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ThisThe '''Mad Doctor''' is the guyone that uses histheir knowledge of the workings of the body (or of the mind) to do evil, abuses the authority hethey hashave from his doctorate, and practices freakish and horrific experiments, proving that [[Science Is Bad]].

Of course, for all histheir insanity, the doctor may in fact be a [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]] who actually knows what hethey'sre doing. Patients may be terrified by the way hethey actsact and the bizarre treatments he puts them through, but when the doctor is done with them they're actually cured.

Not to be confused with an angry [[Doctor Who|Time Lord]]. Compare [[Depraved Dentist]].

* Herr Doktor from ''[[Hellsing]]'', responsible for the monstrous state of the Last Battalion.

* Faust VIII of [[Shaman King]], who basically introduces himself by [[Nightmare Fuel|vivisecting the]] [[Sidekick]]. Then, reveals himself to be high as hell on morphine and tears open his own leg with a scalpel to replace a broken bone with one from one of his many skeletons. Of course, [[Defeat Means Friendship]]-- a—a ''long'' time later.

* Shingen Kishitani in ''[[Durarara!!]]''. Contrary to the most other examples, he's not really evil -- [[Mad Scientist|just crazy]].

* ''[[Global Frequency]]'' #9: Surgeons in a medical research facility became literally [[Mad Doctor]]sDoctors after the leak of an experimental gas. The surgeons' pre-existing fascination with the inside of the human body escalated into fanatical worship, and so... "They went into the wards, where their volunteer patients were. And they used stem-cell technology and bioreactors to make [[Body Horror|things]] out of them. And they're all still alive."

* The Mirrorverse doppelganger of normally caring and trusted medic Ratchet, in the ''[[Transformers: Shattered Glass]]'' universe. When Rodimus wound up on his operating table with a missing hand, he found that it had not been repaired, but had instead been replaced by a rusty circular saw.

* Sawbones from ''[[Jonah Hex]]'' is a well educated and cultured man who enjoys using his medical skills to torture and murder people.

* [[Marvel Universe]] villain Moonstone used to be a psychiatrist, who also liked to drive her patients to suicide.

* ''[[Nexus (fanfic)|Nexus]]'' featured a couple of these, most notably Dr. Xip.

{{quote| Dr. Xip was quite a pip<br />

He experimented <br />

On the demented<br />

* [[Meaningful Name|Pain]] of [[Last Man Standing (graphic novel)|Last Man Standing]] has a Ph.D in [[Complete Monster|Psychopathy]].

** As of 'A Feast for Crows', Qyburn has moved on to being the main...interrogator...for {{spoiler|Queen Cersei}}.

* [[Sdrawkcab Name|Namtar]], of the ''[[Farscape]]'' episode "DNA Mad Scientist" performed cruel mutation experiments on sapient subjects in order to figure out how well it'd work if he gave those traits to himself.

* ''[[The X-Files]]'' has its share of crazy doctors engaged in cloning and hybrid experiments on humans. Special off-[[Myth Arc]] mention to the 4x06 episode "Sanguinarium" that introduces the worst kind of mad doctors: Satanist mad doctors.

** Before that, you had the mad white supremacist eugenicist who killed Lady Heather's daughter in "Pirates of the Third Reich."

** And it may be a stretch, but "Justice is Served" had a mad... ''nutritionist'', who had a bad case of porphyria and thought the best way to stave off its symptoms was to feast on the most blood-rich organs of healthy men.

* Australian industrial duo [[Angelspit]] has general Mad Doctor appeal, with medical motifs such as pills and syringes appearing all over their merch, albums, et cetera. Their first studio album ''Krankhaus'' used the trope not only visually but musically. The band created a secret page explaining the backstory of the album, which can be found [https://web.archive.org/web/20100824222406/http://www.angelspit.net/krankhaus/x/spin_a_dice.htm here].

