History Quotes / MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate

->''Dr. Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier was the former President for Life of UsefulNotes/{{Haiti}}, a title which he gave himself [[TheCaligula because that's the kind of thing you do when you're a crazy dictator]]. His father was named Duval Duvalier and was [[HangingJudge a judge]] while his mother, Ulyssia Abraham, was [[ItRunsInTheFamily insane]]. The only thing missing was [[FreakLabAccident exposure to radiation]] to help him on his way to perfecting his villainy.''

->''Dr. Francois Duvalier was the former President for Life of Haiti, a title which he gave himself [[TheCaligula because that's the kind of thing you do when you're a crazy dictator]]. His father was named Duval Duvalier and was [[HangingJudge a judge]] while his mother, Ulyssia Abraham, was [[ItRunsInTheFamily insane]]. The only thing missing was [[FreakLabAccident exposure to radiation]] to help him on his way to perfecting his villainy.''

-->-- '''Blog/TheComicsCurmudgeon''' [[http://joshreads.com/?p=22585#comments on]] ''Franchise/SpiderMan''

->'''Doctor''': Just one ''small'' question, ah... why do you want to blow up the world?\\
'''[[HerrDoktor Zaroff]]''': 'Why?' You, a scientist, ask me why? The ''achievement'', my dear Doctor! The destruction of the world! The scientists' dream of supreme power!

->''I don't believe that man's ever been to medical school.''

->''We are concerned with the academic first, saving lives second.''
-->--'''Dr. Heinemann''', ''Manga/{{Monster}}''

->'''Buzz''': Evil Dr. Porkchop!\\
'''Hamm''': That's [[TheyCallMeMisterTibbs MISTER]] Dr. Porkchop to you!

->''"I swear I’m not just saying this over bitterness over my own botched attempt to get an academic [=PhD=], honest: I find it really pretentious when people who have non-medical doctorates go around calling themselves 'doctor.' Maybe [[Characters/MarvelComicsOttoOctavius Doc Ock]] wanted to call himself 'Professor Octopus' but then he got an angry letter from the provost reminding him that he was only an adjunct lecturer."''

->'''Dr. John Watson''': Holmes, I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible crime.\\
'''Sherlock Holmes''': Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong, he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Palmer_(murderer) Palmer]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_William_Pritchard Pritchard]] were among the heads of their profession.
-->-- ''[[Literature/SherlockHolmes The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes]]'', "The Adventure of the Speckled Band"

->''"Seems like every day there's another one, doesn't it? Today a Havoconda or Machismollusk, tomorrow a Doctor Destruction or Doctor Damage or Doc Dojo. (And do ''not'' get me started on supervillain abuse of the word 'doctor'; only a bare handful have ''any'' medical or scientific training at all, and Doctor Damage [[NotThatKindOfDoctor has a doctorate in]] ''[[NotThatKindOfDoctor Medieval English]]'' -- bah!)"''
-->--''SÜPER,'' by Corey Redekop

-->-- '''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}''' [[BreakingTheFourthWall giving the player his opinion]] on [[Characters/MarvelComicsDoctorDoom Doctor Doom]], [[Characters/MarvelComicsOttoOctavius Doctor Octopus]], and [[Characters/ThunderboltsFoundingMembers Moonstone]] before the player begins the "{{Evil Genius}}es" mission in the "Deadpool vs. Villains" event of ''VideoGame/MarvelPuzzleQuest''

-> ''Don't say that he's hypocritical,\\

That's not my department, " says Wernher von Braun''.
-->--"Wernher von Braun" by Music/TomLehrer.

->'''Mr. Freeze''': Soon an eternal winter will fall on Gotham and the world will know the name Dr. Freeze.\\
'''Batman''': Doctor? You're Mr. Freeze.\\
'''Mr. Freeze''': I'm a doctor. I went to medical school. I want to be called Dr. Freeze.\\
'''Batman''': I can't allow that! If I let you go by Doctor everybody will want to. Dr. Harley Quinn, Dr. Poison Ivy, Dr. Man-Bat, Dr. Scarecrow.\\
'''Mr. Freeze''': Wow, you have a lot of doctor villains.\\
'''Batman''': Yeah, for such a crime-ridden city our education is best in the country. We're 80% doctors.
-->--Blog/TextsFromSuperheroes, [[https://textsfromsuperheroes.com/post/178806773602/doctorvillains this exchange]].

->''"Leonard is upstairs right now with my arch-enemy. The [[Characters/MarvelComicsDoctorDoom Dr. Doom]] to my [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Mr. Fantastic]], the [[Characters/MarvelComicsOttoOctavius Dr. Octopus]] to my ComicBook/SpiderMan, the Dr. Sivana to my [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]]... You know, it's amazing how many supervillains have advanced degrees. Graduate schools should do a better job of screening those people out."''

