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15->"''When did mankind lose touch with natural selection? No matter how inferior a human's genes are, that person is protected by laws, and can't be killed. Even those incapacitated in accidents or stricken with a serious illness are needlessly kept alive. What a drawn out, wasteful existence. It's this divorce from natural selection that has caused mankind to stop evolving. It's a step down. The devolution of mankind. But I intend to accelerate the culling of genetically inferior humans. To rekindle the refining fire of natural selection!''"
16-->-- '''Hans Davis''', ''VideoGame/MetalGearAcid''
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18Some evil {{mad scientist}}s use their twisted intellect solely for personal gain. This particular villain is not so provincial. His genius and his motives go hand in hand, and his concerns are with the welfare of the human species (or so he thinks). Simply put, to the Evilutionary Biologist, humanity is stuck in an evolutionary rut, and it's up to him to put us back on the proper path so we can continue to evolve.
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20Why the Evilutionary Biologist believes this is necessary varies, as do his methods. Some Evilutionary Biologists simply believe that humanity has erred in its domination of the environment, and thus our very survival as a species is threatened unless they force us to continue evolving. Others see change and so-called improvement as [[ForScience goals in and of themselves]] and resolve to use scientific advancement to cause them. Still others seek to create a new race of [[BioAugmentation biologically superior]] {{transhuman}}s or just the UltimateLifeForm with the power of science, either because they see humans as having outlived their time on the planet or because of a genuine desire to improve the human condition. Some will just be a MakerOfMonsters. They often subscribe to the philosophies of [[TheSocialDarwinist Social Darwinism]] and "[[WellIntentionedExtremist The Ends Justify the Means]]". It's not uncommon for them to [[DarwinistDesire practice what they preach]] and marry someone they see as fit and worthy for them.
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22Regardless, because of his dedication, the Evilutionary Biologist is willing to [[KidnappedForExperimentation break laws]], engage in [[PlayingWithSyringes experimental alterations upon other human beings]], and ruin lives for [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans the higher goal]]. Their creations are no less exempt; whether they're ReplacementGoldfish, with CloneAngst, or genetically "programmed" to have [[VillainousLineage evil]], their "children" are doomed to live sad, short, [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters rebellious]] lives, unless they really ''do'' feel [[TrulySingleParent parental]]. They will never realize that EvilEvolves and will never be able to identify themselves as the villains.
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24Evilutionary Biologists often create [[HalfHumanHybrid inhuman]] [[MixAndMatchCritters monsters]] and {{artificial human}}s to serve as minions and {{Mooks}}, as well as to populate their extensive GardenOfEvil. They themselves may even be willing to [[ProfessorGuineaPig suffer the fruits of their experimentation]], often resulting in [[OneWingedAngel a monstrous, inhuman new body]].
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26Whenever an Evilutionary Biologist appears on the scene -- they are the most common form of villainous biologist in many games and SpeculativeFiction media -- be on guard for a ScienceIsBad [[AnAesop aesop]] to rear its ugly head. They might as well be EcoTerrorist who believes too much in ''nature'', if their disregard for everything led to them carrying out sorts of terrorism.
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28This is especially ironic because in real biology, one of the core precepts of the theory of evolution is that it does not "improve" a species, because there is no such thing as an ideal form for a species -- only what is best[[note]]Or rather "good enough". Products of evolution are often TheAllegedCar of the natural world. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_poor_design#Examples Go figure]].[[/note]] at surviving and reproducing in ''current'' conditions. If the environment changes, the species must adapt all over again, which is why genetic diversity (Nature's way of "hedging her bets") is usually a good thing.
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30Moreover, assuming that a species '''must''' evolve if subjected to increased selection pressures (or AppliedPhlebotinum-induced mutations) overlooks the harsh fact that most organisms ''don't'' adapt in the face of such challenges: they simply go extinct, which is why we're not rubbing elbows with mammoths, sauropods and trilobites today. Deliberately applying such selective forces to humans may let us join them in extinction, not improve upon our current state.
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32Finally, evolution is conservative, and a species which is ''thriving'' (you know, like ''Homo sapiens'') is unlikely to evolve new traits, because it's doing fine the way it is. Sharks, for example, haven't changed much since ''before the first dinosaurs appeared,'' and they're just as successful as ever... making the entire mania of the Evilutionary Biologist suspect at best.
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34Even so, GoalOrientedEvolution was taken dead seriously by many back in the heyday of the eugenics movement (orthogenesis, the real evolutionary theory positing it, was tossed around for some time), and still gets cited by people who really ought to know better ([[TheSingularity Singularitarians]] are frequently guilty of it), along with being a common misconception of [[HollywoodEvolution how natural selection works]].
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36Examples of this trope will probably be [[HerrDoktor German]], and possibly one of ThoseWackyNazis, if we want to be ''really'' [[{{Anvilicious}} obvious]].
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38Compare DesignerBabies, UpliftedAnimal, SuperBreedingProgram, {{Transhuman}} and EcoTerrorist.
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46%%* ''Manga/AstroBoy'' has a lot of run-ins with guys like this. His own father even becomes one.
47* In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', we have Szayelaporro Granz, the eighth Espada, who is [[AGodAmI obsessed with reaching perfection]].
48%%* ''Anime/BlueSubmarineNo6'': EmperorScientist Dr. Zorndyke.
49* ''Literature/BoogiepopSeries'': The Towa Organization sees it as its duty to help push humanity forward in its evolution as well as seeking out and destroying the individuals who pose a threat to that goal. Much of the conflict in the series is the direct result of their actions, including the creation of Manticore, a human eating monster cloned from an alien. In the novels it seems that Towa wants to keep the "over-evolved" individuals in check and prevent the evolution of humanity in larger scale -- ironically, they enforce this ideology with Synthetic Humans who have very little difference to the "over-evolved" individuals, except that most of them are absolutely loyal to Towa Organization.
50* ''Manga/BrynhildrInTheDarkness'': Takachiho is an amateur ''geologist'' who stumbles upon alien corpses and technology while exploring a mine for gold, gets the [[SarcasmMode brilliant idea]] to replace all of humanity with {{Half Human Hybrid}}s using the alien's own FantasticNuke to do it and, with a group of like-minded individuals, spends 100 years rounding up ''children'' under the age of ten and having "researchers", at gunpoint, perform [[PlayingWithSyringes horrific experiments]] indistinguishable from ColdBloodedTorture on them to unlock their "true potential" just to achieve this end. At the start of the story, [[FridgeHorror he's on the cusp of succeeding]].
51* ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'': Creator/AleisterCrowley ([[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy yes, that one]]) is, in this universe, the founder and leader of [[{{Tomorrowland}} Academy City]], a scientifically advanced city located within Tokyo that is comprised mostly of students. Said students are [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual espers]] whose studies are mainly focused on the development of PsychicPowers, which they gain through a combination of drug treatment and hypnosis, and the usefulness of which are ranked from [[PowerLevels Levels]] [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway 1]] through [[PersonOfMassDestruction 5]]. Every esper is essentially a human guinea pig in a massive citywide experiment conducted by the scientists that run Academy City, who range from the [[ForScience amoral]] to the downright [[MadScientist insane]] (the Kihara family), and Aleister himself [[spoiler:is a former magician who turned his back on magic after growing disillusioned with a world in which humans allowed their destiny to be controlled by the magical "phases" that can affect a person's fortune. It's implied that his ultimate goal for the espers is to use the unique energy they unconsciously emit, known as [[AppliedPhlebotinum AIM fields]], to rid the world of magic, which he believes will direct humanity towards its ideal course in which people are freed from fate and mysticism, and the world is built up from the efforts of individuals rather than that of [[RageAgainstTheHeavens the gods]]]].
52* ''Manga/ElfenLied'': Chief Kakuzawa's "diclonius" efforts. Unfortunately for him, [[spoiler:pissing off the crux of his plans (Lucy) slaps him with the TooDumbToLive label]]. His son gets the same treatment.
53%%* ''Manga/KingOfThorn'': Zeus.
54* ''Anime/MacrossFrontier'': [[spoiler:[[MagnificentBastard Grace O'Connor]], the resident MadScientist]]. In Episode 24 she directly states that [[spoiler:her main goal is for humanity to become greater than [[{{Precursors}} the Protoculture]]]].
55* ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers'': Dr. Jail Scaglietti, the MadScientist behind Project F and several other ArtificialHuman related experiments. According to [[SmugSnake Quattro]], his ultimate goal is the completion of biomanipulation technology and the creation of a space to do that. That at least several hundred thousand people would die in the process is acceptable collateral damage.
56* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED'': [[MadScientist Dr. Ulen Hibiki]], although he hadn't really built his views around evolutionary dead-end, still wanted to advance the human race as much as possible ForScience. So, to produce his [[ArtificialHuman Ultimate Coordinator]], he didn't stop before using his own yet unborn (in fact, just conceived) son, [[spoiler:Kira Yamato]], as well as many others, as a guinea pig for his experiments. The fact that he eventually succeeded didn't help him, though, when [[TorchesAndPitchforks he was lynched by an angry mob]].
57* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', this trope motivates Orochimaru's StartOfDarkness: he just wants to learn all the jutsu in the world, and when he realizes he can't in a normal human lifetime, he starts experimenting to put himself above all else. It's more just for his own sake than for the world's, and he's using human guinea pigs left and right.
58* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'': SEELE's goal is to [[spoiler:merge all of humanity and an EldritchAbomination together]] because they believe that humanity has otherwise "stagnated" as a species.
59* [[spoiler:Sanji's father]] Vinsmoke Judge from ''Manga/OnePiece''. He rules a kingdom with an iron fist and is very abusive to his son [[spoiler:Sanji]]. [[spoiler:He specializes in CreatingLife and genetically engineering humans at the peak of physical prowess. Not to mention he modified his own children to become SuperSoldier {{Tyke Bomb}}s with the cost of their human emotions and empathy.]]
60* ''Manga/ProjectARMS'': Keith White thinks that his pursuit of knowledge leaves him perfectly justified to kill, experiment on, mutate, torture, and otherwise ruin the lives of the human test subjects he works with, most of them children. By the series' end, he has taken to [[AGodAmI declaring himself God]] and insisting that he'll nuke the planet so he can remake it in his image. [[spoiler:The irony is that the sentient alien meteor he was using for this plan, Azreal, only came to Earth because it was drawn to the novelty of human emotions, after spending millions of years alone in space. It helps the protagonists instead, since it doesn't want to be alone.]]
