Alucard VS Dio Brando

*The most dangerous vampires face off for the ultimate blood battle.*
—Tagline
**Alucard VS Dio Brando** is the 63rd episode of DBX, featuring Alucard from the *Hellsing* series and Dio Brando from the *JoJo's Bizarre Adventure* series in a battle between regenerative anime vampires.

## Exhibition

*Alucard walks down a dark hallway, face hidden by shadows, when he notices DIO, also with his face hidden by shadows, standing behind him. Alucard turns around, but DIO is gone. When he turns back, DIO is standing right in front of him, and smacks him right in the face. Alucard takes a swing at DIO but misses.*

*Alucard pulls out his Casull from his jacket and fires three shots at DIO, but as the bullets approach him, DIO stops time and moves beside the bullets.*

**DIO**: Hoh?

*The World's arm appears out of DIO, grabbing a nearby door, ripping it out of the wall and throwing it at Alucard. Alucard leaps towards Dio, grabbing the door whlie mid-air and shooting twice through it. However, time freezes again, and Alucard lands flat on the ground, finding himself far from DIO and back where he started.*

*DIO chuckles before slowly walking towards Alucard. Alucard gets back up, swinging his Casull as he picks it up and firing at DIO yet again, only for DIO to dodge all his bullets by freezing time. After DIO dodges the fourth bullet, he summons The World, who delivers a punch right to Alucard's face, sending him flying into the back of the hallway, cracking the wall and window. DIO then pulls out three knives.*

**DIO**: *(unintelligible)*

*DIO throws each knife separately, all of them landing in Alucard's chest.*

**DIO**: Ha! Muda, muda! (Useless, useless!)

*Appearing to struggle for a second, Alucard then quickly whips out his Cassul, this time finally landing his shot, blowing DIO's left arm right off.*

**DIO**: Ah! Bakana! (Impossible!)

*We see a close-up of Alucard's face, his visible eye wide and smiling sadistically. Alucard fires twice, with a now-dismembered DIO dodging the first bullet, and The World catching the second.*

*DIO points towards Alucard, and The World flicks the bullet in his hand back towards its sender. The bullet hits, leaving a small explosion, briefly illuminating DIO in the darkness.*

*DIO whistles in relief as he picks up his arm and reattaches it, and as he prepares to walk away, Alucard, now reduced to a shadow-like substance with multiple eyes, slides across the ground towards him. Alucard then stands up, still a shadow, and raises his left arm to shoot DIO right through the head.*

*DIO, now with a wound on his head, turns around to face Alucard. Alucard summons Baskerville to attack DIO, surprising him. Baskerville attempts to bite DIO, but DIO moves backwards just in time.*

**DIO**: Za Warudo! (The World!)

*DIO summons The World, who delivers an uppercut on Baskerville, then a barrage of punches, knocking back Baskerville.*

**DIO**: MUDA MUDA MUDA!! (Useless, useless, useless!)

*Alucard, having fully regenerated his body, withdraws Baskerville, and fires a flurry of shots at DIO, which bounce off the walls throughout the corridor, as DIO dodges them and throws two sets of knives at Alucard, with three hitting him in the chest, then one in the face. DIO then walks right up to Alucard.*

**DIO**: Hinjaku!

*DIO kicks Alucard, knocking him back, then summons The World to deliver a series of blows to Alucard.*

**DIO**: Muda! (Useless!)

*Alucard then summons Baskerville to bite at DIO, but is dodged yet again. However, this time, Alucard reaches him arm out of Baskerville's jaw, firing several shots at DIO, catching him off-guard. The World blocks these shots, but starts to get visibly cracked by them, with the damage reflecting onto DIO. Alucard then fires a shot which breaks The World's defenses, with DIO being severely damaged. Alucard fires again but this time The World disappears and the bullet hits DIO, with subsequent shots blowing off DIO's legs, leaving him now in a bloody puddle on the floor.*

**DIO**: U-ugoken! Ba-bakana! (I-I can't move! I-Impossible!)

*Alucard, standing upright, sends Baskerville towards DIO, as he makes one last remark.*

**DIO**: Kono DIO gaaaa! (I am DIO!)

*DIO continues screaming as Baskerville mauls him, blood splattering everywhere. Alucard darkens with his eyes glowing, eyes appearing everywhere on his body.*

## Trivia

### Production

* The connections between DIO and Alucard are that they are both sadistic, egotistical anime vampires who have a healing factor which makes them extremely difficult to kill. Both were abused as children and became vampires to escape a dire situation (Dio put on the Stone Mask to avoid getting arrested, and Alucard drank blood to save himself from being executed). Both plagued England in the 19th century before being sealed away for long periods of time after being defeated by human vampire slayers, whom they gained respect for (Jonathan Joestar and Abraham Van Helsing, respectively), and were later reawakened and released in the late 20th century. After their defeat, both had their names changed (Dio Brando to DIO and Vlad Dracula to Alucard). Both can summon allies to their sides in battle (DIO's Stand, The World, and Alucard's Familiars), and at the height of their power, control a part of reality (stopping time and becoming omnipresent, respectively). Both also have loyal subordinates whom they turned into vampires (Vanilla Ice and Seras Victoria, respectively).
	+ This is also a battle of opposites:
		- They hold opposing viewpoints on humanity and their vampirism (Dio gladly discarded his humanity in exchange for power he constantly seeks and sees humans as inferior, whereas Alucard despises all vampires who threw away their humanity, including himself, while wishing to be slain by a worthy human and seeing beauty in their mortality). These viewpoints made them react to their defeats and treat the families of their enemy oppositely (Dio sought to destroy the Joestars as he viewed them as a threat, whereas Alucard became the Hellsing family's loyal servant to help them hunt down other vampires). Both also have contrasting relationships with priests (Enrico Pucci is DIO's best friend and loyal follower due to his plan to achieve heaven, while Alexander Anderson is rivals with Alucard and hunts him for being an unholy being, with Alucard welcoming him as a challenger).
		- They also have opposing religious motifs; DIO has a holy theme (as his name translates to "God" in Italian, his son defeats a man whose name translates to "Devil" in Italian, he has a god-complex, wants to create Heaven, and is both friends with and worshipped by a priest) while Alucard has a demonic theme (as he serves the **Hell**sing Organization, *Hellsing* vampires are demonic beings, and his greatest enemy is a priest). Also, Dio was born a pauper and a nobody while Alucard was a warlord of noble blood.
	+ Coincidentally, one of Alucard's earliest opponents in his home series, Luke Valentine, holds many similarities to DIO, being a flamboyant, blond vampire who favored using daggers and happened to share both his English and Japanese voice actors (Patrick Seitz and Takehito Koyasu) with DIO.
	+ Both DIO and Alucard's English voice actors (Patrick Seitz and Crispin Freeman, respectively) have voiced Dracula from *Castlevania*.
* The close-up pixel art shot of Alucard firing the Casull at DIO was reused in the DIO VS Alucard Death Battle.

### Easter Eggs

* The setting of the fight is a reference to Alucard and Anderson's first fight in *Hellsing*.
* DIO's pose as he walks away right before Alucard shoots him in the head is a reference to this *JoJo* panel.

### Other

* This is the fourth episode to be shared with Death Battle, after Sasuke VS Hiei, Goomba VS Koopa 2, and Batman VS Iron Man, and with the next three being Vegeta VS Thor, Apocalypse VS Black Adam, and Vegito VS Gogeta.
	+ This is the first episode in which the DBX loser wins their Death Battle, and with the next two being Apocalypse VS Black Adam and Vegito VS Gogeta
* This is the seventh DBX with a returning combatant.