Herbert West
Herbert West is a male character who features in the Cthulhu Mythos.
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Biography
Herbert West
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Herbert West was a male human who was a small, slender, spectacled youth with delicate features, yellow hair, pale blue eyes, and a soft voice.
He was shown to be a highly intelligent man who was unconventional and a ruthless man.
Herbert West was a mad scientist who created a strange serum that allowed the dead to be brought back to life, at the cost of their humanity - often becoming violent zombies intent on murder and mayhem. Despite this, Herbert continually shows an obsession with overcoming the limits of life and death, thus he continued to raise the dead despite the horrible consequences.
Powers and abilities
He was the inventor of a solution that can re-animate deceased bodies. West aimed to create a formula capable of animating unliving bodies, although his ultimate aim was to bring living creatures back to life, complete with all of their faculties. However, most subjects that have undergone the re-animation process turn violent and, after failed attempts to return to their own graves, wreak havoc.
Notes
- Herbert West was created by H. P. Lovecraft and featured in the story "Herbert West—Reanimator" (1922).
- The character was famously portrayed by actor Jeffrey Coombs.
In other media
Television
- In Demonbane, Herbert West appeared in the setting of the Lovecraft-based anime series where he was reimagined as a guitar-playing lunatic mad scientist.
Films
- In Re-Animator, Herbert West appeared in the setting of the 1985 live-action film where he was portrayed by actor Jeffrey Combs. erbert West is introduced in a university in Switzerland where he was caught by police experimenting with his formula. The formula known as Re-Agent, was used on a colleague of his named Dr. Hans Gruber. The resulting dose brought the originally deceased Gruber back to life. However upon coming to life Gruber is enraged, attacking anyone he can get his hands on, before his eyes explode killing him. While he denies it, it's debatable whether or not Herbert killed Dr. Gruber. Herbert is later seen in Miskatonic hospital in Arkham Massachusetts. Dean Halsey introduces West to Dan Cain and Dr. Carl Hill, whom he plans to attend Miskatonic University with as a student. Upon meeting Hill, he accuses him of plagiarism of Dr. Gruber's work. Earning his ire. West later interrupts an intimate moment between Dan and the dean's daughter, Meg. Inquiring about Dan's ad for a room for rent. Meg is suspicious of West, but Dan accepts. Upon attending Dr. Hill's class, Herbert disrupts his class by loudly breaking pencils. Prompting Hill to dismiss class early and threaten to fail West. Later that night West catches Dan and Meg in his room. They found Dan's cat Rufus, dead and inside his miniature refrigerator next to a flask full of green liquid.
Video games
- In Operation Darkness, a character named Herbert West appeared in the setting of the tactical role-playing game.
Comics
Novels
Appearances
- Herbert West—Reanimator: (1922)
External Links
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