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D

Voiced By: Kaneto Shiozawa (OVA, Japanese), Michael McConnohie (OVA, Streamline dub), John Gremillion (OVA, Sentai dub), Héctor Cantolla (OVA, Spanish), Andrew Philpot (Bloodlust, English) Hideyuki Tanaka (Bloodlust, Japanese), Oriol Rafel (Bloodlust, Spanish)

The man, the legend, D is the eponymous vampire hunter and main character of the series. Impossibly beautiful, dark, mysterious, and blessed with god-like martial prowess (among other things), he is the worst nightmare of the Nobility. Born from the union of a human woman and the Sacred Ancestor himself, D is on a never-ending journey to find the man who created him and cut him down.

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• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Downplayed. In the 1985 OVA, D harshly rebukes Larmika's words about the strong preying on the weak, stating that the Sacred Ancestor never believed in such an ideal. While D's thoughts on Dracula aren't especially known in the OVA, it seems he has some level of respect for his father, in contrast to the novels where he has absolutely nothing positive to say about the Sacred Ancestor.
• The Ageless: It's ambiguous in the first novel, but becomes less so over time: half-vampires don't really physically age. In Bloodlust, he meets an old man whom D once saved as a boy, who comments that he looks exactly the same. He still looks as young as he appears towards the end of the film when he attends Leila's funeral, having either succumbed to either age or illness, though not before having a child as one of the girls attending the funeral bears a strong resemblance to her.
• Badass Longcoat: Described in the novels to wear a long coat, which looks ominous, though usually, it's a Badass Cape in adaptations and the official illustrations.
• BFS: His weapon of choice, which is as long as he is and is also an Absurdly Sharp Blade
• Can't Stay Normal: As he says in Bloodlust, it's why he's a Hunter in the first place. His vampiric heritage and inhuman looks, which out him as a Noble, bring no small amount of distrust from those around him, including his potential employers. This also goes for the Nobility, who generally look down upon the existence of dhampirs for their human blood.
  D: Because I'm a dhampir. I don't get to have a life.
• Celibate Hero: He's no idiot about love, but he abstains from sex and romantic relations, no doubt due to the issues he has with controlling his vampiric blood. In the first arc, Doris offers herself to him, but D refuses. In the OVA, he nearly succumbs to his bloodlust when he sees her naked neck, but stops himself and pushes her away. In the manga, a group of villagers come just as it looks as though they're about to have sex, although it's implied D still would have rejected her advances. It's also implied by D that one reason he doesn't pursue romance is because of his vampiric heritage. Unless his potential lover is a vampire, they'll grow old and die long before he ever will.
• Characterization Marches On: In the first novel, D is somewhat more emotional and confrontational. When the townsfolk came to drive off Doris because she was marked by the Count and puts them all in danger, D threatens to butcher them on the spot if they don't leave. In the later novels, he's more stoic and less likely to kill someone unless they're really asking for it.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Very little is known about D, but it's implied he's seen a LOT to make him the hardened, stoic Hunter he is now. It seems to be tied to his status as a dhampir; in Bloodlust, D once saved a group of children from a vampire, only to be driven off by the townsfolk (who it should be noted hired him to save the kids) when they realized he was half-vampire himself.
• Daywalking Vampire: D can tolerate sunlight but is prone to Sunlight Syndrome, a form of heatstroke that can prove fatal if he doesn't treat it (which requires him to bury himself).
• Deadpan Snarker: Once in a blue moon when the planets align D can make some pretty sharp retorts. He'd have to in order to tolerate Left Hand for centuries.
• Determinator: Nobles, sealed Elder Gods, or aliens, it doesn't matter, D WILL cut them down.
• Dhampyr: His mother is confirmed to be human, so obviously his father was the vampire who helped sire him. It's heavily implied that his father was the Sacred Ancestor, the strongest and oldest vampire in existence. It's also worth noting that D is apparently a cut above others of his kind as he demonstrates capabilities exceeding the average dhampir.
• Even the Guys Want Him: Everyone wants D. Everyone. In the second volume of the manga, the town mayor mentions to Lila as he's raping her that D made his heart race.
• Expy: The Man With No Name as an immortal dhampyr.
• Fantastic Racism: With some exceptions, D expresses contempt for the Nobility as he considers them pests who've long overstayed their welcome in the land of the living. Unfortunately, D himself is also subject to this; in Bloodlust, a local sheriff tells him to leave town immediately despite having done nothing wrong. The shopkeeper D visits in search of a horse also recounts a tale where D was hired by the town to save a group of children from a vampire, only for the townsfolk to drive him off after the deed was done.
• Friend to All Children: Despite his aloof demeanor D has a protective streak with children. He's protective of Doris' younger brother Dan, and even helped save a group of children from vampires in the past.
• The Hero: D might be The Stoic and work for hire, but most of the times he will try to do the right thing without expecting a reward in return. Besides he is the title character.
• Hero with Bad Publicity: Half-vampires tend to get some of the same sentiment as their parents, and even more unfortunately, it's not always unwarranted. While D is Famed In-Story, he's no exception either.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: Implied. When he meets Doris in the first novel and offers her body as payment for her services, D remarks that she would probably find being bitten by a vampire more appealing than having sex with him. Keep in mind, this is before he tells her he's a dhampir.
• Heroic Willpower: His gene pool definitely helps, but D has a soul as strong as iron. No matter what foe he faces, he cannot and will not give-up, even if his opponent happens to be exceptionally talented at mind-fuckery.
• I Gave My Word: In Bloodlust, D and Lelia promised that if one outlived the other, the survivor would visit their grave. D attends Lelia's funeral at the end of the film.
• I Hate You, Vampire Dad: To say he hates Dracula would be a major understatement, as whenever he talks of the Sacred Ancestor, he has absolutely nothing flattering to say about him. One of D's goals is to hunt down and kill the Sacred Ancestor himself.
• Healing Factor: Not as strong as a normal vampire's, but he does recover from injury superhumanly quickly. In the first novel, he ultimately kills Rai by stabbing himself in the stomach to exploit Rai's ability to reflect wounds onto other people, with the text noting that anyone who wasn't a dhampir almost certainly wouldn't have had the nerve to try it.
• Implausible Fencing Powers: D just tells physics to shove it. Somehow, his sword's ability to harm vampires in a way their natural healing factor struggles to deal with is entirely his swordsmanship. In later novels he manages to pull off such feats as swordfighting people who are beyond his blade's reach, cutting apart bodies of liquid as though they were made of flesh, and even somehow stabbing an omnipresent entity in its nonexistent weakpoint.
• Internalized Categorism: Subtle, since D is pretty unexpressive at the best of times, but his Left Hand suggests in Bloodlust that the reason D is chasing after Charlotte and Meier Link has less to do with the money and more to do with taking offense at the idea of the two of them producing another dhampir like D, prompting D, for the first and only time in the movie, to muffle and silence his hand rather than ignoring it. And the rest of the film does strongly suggest that D heavily suffers from intense self-loathing.
• Invincible Hero: Barring his experiences in the first novel, D's found himself on few fights where he's well and truly fighting for his life. In the later volumes, he's more or less a walking Deus ex Machina meant to bail focus characters out of trouble.
• Lightning Bruiser: Despite his extremely lithe frame, his blows pack quite a punch.
• Master Swordsman: This guy can match blades with people who literally have millennia of experience and weird techniques. Allegedly, his sword is able to inflict a Wound That Will Not Heal on vampires entirely as a result of some special technique in holding the weapon rather than any intrinsic properties of the blade itself.
• Meaningful Echo: In the first novel and its adaptations, D refutes Count Lee's words of vampires being superior and meant to exist unto eternity, saying the vampires are no more than "transient guests" who've long overstayed their welcome. His words give the Count pause, as the Sacred Ancestor, none other than Dracula himself, spoke those very same words to vampirekind many years ago before his disappearance. Between D repeating these words, his resemblance to the Sacred Ancestor, and even knowing a reversal technique Lee begged the Ancestor to teach him, the Count asks D in his dying moments if he's the Sacred Ancestor's son.
• Momma's Boy: Sometimes villains will try to manipulate him by conjuring images of his mother, which implies he has a soft spot for her. Still didn't stop him from cutting down someone who was copying her image. In Bloodlust, he bandages and saves a dying Leila when he hears her calling for her mother.
• Mr. Fanservice: A rare version in that D shows very little skin, but his handsome looks alone are enough to earn him fangirls in and out of universe.
• Mysterious Past: Even thirty novels later at the time of this writing, hardly anyone knows anything about D's past. The only concrete detail about him is that he has some kind of connection to the Sacred Ancestor and is implied to be his son. Ironically, he's Famed In-Story among people in the frontier for his vampire hunting exploits.
• Not So Stoic: He doesn't crack often, but if he gets set off, pray to the Sacred Ancestor someone will struggle to identify your corpse after he's done.
• One-Letter Name: Duh, though it's implied it's a pseudonym. Count Magnus believes it's actually Dracula, though he's somewhat off the mark since Dracula is his father.
• Protagonist Title: The titular one-letter named vampire hunter of the series.
• The Quiet One: Subverted in first novel, where he's quite talkative like the other characters. In subsequent novels and in the manga, OVA, and film, he's quite stoic and a man of few words.
• Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: Comes with being a dhampir. His skin isn't just pale, it's literally white as snow.
• Really 700 Years Old: He looks no more than 20, but is at least 5,000 years old and likely older.
• Signature Headgear: Hell, his hat is practically his signature. It has a practical purpose: protecting him from the sun.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Said to be the spitting image of the Sacred Ancestor.
• The Stoic: Not exactly the most expressive guy around. There's very little that can set him off or bring a smile to his face.
• Strong as They Need to Be: Implied many times that D's level of strength is not remotely static, with Lefty outright stating that someone who manages to defeat D one day might be powerless against him the next. Though given the nature of the Frontier, his constant improvement is almost assuredly the only reason he's still alive while being dogpiled by the Sliding Scale of Villain Threat.
• Superpowered Evil Side: On occasion, he'll embrace his vampiric nature to get a one-up on a nasty foe, but he rarely does so since he can barely remain in full control of himself when his vampiric side gets going, and fully losing control would be a worst-case scenario for most adventures.
• Super Prototype: Implied. In Volume 2, an apparition of the Sacred Ancestor states D is his one and only success at creating a dhampir. While there are other dhampirs running around, D's the only one who demonstrates physical capabilities far beyond even superhuman individuals and even the long-lived Nobility, and unlike the artificial hybrids he meets in the second arc, he isn't suffering from any kind of cellular degeneration. This implies the Sacred Ancestor wasn't just trying to make a run-of-the-mil dhampir, but something else entirely.
• Too Many Mouths: He has some sort of parasite that manifests as a face in the palm of his left hand, which has strange, undefined magical powers, most notably the ability to suck in large amounts of material or magical energy at will, which can be used to nullify spells and revive D if he gets killed. It's later revealed to be a parasite, which can act independently from him.
• Tsundere: In an odd and decidedly non-comedic way, he is this for most of the innocent people he encounters. It's heavily insinuated (and rather explicitly summarized by Granny Viper in Book 6) that his centuries of bloodshed and trauma have hardened him and driven him to repressing his emotions beneath many layers of steely coldness.
• Vampire Hunter: Though oddly enough he doesn't hunt that many in the series due to vampire civilization having waned. However, his hunts are usually related to the Nobility in some way.
• Walking the Earth: While it's unknown exactly when he started killing the Nobility, he's wandered the world for a very long time.
• World's Best Warrior: Among his fellow vampire hunters, all skilled in their own right, he's the best in the entire profession. He's also perhaps the strongest vampire, second only perhaps to the Sacred Ancestor himself.
• When He Smiles: The ultimate proof that D isn't heartless. Anyone who sees him do so is FLOORED.
• Younger Than They Look: In the novels at least. Doris notes he sounds young enough to be in his late teens and is described as an extremely handsome youth. In the manga, OVA, and film, he looks like a young adult, early thirties at oldest. His youthful looks belie the fact he's been hunting vampires for an untold amount of years.

