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* TheMirrorShowsYourTrueSelf: One gag has Mavis practicing a speech to her dad in front of a mirror. She's a vampire, so of course there's no reflection.
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* TheMirrorShowsYourTrueSelf: One gag has Mavis practicing a speech to her dad in front of a mirror. She's a vampire, so of course there's no reflection.
** Why would a vampire even have a mirror, unless the rule is [[spoiler: [[WildMassGuessing Vampires ''can'' see themselves in the mirror, everybody else can't?]]]]reflection.
** Why would a vampire even have a mirror, unless the rule is [[spoiler: [[WildMassGuessing Vampires ''can'' see themselves in the mirror, everybody else can't?]]]]
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'''Hotel Transylvania''' is an [[AllCGICartoon computer-animated]] [[ThreeDMovie 3D]] comedy film produced by Sony Pictures Animation for ColumbiaPictures. It's the feature film debut of GenndyTartakovsky, best known for his work on Creator/CartoonNetwork's ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'', ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'', ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Sym-Bionic Titan}}''. It also stars AdamSandler, SelenaGomez, [[Series/SaturdayNightLive Andy Samberg]], and many other [[CelebrityVoiceActor Celebrity Voice Actors]].
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'''Hotel Transylvania''' is an [[AllCGICartoon computer-animated]] [[ThreeDMovie 3D]] comedy film produced by Sony Pictures Animation for ColumbiaPictures. It's the feature film debut of GenndyTartakovsky, Creator/GenndyTartakovsky, best known for his work on Creator/CartoonNetwork's ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'', ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'', ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Sym-Bionic Titan}}''. It also stars AdamSandler, SelenaGomez, [[Series/SaturdayNightLive Andy Samberg]], and many other [[CelebrityVoiceActor Celebrity Voice Actors]].
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** Wayne's daughter Winnie shares the name of a girl werewolf from {{Scooby Doo & The Ghoul's School}}.
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'''Johnathon''': If I put my hand in {{the Invisible Man}}'s mouth, would it dissapear?\\
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** The cave entrance Mavis took Jonathon to the roof is shaped like the mask of [[ThePhantomoftheOpera a certain opera ghost in Paris]] . . .
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** Remember that trailer scene with Dracula going down the hall with the shrunken heads?
-->'''Shrunken Head #1''': Do not disturb!\\
'''Shrunken Head #2''': Do not disturb!\\
'''Shrunken Head #3''': Do not disturb!\\
'''Shrunken Head #4''': Do not disturb!\\
'''Witch''': Morning your lovingness!\\
'''Shrunken Head #5''': Maid, clean this room up!
** Yeah their voices are different in the movie . . . '''''especially''''' the last shrunken head whose voice is much more enunciating and the witch’s voice is a tad raspier.
-->'''Shrunken Head #1''': Do not disturb!\\
'''Shrunken Head #2''': Do not disturb!\\
'''Shrunken Head #3''': Do not disturb!\\
'''Shrunken Head #4''': Do not disturb!\\
'''Witch''': Morning your lovingness!\\
'''Shrunken Head #5''': Maid, clean this room up!
** Yeah their voices are different in the movie . . . '''''especially''''' the last shrunken head whose voice is much more enunciating and the witch’s voice is a tad raspier.
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** Remember that trailer The scene with Dracula going down the hall with the shrunken heads?
-->'''Shrunken Head #1''': Do not disturb!\\
'''Shrunken Head #2''': Do not disturb!\\
'''Shrunken Head #3''': Do not disturb!\\
'''Shrunken Head #4''': Do not disturb!\\
'''Witch''': Morning your lovingness!\\
'''Shrunken Head #5''': Maid, clean this room up!
** Yeah theirheads has some difference to the voices are different in between the movie . . . '''''especially''''' the last shrunken head whose voice is much more enunciating trailer and the witch’s voice is a tad raspier. movie.
-->'''Shrunken Head #1''': Do not disturb!\\
'''Shrunken Head #2''': Do not disturb!\\
'''Shrunken Head #3''': Do not disturb!\\
'''Shrunken Head #4''': Do not disturb!\\
'''Witch''': Morning your lovingness!\\
'''Shrunken Head #5''': Maid, clean this room up!
** Yeah their
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'''Johnathon''': If I put my hand in {{the Invisible Man}}'s mouth, will it turn dissapear?\\
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'''Johnathon''': If I put my hand in {{the Invisible Man}}'s mouth, will it turn invisible?\\
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'''[[DavidSpade Griffin]]''': He put his hand in my mouth to see if it would turn invisible!
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'''[[DavidSpade Griffin]]''': He put his hand in my mouth to see if it would turn invisible!dissapear!
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* DefangedHorrors
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* InvisibleJerkass: The Invisible Man seems to be fond of ComedicSociopathy.ComedicSociopathy; at least in the beginning.
* MarshmallowHell: Eunice does this to Mavis while she's arguing with Dracula about letting her visit a human village.
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* [[WhatHaveIDone Martha, what have I done?]]: Drac says this after his lies are exposed, Jonathan sadly leaves for home, and Martha's birthday gift for Mavis is revealed.
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--> ''One of the questions asked to Dracula''\\
'''Johnathon''': If I put my hand in {{the Invisible Man}}'s mouth, will it turn invisible?\\
''Later, every monster is at the front desk asking for a refund after they learned there was a human at the hotel''\\
'''[[DavidSpade Griffin]]''': He put his hand in my mouth to see if it would turn invisible!
--> ''One of the questions asked to Dracula''\\
'''Johnathon''': If I put my hand in {{the Invisible Man}}'s mouth, will it turn invisible?\\
''Later, every monster is at the front desk asking for a refund after they learned there was a human at the hotel''\\
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* HeroesWantRedheads: A gender-reversal example with Mavis and Johnny.
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* EverythingsDeaderWithZombies: Dracula employs them as bellhops and such. There's also a zombie [[LudwigvanBeethoven Beethoven]], [[JohannSebastianBach Bach]] and [[WolfgangAmadeusMozart Mozart]]!
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* EverythingsDeaderWithZombies: Dracula employs them as bellhops and such. There's also a zombie Beethoven, Bach, and Mozart!
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* FacePalm: Dracula does this when [[spoiler:one of the zombies in human disguise loses his head]].
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* FacePalm: Dracula does this when [[spoiler:one of the zombies in human disguise loses his impales another disguised zombie in the head]].
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'''Shrunken Head #5''': Maid, clean this room up!\\
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'''Shrunken Head #5''': Maid, clean this room up!\\up!
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* DiggingYourselfDeeper: In the spa scene, Dracula by first saying Mavis shouldn't be with "Johnnystein" because of his kind, which is ''after'' [[BatmanInMyBasement disguising Jonathan]] and claiming him to be [[RelativelyFlimsyExcuse Frank's long lost cousin of his right hand]]. [[FrankensteinsMonster Frank]] naturally gets offended so Dracula backs himself up by saying that he has red hair, which [[TheInvisibleMan Griffin]] gets mad. After a couple of scenes with Johnnystein and Mavis on the roof, we cut back to the spa where [[TheWolfman Wayne]] and [[TheMummy Murray]] are now mad at Dracula.
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* DiggingYourselfDeeper: In the spa scene, Dracula by first saying Mavis shouldn't be with "Johnnystein" because of his kind, which is ''after'' [[BatmanInMyBasement disguising Jonathan]] and claiming him to be [[RelativelyFlimsyExcuse Frank's long lost third cousin of his right hand]]. [[FrankensteinsMonster Frank]] naturally gets offended so Dracula backs himself up by saying that he has red hair, which [[TheInvisibleMan Griffin]] gets mad. After a couple of scenes with Johnnystein and Mavis on the roof, we cut back to the spa where [[TheWolfman Wayne]] and [[TheMummy Murray]] are now mad at Dracula.
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** Trying to back himself up on why 'Jonnystein" left, Dracula says he had red, curly hair . . . to which [[TheInvisibleMan Griffin]] asks defensively, "What's wrong with red, curly hair?" Well . . . the guy's ''invisible'', so of course Dracula's gonna point that out.
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** Trying to back himself up on why 'Jonnystein" left, isn't suitable for Mavis, Dracula says he had has red, curly hair . . . to which [[TheInvisibleMan Griffin]] asks defensively, "What's wrong with red, curly hair?" Well . . . the guy's ''invisible'', so of course Dracula's Dracula[[note]] or any other character for that matter[[/note]] is gonna point that out.
* [[WhatHaveIDone Martha, what have I done?]]: Drac says this after his lies are exposed, Jonathan sadly leaves for home, and Martha's birthday gift for Mavis is revealed.
