|
A-I | J-Z A B C D E F G H I
With Joseph, Albert is one of Adèle's accomplices in the plot to kidnap Édith Rabatjoie. He betrays Adèle and is shot by Joseph at the end of Beast, but escapes and reappears in Demon. In the second adventure, Albert is at the center of the Pazuzu sect, and is present at the ceremony on the Eiffel Tower in which Adèle is to be injected with the plague. He ends up plunging to his death. TOP Alexander The Pithecanthropus (Scientist)
According to Professor Ménard, Alexander the Pithecanthropus is 300,000 to 400,000 years old. Before the opening of Scientist, he is found frozen in the Siberian tundra and is brought back to Paris, where he awaits the spark of life in Ménard's laboratory. When revival is successful, Alexander is kidnapped by Robert Espérandieu, under whose command he begins a harsh training regimen designed to make him into the soldier of the future. TOP A clown in the Cirque d'Hiver. He is part of a trio with Glucoz and Potétoz. When Potétoz (Norbert Troupier) hangs himself, Arthroz and Glucoz go on as a duo. The day after the assassination attempt on General Bouclard at the circus performance on November 10, 1918, Arthroz reappears at the "Au fou rire" costume shop. See also Troupier, Norbert; and Glucoz. TOP Benhardt, Clara (Demon, Scientist, Mummies)
A stage actress in the production of "The Last Days of Babylon," Clara is also a member of the Pazuzu sect, and is unmasked as the green-clad demon at the end of Demon.
She escapes, only to reappear at the wheel of a tank in the final scene of Scientist. In an exchange of gunfire, the tank ignites, and Clara Benhardt dashes screaming into the night, her Pazuzu regalia bursting into flames. The burns sustained at the end of Scientist seriously deform her body. She returns to the action in the Parc Monceau pyramid at the end of Mummies, now emaciated and wrapped in mummycloth, with a clay mask covering her horribly defigured face. Not long later, Clara Benhardt is shot dead by Adèle's faithful Mummy while trying to sabotage Mouginot's cryogenic tank, in which Adèle lies encased in ice. TOP A mafia hit-man, Beppe carries a rifle in a guitar case in true mafioso style. He finds out about Félicien Mouginot's cryogenics laboratory from Ernest Lefaivre, a soldier wounded on the front lines with Lucien Brindavoine. At the laboratory, Beppe bumps into Dieuleveult and shoots him, but Dieuleveult escapes. After the shoot-out, Beppe latches onto Lucien Brindavoine in order to obtain the instructions for using the cryogenics system. In a second altercation at the cryogenics lab, this time with the police, Beppe is shot dead by police inspector Léonce Caponi. The time of his death is 11:04 p.m. on November 18, 1918. TOP This Siamese twin-dwarf appears in Adèle's medicine cabinet with a note in his mouth addressed to her. Later seen lurking in Adèle's apartment as it is guarded by Simon Flageolet. Lucien Brindavoine chases Bibi onto the roof, bu Bibi gets away. We learn later that Bibi had a brother Kiki who was found drowned in the Canal Saint Martin - the Drowned Man with Two Heads! TOP Biloux, Albert (see Tudek Babylonosor) Boutardieu, Philippe (Beast, Scientist)
This ingenious telepath is responsible for bringing a 136-million-year-old pterodactyl back to life from inside its unhatched egg. Although able to pilot the prehistoric bird telepathically, he occasionally loses control, at which time the beast launches into fits of rage and attacks people and automobiles. Although killed at the end of Beast, Boutardieu returns in Scientist when he is contacted by a spirit medium. The scientist team made up of Ménard, Espérandieu, Dieuleveult, and Dieudonné call upon him to reveal his telepathic secrets, but Boutardieu nobly refuses. TOP Brindavoine, Lucien (Salamander, Heads, Monsters) While fighting in the trenches in 1916, Lucien Brindavoine stumbles across a mysterious statuette in an abandoned bunker. The statuette speaks to him (projecting the voice of Adèle Blanc-Sec's Mummy, now living back in Egypt), instructing him to go to Félicien Mouginot's laboratory in Paris and attend to the cryogenic tank in which Adèle Blanc-Sec has been encased in ice. Immediately after the incident with the talking statuette, Lucien is wounded in action. His left arm amputated, he returns to Paris a hero and descends into a pit of alcoholism and depression, and forgets the Mummy's instructions. Finally, in 1918, a series of unusual incidents refresh his memory. Using written instructions hidden inside a stuffed salamander at the Natural History Museum, Lucien finds Mouginot's laboratory and manipulates the cryogenic tank to bring Adèle back to life. TOP Fought with Honoré Fia and supposedly saw him fall in action. Caponi, Léonce (Beast, Demon, Scientist, Mummies, Salamander)
