Q and The Doctor are definitely strong candidates, as is Buffy…but as far as I know, none of them had sex with an angel in the backseat of a '67 Impala. Dean Winchester did. Maybe I’m just old fashioned, but sex with an angel in is probably way better than the mile high club with any normal human, and in the back seat of a classic American musclecar?? Please. Plus the Metallicar has a theme song, AC/DC’s “Back in Black.” What’s the theme song for the Tardis? Riiiight.
And for those with a dark side, Sam had sex with a demon, probably multiple times. Then he helped kill her.
Plus I’m pretty sure that it was clearly stated that the Impala is pretty much the most important object in the entire universe. And it’s Dean’s baby.
Sex. With a freakin’ ANGEL. In the backseat of a '67 Impala. Did I mention it was an ANGEL? Now if the Doctor made Queen Lizzy give him a Rusty Trombone and call him “daddy” I might be impressed, but otherwise…bah, pretty much ANYONE on the Leverage team could make someone change their nickname. Sophie could do it in under ten seconds.
John Doe, from the series of the same title. He knew everything. Yeah, everything. You want somebody who will program a new OS for your computer while fixing the AC and knowing how to iron and fold your clothes the perfect way? He’s your man.
James T. Kirk has saved the galaxy any number of times. He’s a highly skilled diplomat, martial artist, starship tactician, has wooed and won women on dozens of worlds, and can even beat Spock at Tri-D chess.
Josiah Bartlet won the freakin’ Nobel Prize in Economics, is a former congressman and governor of New Hampshire, and won election to the Presidency twice.
And another vote for Buckaroo Banzai: rock star, physicist, neurosurgeon, inventor, martial artist, Presidential advisor, etc. etc. etc.
Ah, but the Doctor was presumably married to a Time Lord at some point (he has a grandaughter), and a time lord beats an angel any time.
Also, for those citing academic references - the Doctor beats everyone on those. He knows more about everything than anyone, combined with time lord knowledge. Beats any crappy earth-based PHD.
Here’s a way to resolve the issue: let’s see how other characters react to reading the hero’s resume. For instance, the Doctor once scared off an enemy - a race of sentient flesh-eating shadows that had taken over a planet - by showing them his written credentials.
Sheldon Cooper is a theoretical physicist currently researching heterotic string theory. He has a Master’s degree and 2 Ph.D.s. He was 11 when he started college and his IQ is 187.
All the more impressive when you consider they live out of a car and eat mostly crappy diner food. I also wonder how they keep such gorgeous smiles with no regular dental care (or insurance).
In the final episode, Sam Beckett interrupted a hypothetical from God to mention that he in fact had the background in question. “So you have,” He replied.
That said, the primary value of his credentials was usually to convince himself that he knew the stuff under discussion; he spent most of the series suffering from amnesia, and needed to be reminded of all the doctorates his 267 IQ had let him rack up. Since his strong suit was going incognito, he typically found himself in the opposite position: he couldn’t produce any documentation for, say, his medical degree, and so had to come up with an explanation on the fly as to why everyone should let the youth with Downs syndrome apply his expert knowledge to save a life, or why a perfectly competent obstetrician in the '50s should of course defer to the jokey pilot who’s secretly decades ahead of the guy in his chosen specialty, and so on.