Left Hand

Voiced By: Ichirō Nagai (Japanese), Michael McConnohie (OVA, Streamline dub), Andy McAvin (OVA, Sentai dub), Mike McShane (Bloodlust, English), Alberto Trifol (Bloodlust, Spanish)

D's trusty sidekick, a grizzled, cynical wiseass always willing to play counter to D and provide levity in the otherwise grim setting. He's also D's left hand. Somehow. Like D, very little is known about him or what exactly he is. However, he's very useful and is one of D's trump cards.

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• Deadpan Snarker: A king of snark that snarks like no other.
• Lovable Coward: While generally averse to any situations that put D, and therefore himself, in danger, the most he'll do is complain about it.
• Mr. Exposition: Usually details new and exotic locales in the series.
• New Powers as the Plot Demands: Not as bad as some examples, but Lefty has quite a repertoire of techniques that come in handy.
• No Name Given: Usually he's called "the countenanced carbuncle" or "Lefty."
• Organ Autonomy: A literal talking hand.
• Running Gag: His shtick is to usually make smartass comments to D's grim nature as well as confuse the hell out of bystanders. Also, expect Lefty to get cut off. A lot.
• Sidekick: Who is permanently attached to the hero.
• Story-Breaker Power: Basically any time Lefty has to use his powers, it's to easily let D wriggle out of an otherwise impossible to wriggle out of jam, like, say, eating a black hole. If D used him more frequently each novel would be over in a few pages.
• The Symbiote: While he admits to being a parasite, he protests that he's a helpful parasite, and indeed he can be relied on to bail D out from an otherwise inescapable predicament at least Once an Episode.
• Vacuum Mouth: His single most frequently-used power, sucking in huge volumes of matter, or even stuff like magic, and seemingly destroying it.

Vampires

The Sacred Ancestor

The progenitor of the vampire race and the most powerful of them. The Sacred Ancestor is a mysterious figure, few even among his own people having seen him. While he's never made an appearance in the series proper (aside from telepathic shadows) his presence is always felt by the various experiments he's conducted over the years. It is hinted he is the father of D and his ultimate nemesis.

