Trivia / Doc Savage

• Fountain of Expies:
  • Doc Ardan: Not necessarily in that he seems to have originally come before Doc Savage, a sort of French Proto-Doc Savage.
  • Doc Brass: A Doc Savage pastiche who lives in the "Planetary" universe.
  • Doc Wilde: The aforementioned tribute and affectionate parody of Doc Savage. This version has even sired two children.
  • Mr Braunze: A Doc Savage pastiche who lives in the world of the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics.
  • Doc Samson: Seemed to start out as Marvel's take on Doc Savage, except gamma-irradiated.
  • Lord Kraven: A British version made for a pulp-tribute story set in an alternate 19th Century called "The League of Heroes", who leads a group of pulp characters against a villainous cabal of familiar faces.
  • Sun-Koh: The Nazi knock-off of Doc Savage.
  • Doc Sidhe: An alternate universe counterpart on a world where there are elves. And magic.
  • The Alan Moore character Tom Strong.
  • Jonas Venture Senior from The Venture Bros. is a Corrupted Character Copy mixture of Doc Savage and Benton Quest.
  • Buckaroo Banzai with his scientist-band taking the place of Doc Savage's companions.
  • Professor Zeppelin from Incognito.
• Science Marches On:
  • The brain surgery to which criminals are subjected at the "Crime College". At the time the books were written, it was commonly believed, including by psychologists and neurologists, that career criminals suffered from a treatable malformation of the brain. See Values Dissonance on the YMMV page.
  • Double Subverted In The Land of Terror (1933): someone asks Doc about the theory that we could get lots of energy by splitting the atom. Doc explains that this has just been discredited, as recent work suggests you have to put in as much energy as you get out. This is actually still a scientific fact, and is the reason why you can't just use any old element in a reactor. The catch that was discovered later is that certain atoms have unstable forms that were "pre-charged" by their formation in collapsing stars, only needing a hefty nudge to release that energy and split into more stable atoms.

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