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* ManOfWealthAndTaste: When in his youthful form.
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* WickedCultured: In his old man and young man forms he is this.
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* DistressedDamsel: Subverted. The heroes certainly think she is this, but she doesn't want to be "saved" from Dracula.
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* DistressedDamsel: Subverted. The heroes certainly think she is this, but she doesn't want to be "saved" from Dracula.Dracula and is actually the only character never in any danger from him, being his LoveInterest.
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* AdaptationalWimp: Book!Mina was so strong that following her brutal attack at Dracula's hands, [[CollateralAngst she was the one having to comfort her husband]] who underwent a HeroicBSOD for failing to protect her. Movie version has virtually none of these traits and is more a stotic woman who's not afraid to be with Dracula first chance she gets.
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* TheLoad: While her psychic-connection to Dracula makes her extremely useful in tracking him down, her own attraction to him also makes her a burden to the hunters trying to save her. She turns into TheMillstone when [[spoiler:she performs a spell to bring down the sunlight and summon night earlier, allowing Dracula to come out sooner and putting the entire team in danger]].
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* YourCheatingHeart: Despite being engaged, Mina pines for Dracula the entire movie. After hearing that her fiance is alive and well, she regrets that she will have to end her affair with her "prince" so she can be married. Not even finding out that Dracula raped and murdered her best friend deters her from asking him to turn her.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Despite being engaged, Mina pines falls for Dracula the entire movie. when he introduces himself as a "prince" from abroad. After hearing that her fiance is alive and well, she regrets that she will have to end her emotional affair with her "prince" so she can be married. Not even finding out that Dracula raped and murdered her best friend deters her from asking him to turn her.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: While he is not an outright villain, Van Helsing is more unpleasant compared to his book counterpart. Although Book!Van Helsing withhold information from his friends and ended up messing things up, he had good reasons for this since he wanted to be certainly sure of what he was dealing with, and he had the decency to be apologetic about it and comforting Dracula's victims. Here, he is more interested in proving his supernatural findings rather than helping his friends' misery, and is very nonchalant about the way Lucy suffered before dying.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Seems to havs one of these when he first attempts to bite Mina, realizing he doesn't want to condemn her to the same cursed existence as his.
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* LoveMakesYouEvil: His love for his wife causes him to renounce God and become a servant of darkness out of vengeance for being told her soul is damned to Hell.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Seems to havs one of these when he first attempts to bite Mina, realizing he doesn't want to condemn her to the same cursed existence as his.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Seems to havs one of these when he first attempts to bite Mina, realizing he doesn't want to condemn her to the same cursed existence as his.
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*CryForTheDevil: Despite his wanton rape and murder, you can't help but feel bad for Dracula, largely due to his tragic backstory and {{Gary Oldman}}'s empathetic performance.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: The original Dracula was devoid of sympathetic qualities beyond [[AffablyEvil an superficial polite veneer]]. This Dracula has a sympathetic backstory exclusive to the movie and his original EvilPlan from the book (taking over England) is omitted.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: The original Dracula was devoid of sympathetic qualities beyond [[AffablyEvil [[FauxAffablyEvil an superficial polite veneer]]. This Dracula has a sympathetic backstory exclusive to the movie and his original EvilPlan from the book (taking over England) is omitted.
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* MercyKill: [[spoiler: She behinds Dracula finally die as himself rather then a monster.]]
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* MercyKill: [[spoiler: She behinds behead Dracula herself to allow him to finally die as himself a man rather then a monster.]]
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* TookALevelInBadass: He eventually manages to get the strenght needed to escape the castle. It's shorten in the main cut, but the deleted version saw him fight off the brides before falling into the waterway.
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* TookALevelInBadass: He eventually manages to get the strenght strength needed to escape the castle. It's shorten in the main cut, but the deleted version saw him fight off the brides before falling into the waterway.
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* UndeathlyPallor: Much moreso then the other vampires in the movie, she's completely white as a sheet when she turns into a vampire.
* UnlimitedWardrobe: Lucy has a extense collection of fine dresses throughout the movie.
* VampireRefugee: Not long after she's bitten, she mentions how her senses have improved to the point she can even hear the mice in the wall, but in the process keeps having nightmares. When she's bitten a second time and some garlic drops near her bed. She becomes more agressive while trying to get it off. When Helsing and Quincy try to calm her down, she becomes suddenly sedective with the latter before suddenly sprouting fangs and nearly biting him. Helsing manages to pull Quincy away in time and sedate Lucy, but upon inspecting her mouth, see the fangs forming from her upper gums, signifying her worsening condition.
* UnlimitedWardrobe: Lucy has a extense collection of fine dresses throughout the movie.
* VampireRefugee: Not long after she's bitten, she mentions how her senses have improved to the point she can even hear the mice in the wall, but in the process keeps having nightmares. When she's bitten a second time and some garlic drops near her bed. She becomes more agressive while trying to get it off. When Helsing and Quincy try to calm her down, she becomes suddenly sedective with the latter before suddenly sprouting fangs and nearly biting him. Helsing manages to pull Quincy away in time and sedate Lucy, but upon inspecting her mouth, see the fangs forming from her upper gums, signifying her worsening condition.
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* UndeathlyPallor: Much moreso then the other vampires in the movie, she's movie. She's completely white as a sheet when she turns into a vampire.
* UnlimitedWardrobe: Lucy has aextense extensive collection of fine dresses throughout the movie.
* VampireRefugee: Not long after she's bitten, she mentions how her senses have improved to the point she can even hear the mice in the wall, but in the process keeps having nightmares. When she's bitten a second time and some garlic drops near herbed. She bed, she becomes more agressive aggressive while trying to get it off. When Helsing and Quincy try to calm her down, she becomes suddenly sedective with seductive to the latter before suddenly sprouting fangs and nearly biting him. Helsing manages to pull Quincy away in time and sedate Lucy, but upon inspecting her mouth, see sees the fangs forming from her upper gums, signifying her worsening condition.
