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** In the ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' {{Elseworld}}s comic ''ComicBook/BatmanCastleOfTheBat'', set in 1819 Germany, Bruce Wayne's desire to bring back his father leads him to play out the role of Dr. Frankenstein. He constructs a patchwork body from corpses, and places Thomas Wayne's brain inside. Then he injects the reanimated Thomas with "essence of bat" to fix his brain injury, causing Thomas to mutate and gain [[MixAndMatchCritters the head of a bat]].
** Pvt. Elliot "Lucky" Taylor of the ''ComicBook/CreatureCommandos'' barely survived stepping on a mine. He was stitched back together against his will, so he resembles the Frankenstein monster and has damaged vocal cords.

** In the third issue of the miniseries ''ComicBook/HarleyAndIvy'', Poison Ivy has a nightmare in which she's thrown to her doom by a Frankenstein monster resembling Harley Quinn from the neck up.
** The tenth issue of ''[[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Justice League Adventures]]'' has a villain called Screamthief conjure illusions of everyone's worst fears. One of the illusions she makes after tormenting a boy who's watched one too many horror films has the appearance of Frankenstein's monster.

** Appears as a (titanically badass) hero in Creator/GrantMorrison's comic ''ComicBook/SevenSoldiersOfVictory2005''. The name issue is resolved by stating that he's deliberately taken Dr. Frankenstein's name as his own. The Bride also features, not just with the classic hairdo, but also with an extra pair of arms. He goes on to get a ''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint|DCComics}}'' miniseries and a subsequent ongoing, ''ComicBook/FrankensteinAgentOfSHADE'' Incidentally, in the former he ends UsefulNotes/WorldWarII by ''killing Hitler''.

** In ''ComicBook/{{Silverblade}}'', Jonathan played the Frankenstein Monster on screen, and assumes its form during his ShapeshifterShowdown with Blackfeather: using its strength to break the grip of Blackfeather's alligator form, before being driven back by flames when Blackfeather transforms into a firebird.
** While ComicBook/SimonDark is clearly ''not'' Frankenstein's creation, given ''that'' fellow is running around with the Seven Soldiers, he is unabashedly inspired by him and is a patchwork of twenty-four dead teenagers brought to life with {{Mad Scien|tist}}ce and BlackMagic.
** Len Wein's ''Spawn of Frankenstein'' feature that ran as a back-up feature in ''ComicBook/ThePhantomStranger'' starred an interpretation of the Frankenstein monster who was faithful to the monster's depiction in Mary Shelley's original novel and took his creator's name as his own by dubbing himself Victor Frankenstein II.

*** ''Superman himself'' in the {{Elseworld}}s title ''ComicBook/TheSupermanMonster'', which retells the tale of Frankenstein, but with Lex as the doctor, Superman as the Monster, and the story changed up a bit. Interestingly enough, the story has the Superman Monster initially appear pale and deformed, making him resemble the aforementioned Bizarro.

** ''ComicBook/SwampThing'' has the Patchwork Man, a normal man who was 'repaired' (badly) by Swamp Thing's enemy, the MadScientist Anton Arcane. Adding to the tragedy, the unfortunate in question is Anton's brother, and the father of Swamp Thing's human girlfriend.
** A teenaged version of the character, [[https://web.archive.org/web/20141018070852/http://www.titanstower.com/young-frankenstein/ Young Frankenstein]], was briefly a member of the ''ComicBook/TeenTitans''.
** In "The Frontier Frankenstein" in ''ComicBook/{{Tomahawk}}'' #103, British troops capture Big Anvil and a [[HerrDoktor German scientist]] subjects him to a treatment involving "rare African herbs" which causes him to transform into a hulking green-skinned Frankenstein monster at night. The narration suggests this event might have been Mary Shelley's inspiration to write the novel ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}''.

** ''ComicBook/NewGods'': The ninth issue of ''The Forever People'' had a MadScientist named "Doc" Gideon bring a monster he stitched together from dismembered corpses to life using one of Serifan's cosmic cartridges.

