Thread:Forum:Trope Talk/Reluctant Mad Scientist/reply (4)

I'm not sure how well the implications of "exploited' work with a scientist working for evil under his own free will, even so it is an huge improvement over the current name. Exploit however, has multiple definitions, including:
 * "make full use of and derive benefit from (a resource)" - the scientist/engineer that is amoral and not portrayed as evil is probably portrayed more as a resource than a person, so even if "exploited" makes my mind jump to the following definition, it still fits.
 * "benefit unfairly from the work of (someone), typically by overworking or underpaying them."- blackmailing an engineer to work for you is exploitation.

If we are not going to do a split and are only going to do a rename, I don't think its going to get much better than "Engineer Exploited for Evil".

Despite the effort it would take, I honestly prefer splitting it because I see only 2 versions of the trope, and I think they are quite different from each other.