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5	[[caption-width-right:350: '''Henry Frankenstein:''' She's alive! ALIVE!]]
6	->''"To a new world of gods and monsters!"''
7	-->-- '''Dr. Pretorius'''
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9	''Bride of Frankenstein'' is a 1935 horror film directed by Creator/JamesWhale. A sequel to Whale's 1931 ''Film/{{Frankenstein\|1931}}'', it is widely considered to be the best of the classic Franchise/UniversalHorror movies. Creator/BorisKarloff and Colin Clive reprise their roles as the [[FrankensteinsMonster Monster]] and Dr. Henry Frankenstein, respectively, while Ernest Thesiger joins the proceedings as Dr. Septimus Pretorius and Elsa Lanchester plays the eponymous Bride.
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11	We begin with a prologue set in the home of Creator/LordByron, who is entertaining his friends Creator/{{Percy\|Bysshe Shelley}} and Creator/MaryShelley while a [[ItWasADarkAndStormyNight storm rages outside]]. At Byron's urging, Mary continues with her story of Frankenstein, picking up right about [[ImmediateSequel where the original film left off]].
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13	Henry Frankenstein just barely survives the burning of the windmill, but so does the Monster. Shortly thereafter, Frankenstein receives a visit from his old mentor, Dr. Pretorius, who wants to join forces and continue with Frankenstein's experiments to create life. In one of the film's most memorable scenes, Pretorius shows to Frankenstein a series of miniature people in jars, including a mermaid, a ballerina and a little devil. It seems that Pretorius can make people, but can't get them up to normal size. Frankenstein, meanwhile, has created a giant. And so Pretorius proposes a plan: Frankenstein will provide the body, and Pretorius will provide the brain.
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15	Meanwhile, the Monster has several encounters with angry villagers and is eventually taken in by a kindly old blind hermit. The hermit teaches the Monster to speak, and is the only friend he's ever had. Naturally, the villagers show up and drive the Monster away, and he goes to a graveyard to find solitude among the dead. And whom should he happen to meet but Dr. Pretorius gathering parts for the new creature. Enticed by the possibility of having a friend, the Monster forms an alliance with Pretorius.
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17	Frankenstein, meanwhile, is getting cold feet about creating another monster. In a sequence that is reminiscent of Shelley's original novel, the creature and Pretorius kidnap Frankenstein's young bride, Elizabeth, and threaten to kill her unless he makes the Monster a mate. It all leads up to an explosive conclusion in Frankenstein's laboratory, where the new monster has finally been born.
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19	One thing to note: Although the Monster is childlike and rather sympathetic, he still kills people--a ''lot'' of people, in fact. Film historians put the original death count at 21, but it was edited down to 10 due to UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode restrictions of the time. At one point the Monster appears to break into an elderly couple's house and kill them just because. As with Film/KingKong's tendency to eat people, the Monster's violent nature is often glossed over to facilitate a "[[HumansAreTheRealMonsters we are the REAL monsters]]" aesop.
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21	The franchise was continued in ''Film/SonOfFrankenstein''. In 2007, Creator/DarkHorse published an AlternateContinuity sequel, ''[[Literature/TheBrideOfFrankensteinPandorasBride The Bride of Frankenstein: Pandora's Bride]]'', which follows the Bride and Dr. Pretorius to [[UsefulNotes/TheWeimarRepublic Weimar Berlin]] to face off with a rogues' gallery of German Expressionist film characters.
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23	The titular Bride of Frankenstein, despite her rather short screen time, has become a huge icon for classic horror movies and is one of the most widely merchandised of the Franchise/UniversalHorror monsters. This film helped to promote the common misconception that Doctor Frankenstein's creature was himself named "Frankenstein", though it's certainly not the first instance of this misconception, which can be seen in political and movie related cartoons dating back long before this movie.
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25	Of note is a haunted house at the 2020 and 2021 editions of Theatre/HalloweenHorrorNights named ''Universal Monsters: The Bride of Frankenstein Lives'', which serves as a semi-official sequel to this film.
