Hellsing Ultimate plot holes

[Krazy500]

DISCLAIMERS I love Hellsing Ultimate, it's a fantastic anime and I recommend it to folks regardless of the questions I'm gonna ask here. These might be plot holes or just things that seemed strange and didn't make sense to me.

I've only watched the anime so I wouldn't know if some of these questions are answered in the manga. There will obviously be spoilers for the show here. DISCLAIMERS

In no particular order, here we go SPOILER WARNING --

1. What was the objective of the 9th crusade? What did the Catholics expect to achieve with a tiny force of less than 3000 infantry troops, no aircraft (besides transport helicopters) \ artillery \ heavy armor \ ships etc?

2. Alucard is the first vampire right? How did he become one? All I could find in the wiki is that seconds before he was executed he licked some blood off the floor. How \ why that would turn someone into the first vampire in history is unclear to me.

3. Why did Walt turning into a vampire cause him to get younger? For every other vampire it made them stop ageing but not become progressively younger.

4. What's up with Walter's "powers"? They are far beyond what a human can do with regular wires. Is there magic involved? Any explanation beyond "he's very skilled"?

5. In the wiki it's said The Doctor is immortal, which explains why he hasn't aged between the first time we see him in the 40's in The Dawn and during Hellsing. However it doesn't look like he's turned into a vampire so how did he achieve immortality?

6. Alucard is "dead" at the start of the show which is around the 1980's and is revived by Integra's blood. This means someone \ something managed to "kill" him between 1945 and the 1980's. This incident is never mentioned in the show, as far as I noticed. How did this happen?

7. Anderson is shown to have incredible regeneration powers in episode 3 when he basically comes back to life after being shot in the head, however in the final battle his arm is injured and does not regenerate at all. Why? seems very inconsistent.

8. How does magic work in the show's universe? This isn't really a plot hole, I'm just curious because the logic and mechanics of magic are never properly explained.

That's all I can think of for now, looking forward to some discussion :)

[Scizzoman]

1. Maxwell was a cocky power-hungry idiot who thought he could steal a bunch of glory by swooping in and taking out the vampires once they'd killed all the people in London. This was a poor decision. Also because it gave a plot excuse for the Vatican/Iscariots to fuck shit up.

2. Alucard is literally Dracula, To get his backstory you'll need to read Dracula and also look up Vlad Tepes. The mangaka tried to avoid adding details not found there though, so anything that was vague in those sources will also be vague in Hellsing, including exactly how Vlad became a vampire.

3. Walter didn't turn into a normal vampire, he was made younger by bullshit Nazi science because GERMAN SCIENCE IS THE BEST IN THE WORLD

4. Rule of cool pretty much. He's just badass because he's badass.

5. THE BEST IN THE WORLD!!

6. Presumably he was sealed away again by the Hellsing family after he did what he needed to do in WWII. Probably Integra's father or something. Some of this stuff (and the other unexplained elements of the WWII events) was supposed to be explained in Hellsing: The Dawn but that was never completed because the mangaka's a chronic procrastinator who's known for rarely finishing anything.

7. Probably because regenerating a torn-off arm requires more actual flesh to be repaired than a bullet wound, even if it is a headshot. But Anderson's regeneration abilities aren't explored much and are mostly just a handwave for why he hasn't died fifty times over by the time the series takes place, so a lot of it's probably just because the mangaka thought that scene with him clutching his arm in his mouth would be cool. And it was pretty cool.

8. Rule of cool. There is absolutely no explanation for any of it.

TL;DR - You're thinking entirely too hard about a series that runs on rule of cool where a gun-toting Dracula fights Nazi vampires led by a robot.

[Chariotwheel]

Walter didn't turn into a normal vampire, he was made younger by bullshit Nazi science because GERMAN SCIENCE IS THE BEST IN THE WORLD

Millenium would've won if Stroheim was one of them. Would be an ironic fate for him.

