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Franken Fran (Manga)
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Franken Fran is a Horror Comedy manga by Kigitsu Katsuhisa. Think Black Jack if you traded most of whatever medical accuracy was still present in Tezuka's manga in favor of Body Horror, Rule of Scary and Black Comedy. And if Black Jack was a female Frankenstein's monster.In a distant, rarely-visited part of Japan, the world's greatest surgeon, Naomitsu Madaraki, once lived in a large, Gothic-style mansion. However, he's been away on research and hasn't come home in ages. Instead, the professor's "daughter", Fran Madaraki, lives there with many of her own ghoulish creations and her "younger sister" Veronica. She's a very unusual girl, what with the stitch patterns on her face and the giant bolts on either side of her head. However, she's just as skilled at surgery as her father, and if you're willing to pay her price, she can do everything up to and including raising the dead.Of course, there's a small caveat to all this. Fran has one, very important rule in her work: "regardless of the shape or form, if it can function as a living organism, it is good." In other words, Fran believes that a life should be saved no matter the cost, and that mindset means that the end result of her surgeries are rarely (if ever) pretty.A mostly episodic series, the manga was serialized in Akita Shoten's Champion Red magazine from September 2006 to February 2012. Seven Seas Entertainment later acquired the English rights, releasing it in an omnibus format from February 2016 to January 2017. A short audio drama adaptation was also released in 2010. In February 2019, a Sequel Series entitled Franken Fran Frantic began serialization, picking up where the original series left off. The author has also written Helen ESP, Meitantei Marnie and Arthur Pyuty wa Yoru no Majo.Not to be confused with Fran Franken, the wife of the junior Senator from Minnesota. | |
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Fair Cop | |
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Fair Cop: Rumiko Kuhou is a cute young policewoman who occasionally runs into Fran and the result of her work. | |
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Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other | |
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Veronica has lots of unpleasant things happen to her. She's constantly used as a guinea pig by Fran (the first time Fran "experimented" on her, she just ripped her apart and left her disemboweled for a month), was bullied when first attending school, Gavrill tears her to pieces in their first fight, and her first real friend dies horribly and Gavrill prevents her from taking them down. The final bonus chapter of the original run even ends with her crying after getting cruelly teased by her sisters, though that is quickly followed by them giving her a hug and apology for going too far. | |
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Anyone Can Die | |
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Anyone Can Die: No matter the species, no matter the gender, no matter the age (even kids and unborn babies), ANYONE can die, and can suffer fates even worse than that if they don't. | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed: The dickish executive from "Antifat Remedy" has a disturbingly odd resemblance with Steve Jobs, so that his name is... Steabe Jocks. | |
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All Men Are Perverts | |
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All Men Are Perverts: Zig-Zagged in one chapter where Fran comes up with a way to make the male students stop hitting on the girls. It seems to work, but then the girls start complaining that the guys are ignoring them completely, leading to the discovery of a room full of a gelatinous mass that emits pheromones causing the guys to see it as a room of naked women, with whom they have sex. | |
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Heroic BSoD | |
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Heroic BSoD: In "The Final Movie", Fran has a bit of one when she is unable to save the actress's life and her last words were about the movie. Fran's response? Make a giant puppet out of her skin to finish the movie. | |
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Expendable Clone | |
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Expendable Clone: Inverted. As long as there's a copy, Fran doesn't care whether it's the original or not. | |
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Little Miss Badass | |
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Little Miss Badass: Veronica looks and acts like a preteen, but is insanely good at tearing threats to shreds, and avoiding other threats. | |
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Artistic License – Biology | |
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Artistic License – Biology: Fran states in "God and Dog" that there's no proof that dogs descended from wolves. Either she neglected to do her research or she's simply discarding it, as dogs and wolves had already been proven to be the same species at the genetic level years before that chapter was published. An issue of Frantic would have a side character correctly note the relation. | |
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Gone Horribly Right | |
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Gone Horribly Right: Boy, howdy. A painter, losing his eyesight to a disease, asks for working eyes and gets to see Cthulhu. Girls complain about the boys being too horny and we find them in the embrace of... God-doesn't-want-to know-what, and it's passed as comedy. | |
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Gone Horribly Wrong | |
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The metamorphosis birth method of "Egg Parturition". In theory, it's really impressive and removes all of the hassle that comes with normal pregnancy, as Fran says. In practice... well, it's easier to protect something when it's inside you. Without a secure, airtight environment ala a womb (or even an egg), you have to put in far more effort into keeping the fetus safe. After all, babies carried in the womb don't have to worry about parasitic wasps laying eggs in them, being fed on by insects or stray animals, or getting squished by careless parents-to-be. One of the squickier chapters, which is saying something. | |
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Visual Pun | |
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Visual Pun: In the very first chapter, Fran is so moved by the client's story of fatherly love that she literally cries her eyes out. | |
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Yaoi Fangirl | |
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Yaoi Fangirl: "Another Country" has Fran meet a classmate who is one of these, and who manages to convert Fran into one. She gets over it by the end of the chapter, but not before her newfound obsession inspires her to develop a special hormone that forces same-sex arousal, which said classmate happily dumps into the local water supply, after which she asks Fran to turn her into a man with a special "BL hole". The classmate then uses what remains of the hormone on themselves, which results in them getting gang-raped by the harem they acquired. The character appears again in a few other chapters, each time getting Fran briefly addicted to a new fetish just long enough to convince to create something that causes that chapter's problem. | |
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Power Limiter | |
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Power Limiter: Gavrill has one that looks like an egg timer built into her head "bolts". It takes a lot of concentration to control her very complex body and it's implied that she would've quickly fallen apart if she lacked the willpower. | |
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Fingore | |
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Fingore: Veronica has tiny needles sticking out of her fingertips for injecting venom. | |
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Artificial Human | |
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Artificial Human: Most of the recurring cast appear to be this. | |
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Harmful Healing | |
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Harmful Healing: Fran will save your life, whether you want her to or not. | |
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Wrong Genre Savvy | |
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Wrong Genre Savvy: Fran often seems to think of herself as a facilitator of happy endings and true love, seemingly unaware of the barrels of horror she deals out anytime she tries to "help" people. The islanders of "Living Dead" immediately assume the revived dead are actually zombies and feel free to start shooting them when it's actually possible for them to be cured. The whole Sentinel arc pretty much runs on how completely misguided everyone that isn't Fran is. | |
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Creepy Cockroach | |
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Creepy Cockroach: They have built a human-like society within Fran's mansion. | |
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Heroic Dog | |
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Heroic Dog: Pudding may have been a dog in the body of an overweight middle-aged man, but that did nothing to prevent him from coming to his master's rescue after she was accosted by some thugs. | |
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Engineered Heroics | |
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Engineered Heroics: Sentinel Vengeance is addicted to doing "good" and constantly cons people so he can appear as a hero as well as vanquish his thirst for revenge on the first two Sentinels. | |
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I'm a Humanitarian | |
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I'm a Humanitarian: In "Unhappy Birthday", a group of party guests unknowingly, well... "Could everyone stop eating, please? You're eating the guest of honor." Cue the synchronized vomiting. Gavrill's favorite snacks are her victims. In Frantic's "Tasty Life", a girl who Fran operated on to give her the sense of taste she lacked from since her birth becomes obsessed with discovering new tastes and ends up devouring her best friend. | |
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Black Comedy | |
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Black Comedy: It's a horror-comedy manga after all; when the humor isn't plain silly, it's this trope. Just look at poor officer Kuhou and the crap she's put through at the expense of a little more of her sanity each time. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: The bomb Fran implanted in Veronica is later used to blow up Gavrill. Even Fran is unconvinced that killed her, and she's proven right. | |
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Your Mind Makes It Real | |
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Your Mind Makes It Real: In "Imaginary Self", Fran injects a teenager with an experimental batch of stem cells that respond to his thoughts, literally making him the man of his dreams. However, they are highly unpredictable, causing the boy to change on a whim. In the end, the boy becomes despondent and mutates into a giant sea squirt. The reason why he became depressed was because the girl he loved had a boyfriend. In the end, it turns out she never did, and Fran gives her a perfume made from the musk of the boy. *sniff* (On the upside, the kid's musk makes his mom rich.) | |
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For Science! | |
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For Science!: Basically Fran's reason for existence, and most of her MO for experiments and research. | |
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Aborted Arc | |
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Aborted Arc: Gavrill's introduction chapter revolves around her nearly successful scheme to murder Fran and Veronica and take the Madaraki Estate for herself. She never shows any further interest in the Estate in any of her reappearances, not even when she blackmails Veronica into owing her a favor in a later chapter. | |
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Ironic Hell | |
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In "Attempted Suicide", the step-father of a girl sexually abuses her. The ending of the chapter seems to be one of the rare uplifting ones at first, as Fran puts the brain of the man who tried to rescue her from the situation into her father's body. Then Fran explains what happened to the brain of the real father; he became the children's mascot costume, and is now going to work in an amusement park teeming with kids. However, there's no sign that the body has any genitals or sense of touch, so he's surrounded by what he wants and can't do a damn thing to them. | |
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Adaptation Deviation | |
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Adaptation Deviation: In-Universe. If the final bonus chapter is to be believed, the events as told in the manga are Darker and Edgier versions of true stories Fran really worked on. According to Fran, most of said true stories actually had happy endings. Although it bears mentioning that Fran may have a slightly skewed perspective on what constitutes a "happy" ending. | |
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Only Sane Man | |
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Only Sane Man: Okita, the only sane cat-man (as in, a cat with a human head) among Fran's entourage, often acts as a snarky foil to Fran, especially before Veronica arrived. | |
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Fire-Forged Friends | |
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Fire-Forged Friends: The Sentinels after defeating the Sentinel 100 Corps. | |
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Death of a Child | |
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Death of a Child: Well, let's just say that kids are not safe at all from the horrors of the manga. There are a few exceptions (Like the "Amazon" chapter), but most of the time, kids are not any safer from death than adults. | |
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Skull for a Head | |
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One chapter has Fran decide to go to school one day, and it gets out that she's a brilliant surgeon specializing in body mods. The kids go hog-wild for it, leading to such things as a couple who wanted to be stitched together, another couple who wanted to trade sexes, a guy who had her give him a Skull for a Head, a guy made to look like The Ahnold, and some girls who want spine-crushingly big boobs, among other disturbing modifications, there's this one guy who wants to be fat. Not grotesquely so, just a flabby belly. | |
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Nightmare Fetishist | |
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Nightmare Fetishist: There are some people in-universe who find Fran attractive since someone did want to make Torture Porn starring her. The assassin Agito even called her "cute" after nearly decapitating her. There's a bunch of people who once were saved by Fran from an almost dead state. They gathered together and called her for a party. Then they played up a Locked Room Mystery so they could almost die and be saved by Fran again. Fran was squicked by them. Fran herself is guilty of this from time to time. For instance, a giant monster Humanoid Abomination is ravaging the ocean in one chapter. Fran's reaction? "It sure is cute. I want one." | |
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HypocriticalHumour | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_29e6dc40 | comment |
Hypocritical Humour: In "Cosmetic Surgery", a girl tells a boy who took Fran's offer of free cosmetic surgery to gain a tribal appearance that he lacked restraint, while she got breasts that hang down to her waist. Which, funnily enough, compared to the others, she's right. | |
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Beast Man | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_2ab73660 | comment |
Beast Man: Gavrill. Her body can distort into a giant wolf-like creature with double-rows of teeth. | |
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Bring My Brown Pants | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_2b14367f | comment |
Bring My Brown Pants: One of the bonus chapters shows the reporter who got infected with the zombie virus in containment. It is noted that the disease makes her constantly hungry and she keeps crapping herself as fast as she can eat due to the disease loosening her sphincter. Also, in "The Panoramic Island 2". It was a peaceful morning. Matsumae continued his little fantasy, walking to school with several of his pretend classmates. Then the assassin (who is actually Kuhou) showed up and slaughtered everyone except Matsumae himself. In the next panel, we saw Matsumae's legs, the dead bodies lying around them, and... a puddle of urine forming around his feet. | |
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Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant | |
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Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: Fran can produce ungodly amounts of Squick just by her mere presence. And that's before she starts acting. | |
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Awesome, but Impractical | |
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Awesome, but Impractical: The metamorphosis birth method of "Egg Parturition". In theory, it's really impressive and removes all of the hassle that comes with normal pregnancy, as Fran says. In practice... well, it's easier to protect something when it's inside you. Without a secure, airtight environment ala a womb (or even an egg), you have to put in far more effort into keeping the fetus safe. After all, babies carried in the womb don't have to worry about parasitic wasps laying eggs in them, being fed on by insects or stray animals, or getting squished by careless parents-to-be. One of the squickier chapters, which is saying something. The entire manga more or less seems to be this, as whenever anyone asks Fran for surgery, it usually ends up going horribly wrong due to the unforeseen side effects. Fran seems to be fully aware of these side effects and usually tries to warn them, but the patients more or less don't care. | |