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27	A {{remake}} of ''The Bride of Frankenstein'' set in the Universal Film/DarkUniverse was scheduled for a 2019 release, then cancelled due to the poor performance of 2017's ''Film/{{The Mummy\|2017}}''. Creator/MaggieGyllenhaal is currently directing another remake project, titled ''The Bride'' and starring Creator/ChristianBale as Frankenstein's Creature, Creator/JessieBuckley as the Bride, Creator/AnnetteBening, Creator/PenelopeCruz, Creator/JulianneHough and Creator/PeterSarsgaard.
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29	!!This film provides examples of:
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31	* AdiposeRex: Doctor Pretorius creates a series of homunculi, including one who's a lookalike for Henry VIII.
32	* AesopAmnesia: Unlike [[Film/TheCurseOfFrankenstein later]] [[Film/TheRevengeOfFrankenstein portrayals]] [[Film/TheEvilOfFrankenstein of]] [[Film/FrankensteinCreatedWoman the character]] this version completely averts this. Henry [[ItsAllMyFault feels guilty]] over the chaos that happened because of his creation and only agrees to make the bride because he was forced to by [[BigBad Pretorius]].
33	* AnimalMotifs: Elsa Lanchester said that her spitting, hissing performance was inspired by the swans in Regent's Park, London. "They're really very nasty creatures," she said.
34	* AnimalReactionShot: The DullSurprise shot on an owl watching the monster drowning a man and his wife in the cavern below the windmill.
35	* AnswerCut: Elizabeth describes a vision of an evil apparition which will entangle Henry, and says she sees it drawing nearer — nearer —and the camera cuts to the [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate evil Dr]]. [[InadvertentEntranceCue Pretorius knocking at the door]].
36	* ArcWords: Continued from the first film, "Sit down."
37	* ArtifactTitle: In Shelley's novel, "Frankenstein" was the name of the scientist, and the Monster was nameless. This was also the case in the 1931 film. This film, titled ''Bride of Frankenstein'' despite the fact that the Bride is meant for the Monster and not the scientist, is arguably the reason that the monster came to be named "Frankenstein" in popular culture.
38	* AscendedExtra: While Frankenstein does build a mate for the Creature in the novel, he destroys her before she can be animated. But the movie's eponymous bride is actually brought to life.
39	* AsYouKnow: Used a ''lot'' in the opening scene of Byron and the Shelleys. First Byron describes himself, Percy and his wife Mary in great deal to them, and then goes on to recap the first film's events.
40	* AttractiveZombie: The Bride is meant to be conventionally attractive, as she was built by the Doctor to be a suitable wife for his earlier creation. Just like her mate, she's assembled from stolen corpses.
41	* AxeBeforeEntering: After the Monster is chained up in Goldstadt's jail, he is quick to [[BreakingTheBonds break his bonds]] and rip two doors off that stand in his way to freedom.
42	* BeehiveHairdo: The Bride famously sports one of these, which also has two skunk stripes on its sides.
43	* BigBad: Dr. Pretorius, whose need to [[CreatingLife create life]] in new ways drives the plot.
44	* BlatantLies: Karl's "It was a ... Police case."
45	* BlindAndTheBeast: After the Monster escapes from jail, he comes across a hut with violin music coming out of it. Inside it, he meets an old blind hermit, who welcomes him and soothes his own loneliness.
46	* {{Bookends}}: The film opens with Creator/MaryShelley, played by Elsa Lanchester, [[FramingDevice telling the story of Frankenstein]]. As she begins relating the sequel, she spreads her arms wide... and at the end of the film, the Bride of Frankenstein, also played by Lanchester, makes the same gesture.
47	* CallBack: Clive repeats his legendary "It's alive!" line (this time amended to "She's alive!").
48	* CampGay / DepravedHomosexual: Dr. Pretorius, although with UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode in effect by this point it's naturally [[AmbiguouslyGay not stated outright]]. James Whale (who was gay himself) reportedly told Ernest Thesiger to play him "like an over-the-top caricature of a bitchy and aging homosexual".
49	* CardboardPrison: The town's prison was not built to withstand the forces of the Monster and hence he has little problems to remove himself from it.
50	* CassandraTruth: After witnessing the monster's return, Minnie attempts to tell someone about it but is just scoffed at. She then decides to shut up about it.
