History Main / TheIgor

* ''Film/DrGoldfootAndTheBikiniMachine:'' The eponymous [[Creator/VincentPrice mad scientist]] has a flunky named Igor who mentally fits this trpe, but physically is an ordinary-looking guy in a lab coat.

* ''Radio/TheWorldDominationHour'' [[http://worlddominationhour.podbean.com/ found here]], broadcast from Emerson College, features the villainous Baron and his resentful assistant Freegor, whose duties include being [[TheWoobie beaten, tormented, and harassed]] on a regular basis.

** In ''TabletopGame/BloodBowl'' Igors, also known as Hunchback Henchmen in some version of the rules, are deformed minions who can be hired by the [[{{Necromancy}} Necromancer Coaches]] of the various {{Undead}} Teams instead of apothecaries. These assistants are highly skilled at repairing and manipulating rotting flesh and allow a re-roll to one 'Regeneration' roll each game.
** ''TabletopGame/{{Mordheim}}'': The {{Undead}} warbands can recruit the Dregs, the hunch-backed and deformed human survivors of the comet strike. They serve their undead masters faithfully since [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe they are the few who showed them kindness.]]

* "That Little Old Graverobber Me" by Don Hinson & the Rigormorticians

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'': Genie references the character archetype by briefly morphing into a hideous, green hunchback while explaining The Rules, specifically (and appropriately) the one about not bringing people back from the dead, whilst doing a Creator/PeterLorre impression.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'': Genie briefly morphs into one while explaining The Rules, specifically (and appropriately) the one about not bringing people back from the dead, whilst doing a Creator/PeterLorre impression.

* In ''Literature/MalazanBookOfTheFallen'', Emancipor Reese serves as faithful manservant to the ThoseTwoBadGuys pairing of [[EvilSorcerer evil sorcerers]] Bauchelain and Korbal Broach. He's not so much loyal to them as completely terrified, and while revealed in his origin story to have began as a seasoned if weedy former soldier, he quickly falls into the shambling part of the equation as he becomes an AddledAddict to dull the horror of his work.

* The Genie in Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' briefly morphs into one while explaining The Rules, specifically (and appropriately) the one about not bringing people back from the dead, whilst doing a Creator/PeterLorre impression.

* The game ''VideoGame/BrainDead13'' has Fritz (most likely named as a ShoutOut to Universal's ''Frankenstein''), an imp with hooks for both hands who pursues the protagonist throughout the game.

* The butler and maid from ''Transylvania 6-5000'' were both hunchbacks, and a married couple whose son had an even more extreme hunch. [[spoiler:Or so it seemed; really, all three of them were faking to conform to this trope's groveling-hunchbacked-servant expectations.]]

* Grimer from ''ComicBook/SonicTheComic'' is an exemplary Mad Doctor's Assistant to BigBad Dr. Robotnik. As well as the usual Igor traits (hideous goblin-like appearance, frail build, intense loyalty, referring to his boss as "Master", etc) he was also something of a HypercompetentSidekick, being the primary designer of many of Robotnik's most dangerous war machines and personally coming to Robotnik's rescue on several occasions. His finest moment came when he was jailed after Robotnik was apparently destroyed by the Chaos Emeralds, where he proved he was a [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative]] ChessMaster and managed to manipulate the heroes easily from his prison and save his master.
** The American Comicbook/SonicTheHedgehog comics had Snively in this role during his early appearances. He's still a toady nowadays, but after 16 years he's grown to hate his job a bit. Sniv has come to rely on being a DeadpanSnarker as his chief coping mechanism. It seems to work decently enough.

* In ''Literature/SonicTheHedgehogInRobotniksLaboratory'' Robotnik has built himself a special lab-assistant called Eggor.

See TheRenfield for a related trope about vampires. Is often WorkingForABodyUpgrade. Can overlap with SatelliteCharacter. Compare to BattleButler, CrustyCaretaker and ProfessionalButtKisser. See also DrFakenstein, who is almost guaranteed to have an Igor employed.

A very stylized, specialized, and specific variant on TheRenfield. Is often WorkingForABodyUpgrade. Can overlap with SatelliteCharacter. Compare to BattleButler, CrustyCaretaker and ProfessionalButtKisser. See also DrFakenstein, who is almost guaranteed to have an Igor employed.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' episode "Rainy Day Dreams", 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 Genie in Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' briefly morphs into one while explaining The Rules, specifically (and appropriately) the one about not bringing people back from the dead.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/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.]]

* Gargoyle in ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibleHulk'' who fits the role perfectly, he is ugly, short, has large head, and acts as an assistant to The Leader.

