Top Ten Video Game Mad Scientists

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  • Опубликовано: 25 ноя 2024
  • *MONSTER MONTH II - MAD SCIENTISTS*
    Sometimes the worst monster you can encounter is man itself, specifically those who are far too involved in the dangerous work of science that they become responsible for some horrific things! Video games give us plenty of those!
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Комментарии • 403

  • @matthewhyman8795
    @matthewhyman8795 Месяц назад +184

    "Pull the lever Comic!"
    "WRONG LEVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
    "Why do we even have that lever?"

    • @jaketaller8567
      @jaketaller8567 Месяц назад +14

      I just love a good Emperor’s New Groove reference.

    • @Lobomaru02
      @Lobomaru02 Месяц назад +10

      I understood that reference.

    • @rodan9773
      @rodan9773 Месяц назад +6

      Why do you even HAVE that Lever.

    • @E-102GammaMKII
      @E-102GammaMKII Месяц назад +5

      Top 10 Questions Scientists Still Can't Explain.

    • @archangelsupreme4963
      @archangelsupreme4963 Месяц назад +2

      God I’m old if I remember that reference!

  • @JDWalker495
    @JDWalker495 Месяц назад +115

    “How’d you get past the guards”
    Eggman: I turned into a bar of soap and gave them the slip

    • @E-102GammaMKII
      @E-102GammaMKII Месяц назад +17

      Actually, it's "I pretended I was a bar of soap and gave them all the slip."

    • @CyColt
      @CyColt Месяц назад +8

      @@E-102GammaMKII And he says it with such CONFIDENCE that no-one else even questions it.

  • @andrewhaase1826
    @andrewhaase1826 Месяц назад +87

    3. Rest In Peace, Billy Kametz. Between Naofumi from Rising of the Shield Hero to Galo Thymos from Promare to Dr. Maruki, you will be long gone but never forgotten.

  • @TheQuarterGuy
    @TheQuarterGuy Месяц назад +184

    Back to the lab!

    • @cagedcreature439
      @cagedcreature439 Месяц назад +20

      🎵Oh no back to the lab again! We messed up. Back to the lab again🎵

    • @TheAnchorArmsChad
      @TheAnchorArmsChad Месяц назад +5

      Lady Science waits for No One

    • @TheHeroOfTomorrow
      @TheHeroOfTomorrow Месяц назад +7

      Again?!

    • @V0idedOut-E33
      @V0idedOut-E33 Месяц назад +5

      FROM MY HEART AND IN MY HANDS WHY DONT PEOPLE UNDERSTAND MY INTENTIONS
      WEIRD SCIENCE

    • @WillieManga
      @WillieManga Месяц назад +1

      While you're here, would you kindly make Top 10 Worst Mega Man X weapons or something?

  • @Shantae1188
    @Shantae1188 Месяц назад +115

    Number 1: This was honestly a big surprise
    Alex Rochon is an incredibly talented actor.

    • @Zaneyboy2_0
      @Zaneyboy2_0 Месяц назад +7

      This is not the first time. He also made an appearance in Top 10 Pyromancers

    • @lord_boneman
      @lord_boneman Месяц назад +1

      Hearing the Autarch of Flame I watched years ago being a VA, brings a nostalgic tear to my eye.

    • @keybladeknight5289
      @keybladeknight5289 Месяц назад +2

      At first I thought it was lines in RE5 since I’ve never played it but after the 3rd quote I realized that was for the video. Alex is great at his acting imo.

    • @macaylacayton2915
      @macaylacayton2915 Месяц назад +2

      @@lord_bonemanhe’s Caine in the amazing digital circus, man how far Alex has come

  • @ZMusok
    @ZMusok Месяц назад +28

    I think what shows Maruki's conflicting ideal is the return of Akechi. Maruki brings Akechi back because Joker thinks that he is the only soul he couldn't save as a Phantom Thief. Yet, Akechi doesn't want that. He knows that he is just a puppet, which is the reason why he is willing to fight against Maruki with his full strength. In this moment, Joker's and Akechi's wishes clash in a way, that Maruki is unable to solve with his powers alone - if he let's Akechi live to please Joker, he will openly act against Akechi's own wish. But if he kills/removes Akechi, then he will not fulfill Joker's wish. And the fact, that he chooses Joker's wish as more important brings up a lot of questions: did he do this because he knew Joker better (Maruki never had a therapy session with Akechi after all) or maybe there was a part inside of him that wanted to remove the biggest threat to his new world, the Phantom Thieves.

  • @joshmccalip6053
    @joshmccalip6053 Месяц назад +65

    As Adam Savage once said, "I reject your reality and substitute my own."

    • @tyrant-den884
      @tyrant-den884 Месяц назад +5

      And that was him quoting a movie

    • @joshmccalip6053
      @joshmccalip6053 Месяц назад +4

      ​@@tyrant-den884But his version sounded better.

    • @nicholasholladay-elser7307
      @nicholasholladay-elser7307 Месяц назад +2

      ​@@tyrant-den884 Nice! Dungeon Master!

    • @tyrant-den884
      @tyrant-den884 Месяц назад

      @@nicholasholladay-elser7307 and I knew about it from Spoonyone's review, long before SAO Abridged. I have SEEN the Excalibrate battle against... the same two little people actors in a series of terrible costumes over and over again; its not a good movie.

  • @jaketaller8567
    @jaketaller8567 Месяц назад +98

    Hearing Alex Rochon as Wesker was quite the surprise for me, and this is the guy who voices Caine in The Amazing Digital Circus for crying out loud.

    • @theskullboy8700
      @theskullboy8700 Месяц назад +22

      Wesker: YOU!!! Do you like adventure?! Activity?! Drama?! Anger?! Death?! Disease?! Angle food cake?
      Chris: nom
      Wesker: YOU PARASITE!!!

