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8->''"Franken Fran: Creator/MaryShelley wishes she's written something this scary."''
9-->-- '''WebVideo/YRulerOfTime''', ''Website/ChannelAwesome'' manga reviewer
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11''Franken Fran'' is a HorrorComedy manga by Kigitsu Katsuhisa. Think ''Manga/BlackJack'' if you traded most of whatever medical accuracy was still present in Tezuka's manga in favor of BodyHorror, RuleOfScary and BlackComedy. And if Black Jack was a female Frankenstein's monster.
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13In a distant, rarely-visited part of Japan, the world's greatest surgeon, Naomitsu Madaraki, once lived in a large, Gothic-style mansion. However, he's been away on research and hasn't come home in ages. Instead, the professor's "daughter", Fran Madaraki, lives there with many of her own ghoulish creations and her "younger sister" Veronica. She's a very unusual girl, what with the stitch patterns on her face and the giant bolts on either side of her head. However, she's just as skilled at surgery as her father, and if you're willing to pay her price, she can do everything up to and including raising the dead.
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15Of course, there's a small caveat to all this. Fran has one, very important rule in her work: "regardless of the shape or form, if it can function as a living organism, it is good." In other words, Fran believes that a life should be saved ''no matter the cost'', and that mindset means that the end result of her surgeries are rarely (if ever) pretty.
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17A mostly episodic series, the manga was serialized in Akita Shoten's ''Champion Red'' magazine from September 2006 to February 2012. Creator/SevenSeasEntertainment later acquired the English rights, releasing it in an omnibus format from February 2016 to January 2017. A short [[RadioDrama audio drama adaptation]] was also released in 2010. In February 2019, a SequelSeries entitled ''Franken Fran Frantic'' began serialization, picking up where the original series left off. The author has also written ''Manga/HelenESP'', ''Manga/MeitanteiMarnie'' and ''Manga/ArthurPyutyWaYoruNoMajo''.
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19Not to be confused with [[Creator/AlFranken Fran Franken, the wife of the junior Senator from Minnesota]].
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22!!This series provides examples of:
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27* AbortedArc: Gavrill's introduction chapter revolves around her [[NearVillainVictory nearly successful scheme]] to murder Fran and Veronica and take the Madaraki Estate for herself. She never shows any further interest in the Estate in any of her reappearances, not even when she blackmails Veronica into owing her a favor in a later chapter.
28* AbusiveParents: Pops up often.
29** The parents of the girl in "Take To Pieces" are too poor to take her to a hospital, so they simply cut off the mutations growing on her body. When the mutations get too numerous to keep up, they simply abandon their daughter.
30** In chapter six, the girl's parents kill her, then cook her and serve her up to guests as a birthday feast (her ''own'' birthday, no less!).
31** The step-father of the girl in "Attempted Suicide" sexually abuses her.
32* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: The robotics developer in chapter 35 falls victim to this after the RobotGirl modeled after his late wife, brain patterns and all, becomes wildly popular and the fame and fortune (and women) go to his head. He eventually grows weary of his creations and tries to enter the dating pool again -- [[TooDumbToLive while surrounded by a bunch of the robots whose primary character trait is single-minded devotion to him]]. He eventually gets the same treatment his wife had at the request of the original brain uploaded robot, so he could be with her forever. He also gets to be exploited by his company to become the male model of the robot, for some added IronicHell.
33* ActionGirl: Despite the series not really revolving around action/adventure, Veronica is sort of this depending of the situation. Chapter 46's "Anti-Fat Remedy" for instance shows her doing spy stuff to steal an anti-fat medicine for Fran from a company that refused to let Fran use it to help a morbidly obese girl.
34* AdaptationDecay: Invoked for Vol.4's extra chapter, the story of the loyal dog in Chapter 27's "Her Pet Dog" was adopted into a movie InNameOnly as the true story wouldn't make for a good movie. Veronica's reaction is what one would expect:
35-->'''Veronica:''' [SpitTake] "What the hell is this crap!?"
36-->[Veronica throws a chair against the screen]
37--> '''Fran''': Well, it is a movie, so they were bound to change a few things.
38* AdaptationDeviation: InUniverse. If the final bonus chapter is to be believed, the events as told in the manga are DarkerAndEdgier versions of true stories Fran really worked on. According to Fran, most of said true stories actually had ''happy'' endings. Although it bears mentioning that Fran may have a [[UnreliableNarrator slightly skewed perspective]] on what constitutes a "happy" ending.
39* AdmiringTheAbomination: Fran's reaction to seeing a monstrous {{Kaiju}}: "[[ImTakingHerHomeWithMe I want one.]]"
40* AirventEscape: Fran tries this but her butt is too big. Solution? Cut off her legs and walk home on her hands.
41* AlliterativeName: Spoofed in "People Of Unusual Tastes". The people all have alliterative names, from A.A. to E.E., mocking the convention of murder mysteries to usually name suspects as A, B, etc. Of course, our beloved lady doctor is called '''F'''ranken '''F'''ran even if that's not her actual name...
42* AllMenArePerverts: ZigZagged in one chapter where Fran comes up with a way to make the male students stop hitting on the girls. It seems to work, but then the girls start complaining that the guys are ignoring them completely, leading to the discovery of [[spoiler:a room full of a gelatinous mass that emits pheromones causing the guys to see it as a room of naked women, with whom they have sex]].
43* AmusementParkOfDoom: One chapter has a Disney-like amusement park with mascots [[spoiler:that are actually real creatures created by Fran]]. All well and good... until they start running amok and actually killing off the patrons. [[spoiler:Turns out the music in the land was keeping them docile and when it went off due to a computer glitch they turned feral.]] That's not the real kicker though. After that whole ordeal is solved the manager actually re-opens the park again [[spoiler:[[ParanoiaFuel with the same creatures still patrolling the grounds!]]. Why? Hey good business is business.]] It takes a new spin in a later chapter when it's revealed that [[spoiler:the mascots are sometimes surgically altered to fit new appearance themes, outdated mascots are eliminated, and mascots that are violent toward customers are killed in front of the others]].
44* AnachronicOrder: The creator makes it clear that certain later chapters occur before earlier chapters. It's easy to tell which ones come first because Veronica is absent from them. For instance, ch. 29 "Egg Parturition" occurred over several years, so Veronica was there by the end.
45* AndIMustScream: A lot of Fran's patients wind up in this boat, temporarily or permanently, whether they deserve it or not.
46** The fate of the villain of "Eternal Youth", [[spoiler:transformed into a heaving mass of immortal cancer cells]].
47** In "Twenty Four", a ten-year-old girl inherits a vast fortune, but can't technically spend it because she's so young. The remaining 24 members of her extended family, including some politicians and Yakuza members, try to get some of the money out of her in the form of donations to charities. [[spoiler:Due to a (self-inflicted) explosion, the girl's brain is transplanted into a clone of her which her mother had made in an attempt to replace her. Everyone else has their brains transplanted into stuffed animals, which in turn are all connected to the girl's original body. Fran says "unless they all agree on it, they can't even lift a finger." One of those brains is of her uncle, who has recently learned how crappy a life she had. It's hinted that he would purposefully disagree just to keep the rest of the relatives in the hell they've built.]]
48** "Living Dead": [[spoiler:The "zombies" are actually still alive and completely conscious, they just can't do anything about it.]]
49* AndTheAdventureContinues: In the final chapter of the original run "Dream", [[spoiler:after getting trapped in a sunken ship and dreaming about a party where every single previous character appears, including the Professor, Fran gets rescued and goes back to the daily grind]].
50* AntiVillain: The evil organization in "Justice 2" actually [[spoiler:controls the whole world's charity organization and tries to make as much good as possible out of people's lives to cause overpopulation and destroy the world. [[FridgeLogic Why this necessitates turning their members into monsters is unclear]]. So our protagonist who found out the horrible truth is now WalkingTheEarth [[VillainProtagonist and burning orphanages.]] He eventually picks up help.]]
51* AnyoneCanDie: No matter the species, no matter the gender, no matter the age (even kids and unborn babies), ANYONE can die, and can suffer [[FateWorseThanDeath fates even worse than that]] if they don't.
52%%* AppendageAssimilation
53* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking:
54** When Veronica goes to school and is bullied, she gets several papers taped to her back, like "DIE!" "I'm a dirty whore." "I'll do anyone as long as it's male. Even a dog!" and "Kick me."
55** One chapter has Fran decide to go to school one day, and it gets out that she's a brilliant surgeon specializing in body mods. The kids go hog-wild for it, leading to such things as a couple who wanted to be stitched together, another couple who wanted to trade sexes, a guy who had her give him a SkullForAHead, a guy made to look like TheAhnold, and some girls who want spine-crushingly big boobs, among other disturbing modifications, [[BigFun there's this one guy who wants to be fat.]] Not grotesquely so, just a flabby belly.
56* ArtEvolution: Fran's character design evolved as the manga progressed, gaining slightly larger eyes and noticeably larger bolts.
57* ArtificialHuman: Most of the recurring cast appear to be this.
58* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Fran states in "God and Dog" that there's no proof that dogs descended from wolves. Either she neglected to do her research or she's simply discarding it, as dogs and wolves had already been proven to be the same species ''at the genetic level'' years before that chapter was published. An issue of ''Frantic'' would have a side character correctly note the relation.
59* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: In one chapter while justifying how the MonsterOfTheWeek couldn't exist, Fran claims dinosaurs evolved into birds because they were too big to sustain themselves and there was no landmass that could support them. Accompanied by a ''T. rex'' with a forked tongue (and, oddly, strands of proto-feathers).
60* ArtisticLicenseStatistics: The conclusion of "An Extremely Lucky Man", centered on a man with phenomenal luck, relies on casting the GamblersFallacy as truth.
61* {{Asshole Victim}}s: Too many to count. While Fran and Veronica often do pretty terrible things to some characters, the victims in question are mostly jerks who aren't truly sympathetic to begin with.
62* TheAtoner: In "Exorcist", [[spoiler:the cardinal that is a candidate to be the next Pope]] used to be a mafia lord. After he was mortally wounded in the head and recovered by surgery, he decided to pay for his sins by [[spoiler:devoting the rest of his life to the church]].
63%%* AttemptedRape: Happens with disturbing frequency.
64* AuthorTract: Chapter 5's "God & Dog". People worship gods of all kinds, be it physical objects/people or spiritual beings. If there is no God, people will make one of their own.
65* AwesomeButImpractical:
66** The metamorphosis birth method of "Egg Parturition". In theory, it's really impressive and removes all of the hassle that comes with normal pregnancy, as Fran says. [[GoneHorriblyWrong In practice]]... well, it's easier to protect something when it's inside you. Without a secure, airtight environment ala a womb (or even an egg), you have to put in far more effort into keeping the fetus safe. After all, babies carried in the womb don't have to worry about [[spoiler:parasitic wasps laying eggs in them, being fed on by insects or stray animals, or getting squished by careless parents-to-be]]. One of the squickier chapters, which is saying something.
67** The entire manga more or less seems to be this, as whenever anyone asks Fran for surgery, it usually ends up going horribly wrong due to the unforeseen side effects. Fran seems to be fully aware of these side effects and ''usually'' tries to warn them, but the patients more or less don't care.
68* AxCrazy: Gavrill. Not only does she love tearing people to shreds, she also likes to ''[[ImAHumanitarian eat their corpses]]''. After [[MoralityPet Dr. Amatsuka]] prevented her from killing anyone during her time as a school teacher, she was absolutely delighted when the school was taken over by a group of kidnappers, allowing her to finally unleash her lust for bloodshed.
69* BackForTheFinale: Basically every secondary or one-chapter-only character makes an appearance in Fran's dream in the original run's last chapter.
70* BackFromTheDead: Initially averted, as the very first chapter has Fran explain that while reanimating dead bodies may be doable, properly resurrecting a person's mind with their personality and memories intact is an incredible challenge and virtually impossible. Later played straight, as she spends the rest of the series [[BlatantLies constantly doing just that.]]
71* BadassTeacher: Of all people, [[spoiler:Gavrill]] becomes this in the aptly named chapter "Teacher" when [[spoiler:Amatsuka asks her to become a high school teacher for a while]].
