History Characters / TheInvisibleMan2020

!!!'''Played By:''' Harriet Dyer

* AdaptationalVillainy: Zig-zagged. [[spoiler: While this Griffin is far less destructive than the 1933 Invisible Man, (who ''derailed trains'' and terrorized whole villages), his single-minded torment of Cecilia and ''total lack'' of ''any redeeming'' qualities make him a ''much more loathsome'' character than Claude Rains's [[LargeHam bombastic]] though [[AlasPoorVillain pitiable]] version. There's also the difference that Claude Rains's Griffin was initially a ''well-meaning, albeit misguided'' scientist and because it's been established in the movie that a huge side-effect of the [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity invisibility potion is insanity]], it's ''likely'' that Griffin's criminal actions are solely driven by the [[ArtifactOfDoom potion's corruption of him]], ''not'' an active desire to do evil. In this movie, Adrian's an ''abusive asshole'' right off the bat, the invisibility suit only ''intensified'' and made it easier to get away with his villainy as opposed to starting it... and since he can take it off whenever he wants, it's clear the suit has no hold over his mind.]]

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler: Subverted. He's been so hellbent on getting Cecilia because she's pregnant with his child. However, knowing how controlling and abusive Adrian acts towards her, it's highly unlikely he would have been an ideal father figure, and it was more likely that he wanted to use the child as an anchor to keep Cecilia from leaving him. Or even worse raise the child in ''his own image'' (as if having one of him wasn't bad enough). Alternatively, he simply wants the child because he views it as ''his'' property and nothing more. He doesn't even seem to care about his brother Tom and discards him with no issue as soon as he's ceased being useful. Adrian doesn't have people he loves but possessions he owns.]]

* VigilanteInjustice: [[spoiler:Her killing of Adrian is considered an act of lawless vigilantism and her going down the route of SheWhoFightsMonsters.]]

* IHaveNoSon: Or rather sister, as by [[TheDoorSlamsYou closing the door in her sister's face]] after thinking the latter insulted her with an email without hearing claims of innocence first, Emily disowns Cecilia as her sister on the spot for something she did not do, much to the latter's devastation. However, she is willing to reconcile with her when the sisters get together again, [[spoiler: only to get a SlashedThroat]].

* FreudianExcuse: He has a condition that causes his right hand to shake, and goes to great lengths to ensure people don't see it.

* AdaptationalVillainy: Zig-zagged. [[spoiler: While this Griffin is far less destructive than the 1933 Invisible Man, who derailed trains and terrorized whole villages, his single-minded torment of Cecilia and total lack of any redeeming qualities make him a much more loathsome character than Claude Rains's [[LargeHam bombastic]] though [[AlasPoorVillain pitiable]] version. There's also the difference that Claude Rains's Griffin was initially a well-meaning, albeit misguided, scientist and because it's been established in the movie that a huge side-effect of the [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity invisibility potion is insanity]], it's likely (at least a little) that Griffin's criminal actions are solely driven by the [[ArtifactOfDoom potion's corruption of him]], not an active desire to do evil. In this movie, Adrian's an abusive asshole right off the bat, the invisibility suit only helped to ''intensify'' and make it easier to get away with his villainy as opposed to starting it... and since he can take it off whenever he wants, it's clear the suit has no hold over his mind.]]

* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler: After Cecilia exposes him on a ladder with a can of paint, he flees in panic with Cecilia eventually catching up with him in the home kitchen. He has successfully removed the paint from his suit and starts physically lifting and throwing her around the room with considerable force.]]

* {{Poltergeist}}: Early on, there are hauntings like Adrian is now stalking and gaslighting from beyond the grave. [[spoiler: However, Adrian is very much alive and not long into the film, Cecilia is able to reveal his invisibility suit by tossing a can of paint by surprise.]]

[[folder: Cecilia Kass]]

-> '''Played by:''' Creator/ElisabethMoss

[[folder: Adrian Griffin]]

-> '''Played by:''' Creator/OliverJacksonCohen

[[folder: Emily Kass]]

-> '''Played by:''' Harriet Dyer

[[folder: James Lanier]]

-> '''Played by:''' Creator/AldisHodge

[[folder: Sydney Lanier]]

-> '''Played by:''' Creator/StormReid

[[folder: Tom Griffin]]

-> '''Played by:''' Michael Dorman

* UndignifiedDeath: [[spoiler: Dies by Cecilia's hands and bleeds out after she mocks him.]]
* TheUnfettered: There is no boundary Adrian isn't willing to cross to get what he feels he is owed to him.

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[[folder:Cecilia Kass]]

* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: [[spoiler:She becomes an Invisible Woman to kill Adrian in the film's final scenes.]]

* BrokenPedestal: Thanks to Adrian, she was initially this towards her sister Emily, her best friend James and his daughter Sydney for crimes committed against them, despite her established good relationships beforehand. [[spoiler:After realizing her innocence, James and Sydney now view her as a RebuiltPedestal, though with the unfortunate realization that the trauma she's gone through has hardened her into a VigilanteWoman with signs of sociopathy who's turned James into an accessory for murder.]]
* CompositeCharacter: She's essentially an amalgamation of the novel Griffin's enemy Kemp and his 1933 counterpart's girlfriend Flora. Her storyline of [[spoiler:being framed for murder and becoming invisible herself]] comes from Geoffrey Radcliffe from ''The Invisible Man Returns''.
* TheCassandra: Cecilia becomes this when Adrian begins framing her for terrorizing her friends and family and making her look like a BrokenPedestal in the front of them despite their established stable relationships, with James, Sydney and even Emily not believing her of her innocence and Adrian being still alive.
* DudleyDoRightStopsToHelp: Cecilia can't take Adrian's mistreated dog Zeus with her, but she ''does'' take off his collar when he follows her... which leads to the car's alarm going off and to Adrian nearly catching her.

