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* [[Hollywood Homely]]: In the book, Wilbur Whateley is a [[Humanoid Abomination]]. In the 1970 movie, he's Dean Stockwell.
* [[Unfortunate Implications]]: The townsfolk refer to Wilbur as "Lavinia's black brat." Why, hello, Lovecraft's racism, glad to see you could make it again.
** And not to mention the fact that he ''is'' dark despite his human family (where his human aspects would have come from) being white. Note that some of his facial features are reminiscent of blackface (as is true of the [[The Shadow Over Innsmouth
{{quote| He was, however, exceedingly ugly despite his appearance of brilliancy; there being something almost goatish or animalistic about his thick lips, large-pored, yellowish skin, coarse crinkly hair, and oddly elongated ears.}}
* [[The Woobie]]: Lavinia. She's unattractive, deformed, isolated, lives in squalor with a batshit insane father, and is eventually {{spoiler|killed by her unholy spawn whom she had begun to fear}}.
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