    • @gamemasteranthony2756
      @gamemasteranthony2756 Месяц назад +15

      Well…Oscar DOES have connections here. He’s buds with Joshscorcher and Josh in turn is buds with Alex.

    • @michaelnelson1127
      @michaelnelson1127 Месяц назад +1

      The man has a vast vocal range. Though let’s just hope there aren’t any plans for the mindset shown off here to seap into the circus.

    • @stephenconstantinou6975
      @stephenconstantinou6975 Месяц назад +5

      ​@@gamemasteranthony2756 yup, the old Chaos Theater community, I believe it was.

    • @SmokeTheHorsehog
      @SmokeTheHorsehog Месяц назад +5

      He's had his practice in the mad scientist department, creating the Ubercakhen.

  • @reillycurran8508
    @reillycurran8508 Месяц назад +35

    Roosevelt was indeed a famous conservationist but he also personally killed A LOT of animals in his time, like enough that the Smithsonian's never going to have to worry about losing the only preserved specimen for study they had.

    • @jamieodonnell8344
      @jamieodonnell8344 Месяц назад +2

      He was also the inspiration for the TEDDY BEAR as well.

    • @MelonTartVA
      @MelonTartVA Месяц назад

      @@jamieodonnell8344I think that was bcuz at one point, he refused to shoot a bear

  • @fpspwny995
    @fpspwny995 Месяц назад +17

    How genuinely poetic that Wesker's entry is simultaneously an acknowledgement of his incredible power and intellect as well as a scatching, pulverising takedown of his cartoonishly ridiculous ego.
    Fabulous!

  • @BrandonSwinney-j2v
    @BrandonSwinney-j2v Месяц назад +40

    Now I'm imagining the ff7 party taking turns beating up Hojo, healing his wounds to make sure he doesn't die until they've each gotten their turn

    • @duelmaster62000
      @duelmaster62000 Месяц назад +4

      We do have that third game to look forward to

    • @Nameless-ln5mr
      @Nameless-ln5mr Месяц назад +4

      Yuffie: “Alright everyone! I think it’s about time to bring ‘er home!”
      Someone else in the party: “Hold on. We’re not done tearing the wings off this butterfly.”

    • @Vigriff
      @Vigriff Месяц назад +2

      I'm pretty sure Sephiroth would join in on the fun as well.

    • @KigaiOkasu
      @KigaiOkasu Месяц назад +1

      @@Vigriff Then Sephiroth would throw him into the Deepground once he got bored, and all of the Sviets would get their shot.

  • @erichfiedler1481
    @erichfiedler1481 Месяц назад +49

    *dances to When Evil Grows*
    AH!
    "I'd just thought you'd like another countdown for Monster Month 2 about mad scientists."
    What do I look like, an imbecile? Of course I want another countdown, I LOVE THE WAY YOU MAKE THEM!

    • @stephenconstantinou6975
      @stephenconstantinou6975 Месяц назад

      Haven't seen the Sonic movie, so how mad of a scientist is that Eggman?

    • @erichfiedler1481
      @erichfiedler1481 Месяц назад +2

      @@stephenconstantinou6975 he's played by Jim Carrey in the movies, and if you've seen his filmography, that answers you're question

  • @Omnijim539
    @Omnijim539 Месяц назад +50

    You may have forgotten to mention that the Medic also surgically added 8 souls to himself. And take a guess where those souls came from.

    • @tylerlarsen1842
      @tylerlarsen1842 Месяц назад

      He used his comrades to outwit Satan himself

    • @DakkaScrappa
      @DakkaScrappa Месяц назад

      not to mention IMPLANTED MEGA BABOON UTERUSES TO THE GRAVEL CO MERCS a.k.a the TFC mercs

  • @TTastic-pb5nt
    @TTastic-pb5nt Месяц назад +33

    Fun fact alternate Dr. Neferious and Medic are both voiced by the same guy. Wonder what would happen when you put them both together?

  • @theownerofthisaccount2521
    @theownerofthisaccount2521 Месяц назад +12

    I’m so glad Coleress got mentioned because I find him so interesting. While N leans more towards sympathetic(the Yang) and Ghetsis the pure evil(the yin) Coleress is a perfect middle.
    Also in Masters he’s not really aligned to anyone but the others basically have to play babysitter to make sure he behaves. He still does insane research for them but he will also chase people down to experiment with their sync pair bonds or have to be reminded by N to focus when they are fighting Giovanni’s army of legendary wielding men and he gets distracted by wanting to perform tests. Even his voice seems robotic unless it’s about research which is cool

  • @katherined
    @katherined Месяц назад +24

    I honestly thought for the pokemon entry, you would pick the professor from Scarlet and Violet. They were in heavy research of the past/future, thought it'll be a great idea to bring said pokemon to our time with little to no care of the effects on the environment, build an android replica that looks like them to help out on the research, abandoned their only family to pursue said research which led to their own death. That is one messed up professor.

    • @regiman222
      @regiman222 Месяц назад +3

      And as we saw in the climax had back up protocols to ensure NOBODY could stop their life's work even after their death.

    • @Triforce_of_Doom
      @Triforce_of_Doom Месяц назад +6

      @@regiman222 not to mention even the AI backup was going "HEY WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?!" with the last bit of control they had before the PPP fully activated

    • @quentinsands5160
      @quentinsands5160 4 дня назад +1

      ​@@Triforce_of_DoomYou know you're crazy when the A.I. is freaked out by how far you intend to go in the pursuit of science instead of the other way around.

  • @PantaroParatroopa
    @PantaroParatroopa Месяц назад +11

    How appropriate, number 2 being the Eggman and number 1 being the man you give an egg to.
    Followers of ProtonJon will get my reference.