* ''ComicBook/NewGods'': The ninth issue of ''The Forever People'' had a MadScientist named "Doc" Gideon bring a monster he stitched together from dismembered corpses to life using one of Serifan's cosmic cartridges.

* ''Series/MADtv1995'' has a series of sketches featuring 'Funkenstein' in [[BlacksploitationParody parodies of Blaxploitation films]].

* In the ''Series/RedDwarf'' episode "Quarantine", Cat calls Kryten "Frankenstein", which leads the latter to point out the following:
--> '''Kryten:''' Frankenstein was the ''creator'', not the monster. It's a common misconception held by all truly stupid people.

* In the ''Series/WeirdScience'' episode, "In Search of Boris Karloff," Lisa takes Wyatt and Gary into the world of Frankenstein. In this version, the Creature (specifically referred to as ''not'' Frankenstein himself) lives with his creator. He is portrayed as quite dimwitted and prone to anger (the latter a result of constantly being mistreated), but he is a GentleGiant to Lisa, as she showed him nothing but kindness.

* Sally in ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'' is a ragdoll version of this trope (she's filled with leaves rather than guts), and can detach and reattach her limbs at will.
* ''WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunksMeetFrankenstein'' has a Universal Studios-style theme park hire Dr. Frankenstein to up the scare factor in their horror show, not realizing that he's brought real body parts to decorate. He immediately creates the monster, which breaks loose and runs away. He scares the Chipmunks at first, but then Theodore realizes he wasn't attacking and teaches him to be a good friend. Once they convince everyone else and teach him to talk, he's given a job at the park, and we last see him happily driving a tour trolley.

** In ''ComicBook/DarkReign'', [[spoiler:[[Characters/WolverineSupportingCharacters Daken]], son of [[Characters/MarvelComicsLogan Wolverine]], killed Frank Castle, [[Characters/MarvelComicsFrankCastle The Punisher]], and he was resurrected as Franken-Castle, who led the new Monster Squad, with Characters/{{Morbius}} the Living Vampire, ComicBook/WerewolfByNight and ComicBook/ManThing, into combat]].

** A ''ComicBook/HowardTheDuck'' comic from the 1970s revives the story with two twists. One, the Dr. Frankenstein figure was a little girl. Two, the monster she created was a seven-foot walking gingerbread man.

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* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'': Creatures of this sort tend to be classified as zombies in-game, although ones created as stitched-together {{Flesh Golem}}s rather than simply reanimated corpses.
** [[https://scryfall.com/card/drk/45/frankensteins-monster The monster himself]] appears a card in ''The Dark'', an early set focused on horror and monsters.
** In Innistrad, a plane inspired chiefly by {{Gothic Horror}}, zombies aligned with Blue mana -- the magic of intellect and madness, and the most common color for {{Mad Scientist}}s -- tend to look like this. They're called Skaabs or stitched creatures, and are made from the combined corpses of various other creatures. This is represented in-game by how you must remove a number of creatures from your graveyard as an additional cost to summoning them. To drive the point home, the card [[https://scryfall.com/card/isd/71/rooftop-storm Rooftop Storm]], which resembles a mad scientist's laboratory, makes all zombies cost 0 mana, but you still need bodies to play them.
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* [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] cartoonist [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Briefer Dick Briefer]] had a noteworthy run in the 1940's/1950's which went through three distinct changes in style. The first incarnation, beginning in ''Prize Comics'' #7 (1940) presented the creature as a VillainProtagonist of high intellect battling first his own creator and later the superheroic Bulldog Denny. (The monster was eventually defeated by a coalition of Prize Comics' co-stars in one of the first superhero crossover stories). The tone shifted to humor in ''Frankenstein'' #1 (1945), with stories that could be considered precursors to ''Series/TheMunsters'' and ''Series/TheAddamsFamily''. Finally, in the early 1950's, with Creator/ECComics dominating the market, Briefer returned the monster to his more horrific roots with a memorable re-imagining of the monster as a mute wanderer. Examples of Briefer's work from all three periods can be found at these blogs: [[http://thehorrorsofitall.blogspot.com/2010/10/frightful-frankenstein-friday.html Early Horror.]] [[http://fourcolorshadows.blogspot.com/2010/10/frightful-frankenstein-friday.html Humor.]] [[http://allthingsger.blogspot.com/search/label/Frankenstein Later Horror.]]
* The latter of the two title characters in the comic book miniseries ''Doll and Creature'' is essentially a '50s greaser version of Frankenstein's monster from a freaky future world. Doll is a human woman, but she has the classic Bride of Frankenstein two-tone beehive hairdo.
* Appears as a (titanically badass) hero in Creator/GrantMorrison's comic ''ComicBook/SevenSoldiersOfVictory2005''. The name issue is resolved by stating that he's deliberately taken Dr. Frankenstein's name as his own. The Bride also features, not just with the classic hair-do, but also with an extra pair of arms.
** He goes on to get a ''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint|DCComics}}'' miniseries and a subsequent ongoing, ''ComicBook/FrankensteinAgentOfSHADE'' Incidentally, in the former he ends UsefulNotes/WorldWarII by ''killing Hitler''.

