He yawned and stretched himself to his full height, revealing a physique much larger than that of the average man of his times and approaching that of the huge Martians.   His physical superiority, however, was as nothing compared to his gigantic mind. He was Ralph 124C 41+, one of the greatest living scientists and one of ten men on the whole planet earth permitted to use the Plus sign after his name.

Hugo Gernsback

Ralph 142C41+

And so is described Ralph 124C41+, the eponymous hero of that canon text of Future Past; a man of tremendous strength, the most brilliant intellect in the Solar System, a person of infinite resources and knowledge, and all the personality of a doorknob.   He had every gadget he could possibly want, the public showered adulation on him for his brilliant ideas, and he could pretty much do as he pleased even if it meant throwing a several gigawatt charge through every bit of metal in New York City on a whim.

And to top it off, his idea of a hot date was taking a girl to see the local power station.

Ah, yes!  A superman for nerds!

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