* HeroesLoveDogs: As part of Cecilia's EstablishingCharacterMoment, she encounters Adrian's dog Zeus on the way out of the house and nearly sabotages her carefully planned escape attempt by going back to remove Zeus's cruel shock collar.
* HeroineWithBadPublicity: When Adrian frames her for actions against her friends and family, from nastily emailing her sister Emily to assaulting Sydney to finally [[spoiler:Emily's murder]].

* RebuiltPedestal: [[spoiler:After clearing herself of Emily's murder and any other crimes committed by Adrian, she becomes this towards James and Sydney. However, the look on James' face also indicates that he knows he's just become an accessory to murder by allowing Cecilia to get away killing Adrian, possibly with the additional realization that Cecilia's trauma has potentially [[SheWhoFightsMonsters pushed her down a dark path]].]]
* SheWhoFightsMonsters: [[spoiler:She appears to undergone this by the end of the film after killing Adrian with cold satisfaction.]]

* SignificantWardrobeShift: Cecilia always wears a baggy and ill-fitting sweater and leggings. At the end when she is reunited with Adrian, she wears a fitted black dress.
* TragicHeroine: A victim of domestic abuse who is continued being tormented and framed for misdeeds she did not commit by Adrian.

* VigilanteWoman: When she decided to take matters to her own hands in confronting Adrian [[spoiler:and then killing him as payback for everything he has done to her. Even after letting her killing of Adrian slide, James knows it's an act of lawless vigilantism that he has become an accessory to.]]

[[folder:Adrian Griffin]]

* AdaptationalModesty: [[spoiler:The original version is nude when invisible. Here, he has a suit that makes him invisible, keeping him clothed most of the time.]]
* AdaptationalSuperpowerChange: [[spoiler:While the novel makes him invisible due to a potion, it's due to a technological optics suit in the film.]]
* AdaptationalVillainy: Zig-zagged. [[spoiler:While this Griffin is far less destructive than the 1933 Invisible Man, who derailed trains and terrorized whole villages, his single-minded torment of Cecilia and total lack of any redeeming qualities make him a much more loathsome character than Claude Rains' [[LargeHam bombastic]] though [[AlasPoorVillain pitiable]] version. There's also the difference that Claude Rains' Griffin was initially a well-meaning, albeit misguided scientist and because it's been established in the movie that a huge side-effect of the [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity invisibility potion is insanity]], it's likely (at least a little) that Griffin's criminal actions are solely driven by the [[ArtifactOfDoom potion's corruption of him]], not an active desire to do evil. In this movie, Adrian's an abusive asshole right off the bat, the invisibility suit only helped to ''intensify'' and make it easier to get away with his villainy as opposed to starting it... and since he can take it off whenever he wants, it's clear the suit has no hold over his mind.]]
* AssholeVictim: With how he's a remorseless abuser, absolutely no one (not even his brother) pitied him when he killed himself. [[spoiler:It becomes much more cathartic when he dies for real after putting Cecilia through absolute ''hell'' using his invisibility suit.]]
* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: We get an early hint to his awful nature when we see he keeps Cecelia's dog under a shock collar in the opening.

* BigBad: [[spoiler:He's the titular Invisible Man who's gaslighting and stalking Cecilia as revenge against her for leaving him.]]
* BigBrotherBully: [[spoiler:Towards his brother Tom, who claims he abused him the same way he did Cecilia when they were younger and that he was even relieved to hear Adrian had killed himself. With TheReveal that Tom was actually working with him, however, it calls into question how much of it was true. Regardless, Adrian had no problem throwing his brother under the bus after he got himself killed by Cecilia nor does he seem overly upset at his fate.]]
* BigFancyHouse: He has an impressively large one that shows his incredible wealth [[spoiler:and also doubles as a research lab where he houses his invisibility suit]]. It's also covered in security cameras, further showcasing his controlling nature.

* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: [[spoiler:In this adaptation, Griffin's invisibility comes from an advanced full-body camo suit rather than a potion. It's also possible that the suit gives him a degree of superhuman strength... though since he's got a powerful build, he might just be ''that'' strong.]]
* ControlFreak: [[spoiler:As Cecilia describes, Adrian ''has'' to be in control of everything and everyone around him. He dictated how she dressed, how she talked, what she ate, and even what she ''thought''. Oh, '''and''' if he even got the idea that she was doing or thinking about stuff she wasn't "supposed to," he would physically beat her "among other things." This is also why he puts Cecilia through so much torment--he can't fathom the idea of [[TheOneThatGotAway someone else leaving him]].]]
* CutLexLuthorACheck: [[spoiler:He's one of the leading scientific minds in optical research, and even invented a suit that renders its wearer invisible. This would be considered a technological marvel, and he squanders it to get revenge on his ex-girlfriend. Downplayed due to the fact that he's already used his other inventions to become extremely wealthy, with a news article mentioning he was planning a $2 ''billion'' venture, and [[{{Greed}} merely acquiring more money]] doesn't seem to interest him as much as controlling and dominating the people in his life. It's also justified by the fact he's a narcissistic sociopath.]]
* DomesticAbuser: [[spoiler:Even before he was invisible, Adrian was domineering and abusive towards Cecilia. Once she finally worked up the courage to leave him, he becomes a whole new brand of bad.]]
* TheDreaded: Cecilia lives in constant fear of him--to the point that she can't even bring herself to walk further than the Lanier house's mailbox ''two weeks'' after her escape. [[spoiler:That's before she finds out about his nefarious usage of the invisibility suit, which puts her even more on edge.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: Cecilia leaving him drove Adrian to kill himself. [[spoiler:Of course, this ends up being subverted when he turns up alive and well--using his invisibility suit as part of his EvilPlan. Ironically, when Cecilia kills him for real, she stages it as a suicide.]]

