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Frankie Stein is a 2022-introduced and all-around character, a non-binary frankenmonster, a student at Monster High, and the child of Mary Stein and Victor Stein.
Character[]
Appearance[]
Frankie is a tall, thin, light cyan-skinned frankenmonster with black stitching on their face, neck and right leg and a silver prosthetic left leg with a pattern of stitching and lighting-bolts on it. They sport long straight cyan-blue, black and white streaked hair with the left being shaved, with their two accessorized lightning-bolt-shaped hair clips colored in hot-pink and blue.
Their eyebrows are a black in color with the left brow sporting a silver piercing which serves as their jewelry. They have heterochromatic eyes - blue (right) and green (left) with short yet fairly thick eyelashes, and their makeup consists of coral-pink lipstick and black nail polish on their fingernails.
Frankie's outfit consists of a pair of lightning-bolt-shaped, neon-yellow dangle earrings. They wear a black and greenish-white jacket with green trimming, a pattern of hot-pink lighting-bolts and a hot-pink outline of the Monster High initials printed on the left side, worn over a white collared shirt with a black button and cyan-blue and light pink lightning-bolts printed on the short, puffed sleeves. The shirt is also worn under a black vest with cyan-blue and light pink thin stripes on the collar and bottom, followed by designs of gray stitching on it. They also wear a blue, indigo and magenta chess skirt and yellow high-top sneakers with black shoelaces, a cyan lightning-bolt design on the sides, white toes and white soles with thin magenta and black stripes on the sides.
Frankie accessorizes with a large silver belt with chains hanging from it, one of which spells out their name "FRANKIE".
Frankie's design varies between their model in the Monster High animated TV series, their box artwork, and their doll/music video design. Notable differences include:
- Less Chains: Their chains weren't transferred well to the 3-D animated TV show's CG, so they were given less chains, and their belt has a buckle with Skullette sketched on it.
- Outfit Color: Their jacket in their doll/music video iteration has a blue one, but in the animated series and launch artwork, it's green.
- Hair: In their doll/music videos iterations, half of their hair isn't shaved, but in the TV series, launch artwork and web series, it is.
- Shoes: The shoe colors are pink for their doll/music videos/web series design, while in the animated series, they are yellow.
Personality[]
Frankie is a recently created frankenmonster who is not just new to being a monster; they're new to existence. They are still navigating the world as they try to understand who they are and what they want to be. Despite being only 15 days old at the start of the series, they were quickly and immediately enrolled at Monster High. Because, of course, only the best monster school would do for their monster child.[2]
Frankie identifies as non-binary and prefers they/them pronouns because they choose not to conform to traditional ideas about gender.[3] They are naive, but not unintelligent. When their doctor parents built their brain, they focused on the book-smart parts. On the plus side, Frankie possesses a vast knowledge of facts and figures from the parts of their brain composed of various experts in their fields. However, some of their knowledge might be dated, considering all these experts are deceased.
Being brand new to being alive means that Frankie has few social skills, no filter, and often misses nuance. They take idioms literally and don’t understand sarcasm, deception, or subtext. Clawdeen and Draculaura helped a lot when Frankie got confused about the ins and outs of Monster High, like explaining how Headmistress Bloodgood wasn't literally talking about the ocean when she said Frankie looked like "a fish out of water," or when Lagoona said Gil "was to die for."[4]
Frankie is the sweetest and the most eager of the main monster trio. They're trusting, kind, and never second-guess their friends. They have no ulterior motives and wear their heart on their sleeve. If Frankie promised to keep a secret for you, they would take it to the grave and through the next lifespan of their reanimated body.
Frankie's body is composed of various parts (including monster parts) that are stitched together and fueled by electricity. They're often unintentionally falling apart, but this can be a superpower. Frankie can exchange their humanoid body parts for handmade, bionic parts. They can attach a telescoping grabber arm to their elbow or fishy fins to their feet. Whatever the mission calls for, Frankie has a bionic part for that.
