The Absent-Minded Professor was one of the first Disney films to be colorized (for the 1986 video release), and, along with 1959's "The Shaggy Dog" and 1963's "Son of Flubber", it is one of Disney's few black-and-white films to be produced after 1941. Professor Brainard (Fred MacMurray) (pronounced BRAY-nard) is an absent-minded professor of physical chemistry at Medfield College who invents a substance that gains energy when it strikes a hard surface. This discovery follows some blackboard scribbling in which he reverses a sign in the equation for enthalpy to energy plus pressure times volume. Brainard names his discovery "Flubber", which is a
Lara Croft Croft on its annual "Fictional 15" list of the richest fictional characters by net worth. Lara Croft has become a sex symbol for video games, despite Toby Gard's intentions for her to be sexy "only because of her power". "Time" magazine's Kristina Dell considered her the first sex symbol of video games. Schedeen stated that Croft is among the first video game icons to be accepted as a mainstream sex symbol. Robert Ashley of "Official US PlayStation Magazine" described Lara Croft as the first video game character openly thought of as sexy, and attributed the appearance of similar 3D characters