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Alucard

Voiced by: Joji Nakata (JP), Crispin Freeman (EN), Antoine Tomé (FR)

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"It takes a man to kill a monster."

Extremely powerful, to the point where it's more accurate to categorize him as a force of nature rather than a "being", Alucard is a vampire who is well over 400 years old. He acknowledges Integra Hellsing, a woman who is one of the last living members of the Hellsing family, as the only authority he'll answer to. He spent twenty years sealed in the depths of the Hellsing manor by Integra's father, until a young Integra discovers his "corpse" when she was fleeing from her wicked uncle. Integra is shot in the shoulder, and her blood just so happens to fly into Alucard's mouth, which awakened him. As a way of showing his thanks, he helps Integra kill her pursuers, and from then on, grants her his services and protection. He is highly skilled in firearms and his vast powers are divided into seals with increasing levels of power (with Level 0 being the strongest to 5 being the "weakest"). His servant is Seras "Police Girl" Victoria.

His true identity is that of the infamous Prince Vlad III Tepes of Wallachia, AKA Vlad Dracula or "Vlad the Impaler".

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# — D

• '90s Anti-Hero: A card-carrying example. He has a cool-sounding name, ridiculously over-sized pistols, has the hipster type appearance, and doesn't care about hurting people who get in his way.
• The Ace: The most powerful and iconic warrior of the Hellsing Organization.
• Adaptational Abomination: While most adaptations portray Dracula as a stronger-than-normal vampire, here he is a straight up Undead Abomination.
• Adaptational Badass: Among the many differences between the manga and the first TV adaptation, in the latter Alucard's regenerative powers are not explained and seem inherent. In the manga and OVA he needs his supply of past victims to serve as a fuel tank, it's possible (though ridiculously difficult) for them to be expended or sabotaged, and if he's going all out he must release them and make himself vulnerable. The difference is mostly academic, however — in any adaptation, under no circumstances is Alucard an opponent you want to face.
• Affably Evil: Alucard is vicious and violent by nature, but he's got a moral code, companions he cares for and has respect for his opponents... at least until they do something he considers disappointing, at which point he'll ruthlessly rend them to pieces.
• Alliance with an Abomination: He's a Lovecraftian vampire who works for an organization that specializes in hunting vampires. It helps that he's extremely loyal to Integra and finds the vampires he hunts to be worthless scum.
• Alucard: Yes obviously, but it's worth mentioning that he was named as such by Arthur Hellsing, Integra's father and the one who conducted the various operations on the vampire to become Hellsing's "crown glory." As such, Arthur renaming him symbolizes his transformation from Count Dracula into Hellsing's secret weapon. In fact, the reversed name likely references how he became his own antithesis, from a dominating king harvesting people into a loyal servant protecting humanity.
• Animalistic Abomination: Alucard's summoned Hell Hound, the Baskerville, also known as the Black Dog.
• Animal Motifs: Obviously bats for a vampire, but more notable and telling are dogs. Baskerville Hound aside, he unashamedly refers even to himself as a dog, with people even telling him he's "domesticated" and "housebroken". He is played up to be the "attack dog" of the Hellsing family: He shows devoted loyalty to his master. He grabs and catches things in his mouth and using his massively sharp canines and attacks by biting as often as shooting. He even loves playing around and often has a large toothy grin, and the cat-themed Schrödinger does the best job of distracting him.
• Anti-Hero: A psychopathic Blood Knight who lives to fight and kill, Alucard is at least pro-humanity and will fight off the greater threat of Millennium.
• Arch-Enemy: To Alexander Anderson, since they deem each other Worthy Opponents.
• Ax-Crazy: Alucard relishes not only the chance for a good fight but also displays disturbing fixation with the actual act of killing people, as emphasized by his maniacal Slasher Smiles and cackling.
• Back for the Finale: Returns in the epilogue after killing off all of his three million plus souls so that he can return to corporeality.
• Badass Boast: During his fight with Walter.
  Walter: Bastard! What sort of game are you playing? Answer me!
  Alucard: What game am I playing? Really? No, this game is all yours. I'm just better at playing, foolish child.
• Badass in a Nice Suit: Puts on a dapper white suit in South America. His Girlycard form also has one.
• Badass Longcoat: A red one, adding to the gore by allowing many regenerations of his limbs.
• Barbarian Longhair: When he's letting loose, his hair grows far longer and messier to the point that it looks more like a creepy shadow than hair.
• Beast and Beauty: Along with his Knight/Lady dynamic with Integra, there are definitely shades of this.
• Better to Die than Be Killed: Inverted. No matter how much he respects his opponent, if he's going to die, he's going to die fighting with everything he's got. When an anonymous mook shot himself rather than fight, having seen every other mook in the room torn to pieces in front of his eyes, Alucard's visibly infuriated.
• BFS: Wields an impressively huge claymore sword in his true form as Dracula. It doesn't last long. He really likes guns.
• Black Magic: He has been compared to the Devil for a damn good reason.
• Blood Knight: He just loves to fight all kind of enemies. The harder it is, the more fun it'll be. Alucard looks positively ecstatic every time Anderson shows up, and ripping apart enemies always puts him a good mood.
  Alucard: Neither of us could ever back down in front of an enemy. Come on then, Judas Priest!
• Blood Lust: Oh yes. He would bathe in the stuff if he could. He later drinks the blood of every dead person in London.
• Blood Magic: He can drain the blood of his victims to take away their soul and then resummon them as his familiars. And until all of his souls are gone, he will regenerate from anything.