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There Is No Cure | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_2d0ad20f | comment |
There Is No Cure: Implied with Roito in "Neverending Story": Fran makes no attempt to cure his rare disease despite how, as mentioned above, finding the cure is usually her specialty, and instead she aids in the construction of his staged fantasy world so he can spend his remaining days in happiness. Subverted when Fran finds a cure for his disease in a later issue. | |
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Ax-Crazy | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_2d4fa515 | comment |
Ax-Crazy: Gavrill. Not only does she love tearing people to shreds, she also likes to eat their corpses. After Dr. Amatsuka prevented her from killing anyone during her time as a school teacher, she was absolutely delighted when the school was taken over by a group of kidnappers, allowing her to finally unleash her lust for bloodshed. | |
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What Measure Is a Non-Cute? | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_2e528f4e | comment |
What Measure Is a Non-Cute?: In full effect here to mind-bending extremes. Between the stitched-up, slightly deranged sisters, the man-headed cat and the Humanoid Abomination, the cast seems tailor-made to provoke squeals of delight and horror from the readers. | |
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Gratuitous English | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_2e6a41e0 | comment |
Gratuitous English: Every chapter of the original series is titled in (surprisingly good) English. The sequel moves to conventional Japanese titling; there remain a few that are supposed to be all-English words, but they're still rendered in katakana. | |
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The Topic of Cancer | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_2e76947a | comment |
The Topic of Cancer: Used for karmic justice (and the compulsory Body Horror)—a rich villain hires Fran to extend her life and tries to get her killed to steal her research (fortunately, Fran is Ambiguously Undead and can live through decapitation). Fran returns to the villain's mansion and finds her Showing Off the New Body—the experimental formula allowed her telomeres to regenerate indefinitely, making her cells immortal. However, just as the first side effects start to appear, Fran calmly explains that the only cells not programmed to die of old age are cancer cells. She then walks away, leaving her client "immortal"...as a gibbering pile of semi-liquid flesh. A more positive cancer story happens in "Take To Pieces" with the girl who has tumors growing all over her body because of a cell issue that makes her constantly regrow organs and body parts. By the end, Fran not only stops the tumor growth, she also amputates all the excessive growth and rebuilds her body to that of a normal girl, allowing her to live a normal life. | |
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I Am Not Shazam | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_30575a1d | comment |
Fran herself; interestingly, in this work the monster is also the doctor. Her two siblings are also this, though they're killers whose fondness for cutting up bodies tends to end with death rather than a fate worse than it. | |
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Fun Size | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_33003c9b | comment |
Fun Size: What happens to Veronica after she's rescued by Fran after "fighting" Gavrill. The rest of the body... well... Gavrill's a "humanitarian"... | |
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Deity of Human Origin | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_33179374 | comment |
Deity of Human Origin: A cult decides to turn the body of their priestess into a living factory, while caring for the large fetus she's developed. Eventually, the fetus starts to move, and upon destroying the whole building and combining with the cult members inside develop into the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Yes, you read that right. | |
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Mad Scientist | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_3517000d | comment |
Mad Scientist: Fran. She is actually ignorant of this fact, amusingly. When she was told that she basically was this in "Snow Light", she became saddened and confused... then she talked to her friend Okita about the matter, while ripping out a person's intestine. | |
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Sex Slave | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_362461f6 | comment |
In "Best Friend", it's revealed that a schoolgirl who was being used as a Sex Slave by the school principal (who also pimped her out to his friends and anyone who paid up) had asked Fran to deliberately infect her with a virulent, sexually-transmissible strain of bacteria that causes male genitals to rot. Cue two pages' worth of sudden panic as men all over the town are suddenly dropped in their tracks by the disease—teachers, politicians, school sports team members, cops... | |
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Karmic Rape | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_363eb594 | comment |
Karmic Rape: Distressingly common in Frantic, where more than one chapter includes the antagonist(s) ending up getting raped due to their immoral plans ultimately backfiring, including Chapters 22 and 33. Tends to overlap with Black Comedy Rape in its handling. | |
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Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_372bc105 | comment |
Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: When it's not being darkly humorous, it's being cynical. See the two Justice chapters, the latter of which convinces the idealistic hero that charity is evil because it'll overpopulate the world and cause humans to destroy themselves, and forces him to kill a bunch of angry people who were hurt by the first Justice. | |
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We Will Meet Again | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_384986f4 | comment |
We Will Meet Again: The villain of "Antifat Remedy" delivers this to Fran, in a very rare moment where she is actually defeated. | |
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Batman Gambit | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_38d02d44 | comment |
Batman Gambit: Frantic chapter 37, "Forbidden Experiment" has Fran's class recreate the Stanford Prison Experiment, with her classmate Akari being in charge. Naturally, the class devolves into chaos, beating and raping each other by the time the week is over, with Fran being murdered at the end. The audience of students, parents, and teachers are horrified at the results when they're presented at the school festival, and Akari tries to downplay it as simple human nature, fake crying the whole time. Then Fran strolls onto the stage. The rest of the class was faking the entire thing, as everyone but Akari was aware that the original experiment was also fake. As a result, they all decided to change the experiment to be analysis of her behavior, revealing that she immediately went mad with power as soon as she thought there would be zero accountability for her actions, trying to stir up as much violence between the groups as possible for her own entertainment, and rejecting every plea for the experiment to be stopped. Fran then asks for the audience not to judge her too harshly, as it is just human nature. | |
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Mister Seahorse | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_38e4b69d | comment |
Mister Seahorse: Well, sort of. Because of an experimental stem cell surgery, a cardinal's brain developed into a fully developed infant. He convinced Fran to remove it so he could take his secret about his past life to the grave. The baby was given to the nuns that tried to exorcise the cardinal. | |
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Creepy Mascot Suit | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_3943b413 | comment |
Creepy Mascot Suit: One issue had a virus that turned people into zombies, pretty standard, right? Well, what wasn't was that their bodies transformed into mascot costumes. | |
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Blessed with Suck | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_3c3f28a5 | comment |
Blessed with Suck: At the end of "Cockroaches", Fran crafts a new layer of skin for Kouryuu that's much younger-looking than her previous one. However it was made from the chitin found in cockroach exoskeletons, causing her to start tearing at her new skin in horrified disgust. This is ironic since most cockroaches are neat freaks themselves as they will constantly groom themselves to get rid of any foreign contaminants and flew from anything they find filthy. | |
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Humans Are Bastards | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_3d4d3dc9 | comment |
Humans Are Bastards: While there are nice people in the story, you can't really trust people to listen to their better judgements, and there are plenty of organizations and people with a blatant disregard for human life. "Justice 2" discusses the trope with Black Lotus, an organization that's doing humanitarian efforts only because they believe that humanity will destroy itself after their prosperity leads to overpopulation and resource scarcity. | |
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Take That, Audience! | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_3ea462d7 | comment |
Take That, Audience!: It's very easy to read Jun Kurosuma, the pediatric surgeon in Frantic Chapter 36, as a jab at the portion of the audience that forgets that Fran is a genuinely dedicated doctor who has done a lot of good for the world, and that we as the audience are only seeing all the times things go off-the-rails. The idea that absolutely nothing Fran does can possibly end well results in her destroying something Fran created alongside other researchers that is a benefit to mankind without any drawbacks, solely because she found it hideous and disturbing, which hits her with Laser-Guided Karma. | |
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_3ed23024 | comment |
Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: In the first chapter, Fran notes how brain damage is irreversible. While her solution to bringing back the man's son is science fiction, she points out the actual boy is completely gone because he was dead for several days. | |
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Strictly Formula | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_3f1aadeb | comment |
Strictly Formula: Someone comes to Fran for help. Fran "helps" them. It backfires. Fran shrugs it off and moves to the next patient. Fran invents some Nobel-worthy achievement in medicine to "fix" a "problem". Someone steals the idea. It backfires. Fran shrugs it off and moves to her next invention. | |
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Blade Below the Shoulder | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_41914bb3 | comment |
Blade Below the Shoulder: Veronica's arsenal of hidden weapons. While she holds them in her hands at times, usually they're mounted on mechanical arms that pop out from under the cape of her coat. | |
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Keeping Secrets Sucks | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_4215e3e | comment |
Keeping Secrets Sucks: Once again Veronica makes a friend and once again something horrible happens to them. Gavrill uses her super-senses to find out the truth but will only tell Veronica if she'll be her slave. Veronica agrees but Gavrill's order is to not harm her friend's rapists/murderers. Fortunately the victim already did something and gave all her rapists a nasty disease, thanks to Fran. | |
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Love Freak | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_422f566c | comment |
Fran often seems to think of herself as a facilitator of happy endings and true love, seemingly unaware of the barrels of horror she deals out anytime she tries to "help" people. | |
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Uncanny Valley Girl | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_43ffa398 | comment |
Uncanny Valley Girl: Fran, between her visible stitch scars, bolts, her eyes occasionally falling out, and her tottering while she walks. | |
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Tranquil Fury | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_443b78cd | comment |
Tranquil Fury: The above movie causes Fran to very calmly get revenge by doing her usual thing on one of the director's earlier victims. | |
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Beach Episode | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_44f6517d | comment |
Beach Episode: Chapter 41's "Sea Specter"... sort of if not for the investigation of the titular sea specter paralyzing and drowning its victims. | |
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Gift of the Magi Plot | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_460aa61c | comment |
Gift of the Magi Plot: A bit of a... variation, all right. A girl had a traumatic experience with men and now has a psychological aversion to them. Her boyfriend's response is to get Fran to change his gender by swapping his genitals for a woman's. The girlfriend has Fran do the opposite to her. And then they cheat on each other, assuming the omake pages are canon, at least. | |
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Latex Perfection | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_47325888 | comment |
Latex Perfection: Ssssssort of. Less "latex", more "actual skin". A patient of Fran's dies from a parasite that destroys the body's interior, but leaves the skin unscathed. Fran uses this in order to fulfill her patient's dying wish to finish her recent acting job... by wearing her skin as a disguise and pretending to be her. | |
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Butt-Monkey | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_47fea76b | comment |
Butt-Monkey: Veronica has lots of unpleasant things happen to her. She's constantly used as a guinea pig by Fran (the first time Fran "experimented" on her, she just ripped her apart and left her disemboweled for a month), was bullied when first attending school, Gavrill tears her to pieces in their first fight, and her first real friend dies horribly and Gavrill prevents her from taking them down. The final bonus chapter of the original run even ends with her crying after getting cruelly teased by her sisters, though that is quickly followed by them giving her a hug and apology for going too far. Officer Kuhou, a young policewoman who often crosses paths with either Fran or the results of her work, losing some of her sanity in the process each time. She also has the bad luck of serving as Fran's test subject from time to time. | |
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Body Double | |
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Body Double: The mobster in "Fake" makes use of this. This results in some...complications. | |
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Badass Teacher | |
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Badass Teacher: Of all people, Gavrill becomes this in the aptly named chapter "Teacher" when Amatsuka asks her to become a high school teacher for a while. | |
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Cheshire Cat Grin | |
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Cheshire Cat Grin: Okita, fittingly enough. | |
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Mukokuseki | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_4b44e74b | comment |
Mukokuseki: Deconstructed by showing the lengths idols will go to get that anime look... and what lengths it would actually take (like replacing the lower jaw with a plastic prosthetic and 'bathing in silicone''). It wasn't enough for just a simple epicanthoplasty. This is why it's important for art majors to take anatomy. Basically, it invokes an Uncanny Valley. | |
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Artistic License – Paleontology | |
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Artistic License – Paleontology: In one chapter while justifying how the Monster of the Week couldn't exist, Fran claims dinosaurs evolved into birds because they were too big to sustain themselves and there was no landmass that could support them. Accompanied by a T. rex with a forked tongue (and, oddly, strands of proto-feathers). | |
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Acquired Situational Narcissism | |
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Acquired Situational Narcissism: The robotics developer in chapter 35 falls victim to this after the Robot Girl modeled after his late wife, brain patterns and all, becomes wildly popular and the fame and fortune (and women) go to his head. He eventually grows weary of his creations and tries to enter the dating pool again — while surrounded by a bunch of the robots whose primary character trait is single-minded devotion to him. He eventually gets the same treatment his wife had at the request of the original brain uploaded robot, so he could be with her forever. He also gets to be exploited by his company to become the male model of the robot, for some added Ironic Hell. | |
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See You in Hell | |
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See You in Hell: Uttered by Kuhou, of all people; right before she could kill Matsumae in "The Panoramic Island 2", she is shot and falls down the building she was standing atop, though she does manage to say the line. In a subversion, though neither she nor Matsumae die. | |
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Downer Ending | |
