Igor

*For the original character of the **Shin Megami Tensei** franchise, see Igor.*

***Igor*** イゴール (*igoru*) Is The owner of The Velvet Room, "a space existing between consciousness and unconsciousness", a Philemon servant. Persona, Persona 2: Innocent Sin, and Persona 2: Eternal Punishment are all characters he is featured in. Igor is depicted using a bone-made phone to contact the Persona from the depths of the soul. Three further Philemon servants, Demon Artist, Nameless, and Belladonna, are present with Igor. He appears in every Persona game as a guide to the Protagonists's journey.

## Literature

Igor (also Ygor occasionally) is a well-known stock character or cliché hunchback assistant or butler to many different types of villains, such as Count Dracula or a mad scientist. He first appeared in the Frankenstein series and Van Helsing films. He is possibly of Swiss or German descent.

An early representation of him in the film portrays him as a hunch-backed dwarf lab assistant to mad scientist/alchemist Rotwang in the 1927 movie Metropolis which is the first example of Igor in cinema; later, the hunch-backed lab assistant played by Dwight Frye in the first installment of the Frankenstein series (1931) came to be known as "Igor," even though the character's real name was "Fritz."

Béla Lugosi played the role of "Ygor" in the films Son of Frankenstein (1939) and The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942) however, this character is neither a lab assistant nor a hunchback, but rather an insane broken-necked and twisted-backed blacksmith who reanimates the Monster as a weapon of vengeance against the townspeople who attempted to hang him for grave robbing. Despite being unintentionally shot, he manages to live and makes an appearance in the following movie, when the Monster's brain is implanted before it is revived.

Ivan Igor is the name of the deranged wax museum curator in the 1933 horror film Mystery of the Wax Museum. When the movie was recreated as House of Wax in 1953, a henchman of the curator (played by a young Charles Bronson) was given the moniker "Igor" rather than the curator himself. The "Igor" character in House of Wax is depicted as a completely devoted servant despite not having a hunchback and being both deaf and mute.

## Background

Igor appears as an old man with a long nose and a black suit. He speaks in a southwest british accent. He uses his bone phone to summon Personas.

In Persona 3, Igor never mentions being Philemon's servant, is no longer seen using his "Bone Phone," and is now accompanied by Elizabeth rather than the three prior occupants like in previous Persona games. The Velvet Room is now perceived as an elevator rather than a room with blue velvet curtains. Even while everyone enters the Velvet Room at the conclusion of Persona 3: FES, only the protagonist and Aigis have the ability to do so at will, In Persona 3, Elizabeth appears as his assistant and she is the first Velvet room sibling to appear in the Persona series.

### Persona 4

Igor exhibits comparable personality traits in Persona 3 in Persona 4, although he remains silent about being Philemon's servant. Although The Velvet Room has undergone further changes from earlier games (such as it being a limousine rather than an elevator), Igor is still its owner. The Velvet Room is now located inside a limousine that is cruising through a misty nebula in Persona 4. Now Margaret, Elizabeth's sister, is with Igor. And Marie is his second assistant in the game.

At the beginning of Yu's narrative mode in Persona 4 Arena, Igor briefly appears in a dream and greets him in the same way that he did at the beginning of Yu's first visit to Inaba. He does not, however, show up on any of Yu's following visits to the Velvet Room; only Margaret is present.

Igor plays the same role in Golden as he did in Persona 4's initial release. He doesn't have any new dialogue, unlike other characters in the game, This is especially apparent in instances where he is in the Velvet Room with the brand-new character Marie because he makes no real effort to recognize her presence.

### Persona 5

Igor returns to guide the new Protagonist Ren Amamiya on his journey. This time, however, he acts as the head of a prison, occasionally granting perks to assist Ren with his "rehabilitation." Assisting him are the young twin prison wardens Caroline and Justine, who handle the bulk of the work of "executing" demons to fuse or strengthen them.
Igor now has a much deeper voice, Later, it is revealed that Igor's very different voice is because the Igor that you interact with throughout the game is actually the evil god Yaldabaoth who took over the Velvet Room as part of a game to see if humanity still desired free will. The real Igor is sealed away until the twin assistants are fused into Lavenza and the fake Igor is exposed. From then on, the real Igor regains control of the Velvet Room, though Personas are still fused in the same way.

## Gallery

Igor art by Kazuma Kaneko.Igor (Persona 5 Wallpaper).Persona 3 artworkManga appearanceConcept art

## References

1. ↑ https://universalmonsters.fandom.com/wiki/Igor\_(fictional\_character)
2. ↑ https://www.giantbomb.com/igor/3005-838/