They're angry, disgruntled and more importantly insane. They are the ever-lovable mad scientist character. I have been going over some manga and video games in my spare time and I always find it fascinating that there always seems to be an evil genius plotting to destroy the world, more often than not they plan to do so with super evil mega deadly robots. Which is, of course, the only way they should come.

Artificial intelligence and robotics have been two fields I have considered working in when I graduate, both need computer science as a start and that is what I am. What I really want to do is manufacture giant killer robots that would do my bidding. However, I will always be in the shadow of Dr. Gero (Dragon Ball) and Dr. Wiley (Mega Man / Rock Man) as the chances of producing a robot of that caliber is next to zero.

The mad scientists are not fools, they carefully plan, and re-plan, and then plan once more for many possible outcomes; I am sure they have created a robot to do this for them, and then one to check the first robot's work. So with every eventuality planned out they can take precautionary measures for the most likely outcomes. The most prevalent outcome is that of being foiled and caught and or killed. This is seen by some to be a bad event in ones life, however think of the possibilities.

Since the evil genius planned everything out, they figured they would be caught and unable to continue their plans, so they always, and I do mean always, create a set of robots that are far more sophisticated, powerful, and unstoppable than any others they have released at the time. True to saving the best for last these robots will tear apart the world in search of their primary objective, freeing their creator or something of the like. These robots, of course, will only be released upon not receiving contact from their creator in some time... usually six months.

And of course, the whole point of this was I thought it would be cool to call up my secondary lab on the telephone just to mess with the program...

Phone: "Dr. Yaga's evil lair, Betsy speaking."
Me: "I've been captured! Help!"
Betsy: "I'm sorry, you will have to wait 6 months now. Goodbye."
Me: "Oh god damn it."

Yeah, you know there's no way that I wouldn't send my best robots first.