Hawley Griffin

Hawley Griffin is a member of Mina Murray's Victorian Era League in Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. He is based off the eponymous character of H. G. Well's novel The Invisible Man.

Volume 1
Murray, accompanied by Allan Quartermain and Captain Nemo, are sent to Miss Rosa Coote's Correctional Academy for Wayward Gentlewomen to investigate unusual cases of pregnancies caused by "spirit" drifting through the girls' school. They discover that the "spirit" is Griffin who had made another invisible man of an albino man who turns out to have been the Invisible Man killed at the end of Wells' novel. After escaping, Griffin took advantage of his invisibility so that he could rape several of the Academy's girls. He is exposed and knocked unconscious before being recruited as a member of Murray's League under the pretense of being promised a cure to his condition.

Griffin proves to be a useful agent as his invisibility permits him to spy without being detected. However, Griffin shows signs of utter sociopathy when he murders an innocent policeman so that he could wear his uniform for warmth. When confronted about the matter, Griffin's response was rather childish: "Well forgive me. I'd rather thought we were a covert military unit, but it seems we are instead a knitting circle!" During Volume I's climax wherein the League confronts Professor Moriarty of Sherlock Holmes notoriety, Griffin attempts to desert the League in Nemo's balloon, only to nervously explain that he didn't think they were returning when he is caught cutting at the ropes.

Volume 2
Griffin returns as a League member as they become involved in the Martian War that ravages England. After seeing the magnitude of the Martians' tripods and weaponry, Griffin elects to side with the alien invaders so as to not be on the losing side. He explains to the Martians that he's with them now and will rule alongside them once they devastate the human race. Having betrayed both the League, British Government, and humanity itself to the alien menace, Griffin gives them plans such as the planting of the red Martian weeds in the River Thames to halt water-based resistance. Murray discovers Griffin stealing the map/chart of the area but is horribly beaten to the point of bleeding and puking.

That final act against Murray proves to lead to his undoing. Mr. Hyde finds the beaten Murray and

Trivia

 * According to Alan Moore, this incarnation of Griffin was given the first name "Hawley" after real life murderer Hawley Crippen.
 * Griffin is also characterized by his notable chuckle "Aheheh".