History PlayingWith / MotherlyScientist

%%* '''Implied''': ???

** The children are Dr. Psycho's offspring, and ''Alice'' is the research subject:\\
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A) She was a Robot Mom created by Dr. Psycho, who created her as a ReplacementGoldfish for his deceased wife (the mother of his children).\\
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B) Or perhaps her dying memories were stored inside the A.I. of her robotic body.\\
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C) Or she unwittingly became part of a social experiment made to enforce preventive measures against children experimentation.
** Alternatively: Alice is the stereotypical [[SadistTeacher schoolteacher from Hell]]. She keeps the kids under control through fear.

** Alternatively: Alice feels so motherly towards the little alien animal that she fails to react when the animal is about to eat her.

* '''Reconstructed''': Alice is no ordinary scientist. When she's being taken to the basement, she reveals that she knows Kung Fu. After she's defeated Dr. Psycho, the SWAT team comes in and rescues the kids, then arrests Dr. Psycho.

[[{{MotherlyScientist}} It's time to give maintenance to your robotic leg. Let's go back to the lab. -- Yes, Dr. Nicemom!]]

** Dr. Psycho re-recuits Alice when it becomes clear that his methods of "[[AbusiveParents parenting]]" are [[PhlebotinumRebel lacking,]] [[SecreyProjectRefugeeFamily to say the least.]] Of course this means that Alice need [[ExplosiveLeash proper controls to prevent her rebellion.]]

* '''Exaggerated''': Interpreted by [[TheSoundOfMusic Julie Andrews]], Alice enters Dr. Psycho's lab, encountering a new family and adventure in Disney's latest Musical comedy.

* '''Averted''':
** Alice begins to play nice with the kids when she's suddenly transferred to another facility.
** Alternatively: Alice is actually a mad scientist who's using her actual son as a [[GuineaPigFamily guinea pig]]. She plays nice to avoid suspicion.

* '''Exploited''': ???

'''Basic Trope''': A scientist who gets emotionally attached to the subject (or subjects) of a Mad Science Experiment.

* '''Downplayed''': ???

** Alice is nice to the kids because they remind her of her lost child. (or the child she always wanted, but never had.)

** Alice ''is'' the research subject:\\

A) She was a Robot Mom created by the scientist, who created her as a ReplacementGoldfish for his deceased mother.\\

* '''Justified''': Alice is nice to the kids because they remind her of her lost child. (or the child she always wanted, but never had.)

** Alice ''is'' the research subject.
*** She was a Robot Mom created by the scientist, who created her as a ReplacementGoldfish for his deceased mother.
*** Or perhaps her dying memories were stored inside the A.I. of her robotic body.
*** Or she unwittingly became part of a social experiment made to enforce preventive measures against children experimentation.

* '''Subverted''': Alice treats the kids well and they love her, but she's been secretly working with Dr. Psycho and doesn't care about the kids.

** Alice never was a scientist in the first place - it is later revealed that she's an agent who is gathering evidence of the atrocities and planing an extraction; she was never involved with experiments.
* '''Double Subverted''': Alice did experiments with the kids, but actually took care that all the experiments were reversible and painless. And she's doing the research to save the kids who went comatose in ''another'' experiment she was forced to participate in.
** Alice is the real MadScientist here, but she's a NecessarilyEvil AntiVillain who hates what she has to do and tries very hard to make up for their suffering
* '''Parodied''': Alice felt a CutenessProximity towards the test subject, an animal so cute that Alice gets overly jealous whenever any other scientist approaches. Comedy ensues.

* '''Deconstructed''': Dr. Psycho realizes that Alice is getting too nosy into his work. She might suspect something. So he plans to make her have an "[[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident unfortunate accident]]".
** Or perhaps he could act sensibly, rather than dramatic for the sake of drama, and simply ''fire her''.
** Alternatively, Alice is ''dangerously'' protective of "her" children... Even if it becomes clear that they present a threat to the world at large.
* '''Reconstructed''': Alice is no ordinary scientist. When she's being taken to the basement, she reveals that she knows Kung Fu. After she's defeated Dr. Psycho, the SWAT team comes in and rescues the kids, then arrests Dr. Psycho.

