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* DirtyCoward: Kemp, at least according to one of the constables assigned to protect him. When he runs away while they're fighting Griffin, "the second policeman's opinion of Kemp was terse and vivid."
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* DirtyCoward: Kemp, at least according to one of the constables assigned to protect him. When he runs away while they're fighting Griffin, "the second policeman's opinion of Kemp was terse and vivid."" [[spoiler: To be entirely fair to Kemp, he's ''actually'' trying to lure Griffin away into a trap (and besides which, the policeman might feel differently if ''he'' was the special target of a crazed invisible assassin).]]
* SureLetsGoWithThat: A substantial part of Chapters 20-23 is Griffin lecturing Kemp about how he became invisible under the assumption that Kemp is going to become his confederate, complete with blunt assertions about how 'they' are going to change the world or how whatever horrible thing Griffin did was in fact totally justified. Kemp's usual response to this can pretty much be summed up as him going "Uh-hmm, uh-hmmm, yep, yep, sure, absolutely, [[BlatantLies that totally sounds like a sane and rational thing to do]], yep," to keep Griffin talking while he looks at the door out of the corner of his eye every so often to see whether the authorities he's summoned have shown up yet. Needless to say, as the things Griffin casually describes himself doing become increasingly horrible, Kemp's efforts to keep the pretence that he's totally on Griffin's side become increasingly strained.
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* VomitDiscretionShot: Unique variant; while Griffin never actually vomits, and the fact that his food remains visible until fully digested is a plot point, no actual description of what it ''looks'' like is given. Even Kemp, who witnesses Griffin eating and does describe how it appears when the man smokes, doesn't say a word about being grossed out by watching food being chewed, swallowed, or liquefied in mid-air.
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* VomitDiscretionShot: Unique variant; while Griffin never actually vomits, and the fact that his food remains visible until fully digested is a plot point, no actual description of what it ''looks'' like is given.given (the closest is a suggestion that it looks vague and indistinct as it's gradually being digested into his system). Even Kemp, who witnesses Griffin eating and does describe how it appears when the man smokes, doesn't say a word about being grossed out by watching food being chewed, swallowed, or liquefied in mid-air.
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** [[spoiler:An entire AngryMob of [[BadassBystander BadassBystanders]] assists Kemp in killing Griffin at the end.]]
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** [[spoiler:An entire AngryMob of [[BadassBystander BadassBystanders]] Badass Bystanders]] assists Kemp in killing Griffin at the end.]]
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''The Invisible Man'' is a novel by Creator/HGWells, TropeCodifier for many {{Invisibility}} tropes. ([[SimilarlyNamedWorks Not to be confused with the novel]] ''Literature/InvisibleMan'' (no definite article) by Ralph Ellison.)
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''The Invisible Man'' Man: A Grotesque Romance'' is a novel by Creator/HGWells, TropeCodifier for many {{Invisibility}} tropes. ([[SimilarlyNamedWorks Not to be confused with the novel]] ''Literature/InvisibleMan'' (no definite article) by Ralph Ellison.)
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* HaveAGayOldTime: The original subtitle "''A Grotesque Romance''." "Romance" in this sense referred to the fact the story was going to be unrealistic. Wells, after all, was known for calling his science fiction work "scientific romances."
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* GratuitousLaboratoryFlasks: Griffins orders a ''crap ton'' of lab equipment to fill his room at the inn with, in a chapter appropriately titled "The Thousand and One Bottles."
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* GratuitousLaboratoryFlasks: Griffins orders a ''crap ton'' of lab equipment to fill his room at the inn with, in a chapter appropriately titled "The Thousand and One Bottles."Bottles", wherein Griffin drives Mr. and Mrs. Hall nuts with how much chemistry equipment he sees fit to fill his room at their inn with. And apparently he had to get a lot of his stuff on the fly, since, aside from a rack of test tubes and a laboratory-grade scale, most of the stuff he's using is repurposed from more conventional household items including salad oil bottles.
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* GratuitousLaboratoryFlasks: Griffins orders a ''crap ton'' of lab equipment to fill his room at the inn with, in a chapter appropriately titled "The Thousand and One Bottles."
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* StaircaseTumel: While escaping from Kemp's house, the invisible Griffin violently knocks Colonel Adye down the stairs.
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* StaircaseTumel: StaircaseTumble: While escaping from Kemp's house, the invisible Griffin violently knocks Colonel Adye down the stairs.
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* StaircaseTumel: While escaping from Kemp's house, the invisible Griffin violently knocks Colonel Adye down the stairs.
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* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Griffin may not have been all that stable before the invisibility experiments, but their effects on him pushed him over the edge.
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* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Griffin may not have been all that stable before UncertainDoom: The novel never does confirm whether [[spoiler:Adye]] dies from the invisibility experiments, but their effects on him pushed him over the edge.gunshot or not.
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* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Griffin may not have been all that stable before the invisibility experiments, but their effects on him pushed him over the edge.
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* NoFaceUnderTheMask: The iconic scene in which the title character removes the bandages from his face.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In universe, Kemp wonders what happened to the invisible cat and the pawnbroker Griffin assaulted and left tied up. Griffin couldn't care less about either.
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* ItsAllAboutMe: Griffin is a classic sociopath in that he doesn't give a damn about ''anyone'' but himself. Over the course of the book he commits multiple counts of theft, arson, and at least one murder (with several others attempted and one possible: he didn't bother to check if the man survived) and all the while the main theme of his conversation is about how unfair the world is to him.
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'''''The Invisible Man''''' is a novel by Creator/HGWells, TropeCodifier for many {{Invisibility}} tropes. ([[SimilarlyNamedWorks Not to be confused with the novel]] ''Literature/InvisibleMan'' (no definite article) by Ralph Ellison.)
