Oh, I quite firmly believe she is. But much like Agatha Heterodyne, Virginia didn’t break through into madness, but rather eased through. So she never went on a frothing rampage, like Dave did when he went Mad.
Look, there’s a difference between being a Mad Scientist and being a scientist who happens to be mad. What, in theory, shows her not to be Mad, or at least pre-breakthrough, is that her science can be understood and reproduced by others who aren’t.
Biggest evidence against it, personally:
-she can’t or doesn’t really Rant the way we see confirmed Mad Scientists Rant
-the above-cited reproducible science
-lack of the loopy Madness Text that characterizes, say, Tigerlily’s more intense moments
-she actively tries keeping in touch with Unity and Nick, which in Narbonic is noted as being highly unusual; mad science creations are typically expected to Leave the Lab and turn on their creators or independently rampage, if they live long enough (Artie’s situation being the notedly unusual counterexample of this)
It amuses me how perfectly befuddled acceptance mimics the attitude of a standard Anasigma staff member.
“Axolotl containment failure” is still an awesome phrase I wish I could use more often
How is Dr. NOT a Mad Scientist again?
Oh, I quite firmly believe she is. But much like Agatha Heterodyne, Virginia didn’t break through into madness, but rather eased through. So she never went on a frothing rampage, like Dave did when he went Mad.
Look, there’s a difference between being a Mad Scientist and being a scientist who happens to be mad. What, in theory, shows her not to be Mad, or at least pre-breakthrough, is that her science can be understood and reproduced by others who aren’t.
You’re assuming that Mad scientists cannot engage in sane science.
But the fact that to our knowledge she hasn’t engaged in any mad science strongly suggests that she isn’t a mad scientist.
The fact that she so easily comprehends Mad science suggests that she is.
Biggest evidence against it, personally:
-she can’t or doesn’t really Rant the way we see confirmed Mad Scientists Rant
-the above-cited reproducible science
-lack of the loopy Madness Text that characterizes, say, Tigerlily’s more intense moments
-she actively tries keeping in touch with Unity and Nick, which in Narbonic is noted as being highly unusual; mad science creations are typically expected to Leave the Lab and turn on their creators or independently rampage, if they live long enough (Artie’s situation being the notedly unusual counterexample of this)