What is Igor (character)?
'''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]] t