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Character sheet for the novel ''Literature/{{Dracula}}''. For the character sheet for Creator/{{NBC}}'s TV series ''Series/Dracula2013'', see [[Characters/Dracula2013 here]].

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[[AntagonistTitle The eponymous villain of the story]]. A man (who may or may not be [[UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler Vlad Tepes]]) who somehow became a walking undead cursed to drink blood. After ruling over his land for many years, he seeks to move to modern day cities for fresh blood and to make more undead like himself.

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* AdaptationDeviation: A lot of adaptations change his appearance considerably, typically getting rid of his moustache and his BigOlEyebrows.
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: In his first introduction is described like an elderly man with moustaches and even after becoming younger after drinking blood he still has hairy palms. In most adaptations he's almost always TallDarkAndHandsome and elegant-looking.
* TheAgeless: Played with. Unlike most modern vampires, Dracula still seems to age, since Harker first meets him as [[EvilOldFolks a decrepit, eccentric old man]]. However, a steady diet of blood can restore some of his youth, which happens gradually throughout the story.
* AllegoricalCharacter: He is ''very'' strongly metaphorical for very human predators, especially of the sexual variety; his M.O. is to isolate people (especially women) attack them, and slowly take what he wants from them.
* AntagonistTitle: He's the titular vampire of the novel and the main villain.
* ArchetypalCharacter: Count Dracula himself, setting the standard for many vampire works to follow.
* AristocratsAreEvil: Even boasts to Jonathan about his great lineage. Likewise he has the castle, title and is pure evil.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Sort of a twisted version with the vampire women. The dialogue implies they were women he loved in at least some sense (possibly in a familial sense for the dark-haired two who are hinted to possibly be relatives, compared to the blonde who with her portrayed status may have been his wife). Later the love was lost and he keeps them simply for company. They disobey him when it comes to Jonathan but otherwise there's a reason the vampire women stay in the castle and serve Dracula (either from fear, respect, or just total control over them). Dracula bringing them a baby to eat shows he does somewhat still care for them.
* AxCrazy: Zigzagged. He (almost) never acts like a true psychopathic murderer as he's more sophisticated and cunning. On the other hand he has an unconfirmed but surely large bodycount of men, women, and children which probably lasted for centuries.
* BadassCape: Described by Jonathan at one point as akin to a bat's wings.
* BalkanBastard: The UrExample. A malicious nobleman from Eastern Europe (Romania, to be more precise) who travels west to kill people. And he was possibly based on the historical UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler.
* BatmanGambit: His master plan to infiltrate England and spread his vampire curse was only foiled by the DeusExMachina of asylum doctor John Seward just happening to be the former student of Professor Van Helsing, the only person in the country who'd recognise a vampire attack and know exactly what to do. Dracula's meticulous setup and coverup of his lairs and his later manipulation of Mina as a weapon against his pursuers was only matched by Van Helsing's counter-plan of hypnotising her to deduce the Count's location.
* TheBeastmaster: Displays the ability to control wolves during Jonathan's time at his castle, even using it at one point to dissuade him from leaving early. More disturbingly, he also uses it at one point to have them devour a mother who came at his castle's door after he took her baby. Once he reaches England this power becomes rather less useful as wolves had been eradicated in the wild 200 years earlier. He's forced to break a wolf out of the local zoo to send to attack the Westenra household.
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: '''{{Averted}}'''. Despite it being a popular modern theory that Creator/BramStoker based the character on the historical [[UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler Vlad Dracula the Impaler]], in reality almost nobody in the whole of ''Western Europe'' had ever ''heard'' of the guy at this point in history, and the only loose connection was that Stoker came across the name "Dracula" in a book once and decided it sounded cool (particularly since it's the Romanian word for '[[DragonsAreDemonic dragon/devil]]') so changed his "Count Whampir" to Count Dracula. There were in fact several men called "Dracula" at that point in time (and many were indeed soldiers and warlords like Vlad), so we can't even say for sure that it was Vlad the Impaler he was based on and not another one.
* BigBad: Is responsible for everything evil that occurs during the story.
* BigFancyCastle: His castle ''used'' to be an awe-inspiring fortress, although traces of its ancient wealth could still be found in the sumptuous interior furnishings. It is now more of a HauntedCastle, with broken battlements, few lights, and no residents except the Count himself and the three women.
* BigOlEyebrows: Jonathan Harker notes that the Count's eyebrows are:
-->''"very massive, almost meeting over the nose, and with bushy hair that seemed to curl in its own profusion."''
* BloodLust: He goes from being a charming gentleman to a raging fiend with the flip of a switch — and the switch is Jonathan cutting himself shaving.
* ColdIron: Capable of being destroyed by this.
* ComboPlatterPowers: His powers include that of the IntangibleMan, MindControl, {{Wall Crawl}}ing, WeatherManipulation, turning into SuperSmoke, SuperStrength, and VoluntaryShapeshifting, at the risk of ShapeshifterModeLock depending on time and location.
* ComicBookFantasyCasting: Bram Stoker based Dracula's appearance on Henry Irving, a popular stage actor at the time the novel was written.
* TheCorrupter: A given being a vampire, anyone who dies under his bites turns into an evil monster. The three vampiresses are a foreshadowing of this. It comes into full play when Lucy falls victim to him and rises as a vampire.
* DarkIsEvil: He described (and is usually depicted in most adaptations) as wearing dark formal clothes.
* DastardlyWhiplash: His black attire and long moustache give him this appearance.
* DaywalkingVampire: Granted, he's weakened in the sunlight and can't use his powers (it's stated if he is in a certain form when the sun comes up, he's stuck till nightfall). But otherwise sunlight isn't fatal to him and just the equivalent of staying up past his bedtime, allowing him to move about in daylight with no ill effects.
* DeathSeeker: Somewhat implied by Mina, who thinks that secretly he just wants an end to his undead existence having lived so long unnaturally, but has gotten so used to his ways that he can't stop himself.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Something lost on modern audiences who are themselves looking back on a bygone time in ''Dracula'' is that the Count doesn't just come out of Eastern Europe to menace Britain, but out of the medieval past to menace the "civilized" present. The count is an accomplished sorcerer and magician in an age of technology, he holds to archaic ideas about proper master-servant relationships the modern world has abandoned, and he uses barbaric terror tactics to try to frighten his enemies into submission.
* DepravedBisexual: Also implied, but more strongly and overtly; while most of his victims are female, he all but openly flirts with Jonathan and at one point tells the other vampires of his castle that Jonathan "belongs to him and him alone"
* TheDreaded: While they don't have anything beyond suspicions, the locals in his village are all wary of him and with good reason.
* EatsBabies: Implied though he mostly goes after women. He's willing to feed a child to others though, so no morality points here.
* EvilOldFolks: Resembles an old man when first introduced.
* EvilOverlord: He's the fearful vampiric count of Transylvania after all.
* EvilSmellsBad: He has foul breath, almost certainly due to his diet, and areas where he stays are, well, to quote the book:
-->But as to the odour itself, how shall I describe it? It was not alone that it was composed of all the ills of mortality and with the pungent, acrid smell of blood, but it seemed as though corruption had become itself corrupt.
* EvilSorcerer: He is said to have been a Solomonari, a dark wizard taught by the Devil himself at [[AcademyOfEvil Scholomance]]. It is also heavily implied that dark magic was the source of his vampirism, rather than being bitten like all of his victims, and that some of his varied powers are sorcerous techniques rather than inherent vampiric abilities.
* FamousAncestor: Gives a very impassioned speech on his heritage to Harker over dinner, in which he claims to be descended from Attila the Hun.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Acts every inch the affable host while Harker is playing into his hands, but drops the act the second Harker turns against him.
* FrozenFashionSense: {{Averted|Trope}}. His attempts to prepare himself for his move to England explicitly include acquiring clothes in the latest fashionable English style he can get his hands on in order to blend in better.
* FunnyForeigner: Very explicitly defied.
-->'''Dracula:''' Well I know that, did I move and speak in your London, none there are who would not know me for a stranger. That is not enough for me. Here I am noble; I am boyar; the common people know me, and I am master. But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one; men know him not—-and to know not is to care not for. I am content if I am like the rest, so that no man stops if he see me, or pause in his speaking if he hear my words, ‘Ha, ha! a stranger!’ I have been so long master that I would be master still—-or at least that none other should be master of me.
* GeniusBruiser: In addition to his physical abilities, which include what is described as "the strength of twenty strong men", he is an exceptionally crafty and intelligent opponent, trained extensively in magic, sorcery and alchemy among other disciplines. One person describes says of him when he was alive: "He had a mighty brain, a learning beyond compare, and a heart that knew no fear and no remorse... there was no branch of knowledge of his time that he did not essay".
* HideYourOtherness: He poses as an ordinary human nobleman for most of the first half of the story, as part of his evil plot to get some Londoners to nosh on.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Inflicting Mina with vampirism as a way to see what the heroes are doing while slowly turning her into a vampire. However he didn't think Van Helsing (at Mina's own suggestion) would use it to ''track him''.
* ImmuneToBullets: Not really shown, but Helsing states as much when prepping the hunters to go after him, citing since Dracula's pretty much a walking corpse, bullets will barely make him flinch.