61* ''Anime/SerialExperimentsLain'': Masami Eiri is an odd example, being a computer scientist who believes that humans have reached the pinnacle of evolution physically and that, in order to [[EvolutionaryLevels continue evolving to more perfect forms]], humanity has to give up their bodies for a digital existence. To that end, he [[spoiler:secretly puts code into the latest version of the protocol that controls the Wired that would connect humans together on a subconscious level through the network. He also creates Lain a physical body to aid in this effort]].
62* ''Manga/SoulEater'': In Medusa's mind, experimenting on children with black blood and reviving the kishin (thus allowing his madness to spread) means the same as allowing evolution to take over. Her older sister Arachne started off an example when she 'borrowed' the work of an AnthropomorphicPersonification and combined witch and human souls to create the first [[EquippableAlly Weapons]]. The effects have lasted centuries, with the Weapon forms even changing over time; there are several gun-type Weapons alongside the older swords or polearms.
63* ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'': Dr. Akihiro Kanou is a MadScientist obsessed with the creation of superior {{Half Human Hybrid}}s. His ghoulization experiments have an incredibly high mortality rate, with over a 1000 people killed in his efforts to create his hybrids. He claims that he's doing it to free humanity from their cagel; however, considering that he's [[TheSociopath a sociopath]] who readily lies to everyone around him, it's difficult to tell how much of this is true. His study at his old laboratory is filled with "hybrids" created by stitching together preserved insect bodies to create things like "Scorpion-Butterflies".
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67* ''Franchise/TheDCU'':
68** Dr. Love from ''ComicBook/InfinityInc'' is a mad obstetrician who created the supervillain team Helix by experimenting on the unborn children of pregnant women under his care.
69** In ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'', 1000 years from the present day, [[ComicBook/{{Batman}} Ra's Al Ghul]] plots to crash the Moon into the Earth to force humanity to [[ArtisticLicenseBiology pre-emptively evolve]] to prevent it.
70** In ''ComicBook/ScareTacticsDCComics'', Slither was experimented on by his biologist father with the result that he transformed into a LizardFolk.
71** Dabney Donovan from ''ComicBook/Superboy1994'', one of the co-founders of the cloning project Cadmus, is a MadScientist who feels cloning is the way of the future and humans besides himself are basically worthless. The "Hyper-Tension!" arc gives a horrifying look at what he would become if allowed to experiment to his satisfaction, and it involves "cloning" deceased super-heroes into an obedient army of disturbing mix-and-match people who only vaguely resemble those they were cloned from and taking over the earth.
72** Bertron from ''ComicBook/SupermanDoomsdayHunterPrey'' is an ancient alien who created the creature Doomsday. He was HoistByHisOwnPetard millions of years ago in the days of prehistoric Krypton, but unfortunately for the rest of the universe "The Ultimate" lives on to this day.
73* ''ComicBook/TheFilth'': Spartacus Hughes, or at least he tries to be. His dabbling in this seems less like a plan to change humanity than just a particular twisted way of amusing himself.
74* ''ComicBook/HybridForce'': [[BigBad Dr. Insomnia]] is a MadScientist and leader of the terrorist organization Testify. He abducted numerous people and genetically altered them into [[HalfHumanHybrid plant/animal people]] to help him in his plans to TakeOverTheWorld.
75* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'': Morton Judd was a genetic engineer who once served as the head of Justice Department's cloning project. He started to see it as the solution to crime by creating a docile population, but Chief Judge Fargo vetoed his proposal on the grounds that it was their duty to police the citizens they have, not create the citizens they'd like. Judd went rogue and fled to the Australian wastes, where for decades he built a CloneArmy to replace the Judges.
76* ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'':
77** The High Evolutionary from ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'' ([[RoguesGalleryTransplant usually]]) is one of the earlier examples in the franchise. He can [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor sometimes]] come across as actually a rather reasonable person. Unfortunately, his AGodAmI delusions of grandeur keep driving him to take the theory of evolution and beat it into submission with a sack of rusty doorknobs in order to make his experiments work.
78** Arnim Zola from ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'' is an early-20th-century biochemist and genetic engineer who furthered his research using the notes and equipment of [[ComicBook/TheEternals the Deviants]] and [[StupidJetpackHitler the support of the Nazis]]. He's still kicking long after World War II thanks to discovering how to [[BodyBackupDrive transfer human minds to cloned bodies]] (though his own body is usually robotic) -- Jolt from ''ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}}'' and Vermin from ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' owe their powers to his cruel human genetic experimentation.
79** The Supreme Intelligence of the Kree from ''ComicBook/CaptainMarvelMarvelComics'' has committed monstrous atrocities against his own people in order to spur their evolutionary development.
80** ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'' villain the Leader is a man granted super-intelligence by gamma radiation. Among his various obsessions is that he wants to create more gamma mutates, and he has repeatedly launched schemes to expose the public to gamma radiation, hoping that the few survivors would develop powers. He successfully gamma bombed a little town and did wind up with a handful of new mutates, along with a whole town full of dead innocent people.
81** In ''ComicBook/MarvelZombies'', even though he's [[NotBrainwashed not infected]] by the interdimensional zombie plague, [[AdaptationalVillainy Reed Richards]] nonetheless [[spoiler:infects [[ComicBook/FantasticFour his entire team]] with said plague]], claiming that it's the best course of evolution mankind has been presented with. Being an [[ExpendableAlternateUniverse expendable]] CrapsackWorld, this is just the beginning...
82** One issue of ''ComicBook/NewWarriors'' has the team fight a supervillain team named Eugenix whose goal is to improve the human race by killing or sterilizing everyone who they deem genetically inferior.
83** Miles Warren a.k.a. the Jackal from ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' has a lot of fun cloning Peter Parkers (and Gwen Stacys). Most of the blame for ''ComicBook/TheCloneSaga'' is his.
84** Gregory Starkfrom ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'' is so good at this, and at so many other things, that he made clones of the Hulk (with Bruce Banner's intellect) and Spider-Man just in his free time.
85** ''ComicBook/XMen'' has a few examples of its own. Mister Sinister is the most obvious, a Victorian-era British eugenicist implied to be directly responsible for the abundance of {{mutants}} in the modern world due to the strange, ''forbidden'' experiments he conducted in his day. His benefactor Apocalypse is of the less scientific [[TheSocialDarwinist "fight to the death and prove your worth"]] variety. Magneto has also dabbled in this with his creation of the Mutates, genetically altered mutant {{Mooks}} created when the normal-variety mutants just weren't cutting it in his SuperSupremacist army.
86* ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMegaseries'' has Jhiaxus, who among other things introduced gender to Cybertron just because he could (never mind that the person he did this to went insane in the process), and CombiningMecha (which was also insane), not to mention [[spoiler:turning an entire planet into a replica Cybertron. It's implied that he did this to more than one planet.]] Just because he wanted to accelerate Cybertronian evolution.
87* ''ComicBook/{{Zenith}}'': Dr. Payne created the second generation superhumans with the explicit intent that they replace humanity. [[spoiler:They did... after a fashion.]]
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91* In ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'', [[MadScientist Arnim Zola]] moonlights as this. Worryingly, however, he learned his trade from someone even worse... Sinister.
92* ''Fanfic/TheGreatRedPandaRescue'': [[WesternAnimation/TurningRed Mei]] is [[KidnappedForExperimentation kidnapped by scientists]] who want to learn how her panda powers work.
93* ''Fanfic/EquestriaGirlsFriendshipSouls'': The Espada Grogar claims his experiments are meant to allow him to improve the Hollow condition... but then admits that foremost they're about improving ''himself'' so that he can be the true and uncontested guide to improving the Hollow condition as he sees fit to.
94* ''Fanfic/HonorTrip'': [[MadScientist Ratsura]] plays this trope straight as an arrow, [[DepravedBisexual though he]] himself [[AxeCrazy is not straight]] in [[{{Pun}} the least.]]
95* In ''Fanfic/PagesOfHarmony'', [[RonTheDeathEater Twilight Sparkle]] definitely counts as this, using [[ColdBloodedTorture twisted forms of science]], MindRape, and magic to extract the Elements of Harmony from her friends [[spoiler:before killing them]]. She claims that it's all to [[WellIntentionedExtremist preserve harmony]] and set ponykind ([[spoiler:and everything else]]) [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans on the right path]].
96%%* In ''Fanfic/MegaManRecut'', Otto "Raptor" Moreau is this.
97* In ''Fanfic/WarbandOfTheForsakenSons'', Jikaerus, former Apothecary of the Alpha Legion, is this. In order to create recruits for his master, he released mutated monsters on a world already plunged into eternal night and manipulated entire bloodlines so that natural selection and careful breeding would do his work for him.
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101* In ''WesternAnimation/AprilAndTheExtraordinaryWorld'', Napoleon III wanted Dr. Franklin to create him an unstoppable army of SuperSoldier animals with which to crush Prussia. He was not happy when Dr. Franklin came up with {{Uplifted Animal}}s instead.
102%%* In ''Anime/BagiTheMonsterOfMightyNature'', another Creator/OsamuTezuka creation, [[spoiler:Ryo's mother is one of these]]. (This is a zero-context example. Please do not unhide until further context has been added.)
103* Dr. Clone from ''Anime/DoraemonNobitasGreatAdventureInTheSouthSeas'' is an evil geneticist expelled from the 22nd Century scientific community who delights in tainting the DNA of living beings into creating horrifying monstrosities, who are then sold off to the black market in trading mutated animals. He's about to convert Jacks' beloved HeroicDolphin ally into a dolphin-GiantEnemyCrab fusion before the heroes intervenes.
104* The villain(s) of ''WesternAnimation/{{Felidae}}'' turn out to be doing this with cats -- Preterius through his [[SanitySlippage increasingly inhumane]] AnimalTesting [[PlayingWithSyringes experiments]] with the aim of creating a HealingFactor-inducing serum, [[spoiler:and Claudandus through his SuperBreedingProgram with the aim of breeding cats back to their original, ferocious form]].
105* The scientists of ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfNimh'' knowingly injected several dozen rodents with a serum that gave them human-level intelligence for the purpose of medical research (meaning that they were likely [[FridgeHorror going to kill the rodents via experimentation]]). Good thing they escaped.
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109* ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan'': Dr. Connors is driven by a vision of a "world without weakness" in which everyone is equal, the limits of the human body having been overcome through science. While he has traces of the Lizard virus in his system, he comes to the conclusion that his Lizard form is a superior creature devoid of human weaknesses, and that his vision can be made a reality by making everyone like him, even if that means forcing the change upon everyone against their will.
110-->'''The Lizard:''' I sought to create a stronger human being, but there's no such thing! Human beings are weak, pathetic, feeble-minded creatures... why be human at all, when we can be so much ''more?''
