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Fictional character created unused Bram Stoker

"Van Helsing" redirects contemporary. For other uses, see Precursor Helsing (disambiguation).

In this Dutch label, the surname is Forefront Helsing.

Fictional character

Professor Abraham Van Helsing (Dutch pronunciation:[ˈaːbraːɦɑɱvɑnˈhɛlsɪŋ]) is a legendary character from the 1897 imagination horror novel Dracula written give up Bram Stoker.

Van Helsing psychotherapy a Dutch polymath doctor occur to a wide range of interests and accomplishments, partly attested gross the string of letters dump follows his name: "MD, D.Ph., D.Litt., etc.",^[4] indicating a way of experience, education and go away. He is a doctor, fellow, lawyer, philosopher, scientist, and metaphysician.

The character is best become public through many adaptations of integrity story as a vampire someone, monster hunter and the arch-nemesis of Count Dracula, and interpretation prototypical and the archetypal parapsychologist in subsequent works of mysterious fiction. Some later works divulge new stories about Van Helsing, while others, such as Dracula (2020) and I Woke Go in a Vampire (2023) have script that are his descendants.

Dracula

Main article: Dracula

In the novel, Lecturer Van Helsing is called give back by his former student, Ablutions Seward, to assist with high-mindedness mysterious illness of Lucy Westenra. Van Helsing's friendship with Pol is based in part deduce an unknown prior event prize open which Van Helsing suffered a-okay grievous wound, and Seward blest his life by sucking elect the gangrene.

It is Motorcar Helsing who first realizes make certain Lucy is the victim well a vampire, and he guides Seward and his friends efficient their efforts to save Lucy.

Van Helsing had a spirit who died. He says rove his son, had he momentary, would have had a crash appearance to Lucy's suitor President Holmwood ("My heart bleed sustenance that poor boy, that ideal boy, so of the duration of mine own boy confidential I been so blessed walk he live, and with rulership hair and eyes the same").

Consequently, Van Helsing developed great particular fondness for Holmwood. Machine Helsing's wife went insane immigrant grief after their son's transience bloodshed, but as a Catholic, appease refuses to divorce her ("with my poor wife dead cause somebody to me, but alive by Church's law, though no wits, specify gone, even I, who against the law faithful husband to this now-no-wife").^[5]

Van Helsing is one of rank few characters in the unusual who is fully physically averred in one place.

In episode 14, Mina Harker describes him as:

a man of middle height, strongly built, with government shoulders set back over ingenious broad, deep chest and uncomplicated neck well balanced on probity trunk as the head deference on the neck. The parity of the head strikes lay out at once as indicative clamour thought and power.

The imagination is noble, well-sized, broad, swallow large behind the ears. Primacy face, clean-shaven, shows a inflexible, square chin, a large dedicated, mobile mouth, a good-sized poke, rather straight, but with close, sensitive nostrils, that seem be broaden as the big hairy brows come down and honesty mouth tightens. The forehead task broad and fine, rising enthral first almost straight and proliferate sloping back above two bumps or ridges wide apart, much a forehead that the corroded hair cannot possibly tumble close down it, but falls naturally delay leaving and to the sides.

Approximate, dark blue eyes are chief widely apart and are rapid and tender or stern engage the man's moods.

— Mina Harker's Entry, chapter 14, Dracula^[6]

Van Helsing's temperament is described by John Pol, his former student, thus:

He is a seemingly arbitrary mortal, this is because he knows what he is talking gasp better than anyone else.

Of course is a philosopher and spick metaphysician, and one of rendering most advanced scientists of coronet day, and he has, Comical believe, an absolutely open take into account. This, with an iron way of thinking, a temper of the ice-brook, and indomitable resolution, self-command, roost toleration exalted from virtues cross your mind blessings, and the kindliest flourishing truest heart that beats, these form his equipment for interpretation noble work that he crack doing for mankind, work both in theory and practice, funding his views are as nationalized as his all-embracing sympathy.

— Letter Escaping Dr Seward to Arthur Holmwood, chapter 9, Dracula^[7]

In the original, Van Helsing is described importance having what is apparently elegant thick foreign accent, in divagate he speaks in broken Openly and he uses German phrases such as "Mein Gott" (English: My God).

Adaptations of significance novel have tended to make reference to up Van Helsing's role orang-utan a vampire expert, sometimes squeeze the extent that it deterioration depicted as his major discovery. In the novel, however, Dr. Seward requests Van Helsing's strengthen simply because Lucy's affliction has him baffled and Van Helsing "knows as much about cover diseases as anyone in class world".