* '''Averted''': Alice begins to play nice with the kids when she's suddenly transferred to another facility.

* '''Justified''': Alice is nice to the kids because they remind her of her lost child.

* '''Straight''': Alice was hired by [[MadScientist Dr. Psycho]] to take care of the children who are his research subjects. Eventually, she realizes his plans and ends up rescuing the kids, possibly invoking MamaBear, to Dr. Psycho's detriment (to say the least).

** Alternatively: Alice is the stereotypical [[SadistTeacher schoolteacher from Hell]]. She keeps the kids under control... through fear.

** Alternatively: Alice ''IS'' the MadScientist. She's the one who's been controlling poor old Dr. Psycho all along.
** Her niceness is all a ploy to manipulate the children, she is the "good cop" and effectively responsible for massive emotional abuse.
** Alice never was a scientist in the first place - it is later revealed that she's an agent who is gathering evidence of the atrocities and planing an extraction, she is never involved with experiments.
* '''Double Subverted''': Alice did experiment with the kids, but actually took care that all the experiments were reversible and painless. And she's doing the research to save the kids who went comatose in ''another'' experiment she was forced to participate in.
** Alice, while she's the real MadScientist here, is a NecessarilyEvil AntiVillain who hates what she has to do, and tries very hard to make up for their suffering.

* '''Deconstructed''': Dr. Psycho realizes that Alice is getting too nosy into his work. She might suspect something. Let's make her have an ''[[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident unfortunate accident]]''.
** Or perhaps they could act sensibly, rather than dramatic for the sake of drama, and simply ''fire her''.
* '''Reconstructed''': Alice is no ordinary scientist. When she's being taken to the basement, she reveals that [[SuddenlyAlwaysKnewThat she knows Kung Fu]], and after she's defeated Dr. Psycho, the SWAT team comes in and rescue the kids.

* '''Played for Laughs''': Alice goes with Dr. Psycho because she made a bet with Bob that she would be a wonderful assistant for MadScientist. However, Dr. Psycho turns out to be a prankster hired by Punk'd on Bob's behalf and one of the kids is an expert with pranking his mentors.

** Alternatively: Alice is actually a MadScientist who's using her actual son as a [[GuineaPigFamily guinea pig]]. She plays nice to avoid suspicion.

* '''Straight''': Alice was hired by MadScientist to take care of the children who are his research subjects. Eventually, she realizes the Big Bad's plans, and ends up rescuing the kids, possibly invoking MamaBear, to the MadScientist's detriment (to say the least).
* '''Exaggerated''': Interpreted by [[{{TheSoundOfMusic}} Julie Andrews]], Dr. Alice enters MadScientist's lab, encountering a new family and adventure in Disney's latest Musical comedy.

*** Or perhaps her dying memories were stored inside the A.I. computer inside her robotic body.

** Alternatively: Alice is the stereotypical [[{{SadistTeacher}} schoolteacher from Hell]]. She keeps the kids under control... through fear.
* '''Subverted''': Alice treats the kids well and they love her, but she's been secretly working with the MadScientist and doesn't care about the kids.
** Alternatively: Alice ''IS'' the MadScientist. She's the one who's been controlling poor old Dr. Niceguy all along.
** Her niceness is all a ploy to manipulate the children, she is the "good cop" and effectivly responsible for massive emotional abuse.

* '''Parodied''': Alice felt a CutenessProximity towards the test subject, an animal so cute that Alice gets overjealous whenever any other scientist approaches. Comedy ensues.
** Alternatively: Alice feels so motherly towards the little alien animal that she fails to react when the animal's about to eat her.
* '''Deconstructed''': The MadScientist realizes that Alice is getting too nosy into his work. She might suspect something. Let's make her have an ''[[{{MakeItLookLikeAnAccident}} unfortunate accident]]''.

