More and more, experimental research became associated with facilities provided by universities, foundations, museums, governments and industry. However, the romantic image of the mad scientist — isolated from his fellows and angry with a world that would suppress his ideas — has deep archetypal power.
It's also dramatically compact , needing only the scientist, an assistant, and a faithful servant or two as characters. The meme 's emotional energy and enactment efficiency has kept it alive into the 21st Century, and it's even routinely projected into future scenarios via television shows like Star Trek and The Outer Limits You need to login to do this.
Get Known if you don't have an account. His laboratory was equipped with the sophisticated tools of modern science: Jacob's Ladders, Van De Graaf generators, bulky pilot-lit cabinets, poorly-adjusted Bunsen burners, retorts bubbling with sinister chemicals, murky jars holding mutant monstrosities, strung wires with bad insulation. He makes up for it by having rows and rows and rows of People Jars. Hell had his own laboratory installed in his Super Villain Lair , but it was barely seen in the series. Kabuto's lab in the original manga also counts. Washuu from Tenchi Muyo! Stitched patterns are found randomly throughout the house, both the inside and outside and also on his clothes and even his person.
He has an older looking computer and many chemistry related items such as a Bunsen burner, beakers, Erlenmeyer flasks, etc. He no doubt has an operating table somewhere in his lab, since he has an affinity for dissecting things. In Wild Fangs , Syon was created and grew up in one of these, of the castle dungeon variety. Gero had one where he worked on his android project. Despite its destruction, the version of his ultimate creation Cell from the future was unaffected thanks to way Trunks' time machine operated.
Tim leads the Teen Titans into a secret underground lab belonging to Lex Luthor that's full of autonomous robots, half finished experiments, and vials of manufactured cures and diseases in search of a cure for Superboy who was dying at the time. Merlin's cottage in Disney's The Sword in the Stone is one of these. In that film, he's a powerful wizard who uses magic to teach science to young Arthur. Megamind has an impressively huge one, complete with Tesla coils and blinky dials. The James Bond films had their resident good-guy Mad Scientist , Q; almost every film features a peek into his lab, which usually features several assistants participating in such dubious experiments as testing a new bulletproof vest by putting one on and getting shot.
Gangrene's lab in Return of the Killer Tomatoes! Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow The laboratory of Dr Walter Jennings with mutated fetus and tiny elephant , and the room in Shangri-La shown in a deleted scene where Totenkopf conducted experiments on radiation victims from his uranium mine. Totenkopf requires a special mention here as his 'laboratory' is a whole factory complex, complete with a rocket launch silo.
Iron Man Tony Stark has an updated version in the basement of his house. Doc Brown's lab in Back to the Future , originally the garage of his family estate, was crammed full of all types of scientific gear.
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Though the potato doesn't really do anything. It's filled with Ridiculously Cute Critters in cages which Skeksis scientist skekTek performs cruel experiments on. Furter's lab in The Rocky Horror Picture Show is full of big electric switches and octagonal monitors. The tank that Rocky is born in is the same one from The Revenge of Frankenstein. Baron Frankenstein maintains one under his castle. It is filled with Gratuitous Laboratory Flasks , arcane electrical equipment, strange clockwork, a walk in cold room for keeping corpses No proper wizard would bother to keep so many showy magical experiments running at once; they would be set up one at a time for research purposes, and would not be shown off to visitors.
No surprise that Discworld can't have a scene in a magic-user's residence without poking fun at the Mad Wizard's Laboratory variant of this trope. Most common are jokes about how they all order identical decor out of a kit: We actually meet a dealer in such accoutrements in the Tiffany Aching series of Discworld stories, as well as a catalog marketing the witch's version: Magrat was a sucker for this stuff in Wyrd Sisters , though Nanny Ogg and Granny Weatherwax thought it was all a waste of time, though maybe good for "headology". Comrade Death , a short story by Gerald Kersh, features Sarek's Under World, the underground nightmare where his company's increasingly horrible chemical weapons are developed.
