What if history’s most celebrated scientists hadn’t used their discoveries for the betterment of humankind but to fight each other in a Mortal-Kombat-esque game? That’s part of the premise behind this series of gifs that artist Diego Sanches made for Brazil’s Superinteressante magazine.
The game, Science Combat, is said to be ‘in development’, and it has 8 playable characters.
Albert Einstein
![](https://wp.scoopwhoop.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/56d9a284fb778507c8117e26_230593613.gif)
Marie Curie
![](https://wp.scoopwhoop.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/56d9a284fb778507c8117e26_117085412.gif)
Stephen Hawking
![](https://wp.scoopwhoop.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/56d9a284fb778507c8117e26_956355529.gif)
Charles Darwin
![](https://wp.scoopwhoop.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/56d9a284fb778507c8117e26_939680692.gif)
Pythagoras
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![](https://wp.scoopwhoop.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/56d9a284fb778507c8117e26_512544297.gif)
Isaac Newton
![](https://wp.scoopwhoop.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/56d9a284fb778507c8117e26_679420629.gif)
Nikola Tesla
![](https://wp.scoopwhoop.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/56d9a284fb778507c8117e26_597191773.gif)
Two characters are yet to be disclosed.
But wait, that’s not all. Check out these superpowers!
Darwin’s Evolution
![](https://wp.scoopwhoop.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/56d9a284fb778507c8117e26_71171043.gif)
Einstein’s Relativity
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![](https://wp.scoopwhoop.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/56d9a284fb778507c8117e26_761513239.gif)
Hawking’s Wormhole
![](https://wp.scoopwhoop.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/56d9a284fb778507c8117e26_885444829.gif)
Hawking’s Black Hole
![](https://wp.scoopwhoop.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/56d9a284fb778507c8117e26_526859172.gif)
Newton’s Optics
![](https://wp.scoopwhoop.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/56d9a284fb778507c8117e26_617354868.gif)
Newton’s Gravity
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![](https://wp.scoopwhoop.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/56d9a284fb778507c8117e26_312711426.gif)
Pythagorean Theorem
![](https://wp.scoopwhoop.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/56d9a284fb778507c8117e26_349886744.gif)
Tesla’s Teleforce Death Ray
![](https://wp.scoopwhoop.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/56d9a284fb778507c8117e26_298715626.gif)
Tesla Coil
![](https://wp.scoopwhoop.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/56d9a284fb778507c8117e26_637948523.gif)
And once you defeat all your opponents, you face the final boss – Divinity, because science’s biggest nemesis is religion, right?
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![](https://wp.scoopwhoop.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/56d9a284fb778507c8117e26_107613546.gif)
Who can take the form of many gods, like Ganesha
![](https://wp.scoopwhoop.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/56d9a284fb778507c8117e26_35351570.gif)
And even Thor
![](https://wp.scoopwhoop.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/56d9a284fb778507c8117e26_772645049.gif)
Best for the last though – Omnipotence!
![](https://wp.scoopwhoop.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/56d9a284fb778507c8117e26_189623654.gif)
Please make it happen!
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