History Main / FightDracula

* In Creator/MarvelComics Dracula has at some point fought nearly everyone, as well as holding down his own popular title, ''ComicBook/TheTombOfDracula'' for years. He's fought (''deep breath'') ComicBook/DoctorStrange, ComicBook/{{Blade}}, ComicBook/TheFrankensteinMonster, Jack Russell from ComicBook/WerewolfByNight, other miscellaneous monster-hunter characters, the ComicBook/XMen[[note]]He came close to turning ComicBook/{{Storm|MarvelComics}} too.[[/note]], Doctor Doom, ComicBook/CaptainBritainAndMI13,[[note]]In which he shot vampires at Britain from the cannon in his Moon Castle![[/note]] ComicBook/SpiderMan, the [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]], [[ComicBook/CaptainMarvelMarvelComics Monica Rambeau]] of ComicBook/TheAvengers, and [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]]. Thor has even fought Dracula when the latter was amped by the blood of a god, and Dracula's also come close to ''curb-stomping'' ComicBook/SilverSurfer! (Who was admittedly having a rough day.) The only person that ''really'' gave Drac trouble was ComicBook/{{Apocalypse}} - and even then, Dracula would have killed him, but for the intervention of Abraham Van Helsing. Oh and of course ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'' who wooed and married a potential powerful bride for him.

* In ''Frankenstein: The Monster Returns'', Dracula is the boss of the penultimate stage.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheBatmanVsDracula'': [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Batman fights Dracula]].

* ''Dracula vs. Franchise/{{Zorro}}'', Diego De La Vega encounters the Count in Spain and later France while visiting Europe. After barely surviving a battle with the count aboard a ship, Zorro makes use of the power of true faith to get the means to harm the vampire. In the end the hero manages to defeat Dracula but putting the supposedly real crown of thorns Jesus bore, with it not mattering if the relic was the original item or not as there was faith reverence for it. Moarte, the host of ''[[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Longbox of the Damned]]'', highly recommends it.

* In ''VideoGame/NetHack'', Dracula is a mandatory boss. Unfortunately, for a very long time he wasn't much stronger than a normal vampire lord, a trivial enemy at this point, so players would sometimes just CherryTap him to death with candy bars or other such "[[WeaponOfXSlaying Vladsbanes]]", as they are called by the fanbase. Or just kill him in a single hit with cockatrice corpses or [[InfinityPlusOneSword a blessed +7 Grayswandir]]. He was finally buffed in version 3.6.0 and is now a legitimate threat.

* In ''VideoGame/NetHack'', Dracula is a mandatory boss. Unfortunately, he's not much stronger than a normal vampire lord, a trivial enemy at this point, so many players sometimes just kill him with candy bars or other such "[[WeaponOfXSlaying Vladsbanes]]", as they are called by the fanbase. Or just kill him in a single hit with cockatrice corpses or [[InfinityPlusOneSword a blessed +7 Grayswandir]].

* In the ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaI'' franchise the whole premesis is hunting dracula

* In the ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaI'' the whole premesis is hunting dracula

Everyone knows how tough {{Dracula}} is. He's the biggest, meanest, and more importantly, most famous [[VampireFiction vampire in modern culture]]. So how do you show just how awesome your character is? Make them fight Dracula.

* In Creator/MarvelComics Dracula has at some point fought nearly everyone, as well as holding down his own popular title, ''ComicBook/TheTombOfDracula'' for years. He's fought (''deep breath'') ComicBook/DoctorStrange, ComicBook/{{Blade}}, ComicBook/TheFrankensteinMonster, Jack Russell from ComicBook/WerewolfByNight, other miscellaneous monster-hunter characters, the ComicBook/XMen[[note]]He came close to turning ComicBook/{{Storm|MarvelComics}} too.[[/note]], Doctor Doom, ComicBook/CaptainBritainAndMI13,[[note]]In which he shot vampires at Britain from the cannon in his Moon Castle![[/note]] ComicBook/SpiderMan, the [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk, [[ComicBook/CaptainMarvelMarvelComics Monica Rambeau]] of ComicBook/TheAvengers, and [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]]. Thor has even fought Dracula when the latter was amped by the blood of a god, and Dracula's also come close to ''curb-stomping'' ComicBook/SilverSurfer! (Who was admittedly having a rough day.) The only person that ''really'' gave Drac trouble was ComicBook/{{Apocalypse}} - and even then, Dracula would have killed him, but for the intervention of Abraham Van Helsing. Oh and of course ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'' who wooed and married a potential powerful bride for him.

