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Lawrence Talbot
Lawrence Talbot / The Wolfman
Played By: Benicio del Toro
The main and title character. A stage actor, he returns to his home in England after his brother's murder. He wishes to look into it and, of course, is bitten by a werewolf.
- Adaptational Angst Upgrade: In the original film, Larry was well adjusted pre-transformation at worst having a somewhat distant relationship with his father. Here Lawrence witnessed his mother's death as a child and was committed to an insane asylum' for a year, before being shipped off to America with an aunt by his father.
- Adaptational Badass: His Wolfman form is far more formidable than in The Wolfman 1941, killing about ten times the number of people the original Wolfman did. Even in human form, he's not bad with a rifle.
- Adaptational Job Change: In the original film it's stated Larry had been working at an optics company in California while here he's a Shakespearean actor
- Adaptational Name Change: In the original film he was primarily known by the nickname Larry which is never mentioned here.
- The Alcoholic: He comes off as this in the movie. Played pretty straight in the book adaptation of the movie.
- All Just a Dream: He has quite a few hallucinations while recovering from his nasty little bite, as well as hallucinations in the asylum.
- The Charmer: Implied to be this in the beginning, though we're not sure whether it's his actual character or the werewolf influence.
- Dark and Troubled Past: He's had quite a nice little messed-up childhood, witnessing his mother's death, being sent to a mad-house where he underwent all sorts of nasty treatments and then shipped off to live with a distant relative in America.
- Died in Your Arms Tonight: After Gwen's Shoot the Dog moment, he returns to human form and spends his last moments of life in Gwen's arms before he appropriately dies at the end.
- Dies Differently in Adaptation: In the original 1941 film, he is beaten to death with a silver cane. Here, he gets shot with a Silver Bullet, although this is how he dies in House of Frankenstein.
- Diving Save: He saves a Roma child by doing this right before the first werewolf attacks her.
- Doomed Protagonist: Just like the original movie, he's not long for this world.
- Drowning My Sorrows: After learning of Ben's death and then seeing what's left of him.
- Fake Memories: As a child, his memories of his mother's death were re-formed during his time in the asylum so he would believe that his mother killed herself and concealed his real memories of his werewolf father tearing her throat out.
- Go Among Mad People: He gets locked in an asylum for ranting that he's a werewolf. He'd previously been committed as a boy, to help him suppress the trauma of his mother's death, because he'd been ranting (quite truthfully) that his father was a werewolf and had killed her.
- I Am a Monster: "I am what they say I am... I'm a monster."
- I Cannot Self-Terminate: When the full moon rises, Lawrence, strapped to a chair, implores the doctors in the room to kill him because he knows he will go on another murderous rampage when he transforms.
- I'll Kill You!: Played straight to his father when he learns he was the werewolf who bit him AND killed his mother and brother. Him saying this to the assembled doctors is almost a subversion. Despite the delivery, he is trying to warn them that he's a dire threat, rather than making a promise of revenge.
- In a Single Bound: He quite impressively clears a police blockade in a single leap, much to Aberline's dismay.
- Instant Sedation: Subverted. He gets a number of injections while in the asylum, presumably to sedate him, but none take effect immediately. When a doctor tries to inject him with a sedative as he turns into a werewolf, he isn't affected at all.
- Involuntary Shapeshifting: Much as he would like to, Lawrence is unable to stop himself from transforming and is completely subject to the phases of the moon.
- It's Personal: In relation to his own father, who is revealed to have killed his wife and oldest son, as well as bit Lawrence, thus spreading the curse to him.
- I Want My Mommy!: In the novelization, he begs his dead mother to help him during his first transformation, in pain and scared out of his mind. Eventually, he just takes to screaming her name, but all that comes out is an animal roar.
- Kill the Ones You Love: He kills his father and almost kills Gwen, too.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: It's not so much that he forgot, but rather Lawrence's memories were re-written so that the real memories of his werewolf father killing his mother were made to appear that she had killed herself with a razor.
- Let Them Die Happy: He dies in the end, but he stays alive for a few moments to reassure and thank Gwen for "setting him free." However, he dies before learning that he has bitten Aberline and cursed him as well. He could also be happy from realizing that since he was still alive to that point meant he had succeeded in defeating his father, meaning neither of them will hurt anyone again. However, this only makes the ending more tragic when we find out what becomes of Aberline.