* IGaveMyWord: He promises the vampire women they can have Harker once his business transaction is concluded. And indeed, once Dracula heads to London, he locks Harker in the castle for them to do as they see fit with him the following night. Harker just narrowly escapes before the undead women can arise from their slumber to find him.
* InformedAbility: Van Helsing mentions a number of powers Dracula never uses, like controlling corpses (though he might mean the people he's turned since they're technically corpses) and using the tombs of victims as alternative sanctuaries.
* KavorkaMan: His physical description shows him as being rather ugly, even after he grows younger, and he has hairy palms. However, he has three vampire wives and manages to put several women into his hypnotic spell. He's more of a DirtyOldMan/sexual predator than the more modern VampiresAreSexGods trope.
** It should be noted that aside from the women in his castle, there are no women interested in him. His 'hypnotic spell' is a violent assault that turns women into vampires.
* KissOfTheVampire: Dracula's bite has some very sexual overtones to it, with the process described as "seduction" on more than one occasion.
* LeanAndMean: For adding slimming power he could slip through the cracks of doors if necessary.
* LiquidAssets: He starts off as an elderly man and becomes younger in appearance over time through drinking blood.
* ManipulativeBastard: He gets very far on nothing but his charm. He's so good at it that its all but stated that he has some sort of hypnotic powers.
* MissingReflection: The TropeMaker. Soon after his arrival at Castle Dracula, Harker observes that the building is devoid of mirrors. When Dracula silently comes into Harker's room while he's shaving, Harker notices that Dracula, who is standing behind him, does not appear in the shaving mirror as he should. The Count reacts violently and flings the mirror out a window. The missing reflection is the first solid evidence of his vampiric nature that Harker directly observes.
* MonsterLord: He's a count, and the other vampires mentioned in the book clearly view him as superior... but this may be less to do with his title and more to do with the fact he's implied to be their husband and/or father and also happens to be a badass.
* MonsterMisogyny: He feeds on men to survive, but the only new vampires he creates are women. Many critics note the sexualized nature of the violence between men and women throughout the story, with blood-sucking and stalking being seen as metaphors for sex. Then again the story never stays with him long enough to showcase him attacking others either.
* MonsterProgenitor: It's known he's the original vampire of ''his'' line of vampire, but not if he is the first vampire ever.
* MyGrandsonMyself: Implied. When meeting Jonathan Harker for the first time, Dracula boasts descent from a famous local warlord from the medieval period, with Jonathan noting a StrongFamilyResemblance. However, Van Hellsing speculates that the Count "must have been that Voivode Dracula who won his name against the Turk," implying that the warlord Dracula claims descent from was Dracula himself.
* MysteriousPast: We don't know much about him other than that he's long lived, came from the medieval era, that his family were nobles (hence the castle) and that he studied the black arts. Past that, everything is very vague, he's implied to be Vlad Tepes but this is just speculation on the part of Van Helsing, never outright confirmed. Likewise how he became a vampire himself with the most implication that it was through said black arts that changed him.
* NonActionBigBad: [[spoiler:In the final showdown, due to being confined to his coffin. Justified, though, as Van Helsing states they could never take him while he's active and have to get him when he's weakened]].
* ObviouslyEvil: Looks and sounds the part; likewise his home is a big tip-off. However he is charming enough to honestly make it still a bit of a surprise just how evil he really is.
* OldDarkHouse: Carfax Abbey is essentially this for him and the London equivalent to his castle. Though it's not so much a house than a run down cathedral-like manor (was even said to have it's own ''lake''). He ''specifically'' requested it because, not only was it big enough to hide his coffins, but because it was dark and derelict similar to his castle. Likewise it was a bit of ways from London, not too far but enough to venture there for his needs and still be in an isolated area, making it a perfect hideout while he worked to spread his curse. Really the only reason he targets Lucy was because the summer home Mina and she were staying in happened to be close by and Lucy had the misfortune of sleepwalking outside while he was starting his hunting, figuring "Hey lovely native girl with fresh blood who's wandering about unaware of what's goin on, might as well feed while it's a freebie and make a new bride while I'm at it".
* OurVampiresAreDifferent:
** Mostly because [[UnbuiltTrope he predates]] a lot of other vampire fiction. Later stories {{Flanderized}} some of the details in this book, and blended them with the traditional folklore. For instance, Dracula sleeps during the day... but he can stay up all day if he wants, like a human staying up all night, and he doesn't burst into flames in direct sunlight, just has his powers limited so that he can't shapeshift.
** Also the fact that his bites are indeed what infect people with vampirisim, no blood sharing involved. The only reason he did it to Mina was as revenge for killing vampire Lucy and as a means to spy on the hunters, as well as to curse Mina with vampirism meaning she'll turn regardless if she lives or dies unless he himself is killed.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: While he's most famous for being the quintessential vampire, Dracula also has rather werewolf-like traits -- he's able to [[{{Animorphism}} transform into a wolf]], can communicate with wolves and is rather hairy even in human form. He even claims in-universe that werewolf legends [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy were inspired by tales of his family]].
* PointyEars: One of the many strange and unsettling details about his appearance that Harker notices is that his ears are "at the tops extremely pointed".
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Not to any malicious degree, and really only noticeable to modern readers, but he waxes philosophical about how his ProudWarriorRaceGuy ancestors routed foreign invaders and insists that peasants need to be led by the nobles. This showcases how out of touch with the times he is due to having led an unnaturally long life and apparently having never attempted to leave his land before now. His attempt to spread his vampirisim is to keep his sense of monarchy alive.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: He boasts about his warrior heritage to Harker, saying how his family [[TruthInTelevision historically defeated the Turks in combat]].
* PsychopathicManchild: Mina Murray draws upon the new science of Criminology to profile him and describes him of being of the "typical" criminal mind- childish, in thought and behaviour.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Fairly obvious he's very long lived mentioning in his conversation of "his ancestors" driving away the marauding Turks and citing that the land around the castle was much more grand in its heyday. His vampirism allowing him to live a more than normal lifespan as a walking corpse.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: When he gets seriously angry, his eyes shift to red. Jonathan describes them as akin to a raging inferno.
* RedRightHand: Described as having a large nose, a uni-brow, a 'cruel-looking' mouth, and hairy palms. [[SarcasmMode Hot!]] To elaborate the mouth-bit, he is described having unusually red lips and a mild overbite, emphasizing his ever so slightly sharp teeth. And giving Jonathan his first clue there is something inhuman about him.
* RevengeByProxy: He goes after Mina when he realizes her husband and friends are hunting him.
* {{Sadist}}: While sucking blood on human beings might be essential for his survival, the joy and lack of remorse he takes in doing it shows that he's pure evil in nature. Particular mention is also when instead of simply killing Harker once he no longer needs him he decides to leave him locked in his castle hoping to either driving him into madness or starving him or letting his three brides to feed on him.
* ShapeshifterModeLock: Unlike modern vampires, he is not killed by sunlight. However, he is unable to change shape from sunrise to noon, and from noon to sunset. He can only change shape at noon exactly and, of course, any time at night.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: He actually only appears "on screen" in a handful of scenes, but he dominates practically everything that happens in the book.
* TheSociopath: He's a charming but nevertheless wicked vampire who feeds on human blood with no remorse at all and it's implied he plans to extend his reign of terror to other parts of the world.
* SupremeChef: When Harker is staying at Castle Dracula, he notes in his journal that the food is very good. Later, it's revealed that there are no servants (it would be tough to get people to work for a, y'know, ''vampire'') and Dracula has been doing all the work, such as cooking. Apparently, when you're an undying abomination you have time to pick up a culinary hobby. Either him or his wives.
* TakeOverTheWorld: Somewhat implied, though its possible he was just looking for a new hunting ground.
* TallDarkAndHandsome: After drinking blood, he rejuvenates himself turning into a tall and black haired handsome man.
* TermsOfEndangerment: Unfailingly polite to all of the men, and downright tender with the women. In context, it comes off as ''extremely'' menacing.
* TranshumanTreachery: Implied. Van Helsing presumes that he initially was looking into occult magic to help his country during the war and turned himself into an undead. But as time went on, [[MotiveDecay he forgot the reason he did so]], became corrupted by said power and now seeks to spread the vampirisim.
* UglyGuyHotWife: Dracula himself is a creepy-looking old man, while his three "brides" are a trio of sensual seductresses.
* UnskilledButStrong: He is said to have the strength of 20 men, but when placed in direct hand to hand combat, Renfield, an abnormally strong mental patient, is able to fight him evenly until he makes the mistake of looking into the count's eyes. Makes sense considering that with his powers, infectees, and animal minions, he would rarely need to fight in hand to hand combat and thus felt no need to hone any real skill in it.
* VampireMonarch: He's described as the "King Vampire", with direct control over other vampires. While this nobleman only has three vampire women who do push their luck against him with attacking Jonathan , it is beyond doubt all vampires in the story only answer to Count Dracula.
* VampireVords: Subverted. He speaks excellent English, and has called Harker to his castle to, more than anything, help him get rid of his accent so that he won't be seen as another FunnyForeigner when he has moved to England.
