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- "Good lord! The body is still warm! You've committed murder... taken a life... that your bride might live!"
- ―Victor Frankenstein
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| The Bride of Frankenstein | |
| Aliases: | Bride of Frankenstein |
| Continuity: | Marvel Comics |
| Notability: | Minor character |
| Type: | Reanimate |
| Gender: | Female |
| Location: | Europe |
| Associations: | Victor Frankenstein |
| Status: | Deceased |
| Born: | 1898 |
| Died: | 1898 |
| First: | The Monster of Frankenstein #2 |
| Final: | The Monster of Frankenstein #2 |
The Bride of Frankenstein is a fictional reanimate and a minor character featured in horror themed comic books published by Marvel Comics. She made a single appearance in The Monster of Frankenstein #2 in March, 1973.
Biography[]
The woman who would become known as the "Bride of Frankenstein" was a reanimated lifeform, stitched together from the bodies of corpses and brought to life through chemical and electrical processes. Her creator was the Swiss scientist known as Victor Frankenstein. Victor had previously used these processes to bring a male reanimated patchwork man to life, but never saw fit to gift him with a name. Colloquially known as "Frankenstein's Monster", this creature was embittered towards his creator, and strived to torment him through murdering those he loved. Weary of the sad existence laid out before him, the Monster bargained with his creator, promising that if he were to create a mate for him, both his bride and he would disappear from the world of man, never to be seen again.
Victor railed against the idea of duplicating the horrors of his own past, but the Monster gave him little choice. He took to digging up graves to find viable organs and body parts to use in the construction of this mate. The Monster assisted to by providing Victor with a fresh human heart, which was taken from a women that he had murdered.
Though sickened by these deeds, Victor Frankenstein pressed on. Within hours of implanting the fresh heart into the carefully prepared body, Frankenstein submerged it into a nutrient bath and completed the steps required to bring her to life. As the she-thing took its first shambling steps, Victor turned away in revulsion. He could not tolerate the monstrosity before him, so he took up a knife and lunged at the Bride, repeatedly stabbing it until she collapsed dead.
When the Monster discovered his creator's betrayal and found his would-be bridge upon the floor, he flew into a murderous rage, taking his vengeance upon Victor's close friend, Henry Clerval, whom he killed by breaking his back in a powerful bear hug.
Notes & Trivia[]
- The Bride of Frankenstein was created by English author Mary Shelley. The character was referenced in the 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, but was destroyed before Victor Frankenstein could ever bring her to life. The most well-known version of this character is the Universal Monsters iteration, which was played by Elsa Lanchester and appeared in the climax of the 1935 film The Bride of Frankenstein.
- This version of the Bride of Frankenstein was created by writer Gary Friedrich and artist Mike Ploog.
- The Bride of Frankenstein appeared on pages 22-24 of The Monster of Frankenstein #2.
- The character has also been referred to as the "Bride of the Monster", which is also the name of a 1955 sci-fi/horror film directed by Edward D. Wood, Jr. and starred Bela Lugosi.
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See also[]
External Links[]
- Bride of Frankenstein at IMDB
- Bride of Frankenstein at Wikipedia
- Bride of Frankenstein at Rotten Tomatoes
- Bride of Frankenstein at The Brimstone Pit
- Bride of Frankenstein at Frankenstein Films.com