History YMMV / TheTombOfDracula

* MagnificentBastard: [[{{Dracula}} Count Dracula]] himself, [[UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler Vlad Tepes]], was a brilliant warlord and strategist in life who battled the Ottoman Empire. Becoming a vampire and seizing the title of Lord of Vampires, Dracula devoted his unlife to conquest with as much ruthless intelligence as ever. Dracula manipulates a promise from warrior Solomon Kane to preserve his life at a crucial moment. Having survived the events of the novel ''Dracula'' by cleverly turning into mist at his moment of "death", Dracula later steals the bride of {{Satan}} while constantly eluding the vampire hunters of Quincy Harker while displaying a love for those close to him, even defending children from other vampires when they are kind to him once he has lost his strength. Dracula later masterminds the creation of a vampire state, nearly taking over Britain and later returns to even strip himself of his ancient weakness of sunlight by taking the blood of [[Characters/WolverineJamesLoganHowlett Wolverine]].

** Odette, a victim from the black—and—white magazine, due to how much of TheWoobie she is and how she harnesses her resistance to the idea of vampirism to turn into a swan instead of a bat.

* TearJerker: [[spoiler:The death of Edith Harker in #12, after being kidnapped by the Count to lure her father and the other hunters into the vampire's current layer and all its traps only when the heroes to be turned by Dracula's bite. She begs her father to kill her before she gives into the thirst for blood, even throwing herself at him. Poor Quincy complies, and Frank Drake swears they'll see Dracula pays for this. Next, issue Quincy is cradling the body of his daughter in his arms and recalls a time when she was a child, she begged him not to let her become a vampire and he cheerfully laughed and said he would protect her.]]

* TearJerker: [[spoiler:The death of Edith Harker in #12, after being kidnapped by the Count to lure her father and the other hunters into the vampire's current layer and all its traps only when the heroes to be turned by Dracula's bite. She begs her father to kill her before she gives into the thirst for blood, even throwing herself at him. Poor Quincy complies, and Frank Drake swears they'll see Dracula pays for this. Next, issue Quincy is cradling the body of his daughter in his arms and recalls a time when she was a child, she begged him not to let her become a vampire and he cheerfully laughed and said he would protector.]]

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: The loose adaptation ''Dracula: Sovereign of the Damned'' is a rather curious example of this: on the one hand, for an {{Anime}}, the [[LimitedAnimation style and quality]] are remarkably similar to that of any SaturdayMorningCartoon, and the language the various characters use in the English dub is clearly a TactfulTranslation, containing no swearing whatsoever (provided one recognizes that the word in the title is being used in its proper religious context) even in scenes where characters are clearly intended to be [[GoshDangItToHeck using some nasty language]] with each other. The content, however, is clearly ''not'' intended for children, as it includes a couple of scenes showing Dracula's foes slain and impaled on stakes (when he's explaining how he came to be known as Vlad the Impaler), a human-sacrificing Satanic cult ([[AnimationAgeGhetto in a time]] when WesternAnimation tended to steer clear of such horrific religious subjects), some splashing of blood (during fights; the biting scenes are merely implied), and a bit of female nudity from the back with the woman turned just enough to the side to expose a fair bit of SideBoob. Oh, and a dead baby, too. It's very much like a children's cartoon, yet one gone horribly, ''horribly'' wrong.

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* IdiotPlot: In one issue, a human mob tries to destroy Dracula at his tomb just after sundown. As a result, Dracula's reaction, since he had just emerged and needed to get some sustenance soon, to the invaders is essentially, "Ah, room service!" and indulges taking them down.

* {{Tearjerker}}: [[spoiler:The death of Edith Harker in #12, after being kidnapped by the Count to lure her father and the other hunters into the vampire's current layer and all its traps only when the heroes to be turned by Dracula's bite. She begs her father to kill her before she gives into the thirst for blood, even throwing herself at him. Poor Quincy complies, and Frank Drake swears they'll see Dracula pays for this. Next, issue Quincy is cradling the body of his daughter in his arms and recalls a time when she was a child, she begged him not to let her become a vampire and he cheerfully laughed and said he would protector.]]

