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London has been destroyed and its whole population slaughtered. Why would Millennium’s destruction of London be written off as a “terrorist attack” after thirty years? London would have been an empty ruin of a ghost town.
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** There are often 'evening' editions of newspapers, especially in big cities; it's admittedly still a bit unlikely but not impossible. London is absolutely gigantic, the biggest city in Europe, so it's not impossible there were places still up and running reporting on the crisis.
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** It's possible running water couldn't kill him, simply trap him on the ship, The Major didn't want that, he wanted to kill Alucard, the plan revolved around being able to successfully invade London and cause enough mayhem to make Integra allow Alucard to unleash "level 0" making Alucard vulnerable without the 3 million souls for him to shunt damage to, so that Anderson, Millennium, or Walter could kill him.

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** We see Schrodinger is not limited to physical locations appearing in peoples minds, maybe its not "Schrodinger wasent aware of himself and thus stopped existing taking Alucard with him" so much as "Schrodingers self awareness was reduced to the point where he was only able to think about himself in the vague terms of "inside Alucard" thus takeing Alucard inside himself" if he had stopped existing entirely Alucard would not have been able to recover but since he was inside himself he could hunt down the other souls till Schrodinger gained enough self awareness that he, and thus Alucard could freely pick where they existed

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** We see Schrodinger is not limited to physical locations appearing in peoples minds, maybe its not "Schrodinger wasent aware of himself and thus stopped existing taking Alucard with him" so much as "Schrodingers self awareness was reduced to the point where he was only able to think about himself in the vague terms of "inside Alucard" thus takeing Alucard inside himself" if he had stopped existing entirely Alucard would not have been able to recover but since he was inside himself he could hunt down the other souls till Schrodinger gained enough self awareness that he, and thus Alucard could freely pick where they existed existed.
** Schrödinger seems to be a humanoid in a (Hollywood style) Quantum state. A particle in a quantum state refers to how we cant define the location of said particle as doing so would change the location, meaning that mathematically it can be anywhere. In real life we can create so called Quantum fields (essentially rulebooks for where the particle should be among other things) based on how the particle interacts with other particles. And Schrödinger has essentially created his own quantum field by being self aware of his status as in a Quantum state (he is essentially in a constant lucid dream). But by being absorbed into Alucard and loosing his self awareness said quantum field collapsed and he was once more in a undefined quantum state and thereby "nowhere and everywhere" which Alucard was too due to absorbing his soul. And only by removing everything that kept Schrödinger from being undefined (ie, every other soul inside Alucard) could he be "somewhere" again.
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[[folder: A newspaper about the current attack on London... at night?]]
* The start of Hellsing Ultimate Episode 6 has Bishop Maxwell sleeping with his head underneath a newspaper that explicitly reports on the current attack on London. How on earth did a newspaper about an ongoing crisis get printed in the middle of the night to be delivered to Maxwell for him to snooze under it?
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* Why exactly did Alucard turn Seras? Let's say in that scene of the first OVA, the vampire holding Seras hostage lost his nerve, through Seras to the ground and started running, only to get killed by Alucard. Then Seras would have opened fire on Alucard, would he have just killed her like any other mook or did he have a reason to turn her?

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* Why exactly did Alucard turn Seras? Let's say in that scene of the first OVA, the vampire holding Seras hostage lost his nerve, through threw Seras to the ground and started running, only to get killed by Alucard. Then Seras would have opened fire on Alucard, would he have just killed her like any other mook or did he have a reason to turn her?


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** He does say in Hellsing Ultimate episode 4 that she held out to the end even while surrounded by the ghouls of her former teammates. He saw a worthy protégé, hence him asking about her virginity before shooting her through the heart. Had Seras survived the encounter without being shot or bitten, she could well have chosen to live as a human. Had she attacked Alucard, he probably would have eliminated her without a thought, possibly considering her a waste of potential.
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** Alucard's power limiters aren't there just for cool monologues when he eventually breaks them. He seems to work with the logic that he only breaks a seal when he's asked to by Integra or he's faced with a strong enough opponent that he feels like Integra would have allowed it. So, at any given point he's using the least amount of power necessary to defuse a situation, and he judged the situation pretty well there, since Integra survived on her own (which is all that really matters to him).
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** Alucard's disappointment is based on the idea that when two monsters clash, even if in the end there are fewer monsters remaining, it's an even stronger and more dangerous monster than they were before. In a way, his own bloated power level is confirmation of his philosophy, every time the Hellsing organisation uses him to kill a monster, his powers grow more and more. The only way to break this cycle if for a human to kill him without sacrificing their humanity, no matter how difficult this may be, and he thought Anderson could have been that human.
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** Given the above point that in the original she's only called "Sir" while being insulted, I think we can safely dispense with fanmade explanations. It's just a translation error.
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** Which would explain Sir Islands' reprimand of Sir Integra at the end of the episode.
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**** Yeah, this. Of course the Major is going to play Nazi if he wants to use a bunch of Nazis for his purposes. He openly states that he doesn't care if he loses as long as there is glorious war, and I doubt that's within the Fuhrer's wishes.

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