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** In the first trailer, when Jonathan first enters the hotel, he loudly says "Hello?", a shocked Dracula says "A human!", and Jonathan says "What is this place?" In the movie the animation is the same, but the characters don't say anything until Dracula traps Jonathan in the revolving door. Also, in the scene where Dracula and Jonathan are in the TunnelNetwork and have the AccidentalPervert moment with the skeleton in the shower, Jonathan is dressed like his normal human self. The movie version of the scene have him wearing his "Johnnystein" monster disguise.
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** In the first trailer, when Jonathan first enters the hotel, he loudly says "Hello?", a shocked Dracula says "A human!", and Jonathan says "What is this place?" In the movie the animation is the same, but the characters don't say anything until Dracula traps Jonathan in the revolving door. Also, in the scene where Dracula and Jonathan are in the TunnelNetwork and have the AccidentalPervert moment with the skeleton in the shower, Jonathan is dressed like his normal human self. The movie version of the scene have has him wearing his "Johnnystein" monster disguise.
** Remember that trailer scene with Dracula going down the hall with the shrunken heads?
-->'''Shrunken Head #1''': Do not disturb!\\
'''Shrunken Head #2''': Do not disturb!\\
'''Shrunken Head #3''': Do not disturb!\\
'''Shrunken Head #4''': Do not disturb!\\
'''Witch''': Morning your lovingness!\\
'''Shrunken Head #5''': Maid, clean this room up!\\
-> Yeah their voices are different in the movie . . . '''''especially''''' the last shrunken head whose voice is much more enunciating and the witch’s voice is a tad raspier.
-->'''Shrunken Head #1''': Do not disturb!\\
'''Shrunken Head #2''': Do not disturb!\\
'''Shrunken Head #3''': Do not disturb!\\
'''Shrunken Head #4''': Do not disturb!\\
'''Witch''': Morning your lovingness!\\
'''Shrunken Head #5''': Maid, clean this room up!\\
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* RelativelyFlimsyExcuse: Dracula claims that "Johnnystein" is Frank's long-lost 6th cousin of his right hand. Frank believes him.
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** Wayne's daughter Winnie shares the name of a girl werewolf from [[ScoobyDoo Scooby Doo & The Ghoul's School]].
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** Wayne's daughter Winnie shares the name of a girl werewolf from [[ScoobyDoo Scooby {{Scooby Doo & The Ghoul's School]].School}}.
** The cave entrance Mavis took Jonathon to the roof is shaped like the mask of [[ThePhantomoftheOpera a certain opera ghost in Paris]] . . .
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* WhatTheHellHero: In order to keep Mavis from leaving the hotel, Dracula [[spoiler:builds a fake human village for her to visit and has zombies in human costumes attack her with pitchforks and torches]]. Despite some StylisticSuck from the zombies' incompetence, the plan works, but Dracula eventually confesses everything to Mavis during her birthday party. She is understandably pissed.
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* WhatTheHellHero: In order to keep Mavis from leaving the hotel, Dracula [[spoiler:builds a fake human village for her to visit and has zombies in human costumes attack her with pitchforks and torches]]. Despite some StylisticSuck from the zombies' incompetence, the plan works, but Dracula eventually confesses everything to Mavis during her birthday party. She is understandably pissed. ''Everybody'' helps her to confront him about it, even before [[spoiler: Johnny is revealed to be a human and their sentiments really sour.]]
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* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: How is Quasimodo considered a "monster" like a werewolf or vampire? He's just an ordinary guy with severe deformity like [[TheElephantMan Joseph Merrick]], right?
** Any character that has ever been played by LonChaney - sr. ''and'' jr. - count as a classic monster in this movie.
** Hell's bells, maybe he ''is'' human, but prefers the society of monsters for whatever reason. Who wouldn't, considering [[JerkassWoobie all he's gone through]].
** Perhaps on a technicality, he's considered a monster because of his mannerisms and being perceived as a monster by regular humans. After all, if a no-humans rule was fully in effect, Griffin technically wouldn't be allowed on the premise either. This, as well as the above statement, might also add a level of FridgeBrilliance to his attempts at eating Jonathan.
** Any character that has ever been played by LonChaney - sr. ''and'' jr. - count as a classic monster in this movie.
** Hell's bells, maybe he ''is'' human, but prefers the society of monsters for whatever reason. Who wouldn't, considering [[JerkassWoobie all he's gone through]].
** Perhaps on a technicality, he's considered a monster because of his mannerisms and being perceived as a monster by regular humans. After all, if a no-humans rule was fully in effect, Griffin technically wouldn't be allowed on the premise either. This, as well as the above statement, might also add a level of FridgeBrilliance to his attempts at eating Jonathan.
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* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: How is Quasimodo can be considered a "monster" like a werewolf or vampire? He's just an ordinary guy with severe deformity like [[TheElephantMan Joseph Merrick]], right?
** Any character that has ever been played by LonChaney - sr. ''and'' jr. - count as a classic monster in this movie.
** Hell's bells, maybe he ''is'' human, but prefers the society of monsters for whatever reason. Who wouldn't, considering [[JerkassWoobie all he's gone through]].
** Perhaps on a technicality, he's considered a monsterbecause of his mannerisms and being perceived as a monster by regular humans. After all, if a no-humans rule was fully in effect, Griffin technically wouldn't be allowed on the premise either. This, as well as the above statement, might also add a level of FridgeBrilliance to his attempts at eating Jonathan.
** Any character that has ever been played by LonChaney - sr. ''and'' jr. - count as a classic monster in this movie.
** Hell's bells, maybe he ''is'' human, but prefers the society of monsters for whatever reason. Who wouldn't, considering [[JerkassWoobie all he's gone through]].
** Perhaps on a technicality, he's considered a monster
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* [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Martha, What Have I Done?]]: What Dracula states when he realizes [[spoiler: that he broke his daughters heart and shattered her dreams.]]
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** Why would a vampire even have a mirror, unless the rule is [[spoiler: Vampires ''can'' see themselves in the mirror, everybody else can't?]]
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* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Who knew Dracula could be such a KnightTemplarParent?
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* OurMonstersAreDifferent: And there's a lot of them.
** OurVampiresAreDifferent: Who knew Dracula could be such aKnightTemplarParent?
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[[caption-width-right:300:Even monsters need a vacation.]]
'''Hotel Transylvania''' is an [[AllCGICartoon computer-animated]] [[ThreeDMovie 3D]] comedy film produced by Sony Pictures Animation for ColumbiaPictures. It's the feature film debut of GenndyTartakovsky, best known for his work on Creator/CartoonNetwork's ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'', ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'', ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Sym-Bionic Titan}}''. It also stars AdamSandler, SelenaGomez, [[Series/SaturdayNightLive Andy Samberg]], and many other [[CelebrityVoiceActor Celebrity Voice Actors]].
The film is set in [[ThePlace Hotel Transylvania]], a five-star resort where the world's monsters can get away from the [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters humans who hate them]] and rest in peace. The hotel is owned by none other than {{Dracula}}, and on the [[TheHerosBirthday 118th birthday]] of his daughter [[CuteMonsterGirl Mavis]], he invites some of the [[MonsterMash most famous monsters]] to celebrate. However, they receive an unexpected visitor; [[TheThingThatWouldNotLeave Jonathan]], an ordinary young human who quickly [[BoyMeetsGhoul falls for Mavis]].
Released in the US on September 28, 2012. View the trailer [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSuXLbsdaEE&feature=plcp here]].
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!!''HotelTransylvania'' provides examples of:
* ThreeDMovie
* {{Adorkable}}: Jonathan.
* AirplaneArms: Dracula runs with his arms extended behind him.
* AccidentalPervert: Jonathan puts his hand through a female skeleton's rib cage, much to her indignation. Later, Dracula and Jonathan walk in on the same female skeleton in the shower.
* AerithAndBob: Mavis is a real name but a very old, uncommon one.
** It fits, seeing as how she's 118 years old.
* AllThereInTheManual: ''[[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1781164150/ref=ox_ya_os_product The Art and Making of Hotel Transylvania]]''. Buy it, read it, be amazed.
* AlliterativeFamily: The werewolves all have names that start with the letter W. Besides Wayne and Wanda, three of their pups are named Wilbur, Wally, and [[OutnumberedSibling Winnie]].
* AmbiguouslyGay: Griffin greets Dracula by pinching his butt and then calling him irresistible. Hmm...
** In one of the [[LicensedGame video games]], he actually calls Dracula ''handsome''.
* AnimatedArmor: The hotel guards.
* AnthropomorphicFood: The "scream cheese", which is basically [[ShapedLikeItself cream cheese that screams]].
