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* BellyDancer: Marishka certainly dresses like one, though she gets killed before we see much of her characteristics.



* HotGypsyWoman: Anna, the Romani princess, who runs around in [[OfCorsetsSexy sexy corsets]] despite being a fighter. Marishka was apparently of Romani origin too before she was turned, and she has the BellyDancer costume.

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* HotGypsyWoman: Anna, the Romani princess, who runs around in [[OfCorsetsSexy sexy corsets]] despite being a fighter. Marishka was apparently of Romani origin too before she was turned, and she has the BellyDancer belly dancer costume.

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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything:
** The scene that introduces Friar Carl bears a more than passing resemblance to the inevitable scene in the ''Film/JamesBond'' film where Bond visits Q to load up on cool toys.
** Also inverted. The scene where [[spoiler:Van Helsing cradles Anna's lifeless body and cries out after killing her accidentally]] is very reminiscent to ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'' where Wolverine (also played by Hugh Jackman) clutches Jean Grey's body after she begs him to kill her.


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** The scene that introduces Friar Carl bears a more than passing resemblance to the inevitable scene in the ''Film/JamesBond'' film where Bond visits Q to load up on cool toys.
** Also inverted. The scene where [[spoiler:Van Helsing cradles Anna's lifeless body and cries out after killing her accidentally]] is very reminiscent to ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'' where Wolverine (also played by Hugh Jackman) clutches Jean Grey's body after she begs him to kill her.
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* CoolHorse: 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.

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* CoolHorse: 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.countryside and clearing a broken bridge in one leap.
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* CoolHorse: 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.

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* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: What Dracula wants.
-->'''Dracula''': What I want is ''life'', Gabriel. The continuation of my kind. And perhaps, the return of my ring. *holds up missing ring finger*\\
'''Van Helsing''': *stares at the ring on his own finger for a second before shrugging*

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* AdaptationalNameChange: The real-world Wallachian nobleman whom Dracula character was based on was Vlad III, also known as Vlad the Impaler, Vlad Tepes or -- surpise, surprise -- Dracula, son of Vlad Dracul. However, in the movie, Dracula introduces himself as "Vladislaus Dragulia". Actually the historical Vlad III did sign his name that way. Spelling wasn't exactly standardized in that period.

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* AdaptationalNameChange: The real-world Wallachian nobleman whom Dracula character was based on was Vlad III, also known as Vlad the Impaler, UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler, Vlad Tepes or -- surpise, surprise -- Dracula, son of Vlad Dracul. However, in the movie, Dracula introduces himself as "Vladislaus Dragulia". Actually the historical Vlad III did sign his name that way. Spelling wasn't exactly standardized in that period. "Vlad" was his birth name and "Vladislaus" was more of a Latin adaptation of it for convenience instead of an equivalent, as "Vlad" and "Vladislav" were related but not equated in Romanian.


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* InconsistentSpelling: 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 "Drăculea".
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* [[DisasterDodgingDog Disater 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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* [[DisasterDodgingDog Disater Dodging 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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