* UnlimitedWardrobe: Lucy has a
* VampireRefugee: Not long after she's bitten, she mentions how her senses have improved to the point she can even hear the mice in the wall, but in the process keeps having nightmares. When she's bitten a second time and some garlic drops near her
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* CrossMeltingAura: When the first bride unbuttons Johnathan's shirt. She reels at the sight of the cross necklace that was given to him by on of the passengers on his couch. However she eventually recovered and uses her powers to melt it into nothing.
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* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: Not long after Dracula leaves Johnathan with the brides, he notes that the brides take care not to completely drain him in order to keep him weak so they can feed off him later. He manages to muster up enough strength to escape anyway however.
* CrossMeltingAura: When the first bride unbuttons Johnathan's shirt. She reels at the sight of the cross necklace that was given to him byon one of the passengers on his couch. However she eventually recovered recovers and uses her powers to melt it into nothing.
* CrossMeltingAura: When the first bride unbuttons Johnathan's shirt. She reels at the sight of the cross necklace that was given to him by
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* GroinAttack: Of the brides do this to Johnathan by biting in his crotch.
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* GroinAttack: Of One of the brides do this to Johnathan by biting in his crotch.crotch when the brides seduce him.
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* OffWithHisHead: After the attack on the camp, Helsing finds their resting chambers and beheads them in their sleep before throwing their severed heads off a cliff.
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* TheMirrorShowsYourTrueSelf: Oddly they have a mirror above their bed in their parlor. During the scene where they seduce Harker, it cuts to the mirror to show only him laying their (since vampires can't cast reflections) but we see imprints on the bed and invisble forces pulling at his clothes.
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* CrossBurningAura: Burns a cross that Helsing tries to use against him.
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* CrossBurningAura: CrossMeltingAura: Burns a cross that Helsing tries to use against him.
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* AnimalMotif: Bugs and snakes roughly. When they meet Johnathan, they slither out from the covers like snakes and one of the brides has a few snakes in her hair. When Dracula discovers them, the one he throws into a wall flees like a cockroach while the other two form into a weird beetle formation of sorts and likewise backing away in an unnatural manner.
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* CrossBurningAura: Burns a cross that Helsing tries to use against him.
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* AdaptationalWimp: Book!Mina was so strong that following her brutal attack at Dracula's hands, [[CollateralAngst she was the one having to comfort her husband]] who underwent a HeroicBSOD for failing to protect her.
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* AdaptationalWimp: Book!Mina was so strong that following her brutal attack at Dracula's hands, [[CollateralAngst she was the one having to comfort her husband]] who underwent a HeroicBSOD for failing to protect her. Movie version has virtually none of these traits and is more a stotic woman who's not afraid to be with Dracula first chance she gets.
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* VampireRefugee: As with Lucy, she becomes weakened after being bitten and feeding on some of Dracula's blood. When Helsing puts her into a trance at one point to see Dracula's whereabouts and checks her mouth, she likewise has fangs forming and even lets out an inhuman growl. During the trip up the mountain, she tries to force Helsing to hurry so she can reach Dracula faster. When Helsing and she makes camp, she acts more aggressive, slapping away food offered to her and becoming suspetiable to the brides mind control who nearly force her to seduce and bite Helsing before he manages to regain his senses and uses a wafer to bring Mina back to hers. And perhaps even more bizarrely, she manages to cast a spell to block out the sun, allowing Dracula to come out of his coffin.
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* VampireRefugee: As with Lucy, she becomes weakened after being bitten and feeding on some of Dracula's blood. When Helsing puts her into a trance at one point to see Dracula's whereabouts and checks her mouth, she likewise has fangs forming and even lets out an inhuman growl. During the trip up the mountain, she tries to force Helsing to hurry so she can reach Dracula faster. When Helsing and she makes camp, she acts more aggressive, slapping away food offered to her and becoming suspetiable susceptible to the brides mind control who nearly force her to seduce and bite Helsing before he manages to regain his senses and uses a wafer to bring Mina back to hers. And perhaps even more bizarrely, she manages to cast a spell to block out the sun, allowing Dracula to come out of his coffin.
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* EvilMakesYouMonstrous: Along with his transformations, when he let's slip his glamor, it's an undeathly pale being with sunken eyes and bat like features.
* TogetherInDeath: Implied at the end of the movie which show a mural of him and his wife lighting up.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: We see that he can turn into a bat and werewolf like figure over the course of the movie.
* WallCrawl: Johnathan spots him climbing down the castle wall after he visits his room.
* WallCrawl: Johnathan spots him climbing down the castle wall after he visits his room.
* MercyKill: [[spoiler: She behinds Dracula finally die as himself rather then a monster.]]
* VampireRefugee: As with Lucy, she becomes weakened after being bitten and feeding on some of Dracula's blood. When Helsing puts her into a trance at one point to see Dracula's whereabouts and checks her mouth, she likewise has fangs forming and even lets out an inhuman growl. During the trip up the mountain, she tries to force Helsing to hurry so she can reach Dracula faster. When Helsing and she makes camp, she acts more aggressive, slapping away food offered to her and becoming suspetiable to the brides mind control who nearly force her to seduce and bite Helsing before he manages to regain his senses and uses a wafer to bring Mina back to hers. And perhaps even more bizarrely, she manages to cast a spell to block out the sun, allowing Dracula to come out of his coffin.
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* TookALevelInBadass: He eventually manages to get the strenght needed to escape the castle. It's shorten in the main cut, but the deleted version saw him fight off the brides before falling into the waterway.
* BloodFromTheMouth: Taken to the most literal sense possible when she actually ''vomits'' blood onto Helsing after being forced into her coffin.
* HolyBurnsEvil: Unlike most examples in the movie where the vampire warded off crosses. When one is thrusted in front of her face, she quickly backs off while screaming inhumanly at him.
* OffWithHerHead: [[spoiler: Not shortly after being staked, Helsing cuts off her head to keep Dracula from reclaiming her.]]
* UndeathlyPallor: Much moreso then the other vampires in the movie, she's completely white as a sheet when she turns into a vampire.
