Everyone has a vague obsession with character archetypes, and mine definitely tilts towards villains if you define vague as "obsession bordering on the verge of skin-crawling creepiness". Of the categories within villainy, one of my favourites has to be that of mad scientists, particularly the ones who have a lax approach to conducting any actual science and lack the word "ethics" in their vocabulary. So here's a tribute to all those wonderful and crazy characters who are most comfortable when they are trying to unravel the very fabric of reality or building oversized Weapons of Doom(TM).