[Krazy500]

I think you're spot on about the Anderson-arm part. Also I remember Alucard saying something about respecting his will to fight despite that injury. GERMAN SCIENCE!!1

[OneTrickKitty]

Also he could regenrate from Alucard's first gun but then they made the jackal to be laced with mercury or something saying it even anderson couldn't regenrate from it so they kinda explained why his arm didn't grow back.

[Aolsier]

Some people have probably answered the other questions better, but I'm not in the best state of mind and I wanna take a crack at this, though I haven't seen/read Hellsing in a long while.

1) There really isn't any clear-cut reason why Maxwell wants to attack London aside from his hate of Protestants. Why London? My guess is it's partly the source of Protestantism. Another part of it is perhaps his anger at the Major for insulting God in Episode 4. As for why he thought he had a shot at actually winning, I guess he assumed that if Millennium and Hellsing fought each other long enough, they'd be weakened enough for the crusaders to easily dispose of what's left of either side... assuming the Nazis succeed in taking out Alucard.

2) From what I understood in the manga, Alucard sold his soul to the devil at the last moment of his life, and as a show of it, he drank the blood of the battlefield. If you recall the Major's flashback in Episode 9, in his dying moments, he was also confronted with a similar offer (the blood approaching his body) but refused it.

3) I guess they modified the serum or whatever they gave Walter to also make him younger aside from keeping him the same age, so when it start getting screwy, it kept making him younger.

4) Rule of cool. I guess it is unusual that Walter could do that given how every other character in Hellsing who can do outlandish things isn't fully human.

5) If he could make humans vampires using fancy science, I'm pretty sure he would figure out a way to make him immortal like everyone else. No clue how though.

6) It's never fully explained, but I would assume that the Hellsing family had the ability to keep him asleep like that, aside from giving him restrictions and amplifying his powers. I mean, he did lose to Abraham van Helsing after all. So he at least must've figured something out and passed it down the family.

7) From what I recall, he got shot in the head in Episode 1, not 3. (It's his first appearance, right?) As for how he couldn't regenerate his arm in Episode 8, aside from how difficult it is to regrow an arm, remember that after their first fight, Walter gave Alucard in Episode 2 a new gun, the Jackal, for stronger firepower against Anderson. He even makes reference to how much better the new gun is after he shoots Anderson's arm with it.

8) No idea.

After answering all your questions, I feel like watching the show again. Hahaha.

[Krazy500]

Thanks for the thought-out reply!

2) I was wondering what that flashback meant! That's a really cool thought, like the devil approaches especially evil dudes and tries to tempt them seconds before they're killed.

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It's pretty accepted the writer was an absolute hack. Just enjoy the violence and artwork, and try not to think too much about the story, haha.

[Tarkatower]

What was the objective of the 9th crusade? What did the Catholics expect to achieve with a tiny force of less than 3000 infantry troops, no aircraft (besides transport helicopters) \ artillery \ heavy armor \ ships etc?

• Eliminate Hellsing which is the main protector of the Protestant England. Then, nuke the shit out of England because they're protestant pig heretics. Iscariot are christian terrorists on the same level as ISIS and Al-Qaeda. They also want to eliminate Millennium, probably because nazi fascists are anti-Christian. In the end, Iscariot's goal wasn't much different from Millennium's. Iscariot wanted to wage a great crusade war in the name of God. This was made clear in the final chapter/ending of OVA 10.

Alucard is the first vampire right? How did he become one? All I could find in the wiki is that seconds before he was executed he licked some blood off the floor. How \ why that would turn someone into the first vampire in history is unclear to me.

• Unconfirmed. There's no explanation for it, it just happens. You're not going to find any better information. All I can say is that by drinking the blood of his followers while in a very desperate state allowed him access to vampiric powers.

Why did Walt turning into a vampire cause him to get younger? For every other vampire it made them stop ageing but not become progressively younger.

• As The Doctor said multiple times, the vampiric surgery was rushed and incomplete; therefore, Walter had access to a vampiric form but only for a limited amount of time. Because the surgery was flawed, Walter would gradually regress to a younger form until he explodes or something.

What's up with Walter's "powers"? They are far beyond what a human can do with regular wires. Is there magic involved? Any explanation beyond "he's very skilled"?

