Groin Attack: When fleeing Kemp's house, Griffin gives Colonel Adye a good kick to the nuts (while simultaneously choking him and knocking him down the stairs!).And apparently he had to get a lot of his stuff on the fly, since, aside from a rack of test tubes and a laboratory-grade scale, most of the stuff he's using is repurposed from more conventional household items including salad oil bottles. Hall nuts with how much chemistry equipment he sees fit to fill his room at their inn with. Gratuitous Laboratory Flasks: Griffins orders a crap ton of lab equipment to fill his room at the inn with, in a chapter appropriately titled "The Thousand and One Bottles", wherein Griffin drives Mr.Hall calls her husband "Gearge" (George). Funetik Aksent: Many of the characters' accents are written phonetically.Evil-Detecting Dog: When Griffin's packages arrive at the Coach and Horses, the cart driver's dog bites Griffin.However, several pages have been washed and Marvel has no understanding of advanced scientific formulas or Latin, so it is unlikely anything will come from this. On his days off, he locks himself in his study and reads the notebooks which are still in his possession, with the intent of one day replicating Griffin's work. Thomas Marvel keeps the money that Griffin stole and uses it to open his own inn. Eagle Land: Somewhat interestingly, the only customer in the Jolly Cricketers who carries a personal firearm is a visiting American.Driven to Suicide: Griffin's father, after Griffin stole money from him to fund his work.Dramatic Irony: In one scene, Marvel is told by two strangers about the Invisible Man and his exploits.unaware that Marvel has been indeed forced into servitude by the man, who is standing beside him.When he runs away while they're fighting Griffin, "the second policeman's opinion of Kemp was terse and vivid." To be entirely fair to Kemp, he's actually trying to lure Griffin away into a trap (and besides which, the policeman might feel differently if he was the special target of a crazed invisible assassin). Dirty Coward: Kemp, at least according to one of the constables assigned to protect him.Dies Wide Open: Griffin dies like this.Didn't Think This Through: Griffin worked so hard to achieve invisibility, he never bothered to plan for the downsides of it.Culturally Sensitive Adaptation: The 1984 Soviet film adaptation completely turns the tables compared to the original, making Griffin a humble Tragic Hero and Kemp a greedy villain.Conspicuous Gloves: Gloves, together with the bandages, are the most conspicuous parts of Griffin's disguise.Take a drink every time we hear about his "imprecations." Cluster F-Bomb: Wells makes it as clear as he could at the time that Griffin has an absolutely filthy mouth.By the Lights of Their Eyes: A variant: when Griffin makes a cat invisible, the process doesn't work on the tapetum lucidum, so the cat appears to be a pair of glowing eyes floating around.They run away giggling and singing annoying songs whenever he wheels upon them angrily. Bratty Half-Pint: Several of these are prone to teasing Griffin during his infrequent walks around town.Blessed with Suck: Griffin quickly discovers invisibility ain't all its cracked up to be. ![]() ![]() Bandaged Face: Trope Codifier, if not Maker.An entire Angry Mob of Badass Bystanders assists Kemp in killing Griffin at the end.Two constables manage to go toe to toe with Griffin and successfully drive him off (despite him being armed with a gun and an axe!).The bartender and customers at the Jolly Cricketers, who shelter a fleeing Marvel and save him from Griffin's wrath.Badass Bystander: Several supporting characters actually prove to be quite resourceful, brave and dependable throughout the novel.An Axe to Grind: At one point, Griffin fights a pair of constables with an axe. ![]()
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