• Bloody Murder: Alucard practically puts blood through gymnastics using it as a weapon.
• Bodyguard Crush: Implied with Integra, his charge, though it's never cleared up.
• Bottomless Magazines: He won't reload until all the surrounding enemies are dead. When Crispin Freeman makes note of this in the commentary, Taliesin Jaffe calls them "Schrödinger's Magazine", in that they're never empty until you look inside them.
• Break the Cutie: When he was just a little kid, he was sold out by his father, Dracul the prince of Wallachia, to the Turks, who did all sorts of ghastly things to him. No wonder he decided to become what he is today.
• Broken Ace: The most powerful vampire ever to walk the Earth, suicidal to face in combat, immortal, strong, fast, clever, cultured and, when he feels like it, good-looking. There's almost nothing out there that's equal to him. Because of his great age and degree of power, even the weaknesses of other vampires barely apply to him. And yet to say that he's had a shitty life — and unlife — would be a major Understatement. As a child, he was sold into slavery by his own family and repeatedly raped and abused. When he fought against the Ottoman Empire, his own brutality and zealotry — both as a result of his devotion to God and revenge against the abuse he suffered at the Sultan's hands — resulted in him becoming infinitely worse than them, becoming little more than a butcher, with a pitiful beheading being his final fate. As a vampire, he ultimately Did Not Get the Girl as Dr. Helsing, Quincy Morris, and Jonathan Harker saw to it. Following his humiliating and humbling defeat at their hands, he was tortured and experimented on for decades and ultimately became little more than a neutered servant of the Hellsing family. It can be argued that Alucard/Dracula never even truly experienced actual happiness until he met Integra and Seras, and even then, it's a mostly unfamiliar and alien feeling to him.
• Bullet-Proof Fashion Plate: Played with for in-universe Rule of Scary. Since he is functionally immortal, his usual tactic is to let his foes shoot him into bloody chunks and then regenerate while they think about how badly they screwed up, regenerating his clothing along with the rest of him.
• The Caligula: In life, and even in undeath before he encountered Van Helsing's party, he was infamous for his cruelty and brutality as the Mad King who consumed even his own soldiers. He doesn't exactly regret it, but accepts the fact that his madness and zeal has cost him everything — even the little things, like appreciating a sunset.
• Card-Carrying Villain: Straight up admits that he is the worst of all vampires, which is saying something.
• Casting a Shadow: It's been stated that Alucard has long since transcended the physical flesh of a human, and his body is made of some sort of otherworldly substance that can only be described as darkness in material form. This is usually seen whenever he takes heavy damage; he always regenerates by building his body back up using these dark composition.
• The Champion: To Integra. He might be a vicious, quasi-satanic monster, but he definitely has Undying Loyalty towards Integra.
• Characterization Marches On: Chapter 1 is most affected by this, where he comes across morbidly goofy and has a moment where he wanders away from a fight while Seras does all the work. Subsequent adaptations of the story use the more thoughtful, collected and bloodthirsty character he shows throughout the rest of the manga.
• Character Development: Alucard starts the story as a Smug Super Sociopathic Hero, but as everything progresses, his positive (and tragic) traits start to shine through. His relationship with Seras also starts rocky, but improves greatly.
• Combat Pragmatist: Sort of. He doesn't need guns, but he likes using them. And even if he feels you're a worthy opponent, he'll still fight dirty.
• Combat Sadomasochist: He seems to enjoy being harmed. He has a habit of allowing his opponent to rip him to bloody pieces, only to regenerate From a Single Cell before subjecting his opponent to an agonizing death that involves lots of dismemberment and impaling.
• Cool Ship: His ghost ship, the Eagle/Adler. By the time he's done with it, there's a giant metal cross made of the remains of a SR-71 Blackbird erected on the deck.
• Corrupted Character Copy: He has a number of similarities to Vash the Stampede, being a superpowered inhuman being who wears a red Badass Longcoat, has similarly-designed glasses and a Hand Cannon, and his source material was even serialized on the same magazine, but Vash is an idealistic All-Loving Hero Actual Pacifist (and also rather goofy) whereas Alucard is a cynical and sadistic '90s Anti-Hero (with all the hypermasculine grittiness that comes with it) bordering on Villain Protagonist who kills his enemies in gruesome ways.
• Crazy Consumption: Out of all the vampires in this series, Alucard really takes the cake with this one. So long as Integra orders him to kill, he'll do whatever he damn well pleases to his victims. Including tearing off their heads and letting the blood pour into his mouth. And using demon dogs to eat them alive. Honestly, this guy acts more like a cannibal than a vampire.
• Creepy Good: He's firmly on the side of humanity. He's also scary as hell.
• Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: Red.
• Cool Shades: Wears an orange-tinted pair. They repeatedly get broken or crushed, mostly by Anderson, but he keeps acquiring new pairs from somewhere. Possibly the same place he gets new coats.
• Cynical Mentor: He's not the best father figure towards Seras. Most of the time, he's rather insulting and mean towards her, but he does give her advice and training that has helped her many times.
• Dark and Troubled Past: It's very obliquely implied that becoming a true vampire (without encountering another true vampire) requires being monstrous even in life, then dying a horrible death amidst bloodshed and ruin. It's never completely spelled out how he reached that point, but it definitely wasn't because his early life was sunshine and daisies.
• Dark Is Evil: His shadows give plenty of this vibe, but while he's not a good guy, he works for them loyally.
• Dark Is Not Evil: He functions as this through his loyalty to the Hellsing Organization and his willingness to fight beings even more evil than him.