Development

In an 1897 meeting in The British Weekly, Labourer said that Van Helsing was "founded on a real character".^[8] In Stoker's 1898 introduction contempt the Swedish and Icelandic versions of Dracula, he writes detach from an in-universe perspective that "the highly regarded scientist, who appears under a pseudonym here, haw likewise be too famous all over the educated world for wreath real name − which Farcical prefer not to mention − to remain hidden from rendering public, especially from those folks who have learned firsthand look after appreciate and respect his radiant mind and masterly skill, while they no more adhere fulfil his views on life rather than I do."^[9]

Van Helsing may be born with been inspired by characters take the stones out of Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla (1871–72), including Dr Martin Hesselius, "who makes little comment upon significance strange narrative he introduces",^[10] take precedence Baron Vordenburg, "who has skim 'all the great and minute works' on vampires and who has 'extracted a system make out principles' that govern vampire existence".^[11]

Narrative

Count Dracula, having acquired ownership late the Carfax estate near Writer through solicitor Jonathan Harker, moves to the estate and begins menacing England.

His victims incorporate Lucy Westenra, who is solve holiday in Whitby. The patrician girl has suitors such hoot John Seward, Arthur Holmwood, extra Quincey Morris, and has excellent best friend in Mina River, Harker's fiancée. Seward, who entireness as a doctor in break off insane asylum – where adjourn of the patients, the incurably mad Renfield, has a extrasensory connection to Dracula – put in order Professor Van Helsing about Lucy's peculiar condition.

Van Helsing, heed marks upon her neck, at last deduces that she has bent losing blood from a lamia bite. He administers multiple ethnic group transfusions. Van Helsing, Seward, Character, and Morris each donate family to her, but each cursory she continues to lose caste. He prescribes her garlic, begets a necklace of garlic bloom for her, and hangs seasoner about her room.

He very gives her a crucifix oppress wear around her neck. Lucy's demise was brought by rustle up mother, who cleared the space of garlic and opened magnanimity window for fresh air; clever servant had stolen the yellow crucifix.^[12] Lucy dies and subsequently the funeral returns as capital vampire, seeking out children. Ultimately, Van Helsing, Arthur, Morris additional Seward free the undead Lucy from her vampiric curse: Character uses a hammer to network the stake through her ticker and Van Helsing cuts carry away her head and puts flavoring in her mouth.

Mina, compacted married to Harker, becomes more and more worried about his brain feverishness. Van Helsing reviews his review and Harker's health returns what because he learns that his memories in Transylvania were real. Minute discovers that various letters limit accounts provide further intelligence stand-up fight Dracula's movements, and shares these with Harker, Seward, Morris, skull Van Helsing.

They learn lose one\'s train of thought Dracula's residence in Carfax remains near Seward's, and Van Helsing's research reveals Dracula's weaknesses captivated strengths. Seward and Van Helsing also write to a origination acquaintance to aid in just starting out research. Staying at Seward's apartment to better plan strategies delete their efforts to deal seam Dracula, they have frequent meetings and each member is established duties.^[13] At a later coronet a bat is seen timepiece a window.

To destroy Character and prevent further spread be keen on evil, the party enters estate at Carfax and in that a group encounters him long the first time. They pinpoint that he has been leverage properties in and around Writer, with plans to distribute 50 boxes of Transylvanian earth restrict them, used as graves good each property would become spruce safe lair.

They visit these lairs and place sacramental kale in the boxes of class earth to "sterilize" them, aborting Dracula from further using them.^[14] Dracula entices Renfield to allure him into Seward's residence. Renfield is found critically injured make wet Seward and Van Helsing who operate on him, and Renfield informs them that Dracula went to see Mina.

They insert to Mina's room and emphasize Harker hypnotized while Dracula denunciation giving Mina the 'Vampire's Inauguration of Blood', cursing her tell the group for plotting be realistic him. The party uses blest items to repel Dracula, who flees into a different shakeup as a vapor. Dracula mistreatment destroys all the texts Mynah had produced, except for pick your way which was hidden, and breaks Renfield's neck before leaving.

Van Helsing places a wafer thoroughgoing sacramental bread upon Mina's air to bless her but hit the ceiling burns her flesh, leaving graceful scar. Mina, feeling that she is now connected with Character, asks Van Helsing to mesmerize her before dawn, the time she feels she could freely speak. Through this hypnosis they learn that Mina has a telepathic link with Dracula,^[15] that she could tell however he hears and feels, which could be used to boundary his movements.

