Line #161 Series/YoungDracula


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3	''Young Dracula'' is a British children's television series on Creator/{{CBBC}}, loosely based on the children's book by Michael Lawrence. It was directed by Joss Agnew. The first series was broadcast in 2006, and the second series, which started in late 2007, concluded in early 2008. After being cancelled and then uncancelled, the third series started in late 2011. The fourth season began on the 29th October 2012, and the fifth in January 2014.
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5	In the beginning, all 12-year-old Vlad wants is an ordinary life, and he's hoping that his family's move to Wales might be just the thing to provide it. Regrettably, the family is moving from Transylvania, where they've been chased out by an angry mob, and the family name is Dracula, so the chances of a normal adolescence in the Welsh 'burbs are slim.
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7	Vlad's dad, the Count, wants him to hunt "breathers" (that is, humans) with more enthusiasm and to take over the family business. Mum has run off with a werewolf and the family servant eats cockroaches. Vlad's philosophy, however, is "more blending, less biting". His older sister Ingrid, by contrast, wants to be a cruel and despotic vampire queen, but is constantly ignored by the Count (when he isn't belittling her).
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9	Down the road in the village, young Robin Branagh dreams of becoming a vampire and avoiding his family's camping holidays. Teaching at the local school is woodwork teacher and would-be vampire hunter Eric van Helsing, whose son Jonathan ("Jono") is just as embarrassed by his father as Vlad is by his.
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11	As of Season Three, the setting has changed somewhat. After the events of the previous series, and the castle burning down, the Dracula clan have been forced to relocated and to hide from the slayers in a school. Vlad learns how to master his powers from a private tutor, Bertrand. They are soon joined by their half-brother Wolfie and Erin, a young half-fang[[labelnote:*]] [[FirstEpisodeTwist really a human with slayer training]][[/labelnote]] who Vlad soon develops [[InterspeciesRomance a crush on]], whilst Ingrid continues in her thwarted quest for world domination.
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13	Season Four sees [[spoiler:Vlad's enforced, uneasy peace between vampires and slayers]] threatened from all sides. Vlad is forced into an ArrangedMarriage, a new vampire Malik is plotting something, and Erin is having doubts about her and Vlad's relationship. Skeletons fall out of the family cupboard and it all gets very Shakespearean.
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15	Season Five continues the trend of getting DarkerAndEdgier, with revelations left right and centre, and the introduction of Wifi to the Vampire world.
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17	!!''Young Dracula'' includes examples of:
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19	* AbusiveParents: Arguably the Count. He shows blatant favoritism for Vlad over Ingrid, even though Ingrid is the one who acts the way he keeps pressuring Vlad to act. It could be argued that he's also abusive to Vlad based on his inability to accept that Vlad isn't a younger copy of himself, but it's much less blatant than his abuse of Ingrid.
20	** Renfield's father is another example. It's made quite clear that he hates his son, and he was even willing to let the Draculas drink his blood so that Renfield Sr. could become immortal.
21	** Their mother isn't much of a prize either - just in her series three appearance, she manipulates and lies to Vlad to become his regent for fame, totally ignores Ingrid, and [[spoiler:forgets about and leaves her youngest son behind, although arguably she left him behind on purpose like she tried to do in Series 2]].
22	** Van Helsing is arguably worse than the Count. It is clear in season one that Jonno doesn't want to be a slayer but he just keeps forcing him into it and trying to make him feel like he is nothing if he doesn't become a slayer.
23	** Mina Van Helsing has moments of this. [[spoiler:Like when she tricked Jonno into thinking Malik really had bitten him and he was turning into a vampire by swapping his blood for vampire blood to test it. Her plan to get Jonno to stop helping Vlad luckily backfired]].
24	* AffairHair: Well, fake Affair Hair. When his mum comes back to live with the family, Vlad gets some hair from his stuffed hellhound, and pretends that its actually from his mother's werewolf boyfriend, Patrick.
25	** It turns out she really ''is'' still sleeping with him, though. He's getting his back waxed specially...
26	* AffectionateParody: Renfield in [=S3E5=] pulls one of Mark's and Spencer's food adverts.