- Madness Mantra:
- "Where is my father? Where is my father? WHERE IS MY FATHER?"
- "If you don't kill my father he will kill again and again and again and again..."
- Madness Montage: All the hallucinations he has.
- Mind Rape: What essentially happens to him after his time in the asylum, poor man.
- Non-Malicious Monster: Played With. Unlike Sir John Talbot, Lawrence seems to have at least some measure of control over his murderous instincts even when fully transformed. When he transforms in the asylum, for instance, he makes a beeline right for Honneger, who had been torturing him extensively: the other doctors who get in his way are unceremoniously, but harmlessly shoved aside. He attacks the orderly only after said orderly stabs him in the back with a syringe. In two later occasions he manages to calm down enough to stand quietly with humans right in front of him: once with Gwen, and once in a deleted scene where he is lured by the sound of a blind woman singing and seems content to simply listen. In total, his mindset as a werewolf seems to be one part scared wild animal, one part hungry wild animal, and one part terrified human fighting desperately from within, as opposed to a mindless engine of slaughter. Subverted in the novelization, where his werewolf form attacks almost every human in his five senses, altrough without the evil level from his father.
- The Nose Knows: It comes with the pack of being a werewolf. He easily tracks Gwen's scent in the forest, and near a lake.
- Not Even Bothering with the Accent: Justified, since in this version, he spent most of his life in America where his accent probably dissipated. Since Benicio is a native Spanish speaker, his accent does seem to slip in a few scenes with varying degrees, which in turn might be justifiable as well, since his mother in this version was visibly of some Spanish decent. He still gets Brownie Points for a good effort.
- Parental Abandonment: He witnessed his mother's "suicide" as a child, and if that's not traumatic enough, his father throws him into an asylum and then ships him off to live with his aunt in America afterwards.
- The Power of Love: His feelings for Gwen bring out what's left of his humanity, but only right before Gwen "sets him free."
- Shapeshifter Baggage: The novelization of the movie makes note of the extra mass he gains when transforming into a werewolf, and suggests its source is Hell itself.
- These Hands Have Killed: He stares at his bloodied hands in horror when he wakes up after his first transformation.
- Trauma Conga Line: Things just keep getting worse for him...
- White Shirt of Death: Played for full horrific effect when he wakes up after his first transformation. The white shirt he was wearing is quite messy.
Sir John Talbot
Sir John Talbot
Spoiler
Played By: Anthony Hopkins
Lawrence's estranged father.
- Action Dad: He opens fire on those who want to catch his son, and it turns out that he's more than physically fit enough to outfight Lawrence even while they're both human.
- Adaptational Villainy: He is much less sympathetic than his 1941 counterpart who was not a werewolf and killed the wolfed-out Lawrence to protect Gwen, and was extremely upset on learning that the werewolf was his son.
- Big Bad: He's the main villain of the movie, so that pretty much explains it.
- Aristocrats Are Evil: He's a wealthy knighted landowner who is not only a werewolf, but he kills at least two people while in human form - unlike Lawrence, who only kills as a werewolf.
- Cane Fu: He's quite skilled in the use of a cane as a bludgeoning weapon, as Lawrence discovers in the finale.
- Composite Character: He replaces the Roma’s son, Bela, as the werewolf who gives Lawrence his curse.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Lawrence's first attempt to kill his father doesn't go very well, for not only has Sir John sabotaged the silver bullets, but he's strong enough to beat Lawrence to the ground with his cane. It's not until the full moon rises that the two combatants are anywhere near equal strength.
- Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You: He didn't want Lawrence to out him as a werewolf and for inadvertently killing his mommy.
- Death by Adaptation: The original Sir John survives the events of the original film. This version is killed by Lawrence after a vicious werewolf battle.
- Egomaniac Hunter: He's an expert hunter who loves to wear fur coats from the pelts of animals he hunted down, and his manor is decorated with countless stuffed trophies. In the novelization, he believes that he is at the top of the food chain, and planned to hunt people in all the world, with Lawrence and Gwen as his werewolf pack.
