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| “ | Wherever you go, I'll be standing right behind you. | „ |
| ~ Adrian vowing to stay by Cecilia forever. |
Adrian Griffin is the titular main antagonist of the 2020 science fiction horror film The Invisible Man, based on the novel written by the late H. G. Wells. He is one of the many incarnations of the eponymous Griffin, and one of the vilest.
He was portrayed by Oliver Jackson-Cohen.
Personality
Adrian is a realistic abuser and was great at gaslighting his victim. Throughout the movie, he managed to turn many people against Cecilia despite some being aware of how he treated her before his supposed death. This makes him a highly realistic representation of how abusers treat their victims in reality. He was physically and emotionally abusive towards her, even going so far as to hit her if he suspected her of thinking something he didn't like. His desire for a child may very well have been a manifestation of his own lust for control over her life considering she knew she could never leave him had she given birth to one. This cruelty also extended to Cecelia's pet dog-as it was revealed at the beginning of the film that he kept a shock collar on the animal.
Biography
Adrian was an abusive, wealthy scientist who was the ex-boyfriend of Cecilia Kass. He's a classical example of a textbook abuser as shown below. One night, Cecilia escaped from him with the help of her sister Emily and their friend James, who was also a police detective. Before they manage to escape, Adrian angrily attacks a window of the car in his attempt to get Cassie back. Two weeks later, Adrian is pronounced dead from committing suicide, yet oddly enough, he left a huge portion of his estate to her.
It is revealed that Adrian was actually faking his death and created a uniform comprised of several small cameras that grant him the ability to turn invisible. With the suit, he psychologically tortures Cecilia to make her seem insane. He steals her work causing her interview to end badly and also heavily drugged her into collapsing. Adrian then pretends to be her and sends an inflammatory message to Emily causing a schism between them. When Sydney, James's daughter, tried to comfort the depressed Cecilia, Adrian slaps her thus leading Sydney and James to believe that Cecilia did it.
She returns to Adrian's home to investigate and discovers one of the invisibility suits. She invites her sister to dinner to discuss the discovery only for Adrian to take a knife and slit Emily's throat with it before placing it in Cecilia's hand. She is implicated in the murder and is sentenced to a mental institution.
Adrian's brother Tom pays her a visit revealing that her suspicions about Adrian being alive and that he was working with him to force her to return to him. It is also disclosed that Adrian had impregnated Cecilia when he inevitably realized that she was using birth control to prevent any pregnancies. Cecilia learns that Adrian would next target Sydney, spurring her to warn James about it. In the struggle, it turns out that Tom was donning the invisibility suit at the time being set up as the fall guy for Adrian.
Cecilia returns to Adrian's home where he shows her to the table full of food. Cecilia attempts to convince Adrian into admitting his misdeeds under the threat of their baby not being apart of his life to no avail. She then asks Adrian to grant her permission to tidy herself up and then wears the invisibility suit. Returning to the dinner table, Cecilia grabs a knife and slits Adrian's throat in a fashion similar to when he killed her sister. Furthermore, in an extra taste of irony, she also makes it look like a suicide. In his last moments, Adrian sees Cecilla reveal her ruse to Adrian, and taunting him with the same single word he used to taunt her at one point, "Surprise". A stunned Adrian then dies, realizing that Cecilla has beat him and he has now lost everything, his control over Cecilla, his millions, his child, and now his own life.
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Trivia
- Unlike the previous invisible men, Adrian used a suit that he would wear to make himself invisible instead of injecting himself with the compound to officially turn invisible.
- The change was well-received by astute watchers who pointed out the downside of completely invisible with the latter method is that the user would be rendered blind due to light not being able to hit his retinas. The invisibility suit, on the other hand, utilizes tiny cameras that warp the light about the wearer's body while still allowing the user to see, counteracting the aforementioned issue. Either way, this decision received positive feedback from astute viewers and audiences because of it's realistic portrayal of the downsides of becoming invisible.
- This is possibly the most evil version of The Invisible Man-alongside Hawley Griffin.
- According to an interview with the director, Leigh Whannel, Adrian's brother Tom only wore the invisibility suit once when he was attacking Sydney and got killed-meaning all other attacks done Cecillia where by Adrian himself.