Dracula

Dracula
Main aliases:	Kristoff Alucard, Dracul, the Enemy
Species:	Human, Cyberon
Affiliated with:	MIAOW, Cyberon
Place of origin:	Transylvania
First appearance:	Doctor Who Discovers Strange and Mysterious Creatures
Appearances:	COMIC: The Tides of Time COMIC: Character Assassin PROSE: The Dreadful Flap AUDIO: Legend of the Cybermen PROSE: The Mystery of the Haunted Cottage PROSE: A Bloody (and Public) Domaine AUDIO: Curse of the Cyberons AUDIO: The Weapon and the Warrior
Main voice actor:	Ian Gelder
Other voice actors:	Terry Molloy

You may wish to consult Dracula (disambiguation) for other, similarly-named pages.

Count Dracula, sometimes Dracul or just Dracula, was a famous vampire who originated from Transylvania. He sometimes used the alias Kristoff Alucard. (PROSE: The Dreadful Flap, The Delightful Bag, The Shape of Things) He was one of multiple possible futures of Vlad III. (PROSE: A Bloody (And Public) Domaine)

Dracula existed in a state of quantum possibility. (PROSE: A Bloody (And Public) Domaine) These possibilities included Dracula being a fictional character created by Bram Stoker, inspired by the historical prince of the same name; (AUDIO: Son of the Dragon, PROSE: A Bloody (And Public) Domaine, et al.) a resurrected version of the historical prince; (PROSE: A Bloody (And Public) Domaine) a completely real individual with no direct connection to the prince (PROSE: A Bloody (And Public) Domaine) who worked for MIAOW under the alias Kristoff Alucard; (PROSE: The Dreadful Flap) and an Incremental being who was once fictional, but became real. (PROSE: The Found World, A Bloody (And Public) Domaine)

The Fourth Doctor claimed to have helped Stoker create the character based on his knowledge of real vampires. (AUDIO: The Labyrinth of Buda Castle)

Biography

Overview

Due to his status as a quantum possibility, multiple possible possibilities of who Dracula was existed. (PROSE: A Bloody (And Public) Domaine) In one telling, Dracula was a descendant of Radu the Handsome. (PROSE: Possum Kingdom) The Second Doctor once seriously claimed to be familiar with Dracula; he said that Dracula was a "charming fellow - so long as you managed to avoid him at mealtimes". (PROSE: Players)

In 1893, (PROSE: The Found World) Dracula journeyed from Transylvania to England on the Demeter. (PROSE: A Bloody (And Public) Domaine, AUDIO: Curse of the Cyberons) He washed up on the shores of Whitby in the form of a large hound. Dracula then climbed the 199 steps to Whitby Abbey. (PROSE: The Dreadful Flap, Brenda's B&B) The Tenth Doctor once claimed to have encountered Dracula on the night he arrived in Whitby. (COMIC: The Black Sea) There were many fictional and metafictional versions of Dracula's journey to England and subsequent death. (PROSE: A Bloody (And Public) Domaine)

As Kristoff Alucard

Dracula began calling himself "Kristoff Alucard". (PROSE: The Dreadful Flap) The Manleigh Halt Irregulars once encountered Alucard. (PROSE: The Delightful Bag)

He was recruited by the Ministry for Alien Incursions and Ontological Wonders.

By 2008, Alucard was in charge of the Darlington branch of MIAOW. Under his command, MIAOW ruthlessly collected everything which fell through the Dreadful Flap; imprisoning extraterrestrials and cannibalised alien technology. Iris Wildthyme and Panda visited MIAOW and witnessed Alucard ordering the imprisonment of Barbra. Alucard followed Iris to 1962, where Noël Coward killed him with the Blithe Pinking Shears. Iris put Dracula's ashes in the crypt of St Mary's Church. (PROSE: The Dreadful Flap)

Brenda (the bride of Frankenstein's monster) once called Dracula a "foppish old cadaver" in her letter to the readers of Paul Magrs' series of books about herself and Effie. (PROSE: Brenda's B&B)

As the Enemy

In one version of history, whispered about by the loa to Auteur, Lilith influenced Dracula before his journey to England and primed him to become the Enemy. It was allegedly her who "breathed Unlife back into him" after his original death, turning him into a vampire. As described in The Dragon Scriptures, she showed him the Very Fabric of the Spiral Politic and the Yssgaroth trapped outside it. Dracula's initial time in England went similarly to other timelines, but following what should have been his death he was resurrected by Lolita. The Count then brutally murdered Jonathan Harker as revenge.

Dracula made his lair beneath Bedfordshire in the temporal echo of a mine to the Earth's core built by invaders in the future. Two weeks later, on 19 November, Dracula contacted Mina Harker and threatened to kill John Seward and Arthur Holmwood if she didn't meet with him. After Mina arrived and Dracula had her restrained by cultists, the mine decayed to the point that the Caldera began leaking through. Mina fatally stabbed Dracula, but he drank the raw blood of time and rewrote history with himself at the centre.

