Dracula

*You may have cured my human victims of their disease, but no earthly medicine can cure a supernatural affliction.*
―Dracula.[src]
**Dracula** was the King of Vampires, who was based on Bram Stoker's iconic character and a small bit of Bela Lugosi's portrayal in the 1930's. He was the main villain of the movie *The Batman vs. Dracula*.

## Dracula

### Aliases

Count DraculaThe Prince of Darkness
Evil Incarnate
King of All Vampires
Alucard (civilian disguise)

### Occupation

Lord of the undeadCultural Anthropolgy (fake cover up as Alucard)

### Powers

Sharp fangsSuper strength
Super speed
Hypnotism

## Appearances

### Portrayed by

Peter Stormare (English)Hiroshi Yanaka (Japanese)
Carlos Kaniowski (Spanish)
Marco Balbi (Italian)
Jean Claude Donda (French)
Hans Jurgen Wolf (German)
Luiz Carlos Persy (Portuguese)
Amnon Wolf (Hebrew)

### First appearance

*The Batman vs. Dracula* (episode)*The Lost Ones* (comic)

### Final appearance

*The Batman vs. Dracula* (episode)*The Lost Ones* (comic)

## Physical Appearance

Dracula wears a black suit with a red cape towering over it. Much like Batman,his cape usually conceals all of his body and moves smoothly in motion. His cape is sharper at the edges and splits wider, however. He has black hair and facial hair on either side of his face. He has sharp fangs, claws, and light blue eyes.

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## Personality

*Dracula may walk like a man, but he's a monster.*
―Batman about Dracula.[src]
Dracula is a self-seeking and cruel vampire lord who was notorious for his odious methods of cursing and killing others. In fact, he was so infamous that he was murdered in his slumber by Abraham Van Helsing at the request of the other denizens of Transylvania for his crimes. He wishes to spread his rule and transfer the soul of his bride into another vessel by any necessary means. Cold-blooded and heartless to the bone (even for a vampire), Dracula also shows his considerable sadism with his lack of qualms on consciously cursing old people and even children.

Although more often than not evil and cruel as natural as breathing, Dracula does seem to maintain excellent composition and style. In addition to his frequent suave presentation, he also seems to have some sense of humanity. Even though he meant to cruelly sacrifice Vicky Vale to the afterlife to revive Carmilla, it doesn’t seem to contrast his love for his bride. He also offered Batman a chance to work for him as a vampire and only proceeded to try to kill him when he refused.

## History

Centuries ago, Dracula was the terror of Transylvania until his death by a angry mob of citizens. His lifeless body was taken far from his home land and laid to rest in America. Centuries later, Dracula's corpse was found by The Penguin within Gotham Cemetery while looking for a coffin filled with cash. While opening the coffin, Penguin accidentally cut himself and a single drop of blood entered the lifeless vampire's body, reviving him. While pursuing Penguin through the cemetery, Dracula attacked a lone night guard and took Penguin as his servant. After several nights, Batman began investigating the various disappearances throughout Gotham and realized that those who have gone missing were vampires. The vampires who encountered Batman returned to Dracula with news of the Caped Crusader. While his army of vampires searched the night for blood, Dracula himself searched out the wealthy and Penguin gave him the first place to go, Wayne Manor. Upon his arrival, Dracula blended in with the crowd, meeting with Bruce Wayne and Vicky Vale at the Wayne Industries Energy Expo. Dracula managed to hypnotize the boy billionaire only to be stopped by Alfred Pennyworth. After feeding on a member of the kitchen staff, Dracula left the mansion in the form of a bat. While watching the TV Penguin provided, Dracula eyed Vicky on the news and chose her to be his bride. The next night, Batman was being chased by the GCPD and the ancient vampire encountered Batman on the rooftops. Engaging his mortal foe in combat, Dracula offered him a chance to serve him only to be turned down by the caped crusader. Before he could kill Batman, the sun had risen, causing Dracula to retreat and disappear into the shadows. The next night, Dracula's slumber was disturbed by The Joker who became the vampire's next victim. For several nights, Dracula saw no sign of the Caped Crusader and continued to feed. It was then later on that he captured lonely Vicky Vale and brought her to his lair to resurrect his dead bride Carmilla Karnstein. It was then that Batman arrived and the Vampire King ordered his subjects to attack the Dark Knight. Batman counterattacked with the cure to the vampire infection, turning the infectees back to normal. Unable to bring his bride back from beyond the grave, Dracula chased Batman throughout the underground tunnels with the sole purpose of killing him. The two ended up in the Batcave where an intense fight ensued. Despite being hit with a dart filled with the vampire cure, Dracula showed an immunity and therefore knocked Alfred out cold. While Batman escaped to higher levels of the Batcave, Dracula ascended into the air only to be blasted by the same device shown off at the Wayne Industries Expo designed to store pure sunlight. Batman turned the device on, allowing its rays to kill the vampire for good.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