27	* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Erin's 'friend' Becky is attracted to evil Vlad, eagerly accepting his invitation for [[ExactWords a quick bite for lunch.]] Also arguably Erin for Vlad; though he isn't bad, he is a vampire and thus naturally dark...
28	** Both played straight and subverted with Ingrid. She had a crush on Will who was if not strictly speaking ''bad'' a rebel and nonconformist (for example he appreciates her giving him rats as a misfired prank). However she outright laughs at Malik, criticising him for being a caricature of a bad boy, desperate to be thought of as edgy and dark.
29	* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Vlad fits the trope for Ingrid, just as she, though older, covers the "annoying" bit for him: he doesn't want to be a vampire but is still favoured by his father and she does want to be one but is ignored. Olga, although she is a cousin rather than a sibling of theirs, likewise fits the trope for Ingrid because of her competitive streak.
30	** Vlad's friend Robin Branagh, due to his semi-gothic persona and obsession with vampires is something of an annoyance to his elder siblings Ian and Paul (and vice versa) and although his sister Chloe is younger, her brothers tend to fit this trope for her since she is generally more mature and academically bright.
31	*** Wolfie, on the other hand, seems to get along fine with his older half-siblings, preferring to annoy Renfield.
32	* AntiAntiChrist: In the season/series 2 episode, Insomnia, Vlad is said to be this in a dreamworld (he's supposed to bring vampires back to their former glory-i.e. make vampires the rulers once more and knowing most vampires' preference of draining tens of peasants dry a day.
33	* AnyoneCanDie: At least during the fourth season.
34	* {{Arrowgram}}: The Count does this, tying a note proclaiming a blood fued to a flaming arrow and shooting it at the Branaghs. However, the burn damage the note sustains causes half the message to be unreadable and Graham Branagh thinks it's a note asking him to examine Dracula's drains. HilarityEnsues.
35	* ArrowsOnFire: The Count delivers an {{Arrowgram}} to the Branaghs via flaming arrow. However, the burn marks make the message hard to decipher.
36	* AxCrazy: [[spoiler:Sethius kills other vampires for no reason, and plans to turn all humans into vampires with the deliberate intention of removing their food supply so they fight amongst themselves.]]
37	* BadassLongcoat: Not that he's exceptionally badass, but Eric Van Helsing does look quite impressive in his.
38	** As does The Count, who wears one when he needs to blend in among breathers. So much so that a swarm of people mistake him for a rock star.
39	* BathroomBreakOut: Van Helsing does it in "Halloscream"; leaving behind a tape of himself whistling to convince Jono that he is still in there.
40	* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: Boris was originally TheComicallySerious, a LovableCoward and TheCutie. Now he has become a megalomaniac handsome devil.
41	* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Ingrid saves the lives of the Branagh family in the series 1 finale for this reason, although [[spoiler:she accomplishes this by insulting them and refusing their kindness]].
42	* BigBrotherBully: Ian and Paul Branagh to Robin. Ingrid is a Big Sister Bully to Vlad.
43	* BloodLust
44	---> '''Count Dracula''': I WANT BLOOD, I WANT IT NOW!
45	* ButtMonkey: Renfield, Eric van Helsing.
46	* TheCaligula: Ingrid, at least in the series 2 finale
47	* CainAndAbel: Ingrid and Vlad, respectively, [[spoiler:from Series 3 onward - well, Ingrid didn't specifically kill him, but she left him for dead.]]
48	** [[spoiler:Then taken up to eleven in ''Bad Vlad'': Ingrid finally attempts to murder Vlad out of jealousy at his new evil self, only for him to stop her stake with one finger before throwing her into the sunlight.]]
49	* CantGetInTroubleForNuthin: Ingrid pulls the fire alarm at school, setting off the sprinklers at the same time, in a deliberate attempt to get suspended so she can prove to father how evil she is. A horrified Vlad shows up and turns off the alarm; just in time to get blamed for setting it off.
