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[[File:cit tsukihime - kohaku - needle time - bloody first aid to the rescue.jpg|link=Tsukihime|frame|"It's needle time!"]]
{{quote|''"[[Inner Dialogue|What can I do with this one, Aphrodite?]] [[Punctuated Pounding|She won't...stay...still!]] I want to make them beautiful, but they always turn out wrong! [[Hollywood Pudgy|That one, too fat!]] [[Statuesque Stunner|This one, too tall!]] [[Fashionable Asymmetry|This one, too symmetrical!]] And now... What's this, Goddess? An intruder?! He's ugly! Ugly! Ugly! [[Large Ham|UGLYYYYYYYY!]]"''|'''Dr. Steinman''', ''[[BioShock (series)]]''}}▼
▲{{quote|''"[[Inner Dialogue|What can I do with this one, Aphrodite?]][[Punctuated Pounding|She won't...stay...still!]] I want to make them beautiful, but they always turn out wrong! [[Hollywood Pudgy|That one, too fat!]] [[Statuesque Stunner|This one, too tall!]] [[Fashionable Asymmetry|This one, too symmetrical!]] And now... What's this, Goddess? An intruder?! He's ugly! Ugly! Ugly! [[Large Ham|UGLYYYYYYYY!]]"''|'''Dr. Steinman''', ''[[BioShock (series)]]''}}
{{quote|''Vena cava! Heart starter! The doctor is IN! SANE!''|'''[[Angelspit]]''', "Vena Cava"}}
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This guy? This guy is all of that wrongness collected and made real.
Of course, for all
This has happened often enough in [[Real Life]] that there's a branch of medical ethics devoted to figuring out what you can do to your patients [[For Science!]], and (at least in the USA) every hospital and university has a committee whose entire job is to oversee research with human subjects. It's generally agreed that you must tell people you're experimenting on them, why, what the risks are, what they get out of it, and give them the opportunity to say no. The Other Wiki has [[wikipedia:Human subject research|more information than you require]].
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A supertrope of [[Deadly Doctor]] (a combatant in medical garb). The counterpart of [[Mad Artist]] and [[Mad Scientist]] in the field of medicine. Could be an [[Evilutionary Biologist]]. Some may have a [[Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate]].
Not to be confused with an angry [[Doctor Who|Time Lord]]. Compare [[Depraved Dentist]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
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== Real Life ==
* [[wikipedia:Josef Mengele|Dr. Josef Mengele]], SS officer and doctor at the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp, and the [[Trope Codifier]].
* [[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:Harold Shipman|Dr. Harold Shipman]].
* [http://jezebel.com/357761/dr-graeme-reeves-the-sickest-man-alive Dr. Graeme Reeves].
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