* **Vampirism**: In addition to the various mental and physical benefits that vampires are heir to, they also possess the ability to turn others into vampires as well. Each new vampire is traditionally subservient to the one who "turned" them, but some strong-willed vampires have been known to rebel against their masters (as in Joker).
	+ **Enhanced Senses**: A vampire's senses are enhanced far beyond those of a normal human being.
		- **Enhanced Vision:** Dracula is able to see the entire circulatory system of a human being.
		- **Enhanced Hearing**
		- **Enhanced Sense of Smell**
	+ **Immortality**: So long as vampires continue to consume blood, they will not age beyond the physical state they were in when they first became a vampire.
	+ **Invulnerability**: Vampires are invulnerable to most forms of injury (certain exceptions apply). Bullets, blades and blunt objects do little to no damage to a vampire's body.
	+ **Regeneration**: In addition to being virtually indestructible, whatever damage a vampire does in fact suffer can be healed through the consumption of human blood.
	+ **Superhuman Strength**: A vampire's strength level is several times that of a normal human being and they are considered superhuman.
	+ **Superhuman Speed**: A vampire's speed level is several times that of a normal human being and they are considered superhuman.
		- **Superhuman Reflexes**
	+ **Superhuman Stamina**: So long as they continue to consume human blood, a vampire can function tirelessly without rest or relaxation. However, a vampire's stamina wanes the closer it is to sunrise.
	+ **Psychokinesis**: Most vampires possess some form of psychokinesis. Some are clairvoyant, others can communicate telepathically, some possess mind control. Particularly powerful vampires can control the minds of several people at once.
		- **Hypnosis**
	+ **Transformation/Shape Shifting**: Vampires often possess the ability to transform into a variety of creatures or effects such as bats, wolves, rats or even mist. While their physical attributes may fluctuate during such states, a vampire's mental acuity is the same as that when they are in their human shape. A vampire who transforms into an animal may also benefit from that particular animal's attributes including razor-sharp claws, fangs or the ability to fly. Vampires also often demonstrate the ability to alter their appearance at will.
		- **Wings**
		- **Claws**
		- **Fangs:** Dracula's fangs allow him to feed blood off people.
		- **Phasing**
	+ **Adhesion**
* **No Reflection:** Dracula does not have reflections on mirrors or other reflective structures.

### Weaknesses

* **Vulnerability to Garlic**: Dracula, like the others he infected had a vulnerability upon exposure of garlic. It did not kill, but merely slowed them down.
* **Stakes:** A traditional vampire killing method, Dracula was staked in the heart by a vampire slayer (possibly Abraham Van Helsing) before being shipped far from his native homeland of Transylvania. This weakness however was overcome due to a drop of Penguin's blood entering his punctured heart, causing him to come back to life.
* **Vulnerability to Sunlight**: Like all vampires, Dracula is not immune from the effects of the sun. He stated that in the movie it is an "almost permanent death" for members of his kind. The only way for a vampire exposed to daylight to come back from the dead would be to absorb the life energy out of an individual with the use of their ashes.
* **Vampirisation Limit:** Dracula was not able to completely control Joker due to his extreme insanity.
* **Blood Dependency:** Dracula will starve without a constant feeding on blood.

## Trivia

* This character is an adaptation of Dracula, a character from the novel *Dracula* by Bram Stoker published in 1897. More information can be found in the Wikipedia.org articles Count Dracula and Bram Stoker.
* Dracula was voiced by Peter Stormare. Coincidentally, Stormare would later appear in a Dracula-related work as one of his subordinates, a Norwegian vampire named Godbrand in the Netflix animated adaptation of *Castlevania**.*
* He is the first villain that Batman kills directly in an animated work.
* Aside from his beloved bride, Carmilla Karnstein, much of Dracula's origins in the film matched the origins that were described in Stoker's original novel.
* Dr. Alucard, the namesake that Dracula used when incognito among humans, as well as being Dracula's real name reversed (which was how Bruce pieced together that Dr. Alucard was Dracula in disguise), was also a name that was used in various fiction and media several times as the name of a powerful vampire (which was often a vampire who was related in some way to Dracula).
* Dracula could not be rendered human by the vampire cure that Batman had located for restoring the Vampiric Lost Ones' humanity, although exposure to the cure did still cause Dracula to suffer a brief flash of pain. Dracula explained that his vampirism was incurable because he was a truly supernatural condition that could not be undone by any Earthly means, whereas the Lost Ones that Dracula had turned were essentially just vampirism-diseased humans.
* Interestingly, Dracula himself stated in the film that exposure to sunlight was "an almost permanent death" for his kind (as he described Carmilla's demise), and so, while he appeared to have been killed at the end of the film, there was still a chance that one day he might be resurrected again. However, it appeared that the resurrection required a second vampire to extract the soul. However, in Bram Stoker's original story, sunlight did not kill a vampire. Rather, like all nocturnal animals, vampires were perfectly capable of functioning during the day, albeit in a diminished capacity.
* In addition to his usual liking of blood as sustenance, Dracula also enjoyed eating flesh. That was shown at the Wayne Manor Party when Dracula ate the beef steak tartare that was offered as hors d'oeuvres, much to Vicky's disgust. It was implied again that Vampires also eat flesh when Dracula stated that after Carmilla had fed on Vicky's soul, he would give her Batman's corpse as a wedding gift.
* Dracula's appearance in the cover for the movie is his second form in the film.