* VampireRefugee: Not long after she's bitten, she mentions how her senses have improved to the point she can even hear the mice in the wall, but in the process keeps having nightmares. When she's bitten a second time and some garlic drops near her bed. She becomes more agressive while trying to get it off. When Helsing and Quincy try to calm her down, she becomes suddenly sedective with the latter before suddenly sprouting fangs and nearly biting him. Helsing manages to pull Quincy away in time and sedate Lucy, but upon inspecting her mouth, see the fangs forming from her upper gums, signifying her worsening condition.
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* WouldHurtAChild: After being vamped, she nearly feasts on a little girl before the heroes stop her.
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* WouldHurtAChild: After being vamped, she nearly feasts on a little girl before the heroes stop her.
her. And even when they do, she promptly drops the child to the floor with no regard for it.
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* BilingualBonus: Their lines are completely in Romanian.
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* BilingualBonus: Their lines are completely in Romanian.Romanian which makes since due to their land of nature.
* CrossMeltingAura: When the first bride unbuttons Johnathan's shirt. She reels at the sight of the cross necklace that was given to him by on of the passengers on his couch. However she eventually recovered and uses her powers to melt it into nothing.
* CrossMeltingAura: When the first bride unbuttons Johnathan's shirt. She reels at the sight of the cross necklace that was given to him by on of the passengers on his couch. However she eventually recovered and uses her powers to melt it into nothing.
* GroinAttack: Of the brides do this to Johnathan by biting in his crotch.
* HolyBurnsEvil: Somewhat, depending how big the religious symbol is. One of them manages to ward off Johnathan's cross since it was a little trinket but, in a deleted scene, when he escapes, he uses two candle sticks to form a cross which manages to drive them back. Near the end of the film, they try to hypnotize Mina into attacking Helsing. But he retaliates with a ring of fire and proclaims it holy ground. Indeed, this proves too powerful for them and they're forced to flee, but not without killing Helsing and Mina's horses to impede their travel.
* HolyBurnsEvil: Somewhat, depending how big the religious symbol is. One of them manages to ward off Johnathan's cross since it was a little trinket but, in a deleted scene, when he escapes, he uses two candle sticks to form a cross which manages to drive them back. Near the end of the film, they try to hypnotize Mina into attacking Helsing. But he retaliates with a ring of fire and proclaims it holy ground. Indeed, this proves too powerful for them and they're forced to flee, but not without killing Helsing and Mina's horses to impede their travel.
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* TheVamp: Both literally and figuratively speaking.
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* PaleSkinnedBrunette: Two of them are dark-haired and indeed pale due to being walking corpses.
* UndeadBarefooter: They don't wear shoes of any kind.
* TheVamp: Both literally and figurativelyspeaking.speaking.
* VampiresAreSexGods: They pretty much seduce Johnathan when they find him in their parlor.
* WallCrawl: When Dracula flings one of the brides into a wall after catching them feeding off of Johnathan. She manages to avoid harm by sticking to the wall and crawling away. She even remains on the ceiling when she calls out Dracula for "never loving".
* UndeadBarefooter: They don't wear shoes of any kind.
* TheVamp: Both literally and figuratively
* VampiresAreSexGods: They pretty much seduce Johnathan when they find him in their parlor.
* WallCrawl: When Dracula flings one of the brides into a wall after catching them feeding off of Johnathan. She manages to avoid harm by sticking to the wall and crawling away. She even remains on the ceiling when she calls out Dracula for "never loving".
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->'''Played By''': Creator/TomWaits
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->'''Played By''': Creator/TomWaits Music/TomWaits
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* ChekovsGun: In the first scene they are introduced together, Lucy makes note of Quincey's bowie knife. [[spoiler:That blade is used to kill Dracula at the end of the movie]].
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* ChekovsGun: ChekhovsGun: In the first scene they are introduced together, Lucy makes note of Quincey's bowie knife. [[spoiler:That blade is used to kill Dracula at the end of the movie]].
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* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: He claims to be descended to Atilla the Hun and doesn't take kindly when Jonathan ''chuckles'' at his lineage.
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-->'''Dracula''':''We Draculs have a right to be proud! What devil or witch was ever so great as Atilla, whose blood flows in these veins?''
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* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: He claims to be descended to Atilla Attila the Hun and doesn't take kindly when Jonathan ''chuckles'' at his lineage.
-->'''Dracula''':''We -->'''Dracula''': ''We Draculs have a right to be proud! What devil or witch was ever so great as Atilla, Attila, whose blood flows in these veins?''
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** Feeding an baby to her brides.
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** Feeding an a baby to her his brides.
** Locking up Jonathan and abandoning him to his Brides.
** Locking up Jonathan and abandoning him to his Brides.
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* MsFanservice: Not only she has the attitude being generally [[TheTease flirty and seductive]], she is prone to getting [[WardrobeMalfunctoin topless]] every time [[KissOfTheVampire Dracula feeds on her]].
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* MsFanservice: Not only she has the attitude being generally [[TheTease flirty and seductive]], she is prone to getting [[WardrobeMalfunctoin [[WardrobeMalfunction topless]] every time [[KissOfTheVampire Dracula feeds on her]].
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* LastGuyWins: Arthur is the last man that appears in the party with the other two men and the one whom Lucy pick.
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** Arthur Holmwood is TheLancer (he represents a {{Foil}} to [[TheHero Jonathan]] as he who lost the woman he loved)
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** Arthur Holmwood is TheLancer (he represents is a {{Foil}} to [[TheHero Jonathan]] as he Jonathan]], representing someone who lost the woman he loved)loved to the vampire)
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* TheLoad: While her psychic-connection to Dracula makes her extremely useful in tracking him down, her own attraction also makes her a burden to hunters trying to destroy him. She turns into TheMillstone when [[spoiler:she performs a spell to bring down the sunlight and summon night earlier, allowing Dracula to come out sooner and putting the entire team in danger]].
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* TheLoad: While her psychic-connection to Dracula makes her extremely useful in tracking him down, her own attraction to him also makes her a burden to the hunters trying to destroy him.save her. She turns into TheMillstone when [[spoiler:she performs a spell to bring down the sunlight and summon night earlier, allowing Dracula to come out sooner and putting the entire team in danger]].
* HeroicBSOD: He has one when Dracula gives a little baby for his brides to feed.
