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  • Alternative Character Interpretation: One could easily extrapolate some evidence towards Alucard not being a complete dickwad; the biggest being that he was actually sorry about shooting through Seras to get the vampire priest, and the crack about her boobs was a cover story.
    • In Episode 7, shortly before Seras ascends to "fuckmothering vampire" status, Alucard outright states he lacks any will to live. Which casts something of a shadow over all his previous actions...
    • In-Universe, Anderson, moments before his death, presents the argument that Alucard rejects redemption offered by God not because he doesn't want it, but because he wants to seek it in his own way by dying specifically at the hand of a regular human as a way to atone for all the crimes he has committed against humanity. Tellingly, Alucard doesn't deny this.
    • Another alternate one is if Count Dracula is his true self and not the Alucard we know. Dracula, for all intents and purposes, is an Affably Evil Nice Guy (but only those he cares about) and far more amicable than Alucard, who purposely trolls the hell out of everyone, including his own boss. When Anderson fights him, Dracula calls him a Worthy Opponent by trope with no hint of snarking. Alucard loves trolling and making Pedophile Priest jokes at the expense of the Catholic Church (and he has a reason to). Perhaps that deal he made with Satan changed Dracula so much that after becoming a vampire, his personality changed so much, there's a small fraction of who he was before he met Abraham Van Hellsing. After all, what is Dracula in reverse? Considering that Alucard seems legitimately distraught when Anderson is dying and respectful to him in his last moments, another argument is that both of them exist in the same person to varying degrees, and that Alucard is the side that gets expressed the most due to his anger and contempt for the world, and Dracula only manifests when things become deadly serious.
    • Or Alucard is Dracula when he's trolling around and having fun, and he uses his true form as a plausible excuse to be more serious and express his true feelings for everyone — while ironically trolling everyone yet again by making it look like he has a split personality. This would also make it a further compliment to Anderson, as no other enemy has received sincere compliments from his true form (but then again, he hadn't been forced — or allowed — into Level 0 Restraint for any of his other fights either). You can practically feel Alucard getting back into the step of his goofing off/trolling mode when Anderson asks him to resume his Alucard form - from him slipping halfway back into his mocking "Alucard" tone as he points out it's just his name spelt backwards, to his first couple of jokes being relatively weak and forced, but his next few being right back to his usual self.
    • Shortly before the assault on London begins, The Major's officers lists a series of major landmarks to destroy, which The Major gleefully approves of as he names them all. When Herr Doktor mentions the British Holocaust Museum, The Major abruptly tells him to leave it standing, saying "No one will deny what we did." in an unusually subdued tone. Is he feeling some remorse for The Holocaust? Or is he proud of his regime's industrialized slaughter and angry at Holocaust deniers for trying to cover up his people's crowning achievement? Episode 8 further muddies it, as it implies that the Major genuinely doesn't care about the Nazi cause at all, dismissing the deaths of his own men precisely because they're Nazis in the first place. Come episode 9, it turns out that being Nazis really doesn't matter to them - all they want is a glorious death.
    • Just before their assault on the mansion, Jan Valentine is making some very rude comments about Luke's ex-girlfriend, which prompts him to tell him "Oh for God's sake, Jan, think of mother!", to which Jan replies "...I ain't jerkin' off right now." Was Jan's comment meant to show that, of all the horrible things he (and his brother) does, Jan thinks (or knows) that masturbation is the one sin his mother would disapprove of (hence, since he is not doing the deed now, there is no need to "think of [what mother would say]")? Or does he get off on his mother as much as he does everything else (and he doesn't want to distract himself by taking the the time to "[fantasize] about mother")?
      • For that matter, was Luke's angry retort meant to shame his brother, or to "distract" him?
  • Awesome Ego: Alucard may be much more egotistical and sadistic than in the source material (which is saying something), but it doesn't make him any less awesome. He can more than back up his claims by killing anything that comes his way (while making jokes about it), healing from almost any wound, and being able to turn into an Eldritch Abomination.
  • Base-Breaking Character: Depending on who you ask, Rip Van Winkle is either a funny takedown of the "SJW" movement of the time, or a flat Straw Feminist whose portrayal was based on one-note stereotypes of Tumblr users that became dated over time, just for the sake of it. The show's creators have gone on record to say they hold the latter opinion.
  • Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Rip Van Winkle's entire characterization as a meme-spouting Straw Feminist could be considered one. While HUA is admittedly more prone to making references to topical real-life issues than other TFS works, basing an entire character around it is still pretty out of left field. It comes out of nowhere, doesn't make a whole lot of sense (especially considering Rip's line of work), doesn't contribute a whole lot to the story, and after her death it goes unmentioned by the rest of the characters.