* VampiresAreRich: He lives in a big castle and summons Jonathan Harker to Transylvania to help him buy land in England. Harker notes that Dracula doesn't have any servants, but we later find out that it's because no local will come near the place. (At least no human servants ''in'' the castle, he employs some loyal Romani to help him load up his coffins for his move. You can kinda say the three vampire women are somewhat servants of his, but he can barely control them and, unlike him, don't move about during the day.) Dracula's continuing source of income seems to be buried treasure that is marked by will-o'-the-wisps one night out of the year.
* VillainousWidowsPeak: He does have one, though it's given less attention than his other, more strange features.
* TheVirus: His vampirism "disease." Downplayed in that Dracula himself is the driving force behind its spread rather than the disease itself, but its effect on its victims drives them to turn others.
* WallCrawl: What confirms Harker's suspicions of him that he's not quite human when he spots him outside his room's window crawling ''down'' a wall as if he was a lizard. The vampire women attacking him is just the icing on the cake.
* WasOnceAMan: Implied by Van Helsing that he turned himself into a vampire through occult and black magic.
* WickedCultured: Dracula's a thoroughly evil predator, but also an intelligent and cultivated one. In life, he was a GeniusBruiser who studied many diverse forms of knowledge, and in undeath he cares very deeply about presenting himself as an urbane being who speaks good English, wears the latest fashions, and is familiar with the goings-on of the day.
* WouldHitAGirl: He violently removes the blonde vampire from Jonathan by grabbing her by the neck and throwing her off.
* WouldHurtAChild: One of his most monstrous actions in the book is feeding a child he has just abducted to the other vampires of the castle. Said child is even kept in a sack.
* WoundThatWillNotHeal: The wound to the forehead that Harker gives him early in the novel never heals. Whether this is because Dracula, being already dead, cannot heal wounds, or simply because not enough time passes, or something else, is never made clear.
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[[folder: Jonathan Harker]]
A young solicitor sent to Transylvania to manage the legal and financial technicalities of Dracula's moving to London. Being from a 19th-Century Modern Day society, he isn't familiar of the supernatural of Transylvania, but quickly learns through his experiences.
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* AdaptationalJerkass: Many of the adaptations that try to show Dracula in a more positive light, or want Mina to be romantically involved with someone else, make Jonathan a stuffy 1800s caricature, who wants the schoolteacher Mina to [[StayInTheKitchen stay at home]], or even [[DefiledForever leaves her because she was practically-raped by Dracula]]. In the original novel, Jonathan never considers Mina anything less than the love of his life and is ready to join her in undeath if necessary so she won't suffer alone. Her having to quit her job as a teacher never comes up either. (Mina does mention wanting to help Jonathan with his job, hence her practicing shorthand, but whether she'd be doing this in addition to her regular job or leaving her old job for a new one, she'd still be employed, and not staying home as Jonathan's housekeeper he can sleep with at will.)
* AllAPartOfTheJob: Discussed internally by Jonathan early in the novel. After beginning to pick up on the major red flags surrounding his situation, Jonathan internally debates whether to proceed into Dracula's castle or not and [[NaiveNewcomer briefly wonders whether such bizarre circumstances are actually normal]] in the job of a solicitor called to manage transnational affairs in foreign lands. To be fair, Jonathan is still fairly green at his job, having only recently passed his bar exam right before being sent to Transylvania; up until just before the novel's start Jonathan was merely a clerk working at his surrogate father's law firm. He's also implicitly trying to rationalize away his fear, since he ''has'' to go into the castle; with the wolves close by in the forest and the village miles away, there's really no safe way out of it at this point.
* AuthorAvatar: Most critics believe he's this for Creator/BramStoker.
* BeginnersLuck: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]. His coworkers and mentor all live perfectly ordinary, successful lives managing the legal and financial issues of their presumably ordinary, successful clients, but Jonathan's very first client as a full-fledged solicitor is Dracula, a being who entraps Jonathan, torments him, and proceeds thereafter to attack all of the women in his life.
* BrainFever: His nightmarish experiences in Dracula's castle result in a weeks-long mental and emotional breakdown bad enough to lead to actual physical illness, during which he was mostly incoherent. Mina helps snap him out of it, but he has brief reoccurring episodes up until Dr. Van Helsing validates that what Jonathan experienced at Castle Dracula was indeed real. Until then Jonathan had feared he was legitimately insane and thus did not trust his own perception of reality.
* {{Clerk}}: A former clerk, having just passed his bar exam before heading to Transylvania. He's made a partner in the firm on his return.
* CollateralAngst: Mina's condition causes him to angst out for quite some time. Fortunately, he more than rises to the occasion when he gets over it.
* DeathByAdaptation: There are a few versions where he never leaves Dracula's castle alive... [[TranshumanTreachery not as a human anyway]].
* {{Determinator}}: Jonathan's most defining attribute is his surprisingly strong will and determination, though admittedly most of the time it's hidden under gentle and mild mannerisms.
* DevotedToYou: To Mina, his fiance and later wife, to the extent that he states he would willingly become a vampire himself if she were turned just so she wouldn't suffer alone. The devotion is reciprocated, and the two work hard to support and be strong for each other throughout the novel both as lovers and as partners.
* DiseaseBleach: His hair begins to go grey after his imprisonment at the Count's castle. It's believed by some to be another way in which he grows to mirror Dracula himself, similar to his personality change and growing fixation on his weapons. Of course, this gets even more patently ridiculous later on: after Mina explains all the deprivations the Count has been secretly putting her through and the fact that he's setting her up to become another vampire thrall, Jonathan's hair is ''explicitly'' stated as going stark white right then and there, grown hair and all.
* DrivenToMadness: The Count leaves him a complete psychological wreck, [[{{Gaslighting}} convinced that what he'd seen couldn't possibly be real]]. After some distance and recovery, his symptoms thereafter have been commonly discussed by literary scholars in the context of PTSD, though this disorder was not known at the time Bram Stoker wrote ''Dracula.''
* TheGenericGuy: He doesn't have an interest in science like Van Helsing or Seward, tragedy like Lucy and Arthur, madness like Renfield, or a HeroicSacrifice like Quincey Morris, so he's historically been written off as merely a generic handsome guy who serves as the Count's [[TheChewToy Chew Toy]] in the first part of the book and a SatelliteLoveInterest to Mina after she takes greater prominence in the conflict with the Count. Many adaptations either condense his part or remove him completely.
* HappilyMarried: In the book he and Mina are the best examples of lovebirds you'll ever see.
* TheHero: Of the novel, despite some later adaptations changing focus.
* KukrisAreKool: He wields a kukri and attacks with enough ferocity to force Dracula to retreat. Then decapitates the Count with it after Quincey Morris stabbed him in the heart with a Bowie knife.
* LikeASonToMe: To his boss, the childless Mr. Hawkins, enough for Hawkins to functionally adopt Jonathan and his wife into his household after Jonathan's first trip to Transylvania and even makes the Harkers the sole beneficiaries of his will.
* NaiveNewcomer: Starts the story as a simple solicitor on a business trip, unaware that the supernatural even exists. Naturally he's horrified that he practically gave Dracula a pass to spread his evil to modern day society.
* NerdActionHero: Both he and his wife are this. Over the course of the novel Jonathan becomes more and more willing to do what it takes to stop Dracula, regardless of danger... but he's also the same guy who, when stuck in Dracula's castle under increasingly unnerving circumstances, feels gladdened and comforted by the presence of law books.
* RankUp: Starts the novel having just passed his exam to move from a solicitor's clerk to a full solicitor, upon his return from Transylvania is made junior partner of the firm run by his mentor and father-figure Mr. Hawkins, and when Hawkins dies becomes the senior (only) partner of the firm, and inherits it and all of Hawkins' estate, moving him considerably up the economic and social ladder.
* TookALevelInBadass: A variation. Despite the lackluster introduction, when he recovers from his ordeal, we get to see what's he made of.
* WallCrawl: How he escaped Dracula's castle.
* YouAreWorthHell: Vows to allow himself to become a vampire if Mina can't be saved, knowing full well he'll become an evil undead creature of the night, just to be with her. Thankfully it doesn't come to that.
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[[folder: Mina Harker née Murray]]
Johnathan's fiancée and later wife and school teacher.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: It’s generally considered she had darker hair and most adaptations agree. However she was depicted with red hair in ''Film/DraculaDeadAndLovingIt'', in the comic adaptation drawn by Dick Giordano she’s blonde and she’s also blonde in ''Anime/{{Hellsing}}''... and a teenage girl.
* AffectionateNickname: Van Helsing takes to her in a very fatherly sort of way, and consistently refers to her as "our dear Madam Mina."
* AlliterativeName: Before marrying Jonathan, her name was '''M'''ina '''M'''urray.
* AmbiguouslyBi: Downplayed, but not even getting into her relationship with Lucy, the first time she sees Dracula, she mentions that they were admiring the same woman, whom Mina also describes as quite attractive.
* BadassBookworm: She's pretty smart and organized, not to mention she holds it together MUCH better than her husband and is determined to help.
* BreakTheCutie: A bit, her best friend dies, then she's attacked by Dracula and terrified of the possibility of becoming a vampire. But she eventually subverts it and stays strong for the sake of the hunters.
