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

[vibrantabyss.livejournal.com]

Well, several incarnations of the Doctor - which I don't think violates the stated doctor rule...

The Professor from Gilligan's island, if you like the type...

Does Batman design and build his own toys? In some of the movies he seems to have.

Going down the MacG route - the A-Team has build how much crazy stuff? And wasn't there a show in the 70s about a rocket built from junkyard leavings....

Now them all is good guys. Who are the Team Evil gizmo builders who are attractive? I'm having more trouble with that...

[drwex]

The Doctor is distinctly possible, though one gets the sense that he's an engineer by necessity, not trade.

The Professor is disqualified as scientist, not engineer.

Batman, in some portrayals, would seem to qualify.

The only one I remember from A Team who was pictured as attractive was "Face" and he wasn't an engineer.

[tamidon.livejournal.com]

Oh, Batman movies, Lucius Fox. Morgan Freeman is attractive.
You're kinda talking to wrong crowd, we tend to skew towards thinking geeky is attractive

[drwex]

As I noted above, the question isn't whether the individual is attractive, but whether the character is created in such a way that they're intended to be attractive.

[vibrantabyss.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I recall any one person on the team coming up with the plans for the stuff they build, but I guess there is also a line of gadgeteer v engineer. But I think that would toss MacG out... Then you have the line of Programmer v. Computer Engineer to worry about.

[aelf.livejournal.com]

"Salvage 1" was the rocket show thingie. but I don't think Andy Griffith was particularly attractive...