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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''First, do some harm.''
{{quote|''"Now?" ''([[Evil Laugh]])'' "Let's go practice '''medicine'''."''
|'''[[The Medic]]''', ''[[Team Fortress 2|Meet the Medic]]''}}
In [[Real Life]], a medical doctor worthy of his degree abides by [https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Hippocratic_Oath#:~:text=The%20Hippocratic%20Oath%20is%20an,to%20uphold%20specific%20ethical%20standards. the Hippocratic Oath], a pledge that begins with the phrase ''primum non nocere'', the modern interpretation being "I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm", a vow (often to God or whatever faith he follows) to act as a healer who treats injury and disease, never one who causes them. But sometimes, often in fiction, this oath is not always held as sacred.
A Deadly Doctor, simply put, is someone who fights or kills with a medical motif. He uses his medical knowledge to injure, torture or kill, and uses [[Improbable Weapon User|syringes, pills or surgical instruments]] or medical techniques to achieve his goals. Surely the ultimate example of the [[Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate]]. One reason for this is due to all his/her training: while having advanced knowledge on the human body can be used to save people, it also gives all the knowledge on how to injure and kill people with minimal effort by knowing all the body's weak points.▼
▲A '''Deadly Doctor''', simply put, is someone who fights or kills with a medical motif. He uses his medical knowledge to injure, torture or kill, and uses [[Improbable Weapon User|syringes, pills or surgical instruments]] or medical techniques to achieve his goals, violating the Oath in a blatant manner, assuming he ever took it to begin with. Surely the ultimate example of the [[Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate]]. One reason for this is due to all his/her training: while having advanced knowledge on the human body can be used to save people, it also gives all the knowledge on how to injure and kill people with minimal effort by knowing all the body's weak points.
Unless, of course, [[Dark Is Not Evil|he's good]]. Which [[No Cure for Evil|there is a fairly good chance of]], being able to [[Combat Medic|heal as well as harm]].
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{{examples}}
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==▼
▲== [[Anime]] ==
* One of the earliest anime/manga examples is ''[[Black Jack]]'', who was known not only as a superhuman surgeon but as a deadly marksman who could kill or, more commonly, incapacitate enemies by [[Improbable Weapon User|throwing scalpels]].
* Dr. Shamal from ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]'' is a doctor/assassin who kills people by infecting them with terminal illnesses from his special mosquitoes.
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* The school nurse from ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX (anime)|Yu-Gi-Oh GX]]'' is a pretty decent girl and an excellent healer, normally, but after she's turned into a [[Zombie Apocalypse|Duel Ghoul]] in the first half of the third season, it's revealed she has a deck that caters to this theme, giving you life points while using cards that turn that gain into damage. Not surprisingly, her key card in that deck is a demonic nurse wrapped in bandages.
* Kuroudo Akabane aka. Dr. Jackal from ''[[GetBackers]]'', who was once a medical doctor tasked with saving lives, but after letting a child die on his watch, decides that he's probably better off [[Psycho for Hire|mutilating and killing people]] instead.
* [[Hajime no Ippo|Sanada Kazuki]]: [[Chick Magnet]], genius, and mild-mannered heir [[Uncle Pennybags|to a not-so-mild fortune]]. Did I leave anything out? Well, he ''is'' the one-time national boxing champion and successor to the Hama school of fisticuffs. His style involves rapid calculation of body strength, stun duration, and vulnerable organs and nerve clusters, [https://web.archive.org/web/20100525150309/http://view.thespectrum.net/series/hajime-no-ippo-volume-033.html?ch=Volume%20033&pg=ippo_vol-33_116.jpg reforming] [https://web.archive.org/web/20100525144827/http://view.thespectrum.net/series/hajime-no-ippo-volume-033.html?ch=Volume%20033&pg=ippo_vol-33_117.jpg him] into something of a [[Badass Bookworm]] in the ring.
* Nygus from ''[[Soul Eater]]''. School nurse. [[Bandage Babe]]. And She's also a commando and [[Equippable Ally|as a weapon]] can turn into a knife.
