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Contents 1 Dracula: Marvel Comics 1.1 History 1.2 Tomb of Dracula 1.3 Movie Adaption 1.4 External Links 2 Heroes: The Company 2.1 Founders 2.1.1 Suzanne Ammaw 2.1.2 Bob Bishop 2.1.3 Charles Deveaux 2.1.4 Harry Fletcher 2.1.5 Paula Gramble 2.1.6 Daniel Linderman 2.1.7 Carlos Mendez 2.1.8 Adam Monroe 2.1.9 Kaito Nakamura 2.1.10 Maury Parkman 2.1.11 Angela Petrelli 2.1.12 Arthur Petrelli 2.1.13 Victoria Pratt 2.2 References

[edit] Dracula: Marvel Comics

Dracula
Dracula from Tomb of Dracula.
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Tomb of Dracula #1
In story information
Alter ego	Vlad Tepes Dracula
Team affiliations	Lord of the Vampires, Legion of the Unliving, Defenders
Notable aliases	Count Dracula, Justin Drake, Dr. Vlad, numerous others
Abilities	Supernatural strength, impervious to most types of physical harm, ability to change form - most commonly into a vampire bat, a wolf or a mist, able to control minds and possesses unnatural charisma

[edit] History

Dracula was born in A.D. 1430; in 1444 he accompanied his father and Radu to Turkey to discuss peace, but they were ambushed, and the sons were held prisoner by Sultan Murad II to force Vlad the Elder to favor Turkey. After five years of torture, Radu had died, and Vlad the Elder and Mircea were killed by Vlad's advisors, led by John Hunyadi, for supporting Turkey. At 18, Vlad escaped and returned home, taking the title of voivode (prince) of Wallachia, but fled after a year, fearing his father's killers. Returning in 1451, Vlad threw himself at the mercy of Hunyadi, who trained him in war.

[edit] Tomb of Dracula

In the early 20th century, Dracula battled a manifestation of Death, vampirized John Falsworth (Baron Blood), slew Jon Harker, defeated mobster Nick Diablo in Rome, met Marianne Cutlass (daughter of the pirate captain), battled the Frenchman in Marsailles, and encountered the demonic Devil's Heart in North Carolina. During World War II, Dracula opposed the Nazis as they destroyed his Gypsy servants; he destroyed Hauptmann Rudolph Kris after he usurped Castle Dracula, and at least once worked with the Howling Commandos. In the latter 20th century, Dracula's exploits were more frequently recorded, and his many adventures included vampirizing Tartoff on whose family he had preyed for generations; seeking the powers of the demons Ypsilloth and Ryg beneath Tarrington's Jenning Mill; fighting Father Vergilius Flotsky in Brass Monkey, New Mexico; observing the destruction of the Immortal Nine's Pool of Blood; battling the young Blade and his vampire hunters in China; solving the mystery of Mortus the Death Man who sought vengeance on the Broadway Project for her father's death; failing to control vampirized CIA pilot Roberta Christianson, and failing to claim the powerful Yazdi Gem from Augustus Ebers. Eventually the vampire-hunter the Scotsman staked Dracula and knocked him into his own Pit of Death. Despite his body's destruction, Dracula's spirit sent his agent Comte St. Germaine to obtain the Amulet of Zarathos in a failed effort to resurrect him.

A few years later, Dracula's descendant Frank Drake inherited Castle Dracula, but his witless friend Clifton Graves removed the Scotsman's stake, restoring Dracula. Drake joined a band of Vampire-Hunters that continually pursued and sometimes even temporarily destroyed Dracula, who traveled to America and then back and across Europe, encountering the likes of Duncan Corley's restless corpse, the Werewolf Jack Russell, the Elderspawn Y'Garon and Elianne Turac (the life-extended daughter of the Turkish warlord), and making a new Castle Dracula from Castle Dunwick, usurped from Sheila Witter. Somehow entering the Vatican despite great agony, Dracula slew Giuseppe Montesi, but not before Montesi had sent a copy of the Formula to Quincy Harker. A disembodied brain who needed human blood to survive and sought vampire servants to obtain it for him, Doctor Sun drained Dracula's power and had him destroyed; but to stop Sun, the vampire-hunters used Aurora Rabinowitz's virgin tears to revive Dracula, who helped Blade temporarily destroy Dr. Sun. Dracula then infiltrated Anton Lupeski's Church of Satan, posing as the devil and seeking to sire a human son. Lupeski saw through the farce but hoped to control the child, and he presided over Dracula's wedding to Domini and the mystic ceremony through which Dracula fathered Janus. Lupeski attempted to kill Dracula, but inadvertently slew Janus instead, and Dracula crushed his skull. Domini magically revived Janus, who merged with the Golden Angel and fought Dracula repeatedly. As punishment for bringing Janus into the world, Mephisto (as Satan) stripped Dracula of his powers, though he became amused and restored them when Dracula became so desperate that he prayed to God for help. Dracula reclaimed the title of Vampire-Lord from the usurper Torgo, but was soon after skewered by a silver spoke in a battle with Quincy Harker, who also perished, destroying the most recent Castle Dracula in the process.

