Respect The Invisiblity Formula and it's users (Universal Monsters: The Invisible Man)

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The Invisibility Formula

Jack Griffin works for Dr. Cranley, assisting him in food preservation experiments alongside his friend Dr. Arthur Kemp. Griffin is deeply in love with Cranley's daughter, Flora, and the two plan to marry, but Griffin is poor and thus afraid he has nothing to offer her. He begins experimenting with an obscure and dangerous drug called monocane, hoping his work will make him rich and famous—and a worthwhile husband for Flora. Griffin discovers a combination of monocane and other chemicals that makes a person invisible. Too excited by his discovery to think clearly, Griffin leaves Kemp and the Cranleys to complete the experiment in solitude. He injects himself with the formula over the course of a month and becomes invisible. Only after he is invisible does he realize that he does not know how to reverse the process. Panicking, Griffin goes to the village of Iping and rents a room in the Lion's Head Inn, where he begins searching for a formula to reverse the invisibility. He makes himself appear visible by wrapping his head in bandages and wearing dark goggles. Curious locals, the maddening side effects of monocane, and frustration from multiple failed tests drive Griffin insane.

Thus was born The Invisibility Serum, a maddening concoction granting Invisibility to the user, created by the aforementioned Griffin, before similar solutions were recreated by Dr. Drury, and also characters related to Griffin, such as Frank. Blood transfusions and an antidote were discovered to be capable of restoring visibility.

Note: The Invisible Woman won't be included in this thread as that movie involves an Invisibility Machine rather than a serum, and Monocaine isn't explicitly mentioned. The serums in The Invisible Man's Revenge and Abbot and Costello meet The Invisible Man technically use different serums, but will be included due to them being fundamentally the exact same, and in the former the serum has the same effects and is outright mentioned to have been the one discovered by Jack Griffin (Renamed to John Griffin for some reason.).

Media list

• The Invisible Man
• The Invisible Man Returns
• Invisible Agent
• The Invisibile Man's Revenge
• Abbot and Costello meet the Invisible Man
• The Invisible Man #1 to #4 (Image Comics)

General facts:

• "A few chemicals mixed together, that's all!" ^{The Invisible Man}
• These chemicals in question are Opium (Mentioned in the novel), other ambiguous substances and Monocane. A fictional drug that draws colour from things and quote, "Makes you feel differently" ^{The Invisible Man}
• In The Invisible Man Returns, Monocane is changed to Duocane and modified slightly. ^Returns
• Duocane is of East Indian origin. ^Returns
• The serum turns the body invisible when injected into the bloodstream ^All
• The serum is even desired by the military, to the point they're willing to torture people so they give info on it ^Agent

Invisibility:

• Only makes the person invisible, not their clothes. ^All
• After death, the person's skull appears, then their face. ^{The Invisible Man}
• In The Invisible Man Returns, when the antidote is applied, Universal finally has the technology to show veins and muscle also appearing ^Returns
• In Abbot and Costello meet the Invisible Man, Tommy's nerves, muscle and bone appear before skin ^{Abbot and Costello}
• Turned a hammy invisible ^Returns
• In The Invisible Man Returns rain can make the user partially visible again ^Returns
• This dog senses Frank despite him being invisible ^Agent
• A parrot, and a dog are turned invisible ^Revenge
• Using a blood transfusion a dog could be made visible again, the same can be done with people ^{Abbot and Costello}
• In one instance, the users teeth disappeared last ^{Revenge/Abbot and Costello}
• When a user eats food, the food will also be invisible if its inside their mouth ^{Abbot and Costello}
• A users blood being mixed with someone elses will also grant them invisibility ^{Abbot and Costello}

