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** Prendick from the book does eventually come to pity the creatures, he's just so Squicked out on first meeting them that it takes him a while to empathize.
* [[Catgirl]]: Doesn't technically exist in the novel (Moreau is working on transitioning a female puma into this, but {{spoiler|it escapes and kills him}}) but the films each had one -- Lota in the 1932 version, {{spoiler|Maria}} in the '77 version, and Aissa in the '96 one.
* [[Cute Mute]]: The sloth creature.▼
* [[The Commandments]]: The Law.
▲* [[Cute Mute]]: The sloth creature.
* [[Deserted Island]]: The titular Island.
* [[Died in Your Arms Tonight]]: Not in the novel, only the 1932 film. {{spoiler|Lota}} dies in Edward's arms.
* [[Evil Redhead]]: Wells repeatedly mentions the fact that Captain Davis, the drunken, abusive schooner captain, has red hair. Admittedly Davis isn't so much "evil" as he is just a bully, but the repeated mentions of his hair color brings him close to this trope.▼
* [[Everything's Better with Monkeys]]: Moreau first experimented on a gorilla to produce his first Beast Man. Later on, Prendick meets an Ape Man.
▲* [[Evil Redhead]]: Wells repeatedly mentions the fact that Captain Davis, the drunken, abusive schooner captain, has red hair. Admittedly Davis isn't so much "evil" as he is just a bully, but the repeated mentions of his hair color brings him close to this trope.
* [[Evilutionary Biologist]]: Moreau seeks to improve animals by making them more and more human, hoping to eventually make one fully human.
* [[Four-Fingered Hands]]: The novel's ape-man is exceedingly proud that he averts this trope, unlike most of the other beastfolk.
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* [[Shock Collar]]: In the 1996 film, all Moreau's creations have an implant that induces pain by remote control.
* [[Spared by the Adaptation]]: Montgomery in ''Island of Lost Souls''.
* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: Moreau has hints of this.▼
* [[Unfazed Everyman]]: Prendick.
* [[Uplifted Animal]]: [[Ur Example|one of the earliest uses]], In the most horrible way possible.
* [[Veganopia]]: Forbidding the consumption of meat is one of the ways Moreau keeps his creations' more predatory instincts suppressed. It doesn't work.
▲* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: Moreau has hints of this.
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