Adrian Farenheights Tepes

**Adrian Farenheights Tepes**. also known as **Alucard**, **Genya Arikado** and **Mysterious Man**, is one of the major characters from the *Castlevania* series.

## **Charactah Account**

Adrian is Dracula and Lisa's son. Unlike Dracula, he got to hear his mother's last words: to not hate humans. When his father begins his war on humanity, Adrian rebels, takes the name Alucard, and goes into a slumber, waiting for a potential ally to help him beat his father. Originally he offered his services to Trevor Belmont after being bested, but his first experience with a Belmont was actually Sonia, which explained why he was asleep when Trevor found him in the first place.

After beating his father, Alucard promptly got himself back to his slumber again only to awaken again over three hundred years later. Nobody's around to investigate Dracula's castle, so Alucard goes in himself. He meets up with Richter's ally Maria, who tells him of Richter Belmont's disappearance. He later finds that he's been brainwashed by the dark priest Shaft and used in a plot to resurrect Dracula. Alucard frees Richter and defeats his father once again, last seen retreating to his slumber before Maria gives chase to attempt to talk him out of it.

## **Appearance**

### **Cartoon**

* Captain N: The Game Master Season 3
* Castlevania
* Castlevania Season 2
* Castlevania Season 3
* Castlevania Season 4

### **Video Games**

* Akumajou Special: Boku Dracula-kun!
* Bail or Jail
* Brawlhalla
* Castlevania Anniversary Collection
* Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse
* Castlevania Judgment
* Castlevania Legends
* Castlevania Puzzle: Encore of the Night
* Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow
* Castlevania: Curse of Darkness
* Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow
* Castlevania: Grimoire of Souls
* Castlevania: Harmony of Despair
* Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Mirror of Fate
* Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2
* Castlevania: Moonlight Rhapsody
* Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
* Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles
* Dead Cells
* Kid Dracula
* Konami Classics Vol. 1
* Pachislot Akumajou Dracula III
* Parodius
* Scribblenauts
* Super Bomberman R
* Super Bomberman R Online
* Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

## **Trivia**

* The name "Alucard" is "Dracula" spelled backward, which is likely an analogy for being Dracula's rebel son.
* The name "Alucard" originates from the 1943 Universal horror film *Son of Dracula*. In the film, Count Alucard initially poses as Dracula's son, although it is later revealed to be Dracula himself. Despite later employments of the name being used to avoid notice, in this film, every character he meets immediately deduces the connection, but still believe his claim of being Dracula's son.
* *Ţepeş* is not actually a surname, but rather an epithet meaning "impaler" (as in "Vlad the Impaler"). Nonetheless, it is treated as Alucard's surname.
* Originally, in the Japanese version of *Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse*, Alucard was a vampire, due to his father selling his soul to the Devil in order to gain more power. However, this was later retconned with *Symphony of the Night'*s addition of Lisa to the storyline, making Alucard into a dhampir from birth.
* In the Japanese version of *Symphony of the Night*, when telling his father what Lisa's last words were, Alucard states them in a manner indicating he was holding back tears from recalling them.
* According to Koji Igarashi, Alucard can use holy sub-weapons without harm because Lisa was a descendant of a "holy bloodline".
* According to Toru Hagihara, Alucard was supposed to have an "alignment system" in *Symphony of the Night*. Using the sub-weapons a lot would have given him a holy alignment, and using magic a lot would have given him a dark alignment.
* Alucard's quote in the American version of *Symphony of the Night*, "The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing", comes from the Irish philosopher Edmund Burke.
* In *Dawn of Sorrow*, when playing as Alucard in Julius Mode, he does not project his reflection on mirrors as the other characters do. This is in reference to the legend that says that vampires don't reflect their image on mirrors. However, some sources state that dhampirs, unlike vampires, indeed cast their reflection on mirrors and other reflective surfaces.
	+ This is particularly the case in the animated series. In the "Shadow Battles" episode, when Alucard contemplates skulls of vampires behind a showcase, his reflection can be seen.
* Alucard's voice actor in the Japanese version of *Castlevania: Symphony of the Night*, Ryōtarō Okiayu, also voiced Trevor Belmont in the animated series.
* Although Sephiroth facing Dracula in his Classic Mode path in *Super Smash Bros. Ultimate* was overall a reference to their respective status as final bosses in their games, it ironically enough also resembles how Alucard faced off against Dracula in both *Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse* and *Symphony of the Night*.