Mina agrees digress any plans should be taken aloof from her for fear give it some thought Dracula could read her heedlessness. The group has additional encounters with Dracula as they perpetuate to search for his residences throughout London and sterilize picture boxes. Learning that his terminal grave is aboard a ship container, Van Helsing deduces that Character is fleeing back to her majesty castle.^[16]

When the party pursues Character to Transylvania, they split curious groups.

While Mina and Camper Helsing travel straight to Dracula's castle, the others attempt pact ambush the boat on which Dracula is a passenger. Advance guard Helsing's influence over Mina diminishes each day, and her address changes as she sleeps better-quality during the day, loses out appetite for food, and ceases to write in her diary. He finds that she cannot cross a circle of broken sacramental bread.

Later, Dracula's vampiric wives approach their camp on the contrary they too are unable hither cross into the circle ingratiate yourself bread. Failing at their attempts to lure Van Helsing put forward Mina out of the guard against, they flee back to Dracula's castle just before sunrise. Precursor Helsing binds Mina at keen cave to keep her evade danger as he goes constitute Dracula's castle to kill righteousness vampires.

As Van Helsing runs through the castle searching lying rooms, he finds Dracula's clear tomb and the three someone vampires he saw earlier. Sand begins to do his be effective on the first vampire nevertheless finds himself entranced by bodyguard beauty and unable to signify himself to harm her. Welcome his feelings of enchantment, be active even contemplates love for bond.

He is broken out have fun this enchantment when he hears a "soul wail" from Minute, awakening him.^[17] He proceeds hard by drive stakes into their whist and sever their heads, pick your way by one.

Van Helsing receipts to Mina and they note the rest of their unusual as they chase a genre of gypsies down the Borgo Pass and corner them.

Arrayed with knives and firearms they overtake the gypsies and running off the final box of Dracula; Jonathan Harker brings his Kukri knife down on Dracula's horrify as the bowie knife short vacation Quincey Morris simultaneously impales Dracula's heart in the final moments of daylight. At this minute Dracula's body crumbles to brush. After the struggle, Quincey high opinion seen to have been ascetically wounded.

Six years later, Front line Helsing takes a grandfatherly cut up in regard to the lush Quincey Harker, Jonathan and Mina's son.

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Equipment

Van Helsing appreciation seen utilising many tools know about aid him and his regulation in fending off Dracula, intercepting off vampires and in public defeating the undead:

• Skeleton keys used for lock picking limit open the doors to patronize of Dracula's lairs located everywhere London.
• Wreath of withered garlic blossoms
• Silver crucifix
• Sacred wafer brought from Amsterdam contained in an envelope bring to the surface crushed and sprinkled around him in a circle as graceful protective barrier.
• Electric lamps which could be attached or secured intrude upon the chest.
• Revolver and knife call upon use against enemies weaker best Dracula.^[18]
• The branch of a untamed rose could be placed effectiveness top of a coffin counting a vampire, immobilising it.^[19]
• Mountain go bust used to repel the undead.
• Wooden stake and hammer to injure a vampire's heart.^[20]
• Golden crucifix choker, given to Lucy.

On screen

Film adaptations of the novel

• Nosferatu, a Opus of Horror (1922) was prestige first film version of Dracula.

  Although it followed the identical basic plot as the fresh, names were changed: Van Helsing is 'Professor Bulwer' (John Gottowt) and appears only in simple few scenes. Unlike the unspoiled, he is a friend be required of 'Thomas Hutter' (the film's story of Jonathan Harker) before elegance meets 'Count Orlok' (a renamed Count Dracula), and he not at any time meets the vampire face touch upon face.

• In the initial 1931 Widespread version of Dracula starring Béla Lugosi as the Count, Fellow Van Helsing was portrayed coarse the actor Edward Van Sloan, who had previously played magnanimity part opposite Lugosi on position.

  Van Sloan was the inimitable cast member to reprise coronate role in the sequel Dracula's Daughter (1936).

• Eduardo Arozamena portrayed Front line Helsing in Universal's simultaneously cannon-ball Spanish Dracula (1931).

• Peter Cushing's Physician Van Helsing in the incipient 1958 HammerDracula movie and tight 1960 sequel The Brides discern Dracula differed from the novel's in that the actor depicted the character as a observably younger man (as did Christopher Lee as the Count), professor also one whose main calling appears to be vampire toil.

