More things that get left out of Dracula adaptations
Van Helsing pulls 29 year old Dr Seward's ear like he's still a schoolboy
There's a relationship-establishment flashback between Van Helsing and Seward
In it, Van Helsing accidentally gets cut with something unclean. His then-student Seward immediately drops everything to start sucking on the wound raw
At one point, Seward asks to become his "pet student again."
Dracula has a big, permanent scar on his forehead from Jonathan Harker's shovel
Arthur Holmwood saying "Tally ho!"
Transylvanians conclude that the delirious, amnesiac Jonathan Harker is English due to "his violent demeanour."
Despite attempts to keep low profile, Dracula gets into the news twice in two months (in one of them as a missing dog)
Dracula getting misreported as a dog because English people have never seen a wolf
London newspapers treat Lucy's vampire attacks on children as a meme among kids because they don't believe in vampires
Dracula getting sworn at by a British sailor solely because he thinks Dracula is French
Van Helsing is baffled why British sailors keep talking about blood and bloom (it's swearing)
Van Helsing is friends with real-life turkologist traveler Arminius Vámbéry, who is his source on the Dracula family
Van Helsing is friends with Hans Christian Andersen and references The Ugly Duckling
Van Helsing getting one-upped by Mina Harker every single time he says something sexist about her intelligence
Dracula failing to destroy the evidence against him because Mina backs up her files
Jonathan getting so mad he hunts Dracula down the walls like a spiderman with a machete
Dracula's backstory involving him being a top student at the devil's magic school, the Scholomance
Mina and Jonathan kissing on the mouth in front of everybody
Quincey Morris spontaneously gifting Mina the Victorian equivalent of a MacBook Air while travelling to the Castle
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