Tropescilloscope: Mad Scientist

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

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