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: The loose adaptation ''Dracula: Sovereign of the Damned'' is a rather curious example of this: on the one hand, for an {{Anime}}, the [[LimitedAnimation style and quality]] are remarkably similar to that of any SaturdayMorningCartoon, and the language the various characters use in the English dub is clearly a TactfulTranslation, containing no swearing whatsoever (provided one recognizes that the word in the title is being used in its proper religious context) even in scenes where characters are clearly intended to be [[GoshDarnItToHeck using some nasty language]] with each other. The content, however, is clearly ''not'' intended for children, as it includes a couple of scenes showing Dracula's foes slain and impaled on stakes (when he's explaining how he came to be known as Vlad the Impaler), a human-sacrificing Satanic cult ([[AnimationAgeGhetto in a time]] when WesternAnimation tended to steer clear of such horrific religious subjects), some splashing of blood (during fights; the biting scenes are merely implied), and a bit of female nudity from the back with the woman turned just enough to the side to expose a fair bit of SideBoob. Oh, and a dead baby, too. It's very much like a children's cartoon, yet one gone horribly, ''horribly'' wrong.

* OneSceneWonder: The two cruise ship passengers who resist Dracula in the tenth issue (one with a gun, one with a crucifix). While that issue is mainly remembered for being the debut of ''ComicBook/{{Blade}}'', they make a decent impression even though one of them dies and neither has much dialogue.

* WhatAnIdiot: A human mob tries to destroy Dracula at his tomb just after sundown. As a result, Dracula's reaction, since he had just emerged and needed to get some sustenance soon, to the invaders is essentially, "Ah, room service!" and indulges taking them down.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: The loose adaptation ''Dracula: Sovereign of the Damned'' is a rather curious example of this: on the one hand, for an {{Anime}}, the [[LimitedAnimation style and quality]] are remarkably similar to that of any SaturdayMorningCartoon, and the language the various characters use in the English dub is clearly a TactfulTranslation, containing no swearing whatsoever (provided one recognizes that the word in the title is being used in its proper religious context) even in scenes where characters are clearly intended to be [[GoshDarnItToHeck using some nasty language]] with each other. The content, however, is clearly ''not'' intended for children, as it includes a couple of scenes showing Dracula's foes slain and impaled on stakes (when he's explaining how he came to be known as Vlad the Impaler), a human-sacrificing Satanic cult ([[AnimationAgeGhetto in a time]] when WesternAnimation tended to steer clear of such horrific religious subjects), some splashing of blood (during fights; the biting scenes are merely implied), and a bit of female nudity from the back with the woman turned just enough to the side to expose a fair bit of SideBoob. It's very much like a children's cartoon, yet one gone horribly, ''horribly'' wrong.

* WhatAnIdiot: An human mob tries to destroy Dracula at his tomb just after sundown. As a result, Dracula's reaction, since he had just emerged and needed to get some sustenance soon, to the invaders is essentially, "Ah, room service!" and indulges taking them down.

* CompleteMonster: [[CaptainObvious Dracula himself, naturally]], as well as boatloads of other characters. This was one ''[[CrapsackWorld nasty]]'' title for its time. And yet Dracula, for all his evil, was often shown as possessing some nobility, occasionally [[PetTheDog even doing some good]] like when he protected orphaned children from hungry wolves. It says something about the writing of this book that Dracula was often shown doing something noble and yet his status as [[CompleteMonster a monstrously evil figure]] was never undercut.

* WhatAnIdiot: An human mob tries to destroy Dracula at his tomb just after sundown. As a result, Dracula's reaction, since he had just emerged and needed to get some sustenance soon, to the invaders is essentially, "Ah, room service!" and indulges taking them down.

* MotiveDecay: Dracula's motives range from killing the hunters chasing him to causing a full scale VampireApocalypse.