    • @JennyBlaze253
      @JennyBlaze253 Месяц назад +1

      Jon will always be known for eggs and Rosa. XD

    • @tylerlarsen1842
      @tylerlarsen1842 Месяц назад +2

      Unfortunately, Emile losing his innocence has corrupted that soundbite for me

    • @JennyBlaze253
      @JennyBlaze253 Месяц назад +2

      @@tylerlarsen1842 A: a lot of those allegations were either disproven or assuaged, so I don't find it fair to keep blaming Chuggaa. B: Don't blame one person for "ruining" another.

    • @tylerlarsen1842
      @tylerlarsen1842 Месяц назад +2

      @@JennyBlaze253 That comment has nothing to do with the allegations. There was an infamous livestream that Jon did with Emile and Tim years ago where they were playing the Fair Square board in Mario Party 6. Due to what transpired during that stream, it has been nicknamed "Chuggaa's Lost Innocence". You have to see it for yourself, it's absolutely hilarious.

    • @JennyBlaze253
      @JennyBlaze253 Месяц назад +2

      @@tylerlarsen1842 ...ah. That's what you meant. Sorry, I didn't realize that was what you meant.
      But yeah, the Chuggaa's Lost Innocence stream is hilarious.

  • @theskullboy8700
    @theskullboy8700 Месяц назад +21

    Green scorpion: make a countdown
    Me with a dying phone: seven minutes. Seven minutes is all I can spare to play with you

  • @diamonddust4486
    @diamonddust4486 Месяц назад +15

    I see Wesker lost the edgelord contest to a rodent with a gun and took that personally.

  • @greenrangerfan1993
    @greenrangerfan1993 Месяц назад +5

    1:00:38 Problem: Maruki literally has the power of God on his side. So despite what you said, Wesker would literally have no experience fighting a true God.

  • @TekkenGirl4Lyfe
    @TekkenGirl4Lyfe Месяц назад +11

    Of COURSE number 1 had to be Wesker. Who else could it have been? Good to see Maruki in here too... RIP Billy Kametz, gone too soon but never forgotten.

  • @joshmccalip6053
    @joshmccalip6053 Месяц назад +23

    3:43 "Pull the lever, Comic! *click* WRONG LEVEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRR!"
    *kersplash*
    "Why do we even have that lever?"

  • @JD10503
    @JD10503 Месяц назад +5

    Seeing him in part of it, I was a bit surprised that Seath the Scaleless didn't make the list. I mean, it's not often that you see a dragon given intelligence, over the mindless beast trope. Then again, he might have been more akin to an alchemist rather than a scientist, especially since he's after something that man has desired from the start - immortality.
    But a good list with some surprises in there.

  • @jackofallclaws6672
    @jackofallclaws6672 Месяц назад +26

    Dang it Wesker, you didn’t let Oscar give us his hint for the next Countdown!

    • @duelmaster62000
      @duelmaster62000 Месяц назад +4

      Not only the number one mad scientist but also the most EVIL.

    • @dubstepbee6892
      @dubstepbee6892 Месяц назад

      He had to be evil for another few seconds

  • @DragoTobin
    @DragoTobin 23 дня назад +1

    21:52 not gonna talk about how he was also researching the legendary Pokémon Zygarde and has an item that allows the collection of Zygarde so you can combine the pieces into basically the god of balance and nature

  • @macaylacayton2915
    @macaylacayton2915 Месяц назад +7

    Maruki is definitely more an antagonist than straight up villain tbh. Also villain and antagonist isn’t a “all squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares” thing exactly yes it does have that vibe if you think about it but it’s not exactly the same, I hope that makes sense. This logic if you think about it also applies to protagonist and hero

    • @CrazeeAdam
      @CrazeeAdam Месяц назад +4

      Imo it's about intent. Villains have evil intent and bad intent. Antagonist simply push the story forward and are at odds with the protagonist. But maybe aren't evil deep down. That's Maruki

    • @macaylacayton2915
      @macaylacayton2915 Месяц назад

      @@CrazeeAdamyeah

  • @mikkyasara5438
    @mikkyasara5438 Месяц назад +10

    In my mind, it's true that science, once it becomes too advanced for human understanding, is indistinguishable from magic.
    On the other hand, the other side is true as well. Magic, with enough of an explanation on how it works, is indistinguishable from science

  • @jaivonpyatt6905
    @jaivonpyatt6905 Месяц назад +9

    49:16
    Even I gotta admit; that was actually very slick on Eggman's part. Tails definitely ain't living that L down

  • @infernoman999
    @infernoman999 Месяц назад +13

    I'll be completely honest... THAT was an amazing Wesker impression.

    • @gimmeyourrights8292
      @gimmeyourrights8292 Месяц назад +1

      That wasn't an impression, it was his real voice actor!

    • @infernoman999
      @infernoman999 Месяц назад +4

      @@gimmeyourrights8292 Actually that was Alex, not D.C. Douglas.

  • @4wheal
    @4wheal Месяц назад +5

    In the IDW comics, Eggman loses his memory and becomes a good person called Mr Tinker, who genuinely wants to help others.
    The thing is, even after his memory is restored and Eggman goes back to his normal routine, it's clear he actually liked being Mr Thinker and even seems wishful about that life showing that he could be good if he wanted to do but his own ego will never let accept such a life

  • @aliasmask8365
    @aliasmask8365 Месяц назад +10

    If I had a nickel for every time Alex voiced the number one entry for a Green Scorpion count down. I'd have two. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

  • @CGold75
    @CGold75 Месяц назад +10

    Shout out to Mother Miranda from RE8 too. She basically inspired Oswald E. Spencer to found the Umbrella Corporation. Had it not been for her influence, we may have never gotten Wesker to begin with.