* ArtShift: The credits are done in the same thick-line animation as DextersLaboratory and Genndy Tartakovsky's other previous work.
** The version of the story Jonathan tells of [[spoiler:Martha's death]] after seeing [[spoiler: a painting of her]].
* BadassDriver: Griffin does the driving during the RaceForYourLove sequence.
* BarefootCartoonAnimal: Wayne and Wanda, a suburban werewolf couple.
* BatOutOfHell: Dracula, of course. Mavis turns into a rather adorable one.
-->'''Dracula''': Don't give me the pouty bat face.
* BatmanInMyBasement: Inverted. Dracula has to keep the fact that Jonathan is human a secret from the other monsters.
* BeamMeUpScotty: In-universe, Drac is embarrassed at how twisted humans have presented the image of vampires into. We equate vampires as being blood-thirsty and saying "Blah blah blah!" to which he states he had never said anything like that in his centuries-long life.
* BedsheetGhost: The table cloths in the ballroom, and they can make the tables ''fly''.
* BeehiveHairdo: [[BrideOfFrankenstein Eunice]], complete with SkunkStripe.
** Let's not forget Jonathan's hair in his "Johnnystien" disguise.
* BigFun: Murray the Mummy.
* BlitheSpirit: Jonathan is this for the hotel. Doubles as [[ManicPixieDreamGirl Manic Pixie Dream Guy]] for Mavis (and Dracula, but non-romantically).
* BobHairCut: Mavis.
* BoyMeetsGhoul: Jonathan and Mavis; boy meets vampire.
* ChekhovsGag: Jonathan's smelly old shirt.
* ChekhovsGunman: Winnie.
* ClassicalMovieVampire: {{Dracula}}, obviously.
* CloudCuckoolander: Jonathan. Although he eventually seems to grow out of it.
* CoversAlwaysLie: The poster features The Invisible Man wearing clothes, but he doesn't wear anything but his glasses throughout the film. Presumably it's to make it more obvious to the audience that there's an Invisible Man there.
* CrashIntoHello: Jonathan and Mavis meet when he crashes into her on a witch's flying broomstick.
** Mavis's parents also met the same way.
* CreepyCute: She's 118, can turn into a bat (albeit a very adorable one), crawl on walls, can't go out during the day, and has no reflection, but otherwise, Mavis appears to be a normal, sweet teenage girl.
* CuteMonsterGirl: Mavis. If it weren't for her CuteLittleFangs, she'd look like just another PerkyGoth.
* DaddysGirl: Mavis for Dracula, [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by the song he sings to her as a child. But since she now wants to leave home so much, she seems to have grown out of that phase.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Probably one of the most blatant examples ever put on the screen, as it's apparent that monsters don't go out looking for trouble with humans, and are kind of freaked out by them.
* DatingWhatDaddyHates: Dracula doesn't approve of Mavis being with Jonathan, [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters for obvious reasons]]. However, Jonathan is disguised as a monster when their romance starts, so Mavis doesn't know he's human at the time.
* TheDeadCanDance: And [[SelenaGomez they]] [[Music/CeeLoGreen sing]], too. AutoTune used in their songs.
* DeadpanSnarker: Dracula. Griffin gets quite a few zingers as well.
* DeadWeight: Murray. He may be BigFun, but he's a fat mummy, so he counts.
* DiggingYourselfDeeper: In the spa scene, Dracula by first saying Mavis shouldn't be with "Johnnystein" because of his kind, which is ''after'' [[BatmanInMyBasement disguising Jonathan]] and claiming him to be [[RelativelyFlimsyExcuse Frank's long lost cousin of his right hand]]. [[FrankensteinsMonster Frank]] naturally gets offended so Dracula backs himself up by saying that he has red hair, which [[TheInvisibleMan Griffin]] gets mad. After a couple of scenes with Johnnystein and Mavis on the roof, we cut back to the spa where [[TheWolfman Wayne]] and [[TheMummy Murray]] are now mad at Dracula.
* DontGoInTheWoods: Jonathan hears a story about a "spooky forest" and decides to check it out.
-->'''Jonathan''': Who's not gonna go into a spooky forest, right?
* DontExplainTheJoke: Jonathan explains a joke, to Dracula's displeasure.
* DroolHello: During the prologue, while Dracula is overseeing the plans for the hotel, a blob of saliva splatters on the blueprints. It comes from young Mavis playing on the ceiling.
* DysfunctionalFamily: Wayne, Wanda, and all their little werewolf offspring.
-->'''Wayne''': Hey, kids! Reel it in! You're only supposed to make Mom and Dad miserable!
* EverythingsDeaderWithZombies: Dracula employs them as bellhops and such. There's also a zombie Beethoven, Bach, and Mozart!
* ExpressiveAccessory: The collar on Dracula's cape points up or curves down to match his moods.
* EvilChef: Quasimodo.
* ExpressiveEars: Mavis has these in her bat form.
* EyeGlasses: Griffin has expressive frames. His eyes are invisible, just like the rest of him.
* FacePalm: Dracula does this when [[spoiler:one of the zombies in human disguise loses his head]].
* FieryRedhead: Averted with [[TheFool Jonathan]].
** Griffin says he has red hair. [[InvisibleMan But how could anyone know that?]]
* FiveManBand: Dracula and his group of friends.
** TheHero: Dracula
** TheLancer: Frankenstein (could also be TheBigGuy)
** TheBigGuy: Murray The Mummy
** TheSmartGuy: Wayne The Wolf
** TheChick: Griffin The Invisible Man
* FlashbackCut: This happens when Jonathan tells Dracula how he found the hotel.
* TheFool: Jonathan. He seems to be fine with taking a picture of a couple that's ''crying'', adventuring through a "spooky forest", and following a trail of zombies on fire to an "awesome castle". He is also seemingly ''completely unafraid'' of Dracula though this is because he thinks the hotel is having a costume party when he first shows up.
** And Jonathan ''is'' freaked out at first when he learns that all the monsters are real, plus Dracula is the real deal and not just a man in a costume and that Mavis is his ''daughter''.
* ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself: At one point, Dracula and friends go out in public during the local Monster Festival. [[spoiler:Eventually they reveal themselves, but the people are actually liking their presence regardless]].
* FrankensteinsMonster: Frank and his [[BrideOfFrankenstein wife]], Eunice.
* FrenchCuisineIsHaughty: Quasimodo, the chef at the hotel, is French.
* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: Dracula and Mavis. See OurVampiresAreDifferent.
* GentleGiant: Frank.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Quite a few.
** See AccidentalPervert. If that lady wasn't a skeleton, those scenes wouldn't have made it into the movie.
** Jonathan asks Mavis if she's naked while she's in her bat form. In front of her ''dad'', no less!
** In the Monster Festival, a human dressed in mummy bandages walks seductively past the monsters' car and winks. Murray is understandably happy.
** Two bed bugs, who only appear as small black specs on-screen, have reserved a regular-sized honeymoon suite that Drac and Jonathan accidentally stumble into and apologetically leave.
** During the scene at the pool, Wayne pulls down Griffin's swimming trunks and blames it on his kids; Griffin gets completely embarrassed and says the pool water was cold when he got in before running off. If he wasn't invisible that scene would've been altered.
*** There's also him powdering his butt later on.
*** Being invisible, though it causes him much strife, allows Griffin to get away with doing things no PG-rated movie would allow, actually.
* GonnaNeedMoreTrope: When the toilet is clogged by Bigfoot, you can see the Zombie look at his plunger and makes a face that pretty much states "I am going to need a bigger plunger".
* GoryDiscretionShot: Wayne eats an entire flock of sheep by himself in mere seconds. We only see the shocked looks on his friends' faces.
-->'''Murray''': That was pretty sick, man.
-->'''Wayne''': You eat lamb chops, it's the same thing!
* GrandRomanticGesture: Jonathan does this at Mavis's birthday party by somehow getting fireflies to form the shapes of exotic places she wants to visit.
* GroinAttack: See LampshadeHanging below.
* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Wayne and Wanda's werewolf pups.
* HartmanHips: Mavis' sweater dress shows off hers quite well.
* HateSink: Quasimodo's role in a nutshell.
* HauntedCastle: The hotel itself.
* HenpeckedHusband: Frank.
-->'''Eunice''': Frank! Did you book us a tandem massage? Did you get us a table at Hunchback's? Did you do ''anything''?
* TheHerosBirthday: The plot starts when Dracula plans a big party for Mavis' 118th birthday. Mavis uses this to insist she's old enough to leave the castle and see the world.
* HighDiveHijinks: Frank uses the tentacle of a sea monster instead of a diving board, raising him several stories above the pool. When he hits the water, his detachable body parts come loose. Jonathan tries the same thing later, but Dracula drains the water from the pool and puts a blob monster in Jonathan's landing spot.
