Editing Mad scientist (section)

===Cinema depictions===
[[File:Maniac9.jpg|thumb|[[Horace B. Carpenter]] as Dr. Meirschultz, a scientist attempting to bring the dead back to life in the 1934 film ''[[Maniac (1934 film)|Maniac]]'']]
[[Fritz Lang]]'s movie ''[[Metropolis (1927 movie)|Metropolis]]'' ([[1927 in film|1927]]) brought the [[archetype|archetypical]] mad scientist to the screen in the form of [[Rotwang]], the evil genius whose machines had originally given life to the [[dystopia]]n city of the title.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Geraghty|first1=Lincoln|title=American Science Fiction Film and Television|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WkILrUVObWQC&q=rotwang+metropolis+mad+scientist&pg=PT26|access-date=10 November 2015|isbn=9780857850768|date=2009-10-01}}</ref> Rotwang's [[laboratory]] influenced many subsequent movie sets with its [[Electric arc#Visual entertainment|electrical arcs]], bubbling apparatus, and bizarrely complicated arrays of dials and controls. Portrayed by actor [[Rudolf Klein-Rogge]], Rotwang himself is the prototypically conflicted mad scientist; though he is master of almost mystical scientific power, he remains a slave to his own desires for power and revenge.{{citation needed|date=August 2015}} Rotwang's appearance was also influential—the character's shock of flyaway hair, wild-eyed demeanor, and his quasi-[[fascist]]{{cn|date=February 2019}} laboratory garb have all been adopted as shorthand for the mad scientist "look." Even his mechanical right hand has become a mark of twisted scientific power, echoed notably in [[Stanley Kubrick]]'s film ''[[Dr. Strangelove|Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb]]'' and in the novel ''[[The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch]]'' (1965) by [[Philip K. Dick]].{{Citation needed|date=August 2015}}

A recent survey of 1,000 horror films distributed in the UK between the 1930s and 1980s reveals mad scientists or their creations have been the villains of 30 percent of the films; scientific research has produced 39 percent of the threats; and, by contrast, scientists have been the heroes of a mere 11 percent.<ref>[[Christopher Frayling]], ''[[New Scientist]]'', 24 September 2005.</ref> [[Boris Karloff]] played mad scientists in several of his 1930s and 1940s films.

[[File:LugosiDevilBat3.jpg|thumb|[[Bela Lugosi]] as Dr. Paul Carruthers, the mad scientist protagonist of the [[Poverty Row|poverty row]] [[horror film]] ''[[The Devil Bat]]'' (1940). Slighted at his workplace, the chemist Carruthers breeds giant bats to attack his wealthy employers.|right]]