How could I forget Dr. Mel? He had a great cartoon once in which he dropped an underling into his dungeon through a trap door. Unfortunately, said underling only went in up to his knees. “Hmm…” said Dr. Mel. “They must really be piling up down there.”
I only remember the name: Rotcoddam and his assistant Egoots. I know they were on “Sinbad Jr.,” but I have almost no memory of it other than he tightened his belt for superpowers.
(Trust me, it doesn’t work if you’re not a cartoon.)
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Oh, Dr. Emilio Lizardo is the definition of a mad scientist. Still one of my favorite characters.
I still say “Laugh-a while you can, monkey boy,” and “Home is where you wear your HAT.”
I vote for Simon Bar Sinister.
No love for Doctor Heinz Doofenshmirtz?
I mean technically he’s an “Evil” scientist, not mad, I mean he’s not angry, as such, except, you know, at Perry the Platypus, but not “mad” in the sense of angry, or insane… He’s just, you know, Evil!
BEHOLD! THE VOTE FOR HEINZ-INATOR!
Another vote for Emilio Lizardo AKA Lord John Whorfin from Buckaroo Banzai:
I sincerely hope Marvel Films gets the rights to the Fantastic Four back, so they can PLEASE GOD do Doctor Doom properly!
The Think Tank from Fallout: New Vegas’ Old World Blues. You have several scientists whose brains were removed, jarred, and put into floating robots, and in the intervening 200 years they became… odd:
- The leader, arrogant but addled, who mixes concepts up, referring to fingers as “penises.”
- The mute, perverted, acoustician.
- The traumatized genetic engineer who tortured his animal best friend (for Science!).
- The sexually suggestive female one.
- The one with a serious, psychotic, inferiority complex.
- Their enemy, the EEEVIL mad scientist,
Who is actually the good guy trying to stop their insanity, and was on scifi meth when he made his radio pronouncements of world dominations.
Ras Thavas, of Barsoom (E.R. Burroughs). he’s the guy who switches brains.
I’d like to mention two from the Disney duck universe – Gyro Gearloose and Ludwig von Drake.
Gyro (created by the legendary Carl Barks in 1952) is an inventor, and has appeared in the Disney comics, until Ducktales came along. He’s benign, and incredibly practical, and comes up with bizarre inventions, but there’s no evidence that he’s a deep thinker. He’s more a tinkerer.
Ludwig von Drake was an animated character created for TV (he appeared in the first episode of Disney’s Wonderful World of Color, where he sand The Color Song) and voiced in his faux-Viennese accent by Paul Frees. They used him whenever they needed someone “brainy” to explain concepts in cartoons on the Disney TV show. Von Drake seems to be more a theorist and an academic – you usually don’t see him inventing things. He later showed up in the Disney comic books, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen him and Gearloose together in the same strip. A theorist and an experimentalist, they probably wouldn’t get along.
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The Disney Wiki claims:
But I haven’t ever seen any cases of this.
Piffle.
Any Mad Scientist worth his salt can do a brain transplant.
And most Alien Greys, for that matter.
Dr. Shrinker. Funny and lovable but the young Caligula lurks underneath.
I think we can say that Luthor probably started working out during his first stretch in prison.
Sam Dracula, or as he is known by the Munster Family, Grandpa. Sure, his costuming was vampiresque but he was definitely a mad scientist, at least as a hobby.