Headscratchers / Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein

• Dracula in Dracula (1931) seems to be more powerful, can transform himself into mist, bat, and a big wolf (off screen), got some kind of teleport, can create powerful storms, can control the weather and mist, have great psychic powers, and is inhumanly strong, among other unholy powers and only a few people as Van Helsing with strong will can resist his hypnotic power. So, why is he overpowered by The Wolf Man here? In The Wolf Man (1941) and its sequels, The Wolf Man is vicious, but not super strong like Dracula and Frankenstein's Monster, both with explicit superhuman strength. Dracula's powers are ineffective against werewolves? Even if some people consider this movie as "non canon", the monsters still have their powers and abilities from previous films.
  • Perhaps you have a point. But if we consider Return of the Wolf Man as canonical, the Wolf Man received a plus in raw strength. It's stated that the Wolf Man's attacks are supernatural and magic source, so he can damage Dracula as effective as crosses, and stakes. Dracula mentioned that the werewolf's strength is actually superior when he's berserk, and he is immune to Dracula's hypnotic powers. This is the novel. In the movies the Wolf Man wasn't as strong in his first movie in the same way that Frankenstein's Monster wasn't as durable in his first movie. It was after Son of Frankenstein when he is mentioned as an indestructible being.
• They say that the coffin contains the body of the "original Count Dracula". So, the "Dracula" in House of Frankenstein and House of Dracula is an imposter? Or it was him, but with another form?
  • Dracula is a surname, so there could be many Counts Dracula over the years - such as in Son of Dracula.