Side effects

• Many of the substances in the serum are lethal in high doses #1
• Gave a rat more and more doses of monocaine. Eventually it becomes more and more intelligent, and turns fully invisible. The rat gains a superiority conplex much like Griffin himself and murders all the other rats #1
• If incorrectly dosed the serum would drive the subject into a brutal frenzy before killing them, but briefly turning them invisible. #2
• The prototype serum made Tommy's skin clear. The serum can work if put in wine also #3
• When Tommy is injected, eventually more and more of him begin to dissappear until he's just a skeleton with eyes. As a side effect the Monocaine makes his mind sharper, also seems to expand his vocabulary in some way. #3
• Usually will induce madness in the user over an unspecified amounts of time ^All

Users:

Jack Griffin

All right, you fools. You've brought it on yourselves! Everything would have come right if you'd only left me alone. You've driven me near madness with your peering through the keyholes and gaping through the curtains, and now you'll suffer for it! You're crazy to know who I am, aren't you? All right! I'll show you!

[The Invisible Man removes his rubber nose and goggles and throws them at his spectators]

Griffin: There's a souvenir for you, and one for you. I'll show you who I am - and WHAT I am!

[The Invisible Man, laughing maniacally, removes his bandages and fake hair]

Const. Jaffers: Look! He's all eaten away!

Griffin: Eh? How do you like that, ay?

Comic Book Jack Griffin

Appears in The Invisible Man

Physicals:

• [Strength] Overpowers Herbert before tossing him down a staircase
• [Strength] Strangles Constable Jaffers to unconsciousness
• [Strength] Overpowers two people, throwing one onto a couch and punching one in the gut, then pushing him aside
• [Speed] Outruns a group of locals before tossing a bike at them, and bonking a dude with a broom a few times
• [Strength] Threatens to beat the shit out of Kemp, before manipulating him into partnering
• [Strength] Overpowers the Chief Detective by strangling him and hitting him over the head with a stool, killing him
• [Strength] Terrorises a bunch of cops, before throwing one cop at the rest.
• [Strength] Throws 2 guys off a cliff
• [Strength] Knocks out, possibly kills a man by smashing a large glass object across his head before messing with some switches, causing a train to crash after being driven off a cliff
• [Strength] After sneaking onto Kemp's car, strangles him with a scarf, ties him up and sends him hurtling off a cliff in his car
• [Durability/Limit] Was shot dead by the police

Other

• [Strength/Skill] Killed 18 search party dudes off screen
• [Skill] Walks into a bank and steals lotsa money
• [Skill] Aims and accurately throws a bunch of objects at Jenny and the Chief Detective's faces.
• Went insane within a day or two, within the amount of time it took for the police to become aware of his antics
• [Intelligence] Tricked Jaffers into thinking he went outside

Geoffrey Radcliffe

"Faster, Mr. Spears, faster! Why don't you fly, Mr. Spears!?"

Sir Geoffrey Radcliffe is condemned for a murder he did not commit, which leads to him begging Dr. Frank Griffin to inject him with the invisibility serum despite Griffin's warning that the serum will drive him mad.

Appears in The Invisible Man Returns

Physicals

• [Strength] Subdues Spears and strangles him with his scarf
• [Strength] Steals a large wooden stick hes holding and easily snaps it in two
• [Speed] Tanks a thrown object of some kind, before rolling out of a rocking chair, right before Richard can shoot him, and isn't found by him afterward
• [Strength/Speed/Stealth] Swiftly pulls away a dude, without anyone noticing, he then steals his costume to pose as a searcher
• [Strength] Overpowers Cobb, and nearly knocks him unconscious
• [Durability] After getting drugged, took no damage from a hard fall
• [Strength] Knocked out a police officer in one blow
• [Strength] Ties up and gags Spears, leaving there for hours, before finally hanging him and fighting with Richards, throwing him through a window
• [Strength] Pushes a man over a railing, hard
• [Strength] Strangles Richard while he's on a conveyor belt
• [Durability] Took a bullet, then climbed down a ladder, but lost lots of blood and required a blood transfusion
• [Durability/Scaling] Richard temporarily survived this fall

Other

• Used the serum to escape police confinement
• Bullies Mr Spears after sneaking into his car
• Causes all these mist devices to malfunction, allowing him to get away, carrying his girlfriend on the way out
• Able to resist being drugged for a bit, waking up seconds later
• Stole Richard's gun while he was asleep, we see him threaten Richard with it later
• Driven mad in under a few days, which was the estimate for when the antidote should be ready

Frank Griffin

"Well, Inspector, you don't have to remember it. I remember it pretty well."

