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* HealingFactor: One of the benefits of vampiric transformation is that Vlad can recover completely from even gruesome injuries. This is exhibited via a contrast between two [[ShirtlessScene Shirtless Scenes]] - in the first example, Vlad's torso is shown to be covered in many old battle scars, whereas in the second, he appears completely unscathed. This is one of the factors that clues his wife into realizing that Vlad has become something supernatural. [[spoiler:Later it's demonstrated that Vlad can even regenerate from prolonged direct exposure to sunlight as soon as he's provided with only a few drops of fresh blood.]]
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* RevengeBeforeReason: Mehmet's campaign against Vlad and his countrymen is entirely driven by his desire to punish Vlad for resisting his call for 1000 boys to be inducted as Janissaries for a planned push into greater Europe. One would think that as soon as Vlad routed Mehmet's first offensive he would decide that filling what amounts to only a single regiment with children who would not be viable fighters for at least several years was not worth risking the entirety of his standing forces, but at this point Mehmet is clearly being driven more by his injured pride than any reasonable calculus.
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''Dracula Untold'' is a 2014 British-American DarkFantasy ActionHorror film directed by Gary Shore and written by Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless, released by [[Creator/{{Universal}} Universal Studios]]. The film explores the origins of the legendary Count {{Dracula}} (Creator/LukeEvans), weaving vampire mythology with the true history of Prince UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler, depicting Dracula as a flawed hero in a tragic love story set in a dark age of magic and war.
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''Dracula Untold'' is a 2014 British-American DarkFantasy ActionHorror film directed by Gary Shore and written by Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless, released by [[Creator/{{Universal}} Universal Studios]]. Studios]].
The film explores the origins of the legendary Count {{Dracula}} (Creator/LukeEvans), weaving vampire mythology with the true history of Prince UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler, depicting Dracula as a flawed hero in a tragic love story set in a dark age of magic and war.
The film explores the origins of the legendary Count {{Dracula}} (Creator/LukeEvans), weaving vampire mythology with the true history of Prince UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler, depicting Dracula as a flawed hero in a tragic love story set in a dark age of magic and war.
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* HistoricalRelationshipOverhaul: [[AdaptedOut There's no mention whatsoever]] of Vlad Dracula's brother, [[CainAndAbel Radu the Handsome]]. As boys, they were taken hostage together by the Turks. But unlike Vlad, Radu came to support them, converted to Islam, and led the invading army in the campaign roughly corresponding to the Sultan's invasion in the film. He seems to have been [[CompositeCharacter combined with the Sultan]], who claims to be a former friend and calls Vlad his "brother".
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* RedShirtArmy: The Ottoman Army. A MillionMookMarch against a small number of vampires, while Dracula settles things with Mehmet in his tent, to save his captive son. By the time he's done and gets out of the tent, [[KillEmAll the vampires left absolutely no survivors]]... [[AndYourLittleDogToo except one]].
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* RedShirtArmy: The Ottoman Army. A MillionMookMarch against a small number of vampires, while Dracula settles things with Mehmet in his tent, to save his captive son. By the time he's done and gets out of the tent, [[KillEmAll the vampires left absolutely no survivors]]...survivors... [[AndYourLittleDogToo except one]].
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* BullyingADragon: One of the Janissaries, Bright Eyes, threatens a father and his son in Vlad's court. When Vlad intervenes, he brings up his reputation and Bright Eyes shrugs it off, apparently thinking it's no big deal to piss off someone who earned the name "The Impaler". Appropriately enough, in the climax, they spot each other, and Vlad effortlessly defeats him and pins him to a wooden post with his own weapon ''without'' using his vampiric powers, leaving him alive for the boy he threatened earlier, now a vampire himself, [[KarmicDeath to finish him off]].
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** One of the Janissaries, Bright Eyes, threatens a father and his son in Vlad's court. When Vlad intervenes, he brings up his reputation and Bright Eyes shrugs it off, apparently thinking it's no big deal to piss off someone who earned the name "The Impaler". Appropriately enough, in the climax, they spot each other, and Vlad effortlessly defeats him and pins him to a wooden post with his own weapon ''without'' using his vampiric powers, leaving him alive for the boy he threatened earlier, now a vampire himself, [[KarmicDeath to finish himoff]].off]].
