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Igor, also known as the Assistant, is a character on ABC's Once Upon a Time. He débuts in the fifth episode of the second season and is portrayed by co-star Yurij Kis.
Igor is based on the stock character lab assistant of the same name from popular culture.
History
Before the Curse
Igor carries a box up the stairs in Victor Frankenstein's laboratory in his family's summer home. While he is away, Rumplestiltskin appears to Victor and offers him gold. When Igor returns, Rumplestiltskin is gone. After the death of Gerhardt, Igor assists Victor in his experiments. ("In the Name of the Brother")
In his castle in his world, Victor Frankenstein enters and comes upon Igor and a body on the table, covered with a sheet. He tells Igor he got what he went for and pulls out the heart, glowing red. He then proceeds to insert the heart as lightning streaks down from the sky, and he and Igor wait to see if the heart transplant was a success. Suddenly, a stitched hand comes out from beneath the sheet. Frankenstein grabs it and states that it is alive. Igor states it is magic, but Frankenstein responds that it is science. ("The Doctor")
Trivia
Popular Culture
- There is no character named Igor in the Frankenstein novel, nor does Dr. Frankenstein have any sort of lab assistant in the original story.[1] The idea of Frankenstein having an assistant originates in Richard Brinsley Peake's 1823 stage adaption Presumption; or, the Fate of Frankenstein.[2]
Appearances
| Once Upon a Time: Season Two | ||||||||||
| "Broken": | "We Are Both": | "Lady of the Lake": | "The Crocodile": | "The Doctor": | "Tallahassee": | "Child of the Moon": | "Into the Deep": | "Queen of Hearts": | "The Cricket Game": | "The Outsider": |
| Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Appears | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
| "In the Name of the Brother": | "Tiny": | "Manhattan": | "The Queen Is Dead": | "The Miller's Daughter": | "Welcome to Storybrooke": | "Selfless, Brave and True": | "Lacey": | "The Evil Queen": | "Second Star to the Right": | "And Straight On 'Til Morning": |
| Appears | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
References
- ↑ D'Angelo, Mike (November 24, 2015). Victor Frankenstein and his loyal assistant Igor get a boring revisionist remake. The A.V. Club. “There is no character named Igor in Mary Shelley's novel, however, nor does Victor Frankenstein have any sort of lab assistant, hunchbacked or otherwise.”
- ↑ Was the Assistant in Frankenstein Really Named Igor?. Entertainment Legends Revealed!. Retrieved on September 5, 2018. “The assistant character does not appear in Mary Shelley’s original novel, but first popped up in a stage adaptation a decade or so after the novel, Presumption: or the Fate of Frankenstein by Richard Brinsley Peake.”