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* MagnificentBastard: The vampire elder is a mysterious creature sealed away in a cave whose strength Prince Vlad seeks. Seeing a way to freedom and determining the hidden darkness in Vlad, the elder sways him to vampirism for a hidden pact while suspecting that Vlad will succumb to bloodlust and free the elder. Keeping tabs on Vlad centuries after, the elder finally makes his move centuries later when Vlad meets his wife's apparent reincarnation.
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* CompleteMonster: In the UsefulNotes/BluRay version, [[HistoricalVillainUpgrade Mehmed II]], [[TheEmperor Sultan of the Ottoman Empire]], inherits a dark legacy of conquest and cruelty with brutal enthusiasm. Demanding 1000 Wallachian boys to become [[ChildSoldiers Janissaries]] in his armies, he then demands the son of [[UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler Prince Vlad]] when Vlad offers himself in place of the children. Upon refusal, Mehmed [[RapePillageAndBurn rides through Wallachia]], slaughtering every village he finds and abducting the boys to become his abused soldiers. Upon fooling Vlad, Mehmed proceeds to butcher almost everyone Vlad has ever known upon breaching the fortress, while kidnapping Vlad's son to join his army.
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* AssPull: Seeing how Dracula spends the entire movie as a vampire yet retains his original, sympathetic personality with only occasional moments of blood thirst, even after [[spoiler:being forced to drink human blood]], seeing [[spoiler:his sired people]] go AlwaysChaoticEvil at the end really came out of nowhere.
** Potentially justified given the differing circumstances of their transformations, with Vlad accepting the change out of a desire to protect his country where everyone else who changed immediately sought revenge against their 'killers'.
** Potentially justified given the differing circumstances of their transformations, with Vlad accepting the change out of a desire to protect his country where everyone else who changed immediately sought revenge against their 'killers'.
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* AssPull: Seeing how Dracula spends the entire movie as a vampire yet retains his original, sympathetic personality with only occasional moments of blood thirst, even after [[spoiler:being forced to drink human blood]], seeing [[spoiler:his sired people]] go AlwaysChaoticEvil at the end really came out of nowhere.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: Hamza Bey is played by Creator/FerdinandKingsley before he would become known for appearing in ''Series/{{Victoria}}'' and ''Series/TheSandman2022''.
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** The second season of ''Series/RiseOfEmpiresOttoman'' also covers the clash between Vlad Dracula and his [[CainAndAbel stepbrother/arch-enemy]] Sultan Mehmet while also improving on a lot of the TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot complaints that were directed at this film. Dispensing with the supernatural angle, it's instead a protracted battle between two of the best strategic masterminds of their time. Mehmet is also RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap, having already spent an entire season building up his character during the Siege of Constantinople before Vlad is introduced. For extra irony points, Creator/CharlesDance, who played the Elder Vampire, is the narrator for ''Rise''.
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** The second season of ''Series/RiseOfEmpiresOttoman'' also covers the clash between Vlad Dracula and his [[CainAndAbel stepbrother/arch-enemy]] Sultan Mehmet while also improving on a lot of the TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot complaints that were directed at this film. Dispensing with the supernatural angle, angle entirely, it's instead a protracted battle of wits between two of the best strategic masterminds of their time. Mehmet is also RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap, having already spent an entire season building up his character during the Siege of Constantinople before Vlad is introduced. For extra irony points, Creator/CharlesDance, who played the Elder Vampire, is the narrator for ''Rise''.
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* HilariousInHindsight: In ''VideoGame/VictorVran'', the title character has a backstory similar to Dracula's in ''Dracula Untold''[[note]]Victor Vran is a former [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething Royal Who Actually Does Something]], who got cursed after making a DealWithTheDevil in desperation to defend against a vastly more powerful invading army (Victor Vran ''isn't'' a vampire, though)[[/note]]. What makes it a true example of HilariousInHindsight is the fact that, beside his background, Victor Vran isn't supposed to be an expy of Dracula or Vlad the Impaler... He is ''a [[Film/VanHelsing Gabriel Van Helsing]]-esque monster hunter''.
