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Why the Evilutionary Biologist believes this is necessary varies, as do his methods. Some Evilutionary Biologists simply believe that humanity has erred in its domination of the environment, and thus our very survival as a species is threatened unless they force us to continue evolving. Others see change and so-called improvement as [[For Science!|goals in and of themselves,]] and resolve to use scientific advancement to cause them. Still others seek to create a new race of [[Super Soldier|biological]] [[Transhuman|transhumans]] or just the [[Ultimate Lifeform]] with the power of science, either because they see humans as having outlived their time on the planet or because of a genuine desire to improve the human condition. Any one of these may be a [[Social Darwinist]] or [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]].

Regardless, because of his dedication, the Evilutionary Biologist is willing to break laws, engage in [[Playing ~~With~~ Syringes|experimental alterations upon other human beings]], and ruin lives for [[Utopia Justifies the Means|the higher goal]]. Their creations are no less exempt; whether they're [[Replacement Goldfish]], with the [[Cloning Blues]], or genetically "programmed" to have evil [[In the Blood]], their "children" are doomed to live sad, short, [[Turned Against Their Masters|rebellious]] lives, unless they really ''do'' feel [[Truly Single Parent|parental]]. They will never realize that [[Evil Evolves]], and will never be able to identify themselves as the villains.

Regardless, because of his dedication, the Evilutionary Biologist is willing to break laws, engage in [[Playing with Syringes|experimental alterations upon other human beings]], and ruin lives for [[Utopia Justifies the Means|the higher goal]]. Their creations are no less exempt; whether they're [[Replacement Goldfish]], with the [[Cloning Blues]], or genetically "programmed" to have evil [[In the Blood]], their "children" are doomed to live sad, short, [[Turned Against Their Masters|rebellious]] lives, unless they really ''do'' feel [[Truly Single Parent|parental]]. They will never realize that [[Evil Evolves]], and will never be able to identify themselves as the villains.

Evilutionary Biologists often create inhuman monsters (sometimes including examples of [[Biological Mashup]]) and [[Artificial Human|artificial humans]] to serve as minions and [[Mooks]], as well as to populate their extensive [[Garden of Evil]]. They themselves may even be willing to [[Professor Guinea Pig|suffer the fruits of their experimentation]], often resulting in [[One-Winged Angel|a monstrous, inhuman new body.]]

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* Okay, so he's a computer scientist, not an evolutionary biologist. But Masami Eiri from ''[[Serial Experiments Lain]]'' could fit this trope nonetheless. He believed that humans had reached the pinnacle of evolution physically, and that in order to continue evolving to more perfect forms, humanity had to give up their bodies for a digital existence. To that end, he {{spoiler|secretly put code into the latest version of the protocol that controls the Wired that would connect humans together on a subconscious level through the network. He also created Lain a physical body to aid in this effort.}}

* [[Mad Scientist|Dr. Ulen Hibiki]] from ''[[Gundam Seed]]'', although he hadn't really built his views around evolutionary dead-end, still wanted to advance the human race as much as possible -- [[For Science!]]! So, to produce his [[Artificial Human|Ultimate Coordinator]], he didn't stop before using his own yet unborn (in fact, just conceived) son, {{spoiler|Kira Yamato}}, as well as many others, as a guinea pig for his experiments. The fact that he eventually succeeded didn't help him, though, when [[Torches and Pitchforks|he was lynched by an angry mob]].

* ''[[Astro Boy (~~Manga~~)|Astro Boy]]'' had a lot of run-ins with guys like this. His own father even became one.

* ''[[Astro Boy (manga)|Astro Boy]]'' had a lot of run-ins with guys like this. His own father even became one.

* In ''Bagi, the Monster of Mighty Nature'', another [[Osamu Tezuka]] creation, {{spoiler|Ryo's mother was one of these.}}

* The Towa Organization in the ''[[Boogiepop Series|Boogiepop]]'' series see it as their duty to help push humanity forward in its evolution as well as seeking out and destroying the individuals who pose a threat to that goal. Much of the conflict in the series is the direct result of their actions, including the creation of Manticore, a human eating monster cloned from an alien.

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* Dr. Jail Scaglietti of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'', the [[Mad Scientist]] behind [[Cloning Blues|Project F]] and several other [[Artificial Human]] related experiments. According to [[Smug Snake|Quattro]], his ultimate goal is the completion of biomanipulation technology and the creation of a space to do that. That at least several hundred thousand people would die in the process is acceptable collateral damage.

* {{spoiler|[[Magnificent Bastard|Grace O'Connor]], the resident [[Mad Scientist]]}} from ''[[Macross Frontier]]''. In Episode 24 {{spoiler|she}} directly stated that {{spoiler|her main goal is for humanity to become greater than [[Precursors|the Protoculture]]}}.

* Zeus from ''[[~~King of Thorn (Manga)|~~King of Thorn]]''.

* Zeus from ''[[King of Thorn]]''.

