History Main / MadDoctor

* [[PsychoForHire Cioccolata]] from ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind'' was formerly a sadistic surgeon who would operate on conscious patients and convince the elderly people he was "assisting" to commit suicide. He takes glee in watching people die and makes it a point to record the deaths of every victim on video -- [[EvenEvilHasStandards understandably, the boss of the gang he's a member of views him with nothing but scorn]], [[GodzillaThreshold and only calls for his help as a last resort]].

* In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', Mayuri Kurotsuchi and his Arrancar counterpart, Szayelaporro Granz are overall {{Omnidisciplinary|Scientist}} {{Mad Scientist}}s but they engage in medical side of things frequently enough to count. Both surgically modify their subordinates to serve themselves in inhuman capacity - Mayuri turns them into living bombs, Szayelaporro into living medkits.
* Dr. Muraki in ''Manga/DescendantsOfDarkness''. Weirdly, he's actually an excellent doctor, except when he decides not to be. It's implied he runs a successful medical clinic most of the time he's not doing things like vampirizing people for fun and trying to resurrect his dead brother's head. Or "supplying" the black market (or another mad doctor) with organs taken from his victims. AND using them as bait for his favourite shinigami...
* Shingen Kishitani in ''Literature/{{Durarara}}''. Contrary to most other examples, he's not really evil -- [[MadScientist just crazy]].
* ''Manga/FrankenFran'' is an oblivious GenkiGirl example. She genuinely wants to save lives, [[FateWorseThanDeath the problem is that the concept of "quality of life" takes a backseat in the process]].
* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' has a bunch of mad doctors aiding the evil GovernmentConspiracy at various points, the most prominent of which in the manga & ''Brotherhood'' anime is "The Man in White" (or "Gold Tooth") or in the original anime is Shou Tucker, The Sewing Life Alchemist.
%%* Dr. Jackal, holy holy hell Dr. Jackal of ''Manga/GetBackers''. Those scalpels… brrr.

* [[PsychoForHire Cioccolata]] from ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind'' was formerly a sadistic surgeon who would operate on conscious patients and convince the elderly people he was "assisting" to commit suicide. He takes glee in watching people die and makes it a point to record the deaths of every victim on video- [[EvenEvilHasStandards understandably, the boss of the gang he's a member of views him with nothing but scorn]], [[GodzillaThreshold and only calls for his help as a last resort]].

* Faust VIII of ''Manga/ShamanKing'', who basically introduces himself by vivisecting Yoh's [[{{Muggles}} Muggle]] friend Manta, tearing open his own leg with a scalpel to replace a broken bone with one from one of his many skeletons and then revealing himself to be constantly high as hell on morphine. Between other things he also carries around [[MummiesAtTheDinnerTable his dead wife's skeleton]] in his coat, he cut off his own legs to give said skeleton new legs after they got destroyed in battle, and at the start of the Shaman Fight he did essentially ''nothing'' to break a fall from ''hundreds of feet in the air'' that would have killed him if he hadn't operated on himself right after crashing thanks to, again, ''constantly being high as hell on morphine''. Of course, DefeatMeansFriendship -- a ''long'' time later.
* In ''Manga/SoulEater'', Franken Stein has a serious vivisection fixation, cutting apart and stitching back together his clothes, his house, his partner, his lunchbox, and apparently himself -- one ShirtlessScene shows that he has a stitch pattern that wraps around his torso.
* ''Manga/TegamiBachiLetterBee'' presents a Subversion of this trope with the Dr Thunderland Jr. He uses an eye patch and is obsessed with dissection, but besides that, he is shown to be a very kindhearted person who cares for others despite his ruthlessness. Also, his job actually helps people.
* Dr. Akihiro Kanou, from ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'', kicks off the plot of the series by crossing this with MadScientist. His research involves making {{Artificial Hybrid}}s by implanting a Ghoul's predatory organ into a human and hoping it works out. When Kaneki confronts him over destroying his life, Dr. Kanou calmly explains that he's a doctor, and the experimental surgery he did ''saved'' Kaneki from dying.
%%* Kamiya Minoru, aka "Doctor" from ''Manga/YuYuHakusho''.

** From the [[Film/TransformersFilmSeries ROTF tie-in comics]], we have Flatline, who's best summed up as Josef Mengele as a Transformer.

