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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.

Ax-Crazy: Griffin can become murderously psychotic when agitated.which doesn't take much.

Wells himself studied optics at some point in his life the subject later comes up in The Time Machine.

Author Appeal: Griffin's invisibility came about not only through chemistry, but also through experiments with light and optics.

Agony of the Feet: The people trying to catch Griffin try setting a trap by putting glass powder on the ground, because they know he is barefoot.

Abusive Offspring: Griffin stole money from his own father and drove him to take his own life.

A second film adaptation, starring Oliver Jackson-Cohen in the title role, was released in 2020. In 2017, Big Finish released a full-cast Audio Adaptation boasting Sir John Hurt in the title role, and it was released only a few weeks after his death. The BBC did a relatively faithful adaptation as a miniseries in 1984. The most famous is the film version by Universal in 1933 starring Claude Rains.

Like many classic works it's been adapted into other media many times. Frustrated by the inquisitive nature of the locals, the man goes into a rage, tears away his bandages, and reveals to the people that he is in fact completely invisible.įrom this point on, the story follows the invisible man's trail of destruction and terror across the land as he attempts to either find a cure for his condition or take over the country (whichever is more likely). The townspeople grow ever curious at the secretive, dangerously short-tempered man and his experiments. The Invisible Man tells the story of an encounter the people of a sleepy English town have with a mysterious newcomer who conceals himself entirely with bandages. Not to be confused with the 1951 novel Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. Wells, Trope Codifier for many Invisibility tropes. The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance is an 1897 novel by H.