* DistressedDamsel: The very first woman victimized by Dracula upon landing on England. She doesn't get saved.
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* HeroesWantRedheads: Her three suitors were all valiant men willing to lay their lives for her avenge her death after Dracula kills her.
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* HeroesWantRedheads: Her three suitors were all valiant men willing to lay their lives for her avenge her death after Dracula kills turns her.
* LightFeminineDarkFeminine: She is the "dark" to Mina's "light".
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* MsFanservice: Not only she has the attitude being generally [[TheTease flirty and seductive]], she is prone to getting topless everytime [[KissOfTheVampire Dracula feeds on her]].
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* MsFanservice: Not only she has the attitude being generally [[TheTease flirty and seductive]], she is prone to getting topless everytime [[WardrobeMalfunctoin topless]] every time [[KissOfTheVampire Dracula feeds on her]].
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* EveryoneHasStandards: While Quincey might not make the most appropriate comments about Lucy (which Arthur reproaches him for), he is completely appalled by Van Helsing's tirades against her, calling him a "sick old buzzard".
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Quincey pulls one at the end of the movie, after being mortally stabbed by Dracula's minions, he spends the last of his strength to plunge his bowie knife into Dracula's heart]].
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* InformedAttribute: Mina claims that she is a pure and virtuous girl.. while flirting with three men in the same room.
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* InformedAttribute: Mina claims that she is a pure and virtuous girl..girl... while flirting with three men in the same room.
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* HeroAntagonist: Fine, splendid men fighting to avenge the woman they loved, it just happens they are the one
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* HeroAntagonist: Fine, splendid men fighting to avenge the woman they loved, it just happens they are in the onewrong end of the narrative.
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* EatBabies: They are fed a live baby to eat in place of Harker.
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* EatBabies: EatsBabies: They are fed a live baby to eat in place of Harker.
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* VampiresAreSexGods: As Mina and Lucy can attest.
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[[caption-width-right:350:From left to right: Quincey Morris, Arthur Holmwood and Dr. Jack Seward]]
[[caption-width-right:350:From left to right: Quincey Morris, Arthur Holmwood and Dr. Jack Seward]]
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* EagleLand: Quincey is most definitely American.
* DemotedToExtra: Much of their prominence from the books is diminished: Jack, in particular, takes over Jonathan as main protagonist after the latter is trapped inside Dracula's castle with his survival uncertain. Also Quincey's experience with vampires is omitted.
* DemotedToExtra: Much of their prominence from the books is diminished: Jack, in particular, takes over Jonathan as main protagonist after the latter is trapped inside Dracula's castle with his survival uncertain. Also Quincey's experience with vampires is omitted.
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* EagleLand: Quincey is most definitely American.
American and firmly on Type I territory.
* DemotedToExtra: Much of their prominence from the books is diminished: Jack, in particular, takes over Jonathan as main protagonist after the latter is trapped inside Dracula's castle with his survivaluncertain. uncertain and the narrative following Jack's point of view as Lucy's health deteriorates. Also Quincey's experience with vampires is omitted.omitted.
* HeroAntagonist: Fine, splendid men fighting to avenge the woman they loved, it just happens they are the one
* DemotedToExtra: Much of their prominence from the books is diminished: Jack, in particular, takes over Jonathan as main protagonist after the latter is trapped inside Dracula's castle with his survival
* HeroAntagonist: Fine, splendid men fighting to avenge the woman they loved, it just happens they are the one
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* VampireHunter: All three men turn into this following Lucy's turning.
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* MsFanservice: The Brides are topless in their first appearence and one of them is played by Creator/MonicaBellucci in her prime.
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* EatBabies: They are fed a live baby to eat in place of Harker.
* MsFanservice: The Brides are topless in their firstappearence appearance and one of them is played by Creator/MonicaBellucci in her prime.
* MsFanservice: The Brides are topless in their first
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* AdaptationalVillainy: While he is not an outright villain, Van Helsing is more unpleasant compared to his book counterpart. Although Book!Van Helsing withhold information from his friends and ended up messing things up, he had good reasons for this since he wanted to be certainly sure of what he was dealing with, and he would comfort Dracula's victims. Here, he is more interested in proving his findings in the supernatural than with his friend's misery, and is very nonchalant about the way Lucy suffered before dying.
* BrutalHonesty: He doesn't measure his
* BrutalHonesty: He doesn't measure his
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* AdaptationalVillainy: While he is not an outright villain, Van Helsing is more unpleasant compared to his book counterpart. Although Book!Van Helsing withhold information from his friends and ended up messing things up, he had good reasons for this since he wanted to be certainly sure of what he was dealing with, and he would comfort had the decency to be apologetic about it and comforting Dracula's victims. Here, he is more interested in proving his findings in the supernatural findings rather than with helping his friend's friends' misery, and is very nonchalant about the way Lucy suffered before dying.
* BrutalHonesty: He doesn't measure his words, often veering into {{Jerkass}} territory.
* BrutalHonesty: He doesn't measure his words, often veering into {{Jerkass}} territory.
* DeadpanSnarker: The biggest one in the movie, bar none.
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* NotDistractedByTheSexy: Van Helsing doesn't flinch at treating Lucy when [[WardrobeMalfunction her boobs pop out of her gown]] after her second attack, nor does he hesitate in destroying the Brides like he did in the books.
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* NotDistractedByTheSexy: Van Helsing doesn't flinch at treating Lucy when [[WardrobeMalfunction her boobs pop out of her gown]] after following her second attack, nor does he hesitate in destroying the Brides like he did in the books.
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* YouHaveFailedMe: He is in the receiving end of this trope, since he warned Mina of Dracula's arrival.
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* YouHaveFailedMe: He is in the receiving end of this trope, since he warned Mina of Dracula's arrival.arrival.
!Lucy's Suitors
* ChekovsGun: In the first scene they are introduced together, Lucy makes note of Quincey's bowie knife. [[spoiler:That blade is used to kill Dracula at the end of the movie]].
* EagleLand: Quincey is most definitely American.
