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Van Helsing

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Van Helsing	label	Van Helsing
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Van Helsing	comment	Van Helsing is a 2004 Supernatural Action Horror-Adventure movie released by Universal Pictures and directed by Stephen Sommers, who did the first two films of The Mummy Trilogy. It stars Hugh Jackman as the eponymous Vampire Hunter, loosely based on the character from Bram Stoker's Dracula. In this incarnation, he works as an agent of the Knights of the Holy Order in the Vatican to hunt down monsters and other abominations. Aiding him is Friar Carl (David Wenham), a slightly irreverent tinkerer and inventor that supplies him with the speciality equipment he needs to take down the creatures of the night.Van Helsing and Friar Carl are sent to Transylvania to help the last of the Valerious family, Anna (Kate Beckinsale) and her brother Velkan (Will Kemp), destroy Dracula (Richard Roxburgh) — because if they don't, several generations of the family will never get to heaven due to their family's oath.Once there, Van Helsing finds himself facing down Dracula and his brides, savage werewolves, and even Frankenstein's creation in the course of his mission — and discovering a few secrets about his own past, with plenty of Universal Horror/Hammer Horror Shout-Outs along the way.There's also a short animated film, Van Helsing: The London Assignment, which is a prequel to this film.
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Van Helsing / int_115d318	type	And Then John Was a Zombie
Van Helsing / int_115d318	comment	And Then John Was a Zombie: Oh, look, vampires are weak to werewolves. Looks like Van Helsing has a new way to make Dracula Deader than Dead.
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Van Helsing / int_1183175e	type	This Was His True Form
Van Helsing / int_1183175e	comment	This Was His True Form: This is why Van Helsing is considered a murderer by the Muggles. When he defeats the monstrous Mr. Hyde, for example, Hyde changes back to the measly Dr. Jekyll as he falls to his doom, and the French authorities don't see this transformation...
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Van Helsing / int_13992073	type	Rasputinian Death
Van Helsing / int_13992073	comment	Rasputinian Death: Dracula has been on the receiving end of one of these for over four centuries, Anna even references the namesake inadvertently when discussing how her family's tried and failed to end the vampire king over their family's long, convoluted history.
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Van Helsing / int_13c880db	type	Creepy Mortician
Van Helsing / int_13c880db	comment	Creepy Mortician: The undertaker in the village who greets Van Helsing.
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Van Helsing / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
Van Helsing / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: In the case of the movie poster. The movie takes great pains to only hint at what Dracula looks like in his One-Winged Angel form until the end fight, but it is right there, in the top right corner of the poster.
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Van Helsing / int_178ca149	type	The Worf Effect
Van Helsing / int_178ca149	comment	The Worf Effect: Anna by Aleera, repeatedly throughout the movie. She gets even.
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Van Helsing / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
Van Helsing / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: The three actresses playing the Brides revealed some nifty extra information about their characters you don't get in the film at all such as Verona being the oldest and Dracula's favourite, Marishka is the middle bride and was a gypsy, and Aleera is the youngest and most jealous. Silvia Colloca said that Verona was "very confident and very wise, never loses her temper [...] she is very dangerous for that reason because she is not very predictable." Van Helsing's buzzsaw weapons are actually called 'Tojo blades', but you will only know this if you've played the video game.
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Van Helsing / int_19d802b6	type	Vampire-Werewolf Love Triangle
Van Helsing / int_19d802b6	comment	Vampire-Werewolf Love Triangle: Van Helsing is in the process of becoming a werewolf when Dracula kidnaps his love interest and tries to seduce her.
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Van Helsing / int_1b4e322c	type	Mr. Fanservice
Van Helsing / int_1b4e322c	comment	Mr. Fanservice: Every single male character in this movie except Frankenstein's Monster. Velkan and Van Helsing get shirtless scenes, and Dracula is the more seductive variant of this trope.
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Van Helsing / int_1b72be3	type	Where's My Gun?
Van Helsing / int_1b72be3	comment	Where's My Gun?: Prince Velcan loses his pistol early in his attempt to kill the werewolf Dracula unleashed off screen to hunt him and his sister down. When his trap is sprung, and the villagers start shooting the captured werewolf, he begins to scream at them to find his gun. Justified as his gun is loaded with Silver Bullets, and is therefore, the only thing that can kill a werewolf. He eventually does find it, and manages to kill the werewolf in question, however he gets knocked off a cliff for his efforts, and later becomes one.
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Van Helsing / int_1ba8eb64	type	Visual Pun
Van Helsing / int_1ba8eb64	comment	Visual Pun: A woman, alone at night, needs some sort of defense to protect herself. What does she grab? Mace. Well, a mace, but you get the idea.
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Van Helsing / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
Van Helsing / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: Anna fails to inform Van Helsing of Dracula's immunity to various traditional anti-vampire weapons before they go into the castle, making the arsenal he's carrying useless.
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Van Helsing / int_1c4ae832	type	Fight Off the Kryptonite
Van Helsing / int_1c4ae832	comment	Fight Off the Kryptonite: Dracula vs. Crucifix. It's a tie, really. He screams, it melts.
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Van Helsing / int_1d9099cb	type	Deadly Disc
Van Helsing / int_1d9099cb	comment	Deadly Disc: Van Helsing uses serrated razor discs both as melee and thrown weapons. Notably, he cuts Mr. Hyde's arm with one, and pins Igor to a wall with another.
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Van Helsing / int_1e8f4221	type	Fingore
Van Helsing / int_1e8f4221	comment	Fingore: Van Helsing tells Anna to cut off one of Igor's fingers if he should fail to comply. She clearly has slightly more esoteric targets in mind...
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Van Helsing / int_1eb49c19	type	Stripperiffic
Van Helsing / int_1eb49c19	comment	Stripperiffic: Anna runs around fighting vampires and werewolves wearing a corset, peasant blouse and high-heeled boots. Averted with the brides, whose fancy gowns transform along with them.
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Van Helsing / int_1fc8335e	type	Deal with the Devil
Van Helsing / int_1fc8335e	comment	Deal with the Devil: How Dracula became a vampire.
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Van Helsing / int_2044af1	type	Faceless Goons
Van Helsing / int_2044af1	comment	Faceless Goons: Dracula's Dwergi, short demented German dwarves that wear gas masks - and for a good reason. Once Van Helsing smashes one Dwergi's mask against the wall, this individual is shown to have milky white eyes and piranha-like teeth. Not a pretty sight.
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Van Helsing / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Van Helsing / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: Europe is full of monsters that kill with impunity and without detection. There is a holy order to protect them, but due to the fact that most monsters turn human upon death, almost all of them are wanted criminals.
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Van Helsing / int_21f7ff0f	type	Knight in Sour Armor
Van Helsing / int_21f7ff0f	comment	Knight in Sour Armor: Van Helsing gives off this attitude early on, complaining about his negative public image and nearly walking out on the Cardinal out of disgust for the Knights of the Holy Order's unwillingness to go public and clear things up. Frankenstein's creature is this. While he's a strong believer that Humans Are the Real Monsters, he does everything he can to make sure Dracula don't get his claws on him in order to save mankind from Dracula's evil. When he gets busted, he allies with the party in order to stop Dracula from finishing his plan.
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Van Helsing / int_2277e005	type	Reluctant Monster
Van Helsing / int_2277e005	comment	Reluctant Monster: Frankenstein's monster just wants to be left alone and live.
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Van Helsing / int_2292c854	type	Between My Legs
Van Helsing / int_2292c854	comment	Between My Legs: The framing of Van Helsing in his first meeting with Anna. And that one moment during the following action scene when he is almost speaking with her special friend. Note that in the bloopers for the latter scene, Hugh Jackman is seen Corpsing and then stage-whispers for someone off-camera to bring him a cigarette.
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Van Helsing / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Van Helsing / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The Light Bomb is introduced early and is useful much later.
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Van Helsing / int_24067bb9	type	Related in the Adaptation
Van Helsing / int_24067bb9	comment	Related in the Adaptation: Inverted. The three vampire women in Dracula were implied to be his relatives, and all implied to be sisters, only being referred to as 'Brides' in pop culture. They're all his wives here.
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Van Helsing / int_25b212aa	type	Vampire Dance
Van Helsing / int_25b212aa	comment	Vampire Dance: The dance hall where Drac is holding a fancy dress party is lined with mirrors, making it obvious to Anna that she's basically the only one there with a pulse.
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Van Helsing / int_25e18c14	type	Haunted Castle
Van Helsing / int_25e18c14	comment	Haunted Castle: Dracula's castle is this big time.
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Van Helsing / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
Van Helsing / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: Implied at Dracula's summer home in Budapest, where at least one of the vampires is a little girl. And that's not even getting into Dracula's offspring exploding all over the place, but that probably falls more under What Measure Is a Non-Human?.
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Van Helsing / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Van Helsing / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: The film opens in black and white, like the classic Universal Horror films. Dr. Frankenstein lets out his famous line of "It's Alive!'' Frankenstein and his creation are trapped in a burning mill, cornered by an angry mob as in the original Frankenstein (1931). The werewolf poem from The Wolf Man (1941) appears with the altered wording from Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man The Frankenstein Monster retains his fear of fire. Guess how Universal killed off Dracula in Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. Dracula asks Igor why he tortures the chained up werewolf. Igor says "It's What I Do", a Call-Back to how he tormented the monster.
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Van Helsing / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
Van Helsing / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: If you're not distracted by Van Helsing scooping up Anna to rescue her from the all-vampire masked ball, you'll see Dracula throw the fire-eater clear across the room, miffed at the guy for (thanks to Carl) accidentally setting him on fire.
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Van Helsing / int_28bbbe24	type	Hereditary Curse
Van Helsing / int_28bbbe24	comment	Hereditary Curse: The Valerious family is bound by a curse that keeps them from entering into Heaven until Dracula is killed. This is the result of a vow taken by a distant ancestor.
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Van Helsing / int_2916334d	type	It's What I Do
Van Helsing / int_2916334d	comment	Dracula asks Igor why he tortures the chained up werewolf. Igor says "It's What I Do", a Call-Back to how he tormented the monster.
