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In addition to the archetypical mad scientist, there are fictional characters of scientists and engineers who go above and beyond the regular demands of their professions to use their skills and knowledge for the betterment of others, often at great personal risk. In this list of fictional scientists and engineers, an annotated alphabetical overview is given of notable characters in this category.

In literature

Mad scientists and evil geniuses

In live-action films

Individual scientist/engineers

Mad scientists

In live-action television

Individual scientist/engineers

Mad scientists

In television animation

In animated films

In comics and graphic novels

DC Comics

Mad scientists

Marvel Comics

  • Dr. Bruce Banner, a.k.a. The Incredible Hulk (Hulk) – scientist who developed the "Gamma Bomb" for the US government; an accident at the site of a test led to his becoming the Hulk; for a long period after, while in the form of Bruce Banner, he looked for scientific ways to rid himself of the transformation
  • Forge (X-Men) – mutant engineering genius
  • Dr. Henry (Hank) Philip McCoy, a.k.a. Beast (X-Men) – world-renowned biochemist and mutant superhero
  • Peter Parker, a.k.a. Spider-Man (Spider-Man) – superhero with great knowledge of advanced sciences; now teaches at the high school he formerly attended. His father Richard has also been portrayed as a scientist and geneticist in the Ultimate Marvel comics as well as the films The Amazing Spider-Man and its sequel.
  • Reed Richards, a.k.a. Mister Fantastic (Fantastic Four) – scientist and inventor, regarded as one of the most intelligent people on Earth, leader of the Fantastic Four
  • Ted Sallis – duplicator of the serum that created Captain America; transformed into The Man-Thing;although he had serious problems with his personal ethics when it came to women and girls, he abandoned Operation Sulfer on moral grounds, and elected to remain as Man-Thing rather than allow innocents to be killed by the demon Thog
  • Tony Stark, a.k.a. Iron Man (Iron Man) – industrialist and mechanical engineer of incredible ingenuity and inventive genius, whose technology to fight crime keeps him alive as well; he suffers from alcoholism
  • Victor and Janet Stein (Runaways) – founding members of the Pride; parents of Chase Stein
  • Victor Von Doom, a.k.a. Doctor Doom (Doctor Doom) – evil scientist, engineer, genius, conqueror; like Mister Fantastic, he is regarded as one of the most intelligent people on Earth, even though he is a villain
  • Professor Charles Francis Xavier, a.k.a. Professor X (X-Men) – founder, mentor, and sometime leader of the X-Men
  • Dr. Henry "Hank" Pym biochemist, discovers an unusual set of subatomic particles he labels "Pym particles". Entrapping these within two separate serums, he creates a size-altering formula and a reversal formula, testing them on himself. Becomes original Ant-Man.

Mad scientists

Other

In anime and manga

Individual scientist/engineers

  • Jonathan Joestar (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure) – Studied to be an archaeologist, but died before doing anything major.
  • Jotaro Kujo (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure) – oceanographer, while unrelated to his role in the various plot arcs he appears in, Jotaro earns a doctorate in oceanography sometime during the summer of 1999 in the series' original timeline; dolphin and anchor motifs were added to his clothing designs to reflect his new occupation

Mad scientists

  • Kaolla Su (Love Hina) – exchange student who is the princess of the island of Molmol. She frequently invents dangerous devices and wants to turn her kingdom into a technological powerhouse that will conquer Japan.
  • Bondrewd (Made in Abyss) – White Whistle of ill repute, "Bondrewd the Novel" is in charge of Idofront, the Cave Riders' forward Operating Base in the fifth layer. He was the one responsible for several unethical experiments on children, including the one which transformed Nanachi and Mitty into Hollows.
  • Dr. Hiroshi Agasa (Case Closed) – an absent-minded professor who invents several devices to help out Jimmy Kudo
  • Naoko Akagi (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
  • Ritsuko Akagi (Neon Genesis Evangelion) – daughter of the above
  • Mayuri Kurotsuchi (Bleach) – a sadistic and cruel shinigami who uses his position as the leader of the Soul Society's Shinigami Research and Development Institute to conduct his experiments.
  • Desty Nova (Battle Angel Alita) – wicked genius whose work is fueled by philosophy; highly skilled at nanotechnology
  • Franken Stein (Soul Eater)
  • Ujiko Daruma (My Hero Academia) – mad scientist associated with the series' main antagonists, League of Villains.
  • Orochimaru (Naruto) – a shinobi obsessed with immortality and obtaining knowledge of all jutsu. He conducted many illegal and unethical experiments that resulted in him becoming a wanted criminal.
  • Kabuto Yakushi (Naruto) – Orochimaru's assistant who takes part in many of his master's illegal experiments in addition to conducting his own, which include raising the dead.
  • Dr. Hell (Mazinger Z) - a mad scientist that is obsessed with taking over the world with his army of robotic monsters known as Mechanical Beast or Kikaiju.
  • Professor Souichi Tomoe (Sailor Moon S, Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Season III) - The father of Hotaru Tomoe and the leader of Death Busters, used to be as a world-renowned scientist in field of genetic engineering and forced out of the scientific community of his unethical experiments, he sold his findings to companies and bought the entire Sankakusu District to continue his research to create "Super Beings". He vesselized one of the Daimon eggs: Gematoid to become hybrid by sold his soul to Master Pharaoh 90 and willfully discards his humanity and created a lot of Daimons while working to perfect the stability of Daimon/human hybribs.
  • Rintaro Okabe (Steins;Gate) - an eccentric yet kind-hearted inventor who embraces the typical image of a mad scientist. His experiments lead to the invention of time travel.