50	* CerebusSyndrome: The second series has shades of this, what with [[spoiler:multiple vampires actually getting slain, including one who had been a recurring sympathetic character, Vlad being revealed to the TheChosenOne, and the series ending on what was probably meant to be a dramatic cliffhanger.]] Series three is continuing down this route.
51	** The fourth season is by far the darkest yet.
52	* ChangelingFantasy: One episode revolves around Robin theorizing that he and Vlad could have been SwitchedAtBirth (during a rather unlikely Branagh family holiday in Transylvania). Matters aren't helped when Ingrid then fakes a diary of her mother's to prove that this is the case.
53	* ChewingTheScenery : A vampiric trait.
54	* TheChosenOne: Vlad
55	* ClipShow: Episode 4 of series three - though it also provides CharacterDevelopment as [[InterspeciesRomance Vlad and Erin]] reminisce, and is actually quite helpful given the [[UnCancelled long gap]] between series two and three. And it's the nearest we'll get to seeing Robin back in the series.
56	** Episode 9 of series 3 is a mild form of this, focusing on Ingrid. Does help her to get out of her VillainousBSOD. And it's the nearest we'll get to seeing Will back in the series.
57	* CompulsorySchoolAge: {{Lampshaded}}. The Count has no intention of sending either Vlad or Ingrid to school. That is, until the Headmistress of the school comes by, pointing out he will be taken to court if he doesn't place them in the school. We all know that the courts are the modern equivalent of an angry peasant mob, after all.
58	** Subverted with Season 3, which sees the Count forcing Ingrid to go back to school so he doesn't have to see her all day - despite her being twenty.
59	* CreepyFamily: The Draculas are a family of vampires.
60	* DangerousSixteenthBirthday: Those born vampires gain their full powers at age sixteen. Powers start semi-developing before that point, but on a vampire's sixteenth birthday they are locked in a room with the family's blood mirror, where they meet their reflection, which is a pure evil version of themselves, and also an independent entity. A merge is required for the vampire to gain its full powers. "Only the most powerful" of the two personalities is allowed to continue after the merge, which means that the evil personality in the mirror will take over if the individual is not strong-willed enough. [[spoiler:This is why Cousin Boris, who lost to his reflection, comes out of the room completely different, whereas Ingrid remains the same.]] If you try to run away, the reflection breaks through the mirror and chases after you. Which makes you wonder why the protagonist, Vlad, who [[IJustWantToBeNormal just wants to be normal]]), just doesn't look in the mirror or even enter the room.
61	** To be fair, though, Ivan and Ingrid are both shown to be able to overcome the evil and bloodlust aspects of their personalities. But Ivan reverts to his evil self after [[BerserkButton smelling the blood of a vampire slayer]] and Ingrid was pretty evil to begin with. Also, re: Vlad not just avoiding the mirror/room, it is implied in one episode (series two, episode 7, ''Insomnia'' for those interested) that his reflection may already ''be'' 'evil', or at least that he can't escape the change, something which is confirmed as of ''Blood Thief''.
62	* DarkerAndEdgier: Series one is a light kids show about the angst of growing up. Series four is a Shakespearean tragedy about a ruler becoming corrupted by the desire to achieve order by any means necessary.
63	* DeadpanSnarker: While all the Dracula family show this, it's easily Zoltan, the stuffed hellhound who has this role.
64	** Vlad has it in spades in series 3, taking over from Zoltan.
65	* DependingOnTheWriter: Ingrid varies between a bully with a hidden soft side and a bloodthirsty, power-mad lunatic.
66	* DisguisedInDrag: Eric van Helsing on several occasions (see PaperThinDisguise), and Jonno just once.
67	* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: In ''The Yanks Are Coming'', learning to stop drinking blood is treated exactly like quitting smoking.
68	--->'''Ivan/"Harvey"''': I tried patches, hypnotherapy, everything!
69	** In ''Loyalty's for Breathers'' a depressed Vlad [[spoiler:ends the episode alone in a darkened room, drinking straight from the bottle.]].
70	* {{Dracula}}
71	---> '''Count Dracula''': Lock up your daughters, look at you!
72	* EnemyMine: [[spoiler:Sethius is so AxCrazy that ''everyone'' realises the need to put aside their differences and team up with Vlad to stop him.]]
