Tropescilloscope: Mad Scientist

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

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