In video games

Scientists

  • Albert Wesker (Resident Evil) – microbiologist working for the pharmaceutical enterprise Umbrella and co-creator of the T-virus; he was killed in the first Resident Evil game by Tyrant T-002, a powerful biological weapon, and was resurrected with super-human powers after self-injecting the T-virus
  • Catherine Elizabeth Halsey, MD, PhD (Halo series) – scientist of the Office of Naval Intelligence, best known as the creator of the SPARTAN-II Program and Mjolnir Powered Assault Armor
  • Dr. Alphys (Undertale) – stout Lizard monster, and Asgore's royal scientist; extremely timid; the creator of the robot Mettaton and the Amalgamates; has a crush on Undyne, captain of the Royal Guard
  • Dr. Andonuts (EarthBound) – father of Jeff, one of the Chosen Four
  • Dr. Bosconovitch (Tekken series)
  • Dr. Casper Darling (Control) - Head of Paranatural Research at the United States Federal Bureau of Control
  • Cave Johnson (Portal 2) – eccentric former owner of Aperture Science, and creator of the portal gun
  • Ciel (Mega Man Zero) – young human scientist who awakens Zero in order to save the world[2]
  • Daro'Xen vas Moreh (first appeared in Mass Effect 2) – quarian admiral and scientist who believes that the geth, a synthetic race created by the quarians, who subsequently rebelled and drove their masters from their homeworld, should be controlled by the quarians once again; Admiral Xen also performed surgery on her childhood toys, much to the quarian squadmate Tali'Zorah's disgust
  • Egon Stetmann (StarCraft II) – creator of the Mecha Swarm, paranoid, and prone to terrazine-induced hallucinations, he was once chief science adviser aboard the Hyperion.
  • Professor E. Gadd (Nintendo games)
  • Coco Bandicoot (Crash Bandicoot) - she is Crash Bandicoot's younger sister.She has a deep intelligence and a love of science, which makes her the opposite of her brother. He is an electronics engineer specializing in hacking, computer programming and machine building
  • Dr. Gast (Final Fantasy VII) – former head of the Shinra Company's science department; has a much stronger moral compass than his successor
  • Dr. Gordon Freeman, Ph.D. (Half-Life) – theoretical physicist who fights a one-man battle against invading aliens, US Marines and Combine forces with a crowbar and other weapons; his associates are Drs. Isaac Kleiner, Eli Vance, Judith Mossman and Arne Magnusson
  • Dr. Krieger (Far Cry) – renowned scientist and creator/controller of the Trigens in the first Far Cry game
  • Wilhelm "Doktor" Voigt (METAL GEAR RISING: REVENGEANCE) - Robotics engineer working for Maverick Security Consulting who assists the player in various ways throughout the game
  • Nicoletta "Nico" Goldstein (Devil may Cry) - Creator of various robotic arms that the player can use when playing as Nero
  • Kurisu Makise (Steins;Gate) – famous Japanese neuroscientist who lives in the United States, builds a machine that allows the user's memories to be converted into data.
  • Dr. Light (Mega Man) – creator of the revolutionary robot Mega Man
  • Love Lab scientists (Rhythm Heaven) – male and female scientist pass ingredients to each other to make love potions to the rhythm of the music
  • Lucrecia Crescent (Final Fantasy VII) – Shinra scientist and lover of Vincent Valentine
  • Grimoire Valentine (Final Fantasy VII) – Shinra scientist and father of Vincent Valentine
  • Hojo (Final Fantasy VII) – Head of the Shinra Company's science department; a sociopathic, amoral bioengineer whose experiments drive the game's plot forward
  • Mei (Overwatch and Heroes of the Storm) – climatologist, and one of the heroes in both games and comic series
  • Moira (Overwatch) – geneticist, and one of the playable heroes in the game
  • Kirin Jindosh (Dishonored 2) - Grand Inventor to Duke Luca Abele and founder of Jindosh Clockworks which created the Clockwork Soldiers and Clockwork Sentinels
  • Mordin Solus (first appeared in Mass Effect 2) – member of fictional alien species known as salarians (who have fast metabolisms, talk fast, walk fast and think fast); a brilliant biologist and a tech specialist
  • Neuron (City of Heroes)
  • Dr. Otto Wolfgang Ort-Meyer (Hitman) – creator of Agent 47 and other clone assassins
  • Penny Crygor (WarioWare) - Dr. Crygor's granddaughter
  • Pieter Van Eckhardt (Tomb Rider: The Angel of Darkness)
  • Plague Knight (Shovel Knight), rouge member of the Order of No Quarter, tries to harvest their Essence for the Ultimate Potion to win over someone's heart.
  • Reed Wahl (BioShock 2)
  • Rikako Asakura (Touhou Project) – titled "Scientist Searching for Dreams", she is one of the few people in Gensokyo to value using science over magic. While she still uses magic in order to enhance her science at times, she tries to refrain from using magic due to a natural distaste of it.
  • Dr. Samuel Hayden (Doom (franchise)) – Head of the UAC, physicist.
  • Tobias Planck (Pirate Galaxy) – named after Max Planck, he is a theoretical physicist and field scientist with a parietal lobe 15% larger than average
  • Tohru Adachi(Persona) He is a scientist of the avian variety, and makes robot chickens and robot roosters and robot geese
  • Dr. W.D. Gaster (Undertale) – former royal scientist who speaks in the Wingdings font
  • William Birkin (Resident Evil 2) – microbiologist working for the pharmaceutical enterprise Umbrella Corporation; creator of the G-virus; he was wounded and injected himself with his G-virus, mutating him into a monster
  • Dr. Zed (Borderlands) – "Doctor" from the –Borderlands– series
  • Miles “Tails” Prower (Sonic The Hedgehog)

