Dracula/Characters

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Jonathan Harker

Dracula

Mina Harker

  • Badass Damsel: She is actually pretty smart and organized, not to mention she holds it together MUCH better than her husband and is determined to help.
  • Break the Cutie
  • The Chick
  • Chickification: Arguably happens in many movie adaptations of the original source material. In the novel, she was a well-educated assistant schoolmistress who took care of Lucy early on and kept her from sleepwalking, nursed Johnathon back to health when he was sick and functioned as the secretary of the group, organizing the notes on Dracula. After being attacked, she uses her new-found physic link to help the males keep track of what the Big Bad was doing. All this changed in the 1931 movie adaptation and many later versions in which she was turned into a weeping, hysterical Damsel in Distress who is often in love with Dracula.
  • Composite Character: With Lucy in several adaptations.
  • Evil Scar: The wafe imprint on her forehead that Helsing blesses her with after Dracula's attack. An indication that half of her has become a vampire and she's still in danger of joining the undead (it could be argued she practically is undead at that point, it just her mindset that hasn't converted to bloodlust yet). It goes away once Dracula is killed.
  • Happily Married: Is in a loving relationship with her husband Jonathan, and is not even remotely interested in Dracula though the two don't really meet in the book beyond Dracula's attack on her in retaliation for killing Lucy. But if you look at any other adaptation then it becomes...
    • Your Cheating Heart: Since writers do have the two meet, with Dracula charming her and the eventual discovery that he's not human. Its through this and being bitten that she's willing to risk her marriage and leave Johnathan to be with Dracula. See also Transhuman Treachery below.
  • The Heart
  • Hypocritical Humor: Mina mocks the "New Woman" a few times in her journal.
  • I Made Copies: After Dracula attacks Mina, he trashes Seward's study and burns the Scrapbook Story the heroes are keeping. Unfortunately for him, they had another copy locked up in a safe.
  • Plucky Girl
  • Psychic Link
  • Red Right Hand
  • Sympathy for the Devil
  • Stay in the Kitchen - Deconstructed
  • Team Mom
  • Transhuman Treachery: A few adaptation due to the growing vampirism in her, especially if she's been seduced or charmed by Dracula. So much so that she'll completely forget about Johnathan and willingly allow herself to become a vampire, thus needing to be look after to keep her in check. However considering that, in the book, she is sympathetic to Dracula even after being bitten by him. It does sorta fit her character, albeit in a Character Exaggeration way
  • Vampire Refugee: Unlike Lucy, she wasn't fully drained but is still in danger of turning as she was forced to drink Dracula's blood, inflicting her with vampirism. Depending on the adaptation, either its just a psychic link between her and Dracula with the turning never getting further then that. Or her gaining fangs and becoming more like Dracula's brides as they get closer to the castle. Either way, she's nearly on the edge of joining the undead at that point.

Lucy Westenra

  • Composite Character: With Mina in several adaptations.
  • Damsel in Distress
  • Eats Babies: Tries to, as a vampire...
  • Hair of Gold: The original novel
  • Ill Girl
  • Kill the Cutie
  • Sacrificial Lion: Killed to show the effects of vampirism on a fully drained victim.
  • Sleepwalking: Though implied to be a Dracula mind controlling her.
  • Transhuman Treachery: Depends on the adaptation. In many she mostly just animal-like due to the vampirism (usually implied she still a newborn and hasn't got control of her powers yet). But in a few others, she seems fully aware what she's doing once turned and goes along with it willingly.
  • The Vamp: The only time she speaks as a vampire she tries to seduce Arthur before trying to go for his neck. Helsing stops her just as she about to reach him.

Dr. Abraham Van Helsing

Quincey Morris

Lord Arthur Goldaming

Dr. John Seward

Renfield

The Brides

  • Adaptation Dye Job: In various film and television depictions, the brides are depicted with varying hair colors or shades. Usually depicted as a trio consisting of one blonde, one brunette, and one redhead, one adaptation depicts them as two blondes and a redhead!
  • Amazon Brigade: As short a role they had in the book, they certainly show they're fearsome creatures. Its only because of Dracula they're prevent from feeding on Harker when its clear if they had the chance, Harker would've been drained instantly and most likely turned into a vampire. And it's only due to Helsing's wafers they were kept at bay from taking Mina. And even then they don't give up on trying to get her till the sun rises, even killing the pair's horses. If it was anyone else looking after Mina, the Brides would've most likely overpowered her protectors and claimed Mina easily.
  • Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: How they are depicted sometimes in certain adaptations.
  • Blondes Are Evil: The bride leader. Ironiclly she's viewed as the youngest among the three. Most likely the last victim before Lucy.
  • Blue Eyes: The blonde bride.
  • Eats Babies: In many adaptations, after stopping them from feeding on Johnathan Dracula appeases them with a sack that wriggling. Its never really stated what was in it but many versions assume its a baby. Johnathan blacks out just as the brides crowd around the sack to spare us the details (though depending on what your reading/watching you'll proabaly see a Gory Discretion Shot or a short aftermath of the feeding with the brides smiling contently as blood dribbles from their lips.)
  • Eerie Pale Skinned Brunettes and a Blond: Of course, they're the walking undead after all.
  • Horny Devils
  • Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: While Johnathan saw Dracula scaling the walls of the castle, he chalked it up to fatigue from his trip and his eyes playing tricks on him. Then they had to try and prematurely feed on him before his paperwork with Dracula is done. Needless to say its all the proof Johnathan needed to realize the count wasn't human and make to escape. The stupid thing too is that Drac was gonna give Johnathan to them once the business was conducted and if they had waited, he wouldn't have been none the wiser.
  • Red Eyes, Take Warning: The two dark-haired brides.
  • Rule of Three
  • We Can Be With Dracula Together: Once Mina and Helsing are near the castle, they sense how near vampiric Mina's become and go to collect her. Beckoning her to join their fold since she Dracula's latest bride, even calling her their "sister". A good thing Helsing decided to look after her or the brides would've become a foursome as Mina's clearly feeling the urge to join them.
  • The Vamp: All three of them.
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