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* TheSociopath: Griffin is chillingly unconcerned about anyone but himself even before he goes invisible (i.e. he robs his father, who kills himself in response. Griffin doesn't especially care).
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* InvisibleStomachVisibleFood: the TropeCodifier.
** Food eaten by someone invisible is visible until it is digested. A bit eerie. And useful for seeing said people.
** Griffin smokes a cigar at one point, and Kemp can see the smoke swirling around inside his mouth and nasal passages.
** Food eaten by someone invisible is visible until it is digested. A bit eerie. And useful for seeing said people.
** Griffin smokes a cigar at one point, and Kemp can see the smoke swirling around inside his mouth and nasal passages.
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* VomitDiscretionShot: Unique variant; while Griffin never actually vomits, and the fact that his food remains visible until fully digested is a plot point, no actual description of what it ''looks'' like is given. Even Kemp, who witnesses Griffin eating and does describe how it appears when the man smokes, doesn't say a word about being grossed out by watching food being chewed, swallowed, or liquefied in mid-air.
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* HardToLightFire: Griffin's first experience sneaking around invisibly occurs because, having prepared to ignite his apartment and destroy all clues to what he's been up to, he realizes he has no matches and needs to swipe some from downstairs.
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* SirSwearsALot: One early sign of the bandage-wrapped stranger's villainy is his frequent [[NarrativeProfanityFilter unspecified cursing]]. One character's encounter with invisible Griffin consists of him overhearing somebody swearing in an apparently-empty road.
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* WhamLine: [[spoiler:"I robbed the old man--robbed my father. The money was not his, and he shot himself."]] This is where Griffin's true personality really starts becoming apparent.
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* WhamLine: [[spoiler:"I robbed the old man--robbed my father. The money was not his, and he shot himself."]] Before this point, it is not impossible for the reader to sympathize with Griffin, despite his being a {{Jerkass}}, because he seems driven to his worse actions by the suspicion and mistreatment of the rural provincials. This is where Griffin's true personality really starts becoming apparent.
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* AxCrazyAxCrazy: Griffin can become murderously psychotic when agitated...which doesn't take much.
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-->"I am."
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* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Guess.Griffin may not have been all that stable before the invisibility experiments, but their effects on him pushed him over the edge.
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* WhamLine: [[spoiler:"I robbed the old man--robbed my father. The money was not his, and he shot himself."]] This is where Griffin's true personality really starts becoming apparent.
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* ImprovisedWeapon: Throughout the book, Griffin and his enemies all frequently make use of whatever is to hand in order to defend themselves or to attack.
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* DirtyCoward: Kemp, at least according to one of the constables assigned to protect him. When he runs away while they're fighting Griffin, "the second policeman's opinion of Kemp was terse and vivid."
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* AnAxeToGrind: At one point, Griffin fights a pair of constables with an axe.
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* BadassBystander: Several supporting characters actually prove to be quite resourceful, brave and dependable throughout the novel.
** The bartender and customers at the Jolly Cricketers, who shelter a fleeing Marvel and save him from Griffin's wrath.
** Two constables manage to go toe to toe with Griffin and successfully drive him off (despite him being armed with a gun and an axe!).
** [[spoiler:An entire AngryMob of [[BadassBystander BadassBystanders]] assists Kemp in killing Griffin at the end.]]
** The bartender and customers at the Jolly Cricketers, who shelter a fleeing Marvel and save him from Griffin's wrath.
** Two constables manage to go toe to toe with Griffin and successfully drive him off (despite him being armed with a gun and an axe!).
** [[spoiler:An entire AngryMob of [[BadassBystander BadassBystanders]] assists Kemp in killing Griffin at the end.]]
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* MadScientistMadScientist: Although he really flips out [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity when he turns invisible]], Griffin's brain was clearly being consumed by his project long before that. When he returns to his hometown for his father's funeral, he wanders around in what would be now called a dissociative state.
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* ByTheLightsOfTheirEyes: A variant: when Griffin makes a cat invisible, the process doesn't work on the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapetum_lucidum tapetum lucidum]], so the cat appears to be a pair of glowing eyes floating around.
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* HairTriggerTemper: Griffin. Lampshaded by Kemp after he finds that Griffin has overturned his nightstand:
-->"Fit of temper," said the Invisible Man. "Forgot this arm; and it's sore."
-->"You're rather liable to that sort of thing."
-->"I am."
-->"Fit of temper," said the Invisible Man. "Forgot this arm; and it's sore."
-->"You're rather liable to that sort of thing."
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* ProfessorGuineaPig: Griffin takes his invisibility treatment after previously only trying it out on a cat. Granted, since he'd removed himself from the science world and needed an albino subject, his options were pretty limited.
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* ProfessorGuineaPig: Griffin takes his invisibility treatment after previously only trying it out on a cat. Granted, since he'd removed himself from the science world and needed an albino subject, his options were pretty limited.limited, plus he was trying to escape his suspicious landlord.
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* DrivenToSuicide: Griffin's father, after Griffin stole money from him to fund his work.
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* HarbingerOfImpendingDoomHarbingerOfImpendingDoom: Dr. Kemp at first ignores a terrified local who runs around yelling, "'Visible Man a-coming!" but soon learns better.
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* ProfessorGuineaPigProfessorGuineaPig: Griffin takes his invisibility treatment after previously only trying it out on a cat. Granted, since he'd removed himself from the science world and needed an albino subject, his options were pretty limited.
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* EvilAlbinoEvilAlbino: Griffin's albinism helps him become invisible, because he doesn't have to worry about pigment.
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* ThisWasHisTrueFormThisWasHisTrueForm: [[spoiler: Griffin becomes visible upon his death.]]
