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* No one can forget Arthur Holmwood, after having been told by Van Helsing that staking Lucy would free her soul, doing it without any hesitation or wavering whatsoever.
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* No one can forget Arthur Holmwood, after having been told by Van Helsing that staking Lucy would free her soul, doing it without any hesitation or wavering whatsoever. Seward describes him as looking like [[Myth/NorseMythology Thor]] as he raises and slams the hammer down drive the stake into Lucy. And the hunters succeed in their task, destroying the monster and freeing Lucy's soul to rest in peace.
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** Mina in general, honestly. She compiles all the notes, journals, and letters into one coherent picture, it isn't until Van Helsing gets a hold of her and Jonathan's accounts that he becomes fully aware of what they're up against. In her function as the group's secretary, she keeps their notes in order and maintains redundant copies, this not only catches everyone up to speed quickly but also thwarts Dracula's attempt to destroy the information they had on him ([[FlingALightIntoTheFuture so even if the hunters fail in their task, there's a possibility their notes will be found and someone else will take up their mission]]). She keeps the men focused and determined, it may be a bit old-fashioned by they all rally to the idea of protecting her from Dracula's predations. And at the climax, she takes up a revolver and is fully prepared to help the men in gunning down Dracula's protectors so they can slay the monster before time runs out.
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** Mina in general, honestly. She compiles all the notes, journals, and letters into one coherent picture, it isn't until Van Helsing gets a hold of her and Jonathan's accounts that he becomes fully aware of what they're up against. In her function as the group's secretary, she keeps their notes in order and maintains redundant copies, this not only catches everyone up to speed quickly but also thwarts Dracula's attempt to destroy the information they had on him ([[FlingALightIntoTheFuture so even if the hunters fail in their task, there's a possibility their notes will be found and someone else will take up their mission]]). She keeps the men focused and determined, it may be a bit old-fashioned by but they all rally to the idea of protecting her from Dracula's predations. And at the climax, she takes up a revolver and is fully prepared to help the men in gunning down Dracula's protectors so they can slay the monster before time runs out.
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*** It's somewhat debatable who actually deserves credit for killing Dracula. The descriptions are more poetic than precise, Jonathan's blow to Dracula's throat may have done it, or Quincey stabbing him in the heart may have done it, or it may have taken both of their efforts together to do so. Either way, the fact remains: these two ordinary blokes, with steel knives, destroyed the ancient immortal vampire who had caused them all such pain and suffering, and fought through Dracula's mortal bodyguards to do it. Jonathan leaping onto the cart and throwing Dracula's crate off it, and Quincey's FoeTossingCharge to get to Dracula to deal his own blow are both rousing moments of stand-up-and-cheer heroism.
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** Van Helsing saying Mina has "a man's brain" is rather cringe-worthy sexism to a modern eye, but pay attention to what he says next: "the brain a man should have if he were very gifted." He's essentially saying Mina is smarter and more put-together than most ''men'' he knows, and this is a Professor who largely deals with others in academia. Given how limited educational opportunities for women were at the time, Van Helsing is pointing out that Mina is truly exceptional by any standard.
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** Dracula gives a BadassBoast as he leaves, dismissing their attempts to kill him. Van Helsing notes that this is empty bravado, they've sent the Count fleeing for his unlife. If not for the fact that he'd regroup and try again in century or so, and that Mina is condemned to transform into a vampire unless the Count dies, the hunters could have basically claimed victory right then and there.
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** Mina in general, honestly.
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** Mina in general, honestly. She compiles all the notes, journals, and letters into one coherent picture, it isn't until Van Helsing gets a hold of her and Jonathan's accounts that he becomes fully aware of what they're up against. In her function as the group's secretary, she keeps their notes in order and maintains redundant copies, this not only catches everyone up to speed quickly but also thwarts Dracula's attempt to destroy the information they had on him ([[FlingALightIntoTheFuture so even if the hunters fail in their task, there's a possibility their notes will be found and someone else will take up their mission]]). She keeps the men focused and determined, it may be a bit old-fashioned by they all rally to the idea of protecting her from Dracula's predations. And at the climax, she takes up a revolver and is fully prepared to help the men in gunning down Dracula's protectors so they can slay the monster before time runs out.
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* Seward's character development. When we first meet the doctor, he is a lonely and repressed person whose only methods of processing emotion are workaholism and taking chloral. Over the course of the story he bonds with the rest of TheTeam, decides to eschew drugs in order to properly feel his grief over Lucy, and finally breaks down and sobs at the prospect of Mina being turned into a vampire, giving full rein to his feelings at last.
