Hellsing - Television Tropes & Idioms

alt title(s): Hellsing Ultimate

"In the Name of God, impure souls of the living dead shall be banished into eternal damnation. Amen."

"The Bird of Hermes is my name, eating my wings to make me tame."

The mysterious Hellsing Organization's job is to protect Great Britain from those who prey on the living- and their chief operative is none other than the incredibly powerful vampire "Alucard". He doesn't have to use guns (with explosive holy bullets, Improbable Aiming Skills and near-Bottomless Magazines, no less) to kill other vampires and anyone else in his way, but he sure does like to.

Alucard faithfully serves the leader of Hellsing, Sir Integra Fairbrook Wingates Hellsing. Her devotion to Anglican Church and the Queen prompts her to swiftly erase any threats towards them from existence and she sees no problem with employing the undead to destroy the undead.

The same cannot be said of Hellsing's rival, the fanatic Iscariot Division of the Catholic Church. They consider Hellsing little better than the monsters they hunt, and their champion, the paladin Father Alexander Anderson, is just as bloodthirsty and as apparently unkillable as Alucard.

Enter Seras Victoria, the sole surviving member of a police squad killed by a vampire. Alucard offered her undeath as she lay dying, and she accepted. Firstly, acting as the comic relief among other duties, her weight as character increases only after the second half of the story. Together with Integra and Alucard, they discover a new kind of mass produced undead that isn't bound to the traditional rules of Draculs and Draculinas.

Exists as the original Manga, a television series (made from Seras' perspective) and an OVA series. The two animated adaption are not in continuity with each other but retell the manga as Alternate Continuities with the OVA being the closer adaption.

Theres also a prequel, Hellsing: The Dawn which focus on Alucard and a young Walter during World War 2. Did I mention Alucard is a girl in this version? So far there are only six chapters to the manga. Its unknown if the author, Hirano Kouta, will continue it (as he working on a new manga, Drifters). But its been reported it will be animated in the new OVA.

This anime, as well as the progenitor manga, contains examples of:

The Abridged Series: Here.
Action Girl
Adaptation Decay: in the TV series, due to Overtook The Manga
Aerith And Bob
A Father To His Men: Anderson
A Glass Of Chianti: Major, who toasts champagne before attacking London
Air Vent Escape: by a young Integra and later by Seras and Walter.
Alas Poor Yorick: Seras carrying Alucard's severed head in the manga, TV series, and the OVA
Alliterative Name: Alexander Anderson
Ambiguously Brown: Jan Valentine, made even more confusing by the fact that his "brother" Luke is white.
Ambiguous Gender: Heinkel Wolfe and Alucard's Dawn form
- Also Integra to some people (not helped by the fact that her title is "Sir" Integra)
- Schroeder. Made more difficult since the Fan Sub I was watching actually referred to him as a "she" in one instance.
  - Don't you mean Schrödinger? At least that was his name in the German OVA dub.
Anti Hero: Alucard, naturally. Though mostly in the TV series.
Armor Is Useless: None of the properly-equipped grunts survive, although to be fair pretty much everyone with a name is either insanely powerful or a Badass Normal
- Though to be fair, the kind of firepower these guys are wielding can punch a hole through a tank, so it's not like the armor would be useful even if it was strong.
Art Evolution: There's a noticeable change in style as the series progresses.
Art Shift: Characters will occasionally go super-deformed when odd stuff is happening in earlier parts of the manga
- Hellsing Ultimate has this as a Running Mythology Gag regarding Seras. She goes super-deformed at least Once An Episode, sometimes more often than that.
As The Good Book Says
Attack Attack Attack
Attack Of The 50 Foot Whatever: In her attack on the Hellsing manor, Zorin Blitz creates a gigantic illusion of herself and tricks Pip and The Wild Geese into believing said gigantic illusion is making mince meat out of them with her scythe, resulting in a Freak Out.
Attempted Rape
Author Appeal: Rip Van Winkle has been described as "The sum of all Hirano's fetishes"
Authority Equals Asskicking: Integra
Axe Crazy
Back For The Finale: Alucard
Badass: Lots of 'em. Most notably Alucard, Anderson and Walter.
Badass Creed: Please see Iscariot's chapter-long Pledge of Kickass.
- Also, Major's famous monologue about war is incredibly badass, being the textbook (if villainous) example of Crazy Awesome.
  - Quite another reason why the Major and his men embody Always Chaotic Evil.
Badass Grandpa: Walter
Little Miss Badass: Girlycard. Maybe.
Badass Longcoat: A red one, adding to the gore by allowing many regenerations of his limbs. Though not the only one...
- And a Villainous version, Captain's.
Badass Lab Coat: Dok. Just...Dok.
Badass Normal: Integra vs Anderson and Millennium mooks
Bad Boss
Bare Your Midriff: Exhibit A; Nazi in a bellytop.
The Berserker: Yumie.
Berserk Button: Don't commit suicide in front of Alucard...
- And don't call Pip Bernadotte an insect in front of Seras if you like your face where it is.
- The Captain also seems to have one (particularly notable given his status as The Stoic) when Girlycard started mocking him by barking; the Captain's response was to kick him/her in half.
Better To Die Than Be Killed: Alucard is very much not of this opinion.
Battle Butler: Walter C. Dornez. He wields a lethal set of piano wire/dental floss/whatever of doom.
Battle Couple: Pip and Seras, possibly Heinkel and Yumie.
Big Bad: Incognito in the TV series, the Major in the manga and OVA.
Big Damn Heroes
Big Fancy House: Hellsing Manor.
Bishounen: Young Walter.
Bizarre And Improbable Ballistics: Rip Van Winkle. She can shoot down multiple fighter jets with a single bullet.
Black And Gray Morality
Bleached Underpants: Kohta Hirano's earlier work consists entirely of hentai featuring prototypes of, among others, Alucard, Seras, Pip, and Anderson.
Blind Idiot Translation: This series suffers from it on both sides of the Pacific.
Bloody Murder: Alucard practically puts his blood through gymnastics using it as a weapon
Blood Knight: Alucard loves to brutally kill things. And even he has nothing on the Major's love of war.
Bloodless Carnage: For the TV Series only. Instead of bloody deaths, most Vampires turn to "Sand" when they die.
Boobs Of Steel: Seras
Boring Invincible Hero: Admit it, sometimes the stuff that Alucard just shrugs off is absolutely ridiculous.
Breakthe Cutie: Integra, Seras, Pip and specially Alucard in their youth.
Breast Expansion: Of uncertain veracity; once Seras becomes a Hellsing agent, she has very large breasts, but it's never been made clear if this is due to a quirk of her transformation or if she was well-endowed beforehand and it wasn't noticeable(she's never shown before her transformation except in a bulletproof vest, which of course fits rather snugly).
- In one of the collected volumes, one of the author's notes has him complaining that the more he draws Seras, the taller and bigger-breasted she gets.
  - Subverted with Integra whose first character design in the manga had bigger boobs than Seras (and in the first presentation lacked a jacket) herself and they shrank as Seras' bust size increased.
Call Back
Calling Your Attacks: Anderson and Yumie have instances of this.