** A teenaged version of this character, [[https://web.archive.org/web/20141018070852/http://www.titanstower.com/young-frankenstein/ Young Frankenstein]], was briefly a member of the ''ComicBook/TeenTitans''.
* While ComicBook/SimonDark is clearly ''not'' Frankenstein's creation, given ''that'' fellow is running around with the Seven Soldiers, he is unabashedly inspired by him and is a patchwork of twenty-four dead teenagers brought to life with {{Mad Scien|tist}}ce and BlackMagic.
* The third issue of the miniseries ''ComicBook/HarleyAndIvy'' has a part where Poison Ivy has a nightmare where she's thrown to her doom by a Frankenstein monster resembling Harley Quinn from the neck up.
* The monster also features in ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'' when he is forced by a Mexican MadScientist (who bought him) to fight Hellboy in a [[MaskedLuchador wrestling match]]. He got his own spinoff series in 2015.
* In a ''ComicBook/HowardTheDuck'' comic from the '70s, Steve Gerber revived the story with two twists. One, the Dr. Frankenstein figure was a little girl. Two, the monster she created was a seven-foot walking gingerbread man.

* The 'actual' Frankenstein's Monster has showed up many times over the years in comic books, but ''ComicBook/SwampThing'' also has the Patchwork Man, a normal man who was 'repaired' (badly) by Swamp Thing's enemy, the MadScientist Anton Arcane. Adding to the tragedy, the unfortunate in question is Anton's brother, and the father of Swamp Thing's human girlfriend.
* Volume 2 of ''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'' includes a "bonus" world almanac of fantastical places, which reveals that after jumping off the ship at the end of the original novel, the creature found his way into Toyland, and married the queen. He later appears in person in the comic's final volume alongside other "Frankensteins" (aka versions of the monster from other works of fiction) that his wife ordered built so that he wouldn't be lonely. He also seems to think of himself as just Frankenstein; when Mina tells him that most people think he should be properly referred to as "Frankenstein's Monster", he bitterly asks if that's supposed to make him feel better, resenting the label of "monster."
* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'':
** Bizarro, in incarnations where he is an [[CloneDegeneration imperfect clone]] of Superman created by Lex Luthor, is pretty much Frankenstein's Monster due to being an artificial being who is usually portrayed as a tragic figure who is shunned for his frightful appearance in spite of meaning no intentional harm.
** ''Superman himself'' in the {{Elseworld}}s title ''ComicBook/TheSupermanMonster'', which retells the tale of Frankenstein, but with Lex as the doctor, Superman as the Monster, and the story changed up a bit. Interestingly enough, the story has the Superman Monster initially appear pale and deformed, making him resemble the aforementioned Bizarro.
** In ''ComicBook/ActionComics'' #531, Superman battles the Monster and {{Dracula}}, though they may not have been the genuine creatures but rather [[RealityWarper creations of a dead writer's mind]]. ComicBook/ThePhantomStranger helps.
** ''ComicBook/SupermanAndBatmanGenerations'' has a scene taking place in 1959 in which Superman transforms into a Super-Giant and goes on a rampage after exposure to Red Kryptonite. Superman has a flat head and green skin in this state, making him resemble a gigantic Frankenstein monster in a Superman costume.
* In ''ComicBook/TheKillersOfKrypton'', ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} faces several malformed, monstrous clones of herself created by Harry Hokum's head geneticist. The clones are depicted as mindless, tragic and pitiable creatures who only attack people because they have been ordered to.
* Like {{Dracula}}, Creator/DellComics turned Frankenstein's Monster into an honest-to-goodness {{Superhero}}.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Fables}}'', Frakenstein's Monster [[StupidJetpackHitler was animated by Nazis during World War II]]. Bigby fought the monster (in a reference to the 1943 film ''Film/FrankensteinMeetsTheWolfMan'') when he and a squad of Allied soldiers stormed the castle where the experiment was being performed. The Monster's [[LosingYourHead still-animated head]] is kept in the business office in the Woodlands building where Bigby chats with him from time to time. He often has phantom thirst and is given drinks by Bufkin, though the last time this happened, the bottom of his cage rusted out.
* In the ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' {{Elseworld}}s comic ''ComicBook/BatmanCastleOfTheBat'', set in 1819 Germany, Bruce Wayne's desire to bring back his father leads him to play out the role of Dr. Frankenstein: He constructs a patchwork body from corpses, and places Thomas Wayne's brain inside. Then he injects the reanimated Thomas with "essence of bat" to fix his brain injury, causing Thomas to mutate and gain [[MixAndMatchCritters the head of a bat]].
* ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'' has had several analogues of Frankenstein's Creature walking about, made by in-universe scientists. One was a [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]] analogue (makes sense seeing as Hulk seems like a Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde/Frankenstein's creature combo) and one led the Howling Commandos.

