Not only is the stereotypical depiction of ‘The Monster’ as a dumb brute…
But also like… he’s very slow physically, lumbering like a barely animate oaf, just strong, like a big dumb orc.
Meanwhile, in the book… he’s practically Superman.
He just accidentally finds out he can lift boulders single handedly,
“I found a huge rock, which I could lift with one hand."
… he can easily outrun pursuers on foot,
“I fled through a long and winding path, my feet scarcely touching the ground.”
… he basically just runs away into the fucking Alps, just starts climbing cliff faces; no gear, can withstand the wind and cold basically fine:
"I climbed a rocky mountain, over which I had never passed before; my strength was renewed as I ascended.”
Yeah, Link, in BotW?
His stamina meter depletes as he climbs a cliff.
“The monster”?
His stamina recharges from climbing fucking mountains.
The last time he is seen, he jumps out of the cabin window of a large ship, surrounded by icebergs, in the fucking Arctic Ocean, lands on something like a small raft or ice chunk, and then just… disappears into the distance.
Can you jump 20 feet down, stick the landing on a fucking ice chunk, and then just… stand there, as you drift away toward your own post final monologue, self imposed suicide?
… And that’s after he’s been being pursued by this ship for like weeks, as he is apparently just actually hopping, running and leaping between icebergs, or something like that.
~120 years before Superman and the Fortress of Solitude.
…lights a cigarette and casually french-inhales…
[inhales in French]
And he learned French by living in a coal shed and eavesdropping on a French family who had been forced to flee France. And then the gorgeous Arabian woman shows up with servants in tow.
Posted this a few weeks ago after my first read. That book is nuts!
what does the shocked french vampire say?
sacre bleh
That book is bone-chilling scary. I couldn’t get past him running around the woods and I had to put it away. It’s similar to The Standing, but I could finish The Standing.
Actually acknowledges fear from reading. Kudos.
The new Frankenstein movie slaps though ngl and it definitely doesn’t fall into this trope.
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Casual French bashing
Replacing French in that sentence by Arabic, Hindi or Chinese would probably show that post in a different light.
Awww, is the colonial language upset that it doesn’t get the same protections as languages it tried to enslave or obliterate?
Shitting on French is punching up, shitting on those languages would be punching down.
They listed Arabic, so your comment does not hold true.
Buddy I think the French will be okay, but thanks for the extra laugh seriously
And it wouldnt make sense.
Frenchman detected, hide your cigarettes
Its okay to be racist against French German Italian English Japanese and american¹ cultures, and cultural appropriation against them doesnt count.
You know, because they exported their cultures at gunpoint and did all those imperialist atrocities.
¹white only. Fucking with indigenous people or African Americans not cool