72* BaitAndSwitch: In "Take To Pieces", the poor girl who has random body parts growing off of her screams in fear as Fran is about to operate on her. Cut to a month later, Fran laments that things ended tragically... by which she means she couldn't figure anything out about how the girl's body worked; the girl herself is perfectly cured and grateful, ready to live life to the fullest again. Lampshaded by Okita.
73* BatmanGambit: ''Frantic'' chapter 37, "Forbidden Experiment" has Fran's class recreate the StanfordPrisonExperiment, with her classmate Akari being in charge. Naturally, the class devolves into chaos, beating and raping each other by the time the week is over, with Fran being murdered at the end. The audience of students, parents, and teachers are horrified at the results when they're presented at the school festival, and Akari tries to downplay it as simple human nature, fake crying the whole time. Then Fran strolls onto the stage. [[spoiler:The rest of the class was faking the entire thing, as [[LockedOutOfTheLoop everyone but Akari]] was aware that the original experiment was also fake. As a result, they all decided to change the experiment to be analysis of ''her'' behavior, revealing that she ''immediately'' went mad with power as soon as she thought there would be zero accountability for her actions, trying to stir up as much violence between the groups as possible for her own entertainment, and rejecting every plea for the experiment to be stopped.]] Fran then asks for the audience not to judge her too harshly, [[IronicEcho as it is just human nature]].
74* BeachEpisode: Chapter 41's "Sea Specter"... sort of if not for the investigation of the titular sea specter paralyzing and drowning its victims.
75-->'''Fran''': [...] one of the victims happened to be the grandson of an influential politician, so I've been asked to determine the exact cause of the deaths that occur here. But let's not worry too much about the whole DYING thing. We should think of this as a vacation and have a good time!
76* BeastMan: Gavrill. Her body can distort into a giant wolf-like creature with double-rows of teeth.
77* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Fran's patients should ''really'' think a little harder about turning to her for help. Those that ask for simple procedures can get away virtually unscathed. It's the ones that tend to ask for medical miracles that suffer. This is played with in some cases, as in many cases the crap that happens to them is their own fault, such as overdoing a youth treatment until they mutate into a blob of cancer cells, or ripping off transplanted skin that was perfectly fine because it was derived from cockroaches. In fact, a great deal of the problems that occur really aren't Fran's fault, and stem from stupid and/or shortsighted people stealing her work for their own purposes, or ignoring her advice.
78* BerserkButton:
79** Inverted. Fran is usually pretty happy to do operations, but when you want do it to impress someone you like, she starts breaking into TenderTears. It seems like she's really into ThePowerOfLove...
80** In "Killing Impulse", [[spoiler:Gavrill goes on a violent rampage against a group of politicians who ordered Prof. Amatsuka attacked. Moreover, near the end of the same chapter, Fran also admits she would do the same thing if she found out who the culprits behind Amatsuka's assault were, except she would use her own methods instead simply killing them. It's strongly implied that she ''does'' know -- or at least suspects -- and is covertly threatening them against trying it again]].
81* BewareTheNiceOnes:
82** Irritated that Veronica keeps killing people (even if they are attacking the lab), Fran sends her to a girls' boarding school to learn to be sociable. Veronica is viciously bullied, but one timid girl tries to be friendly to her. [[spoiler:It turns out [[BigBadFriend the timid girl was actually the leader of the bullies]], who didn't know about the ''real'' plot, and gave their victims to ''pedophiles'' who export Japanese girls to overseas otaku. Veronica... puts a stop to it.]]
83** Fran subtly shows that she's not one to be messed with. When she realized that someone was attempting to steal information from her and Dr. Amatsuka, she turned the spies into dog-human hybrids, along with their master. She also subtly threatened a senator after helping him evade a vengeful Gavrill, hinting that whatever Gavrill did would be a mercy compared to what she can do to him.
84** More blatantly, in an extra chapter, after being conned into doing a {{Gorn}} movie that portrays both her and Professor Madaraki in an extremely negative light, she modifies another victim of the con -- at her own request -- into a horrific monster that kills the people responsible. It's very much implied that she knew that this would happen if she went through with the modifications but is able to rationalize it as not against her code of ethics because she was just modifying the girl. Whether she decided to kill the porn-studio con artists or not was her own decision that had nothing to do with Fran.
85* BigAnimeEyes: "Two-Dimensions" revolves around a girl who asks Fran for surgery to look like a manga character to get her crush Tooru's attention (a supporter of the "2D girls are superior to real life" debate). She keeps coming back to Fran for more modifications, until she finally has the opportunity to sleep with him, at which point we see the extent of the changes: [[spoiler:[[https://ambivalen.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/franken_fran_v05_c37_20-21.png her eyes are half the size of her head, her mouth is shrunken, her nose is gone and when she stops getting checkups and overdoses on her medication, her hair fell out]]: she looks like one of TheGreys.]] Unsurprisingly, Tooru swears afterwards that he experienced alien contact.
86* BigCreepyCrawlies: Insects are often used as an easy source of NauseaFuel and terror. [[HalfHumanHybrid Insect-human hybrids]], insects with a malevolent HiveMind, [[TheWormThatWalks people made of bugs]], human fetuses that go through giant maggot/chrysalis phases instead of normal pregnancy, [[spoiler:parasitic wasps and roaches preying on said fetuses]]...it's a long list. The artist is a little ''too'' good at drawing bugs.
87* BlackComedy: It's a horror-''comedy'' manga after all; when the humor isn't plain silly, it's this trope. Just look at poor officer Kuhou and the crap she's put through at the expense of a little more of her sanity each time.
88* BladeBelowTheShoulder: Veronica's arsenal of hidden weapons. While she holds them in her hands at times, usually they're mounted on mechanical arms that pop out from under the cape of her coat.
89* BlessedWithSuck: At the end of "Cockroaches", Fran crafts a new layer of skin for [[NeatFreak Kouryuu]] that's much younger-looking than her previous one. [[spoiler:However it was made from the chitin found in cockroach exoskeletons, causing her to start tearing at her new skin in horrified disgust.]]
90** [[spoiler: This is ironic since most cockroaches are neat freaks themselves as they will constantly groom themselves to get rid of any foreign contaminants and flew from anything they find filthy.]]
91* BloodKnight: Gavrill relishes violence and bloodshed and will wade into combat without hesitation, as her abilities make her almost impervious to harm.
92* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Fran has a set of guidelines and rules regarding her behavior, but they are ''nothing'' like normal people's. She strongly opposes murder, but won't mind if she gets to steal your organs, or if you live in a FateWorseThanDeath. Put simply, comparing Fran's sense of medical ethics with that of the greater medical community is like comparing apples to bricks. [[{{Metaphorgotten}} Bricks that won't kill you, but won't particularly care if you spend the rest of your life in unimaginable torment.]]
93* BodyDouble: The mobster in "Fake" makes use of this. This results in some...complications.
94* BodyHorror: This is practically the premise of the manga. Fran's sense of medical ethics is more than a little warped, and her "surgeries" have this nasty habit of leaving her "patients" in some truly horrific bodily state. She does manage to avert this in some chapters, such as "Cockroach 2".
95* BornLucky: Fran's explanation for the condemned man's HealingFactor in Chapter 28--he's simply impossibly lucky, and his indestructibility is a result. [[spoiler:However, because he defied the odds so many times, he hits the "death via being struck by lightning" jackpot.]]
96* BoyMeetsGhoul: A half-blind painter approaches Fran for a new set of eyes, so she gives him ones that were made from the ommatidia of a mantis shrimp which allow him to see everything from radio waves to X-Rays. The painter stumbles out into the forest only to find it full of {{Eldritch Abomination}}s. Terrified and disoriented, he falls off a cliff, then finds himself face-to-face with a beautiful young woman. It's one of the few HappilyEverAfter arcs in the manga, even if Okita's [[OhCrap reaction]] to a painting the artist made of his new lover indicates she is not what she appears to be. The artist's notes indicate that she was a variant on a YukiOnna. But despite being a supernatural being, she seems to be genuinely nice to Urasawa.
97* BreastExpansion: When Fran is handing out free plastic surgery at high school, one of the more 'sensible' patients (as in "did not get stitched to a friend" or "had their face changed to look like a disfigured skull") decides to get breast implants so big they make up the majority of her weight.
98* BringMyBrownPants:
99** One of the bonus chapters shows the reporter who got infected with the zombie virus in containment. It is noted that the disease makes her constantly hungry and she keeps crapping herself as fast as she can eat due to the disease loosening her sphincter.
100** Also, in "The Panoramic Island 2". It was a peaceful morning. Matsumae continued his little fantasy, walking to school with several of his pretend classmates. Then the assassin (who is actually [[spoiler: Kuhou]]) showed up and slaughtered everyone except Matsumae himself. In the next panel, we saw Matsumae's legs, the dead bodies lying around them, and... a puddle of urine forming around his feet.
101* BrotherSisterIncest: [[spoiler:In "Octopus", Kusinoki has sex with a shape-shifting octopus-human hybrid who took the appearance of his recently-deceased sister Azusa, though he does mention he always wanted to do this with his real sister. [[KarmicDeath His body is used as nourishment for the hybrid's thousands of offspring.]]]]
102* ButtMonkey:
103** Veronica has lots of unpleasant things happen to her. She's constantly used as a guinea pig by Fran (the first time Fran "experimented" on her, she just ripped her apart and left her disemboweled for a month), was bullied when first attending school, Gavrill tears her to pieces in their first fight, and her first real friend [[spoiler:dies horribly and Gavrill prevents her from taking them down]]. The final bonus chapter of the original run even ends with her [[spoiler: crying after getting cruelly teased by her sisters, though that is quickly followed by them giving her [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther a hug and apology for going too far]]]].
104** Officer Kuhou, a young policewoman who often crosses paths with either Fran or the results of her work, losing some of her sanity in the process each time. She also has the bad luck of serving as Fran's test subject from time to time.
105* CainAndAbel: Fran and Veronica vs Gavrill. [[spoiler:They all end up on civil terms by the epilogue, implying some offscreen reconciliation, though Veronica still has more than her fair share of reservations.]]
106* CameBackWrong: In the very first chapter, when Fran agrees to bring a dead man's son back to life, she tells Okita that while reanimating his body is easy, reviving his personality is pretty much impossible.
107* CatchPhrase: "Begin the operation!"
108* CastingCouch: Invoked, and a rare male example. The small time actor Tooru Yukizaki only got his pheromones adjusted so that producers and big wigs will take notice of him and put him in their projects, with his acting securing the rest of media attenion. Instead, the big wigs end up liking him so much that he's "invited" to multiple gatherings to entertain them and reluctantly act out their kinks. He ultimately gets plastic surgery and removes his hormone secretion gland just to make them stop hounding him, but the damage is done, and they have their way with him even with an ugly face.
109* CatFolk: Okita sort of parodies this. While the usual blend of human and animal elements is in place, the proportions are completely reversed. He has a human head and intelligence but aside from that, he's basically an ordinary cat.
110* ChainsawGood: In "A Very Lucky Man", after hanging and lethal injection failed to kill a death row inmate, and Fran is denied the chance to study him, the prison officials give up on finding a humane way to execute him and violently dismember him instead...with chainsaws. [[spoiler:He is able to ''recover from this'' after Fran reassembles him.]]
111* ChekhovsGun: The bomb Fran implanted in Veronica [[spoiler:is later used to blow up Gavrill]]. Even Fran is unconvinced that killed her, and she's proven right.
112* CheshireCatGrin: Okita, fittingly enough.
113* ChewToy: Poor, poor Officer Kuhou. Throughout the course of the series, she's been wrapped up in a case of more-than-possible severed body parts, [[spoiler:cloned to help kill off other clones and then had to kill off the clones of herself (though this is probably a dream sequence), tried to talk down a half-suicidal man transplanted into a theme park mascot protecting a little girl, [[{{Squick}} randomly been ejaculated upon]] for ''just being in the room'', and nearly raped by a RealityWarper]], and that's just what we've seen ''so far''; note that the majority of situations involving her are PlayedForLaughs. No wonder just ''seeing'' Fran makes the woman [[FreakOut seriously trip her shit]].
