Idk why Hellsing is becoming relevant again , it's like once a year it comes back to the forefront even after all these years. Gonna make me watch both renditions again , oh the edgy teen memories
Regular Hellsing is trash. Straight trash. The only good thing about the "normal" Hellsing anime is the soundtrack. That was straight up fire. For everything else, Ultimate dominates. I wouldn't even watch the regular one. It sucks so bad.
@@lierjinn5769 Eh, up until the end. TeamFourStar had no idea what they were doing with the characters in the last few episodes and utterly butchered the personalities of Walter and Alucard. Alucard/Vlad has always been utterly devout, and even at his lowest point he was rebelling against God: he would never willingly serve the Devil. Likewise, Walter finished the job of destroying Millennium once Alucard "died." He didn't just go out as a traitor: his twisted sense of honor demanded he finish his best friend's job.
Garlic WAS mentioned in the novel. VanHelsing has a bunch of it hung in Lucy's room to ward off Dracula, but a housekeeper throws it out because she thought the smell wasn't good for Lucy in her weakened state.
Slight nitpick here but Alucard didn't need to release his control art restrictions to take down Luke he simply got excited and thought he might actually give him a good fight.
That may be false, dont get me wrong, Alucard is always badass, but Luke was the strongest Vampire Melenium was able to create. Its a passing line, but he was the only one who was able to escape from alucard. if only for a moment before walter turned him into his new weapon lol
Alucard got hyped up when Luke said he was made faster and stronger for the purpose of killing him. So he obligingly released level 1 only to be disappointed when he found out that Luke was just all talk. 🤣
So basically, Alucard became the Doctor Who paradox; a character whose own lore is set in such a multiversal way that it can both exist within the story as its main character and without its main timeline as its own self-viewer, and in no way does this break reality law, to transition between fiction and fact on a whim.
So want to throw out something that I noticed with Schrodinger, and what I think is the biggest reason the major's plan actually worked to an extent, was that Schrodinger gave his blood and soul willingly. If he hadn't, it is very likely Alucard would have just immediately had full control over the ability rather than having to wait 30 years while he killed off all the other souls that were mixed with Schrodinger. Basically, Schrodinger has more individuality that can be expressed than a standard familiar, in the same way, and for the same reason as Pip does within Seras, and it was thanks to him spreading that individuality and identity within the other souls being consumed and that resulted in the plan working. If He had not willingly been consumed, he would have simply been under Alucard's full control from the get-go or the period of non-existence would be much shorter due to Alucard only needing to subjugate Shrodinger rather than kill all the other souls ( which ironically would have made him even more powerful then he ever was prior and still made him omnipresent ).
All puns and jokes aside, I don’t think this character will ever die at all. As long as the character exists in some type of format he’ll be remembered for something- the power, the unkillability, his ability to laugh and take damage and to ridicule the opposition (it’s likely he only viewed others as prey or harmless as he knew most if not all others couldn’t be on his level)
Alucard can still consume other people, remember even drops of blood is still alucard consuming another person. After returning 30 years later he consumes integra's blood and is still hungry. With Schrodinger he must know who he is and what it means to say I. As long as he understands his true identity and his new power of being everywhere yet nowhere, real but not real, he will still be able to recreate and regrow an army within himself.
This was a fantastic and very fun video to watch. I've been a Hellsing fan for over 20 years and have an absolute love for the character and story. I'm also a HUGE history geek so once I learned that Alucard was Vlad, I fell hard into the show/manga back in 2003. Out of all the "Character" videos I have seen, this one is one of the best. I do have a few things that I'd like to point out, these are all from years of collecting, reading, speaking with Crispin Freeman (Alucard's VA), Taliesin Jaffe (Head writer, Producer), and even meeting Hirano back at Otakon 2006 in MD. First, Mina did not fall in love with Dracula in Hellsingverse, in fact, in the panels where Van Helsing bests Dracula, you can see her being held by a man (who may or may not be Jonathan Harker as that name is left out of the Hellsingverse for some reason). She was definitely not into him and this can also be understood and checked by reading the chapter in the manga where Alucard returns to London in the carrier. One of the first lines of the chapters states "Once a vampire came to England to get a woman he personally desired". This is from the English translation sold in the US (just clarifying since some people here may not have read that translation). Second, Hirano has said in interviews that The restriction system is what keeps Alucard in check, he ABSOLUTELY has to say the incantations as that is what releases the power. Furthermore, the restriction is also what keeps Alucard, well, "Alucard". Hirano has said that without it, he wouldn't be able to recognize himself and the souls would not allow him to control who he is. So while, yes, he is indeed not a man, he needs to be able to remember that he WAS a male person with his own life and personality or he wouldn't be able to "be". Third, The guns are physical and not a part of him as they were made by the Hellsing organization. Since we really don't see where the guns go, it's safe to say that, like Anderson, he can summon them at will. How this is done, well, we don't know, Hirano didn't really explain. My personal thinking for why Alucard was given guns was so that he didn't rely on his vampiric powers. After all, no one in the Hellsingverse knows vampires exist (except certain higher powers) so giving him a human element and calling him a "Hitman" or "agent" working for an organization works with hiding his true identity. Fourth, it is never confirmed that the soul he has left at the end is Schro's. He said he fought all of them and only 1 is left, he even says "I am here" which indicates it is HIS soul, not schro's. To me (and lots of other fans), it seems he now HAS schro's powers but Schro is not physically there as if he were, then there would be two souls which he has already said is not the case. The only thing that I do admit is that, yes, he has Schro's eyes now, but that could be due to him having that power. I believe that if it WAS Schro's soul he had in there, then he wouldn't be himself, he would be Schro and that is not what we see, we see Alucard. This has been debated for years, there isn't really a clear answer and I think it is up to the reader to believe what they want. Lastly, Please note that Hirano made up a lot of Hellsing as he went along. He has mentioned this many, MANY times thoughtout the development of the manga. Unfortunately, a lot of the interview records have been lost as the websites from back in the 2000s don't really exist anymore. The sites, for those who are older fans, were the Bird of Hermes forum, Hiranomoe, Call to Arms, and even old school Live Journal. I have a bunch saved in an old WD hard drive, maybe one day I will make a site and throw em all in there, who knows. Regardless, Hirano has admitted to being lazy (even writing it in the manga pages towards the end), in fact, he has said that the reason Alucard went back to his regular Alucard form was because he didn't feel like drawing "Vladucard" over and over as it was a lot of work. He admitted he was supposed to stay in the version longer but he took the easy way out. Also, while he NEVER said this, a lot of us in the community back in the day believed that the last chapter was pure fan service. I KNOW for a fact Hirano doesn't want to disappoint his fans (this he has admitted) and he knew if he didn't bring Alucard back, the fans would be upset so what did he do? He brought him back. Personally, I would have been ok with Alucard disappearing, but then again, that would go against his belief that "Only a man can kill a monster" so it seems fitting even though it was just HIrano doing it to not disappoint his fans. My point is, while Hellsing is amazing and I adore it, it's not as deep as a lot of people tend it to be. Yes, there is definitely a good story and character development, there's also not. Walter flat out said he joined Millennium cause he wanted to fight Alucard, there was really no explanation, just a "well, the world will probably end and I wanted to fight you just to have a part in it". I do love the fact that, technically, all the vampires Alucard fights are pretty much his copies as Millennium took Mina's corpse and got his blood from her body. We had a joke back in the day that she got Jurassic Parked, lol. Anyway, sorry for the long post, but I am very passionate about this damn series and love a good video on it. I also enjoy talking about it and having a good discussion (I miss the forums) with likeminded fans. Also, PROPS for not throwing in any Hellsing abridged stuff in there, I cannot stand it, I am so sorry.
