Somesh has extreme similarities to Victor Frankenstein, except the fact that Somesh has not created a monster that killed his family. Somesh and Victor are both exceptionally intelligent people, but in most cases, they act as if they have normal caliber intelligence, and sometimes as imbeciles. On Somesh's part, he acts like an idiot on a regular basis for comedic effect and not since he actually is. On the other hand, Victor idiotically created a monster which, considering his intelligence previously shown, he should have know could have killed him and everybody he knew. Both Somesh and Victor also hold in common their need to fix the problem they start. When Victor decides that he must hunt 'The Monster' when he knows that letting it