* {{Chickification}}: Arguably happens in many movie adaptations of the original source material. In the novel, she was a well-educated assistant schoolmistress who took care of Lucy early on and kept her from sleepwalking, nursed Jonathan back to health when he was sick and functioned as the secretary of the group, organizing the notes on Dracula ("secretary" might seem derogatory, but the importance of that role ''cannot'' be overstated; everyone had pieces of the puzzle, Mina was the one who assembled them into a coherent picture they could work off of). After being attacked, she uses her new-found psychic link to help the males keep track of what the BigBad was doing. All this changed in the 1931 movie adaptation and many later versions in which she was turned into a weeping, hysterical DamselInDistress who is on one occasion in love with Dracula.
* CompositeCharacter: With Lucy in several adaptations.
* DamselInDistress: While she is strong-willed in the book, the latter half of the story is trying to save her from becoming another of Dracula's undead servants.
* DevotedToYou: Though few adaptations honor it, Mina of the books is in utterly devoted and completely reciprocated love with her husband Jonathan. The two work hard to support and be strong for each other throughout the novel both as lovers and as partners.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: The wafer imprint on her forehead that Van Helsing blesses her with after Dracula's attack. An indication that half of her has become a vampire and she's still in danger of joining the undead (it could be argued she practically ''is'' undead at that point, it's just her mindset that hasn't converted to bloodlust yet). It goes away once Dracula is killed.
* HappilyMarried: Is in a loving relationship with her husband Jonathan, and is not even remotely interested in Dracula though the two don't really meet in the book beyond Dracula's attack on her in retaliation for killing Lucy. Adaptations, of course, can't help screwing with this.
* TheHeart: She keeps the men's morale high and reminds them of why they're fighting.
* HypocriticalHumor: Mina mocks the "New Woman" a few times in her journal, a term for females who were partaking in movements for independence and becoming more assertive. This is ironic, because Mina becomes assertive after her encounter with Dracula and is both able to resist his influence (with some help) and coming up with the idea to use her newfound psychic link with Dracula to lead the hunters to him.
* ItsAllMyFault: After learning how Lucy died Mina briefly blames herself, thinking that if she hadn't convinced Lucy to start visiting the cemetary in Whitby she wouldn't have gone there while sleepwalking and wouldn't have been attacked by Dracula.
* IMadeCopies: After Dracula attacks Mina, he trashes Seward's study and burns the ScrapbookStory the heroes are keeping. Unfortunately for him, they had another copy locked up in a safe.
* NerdActionHero: Both she and her husband arguably qualify. She doesn't engage in violence to the same extent as some of the male characters, but Mina is ready and willing to take action against Dracula and his female vampire cohorts in defense of her loved ones and arguably even leads the pursuit against them. She also gets super excited about the latest modern inventions, like Seward's phonograph, and train schedules.
* NotLikeOtherGirls: Van Helsing tells her that she has a man's brain.
%%* PluckyGirl
* PsychicLink: Develops one with Dracula after he attacks her. While it's a sign that she's infected with vampirisim, in danger of turning and coming under control of Dracula, the hunters and she realize they may be able to track him through this link by putting Mina under hypnosis and figuring out where he is.
* RailEnthusiast: She describes herself as "the train fiend".
* RedRightHand: When Van Helsing tries to set a holy wafer to Mina's forehead, it burns her and leaves a red mark. When Dracula is defeated, the mark vanishes.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: After Lucy's death, she becomes the only female main character, and the dudesquad cares deeply about her.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: During the trip to Dracula's castle, she shows Van Helsing a shortcut trail towards it. When Van Helsing asks her how she knew, she claims it was in Jonathan's journal. But Van Helsing severely doubts that since Jonathan was in the castle most of the time and never took note of which specific way he went. And what's more the trail hardly seems used at all, leading Van Helsing to believe the vampire change is growing in her and giving her information to reach her "master".
* StayInTheKitchen: Well-intentioned example. The men don't let her in on what's going on for her safety and because they don't want to scare her. It becomes moot when Dracula focuses on her as his next target, and by then Mina is inflicted with vampirism and on the verge of suffering Lucy's fate.
* SympathyForTheDevil: Mentions that she does pity Dracula. Not the monster that he is, but rather for his soul and how it could be looking for peace from his curse.
* TeamMom: It's a little muddled at times, what with her also being the DamselInDistress, but it really shows at the beginning of the third act. With team morale failing, Mina talks to each of the men and convinces them to keep fighting, not just for her sake, but to avenge fallen friends and to cleanse the world of evil.
* TokenSuper: She's the only member of Van Helsing's VampireHunter crew who has supernatural powers, due to an, uh, close encounter with the title villain half-way through the book. These allow her to "tune in" into Dracula's head, letting Van Helsing track his movement. Of course it's a double-edged sword since it's tied to the curse that is slowly changing her.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The Tomboy to Lucy's Girly Girl.
* TranshumanTreachery: Defied. The three vampiresses and Dracula try to force Mina to help them, but she refuses. Albeit with a little help from Van Helsing via his charms (she's still under Dracula's spell after all and the charms counteract his hold on her).
* VampireHickey: Dracula bites her in conjuction with making her drink his blood, leaving the telltale puncture marks on her throat. It's a downplayed example though since Helsing explains that the blood exchange is the more important concern since it means Mina's already on the path to becoming a vampire. Though the hunters keeps tabs on it as well as wafer mark on her forhead to gauge how far along she is, with the fear that if the bite marks disapper before they kill Dracula, she'll turn.
* VampireRefugee: Unlike Lucy, she was fed Dracula's blood as well as bitten. Inflicting her with vampirism which, as long as Dracula's alive, will slowly turn her even if she dies (which would just bring the change on ''instantly''). Though since she knows what's happening, she tries her best to fight against the change.
* VirusVictimSymptoms: After being bitten, she has a psychic connection to Dracula which Helsing uses to his advantage to track where Dracula is going. However As the trip to Dracula's castle goes on; she loses her appetite for regular food, becomes lethargic and falls asleep during the daytime with Van Helsing unable to wake her, yet disturbingly becomes more active and perky at night (at one point just staring at Van Helsing through the night to his nervousness), the hypnotic suggestion starts failing, she begins to showcase knowledge of routes to the castle that shouldn't be possible and, when Van Helsing makes a holy circle around her, she finds herself unable to leave it. All which are signs of changes from vampirism. Needless to say, Mina is ''terrified'' of this prospect, as not only will she be no longer human, but be corrupted by the undead curse whom Dracula can easily command. This is increased even more when the vampire sisters try to claim her, as she can sense them and a part of her ''wants'' to join them. Additionally some adaptations have fangs start forming in her mouth (it's left ambiguous in the book if this happens or not).
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[[folder: Lucy Westenra]]
Mina's childhood friend born to a wealthy family. Dracula targets her multiple times as his first modern day victim.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: She's implied to be blonde in the book by making mention of her hair being “sunny ripples” on the pillow. Sadie Frost who played Lucy in ''Film/BramStokersDracula'' had red hair.
* AdaptationalVillainy: In various adaptations she's portrayed as anything from a FemmeFatale to TheVamp (no pun intended) thus introducing a rather unfortunate Madonna/Whore comparison between herself and Mina, with Lucy as the silly flirt who "deserves" to be vamped and staked.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: What some interpret her vampire form as, albeit one that can't be reversed since she has been stripped of her humanity via her death and thus her free will, with the only things that matter to her now being to feed, spread vampirism and serve Dracula.
* CameBackWrong: Due to dying under vampirisim, the curse resurrects her as a vampire herself. But as the men see for themselves in the graveyard, she's nothing like the Lucy they know, only concerned with feeding on blood and more animal like than anything. While she does seem to have some familiarity with Arthur in this form, it's likely the corruption in her calling upon memories of her old life. It's noted that she never calls for Seward or Quincey.
--> '''Vampire Lucy''': Come to me, Arthur. Leave these others and come to me. My arms are hungry for you. Come, and we can rest together. Come, my husband, come!
* CompositeCharacter: Several adaptations combine her with Mina, making Lucy Jonathan's wife or betrothed.
* CorruptTheCutie: In life, a kind and sweet individual who wouldn't hurt anyone. As a vampire, a being who displays bits of lustful behavior and lures away children to feed on them.
* TheCorrupter: By association of having been turned into a vampire herself. Not long after she resurrects, she starts going after small children and takes their blood little by little, infecting them with vampirism. While the children don't show any abnormal signs outside of a bite mark on their neck, Helsing noted if she was allowed to continue, it wouldn't be long until they eventually died of blood loss and rose as vampires themselves, perpetuating the undead curse.
* TheCutie: Lucy has three men ask for her hand in marriage in one day, and they then all pledge to protect and avenge her. She was also written to be sweet initially so it would be more shocking when she does turn up as a vampire both to the reader and her suitors and tie back into to the vampire women from earlier, giving a very clear understanding what likely happened to them (and how close Johnathan was to becoming a vampire himself).
* DamselInDistress: A failed example. Despite the men's attempts, Dracula ultimately feeds on her enough that she dies and changes into a vampire under his command.
* EatsBabies: As a vampire, she primarily goes after children. Though oddly never draining any of them fully, just enough to leave them dazed. It's still a danger, though, as she is inflicting them with vampirism and if they died as she did, they would turn into vampires themselves. Van Helsing surmises she's just testing the waters of her new powers and, if not stopped, she'll soon go into full draining.