Shortly thereafter, Florence Ebers revived Dracula, seeking to resurrect Augustus in Dracula's body via the Yazdi Gem, but she destroyed the Gem when Augustus turned against her. Dracula encountered the satanic Cult of the Enclave and the life-draining Dimensional Man. Dracula's spirit and strength briefly drained into the young Jacque McDonald after she received a transfusion from her mother, whom Dracula had bitten years earlier. Dracula later bit Howard the Duck, which left a bad taste in his mouth and sent the Duck on a brief bite-frenzy, then vampirized former associate Harold H. Harold. The Defenders aided Dracula against usurper vampire-lord Gordski, who was backed by Puishannt of the Six-Fingered Hand. After twice failing to fully vampirize Storm of the X-Men, Dracula was backed by the magic of the Darkholders, increasing his power, and he fought Thor before being utterly destroyed, along with the rest of the vampires on Earth, when Dr. Strange recited the Montesi Formula; however, Strange's cryogenic suspension of his own vampire brother Victor years before weakened the mighty spell, which was completely broken when Marie Laveau used the Vampiric Verses spell to resurrect Varnae.

Sometime later, a demon named Asmodeus orchestrated Dracula's resurrection. Confused over the absence of Dracula's remains from his castle (where they lay when Asmodeus last observed the Earth), Asmodeus located the vampire's soul, then replaced the soul and the restored remains at the site of his previous death, again skewered by Quincy Harker's silver spoke. Dracula was revived by Professor Gregor Smirnoff, accessing the power of Asmodeus. Through Smirnoff, Dracula tapped the psychic power of 666 students associated with the Belonging cult. He was opposed by Frank Drake, Blade, Katinka, and Inspector Judiah Golem. After being wounded by his enemies, Dracula was eventually overcome by the spirits of the dead passing though him and he exploded.

A later explosion apparently merged Frank Drake and vampire Hannibal King into a new, monstrous Dracula who fought Blade, but the real Dracula's spirit eventually possessed this monster, displacing Drake and King and restoring all three to their original forms. Dracula created an artificial companion in Raynee, but Spider-Man and Dr. Strange drove him from her. Dracula was then infected with a vampire-destroying virus by Charles Seward (descendant of John), which made it impossible to consume human blood, but also turned out to be lethal and highly infectious to humans. Dracula ultimately cured himself by drinking Seward's blood, which had been used in developing the virus. Dracula encountered the mutants of Generation X, then was forced to work with Elsa Bloodstone, whose father he had fought in the past, to oppose the Nosferatu vampires, who sought to infect other "purebred" vampires with an Ebola-like virus, making them immortal blood donors. From within his Transylvanian castle, Dracula prepared himself for the Ritual of Ascendance. Weakened during the incubation period, Dracula surrounded himself with armies of vampires from across the world, including Varnaean vampires, as well as the Adze, Charniputra, and Yiki Onna. Succeeding despite a new batch of Vampire-Hunters, Dracula immobilized Blade and completed the Ritual, assuming immense size and power. Dracula claimed Vampire-Hunter Divinity Drake as his bride, but she then revealed her true identity: Aamshed, the Sumerian sorceress who had created the Ritual millennia ago. Having created a supernatural lodestone to attract the souls of those slain by vampires over the last two thousand years, Aamshed unleashed those souls on Dracula, their purity setting him on fire. Whether needed or not, Blade then leapt forward, plunging a stake into Dracula's chest. As the vampire lord was consumed by the souls, the residual energy spread throughout the castle and the surrounding countryside, consuming the vampires there as well.

