Character page for the 2001 Hellsing TV anime produced by GONZO. A number of characters and character tropes are unique to it due to the anime overtaking the manga, hence the necessity of a separate page.
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Alucard
Voiced by: Joji Nakata (JP), Crispin Freeman (EN), Eric Peter (FR), Tasio Alonso (SP)
A very powerful vampire whose powers were harnessed by the Hellsing family, he hunts his own kind in the service of their organization.
- Adaptational Heroism: He's considerably more noble than his manga and OVA incarnation — he only turns Seras after explaining his entire plan to her, instead of shooting her first and then asking if she doesn't want to die afterwards; and his bond with Integra is much more voluntary on his part, submitting himself to her after she displays her courage rather than because of the blood pact with the Hellsing clan.
- Adaptational Wimp: Retroactively because the anime Overtook the Manga. He's still mighty, especially when taking on Incognito, but nowhere near what he's capable of unleashing when his Level 0 is released in the manga and OVA (then again, he never releases Level 0 in this anime).
- Alucard: He goes by that name. For a reason.
- Badass Longcoat: Like his manga counterpart, he has a red long coat, and combining this with his weapon of choice, along with his height, he's an imposing figure.
- Blood Knight: He eagerly accepts the prospect of Incognito, a being like himself, arriving. He's been itching for an actual fight.
- Break the Haughty: After episode 9 nearly gets Integra killed, he behaves far more thoughtful and considerate with her.
- Chiaroscuro: For some reason he's drawn this way, in the first episode it's atmospheric, making him mysterious. In the subsequent ones it's plain weird, fitting for a Humanoid Abomination.
- Dracula: In the final episode, there's a brief moment where Alucard's face is implied to be Vlad (III) Dracula's.
- Evil Laugh: Boy does he enjoys a good chuckle.
- Happiness in Slavery: Slight subversion, he's not so happy and seems Sealed Evil in a Can, but he hates the idea of losing Integra more (episode 9).
- Historical Beauty Update: Played straight and then subverted with his 'level one' appearance. Unlike the manga, his appearance as Vlad actually resembles his historical portraits.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: He gets "killed" by trying to shoot Incognito with his Jackal. Afterwards, when he gets better, he uses Incognito's powers against him.
- I Love You, Vampire Son: Some shades of this with Seras and the reason why he keeps offering Integra his blood.
- In-Series Nickname: Monster is the most frequent. There is also Peter Pan, his codename.
- Meaningful Name: Do you really need it explained?
- Mysterious Past: Other than the shot of Vlad Tepes mentioned above, it's never really said what or who Alucard is unlike the manga which explicitly shows events from his past.
- Noble Demon: The TV series cuts back on some of his Kick the Dog moments and makes him downright paternal to Seras.
- Psychopathic Manchild: Type C, mostly, but with some type B in there - which matches the original novel's description of Dracula having a child mind.
- Proud Warrior Race Guy: He's damn proud of being a True Undead. Integra occasionally taunts him, prickling his pride.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Gives a few to vampires he considers to be a disgrace to their species.Alucard: Children without faith... if you had any control you would travel as fog or as a bat. You've gone and taken all those lives, and not even because you were thirsty. Is it fun? Is that what it takes for filth like you to get off? Cheap little two-bits terrors.[...] Eternity is wasted on the likes of you.
- Single-Target Sexuality: He seems to have this toward Integra one way on another. He only changes Seras because she has Integra's eyes, and the news reporter that he bites midway through the series has Integra's coloring.
- Undying Loyalty: Less of it than the Manga, but he will serve his master.
Seras Victoria
Voiced by: Fumiko Orikasa (JP), K.T. Gray (EN), Frédérique Marlot (FR), Carmen Ambrós (SP)
A policewoman who was saved by Alucard. He turned her into a vampire doing so, and she now serves the Hellsing organization.
- Adaptational Intelligence: She generally comes off as smarter here than she does in the manga and OVA.
- Adaptation Dye-Job: Her hair is much more yellowish in the manga and OVA, but she's a strawberry blonde in the anime.
- Adaptation Personality Change: This version of Seras is more aggressive and impulsive than the manga/OVA incarnation (at least before she confronts Zorin Blitz in them). She shoots Alucard during their first meeting, for example.
- Audience Surrogate: Even more so than the manga, as she adapts more slowly to the methods of the Hellsing organization and the nature of the setting.
- BFG: The "Harkonnen" anti-tank rifle. It wouldn't be Seras without it!