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: For some odd reason, her hair darkens when she turns into a vampire. Added to her pale skin, she becomes this.
* EmptyEyes: Just as she begins to turn on her deathbed, Seward notes her eyes look "dull and hard" when she tries to ask for a "kiss" from Arthur.
* EtherealWhiteDress: Her "Bloofer Lady" form is often described like this, having been buried in a funeral gown. More often then not, it's usually white in most media.
* EvilMakesYouUgly: Subverted, her being a turned by Dracula only goes on to make her once conservative beauty into a voluptuously sexy vampire. However her suitors are all horrified by this change, as the once prim and proper lady they all adored has instead become TheVamp.
* FogFeet: Some adaptations have her vampire form follow this trope to make her more ethereal.
* GameFace: Inverted in this case. When the men spot her vampire form, they notice how monstrous and feral she is. When they get her attention and she spots Arthur, her stance suddenly changes and she appears more beautiful to them.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: In the original novel, she's a blonde. Interestingly, eyewitnesses later describe vampire Lucy as having dark hair to signify more of her corruption.
* IAmAMonster: Very briefly when she begins turning, as she somehow knows the vampirism in her is taking over. She uses the last of her humanity to ask Van Helsing to protect Arthur from her vampire self.
* TheIngenue: She's an absolute sweetheart with the purest, most innocent heart imaginable. [[note]]Ironically, this is in fact the true depiction of Lucy, as most modern media portray her as either boy-crazy or playfully seductive.[[/note]] Which is why it's all the more shocking when she turns into a vampire as she's the complete opposite of her human personality: Cruel, lustful, and seductive.
* JoinUsDrone: When the hunters confront her, she tries to get Arthur to come to her so they can "rest together". Apparently it's hypnotic, as Arthur nearly does till Helsing flashes a cross at her.
* KillTheCutie: Twice over. The first time is her death at Dracula's hand; as it wasn't a natural death, however, she resurrects into a corrupted form. The second time is when the hunters kill her vampire form to free her from the undead curse.
* LastRequest: As the vampirism takes hold and she manages to snap out of the change after abruptly shifting into a seductive form for a brief moment. Her final request as a human has her ask Van Helsing to look after Arthur and give him closure after her death. Van Helsing makes good on his promise.
* LiquidAssets: When Lucy becomes a vampire, she looks healthier "dead" in her coffin than she did alive.
* MadnessMakeover: She gets all slinky and sensual as she falls under Dracula's spell. Oddly, this is not considered an improvement by her faithful suitors, likely because it's not really in her personality and the vampirism is corrupting her.
* MadonnaWhoreComplex: In life, she's a sweet, kind, and innocent Madonna, and those traits are used to emphasize the horror of the slow, lingering death Dracula deals her. In undeath, she becomes a voluptuous, sensual, and predatory Whore, and this corruption of her innocence is described as being one the most repulsive aspects of her transformation. Adaptations tend to overlook this and make her a Whore from the beginning in order to better contrast Mina. When Arthur puts a stake through her heart, it frees Lucy's soul from all this unrestrained, evil sexuality, and her body in death returns to one of a Madonna's, exhibiting nothing but "unequalled sweetness and purity".
* MarryThemAll: In a letter to Mina, Lucy wishes this were an option, as she hated having to turn away Seward and Quincey when she chose to be with Arthur. She's at least happy they can all still be friends.
* MeaningfulName: Her name means "Light", and she is beloved by all for her sweetness and kindness. So when Dracula doesn't just kill her, but turns her into an evil vampiress, it casts a dark pall over the rest of the characters.
* MsFanservice: In most adaptations despite never showing herself naked or else she's still a very beautiful and sensuous woman who loves to tease with suitors.
* NiceGirl: Great strides of the narrative go on to emphasize her kindness, her innocence and above all her sweetness.
* NotHerself: As the vampirism fully takes hold of her, she nearly tries to "kiss" Arthur before Van Helsing prevents her, with the others noticing how feral and seductive she's suddenly become. She briefly reverts to her usual demeanor and indicates she knows what she's becoming before dying. When the men later confront her in the graveyard, she's akin to a wild animal with only the lustful side of her present. Showing that the Lucy they know is indeed dead and is now just a supernatural monster acting on Dracula's will.
* PowerFloats: Implied just before the men confront her vampire form head on in the graveyard, Seward noting she seemed to be gliding through the area. Most likely floating thanks to her newfound power.
* ReallyGetsAround: [[AvertedTrope Averted]], despite what most adaptations would have you think. She has attracted the attention of three suitors ''because'' she's so pure and innocent and sweet. She remarks that she wishes that she could marry multiple men, but that's because she loves them all deeply, and doesn't want to turn any of them away (she settles on Arthur), not because she's excessively lustful.
* RedBaron: Dubbed "The Bloofer Lady" by her child victims, which is just their way of saying "The Beautiful Lady".
* RubberMan: Slightly, when Helsing fends her back with the cross and forces her to flee back to her coffin. The others watch in awe as she slips through the doorway to her crypt via ''a small crack as if her body was made of putty''.
* SacrificialLion: Killed to show the effects of vampirism on a fully drained victim. As well as to show the curse isn't limited to Transylvania and does not exempt the innocent: ''anyone'' can become undead and the danger Dracula poses for modern day society who're unaware of the supernatural threat is real enough. As far as it's known, Lucy is the first non-Transylvanian, English-born vampire.
* ShipperOnDeck: Despite Mina's engagement to Jonathan, Lucy thinks Mina and Dr. Seward would be a good fit, and spends much of her first letter to Mina talking the handsome, young, successful (and did she mention ''handsome''?) doctor up to her.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: One of the main reasons she accepts Arthur's proposal is because he's such a NiceGuy.
* {{Sleepwalking}}: Said to suffer from it now and then, which makes her an easy target for Dracula once he reaches England's shores. It's implied all the time afterward to be Dracula mind-controlling her after he manages to first bite her.
* SpoiledSweet: She comes from a high class Victorian Era family, and enjoys all the perks and privileges that come with being of this class, yet still is a kind and sweet individual who treats her lower class best friend Mina, with the same respect and decency she shows the Lords and Ladies in her life. [[WebVideo/VampireReviews The Maven of the Eventide]] compares her directly to Charlotte "Lottie" [=LaBouffe=], the Tropes Pictured representation, when reviewing her.
* StepfordSmiler: Her initial diary entries hint at this with her mentioning that Arthur and her mother are distressed at how her Dracula-induced nightmares affect her mood. She resolves to act more cheerful around them so they won't have to worry about her.
* SuperSenses: After being bitten the second time, she notes how her eyesight and hearing have gotten oddly better to the point she can see specks of dusts in the air and hear her servants in other rooms and mice moving around the walls. While fascinated by it, it likewise scares her a bit since she isn't sure why it happening to her and it ties in with the nightmares she keeps having.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The Girly Girl to Mina's Tomboy.
* TooDumbToLive: For some odd reason, her vampire form flees to her crypt after Van Helsing repels her rather then just fleeing the cemetery entirely and finding another place to hole up. This could also be a consequence of her vampirism, similar to how Dracula needs his boxes of earth, and her vampire form is not free to flee the cemetery after Van Helsing repels her.
* TranshumanTreachery: Depends on the adaptation. In many she's mostly just animal-like due to the vampirism (usually implied she is still a newborn and hasn't got control of her powers yet). But in a few others, she seems fully aware what she's doing once turned and goes along with it willingly.
* TheVamp: The only time she speaks as a vampire, she tries to seduce Arthur before trying to go for his neck. Van Helsing stops her just as she about to reach him.
* VampireHickey: After Dracula first bites her, there are two notable puncture wounds on her neck. Mina thinks she pricked her with a pin, but Lucy states she oddly doesn't feel it. As her health declines, Seward does find them but can't make the connection that it's linked to her illness until Van Helsing arrives and eventually points this out as the cause of a vampire attack. After Dracula's third attack and the doctor's attempt at a blood tranfusion, the wounds suddenly disappear, to Van Helsing's grim realization that Lucy's beyond saving.
* VirusVictimSymptoms: It's through her we see the process of vampirism at work. After she's bitten, she becomes more susceptible to Dracula's control and is controlled into opening the window so he can feed on her more. She becomes more pale and weak, plus she keeps having nightmares. But it's noted her senses becoming more enhanced that she can hear her servants in other rooms beyond her bedroom and even mice in the walls. And of course, her canines are noted to have gotten oddly sharper. She also reacts negatively to sunlight and has the blinds closed. By the third bite, the curse has progressed enough that blood transfusions no longer work, she looks stronger while sleeping at night than she does awake, and at one point she rips up a note she was writing in a trance and, when it's taken from her, keeps doing the motion. Ultimately, the men see the bite wounds on her neck suddenly close up on their own and briefly her personality becomes seductive as she calls for Arthur to kiss her. When Helsing denies her, she reacts in a feral manner before going back to normal. After some final words, she dies and the corruption completes the transformation.
* WouldHurtAChild: Goes after children after turning into a vampire, largely to show how corrupted she is now.
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[[folder: Professor Abraham Van Helsing]]
Dr. Seward's former medical teacher. He's called in when Seward can't find the cause of Lucy's sudden illness.
