mad scientist n.

This proposal, however, of some mad scientists…fortunately cannot be carried out without the sanction of the Home Secretary.

Nerving myself for the blow, I felled the mad scientist dead at my feet.

Mad scientist: a tale of the future.

The resulting death of the mad scientist can well be imagined.

This was the noted ‘joy-lamp’, invented by a mad scientist to administer a new and unheard-of intoxication to all who came into its light.

I have heard of mad scientists who tried to destroy the Earth, and of equally mad geniuses who thought themselves Napoleons capable of conquering even the Solar System.

Did you ever hear of a mad scientist who did something for the benefit of humanity? Of course not. Mad scientists do evil, evil, evil all the time. They have to: it’s their job.

Needles plunged into the dead man’s skin; electrodes fastened to the scalp discharged suddenly…. All that seemed missing was the eery blue glow that characterized the evil experiments of stereotyped mad scientists.

As is the wont of mad scientists meeting for tea, they fell to gossipping about other mad scientists…. ‘Chap hasn’t the energy to do forbidden experiments, and he’s quite given up any desire to conquer the world.’

When people say ‘mad scientist’, we never wonder for a moment if perhaps they mean that the fellow is merely angry.

It was a rare chance for the horror icon to portray a character far more complex than the stock heavies and mad scientists he’d been playing with increasing frequency in Hollywood.