Regardless of which side you're on, it's common to see Joseph Menger as either a bloodthirsty freak or a sickly hedonist.
In fact, people have some misunderstandings; this Deputy Director of Imperial Medical is not a devilish doctor often found in war literature or the serial killers in detective novels who commit crimes due to twisted voyeuristic desires. This clean and cultivated looking Professor Menger is a purely scholarly figure, almost naïve. He only cares about the effects of his research—even if those effects frighten him—and never concerns himself with the consequences, the impact, or whether the research and its outcomes adhere to the dual demands of humanity and morality.
Put simply, he is the perfect embodiment of the "mad scientist" species, a walking specimen. His world consists of only the Emperor and his research. Nothing else matters.