Frankie is constantly amazed and impressed by their new life, despite the confusion and messiness. They don't dwell on mistakes or the past, instead choosing to focus on creating their own unique identity. Frankie's journey is a constant process of self-construction, unafraid to discard what doesn't fit and try something new.
Abilities[]
Being a frankenmonster, Frankie has many unique abilities:
- Self-Dismemberment: Frankie can remove all their limbs off of their body. Especially their head too, just like with Bloodgood's.[5] But they're lucky that they don't appear to feel any pain when doing so.
- Limb Flight: Frankie is able to remove their hands and swap which one attaches to each wrist, using electromagnetism. Their body parts can also magnetically reconnect back.
- Limb Substitution: They can also attach new bionic prosthetics as shown in "Food Fight".
- Body Part Extensions: Frankie's limbs can extend by a robotic mechanism inside their body parts.
- Electric powers: Since Frankie was brought to life with electricity, they have a spark inside of them that allows them to have electric powers and uses them, either accidentally or on purpose. As shown in "Portrait of a Monster", when Frankie is nervous, they lose control of their powers and zap everything around them. They can hold objects and themselves with electric powers. However, when they have their neck bolts on wrong, this leads to more dangerous results.
- Glowing eyes: With their electric powers, Frankie can make their eyes glow. As shown in "Unfinished Brain-ness", these aren't merely visible but also project high beams of light to highlight things in the distance for others.
- Lightning Bolts: Frankie is able to call a lightning storm from thin air and have it strike Monster High, as was done below.
- Life Spark: Monsters like Frankie can power up something with electricity like a power bank, as shown in "Unfinished Brain-ness" when reviving Watzie.
- Lightning Immunity: If a simulacrum like Frankie gets hit by lightning, no harm will come to them, instead, they feel refreshed.
- Magnetism: When Frankie gets struck by lightning and/or any light fixture or feels strong emotions such as anticipation, fear, or stress, this reverses their polarity and they become a living magnet, causing things made out of metal to cling onto them with static electricity.
- Past Life Memories: Frankenmonsters can sometimes relive past memories from their deceased monsters and humans' brains.
- Pain Immunity: As a frankenmonster, Frankie doesn't feel any pain and appears to be alright.
Skills[]
- Crafting Machinery: Frankie knows how to draft their own machinery.
- Inventing: Frankie knows how to create wild inventions.
- Sewing: Frankie is an expert at sewing and this skill comes in handy when it comes to literally putting themselves back together.
- Music: Frankie is a great singer, plays the guitar and sing opera professionally.[6] This guitar playing skill appears again in "License to Rock" and "A Fright to Remember".
- Dancing: Frankie is a great dancer, all thanks to a fancy dancing weremouse's brain bit. This skill is shown again in "Out of Step" when Frankie and Clawdeen perform a perfectly choreographed dance routine.
Weaknesses[]
- Water: Due to being electric, any water contact might shock Frankie.[7]
Parts[]
“Frankie's parents had selected different sections of brain from the best thinkers and creators in the world, both human and monster, to make Frankie. Chemists, mathematicians, musicians, artists, biologists—Frankie's brain was overflowing with ideas and information. It felt amazing to have a brain buzzing with parts from the world’s smartest minds. Even if that made things kind of noisy sometimes.”
Frankie Stein, A Fright to Remember
| Name | Notes |
|---|---|
| Poltergeists | Frankie has multiple Poltergeist Brain Bits as mentioned in "Creature Clash"
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| Ogres | Frankie has multiple Ogre Brain Bits as mentioned in "Creature Clash": one of them is a construction worker shown in the brain chart in "Unfinished Brain-ness". |
| Trolls | Frankie has multiple Troll Brain Bits as mentioned in "Creature Clash" |
| Musicians | Frankie has been shown to have multiple musical brain pieces.
