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The 14 Most Iconic Mad Scientists in Fiction

by YPB Team

Some built life in a lab, some built a time machine in a garage, and a few are cartoons. All of them should have stopped sooner.

  1. Victor Frankenstein — ranked #11
    Victor Frankenstein
    Mary Shelley's Genevan student who builds and abandons a living creature in Frankenstein (1818).
    1000pts
  2. Professor Farnsworth — ranked #22
    Professor Farnsworth
    Hubert Farnsworth, the ancient inventor who runs Planet Express in Futurama.
    847pts
  3. Dr. Jekyll — ranked #33
    Dr. Jekyll
    Robert Louis Stevenson's physician who drinks a potion and becomes Mr. Hyde.
    753pts
  4. Dr. Frank-N-Furter — ranked #44
    Dr. Frank-N-Furter
    Tim Curry's sweet transvestite who builds Rocky in The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
    652pts
  5. Rick Sanchez — ranked #55
    Rick Sanchez
    The alcoholic, dimension-hopping genius of the animated series Rick and Morty.
    652pts
  6. Dr. Henry Wu — ranked #66
    Dr. Henry Wu
    The geneticist who engineers the dinosaurs of Jurassic Park and its hybrids.
    652pts
  7. Doctor Octopus — ranked #77
    Doctor Octopus
    Otto Octavius, the Spider-Man villain fused to four mechanical arms.
    565pts
  8. Rotwang — ranked #88
    Rotwang
    The inventor who builds the robot Maria in Fritz Lang's 1927 film Metropolis.
    462pts
  9. Dr. Moreau — ranked #99
    Dr. Moreau
    H.G. Wells' vivisectionist who turns animals into beast-men on his island.
    462pts
  10. Dr. Strangelove — ranked #1010
    Dr. Strangelove
    Peter Sellers' wheelchair-bound nuclear strategist in Stanley Kubrick's 1964 satire.
    462pts
  11. Dr. Doofenshmirtz — ranked #1111
    Dr. Doofenshmirtz
    Heinz Doofenshmirtz, the bumbling inator-builder from Phineas and Ferb.
    339pts
  12. Herbert West — ranked #1212
    Herbert West
    The reanimator from H.P. Lovecraft's story and the 1985 cult film Re-Animator.
    0pts
  13. Seth Brundle — ranked #1313
    Seth Brundle
    Jeff Goldblum's teleportation pioneer who fuses with an insect in The Fly (1986).
    0pts
  14. Dexter — ranked #1414
    Dexter
    The boy genius with a secret basement lab in Dexter's Laboratory.
    0pts

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Comments

Universal renamed him Henry in 1931 and handed the name Victor to his friend. Every other scientist on this list descends from him: https://youpick.best/articles/frankenstein-ranked-many-ways

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