  • @rodrickgoldberg2324
    @rodrickgoldberg2324 Месяц назад +13

    Regarding Maruki, HAVE YOU SEEN THE KIND OF BULLCRAP HUMANITY IS CAPABLE OF SOMETIMES!?!?
    He’s not perfect, but he’s still kinda right.

  • @AmericanBrit9834
    @AmericanBrit9834 Месяц назад +30

    *Sees number 2*
    Who the hell could top that?!
    *Sees number 1*
    Oh yeaaaaaaah...Forgot about you

  • @euan112358
    @euan112358 Месяц назад +16

    Do you think Maruki's entry would've been enhanced with a mention of how he got that mindset to flee from pain? That his fiancée and her family got assaulted in her home, her parents got killed and she was badly traumatized, and Maruki was so anguished over seeing her in pain that he decided to use cognitive psience to wipe her memory of the incident, which had the side effect of wiping her memory of him? And the fact that the love of his life doesn't remember him any more just led him to bury down all his pain?
    Maybe not because a tragic backstory isn't that necessary for a "mad scientist", but it is something to chew over, another example of good intentions gone wrong.

    • @Triforce_of_Doom
      @Triforce_of_Doom Месяц назад +1

      slight correction. It wasn't an active choice at the time. His fiancé's memory being wiped was a subconscious activation of his Persona before he fully awakened to it.

  • @Duality2222-2
    @Duality2222-2 Месяц назад +2

    Actually fun fact: You can stop Mordin from curing the genophage but it requires you to kill Wrex and delete the data which will cause Bakara to die during the process. If you have enough morality you can convince Mordin that Wreav hasn't seen the errors of his species ways and if the war against the reapers is won then Wreav would just instantly start another war but this time the galaxy would be crippled which would more than likely guarantee the krogans victory.

  • @GarryDKing
    @GarryDKing Месяц назад +9

    Ah, so that's why you needed Purah fanarts from twitter [sorry the one i offered was rather old, I haven't had a reason to draw her really lately]

  • @greenscorpion64
    @greenscorpion64  Месяц назад +1

    So a quick clarification for all y'all:
    The thumbnail of this video was done by Sheikah Arts. Ignis is shown in the intro, but that's because I failed to update my intro accordingly ever since I hired two new artists. Expect an update to the intro in the near future.

  • @zeehero7280
    @zeehero7280 Месяц назад +5

    Theodore Roosevelt unlike the other, later Roosevelt, was more good guy than supervillain.

  • @Rex10111
    @Rex10111 Месяц назад +20

    They called him mad, insane, OSCAR! BUT HE'LL SHOW THEM! HE'LL SHOW THEM ALL!

    • @asmodeus58XX
      @asmodeus58XX 24 дня назад

      @@Rex10111 Mad Oscar? You mean Malboro?

  • @cofagrigusfan24
    @cofagrigusfan24 Месяц назад +14

    51:25
    correction, but the IDW comics are in fact canon to the games
    it has been confirmed several times that the games, IDW and even Prime share the same universe

  • @vtalvarez2000
    @vtalvarez2000 Месяц назад +4

    Great video as always. Personally, I would put William Afton (aka the Purple Guy) from the FNAF. The man created killing machines in form of child entertainment to kill children to basically grind a substance made of bad feelings. He definitely fits the bill of mad scientist

    • @comicfoil9494
      @comicfoil9494 Месяц назад +2

      Yeah, Afton’s a good one. We had him on our list of considerations, he just didn’t hit Top 10 for us.

  • @jordanhunter3375
    @jordanhunter3375 Месяц назад +12

    Number 3: Sorry, Doctor, but it's YOU who's getting the second opinion!

  • @JosephHeiskell
    @JosephHeiskell Месяц назад +5

    I just finished Stellar Blade yesterday, so I do have a suggestion for an honorable mention, but it very spoiler heavy, so read at your own discretion.
    In the game's backstory, there was a genius named Raphael Marks. The head of Eidos created an AI named Mother Sphere to protect and guide mankind into its next stage of evolution. Mother Sphere's answer... was to redefine what "human" meant, and replace organic humans with human-like robots called Andro-Eidos. The war between organic and bio-mechanical ended with the organic humans being forced underground, with the Andro-Eidos taking the place of humans (with Mother Sphere altering their memories so that they think they were always human, which carried on into the game's present day).
    Raphael Marks was among the surviving humans. In the hopes of retaking the surface, he created a new AI named Raffy, and the two would begin genetically altering human subjects in a way that would make Umbrella proud. Every remaining human became the monstrous beings dubbed Naytibas, with Marks becoming the Elder Naytiba. Unfortunately for Marks, almost every other Naytiba became non-sentient and violent, meaning he had effectively killed humanity twice over.
    By the time of the game proper, he is trying a new solution: combine Naytiba with Andro-Eidos to create a true successor for mankind. While definitely trying to do what he thinks is the right solution, his methods are still very dubious at best. His earliest attempts, the Alpha Naytiba, failed save for the exception of Orcal. Then he tried to convince Raven, an Airborne Squad member who was unraveling the true history of humanity, to help in in his endeavor. Unfortunately, Raven was too consumed with hatred for Mother Sphere and her own kind, so she fully believed she was helping him but the Elder Naytiba suggests she was simply focusing on revenge. Finally, he handpicks and silently guides the main character, EVE... under the guise of Adam, her main ally through most of the game.
    Now, Adam does do genuinely good and well-intentioned things throughout the game, namely collecting hyper cells to power the city of Xion. I do believe he is being genuine about humanity's survival be they organic or robotic, and is perfectly understanding if EVE choses not to fuse with him (well, boss fight not withstanding). But that doesn't change the fact he created not one but two AI, oversaw genetic experiments, was the first successful subject of said experiments, and planned to fuse himself with EVE, all of which was for some sort of forced evolution.
    I genuinely believe he'd make it pretty high on the list by scope of his actions alone, particularly with how every time he tried to fix a previous mistake it just made even more of a mess.