51	* CharacterCatchphrase: Every time Dr. Pretorius mentions one of his vices: "[[BlatantLies It's my only weakness.]]"
52	* CollapsingLair: The fate of Pretorius' tower at the end. Henry and Elizabeth escape JustInTime.
53	* CreatingLife: A running theme through the Frankenstein franchise. Here it's Dr. Pretorius seeking to be a creator of life.
54	* CrucifiedHeroShot: When the villagers have caught and tied up the Monster on to a pole, they momentarily raise him up, creating this effect.
55	* CutLexLuthorACheck: Dr. Pretorius could have become famous for his telephone-like invention. [[AGodAmI That is, if he cared about money at all, rather than playing God]].
56	* CuteMonsterGirl: Never in her career did Elsa Lanchester look so good.
57	* DeathOfAChild: Once the Monster escapes from the jail, its victims are soon discovered around town, which includes a little girl.
58	* DenserAndWackier: ''Bride of Frankenstein'' might very well be the first self-aware horror film, and while it's still a dark film with deep themes and genuine terror, it also contains a fair amount of BlackComedy. This was a huge change of pace from the original ''Film/{{Frankenstein\|1931}}'', which was straight horror. Director James Whale purposefully wanted to give the sequel a different tone to stand on its own.
59	* DespairEventHorizon: The Monster, after seeing his would-be mate's horrified reaction to him and realizing that no-one will ever love him, decides to destroy himself along with the Bride and Pretorius. ("We belong dead.")
60	* DisneyVillainDeath: The Monster throws Karl off the castle roof to his death.
61	* DramaticIrony: During the reunion between the Monster and Frankenstein that Pretorious "[[ManipulativeBastard arranged]]", Frankenstein is nothing short of shocked that his creation can now speak. Pretorious claims he personally taught the Monster language during his absence. But the audience knows Pretorious is lying through his teeth and taking credit that isn't his: he didn't teach the Monster to speak, ''the blind man did''.
62	* FingerTwitchingRevival: At the beginning, Henry is diagnosed dead by the villagers after the explosion, so they take his body home and place it on a table. Soon after, the maid cries out when his hand starts moving, then he comes to. Of course, as one of the main characters he had to have PlotArmor.
63	* ForgottenFramingDevice: In form of a prologue. The main story is told by Mary to her two friends during a [[ItWasADarkAndStormyNight dark and stormy night]]. An epilogue was filmed but later cut from the final film.
64	* {{Foreshadowing}}: The homunculus king tries to get at the homunculus queen, but she apparently doesn't like him. [[spoiler: Later, the monster's bride rejects him in a way parallel to the homunculus queen's distaste for her king.]]
65	* FreudianSlip: When Henry bemoans if he can keep the new heart beating for long, Karl lets it slip that it was a "fresh" heart. This alerts Henry to suspect that Dr. Pretorius's methods are a little more unethical than he bargained for.
66	* GraveRobbing: Dr. Pretorius has his henchmen Ludwig and Karl dig up bodies for his and Henry's upcoming collabration.
67	* HaveAGayOldTime: Minnie describes Dr. Pretorius as "a queer fellow". This ''may'' have been deliberate innuendo, since the director actually intended for Dr. Pretorius to come across as gay -- see CampGay, above. However, the term was not yet widely used in this connotation at the time this film was made, and if it ''was'' deliberate, then it is an anachronism as the earliest known use of the term in this context was in 1894, some years after the setting of the film.
68	* HeelRealization: While not outright stated, the Monster only decides to let Frankenstein and Elizabeth go and kill Pretorius when he sees how much Elizabeth loves Frankenstein, who he'd previously helped Pretorius separate.
69	* HeWentThatWay: One of the villagers uses this phrase, unintentionally misdirecting the mob to look elsewhere while the monster is hiding in a crypt at the cemetery.
70	* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Dr. Pretorius forces Dr. Frankenstein to create a bride for the Monster. When the Monster is rejected by the Bride, he pulls the self-destruct [[BigRedButton lever]], destroying the castle and killing himself, the Bride, and Dr. Pretorius.
71	* HostileWeather: Storm rages outside in the prologue, much to Creator/LordByron's joy.
72	-->'''Byron:''' How beautifully dramatic!