111* ''Film/TheCarRoadToRevenge'': Talen, the BigBad, believes that he is perfecting humanity and giving it the tools it needs to survive. He secures test subjects through kidnapping and human trafficking and pays his gang by installing cybernetic upgrades in them.
112* ''Film/FightClub'': Tyler Durden has the motivation, but not the methodology. He believes society and rampant consumerism are stagnating human development. Rather than combat this with mad science, however, he plans to force humanity to "evolve, and let the chips fall where they may" by crashing the global economy.
113* ''Film/TheFly1986'': For a stretch, Seth Brundle becomes this. After successfully teleporting himself through space via his telepods, Seth has remarkably enhanced strength, stamina, virility, etc. He believes this to be a wonderful unintentional result of the teleportation process, and that anyone else who uses the teleporter will become a superperson. Thus, he starts pressuring his lover Veronica to be teleported -- "And I won't wear you out; we'll be the perfect couple! The Dynamic Duo!" When she objects -- both due to her nervousness about the process ''and'' the stranger changes she's seeing in him, such as odd hairs growing out of a wound on his back, a pronounced SweetTooth, and his less-dorky personality -- he is furious, declares her a coward, and sets out to find "someone who'll keep up with me", leading to a tryst with another woman. Only Veronica's timely arrival at the loft stops him from forcibly teleporting her. Shortly after this he comes to realize what's ''actually'' happening to him -- a fly was in the teleporter when he made his fateful trip, and he was genetically fused with it. He is slowly becoming a hideous HalfHumanHybrid of human and insect; all of the "improvements" are a result of this and the [[BodyHorror downside is just beginning to show]]. This realization smashes this trope and his ego to pieces.
114* In ''Film/TheFreakmaker'', Prof. Nolter believes that creating a race of human/plant hybrids will save the human race by eliminating starvation. He undertakes his research by having TheIgor abduct university students so he can experiment on them.
115* ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol3'': The High Evolutionary is such a heinous villain because of how he experiments on any living organism to create the "perfect species". Some notable despicable acts he committed include torturing a young Rocket Raccoon, creating a machine that causes animals to rapidly (and painfully) evolve into sentient anthropomorphized beings and destroying an entire planet of his own living creations because of their imperfections.
116* The various film adaptations of ''Literature/TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau'' -- ''Film/IslandOfLostSouls'', ''Film/TheIslandOfDrMoreau1977'', ''Film/TheIslandOfDrMoreau1996'' -- make Dr. Moreau into one of these. The original Moreau in the book wasn't trying to improve the species (ours or otherwise), but rather to refine and explore the limits of his ''unorthodox surgical techniques''.
117* ''Film/IslandOfTheFishmen'': Amanda's father, Professor Ernest Marvin, has been experimenting on the native humans of the island in order to create a race of amphibious humanoid creatures that will replace humanity as the Earth's dominant species once humans go extinct.
118* ''Film/JamesBond'':
119** In ''Film/{{Moonraker}},'' BigBad Hugo Drax's scheme is to wipe out humanity with a human-specific poison pollen plant, then repopulate the Earth with the pairs of perfect supermodels he has kept out of harm's way on his space shuttle/Noah's Ark.
120** ''Film/AViewToAKill'': Carl Mortner, TheDragon to [[BigBad Max Zorin]], is a Josef Mengele {{expy}} who partook in a SuperBreedingProgram to create {{Super Soldier}}s for the Nazis during World War II. His thinking regarding selective breeding has shades of TheSocialDarwinist, commenting how his principles on horse breeding can be also applied to create the "ideal" human. In fact, he did indeed create a generation of extremely intelligent psychopaths, Zorin being one of them. This isn't surprising, as the real Nazis also believed in (and attempted) this.
121* In ''Film/AJollyBadFellow'', Professor Bowles-Otterly is a [[TheSocialDarwinist Social Darwinist]] who advocates the removal of those he considers useless to society. However, he veers into Eviutionary Biologist territory when he also advocates the euthanasia of the insane, the physically deformed, the mentally deficient, et cetera.
122* ''Franchise/JurassicPark'': Doctor [[AdaptationalVillainy Henry Wu]] seems to be shaping up to be this in the ongoing ''[[Film/JurassicWorld Jurassic]] [[Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom World]]'' trilogy. According to his actor, B.D Wong, the main reason Wu has created such nefarious experiments like the ''Indominus rex'' and the ''Indoraptor'' (both of whom are basically AxCrazy dinosaurian [[BioweaponBeast bioweapons]]) is because he seemingly believes he's truly looking at some sort of bigger picture for our planet.
123* In ''Film/KamenRiderTheFirst'', the NebulousEvilOrganisation Shocker's name [[FunWithAcronyms stands for]] "Sacred Hegemony of Cycle Kindred Evolutional Realm".
124* ''Film/ManOfSteel'': Faora, one of the villains, delivers a lengthy speech to Superman about how "evolution always wins".
125%%* ''Film/TheManster'': The MadScientist.
126* ''Film/TheManWithTwoBrains'': Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr is in many ways one of these; as well as being not-quite-all-there and his developing God-complex, he confidently predicts a day where his research will allow "brilliant minds to live on in the bodies of dumb people" and the like. He's somewhat lacking in the evil department, though, as for all the MadScientist CharacterDevelopment that occurs, he's a bit too decent and moral to actually kill in order to achieve his ends.
127* Dr. Mirakle, the villain of ''Film/MurdersInTheRueMorgue''. Although insane, his theory of the descent of man from ape ancestors is impressive, given that the film is set 15 years before UsefulNotes/CharlesDarwin published ''On the Origin of Species'' (though it had already been posited before).
128* ''Film/PainkillerJane'': Erfan enhances humans through genetic modification, saying they'll achieve a higher state of evolution in doing so.
129* ''Film/{{Prometheus}}'': [[spoiler:Attempting to make something better than humans, David conducts experiments with the Chemical A0-3959X.91–15 mutagen that eventually result in the creation of the Xenomorphs.]]
130* ''Film/ResidentEvilFilmSeries'': The Umbrella Corporation has shades of this. They started out as just making biological weapons, but upon discovering the zombies the virus created may have useful properties they began conducting super soldier experiments with the same virus. One of the scientists becomes infected himself, overdoses on the vaccine, and turns into a zombie/human/something else hybrid and declares himself the next evolutionary step.
131* ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'': Jigsaw isn't a scientist, but rather an engineer, which still fits the trope well; instead of participating in scientific experimentation, he uses the applied science of engineering to build {{Death Trap}}s. Similarly, his concerns are social rather than biological or genetic -- he's disgusted with the indolence and sloth he sees surrounding him; without the "will to live", humanity would face extinction. His preferred solution is to force people in {{Deadly Game}}s where they have to mutilate themselves or kill someone else.
132* In ''Film/ScreamAndScreamAgain'', Dr. Browning is looking to create the race of perfect beings by removing limbs and organs from the undeserving and giving them to the worthy.
133* ''Film/TheSpirit'': The Octopus is trying to find the secret to immortality and godhood. He actually created the titular hero in one of his experiments when he brought a dead cop back to life. The Octopus' {{Mooks}} are also apparently artificial creations.
134* Professor Martin Collingwood from ''Film/TheTitan'' is seeking to genetically transform the volunteer test subjects so they can survive on Titan. His goal is laudatory in that he's trying to save the human race, but when the subjects start dying or going insane, he's urged to stop and reevaluate the results. He refuses to do so because right now he has the funding and support for his project and wants to race ahead while he has the chance, even though he admits he has no idea what the end result will be.
135* ''Film/TheWerewolf'' has two of these, who both subvert the one in ''Film/IWasATeenageWerewolf'' and then actually exceed his stupidity. They seize upon an innocent man lost in their remote mountain village and inject him with 'irradiated wolf's blood', causing his transformation. They don't view the werewolf as an evolutionary breakthrough, but as something to be avoided, since they feel this is the fate of a post-apocalyptic humanity, to become ravening beasts once the bombs fall (as always, viewed as inevitable in this era, both in real life and twice over in films). They turn this man into the werewolf so that they can figure out how to let 'geniuses' like themselves survive with their intellects intact. But they like so many others in this trope prove TooDumbToLive while still managing to be the direct cause of a serious DownerEnding. The lead one was particularly {{Jerkass}} and really earned his mauling.
136* In ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', Sebastian Shaw believes that mutants are further along the evolutionary chain than ordinary humans, therefore they should inherit the earth. And by the end of the film, he's convinced others, perhaps more than he wishes he had:
137-->'''Erik Lensherr:''' If you're in there, I'd like you to know that I agree with every word you said. We are the future. [[spoiler:But, unfortunately, you killed my mother.]]
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141* ''Literature/AllianceUnion'': Union uses {{Uterine Replicator}}s to produce [[ClonesArePeopleToo Azi]], who are graded by intelligence from Alpha highest down (Rho is mentioned to be the lowest class used as a production-line type). Subverted however, in that the science is handled relatively well, each class consists of multiple genetic types, and the standard practice is to include as much genetic diversity in a population as possible -- indeed, one of the purposes of the Azi is to increase the genetic diversity of the space stations they populate. Your Mileage May Vary as to how evil Ariane Emory is, however. In a further subversion of the idea, Alpha Azi are not usually leaders -- they take too long to make decisions because they tend to wait for all the information to become available. Betas make better officers.
142* In ''Literature/TheBeastsOfValhalla'' by George C. Chesbro, Siegmund Loge is a Nobelist (often a bad sign in Chesbro's work), famed for his work on a mathematical tool used to predict whether a species is too far along the road to extinction to be saved. In his unpublished, un-peer-reviewed work, he has come to the conclusion that humanity is a doomed species and must be forced to mutate into MixAndMatchCritters to give it a chance to try again. Experiments on human subjects who didn't volunteer, check. German background, check; bonus, in that he is a fanatical Music/RichardWagner fan. He looks like Santa Claus, has a [[VillainWithGoodPublicity great public image]] and has awesome talents in attracting black budget funding from governments who don't know he's on other people's payrolls or what his agenda is.
143* In ''Literature/TheBeginningAfterTheEnd'', The Vritra Clan according to Windsom are considered an anomaly among asuras as they are scientists who are constantly studying insights on the workings of mana to evolove their mana arts.[[spoiler: After Agrona Vritra StartOfDarkness and becoming the BigBad of the story when he attempted to reveal the truth about the Djinn genocide committed by the Indrath clan regarding aether knowledge. Agrona began experimenting and interbreeding with all of Alacrya to get revenge against Kezess Indrath and all of the Epheotus for betraying and exiling him unjustly. Agrona's experiments lasted for a hundred generations resulted in creation of the wraiths, Vritra blooded Alacryans, scythes, retainers and a very powerful alacryan war machine making a case of a BadAssArmy and an averted case of CripplingOverSpecialization despite that it resulted in the death of many Alacryans as a failed experiments]].
