Aug. 14th, 2005

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This link, which has been bounced around my friends' list the past couple days, is an excellent demonstration of the use of musical scoring in creating the emotional impact of a movie clip. Watch the film loop, of Count Dooku from Star Wars flying a speeder bike, and listen to the music, and, once you feel you understand the emotional impact of the scene, click the little rectangle underneath the film loop to get another piece of music to go with the scene. See how the tone and feeling of the scene changes. There are twelve musical clips in total.
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Okay.

So, Doctor Strange, it has been established, actually is an MD. Doc Savage (not a comic book character, but pulp, so, close enough) has multiple doctorates, and possibly an MD. Captain America is a captain in the US Army, Doctor Manhattan (from Watchmen) has a doctorate in physics, Captain Atom, the character Doctor Manhattan is based on, is a Captain in, I think, the Air Force. Doc Samson is a psychiatrist. All three incarnations of Doctor Mid-Nite/Doctor Midnight were surgeons.

Generally speaking, if a superhero name includes a military rank, that hero actually does have that rank, and if a superhero is called "Doctor Something-or-Other", he or she really is an MD or PhD, or both.

So, does this hold true for villains? Specifically, is Doctor Doom an MD, or does he have a PhD, and, in what?

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