vampire Alucard

Being immortal and nearly invincible, Alucard is highly egotistical. He generally puts people down for any or no reason at all. His wolfish, sarcastic grin reveals the morbid pleasure and contempt he feels at seeing those who deserve it perish under his gunfire. In the heat of battle, Alucard deliberately holds back, giving his opponents a sense of strength, only to completely overwhelm them again and rob them of that feeling, as in reality all (or almost all) of his enemies are, for him, extremely easy to kill. It could be said without losing accuracy that Alucard, rather than killing his opponents, breaks them. For example, in Volume 2, when Alucard fights Luke, the latter gains some advantage over the former, and victory seems within his grasp. The tide turns when Alucard blows Luke's legs off, insulting him for not being able to regenerate them. Alucard then transforms a part of himself into a dog and devours it, saying, "I see you as more than just human excrement. Making you food for my hellhound seems more fitting."

Alucard also seems to disagree with senseless killing. In the second chapter of the manga (Murder Club), he includes senseless killing as one of the reasons why the vampire couple is so pathetic. In the TV version of the same chapter (Club M), his displeasure is more palpable: "You went and took all those lives, and it wasn't even out of thirst. Is that fun? Huh? Is that what it takes to keep trash like you entertained?"

However, beneath his smug, dark, and arrogant demeanor, Alucard is deeply saddened and jealous of humans, who are blessed with the gift of death, while he himself is unable to die and must roam the Earth forever. Over the course of his existence, Alucard has come to realize that life needs death to make it precious. Alucard chose to become a monster in order to

Alucard was born in November 1431 as Vlad III Draculea, son of Vlad II Dracul. He later became known as Vlad Tepes (Vlad the Impaler) and as Kazikli Bey (the Impaler Prince) to the Turks (for his biography, see Vlad III Dracula). He "died" in 1476, at the age of 45. Alucard recalls "that day" 523 years ago in Chapter 71. The circumstances of his death and transformation are shown in the previous chapter (Castlevania), but the details are unknown. In his flashbacks, he sees himself as an infant held prisoner by his people's enemies and being abused by his captors. Finally, as an adult again, he is seen in the hands of his enemies, seconds from execution, at which point he transforms.

Centuries later, in 1897, the events of Bram Stoker's Dracula unfold. Jonathan Harker, Abraham Van Helsing, Arthur Holmwood, Quincey Morris, and John Seward were able to defeat Vlad (then known as Count Dracula) and kill all of his servants. In the dream sequence in volume 4, Van Helsing says that Mina Harker was freed from his (the Count's) control, just as in the book. At this point, Hellsing deviates from the novel. The Count was staked, but not destroyed; it is unclear whether Dracula was forced into servitude or did so voluntarily, but from that moment on, the Count became the servant of Van Helsing and his descendants.

The next known event in Alucard's life is during World War II, in 1944. Dracula was now known as Alucard, the name given to him by Arthur Hellsing. Alucard and Walter (then 14 years old) were sent to Warsaw, Poland to stop Millennium's vampire production program based on Mina Harker's infection. The results of the mission are unknown. Decades later, in 1970, Alucard is locked in a dungeon in Hellsing's mansion by Integra's father, Arthur. According to Sir Hugh Islands in chapter 75 (Heart of Iron), Alucard