144* {{Subverted|Trope}} in ''Literature/BeyondThisHorizon''. The world government genetically engineers everybody for maximum genetic perfection (or, at least, elimination of imperfection), except for a carefully guarded population of "control naturals", and strongly encourages particularly hopeful genetic matches, as between the hero and heroine. The subversion is that this is presented as entirely a good thing. (This society is sometimes described as a "socialist" state but bears more in common with Technocracy. Everybody gets a small annual dividend from the output of the whole global economy as if it were a corporation in which all are stockholders; control naturals get a larger dividend, enough for a livable income, in compensation for their genetic inferiority and inability to compete with the average person.)
145* {{Subverted|Trope}} in ''Literature/BraveNewWorld''. The World State engineers everyone into [[FantasticCasteSystem five castes]], Alpha through Epsilon, ranked by intelligence. The point is to keep everything exactly the way it is forever; [[EvilLuddite technological progress is restrained for the same reason]]. The Savage asks World Controller Mustapha Mond "If you can get anything you want out of those bottles, why not make everybody an Alpha-double-plus?" Mond says they once tried colonizing an island with nothing but Alphas as an experiment, but it quickly degenerated into civil war; everybody wanted to be boss, and nobody wanted to do the scutwork. ''Brave New World'' is especially dystopian in that the lower intelligence of the lower castes is not a natural product of genetic variability or even "evolution" in the usual sense. Instead, they've been deliberately handicapped by the introduction of toxins during gestation and development.
146* An ironic step-sibling of this trope forms the basis of ''Literature/TheChrysalids''. In a [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic]] future (the apocalypse is phrased in religious terms by the characters as "The Tribulation" and implied to have been a nuclear disaster or war), a primitive, theocratic society seeks to exterminate all {{mutants}}, whether plant, animal or human. While not [[TheSocialDarwinist Social Darwinists]] or scientists, the members of this culture are nevertheless striving to "restore" the purity of life on Earth, in an effort to get back into God's good graces.
147* ''Literature/CuriosityHouse'': Nicholas Rattigan, the BigBad, was driven insane by the atrocities of World War II and thinks the only way to save humans from dying in such horrific ways again is to induce special abilities that will make them harder to kill, even if it means caging test subjects like animals and risking some not surviving the processes. [[spoiler:The four protagonists learn in the first book they are the few successful results of Rattigan's experiments.]]
148%%* Creator/DeanKoontz's portrayal of Dr. Victor Franchise/{{Frankenstein}} in ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Dean Koontz's Frankenstein]]''.%%Is?
149%%* ''Literature/{{Duumvirate}}'': The Operator has devoted his life to being one of these. (This is a zero-context example. Please do not unhide until further context has been added.)
150* ''Literature/EndersShadow'': Dr. Volescu genetically engineers super-intelligent humans [[spoiler:who have super-short lifespans as a side-effect]].
151* ''Literature/{{Fingerprints}}'': The doctor who first researched psychic abilities, [[spoiler:Steve Mercer]], eventually came to regret his work and tried to undo it but did ''not'' perform a HeelFaceTurn and remained a WellIntentionedExtremist -- just one with different intentions.
152* ''Literature/GalacticMilieu'' features Marc Remiliard, whose goal is to accelerate the psychic development of the human race to the same level as [[spoiler:his prochronistic mutant brother Jac a disembodied brain]]. He has [[VillainWithGoodPublicity good PR]] and merely tells everyone that he wants to let people adopt some cool DesignerBabies.
153* ''Literature/GhostWalkers'': Dr. Peter Whitney cruelly experimented on orphan girls by inserting animal DNA and altering their psychic abilities. After it went wrong, he tried again with soldiers. Whitney is a genius and has developed many scientific breakthroughs, but he doesn't really worry about ethics or other people.
154* ''Literature/TheGoldenHamsterSaga'': Professor Fleischkopf, the villain of ''Freddy in Peril'', dissects hamsters' brains while they're still alive in order to research the nature of the mind. He hopes to discover the genetic underpinnings of intelligence so he can rid the world of "knuckleheads".
155* Creator/FrankHerbert:
156** In two of the author's fictional settings, the planets Dosadi and [[Franchise/{{Dune}} Salusa Secundus]] are both brutally inhospitable prison worlds created to force the beings left on them to adapt and become stronger. The effect seen is more of a cultural (and physical conditioning) change than evolution, though.
157** Also in ''Franchise/{{Dune}}'', there's the Bene Tleilax which created such things as [[VoluntaryShapeshifting Face Dancers]] that later on in the series can become "perfect mimics" by absorbing the memories of the individual they've... replaced.
158* ''Literature/HonorHarrington'': The only type of biologist in the employ of [[MegaCorp Manpower Inc]]. They not only use genetic engineering to breed [[WeWillUseManualLaborInTheFuture slaves]] for unscrupulous purposes, but they also utilize the experience from this practice to improve ''themselves'', as they feel that natural evolution is too slow.
159* ''Literature/HumanxCommonwealth'': The Meliorare Society is a group of brilliant scientists and genetic engineers who recklessly violated proscriptions against human eugenics in order to "[[ForScience explore the potential of the human genome]]". They worked by posing as [[{{Masquerade}} fertility specialists]], among other things, with the plan to reclaim the "superior" children once they started manifesting powers and thereby prove themselves to the galaxy. Instead, several of their more grotesque failures came to light and they were outlawed and hunted down. Those not killed outright were subjected to [[LaserGuidedAmnesia selective mindwipe]], and all of the subjects that could be found were either given mercy killings or "altered" to be as normal as possible. The last few remaining Meliorares went into hiding, carrying their dreams of vindication with them. Flinx, the main protagonist, is one of the subjects who slipped through the cracks, mainly by not manifesting his awesome PsychicPowers until much later in his life, and he has several encounters with Meliorare fugitives who attempt to "reclaim" him. This has not ended well for them.
160* An unusual {{aver|tedTrope}}sion appears in ''Literature/TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau''. While Moreau does conduct horrific experiments on animals with the intent to [[UpliftedAnimal uplift them]] to human form, he is more concerned with [[MadDoctor perfecting his surgical techniques]] than how the products of his efforts would benefit evolution. He even remarks that he could just as well have turned sheep into llamas as animals into humans; the latter was simply more [[MadArtist artistically satisfying]] to him.
161* ''Literature/JacobsLadderTrilogy'': The Builders who created ''Jacob's Ladder'' belonged to a religious cult of Evilutionary Biologists who believed that humanity could only advance by facing constant adversity. They expected and indeed hoped for massive amounts of suffering and death among the crew in order to make the survivors stronger.
162* ''Literature/JoeLedger'': Cyrus Jakoby in ''Dragon Factory'' plans to purify humanity of all "inferior" races through genetically-modified diseases -- but he also creates a race of perfect slaves to toil for the remaining few. Not surprising, since in reality, he's [[spoiler:UsefulNotes/JosefMengele himself]].
163* ''Literature/AMacabreMythOfAMothMan'' has no less than three. Vincent Mordein tried to unlock the secrets of the human brain [[spoiler:and ended up sticking a penny-sized chip in Jack Daw's head, giving him the ability to control crows]]. Dr. Wu performed gene-splicing on multiple subjects, including Ozzy and Moth-man. And Dante Eclipse performed experiments on the cult he heads, believing that humanity is inherently flawed and that they must transcend their species to survive.
164* In ''Literature/OryxAndCrake'', Crake is the consummate Evilutionary Biologist. He designs a new, "perfected" species of human, the Children of Crake, [[spoiler:and decides that humans must be destroyed to make room for them. This plan is [[TheBadGuyWins pretty much entirely successful]]; while the super-plague he creates doesn't quite kill ''everyone'', there is [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt absolutely no hope of human civilization ever coming back]]]].
165* In ''Literature/SilverFin'', Lord Randolph Hellebore is obsessed with breeding the perfect soldier and is not above experimenting his brother and son in pursuit of his goal.
166* Cyrus, the main villain of ''Literature/SpaceAssassin'', is a cruel despot who travels across the galaxy in his PlanetSpaceship and regularly sends his robotic minions to abduct sentient lifeforms on various planets for him to mutant, transform and dissect to his liking. His lair is filled with mutated minions of his working, the scariest being a six-armed [[FrankensteinsMonster Frankensteinian Monster]] called a "Deity" which is seemingly made by stitching together a dozen differrent life forms.
167* ''Literature/TheSpaceTrilogy'': In [[Literature/OutOfTheSilentPlanet the first book]], Professor Weston develops interplanetary travel so humanity and their descendants (whatever they evolve into) could go out into the stars and survive throughout the cosmos. However, Weston doesn't care that this plan may involve wiping out other intelligent life. (In [[Literature/{{Perelandra}} the second book]], he abandons this goal in favor of a New Age-y philosophy he dubs "Spiritual Evolution", which has nothing to do with this trope.) The trope is taken further in [[Literature/ThatHideousStrength the third book]], in which the N.I.C.E. plans to replace all organic life with a machine life.
168* ''Literature/StarshipsMage'': The Eugenicists in the backstory started out by quietly manipulating human lineages on Earth to encourage magic in their families. They later took over the Mars colony and began overtly controlling the population and force-breeding test subjects, triggering a war with Earth.
169* ''Literature/StarTrekTheEugenicsWars'': The scientists of Chrysalis are attempting to make a new breed of humanity to inherit the world. They're even developing a special strain of streptococcus that the supermen are immune to so they can clear the way for them.
170* ''Literature/{{Tarzan}}'': "God" from ''Tarzan and the Lion-Man'' is an English MadScientist who came to Africa to conduct genetic and evolutionary experiments on gorillas. He rejuvenated himself with gorilla genes, but gradually assumed their physical characteristics.
171* {{Downplayed|Trope}} in ''Literature/ThisImmortal''. George Emmet is not the villain of the piece but lives purely [[ForScience for science]] and exhibits a LackOfEmpathy, which causes him to do whatever he thinks would improve a species without considering what the moral implications would be. When, at the end of the book, his wife Ellen is pregnant again, he wants to [[GuineaPigFamily try embryo surgery to create a child capable of breathing underwater]]... Ellen isn't having any of that, though.