73	* {{Hulkspeak}}: How the Monster talks once the blind hermit [[SuddenlySpeaking teaches him to speak]].[[note]]James Whale and the studio psychiatrist selected 44 simple words for the Monster's vocabulary by looking at test papers of [[CastTheExpert ten-year olds working at the studio]].[[/note]]
74	* HystericalWoman: Minnie is quick to [[ScreamingWoman scream]] and flail at surprising things. She's apparently somewhat known for this, as when she sees the monster firsthand and warns everyone, she's immediately brushed off as just another one of her hysterics.
75	* IHaveYourWife: The Monster, on Dr. Pretorius' orders, kidnaps Elizabeth so that her husband will co-operate in making a bride for him.
76	* ImmediateSequel: ''Bride'' picks up right where the original ''Film/{{Frankenstein\|1931}}'' leaves off.
77	* ImmuneToBullets: Villagers and policemen try to stop the Monster with bullets, to no avail.
78	* InadvertentEntranceCue: Elizabeth describes a vision of an evil apparition which will entangle Henry, and says she sees it drawing nearer -- nearer -- and the camera immediately [[AnswerCut cuts]] to the [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate evil Dr. Pretorius]] knocking at the door.
79	* InstantSedation: When the Monster's pestering of Henry to finish his work proves to be a nuisance, Dr. Pretorius lures him aside with a promise of booze, and puts a sedative into a glass that he presents to him. Once the Monster finishes his drink, it knocks him off his feet.
80	* InventionalWisdom: At the end of the film, the enraged Monster is rampaging through the lab. As he approaches a very large wooden lever Dr. Pretorius shouts, "Don't touch that lever! You'll blow us all to atoms!" The question must be asked: if you were collecting all the supplies and fixtures you'd need to build your super high-tech lab, how far down the list would "a lever that will blow us all to atoms" be?
81	* ItsGoingDown: The Monster flips a lever that destroys the tower housing the laboratory at the end.
82	* IWarnedYou: Minnie tries to tell everyone the monster is still alive, everyone writes her off. She decides that this washes her hands of any responsibility for any deaths the monster creates.
83	* IronicEcho: In the first movie, when the monster first came to life, Henry's first command was "Sit down". When the monster and Henry cross paths for the first time since the previous movie, the former crossly commands the intimidated latter to "Sit down".
84	* ItWasADarkAndStormyNight: The prologue opens this way.
85	* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: The final note of the musical score, played just as the laboratory explodes, is a very powerful dissonant chord, made to be so loud that it would slightly shake the seats in the movie theater. Whale came up with this idea, and meant for it to suggest that the explosion was so massive that it even affected the real world. This element is, unfortunately, mostly lost when watching it on home video. Without meaning to, Whale had essentially come up with the concept of "theatre gimmicks" like Sensurround that would emerge 20 years later. Fast forward to the 21st century, and it's commonplace for movie theaters to have insanely powerful sound systems, with some even utilizing "butt-kicker" subwoofers under your seat to achieve the same effect.
86	* LightningCanDoAnything: Dr. Frankenstein has kites raised up in the air once a lightning starts to rage outside the tower. The bride is given life after one lightning bolt hits them.
87	* MadScientist: Dr. Pretorius, who is revealed to have been TheManBehindTheMan to Dr. Frankenstein.
88	* ManipulativeBastard: Pretorius to both Frankenstein and his Monster, in order to create life.
89	* ManlyTears: The Monster sheds a SingleTear right before he pulls the lever.
90	* MoodWhiplash: The film veers between horror and camp comedy and from plausible (if unlikely) science fiction to outright fantasy. There's also a whiplash between this film and the more-serious initial ''Film/Frankenstein1931'' film before it and ''Film/SonOfFrankenstein'' after it.
91	* NeverLearnedToTalk: The Monster talks once the blind hermit teaches him how to speak, implying he didn't know how to rather than being physically unable to. Justified since he was only a few days old.
92	* NeverTrustATrailer: The original trailer promises "a lifetime of entertainment in two hours". The final edit ran 75 minutes.
93	* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: The concerned woman in the beginning to her husband: "Come home, Hans. Nothing could be left alive in that furnace." [[spoiler:They both end up being killed by The Monster.]]
