Buttons (pantomime) for the pantomime at this time. 'Buttons' was at that time a name for a young male servant or pageboy commonly having gilt buttons down the front of his jacket. While the character introduces a note of pathos in his unrequited love for Cinderella it is often played as a comic role. Buttons (pantomime) Buttons is the name of a character in the "Cinderella" pantomime, a male servant of the household who helps Cinderella and loves her, and who is liked and trusted but not loved by her. The character has sometimes been called Pedro. Buttons does not appear in
Igor (character) This character is deaf and mute, rather than a hunchback. Igor (character) Igor, or sometimes Ygor, is a stock character lab assistant to many types of Gothic villains, such as Count Dracula or Dr. Victor Frankenstein, familiar from many horror movies and horror movie parodies. Although Dr. Frankenstein had a hunchbacked assistant in the 1931 film "Frankenstein", his name was Fritz; in the original Mary Shelley novel, Dr. Frankenstein has no lab assistant nor does a character named Igor appear. Dwight Frye's hunchbacked lab assistant in the first film of the "Frankenstein" series (1931) is the main source for the