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| title1= Professor Awesome | |||
| image1= Professor Awesome by Aristide Twain.png | |||
| aka= Eric | |||
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| died= | |||
| species= Human | |||
| gender= Male | |||
| residence= | |||
| occupation= Mad scientist | |||
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| parents= [[Eric's mother]] | |||
| creation(s)= [[:Category:Creations of Professor Awesome|'''''See category''''']] | |||
| first_seen_in= [[PROSE]]: ''[[Paying It Forward (novel)|Paying It Forward]]''<br><small>(mentioned)</small> | |||
| also_seen_in= [[Professor Awesome/Appearances|'''''See list''''']] | |||
| copyright= [[Scott Sanford]] <small>(?)</small> | |||
| index= [[:Category:Featuring Professor Awesome|'''''See category''''']] | |||
}}'''Eric''', better-known as '''Professor Awesome''', was a mad scientist known to [[Jenny Everywhere]] in multiple realities. Although in some he was a genuine threat and enemy, in [[Parallax Universe|at least one universe]], he was mischievous thirteen-year-old boy genius who lived in the same apartment building as [[Jenny Everywhere (Parallax Universe)|Jenny]] and [[Kim (Parallax Universe)|Kim]]. | |||
== Description == | |||
=== Physical appearance === | |||
Professor Awesome's primary trait was the lab coat he wore. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Pit Stop (novel)|Pit Stop]]'', ''[[Morning After (novel)|Morning After]]'') In [[Parallax Universe|Kim's world]], Eric was a “gangly” teenager. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Pit Stop (novel)|Pit Stop]]'') The [[#Wreaking havoc|more villainous]] Professor Awesome of another universe bore a “scraggly goatee” in his early twenties, and later managed to grow it out into a full beard. He also had “perfect white teeth”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Morning After (novel)|Morning After]]'') | |||
=== Powers and abilities === | |||
Eric was particularly skilled at robotics. Despite his scientific leanings, he didn't have much of a head for straight-up mathematics, finding calculator apps sufficient for his purposes. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Misunderstandings (short story)|Misunderstandings]]'') | |||
== Biography == | |||
=== In the Parallax Universe === | |||
{{main|Professor Awesome (Parallax Universe)}} | |||
One version of Professor Awesome was usually known as “Eric”, and was a generally benevolent boy genius, although he did consider himself a “mad scientist”. He lived with [[Eric's mother|his mother]] in the same apartment building as [[Jenny Everywhere (Parallax Universe)|Jenny Everywhere]] and her roommate [[Kim (Parallax Universe)|Kim]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Morning After (novel)|Morning After]]'', ''[[Pit Stop (novel)|Pit Stop]]'', etc.) | |||
=== Wreaking havoc === | |||
In contrast to the friendly boy known [[Jenny Everywhere (Parallax Universe)|Jenny Everywhere]] and [[Kim (Parallax Universe)|Kim]], another version of Professor Awesome was a ''bona fide'' supervillain. In his early twenties, he began to grow a “scraggly goatee” which he eventually grew out into a full beard. Like his boyish counterpart, this Awesome wore a long labcoat. | |||
On one occasion, he built a first [[Time Pestle]]. This Time Pestle had been lost to him, but there was reason to think he might have built another, on a day when he initiated much havoc in the city where he and his [[Jenny Everywhere#Fighting Professor Awesome|Jenny counterpart]] lived, setting it on fire. Standing on a turret on [[Professor Awesome's Omnibus|his Omnibus]], he taunted Jenny about her inability to stop him, laughing madly. Jenny, however, had a pistol secreted away, and was, regretfully, attempting to get a shot at him. | |||
The Jenny who was neighbours with the boy-genius version of Professor Awesome once got an involuntary glimpse of these events due to [[shifter hangover]] while talking with her version of Professor Awesome, finding them understandably disturbing. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Morning After (novel)|Morning After]]'') | |||
== Behind the scenes == | |||
In 2022, [[Aristide Twain]] created a full-body illustration of the classic, kid version of Professor Awesome. To date, this remains the only visual depiction of the character. Based on notes from [[Scott Sanford]], he was depicted as black, a detail which had not yet been mentioned in [[Scott Sanford's Jenny Everywhere stories]] themselves at the time. Sanford [https://scott-sanford.dreamwidth.org/48965.html later commented]: | |||
{{quotebox|I'd originally imagined him as a skinny pale white kid, a very stereotypical nerd. When asked about his hair color, I said brown and remarked that going purely by textual evidence there was no particular justification for any particular appearance or ethnicity. And I got this delightful picture. Apparently Professor Awesome is black now. Cool.|Scott Sanford}} | |||
<gallery widths="310"> | |||
Professor Awesome.png|[[Aristide Twain]]'s [https://scott-sanford.dreamwidth.org/48965.html artwork] of Professor Awesome. | |||
</gallery> | |||
{{Incarnations of Professor Awesome}} | |||
[[Category:Individuals]] | |||
[[Category:Humans]] | |||
[[Category:Males]] | |||
[[Category:Villains]] | |||
[[Category:Scientists]] | |||
[[Category:Supervillains]] | |||
[[Category:Companions of Jenny Everywhere]] | |||
[[Category:Recurring Characters]] | |||
