Line #36 Franchise/Frankenstein


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5	''{{Literature/Frankenstein}}'' (full title: ''Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus'') is a science fiction novel written by Creator/MaryShelley, originally published in 1818. Victor Frankenstein, an archetypal {{mad scientist}} who, through performing [[ScienceIsBad morally dubious laboratory experiments]], somehow creates new life in the form of a [[FrankensteinsMonster nameless creature]]; which is confused and horrified by the world it was born into, leading to a [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge furious rampage of vengeance]] [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters against its creator]]. Death and tragedy ensue.
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7	Over 200 years later, the aforementioned creature, best known by the moniker of FrankensteinsMonster (to avoid confusion with his creator Frankenstein), has become a very iconic horror villain in the {{public domain\|Character}}, appearing in a wide variety of works of fiction.
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9	The following is a (rather incomplete) list of works based on ''Frankenstein'', as well as the tropes usually associated with them.
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11	!! ''Frankenstein'' media:
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15	[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
16	* ''Manga/JunjiItoKyoufuMangaCollection'' has a faithful manga adaptation of the novel.
17	* Manga Classics released a manga adaptation following the 1818 version of the novel.
18	* ''The Monster of Frankenstein'' (''Kyōfu Densetsu Kaiki! Frankenstein''), a 1981 Creator/TVAsahi anime special produced by Creator/StudioLive and Creator/ToeiAnimation under license from Creator/MarvelComics, and released in an English dub version in the US and UK in 1984. It's a loose adaptation of the original story aimed at kids -- even introducing some CanonForeigner child characters who weren't in the original, including a nine-year-old daughter for Victor and Elizabeth -- but still remarkably violent and bleak.
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21	[[folder:Comic Books]]
22	* In 1966, Creator/DellComics once published a comic book with a super hero version of the Frankenstein Monster.
23	* ''ComicBook/TheFrankensteinMonster'' (1973-75): The comic followed the exploits of FrankensteinsMonster, from his creation in mid 1800s to his reappearance in TheSeventies.
24	* ''ComicBook/CreatureCommandos'' (1980-83): The comic featured a member of the team transformed into a version of the monster.
25	* ''ComicBook/SevenSoldiers'' (2005–2006): The comic featured the monster as a member of the team.
26	* ''ComicBook/HowlingCommandos'' (2005–2006): The team featured a clone of the monster.
27	* ''ComicBook/FrankensteinAgentOfShade'' (2011-13): The comic featured the monster as a member of an organization that monitors monitors supernatural and superhuman activities.
28	* ''ComicBook/SherlockHolmesAndTheHorrorOfFrankenstein'' (2013): The comic pits Franchise/SherlockHolmes against the monster and his new master Dr. Pretorious in London in 1888.
29	* ''Monster & Madman'' (2014)
30	* ''ComicBook/MrsDeadpoolAndTheHowlingCommandos'' (2015): The series features the monster as part of an elite team of monster soldiers.
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33	[[folder:Feature Films]]
34	* ''{{Film/Frankenstein\|1910}}'' (1910), written and directed by J. Searle Dawley, and the first film adaptation. Largely a showcase of special effects, and it was believed to be lost for decades. Luckily, a copy was eventually found.
35	* ''Life Without Soul'' (1915), the second film adaptation of Shelley's novel, but it remains a lost film.
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37	!!!'''Franchise/UniversalHorror films'''
38	* ''{{Film/Frankenstein\|1931}}'' (1931), the classic film directed by Creator/JamesWhale, and the first to star Creator/BorisKarloff as the title monster. Rather than the cynical, intelligent monster of the book, the Universal Studios version presents a childlike creature that DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength. This is the best-known adaptation, locked in the creature's physical appearance in pop-culture, and spawned its own series of sequels and parodies (see below).
39	* ''Film/BrideOfFrankenstein'' (1935)
40	* ''Film/SonOfFrankenstein'' (1939)
41	* ''Film/TheGhostOfFrankenstein'' (1942)
42	* ''Film/FrankensteinMeetsTheWolfMan'' (1943)
43	* ''Film/HouseOfFrankenstein'' (1944)
44	* ''Film/HouseOfDracula'' (1945); the Monster appears at the end of the film.
45	* ''Film/AbbottAndCostelloMeetFrankenstein'' (1948)
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47	!!!'''Film/HammerHorror films'''
48	* ''Film/TheCurseOfFrankenstein'' (1957), starring Creator/PeterCushing as the Doctor and Creator/ChristopherLee as the Monster.