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Van Helsing / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
Van Helsing / int_2a090d00	comment	Aleera constantly keeps showing off her power and playing with Anna rather then killing her outright. By the time she finally decides to, Carl throws Anna a stake who wastes no time in driving it into her heart while citing how dumb Aleera was for wasting her opportunities.
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Van Helsing / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
Van Helsing / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: It is revealed that Werewolves are this to Dracula because they are the only creatures on earth that can kill him, which comes to play into the climax when Van Helsing becomes one and has Dracula cornered.
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Van Helsing / int_2b706ca	type	More Dakka
Van Helsing / int_2b706ca	comment	More Dakka:
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Van Helsing / int_2c1f1138	type	He Who Fights Monsters
Van Helsing / int_2c1f1138	comment	He Who Fights Monsters: Van Helsing worries that this is what he's turning into. And then, he's bitten by a werewolf causing this to become a Literal Trope. Frankenstein's creation's words to him upon realizing this don't help.
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Van Helsing / int_2c385759	type	Massive Multiplayer Crossover
Van Helsing / int_2c385759	comment	Massive Multiplayer Crossover: Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, werewolves, Mr. Hyde, Van Helsing all appear in this film.
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Van Helsing / int_2ed5e99d	type	Depraved Bisexual
Van Helsing / int_2ed5e99d	comment	Depraved Bisexual: Aleera is a vicious vampire married to Dracula, who also takes time to creep on Anna before trying to kill her.
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Van Helsing / int_30e50131	type	The Golden Rule
Van Helsing / int_30e50131	comment	The Golden Rule: Subverted, it's another rule that Igor lives by.
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Van Helsing / int_313e9485	type	Hero with Bad Publicity
Van Helsing / int_313e9485	comment	Van Helsing gives off this attitude early on, complaining about his negative public image and nearly walking out on the Cardinal out of disgust for the Knights of the Holy Order's unwillingness to go public and clear things up.
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Van Helsing / int_328445e	type	Holy Water
Van Helsing / int_328445e	comment	Holy Water: Van Helsing dips his automatic crossbow drum into the holy water at a church to make the bolts more effective when firing at vampires.
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Van Helsing / int_33029735	type	Dies Wide Open
Van Helsing / int_33029735	comment	Dies Wide Open: Anna's eyes are still open after she is mauled to death by Van Helsing. The same goes for Mr Hyde's final victim.
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Van Helsing / int_3429147e	type	When the Clock Strikes Twelve
Van Helsing / int_3429147e	comment	When the Clock Strikes Twelve: Van Helsing must be cured by the last strike of midnight — fortunately, in Transylvania the clocks can take ten minutes to strike midnight. Maybe that has something to do with the moon. A particularly noteworthy example, as Dracula can only be killed after the first stroke of midnight.
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Van Helsing / int_35b241c0	type	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
Van Helsing / int_35b241c0	comment	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Kate Beckinsale's ambiguously Eastern European accent can't seem to hold up for more than a few minutes at a time. Strangely, the Australian Hugh Jackman's English accent has some American pronunciations seep through at times as well, and his native Australian surfaces at least once in the early "Q branch" scene when he pronounces Dracula's name in it.
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Van Helsing / int_36e63b81	type	Rule of Cool
Van Helsing / int_36e63b81	comment	Rule of Cool: The plot seems to run entirely on it.
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Van Helsing / int_373283c9	type	This Cannot Be!
Van Helsing / int_373283c9	comment	This Cannot Be!: Dracula says this as Van Helsing changes into a werewolf.
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Van Helsing / int_38bbe8c3	type	Carrying the Antidote
Van Helsing / int_38bbe8c3	comment	Carrying the Antidote: There's a very good reason why Dracula carries the antidote for lycanthropy. He doesn't just annihilate all the werewolves because he needs someone far stronger than a normal human to channel the energies needed in his attempt to bring his horde of baby vampires to life. Before Frankenstein's Monster, he really did need at least one alive. Plus, they make useful servants who have to obey his every command. After their first full moon at any rate.
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Van Helsing / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Van Helsing / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Kate Beckinsale's character hunts vampires. This was originally what was preventing her from being cast; as she had just done Underworld, Stephen Sommers feared she wouldn't want to do another vampire film. However, her agent convinced him to send her the script, and she immediately signed on. Hugh Jackman plays the role of a grim loner with no memory of who he was, while facing an enemy who knows him and his forgotten past and taunts him for it. He also turns into a werewolf. More superficially he also bares his claws in a very similar way to Wolverine. Silvia Collocca (Verona) has often been compared to fellow Italian actress Monica Bellucci. It can't be a coincidence that Collocca is playing the same character Bellucci played in Bram Stoker's Dracula. Kevin J. O'Connor plays another The Renfield character by serving a horror movie villain out of greed. In another Steven Sommers film no less.
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Van Helsing / int_3c700857	type	Guys Smash, Girls Shoot
Van Helsing / int_3c700857	comment	Guys Smash, Girls Shoot: Inverted during Anna and Velkan Valerious' first fight in the film (against a werewolf); Anna uses a sword, while Velkan uses a revolver loaded with silver bullets. Also, Van Helsing himself has more of a penchant for ranged weapons (except when he's a werewolf) such as his buzz-saw chakrams that he can throw at a distance, his Batman-style grappling hook, his Automatic Crossbow, a blowgun, and traditional firearms.
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Van Helsing / int_3c9a1e4a	type	Purgatory and Limbo
Van Helsing / int_3c9a1e4a	comment	Purgatory and Limbo: The priest/bishop at the beginning states that if Dracula isn't vanquished by Anna Valerious, her whole family will stay in Purgatory forever.
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Van Helsing / int_3cb17a19	type	Super-Powered Evil Side
Van Helsing / int_3cb17a19	comment	Superpowered Evil Side: Mr. Hyde is a big, muscular brute compared to Dr. Jekyll.
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Van Helsing / int_3d43f6bf	type	Bat People
Van Helsing / int_3d43f6bf	comment	Bat People: Dracula and his brides have the ability to shapeshift into bat-like humanoids, which they do at several points in the film. Director Stephen Sommers stated in one behind-the-scenes interview that he explicitly wanted the vampires to shapeshift into something other than ordinary bats because "I'm not afraid of bats, but what if my bat had a 15-ft wingspan?". Count Dracula sires a brood of vampire infants, all stillborn and suspended from the vaulted ceiling in their amniotic sacs. Once the Count's Evil Plan succeeds in energizing his offspring with "filtered" lightning, they come to life, and fly on bat-like wings into the nearby town. There, they set upon the townsfolk like a swarm of ten-pound vampire bats.
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Van Helsing / int_3ec27f76	type	Costume Porn
Van Helsing / int_3ec27f76	comment	Costume Porn: All three brides wear very elaborate dresses. Also, the masquerade ball has dozens of extras dressed outlandishly. Justified in that case, since it's said to be All Hallow's Eve.
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Van Helsing / int_3ec7c277	type	Every Car Is a Pinto
Van Helsing / int_3ec7c277	comment	Every Car Is a Pinto: ...Including horse-drawn carriages loaded with wooden stakes and explosive charges. That are on fire. Justified as the carriage in question was meant to be a 19th century equivalent of a car bomb.
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Van Helsing / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Van Helsing / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Dracula is dead and his plans are foiled, and Frankenstein's monster is free to roam the world. Anna, however, is accidentally killed by Van Helsing in the process of curing his lycanthropy, but with Dracula dead, she and her family are finally allowed to enter Heaven.
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Van Helsing / int_44106359	type	Last-Second Villain Recovery
Van Helsing / int_44106359	comment	Last-Second Villain Recovery: Early in the film, Van Helsing dukes it out with Mr Hyde at Notre Dame Cathedral and appears to achieve a victory by shooting his opponent through the chest with his Grappling-Hook Pistol. With Van Helsing down at street level and the target up on the roof, it looks as if Hyde is going to be dragged to his death, and he appears to be teetering dangerously on the edge of the tower as the monster hunter reels him in... only for Hyde to grab the cable and remark "my turn!" Suddenly, Van Helsing finds himself wrenched into the air as his opponent yanks the grappling hook across the rooftops, and the only thing that saves his life is the fact that Hyde fails to look where he's going over the course of this tug-of-war, tripping over the tower railing and plunging to his death.
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Van Helsing / int_443b78cd	type	Tranquil Fury
Van Helsing / int_443b78cd	comment	He gives a rather calmer, more measured, and more damning one to Van Helsing not long before, when he thinks Van Helsing is going to turn him over to Dracula.
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Van Helsing / int_4583a262	type	Shirtless Scene
Van Helsing / int_4583a262	comment	Shirtless Scene: It's an action movie starring Hugh Jackman, 'nuff said. That being said, Will Kemp strips off his shirt once he turns into a werewolf, and doesn't put it back on.
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Van Helsing / int_45a01289	type	Angel Unaware
Van Helsing / int_45a01289	comment	Angel Unaware: The title character is implied to be this, due to repeatedly being referred to by Dracula as "Gabriel" and, at one point, the "left hand of God". Van Helsing also early on mentions to Carl that he remembers fighting Romans at Masada in 72 AD. The novelisation actually downright confirms this: Van Helsing is mentioned as having two large disfiguring scars between his shoulder blades, right where wings would be. The scars would seem to imply they were forcibly torn out.
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Van Helsing / int_4660f594	type	Lover, Not a Fighter
Van Helsing / int_4660f594	comment	Lover, Not a Fighter: Friar Carl, who justifies his Rescue Nookie with a random townswoman because he's not a monk and therefore not bound by any vows of celibacy.
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Van Helsing / int_469be060	type	Immune to Jump Scares
Van Helsing / int_469be060	comment	Immune to Jump Scares: Mr. Hyde tries to scare Van Helsing by welcoming him with a jump scare from the ceiling. Despite being a ruthless murderer, he praises his pursuer's tranquility and remarks with intrigue he'll be "hard to digest".
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Van Helsing / int_48078a7	type	Cool Versus Awesome
Van Helsing / int_48078a7	comment	Cool Versus Awesome: The final battle — a werewolf vs. Dracula.
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Van Helsing / int_485eb589	type	Sealed Evil in a Can
Van Helsing / int_485eb589	comment	Sealed Evil in a Can: Dracula was given wings by the devil to circumvent this.