* HoldYourHippogriffs: Mavis says "Holy rabies!" when she's excited. Dracula calls Mavis many unusual nicknames like "dead-ums", "sweet fangs," and "love droppings," just to name a few.
-->'''Dracula''': You're old enough to drive a hearse now, you're old enough to make your own choices.
* {{Housewife}}: Wanda is perfectly happy to be a stay-at-home mom and just can't stop having babies.
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Said word for word by Dracula. He hates them, and built the hotel not only to protect his daughter from them, but also as a place for other monsters to get away from humans. [[spoiler:It ends up being subverted by the humans of the 21st century, but was played very straight by those who killed Mavis' mother.]]
* HypocriticalHumor: This is not the [[Series/TheNanny first time]] that Fran Drescher had a joke involving [[NoIndoorVoice her voice.]]
--> '''[[BrideOfFrankenstein Eunice]]''': Humans hate us! They're vicious! [[LargeHam And they're very LOUD!!]]
** Later, to Quasimodo:
--> '''Eunice''': Your voice is ''really'' annoying.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: The exact line Dracula uses to justify [[spoiler:deceiving Mavis at the fake village. No one, especially Mavis, is impressed by that excuse]].
* ImAHumanitarian: Averted with most of the monsters. [[spoiler:Except [[EvilChef Quasimodo]], who wants to make Jonathan into "human pot pie."]]
* ImmortalImmaturity: 118-year-old vampire Mavis acts like a human 18-year-old.
* InksuitActor: Say, doesn't Dracula look [[AdamSandler real familiar]]? And don't their wives look kind of alike, too?
* InSeriesNickname: Dracula's friends call him "Drac." Dracula calls Mavis [[EmbarrassingNickname "Mavy-Wavy"]].
* InterspeciesRomance: Mavis, a vampire, falls in love with Jonathan, a human.
* InvisibleJerkass: The Invisible Man seems to be fond of ComedicSociopathy.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Eunice ''does'' care about her friends and family, but she shows it in a very rude and abrasive way. Doubles as {{Tsundere}} Type A with her husband Frank.
* TheJester: Griffin.
* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler: How Martha died.]]
* KnightTemplarParent: Dracula takes the whole OverprotectiveDad thing so far that he not only teaches Mavis that humans are dangerous with scary bedtime stories and not letting her play outside, but he essentially imprisons her in an isolated castle for most of her life [[spoiler:and the one time he lets her out he sets up a bad encounter with fake humans so she'll never want to leave again]]. Though this is not entirely without good reason, since Dracula [[TheLostLenore knows from experience]] [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters what humans can do to vampires]].
* KryptoniteFactor: Both Dracula and Mavis are ''very'' vulnerable to sunlight, to the point that the touch of the smallest sliver of dawnlight on the tip of her ''shoes'' made Mavis yelp and pull back into the shade. More significant exposure causes Dracula to smoke and embers to appear on his bat-fur. Still, while painful, Dracula was able to spend a significant amount of time in the sun and healed within minutes of returning to the shade.
* LampshadeHanging: When Dracula's suits of armor attempt to subdue Quasimodo, he [[GroinAttack kicks one in the crotch]], and it responds by doubling over in pain and then saying, "Why did that hurt me?"
** Trying to back himself up on why 'Jonnystein" left, Dracula says he had red, curly hair . . . to which [[TheInvisibleMan Griffin]] asks defensively, "What's wrong with red, curly hair?" Well . . . the guy's ''invisible'', so of course Dracula's gonna point that out.
* LandingInSomeonesBathtub: Jonathan falls through a ceiling and lands in a steam room with Dracula and his friends.
* LimitedWardrobe: Mavis has a closet full of black dresses that are all exactly the same.
* TheLostLenore: [[spoiler:Dracula's wife Martha.]]
* LoveAtFirstSight: Or rather "zing" at first sight.
* MagicSkirt: Mavis's dress (and her hair) remains static when she does her WallCrawl trick.
* MarketBasedTitle: In Japan, the movie is called ''Monster Hotel''.
* MarshmallowHell: Eunice does this to Mavis while she's arguing with Dracula about letting her visit a human village.
* MassiveNumberedSiblings: The werewolves. ''Yikes''.
** Jonathan says he had six brothers growing up, making him a [[MagicalSeventhSon seventh son]].
* MickeyMousing: Not surprising, considering GenndyTartakovsky's love of [[TexAveryMGMCartoons Tex Avery's work]].
* AMinorKidroduction: The prologue starts with Mavis as a baby in 1894.
* TheMirrorShowsYourTrueSelf: One gag has Mavis practicing a speech to her dad in front of a mirror. She's a vampire, so of course there's no reflection.
** Why would a vampire even have a mirror, unless the rule is [[spoiler: Vampires ''can'' see themselves in the mirror, everybody else can't?]]
* MissingMom: [[spoiler: Mavis's mom was killed by humans. No wonder Dracula thinks HumansAreTheRealMonsters and is such a KnightTemplarParent.]]
* MissingTrailerScene: Not missing so much as altered, and there are two of them.
** In the first trailer, when Jonathan first enters the hotel, he loudly says "Hello?", a shocked Dracula says "A human!", and Jonathan says "What is this place?" In the movie the animation is the same, but the characters don't say anything until Dracula traps Jonathan in the revolving door. Also, in the scene where Dracula and Jonathan are in the TunnelNetwork and have the AccidentalPervert moment with the skeleton in the shower, Jonathan is dressed like his normal human self. The movie version of the scene have him wearing his "Johnnystein" monster disguise.
** The Bigfoot who causes the clogged toilet problem had white fur with blue hands and feet in all the trailers. He's brown in the final version, probably because so many people said he looked more like the Yeti.
** The silhouetted montage of all the monsters of the world beginning their travels to the hotel from their respective hideouts is cut from the final film.
** One trailer showed the scene where one of the suit of armor gets [[GroinAttack kicked between the legs]], making it look Jonathan did it when it actually was Quasimodo.
* MonsterMash: Dracula's Hotel Transylvania is a 5-star resort for the world's monsters, including [[{{Mummy}} Murray the Mummy]], [[{{Wolfman}} Wayne the Wolf]] [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent and his family]], [[FrankensteinsMonster Frank]] and his wife [[BrideOfFrankenstein Eunice]], [[InvisibleMan Griffin the Invisible Man]], [[DemBones skeletons]], [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti a giant bigfoot]], and [[TheHunchbackOfNotreDame Quasimodo]].
* MundaneUtility: Dracula and Mavis use their vampire powers for practical purposes, such as when Dracula uses telekinesis to change baby Mavis's diapers, and Mavis uses her smaller bat form to thread a needle more easily.
* TheNamesake / ThePlace: Hotel Transylvania.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Dracula's plan to convince Mavis to stay away from the human world works, but Jonathan never would have found his way to the hotel if Dracula hadn't [[spoiler: set up a fake human village for Mavis to visit and then let it catch fire, allowing Jonathan to follow the flaming zombies straight back to the castle]].
* NightmareFace: Dracula does this a few times when he's angry.
* NoAntagonist: There's no major threat or villains here, all of the conflict comes from Dracula just trying to keep his daughter safe. [[spoiler: And [[HateSink Quasimodo]] trying to cook Jonathan and later revealing his identity.]]
* NoEyeInMagic: Jonathan's contact lenses make him immune to hypnotism.
* TheNoseKnows: Doubles as TheyHaveTheScent.
** Esmeralda the rat can tell Johnnystein is a human by his scent, so Quasimodo uses her to track him down.
** Wayne's daughter Winnie can sniff Jonathan's smelly old shirt and tell exactly where he is and what he's doing right ''now''.
* OddCouple: Dracula and Jonathan.
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Despite initial hesitation at the VA list, one of the only complaints about the VA work was Adam Sandler's inconsistent accent.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Who knew Dracula could be such a KnightTemplarParent?
** Also, he and Mavis seem to prefer eating [[VegetarianVampire mice and scorpions]] to human blood.
-->'''Dracula''': Human blood is so fatty, and you never know where it's been.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent:
** {{Wolfman}}: Wayne and Wanda, a married couple with a large family of werewolf pups, and Wanda is pregnant with more. Also, all appear to have no human form.
* OutnumberedSibling: The werewolf family has [[MassiveNumberedSiblings lots of sons and only one daughter]], who can only be identified by her [[PinkMeansFeminine pink shirt]] and TertiarySexualCharacteristics. Also the only one who still respects Wayne and has much of a speaking role.
* PaperThinDisguise: Jonathan's "Johnnystein" disguise is little more than blue body paint with fake stitches, an old coat, and a [[ImprobableHairStyle different hair style]].
