Talk:Alucard

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There is an archive of an edit war located at Alucard/Archive of August 9 revert war (Aug, 2005, between EliasAlucard and DreamGuy )

No, there's not. Ville V. Kokko 18:39, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] origin?

what is the origin of this alias/alternative name for Dracula? And why are there so many references in vampire popular fiction to what is, as far as I can see, just a silly joke? --86.135.217.213 02:34, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

I'm also curious as to who first used it. As for why it's so popular, it seems that it just stuck. I'd guess that someone used it, other people thought it sounded cool (really frickin cool), and it got retroactively woven into the Dracula mythos once it became popular. 209.42.59.161 08:43, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

I believe the first reference to the name was in the Lon Chaney Jr. film the Son of Dracula as Dracula's son's alias. Supposedly vampires are fond of creating aliases using their own names, such as the vampire Carmilla using the name Mircalla. I think Lord Ruthven did such things, too, in Polidori's story "The Vampyre". If it dates to earlier, please let me know.

The name Alucard is also a reference, from my perspective, to the name of Dracula's son. I'm not too sure what his name really is, but the Count's son called himself Alucard. He is featured in some works of literature - yet i haven't read any - and is a prominent, reoccurring character in the popular video game franchise Castlevania. while this may just seem as though i am a Castlevania fanboy trying to tye the two together, i actually have some decent evidence. Alucard loves to kill other vampires. Not only is this his mission, but often his personal pleasure. In the Castlevania series, Alucard is on a quest to destroy his father, Dracula. This is because he is afraid his father would destroy all of mankind. And while Alucard obviously has little taste for men, he does understand their necessity (not to mention they're being his source of food). Another clue is one of much debate, even in my own mind. Integra refers to Alucard as the "Count". While it is rather easy to dismiss this as a reference to him being Dracula, i took note that Alucard did in fact kill his father (with the help of a few mighty humans) and thereby would inherit that title. Lastly, remember the abundance of pop-culture references in the manga? Well this could tie in nicely as a homage to a great video game, much as the Bruce Willace and Christopher Walkin jokes were. I sure hope this doesn't get torn apart, as it took much thought and research (and discovering a great game series that ended before my gaming days really started). Also, i hope you can give me some further insight into this idea, as I'd like to develop a section on Alucard's page to this theory. Lemme know what you think.

No, he's Vlad Ţepeş aka Count Dracula, born in 1431. How much have of Hellsing have you read? His identity was fully revealed in volume 8 (as if it wasn't already obvious enough). Alucard's backstory is a mixture of Stoker's novel, Coppola's film adaptation, history, and Hirano's own material. Castlevania has absolutely nothing to do with Hellsing. Schrödinger 05:28, 26 June 2007 (UTC)