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[[File:bela1.jpg|frame|[[Vampire Vords|I vant to suck your blood.]]]]
[[Bram Stoker]] was not the first to introduce vampires into western literature (see the "penny dreadful" -- emphasis on 'dreadful' -- novel ''[[Varney the Vampire]]'' for one precursor; also ''[[Carmilla]]'', which introduces [[Lesbian Vampire|lesbian vampires]]; additionally ''[[The Vampyre]]'', which Polidori wrote while hanging around with Mary Shelley and [[Byronic Hero|Lord Byron]]), but his Dracula is the first to enter popular culture -- the name known even by people not familiar with the book, [[Popcultural Osmosis|or even the genre]].▼
▲'''The''' vampire. As [[Sherlock Holmes]] is to detectives and ''[[Superman]]'' is to [[Superhero|superheroes]], so Dracula is to vampires.
▲Bram Stoker was not the first to introduce vampires into western literature (see the "penny dreadful" -- emphasis on 'dreadful' -- novel ''[[Varney the Vampire]]'' for one precursor; also ''[[Carmilla]]'', which introduces [[Lesbian Vampire|lesbian vampires]]; additionally ''[[The Vampyre]]'', which Polidori wrote while hanging around with Mary Shelley and [[Byronic Hero|Lord Byron]]), but his Dracula is the first to enter popular culture -- the name known even by people not familiar with the book, [[Popcultural Osmosis|or even the genre]].
Stoker [[Name's the Same|named the Count]] [[Historical Villain Upgrade|after the historical figure]] [[wikipedia:Vlad III Dracula|Vlad III Dracula]], voïvode of Wallachia, who, despite being similarly bloodthirsty, was more prone to impaling his enemies than to biting their necks and drinking their blood. Indeed, in the novel, [[The Professor|Van Helsing]] conjectures that the two were [[Historical Villain Upgrade|one and the same]] (There's also a popular theory that the name is derivative of "Droth Fhola" (pronounced Druh-Uhlla), the gaelic for "bad blood"), though Bram Stoker [[Did Not Do the Research|did not actually know a lot about the historical Dracula]], beyond the name and a degree of the reputation, probably less than modern fans do.
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He has also appeared in more films than any other character, fictional or otherwise, except for [[Sherlock Holmes]] -- including films where both appear ''together''. Well, unless you count the [[Real Life]] Chinese-Warrior [[Once Upon a Time in China|Wong Fei-Hung]], who has 100 films (and counting) under his name.
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* Count Chocula closely resembles him.
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