- Evil Feels Good: By the time of the movie, he thinks it's a mistake to lock up his beast side and wants to run free. Completely explicit in the novelization.
- Evil Old Folks: An elderly gentleman who greatly enjoys conducting mass-slaughter as a werewolf and doesn't feel a shred of remorse for any of it, even relating tales of murder with the same casual tone more commonly used by grandfathers relating tales of their glory days.
- Faux Affably Evil: He turns out to be an unrepentant murderer, but his charm never wavers, and once he's revealed as a werewolf, he only seems to grow more jovial around Lawrence - even telling him he loves him while leaving him trapped in the asylum.
- Fully-Embraced Fiend: Despite initially having Singh lock him away during the full moon, Sir John has since changed his mind and decided it was a mistake to suppress his werewolf self, and now gleefully looks forward to any opportunity to indulge his inner beast.
- Hannibal Lecture: He gives one to Lawrence. Rather fitting, considering he's played by Anthony Hopkins.
- If I Can't Have You…: His motivation for killing Ben, as he believed that Gwen and his son would eventually leave him. Granted, the murder was committed by Sir John as a werewolf, but as he demonstrates no remorse for the act and that Ben was the only target, it's clear that Sir John and his werewolf side are in agreement.
- Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: He defends Lawrence from the lynch mob, but only because he wants Lawrence to be The Scapegoat for his attacks and is just making sure that he'll be around to transform and go on a rampage during the next full moon. He later casually reveals that he sabotaged Singh's silver bullets years ago, showing he's long since stopped caring of the consequences to innocent bystanders.
- Karmic Death: After going out of his way to make his own son's life a living hell and clearly believing that he'll win the inevitable duel between the two, Sir John finally meets his end when Lawrence overcomes his animalistic strength with cunning - namely by setting him on fire and slicing his head off.
- Notable Non Sequitur: He warns his son not to go out on the full moon, which sets up the inevitable werewolf attack. The "Notable" part of this is where he tells Lawrence this because Sir John is the werewolf and (at least, initially) doesn't want to be responsible for his remaining son's death.
- Off with His Head!: How his son ends up killing him.
- Papa Wolf: He tries to protect Lawrence from the angry mob trying to capture him by shooting at them, and possibly even blinding someone in the process. However it's all just so Lawrence can be The Scapegoat later on.
- Pater Familicide: Given that he is the one who killed his wife and Ben and probably would have succeeded in killing Lawrence if the hunters hadn't come along...
- Rasputinian Death: First he gets kicked into the fireplace and set on fire. Then Lawrence cuts him open with his claws and decapitates him with one blow to the head.
- Retired Badass: He was a very avid hunter in his younger days, though after "only" blinding the Colonel instead of killing him outright, he jokes that his skills must have declined with age. He also admits that he was once a bareknuckle boxer in the days before Lawrence was born.
- Softspoken Sadist: Almost never raises his voice above a murmur, sounding calm and friendly even while beating Lawrence to a pulp with his cane.
- Terms of Endangerment: Calls Lawrence "my young pup" in their meeting in the asylum.
- Transformation Exhilaration: Demonstrates gleeful anticipation in the face of a rising moon and exhibits none of the pain Lawrence suffers while transforming - a sign that he has embraced his inner beast.
- Ungrateful Bastard: Repays Singh's years of loyalty by beating him senseless in a drunken rage, and later killing him and leaving him pinned to the wall.
- With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: His lycanthropy has most certainly gone to his head, as he openly enjoys hunting and killing as a werewolf.
- Yandere: Familial variant; Sir John became extremely possessive of Ben Talbot during their last days together, and once Gwen caught his son's eye, he believed it was only a matter of time before the two of them would leave him. Sir John's response to this was to get drunk, beat Singh unconscious, and slip into werewolf form unrestrained - resulting in Ben's murder, for which John shows no remorse.
Ben Talbot
Ben Talbot
Played By: Simon Merrells
Lawrence's brother, who is killed in the opening of the film. His death sets the events of the film in motion.
- Adaptational Name Change: Renamed from John to Ben.
- Composite Character: He replaces Frank Andrews as Gwen's fiancé.
- Sacrificial Lamb: Ben's screen time consists of running from the werewolf and being caught by it.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: He is killed only a few minutes into the film.