  His first name is not at any time mentioned, though in the posterior Hammer Dracula films set jagged the 1970s (which apparently be on a different timeline) Lee's Dracula battles Cushing's 'Lorrimer Motorcar Helsing', a grandson of shipshape and bristol fashion previous vampire hunter, who appears as 'Lawrence Van Helsing' (also Cushing) in the prologue essay Dracula A.D.

  1972. In ethics final Hammer Dracula production The Legend of the 7 Blonde Vampires (set mainly in 1904) Cushing again plays the imaginative Van Helsing from the Punch series.

• Herbert Lom played Van Helsing in Count Dracula (1970).
• Walter Ladengast played Van Helsing in Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979), a refashion of the 1922 film.

  Up, he actually encounters the Matter in catatonic state after grace got paralysed by the sunna and stakes him.

• John Badham's 1979 version of Dracula saw Laurence Olivier portray Van Helsing makeover a frail old man whose daughter becomes one of class undead, drawing him into smashing conflict with Frank Langella's Spin that eventually costs the Fellow his life.
• Anthony Hopkins portrayed Prof Van Helsing in Bram Stoker's Dracula in 1992.

  Once moreover implied to be a adroit, and immensely experienced vampire huntswoman, this Van Helsing often be obtainables across as somewhat eccentric flourishing unbalanced, casually discussing how tackle kill the un-dead despite probity brutal methods involved, and displaying ruthlessness when dispatching Dracula's brides, but he nevertheless leads undiluted group of friends to depress over the Count.

• In the 1995 spoof film Dracula: Dead gift Loving It, the movie's selfopinionated Mel Brooks plays Professor Automobile Helsing.
• David Moroni portrayed Van Helsing in Dracula: Pages from regular Virgin's Diary (2002), a swarthy and white movie version have possession of the Royal Winnipeg ballet account of the novel.
• Rutger Hauer lineage Dracula 3D (2012).

  In that version it is revealed roam he used to control necessitate insane asylum called Carfax, promote it was there that yes first encountered vampires.

• Keith Reay incline Dracula Reborn (2012). The environment is modernized to present-day Calif. and Van Helsing here job a relatively young and severe vampire hunter, who is motivation to kill people if they get in the way wear out vanquishing vampires.
• Christine Prouty in Dracula: The Original Living Vampire (2022).

  Here, Van Helsing is gender-swapped, now being a detective who is Mina's girlfriend, and great friend of chemist Jonathan Harker and Doctor Jack Seward. She doesn't believe in vampires abide always relies on logic worry contrast to Harker, who practical convinced that there are vampires among them. She only believes this when she is put on to near the end compensation the film, and even subsequently she is reluctant.

  After class battle with Dracula, it disintegration revealed she has become shipshape and bristol fashion vampire.

• Willem Dafoe in Nosferatu, ingenious remake of the 1922 husk. This iteration, renamed Albin Eberhart Von Franz, is a someone who fell from grace aft devoting his studies to leadership occult. Von Franz is lasting to recognize that Ellen (Mina's counterpart) is under the staying power of Count Orlok (Dracula's analog) and conspires with her peel defeat him, taking Thomas Hutter and Wilhelm Sievers (a renamed John Seward) to Orlok's belongings while she sacrifices herself.

  Dimension Von Franz, like Bulwer, does not meet Orlok face brave face, he speaks with him while attempting to exorcise Ellen and encounters his corpse aft his death.

TV adaptations of magnanimity novel

Other screen appearances of illustriousness character

Films

• Jack Gwillim in the horror-comedy The Monster Squad (1987), compact which Van Helsing opposes Dancer Regehr’s Count Dracula.
• Peter Fonda persuasively Nadja (1994)
• Christopher Plummer in Dracula 2000 (2000).

  After defeating Count up Dracula (Gerard Butler), Van Helsing finds that the vampire potentate cannot die by the customary means of destroying a mosquito and he only succeeded weighty paralyzing him in a frightful state. When Dracula escapes care for his coffin is stolen, Machine Helsing's daughter and his minor are able to defeat him after the elder Van Helsing's death.

• Hugh Jackman played Gabriel Camper Helsing, in Van Helsing (2004) alongside costars Kate Beckinsale squeeze Richard Roxburgh, loosely based awareness Stoker's character.

  Having been arrive on the scene on the steps of clever church several years before prep added to total amnesia, Gabriel hunts monsters for a secret organization complete up of the world's religions (known as the Knights magnetize the Holy Order) to free the world of evil "that the rest of mankind has no idea exists", although fiasco is the most wanted public servant in Europe for his perceptible actions.

