History Main / TheIgor

* "Igor's Cellar" by The Detergents

* Averted in ''WesternAnimation/CountDuckula'' - Igor is Igor in name only in this instance and is a very capable, intelligent albeit sinister butler. Also, don't mess with his master or you will regret it.

* At the start of ''MonsterLab'', the player is given a PDA aptly named I.G.O.R.

* One of the several MadScientist antagonists on ''CourageTheCowardlyDog'' had a hunchbacked ''rat'' as a laboratory assistant.

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* The 2008 movie ''WesternAnimation/{{Igor}}'' not only has every MadScientist have their own Igor...but one Igor (played by John Cusack) decides to become a MadScientist himself and win the Evil Science Fair.
** That particular Igor was rather proud of earning his Yes, Master degree (majored in speaking with a lisp).
* Also parodied in ''ReturnOfTheKillerTomatoes'', sequel to ''AttackOfTheKillerTomatoes''. Dr. Putrid T. Gangrene the MadScientist (portrayed most lovingly by John Astin) is annoyed by the mere presence of his assistant Igor, who is a blond, buff, and tanned surfer-dude who wants to be a TV News Anchor.

* MadScientist Doctor Finkelstein has one of these in ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas''. He likes doggy treats.

* Pavel, played by Ted Raimi, serves as the Igor in Creator/BruceCampbell's ''ManWithTheScreamingBrain''. He collects a lot of corpses over the course of the film.
* In ''EverythingYouAlwaysWantedToKnowAboutSex'', there is a segment with a ''{{Frankenstein}}'' parody. The deformed assistant of the mad scientist is even named "Igor".

* ''VictorFrankenstein'' is told from Igor (DanielRadcliffe)'s POV as he helps his friend with a science experiment. This Igor seems to be normal aside from being pale and a bit melancholy.

* In the ''TimonAndPumbaa'' series, the local MadScientist instead has "Shegor" because he's an equal opportunity employer.

* Lugnut in ''TransformersAnimated''.
* ''{{Toonsylvania}}'' has its Igor as one of the main characters of the show.
* In one episode of ''GarfieldAndFriends'', Garfield uses his imagination to compare Jon's new relationship to ''Bride Of Frankenstein''. He notices the assistant, Igor, and tells Odie that [[LampshadeHanging all assistants are named Igor. It's a rule.]]

* The blatantly named Urpgor of ''TheDreamstone'' is this to Zordrak. While most Urpneys are sniveling toadies, Urpgor is exceptionally unhinged and weasel-like, even refering to Zordrak as 'Master'. As a bonus he is the MadScientist of the RoguesGallery.

* The Genie in Disney's ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'' briefly morphs into one while explaining The Rules, specifically (and appropriately) the one about not bringing people back from the dead.
* [[PunnyName Edgar Gore]] from ''WesternAnimation/{{Frankenweenie}}'' looks like the TropeNamer, and is creepily eager to help [[MadScientist Victor]] with his science project. Subverted when he forces the unwilling Victor to recreate his experiment for him [[spoiler: and performs said experiment again later by himself]].

* Despite being Topher's assistant on ''{{Dollhouse}}'', Ivy is a complete subversion of this trope being female, quite attractive and anything but slavish in her attitude towards him.

* Dr. Mordenheim is ''{{Ravenloft}}'''s {{Expy}} of Dr. Frankenstein, so naturally he has an Igor: a hunchback named Horg, whom he's re-created via cloning each time his assistant gets killed. Robbing graves in Ravenloft isn't the safest vocation, so he's on his third or fourth Horg by now.

* Paul "Dibbs" Plutzker of 1995 film: ''Film/{{Casper}}'', played by EricIdle.

* WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob noted in his review of ''[[http://thecinemasnob.com/2010/02/09/the-body-shop.aspx The Body Shop]]'' that mad scientists in the movies he reviews always seem to have deformed sidekicks for no reason, and he wants to know how the assistant ended up with the doctor (at least one, ''[[http://thecinemasnob.com/2010/04/02/bloodsucking-freaks.aspx Blood-Sucking Freaks]]'', explains that Ralphus is just a sadist who does it for free.)