* It's the beginning of [[Naruto|Orochimaru's]] [[Start of Darkness]]: he just wants to learn all jutsu in the world, and when he realizes he can't in a normal human lifetime, he starts experimenting to put himself above all else. It's more just for his sake than for the world's, and he's using human guinee pigs left and right like they're stones.

* Medusa from ''[[Soul Eater]]'' would count. {{spoiler|Experimenting on children with black blood, reviving the kishin, thus allowing his madness to spread and in her mind that means the same as allowing evolution to take over.}}

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* Longtime [[X-Men]] villain (and once or twice hero, depending on how whacked-out the writing was that year) the High Evolutionary. Tends to turn people into animals, or animals into people, or whatever the hell the writer wants a guy with the word "evolution" in his name to do that month, but usually it's with the excuse of guiding evolution to the next step.

* Dr Payne in the British comic book series ''[[Zenith]]'' created the second generation superhumans with the explicit intent that they replace humanity. {{spoiler|They did. After a fashion.}}

* Bertron, the alien who created the creature Doomsday, in the [[~~Superman (Comic Book)|~~Superman]] comics.

* Bertron, the alien who created the creature Doomsday, in the [[Superman]] comics.

* In [[The DCU]], there was the mad obstetrician Dr. Love who created the supervillain team Helix by experimenting on the unborn children of pregnant women under his care.

* [[Legion of Super-Heroes (Comic Book)|1000 years from now]], Ra's Al Ghul will plot to crash the Moon into the Earth to force humanity to [[You Fail Biology Forever|pre-emptively evolve]] to prevent it.

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** Fortunately, they have a [[Kryptonite Factor]] in the form of merely hearing that [[Nuclear Physics Goof|gluons have never been seen]].

* Richard Reed [[Not Brainwashed|doesn't get infected]] in ''[[Marvel Zombies]]'', but {{spoiler|infects his entire team with the zombie interdimensional bug}}, claiming it's the best course of evolution mankind has been presented with. Being an expendable [[Crapsack World]], this is just the beginning...

* [[Captain Mar Vell|The Supreme Intelligence of the Kree]] has committed monstrous atrocities against his own people in order to spur their evolutionary development.

* [[Captain Mar-Vell|The Supreme Intelligence of the Kree]] has committed monstrous atrocities against his own people in order to spur their evolutionary development.

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*Jigsaw from the ''[[Saw]]'' movie franchise is not a scientist, but an engineer, which still fits the trope well: instead of participating in scientific experimentation, he uses the applied science of engineering to build his traps. In a similar variation, his concerns are social rather than biological or genetic - he is disgusted with the indolence and sloth he sees surrounding him. Without the "Will to Live", humankind faces extinction. His preferred solution is to maim and murder people in interesting ways.

* ''[[The Man With Two Brains]]'': Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr is in many ways one of these; as well as being not-quite-all-there and his developing God-complex, he confidently predicts a day where his research will allow 'brilliant minds to live on in the bodies of dumb people' and the like. He's somewhat lacking in the 'evil', part, though, as for all the [[Mad Scientist]] [[Character Development]] that occurs, he's a bit too decent and moral to actually kill in order to achieve his ends.

* In the [[James Bond]] film ''[[~~Moonraker (Film)|~~Moonraker]],'' Drax's scheme is to wipe out humanity with a human-specific poison pollen plant, then repopulate the Earth with the pairs of perfect supermodels he has kept out of harm's way on his space shuttle/Noah's Ark.

* In the [[James Bond]] film ''[[Moonraker]],'' Drax's scheme is to wipe out humanity with a human-specific poison pollen plant, then repopulate the Earth with the pairs of perfect supermodels he has kept out of harm's way on his space shuttle/Noah's Ark.

* The Octopus from ''[[The Spirit]]'' is trying to find the secret to immortality and godhood. He actually created the titular hero in one of his experiments when he brought a dead cop back to life. The Octopus' [[Mook|Mooks]] are also apparently artificial creations.

* In ''[[Kamen Rider the First]]'', the organization Shocker's name stands for "Sacred Hegemony Of Cycle Kindred Evolutional Realm."

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* In two separate SF universes created by Frank Herbert, the planets Dosadi and [[Dune|Salusa Secundus]] are both brutally inhospitable prison worlds created to force the beings left on them to adapt and become stronger. The effect seen is more of a cultural (and physical conditioning) change than evolution, though.

** And then, also in Dune, there's the Bene Tleilax which created such things as [[Voluntary Shapeshifting|Face Dancers]] that later on in the series can become "perfect mimics" by absorbing the memories of the individual they've... replaced.

* Subverted in Aldous Huxley's ''[[Brave New World (~~Literature~~)|Brave New World]].'' The World State engineers everyone into five castes, Alpha through Epsilon ranked by intelligence. The point is to keep everything exactly the way it is forever; technological progress is restrained for the same reason. The Savage asks World Controller Mustapha Mond, "If you can get anything you want out of those bottles, why not make everybody an Alpha-double-plus?" Mond says they once tried colonizing an island with nothing but Alphas as an experiment, but it quickly degenerated into civil war; everybody wanted to be boss and nobody wanted to do the scutwork.

