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| Vlad Dracula (Dad (Dracula) Grandpa (Mavis) Man with the Funny Face (Dennis) Old Man (Johnny) V (Murray)) | |
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| Biographical information | |
| Age | 2000 |
| Physical description | |
| Bloodline | Unnamed grandmother
Unnamed wife † Lydia Dracula (daughter) Count Dracula (son) Martha Dracula (first daughter-in-law) † Ericka Van Helsing (second daughter-in-law) Mavis Dracula (granddaughter) Jonathan Loughran (grandson-in-law) Dennis (great-grandson) |
| Gender | Male |
| Hair Color | Grey |
| Eye Color | Black |
| Chronological and political information | |
| Universe | N/A |
| Creator | N/A |
| Other | |
| Film Portrayer | Mel Brooks |
Vlad Dracula is the father of Dracula, the paternal grandfather of Mavis, the grandfather-in-law of Jonathan and the maternal great-grandfather of Dennis. He’s 2000 years old. After being ignored by his son for over hundreds of years, Vlad took to living in a dark cave. Bela and his cronies lived with him until their treachery.
He appears in Hotel Transylvania 2 and Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation and was voiced by Mel Brooks.
History[]
Early Life[]
There is currently nothing much known about Vlad's past other than having brothers name Gene and Bernie, and that he met Drac's mom who begat Drac at some point (possibly also Lydia, although Lydia's mother could be a different woman, or if she had the same mom as Drac, could've had a different dad besides Vlad).
It’s unclear whether or not he married Drac's mother or if he ever married at all. It‘s also possible that he knew the parents of Abraham Van Helsing.
Since he‘s 2000 years old, he can’t be assumed to share historical events with Vlad Tepes (upon who he’s based on) since he was born in the 1420’s-1430’s and would only be around 600 years old. That said, Vlad Tepes' birthplace Sighisoara did influence a location in the film. Born in 18 d.c
Vlad uses the Hebrew word "shalom" prior to "it's a lovely day" 25 minutes into Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (after his son admits to zinging and a fish raps about a moped) after scatting a jaunty tune walking past the witches and doing muscular poses to the tune of "danke schon", indicating he has Jewish background (like his voice actor, Mel Brooks, as well as Count Dracula's actor Adam Sandler).
Hotel Transylvania 2[]
Arrival at the Hotel[]
After Mavis and Johnny return from their visit to Johnny's parents Mike and Linda in California, Mavis, Jonathan and Dracula set up a dinner with the rest of Johnny's family at the hotel. As Mavis is talking to Linda she mentions that she invited her grandpa, Vlad, to the party. Dracula spits out his drink surprised upon hearing this, questioning Mavis why she would do such a thing. Mavis insists it is so he can meet his great-grandson while he tries hiding his concern.
Shortly after, Bela receives the invitation letter from Mavis. He quickly delivers it to Vlad. Vlad becomes excited with the fact that a new vampire has joined the family. He happily agrees to attend the party with the intent of meeting his "vampson". Vlad arrives at the Hotel, and bursts through the door.The entire party stops and turns to Vlad. Dracula greets his father, but then leaves to hide Dennis from him, trying to keep the fact that Dennis is only half-vampire away from him. Frank quickly greets Vlad, and tries to stall him from meeting Dennis. Vlad, uninterested in Frank's conversation, walks away. Frank then introduces Vlad to Murray. Murray instantly screams in fear upon meeting Vlad, but tries to keep his cool. Vlad looks over Murray, unsure as to what he is. "Talking toilet paper, well that's a new one", he says. Finally fed up with all this nonsense, Vlad demands Dracula to let him see his great-grandson.
When Vlad first meets Dennis he isn’t aware at first that he’s only half-vampire. When he notices that Dennis has no fangs he concludes that Dennis is just a "Late-Fanger" just like his own son, Dracula. He explains to Johnny that in order to get the fangs to come out you need to possess something the late-fanger finds sweet and innocent, and then you terrorize them with it in order to scare the fangs out. He creates a plan with Dracula to scare the fangs out of Dennis by possessing Kakie The Cake Monster during Dennis' birthday party. As soon as Kakie begins his performance, Vlad, hiding behind the stage possesses Kakie, and turns him into a terrible monster. Vlad smiles with satisfaction that the plan is working, but the plan is ruined after Dracula sees how scared Dennis becomes and frees Kakie from Vlad's control.
Vlad becomes outraged at Dracula for stopping the Kakie monster. He yells at Dracula that the plan was working and it was only going to take a few more seconds before the fangs popped out. A huge arguement breaks out between Dracula, Johnny, and Mavis. Mavis yells at Dracula for ruining Dennis' favorite thing. Vlad sees all this and blames Johnny for turning Dennis into such a wuss. Johnny promptly explodes with anger at Vlad, and unintentionally throws off his vampire costume saying that he's a yellow belt since 1997. When a shocked Vlad realizes that Johnny is human, and that Dennis is not a pure vampire, he becomes outraged and blames Dracula for ruining the family bloodline and breaking tradition. He also is appalled to discover that Dracula now accepts humans into the Hotel after years of hiding from them.
