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Author: BraveHoratio

Jul 16th 2011 at 11:01:56 AM

For clarification on the proposed split of Frankie's monster up in Aminatep's post.

1) People (not monsters) made from bits and pieces (that is, this trope)
2) ???
3) Expies of the Mary Shelley character

And monsters made from people is FleshGolem?  Is that right?  We would turn over FrankensteinsMonster just to category 3, this trope is category 1, and FleshGolem is category 2.

If we do that, the question is how we want to count things that are deliberate homages to ''Frankenstein'' but would otherwise go in a different category (such as the Morbius example).

(There's another ''Buffy'' example where a nerd brings his dead football player brother back to life, and then goes about trying to construct him a "bride" similar to the TotallySpies example).

Do we want to count Zaphod Beeblebrox, who has clearly been picking up extra body parts ''somewhere'' ?

Do we count TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau (book version, which uses vivisection rather than genetic engineering)?

Do we need to say anything about how this might interact with EvilHand or OrganAutonomy?  For instance, the ''{{Angel}}'' episode where Lindsey gets an EvilHand is functionally the same as what's going on in "The Doctor's Wife" or with the Igors, just on a smaller scale and with a dash of OrganAutonomy.

For that case, do we want to draw a distinction from people made up entirely of spare parts, versus people who simply have spare parts added?