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From Castlevania gamebook.
Doctor Frankenstein is shown in the background.
is a character created by Mary Shelley in 1818, in her famous book "
Frankenstein". He's a medical student from Genève who researched life and how to create it. He went into graveyards to exhume corpses and create an artificial creature with them. He stole a brain from a laboratory. His creation is known as
The Creature, who is a recurrent boss in the
Castlevania series. He is often misunderstood to be
Doctor Victor (or
Victor Von)
Frankenstein.
Doctor Frankenstein does not make any appearances in the Castlevania games, but he (or someone who takes a similar role) does appear in the the gamebook Akumajo Dracula: Kojyo no Shitou.
The Creature, in Castlevania: Dracula X Chronicles.
