Tubalcain Alhambra

Tubalcain Alhambra is a male anime and manga character who features in Hellsing.

Biography

Tubalcain Alhambra (Japanese: トバルカイン・アルハンブラ, Hepburn: Tobarukain Aruhanbura)

After Jan Valentine and Luke Valentine's attack on Hellsing manor, The Major sent Tubalcain to Brazil, where he promised several police and military officers immortality; Millennium would transform them into vampires if they successfully killed Alucard and Seras Victoria. In reality, Tubalcain did not expect his allies to succeed; his true goal was to leave Alucard with less ammunition for their duel. In any event, he observed the police and military's siege of the Rio de Janeiro hotel where Alucard and Seras were staying, justifying his actions to the public by claiming that Alucard and Seras were dangerous terrorists. As Alucard fought his way out of the ambush, Tubalcain received a call from the Major, ordering him to confront the vampire directly. To this end, The Dandy stood in the courtyard outside the hotel just as Alucard knocked the last members of the invading GATE team through the front doors and onto the flagpoles around the courtyard. After politely introducing himself and declaring his intent to kill Alucard, Tubalcain attacked the Hellsing-aligned vampire with his Playing Cards. Initially, Tubalcain kept Alucard on the defensive with trickery and an endless flurry of Playing Cards. However, Alucard managed to evade Tubalcain's killing strike and take the battle to the roof of the hotel, where the Millennium officer was attacked by Seras' Harkonnen. Although Tubalcain easily deflected the former police girl's gunfire, even cutting one of the Harkonnen's shells in two before it could hit him, the distraction allowed Alucard to release his Control Art Restriction System to Level One and close the distance between himself and Tubalcain. After tricking Tubalcain into attacking his shadow familiars, Alucard finally managed to grab the enemy vampire, delivering a powerful kick that severed Tubalcain's left leg below the knee.

In a last attempt to protect himself, Tubalcain attempted to slash Alucard with a Playing Card held between his fingers. In response, Alucard used his own hand to meet the attack, tearing both vampires' arms apart. As Tubalcain reeled in pain, Alucard regenerated from his wound and seized The Dandy's head, explaining that he had been ordered to "thoroughly" interrogate him to learn more about Millennium. Unfortunately for Tubalcain, Alucard's "interrogation" involved drinking his blood and absorbing his soul, thus gaining access to Tubalcain's memories and a record of Millennium's plans. After Tubalcain expired, The Professor used his implanted transmitter to cremate his remains. He later emerges when Integra releases Alucard's Control Art Restriction System to Level Zero. As Alucard unleashes his full power, Tubalcain was among the millions of souls that manifest as familiars to the reborn Dracula. Along with the similarly-reconstituted Rip Van Winkle, Tubalcain decimated the Ninth Crusade and the Last Battalion alike. After destroying several of Maxwell's gunships and attacking Anderson, Tubalcain was destroyed by holy fire after Alucard was stabbed by a bayonet enhanced with the power of Helena's Nail. Later, some of Tubalcain's Playing Cards were seen among the items used as shrines.

Overview

Personality and attributes

In appearance, Tubalcain Alhambra was a tall and thin male with green eyes, light silver hair, and a thin brown moustache. Typically, he was shown dressed inn a brown suit, vest, and wide-brimmed fedora with a blue tie with him wearing white gloves. As a member of Millennium, he came to operate under the code name of Dandy (OVA: Dandyman).

Though classy and suave, this belied more violent, aggressive parts of himself that were shown in battle. His ruthless nature could be seen in the way he proudly told of his success in getting Alucard to use his special bullets at the expense of many police officers.

Powers and abilities

Like most of Millennium's forces, Tubalcain Alhambra employed his own unique special weapons and abilities that were not seen in any other character in the series. He was an Artificial Vampire from the Last Battalion that originated from the Middle East and posed a powerful foe that, for a while, managed to pose a challenge for the likes of the No-Life King Alucard. As an Artificial Vampire, Tubalcain could not age or die of a disease. However, he could still be killed, meaning that his "immortality" was biological.

In terms of his other vampiric abilities, Alhambra possesses a great deal of speed and strength. His running speed appears to rival Alucard's, and with effort he can dodge Alucard's bullets. Alhambra is also shown to be able to defy gravity, shown when he leaps a great height and nonchalantly walks up a wall in the OVA.

He was shown to have attacks that consisted of razor-sharp playing cards that could apparently cut through nearly anything. Tubalcain's weapons of choice were razor-sharp Playing Cards (トランプ, Toranpu). It was shown that his playing cards seemed capable of effecting the regenerative abilities of supernatural targets who were not able to heal from these wounds. Tubalcain could also use the cards to protect himself where he had them circle his body with them even able to shield him from sniper shots. Tubalcain was able to control his Playing Cards with his mind, allowing them to freely fly around his body or change trajectory mid-flight to hit a moving target. Tubalcain could deflect attacks by rapidly spinning his Playing Cards in a circle around his body. He used this to protect himself from Seras' gunfire.

Notes

• Tubalcain Alhambra was created by Kouta Hirano where he featured in the setting of the Hellsing universe.

In other media

Television

• In Hellsing: Ultimate, Tubalcain Alhambra appeared in the setting of the anime television series adaptation where he was voiced by Japanese actor Hōchū Ōtsuka and English actor Steve Wilcox in the dubbed series.

Appearances

• Hellsing:

External Links

• Hellsing Wiki Entry

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