** In a later review, he gives Z-grade movie ''[[http://thecinemasnob.com/2011/04/08/geek-maggot-bingo.aspx Geek Maggot Bingo]]'' props for explaining how they met, which actually ''does'' show TheIgor finding the job in a classified ad.

* MadScientist Doctor Finkelstein has one of these in ''TheNightmareBeforeChristmas''. He likes doggy treats.

*** [[StealthHiBye Turning up behind you]] when you need them but don't expect them. (This might be a tribute to Eye-gor from ''YoungFrankenstein'', who went from the roof to right behind Dr. Frankenstein in less than a second.)

Igor can't fight (usually), and if encountered by the hero in a combat situation, will [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere high-tail it out]] with or without his master, unless the master tries to sacrifice him to enhance his own chances. [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty Abduction of young screaming ladies]], however, is within Igor's power.

* ''GetSmart''. Max goes up against a KAOS MadScientist who's using electricity to raise people from the dead. He naturally has a disabled toady for an assistant...called Bruce.

* Dennis Hopper's fried "photojournalist" in ''Film/ApocolypseNow'' is an ardent groupie of Col. Kurtz. His daily routine involves walking past dozens of decapitated heads and chronicling the exploits of the Great Man. Did you know that [[IceCreamKoan "if" is a middle word in life?]]

* Parodied in ''Film/YoungFrankenstein'' by Marty Feldman as "Igor" ([[ItIsPronouncedTroPAY pronounced "Eye-gore"]]).

* Terry Pratchett's Literature/{{Discworld}} distills the trope by featuring a clan of these types, [[PlanetOfSteves all named Igor]] (except female Igors, who are named Igora or Igorina). They all have their own unique pattern of scars and deformities (except for the female Igors, who are oddly enough [[CuteMonsterGirl very attractive]], although they usually keep a stitch somewhere as a sign), and all of them incredibly skilled surgeons, chemists and inventors. When they work for [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Vampires]], [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Werewolves]] and [[MadScientist Mad Scientists]], they often double as a butler. They also have a tendency to replace parts of their own bodies with bits from other people which are no longer in use by their former owners. Often an Igor will accept as payment for a surgery a promise that they can help themselves to the patient's body (for themselves and other patients) when they eventually die -- a promise they take very seriously. They also hand down useful organs; when an Igor says "I have my grandfather's hands", he is NOT being metaphorical.

* ''Webcomic/{{Pokemon-X}}'' parodies this with Professor Birch's assistant, named Igor, who is a perfectly normal lab assistant aside from the name and all the jokes he is subject to because of it.

* Dr. N. Gin in the newer ''Franchise/CrashBandicoot'' games. Actually, he was an Igor in the earlier games too. But one with a HumongousMecha. In the first game, N. Brio was ''almost'' this, but eventually became a self-reliant MadScientist himself.

* Igor makes an appearance in ''{{Castlevania}}'' as an invincible fleaman that assists Frankenstein's monster in battle in the first game, thus subverting the usual idea that Igor doesn't participate in combat.
* Igor pops up in ''QuestForGloryIV'', where he's the town's gravedigger and resident PungeonMaster ("Ha ha, little [[GraveHumor graveyard humor]] there!"); it's mentioned that he occasionally helps Dr. Cranium out too.

* ''GoodEats'' introduced the dungeon under AB's kitchen, wherein his toadying Dungeon Master (TheIgor in all but name) supplies him with painful kitchen appliances, such as a steak cuber and tortilla press. Yes, it's a cooking show; it's just not a normal cooking show.

*** [[SpeechImpediment Lisping]], although this is done deliberately; "modern" Igors sometimes "forget to lisp." On one occasion, before delivering a somewhat longwinded explanation, the Igor in question asked if he could drop the lisp, to make said explanation easier to understand.

* In MysteryCaseFiles' ''Ravenhearst'' games, Charles' hunched, cackling assistant [[spoiler: Victor]] is an example, for all that he calls his boss "Father" instead of "Master".