Tropescilloscope: Mad Scientist

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

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