Tropescilloscope: Mad Scientist

Character who exploits science for fun, profit and possibly evil. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes Outrun the Fireball Well-Intentioned Extremist Sequel Escalation Mr. Fanservice Adapted Out Small Name, Big Ego Car Fu Morality Pet Offscreen Moment of Awesome It Will Never Catch On Even Evil Has Standards Random Events Plot Love Triangle Adaptation Distillation Retired Badass Affably Evil Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold O.O.C. Is Serious Business Antagonist Title Kill It with Fire Cat Scare The Quiet One Kids Are Cruel Match Cut The Dog Bites Back Author Appeal Rasputinian Death Hoist by His Own Petard Imagine Spot Gorn Rule of Funny All for Nothing Intergenerational Friendship Obfuscating Stupidity Historical-Domain Character Not Using the "Z" Word Gratuitous English Epic Movie Sealed Evil in a Can Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie May–December Romance Rewatch Bonus Sci-Fi Horror Foregone Conclusion Adaptational Heroism Rousing Speech There Is No Kill Like Overkill Covers Always Lie Villain Protagonist "Awesome McCool" Name Woman Scorned Badass Normal Bloodier and Gorier Creative Closing Credits Badass in a Nice Suit Ominous Latin Chanting Sacrificial Lion Pay Evil unto Evil Taking the Bullet Air-Vent Passageway Artistic License – Law Distracted by the Sexy Amusing Injuries Comically Missing the Point Karmic Death The Bad Guy Wins Blatant Lies Country Matters Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Killed Mid-Sentence What Happened to the Mouse? Wham Shot Artistic License – Physics The Mafia Non-Indicative Name Framing Device Straight Gay La Résistance Those Two Guys Reasonable Authority Figure Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Amoral Attorney Cruel and Unusual Death Actor Allusion Novelization One-Man Army Broken Aesop Flipping the Bird Mundane Made Awesome Genre Savvy Meet Cute And I Must Scream Corpsing Overprotective Dad Beware the Nice Ones BFG Black Comedy The '50s Shoot the Shaggy Dog Defrosting Ice Queen Freeze-Frame Bonus My Beloved Smother Failed a Spot Check Adaptation Expansion Karma Houdini Even Evil Has Loved Ones Camp Gay Ironic Echo Wham Line Psychological Thriller "The Reason You Suck" Speech Running Gag Cool Car Breaking the Fourth Wall The Cameo Mighty Whitey Abhorrent Admirer Freudian Excuse Room Full of Crazy Face–Heel Turn Disney Villain Death Wicked Cultured Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Italian Films Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking All There in the Script Once More, with Clarity! The Starscream From Nobody to Nightmare Deal with the Devil "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue The Big Guy Vampire Fiction Film Series Central Theme Greater-Scope Villain Shirtless Scene Badass Boast Rule of Symbolism Dressing as the Enemy Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Auto Erotica Exact Words Scenery Gorn Based on a True Story Badass Bookworm Pet the Dog Self-Deprecation Artistic License – Biology Double Entendre Kick the Dog Bottomless Magazines Half the Man He Used to Be Unusual Euphemism Evil Plan Pyrrhic Victory Smoking Is Cool Mooks Only Sane Man The Un-Reveal Shown Their Work Recycled IN SPACE! Animated Credits Opening The Faceless Put on a Bus Bond One-Liner Dissonant Serenity Not So Stoic Names to Run Away from Really Fast Good Is Not Nice "Well Done, Son!" Guy Male Gaze Made of Iron Hope Spot Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Broken Bird Captain Ersatz Downer Ending Parental Neglect Knife Nut Gory Discretion Shot Artistic License – Gun Safety Off-into-the-Distance Ending Villain Ball Mystery and Detective Films Book-Ends Horror Films The Stoner Closed Circle Drill Sergeant Nasty Final Girl As the Good Book Says... Early-Bird Cameo Not Quite Dead Extreme Doormat As Long as It Sounds Foreign Neck Snap The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite All Girls Want Bad Boys Hollywood Darkness Wretched Hive Death Seeker Guile Hero Arranged Marriage Red Herring Red Shirt No Antagonist Big Bad Storming the Castle Disney Death Up to Eleven Last-Name Basis For the Evulz Not Even Bothering with the Accent Anachronism Stew Cool Shades Does This Remind You of Anything? Fate Worse than Death Driven to Suicide Ambiguous Ending Laughing Mad Plucky Comic Relief Took a Level in Jerkass Obstructive Bureaucrat Logo Joke Vacation Films Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Bad "Bad Acting" Laser-Guided Karma Dramatic Irony Neck Lift Dark Is Not Evil Cool