Thanks so much for the post. Just let me think what the state of his powers is if all his familiars are gone? Typically does he still have the hounds of Baskerville? And how does he have Schrö's powers?
His name was Vladimir Tepish, and he was called Dracula because his dad was called the "Dragon," and Dracula means "son of the dragon." And yes, he did impale people. Typically he would take live victims and a BIG pike and place the victims bum on the pointy end and let gravity and like a day or two do the killing.
Tepes was a nickname not his name. It means impaler in Romanian. And Dracul means devil, not son of the dragon. Both he and his father were in The order of the dragon though. Source: I'm Romanian and I have studied Vlad.
@@inferniep90 They went against Shrodinger Alucard because he has nothing that could stop height of his power Dio, and Death Battle doesn't do stalemates. "Normal" Alucard would have eventually been beaten. I was mad too, but had to research Dio and Death Battle rules fully to accept the truth.
@@gmork1090 no i don't , if it's a stalemate they could call it draw and trow a joke , nerfing one guy to make the other win is just bullshit , why didn't the neft dio? because he is more famous , well fuck off , it's idiotic end of story
The complete other way around, friend. The amount of hype I've seen over this Vampire is ludicrous. I've seen people seriously Alucard is a nigh-omnipotent God because reasons they never elaborate on. I've watched the original series and Ultimate. Alucard is really just not that strong. Take away his healing factor and he's a basic Vampire with limited soul manipulation and darkness manipulation. Like the dude never so much as even lifts a car. His best speed feat is catching a bullet with his mouth! Sure, flashy, but in the grand scheme of things that is so slow. Like literally Vampire Diaries average Vampires can speedblitz Alucard Luke style. I don't know. Alucard's power is vastly overestimated. I hope someone debates me on this, honestly.
Vlad Țepeș (in Romanian) was a cruel man, but he became that way after he had as an example the Turks who did not just welcome him with "open arms". He punished who deserved to be punished .It is said that, as a result of his punishments, nobody only stole and once in a village a golden cup was left from which everyone could drink, but the condition was that the cup should not disappear, and it never did.😃😃😃😃
But I'm curious about is by the nature of Schrodinger's powers what exactly is stopping him from deciding he's simply no longer part of alucard anymore (what with all of the other souls being gone and apparently now he can recognize himself again) and which case alucard would immediately stop receiving the benefit of his omnipresence.
I think Alucard subjugated him. It’s implied that, like his guns, the souls he consumes become part of him. It’s also said I think that Schrödinger somewhat lost his individuality, hence Alucard fading (since you can only be omnipresent if you are fully aware of yourself, which he stopped being). He came back after killing all of his absorbed souls, hence only one (his one) became the only point of his awareness and he became omnipresent
I started with the original 13, then Ultimate started when I started college. The build and not exactly knowing how or what Alucard was capable of in each series allowed what I thought was an exquisite build-up of suspense throughout. Thanks for the breakdown :)
I think he became subordinate to Hellsing also because he became an aimless wanderer, all his decisions in his life led to pain and suffering. He chose subordination to not have to decide on his own between good or evil and entrusts Hellsing with that decision. His Level 0 Restriction Phrase also matches this idea. "The Bird of Hermes is my name, eating my wings to make me tame."
While garlic bulbs weren't mentioned in the original book, garlic flowers were used to ward off Dracula, but were removed from the victim's room by a nurse, or the victim's mother (I don't remember which once, I haven't reread the book in a while)
This video on Alucard puts the biggest smile on my face. Alucard is one of my favorite anime characters of all time a real fucking vampire. I also like the Blade comparisons you make at the beginning of your video he is one of my favorite Marvel characters and vampire hunters.
I'm not sure Alucard is any different from any other vampire in this story. When he was fighting with Valentine he commanded him to summon his neathers and regrow his legs. So I'm not sure if he is different from any other vampire, more like he just has more information than others do.
Nah man. Alucard IS Dracula in this anime. Valentine was a manufactured vampire, technology made. Alucard is the real deal. That's why he couldn't do real vampire things.