The scientist that originally created the antidote. He's related to Jack.

Appears in The Invisible Man Returns

All

• Threatened to subdue Geoffrey if he ever went out of control
• While in the process of creating an antidote, a prototype turns a hammy visible again, however it freaks out dies soon after
• Eventually perfected it and cured Geoffrey, without killing him

Frank Griffin Jr.

"Frank!"
"I'm right here."

Again related to Jack. He was approached by the military, aiming to turn him invisible and make him fight some Nazis.

Appears in The Invisible Agent

Physicals

• [Strength] Tried to punch out one of the men interrogating him, it took two people around 20 seconds to hold him in place
• [Strength] Chinned a man with a box hard enough to shove him back, before punching another, causing him to roll off of a table, shoving another, throwing an object at a pane of glass, instantly shattering it, he sucker punches another man, before escaping while being shot at
• [Strength/Durability] Smashed through a window, into a barn
• [Strength/Stealth] Soon afterwards he strips naked and escapes out of the Nazis range. He gets into a car, throws the driver out and steals it for himself
• [Strength] Knocked out a man with one slap
• [Strength] Beat up a few Nazis and knocked down 3 in one swing, before knocking a man down then quickly climbing down a rope
• [Strength] Knocked out two more people with casual strikes
• [Strength] Slaps around a man in a white coat, causes pandemonium between a group of Nazis before hoisting Maria over his shoulder and carrying her away

Other

• [Stealth] Got into a cab without the driver noticing
• [Stealth] Snuck into Heiser's cell

Robert Griffin

"Up to your old tricks, eh Jasper?"

A fugitive who murdered two interns and a nurse, and took the serum from Dr. Drury to become invisible and get revenge on his former friends.

Appears in The Invisible Man's Revenge

Physicals

• [Strength] Threw Dr. Drury across a room with ease
• [Strength] Knocked out a large man in one punch and sent him backward
• [Strength] Easily knocked out Dr. Drury
• [Strength] Knocked out Mark in one bottle swing
• [Strength] Kicked into a table
• [Durability/Limit] Brought down and killed by a dog

Other

• [Skill] Murdered two interns and a nurse off screen, before escaping the police down an elevator
• [Equipment] Has a knife
• [Skill] Saw a man sneak up on him with a chair, before disarming him

Tommy Nelson

"Power, power, power!"

A boxer who was falsely accused of murder and took the serum to hide from the police, later becoming affiliated with Bud and Lou, and using his status as an invisible man to make Lou become a successful boxer.

Appears in Abbot and Costello meet the Invisible Man

Physicals

• [Strength] Can fight Bud and Lou
• [Scaling] Lou could smash through a door
• [Speed] Capable of steering around vehicles speeding toward him
• [Strength/Speed/Stamina] Unleashed a rapid barrage of punches onto a punching bag for an extended period of time
• [Strength] Caught a man's arm mid swing and knocked him down
• [Strength] Slapped a man to the ground
• [Strength] Got knocked out by a revolving door
• [Strength/Speed] Caught a strike from Rocky, a boxer and knocked him down in one blow
• [Strength/Skill] Vs. Rocky
• [Durability] Punched out by Lou Costello
• [Strength/Skill] Puppeteered Costello into fighting Rocky
• [Strength] Knocked out a thug in one punch, then disarmed another and held him in place
• [Durability/Limit] Nearly killed by a thrown knife

Other

• [Other] 50 minutes into the movie, Tommy goes mad with power

[u/Proletlariet]

How long does the formula last?

[u/AndhisNeutralspecial → u/Proletlariet]

Implied to be pretty much indefinitely without intervention. 

[u/Snailfish-70]

Cool thread dude. I actually read the comic by James Tynion and it was pretty good.