{{quote| ''The doctor is in... God help us!''}}

* ''[[Dungeons and& Dragons]]'' has one or two in settings involving [[Mad Science]]:

** ''[[Spelljammer]]'' has [[Planet of Hats|the whole race]] of these, Xixchil. They do --fordo—for a price-- anyprice—any surgery feat imaginable, like "improvements" adding strength, "natural" armor, wings, [[Gender Bender|sex changing]], and so on. Xixchil just can't grasp their clients' (and [[Munchkin|players]]') assumptions and use their very non-humanoid common sense, working [[Be Careful What You Wish For|as close to the request as they imagine]]. [[Body Horror]] and [[Hilarity Ensues]] in all and any cases more ambiguous than medical or minor plastic surgery.

* The [[Warhammer 4000040,000|Orks']] "Mad Doks" or "Painboyz" are nothing ''but'' these. These Orks have basic medical knowledge hard-wired into their DNA, along with [[Science-Related Memetic Disorder|a compulsion to "tinker."]] They've been known to decapitate an Ork, and graft its head onto another Ork's body just to see what happens. Or swap two Orks' limbs, just for fun. Or replace an Orks' brain with a live squig, for the hell of it. Or give an Ork bionic lungs, when he came in with a toothache. You have to be ''really'' desperate to visit a Mad Dok, so some don't bother waiting for you to show up...

** ''[[Two Words: Obvious Trope|Fabius Bile]]''. He wears a lab coat made from human skin, and has transformed the population of entire planets in shambling monstrosities in genocidal experiments. He's so crazy he's spent thousands of years in the [[Hyperspace Is a Scary Place|Warp]] and come out of it mostly unchanged. He created a master race that are the [[Space Marine]] [[Super Soldier|Super Soldiers]]s but stronger and crazier, while his failed experiments tend to [[Body Horror|disintegrate from the violence of their mutations]].

** If you suffer a crash in the Midnight Roads, you may attract a gremlin. Driven by a mad desire to fix anything -- oranything—or any''one'' -- that—that's "broken", it'll set itself down beside you and take those long drills and scalpels it has in place of fingers and it'll start to work. It'll cut and bore and stitch and weld and otherwise do its best to piece you together with whatever it has to hand -- ifhand—if you're lucky, it'll just chop up any of your fellow passengers. More likely, it'll use the bits of the car or bike you crashed to do the work. If you end up living through their removing your ribs and replacing them with a chassis of solid metal, and grafting parts from an old clock to your heart to keep it beating, then they'll pull out your guts and put in a diesel processor before replacing the flesh of your trunk with plastic and rubber. But if you live through all that... relax! When the gremlin vanishes back into the Shadow, it'll take the magic keeping you alive with it, and you'll die more or less instantly. They also like to do things like trying to build a car from the carcasses of dead cattle and babies from scrap metal, just to see if they can make them "work".

* Dr. Steinman from ''[[BioshockBioShock (series)]]''. He scrawls "Beauty is a moral imperative" and "Above all, do no harm" around the level with the blood of his patients. That should tell you all you need to know about him.

{{quote| "Did zat sting? [[A Worldwide Punomenon|Saw-ry]]!"}}

** Also Doctor Baldhead, from the original game -- hegame—he's heavily implied to be who Faust was before he became [[The Atoner]].

{{quote| [[Large Ham|"I'll fill my Pockets with their Livers!"]]}}

** {{spoiler|Irie too. Though he was persuaded by Miyo and didn't really wish to dissect and vivisect people.}}

** He's even worse in his [http://www.ariannia.com/2008/06/06022008/ cameo]{{Dead link}} in [[The Foxfire Chronicles]]. Not to mention how [http://www.furaffinity.net/user/doctor/ his creator] usually portrays him.

* Dr. Barber in ''[[The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack]]'' seems a little unhinged which really showed in the episode where everyone in Stormalong became infected with The Black Plague. He seemed like a kid in a candy store.

* [[wikipedia:Theodor Morell|Dr. Theodor Morell]] turned [[Adolf Hitler|his own Führer]] into a guinea pig - for almost 8 years he doused him with compounds of strychnine, atropine, amphetamines, cocaine, even goddamn ''metamphetamine''. And he got away with it. [[Operation Valkyrie|Colonel Stauffenberg]]'s bomb brought him a death sentence even as it did much less damage to Hitler's health.

* [[wikipedia:Shir%C5%8DShirō Ishii|Shiro Ishii]], man in charge of the [[wikipedia:Unit 731|Unit 731]] during the Japanese Occupation of China.