I'm not done watching the video but I have read the book Dracula Prince of Many Faces His Life And His Times by Radu R Florescu and Raymond T McNally. Vlad's brother Radu was a lover of the Sultan's son and one of the concubines. So it's not hard to assume the same thing might of happened when Vlad was younger however it was also said Radu was very beautiful and timid compared to headstrong Vlad. You also missed the part that Vlad wanted revenge because the Turks buried his older brother alive while making their father watch before killing him. Turks wanted puppet rulers. Dracula and his father Dracul were a part of a group called The Order of the Dragon. It was fashioned after the military orders of the Crusades, requiring its initiates to defend the cross and fight the enemies of Christianity, particularly the Ottoman Empire. Vlad constantly asked for help from other nations and called for crusades to push back the Turks. So Hellsing's creator didn't make up the Christian aspect of his character. He basically waged the war alone country wise at the time and kept them at bay with his tactics. Also Vlad lost the throne, got imprisoned for several years. Escaped and retook his country after like a decade.
I feel like alucard decided to work for hellsing is because he just seen it as fun. Yeah he did have respect for hellsing for beating him but also living for eternity gets boring. Having restrictions makes the thrirst for battle even more fun.
"Here standeth the Bird of Hermes.....Devouring my own Wing, to keep myself TAME!" EDIT: I also think its possible that the brother DID appear in Hellsing OVA. In both of the clips we see, his brother is....well, chunky, seems to be shorter (at least compared to Alucard himself) and Blonde. Now, when Alucard was defeated after absorbing Schrodinger, It shows the Major, again, showing that characters clearly reincarnate, as well as Anderson, his "Enemy". It could be possible the Major was a reincarnation of Alucards Brother, once again serving as a great Enemy against Alucard, continuing on the fight again. Or at very least, a reference nod TO the brother.
I always figured that once Alucard purged all the souls within him aside from Schrödinger’s he basically just has free rein again now that he has him locked down so to speak.
It's kind of funny how more than one media source has painted Dracula as the original and true vampire while modern iterations are a pale shadow, a pale shadow he is openly and clearly disappointed with and disinterested in. They never explore the concept fully but I've always assumed that in his absence vampires just became a much weaker version of what they could be. Either they forgot how to do what he can or they're locked off from it because he was never there to show them the way.
It’s doubtful that he’s the first tho. And there’s also an entire society of vampires in London that has a truce with Helsing. But it’s also implied that by turning someone into a vampire, you inherit some part of your power with them (so Seras inherited the shadow form and part of his insane power, as she has cast some form of protection over the Helsing headquarters)
I have an idea for an animanga about vampires and werewolves and all that stuff, and there, Dracula _isn't_ the first ever vampire (still extremely noteworthy, just not the first), but yeah, it's an interesting idea. There's also age. Vampires tend to grow stronger as they grow older, for one reason or another, so outside of some freaks of nature even _amongst_ them, older vampires are generally stronger than younger ones. And as you said, Dracula tends to be _the first,_ so of course nobody in modern day would really compare.
Garlic was mentioned in the original work, garlic flowers worn around the neck to ward off bites. The removal of this garlic is actually directly responsible for a girls death at Dracula's hands.
"Alucaaaard!" "Release restraint to leve-" "Now HOLD ON there! I'm Judd Forrest of the-" "You hear that?" "Hear wha-" *Gunshot* "Eh, musta' been the wind." "Screw it, dropping the Formalities. Alucard... _Go for a WALK."_
Dracula means Dragon in Latin and so Vlad Tepes was also known as Son of the Dragon. As his father was one of first knights inducted into Order of Dragon by the Roman Catholic church. Vlad Tepes was also inducted into the order when he came of age. So his name is literally the Dragon Count or Lord of Dragons. Though I admit a new Hellsing series based on Radu or I guess Udar returning and Alucard have to fight his brother would be interesting. Hell you could even have it that Alucard was not the first Vampire. That after defeating Millennium and in this version returning to Sir Integera 3 years later instead of 30 years later. Has gotten the attention of the Old Ones and so both Hellsing and Alucard will face enemies they never new existed.
Well, we learn from either the anime or the OVA (don’t remember tbh) that there is in fact a society of true vampires in London, and I think it’s implied that there’s a truce between them and the Helsing organization. It’s also mentioned in the fight against Luke Valentine that Alucards powers are that of a true vampire, meaning that for one they are innate to him, and that there were others similar to him
Oh man sorry but him vs the blimp chick woulda been incredible, tbh after he came back as one, if there ever do ultimate 2 I would be a literally new uprising, they really should look into it
plottwist: the main antagonist of the 'drifters' anime/manga is alucard, he is hell bend on destroying all humans because they are the souls he consumed at the end of hellsing ultimate in other words, drifters is what happens in the 30 year time skip in alucards mind /soul (and yes i know thats PROBABLY not true but i just find it funny)
Alucard had such a cool reason for what he did (But this might be wrong) He held on to his Humanity as long as he could, until humanity failed him (but not _his_ humanity, but the humanity around him). Thus, he shed his own humanity. Resentful that he lost his humanity due to the failings of others, he now is dedicated to route out remaining failures of Humanity that would rob the Humanity from innocents like himself 😲😎
Always pleased to see a video about The Count, certainly this version. Fascinating figure in history, especially when considering the "history is written by the victor" concept, which he most certainly was not. In a sense, he did achieve a sort of immortality, in the hearts and mind of the people.
Garlic was definitely mentioned in Bram Stokers work also Mina did not fall in love with him she was fighting off being turned by him but continued to help Helsing and the boys to fight and kill him. I'm only 9 mins in the video but as of now I'd say you definitely need to read the book
I remember being led to beleive at the time I watched and read it that he could only transform and take on properties of those he had within him, every death he suffers disperses one of those many souls and as such he's mechanically immortal whilst he contains more than one soul. Seras demonstrates this power slightly after drinking human blood for the first time which always makes me wonder if she really wants to, could she "summon" or "become" Alucard once she conquers that ability or is it only the souls of those after their transformation that they absorb? It's an interesting thought anyway.
DRACULA doesn't mean IMPALER... DRACULA means "Son of the Dragon" referring to his father DRACUL who was called "The Dragon" being the grand master of the Ordo Draconis Knights. Later Dracul became a word used to describe "The Devil" as well.