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** In ''VideoGame/VictorVran'', the title character has a backstory similar to Dracula's in ''Dracula Untold''[[note]]Victor Vran is a former [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething Royal Who Actually Does Something]], who got cursed after making a DealWithTheDevil in desperation to defend against a vastly more powerful invading army (Victor Vran ''isn't'' a vampire, though)[[/note]]. What makes it a true example of HilariousInHindsight is the fact that, beside his background, Victor Vran isn't supposed to be an expy of Dracula or Vlad the Impaler... He is ''a [[Film/VanHelsing Gabriel Van Helsing]]-esque monsterhunter''.hunter''.
** The second season of ''Series/RiseOfEmpiresOttoman'' also covers the clash between Vlad Dracula and his [[CainAndAbel stepbrother/arch-enemy]] Sultan Mehmet while also improving on a lot of the TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot complaints that were directed at this film. Dispensing with the supernatural angle, it's instead a protracted battle between two of the best strategic masterminds of their time. Mehmet is also RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap, having already spent an entire season building up his character during the Siege of Constantinople before Vlad is introduced. For extra irony points, Creator/CharlesDance, who played the Elder Vampire, is the narrator for ''Rise''.
** In ''VideoGame/VictorVran'', the title character has a backstory similar to Dracula's in ''Dracula Untold''[[note]]Victor Vran is a former [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething Royal Who Actually Does Something]], who got cursed after making a DealWithTheDevil in desperation to defend against a vastly more powerful invading army (Victor Vran ''isn't'' a vampire, though)[[/note]]. What makes it a true example of HilariousInHindsight is the fact that, beside his background, Victor Vran isn't supposed to be an expy of Dracula or Vlad the Impaler... He is ''a [[Film/VanHelsing Gabriel Van Helsing]]-esque monster
** The second season of ''Series/RiseOfEmpiresOttoman'' also covers the clash between Vlad Dracula and his [[CainAndAbel stepbrother/arch-enemy]] Sultan Mehmet while also improving on a lot of the TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot complaints that were directed at this film. Dispensing with the supernatural angle, it's instead a protracted battle between two of the best strategic masterminds of their time. Mehmet is also RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap, having already spent an entire season building up his character during the Siege of Constantinople before Vlad is introduced. For extra irony points, Creator/CharlesDance, who played the Elder Vampire, is the narrator for ''Rise''.
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* HilariousInHindsight: In ''VideoGame/VictorVran'', the title character has a backstory similar to Dracula's in ''Dracula Untold''[[note]]Victor Vran is a former [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething Royal Who Actually Do Something]], who got cursed after making a DealWithTheDevil in desperation to defend against a vastly more powerful invading army (Victor Vran ''isn't'' a vampire, though)[[/note]]. What makes it a true example of HilariousInHindsight is the fact that, beside his background, Victor Vran isn't supposed to be an expy of Dracula or Vlad the Impaler... He is ''a [[Film/VanHelsing Gabriel Van Helsing]]-esque monster hunter''.
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* HilariousInHindsight: In ''VideoGame/VictorVran'', the title character has a backstory similar to Dracula's in ''Dracula Untold''[[note]]Victor Vran is a former [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething Royal Who Actually Do Does Something]], who got cursed after making a DealWithTheDevil in desperation to defend against a vastly more powerful invading army (Victor Vran ''isn't'' a vampire, though)[[/note]]. What makes it a true example of HilariousInHindsight is the fact that, beside his background, Victor Vran isn't supposed to be an expy of Dracula or Vlad the Impaler... He is ''a [[Film/VanHelsing Gabriel Van Helsing]]-esque monster hunter''.
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** They could also have stuck more closely to the original novel and made Dracula a completely separate person from Vlad Tepes, freeing them to make up whatever they wanted without having to worry too much about historical accuracy. Bram Stoker likely drew inspiration from the historical figure Vlad (particularly the sobriquet Dracul or Dracula) but the novel never states or indicates that Dracula is actually supposed to ''be'' Vlad, with that being a [[NewerThanTheyThink more recent embellishment]].
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**Going the other way, what if they'd gone the other way? Instead trying to rewrite history, use the historical facts: Don't villianize the Ottomans, don't cut out Vlad's very real flaws. Let the literal hunger for blood make him slowly realize what a monster he already was. Historically Accurate Vlad clawing his way to AscendedDemon-hood *because* he becomes a vampire? How cool would that have been?