* ParentalBonus: The Egyptian Queen character in several hotel scenes, and the human dressed as a mummy.
* PeoplePuppets: Dracula pulls this off successfully on Jonathan when he puts him in "Time Out".
* PerkyGoth: Mavis comes off this way.
* PuppyDogEyes: Mavis tries this on her dad while in bat form; it doesn't work.
* TheQuincyPunk: The werewolf pups have this look and similar bad behavior.
* RaceForYourLove: At the climax of the film, after Jonathan's identity is revealed, [[spoiler:he rejects Mavis and leaves the hotel never to return, out of respect for Dracula's anti-human beliefs. Mavis is heartbroken and thinks her love is unrequited. However, Dracula changes his views about humans to the point that ''he'' chases after Jonathan ''himself'', risking exposure to sunlight and even flying after Jonathan's airplane, all so he can bring them back together.]]
* RavenHairIvorySkin: Mavis.
* RelativelyFlimsyExcuse: Dracula claims that "Johnnystein" is Frank's long-lost 6th cousin of his right hand. Frank believes him.
* RunningGag: Drac roaring and turning red whenever he's upset. Also, the mispronunciation of Hawaii.
** Anybody doing an impression of Dracula always says "blah bluh blah", though Dracula himself claims he never says that.
--> '''Dracula''': "I do ''not'' say "blah bluh blah!"
** [[RecurringExtra The old gremlin lady]] who eats other people's stuff and says "I didn't do that."
* SassyBlackWoman: The shrunken head hanging on Mavis' bedroom door.
* SheCleansUpNicely: Played with. Mavis wears her normal clothes to her birthday party, the only difference being a home-made Dracula cape. Jonathan is impressed and says she looks beautiful.
* SheIsAllGrownUp: In the sense that Mavis at 118 is a young woman who wants her own life and to see the world.
* ShoutOut: Jonathan's scooter has a sticker with [[DextersLaboratory Dexter's]] face on it.
** Hell, Jonathan himself appears to be named after Jonathan Harker from [[{{Literature/Dracula}} Bram Stoker's novel]].
** The chase scene with the flying tables is a reference to the space battles in the StarWars movies. Possibly a [[ActorAllusion Director Allusion]], as Genndy Tartakovsky directed the original CloneWars miniseries.
** Jonathan talks about Music/DaveMatthewsBand and {{Slipknot}}. There's a clip of "Sexy and I Know It" by {{LMFAO}} played at one point.
** Wayne's daughter Winnie shares the name of a girl werewolf from [[ScoobyDoo Scooby Doo & The Ghoul's School]].
* SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer: The only characters who appeared in the first trailer were Dracula and Jonathan (there's a quick shot of Murray leaving his pyramid, but that's it). As of the second trailer, the only character who still hadn't gotten a proper introduction was Quasimodo. He made a brief appearance screaming "A human!", but his face couldn't be seen and his name wasn't mentioned.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: The male-to-female ratio is 6:3, and Mavis is the only female who gets any merchandise.
* SoftWater: Averted when Frank tries belly-flopping into a pool from several stories high.
* SuddenMusicalEnding: Overlaps with DancePartyEnding.
* SurferDude: Jonathan has the attitude and lingo down, plus he's shown riding scooters and surfing on flying tables.
* SweaterGirl: While Mavis' sweater dress is very modest, it also shows off her curves.
* TakeThat: Dracula doesn't like how a certain [[{{Literature/Twilight}} in-flight movie]] represents vampires.
** He thinks LMFAO (specifically "Party Rock Anthem") is bad enough to suck out your soul.
* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: Jonathan.
* ToiletHumor: It's an AdamSandler movie. This sort of comedy is inevitable.
* TorchesAndPitchforks: Humans are usually shown using these when attacking monsters.
* TunnelNetwork: The castle has more than one SecretUndergroundPassage.
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Or the CoverVersion does in this case. The newly released "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXw3NYkLZZU Call Me Maybe]]" reveals that Dracula[[spoiler: eventually accepts Mavis and Jonathan's relationship (although he still can't deal with [[AlmostKiss watching them kiss]].)]]
** And then there's "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIovU07tkhM Problem (The Monster Remix)]]", which spoils the moment when [[spoiler: Dracula sees Mavis kissing Jonathan for the first time on the dance floor.]]
** One of the trailers also shows a brief clip of Dracula with an infant Mavis looking at a burning building in a serious manner. It doesn't take much imagination to figure out [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters what happened with Mavis' mother]] from that.
* {{Uberwald}}: Transylvania, of course.
* UnusualEyebrows: Frank's are just stitches.
* VampireVords: Dracula talks like this.
* VegetarianVampire: Neither Dracula or his daughter drink human blood. Instead their meals apparently consists of small critters like mice and scorpions. This is actually more accurate to the behavior of real vampire bats, who generally avoid human blood.
* VisibleInvisibility: Type 5 with Griffin, he's the only one who can see himself and uses glasses so others can "see" him. Possibly Type 1 with the vampires, see The Mirror Shows The True Self.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Dracula and Mavis' power to turn into bats. They can also change back [[MagicPants fully clothed]].
** {{Lampshaded}} by Jonathan, who asks Mavis if she's wearing tiny clothes while in her bat form.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: [[Film/TheFly A Fly Man]] does this twice; once during a game of charades, and again during a water aerobics class.
* WalkingTheEarth: Jonathan was backpacking across Europe before he came to the hotel. Judging from the patches on his backpack, he's been to France, Spain, the U.K., Hungary, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Romania and ... [[AndZoidberg Mexico]]?
* WallCrawl: Mavis simply walks up the wall and onto the ceiling while pacing around her room.
* WhatHaveIDone: Drac says this after his lies are exposed, Jonathan sadly leaves for home, and Martha's birthday gift for Mavis is revealed.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: How is Quasimodo considered a "monster" like a werewolf or vampire? He's just an ordinary guy with severe deformity like [[TheElephantMan Joseph Merrick]], right?
** Any character that has ever been played by LonChaney - sr. ''and'' jr. - count as a classic monster in this movie.
** Hell's bells, maybe he ''is'' human, but prefers the society of monsters for whatever reason. Who wouldn't, considering [[JerkassWoobie all he's gone through]].
* WhatTheHellHero: In order to keep Mavis from leaving the hotel, Dracula [[spoiler:builds a fake human village for her to visit and has zombies in human costumes attack her with pitchforks and torches]]. Despite some StylisticSuck from the zombies' incompetence, the plan works, but Dracula eventually confesses everything to Mavis during her birthday party. She is understandably pissed.
* [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Why Did It Have To Be Fire?]]:
-->'''Frank''': Seriously, watch out for fire. Fire bad.
* WickedWitch: Dracula employs them as maids. One particular witch seems to have a crush on him.
* WontTakeYesForAnAnswer: Mavis has a whole speech prepared why Dracula should give her permission to go outside. When he says yes, she goes off into the speech before realizing he already gave her permission.
* YouDirtyRat: Quasimodo's pet rat Esmeralda.
* YourCostumeNeedsWork: Jonathan thinks the hotel is having a costume party when he first gets there, and initially mistakes Dracula for a guy in a costume.
** This happens again when Dracula and friends go to the [[ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself Monster Festival]]. Pretty much all the humans are in monster costumes and initially don't recognize the real monsters.
* YouthfulFreckles: Jonathan has these.
[[caption-width-right:300:Even monsters need a vacation.]]
'''Hotel Transylvania''' is an [[AllCGICartoon computer-animated]] [[ThreeDMovie 3D]] comedy film produced by Sony Pictures Animation for ColumbiaPictures. It's the feature film debut of GenndyTartakovsky, best known for his work on Creator/CartoonNetwork's ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'', ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'', ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Sym-Bionic Titan}}''. It also stars AdamSandler, SelenaGomez, [[Series/SaturdayNightLive Andy Samberg]], and many other [[CelebrityVoiceActor Celebrity Voice Actors]].
The film is set in [[ThePlace Hotel Transylvania]], a five-star resort where the world's monsters can get away from the [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters humans who hate them]] and rest in peace. The hotel is owned by none other than {{Dracula}}, and on the [[TheHerosBirthday 118th birthday]] of his daughter [[CuteMonsterGirl Mavis]], he invites some of the [[MonsterMash most famous monsters]] to celebrate. However, they receive an unexpected visitor; [[TheThingThatWouldNotLeave Jonathan]], an ordinary young human who quickly [[BoyMeetsGhoul falls for Mavis]].
Released in the US on September 28, 2012. View the trailer [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSuXLbsdaEE&feature=plcp here]].