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| Dr. Snarles Darkwin | In "The Monstering", it's explained he was a monster biologist. Frankie has their cerebral cortex. In "Pet Problems", Frankie mentions another Boo-ologist brain piece when they claim that snakes respond to sound vibrations. |
| Lawyer Monster | In "Food Fight", Frankie uses a technicality to save Draculaura from expulsion. |
| French Gargoyle(s) | Shown in the brain chart in "Unfinished Brain-ness". Frankie learns their language skills from them. In "A Fright to Remember" Frankie mentions a french gargoyle seismotologist brain bit who enjoyed poetry. |
| Fancy Dancing Wererat | Shown in the brain chart in "Unfinished Brain-ness". Frankie learns their fancy dancing from them. |
| Monster Model Glob | Shown in the brain chart in "Unfinished Brain-ness". Frankie can do a skize (scary eyes) because of them. |
| Three-Eyed Vampire | Shown in the brain chart in "Unfinished Brain-ness". |
| Yeti | |
| Dragon | |
| Dr. Blunder | In "Unfinished Brain-ness", it's explained they were monster inventor from the 1970s who got cursed and created Watzie. |
| Gorgon Scientist | In "That Thing you Deuce", Frankie deciphers how Deuce's gorgon beam works when it's refracted. |
| Secret witchcraft practitioner | In "Nightmare Nightmore", Frankie tells Draculaura the reason why her witchcraft isn't working is because of the elevation. |
| Boogeyman's BFF | In "Out of Step", Frankie tells Draculaura and Clawdeen about the Boogeyman's enchanted shoes. |
| Monster Historian | In "Pyramid Scheme", Frankie mentions Queen Cleopatra ruling Egypt 2000 years ago. In "Monster Ball Homecoming", Frankie tells the story of the Formal Phantom. |
| Zombie Podiatrist | In "What's up Watzie?", this fact gets mentioned after recalling Watzie's tail comes froma a dragon. Frankie has their pinky toe. |
| King of Goreway | In "So Familiar", Frankie understands to bow to Count Fabulous. |
| Librarian | Mentioned in "Best Fiends" when talking about the Book Fair. Frankie has part of their frontal lobe. |
| DJ | Mentioned in "Best Fiends" when talking hearing music in the Book Fair. Frankie has their left ear. |
| Dragon Tailor | In "Sew Fierce", Frankie recalls having some frontal lobe from the dragon that raised Mortimer. They would wrap Moritmer in a dragon-fire-proof silver mesh like a blanket. |
| Detective | In "Monster High Mysteries", Frankie tries to find out who stole the Casketball Trophy. They're mentioned again in "License to Rock" |
| Marine Biologist | In "A Fright to Remember", Frankie considers training piranhas on stage for the talent show. |
| Chupacabra Architect | In "A Fright to Remember", Frankie blurts out facts about the uneven floor. |
| Botanist | Frankie claims to have their frontal lobe, which was mentioned in "A Fright to Remember". |
| Zombie Mathematician | Mentioned in "A Fright to Remember", Frankie claims to have their cerebellum. In "A Little Boost", Frankie also mentions a mathematician brain bit when they're chosen as scorekeeper for the tourney. |
| Award-Winning Human Chemist | Mentioned in "A Fright to Remember". This seems to contradict the show as Frankie claims to not have any human brain bits. |
| Parisian Siren Fashion Model | Mentioned in "A Fright to Remember". Frankie claims to have their frontal lobe. In "Sew Fierce", Frankie also mentions a fashionista brain piece when looking at Skelita's dress, and a model brain piece when Skelita asks them to model her design. |
| Cartographer | Mentioned in "A Fright to Remember", Frankie has their temporal lobe. |
| Dr. Valeria Hemlock | Mentioned in "A Fright to Remember", a renowed botanist and horror writer who went by the pseudonym 'V. H. Sachs'. |
| Motivational Speaker | Mentioned in "A Fright to Remember", Frankie claims to have their frontal lobe. |
| Rock-Climbing Weregoat | In "Monster High-Jinks", Dr. Mary Stein mentions Frankie possibly having a bit of their brain, but she isn't quite sure if that's the brain bit they ended up going with. |
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Relationships[]
Family[]
Frankie was made by two doctors named Mary and Victor Stein.