** The monster features as a member of STAKE, a.k.a. the Howling Commandos, SHIELD's team of monstrous operatives.

* ''ComicBook/FantasticFour: True Story'', in which Marvel's first family was trying to save the world of fiction from [[spoiler:Nightmare]], featured the monster from the original book as one of their allies. Later, when the team had been stripped of their powers and attacked by {{Dracula}}, Ben was trying to summon him for help.
-->'''Ben Grimm''': Actually, It's not so hard to imagine Frankenstein fighting Dracula.\\
''[Doctor Frankenstein enters the room]''\\
'''Frankenstein''': Dear God, what are these monstrosities? Probably nothing ''I'' can deal with.\\
'''Ben''': Oops, my mistake. I mean Frankenstein's '''monster''' fighting Dracula.

* Len Wein's ''Spawn of Frankenstein'' feature that ran as a back-up feature in ''ComicBook/ThePhantomStranger'' starred an interpretation of the Frankenstein monster who was faithful to the monster's depiction in Mary Shelley's original novel and took his creator's name as his own by dubbing himself Victor Frankenstein II.
* Pvt. Elliot "Lucky" Taylor of the ''ComicBook/CreatureCommandos'' in Franchise/TheDCU. Lucky barely survived stepping on a mine. He was stitched back together against his will, so he resembles the Frankenstein monster and has damaged vocal cords.
* In ''ComicBook/JingleBelle: Santa Claus VS. Frankenstein,'' it turns out the monster's plan of lighting a funeral pyre for himself at the North Pole only resulted in ''melting the ice'' and getting himself frozen in it. He's later de-thawed by the heroine, and brought to help out at Santa's toy factory. Hijinks ensue.
* TOPPS Comics came out with ''The Frankenstein/Dracula War'' miniseries, which is not so much a "war" as it is a setup for Dracula and the Monster to beat the crap out of each other after the deaths of their respective lady loves. Notable for the Monster having a female companion who is not afraid of him, and who keeps the relationship platonic due to personal trauma rather than the fact that he's ugly.
* ''ComicBook/{{Zombo}}'': Zombo, kinda. He was specifically designed as a one-of-his-kind experiment to create a zombie that would obey human commands. He's far friendlier than the regular bunch, since he'll at least ask you if he can eat your brains.
* ''ComicBook/RequiemVampireKnight'': Deucalion is a {{Kaiju}}-sized living weapon created by Dr. Dippel to assassinate [[EvilOverlord King Dracula]]. It was deliberately designed with Mary Shelley's book in mind, but its later revealed in a StableTimeLoop twist that Shelley saw Deucalion in a future vision granted by drinking black opium and this served as inspiration for the Frankenstein's monster, meaning that Deucalion inadvertently owns his existence to himself.