- Chickification: Compared to her Manga counterpart, this Seras is smarter, but not as asskicking (most likely because the anime didn't adapt material past Volume 2) and has more moments of being a Damsel in Distress (like in episode 3, where it only took one of Anderson's bayonets to knock her out).
- Daddy's Girl: With a Missing Mom, she seems to be abnormally attached to her father, unlike her manga counterpart.
- Day Walking Vampire: Seras seems to have to wear hats and sunglasses, but is seen outdoors in light a few times, though those times it was a bit cloudy.
- Does Not Know Her Own Strength: She has a humorous learning experience with this in the second episode. At the firing range, one of the Hellsing soldiers suggests that the massive 13.7mm Anti-Midians rifle might suit her better. Seras protests that she wouldn't even be able to lift it, only to yank it clean out of the guy's hands one-handed when she tries, leading to this conversation:Seras: That's strange. What's it made of, is it plastic?Soldier: It weighs in at 15 kilos, plus a couple more for ammo.Seras: *Shaking the gun up-and-down with one hand* It's really that heavy?
- Friendly Neighborhood Vampire: She's pretty friendly, albeit she becomes very serious halfway through, she's still a good person, er, vampire.
- Happiness in Slavery: She refuses Alucard's offer when he wanted to give Seras her freedom.
- Iconic Outfit: It's not manga canon, but Seras looks good in blue.
- In-Series Nickname: Kitten, Police Girl, Tiger Lily (in reference to Peter Pan).
- Green-Eyed Monster: Her reaction when the relationship between Alucard and Integra softens in the last episodes.
- Missing Mom: No picture of her at all.
- Morality Pet: She is this to Alucard.
- Ms. Fanservice: Exaggerated from her Manga version (who never wore a revealing outfit other than her Hellsing uniform).
- The Nose Knows: In addition to the "third eye" ability seen in the manga, Seras also has an enhanced sense of smell as a vampire. She uses it to detect a bomb in the 5th episode.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Subverted, as she's a Friendly Neighborhood Vampire. But a vampire nonetheless.
- Religious Vampire: It's ambiguous in the manga if Seras was ever a believer despite being member of an Protestant Church Militant organization. However, in this continuity, she is depicted making an Anglican prayer late into the series.
- Replacement Goldfish: She might have been intended to be this. According to
Studio Gonzo, Alucard turned her because her eyes reminded him of Young Integra's. - Vampire Detective: She journeys into this trope in some of the filler arcs.
- What Have I Become?: She struggles with losing her humanity, but accepts her vampiric nature much earlier than in the manga, drinking medical blood in the fourth episode.
- The Anime makes a serious emphasis on this, while the manga was barely referred over it or it was Played for Laughs with Seras' making comical reactions, and Fanservice when she finally licked Integra's finger.
Integra Fairbrooks Hellsing
Voiced by: Yoshiko Sakakibara (adult) / Kaori Mizuhashi (young) (JP), Victoria Harwood (adult) / Laura Bailey (young) (EN), Susan Sindberg (FR, adult), María Rosa Guillén (adult and young, SP)
The head of the Hellsing family and organization, she has made her mission to rid the United Kingdom of vampires and assorted evils in service of the Queen and the Church of England.
- Adaptation Name Change: Her middle name Windgates is removed in this version. Only going by Fairbrooks.
- Zig-zagged depending on the dubs. The French dub does include "Windgates" in her name.
- Ambiguously Brown: Her mother is shown wearing a sari, implying Indian heritage.
- Daddy's Girl: Unlike her manga counterpart (who occasionally remembers her father but mostly when Alucard triggers some memory and doesn't keep even a picture of him), in the Anime Integra seemed to love and dearly miss him (keeping his portrait in her office), but also resent his shadow.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Her reaction to Alucard turning Seras for the first episodes. He seemed to be aware of this, giving her a knowing smirk.
- God Save Us from the Queen!: Integra thinks this way when she announces to Walter that Her Majesty has abandoned them at the end of the series.
- Heir Club for Men: The anime plays up the bureaucratic stress on Integra caused by her peers.
- Hidden Buxom: Carrying from the beginning of manga, her breasts are HUGE... This'd be fanservice if it wasn't due the fact that she was stabbed in the gut moments later. Somewhat of Truth in Television, her underage version of her also had them, while in the manga didn't.
- Honor Before Reason: Subversion. The ending of episode 9 seems to fit this trope way, but actually she stabbed her neck not to choose death over being tainted by vampire's blood but to fight for her life. Otherwise she would have become a mindless ghoul.
