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8	{{Mad Scientist}}s in ComicBooks.
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10	!!The following have their own pages:
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20	* Krona (of ''ComicBook/JLAAvengers'' fame) is a mad scientist from a species of humanoids who had discovered immortality and realized the potential of the mind's raw power well before Earth's solar system had formed. He was determined to unlock the secret of existence: How had the universe come into being? To this end, he created a "time window" that would allow him to peer at the moment of creation. Unfortunately, apparently the act of looking caused the creation to go awry, and instead of a single universe, a multiverse was formed. Unfortunately, this included one evil antimatter universe... and the seeds for the ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths were sown. Krona was banished, but eventually was employed by Nekron (the Lord of the Unliving) and turned into the embodiment of entropy. As such, he gradually grew in power, until he reached a point where he ''vivisected entire universes'' in his restless quest for answers. He forcibly interrogated Galactus to find out what he knew. All in the name of ''science''.
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24	* ''[[ComicBook/GIJoeARealAmericanHeroMarvel G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero]]'' has featured two Cobra mad scientists:
25	** Dr. Venom (real name Dr. Archibald Monev) was Cobra's original scientist. He created the [[MindProbe Brainwave Scanner]], and developed a virus that was intended to be used as a biological weapon, first by tainting newly-printed $20 bills (a plot foiled by the Joes), and then by using the Cobra officer known as Scar-Face as a vector against the Joes (thwarted by Scar-Face himself when he found out he was being sacrificed like that, by stealing the antidote). Dr. Venom and his arch-nemesis, the mercenary Kwinn, [[MutualKill killed each other]] during the 1st Battle of Fort Wadsworth, but it was revealed years later (in [=IDW=]'s continuation of the original series) that [[spoiler:Dr. Venom [[BrainUploading copied his brain patterns]] into the Brainwave Scanner]].
26	** Dr. Mindbender was originally a benevolent orthodontist named Dr. Binder, who in researching ways to alleviate dental pain, used an experimental brainwave device on himself, which turned him twisted and evil. He auditioned for the role of Cobra scientist by creating the [[MechaMooks Battle Android Troopers]] and [[ManEatingPlant creeper vine spores]], and went on to create Serpentor[[note]]though, unlike in the [[WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero cartoon]], Cobra Commander commissioned Mindbender to create a SuperSoldier to serve as a field general, and only later realized too late that Serpentor would have the ambition to usurp the Commander[[/note]]. Mindbender is incredibly vain, usually going shirtless to show off his well-developed pectorals. He was also paranoid enough to [[spoiler: have a clone backup of himself in the event of his own demise, and create mind-control chips for high-ranking Cobra officers that, in conjunction with a Brainwave Scanner treatment, would ensure their loyalty]].
27	* Dr. Venom in ''ComicBook/TransformersVsGIJoe'' ([[PronouncingMyNameForYou pronounced Phe-nom]]) is mad and then some, which is why the Joes (and later their allies, the Autobots) don't trust him after they liberate him from Cobra, even after [[spoiler: he shoots Buzzer in the head]]. He doesn't exactly give them much reason to trust him, either.
28	* ''ComicBook/TheTransformersAllHailMegatron'' makes Brainstorm into one. He seemingly has no qualms about [[spoiler: putting suggestion ideas inside Kup's mind]] at Prowl's request to exert more control over the army. In ''ComicBook/TheTransformersLastStandOfTheWreckers'' Brainstorm works at the Kimia Facility, an R & D lab full of mad scientists. And Brainstorm in particular is considered especially insane even by ''their'' standards. He makes a hobby of creating weapons so horrible, they're classified as unmentionable by the Ethics Committee. In ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'' he builds all sorts of weapons [[spoiler: and a holding cell]] for the crew [[spoiler: and to hold Overlord]], including a gun designed to shrink people, a bomb designed to break the fourth wall, an overpowered laser gun labelled My First Blaster (complete with flashing lights and sounds), and a gun that turns Cybertronians into ''Spark-devouring monsters''. Tellingly, when someone asks him about one of his inventions snuffing out a sun, he dismisses it as "filthy, stinking lies"... because they got a small detail wrong. The sun in question did get snuffed out.
29	** Also from Wreckers is Ironfist, whose weapons have been responsible for the death of millions of cons, but he himself is quite naive and doesn't know of their effects as well as the war's toll outside of statistics. He builds a gun which targets the brain, and that was banned by the ethics committee.
30	** Skyfall is a less comedic and naive example; [[spoiler: he isn't as smart or successful as the others, but he's quite mad, and sold Ironfist's most deadly invention to the Decepticons, and rigged one of those brain bullets to lodge inside Ironfist's skull and kill him.]]
31	** Jhiaxus. If his attempt to introduce gender to Cybertron by force doesn't count, or his experimenting on six beings to make an insane combining mecha, then what does? Perhaps finding a planet and influencing the local civilisation to begin turning themselves into cyborgs, then into fully mechanical beings capable of altering their bodies into vehicles. And all of this? He just does it because he can. It backfires when one of his "test subjects" dedicates her life to hunting him down and repaying him for what he did.
