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| “ | You think you're learning how to beat me, so I'm gonna truly teach you something; If you fight me, I won't ever hurt you. I'll find someone you love and hurt them instead. Now you've only got yourself to blame for that innocent young girl's death. | „ |
| ~ Adrian stating his intent to go after Sydney just to hurt Cecilia. |
Adrian Griffin, better known as The Invisible Man, is the titular main antagonist of the 2020 horror film The Invisible Man.
He is a very skilled person of brains coming up with inventions that gave him a supply of millions worth of dollars. Despite Adrian's brilliance and genius IQ, he is an unhinged sociopath who goes on a frequent mental breakdown of abusing and gaslighting his ex-girlfriend Cecilia whom he abused at home, controlling and manipulating her, which caused her to leave him with her sister’s help. Enraged by this, Adrian creates an invisible suit to stalk and physically abuse her even more, murdering those around her to set her up for the crimes that she did not commit.
He was portrayed by Oliver Jackson-Cohen.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- Psychologically abusing his own brother, Tom, and using him as a pawn to get back at his ex-girlfriend, Cecilia.
- He controlled Cecilia and every aspect of Cecilia’s life, as well as abusing her anytime he suspected her of thinking something he didn't like.
- Put a shock collar on Cecilia's pet dog. While it's common for people to do so to their pets, he clearly did it without her consent, and most likely out of sadism and spite, given his abusive behavior and attitude.
- While it seems as if Adrian loves Cecilia and wants her back, unsurprisingly this is nothing more than an act of lust towards her considering how cruel he treats her and preventing her from acting on her own liberties or ever leaving him by placing cameras all over his house to keep tabs on her.
- Although there is a strong hint that may imply that he does love her, this is a twisted part of his sick obsession with his ex-girlfriend rather than genuine love because it’s well established how contradictory his behavior and double-standards really are. Furthermore, he goes as far as to ruin her life out of revenge for leaving him, because if he can’t have her then nobody else can.
- But once he “gets her back”, he orchestrates a date between them to talk at his house and during their conversation, she pleads him to admit the truth to prove if he truly loves her and is willing to sacrifice his reputation for her and their baby but to no avail, He sheds that chance of redemption by denying ever doing anything and gaslighting her by claiming that she is going insane and that he is the only person who can help her, proving he never loved her and that all of this was a calculated charade to put her under his control again as his little slave whom to invoke Stockholm syndrome.
- Although there is a strong hint that may imply that he does love her, this is a twisted part of his sick obsession with his ex-girlfriend rather than genuine love because it’s well established how contradictory his behavior and double-standards really are. Furthermore, he goes as far as to ruin her life out of revenge for leaving him, because if he can’t have her then nobody else can.
- Sabotaging Cecilia's birth control by forcefully impregnating without her consent, making it rape. It's also implied that this wasn't just a one-time thing, judging from her "amongst other things" line while recapping said beatings she went through.
- He also effectively endangers his own unborn child by assaulting Cecilia various times while in the invisible suit despite knowing full-well of her pregnancy, making him an abusive parent on top of an abusive boyfriend.
- Psychologically abusing Cecilia and attempting to assault her for leaving.
- Stalking Cecilia and performing sinister tactics in making the public think she was going insane over him, even sending a mean email to her sister Emily saying she should've died instead of Adrian.
- Hitting Cecilia's underage friend, Sydney, making it look like she did it.
- Murdering Cecilia's sister, Emily, by slitting her throat in front of her and everybody else then putting the knife in her head to frame the former for the deed, which leads to her going to a mental hospital.
- It's implied that his only reason for wanting a baby was to make it impossible for Cecilia to leave him.
- Brutally beating and killing the security staff that tried to hold Cecilia in the hospital.
- Sending Tom over to Sydney's house to kill her while wearing the invisibility suit to make it look like he was the mastermind all along, which would inevitably result in his death at the hands of Cecilia.
- Gaslighting and psychologically tormenting Cecilia for one last time before she kills him.
Trivia[]
- It's often been debated by viewers as to whether or not Adrian abused and controlled Tom or the other way around. However, considering that Tom was under Adrian’s pockets and aiding Adrian in his plans to torment Cecilia, as well as Adrian's manipulative and abusive nature towards her, and that he tried to frame his brother as the invisible man all along, it's obvious that Adrian was the one behind everything.
- There's also the fact that the film's director, Leigh Whannel, confirmed in an interview that Tom only wore the invisibility suit once when he was attacking Sydney, thus proving that Adrian was the true villain as he carried out all of his hits on Cecilia personally.
External Links[]
- The Invisible Man on the Villains Wiki
- The Invisible Man on the Hate Sink Wiki
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