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]] villain Dr. Poison, with her focus in poisons and disease as a biological weapon, serves as a reminder that the Nazis were not the only Axis power performing experiments on human victims during WWII. There is also Dr Psycho, a telepathic former psychologist who was DrivenToVillainy due to being mocked for his dwarfism.

* ''Film/AViewToAKill'': HerrDoktor [[NaziGrandpa Carl Mortner]] is a Mengele-esque eugenicist who conducted a SuperBreedingProgram in an effort to create the "ideal" soldier for the Nazis. While most experiments failed, the few DesignerBabies that survived became highly intelligent — but also [[TheSociopath mentally unstable]] due to the {{Psycho Serum}}s used. [[BigBad Max Zorin]] is one of the more horrific examples.
%% * Well, ''Film/XMenFirstClass'' does start in a [[TruthInTelevision Nazi]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Mengele camp]].

* In ''Literature/GunsOfTheDawn'', an enemy army is under the command of the notorious "Dr Lam", said to be a physician who rose to power in the chaos of revolution and who now enjoys dissecting captured prisoners. When Emily gets captured, she's taken to see him. [[spoiler:It turns out that not only is Dr Nathanial Lammegeier [[NotThatKindOfDoctor not a medical doctor]] (he's an engineer), he's also one of the nicest characters in the book. This isn't the biggest falsehood believed about the Denlanders and their "bloodthirsty revolution", either.]]
* Played straight and subverted in the ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' novels with Doctor Catherine Halsey. Played straight in that she is ''repeatedly'' compared to Mengele in Creator/KarenTraviss's ''[[Literature/HaloGlasslands Kilo]]-[[Literature/HaloTheThursdayWar Five]]'' [[Literature/HaloMortalDictata trilogy]] due to Halsey's role in the SPARTAN-II program. The subversion is the fact that all other ''Halo'' media, including all the novels released ''before Kilo-Five'', depict Halsey as being ''nothing'' like a mad doctor.

* ''Literature/TheLastDaysOfNewParis'' features the original, Josef Mengele, who is conducting horrific experiments on the magical art-based life-forms known as "manifs".
* The Thinking Machine Erasmus in ''Literature/LegendsOfDune'' who performs deadly experiments on countless human slaves out of sheer curiosity, he can be best described as robo-Mengele.
* Plastic surgeon Dr Charles Smith from ''Literature/LetMeCallYouSweetheart'' really isn't right in the head. He's obsessed with his dead daughter to the point of recreating her likeness in other women and is revealed to have [[spoiler: performed surgery on her himself]], which is rather unethical. He views Barbara Tompkins as his creation and feels he's entitled to her company, and felt much the same about Suzanne. He gets almost violently angry with Kerry when she questions him, to the point she genuinely fears for her safety, and then intends to [[spoiler:kill himself near the end of the story due to no longer being able to operate]]. Overall, he is just not a well man.

-->'''Zach''': This guy's more full of shit than a duck pond.
* Maester Qyburn from ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' was this. Until he was stripped of his maester status for performing [[strike:autopsies on people...''while they were still alive'']] vivisections, which was an ethical breach too far for the Citadel. He ended up working with the most foul and depraved mercenary company in both Westeros and beyond as their company [[MDEnvy definitely-not-a-maester-anymore]], [[MadScientist officially-demoted-to-quack]] [[TheMedic surgeon]]. And, given the world includes companies led by people such as Gregor Clegane, "the Bloody Mummers" status as "sellswords everybody hates" is truly impressive. Qyburn fitted himself right in and kept up the [[ForScience "good" work]] on the company's victims. By-the-by... he's actually [[FalseReassurance really, really good at keeping patients alive through horrifically awful injuries or amputations]]; better than most of the maesters who have specialised in healing, in fact. Plenty of unethical, hands-on practice makes one a terrific surgeon, apparently.
** As of ''A Feast for Crows'', Qyburn has moved on to being the main...interrogator...for [[spoiler: Queen Cersei]].

** Several {{Mad Scientist}}s are medical doctors, or at least claim to be. Notable examples include Dr. DNA (creator of the Ani-Men), Dr. Venus (who is a ProfessorGuineaPig in addition to her experiments on her 'studmuffins'), Dr Veritas (who was Dr. Venus's mentor, and did the cybernetic implants for the 'Cyber-Tribe') and Dr Gladys Wilkins (who runs a 'black' clinic for the supervillain community in New York City).

