The absent-minded Professor Calculus was a colleague of which fictional character?
Absent-minded professor of Tintin"; Eli Eon in "Little Orphan Annie"; and Professor Edgewise, a minor recurring character in Marvel Family stories. Isaac Kleiner from the "Half-Life" saga and Professor Harold MacDougal from "Red Dead Redemption" are examples in videogames. The archetype is sometimes mixed with that of the mad scientist, often for comic effect, as in the Jerry Lewis film "The Nutty Professor" or the Profesor Bacterio in the "Mortadelo y Filemón" comics and movies. However, the mad scientist archetype usually has malevolent connotations, while the absent-minded professor is typically characterized as benevolent. The fictional absent-minded professor is often a college professor
Absent-minded professor Multo, one of the characters in the children's series "The Zula Patrol", is another example of an absent-minded professor. Professor Kokintz in "The Mouse That Roared" by Leonard Wibberley is an example from literature. Professor Branestawm, created in the 1930s by Norman Hunter, is an earlier example of the archetype, and Jacques Paganel from the Jules Verne's 1867 novel "In Search of the Castaways" is probably the codifier of the archetype in the modern literature. Professor Caractacus Potts in the story of "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" qualifies as an absent-minded inventor. Comic strip examples include Professor Calculus in "The Adventures