• Daywalking Vampire: Alucard can walk around in broad daylight with no problem, on account of being leagues more powerful than any normal vampire.
• Death Seeker:
  • He's not in any hurry to die, but his greatest dream is to be defeated by a human, like Abraham van Helsing did 100 years ago.
  • His former handler and Integra's father, Arthur Hellsing believed this of all the "immortal monsters." Given Alucard's thoughts (and reflecting on the actions of Millenium's Captain), Arthur's belief seems to be validated:
    Arthur Hellsing: Nosferatu, the No-Life King. His castle, his kingdom, its people, his loved ones, even his very identity; everything was lost. All that remains is a pale shadow, wandering from battle to battle. I have come to believe that those frightening immortals are, in fact, frail, sobbing children.
• Did Not Get the Girl: Mina Harker, as per the canon, and as lampshaded by Abraham Hellsing during his Curb-Stomp Battle with Alucard.
• Discard and Draw: Thanks to Schrödinger nearly erasing him from existence and leaving him incorporeal for three decades, Alucard had to dispose of the millions of potential familiars he had until only Schrödinger was left. He likely can't contain and release entire armies of undead anymore (though he could potentially collect more), but on the other hand, he now has Schrödinger's power of 'being everywhere and nowhere.' He lacks his hundreds of thousands of souls, but has become the self-observing paradox that exists where and as he decides he does: 'I think, therefore I am.' While he is no longer literally a One-Man Army, he has become much more immortal and unlike his previous powers which made it difficult but not impossible to kill him, virtually nothing can hurt or kill him now.
• Dracula: Hinted at be his Sdrawkcab Name but it isn't outright stated until he takes his true form as Vlad Tepes and Enrico Maxwell comes to the horrifying realization.
• Dream Sequence: Has a pretty trippy one following the events aboard the carrier Eagle/Adler. Alucard appears to have a fondness for Bruce Willis movies and films based on Frederick Forsyth novels (such as The Dogs of War and The Fourth Protocol).
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: In the form of Schrödinger. Okay, so maybe it was more 'dropped mathematics and technobabble on him'. The Major lampshades this, pointing out that fighting him head on is pointless; he'll simply cheat death by consuming more blood. He states that traditionally 'tyrants have always been killed by poison.' Considering the whole plan to make Alucard vulnerable and how two mighty warriors, one even turning into a monster, failed to off him, it's hard to disagree.

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• Earn Your Happy Ending:
  • After essentially being sent to purgatory by Schrödinger, Alucard seeks out and kills his millions of lives (except Schrödinger's), finally putting them out of their misery and earning his life back.
  • He also comes from a past filled with Downer Endings no matter what. The series and other characters love to list what he lost after the decisive battles.
• Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: Heavy emphasis on eerie.
• Eldritch Abomination: His other unnatural forms, which can take on the form of a mass of seething shadows with too many red eyes, among many. He's even called an abomination on several occasions.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: For all his faults, he really does care for Integra, Seras, Walter, the queen, and, in his own way, Anderson... but that's it.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • He tells a pair of teenage vampires that the way they kill innocent people for no reason just shows how pathetic and disgusting they actually are, and that's the reason why they should be wasted.
  • Alucard believes that only a human can defeat him, which is why he considers Anderson to be his greatest rival. Thus, when Anderson uses Helena's Nail to give himself a boost that he feels is necessary to defeat Alucard, not only is Alucard pissed, he's saddened to the point of crying.
  • He also has no respect whatsoever for traitors. And makes that displeasure known during his battle with a vampirized Walter.
  • While somewhat downplayed compared to the other examples, Alucard doesn't think very highly of Nazis, either. While reminiscing of their World War II days with Walter, Alucard took special glee in killing every Nazi he could find. The only exception is The Major, whose unbridled and absolute commitment to over-the-top batshit insanity Alucard finds impressive.
• Evil Laugh: Anytime Alucard is entertained, or is impressed with the antics of the Major, that great fanged maw opens up with peals of maniacal laughter.
• Evil Sounds Deep: Both their Japanese and English voice actors have this quality.
• Extra Eyes: Alucard develops tons of these during transformations.
• Eyes Do Not Belong There: Eyes do not go in the chest! Or in shadowy tentacles! Or... any way Alucard uses them, really.
• Face Your Fears: He seemingly believes this to be what one must do in order to realise one's potential.
  Alucard: It's the nature of battle, until you defeat what cowers you, you cannot truly become yourself. But to do that, you must break the shackles that hold you down.
• The Fettered: Though not unhappy about it. He proudly declares it when Integra gives the order to use his full powers.
• Fighting a Shadow: Alucard's true form is kept sealed away, safe from any harm. What everyone sees is a physical projection that he can reform at will, so long as he has souls to fuel it, and he has more than enough in the tank to do that for an indefinite period.
• A Form You Are Comfortable With: Due to the thousands of souls inside him causing a lack of a definite gender, he can change his appearance at will. To quote the man himself, "Trappings of mortal form mean nothing to me."
• From a Single Cell: Every 'death' he was supposed to have is one of his souls being taken away. And since he has over three million, this is the main reason why he's so damned hard to kill or even remotely injure. If even the tiniest bit of Alucard is left behind, he'll be able to regenerate and come back just as strong and vengeful as before.
• Four Eyes, Zero Soul: He is a very literal monster, and often wears a set of orange sunglasses before and sometimes during his rampages.
