Tony Stark, Billionaire Inventor, Wanted

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Who is Tony Stark? Well if you've been hiding under a rock, you're forgiven. He's "Big Business", a Corporate Welfare Mogul who has lost, bought, and resold his holdings multiple times over. And - no wonder - he's Iron Man, the Crimson Avenger loaded down with all the latest and greatest technological gizmos of our era. Surely many of you are sickened by this inventor who owes everything he has to the middle class.

Tony Stark, CEO of Stark Resilent, Inc., is without a doubt the most treacherous hero and inventor the country has ever had to recognize during labor day. Everyone nowadays points to him as the Rich 1% and as President Obama later claimed, he was talking about Tony when he said, "You Didn't Build That!"

Remember all those years of Iron Man figurines, DVD movies, and comic books? Well don't be surprised: Stark was receiving royalties from every one of them. (Speaking of which, I'm required by law to inform you of the Amazon Iron Man Catalog featuring the IM Combo Pack w/ Digital Release. All rights reserved by T. Stark). While you were entertaining yourself with the stories of his adventures and pursuits, he was exploiting your hard labor.

So just remember, friends and countrymen, as Labor Day comes and goes, some among us are heroes of the people, but some heroes are not heroes at all. Did they get here by their own efforts? Surely not!

The Top 10 Greatest Superhero Inventors is a Countdown sponsored by The Superheroes List, giving you a look at some of the most brilliant minds, working their way with gadgets and innovations. It's also a satirical (hopefully humorous) tribute to the 2012 coming of Labor Day. If you like this kind of thing, head on over and check it out!

Reed Richards, Too Smart For His Own Good

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Superhero Inventor #3: Reed Richards

~FF #1 (2011)

Create a Cold Fusion Generator on Monday, solve Global Warming on Wednesday, and counter the Alien Invasion on Friday. Yeap, that's Reed Richards, high above in the Baxter Building, currently at work when most wish he wasn't. Nobody wants to hire him until there's a crisis; besides, usually it's his fault. (Heck, if he would take a break from all his inventing and gizmo-making, there might more left of the world to enjoy.)

The leader of the world-famous Fantastic Four, Richards is - oddly enough - one of the few superheroes to be known primarily for his brains and secondly for his super powers: the ability to stretch and contort his body to different shapes and distances. While elongating has served him on the field, his mind has always been his most powerful weapon, inventing complicated equipment to nullify and overcome their foes. Only recently, in Manhattan, he helped solved the mutating spider-man problem (Re: Spider-Island) by isolating the virus.

Okay. So there's smart, and smart, and then there's Reed Richards "smart"; we gotta give this brilliant physicist, also known as Mr. Fantastic, credit for his genius. At the same time, though, this shows us you can also be too smart for your own good. (Mayor Bloomberg is already trying to ban Reed's Fantasti-car and Negative Zone Portal.); Maybe you can whip up awesome devices - that's all great - but it doesn't mean we want and apocalyptic cosmic event in New York every week.

The Top 10 Greatest Superhero Inventors is a Countdown sponsored by The Superheroes List, giving you a look at some of the most brilliant minds, working their way with gadgets and innovations. It's also a tribute to the 2012 coming of Labor Day. If you like this kind of thing, head on over and check it out!

Superhero Inventor #4: Victor Stone

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Where Does He Get He Parts?

~Excerpt from Teen Titans #23 (2003)

Victor Stone; he's really managed to pull off a sweet deal. You gotta hand it to him, there's no way to not feel sorry for the young man who, caught in an explosion, had his "parts" replaced by his father and turned into a half-human, half-machine superhero named Cyborg. Victor is barely an adult, but has quietly turned his misfortune into one of brilliance and innovative engineering.

Most of the Occupy Wall Street movement gives Victor a pass and it's easy to see why. Half of Victor's fights end up with holes blown through his chest, missing legs, or a dented head. And you can't blame a guy for needing spare parts, even though he carries around his own White Noise Generator.