Townsfolk
Gwen Conliffe
Gwen Conliffe
Played By: Emily Blunt
Lawrence's love interest. Ben's former fiancee, who wants to know the truth about Ben's death. Over time, they get romantically attached. After finding out Lawrence is a werewolf, she sets out to help him.
- Action Girl: She eventually becomes the Victorian equivalent of this when she becomes so motivated by trying to save Lawrence that she totes a gun around while running around in a dark forest in the middle of the night, certainly breaking the Damsel in Distress version of her character from 1941.
- Adrenaline Makeover: She gradually gets this over the course of the movie. Initially, she comes off as a very proper and somewhat quiet woman. However, as she becomes determined to find a cure for Lawrence towards the end of the movie, she starts to wear less fancy attire and her hair is noticeably a little unkempt from her nights of searching for answers. By the finale, her hair is down, she is wearing a slightly lower-cut and dirtier-looking dress than her earlier attire, and carries around a silver bullet loaded pistol. In the novelization after the final fight, she didn't sleep for a time, her dress is dirty, she's sweaty and with her hair down, and at the ending chase sequence, she takes off her shoes and ran barefoot across the forest to running faster before the Wolfman chasing her.
- Always Save the Girl: Her actions in protecting Lawrence from Aberline are understandable, but she is also putting the chance that he can be cured above the likelihood that he will kill again (and in fact, Lawrence does end up infecting someone directly because of her).
- Beast and Beauty: Her and Lawrence.
- Hands-On Approach: The stone-skipping scene. Oops, is that a little blush we see on your face, Gwen?
- Interrupted Cool Down Hug: She gives Lawrence a Cooldown Hug in the end, but that angry mob just had to come by and ruin everything.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: She stops Aberline from shooting Lawrence which, in turn, causes him to get bitten. However, this really doesn't do much good since she ends up shooting Lawrence herself in the end. Although, she's somewhat justified since she was still convinced she could reach Lawrence, and well...she was right. Plus, she probably figured that Lawrence would have finished off Aberline instead of chasing after her instead.
- Only I Can Kill Him: After many days of sleepless research, she discovers only how to kill Lawrence, not how to cure him. In desperation, she searches for the Romani fortune teller, but she only confirms it: a werewolf can only be slain with silver, and only by someone who loves him.
Maleva
Maleva
Played By: Geraldine Chaplin
A Roma who warns Lawrence that he is in great danger.
- Demoted to Extra: She had a much larger role in the original film and only has two scenes. Although, Gwen sort of fills her shoes as the figure trying to help Lawrence with his curse this time around.
- Ms. Exposition: Explain the circumstances of the curse to Gwen.
Dr. Hoenneger
Dr. Hoenneger
Played By: Antony Sher
The sadistic doctor at the asylum that Lawrence is sent to. He publicly tries to prove that Lawrence isn't a werewolf, but it only results in Lawrence transforming in front of everyone.
- Asshole Victim: It's hard to feel bad for him when Talbot throws him out of the window to his death. He is also the only person in the film (besides Sir John) who Lawrence intentionally singles out to kill, passing up other victims expressly to go get Hoenneger. All his other victims are either completely random strangers or those he kills reflexively because he's lashing out when hurt (the hunters and Ripler the orderly in particular).
- Cue the Flying Pigs: He is lecturing about the strapped-down Lawrence and he remarks that his patient can no more transform into a monster than he, the doctor, can sprout wings and fly out of the window. Sure enough, when Lawrence transforms and breaks loose, he executes Destination Defenestration on the shrink.
- Death by Irony: He claims that Lawrence will no more likely change into a werewolf than he is likely to sprout wings and fly out the window! He doesn't sprout wings, at any rate...
- Dirty Coward: Unlike Ripler the orderly, the other Jerkass character at the asylum, he shows not an ounce of courage, and tries to escape into the anonymity of the crowd and escape through a side door, pretty much intending to abandon everyone else to die.
- Expy: Possibly one of Dr. Frank Mannering from the original film's sequel, a similar, but far less sadistic, character.
- Failed a Spot Check: He gets so wrapped up in discussing Lawrence's delusions and the treatment he's devised, that he's the last person in the room to notice that Lawrence is transforming right behind him.
