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[[File:c3d65b77ecb7539200ae0a55f1d983d62_8031.png|frame|[http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=882226 The doctor is in.]]]
 
{{quote|''First, do some harm.''|''[[Magic: theThe Gathering (Tabletop Game)|Magic the Gathering]]'', [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=12643 Goblin Medics]}}
 
{{quote|''"Now?" ''([[Evil Laugh]])'' "Let's go practice '''medicine'''."''|'''[[The Medic]]''', ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Meet the Medic]]''}}
 
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.
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== [[Anime]] ==
* One of the earliest anime/manga examples is ''[[Black Jack (Manga)|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 (Manga)|Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]'' is a doctor/assassin who kills people by infecting them with terminal illnesses from his special mosquitoes.
* Catherine from ''[[Gregory Horror Show (Anime)|Gregory Horror Show]]''. She is a nurse with a blood-taking fetish and a syringe as big as she is.
* [[Talking Animal|Tony Tony Chopper]] of ''[[One Piece (Manga)|One Piece]]'' isn't particularly malicious, so the largest extent he's really used his medical knowledge to fight is through a special medicine that improves his shapeshifting abilities, and by pointing out the weak spots of a zombie, since it was already dead. Doc Q, aptly nicknamed [[Badass Nickname|'Grim Reaper']], of Blackbeard's crew seems to be a straighter example, though we haven't seen him do all that much just yet.
** You know, besides handing out apples with bombs in them, for giggles. But not any actual doctoring, not yet anyway.
** Then there's Trafalgar Law, also known as "The Surgeon Of Death." Which is...odd, to say the least, looking at him. He has the power of the Op-Op Fruit, which allows him to perform spontaneous operations (hence the name) on anyone or anything sufficiently close to him. He uses his medical knowledge to inflict whatever effects he wants with minimum effort. Also, he carries around a greatsword as his scalpel.
* Dr. Muraki from ''[[Yami no Matsuei (Manga)|Descendants of Darkness]]''. In the first volume of the manga alone, he turns a dying girl into a vampire and controls her in order to kill people, captures a shinigami and tortures/basically tries to dissect him, and then faces off with Tsuzuki, known as the most powerful of the shinigami, breaking Tsuzuki's spine at one point {{spoiler|and escaping at the end of the book}}. His skill and knowledge as a medical doctor assist him in his various evil endeavors.
* ''[[Nurse Witch Komugi (Manga)|Nurse Witch Komugi]]'' is a medical-themed [[Magical Girl]]. She started as Komugi Nakahara, a deranged mutant nurse with a fetish for oversized medical equipment (especially needles) in the much darker anime ''[[Soul Taker (Animeanime)|The SoulTaker]]''.
* Minoru "Doctor" Kamiya of ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho (Manga)|Yu Yu Hakusho]]'' fights with hands that cut like scalpels, and insects with syringes that inject diseases into his victims.
** Yusuke is highly resistant to killing Doctor even though he's in some ways the most horrifically evil person he's yet faced. Ultimately he does not do so, though there's some Deus Ex Genkai involved. The [[Fridge Logic]] of this, when Yusuke's been killing sentient demons since his first case, hits in a sneaky way after the end of the Sensui arc.
*** I.e., Yusuke's stand on [[I'm a Humanitarian|"to you, people is food"]] appears to have gotten a little...warped in the aftermath of {{spoiler|turning into a demon.}} Sanada-san informs him he freaks her out and should leave the world now on overhearing the first manifestation of this. While it has a few later appearances, it is [[Fridge Horror|never discussed again]].
**** The [[Fridge Horror]] above? Hokushin and pals are Yusuke's buddies. They seem pretty nice. They're monks. ''They officially live on human flesh.'' Enki's win aside, who actually believes Mukuro changed her diet? Etc.
**** [[Fantastic Racism]] plays an important and weird part in the whole series. Togashi attempts a hasty resolution at the end that makes no sense at all.
* ''[[Naruto (Manga)|Naruto]]'' has Kabuto, who uses the medical knowledge he picked up as a longtime mole to do incredible damage to others' bodies.