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* AdaptationalBadass: His most common characterization in adaptations and pop culture is that of a deadly and experienced vampire-hunter. In the novel he's far from it. He's an older, unimposing, good natured academic who happens to be ''knowledgeable'' about vampire lore. He's certainly brave enough to face Dracula, which may be ''more'' badass given his lack of skills.
* AgentMulder: Perfectly amenable to the idea that vampires are real, and in one chapter he seems amused when Seward expresses his own skepticism about various psychic phenomena.
* ArchEnemy: Averted. Much like AdaptationalBadass, it's pretty common in adaptations to make Van Helsing a personal and reoccurring foe of Dracula. In the original book however, Van Helsing is just one of many brave individuals fighting against him and if anything Dracula is more of an arch-enemy to Jonathan and Mina.
* AscendedFanboy: He's either this or RetiredBadass, depending on how one reads the hints in his backstory. A "metaphysician and philosopher" who has spent a good chunk of his life gathering arcane knowledge on vampires, then throws himself enthusiastically at the chance to put that knowledge to practical use.
* AwfulWeddedLife: In a throwaway line, he says his wife is "dead to [him]", but that his Catholic sensibilities prevent them from getting a divorce. Leonard Wolf's annotated edition of the book puts forth the theory that she went mad after a case of OutlivingOnesOffspring.
* BadassBookworm: Has much information on vampires, which he relates to the group, and personally kills [[spoiler:the vampires of the castle]].
* BadassUnintentional: He isn't a VampireHunter or even an adventurer, but rather just some Dutch scholar who's knowledgeable enough about the natural world to come up with a way to defeat Dracula.
* BigGood: The viewpoint characters do much of the action themselves, but it's clear that Helsing leads the fight against Drac and they would be helpless without him.
* BluntMetaphorsTrauma: As a result of his difficulties with English, his attempts at figurative speech are rather... interesting.
-->Well, the milk that is spilt cries not out afterwards, as you say.
* BreakoutCharacter: The most iconic character from the book aside from the Count himself. When someone say VampireHunter, Van Helsing is almost always the first name that comes to mind (even if that isn't the case originally).
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Summed up rather nicely by Dr. Seward:
--> He is a seemingly arbitrary man, this is because he knows what he is talking about better than any one else.
* CharacterCatchphrase: Variations on "go through the bitter waters to reach the sweet," essentially saying that they have to do something unpleasant right now or in the near future, but it will be worth it in the end.
* CryLaughing: In his "King Laugh" speech, he goes on at length about how laughter does not always arrive at appropriate occasions, after a long interval of laughing and crying at once.
* DeadpanSnarker: He has his moments.
* EloquentInMyNativeTongue: Downplayed. He speaks English with a deeply broken syntax, but his vocabulary is suitably immense for someone with three doctoral degrees.
* FieryRedhead: Van Helsing has red hair and blue eyes. While he is passionate and commanding about wanting to defeat Dracula, he is prone to deadpan humor and is patient with Seward's skepticism on vampires.
* {{Foil}}: To Dracula. They're both foreigners, one from Eastern Europe, one from Western Europe. Dracula works hard to make sure his English is fluent, and couldn't take being a FunnyForeigner, while Helsing speaks in a clear accent. Dracula relies on people refusing to believe in the supernatural, while Helsing is open to anything. Helsing is a man of God, and may be an ordained priest, while Dracula is a man without God.
* FunnyForeigner: Apparently he's Dutch, which comes with a bunch of strange mannerisms. He's a notable contrast to the only other notable foreigners in the story — Dracula, who flawlessly adopts English manners, and Quincey, who has apparently spent enough time in England before the start of the story to already know how to get along.
* GenreSavvy: He's a scientist, but having recognized that they were fighting a monster out of legend, he goes to those legends to learn how to fight it.
* GentlemanAndAScholar: Naturally; his fancy education means he's well-read as well as brilliant, a doctor of both medicine and letters. He's also a gentleman in the more literal sense of the word.
* HerrDoktor: He's actually Dutch, but constantly peppers his English with German. (Yes, Bram Stoker did, in fact, do the research — German was a lingua franca in that area of Europe.)
** Also, Dutch is a Germanic language closely related to German.
** And German was the language of science in the 19th century — a (non-German) scientist tossing around German words would be like a musician casually using Italian words.
* ImplacableMan: He tracks Dracula down with an almost inhuman single-mindedness. He's beat out only by Jonathan Harker in this regard.
* MadwomanInTheAttic: Mentions he has a wife who is "dead to him" (in other words, she is mad to the point of not knowing him), but is not willing to divorce her due to his Catholic upbringing.
* {{Malaproper}}: His English, while certainly not terrible, is hard to understand at times.
* TheMentor: To the other hunters, being the most knowledgeable about vampires.
* {{Metaphorgotten}}: Downplayed. He tends to speak in long, rambling metaphors that make little sense until he draws everything together to a point. For instance, his "ears of corn" metaphor, likening letting an idea percolate in one's mind to sowing corn, and you have wait until the corn-idea matures before it is ready to harvest-share.
* MrExposition: Explains a lot about vampires and what they can do, telling the hunters (and the readers) what they're up against. Given how long some of his dialogue is, he almost could be considered a borderline Infodump.
* NotThatKindOfDoctor: He is that kind of doctor (and a professor of medicine), and ''not'' a vampire hunter, as adaptations often turn him into; he's just smart enough to know enough about them to improvise.
* OccultDetective: The TropeCodifier. Although he doesn't start this way, he quickly becomes one. Yet while most adaptations portray Helsing as an adventuresome monster hunter, in the book he is just a doctor with very eclectic experience, who approaches vampirism as he would any other disease, albeit one that has symptoms including supernatural belligerence and fantastic powers and weaknesses.
* OddFriendship: With Seward. They were professor and student formally and have a sizable age difference, but Van Helsing considers Seward his intellectual equal and [[TheOnlyOneITrust the only one he can trust]] with his nervous breakdown.
* OhCrap: [[spoiler:Gets this reaction after Lucy is attacked the third time and he sees that her bite wound has closed up — indicating that it's too late to save her and she's going to turn into a vampire.]]
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: We're first introduced to Van Helsing in a letter from John Seward to Arthur Holmwood. Seward mentions his mentor's many talents. The very next letter is from Van Helsing to Seward, and is titled 'Letter, Abraham Van Helsing, MD, [=DPh=], D. Lit, Etc, Etc, to Dr. Seward'.
* PoorCommunicationKills: When he first treats Lucy, he tries to hide the vampire protection as "remedies" to help her get better without informing Seward and the others what's going on. As such, when the maids (or Lucy's mother — it depends on the adaptation) take down the garlic to at least ease up on Lucy's treatment, it allows Dracula to continue visiting and feeding on her. By the time Van Helsing finally comes forward with the truth, it's far too late for Lucy, who dies and becomes a vampire.
* PoirotSpeak: Some gratuitous German phrases are peppered into his dialogue as one more reminder that yes, indeed he is a foreigner.
* TheProfessor: Dr. Seward's professor, more precisely. He presumably teaches medicine, but he's qualified in an uncountable number of other disciplines.
* ScienceHero: An eminent scientist and a makeshift VampireHunter. Rather than the action-hero he's portrayed as in other media, he approaches the conflict like a clinician encountering a new disease.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Almost bordering on ContrivedCoincidence. He just happens to be the one doctor who knows about vampires and how to combat them and his former student is a friend of one of the victims which in turn leads him into confrontation with Dracula. If Dracula had chosen anyone else as his first victim, it's likely they would've met sooner or later but at least by then he would've built up his undead army a bit. But since he attacks Lucy first, Dracula's plot for a new hunting ground[=/=]kingdom ends before it even begins.
* StraightManAndWiseGuy: Van Helsing is the corn metaphor, pseudoscience believer to Seward's cold rational logic.
* TaughtByExperience: When Seward first brings him in on Lucy's case, Van Helsing tells him "We learn from failure, not success," and his failure with Lucy taught him a ''lot''. He still needs Mina's and Jonathan's journals to piece together exactly what's happening, and that tells him exactly what they're dealing with. He then falls back on his knowledge of folklore to form a plan of attack against Dracula.
* TeamDad: It helps that he's the oldest by a fair bit.
* VampireHunter: Er... averted, despite what later media would have you believe. Although he has a wealth of folkloric knowledge which lets him deduce the source of Lucy's affliction, he certainly doesn't guess it on sight and spends a few months experimenting with garlic and other herbs before he's sure, implying he has no more personal experience with vampires than Seward or Holmwood.
* WouldHitAGirl: [[spoiler:Decapitates Lucy's vampire form and the three vampire 'sisters' later on. Justified since they're monsters that are a threat to humanity and he sees it as a MercyKill.]]
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[[folder: Quincey Morris]]
A young man from Texas who's visiting his friend Arthur and becomes smitten with Lucy.
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* AdaptedOut: He's frequently left out of adaptations.
* AgentMulder: Unlike the others, it doesn't take much to convince Quincey Morris there are vampires about.
* AmericansAreCowboys: Hails from Texas and visiting London since he's friends with Arthur.
