Editing Vampire (section)

====Dracula====
''The'' vampire. No other vampire is more iconic than Dracula himself who, since his debut in Bram Stoker's novel, has become one of the most iconic villains in horror. In the original book, Dracula is very much implied (but not outright confirmed) to be Vlad the Impaler, though most adaptations make them one and the same. Dracula's abilities in the novel include shapeshifting into a bat and wolf, climbing up walls like a spider, hypnosis, turning into mist, being able to walk around in daylight (though weak while doing so) and a variety of others which he doesn’t use because it’d make him too OP to fight. Dracula was an OG powergamer. 

Notably, Dracula is written as an elderly aristocrat at the start, but as time goes on, he seems to regain his youth as he kills more victims and demonstrates himself as being fairly competent and dangerous, while being fairly ruthless. Any work dealing with vampires that's set in the "real" world will reference him in one way or another. Strangely, [[Castlevania]] is pretty much the only thing that actually gives him the mustache the book describes him as having, probably because Bela Lugosi is so iconic. However he also has a tendency to become a demon as well. Hellsing also busts out the mustache for when its version of Dracula drops the Alucard facade.