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1	!!The Movie
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3	* {{Adorkable}}:
4	** Dracula is a HUGE, utterly sweet dork as a father, and later grandfather. It’s taken up to eleven when he meets Ericka in the third film.
5	** Mavis gets quite giddy at the prospect of traveling the world or thinking about Jonathan.
6	* BaseBreakingCharacter: Jonathan. Either he's a funny comic foil to Dracula or an annoying, TotallyRadical tagalong who takes screentime away from the other monsters.
7	* CargoShip: Jonathan sure loves his backpack.
8	* CreepyCute: Mavis is 118, can turn into a bat (albeit a very adorable one), crawl on walls, can't go out during the day, and has no reflection, but otherwise, young Mavis appears to be a normal, sweet teenage girl.
9	* CriticalDissonance: Movie critics gave the film mixed reviews, but audiences liked it anyway; the film earned an A-minus from Cinemascore. In fact, the public liked the movie so much that it led the film to an opening weekend total of $42.5 million. It was the best opening weekend ''ever'' for a Sony Pictures Animation feature, topping the $30.3 million opening of ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs'' in 2009, as well as the biggest opening weekend ''ever'' for the month of September. It went on to make $358.4 million worldwide against a budget of $85 million, and received two sequels that performed similarly well.
10	* CrossoverShip:
11	** Mavis is one of many to have been shipped with [[WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians Jack Frost]]. Bonus points since they originated in a 2012 film.
12	** Other characters she's been paired with include [[WesternAnimation/TheLorax2012 the Once-ler]] and [[WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs Flint Lockwood]].
13	** [[LesYay Occasionally]] [[WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}} Rapunzel]]. '
14	* DemographicallyInappropriateHumor:
15	** Dracula and Jonathan get a few AccidentalPervert moments when trying to navigate the hotel, namely [[ShowerOfAwkward accidentally walking in on a skeleton who's showering]], as well as stumbling into a room where two bed bugs have reserved a honeymoon suite in what looks similar to an InterruptedIntimacy joke.
16	** [[InvisibleStreaker Griffin]] is subject to many NakedPeopleAreFunny jokes; during the scene at the pool, after Wayne [[PantsPullingPrank pantses]] him, Griffin gets embarrassed and claims that [[TeenyWeenie the pool water was cold when he got in]] before he runs off.
17	** Dracula mentions people going [[GoshDangItToHeck "bat-poop"]] if they find out about Jonathan, a reference to the term "batshit".
18	* EnsembleDarkhorse: Winnie, perhaps due to her ludicrously precise sense of smell (she was able to sniff Jonathan's shirt and tell Drac not only which direction he went, but which airport he was going to, which flight he was taking and what the meal the flight was serving was). She proved popular enough to receive major roles in later installments.
19	* FanNickname: ''' Dr. Orpheus: The Movie''' from those who noticed a comparison between Dracula and Mavis to Dr. Orpheus and his daughter Triana from ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros''. Both are single dads with a LargeHam nature, Orpheus has been mistaken for Dracula, both daughters are a PerkyGoth with short hair, a black clothes, and striped stockings, and both girls have an Adorkable love interest.
20	* FirstInstallmentWins: Though the sequels definitely have their fans; the first film has still received better fan praise than them.
21	* FriendlyFandoms: With ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'' and ''Film/VanHelsing''. Fans overlapping with the former like them because they are fantasy animated movies with monster protagonists that are ideal to watch during the Halloween season. Fans overlapping with the latter like seeing their favorite classic monsters crossover together.
22	* HilariousInHindsight:
23	** Being a vampire, Dracula can turn into a bat. His over-protectiveness of Mavis stems [[MissingMom from the loss of a loved one]]. That loved one's name? [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight Martha]].
24	*** [[Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice Now doubly so.]]
25	** [[Film/BladeTrinity This isn't the first time Dracula is more resistant to sunlight than other vampires.]]
26	** Jonathan at one point taunts Dracula over his distaste towards modern music by telling him to not be a grandpa. The very premise of [[WesternAnimation/HotelTransylvania2 the first sequel]] is Dracula becoming a grandfather when Jonathan and Mavis have a son.
27	** Griffin got dubbed in Italian by Creator/MinoCaprio, who is the dubber of another character surnamed "Griffin" ([[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Peter]], to be exact) and he also dubbed the Invisible Man from ''Film/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen''.
28	* HoYay:
29	** Jonathan and Dracula. Jonathan is the only one that can get him to lighten up, the common ''romantic comedy'' trope RaceForYourLove was used with those two, and the scene where Jonathan [[spoiler: tells Mavis he hates monsters and leaves? He does that for Dracula. He ''hurts the supposed love of his life for him.'']] Of course he later says that he did it to avoid being eaten, but still. HilariousInHindsight, given that this dynamic was ''also'' true of their namesakes.
