Transylvania in popular culture

Largely as a result of the success of Bram Stoker's Dracula, Transylvania has become a popular setting for gothic horror fiction, and most particularly vampire fiction.[1] In some later books and movies Stoker's Count Dracula was conflated with the historical Vlad III Dracula, known as Vlad the Impaler (1431–1476), who though most likely born in the Transylvanian city of Sighișoara, ruled over neighboring Wallachia.[2]

Books

Films

Bela Lugosi as Dracula

Television programs

  • Transylvania is Count von Count's birthplace.
  • Transylvania is the main setting for the animated series Count Duckula.
  • Transylvania is one of the main settings for "Wizards vs. Werewolves", a Wizards of Waverly Place episode.
  • Transylvania is where Yakko, Wakko, and Dot stayed at Dracula's castle since they made a wrong turn in Animaniacs.
  • Transylvania is referenced in the classic Doctor Who episode "The Curse of Fenric".
  • Transylvania is the main setting for a two part episode of The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries, "Meet Dracula". The characters, posing as a rock group, go to Transylvania to attend a Rock Festival at the Counts Castle.
  • Transylvania is one of the main settings for the Disney Junior series Vampirina, the Hauntleys' birthplace.

Video games

  • Most Castlevania games revolve around the epic struggle between the Belmont lineage and Count Dracula who resides in Transylvania.
  • In Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge, Transylvania is said to be the ancestral home of Yuri. It is also featured as the map in the final mission of the Soviet Campaign.
  • In Bugs Bunny and Taz Time Busters, there is a Transylvanian era where the main boss is a vampire.
  • In Transylvania (computer game), the nation is the setting of the trilogy of graphic adventure games.
  • It is a location in Spider-Man: Friend or Foe, where Blade the Vampire Hunter can be found and be playable, and where Venom is fought as a boss.
  • A level in Twisted Metal: Head On centered on a fictional castle in Transylvania.
  • The DuckTales video game has a level set in Transyvania, with ghosts and skeletons as enemies and Magica De Spell as the level boss and a vampire named Count Dracula Duck as the final boss (excluding Flintheart Glomgold).
  • Soviet Strike has a level set in an irradiated area of Transylvania, containing small "rivers" of radioactive material scattered around the terrain.
  • In Funcom's Conspiracy/Horror MMORPG The Secret World, Translyvania is included as an explorable region.
  • In War Thunder, one of the aircraft available for use by the player is IAR-81C, part of the IAR 80 series. All of the 448 World War II-era aircraft of this series were produced in Transylvania, at the IAR factory in Brașov.[5]

Music

Songs and albums

Webcomics

  • The webcomic Girl Genius takes place in a fictional version of Europe named Europa, one region of which seems to be named Transylvania as evidenced by the existence of a "Transylvania Polygnostic University" and also a "Pax Transylvania" across Europa maintained by an empire based out of the region, much like the Pax Romana.

References

See also

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.