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35	%%* Barry Ween, the 10-year-old with a 4-digit IQ in the eponymous series ''ComicBook/TheAdventuresOfBarryWeenBoyGenius''. A representative quote: "Hey -- put that down! That's the controls to my weather satellite! You just flooded Norway!" [short pause] "Well... it's only Norway..."
36	* In ''ComicBook/AstroCity'', Professor Borzoi, Dr. Ganss, Dr. Nautilus, and Dr. Lewis Croft all do strange and unspeakable things with conventional science. While Infidel is an EvilSorcerer who is also capable of using Mad Science when he wants.
37	* Grant [=McKay=] from ''ComicBook/BlackScience'' is a genius physicist, but his expression of it is tied to his [[TheParanoiac paranoid rejection of all authority figures]] and [[ItsAllAboutMe insanely overblown ego]]. While exploring his mind Doxta specifically asks whether his madness caused or held back his genius. Apparently it runs in the family; Grant's similarly genius father was mentally ill and ended up [[DrivenToSuicide committing suicide]] when Grant was young.
38	* The scientists that captured N°73 in ''ComicBook/BlackTears'' have kidnapped countless children (if our protagonist number means anything, almost a hundred) and turned them all into monsters, all with the purpose of creating what they fear more: [[EldritchAbomination the darkness]]. They are stereotypical one-note madmen, with them having spiral glasses, and we don't know how or why they got funded for their research, or why they even decided to give a body to an entity they fear.
39	%%* Several villains in the ComicBook/BlakeAndMortimer comics fall under this trope. The most notable being:
40	%%** Wade/[[spoiler:Jonathan Septimus]]in "The Yellow M"
41	%%** Miloch Georgevich in "Sos Météores" and "Le Piege Diabolique"
42	* Skunky from ''ComicBook/BunnyVsMonkey'' has built a number of machines for his numerous plans to take over the forest.
43	* The ComicBook/DisneyMouseAndDuckComics has more than a few, the more relevants being:
44	** The trio of simian mad scientists named Professors Ecks, Doublex, and Triplex, that in their first appearance, the Floyd Gottfredson comic strip arc "Blaggard Castle", having them capture Mickey Mouse and Horace Horsecollar to test a HypnoRay on them with the intention of using their machine to take over the world and kill a bunch of people. The original story ended with Mickey [[HoistByHisOwnPetard using their ray against them]] and [[HeelFaceBrainwashing hypnotizing them into being good scientists]], but they would still return in subsequent comics back in their old evil ways.
45	** Portis, Pete's cousin, is a provider of many advanced technologies for his thieving relative.
46	** One of the reasons the Phantom Blot is held as Disney's answer to ComicBook/DoctorDoom is that he's quite the formidable scientist, capable of creating devices to accelerate his subjective time to the point of SuperSpeed or [[SaveScumming "save" a state of the universe and reload it at will as if it was a video game]]. The series "Darkenblot" makes great use of it, taking name from the PowerArmor models he uses in various attempts at [[TakeOverTheWorld conquering the planet]].
47	** Emil Eagle, Gyro's {{Foil}}, is prone to make invention for crimes-and at some point became rich by selling them, becoming the CEO of a megacorp just as [[RoguesGalleryTransplant he moved to become Super Goof's enemy]] in a parallel to ComicBook/{{Superman}} and Lex Luthor.
48	** Gyro himself is a little mad, as shown when he decided that the best way to prove Donald that he had invented a liquid that makes ImmuneToBullets was to kick him in a pool of said liquid and then ''shoot him with a high-powered revolver''.
49	*** [[InTheBlood It's apparently a family thing]], as his great-grandfather was a genius scientist working for Fantomius the GentlemanThief and said great-grandfather's EvilTwin was a full-blown criminal scientist.
50	** ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures'' examples:
51	*** Everett Ducklair, the creator of [[ArtificialIntelligence One]] and many of the gadgets [[ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures Paperinik]] uses, is a unwilling case: because of his ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder (implied to be [[spoiler:the result of the many years he spent as a ReluctantScientist for a GalacticConqueror]]), he simply can't create something without turning it in a weapon. He eventually retreats to a monastery to meditate and search for the better part of himself.
52	*** In the reboot "Pikappa" we have Vulnus Vendor, who is much less concerned about creating dangerous inventions.
53	* ''ComicBook/{{Herbie}}'': Professor Flipdome is a friend of Herbie; his wacky inventions invariably cause problems that Herbie has to take care of.
54	* D.A. Sinclair of ''ComicBook/{{Invincible}}'' is easily one of the most sadistic mad scientists in fiction. He started making zombielike techno-organic minions, Re-Animen, from dead bodies, which is bad enough. But he eventually moved on to ''live'' subjects, kidnapping his roommate and ''tearing out his vocal cords'' so that he couldn't scream while he operated on him (D.A. is a college student, after all, and can't afford anesthetic). And he tore his arm off and overrode his free will. Then he started duplicating the process on homeless people. Naturally, the US Government saw to it that he served no jail time when he was caught, and gave him a cushy job making Re-Animen for military use.
