History Main / MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate

* The manga EDD or Eliminate Dangerous Doctors is this. It involves an organization whose sole purpose is to rid {{Morally Ambiguous Doctorate}}s through "questionable" means (and by questionable I mean outright illegal, including murder, invasion of privacy and espionage).

* ''{{Smallville}}'' was the king of this trope. The wiki actually had a page on [[http://smallville.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Evil_doctors evil doctors]]! Metropolis University must be the world's leading college for obtaining a Morally Ambiguous Doctorate, because almost every single doctor appearing on the show is either evil or a WellIntentionedExtremist doing unethical experiments ForScience (or, y'know, in return for Luthor money). Even a regular medical doctor [[spoiler: Helen Bryce]] turned out to be evil in Season 3.

** As for the ''other'' Dr. Bishop, he's a WellIntentionedExtremist, which probably makes him a [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate morally ambiguous doctor]] as well.

* Wrestling/{{TNA}}: Dr. Stevie. Evil psychiatrist, has a habit of brainwashing his patients to become his submissive lackeys. Also probably not a real doctor, since his Wrestling/{{ECW}} and Wrestling/{{WWE}} past is mentioned.

* Dr. Mid-Nite from the DCU is a (super)heroic physician. Definitely Good.
* Doctore Fate from the DCU has a complicated history. He's Good in a cosmic sense, but this may or may not translate to giving much of a damn about humanity (especially in the versions where Doctor Fate is actually being ''possessed'' by a Lord of Order as opposed to simply being a person in a costume), and in most incarnations doesn't actually hold an earned doctorate anyway.

* ''MassEffect'': Dr. Mordin Solus. Before you actually meet him, all you have is a name and the space station he can be found. As you investigate, everyone tells you that he's crazy and that they don't expect you to survive the encounter, the tales getting more horrid every time.

** And he is also revealed to be one of the leading scientists who [[spoiler:spent some time re-engineering the genophage, an incurable genetic disease that causes massive rates of miscarriages in pregnant krogan to keep the numbers of the species low. He's aware that the bioweapon was ethically reprehensible, but does not regret his actions.]] How he ended up in a tiny practice in the slums of Omega is a mystery.
*** Actually, he mentions that he started the clinic in Omega specifically so that he could do something less morally ambiguous in his twilight years.
*** He then complete redeems himself in ''Mass Effect 3'' by [[spoiler:[[HeroicSacrifice taking the elevator to the top of an exploding weather control tower]] to release the genophage cure over Tuchanka, humming his song from the previous game ''"[[MajorGeneralSong I am the]] [[ScienceHero very model of a scientist Salarian]]..."'']]

* [[VideoGame/DeadSpace Dr. Mercer, Challus]]: {{Evil|utionaryBiologist}}, [[MoralEventHorizon evil]], ''[[KnightTemplar evil]]'' bastard. [[MadDoctor Who passed this guy in medical school?]]

* Every scientist in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'', simply because no one is interested in research that can't be used to kill people in large numbers. The king of this is Fabius Bile, a geneticist who's reduced planets to shambling mutants and created a race of murderous superbeings. In battle he shoots people with syringes that can make them ''explode''. He's also thousands of years old, preserved by BlackMagic pumped into his veins, and doesn't worship any of the [[CosmicHorror Chaos Gods]] despite extensive dealings with them, which may actually be scarier than any of his other accomplishments.
** The Dark Eldar Haemonculi, from whom Bile actually learned his skills. They're functionally immortal [[MadScientist Mad Scientists]] that specialise in all kinds of body modifications, from replacing their own blood with acid to turning people into horrible biomechanical abominations. In battle they wield all sorts of freaky weapons, from guns that fire their own acid blood at enemies to syringe-gauntlets that cause the victim to grow out of their skin and caskets filled with invisible fiends that strip the flesh from their victim's bones.

Interestingly, it's actually possible to get a doctorate in the study of evil. The field is called ''Ponerology'', although very few universities actually offer such a degree. May or may not be issued by [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Gannon]] [[http://www.gannon.edu/ University]]. ''Definitely'' issued by the AcademyOfEvil.

* ''VisualNovel/HatofulBoyfriend'': Dr. Iwamine [[FanNickname "Fat Bird"]] [[HatofulBoyfriend Shuu]]: Very, very evil.

* ''The Evil That Men Do'' (1984). Dr Clement [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Molloch]] advises South American dictatorships on how to torture people. He is definitely evil.

* In the afterword of her novel, ''EvilGenius'', Catherine Jinks said that she got the idea from watching her son playing with figurines of "Action Man" and "Dr. X," which got her wondering where and how supervillains get their degrees.

* [[BigBad Ritter Wulf]] from the Spanish series ''El Internado'' performed [[WouldHurtAChild horrific, lethal experiments on children during the Holocaust]], and started racial purity experiments [[spoiler:at the Laguna Negra boarding school]]. 60 years later when confronted by [[spoiler:Saúl]], his only regret is not killing more Jews while he still had the chance.

