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In the new Walt Disney inspired animated film, Meet the Robinsons, a little boy named Lewis exhibits traits similar to Prometheus. He is a brilliant inventor and is seen throughout the film creating many clever items. Abandoned as a baby, he sets out on a mission to find his birth mother and along the way his “memory scanner” invention takes him on a journey to the future. Lewis soon finds himself wanting a parental figure even more. Because Lewis is an inventor and wants to always change the future, he can be pictured as a “promethean style” character or another Dr. Frankenstein. He wanted to create a life better than the one society was living in and he wanted to help the people. The role of parental responsibility comes into play when Lewis realizes that his mother did in fact abandon him, and he then makes it his goal to find her. The abandonment inspires him to invent and step into another world of science.

When he travels to the future, it becomes entirely up to him to keep the future from becoming a horrible place. He is in complete control all because he invented a new gadget. Like Dr. Frankenstein, he wanted to discover a new way to live. Like Prometheus, he experimented to help others. He took risks by building new inventions and other items, and did not foresee errors in his inventions. He got so excited about helping society that he completely forgot about what the future result could hold for them.