[edit] Movie Adaption

COMING SOON!

[edit] External Links

• Marvel's Introduction to Dracula
• Dracula Fansite

[edit] Heroes: The Company

This is a list of the Company Founders.

Name	Special ability	Status	Manner of death	Notes
Suzanne Ammaw[1]	Unknown	Deceased[1]	Unknown	Seen in a photo revealing the twelve.
Bob Bishop[2]	Transmutation	Active		In charge of operations and the financial source of the Company.[3][4]
Charles Deveaux	Unknown	Deceased	Natural causes	Nakamura hinted that he suspected foul play in Deveaux's death.
Harry Fletcher[1]	Unknown	Deceased[1]	Unknown	Originally on the list of evolved humans created by Chandra Suresh.
Paula Gramble[1]	Unknown	Deceased[1]	Unknown	Originally on the list of evolved humans created by Chandra Suresh.
Daniel Linderman	Accelerated healing of others	Deceased	Murder	Bob stated that Linderman was Monroe's "disciple".[5]
Carlos Mendez[1]	Unknown	Deceased[1]	Unknown	Seen in a photo revealing the twelve.
Adam Monroe	Spontaneous regeneration	Active		The original founder of the Company and the mastermind behind the murders of the other founders.[5]
Kaito Nakamura	Unknown	Deceased	Murder	Kimiko and Hiro's father and Ando's employer.
Maury Parkman	Telepathy	Inactive		Molly's "Nightmare Man" and Matt's father. He worked as Monroe's "tool".[5]
Angela Petrelli	Unknown	Active		Peter and Nathan's mother and Arthur's wife.
Arthur Petrelli[6]	Unknown	Deceased	Suicide	Peter and Nathan's father and Angela's husband.
Victoria Pratt[1]	Unknown	Active[1]		Had a close connection with Angela Petrelli, who promised to never reveal who Pratt was.[1]

[edit] Founders

[edit] Suzanne Ammaw

Suzanne Ammaw is one of the founders of The Company. Little is known about her.

[edit] Bob Bishop

Main article: Bob Bishop (Heroes)

[edit] Charles Deveaux

• Played by: Richard Roundtree
• First appears in: Genesis

Charles Deveaux is the wealthy father of Simone Deveaux and a former patient of Peter Petrelli. After finding success via the stock market, he founded the Deveaux Society to "fund causes that bettered the world."^[7] He owns the Deveaux Building, the rooftop of which is a frequently-visited location in the series. Simone believes that Peter is "like a son" to him and that Charles has improved under Peter's care. Charles converses with Peter in the young nurse's dream about having the power of flight. After Peter wakes up, Simone tells Peter that Charles has passed away. Simone also tells Peter that, before dying, Charles said that he had flown with Peter, who said, "everything was going to be all right," and that there were heroes who were going to save the world.

Charles appeared, whether as a dream figure, as part of a time-travel journey of Peter's, or by some other mechanism is left deliberately unclear — and seemed able to see Peter while the latter is invisible to others in the dream (Such as his mother and Simone).^[8]. Charles was part of a previous generation of "heroes", with Angela Petrelli and Kaito Nakamura, and he seemed to be aware of Linderman's and Angela Petrelli's plot. However, he seemed to be quietly opposed to their machinations, and firmly believed that Peter's love and compassion, rather than Nathan's ambition, would save the world.^[7].

[edit] Harry Fletcher

Harry Fletcher is one of the founders of The Company. Little is known about him. He is mentioned on the List as an "evolved Human".

[edit] Paula Gramble

Paula Gramble is one of the founders of The Company. Little is known about her. She is mentioned on the List as an "evolved Human".

[edit] Daniel Linderman

Main article: Daniel Linderman (Heroes)

[edit] Carlos Mendez

Carlos Mendez is one of the founders of The Company. Little is known about him except that he may be Isaac Mendez's father.

[edit] Adam Monroe

Main article: Adam Monroe

[edit] Kaito Nakamura

• Played by: George Takei
• First appeared in: The Fix

Kaito Nakamura is a stern and powerful businessman in Japan and the father of Hiro Nakamura. He is the CEO of Yamagato Industries. He is described as a man with "real power" by his underlings. Mr. Nakamura does not want Hiro going around the United States trying to fulfill his "destiny". In reference to Takei's role as Hikaru Sulu in the original Star Trek television series, the license plate on Mr. Nakamura's limousine has the same number, NCC-1701, as the registration number of the Starship Enterprise.

