In Tim Burton’s Edward Scissorhands, the inventor’s unfinished creation is named Edward.
Johnny Depp plays Edward, an artificial man created by an eccentric inventor played by Vincent Price. The inventor dies before replacing Edward’s temporary scissor hands with ordinary hands, leaving Edward isolated in a Gothic mansion.
Peg Boggs, an Avon saleswoman played by Dianne Wiest, discovers Edward and brings him into suburban society. His extraordinary skill at trimming hedges and hair makes him briefly famous, but fear and misunderstanding eventually push him away.
Edward is sometimes described as a robot, but the film presents him more specifically as an artificial human created by an inventor. The story combines fairy-tale imagery, romance, and Burton’s recurring themes of outsiders and exclusion.