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Usually happens to either the person Fran operates on or whoever that person is closest to. It also has a strong chance of not helping at all, and just having a regular old Downer Ending when people die without deserving it. For an ideal example, the villain from "Eternal Youth" tries to have Fran killed (unsuccessfully) and has her anti-aging treatment stolen (successfully) the moment she has it working. She acted prematurely — the anti-aging treatment worked, but she took it before Fran had the time to eliminate the potential side effect of it turning the user into a heaving puddle of cancerous tissue. It was her own greedy desire to get it as soon as possible and keep anyone else from having access to it that led to her downfall. | |
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Author Tract | |
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Author Tract: Chapter 5's "God & Dog". People worship gods of all kinds, be it physical objects/people or spiritual beings. If there is no God, people will make one of their own. | |
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The Atoner | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_4ef92d0b | comment |
The Atoner: In "Exorcist", the cardinal that is a candidate to be the next Pope used to be a mafia lord. After he was mortally wounded in the head and recovered by surgery, he decided to pay for his sins by devoting the rest of his life to the church. | |
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Body Horror | |
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"Sea Specter" probably comes the closest to averting this trope entirely. All Nightmare Fuel and Body Horror is kept to a minimum, and the character of the day isn't turned into some monstrous parody of humanity by Fran. Instead, the chapter ends on a "blowing things out of proportion" gag you'd expect from the likes of Ranma ½. | |
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Sex Signals Death | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_506bf16a | comment |
Sex Signals Death: "Chrysalis" ends this way. The girl whose body Fran remade by attaching her head to a huge caterpillar body that chrysalised? After she and her boyfriend do the deed, she starts turning into an insect and eats him. The assholes who gangraped and killed Miyake in "Best Friend" are killed by a deadly bacteria that was inoculated in her body by Fran. | |
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Tears of Joy | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_506ffa51 | comment |
In Frantic, a girl bullied at school asks Fran to make her poisonous. Fran obliges, but the procedure is much longer and painful than the girl expected. They also decide only near the end of the procedure how the girl will be excreting her poison, and settle on shooting it out of her tear ducts, requiring her to cry. While the girl recovers from the procedure, Fran goes to school to talk some sense into the bullies, who realise how horrible they have been to the girl and decide to apologise to her when she comes back to school. Fran is quite happy with that outcome and thinks that the girl's poison glands will never be used since there is nothing to make her cry anymore. But when all the former bullies gather in front of the girl to nicely apologise to her, she can't stop her Tears of Joy... | |
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Obliviously Evil | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_51c70be6 | comment |
Probably one of the oddest examples of this trope, as Fran is not of the typical "I do what is right, even if I have to do terrible things to do so." Thanks to Blue and Orange Morality, Fran is entirely incapable of seeing her extremism as anything wrong and doesn't take well to being called out on what she does. At most, she might see those solutions as not ideal. | |
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Not Using the "Z" Word | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_525df529 | comment |
Not Using the "Z" Word: Invoked by Fran and subverted in "Living Dead". "Isn't that what a zombie is? How are we supposed to call them?" | |
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Happy Ending Override | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_53c5f30e | comment |
Happy Ending Override: Or rather, Bittersweet Ending made bitterer. In Frantic, "Neverending Story" featured the son of a wealthy businessman, dying from a rare disease even Fran can't cure, who is sent to an island reproducing a fantasy world (with actors playing various characters and various creations of Fran's playing the monsters) where he becomes The Chosen One, to live his dream until his death, thinking this world is real. Fifteen issues later, Fran comes back to the boy with a cure that actually works, to the joy of his father and the actors in the island, who had all come to like him. However, since the boy feels much better and had just reached puberty, he proceeds to rape most of the female characters he can gets his hands on while brutally murdering any monster he comes across (there are also hints that his being better allowed him to realise he was in a fake world), leading most of the actors to leave in disgust and the businessman to commission Fran to create more clones for his son to torture and rape. | |
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Lotus-Eater Machine | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_5541da8c | comment |
Lotus-Eater Machine: The girls in "Lust" were complaining that all the boys were completely obsessed with sex, so Fran creates a pheromone-based creature which all the boys can get their rocks off with. It works too well, causing all the boys to lose interest in sex with real girls. | |
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| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_557a31ce | type |
Actual Pacifist | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_557a31ce | comment |
A bizarre inversion would have to be the Black Lotus Syndicate. Their plan is the eradication of humanity...but they don't plan on killing even one person. Instead, they plan on improving the human condition to the point that the number of human beings on the planet exceeds the number of resources available, which will incite World War 3, as every nation battles every other for the few remaining resources left. Naturally, their leader is an Actual Pacifist, who tries to stop his minions and Sentinel 2 from fighting one another. He fails utterly, his minions too enraged by Sentinel 2 killing their family members, and Sentinel 2 not able to control his own strength. | |
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Marionette Motion | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_55966885 | comment |
Marionette Motion: A subtle case. Fran is usually drawn with motion lines around her when she walks as if she's not quite steady on her feet. | |
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Mother of a Thousand Young | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_565d9b8 | comment |
Mother of a Thousand Young: "Azusa" the mutant mimic octopus. For bonus technical incest points, the father is "her" brother. | |
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Wounded Gazelle Gambit | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_567e7c4d | comment |
Wounded Gazelle Gambit: A group of assassins fake a gang rape in order to lure in the superhero Sentinel to save the victim. Sentinel arrives, only to be shot at by both the supposed rapists and their supposed victim | |
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Dark Is Not Evil | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_575fd5e2 | comment |
Dark Is Not Evil: Depending on how you interpret her character, Fran is either an example or a subversion — she looks like a stereotypical horror monster (if a bit cuter), yet comes off as reasonable and nice at first glance. Then she starts dragging people off to her lab to use them as human experiments For Science!... | |
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Smoking Hot Sex | |
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Smoking Hot Sex: Nezeru and Jenny in "Rolling World 2". They're escaped mascots from Rolling World. | |
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Shameless Self-Promoter | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_57e8aed6 | comment |
Shameless Self-Promoter: The hospital director in "Snow Light" refuses to let Fran help a dying boy because he read the first volume of the manga. | |
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Enemy Mine | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_5989e3b6 | comment |
Enemy Mine: A minor example, but Gavrill and Veronica do team up to fight (or rather, slaughter the living fuck out of) the kidnappers in "Teacher". | |
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The Un-Reveal | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_5a3b8032 | comment |
The Unreveal: In the last chapter, "Dream", Fran has a dream where all her friends and former patients visit, but she's woken up just before we get to see Naomitsu. In "Sea Monster", the reader never get to find out exactly what the sea monster gives birth to. | |
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Surprise Incest | |
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Surprise Incest: One volume bonus reveals that the all-male and all-female civilizations from "Amazon" originated from a brother-sister pair. And with the society being made of clones, all of the coupling those societies did means they're in relationships with their genetic siblings. | |
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Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_5beef860 | comment |
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Veronica, who has superhuman strength and won't hesitate to kill someone, is horribly scared of ghosts. | |
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Chainsaw Good | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_5caef4ca | comment |
Chainsaw Good: In "A Very Lucky Man", after hanging and lethal injection failed to kill a death row inmate, and Fran is denied the chance to study him, the prison officials give up on finding a humane way to execute him and violently dismember him instead...with chainsaws. He is able to recover from this after Fran reassembles him. | |
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Wife Husbandry | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_5dd191ec | comment |
Wife Husbandry: A twisted version happens at the end of "Protozoan". The patient requests Fran to fertilize her egg with the genes of her best friend (and love interest) so that they can have another chance together. However, Fran later states that the genes of the friend went into remission so in effect, the baby who the patient plans to court is not her best friend reborn, but rather her biological child. | |
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Intrepid Reporter | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_5f52cfcf | comment |
Intrepid Reporter: Ijuuin, the reporter girl who appears in the chapters "Piety", "Rolling World" and "Living Dead". Unfortunately, she ends up being a victim of the zombie disease. In the Frantic chapter "Cockroach Town", an investigative reporter sneaks into the mansion by pretending to be in need of treatment, hoping to expose Fran as the mad doctor she is. They end up being turned into a living mech suit by the cockroach society that lives in one of the basement levels, unable to control their own body, with Fran and company being completely clueless about this and thinking they just left. | |
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Stanford Prison Experiment | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_603e3cf6 | comment |
Frantic Chapter 37, "Forbidden Experiment" is one of the more notable examples. In real life, the Stanford Prison Experiment is notorious among psychologists for bad methodology and believed manipulation of events by the professor responsible, with all attempts to replicate the results ending in failure. Sure enough, the results of the students' replication are revealed to be completely fake. While one student believed that they were performing the experiment with her in charge, Fran was leading everyone else in just playing along in order to demonstrate how someone in similar position of power to Philip Zimbardo (the man who performed the original experiment) would easily succumb to similar behavior if they believed they would have zero accountability for their actions. | |
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Zombie Apocalypse | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_60414102 | comment |
Zombie Apocalypse: Deconstructed in Chapter 47's "Living Dead". The "zombies" are actually victims of a parasite and can be cured, although no one realizes this. | |
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Parental Incest | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_606244c2 | comment |
Parental Incest: Fran has a crush on her father/creator. | |
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Heel–Face Turn | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_617f0563 | comment |
Heel–Face Turn: Kuze Akari in "Twenty Four" who originally wanted to swindle his niece's fortune. After being forced to share her body, he realizes how awful her life is because all her relatives keep hounding her for said fortune. In the end, in an unusual variant of Redemption Equals Death, he condemns himself to a Fate Worse than Death to give her a chance to live free. Veronica. She started out wanting to kill Fran, probably due of jealousy as Fran's life is filled with a lot less hardship and suffering. In the following chapters, she starts to gradually develop concern and care for Fran, and reveals herself to be emotionally vulnerable and friendly despite her violent tendencies and beliefs, eventually coming to love Fran in her own way. | |
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Pædo Hunt | |
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Pædo Hunt: In "Attempted Suicide", the step-father of a girl sexually abuses her. The ending of the chapter seems to be one of the rare uplifting ones at first, as Fran puts the brain of the man who tried to rescue her from the situation into her father's body. Then Fran explains what happened to the brain of the real father; he became the children's mascot costume, and is now going to work in an amusement park teeming with kids. However, there's no sign that the body has any genitals or sense of touch, so he's surrounded by what he wants and can't do a damn thing to them. In "Girls' School", the bullies' victims are eventually shipped overseas to service otaku. | |
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Orgasmically Delicious | |
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Orgasmically Delicious: In Frantic "Tasy Life", Fran operates on a young women born with no sense of taste to give her taste buds. The girl all but climaxes when she tastes food for the first time after the operation. | |
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Losing Your Head | |
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Losing Your Head: Seems to be a frequent occurrence among Fran's patients. Even Fran herself swaps bodies sometimes. However in "Eternal Youth", Fran is nearly decapitated by an assassin. She's able to stitch her neck back together but she doesn't completely recover for a bit. | |
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Spit Take | |
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Spit Take: Veronica in "Octopus", when she learns the octopus creature was created from the genetic information of an octopus mixed with her own. Fran in Frantic's "Gathering of the Beauties", when the girls she put on a specialized hormone treatment after once again being taken in by Mikage's obsessions spontaneously develop erect penises and an uncontrollable libidos. | |
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Super-Deformed | |
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Super-Deformed: Veronica in one chapter, when she gets cut in half and Fran only has limited parts to rebuild her. She's not happy about only having two Shaolin spade blades for arms. | |
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Amusement Park of Doom | |
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Amusement Park of Doom: One chapter has a Disney-like amusement park with mascots that are actually real creatures created by Fran. All well and good... until they start running amok and actually killing off the patrons. Turns out the music in the land was keeping them docile and when it went off due to a computer glitch they turned feral. That's not the real kicker though. After that whole ordeal is solved the manager actually re-opens the park again with the same creatures still patrolling the grounds!. Why? Hey good business is business. It takes a new spin in a later chapter when it's revealed that the mascots are sometimes surgically altered to fit new appearance themes, outdated mascots are eliminated, and mascots that are violent toward customers are killed in front of the others. | |
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Formula-Breaking Episode | |
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Formula-Breaking Episode: The "Sentinel" chapters in the original run are parodies of the Showa-era entries in the Kamen Rider series. Fran does briefly appear in each one as the person who augments the physical abilities of various Sentinels, but the stories focus on the tokusatsu exploits of these characters rather than the book's usual medical horror. "Cockroach 2" of the original run doesn't deal with weird surgeries. It deals with Veronica finding a city made by cockroaches, which includes technology, music, love, superheroes, supervillains, Humongous Mecha, and a Super Saiyan cockroach. It really makes no sense, even in context. Two chapters in Frantic shift completely to focus on two teenagers named Alice and Bunny, who live in a desolate seaside town that's prone to weirdness. Fran doesn't receive a single mention in these chapters, though the following one (a crossover with Ms. Kaida's Ghost Stories) does feature Fran stumbling across the gory aftermath of the second story before switching to the main plot. | |
