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Did you know that between 2002 and 2017 spider-man's origin story will

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have been retold on the silver screen three times why because people are super [spiderman movie shown behind a red curtain]

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into origin stories well maybe people just love insect related superheroes all

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right well either way people love origin stories and Frankenstein gives you an [i love origin stories sign]

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extra bang for your buck not only do we get the origin story of the monster we

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also get loads about the origin of Victor Frankenstein a doctor who created

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him himself unfortunately it tells us very little about any super-powered [boy dressed as spiderman in a library]

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insects that may have been crawling around at the time hope you're not too

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disappointed so the book starts out with Victor Frankenstein starving exhausted [Victor Frankenstein in bed and hungry]

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and ill he's just about ready to kick the bucket except his legs are probably

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too weak to do any kicking at all so maybe he'll love feebly blow in the

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bucket still he's more than happy to tell a long novel-ank story which he begins [Victor telling a long story]

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way back when he was kid well he had a generally happy childhood though a

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slightly odd one since his parents adopted a girl named Elizabeth to be [Victor Frankenstein and his parents with adopted girl Elizabeth]

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Vic's future wife things started to go bad once Victor becomes a teenager and

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Elizabeth catches scarlet fever well Victor's mother successfully nurses [Elizabeth in bed with scarlet fever and Victor's Mum walks in]

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Elizabeth back to help but the mother catches the disease and dies.. Well weeks

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later a 17 year old victor goes off to study at a university called Ingolstadt

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he studies science and gets really really really into it like weirdly into [Victor studying in a library at Ingolstadt]

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it he becomes obsessed with figuring out how to make non-living things alive and

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you know as you do decide to make a new race of creatures assembled from pieces [Victor reading a book in a room with stacks of books]

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of corpses well he could have joined the school newspaper which requires very

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little interaction with corpses but no of course you can't just pick up free [Victor in the cafeteria and dead bodies appear]

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dead bodies in the cafeteria or the student union so Victor digs them up

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late at night finally on a predictably dark and stormy night Victor manages to

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bring the stitched up bits of corpses to life but horror of horrors the monster [Victor unveils a stitched up corpse to life]

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is ugly and Victor fleas we're not sure what he was expecting to make matters

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worse soon afterwards Victor catches a bad fever but luckily his good buddy

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Henry who has come to study at Ingolstadt [Henry nursing Victor]

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is around to nurse him back to health over the course of multiple months. We

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hope Vic gave Henry a thank-you for all his troubles preferably nothing that [Victor thanking Henry for nursing him]

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used corpse pieces though. After he's recovered Victor gets a letter from his

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Dad telling him that his little brother William has been murdered and he returns [Victor receives a letter from his Dad]

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home to Geneva to grieve not stake his brother's corpse for experimentation

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just want to be clear on that.. unfortunately he arrives at Geneva very [Victor arrives at the gates in Geneva at night]

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late and the gates of the city are closed for the night which is a thing

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that cities used to do when late night tourism was out and locked gates were in

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with nothing to do Victor wanders around in the woods near where his brother was [Victor walking around the misty woods]

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killed and who should he see but of course yes, his monster because hey, even

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monsters enjoy nature walks at night back in Geneva no one knows anything

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about this monster and Justine a servant for Victor's family is accused of the [Victor talking to Justine in the street]

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murder even though she's innocent she confesses out of a fear of going to hell

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she is executed which is horrible for Justine but also pretty bad for Victor

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because he feels guilty that his monster probably killed his brother and by not

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speaking up while he basically just killed Justine yep we'd say it was [Victor feeling guilty for not owning up about his monster killing his brother]

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probably a worst week for Justine but that's just us alright with that we have

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the origins of both Victor and his monster and it all happened without even

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one radioactive spider bite yeah [radioactive symbol beside a big spider]

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