Rodney McKay was one of the first picks for the revolutionary trip to Atlantis, home to the ever-famous (to him anyways) Ancients. He wasn't a superhero who had amazing, unbelievable powers of strength and heated vision. But he wasa superhero. Or so he told himself. He was Rodney the Brilliant.
Much like Batman, he used his brain over brawn. It never hurt to be in shape, he told himself, but he'd much rather think himself out of trouble unlike that reckless Colonel Sheppard who simply blundered his way through life and death.
But he was like Sheppard in one way. He had a trusty sidekick who seemed to never leave his side. Radek Zelenka was his somewhat faithful sidekick whom he referred to as Zelenka, The Not-Completely-Stupid. Whenever Rodney needed help, which was never as anyone smart would know, Zelenka was there to throw around bad suggestions that might trigger a good one from Rodney himself.
Like the one time when Rodney had been exploring a new portion of the city and had discovered a room that was covered in what looked like a road map that any normal human would use to find his way to a different city. However, it didn't look even remotely familiar to anywhere Rodney had been, including the multitudes of planets that they'd visited since coming through the Stargate so long ago.
So like a good superhero, he called upon his sidekick to help him with figuring the road map out. After throwing several incredibly horrid ideas around about what the map was of, Zelenka mentioned that it would be nice if it were something useful like a map of Stargates.
Of course, Rodney, being brilliant as he was, had already looked into that, and discovered that it couldn't be. There were too many points that weren't there in real space and too many that were there that weren't mapped. But then, as often happens with Rodney, he realized that it had been over 10,000 years since this had been mapped! Naturally, many Stargates had been moved or destroyed since the map had been made. Rodney explained to Radek, who was not completely stupid, and they called down Dr. Weir. Even though some of the gates no longer existed, the map proved to be extremely useful.
Just another adventure of Rodney the Brilliant and Zelenka the Not-Completely-Stupid.
