History Manga / FrankenFran

* FanDisservice: There's a surprising amount of nudity... and every time it shows up it stops being erotic about three panels later. 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]].

* 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.]]

* AbsoluteCleavage: Gavrill's standard (lack of) attire has her wearing an unzipped leather jacket with nothing underneath.

* NiceHat: Veronica's fedora, which just adds a bit for her role as bodyguard/assassin.

* LosingYourHead: Seems to be a frequent occurrence among Fran's patients. Even Fran herself swaps bodies sometimes. However in "Trivial Love", 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.

* BatmanGambit: ''Frantic'' chapter 46, "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]].

* 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]]. Yep.

* 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 blackmails Veronica into owing her a favor.

* BandageBabe: Adorea, in a suitably dark twist. She appears to be a tall, slender woman wrapped from head to toe in bandages...but her body is a living storehouse for organs and tissue for Fran, accessible through zippers in her skin, and her head is a mass of tentacles surrounding a maw-like orifice. One of the ways she can "store" bodyparts for Fran is by devouring patients whom Fran expects to die--though she must do so before they actually die, else the parts will spoil...

* WhatMeasureIsANonCute: In full effect here to mind-bending extremes. Between the stitched-up, slightly deranged sisters, the man-headed cat and the HumanoidAbomination BandageBabe, the cast seems tailor-made to provoke squeals of delight and horror from the readers.

* BatmanGambit: ''Frantic'' chapter 46, "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, and Akari happily trying to downplay it as simple human nature. 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.]] Fran then asks for the audience not to judge her too harshly, [[IronicEcho as it is just human nature]].

* IntrepidReporter: 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.]]

''Franken Fran'' is a HorrorComedy manga by Kigitsu Katsuhisa, which ran in ''Champion Red'' from 2006 to 2012. 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.

* AdaptationDecay: Invoked for Vol.4's extra chapter, as the story of the loyal dog in Chapter 27's "Her Pet Dog" was adopted into a movie InNameOnly. Veronica's reaction is what one would expect: "What the hell is this crap!" *''SpitTake followed by throwing a chair against the screen''* Fran seems to understand that the true story as it actually happened wouldn't make for a good movie, judging by her reactions to Veronica's dislike of the movie's changes.

** [[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 themselves 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.]]

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* {{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.]]

* 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.]]

* Hypocrite: Jun Kurosuma claims to despite 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.]]

* 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.

* AdultFear: "Egg Parturition" makes this a focal point when the parents of the maggot babies learn how vulnerable they are to pretty much everything around them.

** ''Frantic'' chapter 37, "Forbidden Experiment" is a particularly strong example. In real life, the Stanford Prison Experiment is notorious among psychologists for bad methodology and manipulation of events by the professor responsible, with complete failure to replicate the results. Sure enough, the students' replication of it only starts going off the rails because the student overseeing it starts manipulating events in a similar way to how Zimbardo is now known to. [[spoiler:It later turns out that this was the actual experiment all along -- Fran faked the events of the "Prison Experiment" in an effort to demonstrate that someone put in a similar position of power to Zimbardo would easily succumb to similar behavior.]]