49	* ''Film/TheRevengeOfFrankenstein'' (1958)
50	* ''Film/TheEvilOfFrankenstein'' (1964)
51	* ''Film/FrankensteinCreatedWoman'' (1967)
52	* ''Film/FrankensteinMustBeDestroyed'' (1969)
53	* ''Film/TheHorrorOfFrankenstein'' (1970), Hammer's semi-remake of their first ''Frankenstein'' film.
54	* ''Film/FrankensteinAndTheMonsterFromHell'' (1974)
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56	!!!'''Miscellaneous films'''
57	* ''Film/Frankenstein1970'' (1958), directed by Howard W. Koch. Creator/BorisKarloff plays the Baron rather than the monster this time.
58	* ''Film/HouseOnBareMountain'' (1962): The Wolfman, Dracula and the Frankenstein monster spy on a girls' school in the mountains, where most of the girls sunbathe in the nude.
59	* ''Film/FrankensteinConquersTheWorld'' (1965), a [[{{Franchise/Godzilla}} Toho]] film where the monster's immortal heart makes its way to Japan and after exposure to the Hiroshima blast, leads to a new giant-sized Frankenstein, who fights a giant fire-breathing lizard named Baragon.
60	** ''Film/WarOfTheGargantuas'' (1966), a sequel where two creatures grow from scraps left behind in the previous movie.
61	* ''Film/JesseJamesMeetsFrankensteinsDaughter'' (1966): A bizarre, low-budget horror/western hybrid that has to be seen to be believed. The title is somewhat misleading; the villain is the ''grand''daughter of the original Dr. Frankenstein.
62	* ''Film/DraculaVsFrankenstein'' (1971): Dracula conspires with a mad doctor to resurrect the Frankenstein Monster.
63	* ''Film/LadyFrankenstein'' (1971), an English-language Italian horror film directed by Mel Welles and written by cult writer Edward di Lorenzo. Focuses on the exploits of the Baron's daughter, and features more bare breasts than the average Frankenstein film.
64	* ''Film/SantoVsLaHijaDeFrankestein'', or ''Santo versus Frankenstein's Daughter'' (1971), one of the film outings of luchador-turned-movie star Wrestling/ElSanto. In addition to creating monsters, Ms. Dr. Frankenstein tries to use Santo's blood to create a youth serum.
65	* ''Film/{{Blackenstein}}'' (1973), a {{Blaxploitation}} film in a which a soldier loses his arms and legs to a landmine in Vietnam. His fiancee persuades her former mentor to use him as a test subject for a new technique to graft on new limbs. However, the professor's lab assistant sabotages the experiment, transforming the soldier into a Frankenstein monster.
66	* ''Film/TheEroticRitesOfFrankenstein'' (1973), a French film directed by Creator/JessFranco in which Frankenstein's daughter Vera and his arch-rival the immortal sorcerer Cagliostro vie for control of his monster after his death.
67	* ''Frankenstein: The True Story'' (1973), a British TV film directed by Jack Smight and written by Christopher Isherwood. Features Creator/LeonardWhiting as Victor Frankenstein and Creator/MichaelSarrazin as the Monster.
68	* ''Film/FleshForFrankenstein'' (aka ''Andy Warhol's Frankenstein'') (1973)
69	* ''Film/FrankensteinsCastleOfFreaks'' (1974), an Italian horror film involving Count Frankenstein and Neanderthal men. No, really.
70	* ''Film/YoungFrankenstein'' (1974), Creator/MelBrooks' AffectionateParody of the Universal movies.
71	* ''Film/FrankensteinIsland'' (1981): When a hot-air balloon crashes on a remote island, the crew discovers Dr. Frankenstein's descendant carrying on the family work, along with a race of mutants and a population of Amazons. Low budget does not begin to describe this glorious mess.
72	* ''Film/TheBride'' (1985): After creating Viktor (Creator/ClancyBrown), a reanimated man, Dr. Frankenstein (Music/{{Sting}}) brings the freshly dead Eva (Creator/JenniferBeals) back to life as a mate for his monster. Gorgeous Eva rejects the hideously scarred Viktor, who goes on a murderous rampage that blows up the lab. In the chaos, Frankenstein and Eva escape. Assuming Viktor is dead, Frankenstein decides to train his other creation to act like a normal human.