172* ''Literature/TheTurnerDiaries'' by white-supremacist William Luther Pierce (writing as Andrew Macdonald) recounts a racial war that ends with the death of all Jews, nonwhites and "mongrels" -- all of them, everywhere in the world. Most white people also die in the fighting and general disruption; the population of the United States is reduced to 50 million. Only those bearing "especially valuable genes" survive. This fulfills the dream of the "Great One" (Hitler) for an "all-White world." The historical Hitler would at least have allowed the non-whites to live on as slaves. The necessity of this appears to be based on "Cosmotheism," a belief-system that is Pierce's own invention, which is a curious mishmash of the seemingly incompatible beliefs of racism and panentheism, firmly advocating GoalOrientedEvolution that he claimed would lead white people to the status of God.
173* In ''Literature/VenissUnderground'', Quin wants to eradicate humanity in order to pave the way for his genetically engineered meerkats to become the new dominant species.
174* ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'': The Cetagandan haut [[FantasticCasteSystem caste]], especially the women, are basically running a very long-term genetic engineering project to turn themselves into TranshumanAliens.
175* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'': Aginor, one of the Forsaken, is revealed to have been personally responsible for the creation of all of the BigBad's monstrous {{Mooks}}, having performed [[ThoseWackyNazis Josef Mengele]]-esque experiments on his fellow human beings by the thousandfold.
176* ''Literature/XWingSeries'': Dr. Edda Gast was a biologist working at Project Chubar "humanizing" alien species so Zsing could make use of them as minions. This involves tortuously altering them to "improve" them against their will. While the uncle, who originally led the project, had eventually [[DrivenToSuicide killed himself in guilt]] along with his favorite subjects after coming to love them, Gast feels absolutely no remorse. Indeed, she never displays any caring [[TheSociopath for anyone else at all]].
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180* ''Series/BabylonFive'': Both the Shadows ''and'' the Vorlons attempted to force the evolutionary development of the younger races. Disagreement about the best way to go about this eventually led to all-out war.
181* In ''Series/TheBoys2019'', EvilInc Vought's founder Frederick Vought was a [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi geneticist]] who invented their SuperSerum with the intent of elevating white people into a MasterRace of supermen.
182* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': In the fourth season, Adam plans to combine demon and human parts to create a superior race.
183* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
184** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E5RiseOfTheCybermen John]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E6TheAgeOfSteel Lumic]], creator of the "parallel Earth" Cybermen, sees his creations in this way. Davros, in the original series, created the Daleks for much the same reason.
185** And the Daleks themselves, who in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E4DaleksInManhattan "Daleks in Manhattan"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E5EvolutionOfTheDaleks "Evolution of the Daleks"]] tried to create [[HalfHumanHybrid Dalek/Human hybrids]] to overcome their weaknesses -- only for Dalek Sec to be [[HumanityIsInfectious influenced a little]] ''[[HumanityIsInfectious too]]'' [[HumanityIsInfectious much by his new human side]]. He, naturally, pays the price.
186** In the episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E4TheFaceOfEvil The Face of Evil]]", all of the characters are victims of a eugenics experiment being run by Xoanon. By and large, they bear him no hard feelings for it afterwards.
187** In ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'', [[AbsoluteXenophobe Rassilon]], Founder of Time Lord Society, tried to prevent any races evolving that could threaten the Time Lords. He seeded other worlds to make sure life like the Time Lords would evolve and imprisoned races in other universes which are in the dungeons of his Foundry.
188%%* ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}'': [[spoiler:Alpha]].
189* In ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', Arthur Petrelli wants to make SuperSerum generally available for this reason.
190* In ''Series/KagakuSentaiDynaman'', the villains' collective name is the Jashinka -- from ''jashin'' (evil god) and ''shinka'' (evolution). In other words, their name ''actually translates to "Evilution".'' However, their plan to convert humans doesn't go so well, so they go the usual mass destruction route.
191* ''Series/LawAndOrderSVU'': In "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS7E2Design Design]]" Dr. [=McManus=] is very concerned by what he perceives as a drop in average IQ, so he's paying men with high ones to donate sperm hoping it can be raised. Stabler calls him a Nazi trying to make a {{master race}}. Cragen refers to him as "[[{{Literature/Frankenstein}} Dr. Frankenstein]]". Wong says he's considered brilliant in the genetics field and invented many highly innovative selection techniques, but his eugenicist views are very controversial. However, he seems to abide by medical ethics, though his daughter April (unbeknownst to him) certainly does ''[[MedicalRapeAndImpregnate not]]''.
192* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': The mastermind behind the murders in "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS13E5 Master Class]]" is obsessed with the work of Sir Francis Galton, the developer of eugenics, and particularly his belief that 'imperfections' could be bred out of the human race. He attempts to put this theory into practice with his own family.
193* ''Series/MurdochMysteries'': In "[[Recap/MurdochMysteriesS3E8FutureImperfect Future Imperfect]]", Dr. Dryus Alger is a prominent member of the Eugenics Society who is abducting dogs and conducting illegal experiments in his attempts to 'perfect' humanity.
194* ''Series/OrphanBlack'': Dr. Aldous Leekie's Neolution movement is all about "self-directed evolution" and he sees no problem in creating human clones or experimenting on them to advance this goal.
195* ''Series/{{Primeval}}'': Helen Cutter is a different kind of Evilutionary Biologist: in her own words, she wants to [[spoiler:save the world, not humanity. She ends up going back to the Pliocene to kill hominids and prevent the human race from ever evolving]].
196* ''Series/StargateAtlantis'': Michael eventually becomes one of these, with his plans to create a race of [[HalfHumanHybrid human-Wraith hybrids]] and wipe everyone else out. His first experiments were possibly the most atrocious, with him forcibly implanting people with Iratus bug eggs so he could find out the effect of different levels of DNA from either species, creating some sort of {{Xenomorph Xerox}}es in the process.
197* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': The Dominion establishes its rule through this trope. Their stormtroopers are bred from birth to fight and made dependent on drugs to keep them docile. Their emissaries are programmed to believe the Founders (the head honchos) are gods. The Dominion isn't above letting loose a super-plague to punish insurgents, either. [[BlackAndGrayMorality Not that the Federation is above it, either]]. However, the Federation [[NoTranshumanismAllowed expressly bans genetic augmentation]], which is a major plot point for one of the characters who was illegally genetically modified as a child. While said character ([[spoiler:Dr. Bashir]]) turned out for the better, many of his other cohorts [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity weren't so lucky]].
198* ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'':
199** Dr. Arik Soong is the more benign flavor of Evilutionary Biologist, balking at his creations' evil natures. He later switches to machines, and his descendant in ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' ends up being just a really innovative scientist (however, even his first creation turns evil).
200** Dr. Phlox in "[[Recap/StarTrekEnterpriseS01E13DearDoctor Dear Doctor]]", in which he refuses to help the Valakians despite having a cure to the plague that's threatening to wipe out their entire species. Why would the good doctor refuse to help them, you might you ask? Because the Menk, a Neanderthal-like subspecies that lives on the planet, will apparently only reach their [[EvolutionaryLevels evolutionary breakthrough]] once the Valakians are dead. Despite the fact there is absolutely no proof that they will evolve or that the presence of the Valakians is hindering their development in anyway. Particularly baffling, since without the Valakians, the Menk would have died out ''centuries'' ago.
201* ''Series/TimeAfterTime'': Dr. Edward Munroe is an unhinged geneticist intent on improving humans by enhancing them with a serum he's created. Unfortunately, it's turned all his subjects into homicidal maniacs thus far, but he doesn't let that stop him. He's delighted after getting ahold of John, who was Jack the Ripper, believing that his DNA is the key to fixing this. Appropriately, he also serves {{in universe}} as the inspiration of the eponymous doctor in ''Literature/TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau''. Like most, he explicitly claims [[TheSocialDarwinist "survival of the fittest" rules]], while mentioning John as being the "[[EvolutionaryLevels next stage of evolution]]", indicating his [[ArtisticLicenseBiology poor evolutionary knowledge]] (unsurprisingly).
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205* ''TabletopGame/AirshipPirates'': The backstory involves an Evilutionary Biologist that confined most of humanity to fortified Victorian cities and let the rest of the world get taken over by nature.
206%%* ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'': Dr. Mara Omokage in ''GURPS Bio-Tech'' and ''TabletopGame/TranshumanSpace''.
207* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'':
208** This is a common archetype for Blue/Green characters and factions, as Green is the color of nature and living things and Blue the color of science, progress, and embracing change for its own sake while discarding old traditions. The result often tends to be a philosophy that's big on preserving and propagating nature and living things while eagerly "improving" them as needed. One such group is the Simic Combine of Ravnica, a guild ostensibly focused on medical and agricultural research but in practice very much this trope. Their projects have included biological grafts meant to give their bearers new and useful organs and more recently the krasis, [[MixAndMatchCritters biological chimeras of various creatures]] meant to thrive in Ravnica's endless cityscapes -- [[https://scryfall.com/card/gtc/116/crocanura crocodile frogs]], [[https://scryfall.com/card/gtc/160/elusive-krasis fish people]], [[https://scryfall.com/card/rna/206/sharktocrab sharktocrabs]], [[https://scryfall.com/card/rna/183/hydroid-krasis snake-headed jellyfish]] and so on -- which are then let loose in the world.
209** Then there was Yawgmoth, a firm believer that strength came from conflict. And then he created a biomechanical hell named Phyrexia where CyberneticsEatYourSoul.
210** In New Phyrexia, three of the five Phyrexian factions are this to varying degrees. Jin-Gitaxias of the Blue faction is one to the greatest extent (the name of his faction, The Progress Engine, is saying something). The leaders of the Green Vicious Swarm, Vorinclex and Glissa, are all about "encouraging" natural selection instead, via extreme predation and survival of the fittest. And the White Machine Orthodoxy wishes to either unite all beings into one ''[[BodyHorror (by stitching them all together!)]]'' or to transform them all into "perfect" soulless dolls. The two factions not concerned with this are the Black Seven Steel Thanes (who are too occupied trying to slit each other's throats over becoming the new [[TheChosenOne Father of Machines]]) and the Red leader of the Quiet Furnace, Urabrask the Hidden, who just wants everybody else to leave him and his servants in peace.
211* ''TabletopGame/{{Rifts}}'' has Dr. Desmond Bradford. He is head of the Lone Star Complex, a Pre-Rifts genetic engineering facility that experimented in intelligent mutant animals. Bradford has created a variety of mutant animal soldiers for the [[TheEmpire Coalition States]], but also secretly performs experiments on humans, attempting to create powerful psychic humans. Note that [[EvenEvilHasStandards even the Coalition]] would pale if they knew what he was up to. Not that Bradford cares; he literally believes [[AGodAmI that he is a god]] and above such petty things as "morals" or "ethical concerns".
