Van Helsing is the incarnation of the mighty archangel "Seraph" Gabriel. Because he refused to impose sanctions on Rome, he had a quarrel with God and was demoted to the human world to hone his mind. I met Dracula's previous life when he was still a member of the Paladin team. During the expedition, Dracula (in his previous life) heard the bad news about his wife and was deeply saddened. He thought that he was working hard for God, but God could not even protect his only true love, so he turned from pink to black, and then turned to betray God and sent troops to fight against the Holy See.
Gabriel (later Van Helsing) became Dracula's (previous life) opponent and fought a tragic war (this is also the origin of Van Helsing's nightmare). In the end, Gabriel killed Dracula, won the battle of the century, and took the emblem ring of the Order of La Paladin as a trophy. The double blow of the pain of losing his wife and the shame of losing the war, how could Dracula die in peace? At the last moment of his life, he sold his soul to the devil in exchange for eternal life and continued to fight against God.
Dracula betrayed his original beliefs and was not accepted by hell because he had sacrificed his life for God. He became a half-dead vampire ancestor. On the other hand, Gabriel won the battle, but still failed to win the heart of God. After his memory was erased, he was seriously injured and thrown at the door of the church by God. He also had a new name - Van Helsing, and continued to serve God and slay demons.
In "Van Helsing", the vampire Dracula calls Van Helsing "the left hand of God" and calls him Gabriel. In the final showdown between the two, Dracula wanted to use Gabriel's relationship with God to seduce Van Helsing to join forces with him to fight against heaven. After all, the two had a brief comradeship in the mortal world. But when I think of Gabriel's last battle on earth, he betrayed God, betrayed himself, and left himself with shame, the relationship was still forged.
If you want to learn more about the grievances and resentments between the two people, I highly recommend you watch the movie "The Last Day" (Winona is really amazing in it). The classic among classics is based on this period of history.
Dracula first appeared in the 1897 novel "Dracula the Vampire". Unlike the fictional Van Helsing, Dracula was actually a real-life Duke. Based on the famous Vlad III in European history. Brave and good at fighting, he defeated the Turkish army many times and became a hero of national salvation. Known for his cruelty, he liked to torture prisoners of war to death by piercing them. What really left people with nightmares was the battle of 1462. The corpses of more than 20,000 captured Turkish soldiers surrounded the city, all of them impaled alive on wooden stakes for several kilometers. There are many stories like this. His reputation as a bloodthirsty man who defeated the Islamic State made him the spokesperson of "vampires".
In fact, there is a saying that Dracula and Van Helsing are twin brothers. It's just that one is a vampire and the other is a werewolf. For example, in the movie "Underworld", there was a great plague in Europe in the 5th century AD. There was only one survivor. He gave birth to three sons. One was bitten by a wolf and became a werewolf; the other was bitten by a bat and became a vampire. Even in the civilized world, the noble and mysterious vampire clan and the cruel and violent werewolf clan have never stopped fighting. That’s why there was the later “Twilight” series of movies, and I like to watch the gospel of vampires fighting werewolves.
Because only werewolves can kill vampires, and Van Helsing must kill Dracula, so there is a plot setting in which Van Helsing is bitten and becomes a werewolf. Van Helsing, who turned into a wolf, was not controlled by Dracula because his predecessor was Gabriel. In the end, Van Helsing was injected with werewolf serum to get rid of the curse.