114** In addition to that list, [[spoiler: Fran kidnaps and creates clones of her again, this time with the ability to divide asexually to create even more clones. She then drops more than 1000 of them off on an isolated island to fight Gavrill, figuring that the best way to handle Gavrill is to let her kill enough of them to calm herself down. The original Kuhou gets to go back home, physically no worse off than before]]. It then gets even worse: [[spoiler:Kuhou learns that a new batch of her clones is being used to fulfill the many fetishes of a slightly crazy rich man. She breaks down hard at this, before accidentally getting captured and surgically altered into a monster girl--who accidentally wins the full love and devotion of the man who had broken her brain.]]
115* ChristmasEpisode: A ''Frantic'' episode is about Fran deciding to organise a Christmas party and invite [[ContinuityNod multiple people she had met in the past]], in the hope that Professor Madaraki may come too. Nobody turns up and Fran is feeling depressed... until a plane crashes nearby and Fran has to spend the night operating on the wounded passengers, but eventually runs out of organs and blood. They then catch a (bearded) spy trying to steal a biological weapon from Fran's hospital who challenges them to kill him and discover he is a universal donor, which allows Fran to save everyone at the expense of the spy's life. At the end she discovers evidence [[spoiler:that the spy was a creation from Professor Madaraki's, and Fran wonders if he was his Christmas present to her, while Okita wonders if the crashed plane was part of the gift]].
116* CloudCuckooLander: Fran is an ArtificialHuman with the brain of a really chipper five-year-old, and her decisions and ethics are sound... for what she knows. Fran has been programmed to never, ''ever'' take a life, no matter what, and lacks the maturity to really think past that singular thought. This results in monstrously poor judgment on her part. She's a child with the power to mutate someone else for fun and profit, and no one can stop her.
117* ContemplateOurNavels: Fran is prone to meditating on the nature of humanity, ethics and everything in between...''after'' she's done the morally questionable and potentially unsafe operation, of course.
118* ContinuityNod: In the last issue of the original run, [[spoiler:Fran has a dream in which every person she ever treated throws a big party for her]].
119* CoversAlwaysLie: Humorously (and somewhat cruelly) played on with the tankobon and English omnibus covers for the original series, which are loaded with FanService and LesYay. Often there's a [[FanDisservice horrific version of the same picture on the next page]], such as the cover of volume 3, which features a sexy picture of Adorea, complete with cute face -- despite the fact that her actual face is a mass of tentacles designed for swallowing people whole. The aforementioned horrific version reveals that the "cute face" was just a biological mask.
120* CreepyCockroach: They have built a human-like society within Fran's mansion.
121* CreepyMascotSuit: One issue had a virus that turned people into zombies, pretty standard, right? Well, what wasn't was that their bodies transformed into mascot costumes.
122* {{Crossover}}: ''Franken Fran vs. Ms. Kaida's Ghost Stories'' is a crossover with ''Ms. Kaida's Ghost Stories'', another comic series created by Kigitsu Katsuhisa, wherein a high school girl tells a classmate various horror stories. Said story has Kaida seek out Fran for scary story material, leading to Fran experimenting on the nature of fear. There's also a separate ''Ms. Kaida's Ghost Stories vs. Franken Fran'' that was serialized in that series.
123* CruelMercy: Veronica spares the leader of the boarding school kidnappers [[spoiler:because she was the only person who was nice to her, leaving her to explain the dead pile of pedophiles to the authorities]]. Although...
124--> '''Adorea:''' Veronica, are you crying?\
125'''Veronica:''' No...!
126* CruelTwistEnding: Quite a few of the chapters ''seem'' like they will be resolved in a relatively peaceful manner, only for it to twist the knife in the most horrifying manner possible. "Chrysalis" is a particularly horrifying example, as [[spoiler:the girl turns into a human/insect hybrid and eats her boyfriend after they have sex]].
127* {{Cult}}: Eventually leads to the birth of [[spoiler:an actual Flying Spaghetti Monster]].
128* CuteMonsterGirl:
129** Fran, to a certain definition of "cute"--she becomes remarkably less cute when performing surgeries and holding people's parts while those people scream in their heads about how they don't want her to do this to them.
130** Adorea's gentle demeanor can very easily endear her to some people. [[HumanoidAbomination Even with the whole tentacles-for-a-face thing.]]
131** Veronica, considering she has an adorable appearance despite being a patchwork girl with an assassin nature.
132** Even Gavrill, for as psychotic as she is, looks like a beautiful and cute young woman when she's calm.
133** In "The Panoramic Island 2", [[spoiler:Officer Kuhou]] ends up with an insect-like face to give Matsumae a different opponent in his roleplaying. He ends up falling in love with her as she is.
134* CycleOfRevenge: Parodied. Fran helps a bullied teenager become a mechanical superhero called Sentinel. The families and friends of the many criminals killed by Sentinel in turn ask Fran to make them superheroes so they can seek revenge. The BlackComedy increases as more and more people want to avenge their loved ones and their vigilantism creates even more people who want to become heroes to avenge their loved ones
135* DarkIsNotEvil: Depending on how you interpret her character, Fran is either an example or a subversion -- she looks like a stereotypical horror monster (if a bit cuter), yet comes off as reasonable and nice at first glance. Then she starts dragging people off to her lab to use them as human experiments ForScience...
136%%** Her various creations play this straight, however.
137* ADayInTheLimelight: While the focus is usually on Fran and her patients, some chapters instead focus on other characters like Gavrill, Veronica and Adorea.
138* DeathOfAChild: Well, let's just say that kids are ''not'' safe at all from the horrors of the manga. There are a few exceptions (Like the "Amazon" chapter), but most of the time, kids are not any safer from death than adults.
139* DeityOfHumanOrigin: [[spoiler:A cult decides to turn the body of their priestess into a living factory, while caring for the large fetus she's developed. Eventually, the fetus starts to move, and upon destroying the whole building and combining with the cult members inside develop into the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Yes, you read that right.]]
140* DescriptionCut: One chapter has two students in Fran's high school mention how a new young female teacher has recently arrived, and wonder if she'll be able to handle herself. [[spoiler:The next page immediately reveals it's Gavrill, so yes, she'll be just fine.]]
141* DidntThinkThisThrough:
142** A short girl asked for a height increase from Fran in "Cosmetic Surgery". Due to the nature of the surgery (requiring her bones lengthened), she was confined to a wheelchair for 3 months after it. Her three-dot expression at the fact (especially since every other girl that had their surgeries done came right out) showed that she probably regretted the decision.
143** In ''Frantic'', a girl bullied at school asks Fran to make her poisonous. Fran obliges, but the procedure is much longer and painful than the girl expected. They also decide only near the end of the procedure how the girl will be excreting her poison, and settle on shooting it out of her tear ducts, requiring her to cry. While the girl recovers from the procedure, Fran goes to school to talk some sense into the bullies, who realise how horrible they have been to the girl and decide to apologise to her when she comes back to school. Fran is quite happy with that outcome and thinks that the girl's poison glands will never be used since there is nothing to make her cry anymore. But when all the former bullies gather in front of the girl to nicely apologise to her, she can't stop her TearsOfJoy...
144* DownerEnding: A regular occurrence; the rare positive endings are actually surprises.
145** "Take To Pieces" ends on a remarkably nice note [[spoiler:for the girl. The police on the other hand now have to deal with a VW Bug-sized mass of cancer tumors]].
146** "Sea Specter" probably comes the closest to averting this trope entirely. All Nightmare Fuel and BodyHorror is kept to a minimum, and the character of the day [[spoiler:''isn't'' turned into some monstrous parody of humanity by Fran. Instead, the chapter ends on a "blowing things out of proportion" gag you'd expect from the likes of ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'']].
147%% "Chrysalis" (context relied on a deprecated trope; please give a proper explanation)
148* DramaticIrony: The volume 5 extra covers the first two Sentinels meeting way after the point where they could recognize each other. Takeshi, now a hideous monster, tries to reach out to his old haunt, the cafe he used to frequent. The new regular Juumonji, is the new Sentinel and was inspired by Takeshi. However, by the time Takeshi finally gets to the cafe, all Juumonji sees of his hero is what he believes is one of Black Lotus' goons, chasing him away. Worse still is how everyone wishes Takeshi was still around so they don't have to deal with these monsters, and how Juumonji's attack on Takeshi ''caused'' the latter to consider working for Black Lotus.
149* DrFakenstein: While Fran is visually a reference to FrankensteinsMonster, her character is closer to Victor Frankenstein himself what with her ForScience attitude and tendency to create BodyHorror.
150* DudeShesLikeInAComa: Apparently, ''everyone'' working on the movie in "The Final Movie" came to this conclusion. The critical difference in this case was that [[spoiler:she wasn't sleeping; she had already died of the parasitic infection]]. Leading inexorably to the squicky twist ending...
151* DyingDream: "Cannibalism", [[spoiler:the girl who was cannibalizing people to fend off an autoimmune disease ends up with a brain-eating prion disease.]] The previous pages showing her succeeding in life and becoming happy are revealed to be a dream. Fran wonders what she's dreaming about to have such a beautiful smile on her face.
152* EasySexChange: In "Cosmetic Surgery", Fran gives anyone and everyone in a school plastic surgery, from the mundane (epicanthoplasty) to the still mundane but getting goofy ('''giant''' breasts, a guy who's remade to look like an action hero star) to the completely ridiculous (human bobblehead, demon horns). Ranging in the middle of the spectrum is [[spoiler:a boyfriend and girlfriend she switches the sex of - literally swapping their genitalia even - because the girlfriend was attacked once and is now afraid of men. No, sexuality doesn't work that way, but this is ''Franken Fran'']].
153* EdutainmentShow: The manga commonly goes into excessive detail regarding how human organs or hormones work, as well as not being shy to show surgeries in progress.
154* EcocidalAntagonist: The story arcs about the masked crime fighter Sentinel introduce the evil organization Black Lotus, a more unorthodox variant of this trope, which does want to destroy the world and humanity. However, they do this by being ''[[VillainWithGoodPublicity humanitarians]]'', because they believe that causing humanity to prosper will give them their intended results anyway via [[HumansAreBastards overpopulation and pollution]].
155* EldritchAbomination: Pretty much half the things that Fran makes fit this. The other half is BodyHorror.
156** [[spoiler:The brain-eating/mind absorbing Flying Spaghetti Monster "god"]] that Fran helped create in "Piety".
157** Once the painter can see all strands of the Electromagnetic spectrum he sees {{eldritch abomination}}s and other horrible things.
158* EnemyMine: A minor example, but Gavrill and Veronica do team up to fight (or rather, [[CurbStompBattle slaughter the living fuck out of]]) the kidnappers in "Teacher".
159* EngineeredHeroics: Sentinel Vengeance is addicted to doing "good" and constantly cons people so he can appear as a hero as well as vanquish his thirst for revenge on the first two Sentinels.
160* EveryoneHasStandards:
161** The people of ''unusual tastes'' manage to out-creep Fran, though the argument could be, as a doctor, she has issues with people who obsessively cause themselves pain.
162** Veronica has a moment where she is wondering why Fran is forcing people to live. However, due to BlueAndOrangeMorality, this is more of a case of Blue having heard of Quality of Life.
163** In a chapter of ''Frantic'', Veronica is visibly disgusted while watching Fran [[MakesSenseInContext turn dogs into living beds for infants]], and muses that this particular adventure might be too much for her.
164* EvilOldFolks: Chapter 50, "Longevity", is about a woman who has lived to an extreme old age all the while leeching off her family and making them miserable. [[spoiler:She turns out to be part of a growing group of people that can live extremely long in a blissful dream-like state of lowered metabolism, contributing nothing while their families are obliged to take care of them, and it's implied most of them share her enjoyment of basking in the misery of others.]]
165* ExpendableClone: Inverted. As long as there's ''a'' copy, Fran doesn't care whether it's the original or not.
166* {{Expy}}: There's a movie director who resembles Ron Jeremy.
167%%** Fran is basically a female version of ''Manga/BlackJack'' [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs on crack]].
168%%** Mr "Steabe Jocks" from chapter 46.
169* EyesDoNotBelongThere: [[spoiler:The Flying Spaghetti Monster]] shouldn't have ''that many'' eyes in one socket.
