This is an older one, more common from movies in the 50s and 60s:

The (mad) scientist who says the reason he invented the incredible machine, or airship, or Nautilus submarine, or spaceship, was to: "end war" or "bring world peace". --- (To which the hero usually responds with: "Why, you're mad!")

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