Cat Boy: Schrödinger
Catch Phrase: Integra's favourite command: "SEARCH AND DESTROY!"
- Also Rip Van Winkle, with the exacts depending on translation: "Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor; my bullet punishes all without distinction"/"be they worthy or just plain riff-raff, my bullet punishes all without distinction"
Card Carrying Villain
Cargo Ship: "GET AWAY FROM MY COFFIN."
Casual Danger Dialog: Used often but Integra gives us this gem just before she and and the Council of Twelve turn a vampire into swiss cheese.
Integra: You made it. Congratulations.
Jan Valentine: ... Fuck me.
The Cat Came Back: Schrödinger
Chaotic Good: Integra doesn't care how her men protect the world as long as they get the job done.
Character Derailment
Character Filibuster
Character Development
Charles Atlas Superpower: Walter before he got vampire-ised.
Church Militant: Hellsing are Protestants; Iscariot are Catholics. Sometimes they're actually able to stop fighting each other long enough to fight vampires... sometimes.
Cloud Cuckoolander: Rip van Winkle.
Collapsing Lair
The Combat Pragmatist: Pip's one for sure.
Come Out Come Out Wherever You Are: Opening scene of Volume 1.
Cool Old Guy: Walter. He may be 70+ years old but he sure can still rip you a new one
Contemplate Our Navels
Conservation Of Ninjitsu: Used against ghouls, subverted with Alex almost getting overrun by Alucard's familiar army; and then some more.
Continuity Creep: The first half the series takes place over months, the second half takes place over the course of a single night.
Contractual Immortality: Alucard's was more or less iron-clad. He's the one on all of the merchandise for heaven's sake.
Crowning Moment Of Awesome: Seras awakening her dormant vampiric abilities after drinking Pip's blood, and the ensuing ass-kickery of Zorin and her mooks.
- Alucard's battle against Rip van Winkle, set to the appropriate song from Der Freischütz.
- Integra gets one in her face off with Anderson in Badrick which prompts Anderson to don his Oh Crap face.
  Integra: Cut off his head? Pierced his heart? Is that all?
Creepy Cool Crosses
Complete Monster: The Major.
- Alucard may or may not fall under this, but he's ''OUR'' monster.
Cool Chair: The Major's chair is totally sweet.
Corrupt Church
Coup De Grace
Crazy Awesome: "Gentlemen... I Love War."
Crowning Moment Of Funny: Jan is a walking, talking CMOF.
Crowning Moment Of Heartwarming: Anderson's last words
Cultural Posturing
Curb Stomp Battle: The Nazi assault on Hellsing manor, which turns around once Seras awakens more of her powers.
- Once Alucard's done with taunting/playing possum, he tends to eventually regenerate or transform for some good ol' curb-stompin'
Cursed With Awesome
Custom Uniform
Cute Bruiser: Seras, of course.
Cute Monster Girl: Come on, admit it — Seras is adorable.
Dark Action Girl: Zorin.
Dark And Troubled Past: ~~Practically~~ the entire cast!
Darkest Hour
Dark Skinned Blond: Integra, Anderson in the anime.
Deadly Upgrade: Anderson and The Nail. One might also argue this to be true for vampirized Walter. And let us not forget Seras, when she drinks Pip's blood. She regenerates her eyes and manifests some of Alucard's powers. Yikes.
Death Seeker: One possible interpretation of Alucard's character. Also explicitly the motivation of The Major and the Last Batallion plus the majority of vampires.
Dead Sidekick
Death Glare
Despair Event Horizon
Determinator
Deus Exit Machina
Diagonal Cut
Distant Finale: The final chapter's epilogue
Distressed Damsel: Seras and Young Integra get moments of this.
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep: Questioned with the Major.
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night: "Let's go die like mangy dogs."
Dracula: This should be obvious.
Dream Sequence
Dressed To Kill
Dropped A Bridge On Him
Dysfunction Junction: In a big way.
Eat Me: Schrodinger, against Alucard. And it actually works.
Eats Babies: Millennium's soldiers.
Eldritch Abomination: Alucard's release states tend to look like this
Emergency Transformation: The series opens with Seras's emergency vamping after she's shot through the chest. It is later revealed the Major was saved from a fatal gunshot of his own by being turned into a cyborg.
Everybodys Dead Dave
Everyone Calls Him Barkeep: The Captain, the Doktor and the Major. There is some fanon about giving them names, but nothing officially out of the manga.
Evil Costume Switch: Walter's post-vamping ensemble.
Evil Counterpart
Evil Frog Wants To Be An Ox
Evil Gloating
Evil Laugh: Something of a staple in the series, but Alucard and Anderson do it the most. Alucard typically engages in this when he's been shot to pieces, literally, and indulges in this as he's pulling himself together to scare the shit out of whoever is there. A textbook example of how to use this trope if there ever was one.
Evil Uncle: Uncle Richard
Evil Minions
Extra Eyes: Alucard develops tons of these during transformations.
Extreme Doormat: The Captain is Major's.
Eyes Do Not Belong There: See above
Eyes Of Gold: The Major and other members of Millennium in the OVA.