170* FaceFullOfAlienWingWong: Hinted in "Octopus" as [[spoiler:"Azusa" shoves a tentacle down her "brother's" throat as "she"'s mating with him. Some cephalopods break off a sperm-filled tentacle so the females can fertilize themselves at their own pace, but "Azusa" is a shape-shifter...]]
171* FairCop: Rumiko Kuhou is a cute young policewoman who occasionally runs into Fran and the result of her work.
172* FanDisservice: There's a surprising amount of nudity... and every time it shows up it stops being erotic about three panels later.
173** One of the horrifying and disgusting examples is in Chapter 19, "Lust", when Fran helps the girls deal with their boy problems by diverting the boys' sexual appetites. What the boys think is a pile of hot, young women ready to do the down and dirty is actually [[spoiler:a mass of tentacles and body parts emitting a pheromone]].
174** Another example comes from Frantic "Tasty Life", which ends with two naked girls (who had been more or less in a PseudoRomanticFriendship) lying together... [[spoiler:but let's just say the [[ImAHumanitarian "eating out"]] [[HorrorHunger is very literal here]]]].
175* FantasticAesop: [[OnceAnEpisode Practically every issue]] Fran observes a flaw of human nature and takes some bit of wisdom from it that the reader can share. Things like, "Don't get so addicted to being revived from death by a maestro surgeon that you keep killing yourself over and over", or "Don't turn yourself into an anime character for love, or your skin will molt off and your lover will crush you to death trying to escape the alien you appear to be", or maybe "Inner beauty may shine through a layer of bandages, but those bandages are there to cover something ''horrifying''".
176* FateWorseThanDeath: Those who go through Fran's surgery and do not end up outright killed will usually end up with one of these (only a few don't, lucky them) -- either courtesy of Fran's dedication to saving life '''no matter what''', or her ''questionable'' medical ethics. If they don't, someone else related probably will.
177* FedoraOfAsskicking: Veronica's fedora, which just adds a bit for her role as bodyguard/assassin.
178* TheFettered:
179** When Gavrill is forced to becomes a high-school substitute her doctor/protector's only request is that she does not kill the students. She doesn't, but she does beat the shit out of them during a brawl with another school.
180** In "Best Friend", Gavrill finds out what happened to Veronica's friend but will only tell her if she becomes her slave. Veronica agrees, but Gavrill orders her to not harm the perpetrators. She claims that she's doing it just to mess with her, but it's implied that she already knew that [[LaserGuidedKarma they were doomed for a fate worse than what Veronica would've given them anyway]].
181* {{Fingore}}: Veronica has tiny needles sticking out of her fingertips for injecting venom.
182* FireForgedFriends: The Sentinels after defeating the Sentinel 100 Corps.
183* FleshGolem: Many various flavors of the trope appear, but a classic example is the golem Fran hastily made from the bodies of dead {{Mooks}} to fight Gavrill. [[CurbStompBattle It didn't last two seconds against her]].
184* ForeheadOfDoom: Fran's forehead, in traditional FrankensteinsMonster style.
185* FormulaBreakingEpisode:
186** The "Sentinel" chapters in the original run are parodies of the Showa-era entries in the ''Franchise/KamenRider'' series. Fran does briefly appear in each one as the person who augments the physical abilities of various Sentinels, but the stories focus on the {{tokusatsu}} exploits of these characters rather than the book's usual medical horror.
187** "Cockroach 2" of the original run doesn't deal with weird surgeries. It deals with Veronica finding a city made by cockroaches, which includes technology, music, love, superheroes, supervillains, HumongousMecha, and a Super Saiyan cockroach. It really makes no sense, even in context.
188** Two chapters in ''Frantic'' shift completely to focus on two teenagers named Alice and Bunny, who live in a desolate seaside town [[NothingExcitingEverHappensHere that's prone to weirdness]]. Fran doesn't receive a single mention in these chapters, though the following one (a {{crossover}} with ''Ms. Kaida's Ghost Stories'') does feature Fran stumbling across the gory aftermath of the second story before switching to the main plot.
189* ForScience: Basically Fran's reason for existence, and most of her MO for experiments and research.
190* FountainOfYouth: In the chapter "Eternal Youth", this is the villain's goal, to the point of regularly having doctors killed so she can steal their research. [[spoiler:It bites her in the ass when Fran's turn comes up; because Fran's research was still very experimental, the old woman does become young again, sure, but soon turns into a pulsating mess of cancer cells.]]
191* FrankensteinsMonster:
192** Fran herself; interestingly, in this work [[IAmNotShazam the monster is also the doctor]]. Her two siblings are also this, though they're killers whose fondness for cutting up bodies tends to end with death rather than a fate worse than it.
193** She also gives a stitched-up body to the cursed remains of [[spoiler:The Wandering Jew]].
194* FunSize: What happens to Veronica after she's rescued by Fran after [[CurbStompBattle "fighting"]] Gavrill. The rest of the body... well... Gavrill's a [[IAmAHumanitarian "humanitarian"]]...
195* GagDub: In the scanlations that predated the official English release; similar to those of other fan scanlation groups, inserts a little gag at the end of most chapters consisting of an edited panel or two. These have ranged to making fun of Advertising/{{GEICO}} commercials, comparing [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic bronies]] to zombies and how they spread the same way, to claiming that ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' causes brain damage. All in good fun, of course.
196* GainaxEnding: Neither the last chapter or the ending itself have any build-up or lead-in, and it's kinda hard to tell what actually happened in the end.
197* GambitPileup: It starts off with a Mafia boss forcibly making a double out of an attempted assassin and quickly devolves to everyone remotely involved gunning down each other. Fran herself doesn't even know who is who.
198* GenericCuteness:
199** In the plastic surgery chapter, a girl wants "big eyes" (read: she wants an epicanthoplasty). It's near impossible to tell the difference in the before and after, and even the author admits the character designs gave the story some problems. Though, we only get one "before" shot of her--one eye seems to be squinting while she holds the other one open wider. It's possible the "squinting" look is natural, and what she wants to have altered.
200** This trope caused problems in "Two-Dimensions", where an actress wants to look like an anime character. The difference, especially with the eyes, is small...at first.
201* GiftOfTheMagiPlot: A bit of a... ''variation'', all right. A girl had a traumatic experience with men and now has a psychological aversion to them. Her boyfriend's response is to get Fran to change his gender by swapping his genitals for a woman's. The girlfriend has Fran do the opposite to her. And then they cheat on each other, assuming the omake pages are canon, at least.
202* GlasgowGrin: Apparently, Fran's jaw didn't come with the rest of her head. She even provides the page image.
203* GoneHorriblyRight: Boy, ''howdy''. A painter, losing his eyesight to a disease, asks for working eyes [[spoiler:and gets to see Cthulhu]]. Girls complain about the boys being too horny [[spoiler:and we find them in the embrace of... God-doesn't-want-to know-what]], and it's passed as comedy.
204* {{Gorn}}: Lots and LOTS of it. In fact, in one episode Fran is (unknowingly) taking part in a TorturePorn movie. Then she realizes what it was and... well, the director's career ends.
205* GratuitousEnglish: ''Every'' chapter of the original series is titled in ([[SugarWiki/SurprisinglyGoodForeignLanguage surprisingly good]]) English. The sequel moves to conventional Japanese titling; there remain a few that are supposed to be all-English words, but they're still rendered in katakana.
206* GroinAttack: "Amazon" has one during the two-page depiction of the male and female tribes fighting each other. There's this slightly shadowed, but obvious pic of one of the female amazons cutting one of the male's genitals off. This is payback because on the exact same page, there's a pic of some of the male tribe members raping the amazons (including the dead ones).
207** In "Best Friend", it's revealed that a schoolgirl who was being used as a SexSlave by the school principal (who also pimped her out to his friends and anyone who paid up) had asked Fran to deliberately infect her with a virulent, sexually-transmissible strain of bacteria that causes male genitals to ''rot''. Cue two pages' worth of sudden panic as men all over the town are suddenly dropped in their tracks by the disease--teachers, politicians, school sports team members, cops...
208* GrotesqueCute: The humans in this story can be quite adorable, as long as they ''[[BodyHorror stay]]'' human.
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212* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe:
213** Agito in "Trivial Love", who gets better thanks to his HealingFactor
214** Fran herself in "Right And Left", in which her solution to being sliced down the middle is to let both halves of her body develop and repair themselves individually and recombine them at a later date. However, prolonged separation causes Fran's right half to ''develop a proper moral code.'' This influences the right half to escape her property and become a successful doctor at a ''normal hospital.'' Sadly, she's too easily guilt-tripped into acting on the whims of her patients, and the resulting mess of corruption and bribery brings her work to a screeching halt.
215* HappyEndingOverride: Or rather, BittersweetEnding made bitterer. In ''Frantic'', "Neverending Story" featured the son of a wealthy businessman, dying from a rare disease even Fran can't cure, who is sent to an island reproducing a fantasy world (with actors playing various characters and various creations of Fran's playing the monsters) where he becomes TheChosenOne, to live his dream until his death, thinking this world is real. Fifteen issues later, Fran comes back to the boy with a cure that actually works, to the joy of his father and the actors in the island, who had all come to like him. However, since the boy feels much better and had just reached puberty, he proceeds [[spoiler:to rape most of the female characters he can gets his hands on while brutally murdering any monster he comes across (there are also hints that his being better allowed him to realise [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential he was in a fake world]])]], leading most of the actors to leave in disgust and the businessman to commission Fran to create more clones [[spoiler:for his son to torture and rape]].
216* HardTruthAesop: In-universe example. ''Gavrill'' becomes the de facto ''advice counselor'' while subbing at Fran and Veronica's school, and quickly becomes the most popular teacher because she doesn't sugar-coat things for the students. All her advice tends to boil down to "Do [illegal or questionable activity]. What, too much of a wimp? Do [more ethical/practical suggestion], then."
217--> '''Gavrill''': You wanna be popular with the girls? Get plastic surgery and transfer to another school. Also, practice talking to people a lot. And if you need to, lie to women or buy them off with money.
218* HarmfulHealing: Fran ''will'' save your life, [[FateWorseThanDeath whether you want her to or not]].
219* HealingFactor:
220** It's the best way to explain the girl in "Take To Pieces"'s recovery: Fran cured her of a rather extreme disease that caused her body to randomly grow tumor-like limbs, faces and organs. Her legs and a good chunk of her arms had to be removed in the process, but at least the girl survived. From there, Fran expected the human body's natural regeneration process to eventually restore her limbs to normal, and planned to observe the process, but judging from her reaction, said process happened ''almost instantly''. Even Fran is stunned, though she speculates that the mind is more closely linked to the body than she thought, which basically means the girl is a huge {{Determinator}}.
221** The villain in "A Very Lucky Man". He survives and completely recovers from ''hanging'' and ''lethal injection'' on his own. He later recovers from [[spoiler:''dismemberment by chainsaw'' after Fran puts him back together]]. In the end, the HealingFactor [[spoiler:fails to save him from a lightning bolt]]. His healing factor has an unusual justification, [[OneInAMillionChance not unlike the tunnel effect]].
222** In "Vengeance 2", the fourth Sentinel is given this instead of the usual superpowers [[spoiler:so Sentinel III can claim vengeance for him again and again]].
223* HeelFaceTurn:
224** Kuze Akari in "Twenty Four" who originally wanted to swindle his niece's fortune. [[spoiler:After being forced to share her body, he realizes how awful her life is because ''all'' her relatives keep hounding her for said fortune. In the end, in an unusual variant of RedemptionEqualsDeath, he condemns himself to a FateWorseThanDeath to give her a chance to live free.]]
225** Veronica. She started out wanting to kill Fran, probably due of jealousy as Fran's life is filled with a lot less hardship and suffering. In the following chapters, she starts to gradually develop concern and care for Fran, and reveals herself to be emotionally vulnerable and friendly despite her violent tendencies and [[MurderIsTheBestSolution beliefs]], eventually coming to love Fran in her own way.
226* HeroicBSOD:
227** In "The Final Movie", Fran has a bit of one when she is unable to save the actress's life and her last words were about the movie. Fran's response? Make a giant puppet out of her skin to finish the movie.