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Too Kinky to Torture | |
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Too Kinky to Torture: The people of unusual tastes, who kill themselves so Fran can revive them. This even weirds out Fran. | |
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Navel-Deep Neckline | |
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Navel-Deep Neckline: Gavrill's standard (lack of) attire has her wearing a leather jacket unzipped to her abdomen and nothing underneath. | |
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The Power of Love | |
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The Power of Love: Lampshaded in an in-universe movie based on one of Fran's adventures: | |
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Jerkass Has a Point | |
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Jerkass Has a Point: The Frantic chapter "Gaze of Hostility" has Fran get chewed out by a pediatric surgeon who aims to get her removed from the medical community due to... literally everything that's happened in the previous thirty chapters of Frantic alone, specifically to children, calling her evil. Fran tearfully relates the cruel words to Osita and Veronica when she gets home where they don't even try to comfort her, noting that the woman has a point and they understand why she would like Fran to stop her medical practice. | |
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Artistic License – Statistics | |
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Artistic License – Statistics: The conclusion of "An Extremely Lucky Man", centered on a man with phenomenal luck, relies on casting the Gambler's Fallacy as truth. | |
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Lady Land | |
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Lady Land: The island in "Amazon", which has a corresponding Man Land. Both are the result of both tribes' members developing the ability to reproduce parthogenically. | |
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The Fettered | |
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The Fettered: When Gavrill is forced to becomes a high-school substitute her doctor/protector's only request is that she does not kill the students. She doesn't, but she does beat the shit out of them during a brawl with another school. In "Best Friend", Gavrill finds out what happened to Veronica's friend but will only tell her if she becomes her slave. Veronica agrees, but Gavrill orders her to not harm the perpetrators. She claims that she's doing it just to mess with her, but it's implied that she already knew that they were doomed for a fate worse than what Veronica would've given them anyway. | |
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Our Sphinxes Are Different | |
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Our Sphinxes Are Different: Okita is a cat with a human head, or a human with a cat body. He has human intelligence but also has some feline traits; the manga never explains his origin. | |
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Fantastic Aesop | |
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Fantastic Aesop: Practically every issue Fran observes a flaw of human nature and takes some bit of wisdom from it that the reader can share. Things like, "Don't get so addicted to being revived from death by a maestro surgeon that you keep killing yourself over and over", or "Don't turn yourself into an anime character for love, or your skin will molt off and your lover will crush you to death trying to escape the alien you appear to be", or maybe "Inner beauty may shine through a layer of bandages, but those bandages are there to cover something horrifying". | |
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Christmas Episode | |
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Christmas Episode: A Frantic episode is about Fran deciding to organise a Christmas party and invite multiple people she had met in the past, in the hope that Professor Madaraki may come too. Nobody turns up and Fran is feeling depressed... until a plane crashes nearby and Fran has to spend the night operating on the wounded passengers, but eventually runs out of organs and blood. They then catch a (bearded) spy trying to steal a biological weapon from Fran's hospital who challenges them to kill him and discover he is a universal donor, which allows Fran to save everyone at the expense of the spy's life. At the end she discovers evidence that the spy was a creation from Professor Madaraki's, and Fran wonders if he was his Christmas present to her, while Okita wonders if the crashed plane was part of the gift. | |
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Love Hotels | |
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Love Hotels: At the end of "Chrysalis", Tajima and Kaneda go to one to consummate their relationship. Unfortunately for him, her insect side emerges and she eats him once they're done. | |
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And the Adventure Continues | |
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And the Adventure Continues: In the final chapter of the original run "Dream", after getting trapped in a sunken ship and dreaming about a party where every single previous character appears, including the Professor, Fran gets rescued and goes back to the daily grind. | |
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Mugging the Monster | |
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Mugging the Monster: The group kidnappers in "Teacher". Invading a high school while the Madaraki sisters are there isn't a very good idea, to say the least. | |
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Cat Folk | |
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Cat Folk: Okita sort of parodies this. While the usual blend of human and animal elements is in place, the proportions are completely reversed. He has a human head and intelligence but aside from that, he's basically an ordinary cat. | |
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Covers Always Lie | |
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Covers Always Lie: Humorously (and somewhat cruelly) played on with the tankobon and English omnibus covers for the original series, which are loaded with Fanservice and Les Yay. Often there's a horrific version of the same picture on the next page, such as the cover of volume 3, which features a sexy picture of Adorea, complete with cute face — despite the fact that her actual face is a mass of tentacles designed for swallowing people whole. The aforementioned horrific version reveals that the "cute face" was just a biological mask. | |
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Recursive Canon | |
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Recursive Canon: The hospital director in "Snow Light" refuses to let Fran do surgery because of a book he's reading about her. It's the first tankobon. | |
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Multi-Armed Multitasking | |
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Multi-Armed Multitasking: Fran frequently acquires 2-3 extra pairs of arms when she's doing surgery. | |
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Brother–Sister Incest | |
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Brother–Sister Incest: In "Octopus", Kusinoki has sex with a shape-shifting octopus-human hybrid who took the appearance of his recently-deceased sister Azusa, though he does mention he always wanted to do this with his real sister. His body is used as nourishment for the hybrid's thousands of offspring. | |
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Admiring the Abomination | |
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Admiring the Abomination: Fran's reaction to seeing a monstrous Kaiju: "I want one." | |
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Horrifying the Horror | |
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Horrifying the Horror: Veronica tries to scare Fran by showing her how good she is at killing people. Then Fran shows he how good she is at keeping people alive... | |
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Frankenstein's Monster | |
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Frankenstein's Monster: Fran herself; interestingly, in this work the monster is also the doctor. Her two siblings are also this, though they're killers whose fondness for cutting up bodies tends to end with death rather than a fate worse than it. She also gives a stitched-up body to the cursed remains of The Wandering Jew. | |
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Reality Warping Is Not a Toy | |
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Reality Warping Is Not a Toy: In chapter 38, a boy gains shapeshifting powers thanks to Fran. However, they aren't just activated by conscious thoughts, but also impulses and emotions, so he finds it harder and harder to keep control over his body. For example, his sexual impulses upon seeing a beautiful young woman (namely, officer Kuhou) turn him into a tentacled monster. The boy effectively kills himself when he, in despair, thinks that his crush has moved on and gotten a boyfriend, when she was the reason why he wanted to be a stronger and handsomer teenager. His sorrow turns him into a human sea sponge. | |
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Big Anime Eyes | |
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Big Anime Eyes: "Two-Dimensions" revolves around a girl who asks Fran for surgery to look like a manga character to get her crush Tooru's attention (a supporter of the "2D girls are superior to real life" debate). She keeps coming back to Fran for more modifications, until she finally has the opportunity to sleep with him, at which point we see the extent of the changes: her eyes are half the size of her head, her mouth is shrunken, her nose is gone and when she stops getting checkups and overdoses on her medication, her hair fell out◊: she looks like one of The Greys. Unsurprisingly, Tooru swears afterwards that he experienced alien contact. | |
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Something for Everyone | |
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Something for Everyone: Fran is asked by the girls of a school to make their boyfriends less horny. She does so by creating a huge pheromone-emitting mass of flesh that causes any man to see a crowd of naked and horny women. Naturally, this works too well, with the boys spending every spare minute having sex with the thing, so the girlfriends complain to Fran. She shows them what she did, and the girls promptly start beating it up with anything at hand, to Fran's confusion. | |
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ChewToy | |
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Chew Toy: Poor, poor Officer Kuhou. Throughout the course of the series, she's been wrapped up in a case of more-than-possible severed body parts, cloned to help kill off other clones and then had to kill off the clones of herself (though this is probably a dream sequence), tried to talk down a half-suicidal man transplanted into a theme park mascot protecting a little girl, randomly been ejaculated upon for just being in the room, and nearly raped by a Reality Warper, and that's just what we've seen so far; note that the majority of situations involving her are Played for Laughs. No wonder just seeing Fran makes the woman seriously trip her shit. In addition to that list, Fran kidnaps and creates clones of her again, this time with the ability to divide asexually to create even more clones. She then drops more than 1000 of them off on an isolated island to fight Gavrill, figuring that the best way to handle Gavrill is to let her kill enough of them to calm herself down. The original Kuhou gets to go back home, physically no worse off than before. It then gets even worse: Kuhou learns that a new batch of her clones is being used to fulfill the many fetishes of a slightly crazy rich man. She breaks down hard at this, before accidentally getting captured and surgically altered into a monster girl—who accidentally wins the full love and devotion of the man who had broken her brain. | |
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Off with His Head! | |
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Off with His Head!: In "Eternal Youth", this nearly happens to Fran when the assassin Agito gets to her; her neck was only hanging on loosely. Fran manages to save herself by stitching her neck back to normal; although the operation did leave her woozy for a short while afterwards, she came out no worse for the wear. | |
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Big Bad Friend | |
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Irritated that Veronica keeps killing people (even if they are attacking the lab), Fran sends her to a girls' boarding school to learn to be sociable. Veronica is viciously bullied, but one timid girl tries to be friendly to her. It turns out the timid girl was actually the leader of the bullies, who didn't know about the real plot, and gave their victims to pedophiles who export Japanese girls to overseas otaku. Veronica... puts a stop to it. | |
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Tsundere | |
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Tsundere: A highly stereotypical one shows up in Matsumae's island school fantasy. | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: In the chapter "Gaze of Hostility", the pediatric surgeon who despises Fran's experiments and the most disturbing outcomes of such aims to get her removed from the medical community in order to protect children from becoming victims of her work, starting by destroying one of her external labs at a pharmaceutical company. However, that particular lab housed an organic robot that was used to synthesize the materials needed for the vaccine for a rare disorder. As said creature was created by accident, Fran notes that it would take a great amount of work to recreate it, if they could even figure out how to do so, leading to the deaths of countless kids... including the surgeon's own daughter. She doesn't take this well. | |
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking | |
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: When Veronica goes to school and is bullied, she gets several papers taped to her back, like "DIE!" "I'm a dirty whore." "I'll do anyone as long as it's male. Even a dog!" and "Kick me." One chapter has Fran decide to go to school one day, and it gets out that she's a brilliant surgeon specializing in body mods. The kids go hog-wild for it, leading to such things as a couple who wanted to be stitched together, another couple who wanted to trade sexes, a guy who had her give him a Skull for a Head, a guy made to look like The Ahnold, and some girls who want spine-crushingly big boobs, among other disturbing modifications, there's this one guy who wants to be fat. Not grotesquely so, just a flabby belly. | |
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The Three Faces of Eve | |
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The Three Faces of Eve: The Madaraki Sisters with Gavrill as the Seductress, Fran as the Mother, and Veronica as the Child. | |
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Large Ham | |
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Large Ham: The Sentinels, being parodies of Super Sentai heroes, sometimes get like this. They frequent call their attacks and melodramatically pontificate about Black Lotus. | |
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Gainax Ending | |
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Gainax Ending: Neither the last chapter or the ending itself have any build-up or lead-in, and it's kinda hard to tell what actually happened in the end. | |
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Super Team | |
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Super Team: This time with cockroaches! Another one has popped up comprising of Sentinels I-IV. | |
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Humanoid Abomination | |
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In "Rolling World", the mascots of Rolling World who were modified by Fran to have organs and live and walk with functional bodies get infected by a parasite that lives on the mountain the park is built on and start eating humans. Oddly enough, the people that they do bite who survive turn into a flesh-eating mascot. In the end, they found out that they were infected from the beginning, but hadn't lashed out because music keeps them calm. | |
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Chronoscope | |
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One story is remarkably like HP Lovecraft's From Beyond, except that the subject is a blind man given the peepers from a squid instead of exposed to a Chrono Scope. Another point of divergence is that he makes friends with a ghost. | |
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What Happened to the Mouse? | |
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What Happened to the Mouse?: A small example with Paku, the dog who accompanies Veronica in the extra chapter of volume 2. Veronica briefly mentions him in the beginning of "Her Pet Dog", but aside that he is never seen or mentioned again. | |
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Eldritch Abomination | |
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Once the painter can see all strands of the Electromagnetic spectrum he sees eldritch abominations and other horrible things. | |
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Bait-and-Switch | |
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Bait-and-Switch: In "Take To Pieces", the poor girl who has random body parts growing off of her screams in fear as Fran is about to operate on her. Cut to a month later, Fran laments that things ended tragically... by which she means she couldn't figure anything out about how the girl's body worked; the girl herself is perfectly cured and grateful, ready to live life to the fullest again. Lampshaded by Okita. | |
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Adaptation Decay | |