* Subverted in Aldous Huxley's ''[[Brave New World (novel)|Brave New World]].'' The World State engineers everyone into five castes, Alpha through Epsilon ranked by intelligence. The point is to keep everything exactly the way it is forever; technological progress is restrained for the same reason. The Savage asks World Controller Mustapha Mond, "If you can get anything you want out of those bottles, why not make everybody an Alpha-double-plus?" Mond says they once tried colonizing an island with nothing but Alphas as an experiment, but it quickly degenerated into civil war; everybody wanted to be boss and nobody wanted to do the scutwork.

* [[Dean Koontz]]'s portrayal of Dr. Victor [[Frankenstein]] in ''[[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|Dean Koontz's Frankenstein]]''.

* [[Dean Koontz]]'s portrayal of Dr. Victor [[Frankenstein]] in ''[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Dean Koontz's Frankenstein]]''.

* In [[CS ~~Lewis~~ ~~(Creator)~~|CS Lewis]]'s ''[[Space Trilogy]]'', Professor Weston develops interplanetary travel so humanity and their descendants (whatever they evolve into) could go out into the stars and survive throughout the cosmos. However, Weston doesn't care that this plan may involve wiping out other intelligent life. (In the second book, he abandons this goal in favor of a New Age-y philosophy he dubs "Spiritual Evolution", which has nothing to do with this trope.) The trope is taken further in the third book, where the N.I.C.E. plans to replace all organic life with a machine life.

* In [[C. S. Lewis|CS Lewis]]'s ''[[Space Trilogy]]'', Professor Weston develops interplanetary travel so humanity and their descendants (whatever they evolve into) could go out into the stars and survive throughout the cosmos. However, Weston doesn't care that this plan may involve wiping out other intelligent life. (In the second book, he abandons this goal in favor of a New Age-y philosophy he dubs "Spiritual Evolution", which has nothing to do with this trope.) The trope is taken further in the third book, where the N.I.C.E. plans to replace all organic life with a machine life.

* ''[[~~The Turner Diaries (Literature)|~~The Turner Diaries]]'' by white-supremacist William Luther Pierce (writing as Andrew Macdonald) recounts a racial war that ends with the death of all Jews, nonwhites and "mongrels" -- all of them, everywhere in the world. Most white people also die in the fighting and general disruption; the population of the United States is reduced to 50 million. Only those bearing "especially valuable genes" survive. This fulfills the dream of the "Great One" (Hitler) for an "all-White world." (The historical Hitler would at least have allowed the non-whites to live on as slaves.) The necessity of this appears to be based on "Cosmotheism," a belief-system that is Pierce's own invention, which is a curious mish-mash of the seemingly incompatible beliefs of racism and pantheism.

* ''[[The Turner Diaries]]'' by white-supremacist William Luther Pierce (writing as Andrew Macdonald) recounts a racial war that ends with the death of all Jews, nonwhites and "mongrels" -- all of them, everywhere in the world. Most white people also die in the fighting and general disruption; the population of the United States is reduced to 50 million. Only those bearing "especially valuable genes" survive. This fulfills the dream of the "Great One" (Hitler) for an "all-White world." (The historical Hitler would at least have allowed the non-whites to live on as slaves.) The necessity of this appears to be based on "Cosmotheism," a belief-system that is Pierce's own invention, which is a curious mish-mash of the seemingly incompatible beliefs of racism and pantheism.

* The only type of biologist in the employ of [[Mega Corp|Manpower Inc]] in [[David Weber]]'s ''[[~~Honor Harrington (Literature)|~~Honor Harrington]]'' series. Not only they use genetic engineering to breed [[We Will Use Manual Labor in ~~The~~ Future|slaves]] for unscrupulous purposes, but they also utilise the experience from this practice to improve ''themselves'', as they feel that natural evolution is too slow.

* The only type of biologist in the employ of [[Mega Corp|Manpower Inc]] in [[David Weber]]'s ''[[Honor Harrington]]'' series. Not only they use genetic engineering to breed [[We Will Use Manual Labor in the Future|slaves]] for unscrupulous purposes, but they also utilise the experience from this practice to improve ''themselves'', as they feel that natural evolution is too slow.

* In [[HG Wells]]' ''The Island of Dr. Moreau'', the titular Dr. Moreau.

* In [[H. G. Wells]]' ''The Island of Dr. Moreau'', the titular Dr. Moreau.

** Actually an aversion, as the original Moreau wasn't trying to improve the species (ours or otherwise), but to refine and explore the limits of his ''unorthodox surgical techniques''. It's his film incarnations that bought into this trope.

* An ironic step-sibling of this trope forms the basis for [[John Wyndham]]'s novel ''[[The Chrysalids]]''. In a post-apocalyptic future (the apocalypse is phrased in religious terms by the characters as "The Tribulation", and implied to have been a nuclear disaster or war), a primitive, theocratic society seeks to exterminate all mutants, whether plant, animal or human. While not [[Social Darwinist|Social Darwinists]] or scientists, the members of this culture are nevertheless striving to "restore" the purity of life on Earth, in an effort to get back into God's good graces.

