The mad scientist
The convention of an obsessive, morally unbound scientist whose experiments cross ethical or natural limits.
The mad scientist in fiction: 7 works
Victor's obsessive, secretive experimentation across natural and ethical limits fixes the mad-scientist convention.
The novel features the creation of entire cities based on specific ideals, including a dystopian one focused on arms manufacturing, suggesting a powerful, potentially morally unbound, scientific or industrial figure behind these experiments.
Moreau's amoral vivisection in pursuit of transformation is the mad-scientist convention at its darkest.
The scientist who injects himself with his own genetically engineered creation, triggering a global catastrophe, embodies this trope.
The reckless de-extinction science pursued for spectacle courts catastrophe.
The reclusive creator Nathan's amoral, controlling experiments drive the tragedy.
A roboticist rushes an unsupervised AI creation that escapes her control.
More tropes
✎Discussion
Leave a note on The mad scientist, or ask something and see what others make of it.
Loading…