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler:Subverted. He's been so hellbent on getting Cecilia because she's pregnant with his child. However, knowing how controlling and abusive Adrian acts towards her, it's highly unlikely he would have been an ideal father figure, and it was more likely that he wanted to use the child as an anchor to keep Cecilia from leaving him. Or even worse raise the child in ''his own image'' (as if having one of him wasn't bad enough). Alternatively, he simply wants the child because he views it as ''his'' property and nothing more. He doesn't even seem to care about his brother Tom and discards him with no issue as soon as he's ceased being useful. Adrian doesn't have people he loves, but possessions he owns.]]
* EvilGenius: [[spoiler:He's a brilliant scientist and a controlling sociopath who invented an invisibility suit.]]
* EvilIsPetty: [[spoiler:He ''really'' doesn't take well to Cecilia leaving him. In fact, she's the first person to do so. Rather than accept or consider he was the one who drove her away, he uses an expensive invisibility suit to psychologically torture her into getting back together with him... all because his ego can't stand losing control of someone.]]
* EvilPlan: [[spoiler:Adrian's scheme involves gaslighting and stalking Cecilia while isolating her from her loved ones--all before forcing her (and probably their child) to stay with him ''for the rest of their lives''.]]
* EvilWearsBlack: He's the evilest character in the film, and has a spiffy all-black getup for formal meetings. [[spoiler:The default color of his suit is also black.]]
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: [[spoiler:His invisibility suit's covered in thousands of tiny camera lenses, projectors, and reflectors. After being uncloaked, it looks like he is covered head-to-toe in black eyes, making him a walking embodiment of surveillance paranoia.]]

* FakingTheDead: Knowing how Adrian was, Cecilia is immediately skeptical of his apparent suicide. [[spoiler:[[ProperlyParanoid She was right to be]].]]
* FauxAffablyEvil: Puts on an EndearinglyDorky façade [[spoiler:when he isn't wearing his invisibility suit.]]
* {{Gaslighting}}: [[spoiler:Much of his EvilPlan involves trying to drive Cecilia mad by orchestrating several events meant to make her start questioning her sanity.]]
* GeniusBruiser: [[spoiler:He created an invisibility suit, and is physically quite formidable. While the suit obviously gives him a huge advantage as his victims can't easily defend themselves, he does show a considerable degree of brute strength and accuracy when he fights, and when we finally see him without the suit, he is quite powerfully built.]] The opening scene even has him punch through a car window easily, showing his physical strength.

* InvisibleJerkass: [[spoiler:Oh, '''so much''' given what he does throughout the film while he's in his invisibility suit. It helps that he was already a horrible human being well ''before'' he ever put it on.]]
* InvisibilityCloak: [[spoiler:Instead of a serum like the original novel, Adrian's invisibility comes from an suit he invented, which is equipped with a lattice of tiny projectors/cameras that seamlessly project an image of what's on the opposite side, not unlike a chameleon's ability to blend into its environment.]]
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Cecilia slits Adrian's throat just like how he slit Emily's throat.]]
* MadScientist: [[spoiler:A petty and controlling sociopath who is still smart enough to invent a suit that gives the illusion of invisibility.]]

* {{Narcissist}}: [[spoiler:He has all the telling signs--such as inflated self-importance, an inability to accept responsibility or admit fault, a lack of empathy, a disregard for the lives and feelings of those around him, and a tremendously fragile ego. Cecilia leaving him was such a slight to him that he used an invisibility suit to torment her.]]
* NearVillainVictory: [[spoiler:He ''almost'' succeeds at getting away with everything after he frames Tom as part of a DeceasedFallGuyGambit, but his refusal to admit he's the mastermind behind the EvilPlan is what drives Cecilia to murder him.]]
* NeverMyFault: Like many real-life abusers, Adrian never accepts responsibility for his actions and even thinks of himself as the victim in his relationship with Cecelia. His [[spoiler:supposedly]] posthumous letter to Cecelia even blames her for their relationship's decline and ignores his horrific treatment of her, framing himself as nothing worse than an imperfect boyfriend whose love Cecelia heartlessly discarded.

* PsychopathicManchild: [[spoiler:Adrian may be smart and calculating, but he has poor self-control and is easily wounded by things not going his way, taking things out on people physically even though doing so would likely expose him. There are numerous times where he could have killed Cecilia by accident because he could barely [[DidntThinkThisThrough keep his tantrums in check]]. Just the fact that he created a suit that can render the wearer completely invisible, something that would no doubt be considered a major technological achievement, and wastes it on tormenting his ex-girlfriend into getting back together with him speaks volumes about his lack of maturity.]]