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Van Helsing / int_4881cda1	type	Ãœberwald
Van Helsing / int_4881cda1	comment	Ãœberwald: The film's setting, and a cold one at that.
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Van Helsing / int_48eca159	type	Backing into Danger
Van Helsing / int_48eca159	comment	Backing into Danger: Upon realising there's a werewolf in the large armoury with her, Anna does this in true "horror movie idiot" fashion by walking through the middle of the room (leaving herself open to attack from all sides) while brandishing a pistol (which, being a ranged weapon, gives an even more compelling reason to look ahead and try and spot the monster from as far away as possible). She also commits the other stereotypical horror movie mistake of not looking up, despite knowing that werewolves are capable of a Ceiling Cling.
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Van Helsing / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
Van Helsing / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: Evil, foreboding CGI castles are pretty. Hell, the whole setting is pretty well shot. If nothing else, the filmmakers get the spooky feeling right.
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Van Helsing / int_4ac8b81f	type	Humans Are the Real Monsters
Van Helsing / int_4ac8b81f	comment	Frankenstein's creature is this. While he's a strong believer that Humans Are the Real Monsters, he does everything he can to make sure Dracula don't get his claws on him in order to save mankind from Dracula's evil. When he gets busted, he allies with the party in order to stop Dracula from finishing his plan.
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Van Helsing / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Van Helsing / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: In the climax, there's Dracula asking Van Helsing "Did I mention that it was you who murdered me?" Making Helsing the one responsible for partially kickstarting the curse which the Valerious family has been fighting for generations. Subverted with:
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Van Helsing / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
Van Helsing / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: At the masked ball, Dracula dances with Anna amidst a huge crowd of Budapest party-goers. He lowers her into a dip in front of a full-length mirror, which reveals that Dracula casts no reflection... and aside from Anna, neither does anyone else. The audience's Oh, Crap! is mirrored by Anna in-universe.
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Van Helsing / int_5029c444	type	Audible Sharpness
Van Helsing / int_5029c444	comment	Audible Sharpness: Van Helsing's werewolf claws extend with a Wolverine-like SNIKT.
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Van Helsing / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
Van Helsing / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: The brides are full of this when they go monster, morphing their faces and unhinging their jaws. One particular scene in the climax had Aleera gets this when the acidic material get thrown in her face. Granted, being a vampire it doesn't kill her, but we see most of it burned before she regenerates.
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Van Helsing / int_516ac9a8	type	Viking Funeral
Van Helsing / int_516ac9a8	comment	Viking Funeral: Anna's pyre.
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Van Helsing / int_5216ae05	type	Demonic Vampires
Van Helsing / int_5216ae05	comment	Demonic Vampires: Dracula's immortality is a result of him making a covenant with the devil.
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Van Helsing / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
Van Helsing / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: Dracula is surprisingly pleasant and polite for a bloodsucking hellbeast.
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Van Helsing / int_5473668f	type	Logo Joke
Van Helsing / int_5473668f	comment	Logo Joke: The Universal logo is black and white, and in a Match Cut becomes a torch.
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Van Helsing / int_548bd053	type	Guns Akimbo
Van Helsing / int_548bd053	comment	Guns Akimbo: Van Helsing pulls both his pistols just as Hyde throws him across the belltower: firing them in unison at the monster.
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Van Helsing / int_575fd5e2	type	Dark Is Not Evil
Van Helsing / int_575fd5e2	comment	Dark Is Not Evil: Van Helsing, Frankenstein's monster and even Anna dress in dark, gothic colors but are all heroic.
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Van Helsing / int_58afe9f2	type	Torso with a View
Van Helsing / int_58afe9f2	comment	Torso with a View: Mr. Hyde shows off a hole clean through his right arm while talking about his and Van Helsing's previous skirmish in London.
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Van Helsing / int_5bdcc85a	type	Disney Villain Death
Van Helsing / int_5bdcc85a	comment	Disney Villain Death: Igor falls from a great height not to be seen again.
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Van Helsing / int_5cc0d020	type	Castlevania (Franchise)
Van Helsing / int_5cc0d020	comment	The film is basically Castlevania: The Movie. Van Helsing himself feels like a Captain Ersatz of various Belmonts (with some Cornell from Castlevania 64 as he transforms into a werewolf), the Valerious line of monster hunters could very well be named Belmont, there's a boss fight with a werewolf and a more challenging one with some female vampires, there are some platform sections with falling bridges and chain swinging, the castle design is similar, and as is already mentioned, Dracula has a bat-like second form. The tie-in video game also alludes to "An ancient clan of vampire hunters known as the Belmonts."
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Van Helsing / int_5f71cdb7	type	Cigarette Burns
Van Helsing / int_5f71cdb7	comment	Cigarette Burns: Mr. Hyde puts out his cigar on his tongue before eating the remains.
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Van Helsing / int_60ea2a89	type	Starter Villain
Van Helsing / int_60ea2a89	comment	Starter Villain: Mr. Hyde is the first monster Van Helsing faces onscreen, giving the viewers an idea of how he operates and the mishaps that tend to occur once he does defeat evil.
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Van Helsing / int_6134738	type	Find the Cure!
Van Helsing / int_6134738	comment	Find the Cure!: It's rumored that Dracula possesses a cure of lycanthropy. After Van Helsing is infected with lycanthropy himself, Anna and Carl must find the cure in Dracula's castle and administer it to him before the curse can take him over permanently.
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Van Helsing / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
Van Helsing / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: Just minutes into the movie, as Dracula talks with Dr. Frankenstein, there's a moment where the camera focuses on Dracula and lightning flashes. For just one or two frames, Dracula's true form is shown in detail almost two hours before the big reveal of what he really looks like at the climax.
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Van Helsing / int_66c725b6	type	Inconsistent Spelling
Van Helsing / int_66c725b6	comment	Inconsistent Spelling: Dracula once gives his full name to Van Helsing using an archaic spelling and pronunciation, "Dragulia" in the English subtitles. It's left unexplained further but presumably "Dracula" is a Latinized form and it's justified by Dracula being centuries old. In reality the name Dracula had several alternate spellings/pronunciations along this line and the modern Romanian form is "DrÄƒculea".
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Van Helsing / int_69fb91e8	type	Chewing the Scenery
Van Helsing / int_69fb91e8	comment	Chewing the Scenery: "Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy?" Frankenstein's monster's (very loud) "Reason You Suck" Speech to the Lesser Vampires also counts.
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Van Helsing / int_6be52ff2	type	Prehensile Tail
Van Helsing / int_6be52ff2	comment	Prehensile Tail: Dracula's babies have them.
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Van Helsing / int_6c7a36fc	type	Vampire Refugee
Van Helsing / int_6c7a36fc	comment	Vampire Refugee: Van Helsing gets turned into a werewolf, and is prophesied to kill Dracula in this form. Meanwhile, Carl and Anna race to get the antidote to him before the last stroke of midnight, at which time he'll be a permanent werewolf.
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Van Helsing / int_6dafc69d	type	Decoy Getaway
Van Helsing / int_6dafc69d	comment	Decoy Getaway: Mr. Hyde traps Van Helsing underneath a church bell. He then hears the sound of Van Helsing's buzzsaw weapons cutting through the floor. He lifts the bell and sees that a hole has been cut in the floor, and it looks like Van Helsing has escaped through it. However, Van Helsing is actually performing a Container Cling at the top of the bell, and slices Hyde's arm off.
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Van Helsing / int_6dd37459	type	It's Going Down
Van Helsing / int_6dd37459	comment	It's Going Down: Unusually, the windmill is toast at the beginning.
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Van Helsing / int_6feaf27b	type	Scarily Competent Tracker
Van Helsing / int_6feaf27b	comment	Scarily Competent Tracker: Van Helsing is this as a hunter. He notes several aspects of Frankenstein's Monster just from a set of footprints. He can even tell that he has copper teeth but that's because he saw the Monster hiding in the shadows right behind Anna.
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Van Helsing / int_704d7e91	type	No Ontological Inertia
Van Helsing / int_704d7e91	comment	No Ontological Inertia: When Hyde's arm is cut off, it turns into Jekyll's arm. (Helsing has a reputation as a serial killer because so many of the monsters he kills turn into human corpses.) And killing Dracula causes anything created by him to die.
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Van Helsing / int_71748a39	type	Named by the Adaptation
Van Helsing / int_71748a39	comment	Named by the Adaptation: The three brides have no names in Dracula. Here they are named Aleera, Verona, and Marishka.
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Van Helsing / int_71d1ee83	type	Coat, Hat, Mask
Van Helsing / int_71d1ee83	comment	Coat, Hat, Mask: Van Helsing sports these for his intro shot but quickly ditches the mask.
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Van Helsing / int_72f98935	type	Heroic Build
Van Helsing / int_72f98935	comment	The werewolves may count as a gender flipped version. They all have Heroic Builds, and become even more jacked when they transform. Van Helsing's werewolf form makes puppy dog eyes at seeing Anna dead.
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Van Helsing / int_733e007a	type	Unwitting Pawn
Van Helsing / int_733e007a	comment	Unwitting Pawn: Dr. Victor Frankenstein is this to Dracula.
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Van Helsing / int_736d791f	type	Adaptational Badass
Van Helsing / int_736d791f	comment	Adaptational Badass: One of the entire points to making the film was to reinvent the Van Helsing character into a younger, action hero-type. In the book, Abraham van Helsing was an Omnidisciplinary Scientist who spoke comically broken English. He was well built, but getting on in years, and did not perform any notable act of physical skill; he was purely The Smart Guy. Dracula himself as well. He has the majority of powers he had in the original novel, but is also largely immune to all of the original's weaknesses. The only thing that can kill him is a werewolf bite. This was also made a conscious choice regarding the design of his famed ability to turn into a bat, which takes things even further than the 1992 film did. This Dracula's "bat" form is an eight foot tall demon-beast. Dracula's Brides. In this portrayal they're not only directly active in the plot, and serve as second-only to Dracula regarding their threat level but they also have strength and transformation abilities similar to Dracula himself. In the book, Van Helsing is able to kill them all at once while they're asleep during the day. Here, they are killed one by one across the entire movie after putting up a big fight.