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* The final battle between Dracula and/or his servants and the pursuing heroes, leading to [[HeroicSacrifice Quincy's death right after he slays Dracula]], is simply amazing.
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* The final battle between Dracula and/or his servants and the pursuing heroes, leading to [[HeroicSacrifice Quincy's Quincey's death right after he slays Dracula]], is simply amazing.amazing.
** Jonathan jumping into the cart and ''heaving'' the entire coffin out of it, before slitting Dracula's throat with his kukri. While he isn't the one who ultimately kills him, he pays back the months the Count spent terrorizing him in full.
** Jonathan jumping into the cart and ''heaving'' the entire coffin out of it, before slitting Dracula's throat with his kukri. While he isn't the one who ultimately kills him, he pays back the months the Count spent terrorizing him in full.
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** If you take into account that the events of the book fall within the timeline of Franchise/{{Castlevania}}, then Quincey's defeating of Dracula becomes much more awesome as he defeated the vampire without even using the whip.
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** If you take into account that the events of the book fall within the timeline of Franchise/{{Castlevania}}, ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'', then Quincey's defeating of Dracula becomes much more awesome as he defeated the vampire without even using the whip.Vampire Killer whip, and without being Dracula's son the way Alucard is. And the best part? This is actually canon, as Quincey Morris' son and grandson are both the main characters of ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaBloodlines'' and ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaPortraitOfRuin'' respectively, and what's more is that they - alongside Van Helsing - are confirmed to be distant relatives of the Belmont clan.
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* Quincey excuses himself in the middle of Van Helsing's explanation of Dracula's various abilities, including being able to [[FiveSecondForeshadowing turn into a bat]]. Moments later a gunshot rings out and when Quincey returns he explains that he saw a bat out on the windowsill and decided to shoot it. It's never confirmed whether it was Dracula spying or just a regular bat but points to Quincey for not taking any chances.
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* Quincey excuses himself in the middle of Van Helsing's explanation of Dracula's various abilities, including which include being able to [[FiveSecondForeshadowing turn into a bat]]. Moments later a gunshot rings out and when Quincey returns he explains that he saw a bat out on the windowsill and decided to shoot it. It's never confirmed whether it was Dracula spying or just a regular bat but points to Quincey for not isn't taking any chances.
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** A few days later Quincey excuses himself in the middle of Van Helsing's explanation of Dracula's various abilities, including being able to [[FiveSecondForeshadowing turn into a bat]]. Moments later a gunshot rings out and when Quincey returns he explains that he saw a bat out on the windowsill and decided to shoot it. It's never confirmed whether it was Dracula spying or just a regular bat but points to Quincey for not taking any chances.
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** When the protagonists see Dracula all together for the first time, Seward notes that he still has a huge red scar on his forehead from where Jonathan whacked him with a shovel in his castle. Vampires can only be killed through specific methods, but Jonathan's sheer determination to murder Dracula left a permanent mark on him that his powers aren't healing months later.
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* After doing a lot of detective work to figure out the locations of Dracula's earth boxes, the gang manages to destroy almost all of them to deny him places to rest in the daytime. They ambush him at his final home, during which Jonathan (now white-haired with shock from being restrained by Dracula the previous night so he could feed on his wife) charges straight at him with a kukri and nearly stabs him right there. Dracula only ''barely'' manages to escape his former solicitor, who goes so far as to climb out the window to keep chasing him in a rage.
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* Quincy Morris' dramatic arrival when Lucy is in desperate need of a blood transfusion and both Van Helsing and Seward are already low on blood.
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** A few days later Quincey excuses himself in the middle of Van Helsing's explanation of Dracula's various abilities, including being able to [[FiveSecondForeshadowing turn into a bat]]. Moments later a gunshot rings out and when Quincey returns he explains that he saw a bat out on the windowsill and decided to shoot it. It's never confirmed whether it was Dracula spying or just a regular bat but points to Quincey for not taking any chances.
** A few days later Quincey excuses himself in the middle of Van Helsing's explanation of Dracula's various abilities, including being able to [[FiveSecondForeshadowing turn into a bat]]. Moments later a gunshot rings out and when Quincey returns he explains that he saw a bat out on the windowsill and decided to shoot it. It's never confirmed whether it was Dracula spying or just a regular bat but points to Quincey for not taking any chances.
