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| Count Dracula (Monsieur Dracula (by Quasimodo) Mr. Tough Guy Drac Papa Drac (by Dennis) Rat Bat (by Murray) Captain Control Freak, Mr. Tight-Coffin (by Wayne) Dad, Daddy (by Mavis) Count Crock-ula (by the shrunken head)) | |
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| Biographical information | |
| Age | 580 |
| Physical description | |
| Bloodline | Vlad Dracula (father)
Lydia (older sister) Mavis Dracula (daughter) Martha (wife; deceased) Dennis (grandson) Jonathan Loughran (son-in-law) Gene (uncle) Klaus (nephew) Ericka Van Helsing (fiancée) |
| Gender | Male |
| Hair Color | Short and Black |
| Eye Color | Black |
| Chronological and political information | |
| Universe | N/A |
| Creator | N/A |
| Other | |
| Film Portrayer | Adam Sandler
Brian Hull |
Count Dracula is the vampire who owns Hotel Transylvania in the film of the same name. He is the husband of Martha Dracula and the father of Mavis Dracula.
Count Dracula, or simply known as Dracula or Drac, is the main protagonist of the Hotel Transylvania franchise.
He is the owner of Hotel Transylvania and the father of his 118, later 125-year old daughter Mavis, father-in-law of Johnny, maternal grandfather of Dennis, son of Vlad Dracula and fiancée/future husband of Ericka Van Helsing.
In the first three films, he is voiced by Adam Sandler.
Appearance[]
Dracula has pale skin, blue eyes, pointy ears, pointy teeth, and short black hair that is slicked back on his head. He also has quite a long face. He wears a black tuxedo with a black cape and the inside of his cape is Fuschia-purple along with black dress shoes. He also wears a gold ring with a red jewel on his left hand.
Personality[]
Dracula dearly loved his wife, Martha so much that he was heartbroken when she died, prompting a massive distrust towards humanity. After her death, the only thing that Dracula cared about was his daughter Mavis and would kill if it meant protecting her however as she was his only family, he can be overprotective and overbearing.
He can also be selfish, going out of his ways to secure that no danger would come to Mavis which goes as far as deceiving and lying to her such as making out humanity as being violent monsters who would attack her on sight by having his zombie/skeletal hotel employees to set up a fake human settlement and pose as humans.
In the second film, he was willing to put his grandson, Dennis in danger as to help him earn his fangs so Mavis wouldn't move. These actions end up driving the people he was trying to protect away from him.
In the third film, Mavis surprises Drac with a Cruise so he can have a vacation from giving others vacations. He wasn’t excited about it at first until he met the Human captain, Ericka. He started to fall for her when he first laid eyes on her, but what he didn’t know was that Ericka was the great-granddaughter of Dracula’s arch-nemesis, Abraham Van Helsing. They eventually get engaged once they both accept the zing.
Dracula is all too aware of the cruelty and prejudice that humanity was capable of, eventually, he deduced that monster-kind would never be accepted by society and instead secluded their kind in his hotel, Hotel Transylvania.
Dracula's closest friend was Frankenstein and they inevitably shared a lot of history, Drac trusted Frank that much he even made him Mavis' god-uncle.
However, as the first film progresses, Dracula begins to realize his biased opinions towards humanity was untrue.
Although he was initially cold and hostile towards Jonathan, a human who wandered his way into Hotel Transylvania he slowly began to warm up to the human and even accepting him as a suitable mate for his daughter. This was also proven by giving him his blessing to marry his daughter at the end of the film.
When the villagers of Transylvania discovered that he and the rest of the monsters of a fairy tale were real instead of attacking they welcome him, reigniting his trust for humanity.
Despite his faults, Dracula would also go to extreme lengths to make Mavis happy including risking his own life to bring Jonathan back to Transylvania and allowing Mavis to live her own life the way she wanted.
Dracula hated being stereotyped and was always very insulted when people thought he said "blah, blah, blah" and would angrily correct them if a person would do so.
Trivia[]
- This version of Dracula is purely based on the fictional Bram Stoker character, and is not connected to the historical Vlad the Impaler in any way. His antagonist concepts never made it to the screens.
- Adam Sandler decided not to return in the final movie of the franchise so Brian Hull took the role of Dracula.
- Danny DeVito, Ray Romano, Albert Brooks, Bill Murray, Tim Allen, Brendan Fraser, Laurence Fishburne, William Shatner, Nick Kroll, Patton Oswalt, James Marsden, James McAvoy, Jack Black, Justin Long, Jason Lee, Jim Carrey, Steve Carell, Jim Cummings, Tom Kenny, Rob Paulsen, Owen Wilson, Ben Stiller, Liev Schreiber, the late Robin Williams, David Hyde Pierce, Ed Helms, and the late Alan Rickman were all considered for the role of Dracula before Adam Sandler was cast.
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