* In "The Frontier Frankenstein" in ''ComicBook/{{Tomahawk}}'' #103, British troops capture Big Anvil and a [[HerrDoktor German scientist]] subjects him to a treatment involving "rare African herbs" which causes him to transform into a hulking green-skinned Frankenstein monster at night. The narration suggests this event might have been Mary Shelley's inspiration to write the novel ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}''.
* In ''ComicBook/MonsterWar'', the Frankenstein's monster is thawed out of ice and joins Mr. Hyde's alliance to unleash HellOnEarth. However, he is the least malevolent of his allies since all he wants is find a way to end his existence. [[spoiler:At the end he is the only one to survive and said to have [[CruelMercy suffered the worst fate of all - he lived]].]]
* In ''ComicBook/{{Silverblade}}'', Jonathan played the Frankenstein Monster on screen, and assumes its form during his ShapeShifterShowdown with Blackfeather: using its strength to break the grip of Blackfeather's alligator form, before being driven back by flames when Blackfeather transforms into a firebird.
* ''ComicBook/DialHForHero'':
** The 162nd issue of ''House of Mystery'' had a story where Robby Reed used the superheroes the H-Dial turned him into to combat citizens of Littleville who have transformed into monsters. One of them was a man named Mr. Brody who turned into a Frankenstein monster.
** Issue 165 of ''House of Mystery'' had a scientist named Dr. Rigoro Mortis try to defeat Robby's superhero forms with a robot he called Super-Hood, who had the appearance of a tall brute with stitching on his forehead.
* The tenth issue of ''[[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Justice League Adventures]]'' has a villain called Screamthief conjure illusions of everyone's worst fears. One of the illusions she makes after tormenting a boy who's watched one too many horror films has the appearance of Frankenstein's monster.

* Among the central characters of the classic 1960's Rankin-Bass stop-motion feature ''WesternAnimation/MadMonsterParty'' are Baron von Frankenstein, his Monster and the Monster's Mate (an interpretation of the Bride [[InkSuitActor modeled after]] her voice actress Phyllis Diller). The portrayal is very much based on the earlier movie versions. There was also a prequel of sorts titled ''Mad, Mad, Mad Monsters'', which centered around the creation of the Monster's bride (looking and sounding different from her depiction in the previous film) and their eventual marriage, the ending showing the couple with [[BabiesEverAfter a Frankenstein monster baby in a carriage]].

* There's the unusually-named 1970's made-for-TV movie ''Frankenstein: The True Story'', which features a very handsome Creature who is beloved by Victor, only for their relationship to disintegrate as the Creature's good looks begin to decay. As you can expect, contains varying amounts of HoYay and camp.

