Basic Trope: Unethical science experiments that create things.
- Straight: Dr. Evil regularly tests his Psycho Serum on animals to study the effects, as well as frequently dissecting them to turn them into uplifted animals.
- Exaggerated: Dr. Evil uses science to outright torture and kill his victims.
- Downplayed: Dr. Evil does have legitimate goals, but is unnecessarily torturous on his test subjects sometimes.
- Justified: Dr. Evil is an Evilutionary Biologist trying to create a new superorganism.
- Inverted: Science experiments are used to create positive things.
- Subverted: Unethical experiments specifically never wind up creating anything of value, being a disguise for sadism at worst or at best just plain sloppy science and engineering which greedily skips vital steps thinking it will bring results.
- Double Subverted: The experimentation result turns out to be a really horrifying Eldritch Abomination that eats everyone around.
- Parodied: Dr. Evil literally plays with syringes like a little child.
- Zig-Zagged: Some experiments are unethical, others are perfectly okay.
- Averted: Science experiments are never unethical.
- Enforced: To give an Escaped from the Lab character a tragic backstory.
- Lampshaded: "Dr. Evil was like one of those mad scientists in the movies. He..."
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied:
- Bob is imprisoned in Dr. Evil's lab and strapped to an operation table, surrounded by strange chemicals and skulls. He reads the signs right and escapes from there before he can be subjected to any experiments.
- Dr. Evil has standards, and decides not to do any unethical experimentation; he always ensures that his subjects are okay with the procedures he does, and also makes sure that they aren't in pain or distress.
- Discussed: "We could never say anyone what really is in those syringes." "And they say this shall create some kind of Eldritch Abomination..."
- Conversed: "Mengele would also be a good name for that doctor."
- Implied: A test subject that Escaped from the Lab begins describing how horrifying his time at the lab was, mentioning that he was repeatedly subject to torturous experiments.
- Deconstructed: Any attempts to launch it wind up failing very quickly due to logistics. Anywhere close to common needed equipment has far too many witnesses. Acquiring it and setting it up causes people to be rightfully get suspicious at the combinations of gear which make Dr. Evil look like he is planning on being a Serial Killer.
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