Mavis Dracula is the deuteragonist of the 2012 computer-animated comedy film Hotel Transylvania and its sequels. She is Dracula and Martha's 118-year-old "teenage" daughter. In the second movie, she becomes the wife of Jonathan Loughran and the mother of their son, Dennis. It is also revealed she is the granddaughter to her paternal grandfather, Vlad.
In the first movie, Mavis is totally pampered by her loving father; however, she is headstrong and smart, and in many ways, a typical 18-year-old girl. She has grown bored with the domain of her childhood — she has lived within her father’s hotel and its grounds all her life — and she longs to travel, experience life and see the world but, once she meets Johnnystein (Jonathan) and they "have a zing" nothing will be the same.
Appearance[]
Mavis is a pretty, young female vampire with pale skin, blue eyes, and short jet black hair with bangs. She wears a black turtleneck dress with long black fingerless lace gloves, black and red striped tights, and red Converse. She also wears black lipstick matched with black varnished nails and dark eyeshadow.
In the second film, her wedding dress is black and sleeveless with lacing on her chest that looks like a spider's web, with a red pendant necklace. She also wears a long, delicate veil with a small, silver tiara on her head. She can be seen holding a bouquet of black flowers as she walks down the aisle. She also wears black, silky gloves.
In Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation, Mavis spends most of the film in her summer outfit. This consists of a short black dress decorated with large purple leaves and a thin purple belt. She also wears salmon pink flip flops. Her swimming costume is simply black.
Personality[]
Mavis is headstrong, intelligent, curious, dramatic, independent, and kind. She has a little bit of an attitude, but she is very sincere and gentle. An innocent, wholesome, soft-spoken and lovable person, Mavis wants a little bit of independence and trust from her father and often gets bored. She dreams of exploring the world and experiencing all the sights and sounds that the world has to offer, but all that becomes a reality when she meets Jonathan and, unknowingly, falls in love with a human. She is also always willing to help someone out, even if her own life is in danger. Proof of this is when she was at the "human" village. After all the threats the pitchfork-armed, torch-wielding "humans" made about burning her clothes, taking her candy, biting her toes and even shoving garlic bread in her face, she still offered her help when the "humans" were on fire. She said "Holy rabies! You're on fire! Can I do anything? Can I help you?"
In the second film, after becoming a mother, Mavis begins to adopt some of her father's overprotectiveness and attachment to her child, going so far as to baby-proof everything in the hotel, rarely leaving his side and wanting to move to California in order for her son to grow up in a safe environment and around other children like him (not monsters). Unlike her father, she doesn't seem to care that Dennis isn't a full vampire and accepts him for who he is...even standing up to people who she assumes are prejudicing him for being a hybrid.
Biography[]
Early Life[]
In 1894 Mavis was born to Martha and Dracula in Transylvania. After her mother's untimely death, she lived alone with her father, Dracula, until she was a young toddler. Later, her father constructed Hotel Transylvania, intending to live there with his daughter forever in order to insure her safety from the outside world.
Hotel Transylvania[]
Not too much is known as to what Mavis did all her life living inside the hotel, but it's know that she grew tired of living in the hotel, so she desires to journey off and see the world, and even wants to meet some humans. While her father was preparing for her 118th birthday, she practiced what to say to her father about going to see the world facing the mirror (despite no reflection). Dracula goes to greet Mavis in her room where he tells her that she can leave the hotel. Mavis runs to her closet to get her suitcase and dressed up before flying out the window. Surprised, Dracula stops her and asked where she was going, as Mavis answered that she's going to Paradise (Hawaii) where her parents first met and that Wanda said to her they were "Zing". Mavis shrinks to bat form telling her father that she's bored of the same parties. Although she loves them, she wants to see new things, even meet someone her age and gives Dracula the pouty bat Face. Dracula lets Mavis go to a village nearby for her first time. Mavis hugs her father thanking him for trusting her. Frankenstein, Wayne, Wanda, Griffin and Eunice comes in to greet her and Mavis tells them about her going to the village. They tell her to be safe as she jumps out the window and flies to the village unknown that her father was following her. However, her father, Dracula, does not want her to leave and therefore created the human village, making the zombies dressed up as the humans looking like terrible, vampire killing people. Mavis tries to calm them, but no avail. The trick works, and Mavis flies back to the hotel and tells her father that she no longer wants to leave when he came back to the Hotel. When Mavis escorts her aunt Wanda down some stairs into the front lobby of the hotel, she is knocked off the stairs by the human named Johnny while he accidentally rode on a witch's broomstick after realizing the monsters were real. The two look up and lock eyes with each other, instantly feeling something for one another. However, before Mavis can introduce herself, Dracula takes Johnny away before she can discover that he is a human.