73	* ''Film/Transylvania65000'' (1985): Two tabloid reporters who travel to modern-day Transylvania to uncover the truth behind Frankenstein sightings.
74	* ''Film/FrankensteinUnbound'' (1990): 21st century scientist, Dr. Buchanan, ends up in Switzerland in the 1800s during the events of the original novel, getting involved in the plot, and also meets a young Mary Shelley in the process. Directed by Roger Corman; based on Brian Aldiss' 1973 novel of the same name.
75	* ''Frankenstein: the College Years'' (1991), a television film directed by Tom Shadyac.
76	* ''Frankenstein'' (1993), a television film directed by David Wickes.
77	* ''Film/MaryShelleysFrankenstein'' (1994), an adaptation directed by Creator/KennethBranagh, TruerToTheText than most before it, although widely derided for its hammy acting and questionable casting.
78	* ''Film/{{Monster Mash\|1995}}'' (1995): Two teenagers named Scott and Mary are on their way to Halloween party when their car breaks down and they find themselves at the castle (and party therein) of Dr. Frankenstein, who quickly begins plotting to put Scott's brain into his monster.
79	* ''Frankenstein'' (2004), a TV movie based on books by Creator/DeanKoontz.
80	* ''Film/VanHelsing'' (2004), Shuler Hensley plays the monster in the crossover film.
81	* ''Frankenstein'' (2007), an {{Creator/ITV}} adaptation of the novel.
82	* ''Film/FrankensteinsArmy'' (2013): A found footage film, in which a squadron of Soviet soldiers at the end of World War 2, has an encounter with the laboratory of a Nazi doctor building a Main/DieselPunk cyborg army.
83	* ''Film/TheFrankensteinTheory'' (2013): Another found footage film, that claims the original novel was based on actual events.
84	* ''Film/ArmyOfFrankensteins'' (2014): A young man travels back in time, finding himself entrenched in the Civil War with an army of Frankensteins.
85	* ''Film/IFrankenstein'' (2014), a movie notable for staying true to the Creature's depiction in the book; but having the story take place in the present day, and featuring the Creature (now named Adam Frankenstein, played by Creator/AaronEckhart) involved in a war between gargoyles and demons.
86	* ''Film/VictorFrankenstein'' (2015) is a ''very'' loose adaptation of the novel, focusing primarily on the friendship between Victor Frankenstein and his protégé Igor Strausman.
87	* ''{{Film/Frankenstein\|2015}}'' (2015), a stripped down, modernized adaptation from the director of ''{{Film/Candyman}}''.
88	* ''Film/{{Sharkenstein}}'' (2016): A former Nazi scientist uses Dr. Frankenstein's research to create a deadly shark by combining the body parts of several different sharks.
89	* ''Frankenstein'' (TBA), an upcoming adaptation by Creator/GuillermoDelToro, which will star Creator/DougJones as the Monster, Creator/OscarIssac as Victor Frankenstein and Creator/MiaGoth as Elizabeth Lavenza.
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92	[[folder:Literature]]
93	* '''''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}''''' (1818), the original novel written by Creator/MaryShelley, and the inspiration for everything else listed on this page.
94	* ''Literature/TheBrideOfFrankensteinPandorasBride'', a spinoff from the Franchise/UniversalHorror series that sends the Bride to face off with some of the most famous characters from Weimar cinema.
95	* ''Literature/TheDarkDescentOfElizabethFrankenstein'', a retelling of ''{{Literature/Frankenstein}}'' by Kiersten White, where the story is told from the point of view of Elizabeth Lavenza.
96	* ''[[https://www.amazon.com/Frankenstein-Papers-Fred-Saberhagen/dp/0671655507 The Frankenstein Papers]]'' by Creator/FredSaberhagen is an AlternateContinuity sequel to Shelley's book in which the Monster survives in the Arctic.
97	* ''Literature/MonsterANovelOfFrankenstein'': A retelling of the novel from the creature's perspective by Dave Zeltserman, portraying Victor Frankenstein as a necromancer and mad scientist who thinks his position in society gives him the right to treat people however he wants.
98	* ''Following Frankenstein'': A middle grade FanSequel by Catherine Bruton, it follows original character Maggie Walton as she gets caught up in her father Robert’s quest to find the Creature…and discover his son instead.
99	* ''This Dark Endeavor'' and its sequel ''Such Wicked Intent'' by Kenneth Oppel is an alternate prequel where a teenage Victor, Elizabeth and Henry discover the secret to life while looking for a way to save Victor’s ill CanonForeigner twin brother, Konrad.