212* ''TabletopGame/SirenTheDrowning'' features Echidna, leader of the Current of Oceanus, who wishes to improve Humanity through her experiences so they will have more chance to survive the upcoming [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Deluge]]. Unfortunately, she is completely insane, and does so by turning any human she gets her hands into monstrous non-sapient {{Fish Pe|ople}}rson called a Voldianoi.
213* ''TabletopGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesAndOtherStrangeness'' features Doctor Feral. A wealthy humanitarian scientist of [[LawfulGood Scrupulous]] alignment, the good Doctor spends his time honestly working toward a better future for all of humanity. His list of medical advances is long, he donates his medical expertise to assist in difficult cases, and even paid to send his maid's children to college. Too bad he only thinks [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman of human life as being sacred]] and can routinely be found [[TheyWouldCutYouUp vivisecting sentient mutant animals]] in his [[SupervillainLair underground lab]] while he works on that human immortality drug which he is pretty sure he is close to finishing. In a game where all the characters are [[PlayerCharacter intelligent mutant animals]] he tends to come off as a less than altruistic person.
214* ''TabletopGame/TranshumanSpace'' is a relatively low-key near-ish future SF setting, and so doesn't feature ''very'' many mad scientists. However, genetic engineering is ''quite'' advanced, and some of its practitioners do slip into a tendency to do things just because they ''can.''
215* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'':
216** Fabius Bile, like most things in the setting, is this trope turned up to eleven. His master race are superpowered versions of the existing {{Super Soldier}}s, with the difference that they're all homicidal megalomaniacs, and he's turned the population of entire planets into shambling mutants with his experiments. Oh, and did we mention that his [[LabcoatOfScienceAndMedicine labcoat]] is [[GenuineHumanHide sewn from human skin]]? His most ambitious project: [[spoiler:to clone the Emperor]].
217** Tzeentch, the Master of Change. His entire existence is based on evolution, so his followers enjoy having random "gifts" happening at any moment (read: every moment). Which leads into...
218** An {{inver|tedTrope}}sion by Ahriman, who turned the entire Thousand Sons legion (the ones loyal to Tzeentch) into living coffins to ''stop'' the mutations/evolution. Needless to say, he is not well liked, even among the Thousand Sons.
219** Unlike most Genestealer Cults, the Cult of the Twisted Helix was created by the deliberate machinations of its human subjects. The scientists and researchers of the medical-industrial world Vejovium III were able to produce a serum from the dissection and study of captive Genestealers that they believed would allow them to achieve immortality and biological perfection. The original batches of the serum simply transformed their test subjects into Genestealer hybrids, but the cult's leadership, now long-since transformed into equivalents of magi and biophagi, continues to experiment and seek true perfection. Most of their experiments result in their test subjects becoming twisted monsters -- aberrants, metamorphs and more unique horrors -- that are put to use as shock troops to fuel the cult's hunger for resources and fresh guinea pigs.
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223* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'': The Riddler comes off as shades of this, [[SmugSnake justifying]] his actions by pointing out that if the residents of Gotham weren't so stupid, they wouldn't die in his traps.
224* ''VideoGame/BinaryDomain'': Yoji Amada [[spoiler:Junior]]'s goal is to create a new race of androids who will infiltrate civilization and... live, eventually supplanting humanity as a saner dominant species in the long run. Note that he doesn't care about the rest of humanity; he just believes that the world is on the brink and that his creations will not survive otherwise. [[spoiler:The hollow children's ability to literally interbreed with actual humans to create Hybrids, [[ArtificialHuman purely biological genetically modified humans]], is the main shocker.]]
225* ''VideoGame/BioShock'':
226** ''VideoGame/BioShock1'' has two examples:
227*** Yi Suchong, the scientist responsible for the mental conditioning of the Little Sisters and [[spoiler:Jack]] as well as the creation of the Big Daddy.
228*** Dr. Bridgette Tenebaum, who made the Little Sisters what they are and is trying to [[TheAtoner atone for her mistakes]] by saving them.
229** ''VideoGame/BioShock2'' has [[KnightTemplar Sofia Lamb]]. An insane Altruist, her life experiences [[spoiler:(and the events of the first game)]] led her to believe that [[TheEvilsOfFreeWill free will is a evolutionarily conditioned illusion]]. In order to release Rapture from the "burden" of self-awareness, she's decided to ''[[spoiler:[[AssimilationPlot fuse all its people into a single, non-aware being using the body of her own daughter]]]]'', believing the result will be a "[[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans True Utopian]]".
230* ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireIII'': Palet [[spoiler:[[{{Necromantic}} wanted to revive his dead mother]]]], and was very willing to break the laws of nature to do so.
231* ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'': If you bring Lucca and/or Robo to the final battle, they reveal that Lavos has the DNA of all living creatures on Earth inside of itself. Then they work out why: Lavos ''caused'' human evolution from primitive cavemen to modern-day humanity. Why? Because it's a PlanetEater, and sentient life is more filling, particularly if it's intelligent.
232* ''VideoGame/CodeVein'': Juzo Mido believes that Revenants can evolve beyond what humanity assumed they were capable of, and to that end he did countless experiments on the orphan children in his care. The vast majority of these experiments ended with the children becoming powerful Lost under Mido's control. Worse, he wants to remove the Red Mist keeping Revenants trapped because he believes that [[spoiler:only by fighting the world-ending "horrors" outside can the revenants evolve further]]. He doesn't particularly care that this will most likely kill nearly all of them.
233* In ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberianSun'', Kane's primary plot is to build and launch a world-altering [[GreenRocks Tiberium]] missile that will spread Tiberium across the entire planet. He states that this will trigger the next step of humanity's evolution as a species.
234* ''VideoGame/CookieRun'': Dr. Wasabi Cookie uses her Wasabi Syrup to mutate the genetic makeup of her subjects, thus setting off the chain of events that happen in her Island of Memories, as well as the story line of ''VideoGame/CookieWars''.
235* ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot'': Drs. Neo Cortex and Nitrus Brio, who both created the Evolvo-Ray[[note]]well, Brio did but Cortex took all the credit[[/note]] that created most of the mutant animals, Crash included.
236* ''VideoGame/CriminalCaseGrimsborough'': Kelly Speltz, one of the suspects in Case 21. She's been known to perform illegal experiments on animals which she claims will [[UltimateLifeForm make humanity better than it is now]] [[spoiler:and she also created the serum that killed Rachel Priest]].
237--> '''Speltz:''' People don't recognize my genius often enough. They call my work inhumane and try to have me shut down. Such as that rotten reporter, Rachel Priest. She even tried to have me stop experimenting on animals! I don't even know what she's talking about! My latest guard dog has survived every single experiment so far. No, people like Rachel don't realize I'm doing the work of God: I'm trying to create a new, better, stronger humanity!
238* ''VideoGame/DeadSpace1'' features two {{Mad Scientist}}s; one relatively helpful and benign despite his insanity, and one who is more clearly villainous. The evil one is an evilutionary biologist, and more than happy to sic his nigh-invulnerable genetically engineered super monster on you.
239* The primary plot of ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIV'' concerns the application of the "Secret of Evolution" to make monsters into more powerful monsters.
240* ''Franchise/{{Fallout}}'':
241** Deathclaws and mole rats were developed pre-war as [[BioweaponBeast biological weapons]] against China. Deathclaws were developed for close combat and search-and-destroy missions, while mole rats were developed to be an invasive species to be seeded in enemy territory. While mole rats are relatively harmless, can be domesticated, and have a genetic kill switch, deathclaws are 9-10 feet tall and live up to their name, and are capable of breeding.
242** The Master from the first ''VideoGame/Fallout1'' is very much an adherent of Evilutionary tenets in the WellIntentionedExtremist mold (certainly, the backdrop of a [[AfterTheEnd post-nuclear apocalypse]] lends his reasoning some gravitas). Science characters, after passing a skill check, can [[spoiler:point out that the Master's Super Mutants are entirely sterile and thus doomed to extinction. They're actually ''physically incapable'' of biological evolution]].
243** The Enclave, the adversary of the sequel ''VideoGame/Fallout2'', [[spoiler:is in fact a kind of {{inver|tedTrope}}sion of this trope. Being among the last "pure-breed humans" in the world, they plan to [[FinalSolution commit genocide]] on all of the various mutated strains of humanity that have cropped up, effectively "turning back the clock" on evolution. It is up for discussion whether one of the optional courses of action towards the end of the game, in which the PlayerCharacter convinces one of the scientists responsible for the plan to turn the [[WeaponOfMassDestruction WMD]] they had intended to use for this upon his fellows instead, is a case of using the Evilutionary argument in a more "benign" context]].
244** ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'': The ''Old World Blues'' DLC has the Think Tanks, with Dr. Borous in particular being responsible for the [[WickedWasps Cazadores]] and [[MixAndMatchCritters Nightstalkers]] (which he claims are as [[MetaphoricallyTrue docile as they are sterile]]) as well as subjecting his dog Gabe to some pretty terrible experiments (though it's possible to [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone make him feel regret for the latter]]). They're also responsible for a [[FesteringFungus special spore]] that infects living people and have made lobotomized people into psychotic zombies (or Lobotomites), a process that you barely manage to survive due to the bullet in your head from the beginning of the game.
245** ''VideoGame/Fallout4'': The Institute (basically MIT in post-apocalyptia) generally focuses on creating merciless cyborgs, making breakthroughs in science and technology with no sense of control for the social ramifications, and crushing anyone who could interfere with their work. They're considered the bad guys because even though they mean well and can be highly rational, they've cut themselves off from the Commonwealth and treat its people like toys. This includes testing the FEV on them and loosing any "failures" upon the Commonwealth as the Super Mutants. The head of the project sabotaged the lab because nothing was getting done, yet the CEO kept ordering him to continue with the project and turn the "failures" loose, without so much as even an observational capacity. They don't treat the synths they create any better than they do the people of the Commonwealth either.
246* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'':
247** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'': Dr. Lugae, the original EvilutionaryBiologist and MadScientist featured in the series.
248** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'': Professor Hojo embodies every trope associated to Evilutionary Biologists and Mad Scientists. A thoroughly nasty piece of work, he's pretty much responsible for almost all the tragedies and deaths in the game and its spinoffs.
249** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'': One of those serving Zenos yae Galvus in the expansion pack ''Stormblood'' is the Garlean scientist Aulus mal Asina. Asina views the Empire's {{Magitek}} weaponry as "an extrinsic solution to an intrinsic problem", namely the Garlen race's [[UnSorcerer complete inability to use magic]]. With Zenos' personal endorsement, Asina has performed hundreds of human experiments to "correct" that issue and bestow magic powers on those who were not born with the ability, or further the power of one who could use magic to begin with.
250** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyBraveExvius'': Dr. Lazarov is a twisted, amoral, unethical, inhuman, raving lunatic with a depraved personality and a sociopathic disregard for human life. An ImmortalitySeeker that will not stop at anything to accomplish his goal, there's no line he will not cross. Lazarov pretty much admits the only reason he's working for the Six Sworn of Paladia is because the war they wage will leave a nice amount of fresh corpses on its wake... fresh corpses he will put to good use.
251* In ''VideoGame/{{Headhunter}}'', the BigBad, unbeknownst to TheDragon, was creating a race of super-humans, the first of which he called... Adam. He was also releasing a virus that would wipe out humanity (himself included) and which Adam was immune to -- any humans left alive would be quickly wiped off the face of the Earth by Adam. Since there was only one creature (so no Eve) made and "he" didn't have any genitalia, it's not very clear how said super-race would have been built.
252%%* ''VideoGame/HouseOfTheDead'': Curien is one of these, though [[LoveMakesYouEvil he]] [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope wasn't]] [[MadScientist always]]. Goldman has the mentality of one of these, but he isn't a scientist, he's a OmnicidalManiac CorruptCorporateExecutive who dabbles in science. (This is a zero-context example. Please do not unhide until further context has been added.)
253* In ''VideoGame/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream'', Nimdok's story involves him facing the fact that he was a Nazi scientist and Josef Mengele's partner and [[TheAtoner atoning]] for his actions. [[HoistByHisOwnPetard His experiments later come back to bite him]] when AM uses them (for example, a youth serum created via the deaths of countless Jewish children) to torture him and the other remaining humans.
254* ''Franchise/MassEffect'': Shepard's crew can't go two weeks without tripping over ''some'' hideously immoral experiment. Usually involving [[NGOSuperpower Cerberus]] or [[BigBad the Reapers]] in some manner.
255** Mordin is a subversion. "No testing on species capable of calculus. Simple rule. Never broke it." He is, however, willing to engage in ''very'' DirtyBusiness -- like upgrading the [[DepopulationBomb genophage]] -- if he feels it will prevent future casualties. Mordin's loyalty mission involves his disillusioned student Maelon, who is willing to conduct brutal experiments to undo the damage they caused. Maelon admits that what he's doing is monstrous, but is already so disgusted with himself he feels he has nothing to lose. Despite this, [[spoiler:[[TheExtremistWasRight Maelon's research proves vital in the third game in securing a future for the Krogan]]]].
256** In ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', we finally meet Miranda's father, Henry Lawson, a man who [[DesignerBabies creates offspring]] based on [[{{Narcissist}} his own genetic template]] and then discards them when [[YouHaveFailedMe they don't live up to his expectations]]. After going through Sanctuary, where he [[spoiler:lured thousands of people promising shelter, only to turn them into husks]], it's clear that he's even more monstrous than Miranda said he was.
257* ''VideoGame/MegaManX'': Quite a few villains follow the robotic version of this, trying to improve the technological advancement of their species beyond what humans made them for. Lumine and Sigma (in the MHX remake) actually mention evolution. In the ''VideoGame/MegaManZX'', both [[spoiler:Serpent]] and much more notably [[spoiler:Master Albert]] fit this trope to a T. In addition, it is possible that [[spoiler:Master Thomas]] is an example of this trope as well. [[spoiler:[[TheStarscream Prometheus]]]] calls out [[spoiler:Albert]] on this point, however, declaring that his grand plan of evolution is nothing but a farce and "epic sham", [[spoiler:and considering Albert's AGodAmI tendencies, he might have something of a point]].
258* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'''s infamous GainaxEnding had the Colonel [[spoiler:A.I.]] justifying the Patriots by referring to this with regards to ''cultural'' evolution, considering the Internet to be what disrupted natural selection. (''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'' reveals that they were probably less than honest about this motivation.)
259* ''VideoGame/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope'' features Trofim Lysenko, the technocratic ruler of Magnitogorsk. A [[HistoricalVillainUpgrade historical person]] known for his pseudoscientific beliefs and ardent support of [[LamarckWasRight Lamarckist]] interpretations that living organisms inherit the acquired traits of their forebears and that plants can acquire desirable traits if they grow under extreme duress, he came to the "realization" that this can apply to humans, too, and to promote the desirable traits is necessary for mankind's benefit. In the abandoned city of Magnitogorsk, Lysenko set up a massive system of "experimental chambers", where kidnapped people are subjected to torture in his futile attempts to confirm those theories and turn prisoners into {{Super Soldier}}s that will help him to liberate the war-torn Russia from Nazi Germans and warlords.
260* ''VideoGame/NintendoWars'': Caulder, the Big Bad of ''Advance Wars: Days of Ruin''. Strictly speaking, "evolution" isn't his goal, but he's a MadScientist whose involvement in [[spoiler:cloning]] gets him pretty close to this trope. It turns out that [[spoiler:he is actually a clone who killed the original, then made clones of himself in an attempt to sell a clone army]].
261* ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'': Moira O'Deorain is single-minded in her pursuit of knowledge (when she spawns, she says, "Science will reveal the truth"), and she has wound up working with [[NebulousEvilOrganisation Talon]] because the multitude of ethical and moral issues with her experiments have made her such a controversial figure that she can't get work.
262* In ''VideoGame/{{Palworld}}'', the FinalBoss Victor Ashford[[note]]a ShoutOut to ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' GreaterScopeVillain Alexander Ashford[[/note]] is a MadScientist in an EerieArcticResearchStation who seeks to use the game's {{mon}}s to create {{Bioweapon Beast}}s, with his partner Shadowbeak being [[UltimateLifeForm his first success]]. While the game is an AffectionateParody of ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' rife with BlackComedy directed at the mons, Victor's PlayingWithSyringes is decidedly ''not'' PlayedForLaughs as he speaks of them in a cold, clinical tone through his journals. He melted them down into slurry that was fed to their fellow Pals to [[PoweredByAForsakenChild make them stronger]] ([[VideoGameCrueltyPotential with the player able to take advantage of his research]]), merged them together in horrifying ways and discarded them when the results failed to live more than a few seconds, and generally tore into them just to find out how they ticked.
263* ''VideoGame/ParasiteEve'':
264** The first game has Dr. Klamp, who is the one who ultimately created Eve and willingly assists her in her genocidal goals because he wishes to "help humanity evolve".
265** ''VideoGame/ParasiteEve2'': The key antagonists are a shadowy cult who intend to counter the anthropogenic extinction of thousands of species by "diversifying" humanity into filling all the ecological niches -- by transforming everybody into hideous and inevitably hostile monsters. Made particularly chilling by the fact that about half of their stated plan -- namely the use of retroviral engineering -- isn't too far from being a real possibility.
266* Colress from ''VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2'' is a MadScientist obsessed with [[INeedYouStronger discovering the limits to the strength of Pokémon]] and becomes TheDragon to [[BigBad Ghetsis]] to take advantage of Team Plasma's resources while helping them weaponize the [[OlympusMons legendary dragon Kyurem]]. However, he was ultimately a PunchClockVillain and becomes TheAtoner after Ghetsis' defeat upon realizing he was going about it the wrong way.
267* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'':
268** The Umbrella Corporation, makers of such fine biological weapons as [[ZombieApocalypse the T-Virus]] and [[ImplacableMan the Nemesis]].
269** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'' takes it to a new level with Project W. Ironically, this was one of the ''first'' projects Umbrella started in the timeline. Umbrella founder Ozwell Spencer envisioned the rise of a superior breed of humans [[spoiler:(consisting of humans infused with the Progenitor Virus at a young age)]] indoctrinated with his own [[TheSocialDarwinist Social Darwinist]] values and presumably his interest in biological studies. In other words, this was an Evilutionary project ''to manufacture more Evilutionary Biologists''. Fortunately, the project was ultimately a failure since [[spoiler:Albert Wesker and his sister Alex Wesker were the only children to survive the virus injections all the other Wesker children received]].
270** Last but not least, there's Wesker's evil plot itself from the same game as above. To put it in his own words, "Natural selection leaves the survivors ''stronger'' and ''better''."
271* ''VideoGame/RWBYGrimmEclipse'': [[BigBad Dr. Merlot]] believes the [[TheHeartless Creatures of Grimm]] to be the ultimate form of evolution and has experimented on them to see how far he can take them to perfection and give them a purpose in life as also explained in his VillainSong "Lusus Naturae".
272* ''VideoGame/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice'': {{Parodied|Trope}} with Stinky, an evilutionary ''cook'', who wants to advance mankind by [[LethalChef making really bad food]] that only the strongest can survive eating.
273* ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiStrangeJourney'': In a sense, this is Mitra's motivation. On encountering humans, he begins experimenting on them to see what they can do without. The problem is that, since demons are made of spirit, he doesn't seem to understand that we need such things as "a functioning brain", "blood", "air", and "skin"...
274* The main villain of ''VideoGame/SkeletonKrew'' is [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Moribund Kadaver]], an evil geneticist and biologist whose experiments caused a massive number of human prisoners to mutate into nightmarish abominations.
275* ''VideoGame/StarCraftIIHeartOfTheSwarm'': Abathur is the Zerg evolution master, tinkering with DNA to create new Zerg creatures or improved strains of existing ones; the transformation of Sarah Kerrigan into the Queen of Blades back in ''VideoGame/StarCraftI'' was also his work. He has no sense of empathy, which is evident in how creatures which he considers to be failures are painfully dissolved back into raw material while they're still alive, because he thinks the tiny amount of effort required to MercyKill them first is an unnecessary waste.
276* ''VideoGame/SuperCatboy'': Dr. Ungefog, the game's BigBad creates his personal army of hyper-obediant soldiers by experimenting on animals like cats and dogs. For some reason, cats are consderably on the "superior" side, with felines like the titular Catboy being reserved as SuperSoldiers.
277* ''VideoGame/TombRaiderI'': Jaqueline Natla wants to use Atlantis' powers to create a predator for humans, thereby giving evolution "a kick in the pants".
278-->''"Evolution's in a rut, natural selection at an all-time low. Shipping out fresh meat will incite territorial rages again, will strengthen and advance us. Even create new breeds."''
279* ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'': [[WickedCultured Tyl Regor]] is the lead geneticist of the [[CloneArmy Grineer Empire]], working to solve the Grineers' major problem with CloneDegradation. He is fiercely protective of his "Tubemen" project, the intended next step in Grineer evolution, lacking the genetic weaknesses of clone rot or aging. Early fruits of his labor can be seen in the Grineer Manics, dangerous lunatics that are ''significantly'' more agile than your common Grineer grunt and employ TeleportSpam.