  • Can't Un-Hear It: Again, Takahata101 as Alucard. Go to any Youtube video with footage or full episodes of the canon Hellsing OVAs, and expect to see the comments section flooded with quotes from TFS's Alucard. Besides that, many internet-goers from various forums and fanfiction and fan art/comic websites have admitted that they either liked TFS's version better, or never saw/heard Alucard the same way again after watching Hellsing Abridged.
  • Catharsis Factor: Seras becoming "a real fucking vampire" is so satisfying to watch after seeing what Zorin does to her. This isn't the first time, as it happens in canon as well, but it's no less cathartic the second time.
  • Crosses the Line Twice:
    • It would be accurate to say that Jan crosses the line twice 90% of the time. It happens so frequently that it's hard to tell which side of the line he's on at the end of his dialogue. Just take a look at his Establishing Character Moment with Luke:
      Jan: ...and so, halfway through blowing me, the fucking hooker ODs on heroin!
      Luke: I really don't like discussing my ex-girlfriend with you.
      Jan: I mean, I still finished, but what kinda shit is that?
      Luke: For God's sake, Jan, think of mother!
      (Beat)
      Jan: I ain't jerking off right now.
    • Alucard isn't immune to it either, though. In a flashback, after Van Hellsing finishes listing off Alucard's many, many atrocities as part of his "The Reason You Suck" Speech, he asks what Alucard has to say about it.
      Alucard: The Aristocrats.
    • Pretty much everything Alucard says about Catholics and religion in general.
    • Then there's Alucard telling his former lesbian lover the Queen of England "I'd still wreck you like Diana."
    • When The Major attempts to playfully tease Integra with his next plan:
      The Major: I'm sure you're chomping at the bit to find out what we have in store for you, nein?
      Integra: Nazi army.
      The Major: Wow, just... kill all ze fun. Put ze fun in camps, vhy don't you?
      Alucard: Yeah, ya fun-Nazi.
      Integra: GET TO THE FUCKING POINT!
    • When the Major describes to the troops how he wants them to destroy all of London, some of them start asking him about certain landmarks. With each, he reaffirms how yes, they're going to destroy that as well...until Herr Doktor asks about the Holocaust Museum.
    • The Nazis picked an ironic musical accompaniment to their initial bombardment of London as a means to invoke this trope. The winning choice: Edwin Starr's "War (What Is It Good For?)".
    • Maxwell's KKK-looking Ninth Crusade soldiers including a group of actual Klan-members (which even Maxwell finds off-putting).
    • Pip's grandfather gets upset that his grandson is being bullied at school. His revenge filled solution of a grenade in the bully's lunchbox is horrifying... until he reveals that he's not going to be the one to plant it — Pip is.
      Pip: Oh, relax, it was just a flashbang. A little bit of tinnitus never hurt anyone.
    • The murder and rape (in that order) of Seras' parents is somehow made hilarious by how upbeat and friendly the thieves are whilst doing it.
    • While fighting Alucard/Dracula's army of familiars, several Iscariot soldiers detonate suicide bomb vests whilst shouting "God is Great!" in the process. note 
      Alucard: Is it racist to say it sounds better in Arabic?
    • Alucard revealing his female form, and using it to mock the hell out of Walter. Keep in mind that he says the below line with Taka's usual Alucard voice.
      Alucard: That's right, it's a blast from your past with that sass and loli ass! Am I... moe enough for you?
  • Ensemble Dark Horse: Jan Valentine, for somehow being even more of an over-the-top Large Ham than he was in the source material.
  • Fountain of Memes: The series is very, very quotable.
  • Genius Bonus:
    • Enrico Maxell's line "Kill them all, let God sort them out!" is a reference to a famous command by Arnaud Amalric, the commander of the Albigensian Crusade, who was tasked with capturing the city of Béziers from the Cathars and sought to save any Catholics within. During the battle, the men were unable to tell which civilians were Catholic and which were heretics, leading to the commander ordering his men "Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius," translated as "Kill them. The Lord knows those that are his own."
    • Why does Bartłomiej bring up the Rhineland Massacres, which happened almost a thousand years ago, as his reasoning for betraying Maxwell? Well, the Rhineland Massacres were committed by rogue Catholics and were condemned by the Pope, who specifically decreed that the Jews of Europe were not to be harmed or oppressed, something that has been re-decreed by many subsequent Popes. Maxwell is the leader of a group of rogue Catholics participating in a massacre that the Pope would most certainly condemn with the intent to overthrow him. He's basically committing an indiscriminate sequel to the Rhineland Massacres. In addition, the Rhineland Massacres are seen by many as the the starting point of Europe's centuries-long history of government- or religiously-sanctioned oppression of Jews, up to and including the actions of Nazi Germany. In short, rebel Catholics like Maxwell are the root of nearly every tragedy in modern Jewish history.
