Okabe Rintarou is the best Sci-Fi character

        Okabe Rintarou (also known to himself as Hououin Kyouma) is a self proclaimed mad scientist, the inventor of the Phone Microwave time machine, and the funniest most entertaining character in Sci-Fi. He founds a group called “Future Gadget Laboratory” (which is really just a room on top of a small store where he experiments with stuff with his friends) in which he is Lab Member 001. In the beginning of the show, he introduces himself to people as “Hououin Kyouma the mad scientist”, constantly acts as if there's an “Organization” after him (going as far to pretend to be on the phone to combat this nefarious organization), and frequently laughs maniacally. He does all this because he thinks it gives him the cool aura of being a mad scientist, even though everyone around him knows it's just delusions and eccentricities. This is a link of him introducing himself and his lab members.
        Okabe becomes a more rounded out and in depth character when he has to face the consequences of having invented a time machine. Because of the time machine, his childhood friend, Mayuri, dies, so he goes back in time to save her. As he tries and fails so many times to prevent his dear friend's death, the mad-scientist persona falls away, and he is revealed to be a sympathetic caring man.




For laughs, here’s a link of him trying to speak English, and here's a link of the dub version of that scene, in which he tries to speak Jive.