Feeble
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- Subverted: Courage is timid and physically feeble, but never lets his fear get in the way of saving Muriel.
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On film, initially and most glaringly in the Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce series from the 1940s, he is generally a timid, obedient, ineffectual fool, who is usually fat, feeble, and many years older than Holmes and has a hero-worshippy, anxious, speak-when-spoken-to demeanor.
Source: Adaptational Wimp -
All in all, it's a decidedly more raucous, over-the-top experience than the movie, chock full of Alternative Character Interpretation.The basic plot features The Hunter Professor Abronsius and his timid, feeble assistant Alfred arriving in a Transylvanian village straight out of Hammer Horror.
Source: Theatre / Tanz der Vampire
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