* In Creator/MarvelComics Dracula has at some point fought nearly everyone, as well as holding down his own popular title, ''Comicbook/TheTombOfDracula'' for years. He's fought (''deep breath'') Comicbook/DoctorStrange, Comicbook/{{Blade}}, Comicbook/TheFrankensteinMonster, Jack Russell from Comicbook/WerewolfByNight, other miscellaneous monster-hunter characters, the ComicBook/XMen[[note]]He came close to turning ComicBook/{{Storm}} too.[[/note]], Doctor Doom, Comicbook/CaptainBritainAndMI13,[[note]]In which he shot vampires at Britain from the cannon in his Moon Castle![[/note]] Franchise/SpiderMan, the ComicBook/IncredibleHulk, Monica Rambeau of Comicbook/TheAvengers, and [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]]. Thor has even fought Dracula when the latter was amped by the blood of a god, and Dracula's also come close to ''curb-stomping'' ComicBook/SilverSurfer! (Who was admittedly having a rough day.) The only person that ''really'' gave Drac trouble was [[Comicbook/{{Apocalypse}} Apocalypse]] - and even then, Dracula would have killed him, but for the intervention of Abraham Van Helsing. Oh and of course ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'' who wooed and married a potential powerful bride for him.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[WesternAnimation/TheBatmanVsDracula He does it again several decades later, too.]]]]

* SolomonKane fought Dracula in a pair of interconnected tales that ran in ''ComicBook/DraculaLives'' and ''[[ComicBook/ConanTheBarbarian Savage Sword of Conan]]''.

* ''Dracula vs. Franchise/{{Zorro}}''. Moarte, the host of ''[[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Longbox of the Damned]]'', highly recommends it.

* In the ''VideoGame/{{Animaniacs}}'' LicensedGame for the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis, Dracula (from the [[WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}} TV series]]) episode, "[[Recap/AnimaniacsEpisode29 Draculee, Draculaa]]") serves as the boss of Studio 4, [[BigBoosHaunt which takes place on the set of a horror film]] called ''Bloodmask: Part 32''. This should come as no surprise, as Creator/{{Konami}}, creator of the ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' games, also developed this game.

* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSsxRPP4TaU the ad]] for [[Advertising/EnergizerBunny Energizer]], Supervolt Batteries called in Dracula to steal the Energizer Bunny's battery. The Bunny doesn't so much fight him as let him lock himself out of his castle before the sun comes up.

* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'' features the ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' version of Dracula as a non-playable boss character. Due to ''Ultimate'''s nature of a MassivelyMultiplayerCrossover, several characters from many video gaming franchises now have the chance to face off against the Count. While any character in the lineup can fight him in the game's Adventure Mode, ''World of Light'', in the game's Classic Mode, Dracula can only be fought by [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Luigi]][[note]]Luigi's Classic Mode has him face horror-aligned opponents, as a nod to ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion''[[/note]], VideoGame/PacMan[[note]]Pac-Man's Classic Mode has him face the oldest fighters in the game, with Dracula being the oldest boss[[/note]], and Simon and Richter Belmont[[note]]They're the playable representatives of ''Castlevania'', it's only natural they fight Dracula[[/note]].

* In one ad for [[Advertising/EnergizerBunny Energizer]], Supervolt Batteries called in Dracula to steal the Energizer Bunny's battery. The Bunny doesn't so much fight him as let him lock himself out of his castle before the sun comes up.

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[[caption-width-right:350:[[WesternAnimation/TheBatmanVsDracula He does it again several years later, too.]]]]

* ''Dracula vs. Franchise/{{Zorro}}''. [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] highly recommends it.

* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'' features the ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' version of Dracula as a non-playable boss character. Due to ''Ultimate'''s nature of a MassivelyMultiplayerCrossover, several characters from many video gaming franchises now have the chance to face off against the Count. While any character in the lineup can fight him in the game's Adventure Mode, ''World of Light'', in the game's Classic Mode, Dracula can only be fought by Luigi[[note]]Luigi's Classic Mode has him face horror-aligned opponents, as a nod to ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion''[[/note]], Pac-Man[[note]]Pac-Man's Classic Mode has him face the oldest fighters in the game, with Dracula being the oldest boss[[/note]], and Simon and Richter Belmont[[note]]They're the playable representatives of ''Castlevania'', it's only natural they fight Dracula[[/note]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheBatmanVsDracula'': [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Batman fights Dracula]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' (of all people) had an encounter with Dracula, er [[FlintstoneTheming Rockula]], in ''The Flintstones Meet Rockula and Frankenstone'' where a vacation to Transylvania, er [[FlintstoneTheming Rocksylvania]], leads Rockula to seek Wilma as his bride. [[spoiler:She scares him off by listing the responsibilities of modern marriage.]]

* Played with in ''Literature/BattleGround'': Harry fights Drakul, Dracula's father. [[spoiler: And Harry is hopelessly out of his league in that fight. Two other Wardens get killed, one gets sucked into a teleportation gate of a kind no one else had seen before, and the only reason the rest of the heroes survive is because Drakul decides he's accomplished enough that night and leaves]].

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* In the ''Comicbook/ArmyOfDarkness'' comics, Ash fights Dracula in the storyline appropriately named [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Ash vs. Dracula"]].

* Occurs in the second book of ''FanFic/ChildOfTheStorm''. Dracula tries to kidnap [[spoiler:Carol]] in order to get her blood, which he believes will make him (and any other vampires he sires from then on) immune to sunlight. When Harry tries to intervene, he [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown hands the young demigod his arse]]. WordOfGod is that he's based on Creator/CharlesDance -- this is a VampireMonarch who ''earned'' the RedBaron of "the Impaler" long before he was turned, and is a PhysicalGod with the power and skill to match Thor in one-on-one combat. However, Harry and his friends are able to pull a KansasCityShuffle and distract him long enough to snatch [[spoiler:Carol]], and then he [[VillainExitStageLeft scarpers]] when fellow {{Physical God}}s Thor, Loki, and the Hulk -- all of whom are [[PapaWolf very]] [[CoolUncle protective of Harry]] -- show up.

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* In ''Film/AbbottAndCostelloMeetFrankenstein'', ''[[spoiler:Film/{{the Wolf Man|1941}}]]'' fights Dracula.

* ''[[Series/YoungIndianaJones The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles]]'' episode "Transylvania, January 1918" involves {{Franchise/Ind|ianaJones}}y traveling with a team of spies to the eponymous region during UsefulNotes/WorldWarI; and he faces off against a rogue Romanian general/nobleman named Mattias Targo, who believes himself to be the reincarnation of UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler, but it turns out that [[RealAfterAll he's an authentic vampire]] (probably the real Vlad Tepes himself, or at least {{Dracula}}). [[ParanormalEpisode An uncommon episode]], considering that it's the only one of the entire TV series to have supernatural elements (despite the fact that magic is known to exist in the ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' universe).

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* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheReluctantWerewolf'': Dracula is the villain of the movie.

* Dracula was the villain in the Castlevania episode of ''WesternAnimation/CaptainNTheGameMaster'', naturally.
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' has the Warner Siblings dealing with Dracula, although they don't fight him as much as drive him insane with their antics.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' (of all people) had an encounter with Dracula, er [[FlintstoneTheming Rockula]], in ''The Flintstones Meet Rockula and Frankenstone'' where a vacation to Transylvania, er [[FlintstoneTheming Rocksylvania]], leads Rockula to seek Wilma as his bride. [[spoiler:She scares him off by listing the responsibilities of modern marriage.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/FilmationsGhostbusters'': Jake, Eddie and Tracy battle Dracula in the episode "Shades of Dracula". Dracula's design is [[{{Expy}} basically the same]] as Drac from another Filmation cartoon ''The Groovie Goolies''.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/SpiderWoman'' episode "Dracula's Revenge", Spider-Woman fights Dracula, with the Wolfman and FrankensteinsMonster appearing as the vampire's minions.
* WesternAnimation/TheBeatles are chased around a wax museum by Dracula, which they first encounter as a wax statue (episode "Misery").

Everyone knows how tough {{Dracula}} is. He's the biggest, meanest, and more importantly, most famous {{vampire}} in modern culture. So how do you show just how awesome your character is? Make them fight Dracula.