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• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: In the 1985 OVA, D seems to have some level of respect for him as he harshly rebukes Larmica's The Social Darwinist speech, stating the Sacred Ancestor never believed in such a thing. In the novels, D has zero positive things to say about the Sacred Ancestor.
• Ambiguously Evil: His Blue-and-Orange Morality and second-hand accounts from various sources make it very unclear whether the Sacred Ancestor is as evil as D believes he is or if he has genuinely good intentions.
• Archnemesis Dad: While he's never stated to be D's father, the vampire hunter nonetheless considers him this. At the very least, the Ancestor played a part in his creation as an apparition of him in the second arc states that D was his "one and only success".
• Arc Words: A cryptic phrase he once uttered that has baffled humans and vampires alike: "Transient guests are we." Some, like Count Lee, take it to mean that vampires will remain the dominant species and live unto eternity, whereas D is of the opinion that Dracula meant that vampires are ghosts of the past who've overstayed their welcome.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: To this day it's STILL not certain what was going on in his head as he's been seen as a menace, a savior, a Tragic Monster, and a lot more depending on the circumstances.
• Dracula: Usually goes by his title, but it's clear that he's supposed to be the man himself.
• God-Emperor: Deified by his race, but was weirdly detached in ruling. Often he'd drop off the map for centuries and let things run their course.
• Greater-Scope Villain: He is responsible for the current state of the world and the rise of vampire domination, and many of the jobs D performs are indirectly the result of the Ancestor's work. However, he is never faced directly by D, who tends to fight individual villains for each novel.
• Interspecies Romance: Rumored to have engaged in one with a woman named Mina the Fair. It's unclear whether or not it was a legitimate love affair or him just doing his experiments.
• Large and in Charge: Said to be huge by those who have seen him.
• Mad Scientist: When it was clear that the Nobility was on the decline he went on a spree of experiments in order to merge humans and vampires which resulted in tragedies and a high body count. He's still conducting them to this day.
• Monster Progenitor: If his title is any indication, he is this to the Nobility.
• Physical God: If the fact that D is a Physical God doesn't tip you off to this guy's power (Dhampirs usually only get HALF of what their vampire parent is capable of) then his list of recorded feats should prove it such as:
  • Stopping and REVERSING a meteorite sent by an Omnicidal Maniac noble to pancake the earth.
  • Defeated a small army of nobles (nobles are part of the ruling vampire class and much stronger than normal vampires) with nothing more than a sweep of his cape followed by a battle with their lord that was said to have levelled mountains.
  • At one point he literally beat Cthulhu (in the story it was an elder god that was heavily a Cthulhu Expy complete with tentacle head and evil cultists) ALL BY HIMSELF after an army of 30,000 of the nobility were destroyed by the monster and his followers (though this was also a slight case of Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu as the sacred ancestor was extremely weakened after and had to sleep for a century to regain his strength and vitality).
• Really Gets Around: Apparently his way of conducting experiments was to use himself as a donor. Which has led to a LOT of bastard children, D included.
• The Social Darwinist: Subverted. In the 1985 OVA, the Sacred Ancestor is said to be this and taught many vampires, Larmica included, this principle. However, D, the descendant of the Sacred Ancestor, says this is a major misconception that many vampires believe and the Sacred Ancestor actually taught otherwise.
• Shrouded in Myth: Even more than D. Everything known about him comes from what remains of the Nobility and second-hand sources.
• The Unfought: D has never met him, only shadows and rumors.
• Vampire Monarch: If his title didn't give it away, he's more or less the God-Emperor of his kind.
• Walking the Earth: Is still alive and roaming the Frontier.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Occasionally played as such, his experiments done as he knew the vampire race was on its way to extinction but saw cross-breeding with humans as a way for their legacy to continue.

Count Magnus Lee

Voiced By: Seizō Katō (Japanese), Jeff Winkless (English, Streamline Pictures dub), David Wald (English, Sentai Filmworks dub), Félix Acaso (Spanish)

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• Badass Cape: In the books, his cape was stitched together from the skin of women who'd slaked his thirst, and lacquered with their blood. Thanks to secret techniques passed down through the Lee Clan, it's five times as strong as the hardest steel and twenty times more flexible than spider's silk.
• Big Bad: Of the first novel and 1985 OVA.
• Dirty Old Man: His favorite way to relieve his boredom is to force himself on young mortal women. Doris is his latest conquest.
• Dub Name Change: The Spanish dub gave him the surname of Ley instead of Lee and removed his first name.
• Evil Old Folks: He's almost 10,000 years old, and a depraved hedonist who's taken on numerous human brides and killed them off once he got bored of them.
• Evil Overlord: Lee governs over the Ransylva district of the Frontier from his foreboding castle, which is populated by all sorts of horrifying creatures.
• Evil Sounds Deep: Speaks with an echoing baritone in the OVA.
• Genre Savvy: Lee knows that many vampire hunters would use crosses and garlic to fend off vampires. This is why he uses demons and werewolves, who seem to be immune to these conventional defenses, as guards.
• The Hedonist: He has taken many brides throughout the ages in order to stave off the boredom of immortality.
• Immortality Immorality: The mind-numbing boredom of never dying has caused him to seek out increasingly heinous ways of amusing himself.
• Mind over Matter: Lee can move things with his mind alone such as controlling his cape in the books and exploding Rei-Ginsei's head Scanners style in the OVA.
• Named After Someone Famous: Probably named after famed vampire actor Christopher Lee.
• Oh, Crap!: While normally composed, D is the first vampire hunter he's encountered that makes him lose his composure, both in their initial confrontation and in their final showdown.
• Power Echoes: Has a noticeable echo effect on his voice, signifying his immense power.
• Something Only They Would Say: In the novel and OVA, he expresses shock when D grabs his sword and breaks off a fragment before piercing his heart with it. This has less to do with the fact that D's martial prowess is that good and more by the fact that Lee once begged the Sacred Ancestor to teach him that very same technique. That D pulled off the technique, plus his echoing of the Sacred Ancestor's words about vampires being "transient guests", is what finally makes him realize D is Dracula's son.
• Starter Villain: He's the initial Big Bad D faces in the first novel and its adaptations, though compared to others he's almost quickly forgotten.
• Villainous Crush: His attraction to Doris Lang is what kicks off the plot of the first story. She's hardly the first; the village doctor mentions that Lee was attracted to another woman years ago in the past and tried to claim her.
• Who Wants to Live Forever?: He's lived for 10,000 years, and describes his immortality as everlasting boredom he must constantly seek relief from, such as with his union with Doris among other such women.

Larmica

Voiced By: Satoko Kifuji (Japanese), Edie Mirman (English, Streamline dub), Brittney Karbowski (English, Sentai dub), Laura Palacios (Spanish)

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• Adaptational Heroism: Larmica is more sympathetic to Doris in the OVA than in the books, advising her to run away and escape her father's influence rather than trying to kill her at all costs like in the source material.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: She is turned into a brunette in the anime, while in the original novel she used to be blonde.
• Dhampyr: In the OVA, her mother is revealed to be a human, just like D.
• Dub Name Change: Changed to alternate Western spelling Lamika in the Spanish dub.
• Face Death with Dignity: In the manga, she reverses the castle's security system so it self-destructs after her father is defeated. She doesn't do this in a last-ditch attempt to foil D but to bury the Lee family, including herself, as she's ashamed of what her father's become.
• Love at First Sight: In the novel, she tells her father that she's fallen in love with D from her very first visit to the Lang farm, though she doesn't express it in a healthy way and it doesn't do much to actually affect her actions in the novel.
• Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter: Or rather, Vampire Lord's Beautiful Daughter at any rate.
• The Proud Elite: She is very proud of her lineage and will not abide that the Count takes a human female as a bride. It comes crashing down into the OVA, when it's revealed to her that her mother is human, making Larmica a dhampir.
• Pimped-Out Dress: In the manga, she's shown in quite a free elaborate outfits befitting her noble status.
• Sdrawkcab Name: In Japanese, her name is spelt as "Ramika", which is "Kamira" or Carmilla spelt backwards.
• The Social Darwinist: She believes in the principle of "survival of the fittest", and considers herself superior to humans and dhampirs. This is also why she chooses to embrace death after Lee perishes, either seeing her father's death as the downfall of their house or preferring death in the OVA to living with the knowledge she has human blood in her veins.
• Spell My Name With An S: Is referred to as L'armica in the credits of the Sentai dub.
• Villainous Crush: Towards D, albeit to varying degrees. In the novels, she's keenly interested in him because of his Noble heritage and tries to sway him to their side, while in the OVA, she's mostly curious when he expresses some familiarity with the Sacred Ancestor.
• You Are What You Hate: In the 1985 OVA. Larmica despises humans and looks down on them, and is promptly horrified to learn she's a dhampir herself when Lee states her mother was human.

