Since its release in 2012, the Hotel Transylvania series has pumped out three movies, a multitude
of shorts, and a quirky animated series. Well, on January 14th, 2022, the latest movie in the
franchise, Hotel Transylvania: Transformania came out on Amazon Prime. Now, we’ve talked
about Hotel Transylvania before… Many of these characters have had 3 prior films to grow in… But
the important thing is where they ended up on the morality spectrum after the 4th movie… We
want to know who the most noble character is… and which monster… or human is the biggest villain.
I’m Kyle with WickedBinge and this is Hotel Transylvania: Transformania: Good to Evil.
A couple of notes before we get started: firstly, we’re going to try and focus on events
exclusively from Hotel Transylvania 4, we may speak about events from previous movies
but they won’t be our focus. Secondly, spoilers for the movie abound,
so if you haven’t seen the movie just yet, don’t spoil yourself on this video.
With that out of the way, we can move onto our list, these are The Good.
Earning our Gold Medal of Good is Ericka Van Helsing. Ericka is Dracula’s new Zing who
first appeared in Hotel Transylvania 3 and the great-granddaughter of monster hunter Abraham
Van Helsing. Ericka is the best character because she tries to be helpful throughout the entirety of
the movie, to both Dracula with his retirement and Mavis with her quest to get Drac and Johnny back.
Ericka also doesn’t get angry at Dracula like everyone else
and does get quite angry at Van Helsing after what happened.
Ericka does have a blimp full of monster-killing equipment but it’s not like she uses it thanks
to Dracula’s influence, and even then that’s not really that bad.
The Silver Medal of Good goes to Mavis Dracula. Mavis, like the other films in the series,
is arguably the main protagonist of the movie, sharing that honor with Johnny
to some degree. In this movie, Mavis does her best to help Johnny throughout the film
and does get a bit sad and angry about Dracula’s denial of his retirement.
She also does get supremely angry at Dracula during the film, but it’s not without reason,
as we’ll get to later. Mavis, however, like the other films, is a genuinely good person
and a loving wife that would do anything to help Johnny, including throwing a rock at his
head. Mavis only ranks below Ericka because of her aforementioned justified anger at Dracula.
Sharing our Bronze Medal of Good are Dennis and Winnie. They’re sharing a spot because they
share pretty much the exact same role in the movie. Neither of them has a lot of
screen time in the movie, mostly appearing in the intro and the ending where they help
in Johnny’s party at the beginning of the movie and greet their parents at the end of the movie.
Since they don’t do much in the movie we can’t in good conscience rank them any lower.
Next up of our list is Blobby. Blobby kind of falls into the same trap as the last couple of
characters as he doesn’t get a lot of screentime. However, this is due to being turned into his
“human form” which is just a plate of gelatin. However, despite being just a plate of gelatin,
he is still being helpful as he helps Dracula get to Johnny near the end of the movie.
Blobby does get a bit angry near the beginning and ends of the movie, once for
some mistranslated gibberish that might have been offensive and at the end for Drac’s bootprints in
his body. But besides those angry bits, Blobby has no reason to rank any lower.
Rounding out the good section of our list is Wanda Werewolf. Wanda actually gets more screentime than
she usually does as she actually goes on the trip with Mavis and Ericka to save Dracula and
Johnny. However, despite her extended appearance doesn’t do much except getting rightfully mad at
both Wayne and Dracula. Wanda does eventually get to relax at the end of the movie as she was stuck
with the pups the entire film thanks to Wayne, but generally, Wanda is just kind of there.
We now begin moving further down our list and now we get into The Gray Area.
Starting off the Gray Area is Eunice Stein. Eunice is the Bride of Frankenstein and a fun
recurring character in the series. She fulfills a similar role to Wanda as she kind of freaks
out when Frank is turned into a human and goes on a trip to get the crystal with Mavis.
She and everyone else does help Mavis get to the shady area to hit Johnny with the beam,
although it doesn’t work. Eunice falls into the gray area because she isn’t as nice to her husband
as Wanda is, such as chopping off Frank’s hair when he changes it with no regard for his safety.
The invisible man Griffin is the next character on our list. Griffin is one of Dracula’s close
friends and one of the few characters who kept their voice actor in this movie.
Griffin, like the other members of Drac’s friend group, keeps the secret from Mavis and Ericka,
which is quite harmful. Like the other members of the group, he is also turned
into a human and is quite embarrassed by his nakedness. Throughout the rest of the movie,
he is constantly seen holding Blobby and being helpful. He’s only in the gray because he does
hide pretty important information from Mavis, but he’s not alone in that respect.
Another member of Drac’s friend group, Frankenstein is up next. Frank is one of
the members of Drac’s group that turns him into a human. As a human, he is very vain and full
of himself throughout the movie much to the annoyance of everyone else. Frank is like the
others we’ve mentioned so far and hid the events from Mavis and Ericka at Drac’s request. Frank
doesn’t really do much to rank any lower than where we’ve put him besides being a bit annoying.