- Herr Doctor: He's a creepy doctor with a German surname and accent.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Lawrence throws him out of the asylum window and he is impaled on the fence posts.
- Karmic Death: He spends most of his scenes torturing Talbot, exacerbating his horrific trauma, and eventually has him strapped to a table and mocked as a deluded loon. Talbot specifically goes for him as a werewolf, shoving two more innocent doctors out of the way, before grabbing Hoenneger and chucking him out of a two-story window to his death.
- Oh, Crap!: Upon discovering that Lawrence's lycanthropy is not a delusion.
- Wrong Genre Savvy: He exposes Lawrence to a full moon while surrounded by witnesses, which would have worked in a psychological thriller about a man who has delusions of lycanthropy. Unfortunately for him, Lawrence is a real werewolf.
Singh
Singh
Played By: Art Malik
Sir John's manservant.
- Battle Butler: He is armed to the teeth with silver bullets and other monster-killing devices. It didn't do him much good in the end, though, and he loses points for not realizing the silver bullets are sabotaged.
- Dead Guy on Display: Pretty much the only reason Sir John would leave him the way he did was explicitly so Lawrence would find him. Otherwise, he would've just left him on the floor.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Enough that he's left dangling from the wall with no sign of his corpse's weight pulling him down.
- Killed Offscreen: Apparently, he and Sir John had a very nasty falling out, and John's response to this is to kill him and leave him stuck to the wall.
- Old Retainer: Served the Talbots for years.
- Secret-Keeper: He knows Sir John is the Wolfman and kept him restrained during nights.
MacQueen
MacQueen
Played By: Clive Russell
A local man with a better idea than most of what is happening.
- Almighty Janitor: A simple gamekeeper, ignored by the town fathers at first, who then takes the lead in preparing for the werewolf's next emergence.
- Brave Scot: He is the only Scottish character, leads the attempts to hunt the werewolf, is willing to get dangerously close to the pit to try and rescue another hunter, and defiantly shoots Lawrence several times after being yanked into the pit himself.
- Cassandra Truth: He is the first to claim that there is a werewolf (or something of the nature) nearby and is ignored, at first. Once stye begin to take his warnings seriously, he's in charge of the efforts to capture the beast in a pit trap.MacQueen: Got nothing to do with the gypsies. Twenty-five years ago now, me Pa found. Quinn Noddy and all his flock. Brains and guts and God-knows-what lying all over the moor for a quarter mile. And, Quinn, the look on his face. Like he'd been eaten alive. Whatever did it was big, had claws, and didn't mind a load of buckshot. After that me Pa went home and melted down me Ma's wedding spoons and cast silver bullets on 'em. Wouldn't leave the house on a full moon from then on.
- Only Sane Man: He is the first person to realize that the villages plague is not of human origins, and is the only prominent villager not to come after Lawrence while he's recovering from the bite, focusing instead on preparing traps. He's also the most alert and capable during the bungled attempt to kill the werewolf.
- Token Good Teammate: Of the four prominent hunting party members (himself, Lloyd, Montfort, and Strickland), he is the only one not to join the attempt to lynch Lawrence before he transforms.
Colonel Paul Montford
Colonel Paul Montford
Played By: Nicholas Day
One of the local leaders.
- Adaptational Jerkass: Expresses some nasty remarks about Lawrence's mother in the Extended Cut.
- Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: In the original 1941 film he and Larry were old friends, but here they have no acquaintance at all thanks to his Age Lift with their only interactions being hostile.
- Age Lift: His 1941 counterpart was the same age as Larry, but here he seems to be in his sixties.
- Better to Die than Be Killed: He tries to shoot himself when cornered by the werewolf, but has run out of bullets.
- Death by Adaptation: Killed off halfway through the movie where his counterpart survived the original.
- Demoted to Extra: Nowhere as important as the original 1941 version.
- Dirty Coward: He's quick trying to lynch Lawrence before he transforms, but when facing the actual werewolf runs in terror.
- Dumbass Has a Point: He laughs at the idea that that the Romani’ dancing bear is behind things.
- Off with His Head!: He gets beheaded by the Wolfman.