• Freudian Excuse: When Alucard was a human child, his father sold him off as political hostage to the Ottoman court, where he suffered sexual abuse. It's all but outright stated that taking reveng for this is what jump-started his dark path in life.
• Freudian Trio: Alucard is The Id among Integra and Seras. His proposed solution is always "gruesomely murder the enemy".
• Genius Loci: Inverted. Alucard's final enemies refer to Alucard's body an entire "castle" or "kingdom" of souls. When his final restraint comes off, they say he has "opened" up the gates of his castle, becoming vulnerable. When he starts to draw the souls back in, Major says he is "rebuilding his castle, brick by brick."
• Glass Cannon:
  • Alucard's default form is even more vulnerable to harm than an ordinary vampire — at one point a bullet actually blew one of his limbs off — but his practically limitless regenerative powers means he'll keep getting back up no matter how many times he's "killed" and traditional methods of vampire extermination are useless on him.
  • His true form is also an example — since all of the souls he's fed upon are now independent of his body, he's just as vulnerable to a stake through the heart as any other vampire. You just have to get past those souls, which are quite literally an army (several of them, in fact), not to mention all the vampires he's killed, and Alucard himself won't take it lying down either.
• Good Thing You Can Heal: Because Alucard's primary form is not his true form, his usual tactic is to let his opponents perforate him utterly... and then regenerate and get right back up again. If Alucard wasn't a true vampire and really fast regenerator, he'd be dust with how many times he's been blown to bits.
• Guns Akimbo: When he gains the Jackal he's always seen using it in tandem with the Casull. Both are massive, unmanagable weapons only someone with inhuman strength could fire safely. Even when he's got an equally ridiculously gigantic claymore sword, he swaps it pretty quickly for the guns.
• Hair-Contrast Duo: With Integra, Seras, and Anderson — black against blonde.
• Hand Cannon: To him they're pistols. To a human they'd be hand cannons, and impossible to fire with breaking an arm from the recoil. His Jackal weights 16 kilos unloaded^note The real-life Hand Cannon, the Desert Eagle, weights 1.7kg, making the Jackal about ten times heavier, is almost 40cm long and has "Jesus Christ is in Heaven now" written along the barrel, pushing it firmly into Impossibly Cool Weapon territory.
• Happiness in Slavery: Although not an actual slave, Alucard's more than happy to serve his Master.
• Healing Factor: One of the most extreme examples. Blowing him to bits doesn't stick long.
• Heel–Face Turn: Well, Alucard certainly seems to like life as a good guy. Of course, that's probably because he still gets to kill as many vampires and other monsters as he wants, considering it's the Hellsing Organization's eternal mission.
• The Hero: A very, very cruel and sadistic one, but he nevertheless is central character among the good guys and the narrative as a whole. He kills vampires and other supernatural nasties because his master orders him to and because he's disgusted by posers.
• Hero Killer: Sort of an inverse. It doesn't matter how big and bad you are, he's always bigger and badder, and he'll prove it by killing you. Luckily, he's on the good guys' side.
• Hey, You!: At first, he purposely refused to call his apprentice by her name, Seras Victoria, resorting instead to the sneering alias "Police Girl", which shows his disdain for her reluctance to drink blood and embrace her vampire nature in full. He gets a lot better by the series' end, either calling Seras by her name or using "Police Girl" as an affectionate nickname.
• Hidden Heart of Gold: Despite his uncaring and arrogant behavior, Alucard does genuinely care for some of the people around him, most especially Integra and Seras. He also holds a great deal of respect for people who choose to remain human like Van Helsing, Anderson, and even The Major, and the senseless slaughter of innocents is one of the main reasons why he despises almost all other vampires.
• Historical Beauty Upgrade: The real-life Vlad III Tepes was not a pretty man. In here, not so much — he's downright swagger. Justified with A Form You Are Comfortable With. Even in the original "Dracula" novel, he was described as creepy-looking even when more youthful. While he could shapeshift into a more attractive form, he didn't do it often. In this, he's always portrayed as being quite handsome, even in flashbacks.
• Historical Villain Upgrade: Vlad Tepes III was not what anyone would call The Good King, but he wasn't an Eldritch Abomination who'd consumed the souls of hundreds of thousands of people.
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: He and Seras, emphasizing their mentor-student, father-daughter relationship. Seras is only slightly shorter than most other characters, but Alucard is incredibly freakin' tall.
• Humanoid Abomination: Alucard looks like just an "ordinary" vampire — a tall, thin, pale human with dark hair, pointed teeth, and glowing red eyes. It turns out he's actually something far, far more horrifying, being at the very least a Mind Hive of millions of undead souls, all slaved to a single once-human mind. He freely shifts through the most horrific forms at will, with his "true form" being essentially a city-swallowing ocean of blood with wailing human and animal corpses rising half-formed from its depths and potentially becoming an independent army. In the finale, he goes even further, killing off his undead army to become a walking, talking quantum anomaly.
• Humans Are Special: He believes this with all his being. While sometimes he sneers at humans, for Alucard they are the pinnacle of God's creation and those worthy to inherit Earth, to the point that he refuses to die except at the hands of a human. It's the reason why he breaks down in tears when Anderson transforms himself with the Nail.
• Hunter of His Own Kind: In the most brutal way possible. He seems to hate most other vampires nowadays, especially those who kill For the Evulz, and especially artificial vampires like those that Millennium creates. Overall, in Alucard's opinion, only true vampires like Seras and himself deserve to exist, and he's happy to enforce this personally.
• Hypnotic Eyes: As befitting a powerful true vampire, as best displayed during the hotel scene with the SWAT members in the elevator.