  • @zergvsgenin
    @zergvsgenin Месяц назад +10

    Y'know what, I keep forgetting amidst the memes and such that number 1 actually was a scientist. Perhaps the questionable fashion choices threw me off.

  • @TheThrillerJunkie
    @TheThrillerJunkie Месяц назад +10

    The Medic's got to be in here, especially with all the stuff he pulls in the comics. Looking forward to the vid!

  • @xavieravila3037
    @xavieravila3037 Месяц назад +2

    Another thing about Maruki's Persona. Its name is Azathoth, being known as the Blind Idiot god. The reason is that he is sleeping, and his dreams are our reality. Should he ever awaken, our reality cease to exist.

  • @WolfDB
    @WolfDB Месяц назад +8

    #10: The fact that Medic straight up states to Heavy that he LOST his Medical license is a good reason to put him on this list
    #9: Always glad to see when an amoral asshole gets hoisted by their own petard like Suchong did
    #8: Morally good Mad Scientists. Always nice to see a concept kinda flipped on its head
    #7: Part of me wonders of Colress worked for or has some connection with Team Cipher in the Orre region games with his philosophy on Pokémon Training. This idea that they're just useful tools for battle needed to be made stronger, even if love and friendship is part of that
    #6: Kinda sad that Wily isn't gonna be on the list...but Dr. Nefarious is awesomely hilarious enough
    #5: As you got to bringing up Oppenheimer with this entry, I found myself saying out loud "Now I am become Death, destroyer of worlds"
    #4: FUUUUUUUCK this guy! I hate him! I mean I love that I hate him, but I REALLY hate him!
    #3: I think that it's very funny that a man who was as ignorant to the idea of free will as Maruki got a persona who was created by someone as ignorant about how the real world works as Lovecraft
    #2: Even if he's not #1, I think that Eggman is DEFINITELY the most "mad" of the Mad Scientists on this list just because of how diverse his personality has been all over, not to mention - like you said - the way he fits almost the same traits of the previous entries
    #1: This video...will be unleashed onto the internet...ensuring complete...DIGITAL...SATURATION! (Also the fact that you've still got connections with Alex even while he's working on Amazing Digital Circus is just SO FREAKING COOL!)

  • @tnevy511
    @tnevy511 Месяц назад +4

    Pull the lever kronk!
    Wrong lever!!
    Opps.
    Why do we even have that lever?

  • @jaivonpyatt6905
    @jaivonpyatt6905 Месяц назад +5

    52:41
    This man Albert Wesker from the Residence Evil series is a freakin problem!! A true madman behind the scenes, taking many W than the main heroes

  • @mikkyasara5438
    @mikkyasara5438 Месяц назад +8

    "May I offer you an Egg in these trying times?"

  • @claytonrios1
    @claytonrios1 Месяц назад +19

    Professor Hojo has to be on here. Completely amoral, creates monsters and he gave Sephiroth a worse childhood than Homelander!

    • @jackofallclaws6672
      @jackofallclaws6672 Месяц назад +3

      Debateable?

    • @jcarter6213
      @jcarter6213 Месяц назад +5

      When the evil megacorp president is a better father

    • @peternguyen7530
      @peternguyen7530 Месяц назад +2

      And according to the FF7 Machinabridged, he admits to Tifa's face that he has a disturbing fetish. 🤢

    • @mariostarfan20
      @mariostarfan20 Месяц назад +1

      @@peternguyen7530 7*

    • @peternguyen7530
      @peternguyen7530 Месяц назад +2

      @@mariostarfan20 Thank you, I've fixed the error

  • @pohnile
    @pohnile Месяц назад +6

    2: I really like Jim Carrey´s potrayal of this character.
    3: I don´t see this character as a villain, he´s an antagonist, but not really a villain.
    4: I dislike this smuggy character
    6: Really like this villain
    7: One of my fav characters in Pokemon
    8: I like this character
    Nice list. Other mad scientist I can think of is either Jade or Pascal from the Tales of series or Dr Bosconovich from Tekken.

  • @lectordreadwood3273
    @lectordreadwood3273 Месяц назад +11

    Wesker would probably solo all Eggman's robots, the Shadow Androids, Shadow himself, and reverse engineer the Metal Virus doing with it what Eggman couldn't, perfecting a means of control for it, then mock Eggman calling both him and Professor Gerald hacks at engineering bioweapons

  • @slateoffate9812
    @slateoffate9812 Месяц назад +1

    13:36 I wouldn't strictly call that Purah's fault(that being said, I strongly disapprove of guardian tech. Weapons of peace tend to become weapons of oppression). Yes, she worked on that project, but both she and Zelda were just two of many that dismissed Ganon as mindless. No plan survives first contact with an enemy. The guardians may have worked ten thousand years ago, but it was never going to work twice.

  • @peternguyen7530
    @peternguyen7530 Месяц назад +6

    Colress would love Infinite Fusion, but even he would question some of the results that feature references to other franchises, the abominations of Miltank and Pinsir fusions that makes him want to kill with a Fire Type Pokémon, or some... raunchy results...
    Also, keep Colress away from Legendarues, that's a road he does not want to cross.

  • @zombieslayer2016
    @zombieslayer2016 Месяц назад +1

    want to say i appreciate the spoiler warnings for certain entries so many people will look and a game and say eh been long enough and not bother and it always sucks when i randomly get spoiled for a game i hadnt been able to get around to

  • @SharpestSniper99
    @SharpestSniper99 Месяц назад +1

    If there was ever a death battle I wanted Wesker to be in, it would definitely be in a fight with Green Goblin from Spider-Man. Because Norman Osborn is about the only mad mind I know of that can even be remotely equivalent to Wesker’s vanity….not Lex Luthor or Dr Doom though, their egos are so huge that they flat out get their own tiers in vanity.