Mayerling/Meier Link

Voiced By: Kōichi Yamadera (Japanese), John Rafter Lee (English), Félix Acaso (Spanish)

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• Act of True Love: When the Marcus brothers have seemingly killed or driven away all of his guards and successfully taken Charlotte prisoner with the sun still setting and well before falling, Meier Link chooses to get out of his carriage and walk across a great expanse of open ground to rescue her even as sunlight scorches his flesh and the brothers sadistically mock and torture him with ranged weapons. Up until that point in the film, it was ambiguous whether or not he was genuine in his insistence that he and Charlotte were lovers rather than kidnapper and victim. His willingness to endure suffering, even death for her sake rather than his own puts any doubts to rest.
• Adaptation Name Change: In the novel, he is known as "Mayerling", not Meier Link like in the movie. Some dubs refer to him as Meierlink.
• Ambiguous Situation: His acts at the start of the film/novel, having turned an entire town into mindless vampiric thralls to accost would-be pursuers. This is despite the fact that Meier is described as being a Token Good Teammate, with even D acknowledging he's a saint compared to his fellow Nobles, raising the question as to whether Meier was that desperate or something happened to force his hand.
• Anti-Villain: He only wants to be with his lover Charlotte, and this drives him to do things he normally wouldn't.
• Badass Boast: Delivers one to D in their first confrontation.
  Meier Link: I wouldn't recommend it, Dhampir. Taking on a vampire at night is a mission for morons and fools, which are you?"
• Beauty Equals Goodness: Unlike many Nobles, Meier is a pure, beautiful boy and he's also the kindest of the Nobility in both anime and novel alike.
• Berserk Button: Do not touch Charlotte. Harming and mistreating her is one of the only things that will drive him genuinely over the wall.
• Cape Wings: In the movie, he is able to mentally control his cape and use it to fly as well as become sharp as a sword.
• Classical Movie Vampire: Unlike the more rugged Magnus Lee.
• Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere: While lying in his coffin with Charlotte in the movie after having half his face burned off from the sun's light, he can't help but look at her circulatory system with hungry eyes, something which shames him.
• Determinator: Determined enough to go on sunlight (which burns him horribly) in order to get his goal.
• The Dog Bites Back: After she used him and his lover to revive herself, Meier Link turns the tables on Carmilla by joining forces with D and Leila to destroy her permanently.
• Femme Fatalons: In the novel, his weapon of choice is to turn his fingers into claws, and although in the film he prefers using his cape, he does sometimes turn one of his hands into a metallic claw to battle D.
• Friendly Neighborhood Vampire: Surprisingly for a Noble, he is strong and compassionate and believes in coexistence between humans and vampires. It's downplayed in the film, which doesn't go into his reputation as a good person nearly as much, but he still generally seems like he's only a threat to people attacking him.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: Carmilla slices him in half down the middle. Even this doesn't put him down when it comes to rescuing his beloved.
• Interspecies Romance: He's a vampire deeply in love with a human woman.
• Kick the Dog: Eats a whole town of humans before the movie/novel begins, to turn them into zombie cannon fodder and slow down pursuit. It's revealed that this was accidental: He snapped when he saw a man abusing Charlotte and attacked him, succumbing to bloodlust. His victim turned and proceeded to attack the rest of the town, rather than Meier actually intentionally turning them.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Meier is reserved and even pleasant at most times, but when he shows his rage, watch out.
• Spared by the Adaptation: In the novel, D chooses to let he and the girl go, only for Borgoff to finish him off after their fight. In the film, he ultimately survives, taking Charlotte's body with him into the "City of Night" in space.
• Token Good Teammate: Meier, alone of all Nobles, is a kind and just ruler praised for his nobility even by his human subjects.
• Unwitting Pawn: Carmilla lures him to her castle in the guise of helping him and Charlotte. It's all a ruse to use Charlotte's blood to revive herself. Meier is simply collateral damage to that end.
• Warm Blood Bags Are Everywhere: He has to resist attacking Charlotte several times in his hunger, a side to himself he is deeply ashamed of.
• White Hair, Black Heart: We are lead to believe he is this due to being a white-haired vampire who captured a young woman and took her prisoner, but he turns out to be a subversion.

Carmilla

Voiced By: Beverly Maeda (Japanese), Julia Fletcher (English), Miriam Guilimany (Spanish)

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• Big Bad: Of the Bloodlust movie.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: "I'm not the bloody Carmilla they portray me as," she says with all smiles and warm hospitality. Before she reveals herself as a devious and heartless sadist.
• Canon Foreigner: She is an original character created for the movie.
• Carmilla: Naturally, she is based on the character.
  • Elizabeth Báthory: A few elements of the Blood Countess were used for her design and her castle's overall design. Lefty even refers to her full name as "Carmila Elizabeth Bathory" in the subtitles and in the video game. The game also makes an unintended Shout-Out to Castlevania: Bloodlines where Spell My Name With An S is in effect, rendering it as "Elizabeth Bartley Carmila".
• Cessation of Existence: Just before completing her resurrection, her physical body is killed by Meier. Her weakened soul is then vanquished by D with the power of the Left Hand, resulting in the complete destruction of the vampire.
• Conflict Killer: As the film builds to its climax, the story has set up Meier Link and Charlotte, desperate to be together, the surviving Marcus family, out for revenge and to make sure their fallen haven't died for nothing, and D, in it not just for the money but out of conviction that Meier Link and Charlotte shouldn't have the opportunity to create another "cursed" being like himself, as opposing power centers with irreconcilable differences that're about to clash, as happens in the novel. Then Carmilla shows up, sadistically tortures them all, kills several of them, and manages to get all the survivors angry enough at her to join forces to eliminate her before even trying to settle things among themselves.
• Dead All Along: The Carmilla that greets Meier Link and Charlotte is an illusion. The real Carmilla is a withered corpse inside a coffin. She wants to revive herself using Charlotte's blood.
• The High Queen: She was the Sacred Ancestor's lover and queen of all vampires.
• Hypocrite: She screams D should be ashamed of killing other vampires when she is fully willing to murder Meier for her own selfish ends.
• Genius Loci: Her spirit is somehow linked to her ancestral castle, which she can control psychically.
• God Save Us from the Queen!: Was feared by the entire human race. It says a lot when even the Sacred Ancestor Dracula himself was abhorred by her hedonistic pastimes and cut her down himself.
• Manipulative Bitch: Carmilla lures in Meier and Charlotte, pretending to support their love for one another....while fully intending to murder Meier and drain Charlotte's blood to resurrect herself. Besides this, she adores screwing with the heads of others and making them dance to her tune.
• Master of Illusion: She appears to her guests as a perfectly alive-looking image of herself, but can also fool her enemies with ghostly illusions and full-fledged poltergeists, and attempts to use these to dispatch all the other characters in her castle.
• Mind over Matter: Able to telekinetically move objects in her castle, usually to attack someone.
• Mind Rape: Tries this on everyone in her castle. It almost works on D when he confronts her spirit, and does work on everyone else.
• Navel-Deep Neckline: While her dress actually meets between her breasts, it then plunges right down her past navel.
• Not Quite Dead: Her physical body is little more than a withered husk trapped inside a coffin and pinned in place by the Sacred Ancestor's sword. Her spirit, however, somehow continues to haunt her dwellings. Her ultimate goal is to revive her physical body through blood tribute and is quite eager to have the Marcus Brothers and Charlotte offer their blood for her resurrection.
• Sadist: Carmilla was responsible for bloody atrocities that revolted even the Sacred Ancestor, and she's shown to love torturing others mentally.

The Noble Greylancer

A Great Noble and veteran from the wars against Outer-Space Beings (O.S.B.), he is a character exclusive to the novels that starred his own spin-off series featuring his adventures thousands of years before D's story.

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• Almighty Janitor: Only comparatively speaking; his many deeds had earned him a seat on the Privy Council Ministry, the ruling body of Nobility after the Sacred Ancestor abandoned them. He was instead appointed to govern the Northern Frontier away from the Capital.
• Authority Equals Asskicking: He ruled as Overlord of the Northern Frontier and was regarded as one of the mightiest warriors to have ever lived.
• Contrasting Sequel Main Character: Or in this case, Prequel: Greylancer is a Noble instead of a vampire hunter, acts as a leader of armies instead of being a lone wolf and he fights with a lance instead of a sword. Greylancer is also more sociable than D, but then again, so is everyone else.
• Legacy Character: He belongs to a long line of noblemen from House Greylancer that carries the same title. He is the fifth Greylancer of his lineage.
• Noble Demon: Despite being a vampire, he is incredibly personable towards his family and his underlings and he is regarded as a war hero for many deeds, the biggest one was driving out the O.S.B.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: His given name is unknown and nearly everyone refers to him by his title. Even his own sister doesn't call him by his name.
• Sympathetic P.O.V.: His series serve as one for the Nobility's perspective instead of a vampire hunter.
• Villain Protagonist: In the Another Vampire Hunter series.
• World's Best Warrior: He is considered one of the most powerful Nobles to have lived, if not most during the time period his novels were set.