• I Am a Monster: Which he will gleefully tell you. Though it turns out that Alucard plays this trope straight. As powerful as he is, he deeply regrets his choice to become a monster and holds a great deal of respect for those who choose to remain human in such a dangerous and cruel world. Anderson's use of Helena's Nail, and then his death after reverting back to an ordinary human, actually drives Alucard to hysterical tears.
  Alucard: YOU AND I ARE THE SAME! You are me... I was just the same! Don't you get it, this is how I became what I am!
• Improbable Aiming Skills: He can gun down multiple enemies without even looking at them.
• Interplay of Sex and Violence: With Integra. He is excited by her resolve and will for battle, and he always impales his victims when she watches, once even asking if it 'excited' her.
• In-Series Nickname: Hellsing's dog/lapdog/pet usually. Anderson used "the black plague" on him once. Demon, monster, or devil seem to be popular ones, too. Seras calls him "Master" on account of him being her sire.
• Insult Backfire:
  SWAT team member: No...you're a monster!
  Alucard: People keep telling me that.
• Invincible Hero: Zigzagged, which is a surprise given the character. Alucard has a massive number of lives (read: everyone who he's killed and drained the blood from) to stave off death. When these lives are all currently released as familiars however, he's as vulnerable as any other vampire. Then it finally gets played straight when he isolates Schrödinger's life within him in the ending, though he really had to work for this.
• It Amused Me: Why does Alucard turn himself into a little girl in his fight against Walter? Specifically to mock his opponent.
• Jerkass: He's not the friendliest or most empathetic guy, to say the least.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: It's buried far underneath centuries worth of agony, cruelty and misery, but Alucard does have better side to him that not many people get to see.
• The Juggernaut: He gets ripped to shreds by machine gun fire because it's fun. Nothing his enemies throw at him even slows him down.
• Kick the Dog: A vampire priest is holding Seras, last survivor of his massacre, hostage. Alucard has his gun pointed at them both. His only question is whether Seras is a virgin. When she answers "yes", he shoots through her to hit the vampire, kills him, and offers Seras the chance of becoming a vampire herself while she's bleeding out on the ground. Even the vampire priest is put off when he realises what Alucard is manoeuvring toward.
• Knight in Shining Armor: Double Subversion. Integra expected one to save her and got a vampire...who acted as one to her, regardless.
• Knight Templar: He used to be one, a long time ago.
• Lady and Knight: Very much a Black Knight to Integra's Bright Lady. He often amuses himself by pointing out the carnage he creates is all in her name.
• Large Ham: One of the hammiest vampires ever to ham.
• Little Miss Badass: Alucard is a shapeshifter, so he can look like whatever he wants. During World War II he looked like a young girl and didn't kick any less ass.
• Lord British Postulate: In-universe. Various people's obsession with defeating him is the main driver of the plot. Apparently immortal? There must be some other way to kill him!
• Lovecraftian Superpower: He can form multiple eyes, limbs, tentacles, and mouths, turn himself into shadows, insects, bats or mist, and manifest his Hellhound familiar as an extension of his body. And that's before he goes all-out. Other abilities that would definitely fall into the eldritch would be how he takes and keeps the souls of others inside himself by drinking their blood, so that he's able to summon them later as undead slaves.

M — S

• Made of Explodium: The bullets for the Jackal do a wee bit more than pierce through any armor, to say the least. Lampshaded by Luke Valentine even:
  (After one of Alucard's shots misses him, the entire hallway behind Luke gets blown up) "A pistol...did that!? ...Jesus."
• Made of Plasticine: It's surprisingly easy to rip him to shreds. The hard part is making him stay shredded.
• Mana Shield: A non-video game version and in this case it's Alucard's pools of souls that he's collected from drinking the blood of his victims. The reason Alucard is nigh unkillable and to resistant to normal vampiric weaknesses is because any damage done to him can be directed towards his familiar pool. So every time he "dies" he really just sacrifices a soul inside himself to take the damage. When he releases all of his souls he is a singular entity and thus vulnerable enough to kill by piercing his heart.
• Manly Facial Hair: When Alucard releases all the restraints, he actually looks somewhat like Vlad Tepes, including the moustache. It's not quite as impressive as the one in the famous portrait, but it would be much harder to take him seriously if it was.
• Manly Tears:
  • The first instance is in a Past Experience Nightmare of the day Abraham defeated him, and he even finds himself in tears upon awakening from the dream as well.
  • While unconscious during his battle against Anderson, Alucard ends up reliving his tragic life and everything that lead up to him choosing to become a vampire. As a final death seems imminent, bloody tears are shown quietly falling down his cheek.
  • The last time he cries follows Anderson's death after he used Helena's Nail. Alucard truly believed with all his being that Anderson was capable of beating him as a human. As Anderson became a monster, Alucard was heartbroken that he'd thrown away everything about himself that Alucard respected, though he understood the reasoning behind the choice.
• Meta Origin: Most supernatural things in the series stem from him in some way.
• Mind Control: Alucard can do this just by looking into your eyes, as the proprietor of a hotel and one poor SWAT trooper in the Brazil arc finds out.
• Mirror Character: In spite of their rivalry, He and Anderson have a lot in common. Both are monster hunters, both really enjoy their job, both are the most powerful members of their respective factions despite being nominally under someone else younger, both are prone to dramatics, and both have a humane side beyond their violent tendencies. This is also present in their skillsets, as both men have a Healing Factor and like to dual-wield weapons.Then Anderson gives away his humanity, just like Alucard did centuries ago.
