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Dennis Dracula-Loughran is the half-vampire son of Mavis Dracula. He is half-human due to his father Jonathan Loughran. He is also the grandson of Dracula and Martha (his maternal grandparents) as well as Mike and Linda (his paternal grandparents). Through Mavis, Dennis is also the great-grandson of Vlad Dracula (his mother's paternal grandfather).
While born showing no vampire traits, by his fifth birthday, he finally grew his fangs and likewise manifested his vampire abilities.
Dennis Dracula or Dennis Loughran or hyphenated combinations (Dracula-Loughran or Loughran-Dracula) of his parent's surnames have been speculatively used to refer to him by fans, but he has never been officially given a full name in any of the films.
Age
Dennis is depicted at birth (0 years old) in the second film. According to the film novelization, Mavis announced her pregnancy to her father "a few years" after wedding Jonathan prior to turning 120, so Mavis would be at least 120 when she made the announcement. A height chart shows his measurements at 1 and 2 years of age. References are then made to his upcoming 5th birthday: •"Technically, you have until you're five to get your vampire fangs. •"He's practically five already." •"Boy turns five next week." •"We'll have his birthday party here on Wednesday." •"Happy birthday, Dennis."
Appearance
Dennis is a small boy with unruly, striking red hair and blue eyes, a combination of genes he inherited from both his parents. He is dressed in a sports jersey (with the number "4" on it in Hotel Transylvania 2) and shorts similar to Johnny. According to creators, Dennis inherited Mavis's blue eyes and pale skin and Johnny's bright hair. After manifesting his vampire traits, his baby canine teeth fell out to reveal his adult teeth as vampire fangs.
Personality
Dennis is outwardly portrayed as being optimistic and childish such as any child his age. He appears to have a fairly similar temperament to Johnathan: easygoing, insouciant, and exuberant in most scenarios. Aside from his high-spirited demeanor, Dennis has substantiated noticeable signs of maturity for his age - even as a five-year-old he finds himself too old for any childish needs Mavis attempts to provide him with. Overall, he is rather naïve about certain things; he expressed a large amount of naivety when he lacked any sort of monstrous abilities. Initially, Dennis is unaware that his apparent lack of vampire skills was an immense problem and would impact him negatively; when he is exposed to the realities of the world, Dennis began taking this fact more seriously, attempting to become a vampire in order to remain at Hotel Transylvania.
Hotel Transylvania 2
Dennis was born 2 years after the events of the first film (June 13th, 2013) to Johnny and Mavis and lived with them at his maternal grandfather's hotel. According to Mike (his paternal grandfather), Dennis was named after Mike's father (a great-grandfather). According to the height chart, "Dennis 1 YEAR!" was taller than "Mavis year 1", but "Dennis 2 YEARS!" was not as tall as "Mavis year 2". As he showed an apparent lack of vampire traits, he was raised mostly human, being fed healthy foods and taught by his parents. He often played with the Werewolf kids, and he loved to watch Kakie The Cake Monster's show. Due to his heritage and possibly his young age, Dennis shows no signs of becoming a monster, much to the distress of Dracula. Dennis' apparent lack of powers seem to be because he looks more human like his father than his vampire mother. After Mavis and Johnny head to California to visit Dennis' paternal grandparents, Mike and Linda, Dennis is left in the care of Drac and his friends Wayne, Murray, Griffin and Frank. Though, unknown to Mavis, Drac, wanting to bring out Dennis' monster genes, decides to recruit his friends into putting the little boy through a monster training boot camp. First, Drac had Frank show Dennis how to scare people by jumping out and scaring two joggers. However, the joggers recognize Frank and ask to take a selfie with him instead. Dennis tries to jump out and scare them, but they just think he's adorable. Next, Drac has Wayne show Dennis how to eat an entire deer, but Wayne, being the old wolf, forgets how to attack the deer and