- Quicksand Sucks: While running away from Lawrence, he stumbles into a bog and quickly begins sinking in to his death. Though neither that nor his attempt to shoot himself is what kills him. Instead, Lawrence just rips off his head.
- "Scooby-Doo" Hoax: His initial theory about the deaths is that they're the work of a human murderer trying to hide his tracks.
- Upper-Class Twit: The man seems wealthier than the average villager, and is a posturing, incapable man.
Reverend Fisk
Reverend Fisk
Played By: Roger Frost
The local minister.
- The Fundamentalist: He gets a good speech to this effect, rallying awareness of the werewolf, and urging people to stay together while also claiming that its presence can be attributed to God's wrath.Fisk: There are those who doubt the power of Satan. The power of Satan to change men into beasts. But the ancient Pagans did not doubt, nor did the prophets. Did not Daniel warn Nebakanezer? But the proud king did not heed Daniel. And so, as the bible says, he was made as unto a wolf and cast down from man. A beast has come among us! But God will defend his faithful. With his right hand, he will smite the foul demon. I say to you, the enemy's ploy is a devious one, twisting the occursed into beasts he seeks to bring us low, and make us as animals. Teach us self-loathing so that we forget that we are made in the image of almighty God himself. Why does our Lord tolerate this mockery? Pride goeth before destruction? A faulty spirit before the fall? I say it is because we have sinned against him. Because our crimes reek to Heaven, and they demand vengeance!
- Hidden Depths: For unclear reasons, he does not take part in the bungled attempt to trap the werewolf. He is also the first one to show MacQueen's claims any consideration.
Squire Timothy Strickland
Squire Timothy Strickland
Played By: Rob Dixon
The local squire.
- All There in the Manual: His first name is given in the novelization.
- An Arm and a Leg: Lawrence tears his arm off.
- Aristocrats Are Evil: "Evil" is a bit much, but he's definitely an unpleasant person. Though obviously he's a saint compared to Sir John.
- Asshole Victim: One of the most unpleasant townspeople. He isn't missed when he ends up being the first person Lawrence kills as a werewolf.
- Jerkass: Along with Montford and Kirk, he makes a lot of nasty, racist comments about the Romani.
- Uncertain Doom: He is sent flying backward into a stone wall, but it is unclear if he is killed or knocked unconscious.
- Villainous Valor: He is one of the nastiest villagers while discussing the Romani and trying to lynch Lawrence, but he tries to stand his ground after Lawrence escapes the pit even as the other surviving hunters flee.
Dr. Lloyd
Dr. Lloyd
Played By: Michael Cronin
The town doctor.
- Adaptational Jerkass: Not as much as Montford, but he's not as nice of a character as he was in the original.
- Death by Adaptation: He survives in the original. Here, he's the final member of the hunting party to get killed by Lawrence.
- Token Good Cop: He's a brave, intelligent, and decent guy, while Inspector Aberline and the other Scotland Yard officials spend months overlooking important evidence and suspects and take a while to get past being Agent Scullys.
- Token Good Teammate: Is the nicest of the jerkish locals besides Nye. He shows sympathy to Lawrence over Ben's death, and when Fisk and Strickland lead a lynch mob to Talbot Hall, although he accompanies them, the Novelization makes it clear he would rather be somewhere else, and feels ashamed of being part of what the others have planned.
Ripler
Ripler
Played By: Ian Peck
A guard at the asylum.
- All There in the Manual: His name comes from the Novelization. In the film credits, he's just "Creepy Guard."
- Asshole Victim: Despite his bravery during the scene in the lecture hall, he is not a pleasant man and is in fact a typically sadistic old-timey era asylum orderly who enjoys bullying and tormenting the patients. His one heroic act doesn't absolve him of this.
- Badass Bystander: Whatever his nasty qualities and shortcomings, he is the only person who doesn't panic during Lawrence's transformation in the lecture hall, and while everyone else is trying to get out, he runs towards the transforming lycanthrope to grab a syringe and try to fill it with a sedative so as to knock Lawrence out. He even succeeds at injecting him, but it does no good. Still, he tried.
- Bald of Evil: Has a shaved head and is a jerk and a bully.
- Oh, Crap!: When the sedative doesn't do a damn thing except piss Lawrence off even further.
