Frankie Stein

"Right now I'm feeling happy, sad, confused, enlightened, worried, hopeful and hungry all at the same time. Is this normal?"

-Frankie Stein in her diary

At 15 days old, Frankie Stein is the new ghoul at Monster High. She is the daughter of Frankenstein's Monster and his bride. She has a pet puppy named Watzit; he contains parts of a puppy, kitten, dragon, fish, and many other creatures.

Age
There are several plotholes concerning Frankie's age in the webisodes. Most of what happens would have had to have happened in the same day, which makes for a scrambled timeline. If the webisodes follow the same timeline as the "New Ghoul @ School" special, she would have started school when she was at 8 days or younger. Over the course of the first book Frankie is at least 30 days old. But, in the diaries she is 15 days old. In her San Diego Comic Con, she is just a day old, due to her dad just making her. In the webisode, "Party Planners", she turns 16 days old.

Personality
Frankie is friendly, sweet, polite and athletic, but has a clumsy streak, as her body parts tend to fly off, to her embarrassment such as during fearleading. She is the most naive of all the girls, being only 15 days old, so she tries to learn all she can about the world through monster teen magazines, although their advice often cause awkward moments for her. But despite setbacks, she remains upbeat, hopeful and determined to find her place within Monster High.

In the books, Frankie loves her body and herself while most RADs do not like themselves.

Portrayals
In the webisodes and Monster High movie New Ghoul @ School, Frankie's voice is provided by Kate Higgins.

In the music video for the Monster High Fright Song, there are several character analogues who received creative interpretation by the video crew. The "Hero Zombie Girl" is portrayed by Angela Duscio.

Physical Description
Frankie has long black and white hair styled in jagged streaks and light, mint green skin. In Volume 2 of the webisodes, her hair is straighter than it previously was. She has one green eye and one blue eye, a condition known as heterochromia. (However this is more likely to being assembled from multiple people, rather than genetics.) She has visible stitches all over her body, like on her wrists, arms, ankles and legs and two bolts on her neck. In some episodes she displays the ability to command electricity as well, as absorb it via her neck bolts and causes things to get pretty freaky.

Classic Monster
Frankie is the child of Frankenstein's Monster and his bride, as seen in James Whale's "Bride of Frankenstein", made in 1935 and released by Universal.

Famous film star Boris Karloff played Frankenstein's Monster, and Elsa Lanchester as his bride.

In the story, it is revealed that Frankenstein's Monster has survived the pursuit of the angry mob. He also persuades his maker, Dr. Frankenstein, to create a mate for him.

The film versions of Frankenstein are based on the 1818 novel by Mary Shelley, "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus".

The influence of her parents can be seen in Frankie's skin color, stitches and neck bolts (her father, Frankenstein's Monster) and her black and white hair and red lips (her mother, Frankenstein's bride). Frankie also has a fondness for the lightning bolt symbol, which is seen frequently in the films as the method of animating the monster.

But according to her diary and in the episode "The New Ghoul at School", her father is Victor Frankenstein himself. Since The Bride chose him over his monster in the film. In the diary she mentions the labatory and her father keeps suggesting her to say "It's alive!!" every morning and in "The New Ghoul at School" Frankie mentions that her father resurrected Justin Biter's career, since Dr. Frankenstein has the ability to bring dead corpses to life.

Family
Frankie lives with both her parents in "a house that looks like a cross between a Swiss chalet and a research lab". Her dad is a scientist and both her parents treat her like she is very young (which, of course, she is, being only 15 days old) but they are very kind to her as she learns about the world around her and finds everything scary cool.

In the webisodes her parents were only mentioned once in Don't Cheer the Reaper, when Frankie was making a video of her time at Gloom Beach. In the Books however, they have a bigger role, her parents' names are Vicktor and Vivika Stein, both of them are college professors and Frankenstein monsters like herself.

Friends
Frankie is best friends with Draculaura and Clawdeen Wolf, and also Lagoona Blue and Abbey Bominable (and various other students). Seeing as she is such a peppy spirit, she has no enemies -- not even Cleo De Nile. Although she trips her in the beginning, she turns out being nice to her. Both she and Ghoulia are quite smart as Frankie's dad is after all a scientist and Ghoulia being "the smartest ghoul in school".

Pet
Frankie's pet is a dog hybrid named Watzit, which her father constructed from the parts of other animals. In the books Frankie has pet lab rats who she calls the Glitterati. Their names are Gwen, GaGa, Green Day, Girlicious and Ghost Face

Romance
In the episode New Ghoul @ School, Frankie had a crush on Deuce Gorgon. This caused issues when she lied and told Deuce's real girlfriend, Cleo, that she was dating him. Cleo became very upset, thinking that Deuce had cheated on her, but the issue was later resolved when Frankie came forward with the truth and surprised Cleo with a Justin Biter concert.