• Mook Horror Show: Heaven and Hell help you if you have to fight him.
• More Dakka: Both in regards to taking down himself or his enemies. Blowing Alucard to pieces is how most people attempt to defeat him, although it never works out how they planned, since he's a regenerator. On the other hand, Alucard just likes to shoot things full of holes For the Evulz.
• More Teeth than the Osmond Family: His smiles would do an Anglerfish proud.
• Mr. Fanservice: Never seen naked or any of that sort, but there's a reason why he's on the Tall, Dark, and Handsome list.
• Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Alucard sprouts extra pairs during his battle with Rip van Winkle.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: It's Alucard. You know, that Dracula? Anyone who doesn't run is in for a bad time.
• Nay-Theist: He never questions whether God exists — he seems certain of it. In fact, his contempt for Him is so complete it almost wraps around to meet Anderson's zealotry from the opposite direction.
• Nigh-Invulnerable: He has extraordinary regenerative powers, being able to build himself back up from a pool of blood.
• Nightmare Face: He has a few. Most of them involve way too many eyeballs. And when he's opening his mouth to feed, he'll reveal a maw full of huge, dripping fangs that doesn't even remotely belong in a human face, and either snarl, laugh or both.
• Night of the Living Mooks: Contains an armada of the undead composed of the souls of every single person he has ever drained of blood (read: well over three million), which he can summon when all his restrictions are unlocked.
• Noble Demon: He kinda counts. In a fashion. Or at least when he's under Integra's direct influence. Just like Anderson, he's completely disgusted by Maxwell slaughtering millions of innocent civilians in London and there's a few other points in the series where he expresses disdain for artificial vampires who kill innocents to satisfy their own Drunk with Power egos or petty, boring pleasures. Alucard usually mocks, tortures, and kills them in short order after that.
• Nominal Hero: More or less a straight example up until the later part of the OVA, where his more sympathetic qualities begin to show.
• The Not-Love Interest: As Girlycard, he fulfils this role to Walter in The Dawn, for rather obvious reasons.
• "Not So Different" Remark: Alucard admits he and the Major are alike in Volume 4 as "incorrigible warmongers."
  "We ruin the countries we govern and the people in our care. We slaughter our enemies and sacrifice all our allies. We'll keep killing until there is nothing left but to destroy ourselves. It will never be enough. We are incorrigible warmongers, aren't we, Major?"
  • But unlike the Major, Alucard shows genuine remorse and tears up when he recalls what he lost in past battles. His comparison with Anderson in Volume 9 is more accurate.
• Now That's Using Your Teeth!: How he stops one of Rip Van's bullets. It broke his jaw. Don't worry. He fixed it.
• Odd Couple: With Integra, but whether it's romantic or not is debatable.
• Odd Friendship:
  • With Walter, most predominately in The Dawn.
  • Seems to have something of a strange relationship with the Queen as well, as they are both quite fond of each other. Most likely because she's known him longer than anyone still living, like Walter.
• The Older Immortal: As far as we know, the oldest vampire in the series.
• One Head Taller: With Integra. Whether or not this is supposed to have romantic undertones is a Shipping issue.
• One-Man Army: Level 0 form. Every soul he has consumed, including Rip Van Winkle and the Dandyman, are summoned to fight. By the events of the OVA, he has thousands to millions of souls. Do the math.
• The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Inverted. Alucard considers Anderson the only human he will allow himself to be defeated by. It's implied that, since the time of Abraham Van Helsing, no one else has really measured up.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Alucard is not only sincere, but pleading when urging Anderson not to use Helena's Nail to become a monster. When Alucard is the one acting like this, you know something very, very bad is about to happen. He even cries tears of blood at the end of their fight, openly mourning the temporary loss of Anderson's humanity and his eventual death.
• Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: In his true form, he has a stereotypical (Romanian) vampire accent.
• Oral Fixation: It almost goes without saying really, considering the whole vampire thing.
• Parental Substitute: Seems to be this for Seras, along with Integra. It starts out very rocky, but they become more respectful and affectionate with each other as the series progresses. Seras is even gifted with one of Alucard's only genuine, non-slasher smiles after Millennium's defeat and her finally embracing the better aspects of her vampire nature.
• Perpetual Frowner: In contrast to his usual disposition, he almost never smiles when he takes the form of Dracula.
• Pet the Dog: His conversation with the Queen of England show him to be quite the gentleman. He speaks with her in a soft, kindly tone and openly compliments her. He also openly shows affection for Seras once she embraces the full power of being a true vampire and in his original Dracula form to boot.
• Physical God: Or at least very close to one in terms of power. See Superpower Lottery below.
• Power Limiter: Alucard's monstrous powers are kept in check by a series of four magical gates, called the Control Art Restriction System. Alucard has some access to these via the "Cromwell Approval", but Integra herself must authorize their level of use for the most part. In the manga, and therefore in the OVA, Alucard is allowed to use any power he has access to at his current restriction level, but only has access to a subset of his powers unless all restrictions are released, and he cannot release any further restrictions without Integra's express permission, and then only as long as she permits, or as long as he needs to destroy an enemy in combat. How it works in the anime is less clear.
• Power Makes Your Hair Grow: The more powerful he becomes, the longer his hair grows out. He also gains a beard when he's transformed into his true form, Dracula.
• Prehensile Hair: Although it's kinda difficult to tell where the guy's hair ends and where his shadow tendril things begin. But he definitely has more prehensile body parts than any creature has the right to have.
