RJ 17 said:
AsurasEyes said:
Other than Alucard being one of the biggest Deus ex Machina (damn near literally) characters in all of anime, I'd like to hear why you think that he, specifically, makes Hellsing Ultimate a bad show. And even further: why you think he's a flat out horrible character.
Also, I do enjoy Hellsing Ultimate, but only if it's in Japanese. It's an example of one of the anime that is just absolutely murdered by the english voice actors if you ask me.
I'll keep it short. The English dub was awesome because it gave you a greater sense of where the characters were and their ethnicities, along with giving them great audible personality. Alucard had a really really great voice, but the reason I think he's a terrible character is because he's inconsistent and really just hard to consider cool.
He spends the entire show proving how shit humans are, and how they will never be able to stand up to any vampire, who is immortal, ageless, able to walk in sunlight, turn into mist, summon hellhounds to eat his foes, and unleash a horde of zombies that wipes out two massed armies. Then, the ************ breaks down and cries, claiming that "vampires are a step down from humans", which infuriated me. He treats Seras like shit despite loving her, and she loves him back for no better reason than he's the main character, and the fact that anyone could call him a friend is mind-boggling considering how casually he enacts war crimes.
But even without the glaring character flaws, he'd still be condemned by the biggest flaw. The fact that he's outclassed by a vampire who refuses to drink blood. I never saw the overcoat wearing bastard pull any particularly awesome kills despite being the immortal badass he's been made out to be.
Seras grabbed Blitz by the head, ran along a wall and sandpapered her foes face down until it was half gone. She got one arm chopped off, and she massacred at least three dozen Millennium soldiers, WITH ONE ARM, not including the frankly insane kill count from the machine guns and downing a blimp by herself. Also murdered the entire reanimated guard battalion of Hellsing in the second OVA.
What has Alucard done? Stabbed Rip Van Winkle through the chest with her own gun and drank her blood? This guy is DRACULA. He should make the girl who's been a vampire for only a month or two look like the mewling child she is. Sent a hellhound to eat Luke Valentine? The blonde little ***** of the Valentine brothers? Nothing he's done is impressive, hell, Alexander Anderson, a raving Catholic psychopath who murders more vampires before breakfast than you've had hot meals, has done more impressive things with his life.
This is mostly for one reason. He's human. He's mortal, and thusly the fights have tension to them. Yes he can regenerate, but honestly, that's only because they needed someone who could legitimately threaten Alucard. He didn't need it, when he got his arm crippled, he grabbed it with his teeth and ran through a zombie horde, cutting bitches down like nobody's business, and ironically ended up being the bigger badass.
But what really makes me hate the character is this: This boring, uninteresting, poorly written and barely even dangerous monster, is Dracula. The first vampire. The Nightwalker who glides on seas of blood. The man who thought that shoving six foot spikes up the asses of about 30,000 Ottoman soldiers, WHILE THEY WERE ALIVE no less, was a NEGOTIATING tactic. The Ottoman armies would see the forests of impaled, decaying bodies, and ran for their lives without Vlad needing to raise a finger. He was the kind of person who doesn't NEED to stand up and murder you, you're too busy pissing yourself from his menacing tone of voice and ominous yet melancholy lines to even try anything. And the fact that he was a great warrior without even being a vampire speaks volumes more than being able to throw two dozen SWAT team members out so they get impaled on flagpoles after he shoots them.
Yes, he was raped as a child. Yes he was disillusioned from the Crusades. But the real Vlad Tepes took this on board and became a better person. He freed the serfs from their slave drivers, encouraged religious tolerance, wasn't cruel to his people, and single-handedly kept Europe from becoming Turkish. Dracula the character became a tortured soul who simply wanted love and someone to share eternal life with, who didn't NEED to become a shadow demon who murders entire continents to be a legitimately interesting and kind of terrifying monster. Because he was legitimately evil, but he was the best kind of evil because he was interesting in his evil. Hellsing drains all of that out of him and turns him into a generic action hero. If they made it another vampire, I wouldn't care. If they made him interesting, I'd be lukewarm. Now, I despise the show because he was surrounded by so many bright and interesting and generally more enjoyable characters, reducing the greatest vampire in history to the guy who says, "Reload Dr. Freeman" in Half Life.
(P.S. Am I the only one who gets annoyed when I hear that Abraham Van Helsing killed Dracula? James Morrys killed Dracula, and he killed Drac with a Bowie Knife, not a stake. Van Helsing was an incompetent jackass who got Mina's friend killed because he decided that he couldn't stop Dracula without a good meal, leaving her undefended while he dragged everyone else to the pub)