In HooDoo You Like? Frankie was concerned about being left out of the group for not having a boyfriend, and decided to make one for herself, creating HooDude. The ghouls explained that they would always be friends with her regardless of whether or not she had a boyfriend, and Frankie admitted that she didn't think that she was ready for boys just yet.

In the later webisode Miss Infearmation Frankie develops a crush on Jackson Jekyll after saving him from being bullied by Manny Taur by threatening to tell his sister, Minnie Taur, about his behaviour and invites Jackson to come to Cleo's tomb party with her. She is upset when he doesn't show up in Hyde and Shriek, having turned into Holt Hyde before entering the party. She soon forms a crush on Hyde though, blushing at the nicknames that he gives her (Frankie Fine Stein, High powered hottie) and dances with him on the DJ Deck.

In her School's Out Diary she has a crush on a scottish gargoyle that plays casketball. She calls him "7" since she cannot remember his name.

In the books Frankie had a crush on the monster-loving normie Brett Redding, however he was dating Bekka in the first book. As Brett was already taken, Frankie briefly dated DJ Hyde, but ended it in the second book because she was reinterested in Brett, and DJ's vists we're prevented by Jackson. She is now dating Brett in the Monster High books, dispite him being a normie.

Frankie's First Day
Attendees of San Diego Comic-Con 2010 could buy an exclusive Frankie Stein doll, which was made in black, white and gray. The doll came with its own unique profile and a diary detailing Frankie's first day of her current existence.

Frankie in the Monster High books
In the Monster High books, Frankie is the daughter of university professors Viktor and Viveka Stein, and a grandchild of the original Dr. Frankenstein. The first 15 days of her life is spent having basic world and academic knowledge downloaded into her head. She is taught to cover her "mint" green skin with makeup; hide her neck bolts with high collars, turtlenecks or scarfs; and has to wear a tracksuit for the rest of her body, in which Melody mention in the second book that her style of dress is 'worthy of a nun'. In the books, her hair is completely black, although her white streaks are later briefly created using peroxide. Frankie hates hiding who she is and makes many attempts to get humans to accept her for who she is. However, she eventually ends up exposing her RAD world to panicked humans and the rest of the RAD community want her excommunicated. At the end of the book, she befriends DJ and Melody, who support her and also want to help the RADs.

By the second book, she's on house arrest like the rest of the RAD's, and most of the stuff she bought is taken away by her parents. When Brett got out of his shock he and Melody thought of an idea, to help the RAD's coexist with the Normies, by making a movie 'Ghoul Next Door.' Later in the second book Frankie breaks up with DJ (Frankie was reinterested in Brett, and Holt's visits were prevented by Jackson). Both were releaved to hear that.

Personality File
Frankie is kind, inquisitive and enthusiastic. Her desire to always do the right thing can sometimes be derailed by over thinking the situation. She can also be a bit of a... klutz, which has necessitated the hiring of another janitor for duty during school hours.

Parental Participation Excellent on all fronts both in terms of encouraging Frankie to become a better student and volunteering their time to help with activities at Monster High. I would love to clone both of them but Mr. Stein has so far refused this request.

Academic Standing
Frankie Stein is a bright student with a curious mind. Her grasp of both conceptual and rote material is encouraging. She does struggle at time to pay attention in class and can be given to frights of fancy.

Social Interaction
Frankie's social skills are still a work in progress. While she has certainly bonded with her chosen group of friends, her eagerness to please and naivety sometimes invokes the law of unintended consequences.

Overall
I have enjoyed having Frankie Stein at Monster High and I believe that her potential is unlimited. She is the personification of a teenage monster learning who she is with all the joy and frustration inherent in the acquisition of that knowledge.

Frankie's Official Facebook Description
Frankie might only be 15 days old, but ghoul’s already got a sinister teenage style- formed with the help of her freaky-fab friends, of course. She’s the daughter of Frankenstein, and like him, has the most creeperific stitches holding her limbs in place. Downside of stitches? Occasionally they come loose, and always at the worst possible moments! Luckily, Frankie really knows how to pull herself together in a bind. Plus, when she’s excited she sparks at the bolts! So cool. She also has this totally voltage dog named Watzit. It’s fun to watch her play dead with him in the park after school.

2010 Basic
Frankie wears a green and black plaid dress with a white collar and organdy puff sleeves. She also wears a black polka-dotted tie with a silver skullette pin, a black studded belt with a lightning bolt buckle and a chain, and blue skullette earrings and black and white striped heels

Dead Tired
For Frankie's dead tired look, she wears a white tank top with a blue lightning bolt and blue lining and white and black striped sleeping pants that go above her ankles. She also has a matching black and white striped sleep mask with a blue trim. She wears blue, fuzzy slippers with silver neck bolts.

Comic Con Exclusive
For Comic Con 2010, Mattel created a black & white scale version of the Frankie doll in her Basic outfit. For more information on the exclusive doll, see Exclusive merchandise.

