Even a man who is pure in heart, and says his prayers by night

May become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms and the moon is full and bright.

Beware... The Wolf Man

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Lawrence 'Larry' Talbot never asked to be a monster. Returning to his Welsh hometown after the death of his brother, one night he encountered a local girl being savaged by a wolf. Attempting to save the girl, he stepped in and beat the creature to death with a silver-tipped cane, but suffered a bite in the process. However, that one attempted good deed would doom Larry forever, for from that night onwards, whenever the full moon shined, Larry became a monstrous wolf-like creature himself - the Wolf Man.

Overtaken by this monstrous new persona, Larry stalked the countryside during nights of the full moon, preying upon the townsfolk until he was eventually stopped by his father, Sir John Talbot, who beat him to death with that same silver tipped cane he had once wielded. However, not even death can stop the werewolf's curse, and when his body was once more exposed to the light of the full moon, he returned to stalk the Earth once more, seeking out anyone who could either remove his affliction or give him the eternal rest he so desperately sought.

Appearances

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• The Wolf Man (1941)
• Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)
• The House of Frankenstein (1944)
• House of Dracula (1945)
• Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein (1948)

Larry Talbot

Physicals

• Beats a werewolf to death with a silver-tipped cane
• Uses a rock to shatter the ice trapping Frankenstein's Monster
• Shoves a man and wrestles three orderlies
• Pushes over a shelving unit full of glassware
• Pulls a block from the wall of Castle Frankenstein
• Pushes down a damaged door
• As a werewolf, Larry heals remarkably swiftly. The bite that infected him was gone by morning
  • This applies to all wounds, not just the one that turned him

Weaponry

• Shoots a man twice with a pistol
• Knows his way around a rifle

The Wolf Man

Werewolf Traits

As a werewolf, Larry has taken on a number of abnormal traits.

• Larry takes on the form of the werewolf upon exposure to the full moon
  • The Wolf Man does not need to be continually exposed to the moon to maintain his transformation, and can keep it up in a cave, but he'll turn back the instant the moon sets
• Larry carries a pentagram on his chest, where he was bitten by the werewolf that turned him
• A werewolf can see the sign of the pentagram in the palm of their next victim
• His presence upsets dogs
• Whomever survives a werewolf's bite shall themselves become a werewolf, and can only be killed by silver
  • Larry is beaten to death with a silver-tipped cane. However, not even death can end the curse of the werewolf, and when Larry is exhumed a few years later by graverobbers and exposed to the moonlight, he returns to life
  • Larry was originally buried with wolfbane, presumably to prevent this
  • Larry is killed by a silver bullet, although as always the curse does not allow him to remain dead
  • Jumps from a cliff in an attempt to kill himself before the curse takes hold, only to be found at the bottom unharmed as the Wolf Man
• Maleva, a gypsy with a lot of knowledge regarding werewolves, is able to briefly return his human form
• According to a doctor who examines him, Larry's changes are the result of pressure on a certain part of his brain and are connected to the moon largely because he believes them to be. This doctor was able to cure Larry by relieving the pressure on his brain, so it seems he has some idea what he's talking about, although it didn't last.

Strength

• Crashes through a door
• Chokes a woman into unconsciousness, although someone else draws his attention before he can finish her off
• Kills a man by biting through his jugular - This is the werewolf's preferred method of killing
  • Ambushes a policeman
• Tears free fom his restraints
• Tears through a straitjacket
• Larry is strapped to a chair prior to transforming, but breaks free offscreen
• Trashes a hotel room
• Takes on Frankenstein's Monster and goes fairly even, although he's clearly the physically weaker of the two
• Stronger than Count Dracula
• Drives back Count Dracula
• Grabs a fleeing Dracula in bat form while leaping from a balcony

Durability

• Shrugs off a bullet
• Shot several times offscreen
• Tossed across the room by Frankenstein's Monster
• Caught in a bear trap
• Is within Castle Frankenstein when it's washed away by a broken dam
  • Frankenstein's Monster and the Wolf Man are caught in the waters and eventually frozen, where they remain for several years until found by a doctor who seeks to continue Frankenstein's work
  • While this was enough to give the Monster serious tissue damage, Larry is completely fine once freed from the ice