Frankenstein's Monster Non-Villain Antagonist
Real Name: Adam (the name he chose for himself).
Occupation: Vagabond.
Identity: The existence of Frankenstein's Monster is not known to the general public as anything other than a fictional character; however, his existence as a living, thinking being is known to many authorities in Germany and abroad.
Legal Status: Citizen of Germany with no known criminal record (granted "native-born" citizenship in the 1960s under unique circumstances).
Other Aliases: Adam Frankenstein; "Frank", "Frankie", "Frankenstein", the Monster.
Place of Creation: Ingolstadt, Bavaria (then part of the Holy Roman Empire, today part of Germany).
Marital Status: Single (considers himself a widower).
Known Relatives: Victor, Freiherr von Frankenstein (aka Baron Victor Frankenstein, creator, "father", deceased); Heinrich, Freiherr von Frankenstein (aka Baron Heinrich Frankenstein, creator's descendant; deceased); Victoria, Freiin von Frankenstein (aka Baroness Victoria Frankenstein, creator's descendant); wife (name unknown, if applicable, deceased). Adam's relationship, if any, with Frank of the First Line, also a Frankenstein type creation, is unrevealed.
Group Affiliation: Former one-time ally of the Monster Hunters; former pawn of Dracula.
Base of Operations: Mobile.
First Post-Reboot Appearance: DOCTOR STRANGE: SORCERER SUPREME #
History: The creature known to most as Frankenstein's Monster is a tragic figure. His creator, Baron Victor Frankenstein, created him by stitching together the parts of bodies from many deceased people, although he is larger than most people by a good two and a half feet; Baron Frankenstein treated the composite creature's body with unknown chemicals and subjected it to electricity (believed to have been lightning captured during a storm) to grant it life. The baron then abandoned the creature, which wandered into a nearby forest, eventually befriending an old blind man and his family, who taught the monster how to read. Eventually, the creature, now calling himself Adam, tracked down his creator at his creator's hereditary castle. Adam convinced Victor to create him a mate, promising that he and his mate would leave for South America and not bother anyone, intending to live peacefully away from others. While Victor eventually created a female creature in a remote laboratory in the Orkney Islands, Scotland, he destroyed her by setting fire to the body instead of bringing her to life. (Adam considers the female creation his late wife, despite her never being alive in any sense to begin with.) Enraged, Adam swore revenge on Victor, first killing Victor's best friend and then Victor's bride on their wedding night. Driven by revenge, Frankenstein pursued Adam north above the Arctic Circle before perishing from exposure on board an icebreaker. After learning of Victor's death from the icebreaker's captain, however, Adam was overcome with grief and threw himself into the ice.
These events were eventually told by the icebreaker's captain to author Mary Shelley, who later published the account in 1818 as Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus. Shelley permitted the world to believe the account was a work of fiction; it's possible Shelley herself considered the captain's tale a work of fiction.
In the 1890s, after being frozen in ice for close to a century, Adam's body was discovered in a block of ice and carted around London, England. He was eventually accidentally defrosted and walked off into the streets of London. Learning English from listening to others, he adopted a number of street urchins who he protected. This eventually put him in conflict with the vampire lord Dracula, whose latest bride at the time, Lucy Westenra, took to feeding on his charges; the youth of the time and later the newspapers called her the "bloofer lady", a term derived from the youngest not pronouncing "beautiful" properly . During their conflict, Dracula slashed Adam's throat with his claws, rendering the monster mute, but found he could not feed on the monster (the monster does not have blood as most living beings understand the concept).
In the 1930s, Adam again clashed with Dracula, this time assisting the immortal monster hunter Ulysses Bloodstone. (This adventure was later turned into a movie, Ulysses Bloodstone verses the Monster of Frankenstein, although the movie's account left Dracula out of the picture entirely.)
In the 1940s, Adam worked with the French Resistance against Nazi Germany. It is unknown whether he encountered the Invaders during this time.
In the 1960s, Victor Frankenstein's heir, Heinrich Frankenstein, repaired Adam's larynx. Adam defended Heinrich against a number of threats, including an additional encounter with Dracula. At this time, Adam Frankenstein was granted legal rights as a citizen of the Federal Republic of Germany (then known as West Germany), though many both outside and inside the nation believed it to be a publicity stunt.