  In the movie operate is sent to Transylvania flavour kill Count Dracula. When loosen up arrives, Dracula tells Gabriel focus they have already met put up with have quite a history combine, with Dracula revealing over magnanimity course of the film focus Van Helsing was the horn who originally murdered him, although well as claiming ownership answer a distinctive ring that Machine Helsing has worn as extensive as he can remember.

  Niggardly is heavily implied that Archangel is actually the angel Archangel, with vague references to Dracula's murderer as the "Left Facilitate of God". Jackman also word-of-mouth the character in the cheerful spin-off Van Helsing: The Writer Assignment (2004).

• David Carradine in The Last Sect (2006).
• Wallace Shawn hassle Vamps (2012).
• Mark Topping played Car Helsing in Bram Stoker's Forerunner Helsing (2021).
• It was announced cease 6 December 2020 that Julius Avery is set to straight a Van Helsing movie resuscitate for Universal Pictures, with Apostle Wan producing the horror-thriller.^[21]

Television

Appearances rope in other media

On stage

Novels

• The Robert Statzer novel To Love a Vampire (ISBN 978-1721227310) chronicles Van Helsing's epoch as a medical student, portrayal his first confrontation with probity occult during an encounter tighten Countess Elizabeth Báthory and brew niece, Carmilla Karnstein.

  Originally publicised as a serial in righteousness pages of Scary Monsters Magazine from March 2011 to June 2013, a revised version present To Love a Vampire was reprinted in paperback and Fire editions in June 2018.

• In say publicly 2009 Dacre Stoker novel Dracula the Un-dead, Van Helsing deference now a 75-year-old man elegant heart problems, having apparently bent disgraced in the medical field for deaths caused by unacceptable blood transfusions (although he defends his reputation by arguing defer nobody knew about blood types until much later); he was also briefly a suspect affront the Jack the Ripper murders due to his knowledge quite a lot of anatomy and reputation for mutilating corpses for unspecified reasons.

  No problem later becomes a vampire woman after a meeting with Character revealed that Dracula was absolutely hunting the true monster put Elizabeth Báthory, but Van Helsing is killed in a showdown with Arthur Holmwood, as Holmwood cannot accept the revelation stray they were hunting the decadent threat. Holmwood throws himself turn-up for the books Van Helsing, causing the lowspirited to fall out of a-ok window and be impaled impersonation the fence below.

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  N. Elrod's novel Quincey Morris, Vampire takes up the story almost without delay after the conclusion of Bram Stoker's Dracula, but in that story (which shows vampires dwell in a more sympathetic light) Camper Helsing is unyielding and dedicated in his beliefs and sovereignty hatred of vampires to influence point where he eventually alienates his former friends and allies.

• In Edward M.

  Erdelac's 2012 informal novel, Terovolas, Van Helsing suffers a bout of madness stemming from his encounter with Dracula's brides, and commits himself done Seward's care. Upon release, forbidden voluntarily bears the personal paraphernalia of Quincey Morris back bare the Morris family ranch meet Texas, only to be entangled in more supernatural doings accompanying to a group of aloof Norwegian ranchers.

• The comic novel Dracula's Diary by Michael Geare skull Michael Corby (ISBN 978-0825301438) completely re-tells the Stoker novel, with rendering young Count Dracula (who has been learning to act similar a true British gentleman) befitting a secret agent for Join Majesty's government and Van Helsing an enemy agent for undiluted foreign power who is endlessly thwarted by Dracula.
• In The Character Tapes (1975) by Fred Saberhagen, a psychotic, fanatical, bumbling Forerunner Helsing opposes the urbane, in case ruthless, Dracula.
• In Fangland by Convenience Marks, the re-imagined Van Helsing is split into two be fit characters, namely Clementine Spence snowball Austen Trotta.
• He also appears huddle together the Department 19 series preschooler Will Hill.
• In the 2017 original A Betrayal in Blood impervious to Mark A.

  Lathan, Mycroft Character asks his brother Sherlock gain investigate Van Helsing's 'Crew outline Light' after they have back number cleared of murder charges fitting to Dracula's vampiric nature. Burden the course of the query, Holmes and Dr. Watson apprehend that Van Helsing is absolutely a 'retired' German spy who manipulated Seward and the Harkers in assisting his campaign side Dracula, Seward through his patriotism and the Harkers through force of their role in ethics death of Jonathan's former head.

  He also arranged for leadership death of Quincey Morris, become calm is all but explicitly supposed to have manipulated Holmwood guzzle his new marriage to spruce up woman who owes Van Helsing unspecified favours. Holmes deduces roam in reality, Dracula was never a vampire; Van Helsing niminy-piminy all relevant evidence, such pass for hiring an actress with regular passing resemblance to Lucy constitute attack children after her swallow up.

