Who's Your Favorite Vampire Hunter?
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Takes one to kill one - D and Alucard (Score:5, Informative)
I'd say that D and Alucard (of Hellsing, not Castlevania) are about as good as it gets. Honorable mention to the Belmont clan, if for no other reason than not throwing their hands up and saying "fuck it" after Dracula's 257403827th reincarnation.
D and Allie, though, are the only 2 out of this whole set who are match for each other, considering how powerful Alucard is implied to be when he takes the gloves off (literally and figuratively), and the fact that D was sired by Dracula and was still alive over 10,000 years later.
Then again, there is Jefferson Twilight, but...are we limiting the vampires hunted to those of the dark-skinned persuasion?
Re:Abraham Lincoln? (Score:5, Informative)
No, he's not the Cowboy Neal option. There really is a novel about Honest Abe being a vampire hunter. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln,_Vampire_Hunter_(novel) [wikipedia.org]
Also a movie has been made of it. Haven't read the book or seen the movie, though.
Missing option... (Score:4, Informative)
Blackula hunter? (Score:3, Informative)
Jefferson Twilight, if we're including blackula exclusive hunters.
van Helsing, not Van Helsing (Score:5, Informative)
He is Dutch and his first name is Abraham, not Van. (Wikipedia spells it Van too, maybe they got it from the book?) This is a typical Dutch naming convention that often confuses English speakers. A lot of Dutch names will have van (from) or van de (from the) or variations thereof: van den, van der. When last names were made compulsory under Napoleonic rule, people often chose the place they lived at, in or near as a descriptor. So Jan who lived near a mill (molen) became Jan van der Molen. Piet who lived on a dike became Piet van Dijk. In Flanders this is the norm, it is more likely to have a Belgian called Vandermolen then van der Molen.
Dutchmen who emigrated to the US often contracted their name to avoid confusion: Vanderbilt for instance.
Re:van Helsing, not Van Helsing (Score:5, Informative)
It should still sort under H, not V.
Major derailment ahead - please skip if not interested in sorting, I18N or librarians.
American registries are pretty much impossible to find anything in, because of the sorting/catalogization rules. Except from screwing up prefixes like da/de/der/van/von/mac/bin/ben, they totally disregard anything but the last word, not understanding that one can have a legal surname that consists of several words.
Abraham van Helsing gets put under "V".
Jon de Linde gets put under "D".
Preben Steenstrup Jensen gets put under "J".
John Twelve Hawks gets put under "H".
Not only are these wrong, but it's not even consistent.
Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink - who knows!
Or people with no last name, like Elizabeth Alexandra Mary. I wouldn't be surprised if she gets sorted under "I" or "B".
Then there are letters that don't exist in US ASCII, and ligatures. Then, sorting seems completely arbitrary - sometimes based on which US letter it mostly resembles, and sometimes based on pronunciation, but only of single letters.
You might find a double-s sorted as either a single s or as a B, but seldom as double-s. And a thorn can be sorted as either a P or D or Y or T, but not as TH, because multi-character sorting seems to be a concept not understood.
Similar for ligatures - when Phoebe is spelled with "oe" as separate letters, you will find it before "Phocoena", but when spelled with a ligature, it likely goes before, because the ligature gets mapped to "o" so they can do single-character sorts. Aegis with "Ae" as separate letters comes before Abraham, but Aegis with an Ae ligature will usually be sorted after Abraham.
Incomplete and ethnocentric CS education might have to take some of the blame for this - while good multi-character sorting algorithms were published 30-40 years ago, I haven't ever seen one in American text books, which still seem to advocate that US ASCII with character/letter equivalence is state of the art.
And I have no idea of how many times I've seen a web form that will reject last names with a space in it, or if accepting it, puts the first parts of the last name as a middle name.
Re:JCVH? (Score:4, Informative)
A zombie is an animated corpse brought back to life by mystical means, such as witchcraft or from illness, disease or plague.
The resurrection body, which is the type that Christ had after His resurrection according to Biblical Scriptures, possess several properties
Zombies clearly are completely different from a resurrected, glorified or incorruptible body.
Re:Help- trying to remember old vampire novel (Score:5, Informative)
this one [amazon.com]?
my search query was "novel vampire inquisitor brothers spain"
Re:Only if you like easy mode (Score:4, Informative)
And even better, Prof. Abronsius of course!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fearless_Vampire_Killers [wikipedia.org]
Re:JCVH? (Score:3, Informative)
Sometimes??
The Doctor, obviously. (Score:5, Informative)
Re:JCVH? (Score:5, Informative)
Frankenstein's Monster is nearly brain dead, is fashioned from multiple pieces of many people, was built by a man, and is easily destoyed
Actually Frankenstein's monster was highly intelligent in the original text; the whole moaning and stumbling thing only occurs immediately after he is "born", and he acts like a monstrously large child. By the end of the book he was articulate, well-read, and driven by bitterness over his lonely existence.
Even in the Universal films, he develops feelings and emotions, although for some reason never learns to speak. Keeps the "child-like" thing going for the duration.