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Adaptation Decay: Invoked for Vol.4's extra chapter, the story of the loyal dog in Chapter 27's "Her Pet Dog" was adopted into a movie In Name Only as the true story wouldn't make for a good movie. Veronica's reaction is what one would expect: | |
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Back from the Dead | |
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Back from the Dead: Initially averted, as the very first chapter has Fran explain that while reanimating dead bodies may be doable, properly resurrecting a person's mind with their personality and memories intact is an incredible challenge and virtually impossible. Later played straight, as she spends the rest of the series constantly doing just that. | |
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Restraining Bolt | |
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Restraining Bolt: Fran inserts one into Veronica in order to keep control over Veronica's violent tendencies, giving her electric shocks in her head. | |
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Mind Hive | |
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Mind Hive: "Twenty Four" ends with Fran creating this. As 24 people fight over the inheritance of a single girl, she saves them by connecting all their brains to her body (she transplants the girl's own brain to a clone of hers), but now that they're all connected to the same body, they can't do anything until they all agree to it. | |
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Sibling Yin-Yang | |
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Sibling Yin-Yang: Veronica and Fran, though the "yin and yang" isn't Good vs. Evil, but rather Life vs. Death. Fran cannot end a life and sees no real value in killing, whereas Veronica sees murder as the best solution for most situations. Veronica and Gavrill are Passive vs. Active in terms of their violence; Veronica will always quickly dispatch a foe so they die painlessly and never attacks unless provoked, whereas Gavrill is a vicious psychopath who loves inflicting as much pain as possible and is always searching for a fight. | |
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Anachronic Order | |
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Anachronic Order: The creator makes it clear that certain later chapters occur before earlier chapters. It's easy to tell which ones come first because Veronica is absent from them. For instance, ch. 29 "Egg Parturition" occurred over several years, so Veronica was there by the end. | |
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Our Zombies Are Different | |
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Our Zombies Are Different: In "Rolling World", the mascots of Rolling World who were modified by Fran to have organs and live and walk with functional bodies get infected by a parasite that lives on the mountain the park is built on and start eating humans. Oddly enough, the people that they do bite who survive turn into a flesh-eating mascot. In the end, they found out that they were infected from the beginning, but hadn't lashed out because music keeps them calm. "Living Dead" has a Caribbean island where people killed by a disease of unknown origin come back from the dead to feast on the living. As it turns out, the disease was caused by a brain parasite which causes feigned death then makes the host a cannibal aware of their condition but unable to stop themselves. Worst of all, this is reversible but no one knows that. | |
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Didn't Think This Through | |
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Didn't Think This Through: A short girl asked for a height increase from Fran in "Cosmetic Surgery". Due to the nature of the surgery (requiring her bones lengthened), she was confined to a wheelchair for 3 months after it. Her three-dot expression at the fact (especially since every other girl that had their surgeries done came right out) showed that she probably regretted the decision. In Frantic, a girl bullied at school asks Fran to make her poisonous. Fran obliges, but the procedure is much longer and painful than the girl expected. They also decide only near the end of the procedure how the girl will be excreting her poison, and settle on shooting it out of her tear ducts, requiring her to cry. While the girl recovers from the procedure, Fran goes to school to talk some sense into the bullies, who realise how horrible they have been to the girl and decide to apologise to her when she comes back to school. Fran is quite happy with that outcome and thinks that the girl's poison glands will never be used since there is nothing to make her cry anymore. But when all the former bullies gather in front of the girl to nicely apologise to her, she can't stop her Tears of Joy... | |
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Asshole Victim | |
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Asshole Victims: Too many to count. While Fran and Veronica often do pretty terrible things to some characters, the victims in question are mostly jerks who aren't truly sympathetic to begin with. | |
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Ecocidal Antagonist | |
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Ecocidal Antagonist: The story arcs about the masked crime fighter Sentinel introduce the evil organization Black Lotus, a more unorthodox variant of this trope, which does want to destroy the world and humanity. However, they do this by being humanitarians, because they believe that causing humanity to prosper will give them their intended results anyway via overpopulation and pollution. | |
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Sir Swears-a-Lot | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_8fd7af48 | comment |
Sir Swears-a-Lot: Gavrill has such a potty mouth that she swears in almost literally every sentence she speaks. | |
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Hive Mind | |
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Hive Mind: Chapter 10, "Cockroaches", implies that the cockroaches possess one. | |
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Laser-Guided Karma | |
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Laser-Guided Karma: Usually happens to either the person Fran operates on or whoever that person is closest to. It also has a strong chance of not helping at all, and just having a regular old Downer Ending when people die without deserving it. For an ideal example, the villain from "Eternal Youth" tries to have Fran killed (unsuccessfully) and has her anti-aging treatment stolen (successfully) the moment she has it working. She acted prematurely — the anti-aging treatment worked, but she took it before Fran had the time to eliminate the potential side effect of it turning the user into a heaving puddle of cancerous tissue. It was her own greedy desire to get it as soon as possible and keep anyone else from having access to it that led to her downfall. In "Phantom Lake" from the Frantic series, several of Fran's creations move to a lakeside house and are brutally killed by a group of self-proclaimed "monster hunter" university students. Fran had given these creations a chip containing the contact information of her and the other creations so they could talk when they felt lonely, and the university students find the chip and use the contact information to lure Fran's remaining creations there and kill them too. When Fran finds out, she harvests the students' organs and uses them to revive her creations, and turns what is left of the students' bodies into an actual monster that lives at the bottom of the lake. Another particularly notable case is Jun Kurosuma, the pediatric surgeon in Frantic Chapter 36, who engages in a vendetta against Fran out of visceral disgust at her methods rather than any rational objection. This ultimately leads her to destroy the irreplaceable source of the sole effective treatment for a fatal virus her daughter is later infected with. | |
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Fountain of Youth | |
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Fountain of Youth: In the chapter "Eternal Youth", this is the villain's goal, to the point of regularly having doctors killed so she can steal their research. It bites her in the ass when Fran's turn comes up; because Fran's research was still very experimental, the old woman does become young again, sure, but soon turns into a pulsating mess of cancer cells. | |
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Half the Man He Used to Be | |
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Half the Man He Used to Be: Agito in "Trivial Love", who gets better thanks to his Healing Factor Fran herself in "Right And Left", in which her solution to being sliced down the middle is to let both halves of her body develop and repair themselves individually and recombine them at a later date. However, prolonged separation causes Fran's right half to develop a proper moral code. This influences the right half to escape her property and become a successful doctor at a normal hospital. Sadly, she's too easily guilt-tripped into acting on the whims of her patients, and the resulting mess of corruption and bribery brings her work to a screeching halt. | |
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Forehead of Doom | |
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Forehead of Doom: Fran's forehead, in traditional Frankenstein's Monster style. | |
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Monstrous Humanoid | |
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Monstrous Humanoid: Most of Fran's entourage, who are stitched-together creations like her and Veronica but are much less human in appearance. Adorea is the most human in form but she's one of the most monstrous under her bandadges. | |
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Back for the Finale | |
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Back for the Finale: Basically every secondary or one-chapter-only character makes an appearance in Fran's dream in the original run's last chapter. | |
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Torture Porn | |
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Torture Porn: The movie Fran unknowingly starred in. | |
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Revenge Before Reason | |
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Revenge Before Reason: Sentinel 3, AKA the "Avenging Sentinel" becomes addicted to vengeance, even setting up his own non-combat allies to be killed just to have an excuse for it because the act of vengeance feels really good. It's not Combat Sadomasochism or Orgasmic Combat, it's just knowing you're avenging someone even someone you set up to die in the first place produces that same kind of high. | |
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WanderingJew | |
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Wandering Jew: The man himself appears, his body so far gone that his organs have been replaced by hordes of insects. Fran kindly rebuilds his body while Veronica thinks it's cruel to let him live after he says (well, writes) that he's very tired. They both get their wish when the rebuilt wanderer spies Jesus On The Cross in the Sun, remembers he was a Roman Soldier (he's been as far from visible light as possible to avoid people), rejoices at the sight of the one who can forgive him and instantly liquefies. Although, according to Doctor Amatsuka, the identity and biography of this man may be partly or even completely different, since the Doctor reminisced on the unreliability of human memory in the same chapter. | |
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Contemplate Our Navels | |
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Contemplate Our Navels: Fran is prone to meditating on the nature of humanity, ethics and everything in between...after she's done the morally questionable and potentially unsafe operation, of course. | |
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Took a Level in Badass | |
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Took a Level in Badass: While your opinion may vary as to whether she became "badass" or not, you can't deny that officer Kuhou became a hell of a lot more serious after she was transformed into a monster girl. | |
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A Day in the Limelight | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_9c8701b5 | comment |
A Day in the Limelight: While the focus is usually on Fran and her patients, some chapters instead focus on other characters like Gavrill, Veronica and Adorea. | |
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Continuity Nod | |
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Continuity Nod: In the last issue of the original run, Fran has a dream in which every person she ever treated throws a big party for her. | |
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CloudCuckooLander | |
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Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Fran is an Artificial Human with the brain of a really chipper five-year-old, and her decisions and ethics are sound... for what she knows. Fran has been programmed to never, ever take a life, no matter what, and lacks the maturity to really think past that singular thought. This results in monstrously poor judgment on her part. She's a child with the power to mutate someone else for fun and profit, and no one can stop her. | |
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Gag Dub | |
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Gag Dub: In the scanlations that predated the official English release; similar to those of other fan scanlation groups, inserts a little gag at the end of most chapters consisting of an edited panel or two. These have ranged to making fun of GEICO commercials, comparing bronies to zombies and how they spread the same way, to claiming that Naruto causes brain damage. All in good fun, of course. | |
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We Can Rebuild Him | |
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We Can Rebuild Him: Multiple examples, but one of the most extreme is in "Piety", where the cultists keep a young girl alive by converting her into a factory that somehow gets pregnant. Even Fran is a little stumped about how that happened. | |
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Pseudo-Romantic Friendship | |
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Another example comes from Frantic "Tasty Life", which ends with two naked girls (who had been more or less in a Pseudo-Romantic Friendship) lying together... but let's just say the "eating out" is very literal here. | |
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Homage | |
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Homage: "Her Pet Dog" is a homage to the story of Hachikō. The Sentinel chapters are an obvious homage/parody of the Showa Kamen Rider series, with the four Sentinels corresponding to Kamen Riders #1, #2, V3, and Riderman. | |
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Fedora of Asskicking | |
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Fedora of Asskicking: Veronica's fedora, which just adds a bit for her role as bodyguard/assassin. | |
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Cruel Twist Ending | |
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Cruel Twist Ending: Quite a few of the chapters seem like they will be resolved in a relatively peaceful manner, only for it to twist the knife in the most horrifying manner possible. "Chrysalis" is a particularly horrifying example, as the girl turns into a human/insect hybrid and eats her boyfriend after they have sex. | |
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Healing Factor | |
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Fran's lab assistants tend to be about ten feet tall and half as broad across the shoulders. At least one of them has a remarkable Healing Factor and can serve as a decent assassin. | |
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And I Must Scream | |
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"Living Dead" has a Caribbean island where people killed by a disease of unknown origin come back from the dead to feast on the living. As it turns out, the disease was caused by a brain parasite which causes feigned death then makes the host a cannibal aware of their condition but unable to stop themselves. Worst of all, this is reversible but no one knows that. | |
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Super-Senses | |
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Super-Senses: The wolf-like Gavrill has super-hearing and super-smelling. The latter makes her already torturous tenure as a high school sub unbearable because the students' body fluids are overwhelming. Veronica's senses are also much sharper than a normal human's, but pale in comparison to her sister's. | |
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Personality Blood Types | |
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Personality Blood Types: The subject of "Blood Type". It eventually turns the school into a hellhole of blood type-based segregation and intolerance, causing problems for Adorea who winds up eating what appears to be most of the students in the school in an attempt to fit in, turning her into a giant, bloated monster. In the end, the students eventually back off of it... because they start using astrology instead. | |
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Red Baron | |
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Red Baron: Gavrill is nicknamed "The Wolf" due to her extreme brutality and the form she likes to transform into during battles. In a bit of a subversion, though, most people actually refer to her by her name. | |
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Dramatic Irony | |
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Dramatic Irony: The volume 5 extra covers the first two Sentinels meeting way after the point where they could recognize each other. Takeshi, now a hideous monster, tries to reach out to his old haunt, the cafe he used to frequent. The new regular Juumonji, is the new Sentinel and was inspired by Takeshi. However, by the time Takeshi finally gets to the cafe, all Juumonji sees of his hero is what he believes is one of Black Lotus' goons, chasing him away. Worse still is how everyone wishes Takeshi was still around so they don't have to deal with these monsters, and how Juumonji's attack on Takeshi caused the latter to consider working for Black Lotus. | |
