History Characters / TheWolfman2010

* AssholeVictim: It's hard to feel bad for him when Talbot throws him out of the window to his death.

* AssholeVictim: Despite his bravery during the scene in the lecture hall, he is ''not'' a pleasant man and is in fact a typically sadistic old-timey era asylum orderly who enjoys bullying and tormenting the patients.]] His one heroic act doesn't absolve him of this.

--> '''[=McQueen=]:''' Got nothing to do with the gypsies. Twenty-five years ago now, me Pa found. Quinn Noddy and all his flock. Brains and guts and God-knows-what lying all over the moor for a quarter mile. And, Quinn, the look on his face. Like he'd been eaten alive. Whatever did it was big, had claws, and didn't mind a load of buckshot. After that me Pa went home and melted down me Ma's wedding spoons and cast silver bullets on 'em. Wouldn't leave the house on a full moon from then on.

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* HiddenDepths: For unclear reasons, he does not take part in the bungled attempt to trap the werewolf. He is also the first one to show [=McQueen=]'s claims any consideration.

!! [=McQueen=]

!! Colonel Montford

* KarmicDeath: Of all nasty and heinous actions John has done, such as murdering dozens of citizens (including his wife Solana and son Ben), as well as turning Lawrence into a werewolf and framing him for the attacks, it was quite satisfying to see Lawrence [[ManOnFire burn John's body]] before [[OffWithHisHead chopping his head off]].

Lawrence's father, who had a strained relationship with his son. Lawrence returns home after his brother's death.

* ActionDad: He shoots on those who want to catch his son, [[spoiler:and later tries to kill Lawrence. And he already killed Ben. And he himself ''is'' a werewolf.]]

* EvilFeelsGood: [[spoiler:By the time of the movie he thinks it's a mistake to lock up his beast side. Completely explicit in the novelization]]
* FauxAffablyEvil: [[spoiler:He turns out to be quite evil indeed, but damn, is he suave! He ''is'' played by Hannibal Lecter, after all, the ''King'' of AffablyEvil.]]

* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: [[spoiler:His lycanthropy has most certainly gone to his head.]]

* AdaptationalNameChange: Renamed from John to Ben

* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: In the original 1941 film, he was beaten to death with a silver cane. Here, he gets [[spoiler:shot with a SilverBullet]].

* DemotedToExtra: She had a much larger role in the original film. Although, Gwen [[AscendedExtra sort of fills her shoes]] as the figure trying to help Lawrence with his curse this time around.

%%* OldRetainer

* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: He tries to shoot himself when cornered by the werewolf, but has ran out of bullets.

* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: He tries to shot himself when cornered by the werewolf, but has ran out of bullets.

!!Lawrence Talbot/The Wolfman

!!Sir John Talbot

!!Gwen Conliffe

!!Inspector Francis Aberline

!!Maleva

%%* DeathByAdaptation

* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk
** [[spoiler:Sir John defending Lawrence from the lynch mob seems a lot less fatherly once we realize that he wants Lawrence to be TheScapegoat for his attacks and is just making sure that he'll be around to transform and go on a rampage during the next full moon.]]
** [[spoiler:Sir John casually revealing that he sabotaged Singh's silver bullets years ago, showing he's long since stopped caring of the consequences to innocent bystanders.]]

Based on the real life Inspector Fredrick Aberline of the UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper murders, Francis is in charge of the investigation of the werewolf murders. He (correctly) suspects Lawrence of being the killer. He soon learns the truth.

--> '''Played By''': Simon Merrells

The main and title character. A stage actor, he returns to his home in England after his brother's murder. He wishes to look into it and, of course, is bitten by a werewolf. [[spoiler:He finds out his father was the werewolf who bit him, killed his brother, and his mother.]]

Lawrence's father, who had a strained relationship with his son. Lawrence returns home after his brother's death. [[spoiler:It turns out Sir John is the werewolf that bit Lawrence, but also killed Lawrence's brother and mother.]]

Lawrence's love interest. Ben's former fiancee, who wants to know the truth about Ben's death. Over time, they get romantically attached. After finding out Lawrence is a werewolf, she sets out to help him [[spoiler:and ends up killing him]].

Based on the real life Inspector Fredrick Aberline of the UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper murders, Francis is in charge of the investigation of the werewolf murders. He (correctly) suspects Lawrence of being the killer. He soon learns the truth [[spoiler:and becomes bitten himself]].

A Roma who warns Lawrence that he is in great danger. After he is bitten, she meets with Gwen who tells her that Lawrence can [[spoiler:be killed/saved by someone who loves them]].

* DivingSave: He saves a Romani child by doing this right before the first werewolf attacks her.

* CompositeCharacter: He replaces the Romani’s son, Bela, [[spoiler:as the werewolf who gives Lawrence his curse]].

A Romani who warns Lawrence that he is in great danger. After he is bitten, she meets with Gwen who tells her that Lawrence can [[spoiler:be killed/saved by someone who loves them]].

* CompositeCharacter: He replaces the Gypsy's son, Bela, [[spoiler:as the werewolf who gives Lawrence his curse]].

* OnlyICanKillHim: After many days of sleepless research, she discovers only how to kill Lawrence, not how to cure him. In desperation, she searches for the Gypsy fortune teller, but she only confirms it: a werewolf can only be slain with silver, ''and'' only by someone who loves him.