Mavis later meets up with her father again as he is trying to fly Johnny out the window. Having been discovered, Dracula brings Johnny back into the hotel, and instructs him to play along and keep his human identity a secret. Mavis instantly takes a liking to Johnny as her father tells her that Johnny is close to her age, when Johnny asks how old Mavis is, he is startled at first to discover she is 118 years old, but when Dracula elbows him he remembers his plan to keep his humanity a secret and tells her he is 121. A knight reports an emergency to Dracula, but he was too occupied to Johnny. Mavis becomes suspicious in why Dracula isn't going to check on the emergency, thinking it's because of Johnny, but Dracula lies that it wasn't because of him. Mavis decides to keep him company while Dracula would check on the emergency, but Dracula refused so Johnny would have time to party plan. Mavis decides that if Johnny is free they could hang out and Dracula escorts her out. Dracula takes Johnny away again into the hotel caves in order to sneak him out of the hotel.
After Dracula fails to sneak Johnny out of the hotel, Mavis meets up with Johnny and finally introduces herself. When she asks Johnny his name, he quickly makes up a fake name called "Johnnystein" in resemblance to his Frankenstein disguise. As the day progresses, Mavis spends time with Johnny in various hotel activities created by Dracula, and later participates in a game of "Chicken fight" with him at the pool.
After Johnny is kicked out of the hotel by Dracula, Mavis meets up with him outside the hotel, and convinces him to come with her to the roof. When they get there, Johnny makes a comment that you can almost see Budapest from here. Mavis takes a liking to Johnny's knowledge of the world and becomes a little saddened that she herself has never seen anything besides the hotel. The sun begins to come up and Mavis burns her foot from the sunlight. Seeing this, Johnny takes her to the edge of the chimney, and hides Mavis inside his shadow to show her the sunrise. Blown away, Mavis comments that this is the most incredible thing she has ever seen. But the moment was ruined when Johnny fell through a weak part of the roof and landing in the sauna where Dracula and his friends were. While looking for Johnny, Dracula almost collides with Mavis while looking for Quasimodo who kidnapped Johnny to cook after Dracula experienced real fun with Johnny. He was confused of why she was still up while the sun was up as it would kill her. Mavis asked Dracula whereJohnny was, and Dracula asked if she liked him. When Dracula hears that Mavis thinks Johnny is adorable, he secretly orders the Suit of Armor to stop Quasimodo from reaching to the kitchen, but failed. Dracula tries to convince Mavis that there's no falling in love at her age, but Mavis knew her mother fell in love with Dracula at her age and that she kissed Dracula first as he was scared to make the first move. Dracula tells Mavis to forget about his relationship with Martha, but Mavis convinced that she'll get married as she can't stay in the hotel forever. The suit of Armor reports their failure and Dracula leaves.
When it was time for the party, Mavis sewed a cape with her shirts and attends her birthday party. Johnny admires her beauty and s0hows her all the places he had been with magical dragonfly. Mavis was amazed by this and dances with Johnny. Slowly Mavis begins to stop dancing, staring at Johnny. Johnny started to get scared, but Mavis insist that maybe it's a good thing as she leans in and kisses him. Her father, Dracula sees this and immediately becomes outraged at Johnny. Mavis tries to tell him that it was just a kiss, but she is shut down by her father who tells her she is not allowed to kiss. Mavis gets into an argument with Drac telling him she is allowed to do things and like people. She tells Drac that she even wants to go back to the village and try to make friends with the humans again. Dracula shouts back that that isn't possible, and Mavis shouts back why can't she, as Drac finally reveals that the village doesn't really exist and that it was all a trick. Mavis is hurt by this, demanding to know why he is okay with him keeping her trapped inside the hotel when he knew her dream was to leave.
Just then, the frozen Quasimodo enters the room and with the help of the Fly and Esmeralda reveals Johnny's human identity. As the entire party erupts into panic, Mavis approaches Johnny asking him if he really is a human. He says yes, and apologizes for lying to her. Mavis embraces Johnny and hugs him, announcing that she doesn't care and still wants to be with him. However, Johnny, who thinks that Dracula will suck all the blood from his body, rejects Mavis lying that he hates monsters and leaves the hotel. When Dracula tries to comfort Mavis, she explodes with anger at her father, telling him that this is all his fault and flies away.
Mavis retreats to the roof where she sits sadly with the present her mother, Martha made her in hopes she would receive it during her 118th birthday. When Dracula finds her, Mavis asked him if he would erase her memory of everything that happened, but Dracula didn't want her to forget too much as Mavis cries that Dracula was right about humans hating monsters. Mavis shows her father the book and reads it, telling the tale of how Dracula and Martha "Zinged" and were destined to be with each other. Mavis thinks it was only her who zinged with Johnny, and that she has no dreams and is like her dad. Mavis flies back to her room with sorrow.
Having realized his mistake, Dracula journeys to retrieve Johnny for Mavis before he leaves Transylvania. When Drac returns to Mavis, he tells her that he wants her to live her life, and shows her that Johnny has returned. When Mavis asks Johnny why he's back, Johnny walks up to Mavis and explains to her that she is his Zing. Johnny explains to her that he didn't really want to reject Mavis' affection at her party, and that he only did it because he was afraid of what Dracula would do to him (Dracula eventually admits that he might have drained Johnny dry). Mavis and Johnny lock eyes once more and they finally have a proper kiss. Mavis spends the rest of her birthday with Johnny as her new boyfriend.