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* HilariousInHindsight: In ''VideoGame/VictorVran'', the title character has a backstory similar to Dracula's in ''Dracula Untold''[[note]]Victor Vran is a former [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething Royal Who Actually Do Something]], who got cursed after making a DealWithTheDevil in desperation to defend against a vastly more powerful invading army[[/note]]. What makes it a true example of HilariousInHindsight is the fact that, beside his background, Victor Vran isn't supposed to be an expy of Dracula or Vlad the Impaler... He is ''a [[Film/VanHelsing Gabriel Van Helsing]]-esque monster hunter''.
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** Combining UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler and the {{Dracula}} of Stoker/pop culture for an OriginStory is a cool idea ([[TropesAreNotBad albeit not exactly original]]), but the movie takes too many liberties with the historical Vlad's life and character even before the vampire stuff kicks in.
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** Combining UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler and the {{Dracula}} of Stoker/pop culture for an OriginStory is a cool idea ([[TropesAreNotBad ([[Administrivia/TropesAreTools albeit not exactly original]]), but the movie takes too many liberties with the historical Vlad's life and character even before the vampire stuff kicks in.
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* HilariousInHindsight: In ''VideoGame/VictorVran'', the title character has a backstory similar to Dracula's in ''Dracula Untold''[[note]]Victor Vran is a former [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething Royal Who Actually Do Something]], who got cursed after making a DealWithTheDevil in desperation to defend against a vastly more powerful invading army[[/note]]. What makes it a true example of HilariousInHindsight is the fact that, beside his background, Victor Vran isn't supposed to be an expy of Dracula or Vlad the Impaler... He is ''a [[Film/VanHelsing Gabriel Van Helsing]]-esque monster hunter''.
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** Combining UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler and the {{Dracula}} of Stoker/pop culture for an OriginStory is a cool idea ([[TropesAreNotBad albeit not exactly original]]), but the movie takes too many liberties with the historical Vlad's life and character even before the vampire stuff kicksin.in.
** The film would've been a great character study of Count Dracula's StartOfDarkness, but wastes it by keeping Vlad's character heroic throughout, as well as making his decision to remain a vampire a noble sacrifice rather than a selfish choice that would lead to him becoming one of fiction's most famous villains.
** Combining UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler and the {{Dracula}} of Stoker/pop culture for an OriginStory is a cool idea ([[TropesAreNotBad albeit not exactly original]]), but the movie takes too many liberties with the historical Vlad's life and character even before the vampire stuff kicks
** The film would've been a great character study of Count Dracula's StartOfDarkness, but wastes it by keeping Vlad's character heroic throughout, as well as making his decision to remain a vampire a noble sacrifice rather than a selfish choice that would lead to him becoming one of fiction's most famous villains.
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** I considered it by having Dracula keeping his thirst at bay for three days, opposed to being turned and feeding hours if not minutes after being turned.
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* AssPull: Seeing how Dracula spends the entire movie as a vampire yet retains his original, sympathetic personality with only occasional moments of blood thirst, even after [[spoiler:being forced to drink human blood]], seeing [[spoiler:his sired people]] go AlwaysChaoticEvil at the end really came out of nowhere. [[note]]See FridgeBrilliance for possible explanations, however.[[/note]]
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* AssPull: Seeing how Dracula spends the entire movie as a vampire yet retains his original, sympathetic personality with only occasional moments of blood thirst, even after [[spoiler:being forced to drink human blood]], seeing [[spoiler:his sired people]] go AlwaysChaoticEvil at the end really came out of nowhere. [[note]]See FridgeBrilliance for possible explanations, however.[[//note]][[/note]]
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* AssPull: Seeing how Dracula spends the entire movie as a vampire yet retains his original, sympathetic personality with only occasional moments of blood thirst, even after [[spoiler:being forced to drink human blood]], seeing [[spoiler:his sired people]] go AlwaysChaoticEvil at the end really came out of nowhere. *See [[note]]See FridgeBrilliance for possible explanations, however.[[//note]]
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* AssPull: Seeing how Dracula spends the entire movie as a vampire yet retains his original, sympathetic personality with only occasional moments of blood thirst, even after [[spoiler:being forced to drink human blood]], seeing [[spoiler:his sired people]] go AlwaysChaoticEvil at the end really came out of nowhere. *See FridgeBrilliance for possible explanations, however.
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** Fridge Brilliance then kicks in however in that they DO remember how they treated him when they found out the truth about him and figured that humanity would've gone the same way as well.