* From ''[[Fingerprints]]'', the doctor who first researched psychic abilities, {{spoiler|Steve Mercer}}. He eventually came to regret his work and tried to undo it, but did ''not'' perform a [[Heel Face Turn]] and remained a [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] - just one with different intentions.

* Lord Randolph Hellebore from the ''[[Young Bond]]'' novel ''Silver Fin'' is obsessed with breeding the perfect soldier and is not above experimenting his brother and son in pursuit of his goal.

* Julian May's ''[[~~Galactic Milieu (Literature)|~~Galactic Milieu]]'' books feature Marc Remiliard, whose goal is to accelerate the psychic development of the human race to the same level as {{spoiler|his prochronistic mutant brother Jac a disembodied brain}}, of course he had good PR and merely told everyone he wanted to let people adopt some cool [[Designer Babies]].

* Julian May's ''[[Galactic Milieu]]'' books feature Marc Remiliard, whose goal is to accelerate the psychic development of the human race to the same level as {{spoiler|his prochronistic mutant brother Jac a disembodied brain}}, of course he had good PR and merely told everyone he wanted to let people adopt some cool [[Designer Babies]].

* The Forsaken Aginor in [[Robert Jordan]]'s ''[[~~The Wheel of Time (Literature)|~~The Wheel of Time]]'' series. It is revealed that he personally was responsible for the creation of pretty much all of the [[Big Bad]]'s monstrous [[Mooks]], having performed Mengele-esque experiments on his fellow human beings by the thousandfold.

* The Forsaken Aginor in [[Robert Jordan]]'s ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'' series. It is revealed that he personally was responsible for the creation of pretty much all of the [[Big Bad]]'s monstrous [[Mooks]], having performed Mengele-esque experiments on his fellow human beings by the thousandfold.

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* {{spoiler|Alpha}} from ''[[Dollhouse]]''.

* In the [[Super Sentai]] series ''[[Dynaman]],'' the villains' collective name is the Jashinka - from ''jashin'' (evil) and ''shinka'' (evolution.) In other words, their name ''actually translates to "Evilution."'' However, their plan to convert humans didn't go so well, so they went the usual mass destruction route.

* Dr. Soong in ''[[Star Trek Enterprise]]'' was the more benign flavor of Evilutionary Biologist, who balked at his creations' evil tendencies.

* Dr. Soong in ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'' was the more benign flavor of Evilutionary Biologist, who balked at his creations' evil tendencies.

** Would that make him a [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Benevolutionary Biologist]]?

** Soong later switches to machines, and his descendant in ''[[Star Trek ~~the~~ Next Generation]]'' ends up being just a really innovative scientist.

** Soong later switches to machines, and his descendant in ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' ends up being just a really innovative scientist.

* The Dominion, a major power on ''[[Star Trek Deep Space Nine]]'', established its rule through this trope. Their stormtroopers are bred from birth to fight and made dependent on drugs to keep them docile. Their emissaries are programmed to believe the Founders (the head honchos) are gods. The Dominion isn't above letting loose a super-plague to punish insurgents, either.

* The Dominion, a major power on ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'', established its rule through this trope. Their stormtroopers are bred from birth to fight and made dependent on drugs to keep them docile. Their emissaries are programmed to believe the Founders (the head honchos) are gods. The Dominion isn't above letting loose a super-plague to punish insurgents, either.

* Helen Cutter in ''[[Primeval]]'' is a different kind of Evilutionary Biologist: in her own words, she wants to {{spoiler|save the world, not humanity. She ends up going back to the Pliocene to kill hominids and prevent the human race from ever evolving.}}

* On ''[[Heroes]]'', Arthur Petrelli wants to make [[Super Serum]] generally available for this reason.

* Michael on ''[[~~Stargate Atlantis (TV)|~~Stargate Atlantis]]'' eventually becomes one of these, with his plans to create a race of human-Wraith hybrids and wipe everyone else out.

* Michael on ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'' eventually becomes one of these, with his plans to create a race of human-Wraith hybrids and wipe everyone else out.

== Tabletop Games ==

* ''[[Magic ~~the~~ Gathering]]'''s [[Dungeon Punk]] setting of Ravnica has deranged elf sorcerer/scientist [http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=107506 Momir Vig,] the leader of the Simic Combine, a whole guild of such characters.

* ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'''s [[Dungeon Punk]] setting of Ravnica has deranged elf sorcerer/scientist [http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=107506 Momir Vig,] the leader of the Simic Combine, a whole guild of such characters.

** In the book, there's a footnote that explains that he's [[Last of His Kind|the last of his specific race of elves]], but that he's gone on the record was saying that it's pretty much a good thing that they aren't any others left.

** As far as ''Magic'' goes, it was probably inevitable that Green/Blue would be the Biologist guild, since Green is the "Biology" color and Blue is the "Fuck with..." color.

