Who's on your geek Mount Rushmore?

[Morrus]

I also have a hard time giving Lucas all the credit for Star Wars. Yes, he was the central guy, but he wasn't anywhere near as much by himself.

My Star Wars Rushmore would be: Lucas, Williams, Tippet, and Slavicsek. Idea, music, visual effects, expansion.

John Williams! I hadn’t thought of him. I might need to revise my list.

 

[trappedslider]

Mary Shelly, H.G Wells, Tolkien, Vern

 

[Morrus]

We should have one of those tournament things where pairs are pitted against each other until there’s only 4 left.

 

[Deset Gled]

We should have one of those tournament things where pairs are pitted against each other until there’s only 4 left.

I think you have to do a Survivor thread. Brackets could have the top candidates knock out other potential winners in the early tiers.

 

[Clint_L]

Hmmm...nerds, only, huh?

Tolkien
Gibson
Lucas
Shelley

Edit: I really want to put Miyamoto on there but can't decide who to bump! Might have to be Gibson, but...I can't!

Edit 2: How can Gygax not be up there? This is too hard!

Edit 3: Okay, restricted myself to one per media:

Tolkien
Gygax
Miyamoto
Lucas

 

[Clint_L]

The Beastie Boys and Biz Markie.

...are awesome, but geek culture? They're too cool.

Like, above, someone cited Bowie. He would be top of my list of personal icons, cultural icons, and music icons, Mt. Rushmore for all three, but geek Rushmore?

 

[Cadence]

Tolkien, Lee, Lucas, and Gygax

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insert arguments about Lee and Kirby
insert arguments about Gygax and Arneson

Is the real Mt. Rushmore in part about easy choices that don't require thinking? Does it have a complete disregard for moral complications? (Googling, apparently they were chosen to represent foundation, expansion, development, and preservation according to Wikipedia).

I can see folks picking Roddenberry - but Star Trek didn't have the defining toys of a generation.

Too much thinking for me to get to Philip K. Dick, Ridley Scott, Harrison Ford, and William Shatner.

Are Looney Tunes part of geek culture?
Avery, Jones, Freleng, and McKimson.

Is anything about Spielberg geeky?

Randomly doing way too much thinking and getting too obscure: Bushnell gets credit for both Atari and Chuck E. Cheese!?!

 

[Aeson]

I also have a hard time giving Lucas all the credit for Star Wars. Yes, he was the central guy, but he wasn't anywhere near as much by himself.

My Star Wars Rushmore would be: Lucas, Williams, Tippet, and Slavicsek. Idea, music, visual effects, expansion.

Lucas created a sandbox that others have been invited to play in. Like Gygax and D&D, there wouldn't be Star Wars without him. Maybe he didn't create your favorite aspect of Star Wars, but he still influenced it. Also, he got the final say on projects. Anakin Solo was killed off because he wanted to do a story with Anakin Skywalker.

 

[payn]

...are awesome, but geek culture? They're too cool.

Like, above, someone cited Bowie. He would be top of my list of personal icons, cultural icons, and music icons, Mt. Rushmore for all three, but geek Rushmore?

Too cool now maybe. I was beat up in school for liking these guys. They were dorks when they first hit the scene. They were fortunate enough to live in NYC during a very cultural melting pot of music in the late 70's early 80's. They grew into cool through great influences and ever expanding their horizons. That journey might seem swift to a lot of folks, but as plugged into music as I have been all my life it wasnt overnight. So, yeah, they are my geek heroes.

 

[Tonguez]

Homer - it was the Greek/Roman myths that first sparked my interest in Fantasy
The Brothers Grimm - their collection of storys is the true wisdom literature of Western Civilisation
Edgar Rice Burrows - Tarzan got me in to Pulps
Danny Kaye - first actor of whom I was a childhood fan, sparked my love of musicals and physical comedy and wonder at the world at large