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I want to party with Dan!
Since red guy is totally not a monster, it makes much more sense to compare them to the creator than to the monster. And since this is a comic, the words are written and therefore read/ seen or – in universe – watched.
honestly, the fault is on you, everyone else (literally everyone) noticed it but you
But his hair looks like the stereotypical description of Frankenstein’s monster, not Dr. Frankenstein who as far as I am aware doesn’t have a stereotyped hair style
That said, my favorite pedantic response would be: Dr. Frankenstein was the monster. And his child should share his last name anyways.
Frankenstein didn’t have a doctorate, and the monster murdered people in cold blood. I suppose you could argue that Victor was also a monster (particularly for allowing Justine to die when he could have saved her if he’d spoken up and taken responsibility for his actions) but the monster was definitely a monster, albeit a sympathetic one.
Knowledge is knowing that the monster isn’t Frankenstein.
Wisdom is knowing that the monster is Frankenstein.
Now I want to see a party of all pedants where everyone enjoys correcting others. Finally, that phrase won’t be sarcastic!
Seeing as there is very clear paternal symbolism throughout, and even internal dialog of the minster monster referring to the “doctor” as his father, I think it’s pretty reasonable to assume the minster monster took the same surname.
I read that as minister and not monster and was very confused. I thought I must have missed a reference to a different movie.
There’s no way the monster would take Frankenstein’s surname. He hated him.