** And then we have Sakura Haruno, the seemingly harmless kunoichi, but lo if you piss her off or on the wrong side of the battlefield, for she has a punch that can send large boulders flying from the ground.
*** Keep in mind she learned both healing and those punches from Tsunade, who was the leader to a large village of ninjas. Tsunade is still way stronger and a much better healer.
* ''[[Rosario to Vampire (Manga)|Rosario to Vampire]]'' has one of the hybrids posing as a nurse. She can control her victims with some kind of poison.
* ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni (Visual Novel)|Higurashi no Naku Koro Nini]]'' has plenty of perfectly nice people {{spoiler|infected with the [[Hate Plague]]}} and killing one another in various disturbing ways, but nurse Takano Miyo always seems to be the first to go. Still, further and further into the show, she seems just as creepy as the crazy person of the month if not more so. {{spoiler|Then comes [[The Reveal]], in which she ''engineered'' the whole thing and plans to slaughter the whole town and turn over the virus to military researchers who could use a squad of paranoid people willing to listen to lies and kill their friends...}}
* Faust VIII from ''[[Shaman King (Manga)|Shaman King]]''. He could use his medical knowledge to take down enemies and even survive falling out of a plane in a wheelchair without a parachute.
** Although considering he's a necromancer, it may be he his body is mostly dead anyway and he simply needed to locate any lost limbs after landing.
** That and he's on a ''lot'' of morphine.
* ''[[Sailor Moon (Manga)|Sailor Moon]]'' had two medically-themed [[Monster of the Week|monsters of the week]]: Pharmakon and Sailor Doctor. Both had a giant syringe replacing one arm.
** Hello, [[The Dragon|Dr Tomoe]] anyone?
*** He's [[Not That Kind of Doctor]]. He's more of a straight [[Mad Scientist]].
* In ''[[Steam Detectives (Manga)|Steam Detectives]]'', the black-clad nurse Lang-Lang who serves Boy Criminal Le Bledd [[Evil Counterpart|the same way]] the white-clad nurse Ling-Ling serves Boy Detective Narutaki, the hero of the series. Lang-Lang began trying to heal people, but decided it was easier to end their suffering by killing them; she likes the idea of preserving handsome young men/cute boys via taxidermy "so they stay young for ever!" {{spoiler|Oh, and she is Ling-Ling's sister, though not an actual twin...}}
* Palparepa, the [[Big Bad]] of ''[[GaoGaiGar (Anime)|Gao Gai Gar]] FINAL'', was a clinically white doctor with giant syringes sticking out the back of his mech. He uses them to upgrade himself by sticking his mech with them, a move [[Calling Your Attacks|named]] "Doping Cylinder". It's appropriate for a show where the villains' gimmick is super regeneration and [[The Hero]] is the "God of Destruction".
* The school nurse from ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX (Animeanime)|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 ''[[Get Backers (Manga)|Get BackersGetBackers]]'', 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 (Manga)|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, [http://view.thespectrum.net/series/hajime-no-ippo-volume-033.html?ch=Volume%20033&pg=ippo_vol-33_116.jpg reforming] [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 (Manga)|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.
** Medusa can technically count, too, since she took a brief residency as the DWMA's head nurse.
* One [[Monster of the Week]] of ''[[Yuugen Kaisha (Anime)|Yuugen Kaisha]]'' is a doctor who made a [[Deal Withwith the Devil]] so he can murder patients and harvest their organs for sale (magically concealing the evidence). He got some sort of demonically-possessed superpowers as part of the bargain as well, and tosses scalpels and manipulates a laser surgery machine telekinetically, or as the dub has it:
{{quote| '''Lieutenant Karion:''' Psychokinesis?<br />
'''Ayaka Kisaragi:''' Or just psycho! }}
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== [[Fanfic]] ==
* [[Beware the Nice Ones|Haku]] in the ''[[Naruto (Manga)|Naruto]]'' fanfic [[Hakumei (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 (Fanfic)|Winter War]] (a ''[[Bleach (Manga)|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 [[Deadly Doctor]] trope [[Beware the Nice Ones|frighteningly straight]] in the ''[[Deliver Us From Evil Series (Fanfic)|Deliver Us Fromfrom Evil Series]]''.