Humans

Doris Lang

Voiced By: Michie Tomizawa (Japanese) Barbara Goodson (English, Streamline dub), Luci Christian (English, Sentai dub)

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• Adaptation Dye-Job: She is described as raven-haired in the books, but in the 1985 OVA she is depicted as a blonde.
• Battle Strip: Her big move in the novel is to flash enemies as she fights them.
• Badass Normal: She is fairly capable at defending her farm from monsters and other beasts. However, as a human, she's no match against the Count and other higher ranked monsters.
• Big Sister Instinct: Towards her little brother Dan. When she learns he's been kidnapped, she loses her shit and briefly loses all hope in living when she thinks he and D are dead.
• Braids of Action: In the OVA.
• Distressed Damsel: Her being bitten by Count Magnus Lee is what kicks off the plot. Try as she might, she's helpless and winds up kidnapped not once, but twice in the OVA.
• Dude Magnet: All of the villainous men in the movie want a piece of her. Count Magnus wants her as his bride, Rei-Ginsei tries to force himself on her, and Greco lusts after her. Unfortunately for her, the only man she's actually attracted to is D, and he isn't interested.
• Faux Action Girl: She's somewhat skilled with that whip of hers, but she rarely gets a chance to show off her chops as she's either taken by surprise, kidnapped, or facing off against opponents way above her weight class. Justified In-Universe in that she's just so damn tired of being an Action Girl and she's suffering from the "Kiss of Nobility"; its noted that any normal person who suffered the 'kiss' would've been rendered a comatose wreck. That Doris even had the strength to challenge hunters passing by after having been bit five days ago impresses D greatly.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: In the OVA only, on account of Adaptation Dye-Job.
• Ms. Fanservice: Especially in the OVA, where she appears naked at several points and her skirt flashes her underpants many times. Not that she's any better in the manga, since she strips naked in front of D and throws herself at him hoping to "pay his services" with her body.
• Promoted to Parent: Her father is long dead and she has to look after her young brother, Dan.
• Stripperiffic: In the OVA she wears a low-cut top and a skirt that's so short it's almost a belt.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: While chasing a dragon monster, she wound up traveling too far into Count Lee's territory, catching his eye and suffering the "Kiss of Nobility" in the process. Ironically, she becomes this to Lee after she meets D, who proves a deadly adversary for the Count.
• Vampire Refugee: It's what kicks off the first arc. After being bit by the Count, she hires D to destroy him before he can claim Doris as his vampire bride.
• Weapon Specialization: She uses a laser whip in combat inherited from her father.

Dr. Sam Ferringo

Voiced By: Motomu Kiyokawa (Japanese), Steve Kramer (English), John Swasey (Sentai Funimation dub) Ángel Egido (Spanish)

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• Ambiguous Situation: His Transhuman Treachery is never shown on-screen, making it dubious as to whether he accepted the process to become a vampire willingly or was forcibly turned.
• Cool Old Guy: He pretty much helped raise Doris and her little brother. He also leaps to her defense when the mayor tries to have her imprisoned when they learned she's been marked by the local Count.
• Defiant to the End: Midway in the first novel and manga, the Count pays him a visit so as to remove him. The good doctor knows full well he's going to die, but he has the balls to stand up to the Count. Fortunately for him, he managed to discover two vampire weaknesses and drives off the count, though he quickly forgets about it soon afterward.
• Dirty Old Man: After being turned into a vampire, he begins lusting after Doris and expresses the desire to bite and rape her.
• Disney Villain Death: Larmica stakes him and throws his body down into a chasm.
• Dying as Yourself: He reverts to his original self moments before dying to beg for Doris' forgiveness.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Frequently consults with the town mayor and is the first to reject their attempts to imprison Doris for fear of enraging the Count, and also to ensure her safety.
• Transhuman Treachery: After becoming a vampire, he turns into a Dirty Old Man.

Charlotte Elbourn

Voiced By: Emi Shinohara (Japanese), Wendee Lee (English), Esther Solans (Spanish)

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• Adaptation Dye-Job: She is said to be blonde-haired in the novel, while she is brown-haired in Bloodlust and the manga adaptation.
• Damsel in Distress: Subverted, we are lead to believe she was kidnapped by Meier Link, but she actually ran away with him willingly.
• Driven to Suicide: She kills herself in the novel after Meier Link's death, and in the movie looks like she's going to try to do it with one Borgoff's arrows pulled out of his body.
• The Ingenue: Or so her father (and D, initially) thinks of her.
• Mercy Kill: D is instructed by her father to kill her if she is turned into a vampire.
• Morality Pet: While Groveck is a far worse person than his movie self, he does come to care about her a little and refuses to kill her on his brother's orders, choosing to re-enter his dead body and perish instead.
• No Name Given: In the novel, her name is never mentioned.
• Uncertain Doom: In Bloodlust, she is bitten by an illusion of Meier Link conjured by Carmilla and her blood is used to revive the ancient vampire. She is later seen being carried by Meier on a spaceship, leaving open the question of whether or not she'll revive as a vampire.

The Marcus clan

Shared Tropes

• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Compared to their novel counterparts, the Marcus Brothers are a close-knit group who are genuinely loyal to one another. In regards to their relationship with D, they still view him as an rival but are otherwise on friendly terms with him (Leila is the only one antagonistic with D, though this stems from her mother having been bitten and turned into a vampire in her childhood).
• Adaptational Heroism: Their book versions are vicious marauders who routinely rape Leila and whose brotherly love is shown to be a vicious lie, while in Bloodlust they are rugged mercenaries with a solid collective loyalty. Most prominent with Grove, who has outright become a gentle and friendly person.
• Adaptational Wimp: All of them except Leila have some special ability in the book via genetic engineering, while in the movie they trust instead on their tech and knowledge to do their work (again, except Groove, though even then in the novel his astral form actually survives the death of his physical body whereas it kills both in the film). Ironically, the fact that they're a Badass Normal clan of hunters in the movie can make them seem MORE badass.
• Aerith and Bob: Their names are Borgoff, Nolt, Grove, and Kyle.
• Badass Normal: With the exception of Grove, everyone in the group is this (at least in Bloodlust; in the novels, they have their own abilities). In their first appearance, they easily wipe out an entire town full of vampires with little to no trouble at all.
• Bash Brothers: They're a team of warrior Vampire Hunters who fight side by side. They're literal brothers as well.
• Charles Atlas Superpower: In the movie the only one with explicitly supernatural powers is Grove. This is in spite of the fact that Borgoff can fire thousands of arrows in a second, Nolt uses a massive hammer like it's a toothpick, and Kyle has insane grace with his knives.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: With the exception of Leila, who is the group's Sole Survivor, everyone in the group suffers this.
• Good Is Not Nice: While they're far and above better than their novel counterparts (who regularly rape Leila), they're still ultimately bounty hunters who's only concern is their paycheck. Case in point in Bloodlust, where Kyle and Borgoff toy with Meier as he struggles to save Charlotte while burning in the sunlight, all the while unconcerned if Charlotte survives since they get paid regardless.
• Happily Adopted: Leila, the only sister, is an honorary sister in Bloodlust and dearly loves the Marcus brothers as much as they do her. Less so in the novel where she is an abused sex slave.
• Kick the Dog: Borgoff and Kyle casually joke about letting Charlotte kill herself while torturing Meier in the sunlight as they get the money if she's dead or alive.
• Vampire Hunter: Like D, only that they use substantially different methods.

