Best Video Game Mad Scientists

The mad scientist is an enduring trope in fiction. The archetype’s roots can be found in ambitious scholars like the eponymous Dr. Faustus in Christopher Marlow’s 16th-century play and in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. The emergence of cinema created a new landscape for nefarious investigations to be dramatized, from B-movies like Bela Lugosi’s The Devil Bat (1940) to modern classics like Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer.