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->To Bile himself, there is only one title that does his magnificence justice – [[EvilutionaryBiologist the Primogenitor]].
->He believes that in him is [[GodEmperor the Emperor]]’s [[EmperorScientist boundless artistry]] reborn. He claims to understand the secrets of creating [[SuperSoldier Space Marines]] and even [[SuperPrototype Primarchs]], and though his creations are extremely strong of body, [[AxCrazy they are rarely of sound mind]]. To witness one of Bile’s genetic byblows is to lose a shred of sanity, for they are disturbing indeed. Bile has left a trail of foul deviants and twisted abominations wherever his ships have landed. [[TheDreaded His name has become a curse to the High Lords of Terra and those of the Apothecarion who have learned of his legend]]. Many believe that he has irrevocably tainted mankind’s gene pool, polluting it with hidden growth strains and lurking corruptions. Some scattered cults even worship him as Pater Mutatis, father of all the mutants that skulk in the underbelly of the Imperium. It is a belief that Bile does nothing to dissuade.
-->--''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000: Champions Of Chaos''
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->It is said that to the Master Moulders, all living things, even the strangest and most horrifying of monsters are viewed as nothing more than subjects for future experiments. Refusing to bow to the limits of nature, and forever seeking to outdo their own previous accomplishments, they send their Packmasters out far and wide to search for and capture creatures which may be of use to them. Trolls, manticores, wyverns, chimeras, all manner of giant insects - monsters that would elicit nothing but fear and horror in any sane creature - are regarded by the Master Moulders [[PsychopathicManchild in much the same way as a child sees a new toy]]. For with each new captured creature, each new monster, comes the hope that the Master Moulders will create some new and ferocious beast of war.
-->--''[[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}} The Loathsome Ratmen]]''
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-->--''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}: Vampire Counts (5th Edition)''
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->Black market organs don't just march out of exotic animals and into your body cavity! My experiments required funding! I feel like we are glossing over the part where [[ArtisticLicenseMedicine I defied modern medicine]] and [[BackFromTheDead brought you back to life.]]
-->--'''The Medic''', ''Videogame/TeamFortress2'', "Old Wounds"
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-->-- '''Dr. Frankenstein''', ''Film/Frankenstein1931

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->Dangerous? Poor old Waldman. Have you never wanted to do anything that was dangerous? Where should we be if no one tried to find out what lies beyond? Have you never wanted to look beyond the clouds and the stars, or to know what causes the trees to bud? And what changes the darkness into light? But if you talk like that, people call you crazy. Well, if I could discover just one of these things, what eternity is, for example, I wouldn't care if they did think I was crazy.
-->-- '''Dr. Frankenstein''', ''Film/Frankenstein1931
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-->--''Herbert West -- Reanimator'', by Creator/HPLovecraft

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->"Sounds like the name of a mad scientist," said Buster casually.\\
"I AM NOT MAD!" cried Zarkendorf, his eyes bulging madly. "For years people like you laughed at my name! They called me a nerd — they said I should [[BasementDweller get out of my mother's basement and get a life!]] I swore that one day I would make them all pay! The world will soon tremble at the name Heinrich Dorfmenstein Zarkendorf!"\\
"Yeah — probably at the thought of having to spell it."
-->-- '''Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space'''

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->"Sounds like ->"Do you think I am merely another mad scientist incapable of assuring his gravy train by conning the name of military into funding a mad scientist," said Buster casually.\\
"I AM NOT MAD!" cried Zarkendorf, his eyes bulging madly. "For years people like you laughed at my name! They called me a nerd — they said I should [[BasementDweller get out of my mother's basement and get a life!]] I swore that one day I would make them all pay! The world will soon tremble at the name Heinrich Dorfmenstein Zarkendorf!"\\
"Yeah — probably at the thought of having to spell it."
grossly-overpriced weapons project?"
-->-- '''Plan '''Dr Zarkendorf''', ''Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space'''
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"[[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2017-12-08 You're a warship captain and an encyclopedia entry for 'mad scientist']]. Stop using weasel words."

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"[[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2017-12-08 You're a warship captain and an encyclopedia entry for 'mad scientist']]. Stop using weasel words."
-->-- ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' ([[RunningGag again]])
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->Ruled by a megalomaniac scientist and his crew of crazy yesmen, the scientists of Magnitogorsk are willing to sacrifice anything to defeat [[ThoseWackyNazis the Hun]]. Even their humanity
-->-- Description of the "Mad Scientist" spirit for Magnitogorsk, ''VideoGame/TheNewOrderLastDaysofEurope''
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->I myself started a sun cult back in... oh, 1979, to test a hypothesis. But by 1980, [[DrinkingTheKoolAid I had a hundred thousand people ready to leap off the Masada at my command]]. It was just an experiment, of course, but I was forced into exile for two years after breaking the good news. [[NoSocialSkills You'd think they'd be only happy to avoid mass suicide]]. I don't think most people really appreciate the importance of practical science...
-->--'''Iain Tibet Gladstone,''' ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld''