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!!''HotelTransylvania'' provides examples of:
* ThreeDMovie
* {{Adorkable}}: Jonathan.
* AirplaneArms: Dracula runs with his arms extended behind him.
* AccidentalPervert: Jonathan puts his hand through a female skeleton's rib cage, much to her indignation. Later, Dracula and Jonathan walk in on the same female skeleton in the shower.
* AerithAndBob: Mavis is a real name but a very old, uncommon one.
** It fits, seeing as how she's 118 years old.
* AllThereInTheManual: ''[[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1781164150/ref=ox_ya_os_product The Art and Making of Hotel Transylvania]]''. Buy it, read it, be amazed.
* AlliterativeFamily: The werewolves all have names that start with the letter W. Besides Wayne and Wanda, three of their pups are named Wilbur, Wally, and [[OutnumberedSibling Winnie]].
* AmbiguouslyGay: Griffin greets Dracula by pinching his butt and then calling him irresistible. Hmm...
** In one of the [[LicensedGame video games]], he actually calls Dracula ''handsome''.
* AnimatedArmor: The hotel guards.
* AnthropomorphicFood: The "scream cheese", which is basically [[ShapedLikeItself cream cheese that screams]].
* ArtShift: The credits are done in the same thick-line animation as DextersLaboratory and Genndy Tartakovsky's other previous work.
** The version of the story Jonathan tells of [[spoiler:Martha's death]] after seeing [[spoiler: a painting of her]].
* BadassDriver: Griffin does the driving during the RaceForYourLove sequence.
* BarefootCartoonAnimal: Wayne and Wanda, a suburban werewolf couple.
* BatOutOfHell: Dracula, of course. Mavis turns into a rather adorable one.
-->'''Dracula''': Don't give me the pouty bat face.
* BatmanInMyBasement: Inverted. Dracula has to keep the fact that Jonathan is human a secret from the other monsters.
* BeamMeUpScotty: In-universe, Drac is embarrassed at how twisted humans have presented the image of vampires into. We equate vampires as being blood-thirsty and saying "Blah blah blah!" to which he states he had never said anything like that in his centuries-long life.
* BedsheetGhost: The table cloths in the ballroom, and they can make the tables ''fly''.
* BeehiveHairdo: [[BrideOfFrankenstein Eunice]], complete with SkunkStripe.
** Let's not forget Jonathan's hair in his "Johnnystien" disguise.
* BigFun: Murray the Mummy.
* BlitheSpirit: Jonathan is this for the hotel. Doubles as [[ManicPixieDreamGirl Manic Pixie Dream Guy]] for Mavis (and Dracula, but non-romantically).
* BobHairCut: Mavis.
* BoyMeetsGhoul: Jonathan and Mavis; boy meets vampire.
* ChekhovsGag: Jonathan's smelly old shirt.
* ChekhovsGunman: Winnie.
* ClassicalMovieVampire: {{Dracula}}, obviously.
* CloudCuckoolander: Jonathan. Although he eventually seems to grow out of it.
* CoversAlwaysLie: The poster features The Invisible Man wearing clothes, but he doesn't wear anything but his glasses throughout the film. Presumably it's to make it more obvious to the audience that there's an Invisible Man there.
* CrashIntoHello: Jonathan and Mavis meet when he crashes into her on a witch's flying broomstick.
** Mavis's parents also met the same way.
* CreepyCute: She's 118, can turn into a bat (albeit a very adorable one), crawl on walls, can't go out during the day, and has no reflection, but otherwise, Mavis appears to be a normal, sweet teenage girl.
* CuteMonsterGirl: Mavis. If it weren't for her CuteLittleFangs, she'd look like just another PerkyGoth.
* DaddysGirl: Mavis for Dracula, [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by the song he sings to her as a child. But since she now wants to leave home so much, she seems to have grown out of that phase.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Probably one of the most blatant examples ever put on the screen, as it's apparent that monsters don't go out looking for trouble with humans, and are kind of freaked out by them.
* DatingWhatDaddyHates: Dracula doesn't approve of Mavis being with Jonathan, [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters for obvious reasons]]. However, Jonathan is disguised as a monster when their romance starts, so Mavis doesn't know he's human at the time.
* TheDeadCanDance: And [[SelenaGomez they]] [[Music/CeeLoGreen sing]], too. AutoTune used in their songs.
* DeadpanSnarker: Dracula. Griffin gets quite a few zingers as well.
* DeadWeight: Murray. He may be BigFun, but he's a fat mummy, so he counts.
* DiggingYourselfDeeper: In the spa scene, Dracula by first saying Mavis shouldn't be with "Johnnystein" because of his kind, which is ''after'' [[BatmanInMyBasement disguising Jonathan]] and claiming him to be [[RelativelyFlimsyExcuse Frank's long lost cousin of his right hand]]. [[FrankensteinsMonster Frank]] naturally gets offended so Dracula backs himself up by saying that he has red hair, which [[TheInvisibleMan Griffin]] gets mad. After a couple of scenes with Johnnystein and Mavis on the roof, we cut back to the spa where [[TheWolfman Wayne]] and [[TheMummy Murray]] are now mad at Dracula.
* DontGoInTheWoods: Jonathan hears a story about a "spooky forest" and decides to check it out.
-->'''Jonathan''': Who's not gonna go into a spooky forest, right?
* DontExplainTheJoke: Jonathan explains a joke, to Dracula's displeasure.
* DroolHello: During the prologue, while Dracula is overseeing the plans for the hotel, a blob of saliva splatters on the blueprints. It comes from young Mavis playing on the ceiling.
* DysfunctionalFamily: Wayne, Wanda, and all their little werewolf offspring.
-->'''Wayne''': Hey, kids! Reel it in! You're only supposed to make Mom and Dad miserable!
* EverythingsDeaderWithZombies: Dracula employs them as bellhops and such. There's also a zombie Beethoven, Bach, and Mozart!
* ExpressiveAccessory: The collar on Dracula's cape points up or curves down to match his moods.
* EvilChef: Quasimodo.
* ExpressiveEars: Mavis has these in her bat form.
* EyeGlasses: Griffin has expressive frames. His eyes are invisible, just like the rest of him.
* FacePalm: Dracula does this when [[spoiler:one of the zombies in human disguise loses his head]].
* FieryRedhead: Averted with [[TheFool Jonathan]].
** Griffin says he has red hair. [[InvisibleMan But how could anyone know that?]]
* FiveManBand: Dracula and his group of friends.
** TheHero: Dracula
** TheLancer: Frankenstein (could also be TheBigGuy)
** TheBigGuy: Murray The Mummy
** TheSmartGuy: Wayne The Wolf
** TheChick: Griffin The Invisible Man
* FlashbackCut: This happens when Jonathan tells Dracula how he found the hotel.
* TheFool: Jonathan. He seems to be fine with taking a picture of a couple that's ''crying'', adventuring through a "spooky forest", and following a trail of zombies on fire to an "awesome castle". He is also seemingly ''completely unafraid'' of Dracula though this is because he thinks the hotel is having a costume party when he first shows up.
** And Jonathan ''is'' freaked out at first when he learns that all the monsters are real, plus Dracula is the real deal and not just a man in a costume and that Mavis is his ''daughter''.
* ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself: At one point, Dracula and friends go out in public during the local Monster Festival. [[spoiler:Eventually they reveal themselves, but the people are actually liking their presence regardless]].
* FrankensteinsMonster: Frank and his [[BrideOfFrankenstein wife]], Eunice.
* FrenchCuisineIsHaughty: Quasimodo, the chef at the hotel, is French.
* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: Dracula and Mavis. See OurVampiresAreDifferent.
* GentleGiant: Frank.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Quite a few.
** See AccidentalPervert. If that lady wasn't a skeleton, those scenes wouldn't have made it into the movie.
** Jonathan asks Mavis if she's naked while she's in her bat form. In front of her ''dad'', no less!
** In the Monster Festival, a human dressed in mummy bandages walks seductively past the monsters' car and winks. Murray is understandably happy.
** Two bed bugs, who only appear as small black specs on-screen, have reserved a regular-sized honeymoon suite that Drac and Jonathan accidentally stumble into and apologetically leave.
** During the scene at the pool, Wayne pulls down Griffin's swimming trunks and blames it on his kids; Griffin gets completely embarrassed and says the pool water was cold when he got in before running off. If he wasn't invisible that scene would've been altered.
*** There's also him powdering his butt later on.
*** Being invisible, though it causes him much strife, allows Griffin to get away with doing things no PG-rated movie would allow, actually.
* GonnaNeedMoreTrope: When the toilet is clogged by Bigfoot, you can see the Zombie look at his plunger and makes a face that pretty much states "I am going to need a bigger plunger".