100	* ''Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match'', a RomanceNovel by Sally Thorne is a ''very'' loose adaptation of the text that focuses on Angelika Frankenstein, CanonForeigner sister to Victor, as she uses his studies to create a groom to avoid being an OldMaid.
101	* ''Unnatural Creatures'', a PerspectiveFlip by Kris Waldherr that tells the story from the perspective of the women: Victor’s mother Caroline, his bride Elizabeth and Justine, the woman he got killed.
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104	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
105	* "[[Recap/WishboneS1E17Frankenbone Frankenbone]]," a 1995 episode of ''{{Series/Wishbone}}''. Despite being a short, kids' version with a dog in the role of Victor Frankenstein, it actually sticks pretty close to the original novel. Still, they couldn't resist including the obligatory scene in which electricity is used to bring the monster to life.
106	* ''{{Series/House of Frankenstein\|1997}}'' (1997), an {{Creator/NBC}} miniseries remake of [[Film/HouseOfFrankenstein the 1944 film of the same name]].
107	* ''{{Series/Frankenstein\|2004}}'' (2004), a Hallmark Channel two-episode miniseries adaptation that is even ''more'' closely faithful to the novel than Branagh's 1994 film.
108	* ''WebVideo/FrankensteinMD'' (2014), a [[VlogSeries web series]] from Pemberley Digital, featuring the amateur educational videos of enthusiastic and unorthodox medical student, [[GenderFlip Victoria]] Frankenstein.
109	* ''Series/TheFrankensteinChronicles'' (2015-2018), an Creator/{{ITV}} two-season series, combining the Frankenstein myth with a police drama: a police inspector investigates a series of murders apparently made in order to collect human body parts to recreate a creature.
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112	[[folder:Theatre]]
113	* ''Presumption; or, the Fate of Frankenstein'' (1823), written by Richard Brinsley Peake. This introduced changes like removing the framing device, making the monster a huge and non-speaking brute that dies at the end, and elevating Frankenstein's assistant to major character status which would later become standard elements of the mythology. Until the 1931 movie, this was the best-known version of the story. [[http://english.unl.edu/sbehrendt/texts/Presumption/presump.htm Read the transcript here]].
114	* ''Frankenstein In Love'' (1982) by Creator/CliveBarker, a SettingUpdate where Frankenstein is an former Nazi continuing his grisly experiments in a [[BananaRepublic South American dictatorship]] and his [[FrankensteinsMonster Monster]] is the leader of LaResistance
115	* ''Frankenstein -- A New Musical'' (2007), an obscure musical adaptation starring Hunter Foster as Victor Frankenstein, and Steve Blanchard as the Creature.
116	* ''Theatre/YoungFrankenstein'' (2007), adapted from the 1974 film
117	* ''Frankenstein: La Opera Rock'' (2009), a Mexican rock opera adaptation of the book, taking references from some of the movies. Written, directed, and composed by José Fores, who also plays the role of the Creature.
118	* ''{{Theatre/Frankenstein\|2011}}'' (2011), written by Nick Dear and directed by Creator/DannyBoyle, starring Creator/BenedictCumberbatch and Creator/JonnyLeeMiller alternating as Frankenstein and the Monster. Scored with dark electronic ambiance by the band {{Music/Underworld\|Band}} too.[[note]]Interestingly enough, both actors have played Franchise/SherlockHolmes in modernized TV reboots; Cumberbatch in ''{{Series/Sherlock}}'', and Miller in ''{{Series/Elementary}}''.[[/note]]
119	* ''Frankenstein's Wedding'' (2011), a live musical filmed in Leeds, with the audience taking on the role of guests at Victor's and Elizabeth's wedding.
120	* ''{{Theatre/Frankenstein\|2014}}'' (2014) a South Korean musical adaptation, has become popular there and in Japan, with top stars such as Eun Tae Park, Kazuki Kato, and Akinori Nakagawa playing the lead roles. It features a mostly original story involving the bond between Victor and his childhood friend, Henri. After Henri sacrifices himself to save Victor, the latter tries to resurrect him, and [[CameBackWrong creates the Monster]]. Rejected by his creator, the monster wanders off into the world and encounters [[AndYouWereThere further twists]] in the seedy underbelly of the city.
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123	[[folder:Video Games]]
124	* ''VideoGame/EscapeFromFrankensteinsCastle'', an adventure game where a woman must navigate a castle owned by Dr. Frankenstein, find her fiancé, and search for a way out with the help of the ghost of the mad doctor's previous victim.
