| rdfs:comment | - Count Heinrich Wolfram Guttenvak Dietrich Cosgrove-Hall Duckula is a scholar and a distinguished gentleman. He is often accused of being a duck and green. The latter accusation lead to an expensive legal battle with Kermit the frog. This served only to add insult to injury, as it's not easy being green. It's also well noted that ducks have no teeth.
- Count Duckula can refer to the following pages:
* Count Duckula in Kingdom Hearts: Aqua's Journey by Tigerbreath13.
* Count Duckula in The Magical Worlds of Matilda by Gree443.
- Count Duckula is a limited time animal in FarmVille.
- Count Duckula is a character from Danger Mouse and the title character in the spin-off series Count Duckula.
- Count Duckula himself is a deliberate send-up of many traditional vampire traits. As his name would suggest, he is an anthropomorphic duck. Besides his vegetarianism and aspirations of fame, he is very squeamish and often cowardly. The Duckula Family Motto is Per Ardua ad Sanguina, which means "Work hard for blood".
- The two versions of the character differ, however; the Danger Mouse Count Duckula is not a vegetarian, makes far greater use of his vampiric magic, and has an accent consisting of a Daffy Duck-like lisp (instead of the stereotypical Transylvanian accent), as well as occasional stuttering and duck-like squawks and quacks. In addition, he once teamed up with Danger Mouse's nemesis Baron Greenback.
- Count Duckula actually made his debut on the Dangermouse show, where Dangermouse first encountered him while trying to obtain ingredients for an antidote. A vicious, green, stage-struck vampire duck, he proved so funny that the shows creators invited him back for two more stories, one of which was a team up of villains lead by Baron Greenback. The character having proven his worth, he was granted his own series, the introduction of which explained that like any other vampire, Duckula was killed occasionally, and had to be regenerated according to a magical rite involving blood. The introduction went on to explain that it wasn't a good idea to use tomato sauce as a substitute unless you liked your vampires vegetarian. In a series about a vampire, of course, it's only natural that the vampir
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| abstract | - Count Heinrich Wolfram Guttenvak Dietrich Cosgrove-Hall Duckula is a scholar and a distinguished gentleman. He is often accused of being a duck and green. The latter accusation lead to an expensive legal battle with Kermit the frog. This served only to add insult to injury, as it's not easy being green. It's also well noted that ducks have no teeth.
- Count Duckula actually made his debut on the Dangermouse show, where Dangermouse first encountered him while trying to obtain ingredients for an antidote. A vicious, green, stage-struck vampire duck, he proved so funny that the shows creators invited him back for two more stories, one of which was a team up of villains lead by Baron Greenback. The character having proven his worth, he was granted his own series, the introduction of which explained that like any other vampire, Duckula was killed occasionally, and had to be regenerated according to a magical rite involving blood. The introduction went on to explain that it wasn't a good idea to use tomato sauce as a substitute unless you liked your vampires vegetarian. In a series about a vampire, of course, it's only natural that the vampire hunter, who would normally be the good guy, is the villain. Duckula was ineptly assisted by Igor, a buzzard butler, and the gigantic Nanny, who was some kind of chicken, appeared to be immune to sunlight in this incarnation and also had the ability to teleport his whole castle around the world, so long as it was back by Transylvanian sunrise. Thanks Loneheart!
- The two versions of the character differ, however; the Danger Mouse Count Duckula is not a vegetarian, makes far greater use of his vampiric magic, and has an accent consisting of a Daffy Duck-like lisp (instead of the stereotypical Transylvanian accent), as well as occasional stuttering and duck-like squawks and quacks. In addition, he once teamed up with Danger Mouse's nemesis Baron Greenback. This discrepancy is explained when his DM incarnation falls to ashes and is resurrected during the Astronomical House of Asparagus. Instead of a libation of blood, the nanny puts tomato ketchup into the offering, creating the world's first vegetarian vampire duck. In the comic book series, the new incarnation makes instant friends with Danger Mouse, much to the chagrin of the ghoulish butler vulture who really wanted his master to drain DM's blood. In England, Duckula has crisp vowels and an American-type accent.
- Count Duckula himself is a deliberate send-up of many traditional vampire traits. As his name would suggest, he is an anthropomorphic duck. Besides his vegetarianism and aspirations of fame, he is very squeamish and often cowardly. The Duckula Family Motto is Per Ardua ad Sanguina, which means "Work hard for blood". He has a very modern outlook, and often despairs over the traditional vampire image he is expected to embody. He hates living in a dark, gloomy castle, and finds the behaviour of his servants to be depressing. Although he retains vampiric powers and qualities such as teleportation and not being able to appear in front of a mirror, he rarely uses them. In fact, the only one he has been shown using is teleportation, which consists of him plunging up into a small storm cloud and reappearing in a flash of lightning elsewhere (as opposed to his predecessor on DangerMouse, who appeared in a vertical explosion of flames). This ability is used only when the Count truly desires speed, and is sometimes implied to be involuntary. He often goes outside in the daytime without suffering any ill effects, but this is likely because of his own personal oddities. In one episode, a living statue of the previous Count of Duckula crumbles into a pile of stone when exposed to sunlight. In the episode "Doctor Goosewing and Mr. Duck", Count Duckula briefly turns into a "proper" vampire, desiring blood from the villagers outside the castle, but turns away from the door when he discovers that the sun is still out. On the other hand, the episode "Transylvanian Homesick Blues" features a prehistoric "first vampire duck" who goes out in daylight, and only returns to his coffin because Igor advises him to. While often egotistical and selfish, Duckula is good natured. He often tries to help people, although he usually succeeds only in making them hate him. He is prone to short lived obsessions, in a manner somewhat similar to Toad of Toad Hall, which often form the plots for episodes attempting to become a blues musician in New Orleans, prospecting for gold, becoming a cowboy, etcetera. The character differs considerably from his predecessor on the DangerMouse show. In fact, the only similarities the two share are that they are vampire ducks with ambitions in show business, little actual talent in that area, and both are named Count Duckula. The previous version was an outright villain, willing to blackmail and force his way into stardom (as opposed to the current Count, who merely tries to get in the legitimate way) and was fixated on being a TV star, rather than settle for fame in some other branch of entertainment. He had far greater magical powers and made much more use of them, as well as having a thick accent consisting of lisping, stuttering and occasional squawks. Most notably, he was not a vegetarian; in his very first appearance he threatened to drink DM's blood, only to be chased away by the sun, which may suggest he was the previous ancestor/incarnation before being reincarnated as the accidental vegetarian Duckula.
- Count Duckula can refer to the following pages:
* Count Duckula in Kingdom Hearts: Aqua's Journey by Tigerbreath13.
* Count Duckula in The Magical Worlds of Matilda by Gree443.
- Count Duckula is a limited time animal in FarmVille.
- Count Duckula is a character from Danger Mouse and the title character in the spin-off series Count Duckula.
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