Mad scientists

  • Viktor from League of Legends - scientist who replaced his body with a machine and wants to enhance the human race.
  • Dr. Crygor from WarioWare
  • Dr. Daniel Dickens from Angels of Death - the main character's therapist.
  • Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik (Sonic the Hedgehog) – mad scientist who is the archenemy series' titular hero, Sonic the Hedgehog, specializes in robotics and other fields of engineering, who invents various kinds of aircraft, robots and vehicles in various sizes; he imprisoned animals in the inside of working robotic shells, and experimented with kinds of mutations. He aims to capture the Chaos Emeralds.
  • Dr. "Mundo" Edmundo (League of Legends) – sociopath medical doctor who only specializes in one field: the study of the pain response and how to inflict pain;his experiments have caused him to take on a monstrous form reminiscent of Frankenstein's Monster and a deceptively dimwitted speech pattern; out of all the scientists in the game, Dr. Mundo stands out as the only one who is a danger to both himself and others, evident in his self experiments.
  • Dr. Muto (video game of the same name).
  • Doctor Neo Cortex (Crash Bandicoot) – evil doctor who is the creator and arch-enemy of franchise's titular hero Crash Bandicoot with an oversized head, who has plans to conquer the world, using Power Crystals.
  • Doctor Nitrus Brio (Crash Bandicoot) – timid and meek scientist who assisted Doctor Neo Cortex in the first game, often using beakers of chemicals.
  • Doctor N. Gin (Crash Bandicoot) – masochistic scientist who assists Neo Cortex in the second game onward.
  • Dr. Wily (Mega Man) – primary antagonist of the original Mega Man series.
  • Dr. Nefarious (‘’Ratchet and Clank’’) – A recurring adversary to Ratchet, Clank and Captain Qwark.
  • General Wilhelm "Deathshead" Strasse (Wolfenstein) Major antagonist of the series who leads the Nazis research projects
  • GLaDOS/Caroline (Portal) - the main antagonist of the Portal franchise. She was Cave Johnson's assistant, before taking over the facility.
  • The Medic (Team Fortress 2) – one of nine playable classes who rejects the Hippocratic Oath. He is able to heal other characters and make them invincible (by using Übercharge) for a limited time with his Medigun. He previously had a medical licence, but lost it due to misplacing a patient's skeleton.
  • Vexen (Kingdom Hearts) – A founding member of Organization XIII. A brilliant scientist who carries out research on various Organization projects. He was in charge of the Replica Program at Castle Oblivion, but someone disposed of him.
  • Dr. M (Sly Cooper) – He is a mandrill and was the brains of Sly's father's gang he felt he was being held back, so he set up a fortress on Kaine Island to break into the Cooper Vault and claim the wealth.
  • Professor Monkey-For-A-Head (Earthworm Jim)
  • Professor Von Kriplespac (Conker's Bad Fur Day)
  • Alexandria Hypatia (Dishonored 2) - Chief Alchemist at the Addermire Institute who gains a separate serial killer personality after an experiment gone wrong
  • Rintarō Okabe, a.k.a. Kyōma Hōōin (Steins;Gate) – self proclaimed mad scientist in his Kyōma Hōōin persona (which in reality is taken from a television show he watched as a child).
  • Yuri (Red Alert 2, and expansion pack) – Soviet psychic and founder of the Psychic Corps. During the Second World War, he took part in Stalin's secret project, whose aim was to create a mind control technology, and army which specialized in psychic warfare.
  • Victor Donovan (Dead or Alive) – main antagonist of Dead or Alive series.
  • Professor Hojo (Final Fantasy VII) – head of the Shinra Science Research Division. He infused his unborn child Sephiroth with Jenova cells to turn him into a super soldier, and in the present aids Jenova/Sephiroth's plans in the name of scientific research.

Engineers

Other

Teams of scientists/engineers

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