** Stein, for that matter.
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== [[Comic
* The Crime Doctor from [[The DCU]].
** Not to mention Dr. Moon, who considers himself [[Torture Technician|an artist when it comes to pain]]. He's also a self-taught medical genius who uses his incredible talent to cause suffering rather than heal.
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== [[
* [[Beware the Nice Ones|Haku]] in the ''[[Naruto]]'' fanfic ''[[Hakumei]]''. After apprenticing to a medic-nin for some years, his fighting style incorporates drugs and poisons, and while he doesn't ''like'' hurting people, he's ruthless when he has to be. His friends would say that he's the scariest member of their group.
* ''[[Winter War]]'' (a ''[[Bleach]]'' AU where [[The Bad Guy Wins|Aizen won the war]]) has Ogidou, a former Fourth Division member who fights by reversing healing kidou. For example, one of his attacks reopens old wounds that have scarred over. The other members of [[La Résistance]] let him do it, but find it disturbing. Hinamori, who's part of the same small group of fighters, refuses to let him heal her, even though she acknowledges that he's competent.
* Though Dr. Watson is definitely a [[Martial Medic]], he plays the
== [[Film]] ==
* Elle Driver disguised herself as a nurse in ''[[Kill Bill]]'' in order to carry out a hit on The Bride with a poison syringe, only to have her mission canceled by Bill himself. Since Elle despises the Bride, she does not take it well.
* ''[[Repo! The
* ''[[Ghostbusters]]'': Egon Spengler states that Ivo Shandor, also the architect behind ''that'' building, was one of these.
* ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen]]'' features the Doctor, a tiny Decepticon surgeon charged with planting mind probes in victims.
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* Dr. Kaufman in ''[[Tomorrow Never Dies]]'', a hitman who uses his forensic medicine expertise to cover his tracks.
* Main villain of ''[[The Dead Pit]]'' is an undead former surgeon of a mental hospital who with his zombies seeks out to remove everyones brains.
* ''[[Escape From L.A.
* Dr. Rendell and his insane son, the eponymous ''[[Dr. Giggles]]''.
* ''[[Return to House On Haunted Hill]]'' has the ever-so-evil Dr. Vannacutt. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gt0dyugLeE See for yourself]{{broken link}}.
== [[Literature]] ==
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* The ''[[Heralds of Valdemar]]'' series once states that the same Healers who can stop the pain and put you together also know how to take you apart, so it's unwise to anger them.
* In the ''[[Sherlock Holmes]]'' short story "[[A Study in Emerald]]" by [[Neil Gaiman]], the Great Detective remarks, concerning his deduced perpetrator of a brutal murder, "[I]t is my experience that when a Doctor goes to the bad, he is a fouler and darker creature than the worst cut-throat." {{spoiler|Of course, the reader is more likely to agree with Dr. Watson on the rightness of his actions, making this a subversion.}}
** The actual [[Sherlock Holmes]] said something to the same effect in ''The Adventure of the Speckled Band
*** The story in which Holmes explains how crime can be committed with impunity in the country is actually "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches," though the "[[A Study in Emerald]]" quote ''is'' inspired by Holmes calling a doctor "who goes wrong" the "first of criminals" in "The Adventure of the Speckled Band".
** Watson might also be considered a Badass Doctor. Holmes frequently asks Watson to bring his revolver along on investigations that may become dangerous, he was a doctor in the war and was wounded in Afghanistan, and still goes on these various risky adventures despite the fact that his wound sometimes still bothers him.
*** Which makes him a [[Martial Medic]]. And though he certainly has the capacity to be a
* "Dr. Danco", who slices and dices his victims, in ''[[Dexter|Dearly Devoted Dexter]]''.
