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'''Igor''' is a [[stock character]] in [[adaptation]]s of the book [[Frankenstein]] by [[Mary Shelley]]. Normally, he’s a [[hunchback]]ed [[sidekick]] to either [[Victor Frankenstein]] or another [[mad scientist]].

==Original book==
In the book, [[Frankenstein]], Victor Frankenstein works alone when he creates [[Frankenstein's monster|Frankenstein’s monster]] and then abandons him. After that [[Victor Frankenstein|Victor]] has a [[nervous breakdown]] and starts to have [[hallucination]]s of the Monster and to suffer from “[[delirium]]” so Victor’s [[friend]] Henry Clerval takes care of Victor when Victor can’t take care of himself and nurses him back to [[health]]. But Clerval had nothing to do with creating [[Frankenstein's monster|Frankenstein’s monster]] and didn’t know that The Monster existed until The Monster [[kill]]ed him to get [[revenge]] against [[Victor Frankenstein|Victor]].

==Play==
In the 1823 [[play]] [[Presumption or the Fate of Frankenstein]], Henry Clerval is worried about [[Victor Frankenstein]]’s [[mental health]] so he pays Fritz, Victor’s [[servant]] to tell him what is going on and Fritz tells Clerval that Victor is creating [[Frankenstein's monster|Frankenstein’s monster]].

==Thomas Edison’s Frankenstein==
Fritz doesn’t appear in [[Thomas Edison]]’s [[movie]] [[Frankenstein (1910)]].

==Universal’s Frankenstein==
Fritz is in the 1931 movie [[Frankenstein (1931 film)|Frankenstein]] made by [[Universal Studios]]. In it, [[Victor Frankenstein]], renamed Henry Frankenstein, sends Fritz to [[steal]] a healthy [[brain]] from his [[professor]] but Fritz accidentally damages it so he instead steals the brain of a [[dead]] [[criminal]]. When the Monster is scared by [[sunlight]], Henry and Fritz lock him in a [[dungeon]] where Fritz [[scare]]s the Monster by using [[fire]] so the Monster [[kill]]s Fritz by [[strangling]] him to [[death]].

==Bride of Frankenstein==
In the [[movie]] [[Bride of Frankenstein]], [[Dwight Fyre]], who played Fritz, plays a [[man]] named Karl who is the [[sidekick]] to an [[evil]] [[mad scientist]] named Dr. Pretorius.

==Son of Frankenstein==
In the [[movie]] [[Son of Frankenstein]], [[Bela Lugosi]] plays a [[shepherd]] named Ygor who has a broken [[neck]] from when he was [[hanged]] but survived. And when Wolf Frankenstein brings The Monster back to [[life]], the Monster only listens to what Ygor says. Ygor uses the Monster to [[kill]] the [[people]] on the [[jury]] that sentenced him to [[death]] for [[grave robbery]] and frames Wolf. So Wolf [[shoot]]s Ygor.

==Ghost of Frankenstein==
In the [[sequel]] [[Ghost of Frankenstein]], it turns out that Ygor is alive and wants to get [[revenge]].

==House of Frankenstein==
In the [[movie]], [[House of Frankenstein]], the [[mad scientist]], Dr. Niemann has a hunchbacked [[sidekick]] named Daniel.

==Young Frankenstein==

In the [[movie]] [[Young Frankenstein]], Dr. Frederick Frankenstein, whose [[grandfather]] was [[Victor Frankenstein]] gets an assistant named Igor, who says his name is actually pronounced Eye-Gore, and whose grandfather worked for Victor Frankenstein. Igor has a [[hump]] on his [[Back (anatomy)|back]].

==Discworld==

In the [[Discworld]] [[book]]s by [[Terry Pratchett]], every [[mad scientist]] has a hunchbacked [[sidekick]] named Igor and all Igors are actually related to each other. Every [[man]] in their [[family]] is named Igor and every [[woman]] is named Igorina. They all [[lisp]] when they [[speak]].

==Igor (2008)==

The 2008 [[animated movie]], [[Igor (film)|Igor]] starring [[John Cusack]] is set in a world where every [[mad scientist]] has a hunchbacked [[sidekick]] named Igor.

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