Borgoff

Voiced By: Yusaku Yara (Japanese), Matt McKenzie (English), Mark Ullod (Spanish)

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• '90s Anti-Hero: Definitely evokes the archetype: a gruff, cigar-chomping mercenary with a lot of pouches who uses substantially more gung-ho methods than D. The novel Demon Deathchase was published in 1985, making him an earlier example.
• Ceiling Cling: In the books, he can biologically manipulate his legs to grow giant and stick to surfaces.
• Cigar Chomper: Often seen with one in his mouth.
• Determinator: Refuses to give up the chase, even as it costs him more and more of the family he cares about and ultimately destroys him.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: In the novels, he's swarmed and ultimately killed by flesh-eating ants during his fight with Meier. In Bloodlust, he's killed by his own arrows after falling prey to one of Carmilla's illusions in the castle.
• Heroic Build: Very muscled and huge.
• Hypocrite: In the novel, Borgoff talks a big game about caring about his family, but he kills most of them himself and for his own benefit. Indeed, he tries to reassure Groveck's corpse that he loves it while he's booby-trapping it to explode.
• The Leader: Of the Marcus clan. Borgoff is the eldest and the one the others follow. In the movie, his clever tactical insight into the terrain and the way vampires think helps them repeatedly come close to defeating Meier Link and retrieving Charlotte.
• Manly Facial Hair: An impressively gruff chin strap, and he's a tough vampire hunter.
• Master of Illusion: In the novel, he can project images on the clouds, although like Groveck's power it shaves off years of his life.
• Rain of Arrows: Used to devastating effect in the movie, as seen here.
• Rock Beats Laser: His weapon in the book is described to see a primitively built wooden bow, which is nonetheless effective.
• Sunk Cost Fallacy: As the toll in lives and treasure grows, Borgoff becomes more and more determined to finish the mission, rather than cutting his losses as success grows less and less likely.
• Super Wrist-Gadget: In the movie, he uses a wrist-mounted crossbow able to fire heat-seeking silver arrows.
• Too Dumb to Live: He seems nothing weird with finding his dead brothers reappearing alive from coffins in a vampire castle, just welcomes them back with a smile. Of course, it was a trap, and he's killed by it. Possibly there was some illusion/mental control in play, but you never know.
• Top-Heavy Guy: Downplayed in the movie, but in the novel he's the biggest of the brothers by a fair margin with shoulders nearly twice as broad as his hips and a huge, muscular torso. Then again, in the novel he can also alter the size and shape of his genetically-modified legs.
• Transhuman Treachery: He gets turned into a vampire in Bloodlust shortly after his death.

Nolt

Voiced By: Ryūzaburō Ōtomo (Japanese), John DiMaggio (English), Jordi Ribes (Spanish)

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• Ambiguously Brown: In Bloodlust he is dark-skinned, but it's unclear what ethnicity or race Nolt really is.
• The Big Guy: The tallest (second tallest in the book) and physically strongest of the clan.
• Big Guy Fatality Syndrome: Not that any of the brothers make it out alive, but Nolt dies the first and earliest of the main characters, demonstrating the threat posed by Bengi.
• Curb Stomp Cushion: Bengi's weird abilities kill him without much fuss, but he does notice it as it happens, gets a good swing in, and dies warning his brothers about the threat, information they later use to dispatch the Barbaroi.
• Cyborg: Shows some metallic grafts in his body, and is explicitly said to be a cyborg in the novel.
• Died Standing Up: In the movie, Nolt's gigantic body remains upright in death, blood streaming out of his mouth and punctured heart, to the point that Borgoff doesn't want to believe he's gone at first.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: In the novels and manga, he's killed by D. In Bloodlust, he's killed by Benge.
• In the Hood: Novel only.
• Lightning Bruiser: His novel version is not only inhumanly strong but also insanely fast. It's not known if his movie version is as well, as he is killed before he can have a proper fight.
• Making a Splash: Can psychically manipulate the water in the novel, which he uses to exploit the vampires' famous weakness to running water.
• Race Lift: He's dark-skinned in the film, where Kyle and Grove are quite pale and Borgoff only a bit tan.
• This Means War Paint: In the movie, his face is painted white with a dark cross over it.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: As the first of the Marcus Brothers to get bumped off in Bloodlust, this naturally means he's the least developed member of the clan.
• The Worf Effect: Is unceremoniously killed by Bengé in the movie to show the audience who the real hunters are.

Kyle

Voiced By: Hōchū Ōtsuka (Japanese), Alex Fernandez (English), Pablo Sevilla (Spanish)

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• Big Brother Instinct: His movie counterpart is this towards Leila, who he frets over when she gets herself in danger.
• Boring, but Practical: Kyle's superhuman reflexes, strength, and agility aren't as flashy as his brother's genetically engineered powers, but they make him a dangerous fighter without their Cast from Lifespan issues.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: He winds up turned into a vampire by Caroline in the novels, but is swiftly killed by Borgoff who easily sees through the ruse. In Bloodlust, he dies at Mashira's hands.
• The Lancer: Often plays contrast with Borgoff.
• Jerkass: In the books, he is a sadistic rapist and the one most fervent to abuse Leila.
• Fragile Speedster: Not very muscled nor tough, but very fast and skilled with his blade.
• Nice to the Waiter: Even though the old garage clerk offers to fill up the gasoline needed for the Marcus Battle-Truck on the house, Kyle graciously insists that he pays the gold pieces owed for said fuel fair and square.
• Transhuman Treachery: He gets turned into a vampire in the book.

Groveck/Grove/Groove

Voiced By: Toshihiko Seki (Japanese), Jack Fletcher (English), Josep María Mas (Spanish)

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• Adaptation Name Change: Known as Groveck in the novels and Grove/Groove in Bloodlust.
• Astral Projection: His specialty.
• Cast from Lifespan: Each use of his powers brings him closer to death.
• Disability Superpower: He is a frail, dying-looking man bond to a bed, but can project his soul out of his body and wreak havoc with it. In Bloodlust, it's accomplished with drugs, while in the novel he needs to have a seizure.
• Empathic Shapeshifter: While his physical body is an increasingly withered husk, his ghostly astral form is strong and vital-looking, the picture of youth and health.
• Glass Cannon: His spirit form can emit immensely destructive lasers, though also seems to be relatively easy to disrupt; D manages to do it with a sword slash, which is also felt by the real Grove on his bed.
• Handicapped Badass: Doesn't need his physical body to kick ass. On the other hand, it comes at a price.
• Heroic Sacrifice: In Bloodlust, he administers the serum himself, usually a complicated task requiring outside assistance, in a successful last-ditch effort to save Leila from a vampirized Borgoff. The strain kills him.
• A Lighter Shade of Black: In the novel, he's a sadistic rapist like his brothers (although no longer physically able to assault Leila any more thanks to his deteriorating condition, he gets excited enough to seize up and activate his powers while watching Kyle do it), he ultimately does come to care a bit for the girl they're trying to rescue when she and his astral form get stuck together in the rain and chooses to die rather than kill her on his surviving brother's orders.
• Nice Guy: The warmest and kindest of the four brothers in Bloodlust, particularly towards Leila.
• One-Man Army: He is said to have destroyed 500 zombie vampires in less than a second with his spirit form.
• Our Ghosts Are Different: In the novel, his physical body eventually dies after his final seizure, leaving him, unbeknownst to him, "just" his super-powered astral form.

