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They will often be fairly geeky, and/or [[Misfit Lab Rat|members of other subcultures]]. [[Hot Scientist|Not looking out of place on the catwalk is optional]]. Sometimes they will leave the lab and have adventures, or even become a more major character. Often the [[Plucky Comic Relief]] if they get any character development.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Any character in the Mazinger series (''[[
* Dr. Otto Octavius refers to himself as exactly this in ''[[
== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' has Waldo Butters, whose adventures outside the lab result in him very firmly returning to it, and only leaving while wearing a [[Bulletproof Vest]].
* In the Palace of the Prophets, Wizard Warren becomes known as The Mole for stopping leaving the underground libraries. It takes Richard to draw him out again. Warren turns out to be both brilliant and a power combat-wizard, so it was mainly shyness.
▲== [[Fanfic]] ==
▲* Dr. Otto Octavius refers to himself as exactly this in ''[[The Life After Death Trilogy (Fanfic)|The Life After Death Trilogy]]''.
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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** Maxine Valera also does this job.
* ''[[CSI: NY]]'' has Adam Ross.
* Marshall Flinkmann, the [[Mission Control]] from ''[[Alias (TV series)|Alias]]''.
* Broots from ''[[The Pretender]]'', whose job description rarely entails leaving his electronics lab at Villain HQ.
* Abby Sciuto, the [[Perky Goth]] lab tech from ''[[NCIS]]''. A major case of [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]].
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** Called "squints" in-universe by Booth. Because they sit in the lab and squint at things.
*** Also the rotating team of 'Squinterns', Dr Brennan's interns.
* While "serial killer" is a better description, blood-spatter analyst [[Dexter]] Morgan is considered
** If anything, Dexter is a subversion. At his job, he's seen as one of the lab rats, but the audience knows better. His co-worker Masuka, on the other hand, is a dead-on example.
* Chloe O'Brian from ''[[
* Samantha Carter from ''[[Stargate Verse]]''.
* Fred (and later Knox) in ''[[Angel]]''.
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* In ''[[Dollhouse]]'' while Topher has pretensions of being a [[Mad Scientist]] he's really just one of these, his assistant Ivy even more so.
* Agent Pendrell in ''[[The X-Files]]''.
* Lester in ''[[
* Eve Lockhart in [[Waking the Dead]] also qualifies.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* Ema Skye in the first ''[[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]]'' and ''Apollo Justice Ace Attorney''.
** Technically, a detective who really likes science, but the spirit is still there.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[
== [[Western Animation]] ==
*
* A sort of literal version of this occurs in ''[[Creature Comforts]]'', where a couple of lab rats in a maze being voiced by two real-life scientists talk about their day jobs.
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