- Improbable Aiming Skills: She is able to shoot the shape of a cross onto a vampire's face; this kind of accuracy is nearly impossible in Real Life.
- In-Series Nickname: Lady of Steel (in supplement material), Virgin of the Royal Protestant Order, Protestant Swine (Maxwell's nickname for her), Wendy (to continue the Peter Pan parallels codenames).
- Missing Mom: There is a picture of her holding baby Integra, and a scene that could imply that she committed suicide.
- "Not So Different" Remark: She acknowledges her similarities to Alucard in episode 4. "Your world is my world."
- Say My Name: "Acknowledge my approval! ALUCAAAAARRRD!"
- Sharp Dressed Woman: As "Sir" Integra, she wears a stylish suit.
- The Un-Reveal: Will she take Alucard's blood? She only smirks as an answer as the blood drips down.
- Virgin Power: Still a virgin here and apparently her blood is super delicious to vampires, and leads to her almost becoming a Virgin Sacrifice to open the gate of Hell.
Walter C. Dornez
Voiced by: Motomu Kiyokawa (JP), Ralph Lister (EN), Hervé Caradec (FR), Mario Gargallo (SP)
The loyal butler of the Hellsing family and a retired member of the organization.
- Adaptational Heroism: Doesn't turn traitor like in the manga and OVA, if only because the manga hadn't gotten that far yet.
- Adaptational Wimp: He doesn't demonstrate as much incredible use of his Razor Floss as in the later issues of the manga and OVA in here (guess why).
- Battle Butler: The Hellsing family's butler, and a major asskicker at that, perhaps second only to Alucard in this series. In a flashback, the attempt on a young Integra's life by her murderous uncle and his cabal was motivated to act when they did solely because Walter happened to be in South America on business and would arrive a few days later. They wouldn't have even chanced it if he was around.
- Casual Danger Dialogue: He keeps his cool even as the Hellsing mansion is almost completely overrun by the Valentine Brothers' army of ghouls and talks to Seras no less calmy than normal. Of course, it's because he knows said army is no match for his Razor Floss.
- Cool Old Guy: Tied with Fergusson for oldest member of Hellsing. Between butler duties, he can vanquish the undead himself, mentor the younger members of the organization, and display keen detective skills discovering a plot to expose the organization on the internet.
- Dissonant Serenity: He has the ability to stay calm in any situation.
- Politically Incorrect Hero: He's not thrilled about Integra recruiting "atheists and heathens" into Hellsing's ranks to rebuild its numbers after the Valentine Bros. arc.
- Razor Floss: His secret weapons — long monomolecular filament wires with an Absurd Cutting Power.
- Retired Badass: He used to be part of Hellsing's commandos before retiring. And he's still sharp, quite literally.
- Undying Loyalty: He'd die for the Hellsing family. Even with the entire British military bashing down the door of Hellsing manor, he was willing to fight them all to protect Integra.
Peter Fergusson
Voiced by: Unshō Ishizuka (JP), William Morgan Sheppard (EN), Thierry Kazazian (FR)
An old and experienced captain in Hellsing's armed forces.
- Cool Old Guy: Was one in the Hellsing Organization and was respected by many. He's unfazed by Seras, his newest trooper, being a vampire and treats her with the same civility and care he would any other fresh recruit needing guidance.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Holds his ground against a misunderstanding military thinking Hellsing was a terrorist group, doing it alone so Seras didn't rush to save him and endanger herself.
- Mentor Occupational Hazard: He dies in the final mission protecting Seras from a military force misunderstanding the situation and firing upon them. She takes some of his blood in memory.
- Number Two: Splits this role with Walter in the Hellsing organization, being Integra's right hand man and leading the organization's troopers.
- Parental Substitute: Served as one towards Seras, being both her superior officer and helping ease her into life in Hellsing.
- Old Soldier: Was a captain in the British Army and is well past his prime, but still performs dutifully and expertly.
- Unfazed Everyman: Like Walter and Integra, he's just a normal flesh and blood man. But unlike Walter and Integra, he doesn't have fantastic razor-wire or command of the supernatural. He's just a good commander and military man.
Steadler
Voiced by: Martial Le Minoux (FR)
A new captain of Hellsing’s armed forces.
- Fantastic Racism: Is shown to look down on Seras for being a vampire, openly disrespecting her and making rude comments about her abilities. Not that this stops his inappropriate advances towards her.