Im pretty sure what Alucard can do, any true Vampire could do as well. With the exception of Seras we dont see any other Vampires that arent artificially createt. So I think all Vampires have these abilitys, Dracula was just the strongest of them
Caligula is the first vampire Dracula is the second in both the movie Dracula untold and at the end of hellsing ultimate it’s shows that Dracula was turned into a vampire by Caligula in the in the movie it’s ah little different but overall it’s the same he drank blood to complete the curse
Something people don’t know is that Vlad Dracul can be translated literally into Vlad the Devil. He was also part of the order of the dragon and at the time, dragons were interpretation of the devil, similar to the snake in the garden of Eden. We even still have church iconography with saints slaying dragons. Saint Michael, if I’m not mistaken. All of this, along with his brutal methods and his unforgiving stance towards crime, gave him the nickname “the devil” from our superstitious peasants back in the day.
"It was most probable that it was because I had laid over the clamps of those doors garlic, which the Un-Dead cannot bear, and other things which they shun." Dracula By Bram Stoker In CHAPTER XVI
Addition of Shrodinger to Alucard was a boon but also a debuf. Reason why he was basically indestructible was that anyone trying to kill him had to basically destroy him as many times as he had souls collected. Now that he has only two and he cannot take more anyone with special enough weapon has to land only a single good blow and he will have to spend one sould to regenerate meaning that he would lose catboy. That said...landing a blow on someone who is everywhere and nowhere at the same time might be a huge challenge.
Can definitely take in any souls he desires. The thing with Schrodinger is that Alucard didn't know about his ability, and did not kill him to force submission when he took his soul. Schrodinger willingly shoved his soul into that river of blood, so Alucard took in an essential Trojan Horse that he couldn't control without isolating it. Now that he's got it solo, subjugated, and freely usable like any normal familiar he can just consume more souls.
Fun fact the t and the s in Tepes are pronounced ts and sh in English like in the words cats and shake. We have letters for them too, just ad a "," bellow the letters
yeah, considering the fact that there is an omnipresent capability.... who wins between the original drac and vampire hunter D? I think that question has been answered. Rolling it back, I don't honestly think any damphir would superceed an originator, without some serious careless mistakes, but I don't really see a reality where D gets the best of Alucard. Even without the buff of omnipresence, Alucard has the tenacity and violent nature that an offshoot cannot.
Someone once pointed out to me that if you focus on the little dots where the wire of Alucard's glasses meets the lenses, he looks like he's cross-eyed, and it ruined watching Hellsing for me. I couldn't not see them after that. So enjoy everyone.
Idk why Hellsing is becoming relevant again , it's like once a year it comes back to the forefront even after all these years. Gonna make me watch both renditions again , oh the edgy teen memories
Regular Hellsing is trash. Straight trash. The only good thing about the "normal" Hellsing anime is the soundtrack. That was straight up fire. For everything else, Ultimate dominates. I wouldn't even watch the regular one. It sucks so bad.
@@marishiten5944 *. In my opinion * There fixed that for ya , thank me later, now I must say that I respectfully disagree in every way.
abridged version is the best one tho
@@lierjinn5769 I'm convinced Hellsing Abridged is canon lmao
@@lierjinn5769 Eh, up until the end. TeamFourStar had no idea what they were doing with the characters in the last few episodes and utterly butchered the personalities of Walter and Alucard. Alucard/Vlad has always been utterly devout, and even at his lowest point he was rebelling against God: he would never willingly serve the Devil. Likewise, Walter finished the job of destroying Millennium once Alucard "died." He didn't just go out as a traitor: his twisted sense of honor demanded he finish his best friend's job.
Garlic WAS mentioned in the novel. VanHelsing has a bunch of it hung in Lucy's room to ward off Dracula, but a housekeeper throws it out because she thought the smell wasn't good for Lucy in her weakened state.
Omgosh I totally forgot that was her name in the orginal
I believe it was her mother
@@jasonpenny4007There's Lucy Westenra AND Mina Harker.
Maybe I'm misremembering, but weren't those garlands? And not garlic?
@@Artrysa They were garlands of garlic. That's what those strings with a bunch of garlic bulbs on them are called.
Slight nitpick here but Alucard didn't need to release his control art restrictions to take down Luke he simply got excited and thought he might actually give him a good fight.
That may be false, dont get me wrong, Alucard is always badass, but Luke was the strongest Vampire Melenium was able to create. Its a passing line, but he was the only one who was able to escape from alucard. if only for a moment before walter turned him into his new weapon lol
@@williamcortelyou9072 true
@@williamcortelyou9072nah he was confused why he couldn’t regenerate and didn’t have familiars. He was fodder he just excited alucard
@@isaiahblake8723 Luke was top tier premium grade fodder but still fodder at the end of the day.
Alucard got hyped up when Luke said he was made faster and stronger for the purpose of killing him. So he obligingly released level 1 only to be disappointed when he found out that Luke was just all talk. 🤣
Integra: Fu-ck it; dropping the formalities, ALUCARD!!!!.... go for a walk.
And there it is! 🤣👏🏾
So basically, Alucard became the Doctor Who paradox; a character whose own lore is set in such a multiversal way that it can both exist within the story as its main character and without its main timeline as its own self-viewer, and in no way does this break reality law, to transition between fiction and fact on a whim.
yes! and that’s why it’s so fire
So want to throw out something that I noticed with Schrodinger, and what I think is the biggest reason the major's plan actually worked to an extent, was that Schrodinger gave his blood and soul willingly. If he hadn't, it is very likely Alucard would have just immediately had full control over the ability rather than having to wait 30 years while he killed off all the other souls that were mixed with Schrodinger. Basically, Schrodinger has more individuality that can be expressed than a standard familiar, in the same way, and for the same reason as Pip does within Seras, and it was thanks to him spreading that individuality and identity within the other souls being consumed and that resulted in the plan working. If He had not willingly been consumed, he would have simply been under Alucard's full control from the get-go or the period of non-existence would be much shorter due to Alucard only needing to subjugate Shrodinger rather than kill all the other souls ( which ironically would have made him even more powerful then he ever was prior and still made him omnipresent ).
My brain..
That actually makes perfect sense! 💜 I'm thankful that Pip willingly giving his life to "Awaken" Seras/Become her familiar clues us in.