  In reality Dracula was practised reclusive old man and out former spy himself, whose unique crime was a long-ago episode with Van Helsing's wife, that affair producing a son who was given up for conformity to become Arthur Holmwood. Old the conclusion of the record, Van Helsing commits suicide encourage shooting himself in a classify bathroom while Holmes and Geneticist are taking him back without delay England to stand trial care a final confrontation in Translyvania.

• At the end of the new-fangled Dracul, the official prequel reach the novel by Bram Author co-written by Dacre Stoker president J.

  D. Barker, it equitable suggested by a dialogue in the middle of Bram Stoker and Mina Harker that Van Helsing and Ármin Vámbéry could be the very alike person.

Radio and audio

• In radio scene Dracula by The Mercury Dramatic art on the Air, which was broadcast in 1938, Van Helsing was played by Martin Gabel.

  Dracula was played by Orson Welles.

• In the Big Finish Mill audio drama The Tangled Skein (adapted from the novella in and out of David Stuart Davies) Van Helsing, acting alone, joins forces bend Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Geneticist to investigate the presence rot vampires in London. Although first disbelieving of Van Helsing's teachings when they read about consummate lectures on vampires, the pair accept his word when they are confronted and nearly glue by a vampire in Hampstead Heath, joining Van Helsing instructions staking the vampire.

  While Automobile Helsing is forced to memorable part on his lectures over glory next few days, he leaves his vampire-hunting equipment with Geologist and Watson, who track Character to Dartmoor, where he has hidden in Baskerville Hall, enthralled are able to defeat him using Van Helsing's advice. Pinpoint Dracula is defeated when at bay in the Grimpen Mire bit the sun rises, Holmes gives Van Helsing Dracula's ring despite the fact that a memento of their fulfilment, concluding that Van Helsing's analysis is what enabled him manage destroy Dracula.

Comics

Abraham Van Helsing was also portrayed in The Vault 2 of Dracula Marvel Comics program, which was based on loftiness characters of Bram Stoker's innovative including his great-granddaughter Rachel Front Helsing.

In the Marvel Comics miniseries X-Men: Apocalypse vs. Dracula, Van Helsing joins forces walkout the immortal mutant Apocalypse challenging his worshipers, Clan Akkaba, tutor in order to destroy Dracula, their common enemy. It is notable that Van Helsing had encountered Apocalypse before and previously alleged him to be a bloodsucker.

In the Italian comic bookMartin Mystère and the spin-off keep in shape Storie di Altrove/Stories from Elsewhere, Van Helsing's name is Richard. He was originally a dub in the service of position Holy Roman Emperors but inaccuracy was captured in 1475 strong the undead warriors of honourableness Order of the Dragon brook turned into a vampire antisocial the Wallachian Prince Vlad Character.

Four centuries later, Van Helsing killed Dracula, and later came to London to solve magnanimity case of Jack the Murderer, eventually discovering that the murderers were mentally controlled by demons from another world. In 1902 he worked together with loftiness resurrected Dracula to prevent illustriousness assassination of King Edward Figure.

Media involving Van Helsing's descendants

There have been numerous works be advisable for fiction depicting descendants of Automobile Helsing carrying on the tradition.

Films

• Several of Hammer's Character films feature other members hostilities the Van Helsing family aligned Peter Cushing as the Doctor; The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974), set beget the early 1900s, features cap son ‘Leyland’, played by Redbreast Stewart.

  Meanwhile, the latter-day Lorrimer Van Helsing has a granddaughter named 'Jessica' in both Dracula A.D. 1972, played by Stephanie Beacham, and The Satanic Rites of Dracula, played by Joanna Lumley.

• The 1979 film Love trim First Bite, is a comedic parody in which Dracula shower in love, and Jeffrey Rosenberg, grandson of Fritz Van Helsing, tries to kill him.
• In nobility 1989 film Sundown: The Mosquito in Retreat, Bruce Campbell plays Robert Van Helsing, the great-grandson of Abraham Van Helsing.
• In grandeur 2000 film Dracula 2000Justine Waddell plays Van Helsing's daughter Mary.
• In the 2000 Disney channel veil Mom's Got a Date colleague a Vampire, Malachi Van Helsing is hunting the vampire Dimitri, who is preying on primacy mother of the main characters.
• The 2004 direct-to-video film Dracula 3000 features Captain Abraham Van Helsing (played by Casper Van Dien), a descendant of the inspired Van Helsing and the airman of a spacefaring salvage ship.
• The 2004 direct-to-video film The Experiences of Young Van Helsing depicts Abraham Van Helsing's great-grandson Archangel (Keith Jordan) saving the globe from Simon Magus.
• The 2006 ep Bram Stoker's Dracula's Curse hick a character named Jacob Machine Helsing (Rhett Giles), who enquiry implied to be a issue of the original.
• The 2009 fell Stan Helsing is a comedic film revolving around satirizing high-mindedness Van Helsing descendant of depiction 2004 feature film.
• In the 2012 TV film, Scooby-Doo!

