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* [[Beehive Hairdo]]: The Bride famously sports one of these.
* [[Blind and the Beast]]: Possibly the trope maker.
* [[Camp Gay]]: Dr. Pretorius, director James Whale reportedly told the actor to play him "like an over the top caricature of a bitchy and aging homosexual
* [[Cassandra Truth]]: After witnessing the monster's return, Minnie attempts to tell about it but is just scoffed at.▼
* [[Call Back]]: Clive repeats his legendary "It's alive!" line (this time amended to "She's alive!").
▲* [[Cassandra Truth]]: After witnessing the monster's return, Minnie attempts to tell about it but is just scoffed at.
* [[Catch Phrase]]: "[[Hypocritical Humor|It's my only weakness]]."
* [[Comic Relief]]: Minnie, [[The Scrappy|to the point of annoyance]].
* [[Creating Life]]
* [[Crucified Hero Shot]]: Shown when the villagers have caught and tied up the monster.
* [[Cut Lex Luthor a Check]]: Dr. Pretorius could have become famous for his telephone-like invention ''in 1819''. [[A God Am I|That is, if he cared about money at all, rather than playing God]].▼
* [[Cute Monster Girl]]: Never in her career Elsa Lanchester did look so good.
▲* [[Cut Lex Luthor a Check]]: Dr. Pretorius could have become famous for his telephone-like invention ''in 1819''. [[A God Am I|That is, if he cared about money at all, rather than playing God]].
* [[Damsel in Distress]]: Elizabeth
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: The monster, after realizing that no-one will ever love him.
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* [[Hysterical Woman]]: Minnie.
* [[I Am Not Shazam]]: Lord Byron himself actually calls the monster Frankenstein at one point, and Pretorius is quick to dub the new female monster "[[Title Drop|the bride of Frankenstein]]".
* [[Immune to Bullets]]▼
** Although perhaps he was using the word "of" in the same manner as in [[Marvel Comics|"Monster of Frankenstein"]]
* [[Inadvertent Entrance Cue]]: Elizabeth describes a vision of an evil apparition which will entangle Henry, and says she sees it drawing nearer -- nearer -- and the camera immediately [[Answer Cut|cuts]] to the [[Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate|evil Dr. Pretorius]] knocking at the door.
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* [[Instant Sedation]]
* [[It's Going Down]]: The castle at the end.
▲* [[Immune to Bullets]]
* [[Large Ham]]: Lord Byron in the opening.
* [[Lightning Can Do Anything]]
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