I thought this was implied. He gave his power to all the soul inside alucard so they all had their souls plus shrodinger powers added to each of them
I'm so glad you guys are keeping this character alive in pop-culture.
All puns and jokes aside, I don’t think this character will ever die at all. As long as the character exists in some type of format he’ll be remembered for something- the power, the unkillability, his ability to laugh and take damage and to ridicule the opposition (it’s likely he only viewed others as prey or harmless as he knew most if not all others couldn’t be on his level)
@@daydreamdirty True.
He's literally my absolute favorite vampire. Hands down. No other stands above.
The King of vampires 👑
Is vampire hunter d on the list? The movies were pretty cool. Nothing to do with hellsing tho
Alucard can still consume other people, remember even drops of blood is still alucard consuming another person. After returning 30 years later he consumes integra's blood and is still hungry. With Schrodinger he must know who he is and what it means to say I. As long as he understands his true identity and his new power of being everywhere yet nowhere, real but not real, he will still be able to recreate and regrow an army within himself.
he can't absorb the soul of someone that's still alive
@@Ainsley_the_meat_rubber not into himself, but the ability to drink blood Is there, along with consumption after he kills them.
Actually, Dracula‘s revulsion of garlic was a major point in Bram Stoker‘s novel…
I thought the only way he could achieve full release is for Integra to tell him to "Go for a walk"
No that happens when she tells Alucard he's right
And he needs roughly 5 minutes, unless sufficiently punched in the face by a Catholic Frankenstein.
That was a polite "Fk you."
This was a fantastic and very fun video to watch. I've been a Hellsing fan for over 20 years and have an absolute love for the character and story. I'm also a HUGE history geek so once I learned that Alucard was Vlad, I fell hard into the show/manga back in 2003. Out of all the "Character" videos I have seen, this one is one of the best. I do have a few things that I'd like to point out, these are all from years of collecting, reading, speaking with Crispin Freeman (Alucard's VA), Taliesin Jaffe (Head writer, Producer), and even meeting Hirano back at Otakon 2006 in MD.
First, Mina did not fall in love with Dracula in Hellsingverse, in fact, in the panels where Van Helsing bests Dracula, you can see her being held by a man (who may or may not be Jonathan Harker as that name is left out of the Hellsingverse for some reason). She was definitely not into him and this can also be understood and checked by reading the chapter in the manga where Alucard returns to London in the carrier. One of the first lines of the chapters states "Once a vampire came to England to get a woman he personally desired". This is from the English translation sold in the US (just clarifying since some people here may not have read that translation).
Second, Hirano has said in interviews that The restriction system is what keeps Alucard in check, he ABSOLUTELY has to say the incantations as that is what releases the power. Furthermore, the restriction is also what keeps Alucard, well, "Alucard". Hirano has said that without it, he wouldn't be able to recognize himself and the souls would not allow him to control who he is. So while, yes, he is indeed not a man, he needs to be able to remember that he WAS a male person with his own life and personality or he wouldn't be able to "be".
Third, The guns are physical and not a part of him as they were made by the Hellsing organization. Since we really don't see where the guns go, it's safe to say that, like Anderson, he can summon them at will. How this is done, well, we don't know, Hirano didn't really explain. My personal thinking for why Alucard was given guns was so that he didn't rely on his vampiric powers. After all, no one in the Hellsingverse knows vampires exist (except certain higher powers) so giving him a human element and calling him a "Hitman" or "agent" working for an organization works with hiding his true identity.
Fourth, it is never confirmed that the soul he has left at the end is Schro's. He said he fought all of them and only 1 is left, he even says "I am here" which indicates it is HIS soul, not schro's. To me (and lots of other fans), it seems he now HAS schro's powers but Schro is not physically there as if he were, then there would be two souls which he has already said is not the case. The only thing that I do admit is that, yes, he has Schro's eyes now, but that could be due to him having that power. I believe that if it WAS Schro's soul he had in there, then he wouldn't be himself, he would be Schro and that is not what we see, we see Alucard. This has been debated for years, there isn't really a clear answer and I think it is up to the reader to believe what they want.
Lastly, Please note that Hirano made up a lot of Hellsing as he went along. He has mentioned this many, MANY times thoughtout the development of the manga. Unfortunately, a lot of the interview records have been lost as the websites from back in the 2000s don't really exist anymore. The sites, for those who are older fans, were the Bird of Hermes forum, Hiranomoe, Call to Arms, and even old school Live Journal. I have a bunch saved in an old WD hard drive, maybe one day I will make a site and throw em all in there, who knows. Regardless, Hirano has admitted to being lazy (even writing it in the manga pages towards the end), in fact, he has said that the reason Alucard went back to his regular Alucard form was because he didn't feel like drawing "Vladucard" over and over as it was a lot of work. He admitted he was supposed to stay in the version longer but he took the easy way out. Also, while he NEVER said this, a lot of us in the community back in the day believed that the last chapter was pure fan service. I KNOW for a fact Hirano doesn't want to disappoint his fans (this he has admitted) and he knew if he didn't bring Alucard back, the fans would be upset so what did he do? He brought him back. Personally, I would have been ok with Alucard disappearing, but then again, that would go against his belief that "Only a man can kill a monster" so it seems fitting even though it was just HIrano doing it to not disappoint his fans.
My point is, while Hellsing is amazing and I adore it, it's not as deep as a lot of people tend it to be. Yes, there is definitely a good story and character development, there's also not. Walter flat out said he joined Millennium cause he wanted to fight Alucard, there was really no explanation, just a "well, the world will probably end and I wanted to fight you just to have a part in it". I do love the fact that, technically, all the vampires Alucard fights are pretty much his copies as Millennium took Mina's corpse and got his blood from her body. We had a joke back in the day that she got Jurassic Parked, lol.
Anyway, sorry for the long post, but I am very passionate about this damn series and love a good video on it. I also enjoy talking about it and having a good discussion (I miss the forums) with likeminded fans. Also, PROPS for not throwing in any Hellsing abridged stuff in there, I cannot stand it, I am so sorry.
Excellent post. Thank you for sharing.