73	* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Ingrid is excited to become evil incarnate by joining with her blood mirror self, but draws the line when it suggests she kill her boyfriend Will and decides to run off.
74	** He may be the Prince of Darkness, but the Count isn't able to bring himself to hurt Magda or Vlad.
75	* EvilCostumeSwitch: An interesting example in episode 3x01 has Vlad change from his school uniform into a black leather jumpsuit and black cape to go rescue Ingrid from the slayers. He's not actually turning evil but he is embracing the vampire side of himself.
76	* EvilGloating: Boris does this after his transformation into a vampire, "I'M THE KING OF THE WORLD!" included.
77	* FaceHeelTurn:[[spoiler:Vlad, for one episode, after absorbing his [[{{SealedEvilInACan}} literally 1,000 evil reflections.]]]]
78	* FemmeFatale: Ingrid in series 3. In her own words: "twice as beautiful, three times as evil. Make that four times as evil."
79	* AFeteWorseThanDeath: What the Branaghs would suffer had hunt of the Hunt Ball went to plan.
80	* FilleFatale: Ingrid. And she's well aware of it.
81	* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: What Vlad wants his family to be. What Uncle Ivan appears to be when he first shows up.
82	* FinaleCredits :The credits in the final episode The darkest hour has both Vlad and Talitha flies into the night as bats to the Himalayas.
83	* FurAgainstFang: Count Dracula hates werewolves; but only because his wife ran off with one.
84	* GambitPileup: In Series 4. [[spoiler:Vlad wants the peace between Slayers and vampires to succeed, the Ramangas want Vlad to die, Malik wants to stop the ceasefire, something else is manipulating Malik, the Count wants the ceasefire to fail, Renfield wants the Count to bite him, Ingrid wants a place on the High Council, Mina will take any opportunity to stop the ceasefire, and Bertrand may or may not be plotting something else. Oh, and one of them killed Ryan.]]
85	* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: [[spoiler:Malik, as he seems loyal to the Draculas at times, even when it isn't due to his mother's plotting.]]
86	* HistoricalInJoke: Sort of blink and you'll miss it, but in series one, episode 10, there's a historical in joke which is quite amusing for those who know the history of Dracula.
87	--->'''Count Dracula''': [reading from book] "The rugby players huddle together, toss the ball around, and pat each other on the back for being good sports." ''Good sports?'' I didn't impale half of Wallachia so you could be a ''good sport''.
88	* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: In the series two episode ''Bad Reflection'', Vlad's cousin Boris grows into a full vampire and undergoes a FaceHeelTurn. Vlad is completely oblivious to this, even after an EvilMonologue or two. Of course, he has his reasons, since he's very worried about turning evil when he becomes a full vampire, and desperately wanted to believe that his friend had gone through the transformation without any personality change, so it could have been more of a WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief on his part.
89	* HunterOfMonsters: Eric van Helsing. [[spoiler:Also Jonno in series 2, and later Kurt, from the Slayers Guild tactical division]]
90	** Series 3 sets up the idea that the Chosen One is now the main target of the Slayers, while [[spoiler:Erin is also a hunter pretending to be a half-fang, plotting to kill the clan Dracula to save her brother.]]
91	* IHateYouVampireDad: Vlad has touches of this at times, as he doesn't want to become a vampire as family tradition dictates. To be fair, most of his anger does seem to be more directed at his mum. Ingrid also suffers this, though it is mostly because the Count largely ignores her.
92	** Vlad himself later fears that Erin will hate him if he turns her into a vampire, even to save her life. [[spoiler:He does so anyway, and she swears to never forgive him.]]
93	* IJustWantToBeNormal: Vlad ''and'' Jonathan.
94	* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Robin.
95	* IgnoredConfession: Ingrid's therapist assumes that her references to 'sucking the life out of her friends', 'seeing nothing when she looks at herself in the mirror' and others being interesting metaphors. When it gets ''really'' obvious, the therapist just assumes that she's talking about her vampire ''fantasy''.