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* Quincy Morris' dramatic arrival when Lucy is in desperate need of a blood transfusion and both Van Helsing and Seward are already low on blood.
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* Jonathan escaping from the castle by scaling the wall, then traveling countless kilometers on foot through dense forest, heavily populated by wolves, before reaching safety.
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* Jonathan escaping from the castle by scaling the wall, then traveling countless kilometers on foot through dense forest, heavily populated by wolves, before reaching safety. Estimates based on the possible location of the castle and the dates given in the book suggest he crossed somewhere between 50 and 150 miles in about ''two days'', only ending when he ran into the nearest train station. When he learns that Dracula is in England, he writes in his journal that he can no longer be afraid now that he knows what he's up against.
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** Mina in general, honestly.
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* A moment that's acknowledged ''in universe'', when Jonathan climbs down from the outside of a tower ''twice,'' and goes down into Dracula's crypt again in an attempt to finish him off. Van Helsing and Dr Seward both remark how it must have taken an incredible amount of nerve to do it.
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* A moment that's acknowledged ''in universe'', when Jonathan climbs down from a tower twice, and goes down into Dracula's crypt again in an attempt to finish him off. Van Helsing and Dr Seward both remark how it must have taken a lot of nerve to do it.
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* One of the most powerful bits in the book comes very near the beginning (Jonathan is only starting to realise that there is something strange about the Count) when Dracula gives a truly epic speech about the history of his race. In a different context, the speech's content would be worthy of a particularly good RousingSpeech. This is sadly (though unsurprisingly) omitted from many film versions; however, the Creator/JesusFranco film ''Count Dracula'' (1970) has Sir Christopher Lee dramatically reproduce it, as well as the Creator/FrancisFordCoppola version Creator/GaryOldman doing a heavily abridged one: "What devil or witch was ever so great as Attila, whose blood is in these veins?"
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* One of the most powerful bits in the book comes very near the beginning (Jonathan is only starting to realise that there is something strange about the Count) when Dracula gives a truly epic speech about the history of his race. In a different context, the speech's content would be worthy of a particularly good RousingSpeech. This is sadly (though unsurprisingly) omitted from many film versions; however, the Creator/JesusFranco Creator/JessFranco film ''Count Dracula'' (1970) has Sir Christopher Lee dramatically reproduce it, as well as the Creator/FrancisFordCoppola version Creator/GaryOldman doing a heavily abridged one: "What devil or witch was ever so great as Attila, whose blood is in these veins?"
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* One of the most powerful bits in the book comes very near the beginning (Jonathan is only starting to realise that there is something strange about the Count) when Dracula gives a truly epic speech about the history of his race. In a different context, the speech's content would be worthy of a particularly good RousingSpeech. This is sadly (though unsurprisingly) omitted from many film versions; however, the Creator/JesúsFranco film ''Count Dracula'' (1970) has Sir Christopher Lee dramatically reproduce it, as well as the Creator/FrancisFordCoppola version Creator/GaryOldman doing a heavily abridged one: "What devil or witch was ever so great as Attila, whose blood is in these veins?"
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* One of the most powerful bits in the book comes very near the beginning (Jonathan is only starting to realise that there is something strange about the Count) when Dracula gives a truly epic speech about the history of his race. In a different context, the speech's content would be worthy of a particularly good RousingSpeech. This is sadly (though unsurprisingly) omitted from many film versions; however, the Creator/JesúsFranco Creator/JesusFranco film ''Count Dracula'' (1970) has Sir Christopher Lee dramatically reproduce it, as well as the Creator/FrancisFordCoppola version Creator/GaryOldman doing a heavily abridged one: "What devil or witch was ever so great as Attila, whose blood is in these veins?"
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* One of the most powerful bits in the book comes very near the beginning (Jonathan is only starting to realise that there is something strange about the Count) when Dracula gives a truly epic speech about the history of his race. In a different context, the speech's content would be worthy of a particularly good RousingSpeech. This is sadly (though unsurprisingly) omitted from many film versions, though versions; however, the Creator/JesúsFranco film ''Count Dracula'' (1970) has Sir Christopher Lee dramatically reproduce it, as well as the Creator/FrancisFordCoppola version had Creator/GaryOldman doing a heavily abridged version: one: "What devil or witch was ever so great as Attila, whose blood is in these veins?"