* GoryDiscretionShot: Wayne eats an entire flock of sheep by himself in mere seconds. We only see the shocked looks on his friends' faces.
-->'''Murray''': That was pretty sick, man.
-->'''Wayne''': You eat lamb chops, it's the same thing!
* GrandRomanticGesture: Jonathan does this at Mavis's birthday party by somehow getting fireflies to form the shapes of exotic places she wants to visit.
* GroinAttack: See LampshadeHanging below.
* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Wayne and Wanda's werewolf pups.
* HartmanHips: Mavis' sweater dress shows off hers quite well.
* HateSink: Quasimodo's role in a nutshell.
* HauntedCastle: The hotel itself.
* HenpeckedHusband: Frank.
-->'''Eunice''': Frank! Did you book us a tandem massage? Did you get us a table at Hunchback's? Did you do ''anything''?
* TheHerosBirthday: The plot starts when Dracula plans a big party for Mavis' 118th birthday. Mavis uses this to insist she's old enough to leave the castle and see the world.
* HighDiveHijinks: Frank uses the tentacle of a sea monster instead of a diving board, raising him several stories above the pool. When he hits the water, his detachable body parts come loose. Jonathan tries the same thing later, but Dracula drains the water from the pool and puts a blob monster in Jonathan's landing spot.
* HoldYourHippogriffs: Mavis says "Holy rabies!" when she's excited. Dracula calls Mavis many unusual nicknames like "dead-ums", "sweet fangs," and "love droppings," just to name a few.
-->'''Dracula''': You're old enough to drive a hearse now, you're old enough to make your own choices.
* {{Housewife}}: Wanda is perfectly happy to be a stay-at-home mom and just can't stop having babies.
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Said word for word by Dracula. He hates them, and built the hotel not only to protect his daughter from them, but also as a place for other monsters to get away from humans. [[spoiler:It ends up being subverted by the humans of the 21st century, but was played very straight by those who killed Mavis' mother.]]
* HypocriticalHumor: This is not the [[Series/TheNanny first time]] that Fran Drescher had a joke involving [[NoIndoorVoice her voice.]]
--> '''[[BrideOfFrankenstein Eunice]]''': Humans hate us! They're vicious! [[LargeHam And they're very LOUD!!]]
** Later, to Quasimodo:
--> '''Eunice''': Your voice is ''really'' annoying.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: The exact line Dracula uses to justify [[spoiler:deceiving Mavis at the fake village. No one, especially Mavis, is impressed by that excuse]].
* ImAHumanitarian: Averted with most of the monsters. [[spoiler:Except [[EvilChef Quasimodo]], who wants to make Jonathan into "human pot pie."]]
* ImmortalImmaturity: 118-year-old vampire Mavis acts like a human 18-year-old.
* InksuitActor: Say, doesn't Dracula look [[AdamSandler real familiar]]? And don't their wives look kind of alike, too?
* InSeriesNickname: Dracula's friends call him "Drac." Dracula calls Mavis [[EmbarrassingNickname "Mavy-Wavy"]].
* InterspeciesRomance: Mavis, a vampire, falls in love with Jonathan, a human.
* InvisibleJerkass: The Invisible Man seems to be fond of ComedicSociopathy.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Eunice ''does'' care about her friends and family, but she shows it in a very rude and abrasive way. Doubles as {{Tsundere}} Type A with her husband Frank.
* TheJester: Griffin.
* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler: How Martha died.]]
* KnightTemplarParent: Dracula takes the whole OverprotectiveDad thing so far that he not only teaches Mavis that humans are dangerous with scary bedtime stories and not letting her play outside, but he essentially imprisons her in an isolated castle for most of her life [[spoiler:and the one time he lets her out he sets up a bad encounter with fake humans so she'll never want to leave again]]. Though this is not entirely without good reason, since Dracula [[TheLostLenore knows from experience]] [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters what humans can do to vampires]].
* KryptoniteFactor: Both Dracula and Mavis are ''very'' vulnerable to sunlight, to the point that the touch of the smallest sliver of dawnlight on the tip of her ''shoes'' made Mavis yelp and pull back into the shade. More significant exposure causes Dracula to smoke and embers to appear on his bat-fur. Still, while painful, Dracula was able to spend a significant amount of time in the sun and healed within minutes of returning to the shade.
* LampshadeHanging: When Dracula's suits of armor attempt to subdue Quasimodo, he [[GroinAttack kicks one in the crotch]], and it responds by doubling over in pain and then saying, "Why did that hurt me?"
** Trying to back himself up on why 'Jonnystein" left, Dracula says he had red, curly hair . . . to which [[TheInvisibleMan Griffin]] asks defensively, "What's wrong with red, curly hair?" Well . . . the guy's ''invisible'', so of course Dracula's gonna point that out.
* LandingInSomeonesBathtub: Jonathan falls through a ceiling and lands in a steam room with Dracula and his friends.
* LimitedWardrobe: Mavis has a closet full of black dresses that are all exactly the same.
* TheLostLenore: [[spoiler:Dracula's wife Martha.]]
* LoveAtFirstSight: Or rather "zing" at first sight.
* MagicSkirt: Mavis's dress (and her hair) remains static when she does her WallCrawl trick.
* MarketBasedTitle: In Japan, the movie is called ''Monster Hotel''.
* MarshmallowHell: Eunice does this to Mavis while she's arguing with Dracula about letting her visit a human village.
* MassiveNumberedSiblings: The werewolves. ''Yikes''.
** Jonathan says he had six brothers growing up, making him a [[MagicalSeventhSon seventh son]].
* MickeyMousing: Not surprising, considering GenndyTartakovsky's love of [[TexAveryMGMCartoons Tex Avery's work]].
* AMinorKidroduction: The prologue starts with Mavis as a baby in 1894.
* TheMirrorShowsYourTrueSelf: One gag has Mavis practicing a speech to her dad in front of a mirror. She's a vampire, so of course there's no reflection.
** Why would a vampire even have a mirror, unless the rule is [[spoiler: Vampires ''can'' see themselves in the mirror, everybody else can't?]]
* MissingMom: [[spoiler: Mavis's mom was killed by humans. No wonder Dracula thinks HumansAreTheRealMonsters and is such a KnightTemplarParent.]]
* MissingTrailerScene: Not missing so much as altered, and there are two of them.
** In the first trailer, when Jonathan first enters the hotel, he loudly says "Hello?", a shocked Dracula says "A human!", and Jonathan says "What is this place?" In the movie the animation is the same, but the characters don't say anything until Dracula traps Jonathan in the revolving door. Also, in the scene where Dracula and Jonathan are in the TunnelNetwork and have the AccidentalPervert moment with the skeleton in the shower, Jonathan is dressed like his normal human self. The movie version of the scene have him wearing his "Johnnystein" monster disguise.
** The Bigfoot who causes the clogged toilet problem had white fur with blue hands and feet in all the trailers. He's brown in the final version, probably because so many people said he looked more like the Yeti.
** The silhouetted montage of all the monsters of the world beginning their travels to the hotel from their respective hideouts is cut from the final film.
** One trailer showed the scene where one of the suit of armor gets [[GroinAttack kicked between the legs]], making it look Jonathan did it when it actually was Quasimodo.
* MonsterMash: Dracula's Hotel Transylvania is a 5-star resort for the world's monsters, including [[{{Mummy}} Murray the Mummy]], [[{{Wolfman}} Wayne the Wolf]] [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent and his family]], [[FrankensteinsMonster Frank]] and his wife [[BrideOfFrankenstein Eunice]], [[InvisibleMan Griffin the Invisible Man]], [[DemBones skeletons]], [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti a giant bigfoot]], and [[TheHunchbackOfNotreDame Quasimodo]].
* MundaneUtility: Dracula and Mavis use their vampire powers for practical purposes, such as when Dracula uses telekinesis to change baby Mavis's diapers, and Mavis uses her smaller bat form to thread a needle more easily.
* TheNamesake / ThePlace: Hotel Transylvania.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Dracula's plan to convince Mavis to stay away from the human world works, but Jonathan never would have found his way to the hotel if Dracula hadn't [[spoiler: set up a fake human village for Mavis to visit and then let it catch fire, allowing Jonathan to follow the flaming zombies straight back to the castle]].
* NightmareFace: Dracula does this a few times when he's angry.
* NoAntagonist: There's no major threat or villains here, all of the conflict comes from Dracula just trying to keep his daughter safe. [[spoiler: And [[HateSink Quasimodo]] trying to cook Jonathan and later revealing his identity.]]
* NoEyeInMagic: Jonathan's contact lenses make him immune to hypnotism.
