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Why is there a cross on Dracula's casket? Who had this stupid idea? Or is there a sense behind it? 
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Maybe he's a catholic vampire..... :wink:
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"BarbieJenniGirl" wrote:Maybe he's a catholic vampire..... : who isn't these days? :lol:
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Quote:Maybe he's a catholic vampire..... Even if he was, touching a cross is for a vampire like touching 100 °C hot metal. Another mistake: His casket stands on the top floor with big windows. During daytime he's not even able to leave it if it's a sunny day.
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i think the casket was there to give more of a visual affect. that room would be really plain without it. the casket might not even be Dracs. he could of stolen it from someone :shock:
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... I guess analyzing games is the norm lately... There are MANY different stories and views on what vampires can do or don't like, etc. Just watch Bram Stoker's Dracula (the one starring Keanu Reeves), and you see that sunlight isn't a that big of a deal... I think it just waned their powers, if I remember correctly. Then, watch Interview With A Vampire (starring Brad Pitt), and the cross thing is dispelled. I've never read either of the books, although I own both :oops: , so I'm not sure if they're the same in the novels. Legends are always changing and evolving.
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Roth, funny that you bring that up, one morning at work last week, on TV they had a special about vampires and how thier image "evolves". For example dracula is supposed to look like Nosferatu (or at least originally that way).
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I don't know if anyone has seen Blade 3 Trinity, but I believe that 'Dracula' was able to walk in the sun... I think it all depends really. As for the cross... yeah, that actually doesn't make a whole lot of sense... but then again 'vampires' don't make any sense. Just accpet it, less trouble that way :P
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"Denny" wrote:Quote:Maybe he's a catholic vampire..... Even if he was, touching a cross is for a vampire like touching 100 °C hot metal. Another mistake His casket stands on the top floor with big windows. During daytime he's not even able to leave it if it's a sunny day. That's exactly what i was thinking.
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Originally, you could only kill vampires by shining sunlight on them (at all). You could stop them by staking them, cutting off their head, and stuffing their mouths full of garlic. That way, their souls would be trapped in the casket. They could turn into anything, pretty much, but mainly wolves, bats, and mist. Crosses repelled them, because they were holy symbols. Of course, as 'The Incredible Vampire Killers' pointed out, a cross wouldn't really work if the vampire had been Jewish. Garlic and mirrors also repelled them, they couldn't cross running water outside of their coffin, and animals wouldn't go into a graveyard where a vampire was buried. Those were the basics. Unfortunately, "modern" vampire lorists like Anne Rice, Wes Craven, and the guy who wrote the Blade movies have confused things a great deal.
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"Uber Newb" wrote: Those were the basics. Unfortunately, "modern" vampire lorists like Anne Rice, Wes Craven, and the guy who wrote the Blade movies have confused things a great deal. I couldn't agree more.
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It is not a "cross", it is the lowercase letter "t". Stands for "tomb".
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In Stephen King's 'Salem's Lot, the boss vampire simply snatches a crucifix out of a priest's hand due to the priest's own lack of faith. Maybe since there's no one in the coffin, the symbol has lost its power. I'm more concerned about why someone's using holy water in the game against Drac...for me the 3X boomerang always took care of those fireballs to the point where I would get mass points to the point where I was constantly getting extra men and would never have to continue.
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"ToddVania" wrote:In Stephen King's 'Salem's Lot, the boss vampire simply snatches a crucifix out of a priest's hand due to the priest's own lack of faith. Not entirely ture.
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"atariboy" wrote:"ToddVania" wrote:In Stephen King's 'Salem's Lot, the boss vampire simply snatches a crucifix out of a priest's hand due to the priest's own lack of faith. Not entirely ture. If you're going to say that, you kinda have to state what is entirely "ture"...
 
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I can't remember, but one of stephen king's latest gunslinger books was heavily connected to the 'Lot. You even see the priest again, and he talks about why he thought that the cross didin't work.
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It wasn't his latest, it was Wolves of the Calla. And it was because he subconsciously stopped relying on his faith and relied on the crucifix itself as a symbol. That's why Straker (or was it Barlow? Damn movie mixing me up) commented that it was "sad to see a man's faith fail."
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