You should definitely post all the content lost please I would love to see it I love hellsing so much 🥹
Thanks so much for the post. Just let me think what the state of his powers is if all his familiars are gone? Typically does he still have the hounds of Baskerville? And how does he have Schrö's powers?
Such an underrated masterpiece. This animal was well thought through. I loved everything about it. If only it was longer.
His name was Vladimir Tepish, and he was called Dracula because his dad was called the "Dragon," and Dracula means "son of the dragon." And yes, he did impale people. Typically he would take live victims and a BIG pike and place the victims bum on the pointy end and let gravity and like a day or two do the killing.
Țepeș*
Tepes was a nickname not his name. It means impaler in Romanian. And Dracul means devil, not son of the dragon. Both he and his father were in The order of the dragon though. Source: I'm Romanian and I have studied Vlad.
@@LurkerAnonymous Me too but I think that it does mean son of the dragon...That is typically as published at least here.
@@ekramer2478which ain’t true! lol
@@RavenL1337 OK will have to look it up again. Have been seeing that in books for decades.
I'm glad this video exists. So many people (especially in the vs community) underestimate Alucard and have no understanding of how he works.
true, when death battle made him lose to dio i was furious, i know that death battle is a joke but it still enrages me
@@inferniep90 They went against Shrodinger Alucard because he has nothing that could stop height of his power Dio, and Death Battle doesn't do stalemates. "Normal" Alucard would have eventually been beaten. I was mad too, but had to research Dio and Death Battle rules fully to accept the truth.
@@gmork1090 no i don't , if it's a stalemate they could call it draw and trow a joke , nerfing one guy to make the other win is just bullshit , why didn't the neft dio? because he is more famous , well fuck off , it's idiotic end of story
@@gmork1090 they always do it , scout vs tracer another example of them nerfing one to make the other win and there are many more
The complete other way around, friend. The amount of hype I've seen over this Vampire is ludicrous. I've seen people seriously Alucard is a nigh-omnipotent God because reasons they never elaborate on.
I've watched the original series and Ultimate. Alucard is really just not that strong. Take away his healing factor and he's a basic Vampire with limited soul manipulation and darkness manipulation.
Like the dude never so much as even lifts a car. His best speed feat is catching a bullet with his mouth! Sure, flashy, but in the grand scheme of things that is so slow. Like literally Vampire Diaries average Vampires can speedblitz Alucard Luke style.
I don't know. Alucard's power is vastly overestimated. I hope someone debates me on this, honestly.
A weakness not addressed is not being able to cross water. Remember he was forced to propel the ship back to London instead of flying across as a bat
Tine to go for a walk ... a very enthusiastic walk ...
Vlad Țepeș (in Romanian) was a cruel man, but he became that way after he had as an example the Turks who did not just welcome him with "open arms". He punished who deserved to be punished .It is said that, as a result of his punishments, nobody only stole and once in a village a golden cup was left from which everyone could drink, but the condition was that the cup should not disappear, and it never did.😃😃😃😃
In the end he was killed and his people ENSLAVED
@@islammehmeov2334 Yes. It was the perfect example of the saying "If you're not with us, you're against us"
@@lenart5417 the irony is that he's own brother Rado killed him and ENSLAVED his people
@@islammehmeov2334 Was just a puppet and sultan's lover and sad thing is the fact he was a traitor.
Twilight Vampires: We sparkle
Alucard: You're nothing but dog shit.
Have you never read Bram Stoker's book?
Garlic is literally Van Helsing's first defense against Dracula when Dracula was tormenting Lucy every night.
But I'm curious about is by the nature of Schrodinger's powers what exactly is stopping him from deciding he's simply no longer part of alucard anymore (what with all of the other souls being gone and apparently now he can recognize himself again) and which case alucard would immediately stop receiving the benefit of his omnipresence.
I think Alucard subjugated him. It’s implied that, like his guns, the souls he consumes become part of him. It’s also said I think that Schrödinger somewhat lost his individuality, hence Alucard fading (since you can only be omnipresent if you are fully aware of yourself, which he stopped being). He came back after killing all of his absorbed souls, hence only one (his one) became the only point of his awareness and he became omnipresent
I started with the original 13, then Ultimate started when I started college. The build and not exactly knowing how or what Alucard was capable of in each series allowed what I thought was an exquisite build-up of suspense throughout. Thanks for the breakdown :)
The abridged version is SOOO good
Shrodinger's trap: the twink is neither male nor female, until you pull down their pants
And he/she can just slightly out run you.
I think he became subordinate to Hellsing also because he became an aimless wanderer, all his decisions in his life led to pain and suffering. He chose subordination to not have to decide on his own between good or evil and entrusts Hellsing with that decision. His Level 0 Restriction Phrase also matches this idea. "The Bird of Hermes is my name, eating my wings to make me tame."
It's nice too see people making content of my favorite anime
While garlic bulbs weren't mentioned in the original book, garlic flowers were used to ward off Dracula, but were removed from the victim's room by a nurse, or the victim's mother (I don't remember which once, I haven't reread the book in a while)
This is one of my favorite anime of all time. Thanks for making so many videos about it.
The only one cooler than Alucard is Abridged Alucard.
He calls it his.... "#Lifehack"
*sigh* he would.
This video on Alucard puts the biggest smile on my face. Alucard is one of my favorite anime characters of all time a real fucking vampire. I also like the Blade comparisons you make at the beginning of your video he is one of my favorite Marvel characters and vampire hunters.
Blade sucks though. Marvel sucks.
Vlad Tepes , one of our best rulers , respect from Romania !! 🎉🗿
"Spiked with a lethal dose of Schrödinger" my dude 😂😂😂😂😂
From brams stokers vampire to become a lovecraft cosmic entity.
I'm not sure Alucard is any different from any other vampire in this story. When he was fighting with Valentine he commanded him to summon his neathers and regrow his legs. So I'm not sure if he is different from any other vampire, more like he just has more information than others do.
Nah man.
Alucard IS Dracula in this anime.
Valentine was a manufactured vampire, technology made.
Alucard is the real deal.
That's why he couldn't do real vampire things.
I loved the fact that Alucard would allow himself to seem beaten to cause fear in his opponents!
