LIVE POLL: So? You're Frankenstein's Monster Now.

Thanks. The text has been appropriately edited.

But, you're addressing the structure of the critically adored and widely loved Mary Shelly novel. And most of these (objectively terrible) movies are loose adaptations at best. Some barely qualify at that. Make of it what you will. They fly really far as away from the source material. They're the Caroline Island of Frankenstein stories to Mary Shelly's Switzerland

Eight of the films listed have the character listed as Dr. Frankenstein.

Frankenstein Island (1981)

Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971)

Frankenstein General Hospital (1988)

Frankenstein 2000 (1992)

Frankenstein '80 (1972)

Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein (1972)

Frankenstein's Daughter (1958)

La maldición de Frankenstein (1973)

Which is also why I have it written thusly, "Dr. Frankenstein (or a similar counterpart)" to address the others.

Hi, Mihailo Razvigor. To the best of my recollection, in Mary Wollstonecraft Shelleys novel, Victor Frankenstein is not a doctor of any kind. He is a graduate student or some kind of pre-doctoral university student but nonetheless a well-connected, privileged, resourceful genius.

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That's what Mihailo Razvigor was pointing out. Though, I'm not sure "graduate student or some kind of pre-doctoral university student" as labels directly applies for medical students in 1817 or earlier (the time the novel was written).

https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/united-states-and-canada/us-history/medical-education

O, yes, I see both of your points now, Stepan and Mihailo. I should've been reading whole rather than scanning sparsely. Hahaha. Yes, the way that some of the movies bastardized the character maybe should be mocked.