228* HeroicDog: Pudding may have been a dog in the body of an overweight middle-aged man, but that did nothing to prevent him from coming to his master's rescue after she was accosted by some thugs.
229* HiveMind: Chapter 10, "Cockroaches", implies that the cockroaches possess one.
230* HollywoodExorcism: "Exorcist" has a cardinal being possessed by a demon and the Vatican exorcist troops doing everything they can for him. [[spoiler:He's faking it so he can't become pope -- he was a gangster and if his enemies found him they could hurt his friends. This being ''Franken Fran'' there's also the fact that he's got ''a fully developed infant in his skull'' thanks to an untested stem cell treatment.]]
231* {{Homage}}:
232** "Her Pet Dog" is a homage to the story of UsefulNotes/{{Hachiko}}.
233** The Sentinel chapters are an obvious homage/parody of the Showa ''Franchise/KamenRider'' series, with the four Sentinels corresponding to Kamen Riders #1, #2, V3, and Riderman.
234* HorrifyingTheHorror: Veronica tries to scare Fran by showing her how good she is at killing people. Then Fran shows he how good she is at keeping people ''alive...''
235* HorrorHunger: On a number of occasions this is a side effects of Fran's modifications. One notable example, however, is her attempt to cure a HugeSchoolgirl of her overeating problem using an untested serum stolen from a company. She later finds the girl can't stop herself from eating, and is taunted by the CEO of the company she stole from that this was the intended effect of the serum she stole. Why provide a cure for unhealthy eating when they can have customers driven to consume endlessly? The girl ends up choking trying to swallow her boyfriend head first, at which point the story ends with Fran preparing to operate.
236* HowManyFingers: Fran did it in the "Attempted Suicide" chapter.
237* HugeSchoolgirl: One of the people that asks for Fran's assistance at school is a large, gonky looking girl. Fran lampshades that for her age, gender and ethnicity, the girl is remarkably tall.
238* HumanoidAbomination:
239** ''Many'' of Fran's (and her creator's) experiments end up creating nightmarish ''things'' who can only be considered human in the loosest sense of the word, Adorea being the most prominent.
240** Gavrill "The Wolf" has a "transforming" body/skeleton that distorts her into a gigantic, nigh-invulnerable wolf-like creature.
241** One chapter focuses on a group of creepy, humanoid sea giants. They're actually ''whale'' beings, and their "eyes" are only markings (their real eyes are on the sides like normal whales). They may or may not be related to the girl who was made into a whale creature by Dr. Madaraki.
242* HumansAreBastards: While there are nice people in the story, you can't really trust people to listen to their better judgements, and there are plenty of organizations and people with a blatant disregard for human life. "Justice 2" discusses the trope with [[spoiler:Black Lotus, an organization that's doing ''humanitarian efforts'' only because they believe that humanity will destroy itself after their prosperity leads to overpopulation and resource scarcity]].
243* {{Hypocrite}}: Jun Kurosuma claims to despise Fran because of the harm she's caused children[[note]]ignoring that it was inadvertant, and in all the cases she cites, the result of someone else abusing Fran's inventions with Fran at worst guilty of negligence[[/note]], saying that by contrast she'd give her life to save any child. She's actually just viscerally horrified and disgusted by Fran's methods and what she's capable of [[spoiler:and as a result, ends up dooming countless children to death by a disease she's rendered permanently incurable as a result of her vendetta, including her own daughter, having put her hatred of Fran and disgust at one of her creations ahead of even ''trying'' to understand why it existed and what it might be for. For the cherry on top of the hypocrisy sundae, she begs Fran to save her daughter anyway the moment she realizes what she's done... only for Fran to explain that she can't -- the cure was discovered by accident during an experiment conducted by numerous researchers, and she alone can't possibly recreate the biological android it was derived from; even if she had help, it's unlikely they could rediscover exactly what happened that led to it being a source of the cure.]]
244* HypocriticalHumour: In "Cosmetic Surgery", a girl tells a boy who took Fran's offer of free cosmetic surgery to gain a tribal appearance that he lacked restraint, while she got breasts that hang down to her waist. Which, funnily enough, compared to the others, she's right.
245* ImAHumanitarian:
246** In "Unhappy Birthday", a group of party guests unknowingly, well... [[spoiler:[[{{Squick}} "Could everyone stop eating, please? You're eating the guest of honor."]]]] Cue the synchronized vomiting.
247** Gavrill's favorite snacks are her victims.
248** In ''Frantic'''s "Tasty Life", a girl who Fran operated on to give her [[spoiler:the sense of taste she lacked from since her birth]] becomes obsessed with discovering [[spoiler:new tastes]] and ends up devouring [[spoiler:her best friend]].
249* IncestSubtext: It's hinted more than once that Veronica loves Fran as more than just a sister. This gets lampshaded in the final extra chapter, but Fran shrugs it off as Veronica just being over-reliant on her. In "Aura", Veronica becomes flustered over Fran asking her if she likes anyone. Veronica is about to boldly yell her answer (implied to be Fran) but is cut off by Fran. It's also implied at the end of "Right And Left", as [[spoiler:Veronica has Fran's mindless extra body in her room and spends a lot of time alone with it]].
250* IntrepidReporter:
251** Ijuuin, the reporter girl who appears in the chapters "Piety", "Rolling World" and "Living Dead". [[spoiler:Unfortunately, she ends up being a victim of the zombie disease.]]
252** In the ''Frantic'' chapter "Cockroach Town", an investigative reporter sneaks into the mansion by pretending to be in need of treatment, hoping to expose Fran as the mad doctor she is. [[spoiler:They end up being turned into a living mech suit by the cockroach society that lives in one of the basement levels, unable to control their own body, with Fran and company being completely clueless about this and thinking they just left.]]
253* JerkassHasAPoint: The ''Frantic'' chapter "Gaze of Hostility" has Fran get chewed out by a pediatric surgeon who aims to get her removed from the medical community due to... literally everything that's happened in the previous thirty chapters of ''Frantic'' alone, specifically to children, calling her evil. Fran tearfully relates the cruel words to Osita and Veronica when she gets home where they ''don't even try'' to comfort her, noting that the woman has a point and they understand why she would like Fran to stop her medical practice.
254* KarmicRape: Distressingly common in ''Frantic'', where more than one chapter includes the antagonist(s) ending up getting raped due to their immoral plans ultimately backfiring, including Chapters 22 and 33. Tends to overlap with BlackComedyRape in its handling.
255* KeepingSecretsSucks: Once again Veronica makes a friend and once again something horrible happens to them. Gavrill uses her super-senses to find out the truth but will only tell Veronica [[SadisticChoice if she'll be her slave]]. Veronica agrees but Gavrill's order is to not harm her friend's rapists/murderers. [[spoiler:Fortunately the victim already did something and gave ''all'' her rapists a nasty disease, thanks to Fran.]]
256* KnightTemplar:
257** Veronica. She was built to defend her target by killing any threat. The problem, as later chapters make clear, is that her definition of "threat" is rather lower than it should be. "Girl's School" opens with her killing people for coming ''near'' Fran's mansion, and she's pulled her weapons for people just ''teasing'' Fran.
258** All the Sentinels qualify as well. The first one to be introduced killed a guy who recently had left the prison because he didn't think that two years sentenced in prison was '''enough''' for him.
259* LadyLand: The island in "Amazon", which has a corresponding [[OneGenderRace Man Land]]. Both are the result of [[spoiler:both tribes' members developing the ability to reproduce parthogenically]].
260* LargeHam: The Sentinels, being parodies of Franchise/SuperSentai heroes, sometimes get like this. They frequent [[CallingYourAttacks call their attacks]] and melodramatically pontificate about Black Lotus.
261* LaserGuidedKarma:
262** Usually happens to either the person Fran operates on or whoever that person is closest to. It also has a strong chance of not helping at all, and just having a regular old DownerEnding when people die without deserving it. For an ideal example, the villain from "Eternal Youth" tries to have Fran killed (unsuccessfully) and has her anti-aging treatment stolen (successfully) the moment she has it working. [[spoiler:She acted prematurely -- the anti-aging treatment ''worked'', but she took it before Fran had the time to eliminate the potential side effect of it turning the user into a heaving puddle of cancerous tissue. It was her own greedy desire to get it as soon as possible and keep anyone else from having access to it that led to her downfall.]]
263** In "Phantom Lake" from the ''Frantic'' series, several of Fran's creations move to a lakeside house and are brutally killed by a group of self-proclaimed "monster hunter" university students. Fran had given these creations a chip containing the contact information of her and the other creations so they could talk when they felt lonely, and the university students find the chip and use the contact information to lure Fran's remaining creations there and kill them too. [[spoiler: [[BewareTheNiceOnes When Fran finds out, she harvests the students' organs and uses them to revive her creations, and turns what is left of the students' bodies into an actual monster that lives at the bottom of the lake.]]]]
264** Another particularly notable case is Jun Kurosuma, the pediatric surgeon in ''Frantic'' Chapter 36, who engages in a vendetta against Fran out of visceral disgust at her methods rather than any rational objection. [[spoiler:This ultimately leads her to destroy the irreplaceable source of the sole effective treatment for a fatal virus her daughter is later infected with.]]
265* LatexPerfection: Ssssssort of. [[spoiler:Less "latex", more [[GenuineHumanHide "actual skin"]]. A patient of Fran's dies from a parasite that destroys the body's interior, but leaves the skin unscathed.]] Fran uses this in order to fulfill her patient's dying wish to finish her recent acting job... [[spoiler:by [[DeadPersonImpersonation wearing her skin as a disguise]] [[OfCorpseHesAlive and pretending to be her]]]].
266* LeavingAudience: What happens during Fran's lecture on her new childbirth method in "Egg Parturition". It's a rare sympathetic moment for Fran as the fleeing of the other doctors brings her to tears.
267* LighterAndSofter: ''Franken Fran Frantic'', to an extent. Both the original series and ''Frantic'' share similar levels of gore, violence, and general horror, but the latter has more of its stories end on some positive note. That said, the circumstances surrounding said endings are still as disturbing as ever, such as a woman [[spoiler:covering her body in lactating breasts]] or a man [[spoiler:turning his paralyzed, brain-dead fiancée and stillborn child into fleshy androids]].
268* LittleMissBadass: Veronica looks and acts like a preteen, but is insanely good at tearing threats to shreds, and avoiding other threats.
269* LockedRoomMystery: Invoked by Okita in "People Of Unusual Tastes". This being ''Franken Fran'', the solution is squickier than mere murder as in [[spoiler:they did it to ''themselves''.]]
270* TheLongList: Matsumae explaining what kind of characters has been made out of the clones in "Panoramic Island 1".
271-->'''Matsumae:''' I have all sorts of women in my life here. [[CuteMonsterGirl Monster girls]], [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe alien girls]], [[{{Shinigami}} grim reaper girls]], [[HotAsHell devil girls]], [[OurAngelsAreDifferent angel girls]], [[RobotGirl android girls]], {{ninja}} girls, {{samurai}} girls, [[LivingWeapon human-weapon girls]], [[KingIncognito princesses who're hiding their identities]], [[MysteriousWaif girls who hold the key to unlocking world's secrets]], and so on and so on...
272* LoopholeAbuse: When Fran is forbidden by a family to perform a simple heart operation due to what usually happens, she respects the wish even though the kid will die. However, they said nothing about modifying the surgeon that was going to do it and giving him extraordinary medical abilities. Unlike most cases, it seems to have a happy ending as the kid survived and the surgeon, while acting somewhat out of character, is now one of the best surgeons in the field.
273* LosingYourHead: Seems to be a frequent occurrence among Fran's patients. Even Fran herself swaps bodies sometimes. However in "Eternal Youth", Fran is nearly decapitated by an assassin. She's able to stitch her neck back together but she doesn't completely recover for a bit.
274* LotusEaterMachine: The girls in "Lust" were complaining that all the boys were completely obsessed with sex, [[spoiler:so Fran creates a pheromone-based creature which all the boys can get their rocks off with. It works too well, causing all the boys to lose interest in sex with real girls]].
