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Originally posted by immortalem
My favorite mad scientist is Dr. Victor Frankenstein.
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Hate to get all pedantic on you, but Victor Frankenstein (in the book at least) is not a doctor, and he's barely a scientist -- he's more of an alchemst. Not a mad scientist at all, more a caricature of a Romantic Hero -- overly sensitive, prone to hysterics, not mad or obsessed with science at all.
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Henry Frankenstein (played by Colin Clive in the Universal horror films) does fit the mold of the mad scientist a bit better.
The Dr. Victor Frankenstein in the Hammer films (played by Peter Cushing) is also an arguable candidate for being a mad scientist, although his madness seems to consist mostly of a blindness to the horror he creates while in pursuit of his ideal.