-->-- '''Dr. Cranium'''[[note]]Who later insists he's not mad. A bit perturbed about the world situation and how he gets so little respect, perhaps. But certainly not mad![[/note]] ''VideoGame/QuestForGloryIV: Shadows of Darkness''

-->-- '''Alfred Woden''' on Nicole Horne, ''VideoGame/MaxPayne''

->''"Something terrible is about the enter our world and this building is obviously the door. The architect's name was Ivo Shandor... He was also a doctor. Performed a lot of unnecessary surgery. And then in 1920 he founded a secret society. After the First World War, Shandor decided that society was too sick to survive. And he wasn't alone: he had [[ApocalypseCult close to a thousand followers when he died]]."''

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-->--Blog/TextsFromSuperheroes, [[https://textsfromsuperheroes.com/post/178806773602/doctorvillains this exchange]].

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-->-- ''Wiki/RationalWiki'' on the Wakefield paper

-->-- '''Buzz''', ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory''

->I don't believe that man's ever been to medical school.

-->-- '''''{{Website/Cracked}}''''', [[http://www.cracked.com/article_16611_5-real-world-criminals-who-were-certified-supervillains.html "5 Real World Criminals Who Were Certified Supervillains"]]

-->-- '''''Blog/TheComicsCurmudgeon''''' [[http://joshreads.com/?p=22585#comments on]] ''Franchise/SpiderMan''

->''Once the massive methodological and ethical flaws in this paper came to light, the ''Lancet'' rejected it about as hard as Jehovah rejected Lucifer. Like Lucifer, the paper has spawned a vast number of evil and stupid minions bent on destroying the world.''
-->-- '''''Wiki/RationalWiki''''' on the Wakefield paper

->"I didn't spend six years at [[AcademyOfEvil evil medical school]] to be called 'mister', thank you very much!"

-->-- '''Buzz:''', ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory''

->Leonard is upstairs right now with my arch-enemy. The Dr. Doom to my Mr. Fantastic, the Dr. Octopus to my Spider-Man, the Dr. Sivana to my Captain Marvel... You know, it's amazing how many supervillains have advanced degrees. Graduate schools should do a better job of screening those people out.

->There's no scientific consensus that ''life'' is important!

->He is a man of good birth and excellent education, endowed by nature with a phenomenal mathematical faculty. At the age of twenty-one he wrote a treatise upon the binomial theorem which has had a European vogue. On the strength of it, he won the mathematical chair at one of our smaller universities, and had, to all appearances, [[YouCouldHaveUsedYourPowersForGood a most brilliant career before him]]. But the man had hereditary tendencies of the most diabolical kind. A criminal strain ran in his blood, which, instead of being modified, was increased and rendered infinitely more dangerous by his extraordinary mental powers. Dark rumours gathered round him in the University town, and eventually he was compelled to resign his chair and come down to London.

->'''Doctor:''' Just one ''small'' question, ah... why do you want to blow up the world?\\
'''[[HerrDoktor Zaroff]]:''' 'Why?' You, a scientist, ask me why? The ''achievement'', my dear Doctor! The destruction of the world! The scientists' dream of supreme power!
-->-- ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS4E5TheUnderwaterMenace}} "The Underwater Menace"]]

->'''Buzz:''' Evil Dr. Porkchop!\\

->[[TheyCalledMeMad Some call me mad]], but I much prefer "Dr. Cranium".

->Something terrible is about the enter our world and this building is obviously the door. The architect's name was Ivo Shandor... He was also a doctor. Performed a lot of unnecessary surgery. And then in 1920 he founded a secret society. After the First World War, Shandor decided that society was too sick to survive. And he wasn't alone: he had [[ApocalypseCult close to a thousand followers when he died.]]
-->-- '''Egon''', ''{{Film/Ghostbusters 1984}}''

->Edward Bailey was a genius physicist who built some of the greatest stuff during the Cold War: neutron bombs, particle beam weapons, nerve gas weapons--''excellent'' nerve gas. He was a rock star of conventional mass killing. They called him the "[[MadArtist Da Vinci of Death]]".
-->-- '''Marvin''', ''Film/{{Red 2}}''

->She was the key figure in project Valhalla. When the funding was discontinued, she simply refused to quit. [[PsychoSerum She knew exactly what she had in her hands]].

->Can you believe it? Wimpy old Professor Warren--and look at me! Able to take on not one, but two [[ComicBook/SpiderMan Spider-Men]] at the same time! I'd like to see the nitwits at NSU deny me tenure now!

->Dr. Francois Duvalier was the former President for Life of Haiti, a title which he gave himself because that's the kind of thing you do when you're a crazy dictator. His father was named Duval Duvalier and was [[HangingJudge a judge]] while his mother, Ulyssia Abraham, was [[ItRunsInTheFamily insane]]. The only thing missing was [[FreakLabAccident exposure to radiation]] to help him on his way to perfecting his villainy.

