

[Carabas]

If so, seems like all the Sith and Jedi would count.

Not all of them are scientists just because they live in a sci-fi setting. Vader is a mechanical genius who built his own advanced robot at age 10.

[Red Wolf]

Forge is more of an inventor than scientist. He does have magical abilities but doesn't use them much.

[DrNewGod]

If so, seems like all the Sith and Jedi would count.

While Jedi and Sith seem to be stand-ins for wizards, I'd put the bar for being a scientist/engineer much higher in such a universe - like doing something that isn't able to be done by nearly anybody. Merely flying a starfighter or using a blaster isn't enough, nor is fixing up a droid.

Not all of them are scientists just because they live in a sci-fi setting. Vader is a mechanical genius who built his own advanced robot at age 10.

I grant both of your points. However, in (the dreadful) Phantom Menace, Obi Wan directs the repairs to Queen Padme's ship, and Darth Maul makes heavy use of technology, including surveillance drones, to supplement his own abilities. Still, as I said, I see you points.

[Charmed]

What about Sakura, Tsunade, Shizune, and the other medical ninjas on Naruto? They use chakra, which is practically magic, and the three characters I just named frequently deal with the examining of cells, crafting antidotes and poisons, and (in Tsunade's case) performing reconstructive surgery.

Old thread, I know, but it took awhile for the character(s) to come to me.