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* ScientistsVideoJournal: A scientist keeps a video journal to document their progress.

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* ScientistsVideoJournal: ScientistVideoJournal: A scientist keeps a video journal to document their progress.
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* ScientistsVideoJournal: A scientist keeps a video journal to document their progress.
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* SodaCandySplosion: A basic science experiment involving mixing Diet Coke and Mentos to create an eruptive soda geyser, which is often exaggerated in fiction for [[RuleOfFunny comedy]].
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* GodOfKnowledge: A god who represents knowledge, learning, or wisdom, including science and technology.
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* FictionScience: RealLife science is used to examine fictional works.

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* JarOfTheBizarre: The habit of storing curios, specimens and old experiments in jars and bottles of preserving fluid.

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* ImprobableTaxonomySkills: The ability to fully classify an organism with just a cursory examination.
* JarOfTheBizarre: The habit of storing curios, specimens specimens, and old experiments in jars and bottles of preserving fluid.
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* ScienceFair: An event where children showcase their science projects.
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* EerieArcticResearchStation: A remote lab in an icy cold location as a tension-filled setting.

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** CreatingLifeIsAwesome: Someone artificially creates a being that is good and is treated as such.
** CreatingLifeIsBad: Creating life is seen as inadvisable or wrong.
** CreatingLifeIsUnforeseen: Accidentally creating life.

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** * CreatingLifeIsAwesome: Someone artificially creates a being that is good and is treated as such.
** * CreatingLifeIsBad: Creating life is seen as inadvisable or wrong.
** * CreatingLifeIsUnforeseen: Accidentally creating life.



* EscapedFromTheLab: A character who escapes from a laboratory as part of their story or backstory.



* FantasticScience: Someone who studies the fantastical elements of a work (e.g. a biologist who studies dragons).

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* FantasticScience: Someone who studies the fantastical elements of a work (e.g. , a biologist who studies dragons).


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* KidnappedForExperimentation: A character is abducted to be a scientific test subject.


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* RaisedInALab: A person is raised as an experiment in a lab.
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* JustThinkOfThePotential: A character encounters a new, esoteric technology and realizes all the potential applications (military, monetary, etc.) it could be put to.
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* NaturalElements: While once the dominant hypothesis as to what the base elements of all matter in the world is made of, the idea that the forces of nature are elements has long been since disproven, though this idea shows up in works still, albeit leaning more towards the fantastical and magical.

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* FantasticScience: Someone who studies the fantastical elements of a work (e.g. a biologist who studies dragons).



** FantasticScience: Someone who studies the fantastical elements of a work (e.g. a biologist who studies dragons).



* JarOfTheBizarre: The habit of storing curios, specimens and old experiments in jars and bottles of preserving fluid.



* NoTechButHighTech: What counts as technology? A computer, a smartphone, a normal phone, a candle, a catapult...most people would draw the (arbitrary) line at the candle.

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* NoTechButHighTech: What counts as technology? A computer, a smartphone, a normal phone, a candle, a catapult... most people would draw the (arbitrary) line at the candle.
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* DoctorVonTurncoat: A scientist switches sides in a conflict and avoids punishment because their expertise is considered too valuable.
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* ArtMajorPhysics: The laws of physics don't work normally.

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* ArtMajorPhysics: ArtisticLicensePhysics: The laws of physics don't work normally.
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* EnigmaticInstitute: A scientific group that conducts research and experiments in secret.
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* HotScientist: A scientist who's seen by the other characters as hot.
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* CopAndScientist: Cop is StreetSmart and BookDumb; scientist has next-to-NoSocialSkills or fighting skills.
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* ProudScholarRace: A culture of scientists, scholars and philosophers.
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* MiraculousMalfunction: An experiment doesn't work as intended but creates even better results.
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* StupidScientist: A character who's meant to be a genius but believes that if something is highly unlikely, that means it is definitely false. This character WILL be proven wrong.

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* StupidScientist: A character who's meant to be a genius but believes that if something is highly unlikely, that means it is definitely false. This character WILL ''will'' be proven wrong.
* TheWormGuy: A scientist in a specialized field of study is consulted on a subject foreign to them, but in which their knowledge is relevant.

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