* SilentAntagonist: [[spoiler:In the invisible suit, he is very nearly this--as he has only a couple of lines. To remain hidden, he has to be as quiet as possible, and even when he's alone with Cecilia, he never gives her the satisfaction. Outside the suit, he is ''much'' more talkative.]]
* SlashedThroat: [[spoiler:How he murders Emily and also how he meets his own end at Cecilia's hands.]]
* TheSociopath: [[spoiler:He's pathologically incapable of recognizing wants and needs beyond his own yet maintains a superficial charm to appear affable, has no emotional attachment to ''anyone'', not even his own brother, sees everyone as his to control and as deserving of being punished if they disobey him, never accepts responsibility for his actions and has seemingly no empathy for anyone. This especially shines in his final scene with Cecilia where he appears to physically struggle with apologizing and exhibiting sympathetic emotions.]]
* SoftSpokenSadist: [[spoiler:Whenever he speaks while wearing his invisibility suit, and it's {{justified|Trope}} by how he's trying to be undetected by others.]]
* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: [[spoiler:In their final meeting, Cecilia tries to get Adrian to confess to being the Invisible Man that had been torturing her and not the innocent victim of Tom that he was pretending to be. Either suspecting she was wearing a wire or just trying to gaslight her again, he denies everything. Then he claims he knows her better than anyone and that shouldn't come as a… "surprise," putting specific emphasis on the word. Earlier in the film, he'd texted her "SURPRISE" from an unknown number and said it to her with the same inflection after he had her framed for her sister's murder. It leads to his KarmicDeath.]]
* SuperPersistentPredator: [[spoiler:He never stopped stalking Cecilia until she killed him, and Emily's murder proved she wasn't even safe in public spaces.]]

* UndignifiedDeath: [[spoiler:Dies by Cecilia's hands and bleeds out after she mocks him.]]

* WouldHitAGirl: He has a history of domestic abuse with Cecilia, which firmly lands him in this trope's territory. [[spoiler:He also murders Cecilia's sister Emily by [[SlashedThroat slashing her throat]].]]
* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:Adrian punches Sydney in her face while he's wearing the suit (to make her and James believe Cecilia did it), and he has no qualms about attempting to mastermind her murder out of violent spite against his ex-girlfriend.]]

[[folder:Emily Kass]]

* DeathByIrony: In the heat of the moment, she accuses Cecilia of being weak for getting into a relationship with Adrian. She calms down after she realizes Adrian has been setting Cecilia up, but both she and Cecilia herself agree that she's the stronger of the two. [[spoiler:Adrian kills Emily effortlessly, while Cecilia not only fights back, but wins against him and his brother Tom later on.]]
* FauxActionGirl: An InUniverse example. She has a confrontational, no-nonsense demeanor, she initially dismisses Cecilia as weak for getting involved with Adrian, and Cecilia praises her for her toughness, [[spoiler:but Cecilia is the one to defeat Adrian, while Emily is disposed of in short order. Combined with her judgemental attitude earlier, this serves to emphasize that Emily is a talker with an overly high opinion of herself, while Cecilia is a fighter]].

* IHaveNoSon: Or rather sister, as by [[TheDoorSlamsYou closing the door in her sister's face]] after thinking the latter insulted her with an email without hearing claims of innocence first, Emily disowns Cecilia as her sister on the spot for something she did not do, much to the latter's devastation. However, she is willing to reconcile with her when the sisters get together again, [[spoiler:only to get a SlashedThroat]].

* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:She is murdered by Adrian [[HeelFaceDoorSlam just as she starts to reconcile with Cecilia]].]]
* SlashedThroat: [[spoiler:How Adrian kills her.]]
* VasquezAlwaysDies: [[spoiler:Emily's described as being physically and emotionally "stronger" than Cecilia... yet she's the first character to die.]]

[[folder:James Lanier]]

* FairCop: A good looking police officer, to say the least.

* InspectorJavert: He swings between this and being a SympatheticInspectorAntagonist. He's a police detective, but doesn't believe Cecilia about Adrian being still alive, instead questioning her sanity and thinking she is the one committing the crimes that were actually done by Adrian. [[spoiler:It's not until the climax that James realizes that Cecilia is innocent and Adrian really is alive.]]

* PoliceAreUseless: He's a police detective, but [[spoiler: initially]] did not believe Cecilia about Adrian terrorizing her again and framing her. [[spoiler:He couldn't even hold out on his own when Tom subjected him to a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown until Cecilia comes to the rescue.]] Lampshaded by Cecilia when James offers to help her while she said he can't either when visiting her at the mental hospital for the criminally insane in a MissingTrailerScene or [[spoiler:at the police station after clearing her name of her sister's murder and other misdeeds committed by Adrian near the end of film]].
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He's a police detective who willingly provided aid to Cecilia with shelter and even still show some compassion towards her despite being the prime suspect for Adrian's crimes while she was incarcerated and instead blames himself for Cecilia to end up this way. [[spoiler:He also let Cecilia's revenge killing of Adrian slide despite knowing it's a crime of lawless vigilantism.]]

* SecretKeeper: [[spoiler:By the end, he is the only one aware of the invisibility suits and that Cecilia murdered Adrian.]]