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== Videogames ==

* ''[[~~Bio Shock~~]]'' has two example: Yi Suchong, the scientist responsible for the mental conditioning of the Little Sisters and {{spoiler|Jack}} as well as the creation of the Big Daddy. The other is Dr. Bridgette Tenebaum, who made the Little Sisters what they are and is trying to [[The Atoner|atone for her mistakes]] by saving them.

* ''[[Bioshock]]'' has two example: Yi Suchong, the scientist responsible for the mental conditioning of the Little Sisters and {{spoiler|Jack}} as well as the creation of the Big Daddy. The other is Dr. Bridgette Tenebaum, who made the Little Sisters what they are and is trying to [[The Atoner|atone for her mistakes]] by saving them.

** Neither, however, has anything on [[Knight Templar|Sofia Lamb]]. An insane Altruist, her life experiences {{spoiler|[[Completely Missing the Point|and the events of the first game]]}} led her to believe that [[The Evils of Free Will|Free Will is a evolutionarily conditioned illusion]]. In order to release Rapture from the "burden" of self-awareness, she's decided to {{spoiler|''[[Instrumentality|fuse all its people into a single, non-aware being using the body of her own daughter]]}}'', believing the result will be a "[[Utopia Justifies the Means|True Utopian]]".

* Palet from ''[[Breath of Fire]] III'' {{spoiler|[[Necromantic|wanted to revive his dead mother]]}}, and was very willing to break the laws of nature to do so.

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** This Kane we're talking about, so we now know it was actually to summon aliens in order to nick their tech.

*** This ''is'' [[Dark Messiah|Kane]] we're talking about. He may very well see that as fringe benefits or even [[Magnificent Bastard|part of the plan]]. Re-Genesis project and "divination", anyone?

* ''[[Dead Space (~~Video~~ ~~Game~~)|Dead Space]]'' features two [[Mad Scientist|Mad Scientists]]; one relatively helpful and benign despite his insanity, and one who is more clearly villainous. The evil one is an evilutionary biologist, and more than happy to sic his nigh-invulnerable genetically engineered super monster on you.

* ''[[Dead Space (video game)|Dead Space]]'' features two [[Mad Scientist|Mad Scientists]]; one relatively helpful and benign despite his insanity, and one who is more clearly villainous. The evil one is an evilutionary biologist, and more than happy to sic his nigh-invulnerable genetically engineered super monster on you.

* The Master from ''[[Fallout]]'' was very much an adherent of Evilutionary tenets in the [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] mould (certainly, the backdrop of a [[After the End|post-nuclear apocalypse]] lent his reasoning some gravitas). The Enclave, the adversary of the sequel ''Fallout 2'', {{spoiler|was in fact a kind of inversion of this trope. being among the last "purebreed humans" in the world, they were planning to commit genocide of all the various mutated strains of humanity that had cropped up, effectively "turning back the clock" on evolution. It is up for discussion whether one of the optional courses of action towards the end of the game, in which the [[Player Character]] convinces one of the scientists responsible for the plan to turn the [[Weapon of Mass Destruction|WMD]] they had intended to use for this upon his fellows instead, is a case of using the Evilutionary argument in a more "benign" context}}.

** A [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] for Science characters in ''[[Fallout]]'' is when the Vault Dweller, after passing a skill check, {{spoiler|points out that the Master's Super Mutants are entirely sterile and thus doomed to extinction. They're actually ''physically incapable'' of biological evolution.}}

** The ''Old World Blues'' DLC of ''[[Fallout New Vegas]]'' has the Think Tanks, with Dr. Borous in particular being responsible for the [[Demonic Spiders|Cazadores]] and [[Mix-and-Match Critters|Nightstalkers]] (which he claims are as [[Metaphorically True|docile as they are sterile]]) as well as subjecting his dog Gabe to some pretty terrible experiments (though it's possible to [[My God, What Have I Done?|make him feel regret for the latter]]). They're also responsible for a [[Festering Fungus|special spore]] that infects living people and have made lobotomized people into psychotic zombies (or Lobotomites), a process that you barely managed to survive due to the bullet in your head from the beginning of the game.

** The ''Old World Blues'' DLC of ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'' has the Think Tanks, with Dr. Borous in particular being responsible for the [[Demonic Spiders|Cazadores]] and [[Mix-and-Match Critters|Nightstalkers]] (which he claims are as [[Metaphorically True|docile as they are sterile]]) as well as subjecting his dog Gabe to some pretty terrible experiments (though it's possible to [[My God, What Have I Done?|make him feel regret for the latter]]). They're also responsible for a [[Festering Fungus|special spore]] that infects living people and have made lobotomized people into psychotic zombies (or Lobotomites), a process that you barely managed to survive due to the bullet in your head from the beginning of the game.

* Professor Hojo from ''[[~~Final Fantasy VII (Video Game)|~~Final Fantasy VII]]'' was almost a textbook Evilutionary Biologist, and a [[Complete Monster|thoroughly nasty piece of work]].