125	* ''VideoGame/FrankensteinTheMonsterReturns'', a beat 'em up/platformer where a nameless knight fights to save his beloved, kidnapped by Frakenstein's monster.
126	* ''VideoGame/FrankensteinRoomEscape'', a room escape adventure game where you solve puzzles to progress through the story, experiencing events through multiple different perspectives in a tale of science and revenge.
127	* ''VideoGame/FrankensteinMasterOfDeath'', a hidden object game where the protagonist searches for his friend, Victor Frankenstein, who is desperate need of help after a research partnership goes horribly wrong.
128	* ''VideoGame/FrankensteinThroughTheEyesOfTheMonster'', a point and click adventure game starring Creator/TimCurry as Dr. Frankenstein, where players are put in the shoes of the doctor's latest resurrected creation.
129	* ''VideoGame/TheWandererFrankensteinsCreature'' (2019), a point and click adventure game with the Creature as the focal character, based more closely on Mary Shelley's novel as opposed to the number of pop culture references.
130	* ''VideoGame/ThyCreature'', an adventure game by [=MazM=], where the Creature explores a mysterious castle with the goal of facing long-forgotten memories.
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133	[[folder:Western Animation]]
134	* ''WesternAnimation/FrankensteinsCat'': Follows the exploits of Doctor Frankenstein's first experiment. The cat is created by the Doctor out of nine different cats, leading to his name being Nine.
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137	[[/index]]
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139	!! ''Frankenstein'' tropes:
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141	!!!'''TropeNamer of:'''
142	* DrFakenstein: Victor Frankenstein, of course.
143	* FrankensteinsMonster: Obviously enough.
144	* FrankenX: The creature ended up inspiring a shorthand for any sort of grotesque mix-and-match.
145	* TheIgor: Not from the original novel (Frankenstein didn't have an assistant in that version), but this character was actually the invention of the movie adaptations. The 1931 film's hunchbacked assistant was actually named Fritz, but ''Son of Frankenstein'' introduced Creator/BelaLugosi's Ygor, and the rest is history.
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147	!!!'''General tropes:'''
148	* ArtificialHuman: A biological, artificially-constructed humanoid.
149	* AudioAdaptation: Works adapted to audio-only media like Audiobooks, {{Audio Play}}s, or {{Radio}}.
150	* BlindAndTheBeast: The creature tries to befriend a blind man, and it works! Except the man's family returns and casts out the creature before he can explain himself.
151	** Sort of subverted in at least one version, where the blind man treats the creature politely... until his family tells him what the creature actually looks like, at which point he's horrified in spite of how nice the creature's been so far.
152	* CanonForeigner: Toei's 1981 anime TV special version introduces a few original characters designed by ''Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato'' and ''Anime/MagicalPrincessMinkyMomo'' designer/animator Toyoo Ashida, including Victor's nine-year-old daughter Emily, likely as a point of identification for the kids at whom the special was aimed.
153	* CharacterTitle: The name of the main character used for the series itself.
154	* ConvenientlyInterruptedDocument: In ''Frankenstein: The True Story'', just before Clerval and Frankenstein are prepared to animate their creation, Clerval discovers that an arm they had reanimated earlier is becoming horribly deformed. He has a heart attack and leaves a partially-completed note: "The process is re--". He intended to write "reversing", Frankenstein interpreted the note to mean "ready."
155	* CreatingLife: Easily the best example--perhaps not for Frankenstein, but certainly for Shelley.
156	* CreepyLongFingers: Longer-than-average fingers depicted as creepy.
157	* DarkIsNotEvil: A {{Deconstruction}}. The Monster was not inherently evil, but AllTheOtherReindeer made him so.
158	* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: The Monster is often unaware of the damage it can do.
159	* GentleGiant: The Monster was originally depicted as innocent, and this sometimes carries over to adaptations.
160	* GoneHorriblyWrong: Very much so.
161	* GraveRobbing: In most adaptations, how the parts to create the monster are obtained.
162	* FleshGolem: The Monster heavily influenced this trope.
163	* HerrDoktor: Possibly the TropeCodifier. More the films than the novel; both because the films' version of Frankenstein is more Germanic, and because in the original novel he never got his doctorate; after the shock of seeing his creation realized, he switched to studying literature, then dropped his studies entirely to deal with the creature's vendetta against him.