• Pro-Human Transhuman: Firmly believes that Humans Are Special and that becoming anything else, no matter the reward, is an act of weakness and cowardice.
• Psycho for Hire: Sort of. He has all of the mannerisms and motives necessary for this trope, but he only works for one person and he's absolutely loyal.
• Psychopathic Manchild: Type C. Though he's usually composed and a perfect gentleman, he turns into a giggling lunatic in battle.
• Psychotic Smirk: Default expression is a smile full of gnashers. Sometimes with More Teeth than the Osmond Family.
• Punch! Punch! Punch! Uh Oh...: He likes to let opponents literally rip him to pieces, apparently just to see the look on their faces when the pieces melt back together.
• Rage Against the Heavens: There's a reason he's no longer a Knight Templar, though the edge has been worn off a bit over the centuries — hence why he doesn't mind working for Hellsing or using holy weapons. It was how he became a vampire. At the moment of his execution by his enemies, he decided to defy the God to whom he'd dedicated his life, and accepted power from... something else by drinking human blood. The same something also made the Major an offer, but was rejected.
• Rape as Backstory: Heavily implied and confirmed by Word of God in the manga (Volume 8) where Hirano states that Alucard was "raped by an Arab" as a child.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: Red coat, scarf and hat over a black suit and shoes. He also has black hair and red eyes.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: He has them all the time.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Red to Integra's blue, and to a lesser extent, Anderson as well.
• Removed Achilles' Heel: Arguably what makes him so dangerous. Alucard is resistant to most common vampire weaknesses. Pierce his heart? No effect. Cutting his head off ? He grows it back. Silver? No problem at all. However, if his final battle with Anderson is anything to go by, "holy" weapons and abilities are still a killer.
• Resurrective Immortality: Subverted. His healing factor may make him immensely difficult to kill, but he can still die, either by exhausting him of the millions of souls within his body he uses to regenerate from or targeting his main body in his Level 0 form, where he is at his most vulnerable. He plays this straight when he comes back into existence after absorbing Schrödinger, inheriting Schrödinger's ability of being simultaneously alive and dead.
• Retired Monster: It's an active retirement, but when alive he was a mass-murdering caligula (Vlad the Impaler). He still enjoys killing and has no internal conflict about doing so whatsoever — though the majority of his victims in the present day have it coming.
• Sanity Strengthening: As demonstrated above, he was one of history's most infamous butchers and genocidal psychopaths. Becoming a vampire didn't change that, but Dr. Abraham Van Helsing and his comrades putting an absolute fear of God into him did. Kind of. He's still pretty damn kill-crazy, but now fights for humanity and to protect the few things he has left — mainly Integra and Seras.
• Scary Shiny Glasses: Not that his actual eyes are any less scary.
• Sdrawkcab Name: His name is Alucard, an obvious alias, for, who else, Dracula.
• Sealed Army in a Can: His Level Zero allows him to unleash all captive souls within him as his familiars. Since the number of people he has devoured number in the millions, his force is accordingly massive.
• Sealed Badass in a Can: Is this in "Master of Monster". There's a magic seal on the door to the room he's being kept in (much like the seals on his gloves, that keep his powers in check). When Integra opens the door, she breaks the seal.
• Shapeshifter Default Form: Alucard chooses to appear in his standard Badass Longcoat form most of the time. If he chooses, he can take on other forms, such as that of a young girl. With his restrictions released, he becomes an amorphous mass that can form whatever he needs, such as dogs that have his guns coming out of their mouths.
• Sharp-Dressed Man: He certainly wears the hell out of that suit in the third OVA.
• Slasher Smile: Full of fangs. He doesn't smile in his true Dracula form, though.
• Smug Super: When Seras says she can't hit a fast moving target, at night, and without a scope on her sniper rifle, Alucard says she's making a "human complaint", and continuously prods and sneers at her for acting as though she's as weak as a human. He uses his incredible power for some really mundane things, yet rarely bothers to unlock his higher-level restrictions in combat because he's openly contemptuous of most of his opponents, especially when they talk themselves up. The only people in the entire series who get even close to giving him a real fight (outside of Abraham Van Helsing himself) are Anderson, the Captain (who had an opening volley good enough to make him back off before the fight could really get going), and Walter.
• Sociopathic Hero: Was a bloodthirsty monster before he became a vampire. The vampire thing just made him worse.
• Spirited Competitor: Nothing makes him happier than fighting a Worthy Opponent. Well, except Integra. And maybe his apprentice finally acting like a true vampire.
• Suicide is Shameful: He's absolutely disgusted and furious when the last survivor of a SWAT team he just butchered chooses to shoot himself rather than face his wrath.
• Superpower Lottery: Aside from the common vampire powers (Superhuman Strength, Speed, Reflexes, Immortality, spreading his condition to others) Alucard can also levitate, pass through walls, manipulate shadows, shapeshift, telepathically manipulate people (though he needs eye contact for that) and heal from as little as ashes.
• Super-Soldier: He was experimented upon by the Hellsing Organization in order to convert him into a living weapon, which is indicated to be the source of some of his more eldritch powers.

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• Taking the Bullet: Most likely how his Healing Factor seems to work. His body taps into the collected souls of everyone whose blood he drank, transferring any wounds he's taken to them. When Control Art Restriction System Level Zero is released, they all pour out of him into a massive army for him to command, but it also leaves him without his regenerative abilities.
• Tall, Dark, and Handsome: Extremely tall, great hair, and very good-looking, even when he's sporting an extra sadistic grin.