In truth, though, Victor's just as rich as all those other inventing superheroes. Always sporting the latest in hardware, you can be guranteed he'll have the best iPod on the market. Do you have a cell phone? Well, his is in his arm; rumors are circulating that he's hacking his phone bill and has full coverage.

Besides Cyborg's superhero life, he's usually found in one of two groups. Originally, he was a member of the Titans, with members like Nightwing and Starfire. Later, he moved into The Justice League (meaning he has Bruce Wayne funding) and has become their lead tech. (How convenient, because the JLA doesn't provide any customer support for the rest of us.) With a half a brain composed of the world's most advanced operating system, he's certain to be on the front edge for years to come.

The Top 10 Greatest Superhero Inventors is a Countdown sponsored by The Superheroes List, giving you a look at some of the most brilliant minds, working their way with gadgets and innovations. It's also a tribute to the 2012 coming of Labor Day. If you like this kind of thing, head on over and check it out!

Dr. Heny Pym and The Pym Particle

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Superhero Inventor #5

~Mighty Avengers #25 (2009)

There's a rule of thumb in science, and it goes something like, "If first you fail to succeed, try, try, again." This also - by happenstance - becomes the credo of the hero, and doubly important for the inventing superhero. Can you imagine how life would be if it they quit?

Look no farther than the end of your thumb to Dr. Henry Pym, sometimes known as "Hank". Why the thumb? Well, it seems he's another scientist that figured out how to grow small. Much in the venue of DC's Atom, Pym is a scientist of great renown and the creator of the Pym Particle, which can distort dimensional physics and allow objects to increase or decrease in size.

If you want to shake Pym's hand, though, that might be a task. Sure, he's a glutton for approval, but he tends to be hard to find. In the last year, he created a "Pym Pocket" to hide his mansion and the only way to get there was to find "anchor doorways". Oh, yeah; that's another one of his tricks; he can end up anywhere on earth by linking anchors.

Don't bother asking how he got this smart. He's been doing this since his first appearance back in Tales to Astonish #27 (1961) in the story "The Man in the Ant Hill". Pym's only real problem is that his ideas, while beyond the understanding of normal men, tends to take on a life of their own. (Ask the super-villain, Ultron, whom he accidentally created. The Avengers are still dealing with that mess today.)

The Top 10 Greatest Superhero Inventors is a Countdown sponsored by The Superheroes List, giving you a look at some of the most brilliant minds, working their way with gadgets and innovations. It's also a tribute to the 2012 coming of Labor Day. If you like this kind of thing, head on over and check it out!

Superhero Inventor #6: Bruce Wayne

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CEO - Elitest - Inventor - Dark Knight

There's one faction of society, the truly determined and most gifted of us all, that has no desire to wait for the casual radioactive explosion or Ring of Green Energy. They need super powers now! And because of that intense necessity, there's only one choice: inherit it from your mother and father!

Well, that's at least how it started out for Bruce Wayne, one of the country's wealthiest executives and CEO of Wayne Industries. When his parents were murdered during his youth, he became the Boy-Prince of Gotham City who eventually rose to take over his father's holdings. The thing about Bruce, though, is that he was never in it for the money.

Bruce Wayne is Batman; you should know that unless you're living in a cave, but more importantly, he's one of the world's leading innovators and inventors. Most of it is in secret - which he uses to augment his "Bat" toys; you'll often see the Batwing, Batmobile, and Batsub throughout his adventures - but he is still a force in the private market with everything from transportation to free energy to military contracts.

It's an inventor's dream come true if you're rich and a superhero, but that's nothing; with his advanced researching in chemistry and forensics, he's also created inoculations against The Joker's venom and The Scarecrow's Fear toxin. In every battle, he's typically designing up a special device or suit modification that will give him the added advantage.

The Top 10 Greatest Superhero Inventors is a Countdown sponsored by The Superheroes List, giving you a look at some of the most brilliant minds, working their way with gadgets and innovations. It's also a tribute to the 2012 coming of Labor Day. If you like this kind of thing, head on over and check it out!