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[[Image:Amarillo Tx - Dynamite Museum - Igor Archer.jpg|220px|thumb|A sign featuring Igor with a beautiful woman]] |
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'''Igor''' (or sometimes '''Ygor''') is the traditional [[stock character]] or cliché [[kyphosis|hunch-backed]] assistant or butler to many types of villain, such as [[Count Dracula]] or a [[mad scientist]], familiar from many [[horror movie]]s and horror movie [[parody|parodies]], the Universal Studios ''[[Frankenstein (1931 film)|Frankenstein]]'' series and the film ''[[Van Helsing (film)|Van Helsing]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.writingstudio.co.za/page462.html |title=Page Title |publisher=Writingstudio.co.za |date= |accessdate=2009-08-28}}</ref> in particular. |
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==Origins== |
==Origins== |
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Origins
Transliterated from Russian Игорь (Igorʹ), a Varangian name derived from Old Norse Yngvarr, Ingvarr, from Yngvi (name of a god) + herr (“army”). Related to English Ivor.
In other media
The 1962 novelty song "Monster Mash" by Bobby 'Boris' Pickett and the Crypt-Kickers mentions Igor: "The scene was rockin', all were digging the sounds / Igor on chains, backed by his baying hounds."
Another Igor appears in Return of the Killer Tomatoes, Killer Tomatoes Strike Back and Killer Tomatoes Eat France. He is portrayed as a tall, blond, good-looking,and longs to be a TV news anchor.
In the 1986 video game Castlevania, Igor and Frankenstein's Monster are the boss characters in the fourth group of stages.