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Some of you may recognize the photo above. Today (or yesterday depending on when you're reading this) I went out and asked if people knew who the character was in the picture. 65 out of 93 people said "Frankenstein". That means 65 out of 93 people got the answer wrong. The answer that the remaining 28 people said, was that this was Frankenstein//’s monster//. Doctor Frankenstein is nowhere to be seen in this picture. And this is what I’ve chosen to Muckrake about. The mistake of that both people and pop-culture make by confusing Victor Frankenstein and his creation. The monster was never given a name. Now for those of you that had thought wrong all these years, don’t beat yourselves up like I know you are. The 70% of people that got it wrong consisted of students from freshmen to seniors, even two teachers. This is a worldwide epidemic. One person I asked gave the defense “well on Scooby-Doo they called him Frankenstein.” Well I’m sorry Scooby-Doo lied to you, but this is the main reason this is going on. Ever since the movie //Bride of Frankenstein,// popular culture has been using the name Frankenstein like one third of you have been using Frankenstein. The worst is the movie //I Frankenstein//. No, you not Frankenstein. I would love to watch a movie about Gene Wilder beating up a bunch of demons, but sadly, the title is misleading. Even my comic books make this mistake. Not all comic books, I do have an issue of //Criminal Macabre// that has Frankenstein’s monster and it explains that he doesn’t have a name. But D.C. has a series called F.R.A.N.K.E.N.S.T.E.I.N that has the creature as some government agent or something. It was a terrible series, I stopped at issue two. So, to recap, a lot of people refer to Frankenstein’s monster as Frankenstein, this is incorrect, Popular culture is one of the main causes for this. Thank you, and in the words of Frankenstein’s monster, “Fire bad.”