Tesla, he made electrocuting dogs fun.

Tesla didn't invent the radio, Marconi did.

Tesla

He gets extra points for being in c&c games

Edison's the one who electrocuted dogs and elephants to death, and even invented the electric chair to kill humans.

What you going on about, guy?

Tesla is better, for winning over the hearts and minds of artists in every medium.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison_in_popular_culture

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla_in_popular_culture

If you don't want to look through those lists, just open them to see how much longer Tesla's is.


And since this is a gaming forum, it's important to note that it doesn't list any video games with anything named after Edison, but there are things named after Tesla in Command and Conquer, Ratchet and Clank, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, a Quake II mission pack, Tomb Raider, Destroy All Humans, City of Heroes, Fallout, and many others. He's even a character in some other games. It looks like the game development community has made their choice: Tesla is way more awesome.



Ooh, here's Tesla on the TEN MILLION Yugoslav Dinars bill:



I ain't never seen bunk-ass Edison on any fucking dinars.



And here is a link to the music video for the song "Edison's Medicine" by the band Tesla, from 1991: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UxNuYHiSfI

(Fuckers disallowed embedding.)


Any Edison fans know about any cool tributes to Edison in music, comics, books, games, movies, or plays? Or is he always going to be the villain because he was an evil shithead and the truth is out?

Enter new competitor: Michael Faraday

*Faraday runs into ring with steel chair and beats the crap out of both of them*

Neither Edison or Tesla would have invented half the things they did if it wasn't for Faraday.

Don't forget that Tesla invented the Death Ray so he wins easily!

Also, Tesla was Serbian, which is what I am. So another reason why he wins!

Great great thread!

I think that Tesla was potentially the better inventor. I think though in practice/reality it was Edison, simply because he understood business better. He was able to get more money from his inventions and fund greater amounts of research.

Tesla.

He is similtaneously a nicer guy and way more badass.