Do all Scientist's lose their way?

With the release of The Avengers coming to cinemas in less than a month a way in the UK, (we get it early for once, yay!) I decided to put together a question, which has burned through my head since I ever got into movies. In fact, had brewed many of our minds: Do all scientist's lose their way in many media? And what I mean by that is what makes Doctor's in various fields in Science play with God, per se and screw up? This conversation had come about yesterday when I had a brief talk about motivational speakers, which lead into character's of the media and that is when the question cropped up. Most scientist's in TV, comic books and so on are so engrossed in their science whether mixing chemicals, serums and genes or testing particle accelerators, Gamma-spheres and whatever invention that came to mind and these many trials and prodding ultimately becomes their downfall.

Curiosity literally kills the cat, with these folks. Take for example Norman Osborn from the Spider-Man films; shrewd, egotistical, brash father, scientist and CEO of Oscorp. He started off being some kind of father figure to Peter Parker/Spider-Man and only made pep talk with his son, Harry Osborn. Norman had ambition and was not selfish at first, but wanted perfection in the form of soldiers with untapped human potential. So, instead of listening to Dr. Stromm and "go back to formula" Norman took a dangerous risk and inhaled the fumes of the drug and of course became the Green Goblin. He got killed and his son became New Goblin and met the same fate. Another example is Dr. Sebastian Caine from Hollow Man, immediately, we get a smell that reeks of bad company and his disappearing act multiplied his behaviour ten fold. The same can be said for the alien chick from Species.

I guess the question to ask is what is the motivation for their experiments? Let's be real here, some of us would actually want to improve our everyday lives. It's the part of us that want to be more or simply want to make things easier for ourselves. So we continue to advance more and more in technology but isn't the quality of what life has to offer enough? Most of who I mentioned are villains but what about the heroes (or anti-heroes)? Mohinder Suresh from the TV show Heroes started off 2 seasons with his research searching for extraordinary people who could do great things and found a way to make himself superhuman with a formula. It started off great having spider-like powers but he slowly became infected and lacked reasoning but he got a cure and only is left with super-strength and agility. He returned to live a normal life with his new girlfriend in India.

Next will be an interview for Flyplann,

- Written by Andre Farquharson