Gadgeteer: List of Fictional Gadgeteers

[jason taylor]

Originally Posted by Tinman

I love Burn Notice, however, I would think that the electronic devices he (& the team) make would be electroncs repairs or some other skill. Not gadeteer.

I always wondered how they just happened to have on hand enough equipment to arm a medium sized country.

[mearrin69]

There's also Q from James Bond.
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[Flyndaran]

Originally Posted by mearrin69

There's also Q from James Bond.
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I didn't think that he personally invented all the gadgets. I thought he had a team, in the background.

[Daigoro]

Originally Posted by Flyndaran

I didn't think that he personally invented all the gadgets. I thought he had a team, in the background.

As the output of Section Q is definitely medium-level superscience gadgets, then either Q is a Gadgeteer with Accessibilty: Requires Assistants, or the department is somehow more than the sum of its parts.

For that matter, does 007 have some kind of McGyver-type gadgeteering skills- he's always disarming bombs and disabling robots.

[Daigoro]

Originally Posted by Tinman

I love Burn Notice, however, I would think that the electronic devices he (& the team) make would be electroncs repairs or some other skill. Not gadeteer.

I don't recall much of the little I've seen, but is he doing things like jury-rigging the light switch to the fire sprinklers? Maybe this could be a new type of advantage similar to Gizmos, call it Pranks, and it needs a combination of Traps and other tech skills.

[Rocket Man]

Conrad Stargard from The Cross-Time Engineer, of course, who builds medieval Poland into an early industrial juggernaut, complete with bunny clubs.

[Apache]

Originally Posted by jason taylor

I always wondered how they just happened to have on hand enough equipment to arm a medium sized country.

Dude.

It's Miami.

[Daigoro]

Daedalus -- Built the Labyrinth, a wooden cow for the queen of Crete to mate with the Minoan bull, and of course, wings for himself and Icarus.

The wings had a limitation we could call Fatal Flaw, in that they couldn't fly too high, melting the wax, or too low to the sea, dampening the feathers.

Doc Emmett Brown from Back to the Future -- Builds the Flux Capacitor, among other things.

The Flux Capacitor only functions at 88mph and requires 1.21 gigawatts of electricity- this suggests another limitation we could call Operational Limits: a gadget only works under certain difficult-to-attain conditions.

[Daigoro]

Originally Posted by Phil Masters

Pretty well any comic-book science guy with a stated name ends up displaying some level of Gadgeteer. The list is going to be tiresomely long.

Indeed, most of Batman's villains, being generally non-super powered, are gadget-based to some degree or another.

Joker – from Wikipedia: “The Joker commits crimes with comedic weapons such as a deck of bladed playing cards, an acid-squirting flower, cyanide-stuffed pies, exploding cigars filled with nitroglycerin, harpoon guns that utilize razor-sharp BANG!-flags, and a lethally electric joy buzzer. His most prominent weapon is his Joker venom, a deadly poison that infects his victims with a ghoulish rictus grin as they die while laughing uncontrollably.”
I don’t think this was shown much in Dark Knight, apart from the surgically inserted mobile phone bomb, and even that’s not particularly gadgetty.

Riddler – a trick cane and elaborate death-traps.
Penguin – with a range of trick umbrellas- hypnotic, helicopter, whirling blades, machine gun, poison gas, sword-tip, acid spraying, flame-throwing and bullet-proof.
Scarecrow – psychopharmacology based Gadgeteer
Poison Ivy – botanics and biochemistry Gadgeteer
Mr Freeze -- cold based gadgets and weapons
Mad Hatter – mind-control technology

[Rocket Man]

Originally Posted by Refplace

Yeah PP is definitely a gadgeter and wasting his potential, though lately hes doing more with it. He built the spider mobile, messed up a lot of villains gadgets and doomsday weapons and often saves the day with one shot gadgets (Ultrapower probably). Also worked with Mr. Fantastic and the Lizard as well as other famous scientists. He plays dumb but is not.

Don't forget the spider-tracers, tuned to resonate to his spider sense.