Why, Why, Why
Why are they promoting Van Helsing so much? Are they that scared it's gonna flop? Doesn't look like it will but they are showing it on TV wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy too much, DAMN!
Also does anyone know his (Van Helsing's) story....I thought he had some kind of secret or changes into something....maybe I have the wrong person.
It's based on this I think 😑 this is the comic book version 😄
History: Abraham Van Helsing was a Dutch professor who taught, at various times, at the University of Leyden, Trinity College, and Oxford University. He taught anthropology and philosophy (secular and religious). In Paris once, he read a book by Augustin Calmet about vampires.
A few days after marrying a woman named Elizabeth, lawyers informed Van Helsing that he had inherited land from a distant relative in Wallachia. Traveling to Romania, Van Helsing had a long conference with some lawyers in Bistritz. Elizabeth went ahead to the manor to set it up for the night.
One lawyer whom Van Helsing talked to had a collection of Hun and Magyar artifacts, and Van Helsing lost track of the time studying them. When he arrived at the manor, he found his wife missing, but did discover several corpses with XXX burned underneath bite marks on their necks. Armed with a gun from his brother Boris, who lived in the U.S., Harker left, frantic.
Returning to Bistritz, a frenzied Van Helsing discovered the existence of the Children of Judas, a vampire coven that served Dracula. He also discovered the location of the Grand Sabbath of the vampires. (Van Helsing assumed that the Children of Judas were human, but mentally ill occultists.) He went there, and found Elizabeth bound on an altar with thirteen Children of Judas and Dracula present.
Armed, Van Helsing opened fire with normal bullets-- only to see them have no effect. Stunned, only the arrival of a group of priests and soldiers saved him-- but not Elizabeth. Van Helsing refused to allow Elizabeth’s corpse to be beheaded or staked. Reluctantly, they allowed Van Helsing to bury Elizabeth in the manorial vault-- but informed him of what to do in three days.
Standing watch in the vault, Van Helsing saw her return as a vampire. Destroying her, he swore revenge against Dracula.
In 1862, Dracula was persuaded by Lyza Strang, the wife of a political rival of Otto von Bismarck, to murder her husband so that Bismarck, whom she had fallen in love with, would become Chancellor of Prussia. After Dracula killed her husband, he also killed Lyza, who returned as a vampire under his control. Abraham van Helsing slew Lyza Strang.
In 1890, Dracula, having acquired ownership of England’s Carfax Abbey through solicitor Jonathan Harker, moved to the abbey, and began menacing England. His victims included Lucy Westernra in Whitby. The aristocrat had suitors such as Jack Seward, Arthur Holmwood, and Quincy Morris-- and had a friend in Mina Murray, Jonathan Harker’s fiancée. Jack Seward, who worked as a doctor in an asylum-- tending to among others, the notorious Renfield-- contacted Van Helsing about Lucy Westernra’s peculiar loss of blood.
Van Helsing, recognizing the mark of the vampire, tried to save Lucy, but she died, returning as a vampire. Eventually, Van Helsing destroyed the vampiric Lucy.
BTS- Van Helsing pursued Dracula back to Transylvania. Quincy Morris and Jonathan Harker, armed with knives, impaled Dracula through the heart and apparently decapitated him. Seeing his body evaporate, they left, assuming him to be destroyed.
However, since the knives they used were not made of wood or silver, they did not hurt Dracula as they thought. Instead, Dracula, using his ability to turn into mist, tricked them into thinking that they had destroyed him, and when they left, he returned to corporeal form.
At some later point in time, Van Helsing traced Dracula back to his castle, due to the assistance of a young boy named Carl Von Harbou. Although Von Harbou served Dracula, he decided to betray his master to Van Helsing.
Finding Dracula in his coffin, Van Helsing drove a stake through Dracula’s heart.
In the twentieth century, Dracula, having undergone many deaths and returns over the years since his struggles with Van Helsing, traveled back in time to the 19th century via an enchanted mirror, attempting to prevent his destruction at the hands of Van Helsing. Instead of arriving before the staking, however, he arrived after, but still tried to kill Van Helsing. However, Van Helsing had left the area of the Borgo Pass and Castle Dracula.
Dracula killed a young woman, and villagers stormed Castle Dracula. Dracula repulsed -them, and then discovered that Frank Drake, one of his descendants, and Rachel van Helsing, Abraham's great-granddaughter, had followed him from the 20th century. Determined to destroy Abraham van Helsing, Dracula had a subordinate vampire named Lenore battle Drake and Rachel as he sought to find Abraham van Helsing.
Dracula discovered Abraham van Helsing’s lodgings elsewhere in Romania. Stunned and confused as he had just driven the stake through (the native temporal counterpart of) Dracula’s heart a short time ago, Van Helsing was unprepared to face the 20th century Dracula. However, Rachel van Helsing saved her great-grandfather, forcing Dracula to flee. Dracula escaped back into the timestream, with Frank Drake, Rachel Van Helsing, and their ally Taj Nital in pursuit.
Abraham van Helsing trained Mina and Jonathan Harker’s son, Quincy, in vampire lore.
<1899> Van Helsing, thinking that by staking Dracula he had destroyed him for good, received a rude surprise when Dracula returned years later and killed him.
Eventually, Abraham's great-granddaughter Rachel continued where he had left off, trained by Quincy Harker in combating vampires.
Comments: Created by Bram Stoker; adapted by Gerry Conway and Gene Colan
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🤨 I started this thread forever and a freaking day ago...
I've heard 3 different versions of his name: The original is Abraham, I once saw a movie where his name is Malachi, but it seems his name in Gabriel in this one...(implying from the trailer).
Just to clarify, there is no connection between Van Helsing and Alucard from the anime Hellsing. I'm tired of hearing people mix them up. They are not alike in the slightest.