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88 | Simon Philipp Born www.jrfm.eu 2017, 3/1, 75–104 human Max shreck, who behind a façade of normalcy manipulates, corrupts and kills. As for the other freaks and monsters, Burton sees them not as villains, but as victimized individuals.32 he breaks through the common association of disabil- ity with evil in fiction,33 as his variation on the Obsessive Avenger–stereotype, a 32 salisbury 2006, 103. 33 see Norden 2007. Figs. 11–16: Burton‘s postmodern cabinet of monsters and their classic role models: Catwoman (fig. 11) and Irena Dubrovna (Simone Simon) from Cat People (1942) (fig. 14, r.); Penguin (fig. 12) and Count Orlok (Max Schreck) from Nosferatu (1922) (fig. 15, r.); Batman (fig. 13) and Count Dracula (Bela Lugosi) from Dracula (1931) (fig. 16, r.).