Dawn of the Dance
In Dawn of the Dance/New Ghoul @ School, Frankie wears a short, black and white zigzag-patterned dress with a pink puffy coat. She wears a blue obi tied with white as a belt, and pink fishnet stockings. Her shoes are reverse images of one another. She wears blue lightning bolt earrings, and her long hair is pulled back into a ponytail. The doll comes with a pink and blue purse with stiching marks on it, she also comes with a blue iCoffin

Gloom Beach
Frankie wears a blue and yellow striped/black and yellow lightning-bolt one-piece swimsuit with a plaid wrap around her waist.She has blue sunglasses and black sandals with yellow straps. She carries a beach bag made to look like a battery.

School Spirits
Frankie's fearleading uniform is similar to that seen on Cleo de Nile and the other fearleaders in the webisodes. It has a sleeveless black top with a pink v-neck and a pink and white pointed hem, worn over a black skirt with the same pink and white hem. Frankie's uniform includes blue stitches. The uniform includes blue earrings, a blue wristband, and white and pink sneakers.

2011 Basic
Frankie wears a black sweater/tank top with a silver three-stripe lightning-bolt belt, a diamond pattern on the front, and blue sleeve and neck ends. Underneath, she wears a pink, blue, white and black patterned dress, with shirt sleeve ends and a collar, as well as leggings - one leg is shorter and dark grey/black and one is light silver and longer. Her shoes are checked and have bolts for heels. She also wears a Skullette hair clip, silver earrings, and she carries a black bag with a lightning bolt in blue/silver.

Classroom
For the Classroom collection, she has bangs, a multi color dress with a patchwork apron, high heels, and leggings. She also comes with a second black, white and blue dress in her locker.

Day at the Maul
Frankie wears a short sleeved, waist length pink and blue plaid shirt underneath a short vest with a red diamond shaped button in the center. She wears blue, red and black palid pants with blue, black and red heeled sneakers with tight silver laces. she accessorizes with a blue triangle necklace, a white belt with a red buckle and a red arm bracelet on her left arm and blue and silver earrings. She combs her bangs over to the side and pulls the rest of her hair in a ponytail.

Trivia

 * Since Frankie is 15 days old (16 days old in the webisodes), that makes her the youngest unless if she was counted by human biological then she would be Lagoona and Clawdeen's age.
 * Based on the timeline of Frankie's diary, it is impossible for her to be 15 days old when school starts. She would be closer to 15 weeks.
 * Whenever she is shocked by electricity, she claims it to be "refreshing". Though that was only used in Freakout Friday and Screech to the Beach.
 * Frankie has never seen a movie before; she tried to watch one in Shock and Awesome, but is unsuccessful.
 * Frankie can not swim, because she will shock people. This was used in New Ghoul @ School, and Fear-A-Mid Power.
 * According to the webisodes, her birthday is 16 days before Draculaura's (she was 16 days old on Draculaura's sweet 1600th).
 * Frankie's style is basically preppy and cute, with plaid designs and lightening bolts.
 * In the book Frankie uses Fierce and Flawless makeup to cover up her stitches
 * When her bolts are switched from their intended sockets, they cause objects to magnitize to her and electrify those around her.
 * Frankie seems to be very acrobatic and flexible when it comes to fearleading, second to Draculaura of course.
 * As a recurring joke her stiches often losen and her limbs come off, sometimes unintentially, while some deliberately.
 * Frankie's ability to remove her limbs, and for them to move independently, is reminiscent of Sally, the living ragdoll character in Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas
 * In the original Frankenstein novel, the Creature requests that his maker, Victor Frankenstein, make him a female monster to be his bride and ease his loneliness. Victor begins work on the female but cannot bring himself to finish her out of fear that the two monsters will have children, and he destroys her, thus causing the Creature to declare his vengeance. In the Monster High universe, Frankie's parents tell her that certain details of that book were inaccurate, suggesting that perhaps in this continuity Victor finished creating the female monster, and the two kept their word to live peacefully away from humans, eventually creating Frankie as their daughter. This theory is supported by Frankie describing her father as being a scientist, and by his ability to speak and reason - attributes the Creature had in the book, but not in the classic Frankenstein films.
 * In Jandice Brothers, Frankie had the first line in the whole webisode series; saying "This is the best part of the song!" in her cheery temperment.
 * In the webisodes, Frankie and Clawdeen are the only Monster High females that don't have boyfriends but, unlike Clawdeen, Frankie has shown an interest in someone (Jackson).
 * Frankie says in Bad Scare Day that her favorite food is Eye of newt.
 * The only person Frankie truely hates, is the book character Bekka Madden because she sabotaged the RADs "The Ghoul Next Door" video, making it a fear propaganda film.
 * She is one of six Monster High characters who are undead (the other five are Cleo, Ghoulia, Nefera, Draculaura, and Spectra).