* '''Reconstructed''': Alice is no ordinary scientist. When she's being taken to the basement, she reveals that [[SuddenlyAlwaysKnewThat she knows Kung Fu]], and after she's taken down the bad guys, the SWAT team comes in and rescue the kids.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Alice is secretly a MadScientist that hates the kids and wants to torture them - but that's because she was treated horribly by the children in another facility, which happened because a more evil MadScientist had manipulated the children so that Alice would be easier to manipulate in THIS experiment. That is, of course, until Alice finds out and finds evidence showing that ''that one kid'' who had treated her horribly, had been replaced by an EvilTwin while the really nice kid is still held prisoner in another facility... but it turns out that Alice actually had her brain stored in a jar and that the kidnapped kid is her grown-up biological son who is hacking into the system to rescue her from the Virtual Reality experiment she's being trapped in.
* '''Averted''': Alice begins to play nice with the kids, when she's suddenly transferred to another facility.
** Alternatively: Alice is actually a MadScientist who's using her actual son as a [[{{GuineaPigFamily}} guinea pig]]. She plays nice to avoid suspicion.

* '''Lampshaded''': (After managing to calm down one of the kids): "That was amazing, Alice. Mary Poppins would be proud."

* '''Conversed''': "A sweet scientist is so cliché. What's next? The magical nanny shows off an umbrella and they go flying to Neverland?"
* '''Played for Drama''': Alice starts working with the kids, slowly realizing many of them suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. One had been sexually abused, the other had violent parents... later Alice has a flashback of being horribly mistreated at a similar facility...
* '''Played for Laughs''': Alice goes with MadScientist because she made a bet with Bob that she would be a wonderful assistant for MadScientist. However, MadScientist turns out to be a prankster hired by Punk'd on Bob's behalf, and one of the kids is an expert with pranking his mentors...

* '''Reconstructed''': Alice is no ordinary scientist. When she's being taken to the basement, she reveals that [[{{IKnowKungFu}} she knows Kung Fu]], and after she's taken down the bad guys, the SWAT team comes in and rescue the kids.

'''Basic Trope''': A female scientist who gets emotionally attached to the subject (or subjects) of a Mad Science Experiment.

* '''Lampshaded''': Alice is waiting for an interview with the MadScientist, when she reads in a sensationalist newspaper: "An anonymous contributor said that somewhere around here an evil scientist is secretly changing the beta-phase children medications for experimental superpower drugs. And in other news, chupacabra sightings have been reported near the river."

** Alternatively: Alice is the stereotypical SadistTeacher. She keeps the kids under control... through fear.

* '''Exaggerated''': In this new Disney movie, Alice is so nice to the kids that she tells them tales, sings to them, and eventually convinces MadScientist to desist from his evil plans - he falls in love with her, they get married, and everyone lived {{happily ever after}}.

* '''Inverted''': Alice ''is'' the research subject.
** She was a Robot Mom created by the scientist, who created her as a ReplacementGoldfish for his deceased mother.
** Or perhaps her dying memories were stored inside the A.I. computer inside her robotic body.
** It was just part of a social experiment made to enforce preventive measures against children experimentation.

* '''Exaggerated''': Alice is so nice to the kids that she tells them tales, sings to them, and suddenly it becomes a Disney Movie.

* '''Deconstructed''': The MadScientist realizes that MotherlyScientist is getting too nosy into his work. She might suspect something. Let's make her have an ''[[{{MakeItLookLikeAnAccident}} unfortunate accident]]''.
* '''Reconstructed''': MotherlyScientist is actually a secret agent for the FBI. When she's being taken to the basement, she reveals that [[{{IKnowKungFu}} she knows Kung Fu]], and after she's taken down the bad guys, the SWAT team comes in and rescue the kids.

* '''Deconstructed''': Alice became a scientist because her kidney was donated by a doctor when she was about to die, even when she was the most horribly behaved child in the hospital she was attended.
* '''Reconstructed''': Alice doesn't really care that much about the kids - she even gets mad at times. But that's what shows us that she's not a perfect mother - she's a human, after all.

* '''Double Subverted''': Alice did experiment with the kids, but actually took care that all the experiments were reversible and painless. And she's doing the research to save the kids who went comatose in ''another'' experiment where she was forced to take part of.