30	** Dracula's best friends are unable to convince him to sing, even for his beloved daughter Mavis's birthday party and getting a GameFace for their troubles. Yet, all Johnny has to do is ask before Dracula joins in during the DancePartyEnding...
31	** To a lesser extent, there's Griffin's evident crush (man-crush, maybe?) on [[EvenTheGuysWantHim Drac]]. See AmbiguouslyGay on the front page.
32	* JustHereForGodzilla:
33	** Most of the animation fans' interest in this movie comes solely from the fact that Creator/GenndyTartakovsky directed it. Many people are not interested in the film itself and just want to see it because they think it will help his career if they do. The fact that he's said "if this film does well, they might let me do a ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' movie" only adds to it. Indeed, a fifth season of ''Samurai Jack'' premiered in 2017.
34	** The media has also made a huge deal over the fact that Music/SelenaGomez is voicing Mavis, and her popularity is a huge draw for the teeny-bopper crowd. Same for Creator/AdamSandler fans as well.
35	* MemeticMutation:
36	** In RealLife, Dracula's denial quickly became a MemeticMutation in itself.
37	** So is Mavis' "[[PuppyDogEyes Pouty Bat Face]]."
38	** It's modestly popular for Platform/YouTube users to edit the scene where Dracula reacts to "Sexy and I Know It" played from Jonathan's music player, replacing "Sexy" [[https://youtu.be/xfonLs5L-6o with]] [[https://youtu.be/Na2G9CesbB0 other]] [[https://youtu.be/7aEsQbp_XvA random]] [[https://youtu.be/xsCXVTayGiM songs]].
39	** Similarly, it's become decently popular for people to take the clip of Dracula bursting into rap alongside Jonathan and replace the audio [[https://youtu.be/ZKDmUKNcttI usually with completely absurd results]].
40	** "Haha Jonathan, you are banging my daughter"[[labelnote:Explanation]]The final panel in [[https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/108/210/eb9.jpg this particular version]] of the infamous [[Film/SpiderManHomecoming "I'm Stuff" meme]] featuring Mavis, Jonathan, and Dracula. The panel became a meme in itself after it became popular to edit it into the final panels of otherwise unrelated memes.[[/labelnote]]
41	** This dude's whole reason for being a monster is being French.[[labelnote:Explanation]] Some people were unaware that the character was Quasimodo and assumed he was just a TakeThat to the French.[[/labelnote]]
42	** The fact that the main character is named Jonathan and has a familial issue regarding vampires has drawn jokes from [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood a certain fandom.]]
43	%%* {{Moe}}: When Mavis' bat form puts on those adorable PuppyDogEyes... Also, her baby and little girl forms.
44	* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/RebeccaSugar and [[WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes Victor]] [[WesternAnimation/ThunderCatsRoar Courtright]] had one of their first professional animation jobs as storyboard artists for this film.
45	* SpiritualLicensee: As mentioned on the trivia page, while not produced by Creator/HappyMadisonProductions, pretty much everyone who's regularly involved in the company's films, up to and including their distributor, is involved. As such, it's all but legally considered a Happy Madison film by many audiences.
46	* {{Squick}}: Quasimodo constantly sweating is kinda gross. Plus, it’s never explained why he sweats so much.
47	* ThemePairing: Rapunzel from ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'' and Mavis are both girls isolated from the real world by their overprotective parents and therefore are very eager to go and explore it. ''WebVideo/GoldenBlondAndJetBlack'' has them as the main pairing.
48	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter:
49	** Quasimodo is so underused that his scenes could be cropped out entirely and it wouldn't really ruin the flow of the movie.
50	** Many critics complained that Dracula's friends were underused and could've had more screen time and character development instead of wasting it on Johnny. This is one thing many think the sequels did better.
51	* UglyCute: Winnie, daughter of Wayne the Wolfman.
52	* TheWoobie: Both Mavis and Dracula. It's because of the [[InnocentBlueEyes big blue eyes]] that you just want to give them a hug.
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54	!!The Video Game
55	* AntiClimaxBoss: Quasimodo is this in both the movie and the game, despite being the closest thing the movie has to a BigBad. The game is exceptionally bad about this, where ''every'' [[InNameOnly "boss"]] in the game falls into this trope. [[spoiler: To truly hammer it home, your only reward for beating Quasimodo are [[AWinnerIsYou a few words of dialogue]] immediately followed by the end credits!]]
56	* GameBreakingBug: A pretty bad one for the game if you're looking for replay value. On some cartridges, if you beat the game and try to reload the save file, you will be greeted by a load error message, which prevents you from replaying it ''at all.''
57	* GoddamnedBats: The fish-tossing zombie waiters in the game.
58	* SugarWiki/NoProblemWithLicensedGames: Though nothing truly outstanding, the UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS game is pretty okay. Unfortunately, if you're unlucky to have one of those cartridges that [[GameBreakingBug crashes if you try to load a save....]]

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