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Alucard is Dracula backward
- Thread starter Kaguya
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I remember when the anime came out and the fansubs would spell it Arucard. It was the most annoying thing and people defended it.
Yeah, he only assumed the name Alucard as a symbol of rebellion against his father, in fact. His full name is Adrian Farenheights Tepes.
How can this still be blowing minds... I'm convinced everyone is just feigning surprise lol
He's Dracula's son.
I never understood how so many people didn't get that one. What else would it mean? A phoenix is down? What?
In every final fantasy since 6, it's literally feathers raining down on a fallen party member.
This one just made me facepalm. For those that don't know:
There's a character called Redips and a character named Spider. Because "Redips" is such an awkward, laboured-sounding name, you quickly piece together that something's up, and they are the same person. You might get the impression though that Spider was his real name, since that name doesn't sound as terrible or stupid, but no. Redips was his true identity after all. I hope the devs were proud of themselves for that one.
The English language is lacking here, should've grabbed the Dutch word for it called "Dons". Instead they literally translated the French word.. which well... haha.
A lot of items in FF were probably confusing to a lot of kids (Gold Needle, Echo Grass etc.) so they just rolled with whatever explanation their brain came up with
I think the common interpretation was that people read "Phoenix" as a verb. So they'd "Phoenix" a "downed" party member. A lot of people don't really know what down feathers are, and that they can simply be called "down".
Really weird fact. So, for the official subtitled release, the licensor could NOT budge on spelling it as Arucard. In fact, this almost affected the dub. They eventually were able to compromise, so the dub could use Alucard, but they just couldn't budge on the subtitled version. I believe to this day, the subs (both for the TV series and OVA) have to use Arucard on the official releases.
It's really dumb, but if that's ultimately what the rights holder wants...
You and me both. LOL I mean, maybe I knew/read this before? But it's not something I think of when I see the name, since it sounds natural to me.
Someone told me this a few months after the release of EQ2 and my mind was blown.
Okay this one blew my mind a while ago, mainly bc I didn't know what down was until I started looking at warm jackets and blankets.
you let me down, Alucard. You should have gone for the Metric system....
All I can think of after reading this title is the time when superbestfriends did a playthrough of Mega Man X command mission and genuinely got hit by the backwards name twist reveal and then couldnt stop laughing for not seeing it coming.
The sidekick to Sonic the Hedgehog is an orange fox named Miles Tails Prower. It's miles per hour in name form
And Alucart becomes Tracula, which comes from Dracula's time as a DJ on the Transylvanian airwaves.