• Tall, Dark, and Snarky: Can be counted as a source of snarky comments.
• Tears of Blood: These seem to be the only kind of tears Alucard is physically able to shed, as it happens every time he is shown crying, befitting his nature as a supernatural being.
• There Is No Kill Like Overkill: So long as Integra orders it, he'll do whatever he damn well pleases to his opponents. If they can't stop him, well, sucks to be them.
• Token Evil Teammate: On the good team (Hellsing Organization) and murders left and right using dark arts and blood magic and whatever else eldritch thing he can do.
• Took a Level in Kindness: He mellows out towards Seras over the course of the series.
• Tough Love: Make no mistake, he does care about Seras. He just has an odd way of showing it.
• Troll: During his Breaking Speech towards Walter during their fight, he takes the form of Girlycard, the form Walter saw him the most in as a teenager, to further mock him.
• Undead Abomination: It would be a mistake to assume that Alucard — with his shapeshifting abilities and Healing Factor — is just a normal vampire.
• Undying Loyalty: Not only is he fiercely dedicated to his master and country, but he hates traitors above everything.
• Unstoppable Rage: In direct contrast with almost every other fight in the series, where he's obviously enjoying himself like a cat with a mouse, Alucard goes completely ballistic against God Monster Anderson.
• Vampires Are Sex Gods: An extremely predatory, aggressive example, but an example nevertheless.
• Vampire Hunter: One of the greatest in the world.
• Villainous Breakdown: Oh, he doesn't suffer one. He causes them. Until Anderson's death. That said, it was much more of a Tear Jerker moment than anything, but regardless, he still did break down in tears. Hell, Alucard even gave him a genuine smile and respectful "Amen" right after he passed away.
• Villain Protagonist: Not the villain of the story and overall set on the side of good but some of the things Alucard does are absolutely monstrous, such as callously (or worse, excitedly) killing his helpless enemies in horrific ways and is implied to sexually assault Rip van Winkle as he drinks her blood. This is more prominent earlier on in the series, as later on we get to see his better characteristics and Hidden Depths feature more.
• Villains Out Shopping: Based on his dream sequence in Episode 5 it seems that in lieu of eating, sleeping, and all the other things puny mortals have to do, Alucard spends most of his free time watching movies.
• Vocal Dissonance: In the OVA, he doesn't bother changing his voice while in his Girlycard form, sounding like his usual deep-voiced self the whole time.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: Apart from the obvious, he himself states that 'trappings of a mortal' don't apply to him and can appear as anything — bats, a dog with multiple eyes, his true form, a girl...
• Warrior Poet: As in the source material he was drawn from (historical and otherwise), he's erudite and educated when he's not busy tearing his enemies apart.
• We Used to Be Friends: While Alucard was never the most open or social person, it was clear that he felt a level of respect for Walter, and admired him even in his old age. When Walter betrays Hellsing however, Alucard loses all respect for him, and taunts him that Integra and Seras feel the same way.
• What Have I Become?: Think he's never had a moment of regret for becoming what he is? You're in for a surprise.
• When He Smiles:
  • He shows Seras◊ a genuine, heartwarming smile after releasing Restriction Level Zero and showing his true identity and power to her for the first time, patting her on the head as well — almost a "parental" gesture of a father proud of his daughter. Considering his default state, this was a truly beautiful thing.
  • His smile becomes a warm, genuine one when he meets the Queen again.
  • Just as Anderson is peacefully fading away, Alucard gives one of his few non-mocking and genuine smiles in the whole series. Unlike all of the other characters Alucard has fought, Anderson was the only living human who could truly go toe-to-toe with him while also retaining the better aspects of his humanity. Because of this, and Anderson reverting back to and dying as a human, Alucard is genuinely saddened by and respectful of his favorite rival's passing, and even whispers a little "Amen" at the end of Anderson's final prayer.
• Wicked Cultured: He doesn't usually show it — presumably he doesn't feel like it — but it does tend to come out during unexpected moments.
• Wild Hair: Especially as Dracula.
• Will They or Won't They?: With Integra. It's left ambiguous.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: He may qualify as this. If you look through the axe-craziness, you'll discover he's actually a Death Seeker. Then there's his Dark and Troubled Past...
• World's Strongest Man: Of all the known "living" vampires, Alucard/Dracula is the most powerful. Unmatched in physical strength and vampiric magic.
• Worthy Opponent: Humans who can face him receive his absolute respect. Despite his snark, it's clear that any human who dares face him head on, he sees as worthy. It's this reason why he obeys Integra to death and beyond.
  • However, bonus points go to none other than Alexander Anderson. Anderson is purely human (albeit augmented with regenerative abilities and possibly 4th-dimensional storage for his bayonets) and his dedication in fighting Alucard has earned him plenty of respect, something which is mutual. Alucard also compared him to a certain someone else...
  • Most of all, the reason he views humanity is this was none other due to Dr. Abraham Van Helsing. This man, lacking even Anderson's enhancements, beat Alucard at his mightiest with nothing more than occult knowledge and the battle was so one-sided, it not only put a permanent respect for humanity into him, it traumatised him to the point he still has nightmares about it. Additionally, when Alucard was having his final battle with Anderson, he reflects on how Anderson reminds him so much of "those other men." This means that Alucard holds great respect not only for Dr. Van Helsing, but to the party who accompanied him into the battle: Jonathon Harker, Lord Godalming, Quincey Morris (who died fighting him) and Dr. Seward (though he's oddly absent from the silhouette group shot). It says plenty that these men were held in the same level as the good doctor and Anderson.

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