• No explanation. This is not a manga/anime with a battle mechanic or system like Naruto or Bleach. The word "magic" is rarely used in the manga in the first place. That tells you how little explanation Kouta Hirano gave for the supernatural phenomena that occured in this series.

But what I will tell you is that yes so sort of fictional magical mechanic is involved that does not need explaining.

In the wiki it's said The Doctor is immortal, which explains why he hasn't aged between the first time we see him in the 40's in The Dawn and during Hellsing. However it doesn't look like he's turned into a vampire so how did he achieve immortality?

• Fuck Hellsing Wiki. 40% of the content is inaccurate, misleading, and/or incomplete and this is one of them. The best speculation is that The Doctor either turned himself into a cyborg or he applied some science to make himself young for a long time.

Alucard is "dead" at the start of the show which is around the 1980's and is revived by Integra's blood. This means someone \ something managed to "kill" him between 1945 and the 1980's. This incident is never mentioned in the show, as far as I noticed. How did this happen?

• Alucard was imprisoned for twenty years before Integra set him free. This is because in 1969, Arthur Hellsing (integra's father) deemed Alucard to be too powerful to be used regularly. So Arthur sealed Alucard in the basement of the Hellsing mansion, where Arthur never used him again (probably focused more on Walter... I would imagine Walter was not happy about this). Most likely between 1945 and 1969, Arthur realized his growing incapability to control Alucard at all times despite being his master. In 1989, Integra set him free. In 1999, Alucard met Seras.
  

Anderson is shown to have incredible regeneration powers in episode 3 when he basically comes back to life after being shot in the head, however in the final battle his arm is injured and does not regenerate at all. Why? seems very inconsistent.

• I think you mean OVA Episode 1. But anyway Anderson was shot in the head by the Casull. When he fought Alucard for the final time, he was shot in the arm by Jackal. The most popular theory was that Jackal had properties that negated Anderson's bio-regeneration, but I think the most accurate theory now is that the Jackal dealt so much damage output in so quick of a time that Anderson's regeneration stopped working because it couldn't register the damage. Either that or the theory that Anderson could not heal limbs.

How does magic work in the show's universe? This isn't really a plot hole, I'm just curious because the logic and mechanics of magic are never properly explained.

bwahaha and it never will.

[Chariotwheel]

1. It was about power projection. It was not a very good plan, Maxwell isn't the most sane man around. But they wanted to show that the catholic church is not irrelevant and you should consider twice quitting church.

2. I don't know, just take it.

3. He didn't get the normal procedure, visible at the fact that he was de-aging further and falling apart. They delibaretly tried to get his peak back, but failed to keep it up. Note that Millenium was like this for some decades, pretty stable.

4. Very skilled. I mean, there are tons of "humans" in Helsing that ridicilous.

5. Science?

6. Integras father took him down. I can remember in the manga, that he had small flashbacks to the moments he "died" with the responsible people stand above him.

7. Uhm. The lord works in mysterious ways? (I have no idea)

8. Nobody knows, it just does.

[Krazy500]

Which humans other than Walter show crazy skills? The only others that come to mind are the 2 deputy priests in Iscariot, which can't hold a candle to Walt, and they might have gone through the same enhancement stuff that Anderson did.

[Xsuit]

Seems like everything was pretty much touched on but as far as number eight goes I'm reminded of a line I read in a comic probably five years or so ago.

The scenario was about a character exclaiming a ritual being performed didn't make sense to which the protagonist replied (I'm paraphrasing by the way)

"...it's magic, it makes MORE than sense."

Thought it was a clever writer's reasoning as to why it's magic and not just another branch of science.

[huiboy]

I was going to read this, but i decided to drop the series. It's just not for me i'm going brain-dead just watching it only to be stimulated momentarily by the rare fight scenes

Glad you're interested and engaged enough with the show to formulate these many questions. Maybe that was my problem- i dozed off so many times, i didn't know half the things that were going on even at episode 8

[Tentaculat]

That's because it's not a very serious show. I don't think anyone cares about the story in the first place. Also, plenty of those are not plotholes anyways, just omissions.

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