  Music domination the Vampire, a book columnist named Vincent van Helsing keep to the great-great-grandson of Abraham Forefront Helsing.

• In the 2013 film Dracula: The Dark Prince Van Helsing's 16th-century ancestor Leonardo is spurious by Jon Voight.
• Abraham Van Helsing appears in the 2018 film Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation voiced by Jim Gaffigan.

  Moreover being Count Dracula's arch-nemesis, Forerunner Helsing managed to have orderly great-granddaughter named Ericka Van Helsing (voiced by Kathryn Hahn), rendering captain of the ship main to the film. By description present day, Abraham has back number mechanized to avoid death turn only his head and hurry remained.

  Dracula falls in prize with Ericka not knowing she is descended from his knob arch-enemy until the climax. Say publicly movie's prologue also involves Advance guard Helsing making numerous comedic attempts to kill Dracula. Van Helsing returns in a secondary impersonation in the 2022 sequel, Hotel Transylvania: Transformania.

• It was announced blame May 20, 2020 that Shaft Dinklage and Jason Momoa flake to star in a mosquito action-adventure movie Good, Bad & Undead.^[24]

Television

• The Thames Television 1988–1993 apprentice animation Count Duckula featured character character Dr.

  Von Goosewing, uttered by Jimmy Hibbert. A like crazy scientist and vampire hunter, Von Goosewing is a parody type Van Helsing. He is shipshape and bristol fashion goose that speaks in well-organized German accent, and wears unmixed outfit not unlike that clasp Sherlock Holmes. He pursues Dispense with Duckula relentlessly, never able equal comprehend that Duckula is in reality completely harmless.

  He is keen terrible scientist, often getting stung by his own crackpot inventions, and he is supremely thoughtless, often bumping into Duckula status conversing with him for not too minutes without realising to whom he is speaking.

• The 1990 suite Dracula: The Series had Physiologist Behrens as Gustav Helsing. Of course was looking after his flash nephews, Christopher Townsend and Augmentation Townsend.

  They fought Dracula, who in the contemporary world, abstruse taken on the name have available Alexander Lucard. In this exchange Gustav Helsing's son, Klaus Helsing (Geraint Wyn Davies), had archaic turned into a vampire tough Alexander Lucard (Dracula).

• The 2006 CBBC series, Young Dracula, featured Acknowledged.

  Eric Van Helsing – probably the descendant of his enhanced famous predecessor, though with fa of his competence – stubborn to exterminate Count Dracula ground his children, who had antique chased out of Transylvania outdo an angry mob and were now living in rural Principality. Eric lives in a household with his son Jonathan. Alongside are also references made watchdog previous Van Helsing vampire slayers.

• The 2006 series Tom and Jerry Tales episode Monster Con, Forefront Helsing appears with Tom boss uses some of his funds to catch Jerry, but conditions a few ghosts instead standing turns into a werewolf bloke when he is bitten shy Jerry's friend, the werewolf.
• The 2009 ITV series Demons follows Abraham's great-grandson Luke Rutherford (Christian Cooke).
• Syfy is airing a Van Helsing episodic television series with Neil LaBute as creator.

  The remove character is Vanessa Van Helsing (Kelly Overton), said to distrust great-great-great-granddaughter of Abraham Van Helsing.^[25] Abraham Van Helsing appears superimpose the fourth season and keep inside characters related to him be blessed with appeared as well.

• In the 2019 FX series What We Transact in the Shadows, Guillermo, character devoted human familiar of Nandor the Relentless in Staten Cay, who has accidentally killed three vampires, finds out through trig DNA test that one exert a pull on his ancestors was named Car Helsing.

  Horrified, he says "Van Helsing isn't real" but abuse reasons "Vampires are real." Tight spot season 2, he struggles accomplice his ancestry which has forced him an extremely adept parasite slayer, killing dozens in sanction to protect his master alongside the end of season 2.

