True, true. I thought I remembered him bundling up in, you know, coats, but it might just be for the aesthetic.
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Replying to @AnaMardoll @arthur_affect
He's hardy enough to spend his entire life living outdoors, so if it isn't a superpower it's a perfect human thing. (Extensive musculature, excellent stamina, and seven feet tall; this is what happens when sleep-deprived lonely undergrads create life rather than go to the pub.)
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Replying to @liminalfruitbat @AnaMardoll
It actually says he had to make all the Creature's parts larger-than-life so they were big enough to sculpt the details by hand Which is kind of hilarious, and also actively goes against the "pieced together from corpses" explanation from all the adaptations
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AnaMardoll
Yeah, he's a homunculus rather than a D&D Flesh Golem. You'd think Victor explicitly reading Paracelsus would have given adaptors a hint, but...
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Replying to @liminalfruitbat @arthur_affect
But the scavenged-corpses thing makes so much more sense to me, and here we are.
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Replying to @AnaMardoll @liminalfruitbat
I am, personally, a partisan against the idea that the book ever seriously meant that the Creature was made from corpses - the book alludes to Victor developing his method by looting charnel houses and slaughterhouses, but to me it indicates that's for study, not raw material
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Like he's examining organs in minute detail so he can figure out how to make his own lab grown synthetic ones from scratch (and what those organs are actually made of is the Big Secret he refuses to reveal)
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But you will note that when the Creature kidnaps him to demand he create a Bride, they go off to this remote uninhabited island to do it Which would, if nothing else, make it difficult to get a steady supply of corpses from a graveyard
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Also when Victor is in his full throes of euphoria over discovering The Secret he talks about how if this is successful who knows what else he could accomplish - perhaps even "bringing back the dead"
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Which is a weird thing to say if the method is anything like in the movie, which *already is* bringing back the dead Just like when the Creature starts killing people the idea of Victor using the Secret to bring back any of his dead loved ones is never even broached
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(And later adaptations do indeed fully embrace this and make the Bride of Frankenstein the Bride of Frankenstein in both senses - the Monster forcing Victor to bring back Elizabeth as his own bride, etc)
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