280* ''VideoGame/WildArms4'': The scientists who ran the White Orphanage took orphaned children and used a variety of cruel methods to attempt to mass-produce artificially evolved humans who could use the eponymous [=ARMs=]. Of all their subjects, only nineteen survived the initial experiments, and only two were not eventually killed or turned into mutated horrors.
281* ''VideoGame/WingCommanderIVThePriceOfFreedom'': The BigBad is [[spoiler:a WellIntentionedExtremist that let his extremism evolve into a Nazi Germany-style pogrom, including developing a nanotech-based bioweapon that kills based on preselected genetic criteria. It kills by altering the cellular RNA of an infected person that doesn't measure up, whose ''own immune system'' attacks them, liquefying their flesh. Slowly. At first, it's thought that it's a plague, until the main protagonist finds out the truth behind this, and another weapon that destroys ships by [[MadeOfExplodium somehow]] igniting the atmosphere within, turning spacecraft into impromptu furnaces) during a covert mission to the BigBad's stronghold/spaceship. It doesn't exactly help that the BigBad is a member of the same military that the protagonist is and is actually higher in rank]]. The purported reason behind all this is that "humanity has gotten weak" without the perpetual warring of the first three games and needs to be "pruned to be able to face the next adversary". Naturally, the protagonist has to stop this out of moral indignation, and the BigBad is deliberately inciting another war through his use of this stuff.
282* ''VideoGame/XKaliber2097'' has Dr. Blast, the scientist who performs Morph experimentations to create legion of mutants and monsters. You battle him in his own research lab, filled with his creations, and Blast even injects himself with his own chemicals to transform into a monster.
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286* In ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'', Red Mage has been known to dabble into this field from time to time, as a parody of chocobo breeding in ''Videogame/FinalFantasyVII''.
287* In ''Webcomic/TheDragonDoctors'', Preston Chang turned himself into the Crax, a species that starts out as parasites until they grow to take control of their hosts and become amorphous blob creatures and can adapt to practically anything but cold, all so that Chang could become immortal. Kili, the shaman, faces Chang in the spirit world twice, the first time when removing a Crax from a patient; his spirit is driven off and the parasite defeated. The second time he just shows up and drags her through a bunch of painful memories in an attempt to drive her to surrender her body to him. [[spoiler:Then she realizes that she was talking to a ghost -- the Crax's hyper-fast evolution had determined that Chang's megalomaniacal mind was a weakness and [[http://dragondoctors.dhscomix.com/archives/comic/ch-15-page-26 discarded him]], then evolved into harmless gut flora.]]
288* ''Webcomic/DresdenCodak'': Kim Ross moves towards this trope over the comic's run. Starting with [[TheSingularity a basis in technological transhumanism]], she's been stealing memories from hapless passersbys to help create an A.I. model to help trigger this event. She tries to allow the time-travelling AI that practically lands in her lap to develop in the present, doing the same thing more quickly, ''despite'' the current evidence that says it'll probably wipe out most of humanity in the process. Currently she's gotten her hands on a mini-version and is uploading her model into it. Oh, and she's the protagonist. At the end of the arc where she encounters the time travelling A.I., she has somewhat learned to not take her beliefs to the extreme of misanthropy and human inferiority the way her future self did.
289* {{Parodied|Trope}} in ''Webcomic/EverydayHeroes''. As a ShoutOut to Creator/{{Marvel|Comics}}'s High Evolutionary (mentioned above), two members of the S.A.V.E.U.S. team were created by the Somewhat-Below-Average Evolutionary.
290* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': Dr. Dmitri Vapnoodle specialized in making monsters for the purpose of "culling the herd"... though he was careful to engineer in absolute loyalty to himself so that he wouldn't be one of the culled, of course.
291* ''Webcomic/{{Magellan}}'': Professor George Lonsdale, (the real) BigBad of [[http://magellanverse.com/comic/altruistic/ "Worst Field Trip Ever"]], truly believes that [[LegoGenetics splicing animal and human DNA]] is the next big evolutionary leap. But then, he's also clearly shown as experimenting on innocents ([[GuineaPigFamily including his own son]]) ForTheEvulz as much as anything else.
292* ''Webcomic/{{Narbonic}}'': Many mad scientists fall into this, some to create new life because it's somehow 'better', others because they just can. Helen Narbon, for example, likes gerbils, and one such product, Artie, notes how the gerbil is a much more ecologically sustainable form. [[spoiler:Near the climax, a group of conservative-minded hamsters take this logic to its natural conclusion, seeking to wipe out almost all of humanity.]]
293* ''Webcomic/OnePunchMan'': Dr. Genus, founder of the "House of Evolution", creates genetically spliced monstrosities out of his extreme contempt for regular old human beings. [[spoiler:Witnessing Saitama's unexplainable and completely illogical strength causes him to give up on science and just start selling takoyaki instead.]]
294%%* ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'':
295%%** Parodied [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/20081030.gif here]].
296%%** And again [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/?db=comics&id=1695#comic here]].
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300* ''Literature/{{Twig}}'': Professor Hayle uses this philosophy in order to justify his decision to sink his departmental funding into six separate projects, children with SuperIntelligence who would act as a gestalt. The plan is that the most successful project will be kept and expanded upon in order to iteratively improve the human brain until a firmly superior product is produced, but the fact that his project takes years to come to fruition means he has much less academic clout than his colleagues, who produce plagues, superweapons, and armies of reanimated corpses.
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304* ''WesternAnimation/ActionMan2000'': Doctor X is a textbook Evilutionary Biologist obsessed with triggering the [[EvolutionaryLevels next step in human evolution]] by causing all sorts of disasters in the hopes of culling unfit humans and causing beneficial mutations in the survivors.
305* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' has Doctor Gross, who led a class of young girls into becoming Seekers: hyper-muscular agents trained to keep anyone who strays from [[TechnoDystopia their home island]] in check. Years later, Gross is shown to have modified her own body to the extreme, with scissor hands and telescopic spider legs.
306--> '''Dr. Gross:''' They used to ask me that all the time back at the island. "Oh, Doctor Gross, what're you doin'?! You'll never get away with this!"\
307'''Finn:''' [[YoureInsane Lady, you are sick]]!\
308'''Dr. Gross:''' None of you normies know what you want, so it's up to me and my hybrid army to [[spoiler:drag [[WhamLine all the other humans]] into a golden age]]!
309* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'': Doctor Animo is obsessed with advancing the evolution of planet Earth ''[[TheUnfettered by any means necessary]]''.
310* [[spoiler:The biology company Sycorax]] in ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6TheSeries'', as revealed in Season 2. They're responsible for the majority of the series' villains getting [[TookALevelInBadass their "Phase 2" upgrades]], and if you weren't already a villain, they'll just make you one. [[BlatantLies For the sake of progress, of course]]!
311* ''WesternAnimation/DexHamiltonAlienEntomologist'': Syrrus's goal is to breed an army of super insects to allow him to take over the galaxy.
312* ''WesternAnimation/DinoSquad'': Victor Veloci wants to turn regular animals into prehistoric creatures and return Earth to the rule of the dinosaurs.
313* ''WesternAnimation/ExoSquad'': Dr. Ketzer is a genetic engineer who alters a group of villagers ([[ProfessorGuineaPig and himself]]) in the Amazon to give them plant-like abilities. He also infects [[spoiler:Nara Burns]] with the mutating agent as a ploy to get Marsh to do his dirty work for him.
314* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'':
315** As well as the other ways in which he's an utterly raving MadScientist, Professor Farnsworth often rants about creating, amongst other things, a "[[Film/BrideOfTheMonster race of atomic supermen]]", which he once actually does in order to win a basketball game.
316** One episode of ''The Scary Door'' (a parody of ''Franchise/TheTwilightZone'') features one of these. He combines the evilest genes from the world's most evil creatures to form the evilest creature of them all:
317--->''"[[HumansAreTheRealMonsters It turns out it's man]]."''
318* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'': Dr. Anton Sevarius is a freelance geneticist specializing in clones and mutates. So long as he gets [[ForScience plenty of test subjects]] and money, he doesn't really seem to care ''what'' his creations are used for, having sold his services to almost every BigBad in the series.
319* ''WesternAnimation/LegionOfSuperHeroes2006'' has Dr. Londo, who was responsible for [[GuineaPigFamily transforming Timber Wolf into what he is now]]. It's also heavily implied that he wasn't the only test subject, and subtly implied that he was aware of his father's work before he was transformed.
320* ''WesternAnimation/MightyMax'': Dr. Eggbert Zygote's goal is to use his evolution machine to create a perfect race of humans. In practice, he mostly just makes monsters.
321* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'', Dr. Octavius (who eventually becomes Dr. Octopus) is recruited to assist a shady organization with their genetic experimentation by turning criminals/hired thugs into enhanced superhumans.
322* ''WesternAnimation/StreetSharks'': Dr. Paradigm starts out like this, as evidenced by his monologue about how great his human test subjects will be post-transformation and sans those silly human morals. He abandons this goal pretty early and switches to simply taking over the town/world. This is after getting a taste of his own medicine makes him seven kinds of AxCrazy, though.
323* ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'': The Kraang are either directly or indirectly responsible for every mutant created in the series due to their creating the mutagen that started it all. While some of their "creations" escape (i.e., Splinter and the baby Turtles), many of them are kept prisoner and experimented on (like Leatherhead).
324* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'': MECH wanted to steal the deadliest technology available so they could further their goals of remaking the world in their image. As such, they become ''very'' interested in the Cybertronians when they learn of their existence. This leads to their kidnapping/trying to dissect Breakdown, almost gutting Arcee, [[OrganTheft stealing Bumblebee's and Starscream's T-cogs]], and creating Nemesis Prime (a remote-controlled Cybertronian with the power of Optimus Prime). They cross the MoralEventHorizon when they [[spoiler: put Silas' barely alive body inside and basically turn him into a human-Cybertronian hybrid]]. You know a group is bad when both the Autobots ''and'' [[EveryoneHasStandards the Decepticons]] hate them.
325* In ''WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan2012'', Dr. Octopus starts out working for Norman Osborn to replicate Spider-Man's powers, leading to the creation of Venom, [[spoiler:the Green Goblin, the Lizard, the Rhino, et cetera]].
326* ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'' implies that Magneto is the one responsible for Nightcrawler looking like a demon, via one of his many, many experiments.
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329->''[[Music/ThePolice Oh, can't you see/You've got subpar genes/How the planet aches/From every breath you take...]]''

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