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What is the work?[]
The Invisible Man is one of the many takes of the classic book written by the late H.G. Wells. A more modern take on the novel, the film regards Cecilia Kass (played by Elisabeth Moss) escaping from her abusive, wealthy boyfriend. When he seemingly commits suicide, Cecilia nevertheless felt that he was still stalking her...
Who is he? What has he done?[]
Adrian Griffin was regarded as a "genius" in the field of optics, but underneath that, he was a controlling, abusive man who heavily weighed down on Cecilia until she drugged him with Diazepam. While waiting for her sister Emily, Adrian nearly stops her escape.
Two weeks later, Cecilia was living with her childhood friend and police detective James and his daughter Sydney. Word comes out that Adrian had committed suicide and had left a sum of money for Cecilia in his will. However, Cecilia starts to suspect that her ex-boyfriend was actually still alive even though Tom Griffin points out that he had his brother's ashes at home. Strange events start to happen that seem to suggest that Cecilia was slowly starting to lose her sanity such as a frying pan gradually becoming hotter until a fire ignites. When Cecilia was to do a job interview, she discovers her work stolen and she collapses. She awakens in the hospital to discover that she had large amounts of Diazepam in her system. Worse, her sister gets mad at her because of an email she supposedly sent to her telling her that she wished she was dead.
Sydney tries to comfort Cecilia when she finds her depressed...but suddenly, Sydney gets slapped leading her and James to assume that Cecilia was the culprit. She returns to Adrian's estate and discovers a suit he had created concluding that was how he became invisible. She invites Emily to a restaurant to explain her findings...but Emily sees a knife floating in the air and before Cecilia could react, the knife slits Emily's throat, killing her. The knife then lands into Cecilia's hand leading the patrons to incriminate her for the murder.
To sum it up, Adrian is, of course, alive as ever and created the invisibility suit to gaslight Cecilia into insanity so she would be forced to return to him. His brother Tom was also in on it and he goes after Sydney to kill her on Adrian's orders. Adrian himself is found bound behind a door. He set Tom up as his fall guy for his actions and not too short after Tom is killed, Cecilia goes to his residence alongside James presumably to extract a confession from him. When Adrian does not give in, Cecilia goes to "clean up" but in actuality steals one of his suits and slits his throat in the same fashion he did her sister.
Mitigating factors? Freudian Excuse?[]
No. He is a controlling, abusive sociopath with narcissistic tendencies who refuses to admit fault at any of his actions and has an inflated sense of self-importance. The thing with wanting her to have his child? He has things that he owns not people that he loves hence him being completely fine with throwing his own brother under the bus. The more likely reason as to why he wants Cecilia to bear his child is to use the child as leverage to keep Cecilia from leaving him. He felt that he was the only one entitled to have Cecilia going as far as to literally ruin her life and drive her insane more or less out of spite for her leaving him.
Heinous standard[]
So...you have gaslighting/psychological torture; attempted murder by proxy; murder; and the whole thing with him getting Cecilia pregnant without her consent. Yeah, that's rape. He's more of a personal threat, but I am almost willing to give him a pass because of how petty a motivation he has for destroying someone's life.
Also, The Invisible Man isn't considered part of the defunct Dark Universe that was started with Ahmanet, so it's its own thing.
Conclusion[]
Unsure, but kind of think he does enough with what he has to work with.