* In "Melanie and Merrick", Nurse Katie Heller, who has
* In ''[[The Father Luke Wolfe Trilogy]]'', Dr. Brandt scratches Father Wolfe's wrist with a nicotine-filled syringe as a "reminder" to give his son a passing grade. He also threatens that worse than nicotine would have been an empty syringe, since a bubble of air in the bloodstream can jolt the heart into stopping. {{spoiler|It turns out this is how he murdered his colleague earlier.}}
* In [[Aaron Allston]]'s ''[[Galatea in 2-D]]'', Medea was designed for this. She both designs the poison to use on Red, and its antidote. And it is Roger, not Medea, who has scruples about it.
* In ''[[Time Scout]]'', [[Jack the Ripper]] is a rather well known physician.
* Dr. Peter Brown, from ''Beat the Reaper.'' {{spoiler|He used to be a hitman. Now he's in witness protection.}}
* In ''[[Doc Sidhe]]'', Alastair explains that his world's equivalent of the Hippocratic Oath only applies to his
== [[Live
* ''[[Star Trek]]'':
** In Seska's reprogrammed version of ''[[Star Trek:
** In the ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series/Recap/S2/E04 Mirror, Mirror|Mirror, Mirror]]'' [[Mirror Universe]], ''[[Star Trek: The
** Same [[Mirror Universe]], different series: in the ''[[Star Trek:
* A [[Monster of the Week]] on ''[[Charmed]]'' is Doctor Williamson,
* [[Dexter]]'s first kill is of a homicidal nurse, who overdoses patients in her care that she considers to be in too much pain to keep living.
** For that matter, Dexter himself attended med-school before becoming a blood spatter analyst. This explains his surgical killing style and familiarity with anatomy and pharmacology.
* On ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'', one of the [[Monster of the Week|Monsters of the Week]] was a doctor who had managed to make himself immortal and was taking other people's organs when his gave out.
* More than one episode of ''[[Law &
* ''[[Friday the 13th: The Series]]'' featured two doctors who had cursed antiques (a scalpel and a Native American shamanic rattle) that could heal people... as long as they were first used to kill.
* ''[[Lost]]'': Jack Shephard was more adept at gunfights and hand-to-hand combat than your average spinal surgeon would be.
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* Subverted in ''[[Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger]]''. Dr. Yukito Sanjou/Abare Blue is a chiropractor who doesn't bring its expertise in battle, but when he actually does chiropracticing, it was ''extremely painful'' (though you'll feel better afterwards) that could make even battle-hardened veterans wince in pain. Then there's Dr. Mikoto Nakadai, who didn't quite bother bringing his medical expertise in battle or whatever, but considering his [[Super Speed|battle]] [[Hero-Killer|capabilities]], and his [[For the Evulz|motivation]]... he's deadly on his own.
** In the crossover with ''[[Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger]]'', Yukito did use his chiropractor knowledge to crush the monster of the movie's bones... ''unmorphed'' {{spoiler|(it's just a clone though)}}
* ''[[CSI]]'': Doctor Jekyll. He used surgical means to kill his victims, like the guy who got an infected appendix sewn into him.
==New Media==
* ''[[Vigor Mortis]]'': Penelope is a biomancer, and while she can heal people, she specializes in inflicting "necrotic diseases and cellular degeneration". It might be worth noting that her Talent is offensive biomancy, which she can use without spells; the healing is the exception, though the Talent means that it likely comes easier to her.
== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==
* Isaac Yankem, DDS, from early-1990s [[
* In the territory days, Dr. Sam Sheppard (who may or may not have inspired ''[[The Fugitive (TV series)|The Fugitive]]'') became a wrestler in his later years, exploiting his extensive anatomical knowledge to great effect in the ring through the use of [[Pressure Point
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* The [[Our Orcs Are Different|Orks]] of ''[[Warhammer
** The main job of [[Space Marine]] Apothecary is to keep their battle-brothers alive and collect the gene-seed of the dead, but being an 8-foot-tall genetically enhanced [[Super Soldier
{{quote|"[[Dawn of War|Death or healing, I care not which you seek!]]"}}
** [[Crazy Awesome|Mad Dok Grotsnik]], the most famous of all Painboyz, is also the deadliest of all. Far smarter than the average Ork, he's always in the <s>ranger's</s> Nobz' <s>hair</s> heads, or rather he puts [[Explosive Leash|remote detonated bombs]] [[Your Head Asplode|inside their heads]] just in case they try anything funny.