* Creator/WhiteWolf:
** ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'': The Liminal Exalted, or Chernozem, are dead bodies given new life -- sometimes patchwork constructs, sometimes intact corpses -- through the intercession of a mysterious entity called the Dark Mother. Unlike true undead but like Frankenstein's creation, they're entirely new souls with little memory of or connection to the lives of the corpses that gave them form.
** ''TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness'':
*** "Antagonists" has the imbued. Like the Prometheans, they're artificial lifeforms made from corpses, but they lack a soul or indeed any capacity to become human.
*** ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheForsaken'': ''Tribes of the Moon'' tells the tale of a pack of World War II-era American werewolves who stumbled across a Nazi project to create Frankensteins.
*** ''TabletopGame/PrometheanTheCreated'': Artificial lifeforms (typically made from corpses) are called Prometheans, after the Titan who gave mankind the gift of fire; their goal, and thus the player's, is ToBecomeHuman -- a possible (but exceedingly hard) task, thanks to the Divine Fire that animates them. One Lineage is called the Frankensteins, and in first edition, the first of their number is explicitly identified as Victor Frankenstein's monster (aka. Adam Frankenstein, aka. [[EpilepticTrees the first edition corebook's narrator "Mr. Verney"]]), which still exists in this world. (''Dark Eras Companion'', written for the second edition games, has Mary Shelley and John Polidori as the first Frankenstein's creators instead.) This is all derived straight from the original novel, to boot -- the alternate title to Shelley's classic is ''The Modern Prometheus''.
** ''TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness'':
*** ''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension'': In the original Sons of Ether splatbook, the inspiration for the novel was an Etherite mage called Waldman and his creation (again from the original book, where Waldman inspired Victor Frankenstein). The creation took the name Elias Waldman, and became a mage, joining the Etherites; he apparently lives to this day. He isn't the only one, either; one of the splatbook's character templates is a modern-day construct. In the Revised Storytellers' Handbook, the early 19th century sees quite a few scientific mages create their own humanoid constructs, which become known as Prometheans. While they're playable, they can't become mages, unlike the splatbook.
* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': {{Flesh Golem}}s are physically patterned after Frankenstein's monster, but are entirely mindless and thus share little else with it or this trope. A closer fit would be the Blasphemes, stitched together undead with full sapience.
** In ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'' making ''any'' golem is a bad idea -- but making these is easier and {{mad scientist}}s do, frequently [[ReplacementGoldfish out of desperation]]. The monster Adam is a very close copy of the concept, drawing more upon Shelley than movies. However, the monster is here explained as a case of its creator having been punished by the gods for seeking to create life, and as such the creature was AlwaysChaoticEvil, despite its vigorous claims to the contrary.
** ''TabletopGame/MasqueOfTheRedDeath'': The actual monster of Frankenstein is used as one of many villains.
* Flesh Golems in ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' are usually mindless, like in D&D, but on rare occasions they can become "awakened" to true sentience. One such awakened golem, [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast The Beast of Lepidstadt]], is the focus of ''Trial of the Beast'', the second adventure in the ''Carrion Crown'' adventure path. He has been captured and put on trial for a number of heinous crimes, and the [=PCs=] are recruited to investigate his guilt or innocence. [[spoiler:He's innocent; the Beast is a benevolent creature being used as a scapegoat by the actual perpetrators. He even pulls a BigDamnHeroes at the end, showing up to help the characters fight a far more monstrous example of this trope.]]

* Cryxian Stitch Thralls from the TabletopGame/IronKingdoms.

** The Exiled Dead warband from ''Warhammer Underworlds'' consists primarily of a vampire MadScientist and his "Arcwalkers" - zombies animated by a pseudo-electrical force. One of them has a giant arm stitched to his shoulder to give a Frankenstein vibe.

* While ComicBook/SimonDark is clearly ''not'' Frankenstein's creation, given ''that'' fellow is running around with the Seven Soldiers, he is unabashedly inspired by him and is a patchwork of twenty-four dead teenagers brought to life with MadScience and BlackMagic.

* Shrike the undead SuperSoldier from ''Film/MortalEngines''. The Stalkers are regarded with abhorrence by Tom as some kind of MadScience UnseenEvil from the ancient world. Yet like the original monster Shrike has a gentle side that causes him to protect Hester as a little girl. [[spoiler:Also he wants to create a companion like himself, though in this case a child, not a bride.]]

An iconic product of {{mad science}}, this creature has lumbered through scores of films and TV series, [[TragicMonster monstrous yet also pitiful]].

* Appears as a (titanically badass) hero in Creator/GrantMorrison's comic ''ComicBook/SevenSoldiers''. The name issue is resolved by stating that he's deliberately taken Dr. Frankenstein's name as his own. The Bride also features, not just with the classic hair-do, but also with an extra pair of arms.

* ''Series/KamenRiderKiva'' has Dogga/Riki, the LastOfHisKind of an entire race of Frankenstein's Monster-like beings with immense strength who feed on human souls. Thanks to a [[IOweYouMyLife pact with the hero's father]], he can loan his power to Kiva, turning Wataru into a MightyGlacier who grunts rather than speaking, [[DropTheHammer swings a giant hammer]], and has a lightning theme (matching up with the method of the Monster's creation).

