Drac and Adam.
Invisible Werewolf Dracula meets Vampire Mummy Frankenstein
is an action-comedy Web Serial Novel by Joi and Trueman Massat.
In a world where the classic monsters of gothic literature and black-and-white movies are real, the mummified corpse of Frankenstein's Monster is revived (or, rather, undeadified) by Count Dracula. Together they sip wine, philosophize about the meaning of monsterdom in a cruel world, and kick ass.
This series provides examples of:
- Badass Normal: Our party includes the titular super-strong monsters, a fairly strong gill-man, a magic cat...and a just-plain-human retired sprinter. A case can also be made for Commander Alice (she's a werewolf, which sounds cool... until you realize she's only as strong as most of the world's population).
- Bubble Pipe: Robert Fishman. He doesn't use a bubble pipe because he's a child, however, but because he's a fish man.
- Cats Are Snarkers: When Trials isn't making painful puns, she's just plain rude.
- Deuteragonist: While Dracula is the team leader, Adam is more the POV character. Still, as a party member, he's The Lancer to Dracula's Hero.
- Emergency Transformation: Trials escaped death via witch trial by entering the body of a black cat.
- Exactly What It Says on the Tin
- Fish People: Robert Fishman. Much like a certain movie monster, he's also the only one of his kind.
- Frankenstein's Monster: The "Frankenstein" here takes more after the original novel than any movie adaptation: moody, biblical, definitely not lumbering, even goes by the name Adam.
- Fur Against Fang: Dracula may be part-werewolf, but he's definitely fighting for Team Vampire, so to speak.
- Giant Flyer: Bistritz, the giant bat with the entire Castle Dracula on his back.
- In The Future, Humans Will Be One Race (Of Werewolves)
- Lighter and Softer: This story is all about lightening and softening the lives of classic, tortured monsters, who go from brooding and unloved to allies and friends.
- Lightning/Fire Juxtaposition: Adam is immune to fire, wears a sun disc, and is partially inhabited by the sun god Horus. The lightning comes from Helen/"Eve," who fights with it, is powered by it, and was reanimated by a thunderbolt (she's Frankenstein's Bride, after all).
- Lonely Together: The band of heroes, and seemingly also the band of villains. Try finding a character who hasn't been a loner.
- Melancholy Moon: If a character (including the narrator) is focusing on the moon, they're usually feeling sorrowful because the moon has been all but destroyed by space mining.
- Monster Adventurers
- Monster Mash: Right away, we have all our bases covered...but don't forget about the gill-man, the black cat, the hunchbacked lab assistant...
- My God, What Have I Done?: When Adam puts together his bride, only for her to run away.“I have done nothing but loose another sorry creature unto this world.”
- Night and Day Duo: Dracula (loud and showy; often referred to as the so-and-so "of the night") and Adam (quiet, humble; wears a sun disc, can radiate light).
- Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: The heroes, naturally.
- Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Invoked. The largest-scale battle in the novel—the one where Dracula faces a werewolf battalion and a massive vampire-destroying satellite—goes unseen, meaning we never figure out how he knocked it out of space, from the Earth's surface. It's implied that the scene was just too gruesome.Dracula: “The reason I send my friends away is that this—what I am about to perform—is a maneuver no man nor wolf should wish to see. So you shall not.”
- Our Werewolves Are Different: Werewolfism, originally spread through bites, is now administered via a convenient injection and kept active full-time by "mini-moons" orbiting their heads.
- Our Vampires Are Different: Several of the classic weaknesses have been nerfed; crosses only hurt when they look directly at them, garlic is "merely incredibly irritating," and a stake through the heart only kills them if it's silver. They're only Weakened by the Light (or sunburned), though Adam, who is thought to be a ''solar'' vampire, seems unaffected. So the most effective vampire counter-measures are...throwing rice on the ground (so they will be forced to count it) and not inviting them into your house.
- Ragtag Bunch of Misfits
- Saving the World: Zig-zagged: first subverted (they're saving a different world) and then played straight after Alice suggests they go all the way.
- Transhuman: It's surprisingly easy to see the werewolves as biologically enhanced people and to compare their society to a transhumanist dystopia. (This would make Dracula a Pro-Human Transhuman.)
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Igor. He arguably has created his utopia by turning as many people as possible into werewolves, and everyone loves it...except for the few outcasts and non-conformists...
- We Will Use Lasers in the Future: Of the Ubiquitous Lasers variety. Oddly enough, laser guns intermingle with standard guns and the typical monster-killing fare.
- World of Weirdness: Starts from "what if Frankenstein and Dracula really happened?" and gets much more absurd from there.
- Vampires Are Rich: We would expect nothing less from Count Dracula (though how he can have been rich and on the run for centuries is unexplained and, even if it was, would probably make no sense anyway), but the trope applies to all the vampires shown. Even Adam, who doesn't have a penny to his name, struts around in ancient Egyptian finery.