- Glory Seeker: Betrays Hellsing by trying to have Vampires exposed to the public in order to get out of the shadows and be in the limelight.
- Hate Sink: Openly insults Seras for being a vampire, makes lecherous advances towards her, plans to expose Hellsing and vampires to the public though snuff films. There is nothing to like about this guy.
- Jerkass: Shown to be nothing more than a glory prejudiced, perverted, glory seeking asshole that Seras openly despises.
- Oh, Crap!: Has this when he is exposed and Seras almost shots him.
- Smug Snake: Acts smug and condescending towards Seras in every interaction they have and only loses his cool when Seras is tempted to kill him.
Kim Chapman
Voiced by: Bérangère Jean (FR)
A news reporter saved from vampires who is determined to prove they exist.
- Immoral Journalist: She is willing to allow innocents to be eaten by vampires in snuff films in order to expose vampires and Hellsing to the world.
- Never My Fault: She takes no responsibility for her actions in the snuff films, blaming it on the person publishing the videos and claiming she was just doing her job as a reporter. Integra doesn't buy it and has Alucard kill her.
Chris Pickman
Voiced by: Arthur Russell and Gildart Jackson
A replacement captain in Hellsing's armed forces, replacing Steadler.
- Casual Danger Dialogue: His reaction to crossing paths with Alucard whilst they gun down a horde of monsters is to snark at the vampire being tardy to the action.
- Due to the Dead: Alucard, calling him a "True Soldier for Hellsing" after obliging Pickman's request to be killed before he turns into a ghoul, leaves his hat covering Pickman's face.
- Face Death with Dignity: When crippled and faced with turning into a ghoul, he requests Alucard put him down so he can die as a man on his own terms. Impressed, Alucard obliges.
- Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Whilst he was overwhelmed, he did manage to take down multiple FREAK chipped vampires and former SAS ghouls before being bitten and shot, left dying after killing his attackers.
- Superior Successor: He was a loyal, professional soldier for Hellsing. He was the replacement for a real piece of work in Steadler.
- Wowing Cthulhu: Actually managed to impress and give Alucard pause when dying by just asking die a man before he turned into a ghoul.
Incognito
Voiced by: Takumi Nakazaki (JP), Isaac C. Singleton Jr. (EN), Philippe Dumond (FR), Ignacio J. Latorre (SP)
A powerful vampire from Africa, he is responsible for the creation of the FREAK Chip that creates impure vampires.
- Ax-Crazy: While more subdued compared to most examples, he's still a bloodthirsty Combat Sadomasochist who's end goal is causing as much death and destruction as possible.
- Bald of Evil: Complete with a Nazca-looking skull.
- Barbie Doll Anatomy: It's not clear whether Incognito suffers from this, or he really is androgynous, as some have speculated.
- BFG: a Grenade launcher.
- Big Bad: Although he does have a superior, he is the highest ranking member of the organization producing the Freak vampires seen in the show and organizes said vampires to fight Hellsing.
- Body Horror: He can summon a weapon from his arm.
- Canon Foreigner: Incognito didn't exist in the original manga.
- Combat Sadomasochist: Both sadistic and masochistic. In one scene he says that he lives for nothing but destruction and in another, after being wounded by Alucard, exclaims about his love of pain.
- Dragon-in-Chief: He has a master, although he is the most dangerous threat to Hellsing and once he's killed, his master is stated to have simply been found and silenced following his defeat.
- Egyptian Mythology: He summons Set, the Egyptian God of Chaos, in the last episode.
- Evil Counterpart: To Alucard, ancient vampires of great power, serving a greater God. Both have a human master and dark magical powers in addition to vampire abilities. And both have a powerful subordinate undead serving them.
- Evil Sounds Deep: All of his voice actors fit this to a letter.
- Expy: He has a very similar vibe to the Major from the original, most notably:
- Eye Scream: The fact that he has no eyelid over his red left eye would indicate he's had one in his life.
- Full-Frontal Assault: Although Barbie Doll Anatomy provides a form of censorship, he only wears a coat briefly and all of his fights take place with him completely naked, emphasizing his deranged mentality.
- Looks Like Orlok: Pointed ears, elongated face, eerily pale skin. Only thing missing is he has traditional vampire canine fangs instead of pointed incisors.
- Monstrous Cannibalism: He kills and consumes fellow vampire Helena. Not just draining her blood, physically eating her.
- Omnicidal Maniac: Wants to unleash Set to level London.
