Dracula (Marvel)

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Originally Vlad Dracula, who became a vampire, and lord of Castle Dracula. Dracula was the lord of all vampires, having gained that title by slaying the previous leader, Nimrod and one of the first vampires, Varnae, drinking both their blood. As a result, Dracula had greater powers than any other vampire. He eventually crossed the ocean to England, only to be chased back to Castle Dracula by Dr. Abraham van Helsing and company, then slain.

However, when his servant Madame Marguerita manipulated the recently revived Frankenstein's Monster into freeing Dracula's body after he was "slain" by Helsing's team, she was able to restore him to unlife. Dracula's first goal after his resurrection was vengeance- he slew van Helsing and his ally Jonathan Harker, though not before Harker had married Mina (one of Dracula's targets) and fathered a son, Quincy Harker.

During the first World War, Dracula transformed an Englishman named Lord John Falsworth into Baron Blood, and sent him to wreak havoc in Britain during that crucial era. After World War II, an adult Quincy organized a large task force to hunt down and destroy Dracula, prompting retaliation from the Count in the form of an attack on Quincy and his wife Elizabeth Harker. Both survived, but Elizabeth, tormented by nightmares of Dracula, committed suicide four years later.

Over the next several decades, Dracula made many more enemies, including the Indian Taj Nital, Vlad Dracula's only living descendant Frank Drake, Hannibal King, Rachel van Helsing, and Blade. These enemies joined a wheelchair-bound Quincy Harker in a war on Dracula, a war they finally won with his apparent destruction- at the cost of Quincy Harker's life.

Even so, Dracula was revived yet again, taking his revenge on Rachel van Helsing by transforming her into a vampire. Soon after, he began to find himself against mightier foes- including the X-Men and Earth's Sorcerer Supreme, Doctor Strange. A cult of Darkholders equalized the playing field, removing all of Dracula's vampiric weaknesses except for one- to the Montesi Formula. That magical formula was capable of destroying every vampire on Earth, and despite Dracula's attempts to stop them, Strange and the surviving enemies of Dracula were able to use the incantation. Dracula and every other vampire on Earth were annihilated.

Despite this seeming final death, Dracula was later resurrected by dark magics, in a new and terrifying form.