* TheNoseKnows: Doubles as TheyHaveTheScent.
** Esmeralda the rat can tell Johnnystein is a human by his scent, so Quasimodo uses her to track him down.
** Wayne's daughter Winnie can sniff Jonathan's smelly old shirt and tell exactly where he is and what he's doing right ''now''.
* OddCouple: Dracula and Jonathan.
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Despite initial hesitation at the VA list, one of the only complaints about the VA work was Adam Sandler's inconsistent accent.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Who knew Dracula could be such a KnightTemplarParent?
** Also, he and Mavis seem to prefer eating [[VegetarianVampire mice and scorpions]] to human blood.
-->'''Dracula''': Human blood is so fatty, and you never know where it's been.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent:
** {{Wolfman}}: Wayne and Wanda, a married couple with a large family of werewolf pups, and Wanda is pregnant with more. Also, all appear to have no human form.
* OutnumberedSibling: The werewolf family has [[MassiveNumberedSiblings lots of sons and only one daughter]], who can only be identified by her [[PinkMeansFeminine pink shirt]] and TertiarySexualCharacteristics. Also the only one who still respects Wayne and has much of a speaking role.
* PaperThinDisguise: Jonathan's "Johnnystein" disguise is little more than blue body paint with fake stitches, an old coat, and a [[ImprobableHairStyle different hair style]].
* ParentalBonus: The Egyptian Queen character in several hotel scenes, and the human dressed as a mummy.
* PeoplePuppets: Dracula pulls this off successfully on Jonathan when he puts him in "Time Out".
* PerkyGoth: Mavis comes off this way.
* PuppyDogEyes: Mavis tries this on her dad while in bat form; it doesn't work.
* TheQuincyPunk: The werewolf pups have this look and similar bad behavior.
* RaceForYourLove: At the climax of the film, after Jonathan's identity is revealed, [[spoiler:he rejects Mavis and leaves the hotel never to return, out of respect for Dracula's anti-human beliefs. Mavis is heartbroken and thinks her love is unrequited. However, Dracula changes his views about humans to the point that ''he'' chases after Jonathan ''himself'', risking exposure to sunlight and even flying after Jonathan's airplane, all so he can bring them back together.]]
* RavenHairIvorySkin: Mavis.
* RelativelyFlimsyExcuse: Dracula claims that "Johnnystein" is Frank's long-lost 6th cousin of his right hand. Frank believes him.
* RunningGag: Drac roaring and turning red whenever he's upset. Also, the mispronunciation of Hawaii.
** Anybody doing an impression of Dracula always says "blah bluh blah", though Dracula himself claims he never says that.
--> '''Dracula''': "I do ''not'' say "blah bluh blah!"
** [[RecurringExtra The old gremlin lady]] who eats other people's stuff and says "I didn't do that."
* SassyBlackWoman: The shrunken head hanging on Mavis' bedroom door.
* SheCleansUpNicely: Played with. Mavis wears her normal clothes to her birthday party, the only difference being a home-made Dracula cape. Jonathan is impressed and says she looks beautiful.
* SheIsAllGrownUp: In the sense that Mavis at 118 is a young woman who wants her own life and to see the world.
* ShoutOut: Jonathan's scooter has a sticker with [[DextersLaboratory Dexter's]] face on it.
** Hell, Jonathan himself appears to be named after Jonathan Harker from [[{{Literature/Dracula}} Bram Stoker's novel]].
** The chase scene with the flying tables is a reference to the space battles in the StarWars movies. Possibly a [[ActorAllusion Director Allusion]], as Genndy Tartakovsky directed the original CloneWars miniseries.
** Jonathan talks about Music/DaveMatthewsBand and {{Slipknot}}. There's a clip of "Sexy and I Know It" by {{LMFAO}} played at one point.
** Wayne's daughter Winnie shares the name of a girl werewolf from [[ScoobyDoo Scooby Doo & The Ghoul's School]].
* SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer: The only characters who appeared in the first trailer were Dracula and Jonathan (there's a quick shot of Murray leaving his pyramid, but that's it). As of the second trailer, the only character who still hadn't gotten a proper introduction was Quasimodo. He made a brief appearance screaming "A human!", but his face couldn't be seen and his name wasn't mentioned.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: The male-to-female ratio is 6:3, and Mavis is the only female who gets any merchandise.
* SoftWater: Averted when Frank tries belly-flopping into a pool from several stories high.
* SuddenMusicalEnding: Overlaps with DancePartyEnding.
* SurferDude: Jonathan has the attitude and lingo down, plus he's shown riding scooters and surfing on flying tables.
* SweaterGirl: While Mavis' sweater dress is very modest, it also shows off her curves.
* TakeThat: Dracula doesn't like how a certain [[{{Literature/Twilight}} in-flight movie]] represents vampires.
** He thinks LMFAO (specifically "Party Rock Anthem") is bad enough to suck out your soul.
* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: Jonathan.
* ToiletHumor: It's an AdamSandler movie. This sort of comedy is inevitable.
* TorchesAndPitchforks: Humans are usually shown using these when attacking monsters.
* TunnelNetwork: The castle has more than one SecretUndergroundPassage.
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Or the CoverVersion does in this case. The newly released "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXw3NYkLZZU Call Me Maybe]]" reveals that Dracula[[spoiler: eventually accepts Mavis and Jonathan's relationship (although he still can't deal with [[AlmostKiss watching them kiss]].)]]
** And then there's "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIovU07tkhM Problem (The Monster Remix)]]", which spoils the moment when [[spoiler: Dracula sees Mavis kissing Jonathan for the first time on the dance floor.]]
** One of the trailers also shows a brief clip of Dracula with an infant Mavis looking at a burning building in a serious manner. It doesn't take much imagination to figure out [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters what happened with Mavis' mother]] from that.
* {{Uberwald}}: Transylvania, of course.
* UnusualEyebrows: Frank's are just stitches.
* VampireVords: Dracula talks like this.
* VegetarianVampire: Neither Dracula or his daughter drink human blood. Instead their meals apparently consists of small critters like mice and scorpions. This is actually more accurate to the behavior of real vampire bats, who generally avoid human blood.
* VisibleInvisibility: Type 5 with Griffin, he's the only one who can see himself and uses glasses so others can "see" him. Possibly Type 1 with the vampires, see The Mirror Shows The True Self.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Dracula and Mavis' power to turn into bats. They can also change back [[MagicPants fully clothed]].
** {{Lampshaded}} by Jonathan, who asks Mavis if she's wearing tiny clothes while in her bat form.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: [[Film/TheFly A Fly Man]] does this twice; once during a game of charades, and again during a water aerobics class.
* WalkingTheEarth: Jonathan was backpacking across Europe before he came to the hotel. Judging from the patches on his backpack, he's been to France, Spain, the U.K., Hungary, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Romania and ... [[AndZoidberg Mexico]]?
* WallCrawl: Mavis simply walks up the wall and onto the ceiling while pacing around her room.
* WhatHaveIDone: Drac says this after his lies are exposed, Jonathan sadly leaves for home, and Martha's birthday gift for Mavis is revealed.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: How is Quasimodo considered a "monster" like a werewolf or vampire? He's just an ordinary guy with severe deformity like [[TheElephantMan Joseph Merrick]], right?
** Any character that has ever been played by LonChaney - sr. ''and'' jr. - count as a classic monster in this movie.
** Hell's bells, maybe he ''is'' human, but prefers the society of monsters for whatever reason. Who wouldn't, considering [[JerkassWoobie all he's gone through]].
* WhatTheHellHero: In order to keep Mavis from leaving the hotel, Dracula [[spoiler:builds a fake human village for her to visit and has zombies in human costumes attack her with pitchforks and torches]]. Despite some StylisticSuck from the zombies' incompetence, the plan works, but Dracula eventually confesses everything to Mavis during her birthday party. She is understandably pissed.
* [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Why Did It Have To Be Fire?]]:
-->'''Frank''': Seriously, watch out for fire. Fire bad.
* WickedWitch: Dracula employs them as maids. One particular witch seems to have a crush on him.
* WontTakeYesForAnAnswer: Mavis has a whole speech prepared why Dracula should give her permission to go outside. When he says yes, she goes off into the speech before realizing he already gave her permission.
* YouDirtyRat: Quasimodo's pet rat Esmeralda.
* YourCostumeNeedsWork: Jonathan thinks the hotel is having a costume party when he first gets there, and initially mistakes Dracula for a guy in a costume.
** This happens again when Dracula and friends go to the [[ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself Monster Festival]]. Pretty much all the humans are in monster costumes and initially don't recognize the real monsters.
* YouthfulFreckles: Jonathan has these.