- Scary Black Man: Considering he's implied to be from Africa, it's not much of a stretch.
- That Came Out Wrong: Set will enter me. Made even worse by the aforementioned Barbie Doll Anatomy.
- Undignified Death: Much like Vlad's historical victims, Incognito's body is left with a spear going up his ass and coming out his mouth, though, given his sadomasochistic tendencies, this might not have been overly upsetting for him.
- Worthy Opponent: For Alucard, who'd grown tired of fighting low tier vampires, ghouls, and FREA Ks.
Father Alexander Anderson
Voiced by: Naichi Nozawa (JP), Steven Brand (EN), Emmanuel Gradi (FR)
An enhanced human and priest serving as a vampire hunter for the Vatican's Section XIII "Iscariot".
- Adaptation Personality Change: In this version, he is more restrained and soft-spoken than his screaming, Ax-Crazy OVA self.
- Adaptational Wimp: He loses both arms against Alucard fairly easily in their second battle (which is not in the manga nor in the OVA). In the manga and OVA, particularly in OVA 8 and 9, Anderson attacks Alucard like a berserker with way faster moves, slashes through hordes of zombies to try getting to Alucard with a big Jackal bullet hole in his arm and eventually empowers himself with Helena's Nail to try ridding the world of Alucard once and for all.
- Badass Preacher: A priest who's Made of Iron and trained to deal with supernatural threats.
- Code Name: "Captain Hook" when he and Maxwell set up a trap for the Hellsing organization in the subway. Seras gets "Tiger Lily" and Alucard gets "Peter Pan".
- Dual Wielding: He loves doing this with his bayonets.
- Demoted to Extra: He's nowhere near as important in the TV series as he is in the manga and OVA.
- The Giant: He literally towers over Hellsing's Red Shirts and has to stoop down to go through subway train cars.
- In-Series Nickname: "Sword Dancer", "Vatican's Dog", "Judas Priest" (by Alucard), "Captain Hook" (that one is used as Code Name).
- Spared by the Adaptation: Retroactively because, again, the series [[invokedOvertook the Manga. In the manga and OVA, he dies at the end of an apocalyptic and drawn out battle in London after Alucard unleashes his Level 0 form, proving to Alucard that he's a Worthy Opponent to him. Here he gets to live and watches the chaos of Alucard's battle with Incognito from afar with a smile.]]
- Worthy Opponent: Averted. Unlike his manga counterpart, he's ultimately not this to Alucard in the Anime.
Enrico Maxwell
Voiced by: Hideyuki Tanaka (JP), JB Blanc (EN), Yann Pichon (FR), Óscar Redondo (SP)
The Protestant-hating head of the Vatican's Section XIII "Iscariot".
- Demoted to Extra: He has nowhere near as prominent a role as he has in the manga and OVA.
- In-Series Nickname: "Catholic swine" (courtesy of Integra).
- Spared by the Adaptation: Anderson allows a horde of zombies to kill him in the manga and OVA out of disgust for his Omnicidal Maniac behavior. Here, he gets to live. Again, the manga volume where it happens had yet to be made back then.
Helena
Voiced by: Akiko Hiramatsu (JP), Akure Wall (EN), Nathalie Homs (FR), Eva Ordeig (SP)
- Beware the Nice Ones: She's mellow and friendly but that doesn't mean she isn't a powerful vampire, being a true vampire like Alucard, Incognito knew she could be a threat to his plans which is why he attacked and killed Helena in her home.
- Bookworm: Her favorite hobby next to listening to classical music is reading books.
- Canon Foreigner: She was created for the anime.
- Creepy Child: Very creepy, at least in looks, see the picture.
- Death Seeker: Like Alucard, she has grown tired of her immortality and desires to die, but also like him, she's not in any hurry. She gets her wish when Incognito attacks and eats her.
- Expy: Helena is based on Claudia from Interview With a Vampire. She too is turned as a child and holds resentment for being denied womanhood.
- Friendly Neighborhood Vampire: Sort of, she likely still drinks blood to survive but she's seemingly not malicious or bloodthirsty just For the Evulz like most vampires. Since she poses no real threat to the public this is seemingly the reason Hellsing hasn't hunted her.
- Never Grew Up: See below.
- Nice Girl: Surprisingly yes, she doesn't like to be disturbed in her home but she is warm and polite to people who respect her. Especially Seras.
- Really 700 Years Old: Just like Alucard and Incognito.
- Undead Child: She was made a vampire when she was still around 7-10.