Dracula took over the British Empire and built a society wherein vampirism was fashionable. He was a figurehead of Earth history into the 20th and 21st centuries, leading vampires to space. This timeline was obscured to outside observers by Enemy timeships starting at the date of the Ghost Point. (PROSE: A Bloody (And Public) Domaine)

In the Cyberon War

The "ancient horror" as Cyber-Controller. (COMIC: Before the Storm)

In one account, towards the end of the Cyberon War, the preserved head of the vampiric Count Dracula had passed into the hands of secret Earth Alliance military researchers, who hoped to extract the vampiric essence from him and refine it to turn humans into supersoldiers capable of standing their own against the Cyberons. While it was being transported from an Alpha Centauri base to the secret research station orbiting Mars aboard Captain Tom Williams's ship, The Demeter, the ship was boarded by the Cyberons. Sensing Dracula's potential, the Cyberons offered Dracula the chance to become the new Cyberon Controller (AUDIO: Curse of the Cyberons) to replace the original Cyberon King, who had been lost in 2989 alongside the original Cyberon planet. (COMIC: Before the Storm) Dracula agreed, and his head was mounted on a new cybernetic body. He announced the beginning of the "New Cyberon Era", intent on taking his "rightful place as a galactic leader amongst the treasures contained in the stars". (AUDIO: Curse of the Cyberons)

Eventually, the Cyberons detected human transmissions about a great weapon being hidden in the remote Asteroid B-725. Dracula took a ship there personally only to find a woman in a wheelchair who explained that she was dying of a degenerative, contagious disease affecting her brain, and had retreated to this laboratory to work in peace without endangering others. Unable to develop a cure as she'd initially hoped, she had chosen to help the War effort another way by actually making the disease more infectious and then luring the Cyberons here. Dracula and his Cyberon party were now all contaminated, with Dracula's Cyberon bodyguards dying almost instantly. Before they died, they pinned Dracula in place, and held him firm even in death, so that he couldn't spread the infection to the wider Cyberon race. The woman mocked the trapped Controller with her last breath, declaring that he had been beaten by "weakness" and declaring herself "the Weapon and the Warrior". (AUDIO: The Weapon and the Warrior)

In 2992, "it" was destroyed once and for all when the "last scion" of the Clan Van Helsing launched it into the Sun. The Cyberons were leaderless for a few years, but by 2996 a more traditional Cyberleader had taken charge. (COMIC: Before the Storm)

Depictions of the fictional Dracula

Overview

The quantum possibility of Dracula (PROSE: A Bloody (And Public) Domaine) involved accounts in which the vampire was a work of fiction. Peter Cushing appeared in some Dracula films before taking on the part of Dr. Who. (PROSE: Lady Penelope Investigates the stars of the Sensational new film Dr. Who and the Daleks!)

The robot Dracula. (TV: The Chase)

At the Festival of Ghana in 1996, an android Dracula was among the robots at the House of Horrors. (TV: The Chase)

When one of the Doctor's "cosmic enemies" took advantage of the Fourth Doctor's momentary musing on a variety of imaginary creatures from human folklore, making various monsters from his imagination physically real, one of them was Dracula. The Doctor found himself in Transylvania and walked to the nearby castle where he was confronted with "a strange apparition in a flowing black cloak and black hat" who soon revealed himself as Dracula. Dracula attempted to bite the Doctor, but the Doctor managed to find an old silver watch in his pockets. Dracula recoiled, hissing, as the Doctor brandished it in his face. The Doctor then took advantage of this respite to concentrate on a different mythical creature, causing the psychic attack to bring him face-to-face with a unicorn and ending his encounter with Dracula. (PROSE: Doctor Who Discovers Strange and Mysterious Creatures)

Melanicus created an illusion of Dracula to frighten the Fifth Doctor, which the latter dismissed as "a strictly mythical figure drawn largely from a work of Victorian fiction." (COMIC: The Tides of Time)

The Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones encountered Dracula on a world of fiction created by the books Martha had read throughout her life. The Doctor punched Dracula and exclaimed that he had a very hard face. (PROSE: The Mystery of the Haunted Cottage)

Land of Fiction

Dracula in the Land of Fiction. (COMIC: Character Assassin)

Dracula belonged to the Sisyphean Society, a council of fictional villains headed by Professor Moriarty encountered by the Master when he later visited the Land of Fiction. Although he was initially in favour of letting the Master join the Society, being intrigued by him as a "fellow mesmerist", he was destroyed by the Master using an army of Martian tripods alongside the rest of the Society after Moriarty refused to sign off on the agreement. (COMIC: Character Assassin)

Dracula was stationed at Camelot, after Sherlock Holmes died. He was eventually converted into a Cyberman, but it failed as he already was dead. He led the attack on the Cyber Planner, in order to make them believe that Cybermen do not exist. (AUDIO: Legend of the Cybermen)

Minor references

Jo Grant, upon seeing Stangmoor Prison, said that it looked like Dracula's castle. (TV: The Mind of Evil)

When exposing Josiah Samuel Smith to harmful sunlight, Ace called him Dracula. (TV: Ghost Light)

Maria Jackson thought that there was something spooky about Sarah Jane Smith's house, and that "it had a touch of Dracula's castle". (PROSE: Invasion of the Bane)

Clyde Langer told the following joke about the character: "How did Count Dracula escape from Transylvania? He used a blood vessel." to weaken the Pied Piper by causing laughter. (TV: The Day of the Clown)

When Rani Chandra and Clyde Langer saw the sunny Ashen Hill Manor Clyde said that "Castle Dracula" also might have looked okay on a sunny day. (TV: The Eternity Trap)

Behind the scenes

The plot for Goth Opera was originally developed from an unproduced comic strip for Doctor Who Magazine which would have featured the Fourth Doctor in a fight against Dracula. (REF: I, Who)

Dracula has been played by David de Keyser, Marc Warren and Jonathan Rigby in various adaptations, while Peter Cushing, who played a version of the Doctor in the two theatrical 1960s Doctor Who movies, was most famous for playing Dracula's archnemesis in the Hammer Dracula series, Van Helsing. This is referenced in several parodical work by Tim Quinn and Dicky Howett, such as Doctor Who 3 - The Third Motion Picture, where the Scriptwriter ends up being slain in the manner typical of the theatrical Dracula.