275* LoveFreak: Fran is a self-described "lover of love" and frequently performs procedures that she believes will bring couples together. That said, when she's eventually asked how she personally defines love, her explanation is just as cerebral and science-based as her usual medical explanations, focused on theorizing its role in how humans and other pack animals mate.
276* LoveHotels: At the end of "Chrysalis", Tajima and Kaneda go to one to consummate their relationship. [[spoiler:Unfortunately for him, her insect side emerges and she eats him once they're done.]]
277* LoveMakesYouCrazy: The patient in "Protozoan" can't stand the fact [[LesYay her best friend/romantic interest]] seems happier without her, so she steals all of the friend's modelling assignments. Unfortunately [[spoiler:this causes the friend to go slightly crazy and [[DrivenToSuicide commit suicide]]]].
278* LoveRedeems: The outcome of "Trivial Love", as [[spoiler:[[ProfessionalKiller Agito]] leaves [[TheSyndicate his old job]] to start a bioweapon family with the woman who nursed him back to health]].
279* MacGuffinSuperPerson: A girl is this to a sect. The building of the sect becomes her ''body''. Then she gets pregnant. When the embryo awakens, [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext mother and child merge to become the Flying Spaghetti Monster]].
280* MadScientist: Fran. She is actually ignorant of this fact, amusingly. When she was told that she basically was this in "Snow Light", she became saddened and confused... then she talked to her friend Okita about the matter, while ripping out a person's intestine.
281* MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter:
282** ''Averted.'' Fran, for all her smiley GenkiGirl nature, is probably ''more'' dangerous than her father, especially when she tries to "help" and ends up turning you into a grotesque mockery of life.
283** Hilariously subverted if you consider Fran to be the Mad Scientist rather than the Daughter. Most of her creations can seem appealing at first...then the side effects kick in.
284* MandatoryTwistEnding: Averted. That is, we do get a guaranteed twist at the end, but sometimes the twist is a straight happy ending when we all expect something horrible. Thus, we can never be sure how it ends until the last panel. This is noticeable in "Chrysalis", where one page turned what would have been a happy Aesop about loving someone deep down into a biological booboo joke.
285* MarionetteMotion: A subtle case. Fran is usually drawn with motion lines around her when she walks as if she's not quite steady on her feet.
286* MeatgrinderSurgery: Generally subverted. Fran does handle her operations with care, though the urgency of most of the operations she's about to perform, as well as their sometimes messy results, makes it look like this. However, some of them do qualify.
287* {{Meido}}: Matsumae's island fantasy contains a whole team of these.
288* MindHive: "Twenty Four" ends with Fran creating this. As 24 people fight over the inheritance of a single girl, she saves them by connecting all their brains to her body (she transplants the girl's own brain to a clone of hers), but now that they're all connected to the same body, they can't do anything until they all agree to it.
289* MindScrew: In "Justice 2", an evil organization plans to destroy the world! By, um... [[spoiler:giving away free medicine, fixing world hunger, curing diseases, destroying poverty, helping developing countries, and settling disputes for the sake of causing over-population]].
290* MisterSeahorse: Well, sort of. [[spoiler:Because of an experimental stem cell surgery, a cardinal's brain developed into a fully developed infant. He convinced Fran to remove it so he could take his secret about his past life to the grave. The baby was given to the nuns that tried to exorcise the cardinal.]]
291* MixAndMatchCritters: There are a lot of monsters in the manga that are mashup of different things. And the blending process isn't always perfect...
292* MonstrousHumanoid: Most of Fran's entourage, who are stitched-together creations like her and Veronica but are much less human in appearance. Adorea is the most human in form but she's one of the most monstrous under her bandadges.
293* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Is Fran even ''qualified''?! She is a genuinely skilled doctor (insanely skilled, at that) when it comes to most ''regular'' medical practice. It's just that many of the operations she's asked to perform are too crazy for us readers to usually remember it.
294* MotherOfAThousandYoung: [[spoiler:"Azusa" the mutant mimic octopus. For bonus technical incest points, the father is "her" brother.]]
295* MuggingTheMonster: The group kidnappers in "Teacher". Invading a high school while the Madaraki sisters are there isn't a very good idea, to say the least.
296* MultiArmedMultitasking: Fran frequently acquires 2-3 extra pairs of arms when she's doing surgery.
297* {{Mukokuseki}}: Deconstructed by showing the lengths idols will go to get that anime look... and what lengths it would actually take (like replacing the lower jaw with a plastic prosthetic and 'bathing in silicone''). It wasn't enough for just a simple epicanthoplasty. This is why it's important for art majors to take anatomy. Basically, it invokes an UncannyValley.
298* MunchausenSyndrome: Fran has the [[TooKinkyToTorture five patients]] in "People of Unusual Tastes" that each kill themselves so that they can be treated and revived by Fran. They manage to even freak out ''Fran herself''.
299* MurderIsTheBestSolution: Veronica was built with this in mind. She becomes slightly less quick to resort to it as the series goes on, mostly thanks to her sister's upbringing.
300* MusclesAreMeaningless: In "Imaginary Self", the boy's first request for Fran was to have bigger muscles so he wouldn't be as easy to bully...but she didn't make him any ''stronger'', just bulkier.
301* NavelDeepNeckline: Gavrill's standard (lack of) attire has her wearing a leather jacket unzipped to her abdomen and [[VaporWear nothing underneath]].
302* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In the chapter "Gaze of Hostility", the pediatric surgeon who despises Fran's experiments and the most disturbing outcomes of such aims to get her removed from the medical community in order to protect children from becoming victims of her work, starting by destroying one of her external labs at a pharmaceutical company. However, that particular lab housed an organic robot that [[spoiler:was used to synthesize the materials needed for the vaccine for a rare disorder. As said creature was created by accident, Fran notes that it would take a great amount of work to recreate it, if they could even figure out how to do so, leading to the deaths of countless kids... including the surgeon's own daughter.]] She doesn't take this well.
303* NightmareFace: While Gavrill is incapable of expressing joy other than via SlasherSmile, bringing her bad news is just as disturbing.
304* NightmareFetishist:
305** There are some people in-universe who find Fran attractive [[spoiler:since someone ''did'' want to make TorturePorn starring her]]. The assassin Agito even called her "cute" [[spoiler:after nearly decapitating her]].
306** There's a bunch of people who once were saved by Fran from an almost dead state. They gathered together and called her for a party. [[spoiler:Then they played up a LockedRoomMystery so they could almost die and be saved by Fran again.]] ''Fran'' was {{squick}}ed by them.
307** Fran herself is guilty of this from time to time. For instance, a [[RentAZilla giant monster]] HumanoidAbomination is ravaging the ocean in one chapter. Fran's reaction? "It sure is cute. I want one."
308* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: Fran can produce ungodly amounts of {{Squick}} just by her mere presence. And that's before she starts ''acting''.
309* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The dickish executive from "Antifat Remedy" has a disturbingly odd resemblance with Steve Jobs, so that his name is... Steabe Jocks.
310* NoQuestionsAsked: Fran's policy. As long as you have the money, she'll perform whatever procedure you ask for. What you do afterwards is none of her concern.
311* NotUsingTheZWord: Invoked by Fran and subverted in "Living Dead". "Isn't that what a zombie is? How are we supposed to call them?"
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315* ObliviouslyEvil: Fran does some pretty horrific things. Not only does she think she's doing good, she thinks everyone loves her for it. She is genuinely shocked and hurt during the few times someone calls her out on what she does.
316* OffWithHisHead: In "Eternal Youth", [[spoiler:this nearly happens to Fran when the assassin Agito gets to her; her neck was only hanging on loosely. Fran manages to save herself by ''stitching her neck back to normal''; although the operation did leave her woozy for a short while afterwards, she came out no worse for the wear.]]
317* OldShame: InUniverse example. Fran is tricked into starring in a torture porn movie. A few issues later, it's shown that Veronica knows Fran was in a movie but hasn't been allowed to see it.
318* OneGenderRace: The gender-segregated islands in "Amazon", which became that way thanks to Fran's dad. The two "tribes" want to get to know each other better [[spoiler:but they're so hyper-aggressive and clueless about relationships with the opposite sex that they wind up killing each other. ONE baby is born who survives the massacre, and it's a hermaphrodite.]]
319* OneWomanArmy:
320** Veronica can literally slaughter dozens, if not hundreds of soldiers all by herself. Then again, considering she was built to serve as Professor Madaraki's bodyguard, it's not surprising.
321** Gavrill is even deadlier. While she has an army of her own, she apparently took down thousands of trained military troops sent against her. It's noted that if she despises someone, his only hope of living is to send enough mooks for her to kill until she's bored and forgets the grudge.
322* OnlySaneMan: Okita, the only sane ''cat-man'' (as in, a cat with a human head) among Fran's entourage, often acts as a snarky foil to Fran, especially before Veronica arrived.
323* OrgasmicallyDelicious: In Frantic "Tasy Life", Fran operates on a young women born with no sense of taste to give her taste buds. The girl all but climaxes when she tastes food for the first time after the operation.
324* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Gavrill's overpowered form is very werewolf-like in design, to the point that it's part of the reason why she's nicknamed "the Wolf".
325* OurSphinxesAreDifferent: Okita is a cat with a human head, or a human with a cat body. He has human intelligence but also has some feline traits; the manga never explains his origin.
326* OurZombiesAreDifferent:
327** In "Rolling World", the [[HumanoidAbomination mascots]] of [[AmusementParkOfDoom Rolling World]] [[spoiler:who were modified by Fran to have organs and live and walk with functional bodies get infected by a parasite that lives on the mountain the park is built on and start eating humans. Oddly enough, the people that they do bite who survive turn into a flesh-eating mascot. In the end, they found out that they were infected from the beginning, but hadn't lashed out because music keeps them calm]].
328** "Living Dead" has a Caribbean island where people killed by a disease of unknown origin come back from the dead to feast on the living. [[spoiler:As it turns out, the disease was caused by a brain parasite which causes feigned death then makes the host a cannibal [[AndIMustScream aware of their condition but unable to stop themselves]]. Worst of all, this is reversible ''but no one knows that.'']]
329* PaedoHunt:
330** In "Attempted Suicide", the step-father of a girl sexually abuses her. The ending of the chapter seems to be one of the rare uplifting ones at first, as [[spoiler:Fran puts the brain of the man who tried to rescue her from the situation into her father's body]]. Then Fran explains what happened to the brain of the ''real father''; [[spoiler:he became the children's mascot costume, and is now going to work in an amusement park teeming with kids. However, there's no sign that the body has any genitals or sense of touch, so [[IronicHell he's surrounded by what he wants and can't do a damn thing to them]].]]
331** In "Girls' School", [[spoiler:the bullies' victims are eventually shipped overseas to service otaku]].
332* ParentalIncest: Fran has a crush on her father/creator.
333* PersonalityBloodTypes: The subject of "Blood Type". It eventually turns the school into a hellhole of blood type-based segregation and intolerance, causing problems for Adorea who winds up [[spoiler: eating what appears to be most of the students in the school in an attempt to fit in, turning her into a giant, bloated monster.]] In the end, the students eventually back off of it...[[spoiler: because they start using astrology instead.]]
334* PetTheDog:
335** [[spoiler:Gavrill]], of all people, shows signs of this to [[spoiler:Prof. Amatsuka]].
336** As a more literal example, Veronica to Paku in the extra chapter "Bloody Veronica".
337** Veronica gets one in "Right And Left" after Fran was split into two halves. After Fran's logical half sharply criticizes her, Fran's emotional half gives her a hug and praise. She was also hugged in the epilogue of the series by both of her sisters.
338** [[spoiler:Gavrill]] gets this in a chapter of ''Frantic'' clearly parodying the likes of Danganronpa, Zero Escape, and other "trapped in a deadly game" media. Having entered disguised as a small child to try to get information as to the true ringleaders, she does her absolute best to protect a group of innocents with which she forms a strange bond. [[spoiler: Even requesting that Fran save them after they end up killed due to ignoring her warnings that it was too dangerous for them out of a misguided sense of solidarity. Given her usual attitude toward Fran's work, she must have ''really'' cared about them.]]
339* {{Pheromones}}:
340** In Chapter 19, "Lust", Fran comes up with a way to make the male students stop hitting on the girls; [[spoiler:she creates a gelatinous creature that emits pheromones causing the guys to see it as a room of naked women, with whom they have sex]].