    • In Episode 10, Alucard mentions the concept of "little death". One may assume it refers to killing someone not worth his time, but there is a further meaning; the quoted phrase is translated from the French colloquialism "la petite mort", which refers to an orgasm. Given that Alucard is saying this to Walter, it serves as a nicely subtle way to cap off all the blatant sex jokes he's been making during their fight.
    • The Method for killing Alucard is based on real life quantum mechanics. To explain briefly, on the quantum level it's possible for unobserved particles to be in two places at once, and a wave function is the potential places that the particle could be. The phenomenon is called quantum superposition, and the Schrodinger's Cat thought experiment was created to mock it. A wave function collapsing means that the particle has been observed, and now has a single, definitive position. In the show, Schrodinger was quantumly superimposed between life and death, and when Alucard absorbed them, he observed them. Thus their wave function collapsed, and it was a 50/50 chance that they would wind up alive or dead.
  • Harsher in Hindsight:
    • The comment that America is imploding without Millennium's interference unlike in canon. As of 2020, many comments say that this has aged like fine wine.
    • For that matter, making Rip Van Winkle a caricature of so-called Social Justice Warriors in 2014 arguably made Team Four Star look like a bunch of unwitting pawns for alt-righters by propagating backlash against people trying to expose systemic racism. Kaiser and Taka themselves felt embarrassed about the whole thing.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight:
    • When asked if he wants a 3D TV in Episode 2 (released in 2011), Alucard angrily says that "[it's] a stupid fucking gimmick and everyone knows it". Alucard's opinion ended up being vindicated; the technology was generally seen as a dying fad by 2013 and all major TV manufacturers had dropped 3D entirely by the start of 2017. During a stream, TeamFourStar expressed delight that their gamble on the joke's accuracy paid off.
    • In Episode 3, it's mentioned that Alucard has sent over four hundred death threats to the Pope. A couple months later, Pope Benedict XVI announces his resignation (the first time a Pope has resigned in centuries) because he was concerned about his health. Naturally, Alucard's twitter account had a field day.
    • In-Universe with Sir Penwood. After the previous episode of Screaming at Squick, when it came to Alucard and The Queen's sex life, Penwood blows himself up in episode five, thereby keeping his promise.
      Sir Penwood: I CAN NEVER HAVE SEX AGAIN!
    • In Episode 7's climax which aired in New Year's Eve 2016/News Years Day 2017 (it's a matter of time zone perspective), Seras drinks the blood of Pip after the latter's death, gaining not just his blood but his soul as well since he gave his consent as revealed in Episode 9. Seras' VA would reveal himself publicly as trans in mid-2018.
    • Let it be known, Hellsing Ultimate Abridged wouldn't be the last time that the Devil was voiced by Zach Hadel and portrayed as a huge loser.
    • Alucard yelling "YES! THIS IS A JOJO REFERENCE!" becomes this when DEATH BATTLE! pit him against Dio Brando, complete with Takahata reprising his role.
  • Ho Yay: Alucard and Anderson, as usual. The former literally gets a boner while battling him, which might explain a lot about Alucard's excitement every time Anderson turns up for a fight...
    • Also, Alucard bedded the Queen during the Blitz, and he is pretty sure, if he remembers correctly, that he was a girl during World War II...
      Sir Reginald: Wait a second. That implies that the Queen...
      Alucard: Interrupt my story again, Reggie! SEE WHAT HAPPENS!
    • Alucard and Anderson go even harder on the subtext in episode 8, in which Anderson tells an emotional Alucard that he "stole [his] heart". It's a shame that they're only having the conversation because Anderson is dying.
  • Jerkass Woobie: Despite how gleefully sadistic he is, it turns out this Alucard shares his canon counterpart's desire to die, perhaps in some ways even worse.
  • Magnificent Bastard:
    • The witty, rambunctious Alucard was once Vlad the Impaler, abandoning God after his childhood rape at the hands of his Turkish captors. Offering his soul to Satan, he became the vampire Count Dracula, lazily empowering himself with the blood of the dead, becoming a near-unstoppable force until he was defeated and recruited by the Hellsing Organization. Their best and most loyal agent despite his rude, silly demeanor, Alucard proves their best asset in discovering and eradicating the Nazi remnant group Millennium's plot, even as he apathetically kills luckless civilians in the way.
