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mad scientist
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Mad scientist
Mad scientist
(also
mad doctor
or
mad professor
) is a
caricature
of a
scientist
who is described as "mad" or "insane" owing to a combination of unusual or unsettling personality traits and the unabashedly ambitious,
taboo
and/or
hubristic
nature of their experiments. As a
motif
in fiction, the mad scientist may be
villainous
(
evil genius
) or antagonistic, benign or neutral; may be
insane
,
eccentric
, or clumsy; and often works with
fictional technology
or fails to recognize or value common human objections to attempting to
play God
. Some may have benevolent or good-spirited intentions, even if their actions are dangerous or questionable, which can make them accidental villains. Some are protagonists or allies thereof, such as
Dexter
in the animated series
Dexter's Laboratory
;
Professor Calculus
in
The Adventures of Tintin
;
Dr. Muto
;
Professor Farnsworth
on
Futurama
; Philo in
UHF
; Dr. Benjamin Jeffcoat of
My Secret Identity
;
Emmett Brown
of
Back to the Future
; Rick Sanchez of
Rick and Morty
;
Dr. Walter Bishop
of
Fringe
; Okabe Rintarou from the anime series
Steins;Gate
; or
Dr. Doofenshmirtz
from
Phineas and Ferb
. Occasionally, there are parodies of mad scientists making fun of this trope.
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