[[folder:Sydney Lanier]]

[[folder:Tom Griffin]]

* AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler:In the book, Thomas Marvel is strong-armed into being Griffin's assistant and escapes the first chance he gets. In the film, Tom Griffin is in on his brother's plan from the beginning--eventually using an invisibility suit to attack Sydney and James.]]
* AgentScully: He's skeptical when Cecilia claims that Adrian faked his death and is tormenting her by somehow being invisible. [[spoiler:Subverted once it's revealed he's involved in Adrian's EvilPlan.]]
* AmoralAttorney: [[spoiler:He's the lawyer representing Adrian's trust, and he's as morally bankrupt as his brother--having no scruples about helping to psychologically torture Cecilia or [[WouldHurtAChild trying to murder Sydney]].]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Despite appearing to have sympathy towards Cecilia, Tom reveals he's just as manipulative as Adrian. She even calls him out on it, deeming him "like [his] brother but without the spine."]]
* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler:He reveals that Adrian controlled and abused him the same way he did Cecilia, making him the Abel to Adrian's Cain. It gets subverted later on when he turns out to be in cahoots with Adrian. Maybe.]]
* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler:Thanks to his invisibility suit, James can't even get a hit on Tom before he's utterly beaten into a bloody pulp. Tom receives one in turn when Cecilia makes his suit with a fire extinguisher and shoots him four times.]]
* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:In the book, Thomas Marvel escapes Griffin and eventually settles down with his stolen money. Here, Tom is killed and set up as part of a DeceasedFallGuyGambit.]]

* DeceasedFallGuyGambit: [[spoiler:He's the victim of this when Adrian makes him appear to be the mastermind after Cecilia kills him.]]
* DirtyCoward: [[spoiler:He's reliant on Adrian's wealth to stay afloat, which allows Adrian to use him as a pawn in his scheme. Tom doesn't have the spine to stand up to his brother and sides with him regardless of how he's been tormenting others. Cecilia even calls him this to his face.]]
* TheDragon: [[spoiler:Tom is Adrian's accomplice. After Adrian frames Cecilia for Emily's murder, his true colors are revealed when he relays the option of going back to his brother in exchange for her freedom. After Cecilia continues to be defiant, Tom is sent by Adrian to kill Sydney so they can "truly teach [her] something."]]
* FallGuy: [[spoiler:Once Cecilia shoots him dead, the police conclude he was ''[[BigBad the]]'' [[BigBad Invisible Man]] all along. However, Cecilia correctly deduces he was only in a suit for the attack on Sydney and James, with Adrian doing everything else before framing his brother. [[NearVillainVictory It almost works]].]]
* InvisibleJerkass: [[spoiler:Late in the film, Tom becomes an Invisible Man and tries to murder Sydney at Adrian's behest.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: He comes off as a sleazy lawyer, but he also mentions how Adrian abused him since they were kids. [[spoiler:Turns out he's just a slimy, spineless creep who's willing to be his brother's enforcer.]]

* MythologyGag: [[spoiler:At the end of the book, Thomas Marvel is shown to still be in possession of Griffin's notebooks, and reads them on his days off in the hopes of one day recreating his work. In the film, Tom Griffin eventually gets to wear an invisibility suit as part of his brother's scheme.]]
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: [[spoiler:Tom absolutely ''pummels'' James into an unconscious, bloody mess since he can't see him.]]
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Griffin's accomplice in the book is reinvented as his brother for the film. [[spoiler:Tom is ''also'' Adrian's accomplice here.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:The fact he's TheDragon to Adrian spoils much of the film's second half.]]
* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:He has no qualms about attempting to murder Sydney--a young teenager who was close to Cecilia--on Adrian's orders.]]

* BrokenAce: He's a wealthy, respected, and good-looking tech icon... as well as a violent, sociopathic abuser.

* HateSink: There is absolutely ''nothing'' good about this guy. He's controlling, abusive, selfish, horrifyingly cruel, and completely lacking in any redeeming or sympathetic traits.

* NeverMyFault: Adrian never accepts responsibility for his actions and even thinks of himself as the victim in his relationship with Cecelia. His [[spoiler:supposedly]] posthumous letter to Cecelia even blames her for their relationship's decline and ignores his horrific treatment of her.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler:Subverted. He's been so hellbent on getting Cecilia because she's pregnant with his child. However, knowing how controlling and abusive Adrian acts towards her, it's highly unlikely he would have been an ideal father figure, and it was more likely that he wanted to use the child as an anchor to keep Cecilia from leaving him. Or even worse raise the child in ''his own image'' (as if having one of him wasn't bad enough). Alternatively, he simply wants the child because he views it as ''his'' property and nothing more. Adrian doesn't have people he loves, but possessions he owns.]]

* TheSociopath: [[spoiler:He's pathologically incapable of recognizing wants and needs beyond his own yet maintains a superficial charm to appear affable, has no emotional attachment to ''anyone'', not even his own brother, sees everyone as his to control and as deserving of being punished if they disobey him and has seemingly no empathy for anyone. This especially shines in his final scene with Cecilia where he appears to physically struggle with apologizing and exhibiting sympathetic emotions.]]

** Even before that, his controlling nature is shown when Cecilia carefully deactivates security cameras that cover every room of his expansive house.

* HairTriggerTemper: Cecilia describes Adrian as flying into violent rages if he so much as suspected she was ''thinking'' something he didn't like. The film's opening scenes confirm it when he violently tries to force her back into his stranglehold--even punching through the window of Emily's car in an attempt to drag her out.

* TheSociopath: [[spoiler:He's pathologically incapable of recognizing wants and needs beyond his own yet maintains a superficial charm to appear affable. This especially shines in his final scene with Cecilia where he appears to physically struggle with apologizing and exhibiting sympathetic emotions.]]

* InvisibleJerkass: [[spoiler:Oh, '''so much''' given what he does throughout the film while he's in his invisibility suit.]]