Adam has most recently been seen assisting Heinrich's granddaughter, Victoria, when her own creations, who she called "the Children", were taken by Dracula. This briefly put Adam in conflict with Earth's sorcerer supreme, Doctor Stephen Strange, as Dracula briefly forced Adam to do his bidding by threatening to destroy the Children, until Adam was able to explain to Strange what was really going on and his past enmity with the vampire. During that conflict, Adam was buried in an avalanche in the Bavarian Alps. He was rendered frozen, but was later defrosted. Adam then wandered off; his current whereabouts are unknown.
Contrary to popular opinion, the name "Frankenstein" properly refers to the monster's creator, not to the creature himself, although the monster does not correct anyone, and has in fact taken his creator's last name for his own, at least legally.
Age: 215 (estimated).
Height: 8'.
Weight: 325 lbs.
Eyes: Brown.
Hair: Brown.
Skin: White.
Other Distinguishing Features: Frankenstein's monster possesses a pair of metal electrodes at the base of the neck and intense stitching across much of his body; most notably, there is a line of stitches across his forehead.
Uniform: None.
Strength Level: Frankenstein's monster possesses superhuman strength enabling him to lift (press) roughly 5 tons.
Known Superhuman Powers: In addition to his great strength, Adam has an unusually high resistance to pain and injury. Although weapons such as bullets, knives, and fire can harm him, they do so to a much lesser extent than they would ordinary people. Intense cold does not kill him, but instead places him in a state resembling suspended animation; he can then be defrosted while suffering no physical damage from being frozen. These are all due to his unusual body chemistry.
In the event an extremity – a hand, foot, arm, leg, finger, toe, or potentially even his head – is removed from his body, they can be reattached by a skilled surgeon with no loss of function. Despite this, he cannot regenerate at a rate above that of normal healing; upon having his larynx slashed, he was rendered mute until it was operated on.
Other Abilities: Despite past depictions, Adam is highly intelligent, well read, and quite eloquent. He has an ear for languages, and can quickly learn new languages through observation and listening to context. He is fluent in all European languages.
1,015 points
| ST: 38/80 [180*†] | HP: 38 [0] | Speed: 7.25 [0] | |
| DX: 13 [60] | Will: 14 [0] | Move: 8 [5] | |
| IQ: 14 [80] | Per: 14 [0] | ||
| HT: 16 [60] | FP: 16 [0] | SM: +1 | |
| Dmg: 4d/6d+2 (9d/11d) | BL: 289 lbs. (1,280 lbs.) | ||
| Dodge: 10 | Parry: 11 | DR: 3* (tough skin) | |
| IT:DR: /2 | |||
Languages: German (Native) (Native Language) [0].
Cultural Familiarities: Western (Native) [0].
Advantages: Claws (Blunt Claws) [3]; Damage Resistance 3 (Tough Skin, -40%) [9]; Eidetic Memory [5]; Hard to Subdue 2 [4]; High Pain Threshold [10]; Immunity to Metabolic Hazards [30]; Injury Tolerance (Damage Reduction /2; Independent Body Parts (Detachable Head, +15%; Reattachment Only, -50%); No Blood; Unliving) [97]; Language Talent [10]; Metabolism Control 2 (Hibernation, -60%; Trigger: Extreme Cold, -20%) [2]; Omnilingual (Specific: European Languages, -50%) [20]; Super ST +8/+50 (Size, -10%) [312]; Super Throw 2 (Biological, -10%) [18]; Temperature Tolerance 2 [2]; Unaging [15]; Unkillable 1 [50].
Perks: Fearsome Stare [1]; Patience of Job [1]; Striking Surface [1].
Disadvantages: Appearance (Hideous) [-16]; Bad Temper (12) [-10]; Social Stigma (Freak) [-10]; Status -1 [-5]; Unusual Biochemistry [-5]; Vow (Vegetarian) [-5]; Wealth (Poor) [-15].