Friends[]
- Draculaura (BFF/roommate)
- Clawdeen Wolf (BFF/roommate)
- Cleo de Nile (BFF) (Crush)
- Lagoona Blue (BFF)
- Ghoulia Yelps (BFF)
- Deuce Gorgon (BFF)
- Clawd Wolf
- Heath Burns
- Abbey Bominable
- Twyla Boogeyman
- Finnegan Wake
- Manny Taur
- Spectra Vondergeist
- Kuma
- Gillington Webber
- Skelita Calaveras
- Toralei Stripe
- Purrsephone
- Meowlody
- Venus McFlytrap
Pets[]
Frankie owns a creepy-cute frankenpet named Watzie. After they and their friends found him in the catacombs of Monster High in stasis for decades, Frankie had to spark him back to life.[8] Now Watzie lives in Frankie's dormitory and he's also Frankie's lab partner in mad science. In the events of "What's Up Watzie?", they learn Watzie is part-dragon, allowing him to join the dragon migration at the end of the episode; however, he returns to them by the episode "Creature Clash".
Romance[]
Frankie and Cleo have begun to develop romantic feelings for each other.[9]
Sightings[]
Episodes[]
| Season 2 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Opening: Monster High Theme Song | ✔ | ||
| 01. Rule School | ✔ | ||
| 02. New Witch in Town | ✔ | 03. Play It Again, Clawd | ❌️ |
| 04. Mummy in the Mirror | ✔ | 05. How to Scare a Banshee | ✔ |
| 06. So Chill | ✔ | 07. Mixed Up Meowlody | ✔ |
| 08. The Haunted Sand Castle Caper | ✔ | ||
| 09. Fangs for the Memories | ✔ | 10. Two-rrific | ✔ |
| 11. Monster High-jinks | ✔ | 12. Vamps Just Wanna Have Fun | ✔ |
| 13. The Babysitters' Crypt | ❌️ | 14. Humans in High School | ❌️ |
| 15. Dawn of the Dread | ❌️ | 16. Frankie Patrol | ✔ |
| 17. The Deuce Date | ✔ | 18. Big Paw, Little Paw | ✔ |
| 19. Ghoulishly Ghoul-ma | 20. Gil to the Rescue | ||
| 21. Oh Rats | 22. Fired Up | ||
| 23. The Shapeshiftian Candidate | |||
| 24. Codex Come Back | 25. Officially Complicated | ||
| 26. Little Smoothie Shop of Horrors | 27. The Great Bat Detective | ||
| 28. You've Got Meow | 29. Finnegan Faces the Music | ||
| 30. Yi-Ling's Visit | 31. Toralei Visits Her Mother | ||
| 32–33. The Monster Fest | ✔ | ||
| 34. One Were to Rule Them All | ✔ | ||
Production[]
- First episode
- The Monstering
- Last episode
- The Deuce Date
- Number of episodes
- 55+
Timeline[]
- November 9, 2021: Nickelodeon and Mattel announce that Ceci Balagot would be portraying Frankie Stein in the live-action movie.
- February 15, 2022: Nick-A-Live! reveals the first look for Frankie, Clawdeen, and Draculaura.
- April 2022: Frankie is leaked in their third generation box and art style.
- June 2022: Frankie Stein makes their live-action debut in Monster High: The Movie.
- September 2022: Their box artwork and stock photos are leaked.
- September 23, 2022: Frankie gets their own music video.
- September 2022: They are seen on promotional photos along with the other characters.
- October 1, 2022: They were officially released to many different retailers.
- October 28, 2022: Frankie made their 3D cartoon debut in "The Monstering".
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