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Van Helsing / int_73731600	type	Lecherous Licking
Van Helsing / int_73731600	comment	Lecherous Licking: A Lesbian Vampire licks Anna's face with her very long tongue.
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Van Helsing / int_75735299	type	Vampire Monarch
Van Helsing / int_75735299	comment	Vampire Monarch: All the vampires and werewolves answer to Dracula, who presumably was the first vampire. Van Helsing manages to subvert this, however.
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Van Helsing / int_78d103c3	type	Exposition of Immortality
Van Helsing / int_78d103c3	comment	Exposition of Immortality: Van Helsing remembering fighting the Romans in 73 A.D and also Dracula introducing himself as born 1422, murdered 1462. The film's set in 1888.
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Van Helsing / int_79f9249	type	Horrifying the Horror
Van Helsing / int_79f9249	comment	Horrifying the Horror: Once Dracula realises that Van Helsing (a veteran Hunter of Monsters who wants him dead) is transforming into the only creature on earth that can kill him (a werewolf).
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Van Helsing / int_7a2ebcba	type	Frankenstein's Monster
Van Helsing / int_7a2ebcba	comment	Frankenstein's Monster: A very steampunk incarnation is an ally of Van Helsing.
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Van Helsing / int_7b20b8d2	type	Alternative Foreign Theme Song
Van Helsing / int_7b20b8d2	comment	Alternative Foreign Theme Song: The Japanese version uses "Wild Romance" by Kyosuke Himuro.
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Van Helsing / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
Van Helsing / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: Anna manages to cut off Frankenstein's monster in mid-rant: The Monster himself gets one at the start of the story.
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Van Helsing / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Van Helsing / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Frankenstein's Monster gives a rather loud one to Dracula's undead minions after being captured by them: He gives a rather calmer, more measured, and more damning one to Van Helsing not long before, when he thinks Van Helsing is going to turn him over to Dracula.
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Van Helsing / int_7f83deca	type	Cross-Melting Aura
Van Helsing / int_7f83deca	comment	Cross-Melting Aura: Dracula can melt crosses that he touches.
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Van Helsing / int_80a2c2de	type	Monster Mash
Van Helsing / int_80a2c2de	comment	Monster Mash: Vampires vs. werewolf and hunter and Frankenstein's Monster.
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Van Helsing / int_815d5a99	type	The Three Faces of Eve
Van Helsing / int_815d5a99	comment	The Three Faces of Eve: Dracula's brides - Verona is the Wife (she appears as the leader and her actress confirms that she is the Queen Bride). Marishka is the Child - we don't see too much of her but she is very playful and not as bright as the other two. Aleera is the Seductress - she has the most Les Yay with Anna.
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Van Helsing / int_817e24b7	type	Fur Against Fang
Van Helsing / int_817e24b7	comment	Fur Against Fang: Apparently the only thing in the known universe that can kill Dracula is a werewolf.
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Van Helsing / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Van Helsing / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Dracula is contractually required to be like this. Frankenstein's monster is no slouch either. Neither are the vampire brides. Velkan hams it up the best he can in the few scenes where he's human.
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Van Helsing / int_83ede4e3	type	Automatic Crossbows
Van Helsing / int_83ede4e3	comment	Automatic Crossbows: Van Helsing wields a gas-powered automatic gatling-style crossbow.
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Van Helsing / int_853a0e84	type	Transformation Discretion Shot
Van Helsing / int_853a0e84	comment	Transformation Discretion Shot: Prior to the climax, Dracula's infrequent transformations into a giant bat-creature are seen only in shadow, with the creature itself only being glimpsed as a silhouette or from a distance. It's not until the final battle that he goes full-blown One-Winged Angel in full view of the camera.
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Van Helsing / int_85ac41e1	type	Grappling-Hook Pistol
Van Helsing / int_85ac41e1	comment	Grappling-Hook Pistol: Van Helsing used this to escape Frankenstein's castle, as well as offensively to impale Mr. Hyde in the chest.
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Van Helsing / int_85b00e2e	type	Disaster-Dodging Dog
Van Helsing / int_85b00e2e	comment	Disaster-Dodging Cow: During the fight with Dracula's brides, one of them picks up a whole cow and chucks it through a building with a comical "MOO!" When the fight ends, the cow emerges from the wreckage completely unharmed.
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Van Helsing / int_85c5e37e	type	Vein-o-Vision
Van Helsing / int_85c5e37e	comment	Vein-o-Vision: As Aleera has Anna at her mercy, we briefly see her from Aleera's point of view, which shows her as a walking bunch of veins.
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Van Helsing / int_887da4ea	type	Died Happily Ever After
Van Helsing / int_887da4ea	comment	Died Happily Ever After: Anna's spirit smiles as she ascends to Heaven, and it's made clear she's with her family again.
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Van Helsing / int_88c6e936	type	Masquerade Ball
Van Helsing / int_88c6e936	comment	Masquerade Ball: Dracula holds Anna captive at a very large and elaborate one.
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Van Helsing / int_88e6f113	type	Pull Yourself Down the Spear
Van Helsing / int_88e6f113	comment	Pull Yourself Down the Spear: In the distant prologue, Dr. Victor impales Dracula with a sword, but Dracula just pulls himself down the sword to get closer to Victor and bite him.
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Van Helsing / int_88e7f8b8	type	Batman Cold Open
Van Helsing / int_88e7f8b8	comment	Batman Cold Open: Van Helsing's fight with Mr. Hyde at the start of the film.
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Van Helsing / int_89a401a5	type	Decoy Convoy
Van Helsing / int_89a401a5	comment	Decoy Convoy: While transporting Frankenstein's Monster to Rome, Van Helsing's carriage is attacked by Dracula's brides; Van Helsing escapes but the carriage falls into a ravine. One of the brides dives into the ravine and pries the door of the carriage, only to find a bomb lined with silver stakes that promptly blows up and impales her. Riding away from the ravine, Van Helsing spots the carriage that's actually transporting the monster, being driven by Anna.
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Van Helsing / int_8a16409a	type	Shovel Strike
Van Helsing / int_8a16409a	comment	Shovel Strike: Top Hat (the gravedigger) attempts to attack Van Helsing with his shovel as he has his back turned on him. Van Helsing catches the shovel, Top Hat gives a half-hearted apology and is then killed by a werewolf.
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Van Helsing / int_8a7e27b5	type	Stab the Scorpion
Van Helsing / int_8a7e27b5	comment	Stab the Scorpion: When Van Helsing arrives in the village and tries to tell Anna he has come to help her, she asks him to prove it. He responds by suddenly points his crossbow at her. As she ducks, he pulls the trigger and fires at the incoming vampire brides.
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Van Helsing / int_8a7f47c7	type	Pivotal Wake-up
Van Helsing / int_8a7f47c7	comment	Pivotal Wake-up: Dracula can enter and exit his costume on a hinge. He can effectively walk up wall like this, too.
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Van Helsing / int_8bb79fdf	type	Designated Girl Fight
Van Helsing / int_8bb79fdf	comment	Designated Girl Fight: Anna was destined to kill Dracula (or rather, her entire family was supposed to and she's just the last one left). She fights his brides instead. She does fight the first werewolf and merely ends up in danger because she was trying to get the one gun with silver bullets and was unlucky enough to be under the cage when it fell. She also shoots the second when it attacks her in the castle until she finds out it's Velkan.
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Van Helsing / int_8c96e3bc	type	Chandelier Swing
Van Helsing / int_8c96e3bc	comment	Chandelier Swing: The movie is extremely fond of having the heroes swinging from very long ropes and with enough momentum that they should have killed themselves several times.
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Van Helsing / int_8cb259f4	type	Overshadowed by Awesome
Van Helsing / int_8cb259f4	comment	Overshadowed by Awesome: Anna Valerious just can't keep up with Van Helsing and is constantly in over her head against vampires and werewolves. She does come into her own in the third act, successfully swinging from one tower to another using just a cable, and catching a werewolf cure in mid-air, then killing Aleera by also catching something being thrown in mid-air.
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Van Helsing / int_8cb844c6	type	Mr. Exposition
Van Helsing / int_8cb844c6	comment	Mr. Exposition: Carl. Lampshaded in the scene where he is explaining Dracula's backstory and he gets annoyed when Anna and Van Helsing fill parts of it in.
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Van Helsing / int_8fa248fa	type	Variable Terminal Velocity
Van Helsing / int_8fa248fa	comment	Variable Terminal Velocity: The vampire brides manage to fly down faster than a horse carriage falling down a chasm.
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Van Helsing / int_8ff8d545	type	Kissing Cousins
Van Helsing / int_8ff8d545	comment	Kissing Cousins: Dracula offers Anna to become his new bride while he has her in his clutches. She's his descendant, 400 years removed. Of course, it's Dracula, so...
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Van Helsing / int_90f6d157	type	Confessional
Van Helsing / int_90f6d157	comment	Confessional: Van Helsing meets his superior in one of these.
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Van Helsing / int_91835104	type	Motivational Kiss
Van Helsing / int_91835104	comment	Motivational Kiss: When Van Helsing and Anna split up before the climactic battle, he to face down Dracula using his werewolf power to defeat the vampire and she to retrieve the werewolf cure serum.
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Van Helsing / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
Van Helsing / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Discussed when Victor Frankenstein discovers the extent of Dracula's evil, then played straight soon after when Dracula rips out his throat.
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Van Helsing / int_95265081	type	Leeroy Jenkins
Van Helsing / int_95265081	comment	Anna and her brother Velkan tend to Leeroy Jenkins when they attack things, such as werewolves, despite knowing that if they die their entire family won't be allowed into Heaven. Presumably the Knights realized this, which is why they sent Van Helsing in the first place.
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Van Helsing / int_964ea66c	type	A-Team Firing
Van Helsing / int_964ea66c	comment	A-Team Firing: Van Helsing might want to spend some time at a shooting range before his next assignment.
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Van Helsing / int_9657fe0f	type	Transformation Sequence
Van Helsing / int_9657fe0f	comment	Transformation Sequence: Several; the vampires shapeshift from human to bat-creature forms, while other humans become werewolves.