* TheBigGuy: He's the Class 4 Big Guy for Professor Van Hellsing's Vampire hunting team.
%%* BoisterousBruiser
* BunnyEarsLawyer: He plays up his "aw shucks" cowboy side because Lucy thinks it's cute, but he's noted to be educated and he's the first to bring up the possibility that something is actually ''feeding'' on her.
%%* DeadpanSnarker
* DueToTheDead: [[spoiler:Harker and Mina name their son after him in honor of his heroics.]]
* {{Eagleland}}: Type 1. He's presented as a cowboy-type who hails from Texas, informal but friendly and honorable.
* EverythingIsBigInTexas: Lucy likes his funny turns of phrase, so when he proposes to her, he hams up the quaint cowboy-themed metaphors to an almost sickening degree.
* TheFriendlyTexan: Quincey Morris is a cowboy from Texas who is friends with his rival suitors for Lucy's hand, even after he's been rejected, as well as Jonathan Harker, and helps kill the titular vampire. Jonathan and Mina name their son after their fallen friend.
* FunnyForeigner: Since the story is set in London, he's viewed as this since he's American. He plays up his {{cowboy}} qualities because Lucy finds them charming.
* GenreRefugee: Nothing like the presence of an American cowboy in a GothicHorror story set in ''Britain'' to make you go "Say again?"
* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler:Dies happily upon seeing the wafer imprint disappear from Mina's forehead, meaning the threat of her becoming a vampire is over.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: Depends on the adaptation, but he's either [[spoiler:mortally wounded fighting Dracula's Romani henchmen or Dracula himself. Either way, it gives the other hunters the opening they need to get to Dracula and deliver the final blow]].
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: One of the suitors to Lucy, but he gladly steps down when she picks Arthur.
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* PeacefulInDeath: [[spoiler:He is killed in the final battle, but he dies triumphant with a smile on his face, living just long enough to see the mark of the communion wafer fade from Mina's forehead]].
* ShootTheDog: He mentions that he had to shoot his horse when he was in Pampas when vampire bats drained its blood.
* SouthernGentleman: Again, hails from Texas, and a very positively portrayed American; typical in British works of the day but surprising today.
* WackyAmericansHaveWackyNames: Although he isn't exactly comic, he is a rootin', tootin' and shootin' American man of action.
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[[folder: Arthur Holmwood, Lord Godalming]]
One of Lucy's suitors and a friend of Quincey's.
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* AdaptedOut: He's frequently left out of adaptations.
* AgentScully: As with Seward, he doesn't really believe in the vampire story. At least until the confrontation with the vampirized Lucy later on.
%%* ChekhovsGun: His dog whistle.
* HeroesLoveDogs: When the group are first investigating Carfax, Arthur arranges to have some of his hunting dogs wait outside until he summons them to chase off the rats Dracula had gathered there.
* TheLancer: He has one of the best motivations for going after Dracula and is the most questioning and skeptical.
* NiceGuy: Lucy's primary reason for choosing him over Seward or Quincey is that Arthur falls into this trope.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: He is the connections. Jonathan gets another solicitor to open up about the purchase of another of the Count's lairs by claiming to represent Lord Godalming, and more than once Arthur's title opens doors for the hunters that would otherwise have remained closed.
* StakingTheLovedOne: Van Helsing has him stake Lucy personally since he feels the one that loved her the most should be the one to free her from the vampire curse.
* TheTeamBenefactor: He aids in funding the hunt for Dracula by providing transportation, lodging, and the like. While Abraham van Helsing helps with his knowledge of vampire lore.
* TraumaCongaLine: Played with, sort of. He loses both his fiancée and his father within a very short time, ''and'' he has to witness said fiancée's actions as a horrific monster, some of which seem to be targeted at him specifically. And then at the climax, his best friend is killed as well. However, Arthur actually takes all of this pretty well.
* UnexpectedInheritance: Aside from inheriting his father's title and lands, Arthur also inherits property from Lady Westenra when she dies, apart from a property entailed to the family of Lucy's father.
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[[folder: Dr. John Seward]]
The third of Lucy's suitors and the local doctor of the nearby mental institution.
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* AffectionateNickname: Van Helsing calls him "Friend John."
* AgeLift: In many of the adaptations, he is made an older man.
* AgentScully: Originally disbelieving of vampires since it sounds pretty fantastical. Van Helsing personally shows him first-hand by visiting Lucy's grave before showing the others.
* AntiHero: Of the group of heroes, he's got the most edge to him; moody and not the most sociable, is trying to cut down on his use of chloral (a highly addictive anti-insomnia drug), and with a dark side he's acutely aware isn't desirable. Despite this, he does his best to reign in his worst impulses, and is a truly good person.
* BadassBookworm: Alongside his mentor Van Helsing, Seward is the brains of the team - a bookish academic who is thin and slight enough to fit through a window in pursuit of escaping lunatics. But despite his apparent GeekPhysiques he's perfectly willing to deck a knife-wielding Renfield, laying him out with a single punch.
* CannotTalkToWomen: Attempts to flirt with his crush Lucy by telling her that she's an 'interesting psychological study', and is perceptibly awkward and flustered around Mina. Van Helsing tells him outright to his face that he knows nothing about women.
* CastingGag: In the ''Re:Dracula'' audiobook, Seward is voiced by Jonathan Sims, also the voice of the protagonist of the same name from ''Podcast/TheMagnusArchives''. Mr. Sims remarked on this by stating on twitter that he has no experience whatsoever in playing haggard academics slowly going insane from truths beyond mortal ken.
* DeadpanSnarker: His observations about Renfield and occasionally even his mentor, Van Helsing, are full of snark.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: Seward keeps his diary on a phonograph, but when Mina asks to listen to it in order to transcribe it he finally realises that, unlike a physical book with pages, they don't have any way to locate or avoid any particular entries, and Mina will have to listen to the whole thing.
* GentlemanAndAScholar: Seward is independently wealthy and a scientist and doctor.
* TheInsomniac: Mentions having trouble sleeping on several occasions, and sometimes takes chloral to treat this.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Was one of Lucy's suitors, but when she reveals she'll marry Arthur, he's more than happy for both of them, and never shows them anything but loyal friendship and generosity.
* NightmareFetishist: Downplayed, as when faced with true evil, he's appropriately horrified, but he has a keen interest in the dark side of the human mind, which led to his work in psychology. While he does try and treat Renfield and get him in better shape, he's also very tempted to see how his madness plays out, as he's extremely curious to see what will happen if he does. Seward is also oddly enthusiastic about watching Van Helsing prepare his autopsy equipment, and when any of his friends handle knives, expect him to to provide a detailed and loving description.
* NonIdleRich: Seward does not need to work for a living but does anyway.
* OddFriendship: With Van Helsing. They were professor and student formally and have a sizable age difference, but Van Helsing considers Seward his intellectual equal and [[TheOnlyOneITrust the only one he can trust]] with his nervous breakdown.
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Dr. Seward is a general practitioner, ''every'' type of surgeon and a psychiatrist to boot.
* ReluctantPsycho: Seward believes that he is mentally ill, or as he puts it, 'of exceptional brain, congenitally', and that this is the cause of his temptation to perform unethical experiments on his psychiatric patient Renfield. He is ashamed of these impulses and wrestles with them throughout the novel, ultimately remaining on the side of good, though he still struggles with repressing his emotions and low self-belief.
* StraightManAndWiseGuy: Seward is logical to a fault while Van Helsing continuously pesters him with pseudoscience. When Van Helsing is trying to convince him that Lucy's corpse has not degraded, implying the supernatural is involved, Seward literally asks, "Is this a juggle?"
* TheSmartGuy: Along with Van Helsing and Mina, he is the "brains" of TheTeam.
* TheStoic: Seward is the most outwardly stoic character in TheTeam, although we quickly learn that this is because he channels his pain and loneliness into workaholism and self-medicates on chloral. A major part of his character development involves Seward learning that it's acceptable to [[NotSoStoic display emotion]], and he finally breaks down and sobs at the prospect of Mina being turned into a vampire.
* SuckOutThePoison: Before the events of the novel, Seward is responsible for saving Van Helsing's life by sucking the gangrene from his wound during a botched surgery. Its also the reason why Van Helsing immediately agrees to come and treat Lucy.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: By dismissing Renfield's plea for freedom, he ensures Dracula can gain entry.
* TheWorkaholic: Seward admits outright that the only way he can think of to deal with Lucy's romantic rejection is to work.

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[[folder: R. M. Renfield]]
One of the residents of the mental institution who somehow falls under Dracula's power.
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* AdaptationOriginConnection: In the book, no reason is given for Renfield's peculiar brand of madness, and the Count's influence on him seems entirely incidental. Most adaptations will have his madness be linked to entering Dracula's service, and Dracula deliberately cultivating him as an agent.
* AdaptationalVillainy: In many adaptations, he's a willing slave to Dracula. In the original book, Renfield certainly ''wants'' to be a willing slave to Dracula, but only at first, and immediately regrets his one act of service. He even tries (and fails) to kill Dracula at one point to protect Mina.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Mina showing him some genuine concern and kindness prompts him to warn her of Dracula and eventually to perish trying to attack the Count.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: In some adaptations, he was the previous real estate agent who went to Dracula's castle and fell under Dracula's spell, going mad in the process.