* Professor Hojo from ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'' was almost a textbook Evilutionary Biologist, and a [[Complete Monster|thoroughly nasty piece of work]].

* He was predated however, by ''[[~~Final Fantasy IV (Video Game)|~~Final Fantasy IV]]'''s Dr Lugae, who was every bit as bad, even if he had less screentime.

* He was predated however, by ''[[Final Fantasy IV]]'''s Dr Lugae, who was every bit as bad, even if he had less screentime.

* Curien from ''[[House of the Dead (~~Video Game~~)|House of the Dead]]'' is one of these, though [[Love Makes You Evil|he]] [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope|wasn't]] [[Mad Scientist|always]]. Goldman has the mentality of one of these, but he isn't a scientist, he's a [[Omnicidal Maniac]] [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] who dabbles in science.

* Curien from ''[[The House of the Dead (series)|House of the Dead]]'' is one of these, though [[Love Makes You Evil|he]] [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope|wasn't]] [[Mad Scientist|always]]. Goldman has the mentality of one of these, but he isn't a scientist, he's a [[Omnicidal Maniac]] [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] who dabbles in science.

* ''[[Metal Gear|Les Enfants Terribles]]'', anyone?

* ''[[Metal Gear]] Solid 2'''s infamous [[Gainax Ending]] had the Colonel {{spoiler|AI}} justifying the Patriots by referring to this with regards to ''cultural'' evolution, considering the Internet to be what disrupted natural selection. (''[[Metal Gear Solid 4]]'' would reveal that they were probably less than honest about this motivation.)

* ''[[Metal Gear]] Solid 2'''s infamous [[Gainax Ending]] had the Colonel {{spoiler|AI}} justifying the Patriots by referring to this with regards to ''cultural'' evolution, considering the Internet to be what disrupted natural selection. (''[[Metal Gear Solid 4 Guns of the Patriots]]'' would reveal that they were probably less than honest about this motivation.)

* The key antagonists of ''[[Parasite Eve]] 2'' are a shadowy cult who intend to counter humanity's extinction of thousands of species, by 'diversifying' humanity into filling all the ecological niches -- by transforming everybody into hideous and inevitably hostile monsters, of course. Made particularly chilling by the fact that about half of their stated plan -- namely the use of Retroviral Engineering -- isn't too far from being a real possibility.

* Umbrella Corporation from the ''[[Resident Evil]]'' games, makers of such fine biological weapons as [[Zombie Apocalypse|the T-Virus]] and [[Implacable Man|the Nemesis]].

** ''[[Resident Evil 5]]'' takes it to a new level with Project W. Ironically this was one of the ''first'' projects Umbrella started in the timeline. Umbrella founder Ozwell Spencer envisioned the rise of a superior breed of humans {{spoiler|consisting of humans infused with the Progenitor Virus at a young age}} indoctrinated with his own [[Social Darwinist]] values and presumably his interest in biological studies. In other words, this was an Evilutionary project ''to manufacture more [[Evilutionary Biologist|Evilutionary Biologists]]''. Fortunately, the project was ultimately a failure since {{spoiler|Albert Wesker was the only child to survive the virus injections all the Wesker children received}}.

** Last but not least, there's Wesker's evil plot itself from the same game as above. To put it in his own words, "Natural selection leaves the survivors '''STRONGER''' and '''BETTER'''."

* Parodied in the ''[[Sam ~~and~~ Max Freelance Police ~~(Video Game)~~|Sam and Max Freelance Police]]'' games with Stinky, an evilutionary ''cook'', who wants to advance mankind by making really bad food that only the strongest can survive eating.

* Parodied in the ''[[The Adventures of Sam & Max: Freelance Police|Sam and Max Freelance Police]]'' games with Stinky, an evilutionary ''cook'', who wants to advance mankind by making really bad food that only the strongest can survive eating.

* Jaqueline Natla from the original ''[[Tomb Raider]]'' (but not the remake) who wanted to use Atlantis' powers to create a predator for humans, thereby giving evolution "a kick in the pants".

{{quote| ''"Evolution's in a rut, natural selection at an all time low. Shipping out fresh meat will incite territorial rages again, will strengthen and advance us. Even create new breeds."''}}

* The scientists who ran the White Orphanage in ''[[~~Wild Arms 4 (Video Game)|~~Wild Arms 4]]'' fit this trope. They took orphaned children and used a variety of cruel methods to attempt to mass-produce artificially evolved humans who could use the eponymous ARMs. Of all their subjects, only 19 survived the initial experiments, and only 2 were not eventually killed or turned into mutated horrors.

* The scientists who ran the White Orphanage in ''[[Wild Arms 4]]'' fit this trope. They took orphaned children and used a variety of cruel methods to attempt to mass-produce artificially evolved humans who could use the eponymous ARMs. Of all their subjects, only 19 survived the initial experiments, and only 2 were not eventually killed or turned into mutated horrors.

