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Lord Valdronya was the disguise of Vincent Van Helsing in the 2012 direct to video film Scooby-Doo! Music of the Vampire, and was also a centuries-old vampire. By staging a "vampire wedding" on his grounds Van Helsing hoped to make his place famous and increase sales of his books.

Physical appearance

Lord Valdronya appears very bat-like with glowing, green eyes, pointed ears, long fangs, claws and a bat-like snout. He appears to have what looks like black makeup underneath his glowing eyes. Valdronya wears purple garments with a vampire talisman holding his cape. Valdronya's hair is dark gray in places while other places are light grey.

His bat form appeared in two versions. One version was a like a green ghost. The other was seemingly a common looking vampire bat but enormous in size. Both bat forms were really big in size and aggressive looking. The first one could go through walls like a ghost, while the other one could produce Valdronya's Aphrodite mist when turning from bat to actual vampire.

Personality

Lord Valdronya has the typical personality of an everyday vampire. He sings in rhymes. He had shown to be exponentially mean, compared to other vampires, shown to have a powerful will to capture Daphne, in order to possess a Vampire Bride, and his toughness was shown even more when he was chasing down Scooby and Shaggy without a stop, through obstacles including even an old guy hitting Valdronya's head. Yet the powerful Vampire didn't stop.

Powers and abilities

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Valdronya with fireballs.

This is what is certainly canon. (potential content is included in the talk page).

  • Flight: Jet boosters hidden underneath his boots allowed him to fly.
  • Pyrokinesis: He could throw fireballs by using concealed flamethrowers.
  • Mesmerism: He was able to create large mists and hypnotize his victims and occasionally make them fall in love by using knockout gas.
  • Bat from: He could become a giant bat via projectors.
  • Veil of mist: He could become a veil via projectors.

Note: There is a possibility of a real Valdronya. See talk page. We don't know if it's canon.

History

Scooby-Doo! Music of the Vampire

Valdronya in tomb

Lord Valdronya in his glass tomb.

Lord Valdronya was said to be entombed in glass for nine-thousand years and was later made as part of the collection in Vincent Van Helsing's vampire museum. Shortly after Van Helsing introduces Valdronya to Mystery Inc., he is resurrected by the Fangenschanz theater troupe in their theater and escapes in bat form. Later on Mystery Inc. returns to Van Helsing's vampire museum to find out how Valdronya escaped; however, Valdronya confronts Daphne Blake with the Vampire wedding jewelry which he stole from the vampire museum. Later on after Mystery Inc. tries to find information about the vampire attacks from Jesper Poubelle they flee in the Mystery Machine and Valdronya attacks them hoping to kidnap Daphne; however, he lets go of Daphne's arm when he realizes he is about to hit a bridge.

However Valdronya does not give up and talks to Bram and the rest of the Fangenschanz members into kidnapping Daphne and she is later taken to the swamp where they a temped to have a vampire wedding. After the Fangenschanz temps their chant and summons Valdronya, he knocks them out with his Aphrodite mist telling them that when they awake they will be immortal and uses it to put Daphne into a state of sleeping and make her fall in love with him. However, Shaggy Rogers tries to take a photo of Valdronya with Daphne and he begins chasing Shaggy.

Vincent Van Helsing unmasked

Vincent Van Helsing unmasked.

It is later revealed to be Vincent Van Helsing when the knock-out gas wears out and his cape is torn of with a swamp boat fan, and later on staked to a tree by Fred Jones. It was also revealed that his power of flying was created by the flying shoes that he had earlier stolen from Tulie. Van Helsing wanted to sell more books by the publicity the vampire wedding would make. The sheriff arrests Van Helsing and the actors. The gang then returns to their vacation.

Appearances

Notes/trivia

  • Given his attire and his personality, along with his accent and his true identity being 'Van Helsing', he seems to be based on Count Dracula as he wants a vampiric bride, with Daphne playing the role of Mina and the vampire-based band being his vampire servants.
  • His facial appearance is also very similar to the movie vampire Nosferatu, from the film of the same name.
  • He is similar to Aphrodite, hypnotizing his victims, and tending to keep on going after his enemies even through obstacles. He also demands the Fangenschanz to bow before him, so does Aphrodite, demanding her enemies do so. Generally, his personality does indeed resemble that of Aphrodite.
  • Possibly, his name might mean ''Lord of Venus''. Venus / Aphrodite was the goddess of love in Greek mythology. His name seems to have the word ''Lord'' in it. Vanya or Vania was an old Romanian reference to Venus, the roman name of Aphrodite. So the word Valdonya might mean Lord of Venus. He does possess major similarities with the deity, like hypnotizing enemies, making them fall in love, rising out of the water with sea foam, searching for beauty and innocence, creating mist and even his hair is waving in a strikingly similar way to the goddess Aphrodite.
  • Maybe it means ''forest'' or ''dwelling''. Possibly comes from Valdron, commonly known as Waldron, meaning forest. ''Nya''/''Nia'' might refer to Transylvania, which means beyond the forest. People with this name use Valdronia instead of Valdronya. Possibly linked to Transylvania. However, it is highly unlikely that Valdronya means forest because Transylvania can't be written with Nya, while Vania / Vanya which means Venus can be written with both Nia and Nya, so can the name Valdronia / Valdronya. So Valdronya still likely means Lord of Venus.
  • Lastly, his name might come from Vald = ruler/power + Ronya, Old Norse “regin” = brightness or advice/counsel (of the Gods), thus meaning bright strength or ruler of strength. However this is impossible, as there shoud be at least a slight orthographic change in the words.
  • There is likely a real Valdronya in the movie. See talk page.
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