* Combat-oriented clerics in ''[[Dungeons
** Eberron's House Jorasco focuses on healing (and, thanks to the power of their Dragonmark, has managed to severely cut down the temples' share of the magical healing market), meaning an adventuring Heir would have some aspects of this trope by default. The [[Wiki Magic|Jorasco prestige class added by the Dragonmarked sourcebook]] fits it even better, as it models a secret sect within Jorasco that turns their healing powers to the art of diseases (as in, ''causing'' them) and harm. Given that they have to be non-good, the best case scenario is an [[Anti-Hero]].
* Surprisingly subverted by Yawgmoth in ''[[Magic: The
* The Doctor career archetype in ''[[Hunter: The Vigil]]''.
* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|Very easy]] to be one of these in the surgery simulator ''[[Life and Death (video game)|Life and Death]]''.▼
== Video Games ==
* The [[Combat Medic]] in most class-based shooters such as ''[[Battlefield (series)|Battlefield]]'' series, are given sufficient firepower to make sure they remain fun to play. In ''Bad Company 2'', the medic class is the only one who gets [[More Dakka|machine guns]].
* Meddy from ''[[Mega Man Battle Network]] 5 Team Proto Man'' is a nurse who throws bombs shaped like pills.
** And that doesn't cover the [[Manga]], as she [http://www.mangahere.com/manga/megaman_nt_warrior/v10/c006/3.html knocks Tomahawk Man out of her way]{{broken link}}, then [http://www.mangahere.com/manga/megaman_nt_warrior/v10/c006/4.html she picks up and throws Mega Man on the ground]{{broken link}}, and when he tries to talk Colonel into letting him go [http://www.mangahere.com/manga/megaman_nt_warrior/v10/c006/5.html she stabs him in the butt with a giant syringe]{{broken link}}.
* In ''[[Knights of the Old Republic (video game)|Knights of the Old Republic]]'', the Heal Force power is closely related to the Wound power. Every Jedi in both games can end up with both.
* The Medic in ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'' can be pretty deadly with the bone saw if you can get close enough. Or his ''syringe gun''.
** He's got decent, self-regenerating health, a good running speed, has an alternate syringe gun that drains health, can heal at range, [[Limit Break|make his healing target and himself invulnerable]], and has [http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0/5353/262544-ubersaw_super.png this]{{broken link}} as his alternate bonesaw. Even his backstory as a psychotic [[Mad Scientist]] fits the bill. And then there's his TFC equivalent, who was more or less a full combat class with the ability to heal people.
** To drive the point home, one of his melee weapons is a bust of Hippocrates' head with a "Do No Harm" plaque. Which he uses to beat people to death with.
*** It explains a lot about his personality and style that he was trained in medicine [[World War II|in a time and place]] where the Hippocratic oath was downgraded to a ''Hippocratic suggestion''.
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** How is it that Wilhelm "Deathshead" Strasse of Return to Castle Wolfenstein fame is not here?
* Dr. Vahzilok from ''[[City of Heroes]]'', who uses his modern scientific equipment to conduct strange, ''forbidden'' experiments... on himself as well as others.
** Doc Buzzsaw from ''City of Villains''{{'}} Sharkhead Isle is another good example.
* Plastic surgeon Dr. Steinman from ''[[BioShock (series)|BioShock]]''. Bonus points for the fact that he thinks he's [[Mad Artist|the Picasso of surgery because he's abandoned concepts like symmetry]]. The other splicer doctors in the game are also terrifying. They have spot-on voice acting, evoking hard-nosed medical authority raised to insanity. They have some ghastly good lines, too: "I hate the babies the most. They come out covered in death."
