This is a list of characters that appear in the Hotel Transylvania franchise from Sony Pictures Animation. Almost all the characters are based on traditional monsters (werewolves, vampires, a dhampir, mummies, and Frankenstein's monster, among others).
Introduced in Hotel Transylvania Count Dracula Count "Drac" Dracula (voiced by Adam Sandler in the first three films, Brian Hull in Hotel Transylvania: Transformania and Hotel Transylvania: Scary-Tale Adventures, Brock Powell in Hotel Transylvania 3: Monsters Overboard, David Berni in the TV series' first season, Ivan Sherry in the TV series' second season) is based on the classic character Count Dracula from Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula. He is an Eastern European-accented vampire and the main protagonist of the series. Unlike most incarnations of the character in various media, he has no cravings for human blood. Dracula is shown at the beginning of the first film, devotedly caring for his infant daughter Mavis. He teaches her how to morph into a bat, plays with her and teaches her the things she needs to know, but is also overprotective of her, being reluctant to allow her to explore the outside world, by fear that humans will hurt her, as they did with his late wife Martha. When an older Mavis meets and "Zings" with human Johnny Loughran, he attempts to distance them, but seeing that this hurts Mavis, allows them to begin a relationship and ultimately marry.
In Hotel Transylvania 2, Mavis and Johnny have a half-vampire son, Dennis. Dracula is dismayed when Dennis fails to display vampire characteristics such as morphing into a bat and growing fangs. After he almost kills Dennis while trying to manifest his abilities, an enraged Mavis plans to move herself, Johnny, and Dennis to Los Angeles to distance themselves from the monster community; however, Dracula restores her trust when he helps save Dennis from his father Vlad's bat-like guards. Ultimately, he realizes he loves Dennis, whether he is a vampire or not
In the third movie, he is lonely, and Mavis – mistaking it for stress – arranges for the entire hotel to take a vacation on a monster cruise. Despite the cruise being an elaborate trap set by Abraham Van Helsing, Drac meets and zings with Van Helsing's great-granddaughter Ericka and the two eventually marry.
In the fourth movie, Dracula is now married to Ericka and wishes to retire and give the hotel to Mavis. However, he is fearful that Johnny will ruin the hotel, so he lies to the two of them. Johnny, who decides that Drac will accept him if he is a monster, uses a magic ray to turn himself into a dragon-like monster, but Dracula is turned into a human in the process, breaking the ray. The two of them go to the Amazon Rainforest to find a replacement part for the ray. When Mavis and Ericka find them, Drac admits to lying to Johnny, enraging him, and causing him to mutate further. When all hopes are lost, Drac begs to Johnny to forgive him by telling him that the Dracula family would be incomplete without Johnny, and this makes him happy, allowing Mavis to turn them back to their normal forms. When they all are returning to the hotel in Ericka's airship, they find the hotel completely destroyed. Drac allows Johnny and Mavis to rebuild the hotel.
In the four-year prequel TV series, Drac is away on "official vampire business" at the Vampire Council but appears from time to time as a supporting character. In the final episode, Drac retains a main role where he helps to battle Lycidius Dracula.
Jonathan "Johnny" Loughran Jonathan "Johnny" Loughran (voiced by Andy Samberg in the films, Brian T. Stevenson in Hotel Transylvania 3: Monsters Overboard, Danny Gendron in Hotel Transylvania: Scary-Tale Adventures) is the first human inside Hotel Transylvania. He always carries his backpack and shows a strong connection with it. By the end of the first movie he has already integrated into the hotel and is accepted by the clientele. He is portrayed as a good-natured and easy-going slacker. In the first movie, Johnny is lost while traveling in an area close to the hotel and follows a group of zombies to Hotel Transylvania. At first, he thinks he is in a hotel and that everyone is wearing costumes, but he soon realizes that the monsters are real. Drac disguises him as "Johnnystein" (when wearing a Halloween costume, which he mistakenly as a "zombie") and he begins to integrate, meeting and "zinging" with Mavis. After thinking that she would be better off without a human partner he leaves the hotel, but Drac reconsiders and chases the plane Johnny has boarded, bringing him back.
In the second movie, Johnny and Mavis get married and have a son, Dennis. Johnny agrees to take Mavis to California ostensibly to consider moving back home to be near his parents, while Drac tries to prompt Dennis' vampire abilities. Due to his human limitations, Johnny is a background character in the final encounter, but the threat to his life helps Dennis manifest his vampire traits. In the third movie, while he becomes the hotel's event DJ, Johnny also reverts to his slacker lifestyle, embracing the vacation fully. Despite this, he is instrumental in defeating the Kraken, using his portable DJ booth to play up-beat music to calm the monster down, ultimately succeeding with the Spanish song "Macarena".
In the fourth movie, Johnny turns into a dragon-like monster to try and impress Dracula so that he gives his hotel to Mavis and Johnny, but when Johnny realized that Dracula lied about a 'monster real-estate law', he turns upset which progresses his mutation and evolving. Finally, Dracula's motivational and apology speech calms and makes him happy so that Mavis can turn him back into a human. After they return to the hotel and find it completely destroyed, Johnny feels bad for Dracula who is heartbroken and says that they can rebuild the hotel just as it was, but Dracula replies that he and Mavis should rebuild it the way they want to since it is now their hotel. A year later, Mavis and Johnny rebuild and modernize the hotel, which Drac comes to enjoy.
