History Characters / TheWolfman2010

* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: In the original 1941 film, he is beaten to death with a silver cane, and even then, he is constantly resurrected before he's finally shot with a SilverBullet in ''Film/House Here, he gets [[spoiler:shot with a SilverBullet, although this ''is'' how he dies in ''Film/HouseOfFrankenstein''.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: You've had quite a nice little messed-up childhood, haven't you? What with witnessing your mother's death and all, and being sent to a mad-house where you underwent all sorts of nasty treatments and then shipped off to live with a distant relative in America.

* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: In the original 1941 film, he was beaten to death with a silver cane. Here, he gets [[spoiler:shot with a SilverBullet]]. Although this was how he died in Film/HouseOfFrankenstein.

* {{Yandere}}: [[spoiler: 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.]]

* WrongGenreSavvy: His idea about making Lawrence experience a full moon while surrounded by witnesses might have been effective and helpful to Lawrence in a psychological thriller about a man who only had mental delusions about lycanthropy. Too bad for Hoenneger that Lawrence is a ''real'' werewolf.

[[folder:Lawrence Talbot/The Wolfman]]

-->'''Played By''': Creator/BenicioDelToro

-->'''Played By''': Creator/AnthonyHopkins

[[folder:Gwen Conliffe]]
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-->'''Played By''': Creator/EmilyBlunt

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.

* ActionGirl: 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 DamselInDistress version of her character from 1941.
* AdrenalineMakeover: 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.
* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: Her actions [[spoiler: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)]].
* BeastAndBeauty: Her and Lawrence.
* HandsOnApproach: The stone-skipping scene. Oops, is that a little [[LuminescentBlush blush]] we see on your face, Gwen?
* InterruptedCoolDownHug: [[spoiler:She gives Lawrence a CooldownHug in the end, but that angry mob just had to come by and ruin everything.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: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...[[IKnowYouAreInThereSomewhereFight she was right]]. Plus, she probably figured that Lawrence would have finished off Aberline instead of chasing after her instead.]]
* OnlyICanKillHim: 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.

[[folder:Inspector Francis Aberline]]
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-->'''Played By''': Creator/HugoWeaving

Based on the real life Inspector Fredrick Aberline of the UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper 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.

* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: [[spoiler:The film ends with Lawrence dead, but only after having [[TheVirus bitten Aberline]], whose HorrorStruck OhCrap look suggests he's just realized the implications.]]
* AntiVillain: He antagonizes Lawrence, but is technically one of the good guys.
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Years after failing to catch UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper in London, Inspector Abberline was sent to the Moors to investigate a werewolf's killings [[spoiler: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, [[spoiler:Aberline is bitten by Lawrence, thus doomed to become a werewolf himself]].
* GodHelpUsAll: Upon the seeing the Wolfman escape a barrage of gunfire during the London rampage.
* HeroAntagonist: He's just a cop doing his job and trying to stop Lawrence from killing again.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: [[spoiler: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.]]
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: He is a fictionalized version of the real life [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Abberline Inspector Frederick Abberline]].
* HorrorStruck: [[spoiler:Upon realizing he's been bitten.]]
* InspectorJavert: Appropriately enough.

-->'''Played By''': Creator/GeraldineChaplin

--> '''Played By''': Antony Sher

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!!Ben Talbot
--> '''Played By''': Creator/SimonMerrells
Lawrence's brother, who is killed in the opening of the film. His death sets the events of the film in motion.

* AdaptationalNameChange: Renamed from John to Ben.
* CompositeCharacter: He replaces Frank Andrews as Gwen's fiancé.
* SacrificialLamb: Ben's screen time consists of running from the werewolf and being caught by it.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: He is killed only a few minutes into the film.

!!Singh
--> '''Played By''': Art Malik

Sir John's manservant.
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--> '''Played By''': Clive Russell

--> '''Played by''': Nicholas Day

--> '''Played by''': Roger Frost

--> '''Played by''': Rob Dixon

* JerkAss: Along with Montford and Kirk, he makes a lot of nasty, racist comments about the Romani.

!! Constable Nye
--> '''Played by''': Actor/DavidSchofield

A policeman.

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Although he seems like a typically stupid bumpkin cop, he's actually quite intelligent and brave. [[spoiler:It doesn't save him from being killed by Sir John during the attack on the Romani camp.]]
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: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.]]
* TokenGoodTeammate: 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 [[spoiler: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.

!! Dr. Lloyd
--> '''Played by''': Michael Cronin

The town doctor.
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!! Detective Carter
--> '''Played by''': Shaun Smith

A Scotland Yard detective assisting Aberline.

* ChairReveal: [[spoiler: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 [[CallingTheOldMan confront him]]... only to walk around and discover it's a dead detective.]]
* DeadGuyOnDisplay: [[spoiler: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.]]
* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler: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.]]
* ManOnFire: [[spoiler: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.]]
* SatelliteCharacter: The only time he's seen without Aberline is when [[spoiler:Lawrence finds him dead in the house.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: For such a minor character, there's little about Carter's role in the plot that ''isn't'' a spoiler.

!! Ripler
--> '''Played by''': Ian Peck

A guard at the asylum.
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* TooDumbToLive: The hunters have Lawrence trapped, and Strickland decides to lean into the hole they dropped him into. [[spoiler:No surprises for guessing he gets grabbed and yanked in with the werewolf. Dummy.]]

* AristocratsAreEvil: He's a wealthy knighted landowner who is not only a werewolf, but he kills at least two people in human form, unlike Lawrence, who only kills when he's a werewolf.

* CompositeCharacter: He replaces the Roma’s son, Bela, [[spoiler:as the werewolf who gives Lawrence his curse]].

* EgomaniacHunter: He's an expert hunter who loves to wear various fur coats make out of the animals he hunted down and his manor is decorated with plenty stuffed trophies. [[spoiler: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 werewolves pack.]]
* EvilFeelsGood: [[spoiler: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.]]

* FullyEmbracedFiend: [[spoiler: 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 every opportunity to indulge his inner beast.]]

* RetiredMonster: 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.

* UngratefulBastard: [[spoiler:Repays Singh's years of loyalty by killing him and leaving him pinned to the wall.]]

* WalkingSpoiler: For such a minor character, there's little about Carter's role in the plot that ''isn't'' a spoiler.]]