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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* On ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'', Professor Richard Impossible conducted an experiment that blew up in his face. It granted him incredible stretching powers, but left his family with painful and hideous mutations. Not only is he completely unsympathetic to their plight, but he treats them like prisoners most of the time. Impossible is a thinly-veiled parody of ''The [[Fantastic Four]]'''s Reed Richards, who has slipped into this trope from [[Reed Richards Is Useless]] more than once (most recently{{when}} during ''[[Civil War (Comic Book)|Civil War]]''). Impossible's crowning moment of For Science! was when confronted by his wife that their son was missing, he ignores her and handwaves it:
{{quote|"What could possibly be more important than your own son?"
"... sssssssssssscience?" }}
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* [[Lampshaded]] in an episode of ''[[Danny Phantom]]'', when Danny asked his dad how much he would get paid for helping out in the lab. "I pay you to mow the lawn. ''This'' you'll do for the love of ''science''!"
* Self-proclaimed [[Evil Genius]] Jumba Jookiba from ''[[Lilo and Stitch]]'' seems to have created his genetic experiments just for the heck of it. Although he delights in describing the evil applications of his creations, he seems to have no grand plans for them. In the original movie, he notes that he never gave Experiment 626 (Stitch) a higher purpose.
** That's right - For Science! has actually managed to create good.
* In Disney's ''[[Gargoyles]]'', there may have been commercial applications for the Gargoyle genome, the procedure to create Mutates, or cloning, but Dr. Anton Sevarius only seemed interested in research and experimentation for its own sake. From the Bad Guys comic:
{{quote|'''Sevarius:''' For science, which, as my associate Fang indicated, must ever move forward. Plus, there's the money. And I do so love... THE DRAMA!"}}
* In the pilot episode of ''[[Time Squad]]'', the eponymous squad has to deal with a horde of flesh eating robots created by Eli Whitney (seriously). When Otto asks Whitney why he did this, he replies "I wanted to do something to help mankind". How rampaging flesh eating robots could accomplish that is a question not even Whitney himself could answer...
* ''[[Dexter's Laboratory
* An episode of ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' has an unknown villain break into a lab and steal genetically-engineered termites that also eat metal, concrete, and plastic. When April interviews the scientist who made them, she asks just what purpose the termites were supposed to serve besides the obvious destruction, and gets a blank look in response.
* This seems to be the motivation behind half of Professor Frink's inventions in ''[[The Simpsons]]''.
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'''Grampa:''' But I want to help people, not kill them!
'''Frink:''' Oh, well to be honest, the ray only has evil applications. You know my wife will be happy, she's hated this whole "death ray" thing from day one. }}
* ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force
** Frylock falls into this trope on occasion—the toilet that destroyed Carl's body springs to mind.
** Whatever motivates Dr. Weird is up for grabs—this one ''might'' explain it. Some of it. The saner ones, anyway.
** In one of the earlier scripts for the first episode, this ''is'' what motivates Dr. Weird. You can see it on the first season DVD.
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* Professor Membrane from ''[[Invader Zim]]''. Everything he does is either For Science or for destroying Santa Claus.
{{quote|'''Membrane:''' (to his daughter) Sorry about imprisoning you and turning you into a media freak, honey. It was in the name of SCIENCE!}}
* All the [[Fan Nickname|Sciencebots]] of ''[[Transformers]]'' are practically programed to do stupid things FOR SCIENCE. Perceptor has given up his personality to store more data in his head, Wheeljack built five fire-breathing dinosaurs [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-aTbHsZJ9g (with not enough brains to tell their heads from their asses)] just because he went to a natural history museum, and Starscream tends to clone himself and make others into drones. There was also that monkey Primacron who built Unicron's G1 cartoon-verse body.
* From the original ''[[My Little Pony]]'', we have the Gizmonks, two brother and sister monkey gadgeteers. Even ''they'' don't know what half their inventions are until they finish and try them.
* This is how Heloise from ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'' tries to justify her more sociopathic tendencies...when she bothers to justify them, anyway.
* ''[[Jonny Quest]]'' TOS. In "The Dragons of Ashida" and "Terror Island" the [[Mad Scientists]] create giant monsters without any concern for the consequences of their actions.
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* ''[[Futurama]]'': Good news everyone! I've invented something crazy! For Science!{{context}}<!-- The least you could do is name the character who said this. -->
* Kowalski's usual excuse in ''[[The Penguins of Madagascar]]'' when he's about to do something that will endanger them all.
* The Mechanist in ''[[Avatar: The Abridged Series]]'' "But I'm doing it '''FOR SCIENCE!!!'''"
* ''[[Superfriends]]'' 1973/74 episode "The Menace of the White Dwarf". In the [[Backstory]], [[Mad Scientist]] Raven was convicted of trying to jar the Earth from its axis, which might have caused the extinction of the entire human race.
{{quote|Raven: I am a scientist! My experiment dictated that I take that risk!
Judge: A sense of humanity would have bid you not to!
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