* Igor is the name of Grandpa's pet bat in ''Series/TheMunsters'', and considering that he's a MadScientist {{Vampire}}... well...

* ''Film/BackToTheFuture'''s Marty [=McFly=] meets the "short, loyal lab assistant to a MadScientist" criteria, but is a reasonably well-adjusted teenager whose relationship with the Doc is less "subservient toady" and more "frequent rescuer of his BigBrotherMentor."

* Andrew on ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' could be said to have been somewhere between this and TheRenfield to Warren.

* TheIgor appears in a few ''[[ComicStrip/TheFarSide Far Side]]'' cartoons, including:

* In ''[[Literature/MythAdventures Myth Conceptions]]'', Skeeve poses as a creepy hunchback to scare potential guests away from the inn he and Aahz have been living in. When he later auditions for the Court Wizard job at Possiltum, Aahz adopts the same disguise to pose as Skeeve's assistant, effectively playing TheIgor to Skeeve's "cunning sorcerer".

* ''Series/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.

* Vican, a mutated [[LittlePeople Matoran]], fills this role for Mutran in ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}''. Interestingly enough, Vican originally willingly became TheIgor because he was bored of his old life and wanted more excitement, [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor which resulted in multiple mutations to his body]]. He eventually has a HeelRealization and becomes TheAtoner.

** Taken UpToEleven starting with [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070528 "The Coffee Engine is Broken?!?"]] storyline, Agatha finally makes it to her ancestral keep, only to find [[spoiler:the entire TOWN surrounding it is populated with [[TheIgor Igors]] subconsciously pining for their masters the Heterodynes... and woe betide pretenders that hang around instead of getting eaten by the Castle]].

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

** The Doctor scowling at Igor for having brought the wrong size wrench.

* Six years before the 1931 ''Frankenstein'', OldDarkHouse horror comedy ''Film/TheMonster'' featured Rigo, the sidekick to MadScientist Dr. Ziska, who plays this trope completely straight, wearing a cloak, walking with a hunched back, and helping the MadScientist with his evil schemes.

* In the game ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'', Sheegor is a [[DistaffCounterpart female Igor]] [[ReluctantMadScientist forced to work]] for [[DepravedDentist Dr. Loboto]] to save her captured pet turtle Mr. Pokeylope. She switches over to your side when you retrieve him; she's scary at first, but actually sort of a [[TheWoobie Woobie]].

* Igor makes an appearance in ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' as an invincible fleaman that assists Frankenstein's monster in battle in [[VideoGame/CastlevaniaI the first game]], thus subverting the usual idea that Igor doesn't participate in combat. In fact, Igor is the real threat of the fight- the monster just walks back and forth while Igor jumps around and tosses fireballs at Simon.
* Igor pops up in ''VideoGame/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.

* ''Webcomic/CommanderKitty'' has Fortiscue, who fits this to a T, complete with worshipful improvised names for his mistress Zenith ("Yes, my one-and-onlyness!"). This doesn't stop him from being a ServileSnarker when she gets a tad too ridiculous. [[spoiler:It's also a complete reversal of fate, since when he's not under the influence of the MindControlDevice he himself created, he's ''her'' master--she's an android, and not intended to be evil.]]

* Music/DoctorSteel's robot servants are all hunchbacks.

* ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot'': In later seasons, MadScientist "Herr Doktor" is Megabyte's top man. The doc has an unnamed assistant who is a heavily disfigured, Frankenstein monster-like "one" binome.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' episode "Feral Scream", Waspinator fills in the role of The Igor while Megatron is creating [[spoiler:Transmetal 2 Dinobot]]. Waspinator even speaks lines such as "Yes, Master" in a creepy sort of voice.

* Lugnut in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'', who doubles as TheBrute.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Toonsylvania}}'' has its Igor as one of the main characters of the show.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/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.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/JibberJabber'', several of the boys' fantasies involved Jibber as "Dr. Jibberstein" with Jabber as his loyal hunchbacked assistant "Jabgor".

* Averted in ''WesternAnimation/CountDuckula'': Igor is Igor in name (and hunchback) 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.
* The cringingly villainous sidekick, Harry Slime from ''WesternAnimation/AvengerPenguins'' fits this trope more closely, right down to the Peter Lorre accent.
* In the "Werehog of London" episode of ''WesternAnimation/TimonAndPumbaa'', the MadScientist has a "Shegor" instead because he's an equal opportunity employer.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/SheepInTheBigCity'', the Mad (I mean, [[RunningGag Angry]]) Scientist is ready to launch his [[MakesSenseInContext sheep-powered raygun]]. He presses a button, ominous music swells, everybody holds their breath... turns out the button only summons an Igor. Doubly funny because the Angry Scientist looks down on the Igor, even though he is ''exactly as deformed as the Angry Scientist himself''.
-->'''Igor:''' You rang, master?\\
'''Angry Scientist:''' Yes, ''troll''. [[PoirotSpeak Pushing this button for me.]]

