Order of the Van Helsings (DC)
The Order of the Van Helsings is a group that features in DC Comics.
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History
The Order of the Van Helsings was an organization of vampire hunters that existed on Earth. They were formed long ago after Cain brought the brood into Egypt during the reign of Ramses II, during the 13th Century BCE. All in their path were murdered, until someone learned that driving a wooden stake through the heart and decapitation would kill the vampires. (I, Vampire v1 #10) Cain and his bride, Lilith, had inadvertently formed them by way of Lilith's first change to a monstrous entity, the survivors of the massacre joining 'the destroyers', a cult of vampire 'murderers'. (I, Vampire v1 #16) The Order have been very influential throughout history, including the invention of napalm. (I, Vampire v1 #10) Professor John Troughton, they not only are the source of the name of Abraham Van Helsing. (I, Vampire v1 #8) Many of the myths surrounding vampires were said to stem from Bram Stoker having spent summers at their castle as a child. (I, Vampire v1 #9)
After the resurrection of Andrew Bennett, Professor John Troughton and Tig Rafelson came to the castle of the Van Helsings in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, on the order of Andrew himself in an attempt to broker a peace. In order to test the veracity of their claims, the Order poisoned the both of them, then smuggled them onto one of their planes and began a flight to America. (I, Vampire v1 #10) They found John and Tig's association with Andrew to be problematic, given his reluctance to kill Mary, Queen of Blood. They also claimed not to be inherently bad or good, but merely a tool of great destruction; the Van Helsings are prone to being labelled. They revealed that their plans for the future are to move on to taking out the 'supers', once the vampires are dead. Soon after, they began firebombing the assembly of vampires that were fighting; those of Andrew versus those of Mary. Using pendants carved in the likeness of Anubis, the fanatical Order jumped from their plane, descending to the vampires below, where they faced off against both sides of vampires in addition to the newly arrived Stormwatch until Andrew's magic managed to seal all of the undead souls inside of his own body at the expense of his morality. Their main loss was not only a massive number of their forces, but also their leader, who was dismembered twelve times. (I, Vampire v1 #12)
After assembling a new contingent of general vampires including Tig, Charles Thompson, and the vampire dog Mishkin, Andrew attacked Castle Van Helsing, easily tearing through their defenses and meeting with their second-in-command before being brought face to face with the newly resurrected and enhanced Van Helsing. Making their way past the leadership, they made their way to the Egyptian Book of the Dead, which they used to go into the pocket dimension that housed the Armory of all weapons known to kill vampires. (I, Vampire v1 #15) Finding the brick from the top of the Tower of Babel that touched Heaven and turning the Keeper of the books in the area, the group accidentally awakened a contingent of living statues in the armory, along with Van Helsing, and summarily defeated and murdered them all with the help of their own skills and the brick itself, possibly eradicating the Order in the process. (I, Vampire v1 #16)
Overview
Members
- Van Helsing :
- Keeper :
Notes
- The Order of the Van Helsigs were created by Joshua Hale Fialkov and Andrea Sorrentino where they made their first appearance in I, Vampire v1 #9 (July, 2012).
Appearances
- I, Vampire v1: (2012)
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