164	* {{Hubris}}: One of the themes of the plot.
165	* IfICantHaveYou: Envious, jealous, or narcissistic characters demanding love.
166	* IAmNotShazam:[[invoked]] Lampshaded in ''Son of Frankenstein'', when the train bearing Frankenstein's family arrives in their hometown.
167	-->'''Wolf Frankenstein:''' "Why, nine out of ten people call that misshapen creature of my father's experiments--"
168	-->'''Guard:''' "Frankenstein Village."
169	* IJustWantToBeLoved: The monster in the anime version. He's able to make one friend - Victor's nine-year-old daughter - who then turns against him when she believes he murdered her mother and best friend.
170	* MadScientist: Dr. Frankenstein is the UrExample for this character archetype. His LargeHam personality in the movies have become the TropeCodifier for mad scientists in general.
171	* NonMaliciousMonster: The Monster is like this initially.
172	* OurZombiesAreDifferent: The Monster is usually depicted as being comprised of body parts assembled from different corpses, which would make him sort of undead.
173	* ThenLetMeBeEvil: If everybody's going to treat me like the villain, then I'll be the villain.
174	* TooDumbToLive: Vic runs away from his ''successful'' experiment in creating life because it's ugly. Then he destroys the Bride he was making for it, causing the Creature to go on a rampage. All the Creature wanted was some familial love, and then a female companion. C'mere, Vic... we need to slap some of the stupid out of you. In fairness, he destroyed the mate for fear that, unlike his first creation, it would be a monster in manner as well as looks.
175	** He's also worried that the two creations together could breed and create a race of monsters. Um... brilliant biologist and anatomist hasn't heard of tying tubes?
176	*** Tubal ligations and vasectomies weren't viable with humans until the late 1800s. [[ShareTheMalePain Castration]] would still be on the table...
177	** When the monster told Victor that he "would be with you on your wedding night" he took that to mean that the monster planned to kill him then, even though its ''modus operandi'' up to that point had been to target his loved ones. He prepares to confront the monster alone while leaving his new wife undefended; the monster kills her instead.
178	* TorturedMonster: Most definitely so.
179	* UnbuiltTrope: The trope was made before it was codified, making the original seem like a deconstruction.
180	* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: The Creature.
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182	!!!'''Movie tropes:'''
183	* AgeLift: The Victor Frankenstein of the Film/HammerHorror movies is an old, gray-haired MadScientist; the book's Victor Frankenstein is a 20-year-old college kid! That's one aspect that the Franchise/UniversalHorror films got right.
184	* GraveRobbing: To get the parts for the monster.
185	* HauntedCastle: Both the doctor and his monster lurk here.
186	* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Victor's death at the hands of his own creation.
187	* HulkSpeak: How the Monster often talks.
188	* ImplacableMan: He might be slow and staggering, but he ''is'' coming for you.
189	* KillItWithFire: The Monster's main, if not only, weakness.
190	* LightningCanDoAnything: Ironically, the book itself deliberately left the means by which Frankenstein reanimated the creature a mystery, but you'd be forgiven for not knowing that from the films, for which lightning is an iconic part of the process.
191	* MadScientistLaboratory: The place where Dr. Frankenstein makes the monster with science.
192	* MightyGlacier: The novel's version is, if anything, a LightningBruiser.
193	* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: The film is supposed to be set in some country where German is spoken, but most of the cast hardly make an effort.
194	* {{Retcon}}: Both Frankenstein and his creation, are pretty clearly killed at the end of the 1931 film, but preview screenings proved so successful, that they changed the ending to allow for Vic--er, Henry's survival, and then implying that the monster, also survived the fire under the windmill. James Whale originally refused to direct the sequel, ''Bride of Frankenstein'', but eventually decided to [[invoked]][[MoneyDearBoy so he could make]] ''One More River.'' Knowing he could never top the original, he decided to make it [[{{Camp}} "a hoot"]].
195	* ScaryStitches: Part of the Monster's standard appearance.
196	* SillyWalk: A must for TheIgor, and, in the later films, the Monster too.
197	* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: Many film adaptations.
198	* TorchesAndPitchforks: The torch-wielding mob of peasants.
199	* {{Uberwald}}: Arguably, the film and its sequels codified the setting.
200	* WorkingForABodyUpgrade: Several of the films make this TheIgor's motivation for employment.
201	* ZombieGait: How the Monster moves about.

Context Franchise / Frankenstein