Character sourced from: Horror

Gabriel Van Helsing

CBUB Wins: 20
CBUB Losses: 17
Win Percentage: 54.05%

Added by: agustinaldo

Read more about Gabriel Van Helsing at: Wikipedia

Official Site: Universal Pictures

Professor Abraham Van Helsing is a protagonist from Bram Stoker's 1897 novel, Dracula.

Van Helsing is a Dutch doctor with a wide range of interests and accomplishments, partly attested by the string of letters that follows his name: "M.D., D.Ph., D.Litt., etc." The character is best known as a vampire hunter, and the arch-enemy of Count Dracula.

The typically Dutch prefix "van" gives the name a Dutch appearance. The character however uses German words instead of Dutch, such as "mein Gott" and "toll", which translate in English to "my God" and "great" respectively. At the time, German was a lingua franca throughout most of northern and central continental Europe, including the Nordic countries and Transylvania, a fact Stoker uses in the story when Van Helsing's friend Jonathan Harker and the locals of Transylvania talk to each other using German.

As an interesting aside, in Finland there are a few hundred people, mostly Swedish speakers, who have the last name "Helsing". In Finland this surname probably originates from the name of Finland's capital, Helsinki (Helsingfors in Swedish). This would seem to indicate that the doctor's forebears emigrated to the Netherlands from the Nordic countries, just as the Dutch surname, "van Praag", indicates ancestral emigrants from the city of Prague.

Fantasy Teams Season 1 Record:

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Result Opponent A Score   B Score
Loss Po 5 to 29

Fantasy Teams Season 13 Record:

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Result Opponent A Score   B Score
Loss Leonardo (1987) 7 to 9
Loss Chaos (Disney's Aladdin) 2 to 5

Regular play Record:

Result Opponent A Score   B Score
Win Lestat de Lioncourt 64 to 22
Loss Marvel Zombies 42 to 65
Win Freddy Krueger 59 to 30
Win The Headless Horseman 60 to 40
Loss Captain Jack Sparrow 51 to 53
Loss Ashley J. Williams 40 to 64
Loss Nightwing 42 to 69
Win The Lost Boys 69 to 13
Loss Blade 40 to 64
Win Legion (Castlevania) 68 to 31
Win Noob Saibot 63 to 54
Win Angel 51 to 23
Loss Riddick 40 to 56
Loss Blade 45 to 60
Win Buffy the Vampire Slayer 51 to 33
Loss The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen 24 to 81
Win Diablo 51 to 39
Loss Wolverine 27 to 71
Win Richter Belmont 50 to 23
Win Alucard (Hellsing) 18 to 17
Win Vampires (30 Days of Night) 27 to 2
Win Blacula 27 to 6
Win Blanka 14 to 13
Loss Riddick 14 to 15
Win Jonah Hex 14 to 12
Loss Dark Beast 12 to 15
Loss Arkham Asylum 7 to 10
Win The Big Bad Wolf 13 to 5
Win Selene (Underworld) 11 to 7
Win Cassie Hack 9 to 2
Loss Solomon Kane 5 to 12
Loss Backlash 4 to 7
Win Jared Nomak 8 to 2
Loss Link 9 to 10
Win Zorro 15 to 11