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Soundtrack Dissonance | |
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Soundtrack Dissonance: The ending of the CD drama adaptation of "Chrysalis" wherein Kaneda eats her mutually loving boyfriend, Tajima, in the manner of many insects is accompanied by light, cheerful music. | |
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Super-Powered Robot Meter Maids | |
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Super-Powered Robot Meter Maids: Not with robots, but an artificial organism. For some reason Fran decided to give a living amusement park mascot 20 times the strength of a horse and teeth sharp enough to bite people's heads off. Fran's lab assistants tend to be about ten feet tall and half as broad across the shoulders. At least one of them has a remarkable Healing Factor and can serve as a decent assassin. | |
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Catchphrase | |
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Catchphrase: "Begin the operation!" | |
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Be Careful What You Wish For | |
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Be Careful What You Wish For: Fran's patients should really think a little harder about turning to her for help. Those that ask for simple procedures can get away virtually unscathed. It's the ones that tend to ask for medical miracles that suffer. This is played with in some cases, as in many cases the crap that happens to them is their own fault, such as overdoing a youth treatment until they mutate into a blob of cancer cells, or ripping off transplanted skin that was perfectly fine because it was derived from cockroaches. In fact, a great deal of the problems that occur really aren't Fran's fault, and stem from stupid and/or shortsighted people stealing her work for their own purposes, or ignoring her advice. | |
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Abusive Parents | |
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Abusive Parents: Pops up often. The parents of the girl in "Take To Pieces" are too poor to take her to a hospital, so they simply cut off the mutations growing on her body. When the mutations get too numerous to keep up, they simply abandon their daughter. In chapter six, the girl's parents kill her, then cook her and serve her up to guests as a birthday feast (her own birthday, no less!). The step-father of the girl in "Attempted Suicide" sexually abuses her. | |
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Fate Worse than Death | |
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Fate Worse than Death: Those who go through Fran's surgery and do not end up outright killed will usually end up with one of these (only a few don't, lucky them) — either courtesy of Fran's dedication to saving life no matter what, or her questionable medical ethics. If they don't, someone else related probably will. | |
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Loophole Abuse | |
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Loophole Abuse: When Fran is forbidden by a family to perform a simple heart operation due to what usually happens, she respects the wish even though the kid will die. However, they said nothing about modifying the surgeon that was going to do it and giving him extraordinary medical abilities. Unlike most cases, it seems to have a happy ending as the kid survived and the surgeon, while acting somewhat out of character, is now one of the best surgeons in the field. | |
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Retcon | |
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Retcon: In the first rolling world chapter, the mascots start killing people when the music stops. The next time they appear, they don't seem to have any of this, and are simply antropomorphic living beings who just want a better life. Also wasn't Nezura a child rapist in his previous life? No mention of that either, although that might have been another amusement park. | |
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AirVentEscape | |
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Airvent Escape: Fran tries this but her butt is too big. Solution? Cut off her legs and walk home on her hands. | |
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Meatgrinder Surgery | |
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Meatgrinder Surgery: Generally subverted. Fran does handle her operations with care, though the urgency of most of the operations she's about to perform, as well as their sometimes messy results, makes it look like this. However, some of them do qualify. | |
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Rape and Revenge | |
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Rape and Revenge: One chapter features a girl who was sexually assaulted on a recurring basis by multiple men, ending with her getting killed by one of them. She however, gets a post-mortem revenge by infecting herself with a strain of heavily virulent and deadly gonorrhea which painfully kills men, letting that bacteria run wild on her victimizers. | |
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Genki Girl | |
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Averted. Fran, for all her smiley Genki Girl nature, is probably more dangerous than her father, especially when she tries to "help" and ends up turning you into a grotesque mockery of life. | |
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Born Lucky | |
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Born Lucky: Fran's explanation for the condemned man's Healing Factor in Chapter 28—he's simply impossibly lucky, and his indestructibility is a result. However, because he defied the odds so many times, he hits the "death via being struck by lightning" jackpot. | |
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The Worm That Walks | |
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The Worm That Walks: In chapter 24, Fran encounters a man cursed with immortality. His original flesh and organs have rotted away and been replaced by swarms of insects that function as his eyes, heart, skin, etc... | |
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Squick | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_b486877f | comment |
In "Unhappy Birthday", a group of party guests unknowingly, well... "Could everyone stop eating, please? You're eating the guest of honor." Cue the synchronized vomiting. | |
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Everyone Has Standards | |
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Everyone Has Standards: The people of unusual tastes manage to out-creep Fran, though the argument could be, as a doctor, she has issues with people who obsessively cause themselves pain. Veronica has a moment where she is wondering why Fran is forcing people to live. However, due to Blue-and-Orange Morality, this is more of a case of Blue having heard of Quality of Life. In a chapter of Frantic, Veronica is visibly disgusted while watching Fran turn dogs into living beds for infants, and muses that this particular adventure might be too much for her. | |
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Terrified of Germs | |
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Terrified of Germs: The client in "Cockroaches" has this so bad that she asks Fran to create something that will kill off all cockroaches. After she gets badly burned, her skin grafts are revealed to be made from the exoskeleton of cockroaches. Cue Freak Out, followed by the above trope. | |
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Take That! | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_b53077b3 | comment |
Take That!: Most folks are often too focused on the dark horror-humor to notice that the other half of the manga's comedy is firmly rooted in biting, snarky satire, often regarding Japanese culture and manga/anime tropes and cliches, mostly from taking whatever is being mocked at the time and bringing it to a twisted extreme. Examples include: Japanese blood type superstition is mocked by depicting it leading to a segregationist, dictatorial caste system. "Two Dimensions", an entire chapter showcasing the horrific things one would have to do to themselves to look like an anime character in real life, and just how hideous that would actually look. "Longevity", the chapter focusing on an impossibly old woman, and Fran discovering the secret to her supposed immortality. The chapter appears mostly serious, with very little in the way of jokes, until you're hit square in the face with the punchline of the entire chapter: Ever have an extremely old relative who requires constant care and attention, and never seems to die? They're doing it on purpose because they hate you, and your misery feeds them and makes them immortal. Old people hate you. "Sea Monster" has a small one against radical nature organisations like Green Peace. Frantic has an entire character that's dedicated to poking fun at fans who get so engrossed in yuri, yaoi, bishonen, and other such characters in manga and anime to the point they start pushing those unrealistic fetishistic ideals and scenarios on actual people. | |
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Easy Sex Change | |
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Easy Sex Change: In "Cosmetic Surgery", Fran gives anyone and everyone in a school plastic surgery, from the mundane (epicanthoplasty) to the still mundane but getting goofy (giant breasts, a guy who's remade to look like an action hero star) to the completely ridiculous (human bobblehead, demon horns). Ranging in the middle of the spectrum is a boyfriend and girlfriend she switches the sex of - literally swapping their genitalia even - because the girlfriend was attacked once and is now afraid of men. No, sexuality doesn't work that way, but this is Franken Fran. | |
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Cycle of Revenge | |
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Cycle of Revenge: Parodied. Fran helps a bullied teenager become a mechanical superhero called Sentinel. The families and friends of the many criminals killed by Sentinel in turn ask Fran to make them superheroes so they can seek revenge. The Black Comedy increases as more and more people want to avenge their loved ones and their vigilantism creates even more people who want to become heroes to avenge their loved ones | |
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Blood Knight | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_b7c53a22 | comment |
Blood Knight: Gavrill relishes violence and bloodshed and will wade into combat without hesitation, as her abilities make her almost impervious to harm. | |
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Huge Schoolgirl | |
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Huge Schoolgirl: One of the people that asks for Fran's assistance at school is a large, gonky looking girl. Fran lampshades that for her age, gender and ethnicity, the girl is remarkably tall. | |
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Came Back Wrong | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_b983a56b | comment |
Came Back Wrong: In the very first chapter, when Fran agrees to bring a dead man's son back to life, she tells Okita that while reanimating his body is easy, reviving his personality is pretty much impossible. | |
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Rape, Pillage, and Burn | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_ba6cf869 | comment |
Rape, Pillage, and Burn: What Gavrill and her crew do on a regular basis. | |
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Hard Truth Aesop | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_bbc77bb5 | comment |
Hard Truth Aesop: In-universe example. Gavrill becomes the de facto advice counselor while subbing at Fran and Veronica's school, and quickly becomes the most popular teacher because she doesn't sugar-coat things for the students. All her advice tends to boil down to "Do [illegal or questionable activity]. What, too much of a wimp? Do [more ethical/practical suggestion], then." | |
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One-Gender Race | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_bbcdd673 | comment |
One-Gender Race: The gender-segregated islands in "Amazon", which became that way thanks to Fran's dad. The two "tribes" want to get to know each other better but they're so hyper-aggressive and clueless about relationships with the opposite sex that they wind up killing each other. ONE baby is born who survives the massacre, and it's a hermaphrodite. | |
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Knight Templar | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_bbfaa837 | comment |
Knight Templar: Veronica. She was built to defend her target by killing any threat. The problem, as later chapters make clear, is that her definition of "threat" is rather lower than it should be. "Girl's School" opens with her killing people for coming near Fran's mansion, and she's pulled her weapons for people just teasing Fran. All the Sentinels qualify as well. The first one to be introduced killed a guy who recently had left the prison because he didn't think that two years sentenced in prison was enough for him. | |
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Berserk Button | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_bc74ef27 | comment |
Berserk Button: Inverted. Fran is usually pretty happy to do operations, but when you want do it to impress someone you like, she starts breaking into Tender Tears. It seems like she's really into The Power of Love... In "Killing Impulse", Gavrill goes on a violent rampage against a group of politicians who ordered Prof. Amatsuka attacked. Moreover, near the end of the same chapter, Fran also admits she would do the same thing if she found out who the culprits behind Amatsuka's assault were, except she would use her own methods instead simply killing them. It's strongly implied that she does know — or at least suspects — and is covertly threatening them against trying it again. | |
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Slasher Smile | |
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Slasher Smile: The Madaraki siblings put these own when engaging in their preferred activities; Fran during a surgical operation, and Gavrill and Veronica when they're fighting. | |
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Incest Subtext | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_bdc453a0 | comment |
Incest Subtext: It's hinted more than once that Veronica loves Fran as more than just a sister. This gets lampshaded in the final extra chapter, but Fran shrugs it off as Veronica just being over-reliant on her. In "Aura", Veronica becomes flustered over Fran asking her if she likes anyone. Veronica is about to boldly yell her answer (implied to be Fran) but is cut off by Fran. It's also implied at the end of "Right And Left", as Veronica has Fran's mindless extra body in her room and spends a lot of time alone with it. | |
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Alliterative Name | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_be009bbc | comment |
Alliterative Name: Spoofed in "People Of Unusual Tastes". The people all have alliterative names, from A.A. to E.E., mocking the convention of murder mysteries to usually name suspects as A, B, etc. Of course, our beloved lady doctor is called Franken Fran even if that's not her actual name... | |
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Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_beb91a53 | comment |
Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter: Averted. Fran, for all her smiley Genki Girl nature, is probably more dangerous than her father, especially when she tries to "help" and ends up turning you into a grotesque mockery of life. Hilariously subverted if you consider Fran to be the Mad Scientist rather than the Daughter. Most of her creations can seem appealing at first...then the side effects kick in. | |
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Mind Screw | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_bef696dd | comment |
Mind Screw: In "Justice 2", an evil organization plans to destroy the world! By, um... giving away free medicine, fixing world hunger, curing diseases, destroying poverty, helping developing countries, and settling disputes for the sake of causing over-population. | |
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Boy Meets Ghoul | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_bf780240 | comment |
Boy Meets Ghoul: A half-blind painter approaches Fran for a new set of eyes, so she gives him ones that were made from the ommatidia of a mantis shrimp which allow him to see everything from radio waves to X-Rays. The painter stumbles out into the forest only to find it full of Eldritch Abominations. Terrified and disoriented, he falls off a cliff, then finds himself face-to-face with a beautiful young woman. It's one of the few Happily Ever After arcs in the manga, even if Okita's reaction to a painting the artist made of his new lover indicates she is not what she appears to be. The artist's notes indicate that she was a variant on a Yuki Onna. But despite being a supernatural being, she seems to be genuinely nice to Urasawa. | |
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Sexy Secretary | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_c0d32460 | comment |
Sexy Secretary: Professor Amatsuka gets one in "God & Dog", who is actually a spy out to steal his and Fran's medical secrets. | |
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Show Within a Show | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_c2393191 | comment |
Show Within a Show: The Hachiko homage, shamelessly parodying some adaptation issues such as Adaptation Decay (it's a horrible rendition of what happened), Adaptational Attractiveness (Pudding turned from a fat, homely middle-aged man to a handsome twenty-something), Relationship Upgrade (Runa and Pudding end up...romantically involved), and Spared by the Adaptation (both Runa and Pudding survive). | |
