Germans Love David Hasselhoff: The American comic was kept alive and on a monthly schedule despite weak sales in the U.S., largely due to its popularity in Britain.
He's Just Hiding: A handful of minor characters (a man who resists Dracula and is thrown overboard in the tenth issue and a Union colonel who is hit by lightning in the last issue of the second series) have some fans who feel they might have survived, given how people have survived similar things in real life.
Magnificent Bastard: Count Dracula himself, Vlad Tepes, was a brilliant warlord and strategist in life who battled the Ottoman Empire. Becoming a vampire and seizing the title of Lord of Vampires, Dracula devoted his unlife to conquest with as much ruthless intelligence as ever. Dracula manipulates a promise from warrior Solomon Kane to preserve his life at a crucial moment. Having survived the events of the novel Dracula by cleverly turning into mist at his moment of "death", Dracula later steals the bride of Satan while constantly eluding the vampire hunters of Quincy Harker while displaying a love for those close to him, even defending children from other vampires when they are kind to him once he has lost his strength. Dracula later masterminds the creation of a vampire state, nearly taking over Britain and later returns to even strip himself of his ancient weakness of sunlight by taking the blood of Wolverine.
Memetic Mutation: A screenshot of Dracula eating a hamburger from the anime movie adaptation.
While it's more of a Moon Knight meme than a Tomb of Dracula meme, Drac is often depicted as an enemy of Moon Knight's who owes him money for some undisclosed reason.
The two cruise ship passengers who resist Dracula in the tenth issue (one with a gun, one with a crucifix). While that issue is mainly remembered for being the debut of Blade, they make a decent impression even though one of them dies and neither has much dialogue.
Odette, a victim from the black-and-white magazine, due to how much of The Woobie she is and how she harnesses her resistance to the idea of vampirism to turn into a swan instead of a bat.
Another black-and-white magaizine issue has a Colonel Badass who faces Dracula on a battlefield during The American Civil War while brandishing the traditional weapons to weaken Dracula. He fails, and he isn't the main character of that story, but it's still memorable.
One True Pairing: A lot of people ship Frank and Rachel even though subsequent comic series don't have them end up together.
Squick: When he is stranded in Himalayas, Dracula is forced to feed on a rotting corpse to satiate his bloodlust. This is described in vivid detail.
Tear Jerker: The death of Edith Harker in #12, after being kidnapped by the Count to lure her father and the other hunters into the vampire's current lair and all its traps, only to be turned by Dracula's bite. She begs her father to kill her before she gives in to the thirst for blood, even throwing herself at him. Poor Quincy complies, and Frank Drake swears they'll see Dracula pays for this. Next issue, Quincy is cradling the body of his daughter in his arms and recalls a time when she was a child, she begged him not to let her become a vampire and he cheerfully laughed and said he would protect her.
They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Edith can feel underused, given how her growing up with Rachel as a foster sister and her trauma about Dracula causing her mother's suicide are either ignored or relegated to brief flashbacks.
Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: As much of a Magnificent Bastard as Dracula is, he generally puts an emphasis on the "bastard" part of the trope and it can sometimes be trying watching him inflict cruel torments on both regular protagonists and guest Innocent Bystanders while invariably thwarting the various brave and awesome attempts to kill him for good.
Quincy. His wife commits suicide after a vampire attack that maims him and he has to raise his daughter alone and while dealing with his paraplegia. His loved ones are constantly menaced and endangered by Dracula and he has to Mercy Kill his infected daughter.
Rachel spends almost her entire life being menaced by Dracula, who kills her biological family. She outlives many friends and her efforts to kill Dracula constantly come to naught. And if you acknowledge the X-Men crossover after the original run, after she retires to live in peace she's turned into a vampire, forced to be Dracula's consort, and is left begging for a Mercy Kill due to the absence of a known cure.
Most protagonists from the black-and-white magazine are One Shot Characters and ordinary people who Dracula puts through hell. Odette the ballerina might be the biggest one. Dracula tries to make her his bride and drag her away from the life she absolutely loves. She resists her new nature, but her vampiric senses make her lose all appreciation for music after a few weeks. This Despair Event Horizon makes her feed on a human, something that horrifies her once the deed is done. She continues trying to harness her love for ballet to cling to her humanity, but Dracula tries to hypnotize her into becoming a Fully-Embraced Fiend. The happiest ending she can get is dying on a stage in a Heroic Suicide rather than joining him.
Dracula: Sovereign of the Damned
Hilarious in Hindsight: near the end of the movie, a depowered Dracula challenges Tomo for the title of Sovereign of the Damned and begins his declaration with "Enough talk!" Almost twenty years later, a certain video game will produce a meme which has Dracula yell, "But enough talk! Have at you!" and fans of said game might be disappointed that Drac didn't say that here, too.
So Bad, It's Good: the modern consensus of the movie seems to be that it's so ridiculous and over-the-top that it goes from being just a low-budget animated adaptation of Tomb of Dracula that would otherwise be pretty mediocre to being a hilarious ride through the basic story of the comics.
What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: The loose adaptation Dracula: Sovereign of the Damned is a rather curious example of this: on the one hand, for an Anime, the style and quality are remarkably similar to that of any Saturday-Morning Cartoon, and the language the various characters use in the English dub is clearly a Tactful Translation, containing no swearing whatsoever (provided one recognizes that the word in the title is being used in its proper religious context) even in scenes where characters are clearly intended to be using some nasty language with each other. The content, however, is clearly not intended for children, as it includes a couple of scenes showing Dracula's foes slain and impaled on stakes (when he's explaining how he came to be known as Vlad the Impaler), a human-sacrificing Satanic cult (in a time when Western Animation tended to steer clear of such horrific religious subjects), some splashing of blood (during fights; the biting scenes are merely implied), and a bit of female nudity from the back with the woman turned just enough to the side to expose a fair bit of Side Boob. Oh, and a dead baby, too. It's very much like a children's cartoon, yet one gone horribly, horribly wrong.