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->I myself started went through a sun cult back in... oh, 1979, bunch of acronyms to test a hypothesis. But by 1980, [[DrinkingTheKoolAid get where I had a hundred thousand people ready to leap off am today: NIMH, the Masada at my command]]. It was just an experiment, of course, but CIA, the SAD... I was forced into exile for two years headn' the MK-ULTRA project during the 80s - this was after breaking it had been publicly shitcanned, obviously. Ha. Mind control. Wow. A great field. A lot of potential. The big deal in the good news. [[NoSocialSkills You'd think they'd be only happy Agency at the time was [[FunctionalMagic extrahuman abilities]]. Less of a zero-sum market than nukes. [[SovietSuperScience The Reds]], industrious little dudes that they were, they were trying to avoid mass suicide]]. I don't think most people breed their own supersoldiers, you know, "[[RussianReversal In Soviet Russia, science makes you!]]" We took an [[FantasticRecruitmentDrive identify-and-exploit]] approach, working with subjects like you, [[ChildMage younger where possible]], from around the States. A few we borrowed from other nations. And civilian experiments... a whole lot of civilian experiments! [[HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs We sprayed LSD like it was going out of style]]. But there was a ceiling, a very tangible ceiling. After we'd burned through the first 30 million in research grants... oh boy. Accountability, recriminations, constitutional rights, a real bad scene. Yes. I'm grateful to TheIlluminati for really appreciate the importance of practical science...
-->--'''Iain Tibet Gladstone,'''
moving things forward.
-->--'''Dr Charles Zurn,'''
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->'''Crichton:''' You don't think I understand you. Do you? Oh, I understand. No, believe it or not, we've had men like you on my planet. Educated men. Men of science and medicine. Men who were searching for some self-described ideal and willing to maim and murder untold thousands to find it. There was one, his name was [[Characters/NaziGermany Mengele]]: to him, anyone was fair game as a subject of his experiments - the weak, the handicapped... men... women... children.

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->'''Crichton:''' You don't think I understand you. Do you? Oh, I understand. No, believe it or not, we've had men like you on my planet. Educated men. Men of science and medicine. Men who were searching for some self-described ideal and willing to maim and murder untold thousands to find it. There was one, his name was [[Characters/NaziGermany [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany Mengele]]: to him, anyone was fair game as a subject of his experiments - the weak, the handicapped... men... women... children.
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->"Discovery requires [[PlayingWithSyringes experimentation]]!"
-->-- '''[[StupidJetpackHitler Daniel Whitehall]]''', ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD''
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->Gradually I came to find Herbert West himself more horrible than anything he did - that was when it dawned on me that his once-normal scientific zeal for [[BackFromTheDead prolonging life]] had subtly degenerated into a mere morbid and ghoulish curiosity and a [[NightmareFetishist secret sense of charnel picturesqueness]]. His interest became a hellish and perverse addiction to the repellently and fiendishly abnormal; he gloated calmly over [[CameBackWrong artificial monstrosities]] which would make most healthy men drop dead from fright and disgust; he became, behind his pallid intellectuality, a fastidious Baudelaire of physical experiment - a languid Elagabalus of the tombs.
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-->-- '''Brainiac 5''', ''[[ComicBook/{{Legion Of Super-Heroes}} Legion of Three Worlds]]'' #4

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-->-- '''Brainiac 5''', ''[[ComicBook/{{Legion Of Super-Heroes}} ''[[ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes Legion of Three Worlds]]'' #4



->Isn't it worth the loss of a hand to have created the man of the future, the '''''MACHINE'''-MAN?!''
-->-- '''Rotwang''' on his evil [[RobotGirl robot wife]], ''Film/{{Metropolis}}''

->Some would call it a blasphemous kind of alchemy. I would say: it's messy work, with lots of mistakes.
-->-- '''[[StupidJetpackHitler Colonel Strasser]]''', ''Film/OutpostRiseOfTheSpetsnaz''



->You've broken all the laws of man, [[ComicBook/LexLuthor Luthor]]. Now it looks as though you've broken all the laws of nature, too.
-->-- '''Franchise/{{Superman}}''', ''Film/SupermanIVTheQuestForPeace''

->Mad? Is one who has solved the secret of life to be considered mad?
-->-- '''Dr. Von Niemann''', ''The Vampire Bat''

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->You've broken all the laws of man, [[ComicBook/LexLuthor Luthor]]. Now it looks as though you've broken all the laws of nature, too.
->'''Ben Grimm:''' Reed, you're insane.
->'''Reed Richards:''' Thanks.
-->-- '''Franchise/{{Superman}}''', ''Film/SupermanIVTheQuestForPeace''