* Spoofed in ''WesternAnimation/AttackOfTheKillerTomatoes''. Dr. Gangreene's helper is named Igor, but he's actually a blond, tan, handsome man.
* In ''WesternAnimation/AllHailKingJulien'', after becoming horribly disfigured, Rob gets a job as Nurse Phantom working for Doctor S which more or less ends up with him becoming the Igor to Doctor S's MadDoctor. The only real difference is that they tend to bicker like an old married couple.
-->'''Dr S:''' Back up the saw, Nurse Phantom, maybe next time...\\
'''Rob:''' Told you we wouldn't need it, but ''no'', you made me lug it all the way here for nothing!

* Played for humorous effect (along with everything else) in ''Literature/BringMeTheHeadOfPrinceCharming''. The demon Azzie Elbub is aided in his plan by his hunchbacked assistant Frike, who proves himself the man for the job by slaying ([[OffstageVillainy off-stage]]) the other applicants for the job. Frike is quite a good Igor, except for his habit of breaking into Azzie's alchemical supplies [[FantasticDrug in order to get drunk or high on them]].
* In ''Literature/CastleHangnail'', the head minion is a scarred old man who's lived and died and been revived and lived again in service of the castle. He's not actually a hunchback, but walks with a habitual stoop that gives the same impression.
* In the ''Literature/{{Dragaera}}'' series, Sethra Lavode's servant Tukko/Chaz (his full name is Dri'Chazik a Tukknaro) comes across as a parody/subversion of this. In the Vlad series, he's described as constantly shaking and walking with a pronounced stoop, but Vlad suspects that this is ObfuscatingStupidity and ObfuscatingDisability because despite his seeming infirmity, he never spills food or drink. This reading is supported in the prequel books in which he is revealed to be a famous wizard.
* In ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'', Onimi is the Igor to Supreme Overlord Shimrra, the leader of the Yuuzhan Vong. [[spoiler:The very last book reveals however, that Onimi is actually the mastermind behind the Yuuzhan Vong invasion and that Shimrra was actually a puppet being telepathically controlled by Onimi.]]
* In ''Literature/SonicTheHedgehogInRobotniksLaboratory'' Robotnik has built himself a special lab-assistant called Eggor.

* In ''[[Literature/MythAdventures Myth Conceptions]]'', Skeeve poses as a creepy hunchback to scare potential guests away from the inn he and Aahz have been living in. When he later auditions for the Court Wizard job at Possiltum, Aahz adopts the same disguise to pose as Skeeve's assistant, effectively playing TheIgor to Skeeve's "cunning sorcerer".
* Starting in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'', the cowardly Wormtail plays this role to the EvilSorcerer Voldemort.
* In ''Literature/MalazanBookOfTheFallen'', Emancipor Reese serves as faithful manservant to the ThoseTwoBadGuys pairing of [[EvilSorcerer evil sorcerers]] Bauchelain and Korbal Broach. He's not so much loyal to them as completely terrified, and while revealed in his origin story to have began as a seasoned if weedy former soldier, he quickly falls into the shambling part of the equation as he becomes an AddledAddict to dull the horror of his work.
* Rather than your typical hunchback, the lab assistant of the title character of ''Literature/FrannyKStein'' is a dog named Igor who helps her with her experiments even when she doesn't want his assistance. He's not a pure lab, though. He's also part poodle, part Chihuahua, part beagle, part spaniel, part shepherd and part some weasely thing that isn't even a dog.

* Parodied on ''Series/{{SCTV}}'' with actor Woody Tobias, Jr., who actually was an ugly hunchback and thus was confined to this role (named "Bruno") as sidekick to 3-D filmmaker Dr. Tongue, who usually played MadScientist roles. Both were "serious" actors, to the point they attempted a remake of ''Film/MidnightCowboy'' in 3-D, but they didn't have much range...