* This trope forms the basis of the plot of ''[[Wing Commander (~~Video~~ ~~Game~~)|Wing Commander]] IV'', where the [[Big Bad]] is {{spoiler|a [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] that let his extremism evolve into a Nazi Germany-style pogrom, including developing a nanotech-based bioweapon that kills based on preselected genetic criteria. It kills by destroying the cells of a infected person that doesn't measure up; liquefying the flesh of the person involved. Slowly. At first it's thought that it's a plague, until the main protagonist finds out the truth behind this, and another weapon that destroys ships by [[Made of Explodium|somehow]] igniting the atmosphere within, turning spacecraft into impromptu furnaces) during a covert mission to the [[Big Bad]]'s stronghold/spaceship. It doesn't exactly help that the [[Big Bad]] is a member of the same military that the protagonist is, and is actually higher in rank}}. The purported reason behind all this is that "humanity has gotten weak" without the perpetual warring of the first three games, and needs to be "pruned to be able to face the next adversary." Naturally, the protagonist has to stop this out of moral indignation, not to mention the fact that the [[Big Bad]] is deliberately inciting another war through his use of this stuff.

* This trope forms the basis of the plot of ''[[Wing Commander (video game)|Wing Commander]] IV'', where the [[Big Bad]] is {{spoiler|a [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] that let his extremism evolve into a Nazi Germany-style pogrom, including developing a nanotech-based bioweapon that kills based on preselected genetic criteria. It kills by destroying the cells of a infected person that doesn't measure up; liquefying the flesh of the person involved. Slowly. At first it's thought that it's a plague, until the main protagonist finds out the truth behind this, and another weapon that destroys ships by [[Made of Explodium|somehow]] igniting the atmosphere within, turning spacecraft into impromptu furnaces) during a covert mission to the [[Big Bad]]'s stronghold/spaceship. It doesn't exactly help that the [[Big Bad]] is a member of the same military that the protagonist is, and is actually higher in rank}}. The purported reason behind all this is that "humanity has gotten weak" without the perpetual warring of the first three games, and needs to be "pruned to be able to face the next adversary." Naturally, the protagonist has to stop this out of moral indignation, not to mention the fact that the [[Big Bad]] is deliberately inciting another war through his use of this stuff.

** The nanotech bioweapon doesn't liquify the flesh of the person involved... not directly, anyway. Instead, it alters the cells' RNA so that the person's ''own immune system'' attacks them, liquifying the flesh.

* In ''[[Headhunter]]'' the [[Big Bad]], unbeknownst to [[The Dragon]], was creating a race of super-humans called Adam. He was also releasing a virus only Adam was immune to and if there were any humans left they would be quickly wiped off the face of the Earth by Adam. As I remember it there was only one creature (so no Eve) made and "he" didn't have any genitalia so how a new race was going to be built I don't know.

* In ''[[I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream]]'', Nimdok's story involves him facing the fact that he was a [[Complete Monster]] Nazi Scientist and Josef Mengele's partner and atoning for his actions. [[Hoist By His Own Petard|His experiments later come to bite him back when AM uses them (for example, a Youth Serum created via the deaths of countless Jewish children) to torture him]] and the other remaining humans.

* In ''[[I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream]]'', Nimdok's story involves him facing the fact that he was a [[Complete Monster]] Nazi Scientist and Josef Mengele's partner and atoning for his actions. [[Hoist by His Own Petard|His experiments later come to bite him back when AM uses them (for example, a Youth Serum created via the deaths of countless Jewish children) to torture him]] and the other remaining humans.

* Quite a few villains in the ''[[~~Mega Man X (Video Game)|~~Mega Man X]]'' series follow the robotic version of this, trying to improve the technological advancement of their species beyond what humans made them for. Lumine and Sigma (in the MHX remake) actually mention evolution.

* Quite a few villains in the ''[[Mega Man X]]'' series follow the robotic version of this, trying to improve the technological advancement of their species beyond what humans made them for. Lumine and Sigma (in the MHX remake) actually mention evolution.

** In the ''[[~~Mega Man ZX (Video Game)|~~Mega Man ZX]]'', both {{spoiler|Serpent}} and much more notably {{spoiler|Master Albert}} fit this trope to a T. In addition, it is possible that {{spoiler|Master Thomas}} is an example of this trope as well.

** In the ''[[Mega Man ZX]]'', both {{spoiler|Serpent}} and much more notably {{spoiler|Master Albert}} fit this trope to a T. In addition, it is possible that {{spoiler|Master Thomas}} is an example of this trope as well.

* The primary plot in ''[[~~Dragon Quest IV (Video Game)|~~Dragon Quest IV]]'' concerns the application of the "Secret of Evolution" to make monsters into more powerful monsters.

* The primary plot in ''[[Dragon Quest IV]]'' concerns the application of the "Secret of Evolution" to make monsters into more powerful monsters.

* Shepard's crew can't go two weeks without tripping over ''some'' hideously immoral experiment in ''[[Mass Effect]]''. Usually involving Cerberus or the Reapers in some manner.

