Talk:The Invisible Man

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Contents 1 Book 2 "Project Quicksilver" 3 "Reign of Terror" 4 Invisible Man characters 5 The Invisible Man's eyes

This page contains an error that I cannot correct as I do not know how to create a new page. The error lies in the statement that "The Invisible Man" is also the title of a book by Ralph Ellison. However, a quick perusal of any credible list of his works will reveal that the book's title is, in fact, "Invisible Man." The article 'the' is not included in the title of Ellison's novel. A small but important point.

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[edit] Book

This article doesn't mention any thing about the book by H. G. Wells.

The first name Hawley is an attribution of Alan Moore in the "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen", not from the Wells scientific romance.

Quite right -- I've removed the reference after checking the book -- he's just "Griffin" in the original. AxS 15:07, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

It's true that this article doesn't talk about the book itself. Very odd, as the book should be the primary focus of such an article. Sheehan 10:45, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

It's my opinion that this page needs to be fleshed out. (No pun intended.) A full plot synopsis should be created, among references to other literary creations, like "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen". Also, a separate page should be created for the movies/TV series. It doesn't do justice to one of science fiction's classics to be briefly mentioned in one paragraph, then devote the rest of the page to the video creations.

And if no one else will do it, then I will when I have time. JiangWei23 21:30, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

The 1970s BBC TV series starring David McCallum seems not to be not mentioned here. Even though this article is linked from the David McCallum article in Wikipedia! I leave it to those maintaining to look into this and update as appropriate.

[edit] "Project Quicksilver"

What exactly is the ridiculous article Project Quicksilver about? I'm removing the link; if it's about a TV show, book or movie, it should make that clear instead of this false document stuff. -DynSkeet (talk) 14:35, August 29, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] "Reign of Terror"

Is this phrase capitalized in the novel? It seems to me it should be lower case, as Reign of Terror capitalized generally refers to the bloody reprisals of the revolutionary government under Robespierre in the French Revolution. Canonblack 01:07, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

I believe it is, though I'm not sure. I know at one point he refers to his reign as "the Terror", with the word capitalized. JiangWei23 07:18, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Invisible Man characters

There are a number of Wikipedia articles about characters from the novel--there are 13 in the category "The Invisible Man characters", though some of them are from the movie version. Many of these are very minor characters, as indicated by the fact that a bunch of them don't need to be mentioned in the main article's plot summary. For those characters that are mentioned, including Griffin (The Invisible Man), the articles are mostly plot summary, leading to considerable duplication.

I'm thinking that most if not all of these articles can't really justify their independent existence--that they should be turned into a character section in this article, or if that seems awkward, perhaps a separate Invisible Man characters article. Nareek 04:50, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

I agree. I am a fan of the film and the book but I think that the separate character articles are prime candidates indeed for 'articles for deletion'. Colin4C 09:17, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Invisible Man's eyes

Apologies, I just reverted the statement about the Invisible Man's eyes remaining visible. I was under the impression that only that cat upon which he performed the experiment retained visibility in the eyes, but I just checked the book and he does indeed state that an 'attenuated pigment' still remains. Sorry for the confusion. Mosquitor Saturday 14 October 2006, 1.43 pm (UTC)