Is Dr. Mid-Nite an actual doctor? And Ray Palmer's probably got a Ph.D.
And you're sure this isn't just some fanboy thing? 'Cause I've fought more than a couple pimply, overweight vamps that called themselves Lestat.
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Holli - Nov 18, 2004 9:31:29 am PST #6522 of 10000
an overblown libretto and a sumptuous score/ could never contain the contradictions I adore
Tom Scola - Nov 18, 2004 9:32:32 am PST #6523 of 10000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 18, 2004 9:33:01 am PST #6524 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Dr. Strange was a top-flight surgeon before his origin story car accident that gave him a hand tremor.
Doc Samson is a psychiatrist, but I seem to recall there may be an M.D. in his qualifications as well. Along with the training to build giant gamma-ray transfer machines. (Though in comics you can apparently get that by takinga correspondence course...)
Both versions of Doctor Midnight have been medical doctors.
DavidS - Nov 18, 2004 9:33:10 am PST #6525 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Huh. It turns out that Dr. Strange is a doctor.
Dude! I just said that. Yeah, he was an asshole surgeon.
Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 18, 2004 9:35:12 am PST #6526 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I think the original Dr. Fate had a doctorate in Archaeology. So, apologies to Ross Geller, but not a real doctor.
Mr. Broom - Nov 18, 2004 9:38:43 am PST #6527 of 10000
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
Both of Marvel's best-known Hanks, McCoy and Pym, are docs. Pym's primary focus is in Mad Science, Etc. but he knows his medical stuff too. The late Moira McTaggart probably doesn't count 'coz she was never really a superhero, but there she is too. Dr. Curt Connors was a doctor as well as a geneticist before (and for periods of time, after) he became the Lizard.
DXMachina - Nov 18, 2004 9:40:42 am PST #6528 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Dr. Niles Calder, aka the Chief, head of the Doom Patrol is a surgeon.
Both of Marvel's best-known Hanks, McCoy and Pym, are docs.
PhDs, though, not MDs.
Tom Scola - Nov 18, 2004 9:41:30 am PST #6529 of 10000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
According to this, Hank Pym and Hank McCoy aren't doctors, they're biochemists.
The site also lists Doc Samson as a psychiatrist, so yeah, MD.
Mr. Broom - Nov 18, 2004 9:45:06 am PST #6530 of 10000
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
Cecilia Reyes, who was an X-Man for all of five minutes and had the force field power, was an ER doc. I don't know if she ever bothered to get a codename. Heather Hudson of Alpha Flight too.
ETA: Re: Beast and others, are we talking only about people who are actual MDs? True, McCoy's a biochemist, but he's actually done a lot of MD work for the team, since they're all getting beat to hell all the time. When it comes to superheroes, anyone with a working knowledge of anatomy tends to pull doctor duty
Gandalfe - Nov 18, 2004 9:52:21 am PST #6531 of 10000
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
I'm gonna have to look in my "Death of Captain Marvel," because it has a bunch of them in there.