96	* ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty: Born vampires age normally until they are 16. From the looks of the Count, and Krone and Attila, it can be assumed that they do age after this, but at a much slower rate.
97	* InsultBackfire:
98	-->'''Renfield''': If he's your best friend, then what am I?\
99	'''Count Dracula''': A filthy infected peasant that I can't seem to get rid of.\
100	'''Renfield''': Oh. Thank you, master.
101	* InterspeciesRomance: Between Vlad and [[spoiler:Erin]] in Series Three. [[spoiler:A strange example in that Vlad had [[EveryoneCanSeeIt a strong crush on her]] before he discovered she was actually human.]]
102	* JediMindTrick: Brilliantly used in the episode ''Bodyswap''.
103	** Vlad, Robin, and Chloe are trying to escape from a museum guard. It just so happens Vlad can hypnotise people.
104	* JerkJock: Ian and Paul Branagh.
105	** Though not really. To be clear, while the twins do fit the stereotype of 'jerk jock', they do seem to hold their young siblings in varying degrees of affection.
106	* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Renfield, at least in the opening in series 3,is still affected by the mind-wipe performed by Vlad in the last episode of series 2.
107	** It's soon revealed that Vlad could have fixed him at any time, but just chose not to until he needed the old Renfield's knowledge to help Ingrid.
108	* LateArrivalSpoiler: Vlad's status as the Chosen One. Revealed halfway through series 2, it wasn't really mentioned much. Come series 3, it's been mentioned every single episode, and was used in the ''advertisements'' for the new series as well. At this point, it's clear it's not considered a spoiler any more.
109	* LineOfSightAlias: When Robin pretending to be a vampire and being questioned by the Westenras, he is asked the name of his parents. Glancing around, his eye falls upon a certain kitchen implement and he says his father is "Count Spatula".
110	* TheMasquerade: In theory, The Count and his family are supposed to live under one and keep a low profile after the incident with the angry mob in Transylvania, but The Count does almost nothing to enforce this. He doesn't even try to pretend he's anything less than a supernatural menace around humans. Fortunately, this doesn't seem to be a problem, as he can do things such as send an burning {{Arrowgram}} to a hated enemy without them so much as batting an eye at it.
111	* MindControl: Vampires can hypnotize humans by locking eyes with them. Vlad can even do it to his own father, as seen in 1x05.
112	* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Renfield.
113	--->'''Renfield''': He said he didn't want to donate blood.
114	--->'''Count Dracula''': They never ''want'' to donate, you fool. That's why we have ''fangs''.
115	* MissingMom: Vlad and Ingrid's mother ran off with a werewolf, and Jonathan's mother left because of van Helsing's vampire obsession. Magda shows up from time to time. [[spoiler:Mina Van Helsing shows up in the latter half of series 2]]
116	* MonsterMisogyny: Averted. We only really see the Count prey on older females - such as the Headmistress of Stokley Grammar, Mrs Branagh, and [[spoiler:Mina Van Helsing]]. The youngest person he ever preys on is Robin Branagh, and that was in an attempt to try to get Vlad to use his vampire powers.
117	* MoralityPet: Wolfie to the Count. Somewhat tempered by the fact that he views him as an actual pet.
118	* MuggleBestFriend: Robin is this to Vlad.
119	* MugglePower: the slayers are normal humans and they go after ''vampires''.
120	* MythologyGag: Quite a few, mostly to in reference to [[{{Dracula}} the original Bram Stoker novel]]--Eric van Helsing and his son Jonathan are descendents of the Abraham van Helsing in the novel; likewise, Renfield is likely a descendant of his counterpart in the book. Jonathan is named for Jonathan Harker, and Eric's ex-wife (Jonno's mother) Mina is named for Mina Harker. (Odd, considering that Jonathan and Mina get married midway through the novel.) Aside from this, Vlad's pet stuffed wolf is called Zoltan, which is probably a reference to ''Zoltan: Hound of Dracula''.
121	** And the family hearse in which they arrive in Stokely has the name 'Demeter' painted on the back. The ''Demeter'' was the ship in which Dracula traveled to England in the original novel.
122	** Stokely itself is probably named after after Bram Stoker, the author of the original book.
