Count Dracula

"You would play your brains against mine, against me who has commanded nations?" –Dracula to Lorrimer Van Helsing 
Count Dracula was the aristocratic monarch of all vampires, who was described as "the most evil creature to ever set its seal on civilisation". He was the fountainhead of the cult of vampirism and the most powerful and feared of all vampires. According to legend, many had saught to destroy him throughout the decades, yet all had failed. His reign of hideous terror lasted many centuries, and he had enslaved thousands to the curse of the vampire from his castle in Transylvania.
Dracula was the most ruthless and wicked of all vampires, subjegating hundreds under his rule. His bloodlust was unrivalled by any other of the undead.
The Count was the last member of the ancient Dracula family, having an undead lifespan of hundreds of years. Dracula was served by many satanic disciples who aided him in his evil crusades and ressurected him after his destruction. Count Dracula was ressurected many times, regaining his power and being defeated. Count Dracula's greatest adversaries was the Van Helsing bloodline, who had sworn to destroy him. He was destroyed  by – depending on the timeline – either the Dr. Joseph Van Helsing in the original timeline or Dr. Lawrence Van Helsing and his descendant, Professor Lorrimer Van Helsing in the newer timeline.
He was portrayed in seven films of the Hammer franchise by the late Sir Christopher Lee. 
== Personality ==
Dracula was a pure evil, brutal, wicked, cunning, cruel, manipulative, ruthless, and sadistic vampire who took pleasure in killing people and would often kill his victims in extremely brutal ways.
Despite that, it was often his cruelty that was his downfall. Because of him trying to extend his victims' suffering rather than just killing them right away, it gave them opportunities to escape.
Examples of this include flogging and burning his servant Kloves back , making one of his own servants kill himself with a vicious plague, and attempting to bury Mina alive. 
It was often his own cruelty that was his downfall, as in trying to extend his victims torment rather than just kill them he often gave them oppurtunities to escape, despite his hypnotic abilities his cruelty was so great that it caused at least two of his servants Klove and Alice to turn on him and try and kill him. 
However, there were two occassions when Dracula was shown to try and avenge his servants' deaths and make their killers pay.
He also doesn't care for his servants, torturing and abusing them for failing to kill his enemies. ﻿This shows he is truly selfish and pitiless.
== Appearance ==
Count Dracula is a very tall man with slick back elegant short black hair with grey streaks and brown eyes as a vampire. His eyes are turning burning red eyes and fangs.
His outfit is the black suit with long white shirt and red jewel on his suit, ring, brooch (Weller is petrified by the name on the brooch: Dracula.), black shoes and black cape with silk red inside.
==Reign of terror==
Count Dracula was the last remaining of his once noble bloodline. Castle Dracula stood near Klausenburg, Transylvania in the Carpathian Mountains. In the village near the castle, the people feared the vampire's terror. He claimed many local girls as his victims, draining them of blood and leaving their mutlated bodies, in some instances turning his many victims into vampires. It is said he was the "fountainhead" of the vampire cult. It is unknown whether or not Dracula was the first vampire.
He had immense control over those whom he chose as disciples. It is unknown whether the count had any connection to the Karnstein family of vampires. His most ruthless disciple was Baron Meinster a vampire, who possibly became undead due to Dracula's influence. 
In the village of Kleinenburg near the castle, the people were in constant fear, having local girls disappear only to be found with bite-marks on their necks. The girls had to be destroyed by wooden stake by priests. Dracula's evil was feared, and his shadow overlooked the whole area. The people knew of Count Dracula's existence, but all feared his dark power, causing them to hang strings of garlic and crucifixes into their homes and taverns as an attempt to protect themselves.
Dracula lived at his castle, being attended to by his faithful and insane servant Klove. With him in the castle came to live a young woman, who was held prisoner in the caslte.
His reign of terror spanned more than a century.
Dracula was one of the oldest and certainly the most dangerous vampires of all time. Believed by many including Van Helsing and Father Sandor to be the first Vampire, Dracula was truly a cruel, evil, sadistic monster who enjoyed torturing and murdering everyone in his sight from villagers to his enemies, to even his own brides and servants. 
==Dracula (1958)==
In May of 1885, - Jonathan Harker an occult researcher and vampire hunter from London travelled to Castle Dracula, having accepted the office of the count's personal librarian, to work among his books, keeping his true motives hidden. He entered the castle's hall and saw Dracula left a note: "My Dear Harker, I am sorry I was unable to meet you. Eat well, make yourself comfortable, Dracula". After meeting the female vampire who was Dracula's bride, Count Dracula appeared on top of the stairs, greeting Harker politely and cultured. He showed him to his room and gave him the key to the library, as Dracula would leave and not be back until after sundown the next day.  He  lay his eyes upon Jonathan's fiancé Lucy Holmwood whom he called "charming." Harker wrote in his diary about meeting the Count. Dracula then left the castle, locking Harker in his room ,  to hunt for the blood of another victim.