Quirks: Bulky Frame [-1]; Fashion Disaster [-1]; Holds Grudges [-1]; Lonely [-1]; Loyal to Victoria Frankenstein [-1].
Skills: Brawling (E) DX+3 [8] – 16; Climbing (A) DX+0 [2] – 13; Computer Operation/TL8 (E) IQ+0 [1] – 14; Connoisseur (Literature) (A) IQ+0 [2] – 14; Connoisseur (Music) (A) IQ+0 [2] – 14; Connoisseur (Visual Arts) (A) IQ+0 [2] – 14; Current Affairs/TL8 (Headline News) (E) IQ+0 [1] – 14; Current Affairs/TL8 (Science & Technology) (E) IQ+0 [1] – 14; Detect Lies (H) Per+0 [4] – 14; Escape (H) DX-1 [2] – 12; First Aid/TL8 (Human) (E) IQ+0 [1] – 14; Forced Entry (E) DX+1 [2] – 14; Guns/TL7 (Rifle) (E) DX+0 [1] – 13; Hiking (A) HT+0 [1] – 16; Housekeeping (E) IQ+0 [1] – 14; Intimidation (A) Will+2 [2] – 16‡; Jumping (E) DX+0 [1] – 13; Knot-Tying (E) DX+0 [1] – 13; Lifting (A) HT+0 [2] – 16; Literature (H) IQ+0 [4] – 14; Naturalist (Earth) (H) IQ+0 [4] – 14; Poetry (H) IQ+0 [4] – 14; Running (A) HT+0 [2] – 16; Sewing/TL7 (E) DX+0 [1] – 13; Shadowing (A) IQ+0 [2] – 13; Skating (H) HT-1 [2] – 15; Soldier/TL7 (A) IQ-1 [1] – 13; Speed-Reading (A) IQ+0 [2] – 14; Stealth (A) DX+1 [4] – 14; Sumo Wrestling (A) DX+3 [12] – 16; Survival (Arctic) (A) Per+0 [2] – 14; Survival (Mountain) (A) Per+0 [2] – 14; Survival (Woodlands) (A) Per+0 [2] – 14; Swimming (E) HT+0 [1] – 16; Throwing (A) DX+1 [4] – 14; Thrown Weapon (Spear) (E) DX+1 [2] – 14; Urban Survival (A) Per+0 [2] – 14; Weather Sense (A) IQ+0 [2] – 14; Weird Science (VH) [8] – 14; Wrestling (A) DX+3 [12] – 16.
Starting Spending Money: $2,000 (50% of Starting Wealth).
* Adjusted with "Size, -10%".
† Includes +8/+50 from Super ST.
‡ Includes +2 from Appearance.
Role-Playing Notes:
Highly intelligent, well-read, and eloquent in speech and in writing, Adam nonetheless possesses a fierce temper and a slightly skewed moral compass. Although he leans toward being the "gentle giant", he has no qualms about killing when necessary; he prefers not to kill if he can achieve his goals in more peaceful methods. A lifetime of rejection has left him as deeply scarred on the inside as he is on the outside. Deep inside, he is lonely, seeking the companionship and family he was denied at his creation. He sees his creators descendant, Victoria Frankenstein, as his only remaining family and is fiercely protective of her and her creations, the Children.
As strange as it may sound, Adam is a vegetarian.
| BRAWLING | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TL | Weapon | Damage | Reach | Parry | Cost | Weight | ST | Notes |
| – | Brawling Punch | 4d+7 cr | C | 11 | – | – | 38 | |
| – | – Super ST | 9d+17 cr | C | 11 | – | – | 80 | |
| – | Brawling Kick | 4d+8 cr | C, 1 | n/a | – | – | 38 | |
| – | – Super ST | 9d+18 cr | C, 1 | n/a | – | – | 80 | |
Design Notes:
1. This version of Frankenstein's Monster is modeled mainly after the version in Mary Shelley's book, with only a few options taken from the cinematic portrayals on the stage and in movies. In any universe other than the Marvel Universe (or other universes where such mad science is relatively commonplace, including the world of Girl Genius), including the era of his creation, his Social Stigma would be Monster for [-15] instead of Freak [-10].