Part of the classic MonsterMash with {{Dracula}}, {{Mummy}}, the WolfMan and the SwampMonster. Compare also with the FleshGolem and MixAndMatchMan. Examples based specifically on Boris Karloff's portrayal of the monster in the 1931 film and its sequels may overlap with KarloffKopy.

** In ''Comicbook/DarkReign'', [[spoiler:[[Characters/WolverineSupportingCharacters Daken]], son of Characters/{{Wolverine|JamesLoganHowlett}}, killed Frank Castle, Characters/{{The Punisher|FrankCastle}}, and he was resurrected as Franken-Castle, who led the new Monster Squad, with Characters/{{Morbius}} the Living Vampire, ComicBook/WerewolfByNight and Comicbook/ManThing, into combat]].
** The one and only Frankenstein's Monster is also part of the Marvel Universe, even [[Comicbook/TheFrankensteinMonster getting his own book]], and his creator's descendants have created several more.

* ''Comicbook/FantasticFour: True Story'', in which Marvel's first family was trying to save the world of fiction from [[spoiler:Nightmare]], featured the monster from the original book as one of their allies. Later, when the team had been stripped of their powers and attacked by {{Dracula}}, Ben was trying to summon him for help.

* The Super Mutants in the ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series. In ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'', Three Dog occasionally refers to them as "the Frankensteins". The BigBad of ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 2}}'', [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Frank Horrigan]], is a [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Cyber Super Mutant]].

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'', Dr. Venture resurrects one of the Monarch's [[RedShirtArmy fallen minions]] and names the result "Venturestein". Venturestein is actually kind of scrawny, but he's got the requisite HulkSpeak, stitched-together head, and neck bolts.

Part of the classic MonsterMash with {{Dracula}}, {{Mummy}}, the WolfMan and the SwampMonster. Compare also with the FleshGolem and MixAndMatchMan. Examples based specifically on Boris Karloff's portrayal of the monster may overlap with KarloffKopy.

* Frankentyke in ''WesternAnimation/GravedaleHigh'' is described on [[Website/{{Wikipedia}} The Other Wiki]] as a mix between the Frankenstein monster and Bart Simpson.

* Among the central characters of the classic 1960's Rankin-Bass stop-motion feature ''WesternAnimation/MadMonsterParty'' is Baron von Frankenstein, his Monster and the Monster's Mate (an interpretation of the Bride [[InkSuitActor modelled after]] her voice actress Phyllis Diller). The portrayal is very much based on the earlier movie versions. There was also a prequel of sorts titled ''Mad, Mad, Mad Monsters'', which centered around the creation of the Monster's bride (looking and sounding different from her depiction in the previous film) and their eventual marriage, the ending showing the couple with [[BabiesEverAfter a Frankenstein monster baby in a carriage]].

* Frank and his wife Eunice in ''WesternAnimation/HotelTransylvania''. Johnathan, the only human in the hotel, disguises himself as "Johnnystein", Frank's long lost cousin.

* Both Frankenstein and his Monster figure prominently in the classic 1960's Rankin-Bass stop-motion feature ''WesternAnimation/MadMonsterParty''. The portrayal is very much based on the earlier movie versions.

Part of the classic MonsterMash with {{Dracula}}, {{Mummy}}, the WolfMan and the SwampMonster. Compare also with the FleshGolem and MixAndMatchMan.

* Volume 2 of ''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'' includes a "bonus" world almanac of fantastical places, which reveals that after jumping off the ship at the end of the original novel, the creature found his way into Toyland, and married the queen. He later appears in person in the comic's final volume alongside other "Frankensteins" (aka versions of the monster from other works of fiction) that his wife ordered built so that he wouldn't be lonely. He also seems to think of himself as just Frankenstein; when Mina tells him that most people think he should be properly referred to as "Frankenstein's Monster", he bitterly asks if that's supposed to make him feel better.

* SociopathicHero Unity from ''Webcomic/SkinHorse''.

* Creator/KennethBranagh directed and starred in ''Film/MaryShelleysFrankenstein'' in 1994, [[QuestionableCasting featuring]] Creator/RobertDeNiro as [[QuestionableCasting the monster]].