Basic Trope: An established hero fights Dracula as his latest opponent.
- Straight: Bob from Bob the Vampire Hunter fights Count Charlie in his first film and another original character in his second. His third pits him against Dracula.
- Exaggerated: The third Bob, the Vampire Hunter movie is a Whole-Plot Reference to Dracula with Bob taking the place of Abraham Van Helsing and teaming up with Jonathan Harker, Quincy Morris, Arthur Holmwood, and John Seward while protecting Mina Murray from Dracula, his brides, Lucy Westenra, and Renfield.
- Downplayed: Bob fights with Dracula in his third movie, but Dracula's not the Big Bad and the fight only lasts five minutes.
- Justified: Bob has been killing so many vampires that Dracula himself feels the need to intervene and stop him.
- Inverted: Count Charlie survives Bob, the Vampire Hunter and gets a spinoff series. In his third film, he fights Van Helsing.
- Subverted:
- The Big Bad of Bob's third film is heavily implied to be Dracula, but it only turns out to be a vampire pretending to be Dracula...
- The fight with Dracula shown in the trailer, was an act-long Danger Room Cold Open.
- Double Subverted:
- ...then Dracula swoops in, kills the pretender, and challenges Bob directly.
- In the final act it turns out that the exercise was in preparation to fighting the real deal. (even if it was earlier than expected.)
- Parodied: Dracula shows up in Bob's third movie...and takes him to court in a blatantly Frivolous Lawsuit.
- Zig-Zagged: Bob faces Dracula in his first movie, but it turns out to be someone pretending to be Dracula. In Bob's second movie, Dracula is never mentioned, let alone fought. In Bob's third movie, Dracula does show up, but it's again an impostor. But the impostor reveals that the vampire Bob fought in his second movie was actually Dracula using a fake name.
- Averted:
- Bob never fights Dracula.
- Bob fights Dracula in his first movie, thus removing the "established" requirement.
- Enforced: Bob's producers see activity on the movie series' message boards talking about how cool it would be if he fought Dracula. They decide this is too good an idea to pass up.
- Lampshaded: "You have killed so many of my minions, I believe you should have known we would fight someday."
- Invoked: Bob finds out that Dracula is real and sends him a message daring him to fight.
- Exploited: Alice finds out Bob will be fighting Dracula and decides to help him because she wants to kill Dracula for her own reasons.
- Alternately, she joins in the fight because she wants to be turned into a vampire.
- Defied: Bob finds out that Dracula is real and does everything in his power to prevent him from finding out about him.
- Discussed: "Bob's taken on some pretty powerful vampires. I guess that Dracula might be coming for him next."
- Conversed: "Hey, did you hear there's going to be a new Bob, the Vampire Hunter movie?" "So what? Don't these all turn out the same? What could they possibly do to freshen these...Holy crap, Bob's fighting Dracula?"
- Implied: After defeating the main villain of his second movie, Bob asks who he could fight next. Cut to an establishing shot of Dracula's Castle in Transylvania.
- Deconstructed: Bob defeats Dracula, but ontological inertia exists and Bob creates a power vacuum in the vampire world. Left unchecked, his former minions become more powerful and Bob now has to go into action to prevent them from joining forces and really causing trouble.
- Reconstructed: Then Bob remembers that he had friends helping him in his previous movies and decides to train them to fight vampires and send them to keep Dracula's minions from becoming too powerful.
- Played for Laughs: Dracula decides to track down Bob and fight him, but he's been isolated from society for a couple of centuries and has a large number of fish out of water moments along the way.
- Played for Horror: Bob fights Dracula...and loses. Thus Dracula ends up conquering the area and turning several characters into vampires. Bob then realizes he needs to step up his game to set things right.
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