This characterization of a strict Japanese patriarch is promptly turned upside down. In "Company Man", he is shown working with Thompson for the organization behind Primatech nearly fifteen years before the events of the series' present. He ordered Noah Bennet to adopt Claire on the provision that if she exhibits any abilities she is to be turned over to The Company. It is revealed that not only had he been waiting for someone on the Nakamura line to manifest and has known of Hiro's powers for a long time, but that he once had allies who also had powers.^[9] Mr. Nakamura is on Hiro's side in the attempt to stop Sylar, in direct opposition to the Linderman group. He spends some time training his son in swordsmanship using wooden bokken, revealing that he was once a part of a group of heroes.

When Ando Masahashi is teleported to Yamagato, Kaito informs him that his position has been filled and that he can take Hiro's old post. When Ando asks about Hiro's return, Kaito says that there is no need to cross a bridge before needed.

After receiving a marked photograph of himself hidden in his newspaper, he realizes that he is doomed to die. Upon sending Ando off to retrieve a sword, Kaito meets with Angela Petrelli, who had been similarly threatened. That evening, Kaito is thrown off the roof of the Deveaux building by a hooded individual whom he recognizes. Ando returns just as Kaito is thrown over, and sees his body in the street - but not that of his assailant. In "Cautionary Tales", Hiro goes back in time to prevent his death. Kaito is resigned to his fate, explaining to Hiro that their gifts cannot be used to play God. Hiro lets the murder play out, but uses his powers to learn that the assailant was Adam Monroe.

[edit] Maury Parkman

• Played by: Alan Blumenfeld
• First appeared in: "Fight or Flight"
• Special ability: Telepathy

Maury Parkman is Matt Parkman's father, having abandoned Matt when he was thirteen. He is one of the twelve founders of the Company. Like his son, Mr. Parkman is a telepath; however, his powers are much more developed than Matt's. Instead of just reading surface thoughts, he can read people's memories and manipulate their perceptions of reality, allowing him to trap people in nightmares based on their deepest fears and insecurities. He can either knock a person unconscious and manipulate their dreams, as he did to Molly Walker (and by so doing, left her physical body in a comatose state that lasted until Matt learned how to counter Maury's influence using his own powers), or he can induce "waking nightmares" that allow the person's real body to move, as he did to Matt and Nathan Petrelli, who were tricked into fighting each other while both were experiencing a nightmare scenario. He is also able to detect Molly's attempts to locate him using her power, and he does not require close proximity to affect a person's mind.^[10] His use of this ability has led Molly Walker to give him the name "the Nightmare Man."

Maury was one of several people swayed into believing that those with abilities are superior to humans by Adam Monroe, and when Adam escaped from the Company's custody, he sent Maury to kill those founding members who disagreed with him. He is implied to have been responsible for the self-inflicted wounds of Angela Petrelli. When he attempted to kill Bob, he was stopped by Matt, who managed to trap Maury in his own nightmare.

[edit] Angela Petrelli

Main article: Angela Petrelli

[edit] Arthur Petrelli

• Only appearing in photographs on the show, with additional appearances in official tie-ins.

Arthur "Dallas" Petrelli^[11] is the deceased father of Nathan Petrelli and Peter Petrelli, and through Nathan, the biological grandfather of Claire Bennet. Under the alias "Dallas" He fought in the Vietnam War alongside Linderman and was the first of his unit to know about Linderman's healing powers. After the war, Petrelli and Linderman decided to form a group that would help the world. Linderman reveals to Nathan that because of various misuses of power by members of the group, Arthur became disillusioned and gave up trying to save the world.

[edit] Victoria Pratt

In Cautionary Tales, Matt Parkman shows Angela Petrelli a picture of the founders and noting that the only members still alive were herself, Maury, Bob, and an unknown woman asks her who the woman is, as her life may be at risk. Angela refuses to answer, so Matt uses his telepathy to attempt to force it out of her. Angela still fights it, and states that the woman just wants to be left alone, and that Angela will never give up her secret. Later, Matt has the name "Victoria Pratt" written on a note above her picture. Tim Kring has stated that shewill play an important part in "Volume III".

[edit] References