** {{spoiler|Sometimes BOTH}}

** Mordin is a subversion. "No testing on species capable of calculus. Simple rule. Never broke it."

* The [[Big Bad]], Caulder, from Advance Wars: Days of Ruin. Strictly speaking, "evolution" isn't his goal, but he is a [[Mad Scientist]] whose involvement in {{spoiler|cloning}} gets him pretty close to this trope. It turns out that {{spoiler|he is actually a clone who killed the original, then made clones of himself in an attempt to sell a clone army.}}

* [[The Riddler]] comes off as shades of this in [[Batman Arkham Asylum]], [[Smug Snake|justifying]] his actions by pointing out that if the residents of Gotham weren't so stupid they wouldn't die in his traps.

* [[The Riddler]] comes off as shades of this in [[Batman: Arkham Asylum]], [[Smug Snake|justifying]] his actions by pointing out that if the residents of Gotham weren't so stupid they wouldn't die in his traps.

* In a sense, this is Mitra's motivation in ''[[Strange Journey]]''. On encountering humans, he begins experimenting on them to see what they can do without. The problem is that, since demons are made of spirit, he doesn't seem to understand that we need such things as "a functioning brain", "blood", "air", and "skin"...

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* As well as the other ways in which he's a utterly raving [[Mad Scientist]], Professor Farnsworth in ''[[~~Futurama (Animation)|~~Futurama]]'' often rants about creating, amongst other things, a "race of atomic supermen", which he once actually did in order to win a basketball game.

* As well as the other ways in which he's a utterly raving [[Mad Scientist]], Professor Farnsworth in ''[[Futurama]]'' often rants about creating, amongst other things, a "race of atomic supermen", which he once actually did in order to win a basketball game.

* Doctor X, of the ''[[~~Action Man (Animation)|~~Action Man]]'' animated series, was a textbook [[Evilutionary Biologist]] obsessed with triggering the [[Evolutionary Levels|next step in human evolution]] by causing all sorts of disasters in the hopes of culling unfit humans and cause beneficial mutations in the survivors.

* Doctor X, of the ''[[Action Man]]'' animated series, was a textbook [[Evilutionary Biologist]] obsessed with triggering the [[Evolutionary Levels|next step in human evolution]] by causing all sorts of disasters in the hopes of culling unfit humans and cause beneficial mutations in the survivors.

* The villain of ''[[~~Felidae (Animation)|~~Felidae]]'' turns out to be doing this, with cats.

* The villain of ''[[Felidae]]'' turns out to be doing this, with cats.

* Dr. Anton Sevarius of ''[[~~Gargoyles (Animation)|~~Gargoyles]]'' is a freelance geneticist specializing in clones and mutates. So long as he gets [[For Science!|plenty of test subjects]] and money, he doesn't really seem to care ''what'' his creations are used for, having sold his services to almost every [[Big Bad]] in the series.

* Dr. Anton Sevarius of ''[[Gargoyles]]'' is a freelance geneticist specializing in clones and mutates. So long as he gets [[For Science!|plenty of test subjects]] and money, he doesn't really seem to care ''what'' his creations are used for, having sold his services to almost every [[Big Bad]] in the series.

* Dr. Paradigm from ''[[~~Street Sharks (Animation)|~~Street Sharks]]'' starts out like this, as evidenced by his monologue about how great his human test subjects will be post-transformation and sans those silly human morals. He abandons that pretty early and switches to simply taking over the town/world though.

* Dr. Paradigm from ''[[Street Sharks]]'' starts out like this, as evidenced by his monologue about how great his human test subjects will be post-transformation and sans those silly human morals. He abandons that pretty early and switches to simply taking over the town/world though.

** This is after getting a taste of his own medicine makes him seven kinds of [[Ax Crazy]] though.

* ''[[X-Men Evolution ~~(Animation)~~|X-Men Evolution]]'' implies that [[Magneto]] is the one responsible for Nightcrawler looking like a demon, via one of his many, many experiments.

* ''[[X-Men: Evolution|X-Men Evolution]]'' implies that [[Magneto]] is the one responsible for Nightcrawler looking like a demon, via one of his many, many experiments.

* Dr. Ketzer in ''[[~~Exo Squad (Animation)|~~Exo Squad]]'' was a genetic engineer who altered a group of villagers (and himself) in the Amazon to give them plant-like abilities. He also infected {{spoiler|Nara Burns}} with the mutating agent as a ploy to get Marsh to do his dirty work for him.

* Dr. Ketzer in ''[[Exo Squad]]'' was a genetic engineer who altered a group of villagers (and himself) in the Amazon to give them plant-like abilities. He also infected {{spoiler|Nara Burns}} with the mutating agent as a ploy to get Marsh to do his dirty work for him.

* The recurring villain Dr. Animo from ''[[~~Ben 10 (Animation)|~~Ben 10]]'' franchise.

* The recurring villain Dr. Animo from ''[[Ben 10]]'' franchise.