* Doctor Theolen Krastinov, [[The Butcher]] from ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' probably fits with his goggles and gloves. Of course, the medical implements he attacks you with are bloody meat cleavers.
* The Backstab Master in ''[[Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura]]'' is a doctor who fled the city after stabbing a man to death with a pen. Unsurprisingly, the training he gives you involves medical expertise on most vulnerable parts of human (elf, dwarf etc.) body. [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder|What he does after training you is likewise no surprise.]]
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* Mordin Solus from ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'' averts the trope. He's an extremely skilled doctor as well as a complete [[Badass]], but he'd '''never''' kill anyone with medicine. Nonetheless, while people are thankful for his medicinal work, the fact that he takes lives as easily as he saves them utterly terrifies more than a few who know of him.
** Played with; the fact that {{spoiler|he was part of the STG team that developed and deployed the second version of the genophage}} gnaws his conscience hard. He tries hard to justify his actions, but {{spoiler|millions of unborn krogan children and the cultural and emotional heavy decay the krogan, as a race, suffer}} are a heavy burden to carry, as Maelon wisely points. And it's a major plot point on his character development.
{{quote|"Have killed many people, Shepard. Many methods. Gunfire, knives, drugs, tech attacks. [[Noodle Incident|Once with farming equipment.]] But not with medicine."
"Many ways to help people. Sometimes cure patients. Sometimes kill dangerous people. Either way helps." }}
* ''[[Touhou]]'''s Eirin Yagokoro is often depicted as this by fans.
* A large amount of modern [[
* The ''[[Etrian Odyssey]]'' series' Medics can be powerful front-line fighters, the exact opposite of their intended role as fragile healers. This requires very deliberate skill-tree set ups but is surprisingly practical.
** In addition, both of the healing classes in ''Etrian Odyssey III'', the Prince(ss) and the Monk, have fairly potent combat ability, especially the Monk, and ''especially'' once you unlock subclassing.
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* ''[[League of Legends]]'' has three of these as optional skins for the ninjas: Nurse Akali, Surgeon Shen, and Kennen M.D.
** [[Mad Doctor|Dr. Mundo]] [[Inverted Trope|inverts this]], as he's a [[Hulk Speak|hulking brute]] with no immediate indication of being a doctor beyond his name. In spite of this, he's actually [[Bunny Ears Lawyer|quite brilliant]] in his line of work (that being a [[Serial Killer]] who experiments on his victims).
* Dr. Litchi Faye-Ling in ''[[
* ''[[Hatoful Boyfriend]]'' has Dr. Iwamine Shuu, the school doctor at St. PigeoNation's School. He is so deadly that {{spoiler|he may cut off your head, and possible also study your insides ''most intimately'' once he's done with your pretty head.}}
* ''[[Skullgirls]]'' has Valentine, who fights with medical equipment such as bonesaws, syringes, IV stands, and more.
* You could consider Shadow {{spoiler|Naoto}} from [[Persona 4]] this. After all, {{spoiler|she was going to medically change Naoto's gender.}} That said, {{spoiler|she's}} also a bit of an aversion. {{spoiler|She}} fights with the usual magic powers and technology, no real use of any sort of medical knowledge.
* Although Dr. Bombe didn't fight in ''[[Kinnikuman]]'', Matayan gave him a complete moveset in ''[[Kinnikuman: Muscle Fight]]''. He can toss scalpels as projectiles, he can inject his foes with a mysterious liquid, and one of his supers is [[Strapped to An Operating Table|strapping a foe to an operating table]] and performing a deadly surgery on them.
▲* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|Very easy]] to be one of these in the surgery simulator ''[[Life and Death (video game)|Life and Death]]''.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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== [[Truth in Television]] ==
* Sadly, there are a disturbing number of examples in [[Real Life]], including some of the world's most prolific [[Serial Killer
** [[wikipedia:Michael Swango|Michael Swango]]
** [[wikipedia:Harold Shipman|Harold Shipman]]
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