instead chases a frisbee a nearby human threw for his dog. Finally, Drac asks Murray to conjure up a huge sandstorm to show Dennis how to be a ruthless monster. However, as Murray is performing his spell, he throws out his back and only summons a small amount of sand in which Dennis begins to play in and makes a snowman out of the sand with Frank. When all else failed, Drac decided to take Dennis to his childhood camp, Camp Winnepacaca, where he learned how to use his vampire skills as a kid. However, the trip did not help Dennis as the camp was under new management, and was "too safe". Drac throws Dennis off a tower to teach him how to fly, but Drac has to save Dennis from falling to his death. The tower collapses under the combined weight of Griffin, Wayne, Murray and Frankenstein's monster, setting the camp on fire. Mavis was extremely mad and upset when she heard what Drac had done and felt that Drac had betrayed her trust (she had placed Dennis under Drac's care while she went to visit Johnny's hometown). Mavis then decides it would be best for them to move following Dennis's party. When Vlad comes to the party after being invited by Mavis, Johnny has to don a vampire costume. Vlad exclaimed that Johnny's wig looked like "his great-grandma's boobies", but seemed to believe the facade. Upon learning that Dennis was a late-fanger, he volunteered to help Dennis to grow out his fangs. He explained that what he needed to do was take something that Dennis found sweet and innocent (Kakie) and twist it into something terrible. Vlad possessed Kakie the cake monster mascot during his performance to see if Dennis' fangs would pop out, but was interrupted by Dracula as he saw what a traumatizing effect it had on Dennis. Dennis becomes upset over the arguments between the adults and runs into the woods. Winnie follows him and leads him to her hideout. Bela, who had discovered that Dennis has human blood, tried to kill Dennis, but Winnie got in the way. Bela hits her and Winnie whimpers on the ground. Dennis was enraged and his fangs finally popped out, finally revealing his true life. He quickly turns into a bat and fights Bela, followed by super strength, super speed, and enhanced vision which allows him to be able to see that Bela's gang was coming. After Dennis and the rest of the group defeat Bela and his army, Dennis asks Drac if he's cool now. Drac reassures Dennis that he was always cool, and that he is perfect no matter what. Then Dennis and his family go back to the hotel to continue celebrating his 5th birthday party. Dennis is seen dancing with his father Johnny, his mother Mavis, and Winnie. Dennis then freezes Linda in place. Dennis is last seen dancing some more with Winnie. Just then, Dennis sees his birthday cake and flies up to blow the candle out on his birthday cake. However, just as he about to blow out the candle on his cake, the Elderly Gremlin eats his entire cake, which stuns Dennis as the Elderly Gremlin says she didn't do it.
Puppy!
Dennis is one of the major characters in this short film. He asks Mavis and Johnny for a puppy to which they decline due to saying how taking care of a puppy is a big responsibility. Dennis cries out in sorrow, transforming into a bat and flies away wailing, “I WANT A PUPPY!!!” As Drac is wandering through the hotel he notices Dennis sitting sadly on the ledge near the window. He asks Dennis what's wrong and Dennis tells him that his parents won't let him get a puppy. Dennis quickly cheers up and asks Dracula if he could get him a Puppy. Dracula is hesitant at first but quickly gives in after seeing Dennis' pouty bat face. Dennis is seen playing with his toys with Johnny on the floor as Mavis reads a book on the couch. A knock is then heard at the door. Dracula opens up, but before he can speak, gets knocked into the room with extreme force, crashing into a wall. A gigantic blue dog bursts its way into the room panting loudly. Dennis' face lights up and jumps up to hug his new friend. Mavis looks at her father angrily but Dracula insists that every monster needs a good pet. Dennis named the mutt, Tinkles. Due to Dennis needing to go to school Mavis has Drac watch Tinkles as she takes him. After school Mavis and Dennis enters the hotel and see's the huge mess that Tinkles caused while they where gone.
