As if Uri Geller wasnt strange enough already without a bizarre lawsuit under his belt. In 1999, the master of bending spoons with nothing but the power of his own hands went after video game giant Nintendo for more than £60 million. The reason? Allegedly using his image without consent. The purveyor of cheap, cutlery-based parlour tricks claimed that the character, Kadabra, was entirely based on him. And as absurd as this sounds, when you take the fact that it carried a spoon, along with the fact the character is psychic, you start to think maybe he had a point. Especially when you learn that in Japan the character was named Yungerer or Un-Geller. Geller went on to claim that the character was anti-Semitic and that the star on Kadabra's forehead and the lightning patterns on its abdomen are symbols popular with the Waffen SS of Nazi Germany. Geller did not win the case but the character featured less and less in the Pokemon lineup in later years. Did he have a point, or was it just a coincidence?
Created in a petri dish in an underground lab, I was originally designed by scientists to carry out high-profile assassinations for the CIA. Unfortunately, something went wrong and my only skill was writing list-based articles. So now I do that instead.