 
 
== [[Film]] ==
* Elle Driver disguised herself as a nurse in ''[[Kill Bill (Film)|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! theThe Genetic Opera (Film)|Repo the Genetic Opera]]'' has the Repo Men, trained medical professionals who mostly do their deadly work with scalpels, and the Genterns, who, while they don't kill people nearly as often, can be pretty damn sinister.
* ''[[Ghostbusters (Film)|Ghostbusters]]'': Egon Spengler states that Ivo Shandor, also the architect behind ''that'' building, was one of these.
* ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Film)|Transformers Revenge of the Fallen]]'' features the Doctor, a tiny Decepticon surgeon charged with planting mind probes in victims.
* One fight in ''[[Sherlock Holmes (Filmfilm)|Sherlock Holmes]]'' had ''Doctor'' Watson say "I'm a doctor" to the guy he has in a choke hold. He also looks better at fighting than Holmes is.
* [[Mel Brooks]]' character in ''[[The Muppet Movie]]''.
* Dr. Christian Szell in ''[[Marathon Man (Film)|Marathon Man]]''
* Dr. Albert Hirsch from ''[[The Bourne Series (Filmfilm)|The Bourne Series]]'', responsible for creating and running of Treadstone/Blackbriar black ops projects where, via brainwashing, torture and behavioral conditioning they turned volunteers into tools ready to kill on command.
* Dr. Kaufman in ''[[Tomorrow Never Dies (Film)|Tomorrow Never Dies]]'', a hitman who uses his forensic medicine expertise to cover his tracks.
* Main villain of ''[[The Dead Pit (Film)|The Dead Pit]]'' is an undead former surgeon of a mental hospital who with his zombies seeks out to remove everyones brains.
* ''[[Escape From LA (Film)L.A.|Escape From LA]]'' gives us the Surgeon General, played by a wonderfully [[Large Ham|hammy]] [[Bruce Campbell]].
* 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].
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'''Interrogating Colonel''': "The laser scalpel."<br />
'''Phanan''': "Not a weapon, sir. It's a tool of medicine. I wasn't asked to turn over my bandages, bacta treatments, disinfectant sprays, or tranquilizers either, but I can kill a man with any of them, under the right circumstances." }}
** And Mij Gilamar, from the ''[[Republic Commando Series]]''. His medical knowledge is considerable, but add to that the fact that he's the very definition of a [[Combat Medic|combat medic]], fully trained as a [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|Mandalorian]] soldier, and you've got someone who can just as easily put you together as take you apart. Though normally a very kind, and even somewhat charming man, when asked about why he wears the Mandalorian color of vengeance on his armor, he has ''this'' to say:
{{quote| '''Gilamar''': "I fell in love with a Mandalorian girl, married into the clans, and a ''hut'uun'' killed her. I know his name. I'll find him. And then I'll show him what it means to make a bad enemy of a Mandalorian with anatomical expertise and a scalpel."}}
* 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.
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* In "Melanie and Merrick", Nurse Katie Heller, who has Manchausen Syndrome by Proxy, uses her medical knowledge of medicines to kill off patients, sometimes even swapping their prescribed medicine with a deadly substance. Her ultimate plan to kill off the Elephant Man fails heavily, and her ass is kicked hard by the hospital's scrubber, [[Fiery Redhead|Melanie Bell]]. Naturally, Katie is fired.
* 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 (Literature)|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 patients -- and the guys he shoots aren't patients until ''after'' he shoots them.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]]'':
** In Seska's reprogrammed version of ''[[Star Trek: Voyager (TV)|Star Trek Voyager]]'', the holographic doctor loves to hurt people instead of healing them. It can inject you with acid instead of medicine.
** In the ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)/Recap/S2 E4 Mirror Mirror|Mirror, Mirror]]'' [[Mirror Universe]], ''[[Star Trek: theThe Original Series (TV)|Star Trek the Original Series]]'' doctors get rather upset when they find out what their [[Evil Counterpart|evil counterparts]] do in that universe.