341** Fran uses these in chapter 36, "Aura", in an attempt to make an actor more "charismatic", but her calculations are a little off and the situation gets out of control. Notably, she acknowledges that pheromones don't normally have much of an effect on people, but [[HandWave somehow makes it work anyway]].
342* PhonyMon: The ''Frantic'' chapter, "A Wonderful Life" revolves around Fran creating a life-form (specifically, a cute Pikachu-like creature) that can rapidly mutate within a single generation. When a rival scientist gets a hold of it, kids start using them to battle. One of the kids even looks like Ash Ketchum!
343* PowerLimiter: Gavrill has one that looks like an egg timer built into her head "bolts". It takes ''a lot'' of concentration to control her very complex body and it's implied that she would've quickly fallen apart if she lacked the willpower.
344* ThePowerOfLove: Lampshaded in an in-universe movie based on one of Fran's adventures:
345--> '''Actress:''' My leukemia has magically been cured, somehow! The doctors said it was the power of love!\
346'''Veronica:''' ''[flings her chair through the screen]'' What the hell is this crap!?
347* RapeAndRevenge: One chapter features a girl who was sexually assaulted on a recurring basis by multiple men, ending with her getting killed by one of them. She however, gets a post-mortem revenge by infecting herself with a strain of heavily virulent and deadly gonorrhea which painfully kills men, letting that bacteria run wild on her victimizers.
348* RapePillageAndBurn: What Gavrill and her crew do on a regular basis.
349* RealityWarpingIsNotAToy: In chapter 38, a boy gains shapeshifting powers thanks to Fran. However, they aren't just activated by conscious thoughts, but also impulses and emotions, so he finds it harder and harder to keep control over his body. For example, his sexual impulses upon seeing a beautiful young woman (namely, [[ButtMonkey officer Kuhou]]) turn him into a tentacled monster. [[spoiler:The boy effectively kills himself when he, in [[DeathByDespair despair]], thinks that his crush has moved on and gotten a boyfriend, when ''she'' was the reason why he wanted to be a stronger and handsomer teenager. His sorrow turns him into a human sea sponge.]]
350* RecursiveCanon: The hospital director in "Snow Light" refuses to let Fran do surgery because of a book he's reading about her. It's the first tankobon.
351-->'''Fran:''' Oh my, how embarrassing!
352* RedBaron: Gavrill is nicknamed "The Wolf" due to her extreme brutality and the form she likes to transform into during battles. In a bit of a subversion, though, most people actually refer to her by her name.
353* ReligionIsRight: Jesus existed and was able to work miracles, at least. The Flying Spaghetti Monster also exists, or at least does now.
354* RestrainingBolt: Fran inserts one into Veronica in order to keep control over Veronica's violent tendencies, giving her electric shocks in her head.
355* {{Retcon}}: In the first rolling world chapter, the mascots [[spoiler:start killing people when the music stops.]] The next time they appear, they don't seem to have any of this, and are simply antropomorphic living beings who just want a better life. Also wasn't Nezura [[spoiler:a child rapist in his previous life]]? No mention of that either, although that might have been another amusement park.
356* RevengeBeforeReason: Sentinel 3, AKA the "Avenging Sentinel" becomes addicted to vengeance, [[spoiler:even setting up his own non-combat allies to be killed just to have an excuse for it]] because the act of vengeance feels really good. It's not {{Combat Sadomasochis|t}}m or OrgasmicCombat, it's just knowing you're avenging someone [[spoiler:even someone ''you set up to die in the first place'']] produces that same kind of high.
357* RevisedEnding: WordOfGod is that "Snow Light" was originally going to be an omake in which Fran fails to save the girl's brother (because they won't let her near the operation due to her reputation), and instead fixes the girl's broken doll. In the full version that was published, the girl makes Fran realize that she can save her brother even without being allowed to perform the heart transplant -- by performing unauthorized surgery on the doctor that was chosen that enhances him to the point that he's up to the task. Instead, she can't fix the doll, as she just knows how to fix actual, living people.
358* SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou: In "The Panoramic Island"'s cover, Fran Madaraki Is About To Shoot You. Interestingly enough, this chapter also contains [[Film/JamesBond a bald, scarred man]] with a RightHandCat...
359* SeeYouInHell: Uttered by [[spoiler:Kuhou, of all people; right before she could kill Matsumae in "The Panoramic Island 2", she is shot and falls down the building she was standing atop, though she does manage to say the line]]. In a subversion, though [[spoiler:neither she nor Matsumae die]].
360* SexySecretary: Professor Amatsuka gets one in "God & Dog", who is actually [[spoiler:a spy out to steal his and Fran's medical secrets]].
361* SexSignalsDeath:
362** "Chrysalis" ends this way. [[spoiler:The girl whose body Fran remade by attaching her head to a huge caterpillar body that chrysalised? After she and her boyfriend do the deed, she starts turning into an insect and eats him.]]
363** The assholes who [[spoiler:gangraped and killed Miyake]] in "Best Friend" are killed by [[spoiler:a deadly bacteria that was inoculated in her body by Fran]].
364* ShamelessSelfPromoter: The hospital director in "Snow Light" refuses to let Fran help a dying boy because he read the first volume of the manga.
365* ShoutOut:
366** One story is remarkably like HP Lovecraft's ''From Beyond,'' except that the subject is a blind man given the peepers from a squid instead of exposed to a ChronoScope. Another point of divergence is that he makes friends with a ghost.
367** "Giant School Girl" has the fishmonger who has property rights to the whale liken her to the appeal of a giant robot, showing what looks like a Franchise/{{Gundam}} with [[YouWannaGetSued a ton of censor stickers over it]].
368** Frantic Chapter 48 "Mystery Train" involves a locked-room mystery ''ressucitation'' onboard a train, where all other passengers are doctors or surgeons. It turns out [[spoiler:the "culprits" are a the whole group [[Literature/MurderOnTheOrientExpress working together to ressucitate the victim]], although their motives were ultimately nefarious.]]
369* ShownTheirWork:
370** While naturally exaggerated to hell-and-back for the sake of the plot, the basic principles and scientific explanations that Fran gives regarding any given procedure are usually rooted in actual facts and existing medical theories.
371** ''Frantic'' Chapter 37, "Forbidden Experiment" is one of the more notable examples. In real life, the StanfordPrisonExperiment is notorious among psychologists for bad methodology and believed manipulation of events by the professor responsible, with all attempts to replicate the results ending in failure. Sure enough, [[spoiler:the results of the students' replication are revealed to be completely fake. While one student believed that they were performing the experiment with her in charge, Fran was leading ''everyone else'' in just playing along in order to demonstrate how someone in similar position of power to Philip Zimbardo (the man who performed the original experiment) would easily succumb to similar behavior if they believed they would have zero accountability for their actions.]]
372* ShowWithinAShow: The Hachiko homage, shamelessly parodying some adaptation issues such as AdaptationDecay (it's a horrible rendition of what happened), AdaptationalAttractiveness (Pudding turned from a fat, homely middle-aged man to a handsome twenty-something), RelationshipUpgrade (Runa and Pudding end up...romantically involved), and [[spoiler:SparedByTheAdaptation (both Runa and Pudding survive)]].
373* SiblingYinYang:
374** Veronica and Fran, though the "yin and yang" isn't Good vs. Evil, but rather Life vs. Death. Fran cannot end a life and sees no real value in killing, whereas Veronica sees murder as the best solution for most situations.
375** Veronica and Gavrill are Passive vs. Active in terms of their violence; Veronica will always quickly dispatch a foe so they die painlessly and never attacks unless provoked, whereas Gavrill is a vicious psychopath who loves inflicting as much pain as possible and is always searching for a fight.
376* SirSwearsALot: Gavrill has such a potty mouth that she swears in almost literally every sentence she speaks.
377-->I can smell your rotting cunt, Fran!!
378* SlasherSmile: The Madaraki siblings put these own when engaging in their preferred activities; Fran during a surgical operation, and Gavrill and Veronica when they're fighting.
379* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: When it's not being darkly humorous, it's being cynical. See the two Justice chapters, the latter of which [[spoiler:convinces the idealistic hero that charity is evil because it'll overpopulate the world and cause humans to destroy themselves, and forces him to kill a bunch of angry people who were hurt by the first Justice]].
380* SmokingHotSex: Nezeru and Jenny in "Rolling World 2". [[spoiler:They're escaped mascots from Rolling World.]]
381* SomethingForEveryone: Fran is asked by the girls of a school to [[AllMenArePerverts make their boyfriends less horny]]. She does so by [[spoiler:creating a huge pheromone-emitting mass of flesh that causes any man to see a crowd of naked and horny women.]] Naturally, this works too well, with the boys spending every spare minute having sex with the thing, so the girlfriends complain to Fran. She shows them what she did, and the girls promptly start beating it up with anything at hand, to Fran's confusion.
382* SoundtrackDissonance: The ending of the CD drama adaptation of "Chrysalis" [[spoiler:wherein Kaneda ''eats'' her mutually loving boyfriend, Tajima, in the manner of many insects]] is accompanied by light, cheerful music.
383* SpaceWhaleAesop: [[OnceAnEpisode Every issue]], though it doesn't take itself seriously.
384* SpitTake:
385** Veronica in "Octopus", when she learns the octopus creature was created from the genetic information of an octopus mixed with her own.
386** Fran in ''Frantic''[='s=] "Gathering of the Beauties", when the girls she put on a specialized hormone treatment after once again being taken in by Mikage's obsessions spontaneously develop [[spoiler:erect penises and an uncontrollable libidos]].
387%%* StalkerWithACrush: Chapter 7.
388* StrictlyFormula:
389** Someone comes to Fran for help. Fran "helps" them. It backfires. Fran shrugs it off and moves to the next patient.
390** Fran invents some Nobel-worthy achievement in medicine to "fix" a "problem". Someone steals the idea. It backfires. Fran shrugs it off and moves to her next invention.
391* SuperDeformed: Veronica in one chapter, when she gets cut in half and Fran only has limited parts to rebuild her. She's not happy about only having two Shaolin spade blades for arms.
392* SuperPoweredRobotMeterMaids:
393** Not with robots, but an artificial organism. For some reason Fran decided to give a living amusement park ''mascot'' 20 times the strength of a horse and teeth sharp enough to bite people's heads off.
394** Fran's lab assistants tend to be about ten feet tall and half as broad across the shoulders. At least one of them has a remarkable HealingFactor and can serve as a decent assassin.
395* SuperSenses: The wolf-like Gavrill has super-hearing and [[TheNoseKnows super-smelling]]. The latter makes her already torturous tenure as a high school sub unbearable because the students' body fluids are overwhelming. Veronica's senses are also much sharper than a normal human's, but pale in comparison to her sister's.
396* SuperTeam:
397** This time with cockroaches!
398** Another one has popped up comprising of Sentinels I-IV.
399* SurpriseIncest: One volume bonus reveals that [[spoiler:the all-male and all-female civilizations from "Amazon" originated from a brother-sister pair. And with the society being made of clones, all of the coupling those societies did means they're in relationships with their genetic siblings]].
400* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: In the first chapter, Fran notes how brain damage is irreversible. While her solution to bringing back the man's son is [[CameBackWrong science fiction]], she points out the actual boy is completely [[EmptyShell gone]] because he was dead for several days.
401* SympathyForTheDevil: For a brief moment in "A Very Lucky Man", officer Kuhou actually expresses her condolences to the criminal, now that Fran is in the picture. [[SubvertedTrope All of that goes flying right out the window]] when he ejaculates on her, causing her to realize just how much of a lunatic he is.
402* TakeThat:
403** Most folks are often too focused on the dark horror-humor to notice that the other half of the manga's comedy is firmly rooted in biting, snarky satire, often regarding Japanese culture and manga/anime tropes and cliches, mostly from taking whatever is being mocked at the time and bringing it to a twisted extreme. Examples include:
404*** Japanese blood type superstition is mocked by depicting it leading to a segregationist, dictatorial caste system.
405*** "Two Dimensions", an entire chapter showcasing the horrific things one would have to do to themselves to look like an anime character in real life, and just how hideous that would actually look.