** The Ottomans in general are repeatedly needlessly antagonistic towards Vlad, a loyal vassal of theirs who also has a reputation as an insanely brutal killing machine. On multiple occasions Vlad offers them a way to settle their dispute in a way that benefits them and lets both parties save face, but they prefer to demand the resolution that's most harmful and degrading to Vlad and even taunt him about it when it looks like he'll comply. It's inevitable that the Ottoman's AssInAmbassador ends up getting chopped to pieces for his trouble.
** One of the Janissaries, Bright Eyes, threatens a father and his son in Vlad's court. When Vlad intervenes, he brings up his reputation and Bright Eyes shrugs it off, apparently thinking it's no big deal to piss off someone who earned the name "The Impaler". Appropriately enough, in the climax, they spot each other, and Vlad effortlessly defeats him and pins him to a wooden post with his own weapon ''without'' using his vampiric powers, leaving him alive for the boy he threatened earlier, now a vampire himself, [[KarmicDeath to finish him
** The Ottomans in general are repeatedly needlessly antagonistic towards Vlad, a loyal vassal of theirs who also has a reputation as an insanely brutal killing machine. On multiple occasions Vlad offers them a way to settle their dispute in a way that benefits them and lets both parties save face, but they prefer to demand the resolution that's most harmful and degrading to Vlad and even taunt him about it when it looks like he'll comply. It's inevitable that the Ottoman's AssInAmbassador ends up getting chopped to pieces for his trouble.
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* BlackAndGreyMorality: Vlad makes a [[DealWithTheDevil deal with the Elder Vampire (who himself made a deal with a demon)]] for demonic power to save his people and his gruesome past is told as having razed villages and impaled thousands in the past feeling nothing. He admits his monstrous past and is ashamed of it, but all of his evil deeds including becoming a vampire are to prevent something worse from happening. The Sultan Mehmet plans to conquer all of Europe, force religious conversion, and demands a thousand boys including Dracula's son so they can be turned into soldiers.
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* BlackAndGreyMorality: Vlad makes a [[DealWithTheDevil deal with the Elder Vampire (who himself made a deal with a demon)]] for demonic power to save his people and his gruesome past is told as having razed villages and impaled hundreds upon thousands in the past feeling nothing. He admits his monstrous past and is ashamed of it, but all of his evil deeds including becoming a vampire are to prevent something worse from happening. The Sultan Mehmet plans to conquer all of Europe, force religious conversion, and demands a thousand boys including Dracula's son so they can be turned into soldiers.
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* BrutalHonesty: The Elder Vampire is completely upfront about the consequences that will occur once Vlad becomes a vampire and if he gives in to his bloodlust.
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* BrutalHonesty: The Elder Vampire is completely upfront about the consequences that will occur once Vlad becomes a vampire and if he ultimately gives in to his bloodlust.
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* BullyingADragon: One of the Janissaries, Bright Eyes, threatens a father and his son in Vlad's court. When Vlad intervenes, he brings up his reputation and Bright Eyes shrugs it off, apparently thinking it's no big deal to piss off someone who earned the name "The Impaler". Appropriately enough, in the climax, they spot each other, and Vlad effortlessly defeats him and pins him to a wooden post with his own weapon ''without'' using his vampiric powers. Leaving him alive for the boy he threatened earlier, now a vampire himself, [[KarmicDeath to finish him off]].
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* BullyingADragon: One of the Janissaries, Bright Eyes, threatens a father and his son in Vlad's court. When Vlad intervenes, he brings up his reputation and Bright Eyes shrugs it off, apparently thinking it's no big deal to piss off someone who earned the name "The Impaler". Appropriately enough, in the climax, they spot each other, and Vlad effortlessly defeats him and pins him to a wooden post with his own weapon ''without'' using his vampiric powers. Leaving powers, leaving him alive for the boy he threatened earlier, now a vampire himself, [[KarmicDeath to finish him off]].
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* PyrrhicVillainy: Mehmet sends a thousand men to lay siege to Vlad's castle. Vlad kills them all. At this point, Mehmet has already lost as many trained soldiers as he would have had in conscripts, yet he wastes scores more on a petty grudge instead of cutting his losses.
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* PyrrhicVillainy: PyrrhicVictory: Mehmet sends a thousand men to lay siege to Vlad's castle. Vlad kills them all. At this point, Mehmet has already lost as many trained soldiers as he would have had in conscripts, yet he wastes scores more on a petty grudge instead of cutting his losses.