Léonce Caponi is the intrepid police inspector who is assigned to the case of the pterodactyl in Beast. He falls of a slippery roof in Demon, and despite a broken leg manages to climb the Eiffel Tower in order to capture the entire Pazuzu sect during its secret meeting. Afterward, he is demoted to traffic cop. In Scientist, Caponi has been reduced to a disgruntled vigilante aiming to get even with Adèle Blanc-Sec for ruining his career, and with Dugommier, for unfairly demoting him. TOP Chalazion, Charles (Monsters, Depths) Fought alongside Honoré Fia and Caduc in battle, when Fia was wounded in action. Chalazion recalls the military doctor Pochard, who was actually Dieuleveult in disguise. Throughout Monsters, Chalazion hunts down both Fia and Dieuleveult, and finds them in the bizarre final scene on the hill at Buttes-Chaumont. At the start of Depths, he sends Adèle a mysterious letter requesting her assistance. TOP Chevillard, Georgette (Monsters, Depths) Honoré Fia's ex-fiancée. She had recently inherited a fortune from her father, a butcher, and remains convinced that Fia is not dead, since they "never found the body." She appears in Depths in a black disguise, dtermined to kill Adèle and end her pursuit of Honoré Fia, who is again missing. While lighting a Molotov cocktail to throw at Adèle in Père-Lachaise cemetery, Georgette accidentally lights herself on fire and dashes off screaming, never to be seen again. TOP Dieuleveult (Scientist, Salamander, Heads, Monsters, Depths)
This crazed fellow is one of the team of scientists responsible for bringing the Pithecanthropus back to life in Scientist. However, he is not the mad scientist after which the episode is named! In fact, he spends most of Scientist locked up in the basement of the real mad scientist. At the end, he accuses Adèle of causing the Pithecanthropus project to fail. Dieuleveult returns in Mummies as the boss of hit-man Thomas Rove, with designs to kill Adèle once and for all (all of which fail). In Salamander, he serves on the battlefield as a military surgeon under the name Pochard. His plan to destroy Adèle's hibernation tank, left unattended at Mouginot's laboratory for four years, are foiled when a mafioso bullet bursts a jar of chemicals on his head, causing his skin to melt and sending him into hiding. TOP Dugommier (Beast, Demon, Scientist, Mummies)
Dugommier is the Metropolitan Police Commissioner for the city of Paris, and Léonce Caponi's boss. In Demon, he tries repeatedly to discourage Caponi from pursuing the case of the Pazuzu cult. The reason soon becomes clear. Commissioner by day, Dugommier is the Grand Priest of the Pazuzu cult by night! He appears dressed as a dead Pazuzu in the carnage scene at the end of Mummies. TOP Espérandieu, Robert (Beast, Scientist)
A close friend and colleague of Philippe Boutardieu (the pterodactyl telepath), Espérandieu plays only a minor gentlemanly role in Beast. In Scientist, he returns as the Mad Scientist himself, bent on converting Alexander the Pithecanthropus into the soldier of tomorrow. Espérandieu is killed at the end of Scientist, when the spiderlike pod in which he is chasing Alexander across Paris plummets from the roof of Notre Dame into the square below. TOP Fia, Honoré (Heads, Monsters, Depths) Honoré Fia is a soldier who fell in action at Douaumont, but whose body was never found. It turns out that he is still alive and living in the gloomy Hotel Léo, overlooking the Parc Buttes-Chaumont in northwestern Paris. In November 1918, he is hired by Adèle's editor to illustrate the first installment of her memoirs: "Adele and the Beast" (!). When Adèle realizes she has seen Fia before at the site of several strange calamities involvinga huge red octopus, she goes looking for him at his hotel, where she is assaulted by Dieuleveult's new goon, Caduc. Flageolet, Simon (Beast, Demon, Scientist, Mummies)
A connoisseur of art and music, Simon Flageolet rescues Adèle from the clutches of the police at the end of Beast and alerts her to a new mystery. In Demon, his investigation follows new leads. He has been hired by an unknown individual to recover a missing statuette. When he and Adèle team up and grow inquisitive about the statuette's true importance, Flageolet is paid a large sum to drop the case, leaving Adèle to fend for herself. In the chase scene at the end of Scientist, Flageolet comes to Adèle's rescue. He makes brief appearances in Mummies and Salamander, but remains forever wishy-washy and driven by self-interest. TOP A member of the clown trio Arthroz, Glucoz, and Potétoz of the Cirque d'Hiver. The clown musician Tuboeuf masquerades as Glucoz in order to kill General Bouclard, who attends the performance on the night of November 11, 1918. |
"It lives!"
