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[[Lawrence Talbot]], originally portrayed by Lon Chaney Jr., is the first and most famous incarnation of [[The Wolf Man]], albeit not the first incarnation of werewolves in general. He's appeared, so far, in six movies (five of which feature Chaney in the role, and the sixth is a remake), two [[Neil Gaiman]] stories, various novels, and one shortlived (but rumored to return) [https://web.archive.org/web/20090930015043/http://www.studiotriumph.com/talbot/?comic=1 webcomic]. He's the [[Trope Codifier]] for most werewolf tropes, and one of the more human and tragic iterations of the lycanthrope story.
In every incarnation (most of which fit more or less within the same continuity, 2010 remake exempted) he's the estranged son of Welsh lord John Talbot. After the events of the first movie, Talbot's appearances fall generally into one of three categories:
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* He's [[Genre Savvy|given up on trying to die]], and gone into business as a private eye and or monster hunter, trying to make up for his [[The Atoner|involuntary murderings]]. In the Gaiman and webcomic interpretations of this option, he's become a [[Deadpan Snarker]] and [[Knight in Sour Armor]].
==== Original movie series: ====
* ''[[The Wolf Man]]'' (1941)
* ''[[Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man]]'' (1943)
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==== Remake movie (series?): ====
* ''[[The Wolf Man]]'' (2010)
==== Other works: ====
* "Only the End of the World Again" and "Bay Wolf" (short stories by [[Neil Gaiman]])
* ''[[A Night in the Lonesome October]]'' (novel by [[Roger Zelazny]])
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* ''Talbot'' (webcomic)
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* [[Alternate Continuity]]: The 2010 remake. The webcomic and Gaiman stories both build on the original movies, and don't actually contradict one another. In fact, since both the comic and the Gaiman stories portray Talbot as a private detective, they fit pretty nicely together into the established continuity.
* [[Anguished Declaration of Love]]: His "Wouldn't wanna run away with a murderer" speech in the first movie is an interesting version of this, in that he doesn't actually say much about his feelings, specifically, but the context and his facial expressions make everything perfectly clear.
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