Really, Truly Hear Me Out Before You Close Out Of This Blog: Thomas Edison is the Natural Enemy of The Green Lantern
The world really hates on Thomas Edison nowadays. It used to be he was widely considered to be a shining example of a great inventor, who had a duet of very flattering movies made about him in the 1940's (one with Mickey Rooney as the titular Young Thomas Edison), but it seems like with the internet age that he has been subdued and is instead seen as a villain, somebody who while a decent inventor did not do things in a morally straight way and who abused the natural brilliance of minds like Nikola Tesla. This contrast with Tesla is quite fascinating. Tesla is seen as a natural genius, a man who shut himself away to work on his brilliant inventions, too divorced from the realities of economics to prevent being screwed over by Edison, who while also quite brilliant is known for a serious of quotes about hard work being superior compared to natural genius. This is a dichotomy that arguably appears quite frequently in superhero stories! Look at the above image. Green Lantern, w...