Igor is Vladislaus Dracula’s servant. He was earlier employed by doctor Victor Frankenstein as his assistant, but choose later to betray his employer to the Dark Lord after the creation of Frankenstein’s terrible monster.

Igor, or sometimes Ygor, is a stock character, a sometimes hunch-backed laboratory assistant to many types of Gothic villains or as a fiendish character who assists only himself, the latter most prominently portrayed by Bela Lugosi in Son of Frankenstein (1939) and The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942).

During the raid Igor stumbles onto the corpse of the real Igor Straussman, dead from an overdose, and the source of the eyes Victor had used in his experiments. When he attacks Victor, Turpin loses a hand and is blinded in one eye.

There is no character named Igor in Mary Shelley’s novel, however, nor does Victor Frankenstein have any sort of lab assistant, hunchbacked or otherwise. So Landis has only the representation from earlier movies to riff on, along with his imagination.

An early representation of Igor in film is the uncredited, hunch-backed dwarf laboratory assistant to mad scientist/alchemist Rotwang in the 1927 film Metropolis; later, Dwight Frye’s hunch-backed lab assistant in the first film of the Frankenstein series (1931) became associated with the name “Igor,” though this …

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Igor (Bela Lugosi) In Son of Frankenstein (1939), the stock character appeared as Ygor and was played by Bela Lugosi. This version was more popular with audiences, and was brought back for The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942).

Igor, developed and produced by Max Howard with the California-based Exodus Film Group, was the first feature-length animated film to be financed with private equity.

Classic Monster While it is likely that Igor is some kind of monster, his horror niche is that of Igor, a normie stock character characterized as a deformed assistant in service of the mad scientist Dr. Frankenstein.

Igor is a recurring supporting protagonist in the video game series Persona. He is a mysterious, long-nosed man and the owner of the Velvet Room, a dimension that exists between consciousness and subconsciousness. His role is crucial in the journey of every person who comes to possess the Wild Card.

It turns out, Igor is not actually Igor at all, and is instead Yaldabaoth, the God of Control.

An Unusual Appearance, But A Useful Ally. To those who have never played any Persona games, Igor looks like some kind of manipulative evil villain — or at least the creepy and dedicated butler of one. They would be partly right though, as he is a servant.

Igor is the traditional stock character or cliché hunch-backed assistant or butler to many types of villain, such as Count Dracula or a mad scientist, familiar from many horror movies and horror movie parodies, the Universal Studios Frankenstein series and the film Van Helsing in particular.

Frankenstein’s monster, played by Aaron Eckhart, is the protagonist of the 2014 Australian-American fantasy action movie I, Frankenstein.

Igor appears in the animated series Mary Shelley’s Frankenhole, a cartoon show which is a modern update of the Frankenstein mythos, voiced by Tigger Stamatopoulos . In Igor (2008), the main character of the film (voiced by John Cusack) is the former assistant of a now-deceased mad scientist Dr. Glickenstein (voiced by John Cleese ).

Baron Frankenstein was a scientist from central Europe. He lived in a castle with his giant servant, Ivan.

COLIN CLIVE : THE ORIGINAL DR. FRANKENSTEIN. In the 1931 film Frankenstein, Boris Karloff stole the movie as The Monster. Even though his name in the movie was just “The Monster”, he was forever known as “Frankenstein”. The scientist who actually created the monster was Dr. Henry Frankenstein.