55	* Simon von Simon from ''ComicBook/LittleGloomy''. He's got it all, from his powerful machinery, futuristic inventions (such as the television and the microwave. Before you say anything, he invented them before anyone else did), hunchbacked HalfheartedHenchman, to his seething rage for everybody but himself. The fact that his plans for world domination were motivated by Gloomy dumping him, and the fact that the series calls him on not marketing his fantastic creations to get on top in a less freaky way undermines his menace somewhat; This, in turn, is offset by his army of ravenous zombies.
56	* Creator/WarrenEllis's ''ComicBook/DoktorSleepless'' intentionally invokes this: nobody listens to "real people," so he becomes the cartoony mad scientist character of Doktor Sleepless to draw attention.
57	* The titular character of ''ComicBook/LeonardLeGenie'' is one, especially when he goes all out on his rival Albert in the episode ''La Guerre de Genie'' ("The Genius Wars").
58	* Profesor Bacterio from ''ComicBook/MortadeloYFilemon''. Both T.I.A. agents have ''very good'' reasons to run away really fast when ordered to test one of his inventions.
59	* In ''ComicBook/RainbowBrite'' Murky Dismal has been reimagined as this.
60	* ''ComicBook/RequiemVampireKnight'' features an ''entire faction'' of these with the Archaeologists. They were originally scientists who made disastrous inventions in life, and were damned to become [[{{mummy}} mummy-like beings]] on [[PlanetHeck Résurrection]]. The Archaeologists are the only beings allowed [[FantasyGunControl to control human technology]] in order to keep it out of the hands of the lower masses in the setting and prevent them from overthrowing the current regime. And then you have the Hierophants, the higher-ranked Archaeologists who embody the "mad" part of this trope by wearing [[GenuineHumanHide other people's skin when they come out from their sarcophagus]].
61	* In ''ComicBook/SherlockHolmesAndTheHorrorOfFrankenstein'', Dr. Pretorious is the mad scientist who freed the Frankenstein Monster from the Arctic ice, revived it, and is now attempting to create a similar creature.
62	%% * ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'':
63	%% ** In addition to [[BigBad Dr. Robotnik/Eggman]], ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'' has Dr. Finitevus and Dimitri, both of whom work for the Dark Legion, a group who believe in self-augmentation with technology.
64	%% ** Dr. Zachary from ''ComicBook/SonicTheComic''.
65	%% ** ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogIDW'' has, in addition to Eggman, Dr. Starline, a fan of Eggman's who is just as brilliant and devious.
66	* Zorglub, from ComicBook/SpirouAndFantasio, is one. Champignac is often seen as one by the villagers, and he actually ''behaves'' like one on occasion.
67	* The Military Doctor in ''ComicBook/{{Sturmtruppen}}'': He believes he's discovered the Invisibility Elixir without getting insane, while his attendants point out that's actually the other way around. He also thought that a case of anemia was actually caused by a Vampire.
68	* Escariano Avieso from ''ComicBook/{{Superlopez}}''. White lab robe? Check. SinisterShades? Check. A heaping helping of {{Evil Plan}}s? Check. Wacky and Escarolitropic-Gmnesic circuit-ridden inventions? Double check.
69	* ''ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesMirage'' gives us Baxter Stockman. He was already making money with his legitimate science company and products, but turned to CartoonishSupervillainy for fun.
70	* "The Vampire Maker" in ''Uncanny Tales from the Grave'' #4[[note]]Which originally appeared in ''Weird Worlds'' #13.[[/note]] presents a rare ''heroic'' example in Dr. Gottfried, who creates an artificial vampire that preys on other vampires shortly before being killed by a [[TorchesAndPitchforks misinformed mob]].
71	* ''ComicBook/{{Ungrounded}}'' has Doktor Bleak.
72	* There is a double subversion in ''ComicBook/UniversalWarOne''. [[spoiler:The scientist who invented the wormhole is the only one to care about a possible TimeParadox, so he kills the fools who want to "go home" even if it endangers the universe. However, when Kalish explains to him there is no way to create a time paradox, the scientist becomes mad.]]
73	* Dr. Billy Joe Robidoux from ''ComicBook/WynonnaEarp''. To quote Wynonna: "He's a southern-fried gumbo of Dr. Josef Mengele, Dr. Frankenstein and runs a real-life version of ''Literature/TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau''."
74	* In ''ComicBook/YTheLastMan'', geneticist Dr Allison Mann claims that she was illegally cloning a nephew who needed a bone transplant. She later admits this story was fictional to gain Agent 355's sympathy rather than be thought of as a 'mad scientist'; her actual motive was to spite her father who was nearing success in cloning the first human. [[spoiler:After several {{Red Herring}}s, we discover that the ''real'' mad scientist is in fact Allison's father, who was seeking to clone his daughter so he could be a better parent the next time round, yet who also sabotaged Allison's cloning experiment out of sheer spite and may have accidentally caused the plague that all but wiped out all males.]]
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