I'm not done watching the video but I have read the book Dracula Prince of Many Faces His Life And His Times by Radu R Florescu and Raymond T McNally. Vlad's brother Radu was a lover of the Sultan's son and one of the concubines. So it's not hard to assume the same thing might of happened when Vlad was younger however it was also said Radu was very beautiful and timid compared to headstrong Vlad. You also missed the part that Vlad wanted revenge because the Turks buried his older brother alive while making their father watch before killing him. Turks wanted puppet rulers. Dracula and his father Dracul were a part of a group called The Order of the Dragon. It was fashioned after the military orders of the Crusades, requiring its initiates to defend the cross and fight the enemies of Christianity, particularly the Ottoman Empire. Vlad constantly asked for help from other nations and called for crusades to push back the Turks. So Hellsing's creator didn't make up the Christian aspect of his character. He basically waged the war alone country wise at the time and kept them at bay with his tactics. Also Vlad lost the throne, got imprisoned for several years. Escaped and retook his country after like a decade.
17:02 he went for a walk
I feel like alucard decided to work for hellsing is because he just seen it as fun. Yeah he did have respect for hellsing for beating him but also living for eternity gets boring. Having restrictions makes the thrirst for battle even more fun.
"Here standeth the Bird of Hermes.....Devouring my own Wing, to keep myself TAME!"
EDIT: I also think its possible that the brother DID appear in Hellsing OVA. In both of the clips we see, his brother is....well, chunky, seems to be shorter (at least compared to Alucard himself) and Blonde. Now, when Alucard was defeated after absorbing Schrodinger, It shows the Major, again, showing that characters clearly reincarnate, as well as Anderson, his "Enemy".
It could be possible the Major was a reincarnation of Alucards Brother, once again serving as a great Enemy against Alucard, continuing on the fight again. Or at very least, a reference nod TO the brother.
I always figured that once Alucard purged all the souls within him aside from Schrödinger’s he basically just has free rein again now that he has him locked down so to speak.
He's the first and most powerful vampire he's collected millions of souks
It's kind of funny how more than one media source has painted Dracula as the original and true vampire while modern iterations are a pale shadow, a pale shadow he is openly and clearly disappointed with and disinterested in. They never explore the concept fully but I've always assumed that in his absence vampires just became a much weaker version of what they could be. Either they forgot how to do what he can or they're locked off from it because he was never there to show them the way.
It’s doubtful that he’s the first tho. And there’s also an entire society of vampires in London that has a truce with Helsing. But it’s also implied that by turning someone into a vampire, you inherit some part of your power with them (so Seras inherited the shadow form and part of his insane power, as she has cast some form of protection over the Helsing headquarters)
I have an idea for an animanga about vampires and werewolves and all that stuff, and there, Dracula _isn't_ the first ever vampire (still extremely noteworthy, just not the first), but yeah, it's an interesting idea.
There's also age. Vampires tend to grow stronger as they grow older, for one reason or another, so outside of some freaks of nature even _amongst_ them, older vampires are generally stronger than younger ones. And as you said, Dracula tends to be _the first,_ so of course nobody in modern day would really compare.
Hellsing is easily within my top 10 favorite anime. I really need to read the manga once I catch up on beserk
Believe me, you have to read the manga because it is truly "magical". Read it as soon as possible
Ain't gonna lie the first time I heard that line felt a little shook. I knew something was about to happen.
Vlad Tepes is literally a folklore hero in Romania
A Schrodinger analysis, is it possible?
Love the video but I'm in the commemts for the TFS references.
he is more off a cosmic horror abstract bieng then a vempieren
I am pretty sure the odour of garlic FLOWERS is specifically mentioned as keeping Dracula from entering a room in B.Stockers book.
It is...and they stuff Lucy's mouth with it after decapitating her in her sleep
Garlic was mentioned in the original work, garlic flowers worn around the neck to ward off bites. The removal of this garlic is actually directly responsible for a girls death at Dracula's hands.
"Alucaaaard!"
"Release restraint to leve-"
"Now HOLD ON there! I'm Judd Forrest of the-"
"You hear that?"
"Hear wha-" *Gunshot*
"Eh, musta' been the wind."
"Screw it, dropping the Formalities. Alucard... _Go for a WALK."_
Integra calls it Release Level Zero.
Alucard calls it his "Hashtag Lifehack".
Hellsing abridged is the greatest animated show ever 😂😂😂
Dracula means Dragon in Latin and so Vlad Tepes was also known as Son of the Dragon. As his father was one of first knights inducted into Order of Dragon by the Roman Catholic church. Vlad Tepes was also inducted into the order when he came of age. So his name is literally the Dragon Count or Lord of Dragons. Though I admit a new Hellsing series based on Radu or I guess Udar returning and Alucard have to fight his brother would be interesting. Hell you could even have it that Alucard was not the first Vampire. That after defeating Millennium and in this version returning to Sir Integera 3 years later instead of 30 years later. Has gotten the attention of the Old Ones and so both Hellsing and Alucard will face enemies they never new existed.
Well, we learn from either the anime or the OVA (don’t remember tbh) that there is in fact a society of true vampires in London, and I think it’s implied that there’s a truce between them and the Helsing organization. It’s also mentioned in the fight against Luke Valentine that Alucards powers are that of a true vampire, meaning that for one they are innate to him, and that there were others similar to him
No. Latin for dragon is "draco". Drăculea is only derived from draco but not a direct translation.
@@dissect123 Dracula translates as Son of the Dragon
@@Farron6 No not exactly. Drăculea means "son of the dragon" in Romanian.
"Dracula" is merely the English adaptation of the word "Drăculea".
Oh man sorry but him vs the blimp chick woulda been incredible, tbh after he came back as one, if there ever do ultimate 2 I would be a literally new uprising, they really should look into it
Cause imo he isn’t controlled anymore only person he should have a convection to is police girl
plottwist:
the main antagonist of the 'drifters' anime/manga is alucard, he is hell bend on destroying all humans because they are the souls he consumed at the end of hellsing ultimate
in other words, drifters is what happens in the 30 year time skip in alucards mind /soul
(and yes i know thats PROBABLY not true but i just find it funny)
"I CALLED HEADS!"
