History YMMV / AnnoDracula

** Due to AdaptationalVillainy, the Red Baron is already a SociopathicSoldier but he crosses this line when he [[ShootTheDog shoots a white beagle]] for no reason whatsoever. In-joke aside, you can't wait for him to die after this.

* CrazyAwesome: A book series that features vampire [[Creator/EdgarAllanPoe Edgar Poe]] and vampire UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill would have to be this. Most noticeable in ''The Bloody Red Baron'', which features [[spoiler: vampire flying aces who ''turn into giant bats with biplane wings''.]]

** Dracula crosses it with his decree that all homosexuals in England are to die by impalement, though probably crossed it long before then.

** Due to AdaptationalVillainy, the Red Baron is already a SociopathicSoldier but he crosses this line when he shoots a white beagle for no reason whatsoever. In-joke aside, you can't wait for him to die after this.

** Dracula crosses it with his decree that all homosexuals in England are to die by impalement.

* MoralEventHorizon: Due to AdaptationalVillainy, the Red Baron is already a SociopathicSoldier but he crosses this line when he shoots a white beagle for no reason whatsoever. In-joke aside, you can't wait for him to die after this.

* MagnificentBitch: [[DarkMessiah Christina Light]], the Princess Casamassima, is a charismatic, intelligent Italian-American socialite turned vampiric anarchist and terrorist seeking to create a better world. Light is a master manipulator who plays and seduces men to her cause before [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness disposing of them when they are no longer of use]]. Bringing Kate Reed to her cause, Light reveals to her a plot to bomb the Tower of London, causing Kate to attempt to stop it. Her actual endgame is to have Kate framed and executed for the botched bombing to make her a martyr to rally an army against {{Dracula}}. Defeated, Light returns and outplays General Majin, combining with YukiOnna to create a safe haven for vampires in Japan called Casamassima Bay. Light then spends an entire century perfecting a way to [[GodhoodSeeker ascend to godhood]], planning to usher in a new dawn of peace and prosperity for human and vampire-kind alike.

* GeniusBonus: You need an encyclopedia to catch all the historical references and literary in-jokes.

** {{Dracula}}'s return in ''Johnny Alucard'' is made off this. He saunters in and takes back his title of king of vampires by effortlessly crushing his rivals, laughs off an assassination attempt, gets his entire entourage back and does it all while dressed in a stylish suit.

** Seward and Holmwood also come across much more negatively under Newman than under Stoker; the former is portrayed as an obsessive, sexually repressed lunatic and the latter as a conniving, ruthlessly ambitious politician-in-training.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Dr Seward paints a rather unflattering image of Lucy Westenra in his nostalgic phonograph diary. He portrays her as a capricious and foolish girl, who felt only a shallow love for Arthur Holmwood, and only pity for him and Quincey Morris. He also thinks she exaggerated the proposal stories to lord her attractiveness over Mina, gloating about her better suitors. She also apparently willingly had sex with Dracula, while Holmwood himself was a lech even when alive. Seward additionally believes that he and the Professor might have killed Lucy by giving her non-compatible blood.

* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler: Penelope paints a haunting portrait of Dracula after she kills him, as a relic of a lost world who cannot keep up with the faster, modern world, despite of Dracula's fondness for modernity. When she kills him, Dracula appears to welcome final death, even driving the silver knife further in. Or Penelope is just trying to make herself feel better.]]

* GeniusBonus: You pretty much need an encyclopedia to catch all the historical references and literary in-jokes.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Dr Seward paints a rather unflattering image of Lucy Westenra in his nostalgic phonograph diary. He portrays her as a capricious and foolish girl, who felt only a shallow love for Arthur Holmwood, and felt only pity for him and Quincey Morris. He also thinks she exaggerated the proposal stories to lord her attractiveness over Mina, gloating about her better suitors. Finally he thinks she willingly had sex with Dracula, while Holmwood himself was a bit of a lech when alive. Seward believes that he and the Professor might have killed Lucy by giving her non-compatible blood.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Dr Seward paints a rather unflattering image of Lucy Westenra in his nostalgic phonograph diary. He portrays her as a capricious and foolish girl, who felt only a shallow love for Arthur Holmwood, and felt only pity for him and Quincey Morris. He also thinks she exaggerated the proposal stories to lord her attractiveness over Mina, gloating about her better suitors. Finally he thinks she willingly had sex with Dracula, while Holmwood himself was a bit of a lech when alive.
** Van Helsing has also been proved to be quite superstitious in his treatment of vampires despite his scientific mind, and Seward believes that he and the Professor might have killed Lucy by giving her non-compatible blood.

* GeniusBonus: You pretty much need an encyclopedia to catch all the historical references and literary in-jokes.
* CrazyAwesome: A book series that features vampire [[Creator/EdgarAllanPoe Edgar Poe]] and vampire UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill would have to be this. Most noticeable in ''The Bloody Red Baron'', which features [[spoiler: vampire flying aces who ''turn into giant bats with biplane wings''.]]

* CrazyAwesome: A book series that features vampire [[EdgarAllanPoe Edgar Poe]] and vampire WinstonChurchill would have to be this. Most noticeable in ''The Bloody Red Baron'', which features [[spoiler: vampire flying aces who ''turn into giant bats with biplane wings''.]]