** Same [[Mirror Universe]], different series: in the ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise (TV)|Star Trek Enterprise]]'' episode "In a Mirror, Darkly" we see Mirror!Phlox smiling cheerfully... while torturing an alien.
* A [[Monster of the Week]] on [[Charmed (TV)|Charmed]] is Doctor Williamson, and infectious disease specialist who had treated Piper when she was sick a few episodes earlier. He's a good guy, but when he accidentally injects himself with Piper's blood, he also gets her powers. Turns out mortal + powers = CRAZY. He goes on a killing spree and takes organs from people. {{spoiler|Piper eventually has to kill him to stop him, which she finds very hard to do, as he is the first human she ever killed, and he tried to save her life.}}
* [[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 and& Order (TV)|Law and Order]]'' has featured doctors who killed patients deliberately (many more have featured doctors who killed by negligence).
* ''[[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 (TV)|Lost]]'': Jack Shephard was more adept at gunfights and hand-to-hand combat than your average spinal surgeon would be.
** That's more of a [[Combat Medic]].
* This trope makes up the plot of ''[[The X-Files (TV)|The X-Files]]'' episode "Sanguinarium".
* 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)}}
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== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==
* Isaac Yankem, DDS, from early-1990s [[WWE|WWF]], back when [[Wrestling Doesn't Pay|everybody had a second job]].
* 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|Pressure Points]].
 
 
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* The [[Our Orcs Are Different|Orks]] of ''[[Warhammer 40000 (Tabletop Game)|Warhammer 40000]]'' have "Mad Doks" or "Painboyz" to keep the lads on their feet during battles, and who occasionally put their bonesaws and "'Urty Syringes" to offensive use (the latter is an actual piece of wargear that does poisoned attacks). Since the specialists in question are [[Mad Scientist|mad scientist-esque]] physicians with an instinctive (if imprecise) grasp of medicine and an urge to "tinker," they count as Deadly Doks ''off'' the battlefield, too.
** 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|Super Soldiers]] in [[Powered Armour]], they can and will kick ass if necessary. Not to mention that using the gene-seed extractor on a living person is going to hurt.
{{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 and Dragons (Tabletop Game)|Dungeons and Dragons]]''. One can just imagine a death effect spell being the cleric carefully and precisely snipping off a few selected blood vessels in the target's brain.
** 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: theThe Gathering (Tabletop Game)|Magic the Gathering]]''. Despite being the [[Big Bad]], he was a very skilled doctor and, even if his cure for phthisis wasn't seen well, it actually worked. Even when he started adding massive doses of [[Body Horror]], his target was always to ''improve'' his patients, not to murder them.
* The Doctor career archetype in ''[[Hunter: The Vigil (Tabletop Game)|Hunter: The Vigil]]''.
* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|Very easy]] to be one of these in the surgery simulator ''[[Life and Death (Videovideo Gamegame)|Life and Death]]''.
 
 
== Video Games ==
* The [[Combat Medic]] in most class-based shooters such as ''[[Battlefield (Video Gameseries)|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 ''[[MegamanMega 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], then [http://www.mangahere.com/manga/megaman_nt_warrior/v10/c006/4.html she picks up and throws Mega Man on the ground], 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].
* In ''[[Knights of the Old Republic (Videovideo Gamegame)|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 (Video Game)|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] 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.
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** Speaking of which: all of the nurses in ''[[Nethack]]'' will try to kill you. {{spoiler|Unless you remove all armor and weapons, in which case they will raise your maximum HP instead.}}
* Anesthesia/Dr. Cutter from ''[[Rumble Roses]]''.
* Faust of ''[[Guilty Gear (Video Game)|Guilty Gear]]'' fame is a 9-foot-tall doctor who wields a scalpel as big as he is. Bonus points in that he actually ''heals'' people as well as kick ass, and kicks ass in order to stop people from getting hurt in the first place. Now that's what ''I'' call, aggressive vaccination.
** He's strongly implied to be the same as Doctor Baldhead from the first game, who was... less nice. After he accidentally killed one of his patients, he snapped, and started wantonly killing people while under the delusion of treating them.
