Grunk – Igor
http://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:Grunk#ixzz7aupM69qm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_(character)
Doctor Katzenstein’s hunchback servant, Grunk helps the player after the doctor’s defeat to build a clockwork, which tells the player Meowiarty’s location. See? Grunk knows how to make a Clockwork. You did good job, just like Grunk.
Igor, or sometimes Ygor, is a stock character, a sometimes hunch-backed laboratory assistant to many types of Gothic villains or as a fiendish character who assists only himself, the latter most prominently portrayed by Bela Lugosi in Son of Frankenstein (1939) and The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942). He is familiar from many horror films and horror film parodies. He is traditionally associated with mad scientists, particularly Victor Frankenstein, although Frankenstein has neither a lab assistant nor any association with a character named Igor in the original Mary Shelley novel. The Igor of popular parlance is a composite character, based on characters created for the Universal Studios film franchise. In the first Frankenstein film (1931), Fritz served the role; in subsequent sequels, a different physically deformed character, named Ygor, is featured.
Dwight Frye’s hunchbacked lab assistant in the first film of the Frankenstein series (1931) is the main source for the “Igor” of public imagination, though this character was actually named Fritz. Fritz did not originate from the Frankenstein novel, but instead originated from the earliest recorded play adaptation, Presumption; or, the Fate of Frankenstein, where he was played by Robert Keeley.
Grunk’s physical appearance seems to modeled main after Marty Feldman’s Igor in Mel Brook’s Young Frankenstein.
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Text for this article is excerpted from the linked wiki pages
Grunk image is from Wizard101, and is copyright of KingsIsle Entertainment.
Cropped and edited lobby card for the 1939, Universal Studios film, Son of Frankenstein, featuring Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi. Lobby card produced in 1953 for the release of Bride of Frankenstein and Son of Frankenstein. This image is assumed to be in the public domain, as no copyright notice is in evidence.
Marty Feldman as Igor is (c)1974, 20th Century Fox
Image usage qualifies as fair use under US copyright law.
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