* DemotedToExtra: Much of their prominence from the books is diminished: Jack, in particular, takes over Jonathan as main protagonist after the latter is trapped inside Dracula's castle with his survival uncertain. Also Quincey's experience with vampires is omitted.
* PowerTrio:
** Jack Seward is TheSmartGuy (the doctor who treats Lucy)
** Quincey Morris is TheBigGuy (he provides the firepower)
** Arthur Holmwood is TheLancer (he represents a {{Foil}} to [[TheHero Jonathan]] as he who lost the woman he loved)
* NobleMaleRoguishMale: Arthur (the son/heir of a British aristocrat) and Quincey (a Texan cowboy) are a literal straightforward example.
** SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Jack and Quincey also fits this dynamic quite nicely.
* SatelliteCharacter: Although all three have their distinctive characteristics, they are all defined for their love to Lucy.
* VampireHunter: All three men following Lucy's turning.
!Dracula's Brides
* BilingualBonus: Their lines are completely in Romanian.
* MsFanservice: The Brides are topless in their first appearence and one of them is played by Creator/MonicaBellucci in her prime.
* NoNameGiven: Much like the novels, their names are unmentioned.
* TheVamp: Both literally and figuratively speaking.
!Lucy's Suitors
* ChekovsGun: In the first scene they are introduced together, Lucy makes note of Quincey's bowie knife. [[spoiler:That blade is used to kill Dracula at the end of the movie]].
* EagleLand: Quincey is most definitely American.
* DemotedToExtra: Much of their prominence from the books is diminished: Jack, in particular, takes over Jonathan as main protagonist after the latter is trapped inside Dracula's castle with his survival uncertain. Also Quincey's experience with vampires is omitted.
* PowerTrio:
** Jack Seward is TheSmartGuy (the doctor who treats Lucy)
** Quincey Morris is TheBigGuy (he provides the firepower)
** Arthur Holmwood is TheLancer (he represents a {{Foil}} to [[TheHero Jonathan]] as he who lost the woman he loved)
* NobleMaleRoguishMale: Arthur (the son/heir of a British aristocrat) and Quincey (a Texan cowboy) are a literal straightforward example.
** SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Jack and Quincey also fits this dynamic quite nicely.
* SatelliteCharacter: Although all three have their distinctive characteristics, they are all defined for their love to Lucy.
* VampireHunter: All three men following Lucy's turning.
!Dracula's Brides
* BilingualBonus: Their lines are completely in Romanian.
* MsFanservice: The Brides are topless in their first appearence and one of them is played by Creator/MonicaBellucci in her prime.
* NoNameGiven: Much like the novels, their names are unmentioned.
* TheVamp: Both literally and figuratively speaking.
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* LastOfHisKind: Refers to himself as the last Dracul.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: He claims to be descended to Atilla the Hun and doesn't take kindly when Jonathan ''chuckles'' at his lineage.
->'''Dracula''':''We Draculs have a right to be proud! What devil or witch was ever so great as Atilla, whose blood flows in these veins?''
->'''Dracula''':''We Draculs have a right to be proud! What devil or witch was ever so great as Atilla, whose blood flows in these veins?''
* VillainProtagonist: Even though he is the BigBad, the story ostensibly takes place from his point of view.
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* TheChick: To the group.
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* TheChick: To the group.vampire hunters, as she keeps the group united into stopping Dracula.
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* TheLoad: While her psychic-connection to Dracula makes her extremely useful in tracking him down, her own attraction also makes her a burden to hunters trying to destroy him. She turns into TheMillstone when [[spoiler:she performs a spell to bring down the sunlight and summon night earlier, allowing Dracula to come out sooner and putting the entire team in danger]].
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** Locking up Jonathan and abandoning to his fate.
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** Locking up Jonathan and abandoning to his fate.Brides.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Despite being engaged, Mina pines for Dracula the entire movie. After hearing that her fiance is alive and well, she regrets that she will have to end her affair with her "prince" so she can be married.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Despite being engaged, Mina pines for Dracula the entire movie. After hearing that her fiance is alive and well, she regrets that she will have to end her affair with her "prince" so she can be married.
married. Not even finding out that Dracula raped and murdered her best friend deters her from asking him to turn her.
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* ChewingTheScenery:
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* ChewingTheScenery:BrutalHonesty: He doesn't measure his
* ChewingTheScenery: Almost literally, when he shouts for Jack to "feed him".
* ChewingTheScenery: Almost literally, when he shouts for Jack to "feed him".
* HeroAntagonist: To Dracula's VillainProtagonist.
* NotDistractedByTheSexy: Van Helsing doesn't flinch at treating Lucy when [[WardrobeMalfunction her boobs pop out of her gown]] after her second attack, nor does he hesitate in destroying the Brides like he did in the books.
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* {{Cuckold}}: While his Mina doesn't have sex with Dracula behind Jonathan's back, she is actively pining the entire movie for the monster who imprisoned her fiance, as well as raping and murdering her best friend. By the end, its unknown if their relationship will ever recover.
* DecoyProtagonist: He is the first main character introduced to Dracula, as if the movie is setting him up as TheHero with Dracula as the protagonist. Alas, this is a love story between Drac and Mina, and Jonathan is shoved into the sideline.
* DecoyProtagonist: He is the first main character introduced to Dracula, as if the movie is setting him up as TheHero with Dracula as the protagonist. Alas, this is a love story between Drac and Mina, and Jonathan is shoved into the sideline.
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* {{Cuckold}}: While his Mina doesn't necessarily have sex with Dracula behind Jonathan's back, its evident that she is actively pining would take the entire movie for former over the monster who imprisoned her fiance, as well as raping and murdering her best friend.latter anytime. By the end, its unknown if their relationship will ever recover.
* DecoyProtagonist: He is the first main character introduced to Dracula, as if the movie is setting him up as TheHero with Dracula as theprotagonist.antagonist. Alas, this is a love story between Drac and Mina, and Jonathan is shoved into the sideline.
* DecoyProtagonist: He is the first main character introduced to Dracula, as if the movie is setting him up as TheHero with Dracula as the
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->'''Played By''': Sadie Frost.