* NeverMyFault: Adrian never accepts responsibility for his actions. His [[spoiler:supposedly]] posthumous letter to Cecelia even blames her for their relationship's decline and ignores his horrific treatment of her.
* ObliviouslyEvil: He's a '''very''' dark example of this. Adrian honestly doesn't think of himself as bad--just an imperfect but loving boyfriend.

* DudleyDoRightStopsToHelp: Cecilia can't take Adrian's mistreated dog Zeus with her, but she ''does'' take off his collar when he follows her... which leads to the car alarm going off and to Adrian nearly catching her.

* AdaptationalSuperpowerChange: [[spoiler:While the original book makes him invisible due to a potion, here it's due to a technological optics suit.]]

* AssholeVictim: With all the abuse he inflicted on Cecilia, absolutely no one, not even his brother, pitied him when he apparently killed himself. [[spoiler:It becomes much more cathartic when he dies for real after putting Cecilia through absolute ''hell'' using his invisibility suit.]]

* BigBad: [[spoiler:The titular Invisible Man who's tormenting Cecilia to get revenge against her for leaving him.]]

* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: [[spoiler:In this adaptation, Griffin's invisibility comes from an advanced full-body camo suit rather than a potion. It's also possible that the suit gives him a degree of superhuman strength, though since we later see he is powerfully-built, he might just be a strong man.]]

* CutLexLuthorACheck: [[spoiler:He's one of the leading scientific minds in optical research and even invented a suit that renders the wearer completely invisible. This would be considered a technological marvel and he squanders it to enact revenge on his ex-girlfriend for leaving him. Downplayed due to the fact that he's already used his other inventions to become extremely wealthy, with a news article mentioning he was planning a $2 ''billion'' venture, and [[{{Greed}} merely acquiring more money]] doesn't seem to interest him as much as controlling and dominating the people in his life. It's also justified by the fact he's a narcissistic sociopath.]]

* TheDreaded: Cecilia lives in constant fear of him--to the point that she can't even bring herself to walk further than the Lanier house's mailbox ''two weeks'' after her escape. [[spoiler:That's before she finds out about his usage of the invisibility suit to gaslight and stalk her, which puts her even more on edge.]]

* AdaptationNameChange: While he retains the name Griffin from the novel, it's used as his surname here, with his first being Adrian.

* TheDreaded: Cecilia lives in constant fear of him--to the point that she can't even bring herself to leave the Lanier house after she escapes him. [[spoiler:That's before she finds out about his usage of the invisibility suit to gaslight and stalk her, which puts her even more on edge.]]

* InvisibilityCloak: [[spoiler:Instead of a serum like the original novel, Adrian's invisibility comes from an suit he invented, which is equipped with a lattice of tiny projectors/cameras that seamlessly project an image of what's on the opposite side, not unlike a chameleon's ability to blend into its environment.]]

* {{Narcissist}}: [[spoiler:He has all the telling signs--such as inflated self-importance, an inability to accept responsibility or admit fault, a lack of empathy, a disregard for the lives and feelings of those around him, and a tremendously fragile ego. Cecilia leaving him was such a slight that he used an invisibility suit to torment her.]]

* ObliviouslyEvil: He's a '''very''' dark example of this. Adrian honestly doesn't think of himself as bad--just an imperfect but loving boyfriend who only wants what is best for Cecelia.

* AmoralAttorney: [[spoiler:He's the lawyer representing Adrian's trust, and he's morally bankrupt as his brother--having no scruples about helping to psychologically torture Cecilia or trying to murder Sydney.]]

* DeathlyUnmasking: [[spoiler: After getting shot to death by Cecilia, he's unmasked.]]
* DeceasedFallGuyGambit: [[spoiler:He's the victim of such a gambit when Adrian makes him appear to be the mastermind after Cecilia kills him.]]

* FallGuy: [[spoiler:Once Cecilia shoots him dead, the police conclude he was the one in the suit all along. However, Cecilia correctly deduces he was only in the suit for the attack on Sydney and James, with Adrian doing everything else that came before. It ''almost'' works.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: He comes off as a sleazy lawyer, but is the excuse Adrian had dominated him since childhood. [[spoiler:Turns out he's just a slimy, spineless creep who's willing to be his brother's enforcer.]]

* MythologyGag: [[spoiler:At the end of the book, Thomas Marvel is shown to still be in possession of Griffin's notebooks, and reads them on his days off in the hopes of one day recreating his work. In the film, Tom Griffin is already an Invisible Man.]]
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: [[spoiler:Because James can't see him in the suit, Tom absolutely ''pummels'' him into an unconscious, bloody mess.]]
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Griffin's accomplice in the book is reinvented as his brother for the film. [[spoiler:Tom is Adrian's accomplice here.]]

A young architect who leaves her abusive ex-boyfriend Adrian in the middle of the night. After he commits suicide, Cecilia is left with a share of his fortune, but she suspects that he's still alive after eerie events start unfolding.

* TheDreaded: Cecilia lives in constant fear of him--to the point that she can't even bring herself to leave the Lanier house after she escapes him. [[spoiler:And that's before she finds out about his invisibility suit, which puts her even more on edge.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: Cecilia leaving him drove Adrian to kill himself. [[spoiler:Of course, this ends up being subverted when he turns up alive and well in his invisibility suit. Ironically, when Cecilia kills him for real, she stages it as a suicide.]]

** After realizing Cecilia's trying to escape him, he sprints to Emily's car and begins pounding on the door, angrily demanding that she get out. When she doesn't immediately comply, he punches through the passenger side window and tries to drag her out of the car. This whole sequence is less than a minute long and firmly establishes him as a violent ControlFreak.