123	** In "Blood Sport", The Count says "The dead travel fast" after demonstrating SuperSpeed. This is a line from ''Literature/{{Dracula}}''.
124	* NastyParty: The Hunt Ball. At least, it's meant to be if you happen to be a Breather and find yourself with an invitation...
125	** the Carpathian Feast is this too. If you're the vampire intended to be thrown into the flames.
126	* NoodleIncident:
127	--->'''Count Dracula''': Well that should be no match for the might of Count Dracula!
128	--->'''Renfield''': [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments You did say that about the porcupine, master.]]
129	* NotHisSled: In the books the kids were SwitchedAtBirth. In the TV series Vlad and Robin look this way at first, each fitting into the other's family better. [[spoiler:They're not, no matter how much Robin wishes they were.]]
130	* OminousLatinChanting: In the episode ''Insomnia''. It's there to show the serious nature of what Vlad is being told.
131	* OnlySaneMan: Chloe shows these tendencies at times. Within their family, both Ingrid and Vlad could also count as this at times.
132	** Chloe eventually stops hanging out with them on the basis that strange and dangerous things keep happening when they're around. That's a degree of sense few fictional characters ever demonstrate.
133	*** Lampshaded again by Chloe in the episode ''Bodyswap''
134	* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Vampires can be born, receiving their full powers after passing Blood Tests, and merging with their reflections from the family Blood Mirror on their sixteenth birthday.
135	** However, this can also happen on an earlier birthday, 13th at the earliest, if the child drinks the blood of a Translyvanian bat.
136	* PaperThinDisguise: Any of van Helsing's disguises. ''Especially'' the female ones.
137	* ParentService: Count Dracula for the mums, Magda for the dads.
138	* PivotalWakeup
139	* PocketProtector: [[spoiler:In ''The Hunt Ball'', this happens. Van Helsing, frightened by a loud noise, shoots the Count in the chest with a crossbow bolt. Said bolt was stopped by a decanter of poisoned blood which Van Helsing had given the Count earlier in the evening.]]
140	* PokeThePoodle: [[spoiler:After an enormous build-up in the previous episode, the first 'evil' things we see 'Bad Vlad' do are... setting off the school fire alarm and turning Zoltan's head back to front. Rapidly averted, however: he goes on to torture his father, tries to murder Ingrid, and comes dangerously close to killing a schoolgirl.]]
141	* PubertySuperpower: Most of the classic traits of hereditary vampirism don't manifest until the [[DangerousSixteenthBirthday sixteenth birthday]]). However, on the lead up to the 16th birthday, these will become apparent in the child vampire.
142	* RecordedAudioAlibi: Van Helsing does it in "Halloscream"; going into the bathroom and leaving behind a tape of himself whistling to convince Jono that he is still in there while he stages a BathroomBreakOut.
143	* TheRenfield: Renfield, obviously. Given the presence of his resurrected father in a later episode, very annoyed at not being transformed into an immortal vampire as was promised, it appears that the position is hereditary.
144	* RevealingHug: Erin pulls one of these on Vlad after promising him that there weren't any more secrets.
145	** Then she gets one pulled right in front of her by Ingrid, who deliberately smirks at her to gloat that [[spoiler:Vlad doesn't even trust Erin's warning that Ingrid has a team of half-fangs hunting him.]]
146	* SealedEvilInACan: [[spoiler:Vlad's ''1,000 evil reflections''. Not so much in the mirror anymore though...]]
147	** Also [[spoiler:Sethius, trapped in the Predictum Impava by other vampires for being insane.]]
148	** And [[spoiler:The Blood Seed, sealed in a number of boxes to stop it growing and bearing the forbidden fruit, which would give whoever ate it power and knowledge to rule the world.]]
149	* ShooOutTheClowns: Wolfie seems to disappear after Erin [[spoiler:becomes a vampire and things get much darker.]]
150	* ShoutOut: Van Helsing has a Python called Monty.
151	** Really, a lot of the MythologyGag could double as this.