->I swear I’m not just saying this over bitterness over my own botched attempt to get an academic PhD, honest: I find it really pretentious when people who have non-medical doctorates go around calling themselves 'doctor.' Maybe [[ComicBook/DoctorOctopus Doc Ock]] wanted to call himself 'Professor Octopus' but then he got an angry letter from the provost reminding him that he was only an adjunct lecturer.
-->-- '''''Blog/TheComicsCurmudgeon''''' [[http://joshreads.com/?p=22585#comments on]] ''Spider-Man''

->Once the massive methodological and ethical flaws in this paper came to light, the ''Lancet'' rejected it about as hard as Jehovah rejected Lucifer. Like Lucifer, the paper has spawned a vast number of evil and stupid minions bent on destroying the world.

->Are there really a lot of people named 'Dr. Hell?'
-->-- '''Sabrina''' on ''[[Anime/MazingerZ Dr. Hell]]'', ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue''

->Scotland Yard has top man working on the case: [[IdenticalGrandson James Xavier]], whose head appears to be emerging from a bear trap made of hair. Xavier, whose voice sounds eerily familiar, believes that the culprit behind these… crimes? is one Nathaniel Essex, but the cops refuse to believe him. See, Essex is in his sixties, but the culprit is clearly a younger man. Also, the cops are wary of charging a respected [='=]''man of science''[='=] with these crimes, which is understandable. I mean, who ever heard of an evil scientist?
-->-- '''Chris Sims''' [[http://comicsalliance.com/the-x-men-episode-guide-5x12-descent-or-literally-no-one-cares-about-minister-sinister/ on]] ''WesternAnimation/XMen'' ("Descent", or "No One Cares About Mister Sinister")

->"I didn't spend six years at evil medical school to be called 'mister', thank you very much!"
-->-- '''Dr Evil''', ''Film/AustinPowers''

->'''[[TheWatson Dr. John Watson]]:''' Holmes, I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible crime.\\
'''Sherlock Holmes:''' Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong, he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Palmer_(murderer) Palmer]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_William_Pritchard Pritchard]] were among the heads of their profession.

->"I expect you are both hungry. Pray be patient. I will be brief. So, if you recall, there I was, in Milwaukee. In due course, I completed my studies and I left America and went by the easy stages round the world. I called myself 'doctor' because doctors receive confidences and they can ask questions without arousing suspicion."

->Seems like every day there's another one, doesn't it? Today a Havoconda or Machismollusk, tomorrow a Doctor Destruction or Doctor Damage or Doc Dojo. (And do ''not'' get me started on supervillain abuse of the word "doctor"; only a bare handful have ''any'' medical or scientific training at all, and Doctor Damage [[NotThatKindOfDoctor has a doctorate in]] ''[[NotThatKindOfDoctor Medieval English]]'' - bah!)

-> These three jokers can't be real doctors, right? [[LampshadeHanging Last time I checked, a [=PhD=] in evil wasn't a real major.]]
-->-- '''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}''' [[BreakingTheFourthWall giving the player his opinion]] on ComicBook/DoctorDoom, ComicBook/DoctorOctopus, and ComicBook/{{Moonstone}} before the player begins the "{{Evil Genius}}es" mission in the "Deadpool vs. Villains" event of ''VideoGame/MarvelPuzzleQuest''

->Dr. Francois Duvalier was the former President for Life of Haiti, a title which he gave himself because that's the kind of thing you do when you're a crazy dictator. His father was named Duval Duvalier and was [[HangingJudge a judge]] while his mother, Ulyssia Abraham, was [[InTheBlood insane]]. The only thing missing was [[FreakLabAccident exposure to radiation]] to help him on his way to perfecting his villainy.

->I swear I’m not just saying this over bitterness over [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial my own botched attempt to get an academic PhD]], honest: I find it really pretentious when people who have non-medical doctorates go around calling themselves 'doctor.' Maybe [[ComicBook/DoctorOctopus Doc Ock]] wanted to call himself 'Professor Octopus' but then he got an angry letter from the provost reminding him that he was only an adjunct lecturer.

->Once the massive methodological and ethical flaws in this paper came to light, the ''Lancet'' rejected it about as hard as Jehovah rejected Lucifer. Like Lucifer, the paper has spawned a vast number of [[ConspiracyTheorist evil and stupid minions bent on destroying the world.]]

->Leonard is upstairs right now with my arch-enemy. The Dr. Doom to my Mr. Fantastic, the Dr. Octopus to my Spider-Man, the Dr. Sivana to my Captain Marvel... You know, it's amazing how many supervillains have advanced degrees.

->Can you believe it? Wimpy old Professor Warren--and look at me! Able to take on not one, but two [[SpiderMan Spider-Men]] at the same time! I'd like to see the nitwits at NSU deny me tenure now!

-->-- '''''RationalWiki''''' on the Wakefield paper

-->-- ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2''

-->-- '''Chris Sims''' [[http://comicsalliance.com/the-x-men-episode-guide-5x12-descent-or-literally-no-one-cares-about-minister-sinister/ on]] ''WesternAnimation/{{X-Men}}'' ("Descent", or "No One Cares About Mister Sinister")