List of Hotel Transylvania characters (Disney version)

This is a list of characters that appear in the Hotel Transylvania franchise from Walt Disney Animation Studios and The Jim Henson Company.
== Main characters ==
=== Count "Drac" Dracula ===
Count "Drac" Dracula is based on the Count Dracula of lore and one of the central characters of the franchise. Although he is a Hungarian-accented misanthropic vampire, he has no cravings for human blood, saying that he drinks a blood substitute and "you can't tell the difference". He also dislikes people implying he says "Bleh bleh bleh" all the time, as he only ever says it to state that he does not say it. In the third movie, Drac is ranting and says "blah, blah, blah..." much to the astonishment of the guests who believe he has finally intentionally said, "Bleh bleh bleh".
==== In Hotel Transylvania ====
Dracula is shown at the beginning of the first film, caring for his baby daughter Mavis. He teaches her how to morph into a bat, plays with her and teaches her the things she needs to know, but is also overprotective of her, being reluctant to allow her to explore the outside world, by fear that humans will hurt her, as they did with his late wife Martha. When Johnny and Mavis meet, Drac refuses to kill him believing "it would set vampire/human relations back centuries" and ultimately convinces Johnny to return after flying in direct sunlight to head off the plane Johnny is aboard. 
==== In Hotel Transylvania: Escape 2 Internet ====
At the beginning of the second movie, he tries to teach his grandson Dennis his vampire abilities, without success, despite taking increasingly drastic measures. At Dennis' fifth birthday party he realizes he loves Dennis regardless of his half-blood heritage and defends the hotel against Bela's rampaging pack.
==== In Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation ====
In the third movie, he is lonely, and Mavis – mistaking it for stress – and wishes to give the hotel to Mavis and Johnny but it was arranges for the entire hotel to take a vacation on a monster cruise. Drac meets and zings with Van Helsing's great-granddaughter Ericka and the two eventually marry. When they all are returning to the hotel in Ericka's airship, they find the hotel completely destroyed by El Diablo, who turned into a mindless beast. Drac is devastated and angrily defeat El Diablo. When Johnny and Mavis see a heartbroken Drac, they feel bad for him and tell him that they will rebuild the hotel to which he replied with a no and says that they should build it as they like since it is now their hotel. A year later, Mavis and Johnny surprise Drac by building the hotel just as it was earlier, making Drac very happy, Mavis and Johnny had made the hotel more modern, and Drac finally accepts the modern technology.
==== In other media ====
Dracula has a cameo appearance in the 2023 short film Once Upon a Studio, where she comes out of a picture on the wall to take a group photo with the rest of the characters from Walt Disney Animation Studios.
===Jonathan "Johnny" Loughran===
Jonathan "Johnny" Loughran is the first human inside Hotel Transylvania and falls in love with Count Dracula's daughter, Mavis and one of the central characters of the franchise. He always carries his backpack and shows a strong connection with it. By the end of the first movie he has already integrated into the hotel and is accepted by the clientele. He is portrayed as a good-natured and easy-going slacker. A year after their wedding, Mavis becomes pregnant and she and Johnny raise Dennis Loughran together for five years, culminating in the events of Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation.
==== In Hotel Transylvania ====
In the first movie, Johnny is lost while traveling in an area close to the hotel and follows a group of zombies to Hotel Transylvania. At first, he thinks he is in a hostel and that everyone is wearing costumes, but he soon realizes that the monsters are real. Drac disguises him as "Johnnystein" and he begins to integrate, meeting and "zinging" with Mavis. After thinking that she would be better off without a human partner he leaves the hotel, but Drac reconsiders and chases the plane Johnny has boarded, bringing him back.
==== In Hotel Transylvania: Escape 2 Internet ====
In the second movie, Johnny and Mavis get married and have a son, Dennis. Johnny agrees to take Mavis to Internet world and California ostensibly to consider moving back home to be near his parents, while Drac tries to prompt Dennis' vampire abilities. Due to his human limitations, Johnny is a background character in the final encounter, but the threat to his life helps Dennis manifest his vampire traits.
==== In Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation ====
In the third movie, while he becomes the hotel's event DJ, Johnny also reverts to his slacker lifestyle, embracing a journey vacation fully, with Mavis and Perrito to find them and impress Dracula so that he gives his hotel to Mavis and Johnny. After they return to the hotel and find it completely destroyed, Johnny feels bad for Dracula who is heartbroken and says that they can rebuild the hotel just as it was, but Dracula replies that he and Mavis should rebuild it the way they want to since it is now their hotel. A year later, Mavis and Johnny rebuild and modernize the hotel, which Drac comes to enjoy.
==== In other media ====
Johnny has a cameo appearance in the 2023 short film Once Upon a Studio, where she comes out of a picture on the wall to take a group photo with the rest of the characters from Walt Disney Animation Studios.
===Mavis Dracula===
Mavis Dracula is the only daughter of Count Dracula and Martha, born in 1894. She is the wife of Johnny and the mother of Dennis. She is shown to be more open to the human world than her father, as she knows how to use technology (cellphone, video chat, email) and is excited to see the world outside Hotel Transylvania.
==== In Hotel Transylvania ====
In Hotel Transylvania, Mavis wants to see the outside world, but Drac has misled her into believing that all humans intend to kill her thus keeping her at the hotel. When she meets Johnny, they zing, becoming a couple.
==== In Hotel Transylvania: Escape 2 Internet ====
By the time of the second movie, Johnny and Mavis are married, have a son Dennis, and friend with Hope and Vanellope. Mavis becomes overprotective of Dennis, going so far as to consider moving to California, Johnny's birthplace, to raise him in a safer environment, Mavis and Johnny are going to Internet world. In the end, Dennis finally develops his inherent vampire powers and this time they stay in Betterman's treehouse.
==== In Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation ====
In the third movie, Mavis thinks that Drac is stressed and she figures out Dracula's plan of giving the hotel to her and Johnny, with running the hotel and arranges a monster cruise for the hotel guests to give him a vacation for a change. But she later figures that Drac has a crush on the captain, Ericka Van Helsing, and this is confirmed when Drac admits he "zinged" with Ericka.
==== In Hotel Transylvania: The Series ====
In Hotel Transylvania: The Series, which takes place four years prior to the original 3D movie Mavis is essentially in charge of the hotel while Drac is away on business with the Vampire Council.
==== In other media ====
Mavis has a cameo appearance in the 2023 short film Once Upon a Studio, where she comes out of a picture on the wall to take a group photo with the rest of the characters from Walt Disney Animation Studios.
==Characters introducing in Hotel Transylvania==