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| “ | Now, here's what I think: You're going to give mankind a good dusting down. And you're going to win. Aheheh. With me so far? You're going to rule the Earth. Look! I've drawn a little afterbirth above the Earth, ruling it. You see? Just there...next to me. You're going to rule the Earth next to me. | „ |
| ~ Griffin betraying humanity to the Molluscs. |
Hawley Griffin, or also better known as The Invisible Man, is a major character and antagonist in the first two volumes of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. He is a scientist who was turned invisible in an experiment, and used his newfound abilities to his own advantage before joining the titular team to receive amnesty for his crimes. He is Alan Moore's own continuation of Griffin from the original novel.
History[]
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 a "spirit" drifting through the girls' school. They discover that the "spirit" is Griffin who had made another albino man invisible as a patsy (that man being the one 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, along with the rest of the league is first tasked with recovering a stolen supply of Cavorite from a crime lord called "The Doctor" as England was planning space missions using them. In the Limehouse district in London, Griffin and Mina question Quong Lee who reveals that The Doctor is indeed operating within the area, but only gives them information in the form of a cryptic riddle: "The waters lap beneath the heavenly bridge. The dragon sleeps below it. My advice to you: do not awaken it". Although Griffin is sceptical, Mina concludes that The Doctor's activities must be taking place beneath Rotherhithe Bridge. After returning to the Nautilus, Mina believes The Doctor is building an aerial war machine in a unfinished tunnel. Griffin then goes with Alan and Mina back to the district and finds a massive cavern where a airship is being built.
Alan and Mina are caught by a guard, but are rescued by a unnoticed Griffin, who kills the guard. While Mina and Alan, continue to sneak in, Griffin orders Jekyll to create a diversion, which he does by becoming Hyde and starting a fight with the guards. Griffin and Hyde later arrive at a underwater glass tunnel where they reunite with the rest of the group, but are cornered by more guards. To escape, Allan shoots a hole in the glass and Mina activates the Cavorite, propelling them upwards through the cascading water. The Doctor's lair is flooded, the ship is destroyed, while the Nautilus rescues the league as they fall back down into the Thames.
Bond commemorates the team for their success, and takes the Cavorite, claiming he wil be bringing it to his superior. Griffin, however, distrusts Bond, and follows him back to Military Intelligence Headquarters... and learns that he is James Moriarty. However, after that 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!" Despite that incident, Griffin does reveal that the League has been duped and that Moriarty plans to bomb London's East end and destroy what remains of The Doctor's criminal empire.
During Volume I's climax wherein the League confronts Professor Moriarty, 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 the League, the 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 by him to the point of bleeding and puking.
Fellow League Member Mr. Hyde finds the beaten Murray and plots to seek out Griffin in revenge for assaulting her (as Hyde had grown fond of her). Griffin takes refuge in a London museum but is found by Hyde anyway. Hyde then reveals that he has always been able to see Griffith using Infa-red vision and then brutally beats and sodomizes him, leaving the Invisible Man to die in agony on the floor. During a later dinner scene with Hyde, Nemo, and the coachman who escorted the League from locale to locale, Griffin's blood becomes visible, signifying that he has died once and for all.
Ironically, Hyde's actions on Griffin anger Nemo, who tries to kill Hyde and is only barely restrained and convinced to stop. The Martians later avenged Griffin when they killed Hyde as he stormed their ship in a diversion.
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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". This is used as a signal to Griffin's presence when he's unclothed.
- Griffin also demonstrated megalomaniacal traits with his abuse of his invisible state and intent to become a ruler of Earth following the Martians' plotted devastation of humanity. This is also evident in the original novel with an excerpt provided in Volume 2, "This is day one of year one of the new epoch - the epoch of the Invisible Man. I am Invisible Man the First."
External Links[]
- The Invisible Man on the Pure Evil Wiki
- The Invisible Man on The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Wiki
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