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Van Helsing / int_969b13a6	type	Hot Gypsy Woman
Van Helsing / int_969b13a6	comment	Hot Gypsy Woman: Anna, the Romani princess, who runs around in sexy corsets despite being a fighter. Marishka was apparently of Romani origin too before she was turned, and she has the belly dancer costume.
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Van Helsing / int_96e01893	type	Bodyguard Babes
Van Helsing / int_96e01893	comment	Bodyguard Babes: The Brides are Dracula's primary enforcers and are all beautiful.
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Van Helsing / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Van Helsing / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Count Vladislaus Dragulia, AKA Dracula, the vampire Van Helsing has been sent to kill.
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Van Helsing / int_970cc8cd	type	Big
Van Helsing / int_970cc8cd	comment	Big "WHY?!": After Dr. Frankenstein is murdered by Dracula, Frankenstein's monster proceeds to carry the dead body to the top of the windmill and bellows this out to the angry mob down below, questioning their anger at the man who created him.
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Van Helsing / int_987dbb69	type	Vampire Hunter
Van Helsing / int_987dbb69	comment	Vampire Hunter: Well, Van Helsing, who else?
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Van Helsing / int_991a3be9	type	Ridiculously Alive Undead
Van Helsing / int_991a3be9	comment	Ridiculously Alive Undead: Played With in Dracula's case: his vampire brides are able to give birth, but the children are dead on arrival and need to be brought to life using electricity run through Frankenstein's Monster.
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Van Helsing / int_9b3c14cb	type	Van Helsing Hate Crimes
Van Helsing / int_9b3c14cb	comment	Van Helsing Hate Crimes: Played with. Van Helsing can see that Frankenstein's monster is not really evil. The Knights of the Holy Order haven't met him, however, so they don't and have sent orders for Van Helsing to kill him as soon as possible because he isn't human and because destroying him would cut off Dracula's plot.
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Van Helsing / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Van Helsing / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Van Helsing knocks Anna unconscious with a spray to stop her from going on a suicide mission, and ends up catching her in his arms in a certain way. He holds her the same way when she dies at the end. When Dracula is dancing with Anna, he stops in front of the mirror: as per the myths, he has no reflection...and neither do any of the other hundreds of party-goers in view of the mirror. Sure enough, every last one of them is a vampire too.
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Van Helsing / int_9d17b859	type	Made of Iron
Van Helsing / int_9d17b859	comment	Made of Iron: Van Helsing and Anna. Comes in handy when you're being thrown through buildings, but it makes little sense for Anna since she's by all standards a normal human while Van Helsing is implied to be a literal angel who has lost both his wings but seems to be as powerful as a human (or possibly superhuman).
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Van Helsing / int_9d1cc720	type	Barbie Doll Anatomy
Van Helsing / int_9d1cc720	comment	Barbie Doll Anatomy: The vampires when in monster mode have no nipples and genitalia on their seemingly nude bodies. Justified in that all the creatures that transform have their clothes transform too. The lone exceptions are the werewolves, who retain their pants when transforming, even as they rip off their upper clothing and skin.note Van Helsing actually did turn back from werewolf to human fully nude in the finale, but it was found to be too distracting over Anna's death, so he was given Magic Pants.
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Van Helsing / int_9e0c3153	type	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
Van Helsing / int_9e0c3153	comment	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: Dracula to Dr. Frankenstein:
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Van Helsing / int_9f63d4f1	type	Our Vampires Are Different
Van Helsing / int_9f63d4f1	comment	Our Vampires Are Different: Somewhat — they can shift from monster to human forms and can reproduce. As Van Helsing states, since they're undead their offspring are stillborn. Thus the need for energy filtered through a supernatural source (i.e: werewolves or Frankenstein's Monster) to bring them to life. Dracula himself seems to operate under different rules, as he himself can't be killed via a stake through the heart unlike his brides, because he has no heart. Crosses also burst into flame around him, and he can transform into an even bigger bat-like demon. His only weakness is the bite of a werewolf.
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Van Helsing / int_a27c0c2c	type	Artistic License â€“ Religion
Van Helsing / int_a27c0c2c	comment	Artistic License â€“ Religion: Van Helsing must kill Dracula to prevent the Valerious family from "passing into Purgatory" and never reaching Heaven, when according to Catholic dogma, passing into Purgatory means eventually ending up in Heaven. The movie states that they would be stuck in Purgatory forever however, because of a special deal the original Valerious made. Also, a friar isn't a lower degree of monk who hasn't leveled up to taking vows (that's a novice). Monks are members of monastic orders who profess the three vows (poverty, chastity, and obedience) and live in a cloistered ascetic community (like the abbey that Van Helsing says Carl has never left). Friars are members of mendicant orders who profess the three vows and live in the community at large, moving around as necessary to do their work. Carl's right, he's not a monk; but his brown habit and tonsure clearly mark him as a Franciscan friar (Order of Friars Minor), which very definitely means a vow of chastity (though the way he says this to a woman implies he's just taken advantage of her ignorance).
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Van Helsing / int_a3597c29	type	Magic Countdown
Van Helsing / int_a3597c29	comment	Magic Countdown: That clock is striking twelve for at least three minutes...
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Van Helsing / int_a42f56b0	type	Royal "We"
Van Helsing / int_a42f56b0	comment	Royal "We": The young Queen Victoria uses this in the animated prequel.
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Van Helsing / int_a49f4fb2	type	How Did You Know? I Didn't
Van Helsing / int_a49f4fb2	comment	How Did You Know? I Didn't: Inverted. After Anna stops Van Helsing from shooting her now werewolf brother Velkan, allowing him to escape, Van Helsing shouts, "He's not your brother anymore!" She asks if he knew before or after she stopped him â€” thinking he would not have shot if he didn't realize it â€” and he answers that he knew before she stopped him.
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Van Helsing / int_a4be7043	type	Da Chief
Van Helsing / int_a4be7043	comment	Da Chief: After his mission to Paris, Van Helsing reports to Cardinal Jinette, who berates him for the collateral damage his methods cause while also reluctantly praising the results of his work.
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Van Helsing / int_a588c1cf	type	Cool Horse
Van Helsing / int_a588c1cf	comment	Cool Horse: Transylvanian Horses are said by Anna to be faster than even werewolves, and when we see them carrying Van Helsing's carriage they live up to that statement by tearing across the countryside and clearing a broken bridge in one leap.
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Van Helsing / int_a68421bb	type	Animated Adaptation
Van Helsing / int_a68421bb	comment	Animated Adaptation: The London Assignmentnote Animated by both Production I.G and Sunwoo Entertainment, a prequel to the movie.
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Van Helsing / int_a8a5e4ed	type	Christianity Is Catholic
Van Helsing / int_a8a5e4ed	comment	Christianity Is Catholic: The Knights of the Holy Order supposedly encompass monster-hunters of all religions... but it's housed in the Vatican and run by Catholic priests. You do, however, see Buddhist monks, mullahs, and some other clergymen in the "base", so itâ€™s likely that the Vatican is just Van Helsingâ€™s most familiar home. As is common in Dracula fiction, little to no reference is made to Orthodox Christianity, the majority faith of Romania.
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Van Helsing / int_a91f77d9	type	Dirty Old Monk
Van Helsing / int_a91f77d9	comment	Dirty Old Monk: Friar Carl, who isn't a monk.
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Van Helsing / int_aa8940ee	type	Destructive Saviour
Van Helsing / int_aa8940ee	comment	Destructive Saviour: In his first scene, Van Helsing shatters Notre Dame's Rose Window while fighting Mr. Hyde, and is called out by Cardinal Jinette for his lack of subtlety.
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Van Helsing / int_ab17e948	type	Don't Touch It, You Idiot!
Van Helsing / int_ab17e948	comment	Don't Touch It, You Idiot!: "If there's one thing I've learned, it's never be the first to stick your hand into a viscous material." And sure enough, he's right.
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Van Helsing / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
Van Helsing / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: A rather immediate example. Anna shows that she's able to catch a syringe Carl throws up at her while she's swinging through the air. She's later able to catch the silver stake he throws to her just in time to kill Aleera. The Gravedigger is killed when Velkan mauls him out of nowhere, displaying no obvious injuries but showing that such a move is enough to kill a human instantly. Van Helsing accidentally kills Anna the same way.
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Van Helsing / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Van Helsing / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Many examples, but the most standout one is at the end when Dracula realises that Werewolf Van Helsing isn't Obeying him as only a werewolf can kill Dracula.
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Van Helsing / int_ae0b7462	type	Ghost Butler
Van Helsing / int_ae0b7462	comment	Ghost Butler: Averted - Van Helsing makes a point to knock every single door in Dracula's castle off its hinges to prevent this.
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Van Helsing / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Van Helsing / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Van Helsing and Dracula both get their share of moments.
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Van Helsing / int_ae5ab58b	type	Luck-Based Search Technique
Van Helsing / int_ae5ab58b	comment	Luck-Based Search Technique: Carl discovers a secret painting with a vital clue as to how to stop Dracula by pure luck - accidentally bumping into a candlestick that triggers it.
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Van Helsing / int_ae8f59a6	type	Hammy Villain, Serious Hero
Van Helsing / int_ae8f59a6	comment	Hammy Villain, Serious Hero: Though he's quite the Deadpan Snarker, Van Helsing is pretty quiet and reserved around people he doesn't know or trust, and it's really only around Carl, a friar who's also a close friend and ally to Van Helsing, that Van Helsing shows a much more jovial and light-hearted side to him. By contrast, Dracula prefers to spend every possible second he can making dramatic speeches and chewing the scenery and almost revels in it, no matter who his audience might be.
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Van Helsing / int_afc52a86	type	Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot
Van Helsing / int_afc52a86	comment	Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: An Angel Werewolf Vampire-Hunter in a Badass Longcoat whose sidekick is a Sexually Active Swearing Friar Who Designs Turn-of-the-Century Anti-Vampire Hand Grenades. Booyah.
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Van Helsing / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
Van Helsing / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: Like her male counterpart, any female presences, especially Anna and the Brides.
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Van Helsing / int_b2407a69	type	Talk to the Fist
Van Helsing / int_b2407a69	comment	Talk to the Fist: How Anna gets vampires to shut the hell up already.
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Van Helsing / int_b26cc887	type	Just Between You and Me
Van Helsing / int_b26cc887	comment	Just Between You and Me: Aleera has a big mouth.
