History Main / TheWormGuy

* ''[=~Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within~=]'': Dr. Ross is the Plant Lady.

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* Daniel Jackson in the ''Film/{{Stargate}}'' movie--taken away from a lecture (where the lectured walked out on him) so that he can decipher the stargate. He's not interrupted while doing his research, but it's along the same vein.

* IndianaJones in ''Raiders of the Lost Ark,'' although he's called out of class at the university, rather than the field.

* UltimateMarvel's version of the Falcon is introduced in a downright awesome version of this trope: he's in the Amazon when the military guys come for him by helicopter, and then he unveils his wings and flies up to meet them. He's treated a bit more respectfully than usual, though he does have to stand his ground to get the Black Widow's first name. The relevance of his research to the mission is that he was searching for ways to communicate with the afterlife, and hypothesizes the situation might have to do with broadcasts from beyond death, [[spoiler:which turns out to be true, albeit in a slightly less literal manner.]]

The trope is named after Niko Tatopoulos from the 1998 ''Film/{{Godzilla}}'' film, who is referred to by the millitary personnel as "the worm guy", as they took him from Chernobyl where he was studying earthworms. [[NoPronunciationGuide And they couldn't pronounce his actual name]].

* Daniel Jackson in the ''{{Stargate}}'' movie--taken away from a lecture (where the lectured walked out on him) so that he can decipher the stargate. He's not interrupted while doing his research, but it's along the same vein.

* This happens in {{Lost}} when associates of the rich and powerful Charles Widmore are sent out to round up a team which is meant to [[spoiler: travel to the island and capture Benjamin Linus]]. This team includes a physicist who spent his whole life studying time travel and a paranormal investigator.

Compare to TheJorEl and TheOneGuyWithABrain. Contrast with AgentMulder, who is recognised as an unscientific crank, but is right anyway.

* Milo Thatch in ''[[AtlantisTheLostEmpire Atlantis: The Lost Empire]]''
** Although he was planning on resigning his position anyway, fed up with not being taken seriously by the board of directors at the museum.

* In ''{{Animorphs}}'', Marco's dad is working on a research project that leads him to discover Zero Space. A WhamEpisode results: [[spoiler:the Yeerks attempt to capture him to work for them, forcing Marco to reveal TheMasquerade to his father and drag him into hiding to escape]].

* Nicolas Cage in ''TheRock'', where he is whisked away from his fiance to save the world from rare neurotoxins.
** Then again, Cage's character ''was'' an FBI agent. They're on call like that.

* ''TheCore'' with Aaron Eckhart's character.

* ''[=~Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within~=]''

Compare to TheJorEl. Contrast with AgentMulder, who is recognised as an unscientific crank, but is right anyway.

* ''Volcano'' - the two (female) earthquake scietists are called out to the field to create an explanation why a Los Angeles Department of Water and Power employee was cooked to death in a manhole in [=McArthur=] Park.

The trope is named after Niko Tatopoulos from the 1998 ''{{Godzilla}}'' film, who is referred to by the millitary personnel as "the worm guy", as they took him from Chernobyl where he was studying earthworms. [[NoPronunciationGuide And they couldn't pronounce his actual name]].

* The trope's namesake, Niko Tatopoulos from the 1998 ''{{Godzilla}}''. He was researching the growth rate of earthworms, by himself, out in the field, and suggests Godzilla was created from nuclear fallout on absolutely no evidence. He also gets cross when ignored about his [[spoiler:Godzilla eggs nest site]] theory, which then turns out to be correct. The quintessential worm guy.

* IndianaJones in ''Raiders of the Lost Ark.''

* IndianaJones in ''RaidersoftheLostArk.''

* Robert Langdon in ''AngelsAndDemons'' is ([[DanBrowned allegedly]]) am art historian example.

Contrast with AgentMulder, who is recognised as an unscientific crank, but is right anyway.

* Norman Johnson in ''Sphere'', a psychologist carried off by the millitary to study aliens.

** ''10.5'' is [[TheyJustDidntCare so fantastically unscientific]] that the US Geological Survey, Incorporated Research Instituitions for Seismology, California Office of Emergency Services, California Department of Conservation and most major earthquake sites ''all'' poked fun at it.

* Milo Thatch in ''[[strike:{{Stargate}}]]'' ''[[strike:NadiaTheSecretOfBlueWater]]'' ''[[AtlantisTheLostEmpire Atlantis: The Lost Empire]]''