* On ''Series/BlackBooks'', Bill Bailey turned into an Igor briefly. Complete with lisp and hunch.
* Despite being Topher's assistant on ''{{Series/Dollhouse}}'', Ivy is a complete subversion of this trope being female, quite attractive and anything but slavish in her attitude towards him.
* Andrew on ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' could be said to have been somewhere between this and TheRenfield to Warren.
* ''Series/GilligansIsland'' did two episodes with mad scientist Boris Balinkoff; Both times he had an assistant named Igor, the first time played by a human, the second by a monkey. (Considering the things Balinkoff got up to, it's even possible they were the same character..)
* Both Jesse and Gale act as Igors to "Heisenberg" on ''Series/BreakingBad''.
* Condo to MadScientist Dr Solon in the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E5TheBrainOfMorbius The Brain of Morbius]]".
* Twisted in the ''{{Series/Farscape}}'' episode "DNA Mad Scientist": the MadScientist [=NamTar=]'s female Igor, Kornata, turns out to be the '''original''' scientist, who was disfigured and enslaved by her [[GoneHorriblyWrong rebellious creation]].
* ''Series/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.
* Igor is the name of Grandpa's pet bat in ''Series/TheMunsters'', and considering that he's a MadScientist {{Vampire}}... well...

* In the fan-made TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness gameline ''TabletopGame/GeniusTheTransgression'', Beholden fill this role. Beholden are otherwise ordinary people who see the world exactly as the [[MadScientist Genius]] sees it and thus can handle [[WeirdScience Wonders]] without wrecking them, help build them, and do all sorts of dirty work for their masters. In fact, "Igor" is a slang term for a Beholden. It's not very pleasant being one. Beholden lose their ability to form any beliefs or meaningful opinions beyond copying those of a Genius (although [[TheDogBitesBack they can break free]] in certain circumstances), and if they're without a master for too long, they either go mad or die. They also have a tendency to experience a Breakthrough in certain conditions and become a Genius themselves.
** Fan made game ''TabletopGame/HunchbackTheLurching'' is basically about playing as one of these. You have been inflicted by a supernatural mutation that grants you power, but deforms you and generally makes your life hell. Hunchbacks are drawn to serve a master, who is often a scientist and/or a Genius (the hunchback hopes that they will find a way to remove the mutation).
* ''TabletopGame/MyLifeWithMaster'' casts all the players as the lackeys of a cruel Master, usually some variety of MadScientist or EvilOverlord. The object is to build connections with the Townspeople in order to work up the nerve to defy the Master and kill them.

* In fitting with the setting's Blue-aligned alchemically created zombies, modeled in the vein of Frankenstein's Monster, ''[[TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering Innistrad]]'' also contains references to the mad geniuses who create them, and the assistants who... assist. Two are mentioned directly, [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=221171 Deranged Assistant]] and [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=220631 Stitcher's Apprentice]], the latter of whom is name-checked in the flavor text of [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=227287 Rooftop Storm]], which is a direct Frankenstein reference (and also calls back the Assistant's gripe about the way orders are barked at him).

* Toad plays the Igor role to Magneto in early ''Comicbook/XMen'' comics.
* In ''LittleGloomy'', MadScientist and jilted boyfriend Simon von Simon employs the hunchback Boris as his assistant. Boris, however, bears no real allegiance to Simon and only works for him because, as a hunchback, he doesn't have any other job opportunities. Boris is also somewhat explicitly much more sensible if not in fact smarter than Simon.
* Grimer from ''ComicBook/SonicTheComic'' is an exemplary Mad Doctor's Assistant to BigBad Dr. Robotnik. As well as the usual Igor traits (hideous goblin-like appearance, frail build, intense loyalty, referring to his boss as "Master", etc) he was also something of a HypercompetentSidekick, being the primary designer of many of Robotnik's most dangerous war machines and personally coming to Robotnik's rescue on several occasions. His finest moment came when he was jailed after Robotnik was apparently destroyed by the Chaos Emeralds, where he proved he was a [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative]] ChessMaster and managed to manipulate the heroes easily from his prison and save his master.
** The American Comicbook/SonicTheHedgehog comics had Snively in this role during his early appearances. He's still a toady nowadays, but after 16 years he's grown to hate his job a bit. Sniv has come to rely on being a DeadpanSnarker as his chief coping mechanism. It seems to work decently enough.
* [[GadgeteerGenius Gina]] from ''ComicBook/GoldDigger'' teases her sister Britanny by referring to her as her Igor.
* During the ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', Psycho Pirate was this to the Anti-Monitor.

* ''{{Godland}}'' features Eghad, the simple assistant to criminal mastermind Friedrich Nickelhead. Eghad's intelligence is extremely lacking, and he knows little but undying loyalty to his master. Unusually for this trope, he's also Nickelhead's bodyguard and packs a frankly ridiculous amount of power in his tiny frame. Also somewhat uniquely, Nickelhead isn't cruel to Eghad -- likely because he himself was a servant once.