  • @nirast2561
    @nirast2561 Месяц назад +4

    I know this is a game countdown, but I need to give a quick shout-out to Shockwave from Transformers.

  • @jackofallclaws6672
    @jackofallclaws6672 Месяц назад +4

    DBZA Vegeta: I AM THE HYPE!!!
    Wesker: Hold my Habushu (takes off sunglasses)…I’ve got to go serve another Boulder Puncher a Reality Check!

  • @andrewhaase1826
    @andrewhaase1826 Месяц назад +13

    Honorable Mentions:
    *Dr. Wily - Mega Man Series
    *Dr. Neo Cortex - Crash Bandicoot Series
    *Dr. Zomboss - Plants vs Zombies Series
    *Dr. Coyle - ARMS
    *Yoseph Calvert - Astral Chain
    -For the record, I also considered Jena Anderson from the same game mainly so I could make this joke about Anderson.
    "Hello? Fancy French Restaurant? I got a Mad Scientist here who won't take a bath."
    *Dr. Caligosto Loboto - Psychonauts Series
    -Domo 🎵
    Domo 🎵
    Domo Arigato Dr. Loboto🎵
    Domo 🎵
    Domo 🎵

    • @petertilton7004
      @petertilton7004 Месяц назад +2

      For me it's Izuka from the Tellius games, as he turns laguz feral, turned Ashnard's son into his personal mount, and turned Elincia's uncle Renning into Bertram.

    • @gimmeyourrights8292
      @gimmeyourrights8292 Месяц назад

      Kokonoe Mercury - Blazblue
      Relius is the more obvious pick and I did write a comment earlier about it, but I think Kokonoe is a better person, she's not perfect mind you but she does try. She went into science because her mother was a sorceress who was killed by Terumi, and her father a literal cat wasn't the best dad but yet she still tries to keep the family memorabilia as much as she can. Her labcoat is actually a Kaka clan cloak, the same clan her father was a part of and her finisher is a sciency version of her mother's. Her mother summons meteors to rain down upon the battlefield, while Kokonoe uses machines to drag a meteor down to the planet. As far as inventions, you have Iron Tager, the reprogramming of Lambda-11 and a lot of her attacks basically combine science with magic. I also like her personality, she can be blunt and sarcastic but when you get to know her she can be a compassionate individual. She's my second favorite Blazblue character and my personal pick for my Gaming Mad Scientist.

    • @sergiomendoza251
      @sergiomendoza251 Месяц назад +1

      And Yuri from Red Alert 2 (and Mental Omega)

  • @WillieManga
    @WillieManga Месяц назад +1

    Personal honorable mention: Dr. Coyle from Arms. Introduced in version 5 and called also The Rad Scientist which, first off, great pun there. Being one of ARMS Labs most... ambitious scientists, her hobby is also her job, making it what Biff refers to as an obsession. And like all of the scientists on the list, she is defined by what she creates. Them being a DNA slime thingy called Helix, a full robot version of Spring Man, and a freaky looking robot head of a cyber arm called Lokjaw. But she's also a rather proactive scientist similar to Wesker, even kicking Max Brass' ass in seconds, and rocking a purple, green and gold aesthetic with crazy flair. Her playstyle centers around her maneuverability, capable of flight and teleportation unique to the other ARMS fighters, and more aggression given her ability to duplicate arms. And beyond her explosion based Lokjaw, she also has an electric Parabola and an ice based Brchuck. But it is her last known creation that gives Coyle her title... her masterpiece Hedlok. This freaky tiki can control ARMS users while replicating their arms too. And in the Grand Prix where she is the final boss, she WILLINGLY lets Hedlok fuse with her, only to throw a tantraum and smash it herself if she loses! While she's more obscure than most of these mad scientists, due to Arms not being as big a name as Sonic the Hedgehog or Ratchet and Clank, she's still one of the more unique ones. Similar to Wesker, or another honorable mention Kokonoe from Blazblue, my favorite part about her is that she is a scientist who is also a great fighter, going beyond the stereotype of the passive genius while using her creativity to her benefit. Her theme song, Name Redacted, is as catchy as it is ominous, mixing rock and roll with chilling vocals, some of which I wonder if they are provided by her voice actress, Donna Bu-wait, WHAT??! Donna Burke?? The original Angela Orosco? Claudia Wolf? Freaking iDROID??? The singer of Snake Eater and Gods And Men?!! That might be the craziest thing about the Rad Scientist!

  • @weirdalexander8193
    @weirdalexander8193 Месяц назад +5

    I’m surprised that you didn’t mention hojo’s boss battle. Every time you strike him down, he mutates into something FAR worse. Remake part 3 is going to have an Ao rating from the visuals alone.

  • @JurassicDaikaiju
    @JurassicDaikaiju Месяц назад +2

    Your countdowns are the best on RUclips (in my opinion), would love to see you do video game dinosaurs and/or kaiju!

  • @Aeromancer-Draco-Lord
    @Aeromancer-Draco-Lord Месяц назад +6

    36:37 The FF7 Abridged insert killed me, FF7 Abridged is way, way, way too funny

  • @ericwijaya2119
    @ericwijaya2119 Месяц назад +5

    Honorable mention :
    Ayin - Lobotomy Corporation
    One Good Deed and Hundreds of Sins
    (Because speaking more about Ayin would spoil the entirety of Lobotomy Corp, I chose not to talk more, in fact play the game yourself, it'll only take a few "hours")

  • @fireblaster4073
    @fireblaster4073 Месяц назад +2

    Kinda sad that the founder of a Corporation based around Lobotomies isn't on the list, given everything "A" did during the backstory of the game. But given how explaining the background behind Project Moon's first major game can sometimes take as long as this entire countdown, I'm not surprised...especially because they're a somewhat niche game company to begin with.