Next up on our list is Murray. Murray is a mummy and one of Dracula’s close friends
that gets turned into a human by accident. He, like Dracula’s other friends, initially tries
to hide the events from Mavis and Ericka like Dracula asked, although they do seem to not
respect him at times. Murray after becoming a human is kind of just an old man, accidentally
almost hitting Wanda with a giant crossbow bolt and being kind of useless near the end of the
movie. Murray isn’t actively harming anyone but he does get kind of close throughout the movie.
Rounding out the gray area is the final member of Drac’s group, Wayne Werewolf.
Wayne as his name implies is a werewolf and a good friend of Dracula who, like the
others hides what happened from Mavis and Ericka. However, that’s not why he falls where he does,
the main reason is after he turns into a human. After turning into a werewolf he pretends to
be “Walter” and tricks his children into thinking he wasn’t their father.
He forces the kids to stay with Wanda and enjoy his alone time, now yes, the pups
are annoying and that’s been the joke since the first movie, but that doesn’t make it any better.
The thing about this movie is there aren't really any “villains”
but we still need to dive into the Bad to Evil category.
It feels bad to place him here, but starting off this category is Jonathan Loughran. Johnny
is a nice guy, there’s no doubt about that, look at each of the movies and
it’s quite obvious in the other movies. Speaking strictly about this film, however, he has to fall
here as much as it may not seem like it. He kicks off the plot of the film by becoming a monster
and goes on an adventure with Drac to get the crystal. He tries to be helpful such as with
the Marshmallow analogy or slapping Dracula hard enough to knock him out to kill a mosquito. He
causes a lot of destruction which luckily doesn’t get to the human civilization but he was feral
because of the crystal and not technically in control. However, we can’t divorce him from said
destruction which is why he very tenuously ranks right at the edge of the Bad to Evil section.
In a very similar situation, Gigi the Guinea Pig is next on our list. Gigi
is Van Helsing’s pet guinea pig on who he tests some of his experiments.
They are who Helsing initially tests the monsterfication-ray on and they turn into
a giant monstrous guinea pig. Gigi also turns into a giant feral beast due to the effects of the ray
and attacks Helsing. They also eventually destroy the hotel, which is really why
they rank down below Johnny, even though they both technically weren’t in control.
Earning our Bronze Medal of Evil is the Gremlin Air Crew. This is specifically referring to the
pilot and the stewardess we see when Johnny and Drac are heading to South America. The pilot has
less screen time and purposefully jostles around the plane which makes Drac quite sick, and the
stewardess isn’t much better. The Stewardess treats Dracula like she would any monster guest,
throwing him out of the plane to get “fresh air” and stopping him from using the bathroom. However,
they don’t really seem to care about the health and safety of their passengers,
the plane, or themselves and therefore brings them down here.
Snatching the Silver Medal of Evil is none other than Count Dracula. While this movie
doesn’t have any real villains, one can make the argument that Dracula is actually the main
antagonist of this movie. Dracula is initially set to retire at the beginning of the movie but
decides against it because of Johnny. Throughout the rest of the movie he and Johnny go on a trip
to get the crystal for the monsterfication-ray so they can turn back to their normal form. He
constantly berates Johnny throughout the movie and lies to him so he wouldn’t have to give
the hotel to Johnny and Mavis. He does cause Johnny to go on his rampage…but he does redeem
himself in the end. This is what stops him from falling to the very bottom,
and honestly, it feels kind of a backtrack for his character at this point in the story.
Finally, the Gold Medal of Evil goes to Abraham Van Helsing. Van Helsing isn’t nearly as bad
as he was in the previous movie but he’s probably the worst character in the movie.
Not only does he turn Johnny into a monster despite not testing it for
much longer than shooting Gigi with it for like a few seconds before he shoots Johnny with it. He
also tells Dracula and Johnny about where to find the crystal but doesn’t go with them
since he actively knew how to get there. He shows little care for the other characters,
even Ericka and while he has gotten better since the last movie, it’s not by much.
But, with all of that out of the way we can move on by handing out a few medals for the characters.
Grabbing the Darwin Medal for dumbest character in the movie is actually Count Dracula,
after the last three movies of accepting Johnny and his lifestyle,
he suddenly pivots to lying to him and hiding from Mavis.
Snatching the Sloth Medal is Murray who after turning into a human
is constantly seen sleeping of falling asleep in random spots
Grabbing the Gluttony Medal is Gigi who just eats a lot during
the film such as when she literally eats a part of the hotel in front of Drac.
Earning the Envy Medal is Wayne who was always envious of non-parents but he
was even envious of his previous persona “Walter”.
Persuing the Pride Medal is Frank who
as a human was so vain that he sat around half-naked and even called himself good-looking.
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