* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation:
** Dr Seward paints a rather unflattering image of Lucy Westenra in his nostalgic phonograph diary. He portrays her as a capricious and foolish girl, who felt only a shallow love for Arthur Holmwood, and only pity for him and Quincey Morris. He also thinks she exaggerated the proposal stories to lord her attractiveness over Mina, gloating about her better suitors. She also apparently willingly had sex with Dracula, while Holmwood himself was a lech even when alive. Seward additionally believes that he and the Professor might have killed Lucy by giving her non-compatible blood.
** Van Helsing has also since the events of the book been stamped as a superstitious fool for believing in the power of crucifixes and holy wafers, and royal propaganda has painted him as the "second Judas", a murderer and traitor.
** Seward and Holmwood also come across much more negatively under Newman than under Stoker; the former is portrayed as an obsessive, sexually repressed lunatic and the latter as a conniving, ruthlessly ambitious sociopathic politician-in-training.
*** Newman has stated that Holmwood in particular was chosen as a villain as he feels that Holmwood was the most useless member of the group, contributing only his title and his connection to Lucy where the rest of the hunters had legitimate skills to be used against Dracula, and was therefore the most likely candidate to "sell out".
* CompleteMonster: See [[Monster/KimNewman here]].
* CrazyIsCool: A book series that features vampire [[Creator/EdgarAllanPoe Edgar Poe]] and vampire UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill would have to be this. Most noticeable in ''The Bloody Red Baron'', which features [[spoiler: vampire flying aces who ''turn into giant bats with biplane wings''.]]
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Kostaki, who gained fans in ''Anno Dracula'' by being a TokenGoodTeammate to the Carpathian Guard, being a rare elder who prizes honour and treats others with appropriate respect, whether they are Warm or vampire. His popularity is reflected in his promotion to being a deuteragonist in ''One Thousand Monsters''.
* EvilIsCool:
** {{Dracula}}'s return in ''Johnny Alucard''. He saunters in and takes back his title of King of Vampires by effortlessly crushing his rivals, laughs off an assassination attempt, gets his entire entourage back and does it all while dressed in a stylish suit.
** Princess Christina Light is a [[TheVamp seductive]], [[TheChessmaster intelligent]] vampire with cool light-based powers who manages to both outpower and outsmart her foes. She even comes close to gaining godhood.
* GeniusBonus: You need an encyclopedia to catch all the historical references and literary in-jokes.
* MagnificentBitch: [[DarkMessiah Christina Light]], the Princess Casamassima, is a charismatic, intelligent Italian-American socialite turned vampiric anarchist and terrorist seeking to create a better world. Light is a master manipulator who plays and seduces men to her cause before [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness disposing of them when they are no longer of use]]. Bringing Kate Reed to her cause, Light reveals to her a plot to bomb the Tower of London, causing Kate to attempt to stop it. Her actual endgame is to have Kate framed and executed for the botched bombing to make her a martyr to rally an army against {{Dracula}}. Defeated, Light returns and outplays General Majin, combining with YukiOnna to create a safe haven for vampires in Japan called Casamassima Bay. Light then spends an entire century perfecting a way to [[GodhoodSeeker ascend to godhood]], planning to usher in a new dawn of peace and prosperity for human and vampire-kind alike.
* MoralEventHorizon:
** Doctor Seward crosses it when [[spoiler: he kills Mary Kelly, who he had been having a romantic relationship with.]]
** Due to AdaptationalVillainy, the Red Baron is already a SociopathicSoldier but he crosses this line when he [[KickTheDog shoots a white beagle]] for no reason whatsoever. In-joke aside, you can't wait for him to die after this.