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->'''Played By''': Sadie Frost.Frost
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* AdaptationalVillainy[=/=]HotterAndSexier: The original Lucy was TheCutie and PurityPersonified. Movie!Lucy is a slutty FemmeFatale, who according to Van Helsing, was not some innocent victim attacked by random chance, but a willingly allowed to be fed on by Dracula.
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* AdaptationalVillainy[=/=]HotterAndSexier: The original Lucy was TheCutie and PurityPersonified. Movie!Lucy is a slutty FemmeFatale, who according to Van Helsing, was not some innocent victim attacked by random chance, but a willingly allowed to be fed on by Dracula.
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* LadyInRed: Lucy wears a red gown when she is attacked by Dracula.
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* LadyInRed: Lucy wears a red gown when she is attacked by Dracula. The sexual nature is heavily emphasized in that scene.
** LittleDeadRidingHood: All three times she is bitten, she is wearing red clothing and she is believed to perish in her final attack.
** LittleDeadRidingHood: All three times she is bitten, she is wearing red clothing and she is believed to perish in her final attack.
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* KickTheDog: Despite his more sympathetic nature, he still gets a few moments to remind the audience that he is the movie's villain.
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* FallenHero: From a Christian perspective at least, he was a stalwart defender of Christianity against the Ottomans before turning into an wretched undead.
* KickTheDog: Despite his more sympathetic nature, hestill gets a few retains these moments from the books to remind the audience that he is the movie's villain.
* KickTheDog: Despite his more sympathetic nature, he
* LightFeminineDarkFeminine: She is the "light" to Lucy's "dark".
* ChewingTheScenery:
* LargeHam: He turns into one ''big time'' after figuring out they are dealing about Dracula.
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* AdaptationalVillainy[=/=]HotterAndSexier: The original Lucy was TheCutie and PurityPersonified. Movie!Lucy is a slutty FemmeFatale, who according to Van Helsing, was not some innocent victim attacked by random chance, but a willing disciple.
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* AdaptationalVillainy[=/=]HotterAndSexier: The original Lucy was TheCutie and PurityPersonified. Movie!Lucy is a slutty FemmeFatale, who according to Van Helsing, was not some innocent victim attacked by random chance, but a willing disciple.willingly allowed to be fed on by Dracula.
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* SpoiledSweet: She is a wealthy young lady whose best friend is a humble school teacher.
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* LargeHam: Most prominently when he is in his "old man" form.
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* VampireRefugee:
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* VampireRefugee:
TranshumanTreachery: She practically begs to be turned into a vampire so she can be with Dracula.
* YourCheatingHeart: Despite being engaged, Mina pines for Dracula the entire movie. After hearing that her fiance is alive and well, she regrets that she will have to end her affair with her "prince" so she can be married.
* YourCheatingHeart: Despite being engaged, Mina pines for Dracula the entire movie. After hearing that her fiance is alive and well, she regrets that she will have to end her affair with her "prince" so she can be married.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: While he is not an outright villain, Van Helsing is more unpleasant compared to his book counterpart. Although Book!Van Helsing withhold information from his friends and ended up messing things up, he had good reasons for this since he wanted to be certainly sure of what he was dealing with, and he would comfort Dracula's victims. Here, he is more interested in proving his findings in the supernatural than with his friend's misery.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: While he is not an outright villain, Van Helsing is more unpleasant compared to his book counterpart. Although Book!Van Helsing withhold information from his friends and ended up messing things up, he had good reasons for this since he wanted to be certainly sure of what he was dealing with, and he would comfort Dracula's victims. Here, he is more interested in proving his findings in the supernatural than with his friend's misery.misery, and is very nonchalant about the way Lucy suffered before dying.
* CloudCuckooLander: He got shades of this, sometimes veering into NightmareFuelStationAttendant.
* CloudCuckooLander: He got shades of this, sometimes veering into NightmareFuelStationAttendant.
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* DecoyProtagonist: He is the first main character introduced to Dracula, which would make him TheHero. Alas, this is a love story between Drac and Mina, and Jonathan is shoved into the sideline.
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* {{Cuckold}}: While his Mina doesn't have sex with Dracula behind Jonathan's back, she is actively pining the entire movie for the monster who imprisoned her fiance, as well as raping and murdering her best friend. By the end, its unknown if their relationship will ever recover.
* DecoyProtagonist: He is the first main character introduced to Dracula,which would make as if the movie is setting him TheHero.up as TheHero with Dracula as the protagonist. Alas, this is a love story between Drac and Mina, and Jonathan is shoved into the sideline.
* DecoyProtagonist: He is the first main character introduced to Dracula,
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** The first thing he does upon reaching England was attacking Lucy in a very sexualized manner.
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** Locking up Jonathan and abandoning to his fate.
** The first thing he does upon reaching England was attackingLucy and seducing Lucy.
** After learning that Mina had married Jonathan, he pays back by tearing out Lucy's throat.
** He also kills Renfield ina very sexualized manner. his cell for betraying him.
** The first thing he does upon reaching England was attacking
** After learning that Mina had married Jonathan, he pays back by tearing out Lucy's throat.
** He also kills Renfield in
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* TheRenfield: Well yeah. Although in contrast to the trope's spirit and very much like in the source material, Renfield doesn't get to do anything useful or helpful to his master, since he is locked up inside an asylum.
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* TheRenfield: Well Tecnically, yeah. Although in contrast to the trope's spirit and very much like in the source material, Renfield doesn't get to do anything useful or helpful to his master, since he is locked up inside an asylum.
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* KickTheDog: Despite his more sympathetic nature, he still gets a few moments to remind the audience that he is the movie's villain.
** Feeding an baby to her brides.
** The first thing he does upon reaching England was attacking Lucy in a very sexualized manner.
** Feeding an baby to her brides.
** The first thing he does upon reaching England was attacking Lucy in a very sexualized manner.
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* AdaptationalWimp: Book!Mina was so strong that following her brutal attack at Dracula's hands, she was the one having to comfort her husband who underwent a HeroicBSOD for failing to protect her.
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* AdaptationalWimp: Book!Mina was so strong that following her brutal attack at Dracula's hands, [[CollateralAngst she was the one having to comfort her husband husband]] who underwent a HeroicBSOD for failing to protect her.