  • @Emolt76
    @Emolt76 Месяц назад +1

    MORDIN SOLUS!? I didn't know you even cared for him!! That's Awesome! I love you, he's one of my favorite characters in Gaming

  • @CrazeeAdam
    @CrazeeAdam Месяц назад +2

    Mmm with Maruki. "Villain" to me is characterized by evil "intent". Maruki's intent is not evil in itself. To me he is an antagonist. But not necessairly a villain.

  • @lordbarristertimsh8050
    @lordbarristertimsh8050 Месяц назад +3

    Great video! Was bit sad to not see Anton Sokolov or Kirin Jindosh. But I love you placing Albert Wesker at number one! P.S. Sorry to be pedantic here, but the Ubermensch in Nietzsche's philosophy was more about moral superiority and not living by everyone else's rules, and it had very little to do with genetics. Eugenicists and the Nazis just cherry-picked some terms from Nietzsche and put their own twisted spin on it. Believe me: I have read quite a bit of Nietzsche: so I know.

    • @lordbarristertimsh8050
      @lordbarristertimsh8050 Месяц назад +1

      Also fun fact I forgot to mention : this video was uploaded on my birthday!

  • @rodan9773
    @rodan9773 Месяц назад +3

    HE'S MADE ANOTHER ONE....FOR THE LOVE OF GOD.
    Lol respect and keep up the epic work.

  • @kingofmonsters14
    @kingofmonsters14 Месяц назад +7

    Hojo..... one of the most evil characters in existence, and the true villain of 7. yeah, Sephiroth and Jenova need to be stopped, but it's thanks to him they're a threat to begin with

  • @jonathanbarr9764
    @jonathanbarr9764 Месяц назад +3

    I'm now curious about Dr. Eggman's parents and what they were like.

  • @Mangadude901
    @Mangadude901 Месяц назад +7

    This is the top 10 Mad Scientists! What could possibly go wrong? *the entire lab explodes* WHO PRESSED THE RED BUTTON?!?

  • @Atlas_Vane
    @Atlas_Vane Месяц назад +6

    I hope Professor Klaus from Xenoblade makes this list. He doesn't have much screen time,but his influence is felt all throughout the series.

    • @cameroncooper5941
      @cameroncooper5941 Месяц назад

      While I agree, we just don't see as much science out of him as other characters.

    • @jordanhunter3375
      @jordanhunter3375 Месяц назад

      @Atlas_Vane Consul Y (XC3) perhaps?

    • @jordanhunter3375
      @jordanhunter3375 Месяц назад

      @@Atlas_Vane okay, maybe he isn't quite so "mad" as "evil"

  • @nameabsent
    @nameabsent Месяц назад +1

    One more worthy of a look is Wilhelm Totenkopf Strasse, AKA General Deathshead, specifically looking at his work in Wolfenstein: The New Order. IYKYK

  • @Bora_slash
    @Bora_slash Месяц назад +5

    Some candidates I can think of:
    Singed: League of Legends, though he was in the list of poison users who knows how long ago.
    Izuka: Fire Emblem Radiant dawn. I think his experiments with the feral ones should be self-explanitory

  • @KidDangerthepony
    @KidDangerthepony Месяц назад +2

    Kid Danger: *wearing his mighty pup movie outfit crying* that poor puppy! *crys*

  • @NealCamerlengo
    @NealCamerlengo Месяц назад +2

    Honorable mentions is Dr. Klamp from Parasite Eve 1 and Águila Setme of The School from the Super Robot Taisen Original Generation series.

  • @BaxterAndLunala
    @BaxterAndLunala Месяц назад +1

    Oscar, I get you don't like the Wii U, but I honestly still believe the concept wasn't that bad. Besides, you gotta give it some credit, if it weren't for the Wii U, we likely never would've gotten the Switch. And, come on, we all know how loved the Switch has become, and it certainly was well deserved. Basically, Nintendo decided not to do what Sony and Microsoft did and still allow local wireless and wired system linking on their consoles, which definitely is good for consumers, whereas the latter two decided to nickel and dime you just to play the latest games with friends and family, with no option for local play other than paying up for online features that most people couldn't care for.
    Edit: Okay, that was unexpected. An Ari cameo in here, definitely wasn't expecting that.

  • @SigmaFlare420
    @SigmaFlare420 Месяц назад +1

    Imagine if Maruki & Madara teamed up... Oh the devastation!

  • @lilsunny7399
    @lilsunny7399 Месяц назад +1

    Surprised at no Neo Cortex. He's not overly complicated and wouldn't be too high but i expected him anyway.

  • @thefanwithoutaface8105
    @thefanwithoutaface8105 Месяц назад +2

    Honestly surprised you picked Wesker over Birkin. Yeah Wesker is intelligent, but we don't often see him as a Mad Scientist in the games, while Birikin is always shown as the crazy scientist.

  • @ajanis95
    @ajanis95 Месяц назад +1

    Wesker has managed to do the craziest thing yet on one of these countdowns: take over the ending and steal our chance at a 'what's coming up next' hint. Truly, the maddest of all mad scientists.

  • @maltesegeek1
    @maltesegeek1 Месяц назад +1

    A really interesting and good video.
    Surprised Professor E. Gadd didn’t get an honourable mention.

  • @dergeful
    @dergeful Месяц назад +2

    There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
    - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

  • @ClockwerkSamurai12
    @ClockwerkSamurai12 Месяц назад +4

    Given the Eggman segment I’m surprised you didn’t go into much detail about the Zombots..

