NOTE: This article is only about the Van Helsing film incarnations of Mr. Hyde, given various other incarnations of the character, including the Van Helsing novelization and video game adaptation, were not voted Pure Evil. Therefore, only his 2004 film versions' info and crimes should be listed here. |
“ | You're a big one. You'll be hard to digest. | „ |
~ Mr. Hyde to Van Helsing. |
Dr. Henry Jekyll, better known as Edward Hyde or Mr. Hyde, is a minor antagonist in the 2004 dark fantasy horror action film Van Helsing and the main antagonist of it's animated prequel film, Van Helsing: The London Assignment. Once a scientist, Dr. Jekyll was turned into the monster known as Mr. Hyde, upon a series of experiments and potions he created.
He was portrayed by Shuler Hensley, who stood in as a body double for the CG Mr. Hyde and voiced by the late Robbie Coltrane in both films, while Dr. Jekyll was portrayed by Stephen Fisher in Van Helsing and voiced by Dwight Schultz in Van Helsing: The London Assignment.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- As Mr. Hyde, he brutally murdered at least 6 young women with sadistic glee, all so he could drain their souls to create a potion that would keep Queen Victoria young and amnestic.
- As Dr. Jekyll, he would manipulate Queen Victoria into believing that she needed medicine from him everyday due to suffering from the delusion that she was an old woman. In order to keep her young and beautiful, he would need to give her the potion everyday, meaning he'd continue to kill more women.
- What makes this even more deprived is that the women's souls cannot wonder into the afterlife due to being consumed by Queen Victoria-therefore completely erasing them from existence.
- According to Van Helsing, in addition to the murders of the young women, he was also responsible for the deaths of 12 men, 4 children, 3 goats, and a number of poultry.
- While these acts may be offscreen villainy, his murders of the women are at least shown in gruesome detail, therefore signifying a pattern.
- Tries to kill Van Helsing multiple times, even after the latter saves him from falling off a building with the hope of bringing him to redemption.
- Tried to kill Carl when he disguised himself as a woman to bait him, even after he found out he was a man.
- While he shielded Queen Victoria from burning wood, there's no proof to suggest this was out of legitimate love as opposed to his obsession with her. Had he truly loved her, he would have loved her for who she was as an elderly woman, rather than make her youthful and gaslight her to satisfy his perverted desires.
- This also makes his apology to her for turning into Hyde infront of her moot, considering his treatment of her prior.
- At the start of the live action film, Van Helsing finds him when he murders an innocent woman for no reason.
- When Van Helsing follows him to Notre Dame, Hyde expresses a desire to eat him before trying to kill him.
- Unlike most adaptations of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde book, Hyde is not a split personality made of Jekyll's negative traits that went out of control and tried to dominate Jekyll's psyche and body.
- This version is more faithful to the original novella, in the sense that he's only an alias used by Jekyll so he may get away with his crimes, with his only notable change in the 2004 version being his more muscular form. It should also be noted that unlike in the original novella, Jekyll never displays any remorse for the crimes he committed as Hyde.
- Hyde's demise was only mourned by the Vatican because they feel a moral obligation to help others no matter how evil-believing anyone can be brought back to their good side, a philosophy Van Helsing rightfully declares is flawed.
- His comedic moments such as his death do not distract from his heinousness as he is still taken seriously throughout.
- He easily meets the heinous standard for his brutal murder methods, perverted motives, manipulation tactics towards Queen Victoria, lesser resources, and destroying as many souls as he could while lacking Count Dracula's vampire powers.
Trivia[]
- This is, so far, the only version of Mr. Hyde to be Pure Evil.
- Hyde cannot count in the novelization or the video game adaptation of Van Helsing, due to the fact that The London Assignment was never adapted into either form, which means Hyde suffers too much from offscreen villainy and fails the heinous standard.
External Links[]
- Mr. Hyde on the Villains Wiki