Young Dracula: Difference between revisions

* [[Disguised in Drag]]: Eric van Helsing on several occasions (see [[Paper-Thin Disguise]]), and Jonno just once.

* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: In ''The Yanks Are Coming'', learning to stop drinking blood is treated exactly like quitting smoking.

* [[Dracula]]

* {{spoiler|[[Electra Complex]]: See [[Cain and Abel]].}}

* [[Enemy Mine]]: {{spoiler|Sethius is such an [[Ax Crazy]] [[Complete Monster]] that ''everyone'' realises the need to put aside their differences and team up with Vlad to stop him.}}

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: In episode 3x03 when Vlad's tired of telepathy training, he's given a walky talky for practise and sarcastically says "Whisky Tango Foxtrot" (WTF). For a children's show on the BBC, fairly risky.

** When the Count tries to get Vlad to practise his telepathy:

'''Count''': ...Actually, I can. And in answer: I seriously doubt it would fit. }}

** When the Count tells Renfield his plan to be Miss Mc Cauley secret admire.

'''Renfield''': Is that legal? }}

* [[Historical In-Joke]]: Sort of blink and you'll miss it, but in series one, episode 10, there's a historical in joke which is quite amusing for those who know the history of Dracula.

* [[Hollywood Nerd]]: Borris, a solid Type 1. (Until his 16th birthday, that is...)

* [[Horrible Judge of Character]]: In the series two episode ''Bad Reflection'', Vlad's cousin Boris grows into a full vampire and undergoes a [[Face Heel Turn]] that causes Count Dracula to say [[Even Evil Has Standards]]. Vlad is completely oblivious to this, even after an [[Evil Monologue]] or two. Of course, he has his reasons, since he's very worried about turning evil when he becomes a full vampire, and desperately wanted to believe that his friend had gone through the transformation without any personality change, so it could have been more of a [[Willing Suspension of Disbelief]] on his part.

* [[Line-of-Sight Name]]: When Robin pretending to be a vampire and being questioned by the Westenras, he is asked the name of his parents. Glancing around, his eye falls upon a certain kitchen implement and he says his father is "Count Spatula".

* [[Minion with an F In Evil]]: Renfield.

'''Count Dracula''': They never ''want'' to donate, you fool. That's we have ''fangs''. }}

* [[Missing Mom]]: Vlad and Ingrid's mother ran off with a werewolf, and Jonathan's mother left because of van Helsing's vampire obsession. Magda shows up from time to time. {{spoiler|Mina Van Helsing shows up in the latter half of series 2}}

** the Carpathian Feast is this too. If you're the vampire intended to be thrown into the flames.

* [[Noodle Incident]]:

'''Renfield''': [[Crowning Moment of Funny|You did say that about the porcupine, master.]] }}

* [[Not His Sled]]: In the books the kids were [[Switched At Birth]]. In the TV series Vlad and Robin look this way at first, each fitting into the other's family better. {{spoiler|They're not, no matter how much Robin wishes they were.}}

** Really, a lot of the [[Mythology Gag]] could double as this.

** Renfield Senior's resurrection is a [[Shout-Out]] to Frankenstein, complete with lightning and "It lives!" Also:

** A shout out to Jaws in episode 1 of series 3

* [[Sliding Scale of Vampire Friendliness]]: Vampires become such by merging with evil mirror-world versions of themselves at age sixteen, and how evil they turn depends on their strength of will. Ingrid, for example, is downright bloodthirsty, manipulating and evil before she changes, but when her mirror-self suggests she kill her boyfriend she flees from it. When she does merge, she does it of her own will and overcomes the urges associated with it. Compare with Boris, who is weaker willed. Boris becomes completely psychotic from the merge. Vampires can subsist on animals, but most would prefer not to.

** Vlad, as the Chosen One doesn't have an evil reflection... {{spoiler|he has a ''thousand''.}}

* [[Split Personality Takeover]]: A threat to all born vampires on merging with their reflection on their 16th birthdays. The stronger willed of the two will survive the merge.

* [[Stalker with a Crush]]: The count attempts to seduce Miss [[Mc Cauley]] by acting as a "secret admirer". Unfortunately, he [[Too Dumb to Live|leaves the delivery work to Renfield]], with predicatable results:

* [[Switched At Birth]]: Robin's [[Changeling Fantasy]] centres around the idea that he and Vlad were swapped at birth. They weren't, but Ingrid fakes a diary to convince everyone that they were.

** Funnily enough this was the entire plot of the original book the series was based on.

* [[Those Two Guys]]: Robin's older brothers, Ian and Paul.

* [[Title Drop]]: Executioner Morai in ''When Vampires Go Bad'':

* [[Torches and Pitchforks]]: The Draculas were driven out of Transylvania by an angry peasant mob. When we see the mob in the Count's nightmares and flasbacks, they are wielding the requisite torches and pitchforks.

* [[Total Eclipse of the Plot]]: Shortly after Ingrid becomes a full vampire and is no longer able to go out in sunlight, there is an eclipse that lasts long enough for her to go out to the movies with her boyfriend and make it back home safely.