Leila

Voiced By: Megumi Hayashibara (Japanese), Pamela Adlon (English), Nuria Trifol (Spanish)

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• Action Girl: She is just a normal young woman that was trained to hunt fight vampires. Especially notable in the books, where she is the only one without superpowers.
• Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Inverted in Bloodlust. Unlike in the novels where she's little more than a Sex Slave to the Marcus Brothers, Leila's only point of angst is the loss of her parents and is otherwise much closer to the group.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: In the novels and manga, Leila is treated as a Sex Slave and raped semi-regularly when the Brothers are in need of "relief". In Bloodlust, there's no such incest or any hints of it and instead has a closer relationship with the group.
• Badass Biker: She's a tough hunter and rides a motorcycle.
• Broken Bird: Even more so in the books, where she's raped by her own siblings.
• Covered in Scars: It's stated in the books she has scars and gashes all over her body.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Unsurprisingly, she is yet another victim of the vampires' scourge against humanity as both her parents died when she was young, and actually witnessed the death of her mother at the hands of her own people when she was discovered to have turned. With the Marcus Brothers, she has dedicated her life to avenging their deaths.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: She dies of old age, mourned by her friends and family. Even D showed up, relieved that her biggest fear of dying alone and unmourned did not come to pass.
• Freudian Excuse: Projects a lot of her frustrations on D due to his vampiric ancestry.
• Hand Cannon: In either version of the story the gun she has is massive. In the novel, it shoots out thousands of needles like a shotgun while in the movie it blasts out some odd vacuum that tears through anything it hits.
• I Gave My Word: D and Lelia promised that if one outlived the other, the survivor would visit their grave. D is the one to visit Lelia's.
• The Lad-ette: Being raised among men tends to rub it off on girls like her.
• Pet the Dog: Leila, for all her hatred of vampires, cannot bring herself to shoot a grieving, heartbroken Meier as he sobs over Charlotte.
• Sex Slave: In the novels, Leila is kept as a slave and regularly raped by the brothers. Even Grove.
• The Smurfette Principle: The only female in the team, and at least in the book, the most moral.
• Tomboy: More pronounced in the movie, where she is depicted with short hair and has more of a personality thanks to her better relationship with the brothers, and said personality is rough and masculine.
• Tomboy with a Girly Streak: In the novel, she's a soft-hearted romantic at heart, despite her love of machines and violent profession, and when D encourages her to stand up for herself (and her sadistic jailors are all dead), she decides to go look for a guy who once told her he'd wait for her. In the movie, she admits to liking flowers and asks D to put some on her grave after she's dead if he outlives her.

The Barbarois

Shared Tropes

• Fighter, Mage, Thief: Out of the three bodyguards, Mashira is the fighter, Caroline is the mage, and Bengé is the thief.
• Hidden Elf Village: As their name implies, they are a close-knit tribe of beings with little interest in the outside world aside from mercenary jobs.
• Hired Guns: Their main occupation, at least the ones who go out of their village, is that of mercenaries and bodyguards.
• Mutants: Referred as part of their heritage, and possibly their official denomination given their frequently bizarre powers and nature.
• Our Demons Are Different: It's not clear what "demons" are in this universe, but they have described as having demon blood, and some of them certainly look the part.
• Soldier Versus Warrior: They describe themselves as warriors, as opposed to D and the Marcus clan, who prefer the more professional term of hunters. It is further noted in their belief of being invincible.

Barbarois Elder

Voiced By: Chikao Ohtsuka (Japanese), Dwight Schultz (English), Dómenech Farell (Spanish)

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• Adaptational Villainy: In the novel, he is willing to break his contract in order to help D, as he feels in debt with the Sacred Ancestor, only to get betrayed by the three bodyguards. In the movie, he keeps his word to Carmilla and commands them to kill D and follow the plan. His character design is also changed to make him resemble less an old sage and more an evil buffoon like Bengé.
• Affably Evil: In all continuities, he is impeccably polite and well-spoken to a fault.
• Bald of Evil: Zigzagged. He's Affably Evil at best in that he will honor every contract the Barbaroi make, even when said contract involves sending Meier Link and Charlotte, a couple looking to escape, into the clutches of one of the vilest and abhorrent Nobles ever known. In the novels, he owes a great debt to the Sacred Ancestor, so much so in fact he's willing to break that contract to help D.
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": His name, if has one, is never revealed.
• Friendly Enemy: Taken to quite an extreme, as he is pretty repetitive and ceremonious in his compliments to D even when having to order his death.
• Graceful Loser: He really wanted to see D fighting a losing battle against all the Barbaroi. When the attack of Grove prevents that, his only complaint is "C'est la vie.".
• I Owe You My Life: And by extension, the barbaroi as a whole. Thousands of years ago when their dwellings were little more than barely habitable because of toxic waste and pollution, the Sacred Ancestor cleansed their dwelling in exchange for five of their finest warriors. The Elder swore he'd repay his debt to the Sacred Ancestor and his descendants by any means. As such, he's wholly willing to break his contract with Carmilla when he realizes D is Dracula's son and that D is after Meier Link.
• Miniature Senior Citizen: He is quite short, almost a midget.
• One-Wheeled Wonder: Instead of walking with a shepherd staff like his novel self, in the movie the Elder goes around riding a unicycle.
• Pass the Popcorn: Invoked in the movie, where he laments that he will miss the battle after he escapes to save his life.
• Really 700 Years Old: His exact age is unknown, but he's been around long enough to have met the Sacred Ancestor. The last he was seen was 10,000 years ago.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Needed to be when in charge of a horde of mutants and demons.
• Wizard Beard: In the books, unlike the movie where he is clean-shaven.

Caroline

Voiced By: Yoko Somi (Japanese), Mary Elizabeth McGlynn (English), María Pilar Quesada (Spanish)

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• Adaptational Badass: Bloodlust gives her an extreme power-up compared to her novel version. Her powers, although fewer, are much stronger, allowing her to transmute entirely her body instead of only a portion, and she also lacks all the vulnerabilities she had in the novel. The result is that in the movie she is able to stop the entire Marcus Clan during the chase, while in the novel she is defeated by Borgoff in a simple scuffle.
• Adaptational Personality Change: Her movie self is taciturn and professional, unlike her more talkative and psychotic novel version.
• Adaptational Species Change: In the novel, she is a dhampir like D himself. In the movie, she is just another demon/mutant barbarous.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: She is described as having golden hair in the books, while she has green hair in the movie.
• Bolt of Divine Retribution: Her death in the movie, caused by a knife embedded in her face.
• Dark Action Girl: The only female barbarois shown.
• Elemental Shapeshifter: Her specialty, highlighted in Bloodlust. She can turn her body into the material she is touching and manipulate it to grow Combat Tentacles.
• Losing Your Head: D slices her head off in Bloodlust. She survives this and puts herself back together in short order.
• Ms. Fanservice: She wears a skin-tight outfit that really flatters her chest in the movie, and she is described in the books as having a voluptuous frame.
• Navel-Deep Neckline: Her suit has a long vertical cut across her torso, revealing a lot of skin.
• The Power of Blood: As shown in the books, she can create vampiric slaves out of other beings by drinking their blood. Notably, "blood" is defined almost comically loosely here, to the point where she's able to possess a long-dormant Humongous Mecha simply by drinking some of the fuel inside it. Seriously.
• Prehensile Hair: In the movie, she can extend and control her hair as tentacles, even when fused into things.
• Sensual Spandex: Wears a green-coloured, skin-tight one in Bloodlust.
• Woman Scorned: In the books, she is in love with Mayer and turns Ax-Crazy after being rejected.