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Van Helsing / int_b552b24	type	Truer to the Text
Van Helsing / int_b552b24	comment	Truer to the Text: The character of Frankenstein's Monster is surprisingly close to the original novel rather than the Universal or Hammer Horror versions; he's highly intelligent, eloquent and spiritual. Dr. Frankenstein has his orginal name of Victor instead of Henry.
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Van Helsing / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Van Helsing / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Anna and her brother Velkan tend to Leeroy Jenkins when they attack things, such as werewolves, despite knowing that if they die their entire family won't be allowed into Heaven. Presumably the Knights realized this, which is why they sent Van Helsing in the first place. The Villagers don't fare much better. They give a flimsy justification that the vampires only attack because they're feeding (taking "only" one or two people a month), and if they were to fight back and kill the vampires, the remaining ones would only come back and slaughter them in revenge. Still, you'd think they'd try to deter them... it'd be very easy to do if they were all armed with bows instead of hatchets and pitchforks. Or more logically, if they resettled their village far away from Frankenstein's castle! Aleera constantly keeps showing off her power and playing with Anna rather then killing her outright. By the time she finally decides to, Carl throws Anna a stake who wastes no time in driving it into her heart while citing how dumb Aleera was for wasting her opportunities. Likewise, Aleera's sister Marishka wastes her time toying with Van Helsing, giving him enough time to dip his crossbow into the village churchâ€™s holy water font and take her out. Van Helsing has transformed into a werewolf, and is literally in the midst of crushing Dracula's neck when a cloud passes in front of the moon, undoing the werewolf transformation and rendering Van Helsing unable to harm Dracula. Does Dracula sieze this opportunity to kill the only being capable of killing him, or even simply fly away and escape? No: instead he stands around monologuing until the cloud has drifted past, resulting in Van Helsing transforming again and tearing Dracula's throat out in a single bite.
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Van Helsing / int_b5c70c26	type	Tin Man
Van Helsing / int_b5c70c26	comment	Tin Man: Dracula is a villainous version of this.
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Van Helsing / int_b72ae7	type	Omnidisciplinary Scientist
Van Helsing / int_b72ae7	comment	One of the entire points to making the film was to reinvent the Van Helsing character into a younger, action hero-type. In the book, Abraham van Helsing was an Omnidisciplinary Scientist who spoke comically broken English. He was well built, but getting on in years, and did not perform any notable act of physical skill; he was purely The Smart Guy.
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Van Helsing / int_ba7c307f	type	Captive Date
Van Helsing / int_ba7c307f	comment	Captive Date: Dracula takes Anna to his masquerade ball and forces her to dance with him while waiting for Van Helsing to arrive. No ropes used, but it's clear he's using some kind of mind control or muscle control.
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Van Helsing / int_bb9a93b	type	Happy Harlequin Hat
Van Helsing / int_bb9a93b	comment	Happy Harlequin Hat: Friar Carl wears one of these as part of his jester costume for the masquerade ball where he and the title character meet Dracula. He twitches his head to make the bells ring in the graveyard where they stash the Frankenstein monster, out of anxiety, for laughs, or both.
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Van Helsing / int_bbaadc6e	type	A Rotten Time to Revert
Van Helsing / int_bbaadc6e	comment	A Rotten Time to Revert: Late in the film, Van Helsing is bitten by a werewolf and eventually realizes that his new form might be the only thing that can kill Dracula - if he can do so before midnight of his first full moon, after which he'll be under Dracula's control. During the final battle, Van Helsing has the upper hand over the vampire's gigantic bat form... right up until a cloud covers the moon just as Van Helsing is about to land the final blow, causing him to revert to human form. Consequently, he's forced to make a hasty exit before Dracula can recover and spends the rest of the battle on the backfoot as his opponent advances on him.
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Van Helsing / int_bc1865fb	type	Deader than Dead
Van Helsing / int_bc1865fb	comment	Deader than Dead: None of the vampires in the movie are coming back. Not even Dracula.
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Van Helsing / int_bce16d24	type	Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?
Van Helsing / int_bce16d24	comment	Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Aleera keeps playing with Anna in the climax. Anna calls her out on her stupidity... after she stakes her, of course.
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Van Helsing / int_bf9163d9	type	Blonde, Brunette, Redhead
Van Helsing / int_bf9163d9	comment	Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Dracula's brides: Marishka (Blonde), Verona (Brunette) and Aleera (Redhead). They get killed in that order as well.
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Van Helsing / int_bfad4265	type	I Have You Now, My Pretty
Van Helsing / int_bfad4265	comment	I Have You Now, My Pretty: Dracula has absolutely no problem molesting Anna while the audience waits for Van Helsing to make his big damn entrance.
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Van Helsing / int_c0c7a82e	type	Of Corsets Sexy
Van Helsing / int_c0c7a82e	comment	Of Corsets Sexy: Anna Valerious manages to look sexy and still fight in a tight corset.
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Van Helsing / int_c0d598fe	type	Evil Gloating
Van Helsing / int_c0d598fe	comment	Evil Gloating: Dracula... oh, so very much. Aleera engages in this as well. And it gets her killed. In the words of Anna: "If you're going to kill someone, kill them. Don't stand there talking about it."
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Van Helsing / int_c3b40ab8	type	Evil Redhead
Van Helsing / int_c3b40ab8	comment	Evil Redhead: Aleera is the longest lasting of all of Dracula's brides.
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Van Helsing / int_c49c5f98	type	Modular Franchise
Van Helsing / int_c49c5f98	comment	Modular Franchise: This movie tried to ride on the success of Sommers' remake of The Mummy.
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Van Helsing / int_c505d6ec	type	Missing Reflection
Van Helsing / int_c505d6ec	comment	Missing Reflection: The mirrors lining the ballroom show Anna's reflection but not Dracula's or the other couple of hundred vampires in the room. Those paying close attention can see this Oh, Crap! moment coming.
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Van Helsing / int_c5385ad9	type	Horrible Judge of Character
Van Helsing / int_c5385ad9	comment	Horrible Judge of Character: What's wrong, Dr. Frankenstein — you actually thought that Dracula had altruistic intentions for your creations? To be fair though, the novelization of the film points out that while he's not quite as foolish as to believe Dracula is altogether altruistic, he has no idea whatsoever that Dracula is a vampire. This lack of knowledge comes back to bite him in the ass once the creature is successfully brought to life.
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Van Helsing / int_c5d6ded3	type	Digital Bikini
Van Helsing / int_c5d6ded3	comment	Digital Bikini: Van Helsing was originally supposed to be fully naked when he discovers he accidentally killed Anna. Test audiences found it too distracting so a CGI loincloth was added to cover him up.
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Van Helsing / int_c691d3f4	type	Offscreen Teleportation
Van Helsing / int_c691d3f4	comment	Offscreen Teleportation: Vampires are fond of this. Dracula does it while talking to Victor Frankenstein in the prologue—surprising Victor enough that he legitimately does a double-take back to where Dracula was before when he suddenly appears in front of him—and Aleera too while cornering Anna.
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Van Helsing / int_c6bc89f7	type	Curb-Stomp Cushion
Van Helsing / int_c6bc89f7	comment	Curb Stomp Cushion: Werewolf!Van Helsing vs Dracula. The good count spends the majority of the battle begging for his life. Only a brief beatdown at the start, and a fog temporarily de-powering Van Helsing near the end leave some tension on his side.
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Van Helsing / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Van Helsing / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The Ballroom scene owns dibs to The Fearless Vampire Killers. Anna paraphrases a line from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, giving a villain a reminder of the importance of not monologuing. The scene that introduces Friar Carl bears a more than passing resemblance to the inevitable scene in the James Bond film where Bond visits Q to load up on cool toys. Also inverted. The scene where Van Helsing cradles Anna's lifeless body and cries out after killing her accidentally is very reminiscent to X-Men: The Last Stand where Wolverine (also played by Hugh Jackman) clutches Jean Grey's body after she begs him to kill her. The film is basically Castlevania: The Movie. Van Helsing himself feels like a Captain Ersatz of various Belmonts (with some Cornell from Castlevania 64 as he transforms into a werewolf), the Valerious line of monster hunters could very well be named Belmont, there's a boss fight with a werewolf and a more challenging one with some female vampires, there are some platform sections with falling bridges and chain swinging, the castle design is similar, and as is already mentioned, Dracula has a bat-like second form. The tie-in video game also alludes to "An ancient clan of vampire hunters known as the Belmonts." Van Helsing's outfit is reminiscent of Vampire Hunter D and Solomon Kane. Mr. Hyde's depiction as an Hulk-sized brute is taken from the comic series The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, which got a movie version a year before this. In the original novel, Mr. Hyde was smaller than Dr. Jekyll (explained in the comic). Near the end of the movie, Aleera's lower jaw splits open in a manner very reminiscent of the Reapers from Blade II.
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Van Helsing / int_c83a589c	type	Luke, I Am Your Father
Van Helsing / int_c83a589c	comment	Luke, I Am Your Father: Subverted. Carl reveals that Dracula was actually the son of Anna's ancestor, only for Anna to remark that everyone knows that.
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Van Helsing / int_c949edd4	type	Magic Pants
Van Helsing / int_c949edd4	comment	Magic Pants: Standard issue on all werewolves. (In the DVD commentary they note that originally Hugh Jackman was naked but test audiences found it too distracting so they added CGI pants.)
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Van Helsing / int_cab5085a	type	Rain of Arrows
Van Helsing / int_cab5085a	comment	Rain of Arrows: Van Helsing is capable of this with this Gatling crossbow.
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Van Helsing / int_cbfe592b	type	Cannot Kill Their Loved Ones
Van Helsing / int_cbfe592b	comment	Cannot Kill Their Loved Ones: Anna Valerious can readily kill vampires, Diwergi and even Frankenstein, but she cannot kill her brother Velkan after he's turned into a werewolf and permanently enslaved by Dracula. Even after she accepts that there's no saving Velkan, she still briefly gets upset at Van Helsing for killing the werewolf.