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* ReincarnationRomance: Mina is the reincarnation of Vlad's wife Elisabeta.
* VampireRefugee:
* VampireRefugee:
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* GroinAttack: He is actually bitten ''down there. Ouch''.
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* GroinAttack: He When he is seduced by Dracula's brides, he is actually bitten ''down there. Ouch''.
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: He ''tries'' to keep a British accent for the first act, but then he no longer has it after subsequent appearences.
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: He ''tries'' to keep a British accent for the first act, but then he no longer has it after subsequent appearences.
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* WouldHurtAChild: After being vamped, she nearly feasts on a little girl before the heroes stop her.
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* WouldHurtAChild: After being vamped, she nearly feasts on a little girl before the heroes stop her.her.
!R.M. Renfield
->'''Played By''': Creator/TomWaits
* AdaptationalWimp: In the books, he physically struggles with Dracula and ''[[BadassNormal comes close to killing him]]'', while in [[SuperSmoke mist form]] no less.
* TheRenfield: Well yeah. Although in contrast to the trope's spirit and very much like in the source material, Renfield doesn't get to do anything useful or helpful to his master, since he is locked up inside an asylum.
* YouHaveFailedMe: He is in the receiving end of this trope, since he warned Mina of Dracula's arrival.
!R.M. Renfield
->'''Played By''': Creator/TomWaits
* AdaptationalWimp: In the books, he physically struggles with Dracula and ''[[BadassNormal comes close to killing him]]'', while in [[SuperSmoke mist form]] no less.
* TheRenfield: Well yeah. Although in contrast to the trope's spirit and very much like in the source material, Renfield doesn't get to do anything useful or helpful to his master, since he is locked up inside an asylum.
* YouHaveFailedMe: He is in the receiving end of this trope, since he warned Mina of Dracula's arrival.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: While he is not an outright villain, Van Helsing is more unpleasant compared to his book counterpart. Although Book!Van Helsing withhold information from his and ended up messing things up, he had good reasons for this since his
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* AdaptationalVillainy: While he is not an outright villain, Van Helsing is more unpleasant compared to his book counterpart. Although Book!Van Helsing withhold information from his friends and ended up messing things up, he had good reasons for this since hishe wanted to be certainly sure of what he was dealing with, and he would comfort Dracula's victims. Here, he is more interested in proving his findings in the supernatural than with his friend's misery.
* DistressedDude: Jonathan is imprisoned in Castle Dracula, left at the mercy of his brides.
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* GroinAttack: He is actually bitten ''down there. Ouch''.
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* AnimalMotifs: Reptiles in general.
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* AnimalMotifs: Reptiles in general.general: she wears an evening gown with snake embroidering and has a hairdo that resembles coiled snakes, the nightgown she wears when attacked by Dracula resembles a snake's belly, and her wedding/funeral dress was inspired by frill-necked lizards.
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* HeroesWantRedheads: Her three suitors were all valiant men willing to lay their lives for her [[spoiler:avenge her death after Dracula kills her]].
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* HeroesWantRedheads: Her three suitors were all valiant men willing to lay their lives for her [[spoiler:avenge avenge her death after Dracula kills her]].her.
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* LightIsNotGood: As a vampire, she is a completely pale WomanInWhite.
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* LightIsNotGood: As a vampire, she is a completely pale WomanInWhite.WomanInWhite ready to chew on a innocent child.
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* AntiVillain: Drac onl
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* AntiVillain: Drac onlonly wants to be reunited with his old love - or rather, his old love's reincarnation.
* DyingAsYourself: [[spoiler:He reverts to his young self before dying]].
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* AdaptationDyeJob: Originally a blonde in the novel, she is a FieryRedhead in the movie.
* AdaptationalVillainy[=/=]HotterAndSexier: The original Lucy was TheCutie and PurityPersonified. Movie!Lucy is a slutty evil girl.
* AdaptationalVillainy[=/=]HotterAndSexier: The original Lucy was TheCutie and PurityPersonified. Movie!Lucy is a slutty evil girl.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: Originally a blonde [[HairOfGoldHeartOfGold blonde]] in the novel, she is a FieryRedhead in the movie.
* AdaptationalVillainy[=/=]HotterAndSexier: The original Lucy was TheCutie and PurityPersonified. Movie!Lucy is a sluttyevil girl. FemmeFatale, who according to Van Helsing, was not some innocent victim attacked by random chance, but a willing disciple.
* AdaptationalVillainy[=/=]HotterAndSexier: The original Lucy was TheCutie and PurityPersonified. Movie!Lucy is a slutty
* LightIsNotGood: As a vampire, she is a completely pale WomanInWhite.
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* WomanInWhite: After being vamped.
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* WomanInWhite: After being vamped. Justified, since she was buried with her wedding gown.
** WhiteShirtOfDeath: [[spoiler: Just before being staked and beheaded.]]
** WhiteShirtOfDeath: [[spoiler: Just before being staked and beheaded.]]
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!Dracula [=/=] Vlad Dracula III
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->'''Played By''': Creator/GaryOldman
* AdaptationalHeroism: The original Dracula was devoid of sympathetic qualities beyond [[AffablyEvil an superficial polite veneer]]. This Dracula has a sympathetic backstory exclusive to the movie and his original EvilPlan from the book (taking over England) is omitted.
* AnimalMotifs: Bats, wolves and rats.
* AntagonistTitle: With the added author's name as bonus.
* AntiVillain: Drac onl
* BigBad: He is the primary villain of the movie.
* {{Dracula}}: Naturally.
* PowerOfHate: Vlad seemingly became a vampire this way. When he desecrated the chapel by stabbing the cross with his sword, blood started flowing out of it, which he proceeded to drink and become forever damned.
* RageAgainstTheHeavens: After hearing his wife is doomed to Hell for committing suicide, he lashes out against the God whom he fought for in defense of his homeland.
* WouldHurtAChild: He gives a baby for his brides to feast.
!Mina Murray[=/=]Harker
->'''Played By''': Creator/WinonaRyder
* AdaptationalWimp: Book!Mina was so strong that following her brutal attack at Dracula's hands, she was the one having to comfort her husband who underwent a HeroicBSOD for failing to protect her.