,,NOO''
Alucard from TFS is the only alucard I recognize
Him saying cazal hurt me
I loved the scenes where he's just sitting or standing somewhere smiling.
Man do I love when people misspell Romanian words
Alucard: "Release restraint level 1"
Luke: "Level what?" \*gets slaughtered*
Alucard had such a cool reason for what he did
(But this might be wrong) He held on to his Humanity as long as he could, until humanity failed him (but not _his_ humanity, but the humanity around him). Thus, he shed his own humanity. Resentful that he lost his humanity due to the failings of others, he now is dedicated to route out remaining failures of Humanity that would rob the Humanity from innocents like himself 😲😎
10:32 slight correction/nitpick, in Hellsing ultimate, his shapeless form is actually that of centipedes not just a black energy
Always pleased to see a video about The Count, certainly this version.
Fascinating figure in history, especially when considering the "history is written by the victor" concept, which he most certainly was not.
In a sense, he did achieve a sort of immortality, in the hearts and mind of the people.
Correction, Blade is a Damphir or half vampire.
Thank you! I hate when that is glossed over.
@@xxsaintsw0rdxx964 yw
I do adore the way they revealed who Alucard was in the first anime. It's pretty clear, but it's all show, don't tell.
Garlic was definitely mentioned in Bram Stokers work also Mina did not fall in love with him she was fighting off being turned by him but continued to help Helsing and the boys to fight and kill him. I'm only 9 mins in the video but as of now I'd say you definitely need to read the book
The most Metal thumbnail ever
I remember being led to beleive at the time I watched and read it that he could only transform and take on properties of those he had within him, every death he suffers disperses one of those many souls and as such he's mechanically immortal whilst he contains more than one soul. Seras demonstrates this power slightly after drinking human blood for the first time which always makes me wonder if she really wants to, could she "summon" or "become" Alucard once she conquers that ability or is it only the souls of those after their transformation that they absorb? It's an interesting thought anyway.
IMHO helsing abridged is the best version))
DRACULA doesn't mean IMPALER...
DRACULA means "Son of the Dragon" referring to his father DRACUL who was called "The Dragon" being the grand master of the Ordo Draconis Knights.
Later Dracul became a word used to describe "The Devil" as well.
Tepes means impaler
"When hope is lost..
Undo this lock..
And send me forth on a moonlit walk!
Release restriction Art : Zero~"
Repeating yourself is a violation of my life. The most important thing is time and what you have done is a violation.
I miss the original Hellsing
Love this series. Alucard is one of my favorite characters of all time. Bite down on my neck, you vampiric heartthrob.
Im pretty sure what Alucard can do, any true Vampire could do as well. With the exception of Seras we dont see any other Vampires that arent artificially createt. So I think all Vampires have these abilitys, Dracula was just the strongest of them
you might say the catboy was Millenium's final solution
The fact that death battle said Dio could kill Alucard is insane
Just because it's the middle ages doesn't mean rape was more likely
Besides that, great vid!
I'm hoping for Seras next
Thankfully it’s already happened.
Caligula is the first vampire Dracula is the second in both the movie Dracula untold and at the end of hellsing ultimate it’s shows that Dracula was turned into a vampire by Caligula in the in the movie it’s ah little different but overall it’s the same he drank blood to complete the curse
He was just chillin', like a balla'.. when a bat suddenly bit him.
I feel like you missed an opportunity not calling Alucard's feminine form "Galucard."
Something people don’t know is that Vlad Dracul can be translated literally into Vlad the Devil. He was also part of the order of the dragon and at the time, dragons were interpretation of the devil, similar to the snake in the garden of Eden. We even still have church iconography with saints slaying dragons. Saint Michael, if I’m not mistaken. All of this, along with his brutal methods and his unforgiving stance towards crime, gave him the nickname “the devil” from our superstitious peasants back in the day.
Correction blade is a Half vampire
God class destroyer, last judgement he just gotta eat more
That was a 70-inch plasma screen t.v.
I prefer the Abridged version ngl.
14:50 "When hope is gone, undone this lock..."
Bird of Hermes and The “The Destruction Of Sennncacberi” GOATS
"It was most probable that it was because I had laid over the clamps of those doors garlic, which the Un-Dead cannot bear, and other things which they shun."
Dracula By Bram Stoker In CHAPTER XVI
The only anime where the English dub is actually fantastic!
We neEEd an entire series dedicated to his Girlycard! would be so fun to watch!
Addition of Shrodinger to Alucard was a boon but also a debuf. Reason why he was basically indestructible was that anyone trying to kill him had to basically destroy him as many times as he had souls collected. Now that he has only two and he cannot take more anyone with special enough weapon has to land only a single good blow and he will have to spend one sould to regenerate meaning that he would lose catboy. That said...landing a blow on someone who is everywhere and nowhere at the same time might be a huge challenge.
Can definitely take in any souls he desires. The thing with Schrodinger is that Alucard didn't know about his ability, and did not kill him to force submission when he took his soul. Schrodinger willingly shoved his soul into that river of blood, so Alucard took in an essential Trojan Horse that he couldn't control without isolating it. Now that he's got it solo, subjugated, and freely usable like any normal familiar he can just consume more souls.
Fun fact the t and the s in Tepes are pronounced ts and sh in English like in the words cats and shake. We have letters for them too, just ad a "," bellow the letters
yeah, considering the fact that there is an omnipresent capability.... who wins between the original drac and vampire hunter D? I think that question has been answered.
Rolling it back, I don't honestly think any damphir would superceed an originator, without some serious careless mistakes, but I don't really see a reality where D gets the best of Alucard. Even without the buff of omnipresence, Alucard has the tenacity and violent nature that an offshoot cannot.
What's actually more scary than the vampire fiction, is that Vlad III, Prince of the dragon or Vlad the Impaler was actually real...
Someone once pointed out to me that if you focus on the little dots where the wire of Alucard's glasses meets the lenses, he looks like he's cross-eyed, and it ruined watching Hellsing for me. I couldn't not see them after that. So enjoy everyone.