Alucard is known as Hellsing organization's most powerful weapon to rid the world of supernatural, extraterrestrial and satanic threats. His guns blazing and shape-shifting fighting style makes him no mere vampire but the most powerful being in the entire series.
During the intro of Hellsing Ultimate, we see Alucard awaken from his slumber as his master Sir Integra Fairbrook Wingates Hellsing is being attacked. Alucard licks the blood of his master off the ground as she lay injured from a gunshot wound thus binding him to her will. This begins Alucard's new journey as he battles the various vampires that threaten the existence of the world and humans.
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Appearance And Attire
The first instance Alucard is seen is when he saves Integra from her attackers, at this point he is wearing a black straight jacket and the iconic white gloves and appears tall and lanky with long black hair. His glowing red eyes and fanged teeth is a sight to behold. Later we see him in his count form which consists of a Victorian era type grey charcoal suit paired with a crimson overcoat. He also wears grey pants that matched his charcoal suit, along with black leather high boots and a red cravat. The final bit of his outfit consists of a matching crimson fedora that has a wide brim. He also sports a pair of a dark green, circular, orange-framed sunglasses. However, as Alucard possesses enhanced shape-shifting abilities, allowing him to change his shape at will. His clothing is merely part of his physical form due to the fact that when he regenerates, his clothing also repairs itself.
Alucard's gloves is a hard to miss factor when it comes to his appearance. The white gloves are engraved with the Hellsing seal (a pentacle decorated with occult symbols and several mottoes, reading: "Hell's Gate Arrested / Gott Mit Uns (God with us)/ And Shine Heaven Now"). He is seen to draw some sort of power when transforming or preparing for an attack from the symbols on the glove as they glow red when needed. These gloves are also thought to be part of the source of Hellsing's control over him.
Personality and Temperament
Alucard is a violent and vicious fighter when attacking opponents, he is cruel to enemies weaker than himself and is not afraid to get injured himself during the heat of the battle as he can easily regenerate back to his original form. He detests cowards and treats his enemies extremely brutally while inflicting pain and taunting them while smiling gleefully and dishing out sarcastic humor.
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Although he is a vampire himself, he abhors vampires who kill without a purpose. He is easily agitated if he knows that his enemies are evil and are cruel towards the innocent. This is seen when he comes across two vampires, Leif and Jessica, he taunts them as if they were his playthings and teleports around them while questioning their immoral deeds. He even lets Leif shoot him, making the vampire think he won as Alucard falls to the ground. Nevertheless, Alucard rises back up and ends up blowing a hole through Leif with his gun while Jessica runs away and is later shot down by Seras.
Ever since his resurrection, Alucard has been constantly searching for a worth adversary to fight. He finds his "immortality" long and boring without any fun. The fact that he seeks to fight someone worthy of his power reveals his sadistic intentions. However, he is mostly seen as a vicious vampire that shows zero compassion, Alucard is also seen to have some sort of compassion as he acts as a teacher to Seras Victoria and is also respectful to his master Integra.
Powers, Abilities And Forms
It is without a doubt that Alucard is a vicious and powerful vampire, given the fact that he is literally immortal and invincible. He freely taunts his opponents, often allowing them to inflict seemingly fatal wounds oh him before healing completely and destroying his enemy. One of his favorite methods of fighting is allowing himself to be blown to shreds before simply flowing back together and unleashing hell on his victims twice fold.
Alucard exhibits a vast array of unique abilities such as to the ability to regenerate from practically any injury and is a fearsome and deadly opponent. He is able to face the most powerful supernatural opponents and defeat them without releasing his true powers. One of Alucards obvious powers includes superhuman strength along with superhuman speed and reflexes making him incredibly fast. Even with his vast power he still prefers to take bullets, blows and strikes head first and then regenerating back to counter-attack his enemies.
His enhanced endurance and durability makes him an even harder opponent to defeat. His abilities consist of quick regeneration and extrasensory perception, which gives him the ability to possess sharper senses than the average vampire, perfecting his precision in battle. Given his speed and agility, Alucard is able to walk through walls and can appear in unexpected places such as the ceiling. Immortality is also another obvious ability that he possesses. Familiar control and soul absorption allows him to gain control over the soul he drains by draining their blood. His consumptions of souls overtime have gained himself an entire legion within him. Among others, a few more of his other abilities includes shape-shifting, day-walking, supernatural detection, telepathy, teleportation, and telekinesis.
Throughout the series Alucard is seen in many forms, he is first seen in a black straight jacket when he first meets Integra, and then he is also seen in the red version of the black straightjacket when he unleashes control art restriction level one. However, he is mostly seen in his 'count' form and also has the ability to take the form of a black hound.
Guns
Alucard posses two signature weapons which is the Hellsing Arms .454 Casull (the "Joshua") and the Hellsing combat pistol 'Jackal'. These weapons were custom handguns made by Hellsing, and was specifically designed for Alucard. The rounds consist of special bullets made out of silver obtained from melted holy relics.
The bullets on the Jackal are bigger with a gold casing and reinforced core for armor penetration with each bullet being baptized, perfect to take down the undead that Alcuard encounters.