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
Dennis is one of the major characters in the threequel, who take part in the ensuing cruise. A running gag is when he and Winnie play with their giant dog, Tinkles. Their friendship has then blossomed into a soon to be "zing," though Dennis is too afraid to zing with Winnie when she tries to force him to look into her eyes, stating that he's too young to zing. In the scene, where she helps him sneak Tinkles to the cruise they perform a fistbump and she kisses him on the cheek. Surprised, Dennis blushes in embarrassment as Winnie stares at him.
Family Mavis Dracula
Mavis is Dennis's mother. She's shown to be very protective of her son, such as making her dad babyproof the entire hotel and even going so far as to consider moving out of the hotel to a place that would probably be safer for Dennis to live (unaware that Johnny, like Dracula, is against it, and also that Dennis is against it too). Due to Dennis's human heritage and apparent lack of any monster abilities, she only feeds him healthy human food, mostly avocados, and has him sleep most of the night. She first appears in the second teaser trailer for the second film putting Dennis to bed when Dracula pops up, saying that the lullaby she is singing is incorrect.
Jonathan Loughran
Jonathan is Dennis's father. Johnny cares for his son like any other father would, but still maintains his slacker attitude. In contrast to Mavis, who inherited Dracula's over-protectiveness, Johnny's concern is on a normal level; such an example is that Mavis freaked out over Dennis losing a baby tooth, while Johnny was more optimistic and congratulating. Due to how much he loves living at the hotel (which doesn't require him to have an actual job to provide for his family), Johnny is willing to cooperate with Dracula to train Dennis as a monster. Unbeknownst to both is that Dennis loves living at the hotel just as much, and hates the idea of leaving.
Dracula
Dracula is Dennis's maternal grandfather. Since Dennis was born, Drac vowed to always protect him. Dennis loves his "papa Drac", who often amuses him by causing self-harm. Dracula has been waiting for the day Dennis gets his fangs, but becomes concerned as his 5th birthday nears, which is when the chance completely vanishes. Dennis is taken to various spooky places by his grandfather, to inspire his inner monster to surface. In the movie, Drac is all for Mavis and Johnny to go visit Johnny's parents in California so when they leave, Drac and his friends put Dennis through "monster training boot camp".
•Due to his heritage as the son of a vampire and a human, Dennis is a Dhampir, a half-vampire/half-human hybrid; however, the term wasn’t used in the second film.
•He's the only hybrid in the entire series.
•Dennis, as a human/vampire hybrid, is able to consume both human food and monster food, although he’s mostly fed human food by Mavis.
•His favorite superhero is Batman.
•He's named after his paternal great-grandfather (Mike's father).
•With the exception of having blue eyes and pale skin like his mom, Dennis looks just like his dad.
Rob Riggle as Bela, [14] Vlad's vampire bat monster servant. Riggle was previously the voice of the Skeleton Husband from the first film. Dana Carvey as Dana, [14] the vampire camp director at Camp Winnepacaca. Chris Kattan as Kakie, [14] a cake monster from Dennis' favorite television series.
Dennis : Papa Drac, I'm a vampire and a superhero! Dennis : Mommy, I'm flew! Mavis : I saw
Actor: Hotel Transylvania 2. Asher Blinkoff is an American actor and voice actor from Los Angeles, California known for voicing Dennis Loughran from the Hotel Transylvania franchise. He voiced Dennis in three feature length films and a short film.
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- Asher Blinkoff
44 Metascore. 2015. 1 hr 29 mins. Fantasy, Family, Comedy, Tech & Gaming, Action & Adventure. PG. Watchlist. Where to Watch. Dracula's rigid monster-only hotel policy has finally relaxed, opening...
Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015) - Cast & Crew — The Movie Database (TMDB) ← Back to main. Cast 69. Adam Sandler. Dracula (voice) Andy Samberg. Johnny Loughran (voice) Selena Gomez. Mavis Dracula (voice) Kevin James. Frankenstein (voice) Steve Buscemi. Wayne (voice) David Spade. Griffin (voice) Keegan-Michael Key. Murray (voice) Asher Blinkoff.