- Orderlies are Creeps: A very good example of this trope, given he clearly enjoys helping Hoenneger torment Lawrence. In the novelization, he also beats Lawrence, and when he and two other orderlies are taking him to the lecture hall, Ripler silences his protests by hitting him and telling him that if he doesn't shut up, then he and the other orderlies will beat him in his cell afterwards.
- Villainous Virtues: He shows great courage during Lawrence's transformation and attack, being one of the only people who doesn't panic and even trying to sedate him, risking (and giving) his life to protect his cowardly boss and the others.
- Villains Want Mercy: Not in the movie, but in the novelization. He babbles and begs as the werewolf throws him into the wall and then the floor, but in a subversion stops after a minute because he realizes he never showed any mercy to any of the patients under his care, so he doesn't deserve any.
Police
Inspector Francis Aberline
Inspector Francis Aberline
Played By: Hugo Weaving
Based on the real life Inspector Fredrick Aberline of the Jack the Ripper murders, Francis is in charge of the investigation of the werewolf murders. He (correctly) suspects Lawrence of being the killer and soon learns the truth.
- And Then John Was a Zombie: The film ends with Lawrence dead, but only after having bitten Aberline, whose Horror Struck Oh, Crap! look suggests he's just realized the implications.
- Anti-Villain: He antagonizes Lawrence, but is technically one of the good guys.
- Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: Years after failing to catch Jack the Ripper in London, Inspector Abberline was sent to the Moors to investigate a werewolf's killings and became a werewolf himself.
- Foreshadowing: He shoots a standing mirror which he thinks Lawrence is hiding behind. "Now there's some bad luck for ya," an officer says regarding the broken mirror. Near the end of the movie, Aberline is bitten by Lawrence, thus doomed to become a werewolf himself.
- God Help Us All: Upon the seeing the Wolfman escape a barrage of gunfire during the London rampage.
- Hero Antagonist: He's just a cop doing his job and trying to stop Lawrence from killing again.
- He Who Fights Monsters: He spends most of the movie bent on killing Lawrence, but in the end, he's bitten by Lawrence and the curse is passed onto him.
- Historical Domain Character: He is a fictionalized version of the real life Inspector Frederick Abberline
. - Horror Struck: Upon realizing he's been bitten.
- Inspector Javert: Appropriately enough.
Constable Nye
Constable Nye
Played By: David Schofield
A policeman.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Although he seems like a typically stupid bumpkin cop, he's actually quite intelligent and brave. It doesn't save him from being killed by Sir John during the attack on the Romani camp.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Sir John grabs him under the chin, thrusting his claws up through his jaw and into Nye's mouth. It's implied he rips his jaw completely off.
- Token Good Teammate: Like Dr. Lloyd, is the only person in town who is at all nice to Lawrence. In the Novelization, after Lawrence's confrontation with MacQueen, Fisk, Montford and the others in the bar almost comes to blows, Nye follows him outside and the two walk together, with the Constable expressing his sympathy over Ben's death and his frustration with the townspeople's ignorance and hostility. He's also one of the only ones who isn't racist against the Romani, and the entire reason he's at the camp at all when he gets killed is because he found out Kirk was leading a mob to kill the harmless, friendly dancing bear and he was trying to stop it.
Detective Carter
Detective Carter
Played By: Shaun Smith
A Scotland Yard detective assisting Aberline.
- Chair Reveal: How he's found dead. In the Novelization, Lawrence only sees the chair from the back and can tell someone is sitting in it. Thinking it's his father, he goes to confront him... only to walk around and discover it's a dead detective.
- Dead Guy on Display: Sir John poses him sitting in an armchair by the fire. In the Novelization, Sir John even went as far as posing him in a very relaxed, almost casual position.
- Killed Offscreen: Aberline sends him to Talbot Hall to warn Sir John about Lawrence's escape. He never returns. Later, Lawrence, confronting his father, finds Carter dead in Sir John's armchair.
- Man on Fire: He goes up when the great hall does. In fact he and he chair he's sitting in are two of the first things to catch fire, although he's already dead when it happens.
- Satellite Character: The only time he's seen without Aberline is when Lawrence finds him dead in the house.
- Walking Spoiler: For such a minor character, there's little about Carter's role in the plot that isn't a spoiler.
