History Headscratchers / HotelTransylvania

** We dont know if vampires can do that in this universe. Mavis was born a vampire.

* Dracula's hypnotism apparently fails on Johnny because of his glasses, yet Drac has no problem hypnotising that airplane pilot (who hilariously begins speaking with Drac's accent) through the windshield of the plane.....

->Questions about the sequel go [[Headscratchers/{{Hotel Transylvania 2}} here]].
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** Yes, it seems to be LensFlare included to make it more self-evident that the scene is playing on a TV screen in-Verse.
* If vampires cannot be captured on photos, how come we can see them on [=FaceTime=] and Youtube Poops that were filmed footage??
** Apparently a still photograph won't work, but videos do. Go figure...
* If it's been 1 year since Mavis and Jonathan got married when Mavis became pregnant, then 5 more years for Dennis to grow to the age where the bulk of the sequel takes place..... how come none of the werewolf pups appear to age!? Even Winnie seems to look exactly the same as she did in the first film barring that she can now talk! And she was there BEFORE Dennis was born!
** We don't know what the aging rate of werewolves is like. It could be like reverse dog years for all we know: every seven human years is equal to one werewolf year.
* If the point of the California trip was to determine if this will be a safe environment for Dennis..... why didn't the two just ''bring Dennis right then?'' These problems with her dad disobeying her would be totally avoided!
** Johnny was in on it with Drac, so he probably tried to portray the idea as a way for them to spend some alone time together.

* If the point of the California trip was to determine if this will be a safe environment for Dennis..... why didn't the two just ''bring Dennis right then?'' These problems with her dad disobeying her would be totally avoided!

* If it's been 1 year since Mavis and Jonathan got married when Mavis became pregnant, then 5 more years for Dennis to grow to the age where the bulk of the sequel takes place..... how come none of the werewolf pups appear to age!? Even Winnie seems to look exactly the same as she did in the first film barring that she can now talk! And she was there BEFORE Dennis was born!

* If it's been 1 year since Mavis and Jonathan got married when Mavis became pregnant, then 5 more years for Dennis to grow to the age where the bulk of the sequel takes place..... how come none of the werewolf pups appear to age!? Even Winnie seems to look exactly the same as she did in the first film barring that she can now talk!

* If vampires cannot be captured on photos, how come we can see them on [=FaceTime=] and Youtube Poops that were filmed footage??

** Yes, it seems to be LensFlare included to make it more self-evident that the scene is playing on a TV screen in-Verse.

** It's probably supposed to be LensFlare, but it's hard to tell during that brief shot.

* What is that round, white, shining object hanging from "Bella's" left shoulder? When Jonathan's watching "''Film/{{Twilight}}''" on the plane, the Bella CaptainErsatz has something on the left side of her jacket, sitting above her crossed arms, as if it's hanging from her shoulder, but there's nothing in between the light bulb-like thing and her jacket shoulder that it could be hanging from. What is that supposed to be or be from? I'm not a ''Twilight'' fan -- is that something of significance in those books/movies, or just something mundane that my eyes aren't identifying?

* For most of the movie we get the HumansAreTheRealMonsters story where the monsters are all being unfairly hunted for being different. But then during the scenes where Quasimodo is trying to cook Johnny and Murray suggests scaring the people, the movie implies that monsters are the PunchClockVillain kind and scaring people is their job. Uuuuhhhh, you can't do BOTH, movie.

*** Still, even assuming she was no more powerful than Mavis is in modern times, it's still a massive stretch to believe that a human is a credible threat to them. Just turn into a bat and fly out the window. The way she dies, it's almost like she let them do it.
**** Martha could easily escape the mob, but Mavis couldn't since she's only an infant and has yet to learn how to use any of her powers. Martha died trying protecting her baby.
**** That still makes no sense whatseover. She could easily have taken the baby Mavis in her arms and jumped out the window, clinging to the sides of the castle with her wall clinging powers. There were so many ways she could have avoided that, the idea that she was utterly powerless against a mob of mortals is impossible to take seriously.

** I think the key words there were "''used'' to be human". Dracula, Wolfman, and the Mummy were all presumably human. (And Frank was ''several'' humans)

**** Martha could easily escape the mob, but Mavis couldn't since she's only an infant and has yet to learn how to use any of her powers. Martha died trying to protect her baby.

** I think the key words there were "''used'' to be human". Dracula, Wolfman, and the Mummy were all presumably human. (And Franks was ''several'' humans)

* So, Zombie!Mozart, Bach, and Beethoven. They technically used to be human, but every zombie is treated like a regular monster. So does that mean any dead human is A-OK? Or does every human just have a zombie counterpart or something?

* How on earth did the humans manage to kill Martha? Vampires in this movie are established to have the powers of shapeshifting, wall clinging, possibly something that seems to border on teleportation that Mavis keeps using to ambush Johnny, telekinesis, and the ability to petrify people indefinitely in less than a second. Their weaknesses? A minor aversion to garlic and that they burn up (very very slowly) in sunlight. How did any of those humans, who attacked at ''night time'', mind you, manage to get a stake through her heart, even with all of the fire?