The eponymous Mad Scientist in H. He also pursues a quasi-legitimate career in medicine and research at the Miskatonic University and could procure scientific apparatus — without attracting unwanted attention — by plain old theft. The Probability Broach , by L. Lampshaded by the protagonist when he enters the lab in the Colorado State University that unknown to him is actually a gate to an Alternate Universe. In Heart of Steel , Alistair Mechanus has a sprawling labyrinth of a lair inside a dormant volcano on Shark Reef Isle, mainly comprised of laboratory and research space.
The Gaunt's Ghosts' main objective in Salvation Reach is to raid a well-defended Chaos research facility and capture as much intelligence material as possible, which may be further used in advantage to the Crusade.
The laboratory is described as grim halls filled with strange and disturbing devices. Although they cannot read them, even mere touch of scrolls and dataslates stored there fills the Imperial Guardsmen with a feeling of dread. For seven seasons, the villains on Mystery Science Theater worked in an Elaborate Underground Base - the audience occasionally glimpsed chemistry equipment, chalkboards, computer consoles and mysterious air ducts. Things became tighter when the villains' replacements had to work out of a space-travel-equipped VW Microbus, but that was for only one season - they returned to a more appropriate environment soon enough.
Complete with a fish tank packed with acid.
Making the world a better place, one Evil Mad Scientist at a time.
The meth lab on wheels. It's got the smoking flasks, mysterious coloured goo, and pretty much anything else they can cover with Rule of Cool. Played straight in "Monster Movie", where the Monster of the Week is a fan of monster movies like Frankenstein , and so has his own laboratory to electrocute Dean via Big Electric Switch. More updated versions are seen in "Asylum" and "The Man Who Would Be King" — the latter being the most disturbing of all given that it involves Affably Evil Crowley dissecting demons while discussing business with supposed good-guy Castiel.
You can save him? Difficult to say, your Grace. But if my past work is any guide Do everything you can. Come to me for anything you need. Thank you, your Grace. You should know, the process may, change him. The entire playfield for Strange Science is decorated like a classic laboratory. Operators can also install a backbox topper resembling a Jacob's Ladder with an electric arc between the poles.
The "Tower" table in 3-D Ultra Pinball: Creep Night takes place in one of these. Spirit of the Century has an interesting play on this with Der Blitzmann, a German Mad Scientist has a portable lab, in the form of his mechanical exoskeleton. Despite the nontraditional size and style, it does come complete with Tesla Coils.
Given some of the other NPCs, it's hard to not to imagine their secret lairs set up this way: Methusala seems to set up a lab wherever he happens to be conducting his latest experiments, and probably has more chalkboard and less stuff lying around. Baroness Blackheart probably has a good old fashioned alchemical lab, complete with smoking cauldron and eye of newt.
Mizrahi probably has something somewhere between the two, filled with chalkboards, but also with various kabbalistic paraphernalia. Heck, considering that the Mad Scientist is a possible character build, and having a laboratory is no real problem, the PCs could easily play to this trope. A lab is very important to the protagonists of Genius: The problem is that lab space is expensive and obsessively making things that break when Muggles touch them is bad for the bank balance.
Might be a bit too pink to completely qualify, though. The Mighty Max toy line had a number of mad science-themed playsets, notably Dr. The Doctor Dreadful line of playsets allowed kids to basically have their own little mad scientist laboratories, complete with flasks, beakers, test tubes and other goodies, which they could use to make edible snacks. It turned out beautifully! The article inside talks about the workings of the and features a project using the Three Fives kit in a custom carrier board to run a blinker circuit on a robot.
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This entry was posted in General News and tagged holidays. It includes the article State of the Electronics Trade War which we contributed to. He draws on copper clad boards with a Sharpie marker with the AxiDraw. Drawing is followed by a chemical bath. The marker is cleaned off of the remaining copper to reveal the design. It came out beautifully. Radio waves from our galaxy, the Milky Way, reflecting off the surface of the Moon. Two bits per transistor: The Chinese Mountain Cat. Textbook Crosswind Landing by a Youtube.
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