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In the original 1818 book by [[Mary Shelley]], Victor Frankenstein creates the monster, then, repulsed by his creation, immediately throws it out. Later, it returns and demands that Victor make it a wife. He agrees, then reconsiders and destroys the half-completed bride. The monster retaliates [[Revenge by Proxy|by killing Victor's best friend and threatening to kill his wife, should he ever marry]]. Victor immediately [[Not Blood Siblings|marries his adoptive sister]], [[Kissing Cousins|who is also his cousin, Elizabeth]], who is promptly killed. Victor then chases the monster into the Arctic, where the weather kills him. The monster then goes off and kills himself (or at least he says that's what he's going to do).

* There's a 1981 anime adaptation of Shelley's original novel. The monster never gets beyond inarticulate grunting, there's a poorly executed [[Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory|Christ metaphor]], and to cap it all off, the ending is pure [[Trauma Conga Line]] as {{spoiler|the monster, realizing that he's hurting people, throws himself off a cliff in front of the little girl he befriended. As she's mourning him, her father, one of the people who persecuted the monster, ''shoots himself''. Poor little girl.}} The best place to find this is the Anime Hell panel of several American conventions.

* [[Junji Ito]] has done a manga adaptation. With his signature artistic style, it's quite creepy and notable for following Shelly's original story very faithfully.

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* There's a short story about a father who tries to recreate his son by taking back the body parts the boy donated after dying.

* ''[[Discworld]]'':

* Chopfyt in ''[[Land of Oz|The Tin Woodsman of Oz]]'' is arguably a Frankenstein's Monster, being constructed from the detached human bits of both the title character and the Tin Soldier.

* ''[[Fate/Apocrypha]]'' features a female version of Frankenstein's Monster, fully subject to the ''[[Fate/stay night|Fate]]'' universe's signature [[Artistic License]].

* A throwaway line in the corebook for ''[[Don't Rest Your Head]]'' indicates that the original has become one of the Nightmares.

* In ''[[Halt Evil Doer]]'', Frankenstein's Monster serves as a [[Public Domain Character]] [[Captain Ersatz]] of the [[Incredible Hulk]] ... with Victor as a sort of evil Bruce Banner.

** The new{{when}} Innistrad set takes this idea and runs with it with their Blue Zombie cycle. Skaab and Stitched creatures are made from the combined corpses of various other creatures, and this is represented in-game by how you must remove a number of creatures from your graveyard as an additional cost to summoning them. To drive the point home, the card [http://magiccards.info/query?q=Rooftop+Storm&v=card&s=cname Rooftop Storm], which resembles a mad scientist's laboratory, makes all zombies cost 0 mana, but you still need bodies to play them.

* The ''International Super Teams'' setting for ''[[GURPS]]'' includes a superhero called "Patchwork", who is a Frankenstein-like creation made from the body parts of other supers, apparently by a now-dead villain as part of a plot. Patchwork uses his grotesque appearance and a façade of violent stupidity to cow villains into surrender, but like the original creature is actually frighteningly intelligent and well-spoken.

* ''[[Alvin and The Chipmunks]] Meet Frankenstein''. A Universal Studios-style theme park hires Dr. Frankenstein to up the scare factor in their horror show, not realizing that he's brought real body parts to decorate. He immediately creates the monster, which breaks loose and runs away. He scares the Chipmunks at first, but then Theodore realizes he wasn't attacking and teaches him to be a good friend. Once they convince everyone else and teach him to talk, he's given a job at the park, and we last see him happily driving a tour trolley.

* The Emmy-nominated [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTEFay_286U "The Monster Of Phineas-n-Ferbenstein"] has ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]''{{'}}s ancestors creating a Frankenstein version of [[Everything's Better with Platypi|Perry.]]

* ''[[Mary Shelley's Frankenhole]]'' has one that's fairly close to the book's version (not the [[Boris Karloff]] one though, as many characters point out). He's more like a mopey teenager than a monster though.

* ''[[Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School]]'' has Elsa Frankenteen, the daughter of Frankenteen Senior.

 

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