Eye Scream: In a flashback, Seras attempts to defend her mother's corpse by putting a fork through an attacker's eye. Also, Zorin cuts Seras' eyes out after forcing her to experience said flashback.
Face Framed In Shadow
Face Heel Turn: Walter
Fair Cop: Seras Victoria, AKA "Police Girl"
Fangs Are Evil
Fanservice
Fate Worse Than Death
Fetish Fuel: From Rip Van Winkle *see above* to Integra to Victoria. And then there's Alucard...
First Episode Resurrection: Seras, of course.
First Episode Spoiler
Flash Back
Foe Tossing Charge
Foe Yay
For Science: Doc from Millennium claims this as his motives all along.
For The Evulz: Millennium
Friendly Neighborhood Vampires: Compared to ~~Alucard~~ everyone else in the entire series, Seras is an absolute saint.
Freudian Excuse
From A Single Cell
Funetik Aksent: Anderson's dialogue in the Darkhorse translations.
Gangsta Style
Gecko Ending: (Due to the original anime being produced 7 years before the manga reached its conclusion, their respective endings are radically different.
Glowing Eyes Of Doom: The anime uses and abuses them, with great effect. Subverted in most cases as it's not the eyes glowing, but the glasses: Alucard, Anderson.
God Mode Marty Stu: Alucard, part of the fun of the series.
Godzilla Threshold: Releasing Alucard from his bonds in the final arc, only after London is completely overrun by Millennium and the Iscariot Order.
Go Out With A Smile: Anderson; Walter; Major; Alucard
Gorn: Much like Berserk, this series is dripping with it.
Government Agency Of Fiction
Gratuitous English: Where to begin...
Guns Akimbo
The Gunslinger
Handy Remote Control
Happiness In Slavery: Alucard
Harmful To Minors: poor, poor Seras
He Who Fights Monsters
Healing Factor
Heir Club For Men: Subverted a lot.
Hellish Horse
Hermetic Magic: Alucard's gloves.
Heroic BSOD: Seras in OVA 7, after Zorin kills Pip.
Heroic Sacrifice
Heroic Sociopath: Alucard, again. When he defeats Rip van Winkle, the results are...messy
Hidden Depths
High Octane Nightmare Fuel: It would be faster to list the scenes that aren't. Seriously, just go to the page.
High Pressure Blood: in spades
Hime Cut: Alucard sports a style very close to one in The Dawn.
Hoist By His Own Petard: Doc
Holier Than Thou
Hollywood Healing
Hollywood Tactics
Holy Shit Quotient: Like a certain other Madhouse/Satelight production, your jaw will be on the fucking floor by the end of the first Hellsing Ultimate OVA.
- It gets even more awesome at episode 4.
  - It gets Crazy Awesome at episode 7.
Home Sweet Home: "Welcome home, Count". "I'm home, Countess."
Hope Spot
Hot Blooded
How Do I Shot Web: Seras encounters this issue with her new vampire powers.
Humans Are Special: "That which defeats a monster...is always a man." Not all humans though as the manga makes the point to differentiate from "human dogs", "humans who become monsters" and "real humans".
The Hunter
Hyperspace Arsenal
I Am Not Left Handed: Control Art Restriction System.
Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Most are named for video games.
I Got Better: Played twice with Bernadotte first in volume 9 ending and then Alucard in volume 10 ending.
Impaled With Extreme Prejudice: OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
Implacable Man: Almost all non-humans and Alex Anderson.
Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Subverted, for all the good of that...
Interspecies Romance
In The Name Of The Moon
I Shall Taunt You
Its All My Fault
Inverse Dialogue Death Rule: Followed repeatedly.
Ironic Echo: "I highly recommend pissing yourself, followed of course by praying to your impotent god."
It Got Worse
I Will Wait For You In volume 10, after she kills Major and even if Alucard said farewell to her, Integra insists Alucard will return. She sourly waits for him, with the supporting cheering of Seras Victoria who keeps her from losing her patience, for the next thirty years
The Good Captain: Averted with... well, The Captain. Played straight with Pip.
The Juggernaut: Alex Anderson
Jumped At The Call: If Alucard gets to participate in bloody slaughter, Stuff Blowing Up, among other things, he'll do it—as long as it's Integra's wish.
Just A Kid: Young Integra.
The Kid With The Leash: Integra, who became Alucard's master very early in life.
Kill Em All: By the time the series is over thirty years in the future, only Integra, Seras, Bernadotte, Heinkel Wolf, Sir Rob Walsh are still around without counting the descendants of Islands, Penwood and new Iscariot characters. Of course, Alucard finally came back, but it's still only him.
Killed Off For Real: Everyone who died. Except Alucard and Bernadotte.
Killed To Uphold The Masquerade
Knife Nut: Anderson!
Knight In Shining Armor: Slightly subverted by Alucard. Except when he's around Integra (who explicitly wished for one when they met) or the Queen.
Knight Templar: The Iscariot Division and Alucard when he was Vlad.
Kubrick Stare
Lady Of War: Integra.
Large Ham: Alucard, The Major, and Anderson are the biggest hams of the entire series.
- I, Jan Valentine, deserves a fucking honorable mention!
Laser Guided Tykebomb: Schrödinger