    • Sir Integra Fairbrook Wingates Hellsing is the ruthless and iron-willed head of the Hellsing Organization, having taken command by killing her traitorous uncle at a young age. Commanding the fearsome Alucard through sheer respect and never hesitating to unleash him on her foes, Integra proves clever and brutal, convincing her financiers to continue funding her organization through intimidation, trapping and killing the vampiric invader Jan Valentine, devising a method to attack an inaccessible ship via stealing resources from the British government, and keeping up with the schemes of both her rivals the Iscariot Organization and the secret organization Millennium, never lacking a dry quip or a display of valor, even foiling a coup with utter nonchalance. Able to constantly improvise and devise tactics to outplay her opponents, Integra personally confronts and executes Millenium's leader The Major despite Alucard temporarily dying, and goes on to rule the Hellsing Organization for years to come.
    • Much as in the original story, Alexander Anderson is an Iscariot agent defined by his brilliant tactical mind and being nearly unstoppable in combat. Ambushing Alucard and Seras at the start and putting a beatdown on them both, Anderson escapes the arriving Hellsing and continues to cause mischief for them and Millennium alike. Later saving Sir Integra from Millennium's forces and allying with her, Anderson helps take down his former boss Maxwell despite having raised Maxwell himself. After a failed attempt to forgive Alucard his sins and send him to God for judgment, Anderson accepts his own dying fate and earns Alucard's friendship, even trying to offer the vampire parting words of help in his final moments.
    • The parody version of Pip Bernadotte remains the Wild Geese's genius mercenary captain. Pip quickly shows his skills to Hellsing by killing off a group of Millennium-affiliated corrupt police officers. Later holding Zorin Blitz's vampires at bay, Pip outwits the psychopath and even dies empowering his lover to massacre his killer and her remaining forces.
    • The Major is the insidious head of the Millennium Organization, and a much more comical character than his canon counterpart. Spending countless years in the shadows and organizing a vicious attack by using vampiric Nazi soldiers merely as a means to end, finding the Nazi ideology distasteful, the Major tests the waters with multiple agents before sending out his lieutenant Rip van Winkle, knowing Hellsing will send Alucard with no way to return him to London. Once Alucard is gone, the Major sends his army upon London with dramatic flair, orchestrating the invasion brilliantly and dismissing the mass casualties on every side when Alucard arrives, even using Schrodinger to temporarily kill the vampire. When confronted on his zeppelin, the Major tells Integra and Seras that he did as he did to snap a warlike humanity out of their complacency and challenge his own tactical skill, dying happy to have achieved his goals.
  • Memetic Troll: Alucard's trolling persona in this series has become quite famous.
  • Mentor Ship: The "Alexander Anderson" song has a lyric where Heinkel confesses her love for Anderson. Platonic or romantic is unclear, especially with her relationship with Yumi.
  • Moral Event Horizon: Walter crushing Anderson before he has the chance to say his last words manages to even piss Alucard off.
  • Nightmare Fuel: It has its own page.
  • One-Scene Wonder: The Queen of England appears all of once, and she manages to be one of the most memorable things in the series due to her disturbing demeanor, her casual recounting of her and Alucard's sex life and the fact that Alucard shows nothing but the most sincere respect for her. His only ostensibly disrespectful line toward her ("I'd still wreck you like Diana.") only manages to amuse and arouse her.
  • Squick:
    • The entire scene with the Queen of England. Even more so when you realize that when she and Alucard had sex, it was during The Blitz. She turned fifteen during the Blitz. Though Alucard took the form of a similarly-aged girl, he was still centuries old.
    • Practially every single line Jan says is some form of squick. His standout example is the very sexually graphic message he forces an employee to read to Integra.
  • They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Rip Van Winkle. Kaiser Neko actually agrees with this assessment, regretting doing so little with such a good character and actress.
  • Unintentional Period Piece:
    • A side effect of the series' originally having a "One a Year" release schedule for each of the episodes is that they serve as time capsules of humor for their respective years, for better or worse; Takahata101 even stated that he finds the Epic Meal Time reference in Episode 2 cringeworthy because he thinks the reference is dated. The early episodes in particular can be pretty hard to watch for those who have gotten used to the back half's vastly better writing and audio quality.
    • The series opens with a Take That! towards The Twilight Saga, which was the big trend at the time it was first uploaded. The finale of the series has a throwaway gag that is dismissive of mocking works simply because the audience that watched Hellsing Ultimate wasn't in the books’ target demographic.
  • The Woobie:
    • That poor Hellsing employee who was forced to read Jan's note.
    • Seras, for having to play Butt-Monkey to Alucard and having had a horrifically traumatizing childhood.

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