152	** Renfield Senior's resurrection is a ShoutOut to Frankenstein, complete with lightning and "It lives!" Also:
153	--->'''Ingrid''': [[Theatre/{{Hamlet}} Something is rotten in the state of]] vampiredom...
154	** A shout out to Jaws in episode 1 of series 3
155	---> '''Slayer''': We're gonna need a bigger van.
156	** The quiz scene in "The Crown of Ludlaw Erant" has [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Sarah Michelle Gellar]] as the answer to an unspecified question. Also from a later episode:
157	---> '''George''': Oh for the love of [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]]
158	** Ingrid. Ingrid Pitt played a lot of cold-hearted vamps in Film/HammerHorror movies.
159	* SlidingScaleOfVampireFriendliness: Vampires become such by merging with evil mirror-world versions of themselves at age sixteen, and how evil they turn depends on their strength of will. Ingrid, for example, is downright bloodthirsty, manipulating and evil before she changes, but when her mirror-self suggests she kill her boyfriend she flees from it. When she does merge, she does it of her own will and overcomes the urges associated with it. Compare with Boris, who is weaker willed. Boris becomes completely psychotic from the merge. Vampires can subsist on animals, but most would prefer not to.
160	** Vlad, as the Chosen One doesn't have an evil reflection...[[spoiler:he has a ''thousand''.]]
161	* SpiritualAntithesis: To ''WesternAnimation/ZombieHotel'', another HorrorComedy series on Creator/{{CBBC}}. ''Zombie Hotel'' is animated and the main Zombie family get along well, Maggot and Fungus are fraternal twins, they have powers since childhood, and it only lasted a short while.
162	* SplitPersonalityTakeover: A threat to all born vampires on merging with their reflection on their 16th birthdays. The stronger willed of the two will survive the merge.
163	* StalkerWithACrush: The count attempts to seduce Miss [=McCauley=] by acting as a "secret admirer". Unfortunately, he [[TooDumbToLive leaves the delivery work to Renfield]], with predictable results:
164	---> '''Miss [=McCauley=]''': Someone at this school has launched a hate campaign against me.
165	* SwitchedAtBirth: Robin's ChangelingFantasy centres around the idea that he and Vlad were swapped at birth. They weren't, but Ingrid fakes a diary to convince everyone that they were.
166	** Funnily enough this was the entire plot of the original book the series was based on.
167	* TakeThat: In "Faustian Slip" the Count is laughing uproariously as he reads a copy of ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''. More as an affectionate poke than it seems, though, since he still expresses interest in reading the sequel. Although, he could just be interested in reading it to continue his amusement.
168	* TeamPowerWalk: A short one in season 4 with Vlad, Erin, Bertrand, and [[spoiler:Jono]]
169	* TearsOfBlood: [[spoiler:After the Count is poisoned by Elizabetta, Vlad, in an attempt to save his father's life, bites him to draw the poison out. Its effect seems to take an even harder toll on Vlad, who begins bleeding from the eyes, ears, nose, and hands.]]
170	* TemptingFate: In "Halloscream", Robin says "It's just an old biscuit tin. What's the worst that could happen?". As it turns out, opening the tin unleashes an ancient curse that will turn the Dracula family human.
171	* ThoseTwoGuys: Robin's older brothers, Ian and Paul.
172	* TitleDrop: Executioner Morai in ''When Vampires Go Bad'':
173	--->'''Morai''': Don't get clever with me, young Dracula!
174	* TorchesAndPitchforks: The Draculas were driven out of Transylvania by an angry peasant mob. When we see the mob in the Count's nightmares and flasbacks, they are wielding the requisite torches and pitchforks.
175	* TotalEclipseOfThePlot: Shortly after Ingrid becomes a full vampire and is no longer able to go out in sunlight, there is an eclipse that lasts long enough for her to go out to the movies with her boyfriend and make it back home safely.
176	** The eclipse ended while Ingrid was still in the movies. She probably just hung around in the shadows outside until it got dark before she went home.
177	* TookALevelInBadass: Mina Van Helsing. From unsuspecting breather to Vampire Slayer.
178	* TruthInTelevision : First mentioned in Series Five - There is a Whitby Goth Festival, which is itself a MythologyGag.
