Geeky challenge

[drwex]

At dinner discussion last night one of my coworkers asserted that Tony Stark was the only engineer(1) in pop culture who is depicted as attractive. I dispute this, but so far I've only been able to come up with two counter-examples:

1. Kaylee (Firefly)
2. Geordi (ST:TNG) - not my type, but I've definitely heard women say appreciative things about LeVar Burton in that role.

(1) the rules of the game exclude doctors (e.g. Bruce Banner) and straight-up scientists (e.g Jon Osterman/Dr Manhattan from Watchmen).

Help me, oh geeks of my acquaintance. What am I forgetting?

ETA: I think we might include Bruce Wayne/Batman, at least in some incarnations, and MacGuyver. ETA 2: I think Dan Dreiberg from Watchmen also qualifies.

Comments

[aelf.livejournal.com]

If you count Kaylee, do Bo and Luke Duke count as total grease monkeys?

[aelf.livejournal.com]

Jordan from Real Genius, too.

[aelf.livejournal.com]

The guy in Quantum Leap. Ok I need to stop now and have dinner with family.

Wait. Peter Weller, Buckaroo Bonzai. and everyone else.

[drwex]

Hilarious. OK, in reverse order:

I did think of Buckaroo, but he's disqualified on account of being a doctor. It's probably the case that the tinkering in that film is Hikita.

Quantum Leap's Sam Beckett is definitively listed as "scientist".

Jordan in Real Genius is portrayed as the opposite of attractive, and she's a physicist who tinkers out of neuroticism, not as an avocation. (Aside: a friend of mine from undergrad days knows the woman that character is based on and she was not pleased with how she was portrayed, partly due to how unattractive and neurotic that character seemed.)

I have no comment on Bo and Luke Duke. Just not going there.

The question isn't whether Bruce Campbell is attractive, but whether the character is portrayed as attractive, which I'd argue it isn't.

Chris Knight is definitely a theoretical physicist.

MacGuyver I think qualifies, though it's been so long since I saw that show I barely remember.

[aelf.livejournal.com]

If you accept that a total jerk can be attractive, then I think Army of Darkness Ash counts as attractive.

Many of the adults in the Spy Kids movies are engineering types. Antonio Banderas.

[aelf.livejournal.com]

I viewed Jordan in Real Genius as being geeky-attractive, Not drop dead gorgeous, not ugly. If Geordi can be considered attractive, I think Jordan counts.

I also think it can really hard to separate neuroticism from avocation... if I consider people I have known. :)

[drwex]

The point is that she (the character) is set up to be unattractive.