History NightmareFuel / DRACULA

** The way Lucy's transformation just gradually comes about as she gets weaker. By the third attack, Lucy can barely respond to the men anymore, yet they notice she seems stronger at night, especially as she sleeps. Eventually, Van Helsing notices, to his horror, that the bite marks that were present on her neck have now vanished and her canines have now become much sharper. When Arthur comes to her, Lucy's demeanor changes to be uncharacteristically seductive as she asks Arthur for a kiss. Van Helsing, seeing what's happening, prevents this and Lucy regains her senses. The creepy part comes when it seems she she knows what's happening to her and ask Van Helsing to protect Arthur as a final request before she passes away. However, Van Helsing knows this isn't over; while the Lucy they know did die, the transformation is just finishing up and she's becoming a monster.

** NightmareRetardant: Until you realize what gravity would do to your cape and clothing when you are upside down.... Then again Drac seems to generate his own gravity when he does it.
** Then again, who says that is actually a cape?

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[-[[caption-width-right:300:It's hard to decide whether Harker is lucky or unlucky here. Keep in mind it was a similar nightmare from Stoker that inspired the novel. [[note]]Image by Greg Hildebrant[[/note]].]]-]

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* After Dracula attacks Mina and starts the process of turning her, Jonathan does not reject her but swears that if she must become a vampire he'll join her. This is very romantic - in context it's not "we'll become cool immortals together!" but YouAreWorthHell and his love for Mina being stronger than even his horror of vampires - but it also comes with him being the only character present who refuses to promise to MercyKill her if she turns. He's so adamant in fact that it raises the question, would he have killed the other men to protect her?

* After Dracula attacks Mina and starts the process of turning her, Jonathan does not reject her but swears that if she must become a vampire he'll join her. This is very romantic - in context it's not "we'll become cool immortals together!" but YouAreWorthHell and his love for Mina being stronger than even his horror of vampires - but it also comes with him being the only character present who refuses to promise to MercyKill her if she turns. He's so adamant in fact that it begs the question, would he have killed the other men to protect her?

* Though Van Helsing makes clear that the legends about vampires way predate Dracula (assuming he was once a medieval aristocrat) the Count’s specific brand of vampirism includes gaining a measure of control over a human’s mind by drinking their blood. He is able to block Mina and Lucy (and possibly Harker and maybe even Renfield) from speaking about him through mental coercion after drinking from them. Now, given that Dracula is engaged in wholesale experimentation with the limits of his abilities, consider that during his predation on Lucy he is gifted huge amounts of blood from Van Helsing, Seward, Arthur and Quincey. Who is to say that Dracula has to take the blood direct from a vein in order to exert control over someone? Maybe the crazy, self-sabotaging decisions made by the Hunters after they donate blood to Lucy had a sinister cause.