Tropescilloscope: Mad Scientist

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

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Bunny-Ears Lawyer Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Advertised Extra Redemption Equals Death Fat Bastard Have a Gay Old Time Idiot Ball Anyone Can Die Animal Title Index Those Wacky Nazis Calling the Old Man Out Half the Man He Used to Be Love Triangle No Name Given Laughing Mad Spell My Name with an "S" Fun with Acronyms Big Fancy House Fiery Redhead Psychopathic Manchild Call-Forward It's All About Me Credits Gag From Bad to Worse Dying Moment of Awesome Spiritual Successor Scenery Porn Improvised Weapon The Bad Guy Wins Red Herring Romantic Comedy Playing Gertrude Babies Ever After Anti-Hero All Just a Dream French Films Hair-Trigger Temper Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique timeperiod The Ditz Yandere Faking the Dead Betty and Veronica Brainless Beauty Slap-Slap-Kiss Missing Mom Silent Movie Bare Your Midriff Brother–Sister Incest Italian Films My Greatest Failure Wicked Cultured Sassy Black Woman Serious Business Evil vs. Evil Dissonant Serenity Villain Song Historical Hero Upgrade British Films Rousing Speech Never My Fault Face–Heel Turn Those Two Guys Wounded Gazelle Gambit Manly Tears Evil Is Petty Dropped a Bridge on Him Deadpan Snarker Black Dude Dies First Visual Pun Reality Is Unrealistic Eagleland Death by Sex For the Evulz Didn't Think This Through Jitter Cam Vampire Fiction Nice Hat Back from the Dead Conspicuous CG Totally Radical Early Installment Weirdness Expy Film Series German Films Diabolus ex Machina Henpecked Husband Kids Are Cruel Costume Porn Black and Gray Morality Knife Nut Psycho for Hire What the Hell, Hero? 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Is a Crapshoot Important Haircut Eureka Moment An Aesop Police Brutality Defiant to the End Crazy Jealous Guy Moment Killer Sequel Escalation Fanservice You Have Failed Me Dark Action Girl Creator Cameo Flipping the Bird Pyrrhic Victory Artistic License – Physics Smug Snake An Axe to Grind Canadian Movies Christmas Movies Index Evil-Detecting Dog Bittersweet Ending Break the Cutie Take That! Catch-Phrase Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Darker and Edgier Pretty Little Headshots Morality Pet Protagonist Title Fish out of Water Cloudcuckoolander Disguised in Drag Call-Back Bait-and-Switch Lampshade Hanging Whole Plot Reference Re-Cut Stuff Blowing Up Casting Gag One Steve Limit Pragmatic Adaptation Screw the Rules, I Have Money! The Voiceless O.O.C. Is Serious Business For Want of a Nail Video Credits Last-Name Basis Retcon Show Within a Show Loophole Abuse Expository Hairstyle Change Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Badass Bookworm Age Lift Only a Flesh Wound War Is Hell Dutch Angle The Ace Improbable Weapon User Demonic Possession Oh, Crap! Heterosexual Life-Partners Your Head A-Splode Leave the Camera Running Paper-Thin Disguise Race Lift Mundane Made Awesome Funny Foreigner Bland-Name Product Suspiciously Specific Denial Parental Abandonment Awesome, but Impractical My God, What Have I Done? One-Word Title Artistic License – Gun Safety Insult Backfire Broken Bird Body Horror Bring My Brown Pants Epic Movie Vacation Films The Stinger Major Injury Underreaction The Atoner He Knows Too Much Taking the Bullet A God Am I Bavarian Fire Drill Let's Get Dangerous! Alas, Poor Villain Exactly What It Says on the Tin Anti-Villain Rated M for Manly Wham Line Drill Sergeant Nasty Shirtless Scene Real Life Writes the Plot Serial Killer Military and Warfare Films I'm a Humanitarian Man on Fire Grey and Gray Morality Motor Mouth Bond Villain Stupidity Happily Married Jump Scare Unwitting Instigator of Doom Evil Brit Race Against the Clock Determinator aka: The Determinator Auto Erotica Femme Fatale Novelization Bitch in Sheep's Clothing How We Got Here Hypocrite The X of Y Neck Lift Batman Gambit Leaning on the Fourth Wall Adaptational Attractiveness Very Loosely Based on a True Story Punch-Clock Villain The End... Or Is It? It Can Think One-Man Army Ominous Latin Chanting Woman in White All There in the Manual Evil Laugh Disappeared Dad Breaking the Fourth Wall Animated Credits Opening The Mole Informed Ability Children Are Innocent Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Curb-Stomp Battle Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Hell Is That Noise Stalker with a Crush Disney Villain Death Boom, Headshot! Final Girl Deliberate Values Dissonance Russian Films Sir Swears-a-Lot Ambiguously Gay Combat Pragmatist Market-Based Title Bury Your Gays The '50s Once More, with Clarity! 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