* [[BigBad Ritter Wulf]] from the Spanish series ''El Internado'' performed [[WouldHurtAChild horrific, lethal experiments on children during the Holocaust]], and started racial purity experiments [[spoiler:at the Laguna Negra boarding school]]. 60 years later, when [[spoiler:Saúl]] confronts him, his only regret is not killing more Jews while he still had the chance.

* ''VideoGame/Fallout3'': In a game filled with sociopaths, Dr. Stanislaus Braun does his best to stand out: As controller and inhabitant of the Vault-112 virtual reality simulations, he has been continually torturing, killing and reviving the other inhabitants of the simulation for 200 years, just to amuse himself. The only reason he enjoys this is ''because they're real people, not just computer programs''; if you MercyKill everyone else there so they can't be revived, he'll get upset that you took away his toys. When you show up in Vault 112, he will order you to personally kill everyone else in the simulation as a condition of letting you go.

* [[BigBad Ritter Wulf]] from the Spanish series ''El Internado'' performed [[WouldHurtAChild horrific, lethal experiments on children during the Holocaust]], and started racial purity experiments [[spoiler:after faking his death and moving to Spain under an assumed name]]. 60 years later, when [[spoiler:Saúl]] confronts him, his only regret not killing more Jews while he still had the chance.

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout3}}'': In a game filled with bad characters, Dr. Stanislaus Braun does his best to stand out: As controller and inhabitant of the Vault-112 virtual reality simulations, he has been continually torturing, killing and reviving the other inhabitants of the simulation for 200 years, just to amuse himself. The only reason he enjoys this is ''because they're real people, not just computer programs''; if you MercyKill everyone else there so they can't be revived, he'll get upset that you took away his toys. When you show up in Vault 112, he will order you to personally kill everyone else in the simulation as a condition of letting you go.

* ''{{Batman}}'': Doctor Hugo Strange: Sane enough to hold a doctorate in psychiatry; too insane to perform surgery. (Monstrous enough to try anyway).

* ''Comicbook/{{Batman}}'': Doctor Simon Hurt: Evil.

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout3}}'': In a game filled with CompleteMonster characters, Dr. Stanislaus Braun does his best to stand out: As controller and inhabitant of the Vault-112 virtual reality simulations, he has been continually torturing, killing and reviving the other inhabitants of the simulation for 200 years, just to amuse himself. The only reason he enjoys this is ''because they're real people, not just computer programs''; if you MercyKill everyone else there so they can't be revived, he'll get upset that you took away his toys. When you show up in Vault 112, he will order you to personally kill everyone else in the simulation as a condition of letting you go.

* ''VideoGame/Fallout3'': In a game filled with CompleteMonster characters, Dr. Stanislaus Braun does his best to stand out: As controller and inhabitant of the Vault-112 virtual reality simulations, he has been continually torturing, killing and reviving the other inhabitants of the simulation for 200 years, just to amuse himself. The only reason he enjoys this is ''because they're real people, not just computer programs''; if you MercyKill everyone else there so they can't be revived, he'll get upset that you took away his toys. When you show up in Vault 112, he will order you to personally kill everyone else in the simulation as a condition of letting you go.

* Dr. Kermit Gosnell, an American abortion doctor who used poor and outdated techniques that killed or permanently crippled his patients, performed involuntary abortions, did human experiments without the knowledge or consent of the patients, and killed so many infants born alive in his practice that employees lost count. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermit_Gosnell The other wiki has more]], [[http://www.phila.gov/districtattorney/PDFs/GrandJuryWomensMedical.pdf as does this report]].[[hottip:Caution:Images in the second link may be unsettling or NSFW]]

** Also from ''Blazblue'', Relius Clover. [[ForScience Relius.]] [[MindRape Freaking.]] '''[[AbusiveParents Clover.]]''' While never expliciltly stated to have a doctorate, he is a master of science and alchemy, creating clones and {{Magitek}} weaponry. He's also a complete sociopath willing to torture people [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil in an almost rape-like way]], kill his own wife and daugther to turn their corpses into living weapons, and work with Hazama to try and destroy all reality just to see what happens next.

* ''BakuryuuSentaiAbaranger'': Dr. Mikoto Nakadai/AbareKiller: DrJerk and a White Ranger... but [[{{Jerkass}} NO heart of gold]], and [[LightIsNotGood Evil]]. [[spoiler:He did a HeelFaceTurn in the end though, just in time to [[RedemptionEqualsDeath die]].]]

* Dr. Keith Ablow of FoxNews, known for being a HeteronormativeCrusader and for not doing the research on anything. Considering his views on transsexuals, one wonders how he treats them during his psychiatrist sessions... He also keeps using the wrong pronouns, which is serious dickishness on his part.
* Former Dr. Andrew Wakefield, famous for his controversial studies regarding the Measles/Mumps/Rubella vaccine, and his more controversial methods of research involving needlessly invasive diagnostic procedures.