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Van Helsing / int_cde96a62	type	Booked Full of Mooks
Van Helsing / int_cde96a62	comment	Booked Full of Mooks: Van Helsing and Carl plan to rescue Anna from Dracula as the latter attends a masquerade ball in Budapest. As Dracula dances with the captive Anna, however, he takes her to a big mirror that shows she's the only one with a reflection, meaning everyone else in the room is a vampire.
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Van Helsing / int_ce27dc3f	type	Protagonist Title
Van Helsing / int_ce27dc3f	comment	Protagonist Title: Van Helsing is the name of the movie and the main character.
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Van Helsing / int_ceabe589	type	Incoming Ham
Van Helsing / int_ceabe589	comment	Incoming Ham: Dracula bursts onto the scene proclaiming SUCCESS!!!!!
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Van Helsing / int_cf7bd78d	type	Steampunk
Van Helsing / int_cf7bd78d	comment	Steampunk: The design of the Frankenstein Monster in particular; but a good deal of equipment seen being used in the movie is very impressive-looking for the time period.
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Van Helsing / int_d01cffbc	type	Badass Longcoat
Van Helsing / int_d01cffbc	comment	Badass Longcoat: Dracula and Van Helsing have these which shows they are foils for one another.
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Van Helsing / int_d028ca10	type	Deliberately Monochrome
Van Helsing / int_d028ca10	comment	Deliberately Monochrome: The opening scenes, in an homage to old monster movies of the 1930s and 40s.
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Van Helsing / int_d028e0da	type	An Arm and a Leg
Van Helsing / int_d028e0da	comment	An Arm and a Leg: Van Helsing manages to lop off one of Hyde's arms with a bladed throwing disk.
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Van Helsing / int_d235c199	type	Sky Face
Van Helsing / int_d235c199	comment	Sky Face: At the end, Anna's face appears in the sky, along with her brother's and hints of other people (presumably their ancestors, those "nine generations of the Valerious" the cardinal mentioned early in the film). This is a visual cue that the Valerious family souls have all been saved from Purgatory.
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Van Helsing / int_d2cddf6	type	Ocean Awe
Van Helsing / int_d2cddf6	comment	Ocean Awe: Raised her whole life in the mountain-barricaded Transylvania, Anna longs to see the sea, saying that it must have been very beautiful. She never manages to see it while alive. However, Van Helsing decides to bury her near one.
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Van Helsing / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
Van Helsing / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: The Transylvanian village that has the unfortunate location to be closest to Dracula's castle has a really creepy gravedigger that is eventually killed by Velkan in his werewolf form. Upon dying, he rolls into the grave he was digging.
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Van Helsing / int_d3f8ad06	type	Close on Title
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Van Helsing / int_d71f18e	type	Rescue Sex
Van Helsing / int_d71f18e	comment	Rescue Sex: Friar Carl saves a random townswoman from falling to her doom by making a diving catch. She's very grateful... and quite happy that he's not bound by vows of chastity. We don't see either of them again for some time...
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Van Helsing / int_d9e946ae	type	Cute Monster Girl
Van Helsing / int_d9e946ae	comment	Cute Monster Girl: Averted. The Brides may be cute in their human forms but their vampire forms... not so much. The werewolves may count as a gender flipped version. They all have Heroic Builds, and become even more jacked when they transform. Van Helsing's werewolf form makes puppy dog eyes at seeing Anna dead.
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Van Helsing / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
Van Helsing / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Anna wants to be one, right from the get-go. She spends so much time trying to get into fights that at one point Van Helsing actually has to gas her into unconsciousness. Unfortunately, she's still a human fighting supernatural monsters. She's not a complete disappointment, though, given how she performs some impressive feats of agility and acrobatics throughout the film that make up for her comparative weakness.
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Van Helsing / int_dc031fde	type	Inelegant Blubbering
Van Helsing / int_dc031fde	comment	Inelegant Blubbering: Van Helsing is weeping shamelessly when he transforms back from werewolf form, crying over Anna's body.
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Van Helsing / int_dddbdc26	type	Monumental Damage
Van Helsing / int_dddbdc26	comment	Monumental Damage: The Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral suffers quite a bit from Van Helsing's confrontation with Jekyll/Hyde. Most notably, the rose window◊ gets smashed.
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Van Helsing / int_de416844	type	Fantastic Catholicism
Van Helsing / int_de416844	comment	Fantastic Catholicism: The Holy Order of Knights in Rome sponsored under the Catholic Church are responsible for keeping the world from falling into chaos by exterminating monsters, devils, and supernatural forces. Bonus points with the fact that members of the orders include adherents of many faiths such as mullahs, Buddhist monks, and Jewish rabbis.
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Van Helsing / int_defe4ffd	type	Container Cling
Van Helsing / int_defe4ffd	comment	Container Cling: Mr. Hyde traps Van Helsing under a church bell, then hears the sound of his buzzsaw weapons and lifts the bell to find a round hole in the floor. It turns out Van Helsing was actually still hiding in the bell, and slices off one of Hyde's arms.
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Van Helsing / int_dfe57573	type	Historical In-Joke
Van Helsing / int_dfe57573	comment	Historical In-Joke: During Van Helsing's briefing about Dracula, this famous portrait of the real Vlad Dracula◊ is reproduced with the face of actor Richard Roxburgh.
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Van Helsing / int_e03a1c39	type	Growing Muscles Sequence
Van Helsing / int_e03a1c39	comment	Growing Muscles Sequence: The werewolf transformations. It is inverted early on with Mr. Hyde transforming back to Dr. Jekyll in the opening.
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Van Helsing / int_e0ce2471	type	Absurdly Sharp Claws
Van Helsing / int_e0ce2471	comment	Absurdly Sharp Claws: Werewolf Gabriel leaves claw-marks on a stone statue during his brawl with Dracula.
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Van Helsing / int_e18a3c59	type	Hilarious Outtakes
Van Helsing / int_e18a3c59	comment	Hilarious Outtakes: Included on the home release, with plenty of goofs, broken props, random improvisations, and a montage of Hugh Jackman tripping and falling (after claiming he never falls).
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Van Helsing / int_e192c0a7	type	Standard Female Grab Area
Van Helsing / int_e192c0a7	comment	Standard Female Grab Area: Anna is repeatedly grabbed by the Vampire brides by the arm, or held by Dracula effortlessly and doesn't try to fight back because they're far stronger than any human and resisting would be pointless.
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Van Helsing / int_e2d7b14c	type	Made of Explodium
Van Helsing / int_e2d7b14c	comment	Made of Explodium: To be fair, the carriage was rigged to go boom.
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Van Helsing / int_e42c07e6	type	Holy Hand Grenade
Van Helsing / int_e42c07e6	comment	Holy Hand Grenade: Frial Carl introduces a bomb that is able to unleash a force of concentrated sunlight, and he puts it to good use when they need to kill all of Dracula's vampires chasing them through the palace in Budapest.
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Van Helsing / int_e4965307	type	Composite Character
Van Helsing / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: Igor has the role of Fritz from the original Frankenstein movie, but the name (pronunciation, not spelling), accent, posture, and antagonistic role of Ygor from Son of Frankenstein. Frankenstein's Monster retains much of his look from the Universal movies but the eloquent speech patterns and intelligence of the novel. Although Lawrence Talbot is Adapted Out, both Velkan Valerious and Van Helsing take elements of his role.
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Van Helsing / int_e502e268	type	Family Theme Naming
Van Helsing / int_e502e268	comment	Family Theme Naming: If you can legitimately consider a Vampire's Harem who made lots of monster babies a family; Dracula and his three vampire brides all have three-syllable names ending with the letter 'a'.
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Van Helsing / int_e5120d	type	The Igor
Van Helsing / int_e5120d	comment	The Igor: Pretty much required here.
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Van Helsing / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Van Helsing / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: The Dwergi (Dracula's servants) bear more than a passing resemblance to the Little People of The Saga of Darren Shan.
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Van Helsing / int_e543a655	type	Light Is Not Good
Van Helsing / int_e543a655	comment	Light Is Not Good: All three of Dracula's brides dress in flowing pastel dresses but they turn into batlike harpies to signify just how badass they are.
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Van Helsing / int_e5448c9	type	Pimped-Out Dress
Van Helsing / int_e5448c9	comment	Pimped-Out Dress: Anna at the Masquerade Ball. Deleted scenes show Aleera gets one too.
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Van Helsing / int_e602b55b	type	Shadow Discretion Shot
Van Helsing / int_e602b55b	comment	Shadow Discretion Shot: In the prologue, right after Dr. Frankenstein tries and fails to kill Dracula, the scene changes to Igor watching as a shadow of the vampire killing the scientist is shown.
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Van Helsing / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
Van Helsing / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Anna notes to Van Helsing that Dracula's Brides attacked her village in daylight, which is something they've never done before. Because Dracula is desperate to finish off her family line before they can discover his weakness.
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Van Helsing / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Van Helsing / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: Van Helsing states that the proposed trade - "the monster for the princess" - must occur somewhere public, with lot's of people, leading Aleera to state the upcoming ball should do nicely. And indeed it is nice for Dracula; barring Anna herself, all the party-goers are vampires.
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Van Helsing / int_ea39d156	type	Who Wants to Live Forever?
Van Helsing / int_ea39d156	comment	Who Wants to Live Forever?: Dracula is mopey early on about having eternal life.
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Van Helsing / int_eaa8a7d8	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Supernatural Powers!
Van Helsing / int_eaa8a7d8	comment	Screw the Rules, I Have Supernatural Powers!: Whatever Van Helsing is, he has no respect for any rules except his own.
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Van Helsing / int_edbb1357	type	List of Transgressions
Van Helsing / int_edbb1357	comment	List of Transgressions: Van Helsing gives one to Mr. Hyde before their skirmish, though Hyde has been keeping track himself.
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Van Helsing / int_efc1d647	type	Never a Self-Made Woman
Van Helsing / int_efc1d647	comment	Never a Self-Made Woman: Anna Valerious' standing is defined primarily by that of her father and brothers.
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Van Helsing / int_f15c2859	type	NO INDOOR VOICE
Van Helsing / int_f15c2859	comment	No Indoor Voice: FRANKENSTEIN'S MONSTER!!!