->Mad? Is one who has solved the secret of life to be considered mad?
-->-- '''Dr. Von Niemann''', ''The Vampire Bat''
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->Isn't it worth the loss of a hand to have created the man of the future, the '''''MACHINE'''-MAN?!''
-->-- '''Rotwang''' on his evil [[RobotGirl robot wife]], ''Film/{{Metropolis}}''

->Some would call it a blasphemous kind of alchemy. I would say: it's messy work, with lots of mistakes.
-->-- '''[[StupidJetpackHitler Colonel Strasser]]''', ''Film/OutpostRiseOfTheSpetsnaz''



->'''Ben Grimm:''' Reed, you're insane.
->'''Reed Richards:''' Thanks.
-->--''Film/FantasticFour2015''

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->'''Ben Grimm:''' Reed, you're insane.
->'''Reed Richards:''' Thanks.
-->--''Film/FantasticFour2015''
->You've broken all the laws of man, [[ComicBook/LexLuthor Luthor]]. Now it looks as though you've broken all the laws of nature, too.
-->-- '''Franchise/{{Superman}}''', ''Film/SupermanIVTheQuestForPeace''

->Mad? Is one who has solved the secret of life to be considered mad?
-->-- '''Dr. Von Niemann''', ''Film/TheVampireBat''



-->--''Series/{{Farscape}}''

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-->--'''Music/OingoBoingo''', "Weird Science"


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-->-- Agatha Heterodyne, tinkering with the contents of somebody's basement: ''Webcomic/GirlGenius''

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-->-- Agatha Heterodyne, '''Agatha Heterodyne''', tinkering with the contents of somebody's basement: ''Webcomic/GirlGenius''
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->''(A distorted scream is heard in the depths of the Evolution Chamber)''
->'''Kerrigan:''' What is that sound?
->'''Abathur:''' Failed experiments. Reverting to biomass. Slow process.
->'''Kerrigan:''' At least put them out of their misery first.
->'''Abathur:''' Wasted effort. Creatures will die soon. Pain irrelevant.
-->-- ''VideoGame/StarCraftII''
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-->-- ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', "Meet the Medic"

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-->-- ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', "Meet "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36lSzUMBJnc Meet the Medic"
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->I myself started a sun cult back in... oh, 1979, to test a hypothesis. But by 1980, [[DrinkingTheKoolAid I had a hundred thousand people ready to leap off the Masada at my command]]. It was just an experiment, of course, but I was forced into exile for two years after breaking the good news. [[ComedicSociopathy You'd think they'd be only happy to avoid mass suicide]]. I don't think most people really appreciate the importance of practical science...

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->I myself started a sun cult back in... oh, 1979, to test a hypothesis. But by 1980, [[DrinkingTheKoolAid I had a hundred thousand people ready to leap off the Masada at my command]]. It was just an experiment, of course, but I was forced into exile for two years after breaking the good news. [[ComedicSociopathy [[NoSocialSkills You'd think they'd be only happy to avoid mass suicide]]. I don't think most people really appreciate the importance of practical science...
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->I myself started a sun cult back in... oh, 1979, to test a hypothesis. But by 1980, [[DrinkingTheKoolAid I had a hundred thousand people ready to leap off the Masada at my command]]. It was just an experiment, of course, but I was forced into exile for two years after breaking the good news. [[ComedicSociopathy You'd think they'd be only happy to avoid mass suicide]]. I don't think most people really appreciate the importance of practical science...
-->--'''Iain Tibet Gladstone,''' ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld''
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->[[EvilSorcerer Melkhior]] experiments with the living, trying to find out how they can be made to understand the benefit of [[AssimilationPlot joining the Undead]] and how they could overcome their fear of the dead. Countless men have died in Melkhior's obsessive search, but still the answer he searches for eludes him. Pain, suffering and horror fascinate this mad being; the dungeons and torture chambers of his [[MageTower dark tower]] are filled with wretched prisoners who undergo indescribable agony to satisfy the curiosity of this insane Vampire Lord.
-->''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}''
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-->-- '''Herbert West''', ''[[Film/ReAnimator Bride of Re-Animator]]''

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-->-- '''Dr Wu''', ''Film/JurassicWorld''

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->[Milo] always did prefer mad science of academia.

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-->--'''OingoBoingo''', "Weird Science"


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->'''Ben Grimm:''' Reed, you're insane.
->'''Reed Richards:''' Thanks.
-->--''Film/FantasticFour2015''
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-->-- TabletopGames/MagicTheGathering quote for ''Laboratory Maniac''

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-->-- '''Dr. Frank N. Furter''' ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow''

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->"So, come up to the lab and see what's on the slab\\

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->"So, come up to the lab and see what's on the slab\\
I see you shiver with antici... pation!\\
But, maybe the rain isn't really to blame\\
So, I'll remove the cause... BUT NOT THE SYMPTOM!
-->-- '''Dr. Frank N. Furter''' ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow''

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