List of fictional scientists and engineers

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In addition to the archetypical mad scientist, there are fictional characters of scientists and engineers who go above and beyond the regular demands of their professions to use their skills and knowledge for the betterment of others, often at great personal risk. In this list of fictional scientists and engineers, an annotated alphabetical overview is given of notable characters in this category.

In literature

Mad scientists and evil geniuses

In live-action films

Individual scientist/engineers

Mad scientists

In live-action television

Individual scientist/engineers

Mad scientists

In television animation

In animated films

In comics and graphic novels

DC Comics

Mad scientists

Marvel Comics

Mad scientists

Other

In anime and manga

Individual scientist/engineers

  • Jonathan Joestar (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure) – Studied to be an archaeologist, but died before doing anything major.
  • Jotaro Kujo (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure) – oceanographer, while unrelated to his role in the various plot arcs he appears in, Jotaro earns a doctorate in oceanography sometime during the summer of 1999 in the series' original timeline; dolphin and anchor motifs were added to his clothing designs to reflect his new occupation

Mad scientists

In video games

Scientists

  • biological weapon
    , and was resurrected with super-human powers after self-injecting the T-virus
  • Catherine Elizabeth Halsey, MD, PhD (Halo series) – scientist of the Office of Naval Intelligence, best known as the creator of the SPARTAN-II Program and Mjolnir Powered Assault Armor
  • Dr. Alphys (Undertale) – stout Lizard monster, and Asgore's royal scientist; extremely timid; the creator of the robot Mettaton and the Amalgamates; has a crush on Undyne, captain of the Royal Guard
  • Dr. Andonuts (EarthBound) – father of Jeff, one of the Chosen Four
  • Dr. Bosconovitch (Tekken
    series)
  • Dr. Casper Darling (Control) - Head of Paranatural Research at the United States Federal Bureau of Control
  • Cave Johnson (Portal 2) – eccentric former owner of Aperture Science, and creator of the portal gun
  • Ciel (Mega Man Zero) – young human scientist who awakens Zero in order to save the world[2]
  • Daro'Xen vas Moreh (first appeared in Mass Effect 2) – quarian admiral and scientist who believes that the geth, a synthetic race created by the quarians, who subsequently rebelled and drove their masters from their homeworld, should be controlled by the quarians once again; Admiral Xen also performed surgery on her childhood toys, much to the quarian squadmate Tali'Zorah's disgust
  • Egon Stetmann (StarCraft II) – creator of the Mecha Swarm, paranoid, and prone to terrazine-induced hallucinations, he was once chief science adviser aboard the Hyperion.
  • Professor E. Gadd
    (Nintendo games)
  • Coco Bandicoot (Crash Bandicoot) - she is Crash Bandicoot's younger sister.She has a deep intelligence and a love of science, which makes her the opposite of her brother. He is an electronics engineer specializing in hacking, computer programming and machine building
  • Dr. Gast (Final Fantasy VII) – former head of the Shinra Company's science department; has a much stronger moral compass than his successor
  • Dr.
    Arne Magnusson
  • Dr. Krieger (Far Cry) – renowned scientist and creator/controller of the Trigens in the first Far Cry game
  • Wilhelm "Doktor" Voigt (METAL GEAR RISING: REVENGEANCE) - Robotics engineer working for Maverick Security Consulting who assists the player in various ways throughout the game
  • Nicoletta "Nico" Goldstein (Devil may Cry) - Creator of various robotic arms that the player can use when playing as Nero
  • Kurisu Makise (Steins;Gate) – famous Japanese neuroscientist who lives in the United States, builds a machine that allows the user's memories to be converted into data.
  • Mega Man) – creator of the revolutionary robot Mega Man
  • Love Lab scientists (Rhythm Heaven) – male and female scientist pass ingredients to each other to make love potions to the rhythm of the music
  • Lucrecia Crescent (Final Fantasy VII) – Shinra scientist and lover of Vincent Valentine
  • Grimoire Valentine (Final Fantasy VII) – Shinra scientist and father of Vincent Valentine
  • Hojo (Final Fantasy VII) – Head of the Shinra Company's science department; a sociopathic, amoral bioengineer whose experiments drive the game's plot forward
  • Mei (Overwatch and Heroes of the Storm) – climatologist, and one of the heroes in both games and comic series
  • Moira (Overwatch) – geneticist, and one of the playable heroes in the game
  • Kirin Jindosh (Dishonored 2) - Grand Inventor to Duke Luca Abele and founder of Jindosh Clockworks which created the Clockwork Soldiers and Clockwork Sentinels
  • Mordin Solus (first appeared in Mass Effect 2) – member of fictional alien species known as salarians (who have fast metabolisms, talk fast, walk fast and think fast); a brilliant biologist and a tech specialist
  • Neuron (City of Heroes)
  • Dr. Otto Wolfgang Ort-Meyer (Hitman
    ) – creator of Agent 47 and other clone assassins
  • Penny Crygor (WarioWare) - Dr. Crygor's granddaughter
  • Pieter Van Eckhardt (Tomb Rider: The Angel of Darkness)
  • Plague Knight (Shovel Knight), rouge member of the Order of No Quarter, tries to harvest their Essence for the Ultimate Potion to win over someone's heart.
  • Reed Wahl (BioShock 2)
  • Rikako Asakura (Touhou Project) – titled "Scientist Searching for Dreams", she is one of the few people in Gensokyo to value using science over magic. While she still uses magic in order to enhance her science at times, she tries to refrain from using magic due to a natural distaste of it.
  • Dr. Samuel Hayden (Doom (franchise)) – Head of the UAC, physicist.
  • Tobias Planck (Pirate Galaxy) – named after Max Planck, he is a theoretical physicist and field scientist with a parietal lobe 15% larger than average
  • Tohru Adachi(Persona) He is a scientist of the avian variety, and makes robot chickens and robot roosters and robot geese
  • Dr.
    W.D. Gaster (Undertale) – former royal scientist who speaks in the Wingdings
    font
  • Umbrella Corporation
    ; creator of the G-virus; he was wounded and injected himself with his G-virus, mutating him into a monster
  • Dr. Zed (Borderlands) – "Doctor" from the –Borderlands– series
  • Miles “Tails” Prower (Sonic The Hedgehog)

Mad scientists

Engineers

Other

Teams of scientists/engineers

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