* EyesDoNotBelongThere: [[spoiler:His suit works by being covered in thousands of tiny camera lenses, projectors, and reflectors. When he is uncloaked, it looks like he is covered head-to-toe in black eyes. He's a walking embodiment of surveillance paranoia.]]

* HairTriggerTemper: Cecilia describes Adrian as having one, often flying into violent rages if he so much as suspected she was even thinking something she didn't like. The film's opening scenes confirm it when he violently tries to force her back into his stranglehold--even punching through the window of Emily's car to try dragging her out.

* MeaningfulName: Adrian, which is this film's invention, and is presumably a ShoutOut to ''Film/RosemarysBaby''.

* NeverMyFault: Like real abusers, Adrian never accepts responsibility for his actions. His [[spoiler:supposedly]] posthumous letter to Cecelia even blames her for the decline of their relationship and ignores his horrific treatment of her.

* SoftSpokenSadist: [[spoiler:Whenever he speaks in invisible form. {{Justified|Trope}} by how he is trying to be undetected by others.]]

* TechBro: [[spoiler:This time, the titular character this time is a young, handsome, and wealthy optics magnate who lives in a large, stark-looking house with Cecilia prior to his "suicide." Adrian's also a controlling abuser who uses an invisibility suit he created to torment his ex-girlfriend after he fakes his death.]]
* TechnicallyASmile: The ''only'' kind of smile he can make.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: As far as the world is concerned, he's a brilliant tech icon--with only Cecilia being aware of his true colors.
* VisibleInvisibility: Averted for the vast majority of the film, barring scenes of [[spoiler:his suit glitching out or liquids staining it. Adrian really is completely invisible to both the characters and the audience, fuelling constant paranoia about whether or not he's even onscreen.]]
* UndignifiedDeath: [[spoiler:Dies by Cecilia's hands and is left to bleed out after she mocks him.]]
* TheUnfettered: There is no boundary Adrian isn't fully willing to cross to get what he feels he is owed to him.

* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:He punches Sydney in the face while invisible (to make her and James believe Cecilia did it) and, though he doesn't do it himself, he has absolutely no qualms about having her murdered by his brother, all just to spite Cecilia.]]

Cecilia's sister, who helps her escape from Adrian.

* NiceToTheWaiter: Defied; she is unnecessarily rude and sarcastic to the waiter at the restaurant in a way that is not excused by her own emotional state, and the email Adrian sent refers to her doing this. Presumably, at some point in their relationship, Cecilia told Adrian that her sister has a tendency to do this.

Cecilia's childhood friend, a police detective, and Sydney's father. He lets Cecilia hide in his home after leaving Adrian.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He's a police detective who willingly provided aid to Cecilia with shelter and even still show some compassion towards her despite being the only prime suspect for Adrian's crimes while she was incarcerated and instead blames himself for Cecilia to end up this way. [[spoiler:He also let Cecilia's revenge killing of Adrian slide despite knowing it's a crime of lawless vigilantism.]]

* SecretKeeper: By the end, he is the only one aware of the invisibility issue [[spoiler:and the fact that Cecilia murdered Adrian.]]

* AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler:In the book, Thomas Marvel is strong-armed into being Griffin's assistant and escapes the first chance he gets. In the film, Tom Griffin is clearly in on the plan from the beginning and uses one of the suits to attack James and Sydney.]]
* AgentScully: He's skeptical when Cecilia claims that Adrian faked his death and is tormenting her by somehow being invisible. [[spoiler:Subverted once it's revealed he's in on Adrian's EvilPlan.]]
* AmoralAttorney: [[spoiler:He acts as Adrian's lawyer and turns out to be as morally bankrupt as him, having no scruples over psychologically torturing an innocent woman to the point of near insanity or even murdering a teenage girl.]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Despite appearing sympathetic toward Cecilia, Tom is just as manipulative as his brother. She even calls him out on it, deeming him "like [his] brother but without the spine."]]

* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler:Thanks to his invisibility suit, James can't even get a hit on Tom before he's utterly beaten into a bloody pulp. Tom receives one in turn when Cecilia highlights his suit with a fire extinguisher, then shoots him four times.]]

* DeceasedFallGuyGambit: [[spoiler:Adrian frames him for everything after Cecilia kills him.]]
* DirtyCoward: [[spoiler:He's reliant on Adrian's wealth to stay afloat, which allows Adrian to use him as a pawn in his scheme. Tom doesn't have the spine to stand up to Adrian and sides with him, regardless of the torment his brother inflicts on others. Cecilia even calls him this to his face.]]
* TheDragon: [[spoiler:He's in on Adrian's plot to torment Cecilia. After Adrian frames her for the murder of Emily, he's the one to relay the option of getting back together with him in exchange for her freedom and is then sent to kill Sydney at Adrian's behest for Cecilia's defiance.]]
* FallGuy: [[spoiler:Once Cecilia shoots him dead, the police conclude he was the one in the suit all along. However, Cecilia rightly deduces that he was only in the suit for the attack on Sydney and James, and that Adrian intended to pin the entire thing on him to get off scot free. It ''almost'' works.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: He comes off as a sleazy lawyer, but makes the excuse Adrian had dominated him since childhood. [[spoiler:Turns out he's just a slimy, spineless creep who's willing to be his brother's enforcer.]]

* MythologyGag: [[spoiler:At the end of the book, Thomas Marvel is shown to still be in possession of Griffin's notebooks, and reads them on his days off in the hopes of one day recreating his work. In the film, Tom Griffin is already an invisible man.]]

* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Griffin's accomplice in the book is reinvented as his brother.

* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:He has no qualms with attempting to murder Sydney, a young teenager who was close to Cecilia, on Adrian's orders.]]

* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: At the end, she [[spoiler:becomes an Invisible Woman to kill Adrian.]]

* BelievingTheirOwnLies: Like many real-life abusers, Adrian seems to honestly believe he's innocent or even a victim--with [[NeverMyFault Cecelia being at fault for what he does]].

* BigBrotherBully: [[spoiler:Towards his brother Tom, who claims he abused him the same way he did Cecilia when they were younger and that he was even relieved to hear Adrian had killed himself. With the reveal that Tom was actually working with him, however, it calls into question how much of it was true. Still, Adrian had no problem throwing his brother under the bus after he got himself killed by Cecilia nor does he seem overly upset at his fate.]]
* BigFancyHouse: He has an impressively large one that shows his incredible wealth [[spoiler:and also doubles as a research lab where he houses his invisibility suit]]. It's also covered in security cameras, showing his controlling nature.

* TheDreaded: Like most abusers, Cecilia lives in constant fear of him--to the point that she can't even bring herself to leave the Lanier house after she escapes him. [[spoiler:And that's before she finds out about his invisibility suit which puts her even more on edge.]]

* EndearinglyDorky: He is either a dark version of this or good at acting the part, given his awkwardness and stuttering at the end.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler:Subverted. He's been so hellbent on getting Cecilia because she's pregnant with his child. However, knowing how controlling and abusive Adrian acts towards her, it's highly unlikely he would have been an ideal father figure, and it was more likely that he wanted to use the child as an anchor to keep Cecilia from leaving him. Or even worse raise the child in ''his own image'' (as if having one of him wasn't bad enough). Alternatively, he simply wants the child because he views it as ''his'' property and nothing more. Adrian doesn't have people he loves, he has possessions he owns.]]

* EvilPlan: [[spoiler:It's gaslighting and stalking Cecilia to isolate her from her loved ones before forcing her to be his girlfriend for the rest of their lives.]]

* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: He's quite handsome, being played by a former model and all, for a vile abuser and manipulator.
* TheFaceless: Even without [[spoiler:his invisibility]], he's not given clear facial features until the very end.

* FauxAffablyEvil: Puts on an EndearinglyDorky façade at the end.
* {{Gaslighting}}: [[spoiler:His entire scheme is to drive Cecilia insane and force her to submit to him.]]

* HairTriggerTemper: Cecilia claims he had one, often flying into violent rages if he so much as suspected she was even thinking something she didn't like. The film's opening scenes confirmed it when he violently tries to force her back into his stranglehold--even punching ''through the window of Emily's car''.

* {{Narcissist}}: [[spoiler:He has all the telling signs--such as inflated self-importance, an inability to accept responsibility or admit fault, a lack of empathy, a disregard for the lives and feelings of those around him, and a tremendously fragile ego. Cecilia leaving him was such a slight that he used an invisible suit to torment her.]]

* ObliviouslyEvil: Like many real abusers, Adrian honestly doesn't think of himself as bad. In his mind, he's nothing worse than an imperfect but loving boyfriend who only wants what is best for Cecelia.

* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Never outright stated, but Cecelia's comment about the "other things" he did to her when enraged heavily imply this to be the case.
* SilentAntagonist: [[spoiler:In the invisible suit, he is very nearly this as he has only a couple of lines. To remain hidden, he has to be as quiet as possible, after all, and even when he's alone with Cecilia he never gives her the satisfaction. Outside, he is much more talkative.]]

* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: [[spoiler:In their final meeting, Cecilia tries to get Adrian to confess to being the Invisible Man that had been torturing her and not the innocent victim of his brother that he was pretending to be. Either suspecting she was wearing a wire or just trying to gaslight her again, he denies everything. Then he claims he knows her better than anyone and that shouldn't come as a… "surprise," putting specific emphasis on the word. Earlier in the film, he'd texted her "SURPRISE" from an unknown number and said it to her with the exact same inflection after he had her framed for her sister's murder. After this, Cecilia excuses herself, grabs the invisibility suit she'd hidden, and uses it to force Adrian to slash his own throat--making it look like a suicide. When no one else can hear them, she tells him, "Surprise."]]
* SuperPersistentPredator: [[spoiler:He never stopped stalking Cecilia until she killed him, and until that happened, she wasn't even safe in public spaces.]]
* TallDarkAndHandsome: He has the look anyway, being 6'3 and good-looking.
* TechBro: [[spoiler:The titular invisible man this time is a young, handsome, and wealthy optics magnate who lives in a large, stark-looking house with Cecilia prior to his "suicide." Adrian's also a controlling abuser who uses his technology to torment his ex-girlfriend after he fakes his death.]]

* SecretKeeper: By the end, he is the only one aware of the invisibility issue [[spoiler:and the fact that Cecilia murdered Adrian herself.]]

* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Despite appearing sympathetic toward Cecilia, Tom is just as manipulative as his brother. She even calls him on it, deeming him "like [his] brother but without the spine."]]

* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler:Thanks to his invisibility suit, James can't even get a hit on Tom before he's utterly beaten into a bloody pulp. Tom receives one in turn when Cecilia highlights his body with a fire extinguisher, then fills him full of lead.]]
* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:In the book, Thomas Marvel escapes Griffin and eventually settles down with his stolen money. Here, Tom is killed and set up as a FallGuy.]]