94	* NoOSHACompliance: The lab's SelfDestructMechanism seems poorly secured.[[note]][[FridgeBrilliance Then again]], one could imagine it was installed to destroy evidence of his incriminating activities quickly, should the locals come with TorchesAndPitchforks (as they tend to do). Pretorius probably had a SecretUndergroundPassage, and would tell one of his henchmen to pull the switch at a designated time to initiate the tower's "defense mechanism".[[/note]]
95	* NotNamedInOpeningCredits: Zig-zagged. Like with the preceding film, the titular monster (the Bride, in this case, though she is called "The Monster's Mate") is credited with a question mark. However, Elsa Lanchester, who played the Bride, also plays Mary Shelley in the [[Main/FramingDevice prologue]], so her name does appear in the credits.
96	* NotQuiteDead:
97	** The Monster is thought to have died within the burning windmill, but he simply fell through to a cavern below.
98	** Also Henry, not quite dying his DisneyDeath.
99	* OhCrap: Henry's reaction when he learns that the heart of a "young victim of sudden death" as he requested Karl to get was "A very fresh one" and a "police case".
100	* OneSteveLimit: Averted from a franchise perspective as Dwight Frye plays a character named Fritz, which was the name of the character he played in the first ''Frankenstein'' film; the characters are different, however, given the first Fritz was KilledOffForReal by the Monster.
101	* OurHomunculiAreDifferent: Dr. Pretorius' little people (with different personalities) [[PeopleJars in jars]]. They aren't called homunculi, but are obviously supposed to be.
102	* PeopleJars: Dr. Pretorius shows off his work in creating life-- [[OurHomunculiAreDifferent little people]] (and [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent a mermaid]]-- "an experiment with seaweed") -- in jars.
103	* PostDefeatExplosionChain: Pretorius' tower [[CollapsingLair comes down]] in a series of explosions when the Monster pulls a certain lever.
104	* PreviouslyOn: Lord Byron brilliantly recaps the previous film's events as being the story that Mary Shelley wrote. Considering they mention that the novel hasn't even been published yet, this may make Byron something of a naive psychic. He also describes a few scenes from the movie that ''weren't'' in the novel at all.
105	* PsychopathicManchild: The monster, due to him possessing the brain of a criminal. He murders several people but doesn't do it for any particular reason until the end when he kills Pretorius. He just doesn't understand his own actions or the world around him until he's taught some very basic ethics by the hermit.
106	* RageAgainstTheReflection: After seeing his reflection on water, the monster splashes it angrily.
107	* RecycledSoundtrack: The musical soundtrack for this film proved so popular, it was used again in the Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers serials starring Buster Crabbe.
108	* RedemptionEqualsDeath: The monster, [[JokerImmunity but not]] [[Film/SonOfFrankenstein really]].
109	* RevisedEnding: The well-known goof of Henry being present as the tower explodes was a simple matter of studio interference and budget constraints. As originally shot, Henry was to die at the end along with Pretorius, the monster, and the bride. But Universal demanded a happy ending, so Whale reshot the ending to show Henry escaping with Elizabeth. Notice that the contradictory scene where Henry is briefly seen is the one with the explosions and pyrotechnics going off. This was an expensive scene to shoot, and Whale wasn't given an adequate budget to reshoot it, so the original shot was retained.
110	* RunningGag: Dr. Pretorius has a habit of referring to things as "my only weakness": gin, cigars, etc.
111	* ScienceIsGood: Played with. The reformed Dr. Frankenstein is forced by evil MadScientist Dr. Pretorius to return to his old ways. The twist: Early on, Pretorius shows us his collection of tiny humans in glass jars, practically announcing that he's Mephistopheles by having one be a devil and saying "There's a certain resemblance to me, don't you think? Or do I flatter myself?" To this, Frankenstein replies, horrified, "This isn't science!" Here, sane Science Is Good, and has standards, but Black Magic Is Bad. However, Pretorious' creations seem harmless enough (if a bit lecherous in the case of the king), and the brain he creates for the Bride is far less aggressive than the one the monster got. It's really the unscrupulous acts he's willing to perform to achieve his goals (including blackmail, kidnapping, and murder) that are evil, not the science itself.
