Fictional mad scientists usually fulfil a painful circumstances : demolish by their own creation , or by villagers with torches . After all , wecan’t air the subject matter that dabbling in the universe ’s secrets is okay . Butsometimes , a scientist is just too clever , or lucky , to get burned . Here are 10mad scientist who did n’t get punished .
dear news , everyone ! Nothing particularly risky materialize to Futurama ’s mad scientist , ProfessorFarnsworth . This senile genius has the manical laugh down ( see video!)and expend most of his time coming up with shaky experimentation . He playsGod legion times throughout the serial with his compulsion with DoomsdayDevices , parallel universes , cloning , and his creation of the Atomic Supermenamong other thing . As of the most recent “ last instalment ” of the show , Farnsworth has n’t tolerate any serious recoil .
Mordin Solus is a brilliant salarian scientist who was vital inmodifying the frightful Krogan Genophage . The original genophage was abiological weapon used against the Krogans during the Krogan Rebellions . Itgenetically modified the entire mintage to make a viable pregnancy very rarified , conduce to many stillborn and sterile Krogans . After a few one C the Kroganwere beginning to be resistant , and more children were being born goodly . Solus was part of a team that modified the genophage to keep the populationdown . He sincerely believes that his actions were justified , and feels no guiltover what he ’s done to the Krogans . Mordin ’s last variegate look on how youplay the biz , but he is never brought to DoJ for his hand in thegenophage .
Doctor Krieger does n’t technically have an advanced degree , butthat does n’t cease him from using the title and performing all kinds of insaneexperiments . As head of the ISIS Applied Research Department , Krieger performsgenetic experiments , creates golem / cyborg , invents undercover agent cars , and invents newways of doing drug . Despite the sometimes fearsome nature of his work , hisbosses at ISIS never reprimand him . He is allowed free reign , and he definitelytakes advantage of it .
Dr. Helen Narbon and her mother , Dr. Helen Narbon , are both madscientists in thisacclaimed webcomic . They both like to occasionally play God , conducting experiments that ramble fromhuman cloning , to brain uploading , to genetically engineered gerbille . Whilethey both distribute with ups and pile over the course of the comedian , nothing trulybad ever happens to them as a result of their mad science .
Underneath that pink , princessey outside , Princess Bubblegum isa ruthless mad scientist . Throughout the course of the show , we see her playingGod in her confect kingdom . She shoot down the limbs off of tiny citizenry ( seevideo above ) , creates life in the form of the Lemongrabs and Goliad , and evenmakes a robotic clon of herself . She ’s unforced to do just about anything inthe name of science . And yet , despite her sorry stripe , she is beloved by most ofthe inhabitants of Oo .
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Dr. Kurt Leopold was “ Catfishing ” people long beforeMTV — but not in quite the same style . The Nazi huffy scientist created a formulathat turns people into giant walk catfish . He turn himself into acatfish - military personnel , kill some of his former co-worker , and terrorized a Ithiel Town whiletrying to find a womanhood to work into a wolffish mate . The movie ends equivocally , and it ’s potential that Leopold was kill , but it ’s just as likely that he swamoff into the sundown to find another seat to test his formula …
Herbert West is surely punish for his attempts at playingGod , but the narrator of these short stories , who was a major participant inthe solemn robbing and reanimating , completely gets away with it . The unnamednarrator assist West bring people back to living — with frightening effect . One oftheir experimentation kills a small girl , while others eventually disembowel West . While the narrator has to carry the burden of what he ’s done , and considershimself somewhat mad , he never digest any actual issue from the law orfrom his experiments . Image byDaveForYou
D.A. Sinclair is the creator of automatic zombies called Reanimen . He started his experiments on dead bodies , but eventually moved on to liveones . He even tried to use his roommate , William , as a very unwilling guineapig . Sinclair is arrested for his horrific crimes , but the administration decidesthat his talent are too special to go to waste in a jailhouse cadre . He serves nojail time , or else getting a government contract to move around his Reanimen intosuper soldier .
This one could fit on the list , depending onhow you read the story . Crake is by all odds a huffy scientist playing God — hegenetically engineers a pandemic that kill most of the human race — but whetherhe beat aside with it is kind of subjective . He is vote out by Snowman / Jimmy , butmany readers see his end as an elaborately be after suicide . If it was asuicide , he got everything he wanted , and all of his plans came to fruition . Image byJason Courtney
The leader of the Fantastic Four definitelyplays God on a reasonably veritable basis , recrudesce Brobdingnagian Weapons of MassDestruction and attempting to be the Marvel Universe ’s version of Hari Seldonfrom Asimov ’s Foundation . Just hishabit of opening doorways between universes , alone , is enough to tag him as“Playing God ” — and when we meet his alternate selves from otheruniverses , they ’re filthy pieces of work . And Reed does go through somehardship , in the common “ comic - book of account character ” way : his face getsscarred , he ’s fritter , his supporter and family go bad , he ’s put on trial run , he ’s dyingof a mysterious unwellness — but none of these thing is lasting , or lasts muchlonger than your usual comic - Word tribulations . Reed ordinarily wind up havinghis nice lab at the Baxter Building once more , surrounded by his team and hiskids , having pretty banter around him .
We debated whether to include Walter , since hedefinitely suffers — he turn a loss his wife , and spend meter in a mentalinstitution . But then Walter ’s spirit make better , and he winds up have got apretty nice existence as a phallus of the Fringe Division . Especiallyconsidering the vast sum of wipeout and wretchedness Walter caused , Fringe keeps teasing us with the notionthat Walter ’s real penalisation is yet to come . In particular , we ’re render analternate time to come where Walter is a low human race , and we ’re also give intimation thathis alt - universe son Peter may have to pass to balance the scale . In the ending , though , Walter winds up as a pretty well - adjusted , happy bozo who help stop aninvasion from the future . Even his final sacrifice is not actually thatonerous , all told .
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