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Rent-a-Zilla | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_c36365af | comment |
Fran herself is guilty of this from time to time. For instance, a giant monster Humanoid Abomination is ravaging the ocean in one chapter. Fran's reaction? "It sure is cute. I want one." | |
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Meido | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_c3681757 | comment |
Meido: Matsumae's island fantasy contains a whole team of these. | |
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Flesh Golem | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_c3844d3d | comment |
Flesh Golem: Many various flavors of the trope appear, but a classic example is the golem Fran hastily made from the bodies of dead Mooks to fight Gavrill. It didn't last two seconds against her. | |
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How Many Fingers? | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_c5dcc180 | comment |
How Many Fingers?: Fran did it in the "Attempted Suicide" chapter. | |
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Fan Disservice | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_c660bc15 | comment |
Fan Disservice: There's a surprising amount of nudity... and every time it shows up it stops being erotic about three panels later. One of the horrifying and disgusting examples is in Chapter 19, "Lust", when Fran helps the girls deal with their boy problems by diverting the boys' sexual appetites. What the boys think is a pile of hot, young women ready to do the down and dirty is actually a mass of tentacles and body parts emitting a pheromone. Another example comes from Frantic "Tasty Life", which ends with two naked girls (who had been more or less in a Pseudo-Romantic Friendship) lying together... but let's just say the "eating out" is very literal here. | |
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Shout-Out | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: One story is remarkably like HP Lovecraft's From Beyond, except that the subject is a blind man given the peepers from a squid instead of exposed to a Chrono Scope. Another point of divergence is that he makes friends with a ghost. "Giant School Girl" has the fishmonger who has property rights to the whale liken her to the appeal of a giant robot, showing what looks like a Gundam with a ton of censor stickers over it. Frantic Chapter 48 "Mystery Train" involves a locked-room mystery ressucitation onboard a train, where all other passengers are doctors or surgeons. It turns out the "culprits" are a the whole group working together to ressucitate the victim, although their motives were ultimately nefarious. | |
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Description Cut | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_c83751cb | comment |
Description Cut: One chapter has two students in Fran's high school mention how a new young female teacher has recently arrived, and wonder if she'll be able to handle herself. The next page immediately reveals it's Gavrill, so yes, she'll be just fine. | |
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Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_c84e56a2 | comment |
Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You: In "The Panoramic Island"'s cover, Fran Madaraki Is About To Shoot You. Interestingly enough, this chapter also contains a bald, scarred man with a Right-Hand Cat... | |
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Dr. Fakenstein | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_c93d5bc3 | comment |
Dr. Fakenstein: While Fran is visually a reference to Frankenstein's Monster, her character is closer to Victor Frankenstein himself what with her For Science! attitude and tendency to create Body Horror. | |
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Vagina Dentata | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_cbf05a02 | comment |
Vagina Dentata: The girl in "Take To Pieces", sort of. Due to the mutations on her body, she has an actual mouth where her lady-parts would usually be. | |
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Generic Cuteness | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_cc6d95ac | comment |
Generic Cuteness: In the plastic surgery chapter, a girl wants "big eyes" (read: she wants an epicanthoplasty). It's near impossible to tell the difference in the before and after, and even the author admits the character designs gave the story some problems. Though, we only get one "before" shot of her—one eye seems to be squinting while she holds the other one open wider. It's possible the "squinting" look is natural, and what she wants to have altered. This trope caused problems in "Two-Dimensions", where an actress wants to look like an anime character. The difference, especially with the eyes, is small...at first. | |
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Casting Couch | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_ce165390 | comment |
Casting Couch: Invoked, and a rare male example. The small time actor Tooru Yukizaki only got his pheromones adjusted so that producers and big wigs will take notice of him and put him in their projects, with his acting securing the rest of media attenion. Instead, the big wigs end up liking him so much that he's "invited" to multiple gatherings to entertain them and reluctantly act out their kinks. He ultimately gets plastic surgery and removes his hormone secretion gland just to make them stop hounding him, but the damage is done, and they have their way with him even with an ugly face. | |
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Lighter and Softer | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_ce6555f0 | comment |
Lighter and Softer: Franken Fran Frantic, to an extent. Both the original series and Frantic share similar levels of gore, violence, and general horror, but the latter has more of its stories end on some positive note. That said, the circumstances surrounding said endings are still as disturbing as ever, such as a woman covering her body in lactating breasts or a man turning his paralyzed, brain-dead fiancée and stillborn child into fleshy androids. | |
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Nightmare Face | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_cf48c17 | comment |
Nightmare Face: While Gavrill is incapable of expressing joy other than via Slasher Smile, bringing her bad news is just as disturbing. | |
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Horror Hunger | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_cf7b362 | comment |
Horror Hunger: On a number of occasions this is a side effects of Fran's modifications. One notable example, however, is her attempt to cure a Huge Schoolgirl of her overeating problem using an untested serum stolen from a company. She later finds the girl can't stop herself from eating, and is taunted by the CEO of the company she stole from that this was the intended effect of the serum she stole. Why provide a cure for unhealthy eating when they can have customers driven to consume endlessly? The girl ends up choking trying to swallow her boyfriend head first, at which point the story ends with Fran preparing to operate. | |
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Muscles Are Meaningless | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_cf9b131f | comment |
Muscles Are Meaningless: In "Imaginary Self", the boy's first request for Fran was to have bigger muscles so he wouldn't be as easy to bully...but she didn't make him any stronger, just bulkier. | |
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Anti-Villain | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_d001c42c | comment |
Anti-Villain: The evil organization in "Justice 2" actually controls the whole world's charity organization and tries to make as much good as possible out of people's lives to cause overpopulation and destroy the world. Why this necessitates turning their members into monsters is unclear. So our protagonist who found out the horrible truth is now Walking the Earth and burning orphanages. He eventually picks up help. | |
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Religion Is Right | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_d07ab81c | comment |
Religion Is Right: Jesus existed and was able to work miracles, at least. The Flying Spaghetti Monster also exists, or at least does now. | |
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No Questions Asked | |
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No Questions Asked: Fran's policy. As long as you have the money, she'll perform whatever procedure you ask for. What you do afterwards is none of her concern. | |
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What the Hell, Hero? | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_d39e327f | comment |
What the Hell, Hero?: Played with in the sequel to "Justice", when a new Sentinel discovers that the Big Bad's plan to destroy the world is through charities (clean water and hospitals for everyone = population boom = overcrowded humanity will fight each other at the drop of a hat = Profit!). Nonetheless, the Big Bad is very upset at the deaths of his minions and allows their families to take revenge. It doesn't work since they're normal humans against one of Fran's creations. The Sentinel goes on a bombing spree against anything remotely charitable and gets tagged as a terrorist. | |
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Sympathy for the Devil | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_d3a4af1e | comment |
Sympathy for the Devil: For a brief moment in "A Very Lucky Man", officer Kuhou actually expresses her condolences to the criminal, now that Fran is in the picture. All of that goes flying right out the window when he ejaculates on her, causing her to realize just how much of a lunatic he is. | |
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Morally Ambiguous Doctorate | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_d3aad64a | comment |
Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: Is Fran even qualified?! She is a genuinely skilled doctor (insanely skilled, at that) when it comes to most regular medical practice. It's just that many of the operations she's asked to perform are too crazy for us readers to usually remember it. | |
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Revised Ending | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_d51158ee | comment |
Revised Ending: Word of God is that "Snow Light" was originally going to be an omake in which Fran fails to save the girl's brother (because they won't let her near the operation due to her reputation), and instead fixes the girl's broken doll. In the full version that was published, the girl makes Fran realize that she can save her brother even without being allowed to perform the heart transplant — by performing unauthorized surgery on the doctor that was chosen that enhances him to the point that he's up to the task. Instead, she can't fix the doll, as she just knows how to fix actual, living people. | |
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Hypocrite | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_d52d28b6 | comment |
Hypocrite: Jun Kurosuma claims to despise Fran because of the harm she's caused childrennote ignoring that it was inadvertant, and in all the cases she cites, the result of someone else abusing Fran's inventions with Fran at worst guilty of negligence, saying that by contrast she'd give her life to save any child. She's actually just viscerally horrified and disgusted by Fran's methods and what she's capable of and as a result, ends up dooming countless children to death by a disease she's rendered permanently incurable as a result of her vendetta, including her own daughter, having put her hatred of Fran and disgust at one of her creations ahead of even trying to understand why it existed and what it might be for. For the cherry on top of the hypocrisy sundae, she begs Fran to save her daughter anyway the moment she realizes what she's done... only for Fran to explain that she can't — the cure was discovered by accident during an experiment conducted by numerous researchers, and she alone can't possibly recreate the biological android it was derived from; even if she had help, it's unlikely they could rediscover exactly what happened that led to it being a source of the cure. | |
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Eyes Do Not Belong There | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_d57dfae4 | comment |
Eyes Do Not Belong There: The Flying Spaghetti Monster shouldn't have that many eyes in one socket. | |
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Pheromones | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_d6743235 | comment |
Pheromones: In Chapter 19, "Lust", Fran comes up with a way to make the male students stop hitting on the girls; she creates a gelatinous creature that emits pheromones causing the guys to see it as a room of naked women, with whom they have sex. Fran uses these in chapter 36, "Aura", in an attempt to make an actor more "charismatic", but her calculations are a little off and the situation gets out of control. Notably, she acknowledges that pheromones don't normally have much of an effect on people, but somehow makes it work anyway. | |
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Love Redeems | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_d842e380 | comment |
Love Redeems: The outcome of "Trivial Love", as Agito leaves his old job to start a bioweapon family with the woman who nursed him back to health. | |
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Unusually Uninteresting Sight | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_d99a228f | comment |
Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Lampshaded in "People Of Unusual Tastes", where people explain to Okita that they don't find the sight of a cat with a man's head surprising because they're familiar with Fran's work. Okita hadn't even thought of it. | |
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Cute Monster Girl | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_d9e946ae | comment |
Cute Monster Girl: Fran, to a certain definition of "cute"—she becomes remarkably less cute when performing surgeries and holding people's parts while those people scream in their heads about how they don't want her to do this to them. Adorea's gentle demeanor can very easily endear her to some people. Even with the whole tentacles-for-a-face thing. Veronica, considering she has an adorable appearance despite being a patchwork girl with an assassin nature. Even Gavrill, for as psychotic as she is, looks like a beautiful and cute young woman when she's calm. In "The Panoramic Island 2", Officer Kuhou ends up with an insect-like face to give Matsumae a different opponent in his roleplaying. He ends up falling in love with her as she is. | |
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Action Girl | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_dae5c997 | comment |
Action Girl: Despite the series not really revolving around action/adventure, Veronica is sort of this depending of the situation. Chapter 46's "Anti-Fat Remedy" for instance shows her doing spy stuff to steal an anti-fat medicine for Fran from a company that refused to let Fran use it to help a morbidly obese girl. | |
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Tear Off Your Face | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_daead778 | comment |
Tear Off Your Face: Happens all the time. | |
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Hand Wave | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_dbb414ed | comment |
Fran uses these in chapter 36, "Aura", in an attempt to make an actor more "charismatic", but her calculations are a little off and the situation gets out of control. Notably, she acknowledges that pheromones don't normally have much of an effect on people, but somehow makes it work anyway. | |
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Locked Room Mystery | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_dcaa8b35 | comment |
There's a bunch of people who once were saved by Fran from an almost dead state. They gathered together and called her for a party. Then they played up a Locked Room Mystery so they could almost die and be saved by Fran again. Fran was squicked by them. | |
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Gambit Pileup | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_de9047ac | comment |
Gambit Pileup: It starts off with a Mafia boss forcibly making a double out of an attempted assassin and quickly devolves to everyone remotely involved gunning down each other. Fran herself doesn't even know who is who. | |
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Yuki-onna | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_dec92951 | comment |
Yuki Onna: In a filler chapter, Fran gives a blind man the eyes of a sea animal that can see the entire light spectrum. As he flees in terror from the normally invisible horrors, he quite literally bumps into a seemingly-normal young lady, who turns out to be a Yuki-Onna on summer vacation. They end up falling in love and she moves in with him. | |
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TheLongList | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_e16cedc6 | comment |
The Long List: Matsumae explaining what kind of characters has been made out of the clones in "Panoramic Island 1". | |
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Cruel Mercy | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_e19e68 | comment |
Cruel Mercy: Veronica spares the leader of the boarding school kidnappers because she was the only person who was nice to her, leaving her to explain the dead pile of pedophiles to the authorities. Although... | |
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Leaving Audience | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_e3767b53 | comment |
Leaving Audience: What happens during Fran's lecture on her new childbirth method in "Egg Parturition". It's a rare sympathetic moment for Fran as the fleeing of the other doctors brings her to tears. | |
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Art Evolution | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_e43c66bd | comment |
Art Evolution: Fran's character design evolved as the manga progressed, gaining slightly larger eyes and noticeably larger bolts. | |