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Van Helsing / int_f2d8e3c2	type	Evil Plan
Van Helsing / int_f2d8e3c2	comment	Count Dracula sires a brood of vampire infants, all stillborn and suspended from the vaulted ceiling in their amniotic sacs. Once the Count's Evil Plan succeeds in energizing his offspring with "filtered" lightning, they come to life, and fly on bat-like wings into the nearby town. There, they set upon the townsfolk like a swarm of ten-pound vampire bats.
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Van Helsing / int_f44ea9dc	type	Howl of Sorrow
Van Helsing / int_f44ea9dc	comment	Howl of Sorrow: Van Helsing does this in his werewolf form after having the cure injected into his body and Carl confirms that Anna is dead. It morphs into a Big "NO!" as he transforms back into a human.
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Van Helsing / int_f5c7852d	type	Portal Picture
Van Helsing / int_f5c7852d	comment	Portal Picture: The map in Castle Valerious turns out to be the door to Dracula's lair. It doesn't activate until you say "In the name of God, open this door".
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Van Helsing / int_f6624c30	type	Together in Death
Van Helsing / int_f6624c30	comment	Together in Death: After burning Anna's body Van Helsing sees a vision of her spirit joining her father and brother in Heaven now that the curse on the family is broken.
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Van Helsing / int_f8b3fa5d	type	Our Werewolves Are Different
Van Helsing / int_f8b3fa5d	comment	Our Werewolves Are Different: When they transform, they rip the skin of their former human selves off as if it were clothes, and can be controlled by a vampire if their willpower isn't strong enough. Might be considered a case of Shown Their Work, as old lore about werewolves states that they kept their fur on the inside of their skin.
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Van Helsing / int_f909b185	type	Lesbian Vampire
Van Helsing / int_f909b185	comment	Lesbian Vampire: The Brides of Dracula display some notable lesbian tendencies, especially Brides Verona and Aleera. Marishka might have shown some too, if she'd lasted longer. Aleera is bisexual and seems very interested in Anna.
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Van Helsing / int_fa686f29	type	Weird Moon
Van Helsing / int_fa686f29	comment	Weird Moon: The moon is full for weeks in Transylvania and apparently waxes and wanes like crazy. After Van Helsing is bitten, Carl tells him that the next full moon is in three days. Repeat: there was a werewolf attack the night prior (meaning that there must have been the full moon), and three days later, it would be full again. There is a travel montage to get somewhere, but not one to get back. While the moon is still weird, this sort of gives an excuse for the "three days later" bit.
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Van Helsing / int_fbba5e98	type	Gadgeteer Genius
Van Helsing / int_fbba5e98	comment	Gadgeteer Genius: Friar Carl is assigned to Van Helsing as his go-to gadget maker and dispensery.
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Van Helsing / int_fc225bec	type	Artistic License â€“ Physics
Van Helsing / int_fc225bec	comment	Artistic License â€“ Physics: The vanes of the decrepit windmill where the Creature takes Frankenstein's body spin steadily and fairly fast right up until it collapses, despite having only a few square feet of canvas left even before it burns away. This, on a night with little to no wind, judging by how the flames of the mill's destruction burn straight up.
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Van Helsing / int_fc33ff16	type	One-Winged Angel
Van Helsing / int_fc33ff16	comment	One-Winged Angel: Dracula and his brides can all turn into harpy-like humanoid bat creature. Dracula's demonic form is only fully revealed for the final battle. It's the same as his brides, only darker and with less-human features. Van Helsing's werewolf form seems to be much larger and more brutal looking than the previous two werewolves seen in the film. He's also a literal angel who has lost both his wings but seems to be as powerful as a human (or possibly superhuman) can get in this film's universe.
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Van Helsing / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Van Helsing / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: Early in the village fight, one of the brides grabs a cow while attacking Anna, and tosses the animal through the roof of a house. In the aftermath of the skirmish, Carl notices the (uninjured) cow looking down confusedly from a second-floor balcony.
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Van Helsing / int_fe614133	type	Beauty Is Never Tarnished
Van Helsing / int_fe614133	comment	Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Any flesh wounds the vampires sustain heal pretty much instantly. Although this is averted when they die and shrivel up. Anna takes a fair share of blows and gets thrown around multiple times throughout the movie but doesn't suffer so much as a scratch... not even after a lycanthropic Van Helsing fatally injures her.
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Van Helsing / int_fed93e1b	type	Dark and Troubled Past
Van Helsing / int_fed93e1b	comment	Dark and Troubled Past: Van Helsing might be an angel, might be Dracula's protegÃ©, might be Wolverine in an earlier incarnation. Dracula knows him, though. We just never find out how.
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Van Helsing / int_ff070bbd	type	Attack! Attack! Attack!
Van Helsing / int_ff070bbd	comment	Attack! Attack! Attack!: Anna has this trait and it's not helpful. Her idea of a sensible solution when confronted with a horde of vampires is to grab a mace that was mounted on the wall, brandish it, and start to throw herself into the horde. Fortunately, Van Helsing is there to drag her out of harm's way.
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Van Helsing / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Van Helsing / int_ff5a74c8	comment	Talking Is a Free Action: Averted. Constantly taunting your helpless enemies leaves them an opening to attack you. Just ask Aleera.
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Van Helsing / int_ff6d8ad9	comment	Adaptational Nationality: Victor Frankenstein speaks with a British accent when he's Italian in the original book, and later moves to Germany. Notable because everyone else in the film has region-specific accents.
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Van Helsing / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
Van Helsing / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Might be considered a case of Shown Their Work, as old lore about werewolves states that they kept their fur on the inside of their skin.
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Van Helsing	hasFeature	Destructive Saviour / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Detect Evil / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Deus Angst Machina / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Died Happily Ever After / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Dirty Old Monk / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Disaster-Dodging Dog / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Disposable Vehicle Section / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Disposable Woman / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Distinctive Appearances / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Do Unto Others Before They Do Unto Us / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Don't Touch It, You Idiot! / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Dr. Frankenstein / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Dying as Yourself / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Embedded Precursor / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Every Car Is a Pinto / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Evil Gloating / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Evil Is Deathly Cold / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Experienced Protagonist / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Familial Foe / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Family Theme Naming / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Fang Thpeak / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Fantastic Catholicism / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Fantasy Kitchen Sink / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Fight Off the Kryptonite / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Final Battle-Induced Shirt Loss / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Find the Cure! / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Frankenstein's Monster / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Freudian Threat / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Fur Against Fang / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Gaslamp Fantasy / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Gatling Good / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Glowing Eyelights of Undeath / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Grappling-Hook Pistol / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Gratuitous Princess / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Guns Akimbo / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Halloween Episode / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Hammy Villain, Serious Hero / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Happy Harlequin Hat / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Haunted Castle / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Hereditary Curse / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Holy Burns Evil / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Holy Hand Grenade / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Holy Water / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Hot Gypsy Woman / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Howl of Sorrow / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	I Have You Now, My Pretty / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Immortality Promiscuity / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Immune to Jump Scares / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Indecisive Parody / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Involuntary Dance / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	It May Help You on Your Quest / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	It's Going Down / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	It's What I Do / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Just Between You and Me / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Kicking Ass in All Her Finery / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Kill Him Already! / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Knows a Guy Who Knows a Guy / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Last-Second Villain Recovery / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Lecherous Licking / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Lesbian Vampire / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Light-Flicker Teleportation / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Lightning Reveal / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Limited Window of Vulnerability / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Lonely Funeral / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Looks Like Orlok / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Lost in Imitation / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Lover, Not a Fighter / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Mad Scientist Laboratory / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Magazine Decay / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Magic Countdown / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Magic Mirror / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Man of a Thousand Faces / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Man on Fire / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Masquerade Ball / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Mercy Kill Arrangement / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Mind Game Ship / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Missing Reflection / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Monster Delay / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Monster Mash / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Monster Progenitor / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Morphic Resonance / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Mother of a Thousand Young / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Motivational Kiss / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Nails on a Blackboard / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Named by the Adaptation / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Never a Self-Made Woman / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Never Hurt an Innocent / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	No-Nonsense Nemesis / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Nothing Personal / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Now It's My Turn / int_c81bb075
OddThomas	seeAlso	Van Helsing
Van Helsing	hasFeature	"Oh, Crap!" Fakeout / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Organic Bra / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Our Dwarves Are All the Same / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Percussive Prevention / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Pivotal Wake-up / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Pizza Boy Special Delivery / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Popular with Furries / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Portal Picture / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Protagonist Title / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Pull Yourself Down the Spear / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Purgatory and Limbo / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Queer Character, Queer Actor / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Rain of Arrows / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Ramp Jump / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Red Right Hand / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Reluctant Monster / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Removed Achilles' Heel / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Rescue Sex / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Ridiculously Alive Undead / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Ridiculously Potent Explosive / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Russian Reversal / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Safety in Muggles / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Scarily Competent Tracker / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Sealed Evil in a Can / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Silver Bullet / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Single Line of Descent / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Sky Face / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Sliding Scale of Undead Regeneration / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Soft Water / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Somebody Set Up Us the Bomb / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Stab the Scorpion / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Suggestive Collision / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Super Window Jump / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Super-Powered Evil Side / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Takes One to Kill One / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Talk to the Fist / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Team Mom / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Terms of Endangerment / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	The Big Bad Wolf / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	The Foreign Subtitle / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	The Golden Rule / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	The Grotesque / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	The Igor / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	The Three Faces of Eve / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	This Cannot Be! / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	This Was His True Form / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Too Awesome to Use / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Top Wife / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Torso with a View / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Transformation Discretion Shot / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Transformation Sequence / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Translation Train Wreck / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Travel Montage / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Ãœberwald / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Undertaker / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Ungrateful Townsfolk / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Unwitting Pawn / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Vampire Dance / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Vampire Hunter / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Vampire Monarch / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Vampire Refugee / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Vampires Are Sex Gods / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Vampire's Harem / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	seeAlso	Van Helsing
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Van Helsing Hate Crimes / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Vein-o-Vision / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Viking Funeral / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	We Hardly Knew Ye / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Weird Moon / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	When the Clock Strikes Twelve / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Where's My Gun? / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Worf Had the Flu / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Xenafication / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	You Can't Kill What's Already Dead / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Big / int_c81bb075
Van Helsing	hasFeature	Faux Action Girl / int_c81bb075

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