** In "Where-What-How-Who Am I?", there's a Dr. Mengele who tries to kill Max with a lethal injection. However, he tells his nurse to sterilize the needle first. "I may be working for KAOS, but I'm still a doctor!"

** ''TabletopGame/{{Spelljammer}}'' has [[PlanetOfHats the whole race]] of these, Xixchil. They do --for a price-- any surgery feat imaginable, like "improvements" adding strength, "natural" armor, wings, [[GenderBender 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 [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor as close to the request as they imagine]]. BodyHorror and HilarityEnsues in all and any cases more ambiguous than medical or minor plastic surgery.

* House Astyanath, a faction in the d20 setting ''TabletopGame/{{Infernum}}'', are a House notorious for their almost religious fascination with pain, and are implied to have quite a few of these in their ranks. More explicit are Dissectionists - Mad Doctors as ''entertainers''! For the delight and amusement of other demons, these depraved surgeons publically "peel" living creatures, using blades and alchemical concoctions to neatly remove skin from flesh, peel flesh from bone, and extract organs, all of which are arranged onto steel frameworks as part of the "show". The circulatory system and other such things must be kept intact during the "performance", so the end result is a grotesque ''flower'' of flesh and viscera... which is still alive, aware, and in incomprehensible agony.
* ''[[TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering Magic]]'''s [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=1949 Goblin Chirurgeon]] is a prime example.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Malifaux}}'', in which [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Dr McMourning]], the Guild's coroner and FME, is really a resurrectionist in his spare time, building and animating various kinds of zombie and FleshGolem.

** Fabius Bile, a Chaos Lord [[MemeticMutation whom we are contractually obligated to remind you]] has a lab coat made of [[GenuineHumanHide human skin]], 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 [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace Warp]] and come out of it mostly unchanged. He created a master race that are the SpaceMarine [[SuperSoldier Super Soldiers]] but stronger and crazier, while his failed experiments tend to [[BodyHorror disintegrate from the violence of their mutations]]. In the ''Literature/HorusHeresy'' novel ''Angel Exterminatus'', even the Iron Warriors - embittered siege-focused killing machines who committed genocide on their own homeworld and are often chomping at the bit for the chance to wipe out their rivals among their own ranks - [[EvenEvilHasStandards are appalled by what Fabius Bile does to captured Space Marines]].

* The Caretaker (AKA Albert Caine) from [[Ride/UniversalStudios Universal's]] Theatre/HalloweenHorrorNights is a former surgeon that now likes to horrifically dissect people alive, as a way of further studying how the human mind and body reacts to pain and eventual death.

* Doctor Alexander Nox aka Caustic from ''VideoGame/ApexLegends'' became obsessed with toxic gases and eradication of living beings. He was once an employee of a pest control corporation, where he weaponized his noxious artillery and found his greatest intrigue in [[ForScience torturing humans]]. He's definitely not a nice guy, but even his evil has limits.

* [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Doc Morbid]] in ''VideoGame/Fallout1'' is a [[ObviouslyEvil shady]] BackAlleyDoctor operating in Junktown. If the player breaks into his basement, it's revealed he sells human flesh to Iguana Bob in The Hub as TheSecretOfLongPorkPies. He'll [[HeKnowsTooMuch confront the player]] upon their return and if they [[DirtyCoward beg for their life]] he'll settle on taking one of their eyes (granting a permanent Perception debuff).

* Dr Baldhead from ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'' was once a successful doctor who went mad when he couldn't save a patient and became a serial killer. Eventually he recovered (slightly) and took up a new identity as Faust, [[TheAtoner atoning]] for his actions by curing people.

* Sojiro from ''VideoGame/LostDimension'', a doctor with HealingHands, has a rather unsettling belief in the absolute perfection of medicine. [[spoiler: To the point that whenever he had a patient he could not cure, he'd murder them [[InsaneTrollLogic so their cause of death would be murder rather than his inability to cure their illness.]]]]
* In ''VideoGame/MadFather'', the main character's father (whose profession is a doctor) has been taking in and experimenting on local homeless people to turn them into dolls. In the ''good'' ending, the main character eventually ends up [[spoiler: following in her father's footsteps]].
* Doctor Fred Edison from ''VideoGame/ManiacMansion'' has no compunction about kidnapping the protagonist's girlfriend to test out his new zombification machine, but as it turns out [[spoiler:he's actually a decent enough guy who's really under the control of the BigBad meteor that enslaved him over twenty years ago]].
** In the sequel, ''VideoGame/DayOfTheTentacle'', Laverne isn't quite a doctor yet, but as a med-student, she's on her way there. And she's certainly quite...unhinged.
* Dr. Saleon, aka 'Dr. Heart', from ''VideoGame/MassEffect1''.

* ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod'': [[spoiler: Michael the Missionary, Khun's team doctor]]. He continued to poison Gyetang even after he died, insisting it was medicine even [[BlatantLies after his cover had been blown]].
* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': Bastion is a doctor who is trying to cure death, in persuit of this he has bound ghosts into constructs and killed at least one person binding their soul to their decaying corpse.

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* ''WebVideo/UnwantedHouseguest'': Doctor Litchfield. [[spoiler: His medical license was actually revoked years ago.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/AaahhRealMonsters'' featured the "Monster Doctor", whose idea of medicine included [[ArtisticLicenseBiology using the earth prong on an electrical plug to give someone a third nostril]]. A runaway Ickis was seen walking across the camera despite not being responsible, causing his friends to believe he ''was'' responsible. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity Ensued]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Inhumanoids}}'' has Dr. Herman Mangler, who resembles Dr. Mengele in more than name.

* Music/WilburSoot plays the role of one "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Dr. Malpractice]]" in ''WebVideo/TheFunniestMinecraftVideosEver''. His name is an apt description of his practices.

* Faust VIII of ''Manga/ShamanKing'', who basically introduces himself by vivisecting the {{Sidekick}}, then revealing himself to be high as hell on morphine and tearing open his own leg with a scalpel to replace a broken bone with one from one of his many skeletons. Of course, DefeatMeansFriendship -- a ''long'' time later.

* Although probably not comparable to some of the others on this page, Shiro Miyata of ''VideoGame/{{Siren}}'' is far from sane. Before the game has even started he [[spoiler:Murders a pregnant nurse he was involved with and then buries her in the woods. He later dissects her zombified corpse (fetus and all), along with that of her twin sister (who he also murdered).]]

This is the guy that uses his knowledge of the workings of the body (or of the mind) to do evil, abuses the authority he has from his doctorate to [[PlayingWithSyringes practice freakish and horrific experiments]], [[OrganTheft harvest organs]] or even providing {{Foul Medicine}}s, proving that ScienceIsBad. If patients no longer want to see him, he may resort to [[KidnappedForExperimentation kidnapping his test subjects]]. Why he treats, and not him, is not clear.

%%* Dr. Vanaccutt, from ''Film/HouseOnHauntedHill1999''

* ''Film/{{Pathology}}: All of the doctors involved in the murder game display gross indifference to the sanctity of human life, but, by the end, the leader Dr. Jake Gallo has gone completely psychotic.

* Music/WilburSoot plays the role of one "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Dr. Malpractice]]" in ''LetsPlay/TheFunniestMinecraftVideosEver''. His name is an apt description of his practices.

* Doctor Challus Mercer of ''VideoGame/DeadSpace''. [[TheFundamentalist Religious whackjob]]. [[EvilutionaryBiologist Conducts experiments on unwilling subjects]] to make a [[ImplacableMan even deadlier Necromorph]]. Proactively tries to kill Isaac by shutting down life support and releasing his Hunter. Crosses the MoralEventHorizon fairly early on and just gets worse from there.

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* A joke in [[DudeNotFunny very bad taste]]: ''The [[UsefulNotes/{{Romani}} Gypsies]] decided to establish their own hospital. Despite a shortage of physicians, they rejected repeatedly a [[NaziGrandpa nice old gentleman]] who called himself [[UsefulNotes/JosefMengele Mengele J.]], Retired Physician.''
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* Dietrich "Medic" Luzwheit in Roleplay/DinoAttackRPG is an unstable doctor with... questionable ethics and even more questionable methods which include, among other things, removing numerous bones ''from a living patient''. Fortunately his colleagues are all far more sensible and level-headed.

