Tropescilloscope: Mad Scientist

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

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