39,327
edits
Vampire Hunter D: Difference between revisions
m
Mass update links
(Import from TV Tropes TVT:LightNovel.VampireHunterD 2012-07-01, editor history TVTH:LightNovel.VampireHunterD, CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported license) |
m (Mass update links) |
||
Line 15:
Both the books and the movies possess a considerable sense of style, but are also quite disturbing, and not recommended for the faint of heart.
{{tropelist}}
* [[Adaptation Distillation]]: ''Bloodlust'' sheds a lot of the more... unpleasant aspects of the third novel.
Line 53 ⟶ 52:
* [[Distressed Damsel]]: Doris Lang in the first movie and novel. Subverted in that she's an [[Action Girl]] too, but not tough enough to stop a millennia-old Noble on her own.
* [[Downer Ending]]: Several stories end like this.
* [[Dracula]]: The Nobility calls him the Sacred Ancestor, the god of their people. D calls him... well, [[I Hate You, Vampire Dad|a lot of things, mostly bad]]. The author himself gives Dracula different interpretations. At times, he makes Dracula out to be a heroic figure, even once fighting an perverse and evil vampire to save a human village in the backstory for Novel 7. Other times, like in {{spoiler|novel 2}}, he's portrayed as more of a villain, apparently {{spoiler|being the one responsible for transforming the kidnapped children into strange, kinda-sorta vampires. This is more [[Well
* [[The Dragon]]: {{spoiler|Rei-Ginsei}} after he makes a deal with Count Magnus to become one of the Nobility. In the movie his role is drastically reduced and this is pretty much all he is.
* [[Dub Text]]: The Streamline dub inserts a direct [[Shout Out]] to ''[[Shane]]'' in the originally wordless ending scene.
Line 66 ⟶ 65:
* [[Fan Service]]: During their fight in the novel, Doris Lang tries to distract D by dropping her clothes. It only distracts him on a very small scale, but for a completely different reason....
* [[Giant Poofy Sleeves]]: Charlotte
* [[Half
** [[Dhampyr|D]], thanks to Dracula's constant experiments.
** In the first movie, {{spoiler|Larmica was also one}}. This was completely absent from the original story.
Line 72 ⟶ 71:
* [[Hammer Horror]]: A major inspiration for the series.
* [[Heroic Willpower]]: D, despite being a Dhampir, is ''far'' stronger than most of his opponents because of his willpower and resolve not to become a monster. It helps his dad was the [[Dracula|Big D.]]
* [[Hey
** In the first film, D is voiced by Mike McConnohie and Lefty by Kirk Thornton. Both of whom who reappear as major characters in [[Tales of the Abyss]]. It's fun to note that both Left and Jade Curtis are snooty voiced [[Deadpan Snarker|deadpan snarkers]].
** In Bloodlust, [[Futurama (Animation)|Bender]] voices both John Elbourne and the Sherriff of the backwater community, and evil vampiress Carmilla is voiced by [[Wendee Lee]]. [[Vampire Knight|It would not be the last time she voiced a manipulative vampire woman]]. Finally, both the Barbaroi Elder and Benge are voiced by [[The A-Team (TV)|H.M. Murdock]].
Line 88 ⟶ 87:
* [[Naughty Tentacles]]: The Three Sisters' hair, which immobilizes their victim with pleasure, followed by unpleasant execution and digestion.
* [[No Ontological Inertia]]: In the movie, this was the cause of {{spoiler|the Count's castle crumbling to dust when he died}}. In the book, though, it was due to {{spoiler|Larmica's betrayal}}.
* [[One
* [[Organ Autonomy]]: D's left hand is alive. And it won't shut up. There's an upside when your hand can survive being severed for a while and has every reason in the world to give you CPR...
* [[Our Vampires Are Different]]: They follow most of the traditional Vampire traits and weaknesses, but there are always a few exceptions - it's mentioned a few times that some vampire lines have different talents. It gets quite a LOT of attention when a vampire acts abnormally (such as the one that can move through water freely).
Line 108 ⟶ 107:
** No, wait, too late. You're dead all ready.
* [[The Remnant]]: Human civilization is coming back full force and the "Aristocracy" of vampires is on the decline. Vampires can only be found in the hills of the Frontier away from the Capitol at the center of the continent. In their little micro-fiefdoms, though, they still exercise a degree of might.
* [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]]: ''Demon Deathchase'' ended up being one of these. {{spoiler|[[Kill
* [[Shout Out]]:
** Count Magnus Lee is named after [[MR James (Creator)|MR James]]'s famous ghost story "Count Magnus" and [[Christopher Lee]].
Line 117 ⟶ 116:
*** There's also a vampire named 'Meinster.' Given Hideyuki's love of Hammer Horror, the fact that this is the villain of ''The Brides of Dracula'' is assuredly not coincidence.
* [[Sliding Scale of Vampire Friendliness]]: On the low end.
* [[Spell My Name With an "S"]]: The Balkan word for the child of a human and a vampire is "dhampir". When that word was transliterated into Japanese for the novels and then back into English for the American release of the movies, we ended up with "dunpeal". The novels correctly use "dhampir."
** Similarly, in ''Bloodlust'', the main villain Noble is referred to in both text and dialogue as "Meyer Link", despite the fact that a handwritten letter shown partway through the film spells it "Mayerling". The novel uses "Mayerling" consistently.
* [[Sophisticated As Hell]]: D on a few occasions.
| |||