93. Doctor Emmett Brown
Back to the Future
Don't let the mad scientist look fool you, Doc Brown is anything but mad. Eccentric? Yes, very much so. A genius? Absolutely. Doc Brown is more friendly than mad.
We first meet Brown (and his beloved dog, Einstein) introducing Marty McFly to his greatest invention yet: a time machine. Made of a DeLorean. With something called a "flux capacitor." Sure, at first the idea seems insane, but when that car hit 88 mph, we saw some serious shit. Almost immediately, we take a liking to Doc. Then we are treated to Brown getting killed by Libyans about 10 minutes into the film. Four or five minutes into meeting the man and we are sad to see him go. Of course, he appears a little while later in the '50s (thank god) to help Marty get back. TO THE FUTURE.
Christopher Lloyd's portrayal of Doc Brown is a manic debunking of mad scientist stereotypes, which is better than Lloyd's previous popular role of WACKY STONER on the show "Taxi." There is more to an eccentric than the inner machinations of his brain and Doc proves that by giving what could easily have been a one-dimensional crazy inventor a heart and a soul.
Defining moment: The moment when, in beginning of the first film, Doc sees the DeLorean successfully head back (TO THE FUTURE) for the first time. Doc has a complete spazz attack, proclaiming "What did I tell you? 1.21 gigawatts!" to, more or less, nobody.
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