    • @manuelalbertoromero9528
      @manuelalbertoromero9528 Месяц назад +4

      He apparently isn't on the know that the IDW comics are canonical to the overall game franchise right now. So he probably left that out.

  • @asmodeus58XX
    @asmodeus58XX Месяц назад +2

    After putting Barabtos on a list, I wonder if Harold from Tales of Destiny 2 is here.

  • @agentredhead4612
    @agentredhead4612 27 дней назад

    Man, I wish I’d caught this list live. It might be the record for the highest number of series I know or characters I’ve heard of/predicted actually making the list.

  • @a-bomb777
    @a-bomb777 Месяц назад +15

    If Dr Eggman and Neo Cortex aren't on this, I'm gonna puke

  • @cemiller
    @cemiller Месяц назад +1

    Number 3 is the first character in a long time that actually made me feel disappointed to be fighting against. I knew about the general idea of his story and I still felt gutted when I had to fight him especially when him and the player are just fist fighting at the end of the final battle.

  • @toumabyakuya
    @toumabyakuya Месяц назад +2

    Some examples that I can think of:
    Mao (from Disgaea 3): Mad scientist Main Character? That's new. And he has a compelling backstory to boot.
    Dr. Huesca (from Master Detectives Archives: Raincode): Dude created a zombie apocalypse, yet also managed to make said zombies rational (most of the time).
    Akemi Suedou (from Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth): Accidentally created the Eaters? Time to experiment! Cyber-Space is fusing with the Real World? Time to experiment! Gets eaten and fused with Yggdrassil (the DIgital World Goddess)? You guessed it! Time to experiment!
    Lemon Browning (from Super Robot Wars): Alternate Universe counterpart to a Main Character that decided to turn evil and created the strongest, sexiest mecha pilot to exist. She started her project with one bio-engineered soldier, however, after seeing how long said soldier would take to grow she decided to move on to create robots with sentience.

    • @ajustice90
      @ajustice90 Месяц назад

      Oh God yes with Suedou.

  • @Hilversumborn
    @Hilversumborn Месяц назад +2

    Mad Scientist are a cliche because they work.
    My list of honorable mentions:
    Blazblue: Kokonoe and Relius Clover.
    Call of Duty: Dragovich, Kravchenko and Steiner.
    Cave Story: The Doctor.
    Darkest Dungeon: The Ancestor.
    Doom: Olivia Pierce.
    Dragon Age: Caradin, Branka, Avernus, The Architect.
    Hitman: Dr. Ort-Meyer.
    Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak: David Callaghan
    Mass Effect: Daro’Xen, Henry Lawson.
    Rain Code: Dr. Huesca.
    Mega Man: Dr. Weil.
    Prototype: Alex Mercer.
    Wolfenstein: Dr Wilhelm Strasse.
    Xenoblade: Klaus/Zanza.

  • @KressfallVT
    @KressfallVT Месяц назад +1

    Okay...Who is that with a bolter at Wesker's neck? Why is't the Emperor of Mankind. Yeah, Wesker thinks he's the only one to represent the evolution of humanity...He's not.

  • @marmyeater
    @marmyeater Месяц назад +1

    40:36- I cast Detect Magic on the supercomputer: nothing happens.
    I cast Detect Magic on the enchanted supercomputer: it glows!
    I scry for magic phenomenon: don't see the alien fleet overhead, but do see some nymphs in a stream.
    I scry for alien phenomenon: I see the alien fleet overhead, but unfortunately miss the nymphs.

  • @joanclarke7810
    @joanclarke7810 Месяц назад +2

    Now that you mention it colress would have been PERFECT to show up during area zero either with nemona and the rest or in the dlc with the siblings

  • @BrandonSwinney-j2v
    @BrandonSwinney-j2v Месяц назад +2

    when you started talking about pokemon, I immediately thought you were going to talk about Dr. Kaminko from xd and all his weird, mostly useless inventions, like the "energy-saving" fridge that only turns on when someone's in front of it so they never figure out why the food inside keeps spoiling, or the unhealthy sandals

    • @BrandonSwinney-j2v
      @BrandonSwinney-j2v Месяц назад

      also i'm surprisedyou didn't crack about all those egg puns at the end of number 2

  • @joshrose8753
    @joshrose8753 Месяц назад +1

    Second comment... I can tell it's Alex, GOOD SHIT! We love seeing an awesome VA represent. XD

  • @ajerjavec4723
    @ajerjavec4723 Месяц назад +1

    I think Otto from psychonauts 2 is a mad scientist, who is more or less a good guy, but the fact that he basically left one of his friends brain in a jar for decades without checking it and created device that basically turned his friend into a psycho who destroyed her country

  • @Time_Sync
    @Time_Sync Месяц назад

    Good, well thought out list as usual, Scorpion!
    Made me think a lot about the nature of the archetype in general, and I've always admired the easy way you can do that with the examples you discuss.
    I think my personal favorite would be Dr. Moira Vahlen from XCOM:Enemy Unknown.
    She may not be as powerful or clearly "mad" as most of the entries on this list... but she feels so REAL, almost as though Victor Frankenstein was a personal friend that was helping out your team, teetering on the edge of abandoning all morality. It scary to have such a monster on YOUR side.
    The Commander, Bradford, and Dr. Shen are there to keep her in check, and the nature of XCOM itself is a delicate balance between learning from your terrible alien foes, and becoming the monsters you are fighting... but I've never forgotten the autopsy and interrogation sessions she stars in. There's a childlike desire to know everything there, but a terrifying conviction in her methods and willingness to do some CLEARLY screwed up things in the name of science is sobering.
    If she wasn't so squeamish about explosives, she'd be a perfect specimen of mad science herself.