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* PlayedForLaughs by Creator/DaveBarry in various columns, where he tends to theorize that the "medical treatment" doctors provide generally consists of them performing sadistic tests on you until you are smart enough to pretend whatever you came in for is better. He also describes prostate exams like this (though in contrast, the doctor who performs those tests comes across better).
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* Dr. Randolph and almost every other member of the hospital staff from the indie horror game ''VideoGame/TheHeilwaldLoophole''. Whatever happened there, they were all driven mad and began perverting treatments into something inhuman. The only people who avert this trope are the trash collector and [[OnlySaneEmployee Nurse Helene]].

* [[ThoseWackyNazis Edward]] [[PsychopathicManchild Richtofen]] from ''VideoGame/NaziZombies''.
-->[[LargeHam "I'll fill my Pockets with their Livers!"]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'' has Doctor Loboto, who fancies himself qualified to deal with psychiatric issues despite not... ''quite'' having the appropriate qualifications.
-->'''Dogen:''' What do you think's wrong with my brain, Doctor?
-->'''Loboto:''' How should I know? I'm a ''dentist''. But here's what I ''do'' know: When a tooth is bad, you ''pull it out!''

* ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod:'' [[spoiler: Michael the Missionary, Khun's team doctor]]. He continued to poison Gyetang even after he died, insisting it was medicine even [[BlatantLies after his cover had been blown]].

* WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment: Dr. Insano. [[MadScientist Mad engineering]] is his main calling, but he's been known to perform non-consensual surgery from time to time.
* In ''Perpetual Change'', [[spoiler:Dr. Mangum]] is revealed to be one of these.
* [[GenkiGirl Dr.]] [[NightmareFetishist Emily]] [[DissonantSerenity Grey]] from ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue''. More specifically, she [[spoiler:interrogates a Space Pirate by ''gleefully torturing him and taking him apart while singing opera'']]. The main characters are already really weird people, and even they are shocked at how crazy Dr. Grey is.
* ''Roleplay/RubyQuest'' has Filbert, a doctor who conducted unethical experiments on his patients and ended up inflicting them with TheCorruption. He is now convinced that he has to "cut the bad out of them," whether they're willing or not. [[spoiler:He has also infected himself; searching his office reveals a drawer full of bloody fleshy bits that he's cut off from himself and a note that says "Never doubt that you are pure."]]

* Music/WilburSoot plays the role of one "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Dr. Malpractice]]" in ''LetsPlay/TheFunniestMinecraftVideosEver''. His name is an apt description of his practices.
* In ''WebVideo/{{Thresher}}'' the unnamed protagonist is apparently subject to some kind of psychic experimentation. It doesn't end well for anyone.

This is the guy that uses his knowledge of the workings of the body (or of the mind) to do evil, abuses the authority he has from his doctorate to [[PlayingWithSyringes practice freakish and horrific experiments]], [[OrganTheft harvest organs]] or even providing {{Foul Medicine}}s, proving that ScienceIsBad. Why he treats, and not him, is not clear.

** From the department of [[PsychoPsychologist Mad Psychiatry]], we get the Scarecrow.

** Professor Pyg is equal parts this and MadArtist.
** Dr. Hugo Strange. There is a ''very'' good reason he's the trope image for this page.

** ''ComicBook/TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'' has [[spoiler:Pharma]] who appears to have been a perfectly sane and exceptionally competent doctor until making a deal with the local squad of murderous torturers to protect his clinic and employees. It's implied that his sanity was eroding even before the deal was exposed and he JumpedOffTheSlipperySlope. To further exacerbate things, the one who exposed the deal was his old friend and mentor, who he has a massive InferioritySuperiorityComplex towards. The next time they meet, his behavior towards the guy veers into {{Yandere}} territory. He's even referred to as "The Mad Doctor" by his new teammates.
** From another Transformers-verse example, ''ComicBook/TransformersShatteredGlass'' (the MirrorUniverse, in which Decepticons are heroes and Autobots are evil) has Ratchet, the Autobot medic. In fact, any wounded bot gets sent to him ''not'' for repairs, but ''as a [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment punishment]]''. Ratchet himself [[AffablyEvil actually means very well]]. However, he possesses an irresistible desire to "improve" his patients by adding them unwanted extra details, and then [[ObliviouslyEvil gets surprised]] when they express their disapproval. Rodimus, for example, was sent to have his missing hand replaced, and Ratchet decided to give him a buzzsaw instead.

** The Crime Doctor, who started as a ''Batman'' villain but then naturally became the nemesis of ComicBook/DoctorMidNite, the resident metahuman physician.