> In the book, Frankenstein's monster was the good guy -- he was clever, sensitive and persecuted for his humanity Er, no he wasn't (the good guy. he was cleve

> In the book, Frankenstein's monster was the good guy -- he was clever, sensitive and persecuted for his humanity Er, no he wasn't (the good guy. he was clever etc). He wasn't a villain, per se, but he spends most of the book stalking and threatening Frankenstein so that he'll make a wife for him, and then proceeds to murder Frankenstein's beloved when he doesn't (after, you know, killing a bunch of other people). I'll grant that the monster had a genuine grievance, but he's in no way the good guy. And he's not persecuted for his humanity, either, he's quite literally persecuted for his obvious inhumanity - the whole sequence where he meets the family with the blind grandfather (father?) is explicitly about that. It's also quite a lot like terminator insofar as there's a superhuman unstoppable obsessed force that will never stop chasing you.