Count Dracula later returned to the castle through his private chambers, finding Harker and his bride there who had bitten him. Dracula was furious, his eyes bloodied, and his fangs draiped in fresh blood. The vampire threw his bride of Harker and thus revealed his true savage nature. Harker and Dracula wrestled, but Harker was overcome by the count's strength.
He collapsed, unconscious. Dracula then took his bride and returned to the crypt where the vampires had to rest in their coffins during the day. 
Harker had awoken in his own room. Finding he had been bitten, he set out to destroy the count as he had originally intended. Harker hid his diary in the courtyard and found Dracula's resting place. With a wooden stake, Jonathan entered the crypt. First, Harker drove a stake through the bride. Her screams awakened Dracula, just as dusk came, allowing the vampire to rise. 
When Harker had destroyed the female, he went over to the count's coffin only to find it empty. Suddenly, Dracula appeared behind him, slamming close the door, claiming Harker as his next victim. The angered count swore vengeance against Harker and his friends for the destruction of his wife. He wanted to victimise Lucy, to make her his new bride. It was the vampire's plot to drink more blood and spread the curse with his evil to the innocent Miss Holmwood. 
A few days later, Dr. Van Helsing came to Klausenburg to find his missing friend and colleague. He was referred by an inn-keeper to the castle. He rode their by cab, but he found the castle abandoned.
Yet the professor found Jonathan's diary with the notes written by him after he had been bitten Just then, Van Helsing witnessed a black carriage carrying a white coffin and driven by four horses  depart from the gates, unbeknownst to the doctor, containg Dracula bound for England. Van Helsing entered the crypt and found Jonathan, now a vampire, and destroyed him.
Meanwhile, Dracula travelled to London by unknown means to exact his revenge on Harker's family and all vampire hunters. 
Ten days later, while Dr. Van Helsing informed Arthur Holmwood, Lucy's brother and his wife Mina, Lucy had already fallen victim to Count Dracula. She had fallen under his evil influence and became addicted to Dracula's erotic power. She was given a crucifix as protection by the maid Gerda, but she refused to wear it, opening the window and thus allowing the count to enter. 
While Mina is wondering what has happened to Lucy as she has become so weak, Dr. Seward wrote of the synthomps as eunemia. Mina wishes for a second opinion and besieges Dr. Van Helsing to examine her. He finds two bite-marks on Lucy's neck confirming his suspicions. Somehow, Dracula's influence had caused her to learn of Jonathan's dead.
On different occasions, it is implied that Count Dracula is the historical Vlad Tepes as he impales someone on his wall in Scars of Dracula as well as saying to Lorrimer Van Helsing, "You would pit your brains against mine? Against me, who has commanded nations?"
=== Powers and abilities ===
Dracula had incredible powers. He had superhuman strength greater than any man or other vampire, advanced healing, and durability. Moreover, he could shapeshift, hypnotise people [with only those with the strongest will being able to resist], and could control any creature of evil such as other vampires, demons, and evil humans. Dracula could also climb walls like a spider. Though considered immortal, Dracula could be destroyed by a number of ways including a wooden stake through the heart (which would only kill him if the Last Rites were performed), direct sunlight, a silver weapon, being completely submerged in running water and holy items. He could also be ressurected if blood were spilt on his remains or if a specific Black Mass ritual was performed.
== Trivia ==
* Christopher Lee's performance as Dracula is considered by many critics to be the best cinematic interpretation of the character, alongside Bela Lugosi's.
* Christopher Lee played Dracula more than any other actor.
* Horror of Dracula, Dracula's debut, was ranked 65th best British film ever by Time Out.
* Dracula was played by Christopher Lee in Horror of Dracula, Dracula Prince of Darkness, Dracula Has Risen From The Grave, Taste The Blood Of Dracula, Scars Of Dracula, Dracula AD 1972 and The Satanic Rites Of Dracula. In The Legend of the Seven Golden Vampire, he was played by John Forbes Robertson.
* Dracula was originally going to make another appearance in Kali Devil Brides Of Dracula, but the film was never made.
* Hammer was also going to make a film about Vlad the Impaler the historical figure which Dracula was based on. Hammer considered Christopher Lee, Yul Brynner, Richard Burton, Richard Harris, and Alec Guinness for the role of Vlad. The film, however, after being stuck in development hell for years, was finally shelved. Hammer also planned to make Victim of His Imagination a film about Bram Stoker, looking at how he created Dracula. Another unmade Dracula project was The Dracula Odyssey, which would have been an anthology examining the Count from the perspective of his female victims.
* The Hammer Dracula bears many similarities to the Marvel Dracula. Both are portayed as the Lord of Vampires, both are shown to die many times only to be ressurected in many different ways, both fight the Van Helsing Family rather than just Van Helsing, and both also resurface in modern day cities.
* Dracula does not appear in either The Brides of Dracula or Countess Dracula, but is mentioned in both of them. 
* Dracula was destroyed many times only to be resurrected by his minions to cause more havoc. 
* His greatest enemy of all time was Dr. Van Helsing.
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