Bengé

Voiced By: Keiji Fujiwara (Japanese), Dwight Schultz (English), Eduard Itchart (Spanish)

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• Adaptational Personality Change: His character design and personality are wildly divergent between the novel and the movie. In the former, he is an ominous and owlish black figure, while in the latter he is a deranged, makeup-wearing trickster.
• Braids of Barbarism: His hood has four holes for his hair, which falls down in the form of white braids. Bonus points for being called a literal barbarian - or rather a barbarois.
• Casting a Shadow: Has an impressive skillset related to the shadows. He can navigate through them, become one himself and reintegrate as such, levitate in the form of one, create illusions out of them, and even perform voodoo on other people's shadows.
• Clean Cut: His death, cut vertically in half by Kyle.
• Dark Is Evil: Plunging into Obviously Evil when you see and hear him.
• Double Weapon: He carries some double-bladed daggers, which he uses mostly to stab his enemies through their shadows.
• Energy Absorption: He successfully absorbs Grove's lasers into his cape, though it is noticeably painful for him.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: It varies between continuities, but seems that his fellow barbarois harbor some contempt for his jokes.
• Hammerspace Hideaway: One of his trump card skills in the movie is creating a spell that engulfs the entire enemy and sends him into a small Pocket Dimension. It requires him to perform a string figure on his hands.
• The Hyena: The guy laughs at and/or with everything, especially his own misdeeds.
• In the Hood: Wears a fitting black hood, and sometimes wears a fold of his robe as an ample cowl on top of it.
• Knight of Cerebus: Bengé sets the movie's mood with his very first apparition: he sneaks on the mighty Marcus clan and murders their biggest guy, entirely without them even realizing, before laughing at their faces and disappearing while leaving them in despair.
• Laughing Mad: His trademark.
• Lean and Mean: Not easy to distinguish under his black robe, but he is very, very thin.
• Lightning Bruiser: Very agile and acrobatic, and still able to take some serious damage.
• Mark of the Supernatural: Has purplish sclera, which reflects his dark magic.
• Monster Clown: His movie self resembles a demonic jester or buffon, and is even called one derisively by the barbarois elder.
• Super-Toughness: He is affected, but ultimately only mildly bothered, by several arrows piercing his neck. Before that, he was also shown absorbing with some pain a burst of energy beams from Groove.
• The Trickster: Looks, behaves and laughs like a jester.

Machira/Mashira

Voiced By: Rintaro Nishi (Japanese), John DiMaggio (English), José Javier Serrano (Spanish)

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• Adaptational Heroism: His Bloodlust self is quiet and honorable, while his original version is a deranged murderer and rapist.
• Adaptation Name Change: Slightly. He goes from Machira to Mashira in the official renderings of his name between the novel and the movie.
• Adaptational Species Change: His book version is a parasite like Left Hand hosted in the body of a barbarois, while in the movie he is a werewolf. Of course, it is entirely possible that his movie version is actually said parasite possessing the body of a werewolf, as he manifests a mouth on his stomach just like the novel Machira does.
• Adaptational Wimp: In the books, he is an immortal parasite who possesses bodies and manages to eliminate all the remaining members of the Marcus clan. In Bloodlust he is just a werewolf who is also the weakest of the three barbarois by a very wide margin, though his superhuman senses, strength, and speed keep him alive longer and serve to protect Meier Link better than either of his comrades' more esoteric powers.
• Belly Mouth: Both in book and film, though since no mention is made of his being a parasite in the film it's presumably a relic of his original design.
• Body Horror: Granted for being a body-stealing parasite, but his werewolf version also qualifies, being able to grow a giant canine mouth from his belly.
• Body Snatcher: His speciality in the novel. He parasitizes bodies and manifests his face on their stomach, just like Left Hand does in D's hand.
• Clean Cut: His death at D's hands in the movie.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: His novel version, after allying with Caroline to break up the couple of Charlotte and Mayer, plans to sexually ravage Charlotte to leave her in such a disheveled state that Mayer could not bear to love her anymore. Yep, he apparently expects Mayer to stop loving her for that reason.
• Evil Counterpart: In the novels, Left Hand confirms they're of the same species, though Mashira is far more vile and depraved, having possessed countless bodies and ravaging them for his own purposes. He tries to make Charlotte his newest host and sexually violate her from within her own body; a stark contrast to the symbiotic and helpful relationship Left Hand and D have.
• Noble Demon: His movie counterpart lacks Mashira's far more vile traits and is by far the most loyal of the Barbaroi in Meier's service.
• Our Werewolves Are Different: He has werewolf-like powers in the movie, though he is probably not a pureblood one given how genetically mixed barbarois are.
• Super-Senses: The movie version of him uses these to spot the Marcus clan's explosives and dump them in the river before returning to kill Kyle and rescue Meier Link.
• Vein-o-Vision: Uses it in Bloodlust to locate the Marcus clan's explosives.

Others

Rei-Ginsei

Voiced By: Kazuyuki Sogabe (Japanese), Kerrigan Mahan (English, Streamline dub), Andy McAvin (English, Sentai dub).

Count Magnus Lee's mutant right-hand man and leader of the Fiend Corps.

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• Adaptational Backstory Change: In the novels, he's a member of the Fiend Corps and a roaming criminal. In the OVA, he's one of Count Lee's underlings, serving him in the hopes he may become a Noble himself.
• An Arm and a Leg: D cuts off his hand. After killing D, he returns the favor by cutting his left hand off to spite him. This turned out to be a bad idea.
• Attempted Rape: He tries to rape Doris in the first novel, but is unsuccessful.
• Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: He looks a lot like Sting in the OVA.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: His death in the OVA. Magnus telekinetically slams him around the room, breaking nearly every bone in his body, before pinning him against the wall and pulling his skull apart.
• The Determinator: He will have the pleasure of killing D, regardless of what it costs him.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: He is killed by D in a duel in the novels and manga shortly after the latter returned to life (in the novels, D pulls a Batman Gambit whereas in the manga he lets Ginsei's own weapon kill him as it swings back to strike D from behind), while in the OVA, he tries to kill the Count, but gets his head telekinetically exploded
• The Dragon: Serves as Lee's main underling in the OVA.
• Dude, Where's My Respect?: Obeys the Count without question with the hopes of becoming a nobleman in the House of Lee and thus becoming immortal. He does not take it well when the Count refuses to keep his end of the bargain.
• Handicapped Badass: He becomes this in the OVA after D cuts off his arm, though he still manages to temporarily kill D in their last encounter.
• Hero Killer: Literally, since he actually manages to kill D using the Incense to paralyze and then stake him. It doesn't stick naturally.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: In the novel, he tries to use his Reality Warper abilities against D again, but D already figured out the ability is a two-way street and kills Rei-Ginsei by stabbing himself while they're still connected.
• Inconsistent Spelling: Like you wouldn't believe. Rei-Ginsei is the version the English translation of the novel uses, but it's also seen Romanization as Rey-Ginsei and even Regency.
• Mukokuseki: The first novel actually describes him as Asian, though the art doesn't make it obvious.
• Pragmatic Villainy: Is fully prepared to feed Doris' brother and Doctor Fehring to his minions against her protests, but quickly lets them free when Doris threatens to commit suicide by biting her tongue.
• The Renfield: More combat capable than the usual examples, but Rei-Ginsei effectively serves this role to the Count being his mortal servant in exchange for being welcomed into the Nobility.
• Reality Warping: Has this in a low-level scale; he is capable of bending reality around his body allowing any incoming attacks or projectiles to be deflected or returned to the attacker. He uses this power precisely once in the OVA, in his first confrontation with D. In the novel, it's ultimately his undoing; D successfully gambles that it works both ways and stabs himself in the stomach, gutting Rei.
• Smug Snake: He is extremely arrogant and self-assured.
• The Starscream: Eventually becomes this after Magnus mocks his wish to be made a full Nobleman. It's really ill-advised.
• Too Dumb to Live: He is this in his attempted duel with the Count, intending to take revenge for him failing to make him a nobleman as promised. Unfortunately for him, even with the candle's paralyzing incense, he was simply no match for the Count.
• Villain Respect: He stops to thank D for sparing his life in the duel that cost him his hand. However, that does not stop him from following through on his promise to kill him.
• Wild Hair: In the OVA, he has a white mullet/mohawk with a red tinge.
• Would Hurt a Child: Takes Dan hostage to force D into a duel with him. Interestingly, he later saves Dan when the latter nearly falls to his death attacking the Count. The reasons for this act of mercy are rather unclear.
• Your Head Asplode: Count Lee explodes his head with his telekinesis.