History Film / TheWolfman2010

* InspectorJavert: Inspector Aberline, appropriately enough.

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: [[spoiler:Aberline spends most of the movie bent on killing Lawrence, but in the end he's bitten by Lawrence and the curse is passed on to him.]]

* HorrorStruck: Lawrence is initially skeptical to being a werewolf and towards werewolves in general, until, you know, he actually '''become''' one. Played a little more straight with [[spoiler:Aberline]].

* GodHelpUsAll: Inspector Aberline upon the seeing the Wolfman escape a barrage of gunfire during the London rampage.

* [[spoiler:[[AndThenJohnWasAZombie And Then John Was A Werewolf]]]]: The film ends with Lawrence dead, but only after having [[spoiler:[[TheVirus bitten Aberline]]]], whose horrorstruck OhCrap look suggests he's just realized the implications.

* OnlyICanKillHim: After many days of sleepless research, Gwen discovers only how to kill Talbot, 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.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:Gwen stops Aberline from shooting Lawrence, which in turn causes him to get bitten. However, this really doesn't do much good since Gwen ends up shooting Lawrence herself in the end. Although, she's somewhat justified since she was still convinced she could reach Lawrence, and well... [[IKnowYouAreInThereSomewhereFight she was right]]. Plus, she probably figured that Lawrence would have finished off Aberline instead of chasing after her instead.]]

* HandsOnApproach: In the stone-skipping scene. Oops, is that a little [[LuminescentBlush blush]] we see on your face, Gwen?

* [[spoiler:[[AndThenJohnWasAZombie And Then John Was A Werewolf]]]]: Aberline.

* BattleAmongstTheFlames: As part of the GrandFinale.

* BedlamHouse: Lambert Asylum.

* BloodierAndGorier: So very much more so than the original...

* GoAmongMadPeople: Lawrence gets tossed into a hellhole asylum, the same one he'd been committed to as a boy.

* HerrDoctor: Dr. Hannigan.

* LogoJoke: The Universal earth reveals a full moon. Also the unrated version kept the ''Art-Deco Globe'' logo featured in the original 1941 version.

* MadnessMantra: '''"Where is my father?"'''

* PainfulTransformation: ''Much'' more painful than the ol' days of the stop motion transformation sequences where the worst part was just sitting still long enough while they applied makeup.

* RageAgainstTheReflection: More like, ''push away the reflection'', once it starts to sink in what Lawrence [[WolfMan is becoming]], or that he might be going insane.

* ActionGirl: [[EmilyBlunt Gwen Conliffe]] eventually becomes the Victorian equivalent of this when she becomes so motivated by trying to save Lawrence that she totes a gun around while running around in a dark forest in the middle of the night -- certainly breaking the DamselInDistress version of her character from 1941.

* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: [[spoiler:Sir John's lycanthropy has most certainly gone to his head.]]

* PapaWolf: An instance of this occurs when Sir John 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.]]

* [[spoiler:PaterFamilicide: Given that John is the one who killed his wife and Ben and probably would have succeeded in killing Larry if the hunters hadn't come along...]]

* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Sir John]]

* AffablyEvil: [[spoiler: Sir John turns out to be quite evil indeed... but dang! is he suave. He ''is'' played by Hannibal Lecter, after all, the ''king'' of Affably Evil]]

* DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: [[spoiler:He didn't want you to out him about being a werewolf and on inadvertently killing your mommy.]]

* TheseHandsHaveKilled: Lawrence the morning after his first transformation. ''"You've done terrible things..."''

* SharpDressedMan: Lawrence

* FakeMemories: [[spoiler:As a child, Lawrence's memories of his mother's death were re-formed during his time in the asylum so he would believe that his mother killed herself and concealed his real memories of his werewolf father tearing her throat out.]]

* [[spoiler: DoomedProtagonist: TheHeroDies.]]

* TheCharmer: Lawrence

* {{Badass}}: Aberline. But then again, when has Hugo Weaving ever played anything '''but''' a [[Film/VForVendetta bad]][[Film/TheMatrix ass]]?