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1	* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The American comic was kept alive and on a monthly schedule despite weak sales in the U.S., largely due to its popularity in Britain.
2	* HesJustHiding: A handful of minor characters (a man who resists Dracula and is thrown overboard in the tenth issue and a Union colonel who is hit by lightning in the last issue of the second series) have some fans who feel they might have survived, given how people have survived similar things in real life.
3	* 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/MarvelComicsLogan Wolverine]].
4	* MemeticMutation: A screenshot of Dracula eating a hamburger from the anime movie adaptation.
5	** While it's more of a ComicBook/MoonKnight meme than a Tomb of Dracula meme, Drac is often depicted as an enemy of Moon Knight's who owes him money for some undisclosed reason.
6	* OneSceneWonder:
7	** 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.
8	** 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.
9	** Another black-and-white magaizine issue has a ColonelBadass who faces Dracula on a battlefield during UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar while brandishing the traditional weapons to weaken Dracula. He fails, and he isn't the main character of that story, but it's still memorable.
10	* OneTruePairing: A lot of people ship Frank and Rachel even though subsequent comic series don't have them end up together.
11	* {{Squick}}: When he is stranded in Himalayas, Dracula is forced to feed on a rotting corpse to satiate his bloodlust. This is described in vivid detail.
12	* 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 lair and all its traps, only to be turned by Dracula's bite. She begs her father to kill her before she gives in to 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.]]
13	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Edith can feel underused, given how her growing up with Rachel as a foster sister and her trauma about Dracula causing her mother's suicide are either ignored or relegated to brief flashbacks.
14	* TooBleakStoppedCaring: As much of a MagnificentBastard as Dracula is, he generally puts an emphasis on the "bastard" part of the trope and it can sometimes be trying watching him inflict cruel torments on both regular protagonists and guest {{Innocent Bystander}}s while invariably thwarting the various brave and awesome attempts to kill him for good.
15	* VanillaProtagonist: Playboy turned determined, gunslinging VampireHunter Frank Drake is the central protagonist throughout the original run and is by no means a FlatCharacter. Nonetheless, he is often if not always eclipsed in popularity by his love interest Rachel (due to her BadassFamily background and ImprobableAimingSkills), DaywalkingVampire and HunterOfTheirOwnKind ComicBook/{{Blade}}, tragic HandicappedBadass Quincy Harker, FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire PrivateInvestigator Hannibal King, constantly reincarnated TragicVillain Lilith, the angelic Janus, mute ScarilyCompetentTracker Taj Nital, and Dracula himself (due to his MagnificentBastard moments).
16	* TheWoobie:
17	** Quincy. His wife commits suicide after a vampire attack that maims him and he has to raise his daughter alone and while dealing with his paraplegia. His loved ones are constantly menaced and endangered by Dracula and [[spoiler:he has to MercyKill his infected daughter.]]
18	** Rachel spends almost her entire life being menaced by Dracula, who kills her biological family. She outlives many friends and her efforts to kill Dracula constantly come to naught. And if you acknowledge the ''ComicBook/XMen'' crossover after the original run, after she retires to live in peace [[spoiler:she's turned into a vampire, forced to be Dracula's consort, and is left begging for a MercyKill due to the absence of a known cure.]]
19	** Most protagonists from the black-and-white magazine are {{One Shot Character}}s and ordinary people who Dracula puts through hell. Odette the ballerina might be the biggest one. Dracula tries to make her his bride and drag her away from the life she absolutely loves. She resists her new nature, but her vampiric senses make her lose all appreciation for music after a few weeks. This DespairEventHorizon makes her feed on a human, something that horrifies her once the deed is done. She continues trying to harness her love for ballet to cling to her humanity, but Dracula tries to hypnotize her into becoming a FullyEmbracedFiend. The happiest ending she can get is dying on a stage in a HeroicSuicide rather than joining him.
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22	!!''Dracula: Sovereign of the Damned''
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24	* HilariousInHindsight: near the end of the movie, a depowered Dracula challenges Tomo for the title of Sovereign of the Damned and begins his declaration with "Enough talk!" Almost twenty years later, [[VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight a certain video game]] will produce a meme which has Dracula yell, "But enough talk! Have at you!" and fans of said game might be disappointed that Drac didn't say that here, too.
25	* SoBadItsGood: the modern consensus of the movie seems to be that it's so ridiculous and over-the-top that it goes from being just a low-budget animated adaptation of ''Tomb of Dracula'' that would otherwise be pretty mediocre to being a hilarious ride through the basic story of the comics.

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