Being the Trope Codifier regarding Vampire Fiction, it is no wonder Dracula has been alluded in various media.
For the titular character himself appearing in media, see his own trope page, Alucard or Fight Dracula.
Anime & Manga
- Devilman: In volume 1, Akira Fudo theorises Dracula might have been a demon who merged with a bat.
- Hellsing is about the granddaughter of Abraham, Integra, and Alucard, Dracula's current identity, now bound to serve the Hellsing line.
Films — Live-Action
- Blade: Trinity: Dracula is the Big Bad.
- Carry On Girls: Conni Philpotts claims that letting Sid Fiddler be in charge of a bunch of beauty queens would be like letting Dracula be in charge of a blood bank.
- Interview with the Vampire: When Malloy asks the eponymous vampire if Dracula exists, Louis dismisses the novel as "the vulgar fictions of a demented Irishman."
- Liberal Arts: Near the end, Jesse gives Zibby a copy of this book along with Songs of Innocence and of Experience.
- Riot on Sunset Strip: A woman angrily tells her hippie daughters, "Compared to you, Dracula would look like a fairy princess."
- Carpe Jugulum: It explores and systematically deconstructs the tropes of the vampire mythos, using them for humour and affectionate parody of the genre. Count Dracula is reflected in the Count Magpyr of the novel, a Vampire explicitly moving out of his home domain in Überwald to seek to take over a whole new country.
- The Dresden Files:
- Bram Stoker is commissioned by Lara Raith of the competing White Court of Vampires for the explicit purpose of teaching humans how to kill Black Court vampires. Because of this, the few surviving Black Court vampires are exceptionally clever and dangerous.
- Of the three main vampire types, the Black Court are much like Dracula here, emaciated husks with fangs to rip out people's necks and drink blood.
- The human-turned-insanely devoted servant Renfield became the in-series name for victims of these vampires Mind Rape and destruction of their psyche.
- A subtle example is Jack by Connie Willis, a Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane story of a man who suspects a colleague of being a vampire. Most names in it are taken from Dracula.
- Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Was Not. Holmes stakes a vampire Alternate Self, and credits his knowing what to do on "the writings of Calmet
." When Watson mentions the novel by Bram Stoker, Holmes has no idea what he's talking about.
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The Monster of the Week in "Buffy vs. Dracula", where Spike complains about Dracula being a publicity hound who gave away all their vampire weaknesses in the book Bram Stoker wrote about him.
- Count von Count from Sesame Street is obviously based on Dracula.
- Baldur's Gate III: A brainwashed guard at the palace of the vampire Cazador welcomes the heroes with, "Enter freely and of your own will," if persuaded to let them pass.
- Castlevania: Dracula is the series' main antagonist.
- In The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark, the protagonists meet a vampire who went to school with Dracula and is having a midunlife crisis because he's never done anything that inspired people to make endless movies about him.
- Pony Island: Dracula's name shows up in the credits.
- Resident Evil Village: While Alcina Dimitrescu and her daughters aren't vampires, they have several motifs associated with the Classical Movie Vampires codified by Dracula, and their characters resemble points of the original book:
- In general, they are aristocrats from an isolated Romanian village who frequently drink the blood off the citizens and live in a ancient castle with Gothic Horror motifs. Incidentally, the Castle Dimitrescu is also surrounded by violent wolf-human hybrids, much like Dracula invoked savage wolves to keep Jonathan trapped in his castle surroundings.
- Alcina Dimitrescu is a middle-aged, imposing and charismatic noblewoman with shapeshifting and super strength abilities, who is in truth an ageless blood-sucking remorseless serial killer, akin to Count Dracula. Her final form also resembles a dragon, the etymological origin of the word Dracula.
- Dimitrescu's three adoptive daughters have resemblance to Dracula's three maidens, being brutal young women who are more incisive and less subtle about their bloodlust than Alcina and wander around the castle.
- During their part of the game, Ethan Winters' situation resembles Jonathan Harker's in the first four chapters of the book, being trapped inside of a castle and targeted by the antagonists while discovering more about their nature and History.
- Suikoden: The recurring villain Neclord is an evil vampire overlord based on Dracula.
- Epic Rap Battles of History: A Season 6 episode features a face off between Dracula and Vlad.
- Hark! A Vagrant: In "Dracula" it is revealed that the reason they have to stake the women Dracula turns is because they start following their own sexual desires and dressing less modestly, and more importantly become feminists interested in voting, owning property and going to university.
- Being a Hellsing centered webcomic (see above), And Shine Heaven Now makes a few references to the original book:
- To resolve a paradox, Setsuna sells a watch with a date that hadn't occurred yet to Mina, which she intends to give to Abraham as a better legacy than Alucard would be.
- Alucard briefly flashes back to his defeat at Abraham's hands, right before he was bound to servitude to the Hellsing line.
- It's implied one I-jin survived the Battle of London, and now makes a quiet living as a baker...one that suspiciously looks like Mina.
- A family tree done by the same artist here and subsequent comments from said artist suggest at some point Mina slept with Abraham (whether she cheated on Jonathan or this was after his death is unknown), with Integra's father Arthur being the result.
Web Videos
- Climate Town: In "2 Minutes Of Fact-Checkable Climate Change Facts For Skeptics" Rollie quickly calls Ted Cruz Dracula while discussing various people and factions that have admitted climate change is real and harming people and the economy, even if most of the groups did so quietly and have spent years and billions denying climate change and spreading misinformation about it.
- Aside from the obvious in Castlevania (2017), the final episode of the show has the resurrected Lisa and Dracula decide to move to England, specifically the small port town of Whitby, which is where the Demeter strands in the book.
