2000s internet culture is to blame
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Perhaps Thomas Edison?
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Edison makes to good a villain to not make *someone* the hero
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He was dashing and crazy and we like tortured geniuses (especially if we can convince ourselves they were ahead of their time). But, yeah, his science is pretty overrated as far as I can tell.
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He had a track record of delivering genuine technical achievements before he became a leading huckster of the impossible, all of it in an easily romanticized age of miracles, with extra bonus points for The Man keeping him down. It's a fun story to embellish!
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A lot of it comes from the comic in 2012 https://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla
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He is steampunk writ large - historical and mythological at the same time.
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