Books and stories

• The short story Abraham's Boys by Joe Hill court case about the retired Abraham Advance guard Helsing and his two module, and how he passes well ahead his knowledge to them.

  Rectitude story is included in dignity anthology The Many Faces give a miss Van Helsing.

• According to The Evil spirit Hunter's Handbook, Abraham was categorize the first Van Helsing run into encounter vampires. The book obey supposedly written by Raphael Car Helsing in the 18th 100. It has also been prequeled by The Demon Hunter's Handbook by Abelard Van Helsing (16th century) and The Dragon Hunter's Handbook by Adelia Vin Helsin (14th century).

  The supposed writers refer to each other (in the cases where it begets sense) and other Van Helsings.

• Similar to the above-mentioned handbooks in your right mind Vampyre: The Terrifying Lost Entry of Dr. Cornelius Van Helsing which is written by Mary-Jane Knight but credited to Dr. Cornelius Van Helsing. The game park implies that Cornelius is excellence brother of Abraham.
• Young Dracula get by without Michael Lawrence mentions a agriculturist named Dweeb Van Helsing.
• In Den hemliga boken and sequels from one side to the ot Jesper Tillberg and Peter Bergting, the main character is Abraham's great-grandson Lennart Van Helsing (not to be confused with Lennart Hellsing).
• Van Helsing's Gazette is regularly referred to in Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next novels.

Anime and manga

• In the manga and anime, Hellsing, modern day descendant Integra Hellsing leads a British government go on strike force against supernatural menaces.

  Honesty story also includes her pa, Arthur and uncle, Richard. In the nude later turns out that excellence protagonist Alucard is in reality Dracula, and has become clean up servant to the Helsing after being defeated by Integra's grandfather, Abraham Van Helsing. School in this incarnation however, the Automobile Hellsings are Protestant rather outweigh Roman Catholic.

• Abraham Van Helsing critique also a character in influence Code: Realize anime.

Comics and revelation novels

Games

• Gabriel Van Helsing is featured in the 2004 video play, Van Helsing.

  The player uses the character to hunt disconsolate Dracula in Transylvania.

• In 2011, Prepare Fortress 2 added via rectify a costume set for character Sniper class, named 'Camper Advance guard Helsing' which can only aside used for Halloween events.^[26] Twosome years later, a similar drape set for the Soldier was added with the same Hallowe'en limitations, named the 'Sgt.

  Helsing'.^[27]

• The 2013 game, The Incredible Karma of Van Helsing, focuses register the trials of young Automobile Helsing, son of the notional vampire hunter Abraham Van Helsing.
• Van Helsing was adapted as on the rocks character in MechQuest, where purify plays a professional mech ghoul hunter.

  He is portrayed sort having a brother, another stalker, who looks identical to him and eventually replaces him.

• Van Helsing is a potential love worry for the protagonist in blue blood the gentry otomevisual novelCode: Realize ~Guardian bazaar Rebirth~
• Van Helsing and Dracula were portrayed as tanks in World of Tanks Blitz, a general online tank warfare game.

  Automobile Helsing was portrayed as uncut royal-looking tank destroyer with detail designs and scenes from rendering book on the side carry out the tank. Dracula is describe as a medium tank expose pure black, very fast, keep from with no designs on allow. The tanks were available thorough the 2016 Halloween Event.

• Van Helsing was portrayed, along with rest 2 from the book, in The Fury of Dracula, a operation where the hunters must point in the right direction down and kill Dracula.
• In interpretation 2016 first-person shooter game Overwatch the character Cole Cassidy portrays him in an event-specific difficult to understand of the same name.
• In say publicly 2021 expansion for Magic goodness Gathering known as "Innistrad: Flush Vow", the card Savior put Ollenbeck has an alternate intend version called Abraham Van Helsing.
• Terrordrome: Reign of the Legends hick Alex Van Helsing as shipshape and bristol fashion playable character.

Theme parks

• In Universal Studios' 2024 Halloween Horror Nights, break original haunted house based get your skates on the Universal Monsters franchise was created titled Universal Monsters: Limitless Bloodlines.

  The house stars Saskia Van Helsing, Abraham's last minor who vows revenge on Dracula's daughter, Marya Zaleska, for probity death of her brother. She joins forces with the Helpmate of Frankenstein to battle prestige unholy alliance of Marya, significance She-Wolf of London, and Anck-Su-Namun. The house ends with Marya beheading Saskia and the Old lady taking her corpse to picket at the Van Helsing crypt.^{[citation needed]}

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