History Main / MotherlyScientist

** Based on what little we see and hear about him, [[PosthumousCharacter Professor Gerald]] was like this towards [[UltimateLifeForm Shadow]]. To the point of addressing him as "my son" in a prerecorded message. At least that's how he was at first, [[DespairEventHorizon before his granddaughter was killed]].
** Dr Eggman himself acts this way towards Sage in ''VideoGame/SonicFrontiers'', a surprise given [[BadBoss his usual demeanour]]. Sage is an AI created directly by him who addresses him as "father", and he in turn pridefully speaks of her as his daughter. [[spoiler:When she sacrifices herself to stop THE END, Eggman is devastated]], and the true ending shows [[spoiler:him going out of his way to try and (successfully) revive her]].

* Based on what little we see and hear about him, [[PosthumousCharacter Professor Gerald]] from ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' was like this towards [[UltimateLifeForm Shadow]]. To the point of addressing him as "my son" in a prerecorded message. At least that's how he was at first, [[DespairEventHorizon before his granddaughter was killed]].

* In the ''Literature/{{Replica}}'' series of YA novels, Amy's mother was one of the scientists working on a project to create genetically-enhanced {{Super Soldier}}s, but after realizing the evils of the project, she rescued/kidnapped one of the clone babies and raised her as her own.

* '''VideoGame/LittleTailBronx''':

* Merveille in ''VideoGame/{{Solatorobo}}'' saved a "defective" product of her and Baion's experiments to create a life after she was ordered to destroy it. [[spoiler:That would be Red, the protagonist of the game, and in the [=DLCs=] she seems to be trying to get him together with Elh.]]

* Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex''[=/=]''Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun'':

* [[spoiler:Professor Harumi Kiyama]] from ''Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun'' was originally an uninterested scientist left with the job of watching over a group of [[PsychicPowers esper]] orphans, only to gradually start caring for them like a mother. [[spoiler:Then things go horribly wrong when the dangerous experiment they were a part of (which Harumi had been told was something safe) sends them all into comas, to Harumi's shock and her boss's utter indifference. With a corrupt administration refusing to help the students and instead choosing to cover up the incident, Harumi takes [[WellIntentionedExtremist desperate measures]] trying to find a cure.]]

* ''Film/{{Splice}}'' features Elsa starting as Pinocchio Type 2 and Clive as the Free Willy type. Unfortunately for everyone involved, [[spoiler:Elsa [[InTheBlood has]] MyBelovedSmother tendencies and Clive has a bad case of ImAManICantHelpIt]].

* Dr. Brigid Tenenbaum from ''VideoGame/BioShock1'' started off her work in Rapture as an EvilutionaryBiologist doing it ForScience and began the Little Sisters initiative after she discovered that the ADAM slugs [[PoweredByAForsakenChild work most effectively when implanted into young girls]]. She felt tugs of maternal concern for them as she went along but repressed it as best she could, but one day, when one of them happily crawled into her lap, she pushed her off and screamed at her in fury, until she suddenly realized that [[HeelRealization it wasn't the girl that she hated]]. The breaking point came after the lab started creating Big Daddies, men [[UnwillingRoboticisation unwillingly fused into metal suits]] to protect the Little Sisters as they collected ADAM from corpses scattered around the city. Seeing one of the girls reaching out to the "metal man" threw Tenenbaum back into a memory of herself as a little girl during the war; after her father had been taken away by the Nazis, one of the officers reached out to her to take her to work in the concentration camp, and she realized that the only way she would survive is if she "made friends with the metal man", which led her to cut off her emotions from then on and work with the scientists in the camp. Seeing another little girl tie herself to a "metal man" caused her to [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone break down in tears and embrace the girl, apologizing]] -- soon after, she took as many girls with her as she could to a hideout in an abandoned dorm to begin fixing what she had broken.

* ''VideoGame/WillYouSnail'' features Amelia, the lead scientist behind the creation of an advanced AI, Squid, for a corrupt and oppressive regime. She genuinely loved and cared about Squid, despite being forced to create him and later [[spoiler: ordering him to delete himself for the good of humanity.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' has Professor Emil Hamilton showing considerable concern for the welfare of Galatea, a clone he created [[spoiler:from DNA he stole from Supergirl]]. In the episode "Panic in the Sky," while she's shown to be rather snarky, it's shown that she certainly sees him as a father figure, given the farewell she gives him before leaving for a mission.