Mavis Dracula Mavis Dracula-Loughran (voiced by Selena Gomez as an adult in the films, Sadie Sandler as a child in the first film, Victoria Gomez as a child in the fourth film, Melissa Sturm in Hotel Transylvania 3: Monsters Overboard and Hotel Transylvania: Scary-Tale Adventures, Bryn McAuley in the TV series) is the daughter of Count Dracula and Martha, born in 1894. She is married to Johnny and the mother of Dennis. She is more of a mother-figure to her father and his schemes, as she is more intelligent than him. In Hotel Transylvania, Mavis wants to see the outside world, but Drac has misled her into believing that all humans intend to kill her thus keeping her at the hotel. When she meets Johnny, they zing, becoming a couple and opposes Drac and Johnny fight each other. By the time of the second movie, Johnny and Mavis are married and have a son Dennis. Mavis becomes overprotective of Dennis, going so far as to consider moving to California, Johnny's birthplace, to raise him in a safer environment. In the end, Dennis finally develops his inherent vampire powers and they stay in the hotel.
In the third movie, Mavis thinks that Drac is stressed with running the hotel and arranges a monster cruise for the hotel guests to give him a vacation for a change. But she later figures that Drac has a crush on the captain, Ericka Van Helsing, and this is confirmed when Drac admits he "zinged" with Ericka.
In Hotel Transylvania: Transformania, Mavis figures out Dracula's plan of giving the hotel to her and Johnny. Later, when Drac and Johnny turn into a human and a dragon-like monster respectively, she and her stepmother Ericka confront Ericka's great-grandfather, Abraham Van Helsing who reveals that his Monsterfication Ray caused Drac and Johnny to turn into a human and a monster. So, Mavis and Ericka hop in Ericka's old monster-hunting blimp and drag all the other monsters who have turned into humans and they all go to find Johnny and Drac and reverse the transformation.
In Hotel Transylvania: The Series, which takes place four years prior to the original movie, Mavis is essentially in charge of the hotel while Drac is away on business with the Vampire Council.
Frankenstein's Monster Frankenstein's Monster, also called Frankenstein or just Frank for short (voiced by Kevin James in the first three films, Brad Abrell in Hotel Transylvania: Transformania and Hotel Transylvania: Scary-Tale Adventures, Danny Gendron in Hotel Transylvania 3: Monsters Overboard, Paul Braunstein in the TV series), is a monster who lives in an unknown location. Though friendly and caring, Frank is deathly afraid of fire and in the first movie has a habit of mailing himself and his wife everywhere. Since both he and his wife can be disassembled and reassembled at will with no harm to either of them, this is not a problem.
In the second movie, he aids Dracula in his quest to turn Dennis to awaken his vampire lineage and joins the rest of the gang in repelling the attack by Bela and his minions.
In the third movie, when he finds that Drac zinged with Ericka, he - along with Murray the Mummy and Griffin the Invisible Man - fully support Drac in asking Ericka out.
In the fourth movie, Frank turns into a human and he is the only one amongst all who loves his human appearance, or rather his hairstyle. Although Frank regains his human form's hairstyle after returning into his monster form, the said hairstyle is only temporary when his wife, Eunice cuts his hair back to his original hairstyle much to Frank's dismay.
In the prequel TV series, it is revealed that he is the father of Hank N Stein. He has all completely different jobs including but not limited to teacher, farmer, casino manager, Noah, and pet shop salesman.
Eunice Eunice (voiced by Fran Drescher in the films, Katie Griffin in the TV series) is Frankenstein's wife. Like Frank, she is deathly afraid of fire and mails herself everywhere. Since both she and her husband can be disassembled and reassembled at will with no harm to either of them, this is not a problem. She speaks with a New York accent.
In the third movie, it is revealed that Eunice disapproves of Frank gambling as he would lose his parts. She found out he did it behind her back when she saw that he has crab claws instead of his original hands.
In the fourth movie, she hates Frank's new hairstyle when he was transformed into a human, he is not to make her plans to divorce. After Frank is restored to normal, Eunice butchers his hair back to its previous length.
In the prequel TV series, it is revealed that she is the mother of Hank N Stein.
Wayne Wayne (voiced by Steve Buscemi in the films, Michael Buscemi in Hotel Transylvania 3: Monsters Overboard and Hotel Transylvania: Scary-Tale Adventures) is a werewolf, the husband of Wanda, and the father of Winnie and over 301 wild and undisciplined werewolf pups. He shows dog-like behavior in the second film, and is stressed due to his children causing chaos all the time, but he has little control over them. He tries to keep order, only to be completely ignored by everyone except Winnie. Despite his appearance, his behavior is mostly that of a civilized family man, but he does quickly eat an entire flock of sheep, rationalizing it with "What? You eat lamb chops. It's the same thing."
In the second movie, he joins Drac in his efforts to turn Dennis into a vampire. In the final fight against Bela's goons, he is quickly overrun, but summons his enormous pack of children, who make short work of several of the attackers.
In the third movie he and Wanda enjoy a brief moment of independence after leaving their pups in the Legacy's creche. They are subsequently tranquilized by Ericka and spend the rest of the vacation unconscious in a cleaning cupboard. They then say they enjoyed it so much they've re-booked for the next year as well.