Who was/is the most important asset to geek culture?

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Pegghead

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Lately I've been wondering about this, I mean there's so much to consider.

*Stan Lee was a huge asset to comic culture and paved the way with characters like Spiderman

*Gene Roddenberry was a huge asset to science fiction and geek television, paving the way for shows like Firefly with star Trek

*Osamu Tezuka was a huge asset to anime and manga, pretty much defining what it was for a cartoon or comic to come out of Japan

*Shigeru Myamoto's the main man behind Nintendo (y'all know the rest)

And the list goes on (those are just a few I came up with as an example). So Escapist, what man or woman would change the face of geek culture had they never existed?
 

Berithil

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J.R.R Tolkien. There would be no D&D or World of Warcraft without him.
 

Kaboose the Moose

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Kari Byron

As if there even was a contest?

On a less serious note: Bill Gates for chairing the company that would make the world's most widely used Operating System and by association making developers produce games for his OS as first preference.
 

barash

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humm.. maybe Gary Gygax. At the least, he should be mentioned as a contender.
 

Julianking93

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Patrick Stewart because he managed to turn millions of straight men gay for him......or was that only me? >>

Anyway, I'd probably go with someone like Tolkien. He laid down the foundation for all that fantasy and scifi stuff.
 

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I'm going to have to go with Tolkien on this one. I know I'm a massive Lord of the Rings geek, so he's at least my largest influence.
 

SimuLord

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Newton for coming up with calculus, otherwise math geeks would be sitting in a room with a calculator in their hands and nothing to do. :p
 

Keava

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H.R. Giger, for the Alien concept art and his other works that contributed to the bio-mech genre.

Robert E. Howard for creating Conan, the poster hero.

William Higinbotham for creating the oscilloscope game Tennis For Two, first computer game that used graphical display.