Old Lady Chewing the Scenery Skewed Priorities Would Hurt a Child I Need a Freaking Drink The Dragon Would Hit a Girl Bloodless Carnage Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Fake Shemp Due to the Dead Sports Stories Leaning on the Fourth Wall Rule of Cool Military and Warfare Films Hero Antagonist Death by Sex Arch-Enemy Evil Is Petty Destination Defenestration Domestic Abuse Truth in Television Reality Has No Subtitles Curb-Stomp Battle Index of Film Westerns Off with His Head! Big Bad Duumvirate Rule of Three Armor-Piercing Question What the Hell, Hero? Continuity Nod Cold-Blooded Torture After the End Bowdlerise Agony of the Feet Vomit Indiscretion Shot 20 Minutes into the Future Dumb Blonde Ascended Extra Victoria's Secret Compartment In Name Only Vomit Discretion Shot Bad Boss Your Cheating Heart Moment Killer Unusually Uninteresting Sight Roaring Rampage of Revenge Revenge Artistic License – Military Heroes Want Redheads Early Installment Weirdness Visual Pun Smug Snake Nice Guy The Smurfette Principle Take That! Fantastic Racism Evil Is Hammy Depraved Bisexual Almost Kiss Betty and Veronica Bland-Name Product Card-Carrying Villain Men Are the Expendable Gender Make It Look Like an Accident Combat Pragmatist Refuge in Audacity Advertised Extra Dull Surprise Hidden Depths Cloudcuckoolander Scary Black Man Trailers Always Spoil Suddenly SHOUTING! Same Language Dub The Lost Lenore Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Historical In-Joke Martial Arts Movie This Is Gonna Suck Market-Based Title Did Not Get the Girl Fantasy Films Dirty Coward Manic Pixie Dream Girl Suspiciously Specific Denial Gilligan Cut Evil Sounds Deep The Place Disappeared Dad Genre Shift Christmas Movies Index Chekhov's Gun NO INDOOR VOICE Made of Explodium Crucified Hero Shot The Alcoholic Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Say My Name Film Noir Shut Up, Hannibal! Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Red Eyes, Take Warning Creepy Child Cassandra Truth Informed Ability I Have Your Wife Jerkass Has a Point Authority Equals Asskicking Improbable Weapon User Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Heel–Face Turn Romantic Comedy Spiritual Successor Politically Incorrect Villain Older Than They Look Adults Are Useless Your Head A-Splode No OSHA Compliance Toplessness from the Back Shell-Shocked Veteran Meaningful Name Dropped a Bridge on Him Nothing Is Scarier Casting Gag Dwindling Party The Casanova Lampshade Hanging Hypocritical Humor Anyone Can Die The Alleged Car Spell My Name with an "S" Needs Wiki Magic Love Darkest Hour Captain Obvious The '60s Ripped from the Headlines Establishing Character Moment Music Stories Character Development Insane Troll Logic Slasher Movie Demonic Possession Body Horror No-Sell Pimped-Out Dress It Can Think Handicapped Badass Mind Screw Adaptational Attractiveness Cat Fight You Have Failed Me Male Frontal Nudity Video Credits Dark and Troubled Past The X of Y Mad Scientist Real Life Unresolved Sexual Tension Evil vs. Evil Danny Peary Cult Movies List Determinator Kill 'em All Honor Before Reason He Who Fights Monsters Vitriolic Best Buds Tagline Annoying Younger Sibling Genre Throwback Parental Abandonment It's All About Me Poor Communication Kills Mythology Gag Babies Ever After Retirony Stalker with a Crush Unspoken Plan Guarantee Spared by the Adaptation Punny Name Kick the Son of a Bitch Nice Hat Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Developing Doomed Characters Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Setting Update Evil Laugh Drives Like Crazy Canon Foreigner Shower Scene Fire-Forged Friends Science Fiction Films Product Placement Bait-and-Switch Shout-Out Anguished Declaration of Love The Oner The Hero Flashback Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Eiffel Tower Effect No Ending The '90s Ship Tease Adult Fear Homage Calling the Old Man Out Expy Blood from the Mouth Race Lift Fingore "Shaggy Dog" Story I Did What I Had to Do Eureka Moment Dying Moment of Awesome Never Found the Body Redshirt Army Maybe Ever After Heel Realization Pretty Little Headshots Together in Death Soundtrack Dissonance Documentary Eye Scream Hollywood Law Red Oni, Blue Oni Gone Horribly Right Only in It for the Money Took a Level in Badass All Men Are Perverts Bolivian Army Ending A God Am I One Steve Limit Drugs Are Bad Be Careful What You Wish For Bloody Hilarious Deliberately Monochrome Parental Incest Have a Gay Old Time Disproportionate Retribution The Film of the Book Lock and Load Montage Gender Flip Overly Long Gag Fanservice Extra The Mole British Films War Is Hell Children Are Innocent Important Haircut Tap on the Head Australian Movies Get Out! Love at First Sight Accidental Murder Creator Cameo Earn Your Happy Ending No Name Given Chekhov's Skill Deadpan Snarker Catch-Phrase Catapult Nightmare The End... Or Is It? Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality All There in the Manual Action Prologue Throwing Your Sword Always Works Humans Are Bastards I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Motor Mouth Only Known by Their Nickname Scenery Porn Our Zombies Are Different Sir Swears-a-Lot Loads and Loads of Characters Reality Ensues Dies Wide Open Manchild Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Red Right Hand Animal Title Index Leave the Camera Running Sinister Minister Guns Akimbo Television Movie Index Russian Films Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Black and Gray Morality Missing Mom The Ace Historical Villain Upgrade Fainting Pretty in Mink Mistaken for Gay Rated M for Manly Hypocrite Silence Is Golden Wrong Genre Savvy Not So Above It All Film Noir Index Dogged Nice Guy Works Set in World War II In Medias Res Naïve Newcomer The Great Depression Properly Paranoid Taking You with Me Break the Haughty Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Horror Comedy Everyone Has Standards Meaningful Echo Alliterative Name Redemption Equals Death Deconstruction Line-of-Sight Name Really Gets Around Faking the Dead Improbable Aiming Skills Married to the Job Death Glare Pragmatic Adaptation Irony Mercy Kill Slashed Throat Villainous Breakdown Offscreen Teleportation You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Frame-Up Bond Villain Stupidity Training Montage Parental Substitute Deliberate Values Dissonance The Chick Twist Ending Conspicuous CG Humiliation Conga And the Adventure Continues Curse Cut Short Gold Digger Better to Die than Be Killed Artistic License – History Bare Your Midriff Word of God World of Ham Peek-a-Boo Corpse Back from the Dead Monumental Damage Malevolent Masked Men Translation Convention Call-Forward Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Expository Hairstyle Change Coming-of-Age Story Serious Business Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Plot Hole Crazy Jealous Guy Brutal Honesty Grievous Bottley Harm Immune to Bullets Faux Affably Evil Implacable Man The Ghost Bilingual Bonus Madness Mantra Gainax Ending Only a Flesh Wound The Hero Dies Ghost Fiction Action Genre Hong Kong Films Dark Action Girl Dark Reprise Badass Grandpa '80s Hair Chekhov's Gunman How We Got Here From Bad to Worse Beta Couple Fat Bastard Too Dumb to Live Berserk Button Blackmail Mexican Standoff Stepford Smiler Celebrity Paradox Manly Tears Black Dude Dies First Camera Abuse Famous Last Words Insult Backfire Bring My Brown Pants Scare Chord Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Zombie Stories Beard of Evil Fanservice The Brute Psycho for Hire Stuff Blowing Up Interrupted Suicide Does Not Like Shoes Big Eater The Power of Love Biopic The Stoic Stock Footage Ungrateful Bastard Evil-Detecting Dog Big Brother Instinct Riddle for the Ages Face Death with Dignity Aside Glance Hate Sink Dutch Angle The Remake Hair-Trigger Temper Stylistic Suck Jerk Jock Kubrick Stare Ambiguously Gay Playing Gertrude Fun with Acronyms Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Those Two Bad Guys Let's Get Dangerous! Precision F-Strike Adaptational Badass N-Word Privileges Instant Death Bullet Jerkass It's Personal Bound and Gagged Abusive Parents Composite Character Heroic BSoD Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Ambiguous Disorder Leitmotif Naked People Are Funny Woman in White A Minor Kidroduction Worthy Opponent Retcon Hooker with a Heart of Gold Evil Counterpart The '80s Big-Bad Ensemble I Want My Beloved to Be Happy She's Got Legs Pragmatic Villainy An Aesop Slasher Smile Funny Background Event Super Strength Bittersweet Ending Shipper on Deck Apocalypse How Black Comedy Rape Villain Song Narrator Becoming the Mask The Voiceless Big Applesauce Eldritch Abomination Lighter and Softer Sanity Slippage One-Word Title Big Damn Heroes I'm a Humanitarian Real Life Writes the Plot Cool Old Guy You Killed My Father Not So Different Public Domain Feature Films Empathic Environment Facial Horror Four-Temperament Ensemble Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Brainless Beauty Slap-Slap-Kiss Dirty Cop The Reveal Boom, Headshot! Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Award-Bait Song Star-Crossed Lovers Never Trust a Trailer Getting Crap Past the Radar Adorkable Ms. Fanservice Deus ex Machina Damsel in Distress For Want of a Nail Historical Hero Upgrade Posthumous Character Action Girl Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Affectionate Parody The Sociopath Knight Templar Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Adaptation Dye-Job Grey and Gray Morality Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Daylight Horror B-Movie Canadian Movies Mood Whiplash Jitter Cam Anachronic Order Despair Event Horizon Fourth Date Marriage The Stinger Anti-Hero Crapsack World Papa Wolf Meaningful Background Event Not What It Looks Like Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Man on Fire Death by Adaptation The '70s Decoy Protagonist The Atoner Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene An Arm and a Leg The Musical Easily Forgiven Only One Name Ass Shove Bar Brawl Blood Knight Big "NO!" Department of Redundancy Department Death by Irony Ax-Crazy Crazy-Prepared Funny Foreigner Friend to All Children Sexy Discretion Shot Serial Killer The Bully Fatal Flaw Heroic Sacrifice Our Vampires Are Different Green-Eyed Monster Alpha Bitch Manipulative Bastard A Date with Rosie Palms Time Skip Unwitting Instigator of Doom Call-Back Cool Guns Didn't Think This Through Henpecked Husband Sole Survivor Fish out of Water Attempted Rape Contrived Coincidence Femme Fatale Corrupt Corporate Executive Asshole Victim Very Loosely Based on a True Story Major Injury Underreaction Adaptational Villainy Actually Pretty Funny My Greatest Failure Extremely Short Timespan Insistent Terminology Defiant to the End Darker and Edgier Action Survivor Fan Disservice Cowboy Cop Totally Radical Pre-Mortem One-Liner And Starring In the Back Dramedy Mugging the Monster Evil Brit You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Here We Go Again! Spiteful Spit Alas, Poor Villain True Companions The Lancer Adaptation Name Change Drowning My Sorrows Rich Bitch Large Ham Chiaroscuro Japanese Films Author Avatar Oh, Crap! Show Within a Show Black Best Friend Enemy Mine As Himself Demoted to Extra Bi the Way Screw This, I'm Outta Here! No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Jump Scare Foreshadowing Animal Motifs Foil Bavarian Fire Drill Punch-Clock Villain MacGuffin Noodle Incident Fiery Redhead Double-Meaning Title Intrepid Reporter Silent Movie Fatal Family Photo Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Loophole Abuse Mama Bear Those Wacky Nazis Awesome, but Impractical Reckless Gun Usage Race Against the Clock Yandere The Cavalry Hero of Another Story Never My Fault Stealth Pun Dual Wielding The Smart Guy No Celebrities Were Harmed Cluster F-Bomb Brother–Sister Incest Rape as Drama Bury Your Gays timeperiod Ragtag Bunch of Misfits The Ditz Broken Pedestal Villain Opening Scene Re-Cut What You Are in the Dark Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Token Minority French Films Romantic False Lead Dirty Old Man Costume Porn Disguised in Drag Groin Attack All Just a Dream Bullying a Dragon Take a Third Option Badass Longcoat Soft Glass Left the Background Music On Psychopathic Manchild Age Lift Happily Married Accidental Misnaming Bald of Evil Chuck Cunningham Syndrome The Load A Father to His Men Jerk with a Heart of Gold Improvised Weapon Epic Fail She Cleans Up Nicely More Dakka Butt-Monkey Arc Words Thriller folderlabel Tempting Fate Hell Is That Noise Obviously Evil Exactly What It Says on the Tin Wounded Gazelle Gambit Police are Useless Anti-Villain Brick Joke Cain and Abel Every Car Is a Pinto Determinator aka: The Determinator Eyepatch of Power Beauty Is Never Tarnished Light Is Not Good German Films My God, What Have I Done? Aluminum Christmas Trees Daddy's Girl Heterosexual Life-Partners Protagonist Title Police Brutality Suspiciously Similar Substitute Credits Gag Belligerent Sexual Tension Paper-Thin Disguise Tranquil Fury Sassy Black Woman Unreliable Narrator The Vamp As You Know Superhero Death of a Child Chase Scene Big Fancy House The Chessmaster Spanner in the Works He Knows Too Much A.I. Is a Crapshoot Eagleland Break the Cutie Idiot Ball Artistic License – Geography An Axe to Grind Sequel Hook The Dreaded Stealth Hi/Bye Dramatic Gun Cock Reality Is Unrealistic Five-Man Band Undying Loyalty Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Diabolus ex Machina Sadistic Choice Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Villain with Good Publicity Whole Plot Reference Mr. Exposition Title Drop Bunny-Ears Lawyer Batman Gambit