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** ''[[The Invisible Man (TV series)|The Invisible Man]]'' [2000] had the title protagonist become violent and psychotic, but there was a counteragent for this effect that had to be taken regularly.
*** Note that in this case the protagonist was the scientist's brother, and there had been previous testing done, albeit not with very encouraging results. The protagonist accepted this because [[Boxed Crook|the alternative was life in prison]] for a crime other than the one he actually committed. His brother also did know how to reverse the process...[[No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup|but didn't bother to tell anybody else or keep any records of it, so it became permanent when he was murdered]].
* Also turns up in a lot of [[Time Machine]] stories, once again, including the [[H. G. Wells]] original. ''[[Back to The Future]]'' is a rare example where
** He did intend for himself to be the first human test subject, with the space of time to observe negative side effects in said dog being a few minutes.
** In [[The Time Machine]] he at least has the presence of mind to build a proof of concept device first.
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* [[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea]]: In a variation, [[The Professor]] Aronnax is willing to sacrifice his own freedom for the rest of his life [[For Science!|for the rare chance to discover all the sea’s secret in the Nautilus]]. Fortunately, he is not [[Guinea Pig Family|willing to sacrifice his friend’s freedom]] and leads them in their [[Great Escape]].
* A doctor in J.G. Farrell's ''The Siege of Krishnapur'' drinks the 'rice-water' from a cholera patient, to demonstrate his confidence in the miasma theory of disease transmission (the theory that diseases are the result of bad air). It doesn't go well.
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