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THE BATMAN VS DRACULA FULL MOVIE

Hypnotic manipulation of weak-willed peopleĭracula was the King of the Vampires, and was based on Bram Stoker's iconic character.

Dracula found out that Bruce Wayne was Batman before Batman finished him off. However, Batman managed to interrupt the ritual, saved Vicki, and cured the 'Lost Ones' of their vampirism, as Dracula turned his attention to finally killing him.Įventually blowing his way into the Batcave after a prolonged chase through the city's underground tunnels, a badly wounded Batman managed to blast Dracula with a device from Wayne Industries that stored pure sunlight, and destroyed the vampire. In an attempt to resurrect his bride, Dracula kidnapped Vicki Vale, and drew the life energy out of her soul and into Carmilla. Dracula seemed unable to tolerate either Bruce Wayne being the ruler of Gotham's elite, as well as the idea that there was another 'Bat Man' in Gotham, and strove to kill Batman.ĭracula successfully hypnotized Bruce Wayne for a short period while he acted as Dr. Dracula soon became obsessed with remodeling Gotham in his own image, and turned hordes of citizens including Joker into vampires like himself, with him as their King and Carmilla (with Vicki Vale's beautiful soul) as their Queen. Here, while incarcerated in Gotham Cemetery, Dracula was accidentally revived by the Penguin, who he hypnotized into acting as his servant. Originating from Transylvania, Dracula was eventually vanquished, and his remains were moved at an undetermined time to Gotham City.

THE BATMAN VS DRACULA FULL MOVIE

Thus far, Batman and Dracula have not met in official DC Comics canon.Īside from his beloved bride Carmilla, much of Dracula's origins in the movie matched Stoker's original novel. Those connections include an animated film, an unlicensed Filipino film, and the aforementioned DC Comics Elseworlds miniseries (set on an alternate Earth of the DC Multiverse). A public domain character and staple of the horror genre, Dracula was frequently pitted against Batman in popular culture, due to both characters' roots as creatures of the night.

Ever seeking power and innocent women to turn into his eternal vampire brides, Dracula was opposed by many heroes throughout the ages, most notably vampire-hunter, Abraham Van Helsing. He was frequently considered the King of the Vampires, due to his great age and increased supernatural abilities. Batman, in fact, gradually lost control of himself, yielded to bloodlust, and transformed gradually into a vampire who was ruthless, evil and dangerous as he was.Ĭount Dracula was a centuries-old vampire, Transylvanian nobleman, and sorcerer. The two decided that, in order to kill all the vampires in one go, they would draw them inside the Batcave, which crumbled with dynamite, and killed all the vampires however, Dracula ruled out the price of the sacrifice of Tanya.Īt the end of the story, Batman and Dracula competed in a terrible duel in the skies of Gotham afterwards, the Dark Knight was able to defeat the King of the Vampires, who died after being impaled on the trunk of a tree destroyed by lightning - but not before he had drunk the blood of Batman and stole the rest of his humanity.Īlthough Dracula died in the first volume of the trilogy, the consequences of his showdown with Batman rebounded in the two remaining volumes. Dracula was betrayed by Tanya, a vampire that, in the past, was part of his family, but switched sides and chose the side of good and helped Batman, who was bitten by the vampire servants of Dracula but was still master of his humanity, to fight the army of vampires. After centuries of travels around the world, the King of Vampires came to Gotham City, where he began to transform many of its inhabitants into vampires.

Dracula appeared as an antagonist in the Batman comics, but in the first volume of a trilogy Elseworlds (then in a story out of continuity), composed of the episodes Red Rain, Blood Storm and Crimson Mist.