112	* SecondaryCharacterTitle: The Bride is only in the movie for the final five minutes.
113	* SelfDestructMechanism: Pretorius' tower [[CollapsingLair comes down]] in a series of explosions when the Monster pulls a certain lever. Its actual purpose is never told.
114	* ShadowArchetype: Dr. Pretorius is what Dr. Frankenstein would have become if he'd completely given in to the ForScience-method of thinking.
115	* SpermAsPeople: Several homunculi (tiny people thought to come from sperm in the past) live in a jar.
116	* StockFootage: Footage from the first film is shown while Lord Byron is remembering the story.
117	* AStormIsComing: Conveniently, a storm is rising up when one was needed to provide power for the creation of the Bride.
118	* SuddenlySpeaking: The Monster learns to speak, although this is dropped for the next film before being brought back sporadically in later entries.
119	* SuddenNameChange: Maria's father was named Ludwig in the first film; now he's called Hans (and [[TheOtherDarrin played by a different actor]]).
120	* TakingYouWithMe: The Monster decides that he, his bride and Dr. Pretorius are better off dead, and after letting Henry and Elizabeth go, pulls the lever that destroys the tower.
121	-->'''The Monster:''' We belong dead.
122	* TemptingFate: On several occasions:
123	** After the townspeople have captured and imprisoned the Monster, the town mayor downplays the situation to concerned citizens by saying, "Go to your homes. Just an escaped lunatic. Quite harmless." Cue the Monster bolting through the prison gate onto the street. Everybody panics.
124	** A similar situation at the Gypsy camp. The father assures everybody that the Monster is safe in jail, when suddenly the Monster stumbles into the camp.
125	** When Minnie voices her concerns about leaving Elizabeth alone in her room, the latter assures her that everything will be fine. Cue the Monster entering through the window.
126	* TheTheTitleConfusion: While many of the original posters (such as the one above) gave the film's title as '''''The''' Bride of Frankenstein'', the actual onscreen title omits the definite article.
127	* TitleDrop: After the bride is unraveled from her shrouds, Dr. Pretorius proudly declares "The Bride of Frankenstein!"
128	* TorchesAndPitchforks: Once the villagers learn that the Monster lives, the Burgomaster quickly organizes a hunting party to capture him.
129	* TorturedMonster: The Monster. He blows himself, his Bride, and Dr. Pretorious to smithereens with the comment, "We belong dead."
130	* TruerToTheText: Despite its DenserAndWackier nature, ''Bride'' incorporates key elements from the novel that were omitted from the first film, including the Monster's ability to speak and reason (albeit to a lesser degree), his brief friendship with a blind old man, [[CycleOfRevenge his vendetta against Frankenstein]], and Frankenstein's coerced creation of the Monster's mate.
131	* {{Uberwald}}: As with the original, this film is set in some quasi-Victorian, Middle European never-never-land, not quite Germany, not quite Transylvania, not quite anywhere else between France and Russia.
132	* UglyGuyHotWife: The Monster's supposed wife was crafted with much more sophisticated methods, making her seem less of a corpse than her husband-to-be.
133	* VillainsDyingGrace: Although it wasn't intended to end this way by James Whale (who wanted Dr. Frankenstein to die too and originally filmed it this way until ExecutiveMeddling forced a change), the Monster, as he's about to blow up Pretorius, the Bride and himself, unexpectedly decides to show mercy to his creator and his own bride by giving them time to escape.
134	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse:
135	** We never hear again from the blind man who was ushered away from his burning hut.
136	** The fate of the little people in the jars is also left unrevealed; they were presumably living creatures, but the (assumed) death of Pretorius in the finale leaves the question open as to who will take care of them.
137	* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: The Monster, who is by turns sympathetic and pointlessly cruel.
138	* WorldOfHam: Lord Byron from the prologue, as well as Henry, Dr. Pretorius, Karl and Minnie are playing for LargeHam.
139	* TheXOfY: The X being "Bride" and Y being "Frankenstein".
140	* YouNoTakeCandle: The Monster speaks this way.
141	* ZergRush: How the Monster gets captured by the villagers. Although strong enough to push a large boulder onto a couple of his pursuers, dozens more rush in and overwhelm him immediately afterward.

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