Lawyer Friendly Cameo: Spirits of Bruce "Jackal" Willis and Harkonnen from the 1980s Dune movie, complete with Sting in the background.
Les Yay
Licking The Blade: Seras
Like You Would Really Do It: Did ANYONE seriously think Hirano would kill his main trio of Alucard, Seras, or Integra?
- Only them? Pip wasn't a goner, he returned with improvements. Pretty much, everyone in Hellsing except Walter, who was a traitor, survived.
Looming Silhouette Of Rage
Love Hurts
Made Of Iron: Subverted with almost everyone getting shot fatally, even if they heal afterwards, which falls under Hollywood Healing or Healing Factor.
- Played straight with The Captain, who shrugs off high caliber bullets, even in human form.
  - Part of Alucards schtick is to allow his enemies to shoot him literally into pieces...before reforming and returning the favor. Not many people can stand up from that.
Made Of Plasticine: Played with and possibly justified.
Magnificent Bastard
Man Of Wealth And Taste: Major dresses immaculately, Alhambra's also a snazzy dresser
Mask Power: Averted with Alucard using his powers after losing his shades.
Masquerade
Master Of Illusion: Zorin at least until Seras opens her third eye.
Mercy Kill: Once a person becomes a ghoul, there is no going back. The only way out of such an existence is total death.
Missing Mom: We know what happened to Integra's father, but no one ever says a word about her mother.
Mind Rape: Zorin Blitz's specialty
The Mole: Walter
Mooks: Too many to count
Monster Mash: Millennium contains vampires, a werewolf, a catboy, a witch, a magical sharpshooter, a Mad Scientist, AND a cyborg.
Moral Dissonance: A House Divided/Hanging Separately/We ARE Struggling Together/Inter Service Rivalry/Jurisdiction Friction/Let's You And Him Fight (Honestly, at least half the bodycount on the good-guys' side is caused by each other. Police, special forces, the army, various paramilitary groups… Everybody including the Hellsing organization [even IN ENGLAND] treats them as anywhere from expendable through collateral damage all the way to mandatory targets, never lifting a finger to save each other.)
Moral Event Horizon
Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: Doc
More Dakka: The series just loves showing how utterly useless this trope is against vampires. Especially Alucard and Seras.
More Teeth Than The Osmond Family: Alucard.
Most Common Super Power: Seras. So much so, in one volume of the manga, in the omake, Jan and Luke comment about how Seras'...erm...assets keep getting bigger. This is mildly explained as boredom on Hirano's part.
Taliesin Jaffe, ADR Director of the English localisation of Hellsing Ultimate, implied during a cast & crew commentary that the consistent size changing is down to how frustrated Hirano was at the time of drawing.
Multi Armed And Dangerous: Alucard sprouts extra pairs during his battle with Rip van Winkle.
My Name Is Inigo Montoya: Seras's big fights tend to go like this, as well as Alucard vs Anderson final round.
Nightmare Retardant: Sometimes the series is so over the top it's downright funny. Granted, most of the series' appeal for some people is the Narm Charm.
Naive Newcomer
Narm Charm: One example: in the second OVA, right after shooting Jan Valentine, Integra pulls the line: "That's enough of that. I'm pissed off". Hilarious, yet still awesome.
Nice Hat: Who wouldn't want Alucard's hat?
Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: Synthetic vampire Nazis! A gunslinging super-powered vampire bound by Hermetic Magic! A regenerating warrior priest who has nigh-infinite bayonets! A literal Schrödinger's Cat! Need I say more?)
Noble Demon: arguably, the Captain.
No Holds Barred Beatdown
No New Fashions In The Future: The final chapter takes place 30 years in the future. Everyone's outfits are exactly the same.
No Ontological Inertia: Killing a true vampire will also kill any ghouls they've made.
Normally I Would Be Dead Now
No Swastikas: The TV series avoids the issue entirely by excluding the later Millennium Arc, but this is due to production timing rather than censorship (but the shape of the circuitry in the freak chips in the series is pretty suggestive).Deliciously, gloriously subverted in the OVA and manga.
Not Brainwashed: Walter
Not Even Human
Not So Different: Played straight with Alucard and Anderson, to the point where Alucard cries Manly Tears because their lives are so similar.
- A more direct parallel is drawn between Alucard and the Major (by Alucard himself, no less), where Alucard notes that they are both the types who would sacrifice and destroy everything around them, whether enemies or allies, in pursuit of their mad ambitions. It goes so far as to show the Major on the verge of being executed when he was an SS officer in Russia in the middle of Alucard's flashback to his own battlefield execution by the Turks. The major difference between them turns out to be that whereas Alucard embraced vampirism in order to escape death, the Major rejected it out of the desire to preserve his humanity (or at least his ego).
Nothing Is The Same Anymore
Not Worth Killing
Now Its My Turn: Alucard does this all the frakkin' time.
Now Or Never Kiss: Seras Victoria and Pip Bernadotte.