179	* UncannyValleyGirl: Ingrid. No one notices, of course. Except Eric Van Helsing.
180	* TheUnfavorite: Ingrid
181	* UngratefulBastard: Ingrid again. She actually acknowledges that Erin saved her life - but only so that Vlad will ''think'' she has a reason to help save her in return. All the while, she's planning to have Erin killed.
182	** Then she manages to take it even further in a later episode - she talks to Vlad in an attempt to distract him while one of her new minions stakes him from behind. Her chosen topic? Thanking Vlad for saving her life in the previous episode - she even says that she hopes for a chance to return the favour!
183	** The Count is this way to Erin as well, given that she saved him at one point too. It's even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded.]]
184	-->'''Erin:''' Doesn't he know I saved his life?
185	-->'''Vlad:''' He knows, he just doesn't ''care''. It's a vampire thing.
186	* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: The Branaghs don't seem at all fazed when the Count fires a flaming arrow with a letter attached to it into their garden table. While they are seated eating lunch at it.
187	* {{Uberwald}}: What we see of Transylvania.
188	* VampireDance: In the ''Hunt Ball'', the vampires seem to enjoy dancing and laughing evilly at the Branaghs.
189	* VampireHunter
190	* VampiresAreSexGods: The Count is gorgeous, Magda is TheVamp, and even Ivan is pretty handsome. The guests at the Hunt Ball aren't too hard on the eyes either. In fact, the only really unattractive vampires we see are the Westenras.
191	* VampireWerewolfLoveTriangle: Vlad's mother ran off with a werewolf
192	* VanHelsingHateCrimes
193	* {{Villainous BSOD}}: Ingrid seems to be practically catatonic after being [[spoiler:almost killed by Vlad.]]
194	* WeCanRuleTogether: Boris offers this to Vlad at the end of ''Bad Reflections'', but he [[spoiler:only pretends to accept]].
195	* WeirdnessCensor: Most of the 'breathers', but the elder Branaghs in particular.
196	** Also subverted. [[spoiler:When Vlad actually says the word 'vampire' to Mr Branagh, he realises what's been in front of him all the time]].
197	* WhamEpisode: [=S4E07 Do The Bite Thing=]. Good grief. [[spoiler:Malik is the Count's illegitimate eldest son, and the mysterious shapeshifter is his mother. Erin is dying, Vlad is going off the rails... and then he turns her into a vampire after she tells him not to, and she swears to [[IHateYouVampireDad never forgive him.]]]]
198	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Zoltan disappeared somewhere during season 3, and has yet to return in season 4.
199	* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: The Slayers in [=S3E12 Blood Loyalties=] keep reminding Erin that vampires aren't people. {{Justified\|Trope}} because vampires usually go through TranshumanTreachery.
200	* WhiteSheep: Vlad is an example of trying to fit in the evil family. The issue is that vampire kids have a DangerousSixteenthBirthday or the like and after that, go through TranshumanTreachery. Vlad wants to avoid this. Interestingly, his FilleFatale sister Ingrid actually is evilish and she's the more rebellious of the two. However, this being a ''vampire'' family, that means that she's actually being what the family wants.
201	** Given that Season 3 shows that Vlad's evil self would [[spoiler:easily kill both Ingrid and the Count within a day, they ''may'' learn to be more accepting of the nicer Vlad.]]
202	* XanatosGambit: Ingrid in [=S3 E11 Hit Chicks=] organizes an group to kill Vlad. If they succeed, she becomes the Chosen One. When they fail, she turns it on Erin and creates the beginning and ending of [=S3 E12 Blood Loyalties=].
203	* YourVampiresSuck: In show, pretty much Robin's reaction in the first episode after Vlad explains the situation for those born vampires.
204	* YouWillBeSpared: Ingrid, being totally serious, says this word-for-word to the therapist who helps her get past her {{Villainous BSOD}} in the third series, telling her that she will be spared when Ingrid becomes Queen of Darkness and takes over the world. The therapist naturally assumes she's joking.
205	* ZanyScheme: Just about every character is guilty of this at some stage.

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