* Fireshade from [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/49113/researcher-twilight Researcher Twilight]] is initially the assistant of Grand Magus Arcana, who she hates, before working for Twilight, at no point does she question Twilights SanitySlippage and transformation into a MadScientist. Twilight just tells her what to do and she does it.

* The Genie in Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{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]].

* Parodied in ''Film/YoungFrankenstein'' by Marty Feldman as "Igor" ([[ItIsPronouncedTroPAY pronounced "Eye-gore"]]). He doesn't seem to realize he has a hump.
* Riff-Raff of ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'' is a parody Igor.
* In ''Flesh Gordon and the Cosmic [[AllGuysWantCheerleaders Cheerleaders]]'', Emperor Wang has an Igor-like MadScientist henchman named Bator. Bator actually has his own underlings, but doesn't like them to address him as "Master" ("That's ''Mister'' Bator!") for [[StealthPun obvious reasons]].
* Igor appears in ''Film/VanHelsing'', which is a riff on all the old Universal monster movies.

* Paul "Dibbs" Plutzker of 1995 film: ''Film/{{Casper}}'', played by Creator/EricIdle.
* Both films of ''Film/CountYorga'' had Brudah, a deformed shambling man who serves as the Count extremely tough servant. He has been showed to defy his master once though [[spoiler:in the first movie, where he rapes the damsel after Yorga controls her to come to his mansion during the daytime. He is later seen shameful of the act and begs Yorga to forgive him]].
* Dracula of ''Film/TheMonsterSquad'' tries to use Frankenstein's Monster as one of these, ordering him to retrieve Van Helsing's diary. He's quickly won over by Phoebe, the youngest of the eponymous crew, and turns against his master.
* Pavel, played by Ted Raimi, serves as the Igor in Creator/BruceCampbell's ''Film/ManWithTheScreamingBrain''. He collects a lot of corpses over the course of the film.
* In ''Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex'', there is a segment with a ''Film/{{Frankenstein|1931}}'' parody. The deformed assistant of the mad scientist is even named "Igor".
* ''Film/BackToTheFuture'''s Marty [=McFly=] meets the "short, loyal lab assistant to a MadScientist" criteria, but is a reasonably well-adjusted teenager whose relationship with the Doc is less "subservient toady" and more "frequent rescuer of his BigBrotherMentor."

* Krull of ''Film/MrSardonicus'' is more well-spoken and normal looking than your typical Igor, but is still a good fit. He's Sardonicus' main servant/doer of dirty work, and has a deformity in having an eye missing (because Sardonicus [[EyeScream ripped it out]]). While Sardonicus is the more villainous of the two, Krull is shown to be fairly sadistic himself, and ultimately gets revenge in a cruel TheDogBitesBack moment.

* There's a moment in ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheTwoTowers'' where Creator/BradDourif as Grima looks to be playing this off of Chris Lee's Saruman -- Lorre-ish bug-eyes and all.

* Boris, the [[NonStandardCharacterDesign inexplicably out of place]] limping hunchbacked medieval hangman in ''Film/BlazingSaddles''. What exactly a medieval hangman is doing in a ''Western'' can be attributed to RuleOfFunny. He later shows up in ''Film/RobinHoodMenInTights'', where he fits the aesthetic somewhat better.
* ''Film/SpidersIIBreedingGround'': Dr. Grbac's shifty-looking assistant, though not hunchbacked, certainly fits this archetype in his toady mannerisms.

* ''Film/RogueOne'' reveals that Darth Vader has one at his evil castle on [[LethalLavaland Mustafar]].
* In ''Film/FrankensteinsCastleOfFreaks'', Count Frankenstein has several assistants: the sycophantic Hans, the hunchback Gregor, and the DepravedDwarf Genz.
* ''Film/MonsterMash1995'', like the classic song of the same name it was partially based on, featured a hunchback assistant named Igor who was subserviant to Dr. Frankenstein.
* In ''Film/FrankensteinIsland'', shipwrecked sailor Clay has taken on the role of Sheila Frankenstein's dogsbody; presumably to make himself useful so she does not use him for her experiments. He commands the zombie guards, takes the blood from Jason, kidnaps women and procures animals for her experiments, etc.
* ''Film/{{Blackenstein}}'': Although normal looking, the monotone Malcolm fulfills this role for Dr. Stein. He falls in love with Eddie's fiancee Winifred and sabotages Stein's attempt to cure Eddie, so he can have Winifred for himself.
* In ''Film/TheFreakmaker'', the hulking Lynch assists Prof. Noller in his experiments, and supplies experimental subjects by abducting girls and bringing them to Nolter's lab, [[WorkingForABodyUpgrade in exchange for Nolter curing his physical deformities]].