* TheChick: To the group.
* DistressedDamsel: Subverted. The heroes certainly think she is this, but she doesn't want to be "saved" from Dracula.
* PromotedToLoveInterest: Dracula's, of all people.
!Dr. Abraham Van Helsing
->'''Played By''': Creator/AnthonyHopkins
* AdaptationalVillainy: While he is not an outright villain, Van Helsing is more unpleasant compared to his book counterpart. Although Book!Van Helsing withhold information from his and ended up messing things up, he had good reasons for this since his
* HeelRealization: "We've all become God's madmen, all of us.''
* OffscreenTeleportation: Performs this before Seward, Holmwood and Morris to prove that the supernatural exists.
* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: He refers to Lucy as a "bitch of the Devil" and "whore of darkness", but he is still determined to save her life.
!Jonathan Harker
->'''Played By''': Creator/KeanuReeves
* DecoyProtagonist: He is the first main character introduced to Dracula, which would make him TheHero. Alas, this is a love story between Drac and Mina, and Jonathan is shoved into the sideline.
* LockedIntoStrangeness: His hair goes prematurely grey after his whole ordeal in Castle Dracula.
!Lucy Westenra
->'''Played By''': Sadie Frost.
* AdaptationDyeJob: Originally a blonde in the novel, she is a FieryRedhead in the movie.
* AdaptationalVillainy[=/=]HotterAndSexier: The original Lucy was TheCutie and PurityPersonified. Movie!Lucy is a slutty evil girl.
* AmbiguouslyBi: She most definitely likes men, but some LesYay with Mina takes place most notably when they kiss during a heavy storm in the gardens.
* AnimalMotifs: Reptiles in general.
* DudeMagnet: She got no less than three men in love with her simultaneously at the start of the movie. And then Dracula comes along...
* InformedAttribute: Mina claims that she is a pure and virtuous girl.. while flirting with three men in the same room.
* HeroesWantRedheads: Her three suitors were all valiant men willing to lay their lives for her [[spoiler:avenge her death after Dracula kills her]].
* LadyInRed: Lucy wears a red gown when she is attacked by Dracula.
* MsFanservice: Not only she has the attitude being generally [[TheTease flirty and seductive]], she is prone to getting topless everytime [[KissOfTheVampire Dracula feeds on her]].
* WomanInWhite: After being vamped.
* WouldHurtAChild: After being vamped, she nearly feasts on a little girl before the heroes stop her.
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->'''Played By''': Creator/GaryOldman
* AdaptationalHeroism: The original Dracula was devoid of sympathetic qualities beyond [[AffablyEvil an superficial polite veneer]]. This Dracula has a sympathetic backstory exclusive to the movie and his original EvilPlan from the book (taking over England) is omitted.
* AnimalMotifs: Bats, wolves and rats.
* AntagonistTitle: With the added author's name as bonus.
* AntiVillain: Drac onl
* BigBad: He is the primary villain of the movie.
* {{Dracula}}: Naturally.
* PowerOfHate: Vlad seemingly became a vampire this way. When he desecrated the chapel by stabbing the cross with his sword, blood started flowing out of it, which he proceeded to drink and become forever damned.
* RageAgainstTheHeavens: After hearing his wife is doomed to Hell for committing suicide, he lashes out against the God whom he fought for in defense of his homeland.
* WouldHurtAChild: He gives a baby for his brides to feast.
!Mina Murray[=/=]Harker
->'''Played By''': Creator/WinonaRyder
* AdaptationalWimp: Book!Mina was so strong that following her brutal attack at Dracula's hands, she was the one having to comfort her husband who underwent a HeroicBSOD for failing to protect her.
* TheChick: To the group.
* DistressedDamsel: Subverted. The heroes certainly think she is this, but she doesn't want to be "saved" from Dracula.
* PromotedToLoveInterest: Dracula's, of all people.
!Dr. Abraham Van Helsing
->'''Played By''': Creator/AnthonyHopkins
* AdaptationalVillainy: While he is not an outright villain, Van Helsing is more unpleasant compared to his book counterpart. Although Book!Van Helsing withhold information from his and ended up messing things up, he had good reasons for this since his
* HeelRealization: "We've all become God's madmen, all of us.''
* OffscreenTeleportation: Performs this before Seward, Holmwood and Morris to prove that the supernatural exists.
* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: He refers to Lucy as a "bitch of the Devil" and "whore of darkness", but he is still determined to save her life.
!Jonathan Harker
->'''Played By''': Creator/KeanuReeves
* DecoyProtagonist: He is the first main character introduced to Dracula, which would make him TheHero. Alas, this is a love story between Drac and Mina, and Jonathan is shoved into the sideline.
* LockedIntoStrangeness: His hair goes prematurely grey after his whole ordeal in Castle Dracula.
!Lucy Westenra
->'''Played By''': Sadie Frost.
* AdaptationDyeJob: Originally a blonde in the novel, she is a FieryRedhead in the movie.
* AdaptationalVillainy[=/=]HotterAndSexier: The original Lucy was TheCutie and PurityPersonified. Movie!Lucy is a slutty evil girl.
* AmbiguouslyBi: She most definitely likes men, but some LesYay with Mina takes place most notably when they kiss during a heavy storm in the gardens.
* AnimalMotifs: Reptiles in general.
* DudeMagnet: She got no less than three men in love with her simultaneously at the start of the movie. And then Dracula comes along...
* InformedAttribute: Mina claims that she is a pure and virtuous girl.. while flirting with three men in the same room.
* HeroesWantRedheads: Her three suitors were all valiant men willing to lay their lives for her [[spoiler:avenge her death after Dracula kills her]].
* LadyInRed: Lucy wears a red gown when she is attacked by Dracula.
* MsFanservice: Not only she has the attitude being generally [[TheTease flirty and seductive]], she is prone to getting topless everytime [[KissOfTheVampire Dracula feeds on her]].
* WomanInWhite: After being vamped.
* WouldHurtAChild: After being vamped, she nearly feasts on a little girl before the heroes stop her.