Nuke Em: Sir Islands threatens to.
Nuns Are Mikos: Yumie
Nuns N Rosaries
Obi Wan Moment
Offhand Backhand: The shoot in two different directions at the same time variety.
Officer And A Gentleman: Pip Bernadotte
Oh Crap: Happens A LOT. Most notably with Jan Valentine just before he gets riddled with bullets.
Ominous Walk: Happen all the time. It's a series with Vampires in it. And not just any vampires but FUCKING DRACULA HIMSELF, it would seems a bit incomplete without someone indulging in this at least once or twice.
Omnidisciplinary Scientist: Doc may well have a doctorate in EVERYTHING.
One Winged Angel
The Only One Allowed To Defeat You
Our Souls Are Different
Our Vampires Are Different: Despite various rules mentioned that vampires have to follow, few in this series do so, either due to being extremely powerful, or being FREAKS: humans injected with a type of microchip that emulates vampiric abilities. Seras, however, was bound to most traditional limitations. Alucard even comments how he can walk under the sun, but doesn't do so very often because he just hates it. Justified with Alucard as the Hellsing organization spent pretty much the entire century they've had him in their custody experimenting on him so he won't have the same weaknesses of other vampires.
Our Werewolves Are Different
Overly Long Name: Sir Integra Fairbrook Wingates Hellsing
Parental Abandonment: Integra and Seras were both orphaned in their youth. Pip was too, apparently, he lived with his grandfather. Maxwell was abandoned by his parents into an orphanage, all Iscariot members are hinted to be raised by Anderson. Alucard, if going by his historical background, was sent as political hostage to the Ottoman Empire along with his brother Radu by his father.
Partly Cloudy With A Chance Of Death: Alucard comments on the sunrise during his final moments.
Pay Evil Unto Evil
Perky Female Minion: Schrödinger is a male version.
Perma Stubble: Anderson.
Person Of Mass Destruction: Alucard.
Pet The Dog: In Volume 5, a Nazi mook laments his inability to feed pigeons in the park.
Plot Armor
Pretty Little Headshots: Both used straight and subverted.
Pyrrhic Villainy
Psycho For Hire: Jan. Jan. Jan.
Psycho Lesbian: Some translations have Pip calling Zorin one.
Psychotic Smirk
Pulling Themselves Together
Public Domain Artifact: Helena's Nail
Quirky Miniboss Squad: Millennium's officers.
Rapunzel Hair: Rip van Winkle and pip
Razor Floss: Walter's killer wires.
Really Big Gun: Alucard's Jackal and Casull, and Seras' Harkonnen Cannon. Though the Harkonnen is more along the lines of a BFG.
The Reason You Suck Speech
Red Eyes Take Warning
Red Herring Twist
Red Right Hand: Pay attention to the doctor, he has six fingers.
Redshirt Army
Reflective Eyes
Refuge In Audacity: Where to begin?
The Remnant: The Millennium Group
Religion Is Magic: Anderson's Bible-Fu.
Retired Badass: Walter, initially.
The Reveal: The Major is revealed to be an android, a vessel for his soul/will.
- And in chapter 94, it was revealed that Millennium's vampires are created from Mina Harker's remains, who still had Dracula's power dormant inside her after Abraham Van Helsing saved her. This means that all of Millennium's vampires are actually defective clones of Alucard's power.
Right Hand Cat: Played with via the Major and Schrödinger.
Robotic Reveal: What happens when Seras shoots the Major.
Roofhopping: Seems to be how Iscariot are getting around in Volume 6.
Rousing Speech
Royals Who Actually Do Something
Rule Of Cool: In multiple interviews, it's been admitted that all the symbolism and whatnot is blatantly there for the purpose of being cool rather than having much of a higher meaning.
- Hellsing is about a Bad Ass Longcoat Dracula fighting superpowered Inquisitors and an army of Nazi Vampires. Who fly around in Zeppelins loaded with V1 rockets. Arguably, the only reason for anything occuring in Hellsing is Rule Of Cool.
Rule Of Drama
Say My Name: "ALUCARD!" "ANDERSON!" "SERAS VICTORIA!" "SIR INTEGRAL FAIRBROOK WINGATES HELLSING!"
Scary Shiny Glasses: Pretty much everyone except Seras at some point.
Sealed Badass In A Can: Alucard was Sealed In Hellsing Manor's Basement Dungeon for about 20(?) years until Integral released him.
Sdrawkcab Name: Alucard
Shirtless Scene: Captain has no shirt under his coat, as revealed from chapter 82 on.
Shocking Swerve
Shout Out: Harkonnen Cannon, at the very least
- Mustn't forget the Mobile Suit Nazi launch from the Deux Ex Machina and the GP 03... I mean Harkonnen II
  - Let's not forget Willis, who is a quite obvious reference to several movies starring a certain actor, as well as others such as Full Metal Jacket and, surprisingly enough, Aphex Twin.
Shut Up Hannibal
Sideways Smile
Single Stroke Battle
Sinister Scythe: Zorin wields one.
Slap Slap Kiss
Slasher Smile: Alucard and Anderson.
Sliding Scale Of Vampire Friendliness: Varies by vampire, but most seem to be on the low end.
Small Girl Big Gun: Seras wields a number of examples of firepower way too big for normal humans to handle. Her Harkonnen Assault Cannon, for example, can take out tanks. Rip Van Winkle, on the other hand, uses an enormous, if lighter, musket of disproportionate firepower.