She's the [[ParentalSubstitute mother you always wanted]]. She gives you a candy when you [[GovernmentDrugEnforcement take your medication]], warns your brothers about [[BerserkButton messing around]] [[BullyingADragon with you]], gives you a shoulder to cry on when you [[TroubledFetalPosition feel lonely]], and occasionally gives maintenance to your [[{{Cyborg}} prosthetic leg]]. Of course, she's the first to give you a hug after you go through the [[GovernmentConspiracy tax-paid]] [[PsychoSerum psychiatric]] [[ElectricTorture treatment]] because you're told you're a "special kid with great [[JustThinkOfThePotential potential]]" ([[PersonOfMassDestruction what]][[TykeBomb ever]] [[SuperSoldier that's]] [[WhyAmITicking supposed]] [[PsychicPowers to]] [[SuperStrongChild mean]]).

* Nanami from ''LightNovel/{{Sukisho}}''. He's a scientist who was involved in some unethical experiments on children, but eventually rescued and formed a family with them.

%% * Dr. [=LaLinde=] to Quake Woman in ''ComicBook/MegaManArchieComics''.

** In [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist the 2003 anime adaptation]], it's {{averted|Trope}} with Izumi. She takes care of a young [[ArtificialHuman homunculus]] in a motherly way -- but only because [[spoiler:he's her real son]].

* {{Subverted|Trope}} in ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'', where Sheldon Cooper views Leonard's cold, robotic and unfeeling mother, Dr. Beverly Hofstadter, as the dream mother he wishes he had been brought up by. Beverly feels a sort of affection for Sheldon that she signally fails to manifest for her own son. (She considered conceiving and raising a son to be a sort of [[PsychoPsychologist long-term experiment in behavioral psychology]], for instance.)

* [[HotScientist Dr. Erika Slate]] of ''WesternAnimation/BigGuyAndRustyTheBoyRobot'' designed and built the titular boy robot and treats him as a son, often going to extremes to aid him if he's in danger although he's a walking weapons platform. However, she was extremely surprised to hear Rusty ask if she was his mother.

# If the doctor's an expert in genetics, cybernetics, arcane magic, or alchemy, the plot starts when she creates [[CreatingLife a new life form]] or ArtificialIntelligence with a [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots ridiculously human]] body. The young child then begins to [[WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove develop emotions]] [[HeartwarmingOrphan in such a way]] that the doctor's heart is moved into raising the child as her own. In this scenario, it's common that the doctor serves as a parent, [[PinocchioSyndrome psychiatrist and physician]] for the RobotKid who wants to BecomeARealBoy.\\

* In the ''Literature/HIVESeries'', [[AbsentMindedProfessor Professor Pike]] creates H.I.V.E.mind, an ArtificialIntelligence that is intended to run the eponymous school. As he has no children of his own, the AI calls Pike his father and quickly develops PinocchioSyndrome. Any time Pike is asked to meddle with the source code, he [[ManlyTears cries]].

->'''Dr. Sarah Kinney''': There's no reason to subject ComicBook/{{X 23}} to the bonding process until she's X-gene active and fully matured! [...]\\
'''Zander Rice''': ''"No reason"?'' Are you sure you just don't want to see your little pet go under the knife?\\
'''Sarah''': Don't be stupid.\\
'''Zander''': Well, you've certainly spent a lot of time in her cell lately.\\
'''Sarah''': Martin, the limited time I'm given with X-23 is necessary for development. Your own psychologists have told you that.\\
'''Zander''': Aw. An overprotective mother.
-->-- ''[[ComicBook/InnocenceLost X-23: Innocence Lost]]''

* In ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', Mohinder, who is [[OmnidisciplinaryScientist some sort of physician/scientist]], is hired to find a cure for the Company's "Walker System"... [[WaifProphet a little girl with the ability to find anyone]]. [[ReluctantMadScientist He doesn't want to enable them]], but can't say no to helping the IllGirl. And Molly and Mohinder end up bonding and he becomes her guardian for the rest of the series. (Even though she gets PutOnABus [[RaisedByGrandparents to stay with his mother]] most of the time.)

* ''Fanfic/TheBridge'': As per the [[Film/GodzillaVsMechagodzillaII film source material]], Dr. Azusa Gojo became quite paternal over the third Godzilla, a.k.a "Junior". Even decades later, Azusa outright refers to the kaiju as her son and is mutually he sees her as his mother. Because of this bond, Azusa is brought in to talk some sense into Junior after he suffers what could have otherwise been a DespairEventHorizon.