* Kyoko Minazuki from the ''[[Rival Schools (Video Game)|Rival Schools]]'' series, who serves as a school nurse when she's not cracking skulls.
* ''[[Viewtiful Joe]]'' has nurse [[Elite Mooks]] with giant needles or scalpels.
* The demonic nurses in ''[[Silent Hill]]''.
** The first game also had doctors.
* Dr. Mario in ''[[Super Smash Bros (Video Game)|Super Smash Bros. Melee]]''.
* Dr. Schabbs, the Episode 2 [[Final Boss]] in ''[[Wolfenstein 3D (Video Game)|Wolfenstein 3D]]''. He wore a lab coat and was armed with a needle filled with the "poisonous corpsokinetic animation serum" he used to create his mutant zombie soldiers.
** 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.
* Plastic surgeon Dr. Steinman from ''[[Bio ShockBioshock]]''. 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.]]
* Dr. Redmoor of ''[[Dementium the Ward]]'', who also has traces of [[Mad Scientist]].
* In the ''[[Fallout (Video Game)|Fallout]]'' games, there is a perk which gives you a bonus to medical skills, but also, due to your mastery of anatomy, raises your base damage.
** More of an example being your Father in ''[[Fallout 3 (Video Game)|Fallout 3]]'': He just, ''on a whim'', decides to escape a secure vault, cross the wasteland from one side to the other with no companions (a feat replicated only by your stupidly powerful character) and no arnament except a ''hunting rifle''. He then proceeds to enter and leave a super-mutant infested building (unwounded!) and then a mind-control simulation pod before he {{spoiler|calmly sacrifices himself in an attempt to wipe out the leader of the Enclave assault on the Capital Wasteland.}} He is a [[Badass]] doctor like no other.
* Mordin Solus from ''[[Mass Effect 2 (Video Game)|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."<br />
"Many ways to help people. Sometimes cure patients. Sometimes kill dangerous people. Either way helps." }}
* ''[[Touhou (Video Game)|Touhou]]'''s Eirin Yagokoro is often depicted as this by fans.
* A large amount of modern [[MMORPG|MMORPGs]] that have a [[White Mage|healer class archetype]] will allow, to greater or lesser extent, the player to choose skills, stats and/or gear to make them more offensive than defensive. Whilst a viable tactic in most cases, there will always be fallout from the... "purists" who will [["Stop Having Fun!" Guys|insist that healers heal]] and that anyone not playing them straight is a [[Scrub]] and wasting the time of all concerned. Potentially the basis for realtime [[Flame War|FlameWars]].
* The ''[[Etrian Odyssey (Video Game)|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.
* The Doctor from ''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Video Game)|Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]'' is [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin]]. As the official description puts it:
{{quote| "He has assassinated more patients than he has saved, poisoned more targets than he has cured. [[White Mask of Doom|No one has ever seen the real face of the Doctor…]] and he uses his deadly Syringe to make sure it stays that way."}}
* ''[[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 ''[[Blaz Blue]]'' is another aversion. She's a clear doctor and helps in healing people, but she never brings her medical knowledge in combat, and usually fights with telekinesis, chi control and martial arts... nor did she specifically target some body parts for medical damage.
* ''[[Hatoful Boyfriend (Video Game)|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 (Video Game)|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.
 
 
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja (Webcomic)|The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'', Dr. McNinja, who fights in medical garb (but does so with standard ninja weapons). Played straight only once, when he had to defend himself with nothing but his stethoscope. It's broadly hinted that, while he is strong and stealthy because he's a ninja, what really makes him dangerous is his intimate knowledge of human anatomy.
* Dr. Zexion of ''[[Ansem Retort]]''. Granted he doesn't fight with a medical motif, but he is a heartless killer, so he counts.
** He may not ''fight'' with a medical motif, but he certainly ''kills'' (and injures, and maims, and mutates) with one. Case in point: Riku's liver. Firecracker. Surgical implantation.
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* Dr. Insano of ''[[The Spoony Experiment (Web Video)|The Spoony Experiment]]'' has a [[Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate]], but his (unseen) nurse and tendency to carry around a stethoscope might put him in this category.
 
 
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