* TheCassandra: The night before Dracula's attack on Mina, Renfield tries to get Seward to discharge him from the hospital, so that he can't be compelled to help Dracula. When that doesn't work, he asks to at least be placed in another room. Seward and Helsing assume it's some trick by either Renfield or Dracula, and ignore him.
* CoolOldGuy: Dr. Seward recorded the poor guy was 59 when admitted to the asylum and spent some time inside before the events of the novel unfurled. He's physically strong enough to fight a few burly attendants at once and wrestled Dracula himself in [[SuperStrength his strongest form]] at midnight.
* HeelFaceTurn: It's brief but he manages to do it. Dracula seems to be accidentally exerting influence over Renfield, but when Renfield learns Dracula has been using him to get at Mina, Renfield tries to kill the Count with his bare hands.
* LifeDrinker: [[DefiedTrope It's all a delusion]], but Renfield's obsession sees consuming living things as absorbing their life-force.
* MadnessInducedOmnivore: Renfield is consumed by a delusion that eating live animals will allow him to absorb their life force, with 'higher' animals providing more of it. While cooped up in the sanitarium, he catches flies, spiders, and birds and eats them, and even asks for a kitten at one point. When Dracula appears, Renfield quickly becomes obsessed with the vampire, who of course feeds exclusively on humans.
* MysteriousPast: In the novel the reader learns almost nothing about who he was before he ended up at Seward's aslyum. Adaptations usually add their own backstory in an attempt to flesh him out more.
* PowerBornOfMadness: He tries to invoke this. "It is said that madmen have incredible strength. I am mad, or was, and I resolved to use all of my mad strength to attack him".
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Dracula kills him in response to his warning the others about him. In the book, and some adaptations, Renfield even tries to fight him.
* TheRenfield: TropeNamer, but is actually an UnbuiltTrope here, seeing as he attempts to foil Dracula twice, the second ending with the loss of his own life. While he certainly seems ''willing'' to become Dracula's slave, being locked in at Dr. Seward's sanatorium rather limits his options and the Count seems to more or less ignore him throughout. (Until he finally visits him in his cell and kills him.) Renfield at one point demands that he be moved so that Dracula will not compel him to let him into the house to attack Mina. When this fails, the second time Dracula enters, he ''grabs Dracula and tries to kill him with his bare hands'', while the Count is in mist form. He would have succeeded, too, if Dracula hadn't used his HypnoticEyes.
* VampireVannabe: Desperately wants to be a vampire and tries to mimic their style by eating bugs and wanting to eat bigger things like cats and dogs.
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[[folder: Lady Westenra]]
Lucy's mother.
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* HollywoodHeartAttack: How she dies in the story; as Dracula bursts into the house in a wolf form (or sending a wolf), the shock of the attack gets to her heart. Lucy tries to get help, but the maids have been drugged and Dracula soon descends on her. Curiously, he doesn't try to bite Mrs. Westenra, though it's possible she died before he could or he was not interested in making someone so elderly into a vampire. Though since Lucy is canonically nineteen going on twenty, her mother would very likely only have been in her early to mid-forties at this point.
* NoNameGiven: Isn't named in the story, just known as Lucy's mother or Mrs. Westenra.
* SatelliteCharacter: Has a very short role and it's mostly with Lucy and sometimes Mina. Some adaptations even [[AdaptedOut adapt her out]] for this reason.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: The first time Van Helsing fills Lucy's room with garlic flowers Mrs. Westenra removes them in the night, assuming the smell is making her daughter sicker. This, and opening the window, allows Dracula to break in and attack Lucy again. Van Helsing blames himself for [[PoorCommunicationKills failing to explain the flowers' purpose]] due to Mrs. Westenra's delicate condition. Several days later Dracula breaks in again and causes her to have a heart attack, during which she accidentally removes Lucy's garland again.
* YourDaysAreNumbered: She has an undefined health condition that her doctor says will kill her within months, or immediately if she receives a suitably large shock. The other characters keep the details of Lucy's attacks from her out of fear that it will be enough to trigger her condition.

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[[folder: The Sisters]]
Dracula's three un-named and undead female servants who live with him in his castle.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: In the book, they're described as two brunettes and one blonde, though in various film and television depictions, they are depicted with varying hair colors or shades. Usually depicted as a trio consisting of [[BlondeBrunetteRedhead one blonde, one brunette, and one redhead]], one adaptation depicts them as two blondes and a redhead!
* AmazonBrigade: As short a role they had in the book, they certainly show they're fearsome creatures. It's only because of Dracula that they're prevented from feeding on Harker; it's clear if they had the chance, Harker would've been drained instantly and most likely turned into a vampire. And it's only due to Van Helsing's wafers that they were kept at bay from taking Mina. And even then, they don't give up on trying to get her till the sun rises, even killing the pair's horses. If it was anyone else looking after Mina, they would've most likely overpowered her protectors and claimed Mina easily.
* AmbiguouslyRelated: Two of them bear a physical resemblance to the Count, implying that they're related to him.
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: How they are depicted sometimes in certain adaptations.
* CorruptTheCutie: A foreshadowing of such; whoever they were as humans has long since died with their humanity once Dracula took their blood, leaving walking corpses that, while beautiful and eternally young, thrive on their bloodlust and sexuality.
* CreepyBlueEyes: The blonde one is described as having blue eyes and as for creepy, well...
* EatsBabies: After stopping them from feeding on Jonathan, Dracula appeases them with a sack that's wriggling. It's never really stated what was in it, but many versions assume it's a baby. Jonathan blacks out just as they crowd around the sack to spare us the details (though depending on what you're reading or watching, you'll probably see a GoryDiscretionShot or a short aftermath of the feeding with the three smiling contently as blood dribbles from their lips).
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: The two dark-haired sisters, being undead and all.
* EtherealWhiteDress: In some cases in most media, they're usually wearing white flowing gowns that seems to glow in the moonlight.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: They're more than likely Dracula's previous victims and a preview of what happens if his vampirisim is completed without interruption. Though neither Harker or the reader knows that when we first meet them.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: While Jonathan saw Dracula scaling the walls of the castle, he chalked it up to fatigue from his trip and his eyes playing tricks on him. Then they had to try and prematurely feed on him before his paperwork with Dracula is done. Needless to say, it's all the proof Jonathan needed to realize the count wasn't human and make the effort to escape. The stupid thing too is that Drac was gonna give Jonathan to them once the business was conducted and if they had waited, he would have been none the wiser.
* HolyBurnsEvil: When they confront Van Helsing and Mina at their camp, Van Helsing crushes some holy wafers he brought with him and puts them in a circle around Mina and him. This acts as a barrier of sorts and prevents the vampires from reaching them, to which the three feebly spend the entirety of the night circling the barrier trying to convince Mina to join them until the sun forces them to flee back to Dracula's castle.
* JoinUsDrone: When they come across Van Helsing and Mina's camp near Dracula's castle. A makeshift holy barrier prevents them from reaching the two, but doesn't stop them from trying to beckon Mina to join them, citing her as their "sister". Mina even admits to Van Helsing that she feels an urge to actually heed their call, the barrier just ''barely'' allowing her to keep her sense of self and keep her from going to them.
* MysteriousPast: Nothing is really known about them; the most we get in the story is a vague implication that they had relations with Dracula in the past at some point where he truly did "love" them before turning them into vampires. Most readers speculate that due to the two brunettes having similar noses to Dracula, that they're related to him in some fashion, and the blonde, having different features, was likely an outsider of the country that became either Dracula's wife or lover. The best evidence for her being Dracula's wife is her tomb, which is the biggest and most opulent besides Dracula's, as if made for someone greatly beloved.
* NoNameGiven: We never learn their names or much of anything about them other than being Dracula's servants.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: The two dark-haired women.
* RuleOfThree: In the book, there are only three of them, though some adaptations will either reduce the number to one or have as many as ''twelve'' of them.
* SuperSmoke: Like Dracula they have the ability to turn into a dust-like substance that swirls in the light, an ability seen prominently the second time they try to attack Jonathan during his stay in the castle.
* TheUndead: As with their master, they're essentially moving corpses that have never aged once they were turned.
* TheVamp: All three of them.
* VampiresAreSexGods: Since their morality has long since gone, they're quite lustful and use it to subdue their victims. The 'fair' blonde one in particular stands out as this trope for Jonathan, who pays her special focus and is noticeably enticed by her. Van Helsing notes this effect when staking one of the brunettes at the climax, concluding that men who came to stake them would fall under their spell until sunset, unable to go through with the staking, and then be bitten by the awakened vampire. He only snaps out of it when he hears Mina's (imagined?) scream, and takes care to not look directly at the other two vampires' faces when staking them.
* VampiresHarem: The UrExample, as three frighteningly beautiful and seductive female vampires who are subordinate to Dracula, yet an UnbuiltTrope in that their precise relationship to him is never made clear.
* WeCanRuleTogether: Once Mina and Van Helsing are near the castle, they sense how near vampiric Mina's become and go to collect her, beckoning her to join their fold since she is Dracula's latest bride, even calling her their "sister". It was a good thing that Van Helsing decided to look after her, as Mina's clearly feeling the urge to join them.
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