Smoking Is Cool
Spell My Name With An S: Is it "Alucard", "Arcard" or "Arucard"? The situation was once in doubt, though the Sdrawkcab Name should have made it obvious. "Seras"/"Ceres"/"Celes" was not so obvious.
- The title quote about Hermes gets this treatment as well. In the Gonzo TV series, it was translated: "I am Hermes. I become tamed by devouring my own wings."
Smug Snake
Soul Jar: Alucard's coffin is heavily implied to be act as this.
The Squadette
Strange Bedfellows: Whenever Hellsing and Iscariot appear to cooperate.
Stuffed Into The Fridge
Stupid Jetpack Hitler: Millennium
Stupid Sexy Flanders: Integra has been known to inspire otherwise straight women to declare their romantic love for her, and don't even get us started on Girlycard...
Super Loser
Superlative Dubbing
Super Soldier
Super Strength: Apparently standard for all vampires.
Taking You With Me
Talking Is A Free Action
Tear Jerker: Believe it or not, there are a few.
- In the manga, Alucard pleading to Alexander Anderson not to use Helena's Nail and become a monster like himself, as well as Anderson's death scene and the conversation that takes place while it happens.
- Pip's death scene.
Tempting Fate
There Is No Kill Like Overkill: And HOW!
Thirteen Is Unlucky: Section XIII: Iscariot.
This Cannot Be
This Is SPARTA
This Is Unforgivable
This Is Your Brain On Evil: Walter toward the end.
Those Two Bad Guys: Luke and Jan, the Valentine Brothers
Those Wacky Nazis: 'Sup Millennium.
Throwing Down The Gauntlet
Took A Level In Badass
Transhuman Treachery
Translation Convention
Trying To Catch Me Fighting Dirty
Tsundere: There are times Integra acts like one. Her exchange Penwood as a teen for instance, or her attitude in volume 1 around Alucard and Seras, when Alucard teases her, or towards the end.
Undead Child: Helena in the anime
Vampire Bites Suck: Series vampires typically have whole mouths full of fangs and generally make a big ol' mess.
Vampire Hunter
Van Helsing Hate Crimes: Okay, Alucard is a Heroic Sociopath at best. But is running Seras through with holy bayonets twenty-odd times and intentionally missing the heart so she would lie there in agony really needful Father Anderson?
Viewers Are Geniuses
Villainous Glutton: The Major. Additionally, some of the vampire characters straight up gorge themselves during the series. (They simply don't get fatter for it.)
Villain Protagonist: Alucard in the OVA and Manga. At times he can make Hellsing's enemies (Nazi vampires and Ax Crazy Church Militants) seem sympathetic.
Violence Is The Only Option
Violent Glaswegian: Anderson
The Voiceless: The Captain.
Wall Banger: Alucard is killed by math.
Wangst
War For Fun And Profit: Major and company.
We Can Rebuild Him: A dying Major gets this treatment between the prequel and the series proper.
Weird Moon: It's ALWAYS full. And red. But it's somewhat plausible if not Justified Trope because more than half of the series takes place over one night, while the other half spans a couple of months.
Wicked Cultured: Major
Will They Or Wont They: Alucard and Integra, Pip and Seras
What Have I Become: Seras agonizes over this a few times throughout the series, because, for reals, Who Wants To Live Forever?
Who You Gonna Call
Wolf Man
The Woman Wearing The Queenly Mask: Integra shows this, even though she isn't the ruler of country.
The Woobie: Seras
World Of Ham: It's a series based on Rule Of Cool with a whole lot of Large Hams, what do you expect? Particularly the OV As, which at times seem to be nothing more than epic fight scene followed by hammy speech followed by even more epic fight scene.
Worthy Opponent
Writer Cop Out
Writer On Board
Unflinching Walk: Pip shows how badass he is by stopping to lighting a smoke right at the moment a bomb explodes in a tent in the background...a bomb he installed.
Unfortunate Implications
Unstoppable Rage: Seras, after Pip is killed.
Urban Fantasy
Viewer Gender Confusion: aspects of Integra in the first anime series, Rip van Winkle in the manga. Not to mention Schrodinger.
- Heinkel is an odd case; Heinkel is clearly female in the Crossfire manga bonus chapters, but in the OVA she is given a deeper voice and looks more masculine. Word Of God has said that Crossfire!Heinkel and manga!Heinkel are different characters and that Heinkel is androgynous.
Villainous Breakdown
Violence Is The Only Option
Violent Glaswegian: Dub/Translated Anderson.
Virgin Power: While not a power, per se, virginity is prerequisite for becoming a vampire instead of being simply ghouled. Also, apparently virgin blood is super tasty and nutritious. The first half of this aspect is removed from the original anime version; there, it seems to be a combination of the "sire" being a True Vampire (FREAK Vampires can't change people into vampires by biting them; they need to install FREAK Chips), the sire wanting the "childe" to change, and the childe being willing to be turned into a new vampire.
Xanatos Gambit: Major runs one.
Xanatos Sucker
Yangire: Rip Van Winkle.
Yes Man: 'Enjoy it to the fullest, Major.'
You Have Failed Me
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
Zettai Ryouiki: Seras.