After Dracula and Mavis yell at Vlad for not accepting Dennis for who he is, they storm out of the hotel in search of Dennis, Vlad starts to think about what his son and granddaughter had said to him, and trailing slowly behind, he exits the hotel and transforms into a bat flying toward the forest in search of his great-grandson, as he approaches Dennis' location, he observes Dennis transform into a bat and fight off Bela. He watches as all the monsters and humans of the hotel work together in fending off Bela's bat cronies.
In the final moments of the battle, Bela grabs a sharp branch from a tree and lunges toward Johnny intending to impale him. Fortunately, Vlad sees this and freezes Bela in his tracks. Everyone watches, as Vlad sternly warns Bela to never come near him or his family again and shrinks him down to a harmless size and letting Wayne's kids have at him. Dracula chuckles at Vlad, while letting him know that he just saved a human's life.
Vlad apologizes to Dennis about all the pressure he put on him about his fangs, noting that in the long run, it's actually not really that big of a deal, and eventually, all of his teeth (and not just his fangs) will come out; Vlad pulls out his own teeth, revealing he has to wear dentures now. Having accepted Dennis and humans into his life, Vlad and the rest of the group return to the hotel to resume Dennis' birthday party.
Vlad dances with his son Dracula then Vlad is seen one last time as he watches Dennis prepare to blow out the candle on his birthday cake. Then Vlad has an angry expression on his face when the elderly gremlin devours Dennis' entire birthday cake when she says, "I didn't do it".
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation[]
Vlad is first shown to be sitting in the seat behind Dracula and Mavis inside the Gremlin Airplane. Vlad comments to Dracula that back in his day people took trains instead of planes, while Mavis listens with a smile. Dracula scoffs, reminding Vlad of the days where they would spend hours on the train while Vlad and Uncle Bernie would argue over who was more beautiful — Cleopatra or Nefertiti. Vlad smiles and leans back in his chair, thinking of Nefertiti; he is also shown to be in amazement upon seeing the Bermuda Triangle alongside others from the hotel.
On board the cruise ship, Vlad strips down to his swim trunks and relaxes on a lounge chair, showing off his body to the witch maids sitting next to him, which embarrasses Drac. Vlad also participates in a game of volleyball on the cruise. When the ball bounced towards Vlad he would scream and hiss at the ball, causing the ball to fly back to the other side of the net in fear.
Vlad is later shown enjoying himself in the background through out the film on the ship and in Atlantis, seen gambling, much to Frank's wanting. At the end of the film, Vlad notices that Johnny's corny song and music causes the Kraken to become docile. Vlad joins everyone else in dancing to the song, though at first he says it stinks. Then, after returning back to the hotel, when Dracula takes Ericka to the roof and proposes to her, Vlad, along with many people from the hotel tell Ericka to say yes, which she does.
Trivia[]
- His name is a reference to Vlad the Impaler, in which Bram Stokers' Dracula is based on.
- Vlad's attitude towards humans is very similar to Dracula's attitude towards them in the first film.
- This is likely part of why Dracula was mistrustful and suspicious of humans during the first film.
- Interestingly they’re also similar to King Triton and how he protects Ariel in The Little Mermaid and forbids her to have any contact with humans but they soon have a change of heart.
- Vlad's address is 666 Gory Cliff Lane.
- This number must be to prove what malefic and diabolical Vlad is.
- In the original script of Hotel Transylvania 2, Vlad wasn't in it at all. Originally a greedy business man named Carter Quinston was the main antagonist in the original script. It wasn't until much later, and after several plot changes that Vlad was written in And thus Carter Quinston was deleted.
- In an earlier draft of the script implies that Vlad was gonna be the main antagonist of Hotel Transylvania 2 in which originally when he found out Drac let humans in his hotel he ordered his bat cronies to destroy the hotel.
- Also in eariler drafts of the script Mavis didn't know Vlad even exists when she sees him at Dennis's birthday party Drac never mentioned Vlad to her. In the final cut she does know him cuz she mentions him to Drac during the wedding and later invites him to Dennis's birthday party.
- Vlad was originally going to live in a castle, but after some time the writers and animators thought it was too similar to Dracula's home, the Hotel, so it was changed to a Cave.
- He’s the first vampire to show signs of senility like a human would, meaning while vampires (in this movie) have greater longevity, even they have their limits.
- Based on a comment that Dracula made it’s shown Vlad hates the "Bleh, Bleh-Bleh" thing more than Dracula does.
- He thinks Nefertiti is more attractive than Cleopatra.
- Mavis claims she doesn’t know why she EVER invited Vlad, when she said Vlad has never seen Dennis.
- There is an unused scene/sequence in Hotel Transylvania 2 called "Meet Vlad" that didn't make the final cut. The scene remains intact in the books including the Hotel Transylvania 2 movie novelization
- This scene would have shown Dracula and Frankenstein driving to Vlad's cave where they would fall down a pit into the cave and been greeted by Bela or one of the Bat Cronies and escorted to Vlad.
- He appears in the Chinese poster of Hotel Transylvania 4, despite not appearing in the actual film itself.
- His "are we gonna do this" line in Hotel Transylvania 2 was used in the trailer but in the final film its cut and instead when Vlad enters the hotel he says "Alright wheres my vampson"
- He was first confirmed in November 2014