406*** "Longevity", the chapter focusing on an impossibly old woman, and Fran discovering the secret to her supposed immortality. The chapter appears mostly serious, with very little in the way of jokes, until you're hit square in the face with the punchline of the entire chapter: [[spoiler:Ever have an extremely old relative who requires constant care and attention, and never seems to die? They're doing it on purpose because they hate you, and your misery feeds them and makes them immortal. ''Old people hate you.'']]
407** "Sea Monster" has a small one against radical nature organisations like Green Peace.
408** ''Frantic'' has an entire character that's dedicated to poking fun at fans who get so engrossed in yuri, yaoi, bishonen, and other such characters in manga and anime to the point they start pushing those unrealistic fetishistic ideals and scenarios on actual people.
409* TakeThatAudience: It's very easy to read Jun Kurosuma, the pediatric surgeon in ''Frantic'' Chapter 36, as a jab at the portion of the audience that forgets that Fran is a genuinely dedicated doctor who has done a lot of good for the world, and that we as the audience are only seeing all the times things go off-the-rails. The idea that absolutely ''nothing'' Fran does can possibly end well results in her [[spoiler:destroying something Fran created alongside other researchers that is a benefit to mankind without any drawbacks, solely because she found it hideous and disturbing]], which hits her with LaserGuidedKarma.
410* TearOffYourFace: Happens all the time.
411* TerrifiedOfGerms: The client in "Cockroaches" has this so bad that she asks Fran to create something that will kill off all cockroaches. [[spoiler:After she gets badly burned, her skin grafts are revealed to be made from the exoskeleton of cockroaches.]] Cue FreakOut, followed by the above trope.
412* ThereIsNoCure: {{Implied}} with Roito in "Neverending Story": Fran makes no attempt to cure his rare disease despite how, as mentioned above, [[FindTheCure finding the cure]] is usually her specialty, and instead she aids in the construction of his staged fantasy world so he can spend his remaining days in happiness. {{Subverted}} when Fran finds a cure for his disease in a later issue.
413* TheThreeFacesOfEve: The Madaraki Sisters with Gavrill as the Seductress, Fran as the Mother, and Veronica as the Child.
414* {{Toku}}: The "Justice" chapters and the Sentinels all form a dark, gory parody of the ''Kamen Rider'' formula. However, the characters who end up looking like classic suit monsters are real, and the special attacks the Sentinels use against their foes can very well leave a trail of blood and organs in their wake instead of pretty effects flying everywhere.
415* TookALevelInBadass: While your opinion may vary as to whether she became "badass" or not, you can't deny that officer Kuhou became a hell of a lot more serious after [[spoiler:she was transformed into a monster girl]].
416* TooKinkyToTorture: The people of ''unusual tastes'', who [[spoiler:kill themselves so Fran can revive them]]. This even weirds out ''Fran''.
417* TheTopicOfCancer: Used for karmic justice (and the compulsory BodyHorror)--a rich villain hires Fran to extend her life and tries to get her killed to steal her research (fortunately, Fran is AmbiguouslyUndead and can live through decapitation). Fran returns to the villain's mansion and finds her ShowingOffTheNewBody--the experimental formula allowed her telomeres to regenerate indefinitely, making her cells immortal. However, just as the first side effects start to appear, Fran calmly explains that the only cells not programmed to die of old age are cancer cells. She then walks away, leaving her client "immortal"...as a gibbering pile of semi-liquid flesh.
418** A more positive cancer story happens in "Take To Pieces" with [[spoiler: the girl who has tumors growing all over her body because of a cell issue that makes her constantly regrow organs and body parts]]. By the end, Fran [[spoiler: not only stops the tumor growth, she also amputates all the excessive growth and rebuilds her body to that of a normal girl, allowing her to live a normal life]].
419* TorturePorn: The [[ShowWithinAShow movie]] Fran unknowingly starred in.
420* TranquilFury: The above movie causes Fran to very calmly get revenge by doing her usual thing on one of the director's earlier victims.
421* TrueSight: Fran outfits an artist who is going blind with eyes capable of seeing every spectrum at the same time. He's trapped in a nightmare world full of {{Eldritch Abomination}}s and flees in terror... until he runs into a perfectly normal-looking girl. They fall in love and he paints a picture of her to give to Fran. Okita is horrified.
422* {{Tsundere}}: A highly stereotypical one shows up in Matsumae's island school fantasy.
423* UncannyValleyGirl: Fran, between her visible stitch scars, bolts, her eyes occasionally falling out, and her tottering while she walks.
424* UndyingLoyalty: Despite how horribly she treated them and used them as nothing more but spare parts, Shidou Miyako's clones were genuinely horrified and worried when they saw their master [[spoiler: being reduced to a writhing tumor and tried to do everything in their power to fix her.]]
425* TheUnreveal:
426** In the last chapter, "Dream", Fran has a dream where all her friends and former patients visit, but she's woken up just before we get to see [[HeWhoMustNotBeSeen Naomitsu]].
427** In "Sea Monster", the reader never get to find out exactly what [[spoiler:the sea monster gives birth to]].
428* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Lampshaded in "People Of Unusual Tastes", where people explain to Okita that they don't find the sight of a cat with a man's head surprising because they're familiar with Fran's work. Okita hadn't even thought of it.
429* VaginaDentata: The girl in "Take To Pieces", sort of. Due to the mutations on her body, she has an ''actual'' mouth where her lady-parts would usually be.
430* VisualPun: In the very first chapter, Fran is so moved by the client's story of fatherly love that she literally cries her eyes out.
431* WanderingJew: The man himself appears, his body so far gone that ''[[TheWormThatWalks his organs have been replaced by hordes of insects]]''. Fran kindly rebuilds his body while Veronica thinks it's cruel to let him live after he says (well, writes) that he's very tired. [[spoiler: They both get their wish when the rebuilt wanderer spies Jesus On The Cross [[GeniusBonus in the Sun, remembers he was a Roman Soldier]] (he's been as far from visible light as possible to avoid people), rejoices at the sight of the one who can forgive him and instantly liquefies.]] [[UnreliableNarrator Although, according to Doctor Amatsuka, the identity and biography of this man may be partly or even completely different, since the Doctor reminisced on the unreliability of human memory in the same chapter]].
432* WeCanRebuildHim: Multiple examples, but one of the most extreme is in "Piety", where [[spoiler:the cultists keep a young girl alive by converting her into a ''factory'' that somehow gets ''pregnant'']]. Even Fran is a little stumped about how that happened.
433* WellIntentionedExtremist:
434** Probably one of the oddest examples of this trope, as Fran is not of the typical "I do what is right, even if I have to do terrible things to do so." Thanks to Blue and Orange Morality, Fran is [[ObliviouslyEvil entirely incapable]] of seeing her extremism as anything wrong and doesn't take well to being called out on what she does. At most, she might see those solutions as not ideal.
435** She also subverts this at times. Most chapters put her in a situation that requires extreme measures to be taken, but when faced with day-to-day concerns, she often suggests more rational courses of actions.
436** Veronica wants to protect Fran. Unfortunately her first and only solution to anyone getting too close to Fran is "murder the crap out of them".
437** A bizarre inversion would have to be the Black Lotus Syndicate. Their plan is the eradication of humanity...but they don't plan on killing even one person. [[spoiler:Instead, they plan on improving the human condition to the point that the number of human beings on the planet exceeds the number of resources available, which will incite World War 3, as every nation battles every other for the few remaining resources left. Naturally, their leader is an ActualPacifist, who tries to stop his minions and Sentinel 2 from fighting one another. He fails utterly, his minions too enraged by Sentinel 2 killing their family members, and Sentinel 2 not able to control his own strength.]]
438* WeWillMeetAgain: The villain of "Antifat Remedy" delivers this to Fran, in a very rare moment where she is actually defeated.
439* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: A small example with Paku, the dog who accompanies Veronica in the extra chapter of volume 2. Veronica briefly mentions him in the beginning of "Her Pet Dog", but aside that he is never seen or mentioned again.
440* WhatMeasureIsANonCute: In full effect here to mind-bending extremes. Between the stitched-up, slightly deranged sisters, the man-headed cat and the HumanoidAbomination, the cast seems tailor-made to provoke squeals of delight and horror from the readers.
441* WhatTheHellHero: Played with in the sequel to "Justice", when a new Sentinel discovers that the BigBad's plan to destroy the world is through ''charities'' (clean water and hospitals for everyone = population boom = [[HumansAreBastards overcrowded humanity will fight each other at the drop of a hat]] = Profit!). Nonetheless, the Big Bad is very upset at the deaths of his minions and allows their families to take revenge. [[spoiler:It doesn't work since they're normal humans against one of Fran's creations. The Sentinel goes on a bombing spree against anything remotely charitable and gets tagged as a terrorist.]]
442* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Veronica, who has superhuman strength and won't hesitate to kill someone, is horribly scared of ghosts.
443* WifeHusbandry: A twisted version happens at the [[CruelTwistEnding end of "Protozoan"]]. [[spoiler:The patient requests Fran to fertilize her egg with the genes of her best friend (and love interest) so that they can have another chance together. However, Fran later states that the genes of the friend went into remission so in effect, the baby who the patient plans to court is not her best friend reborn, but rather her [[ParentalIncest biological child]].]]
444* TheWormThatWalks: In chapter 24, Fran encounters a man cursed with immortality. His original flesh and organs have rotted away and been replaced by swarms of insects that function as his eyes, heart, skin, etc...
445* WoundedGazelleGambit: A group of assassins fake a gang rape in order to lure in the superhero Sentinel to save the victim. Sentinel arrives, only to be shot at by both the supposed rapists and their supposed victim
446* WrongGenreSavvy:
447** Fran often seems to think of herself as a [[LoveFreak facilitator of happy endings]] [[TheMatchmaker and true love]], seemingly unaware of the barrels of horror she deals out anytime [[ObliviouslyEvil she tries to "help" people]].
448** The islanders of "Living Dead" immediately assume the revived dead are actually zombies and feel free to start shooting them [[spoiler:when it's actually possible for them to be cured]].
449** The whole Sentinel arc pretty much runs on how completely misguided everyone that isn't Fran is.
450* YaoiFangirl: "Another Country" has Fran meet a classmate who is one of these, and who manages to convert Fran into one. She gets over it by the end of the chapter, but not before her newfound obsession inspires her to develop a special hormone that forces same-sex arousal, which said classmate happily dumps into the local water supply, after which she [[spoiler:asks Fran to turn her into a man with a special "BL hole". The classmate then uses what remains of the hormone on themselves, which results in them getting gang-raped by the harem they acquired.]] The character appears again in a few other chapters, each time getting Fran briefly addicted to a new fetish just long enough to convince to create something that causes that chapter's problem.
451* {{Yandere}}: Chapter 35, "Robot", where all the robots contain the emotions and memories of the creator's late wife, so guess what happens [[TooDumbToLive when the creator starts dating other women]].
452* YouBastard: "Living Dead" is a deconstruction of ZombieStories that basically portrays the genre's appeal as an excuse to murder people with diseases (which turn out to be ''[[UndeathIsCheap curable]]'').
453* YourMindMakesItReal: In "Imaginary Self", Fran injects a teenager with an experimental batch of stem cells that respond to his thoughts, literally making him the man of his dreams. [[spoiler:However, they are highly unpredictable, causing the boy to change on a whim. In the end, the boy becomes despondent and mutates into a giant sea squirt. The reason why he became depressed was because the girl he loved had a boyfriend. In the end, it turns out she never did, and Fran gives her a perfume made from the musk of the boy. *sniff* (On the upside, the kid's musk makes his mom rich.)]]
454* YukiOnna: In a filler chapter, Fran gives a blind man the eyes of a sea animal that can see the entire light spectrum. As he flees in terror from the normally invisible horrors, [[CrashIntoHello he quite literally bumps into a seemingly-normal young lady]], who turns out to be a Yuki-Onna on summer vacation. They end up falling in love and she moves in with him.
455* ZombieApocalypse: {{Deconstructed|Trope}} in Chapter 47's "Living Dead". The "zombies" are actually victims of a parasite [[spoiler:and can be cured, although no one realizes this]].
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