A gypsy who warns Lawrence that he is in great danger. After he is bitten, she meets with Gwen who tells her that Lawrence can [[spoiler:be killed/saved by someone who loves them]].

* DumbassHasAPoint: He laughs at the idea that that the gypsies dancing bear is behind things.

* AdrenalineMakeover: She gradually gets this over the course of the movie. Initially, she comes off as a very proper and somewhat quiet woman. However, as she becomes determined to find a cure for Lawrence towards the end of the movie, she starts to wear less fancy attire and her hair is noticeably a little unkempt from her nights of searching for answers. By the finale, her hair is down, she is wearing a slightly lower-cut and dirtier-looking dress than her earlier attire, and carries around a silver bullet loaded pistol. In the novelization, at the ending chase sequence, she takes off her shoes and ran barefoot across the forest to running faster before the Wolfman chasing her.

!!Lawrence Talbot

* AdaptationalBadass: His Wolfman is far more formidable than in ''Film/TheWolfman1941'', killing about ten times the number of people the original Wolfman did. Even in human form, he's not bad with a rifle.

* NonMaliciousMonster: Played With. Unlike [[spoiler: [[FullyEmbracedFiend Sir John Talbot]]]], Lawrence seems to have at least some measure of control over his murderous instincts even when fully transformed. When he transforms in the asylum, for instance, he makes a beeline right for Honneger, who had been torturing him extensively: the other doctors who get in his way are unceremoniously, but harmlessly shoved aside. He attacks the orderly only after said orderly stabs him in the back with a syringe. In two later occasions he manages to calm down enough to stand quietly with humans right in front of him: once with Gwen, and once in a deleted scene where he is lured by the sound of a blind woman singing and seems content to simply listen. In total, his mindset as a wolfman seems to be one part scared wild animal, one part hungry wild animal, and one part terrified human fighting desperately from within, as opposed to a mindless engine of slaughter. Subverted in the novelization, where Wolfman! Lawrence attack almost every human in his five senses, altrough without the evil level from his father.

* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler:He is the werewolf that killed his own wife and son, and turned his long lost son Lawrence into a werewolf. He killed Ben, jealous for Gwen, and in the novelization, he had plans for travel across the world with Lawrence to hunt humans.]]

* EgomaniacHunter: He's an expert hunter who loves to wear various fur coats make out of the animals he hunted down and his manor is decorated with plenty stuffed trophies.
* EvilFeelsGood: [[spoiler:By the time of the movie he thinks it's a mistake to lock up his beast side.]]

* AdrenalineMakeover: She gradually gets this over the course of the movie. Initially, she comes off as a very proper and somewhat quiet woman. However, as she becomes determined to find a cure for Lawrence towards the end of the movie, she starts to wear less fancy attire and her hair is noticeably a little unkempt from her nights of searching for answers. By the finale, her hair is down, she is wearing a slightly lower-cut and dirtier-looking dress than her earlier attire, and carries around a silver bullet loaded pistol. In the novelization, at the ending chase Sequence, she takes off her shoes and ran barefoot across the forest to running faster after the Wolfman.

* Complete Monster: [[spoiler:He is the werewolf that killed his own wife and son, and turned his long lost son Lawrence into a werewolf. He killed Ben, jealous for Gwen, and in the novelization, he had plans for travel across the world with Lawrence to hunt humans.]]

* AdrenalineMakeover: She gradually gets this over the course of the movie. Initially, she comes off as a very proper and somewhat quiet woman. However, as she becomes determined to find a cure for Lawrence towards the end of the movie, she starts to wear less fancy attire and her hair is noticeably a little unkempt from her nights of searching for answers. By the finale, her hair is down, she is wearing a slightly lower-cut and dirtier-looking dress than her earlier attire, and carries around a silver bullet loaded pistol.

* MadnessMantra: "Where is my father? Where is my father? WHERE IS MY FATHER?"

* NonMaliciousMonster: Played With. Unlike [[spoiler: [[FullyEmbracedFiend Sir John Talbot]]]], Lawrence seems to have at least some measure of control over his murderous instincts even when fully transformed. When he transforms in the asylum, for instance, he makes a beeline right for Honneger, who had been torturing him extensively: the other doctors who get in his way are unceremoniously, but harmlessly shoved aside. He attacks the orderly only after said orderly stabs him in the back with a syringe. In two later occasions he manages to calm down enough to stand quietly with humans right in front of him: once with Gwen, and once in a deleted scene where he is lured by the sound of a blind woman singing and seems content to simply listen. In total, his mindset as a wolfman seems to be one part scared wild animal, one part hungry wild animal, and one part terrified human fighting desperately from within, as opposed to a mindless engine of slaughter.

* PapaWolf: An instance of this occurs when he tries to protect Lawrence from the angry mob trying to capture him by '''shooting''' at them, and possibly even blinding someone in the process, [[PetTheDog showing]] that he may truly [[WellDoneSonGuy care for his son]]. [[spoiler:''Highly'' subverted when he ends up trying to kill Lawrence later on after revealing he already killed his brother and mother...and that he's a werewolf himself... TraumaCongaLine much? Also subverted when he lets the angry mob drag Lawrence off to an insane asylum right after the poor guy wakes up after the full moon and is scared and confused.]]