Anime tropes: Tropes that appear only in the TV series and OVA:

Back To Back Badasses: Heinkel and Yumie for a couple seconds in the OVA.
Bakers Dozen: The TV series.
Crispin Freeman: Alucard.
Fake Brit: Averted with Integra (London-born Victoria Harwood), played straight with Seras (K.T. Gray, who is from Washington).
- Another aversion is Anderson, who is voiced by Scottish actor Steven Brand.
Gecko Ending: In the TV series.
Inconsistent Dub: Alternating between "Alucard" and "Arucard" and "Integral" and "Integra".
Kari Wahlgren: Rip Van Winkle.
Konami Code: In Ultimate's second episode Jan Valentine yells out part of the code while firing his dual sub-machine-guns
Laura Bailey: Schrodinger.
Mondegreen: The opening theme of the TV series is actually in English, but sung in such a way that hardly anyone knows the exact lyrics.
Murder Dot Com: The "Innocent as a Human" episode. Poor, poor Kim...
Norio Wakamoto: Hamming it up!
Not Even Bothering With The Accent: Jan is supposed to speak like a typical English chav (you know, like Wayne Rooney), while Crispin uses his normal tone of voice as Alucard. Then again, who cares?
Overtook The Manga: Episode 7 and onward of the television series.
Real Song Theme Tune: "Shine", the ending theme of the television series. Performed by Mr. Big.
Soundtrack Dissonance: Played brutally straight in the Ultimate OVA 4, The part where Alucard rather brutally slays Rip Van Winkle. A scene almost bordering on Gorn (Much like the entire anime, really), made only more disturbing by the cheerful German music playing in the background. The opera is Der Freischütz; but since the whole Rip's episode is Freischütz-flavoured (and -sounded), and both music and lyrics are rather appropriate, it bein' a first major German Romanticism opera.
Trigger Happy: Alucard.
You Monster:
Alexander Anderson: You monster.
Alucard: I get that a lot.
Yuri Lowenthal: Pip.

Fandom/Fanon/Fan Fic tropes associated with this series:

Alternate Character Interpretation
Broken Base: Some fans love the TV series, some think it sucks. Some fans love the manga, some think it sucks. Some fans love the OVA, some think it sucks. Some fans think Plot Twist A was awesome, some think it sucks. Etc., etc.
Die For Our Ship: Alucard/Seras militant fans take the cake with their treatment of Integra and Pip. The latter's existence is largely ignored or assumed he ''truly'' died when he didn't
Discontinuity
Draco In Leather Pants: Walter, even Major.
Ending Fatigue
Epileptic Trees
Fan Dumb
Fan Nickname: Girlycard!
- Also, since the Major is never actually named, several names for him have popped up, Montana Max being the most popular.
  - There's also Hans Gunsche and Avondale Napyeer, fannames for The Captain and Dok, respectively.
Internet Backdraft
Kudzu Plot
Launcher Of A Thousand Ships: Alucard is shipped with EVERYONE. Integra borrows his black dress in Spanish and Japanese fanbases.
One True Pairing
Shipping
- Crack Pairing
- Ship Mates: Some fans will pair off the entire cast like it's Noah's Ark.
Serious Business
Trash Talk
Unpleasable Fan Base: By the end, there was just no way of making everyone happy.