Fictional character biography[]
Frankenstein's Monster was built from human corpses by a scientist named Victor Frankenstein, in Ingolstadt, Bavaria, in the late 18th century. His efforts to fit in with regular humanity were futile due to his horrific form, and he was infuriated. Victor Frankenstein created and subsequently killed a mate for the Monster, who killed Frankenstein's bride Elizabeth in retaliation. After killing several people, the Monster fled to the Arctic. His creator pursued him, but died due to the cold. The Monster, anguished, tried to kill himself but only went into a state of suspended animation from the cold.
In 1898, heat revived the Monster and he wandered again. He searched for the descendant of Victor Frankenstein and finally ended up in Transylvania. The Monster clashed with Dracula, and his vocal cords were injured. Vincent Frankenstein finally found him and tried to give him a new brain, dying in the process as he was shot by an angry maidservant before the Monster could kill him. Frustrated, the Monster fell into a glacier an again returned to a state of suspended animation.
At some point, the Monster was temporarily pulled out of time to serve in Kang the Conqueror's Legion of the Unliving to fight the Avengers.
The Monster eventually emerged from suspended animation in a glacier and into the modern world. After several adventures (during one of which his brain was transferred with that of a scientist longing for a new life, then a rat, and later restored, and another in which he first battled, then aided, the Werewolf by Night (Jack Russell)), he was aided by Veronica Frankenstein, a distant relative of his creator. This woman was kindly, and repaired his vocal cords. Later, the Monster met and joined Veronica's sister, Baroness Victoria Frankenstein (Veronica's sister) and her charges, the Children of the Damned, dwarfish artificial beings who were created by Basil and Ludwig Frankenstein's failed human experiments.
The Monster was captured, along with Spider-Man and the Man-Wolf by Baron Ludwig von Schtupf, a.k.a. the Monster Maker, to be used to create an army of amalgamated monsters with the Monster's superhuman strength, Spider-Man's wall-crawling powers and the Man-Wolf's appearance. Von Schtupf was defeated by Spider-Man and the Monster, then Spider-Man defeated the Man-Wolf on his own. Both of them were taken into custody of S.H.I.E.L.D., due to S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Judith Klemmer's involvement in the case.
Victoria discovered Bram Velsing, the man who would become the Dreadknight, while he was dying in the wilderness. While under her care, he made a variety of weapons and took possession of the Hellhorse, the flying mutant horse (which the Children found and Victoria, using her ancestor's methods, tried to restore to normal, but instead only mutated it further) that had employed by Nathan Garrett, the original criminal Black Knight. He attempted to force more resources from Victoria and took over the new Castle Frankenstein, but was defeated by the Monster and Iron Man. The Dreadknight, left wounded at the finale of the battle, was returned to Victoria's custody, though he later escaped with the Hellhorse and his personal weaponry.
During the "Fear Itself" storyline, Frankenstein's Monster, Howard the Duck, Nighthawk, and the She-Hulk come together as the Fearsome Four when the Man-Thing is driven on a rampage. They later discover a plot by the Psycho-Man to use the Man-Thing's volatile empathy to create a weapon.
In other media[]
- Frankenstein's Monster appears in the Ultimate Spider-Man episodes "Blade" and "The Howling Commandos", voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson. This version has a sledgehammer for a left hand, a retractable right hand-mounted machine gun similar to the comics' clone version, and is a member of Nick Fury's Howling Commandos.
- Frankenstein's Monster appears in Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H., voiced again by Kevin Michael Richardson. This version is a member of Nick Fury's Howling Commandos. In the episode "Hulking Commandos", Frankenstein's Monster and the Howling Commandos are assigned to hunt down the agents of S.M.A.S.H., only to join forces with them against Dormammu. In the episode "Days of Future Smash, Part 3: Dracula", a time-traveling Hulk encounters a younger version of Frankenstein's Monster in 1890 and joins forces with him, N'Kantu, the Living Mummy, and Werewolf by Night's grandfather to foil Dracula and the Leader's plot to blanket the Earth in darkness with their Gamma Furnace. In the episode "Planet Monster: Part 2", Frankenstein's Monster joins the Howling Commandos in helping the agents of S.M.A.S.H. and the Avengers combat the Supreme Intelligence's forces.
- Frankenstein's Monster appeared as an unlockable playable character in Marvel Super Hero Squad Online, voiced by Steve Blum.