The Ugly and The Hairy

After reading so much about Frankenstein, the ugly monster, and watching the movie Hulk, I decided to do some comparisons with another hero movie, X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Although very different, the story of Wolverine has some important similarities with the story of Frankenstein.

When Victor was working on the monster, he thought if he could “bestow animation upon a lifeless matter”, it would be possible to give life to a dead person. In other words, he was seeking immortality in a way. In Wolverine’s story, his creators wanted a super soldier with admantium covered bones allowing him to be nearly indestructible as a result of his incredible healing capacity. In both stories we can see how the pursuit of power and immortality are the main goal in the scientists’ minds. However, not everything goes according to plan.

Revenge is another similarity in the plot of the two stories. Both Wolverine and the Frankenstein monster turn against their “creators”. Frankenstein found himself ugly and lonely and blamed it all on Victor. He sought revenge on Victor for making him what he was. Although Wolverine was lucky enough to keep his human appearance and was not really ugly (other than a full head of hair making him look like an animal!), he wanted revenge on the scientists that had disturbed his life and memories.

As we can see, the scientists in both stories were so concentrated on their pursuit of immortality, they had no regard for the life they were creating and the negative impact their manipulations would have on their subjects. This eventually came back to haunt them.

Think about it. Next time you seek perfection don’t use human guinea pigs, they are too unpredictable!