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Mandatory Twist Ending | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_e4eb20fa | comment |
Mandatory Twist Ending: Averted. That is, we do get a guaranteed twist at the end, but sometimes the twist is a straight happy ending when we all expect something horrible. Thus, we can never be sure how it ends until the last panel. This is noticeable in "Chrysalis", where one page turned what would have been a happy Aesop about loving someone deep down into a biological booboo joke. | |
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He Who Must Not Be Seen | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_e52a0cac | comment |
In the last chapter, "Dream", Fran has a dream where all her friends and former patients visit, but she's woken up just before we get to see Naomitsu. | |
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Cult | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_e5411cdf | comment |
Cult: Eventually leads to the birth of an actual Flying Spaghetti Monster. | |
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Expy | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_e5421161 | comment |
Expy: There's a movie director who resembles Ron Jeremy. | |
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Gorn | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_e542d889 | comment |
Gorn: Lots and LOTS of it. In fact, in one episode Fran is (unknowingly) taking part in a Torture Porn movie. Then she realizes what it was and... well, the director's career ends. | |
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Determinator | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_e567510d | comment |
It's the best way to explain the girl in "Take To Pieces"'s recovery: Fran cured her of a rather extreme disease that caused her body to randomly grow tumor-like limbs, faces and organs. Her legs and a good chunk of her arms had to be removed in the process, but at least the girl survived. From there, Fran expected the human body's natural regeneration process to eventually restore her limbs to normal, and planned to observe the process, but judging from her reaction, said process happened almost instantly. Even Fran is stunned, though she speculates that the mind is more closely linked to the body than she thought, which basically means the girl is a huge Determinator. | |
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Old Shame | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_e6c88e42 | comment |
Old Shame: In-Universe example. Fran is tricked into starring in a torture porn movie. A few issues later, it's shown that Veronica knows Fran was in a movie but hasn't been allowed to see it. | |
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Humongous Mecha | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_e6f18344 | comment |
"Cockroach 2" of the original run doesn't deal with weird surgeries. It deals with Veronica finding a city made by cockroaches, which includes technology, music, love, superheroes, supervillains, Humongous Mecha, and a Super Saiyan cockroach. It really makes no sense, even in context. | |
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MacGuffin Super-Person | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_e75be4b3 | comment |
MacGuffin Super-Person: A girl is this to a sect. The building of the sect becomes her body. Then she gets pregnant. When the embryo awakens, mother and child merge to become the Flying Spaghetti Monster. | |
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True Sight | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_e7c33c6a | comment |
True Sight: Fran outfits an artist who is going blind with eyes capable of seeing every spectrum at the same time. He's trapped in a nightmare world full of Eldritch Abominations and flees in terror... until he runs into a perfectly normal-looking girl. They fall in love and he paints a picture of her to give to Fran. Okita is horrified. | |
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Space Whale Aesop | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_e8760868 | comment |
Space Whale Aesop: Every issue, though it doesn't take itself seriously. | |
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Blue-and-Orange Morality | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_e8e56799 | comment |
Veronica has a moment where she is wondering why Fran is forcing people to live. However, due to Blue-and-Orange Morality, this is more of a case of Blue having heard of Quality of Life. | |
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Groin Attack | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_eaf5a1ac | comment |
Groin Attack: "Amazon" has one during the two-page depiction of the male and female tribes fighting each other. There's this slightly shadowed, but obvious pic of one of the female amazons cutting one of the male's genitals off. This is payback because on the exact same page, there's a pic of some of the male tribe members raping the amazons (including the dead ones). In "Best Friend", it's revealed that a schoolgirl who was being used as a Sex Slave by the school principal (who also pimped her out to his friends and anyone who paid up) had asked Fran to deliberately infect her with a virulent, sexually-transmissible strain of bacteria that causes male genitals to rot. Cue two pages' worth of sudden panic as men all over the town are suddenly dropped in their tracks by the disease—teachers, politicians, school sports team members, cops... | |
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Big Creepy-Crawlies | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_eb4086e3 | comment |
Big Creepy-Crawlies: Insects are often used as an easy source of Nausea Fuel and terror. Insect-human hybrids, insects with a malevolent Hive Mind, people made of bugs, human fetuses that go through giant maggot/chrysalis phases instead of normal pregnancy, parasitic wasps and roaches preying on said fetuses...it's a long list. The artist is a little too good at drawing bugs. | |
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Crossover | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_eb7c34cf | comment |
Crossover: Franken Fran vs. Ms. Kaida's Ghost Stories is a crossover with Ms. Kaida's Ghost Stories, another comic series created by Kigitsu Katsuhisa, wherein a high school girl tells a classmate various horror stories. Said story has Kaida seek out Fran for scary story material, leading to Fran experimenting on the nature of fear. There's also a separate Ms. Kaida's Ghost Stories vs. Franken Fran that was serialized in that series. | |
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Evil Old Folks | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_eb9afb9d | comment |
Evil Old Folks: Chapter 50, "Longevity", is about a woman who has lived to an extreme old age all the while leeching off her family and making them miserable. She turns out to be part of a growing group of people that can live extremely long in a blissful dream-like state of lowered metabolism, contributing nothing while their families are obliged to take care of them, and it's implied most of them share her enjoyment of basking in the misery of others. | |
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Cain and Abel | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_eba6a077 | comment |
Cain and Abel: Fran and Veronica vs Gavrill. They all end up on civil terms by the epilogue, implying some offscreen reconciliation, though Veronica still has more than her fair share of reservations. | |
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Tender Tears | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_ece948d8 | comment |
Inverted. Fran is usually pretty happy to do operations, but when you want do it to impress someone you like, she starts breaking into Tender Tears. It seems like she's really into The Power of Love... | |
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| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_edd312d3 | type |
Münchausen Syndrome | |
| Franken Fran (Manga) / int_edd312d3 | comment |
Münchausen Syndrome: Fran has the five patients in "People of Unusual Tastes" that each kill themselves so that they can be treated and revived by Fran. They manage to even freak out Fran herself. | |
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Hollywood Exorcism | |
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Hollywood Exorcism: "Exorcist" has a cardinal being possessed by a demon and the Vatican exorcist troops doing everything they can for him. He's faking it so he can't become pope — he was a gangster and if his enemies found him they could hurt his friends. This being Franken Fran there's also the fact that he's got a fully developed infant in his skull thanks to an untested stem cell treatment. | |
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Face Full of Alien Wing-Wong | |
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Face Full of Alien Wing-Wong: Hinted in "Octopus" as "Azusa" shoves a tentacle down her "brother's" throat as "she"'s mating with him. Some cephalopods break off a sperm-filled tentacle so the females can fertilize themselves at their own pace, but "Azusa" is a shape-shifter... | |
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Redemption Equals Death | |
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Kuze Akari in "Twenty Four" who originally wanted to swindle his niece's fortune. After being forced to share her body, he realizes how awful her life is because all her relatives keep hounding her for said fortune. In the end, in an unusual variant of Redemption Equals Death, he condemns himself to a Fate Worse than Death to give her a chance to live free. | |
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Undying Loyalty | |
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Undying Loyalty: Despite how horribly she treated them and used them as nothing more but spare parts, Shidou Miyako's clones were genuinely horrified and worried when they saw their master being reduced to a writhing tumor and tried to do everything in their power to fix her. | |
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Nothing Exciting Ever Happens Here | |
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Two chapters in Frantic shift completely to focus on two teenagers named Alice and Bunny, who live in a desolate seaside town that's prone to weirdness. Fran doesn't receive a single mention in these chapters, though the following one (a crossover with Ms. Kaida's Ghost Stories) does feature Fran stumbling across the gory aftermath of the second story before switching to the main plot. | |
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Breast Expansion | |
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Breast Expansion: When Fran is handing out free plastic surgery at high school, one of the more 'sensible' patients (as in "did not get stitched to a friend" or "had their face changed to look like a disfigured skull") decides to get breast implants so big they make up the majority of her weight. | |
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Mix-and-Match Critters | |
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Mix-and-Match Critters: There are a lot of monsters in the manga that are mashup of different things. And the blending process isn't always perfect... | |
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Dude, She's Like in a Coma | |
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Dude, She's Like in a Coma: Apparently, everyone working on the movie in "The Final Movie" came to this conclusion. The critical difference in this case was that she wasn't sleeping; she had already died of the parasitic infection. Leading inexorably to the squicky twist ending... | |
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You Bastard! | |
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You Bastard!: "Living Dead" is a deconstruction of Zombie Stories that basically portrays the genre's appeal as an excuse to murder people with diseases (which turn out to be curable). | |
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Murder Is the Best Solution | |
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Murder Is the Best Solution: Veronica was built with this in mind. She becomes slightly less quick to resort to it as the series goes on, mostly thanks to her sister's upbringing. | |
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Dying Dream | |
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Dying Dream: "Cannibalism", the girl who was cannibalizing people to fend off an autoimmune disease ends up with a brain-eating prion disease. The previous pages showing her succeeding in life and becoming happy are revealed to be a dream. Fran wonders what she's dreaming about to have such a beautiful smile on her face. | |
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Our Werewolves Are Different | |
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Our Werewolves Are Different: Gavrill's overpowered form is very werewolf-like in design, to the point that it's part of the reason why she's nicknamed "the Wolf". | |
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Love Makes You Crazy | |
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Love Makes You Crazy: The patient in "Protozoan" can't stand the fact her best friend/romantic interest seems happier without her, so she steals all of the friend's modelling assignments. Unfortunately this causes the friend to go slightly crazy and commit suicide. | |
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Grotesque Cute | |
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Grotesque Cute: The humans in this story can be quite adorable, as long as they stay human. | |
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Beware the Nice Ones | |
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In "Phantom Lake" from the Frantic series, several of Fran's creations move to a lakeside house and are brutally killed by a group of self-proclaimed "monster hunter" university students. Fran had given these creations a chip containing the contact information of her and the other creations so they could talk when they felt lonely, and the university students find the chip and use the contact information to lure Fran's remaining creations there and kill them too. When Fran finds out, she harvests the students' organs and uses them to revive her creations, and turns what is left of the students' bodies into an actual monster that lives at the bottom of the lake. | |
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Well-Intentioned Extremist | |
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Well-Intentioned Extremist: Probably one of the oddest examples of this trope, as Fran is not of the typical "I do what is right, even if I have to do terrible things to do so." Thanks to Blue and Orange Morality, Fran is entirely incapable of seeing her extremism as anything wrong and doesn't take well to being called out on what she does. At most, she might see those solutions as not ideal. She also subverts this at times. Most chapters put her in a situation that requires extreme measures to be taken, but when faced with day-to-day concerns, she often suggests more rational courses of actions. Veronica wants to protect Fran. Unfortunately her first and only solution to anyone getting too close to Fran is "murder the crap out of them". A bizarre inversion would have to be the Black Lotus Syndicate. Their plan is the eradication of humanity...but they don't plan on killing even one person. Instead, they plan on improving the human condition to the point that the number of human beings on the planet exceeds the number of resources available, which will incite World War 3, as every nation battles every other for the few remaining resources left. Naturally, their leader is an Actual Pacifist, who tries to stop his minions and Sentinel 2 from fighting one another. He fails utterly, his minions too enraged by Sentinel 2 killing their family members, and Sentinel 2 not able to control his own strength. | |
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Pet the Dog | |
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Pet the Dog: Gavrill, of all people, shows signs of this to Prof. Amatsuka. As a more literal example, Veronica to Paku in the extra chapter "Bloody Veronica". Veronica gets one in "Right And Left" after Fran was split into two halves. After Fran's logical half sharply criticizes her, Fran's emotional half gives her a hug and praise. She was also hugged in the epilogue of the series by both of her sisters. Gavrill gets this in a chapter of Frantic clearly parodying the likes of Danganronpa, Zero Escape, and other "trapped in a deadly game" media. Having entered disguised as a small child to try to get information as to the true ringleaders, she does her absolute best to protect a group of innocents with which she forms a strange bond. Even requesting that Fran save them after they end up killed due to ignoring her warnings that it was too dangerous for them out of a misguided sense of solidarity. Given her usual attitude toward Fran's work, she must have really cared about them. | |
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Shown Their Work | |
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Shown Their Work: While naturally exaggerated to hell-and-back for the sake of the plot, the basic principles and scientific explanations that Fran gives regarding any given procedure are usually rooted in actual facts and existing medical theories. Frantic Chapter 37, "Forbidden Experiment" is one of the more notable examples. In real life, the Stanford Prison Experiment is notorious among psychologists for bad methodology and believed manipulation of events by the professor responsible, with all attempts to replicate the results ending in failure. Sure enough, the results of the students' replication are revealed to be completely fake. While one student believed that they were performing the experiment with her in charge, Fran was leading everyone else in just playing along in order to demonstrate how someone in similar position of power to Philip Zimbardo (the man who performed the original experiment) would easily succumb to similar behavior if they believed they would have zero accountability for their actions. | |
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