It's funny that vampires are associated with one fairly rare and inconsequential species of blood drinking animal (vampire bats) when mosquitoes make such a better metaphor A parasite that's been with humanity since the beginning, sickening and draining us and holding us back
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Hence no one else can recreate it and when he dies it dies with him He has the terrible realization that the reason he can't make the Creature a Bride is that even making one more example will give the Creature, itself a genius, the ability to reverse engineer the process
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All of this is fairly typical for unrealistic Mad Science in fiction but it leaves the door open for fanfic like The Frankenstein Papers or Promethean: the Created to theorize Victor's secret sauce didn't even work at all and the explanation for the Creature was something else
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Yeah. I mean, it’s an odd one too, because there’s no traditional monster to match a Frankenstein. It’s from one book, and known from one movie
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There are analogs - golems, robots - but not quite a mythos
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So he is, in fact, just like a modern online right wing pseudo-intellectual, obsessed with just pushing obsolete ideas.
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All in the name of their own basically wholly invented idea of what science" and "logic" are.
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