Hello I have a good question if you were going to make Hotel Transylvania 4 what would it be about
That's a good question. There was alot of wasted potential in the Transformania that we got. Mainly resolving the "what happens if the monster spouses outlive their humans" question, but also in unexplored dynamics and resolving whether or not Drericka are actually married.
As much as I like what they were trying to do with the "Don't try to change people" and "I love you for who you are" messages, Personally I quite like my friend @lovelylivelyv 's idea of making the possibility of turning the humans into monsters more about choices and who they are being what's inside that counts. (Whether that means actually turning them into vamps - which at the least would have been interesting to play with as a possibility) or the monsterization ray. Both Ericka and Johnny have found family in monsters and the ability to truly be themselves....so why not let monsterization be an extension of that? After all, if humans and monsters are basically all the same, why not? Haveing Johnny be 500% ready to become a monster while Ericka's more nervous would be a great way to play with the criminally under-utilized Jericka dynamic and would be a nice allegory for all sorts of things like being trans, religious conversion, coming out, etc. Mavis being called out on pushing humanity over monsters when it came to Dennis while chastising Drac and Vlad for doing the opposite would be good too. Include the female monsters in the human-monster switcheroo. At the LEAST, it should have been more about whether the changes would be permanent or not rather than the "Brave on steroids" we ended up getting.
Another route that woukd have been good is focusing on the Drericka wedding and bonding of Ericka and Mavis, which Mavis is also somewhat under-utilized as a character. Maybe having Mavis find out she was going to have (possibly dhampir) half-siblings would be a fun extension of her awkwardness in HT3. XD
Drericka having kids eventually would also be a fun way to play with some possibilities that didn't happen in HT2. For my Drericka shipchildren: "What if Drac had a dhampir that WASN'T monstery?" and "What if Drac had a kid that was more wild and adventurous, like Ericka and Johnny, rather than like him?" Plus give some interesting character development for Ericka, who's never had a mom and wasn't raised by the kost affectionate guy. I see her going the opposite way of Van Helsing (in contrast to Mavis, who more or less became Drac as a parent.) And being a really loving and affectionate dorky parent who would do anything for her kids BUT adding a nice contrast to Drac's neurotic overprotective control-freak tendencies (Yes, that's mellowed over the last 10 years. But he's still an anxious worrywart with a need to be ontop of everything.) Basically the fun parent without being the pushover Johnny was. And of course there'd be Vlad and Van Helsing as grandpas/great-great-grandpas, which it would also be fun to see how've THEY'VE grown over the past few years. (And perhaps the comedy of Van Helsing either claiming Van Helsings make better monsters than Draculas or Drac and him arguing about who the kid(s) are going to be like.)
Heck, even Ericka learning to fit in amongst a family of monsters, unlearning biases, and adjusting to her new life would make a fun plot. Seeing her being accepted by the pack and maybe finding a surrogate mom amd Dad in Wanda and Vlad. Her and Gryffin playing jokes. The continuation of the big Drericka shippers on deck (Frank, Murray, Griffin and Johnny) How she handles going from a strict and somewhat cold and lonely family situation (while I think Van Helsing does care in his weird way, he's not the best at showing it) where VH didn't notice her sadness (or worse, in the novelization she started to tell him about her changing views on monsters and he shut her down + intimidated her) to literally being surrounded by a crazy yet loving family. Dealing with the inevitable anxieties that woukd come up being surrounded by monsters in their space for the first time and how she would react to that. How hard she would try to fit in after having wanted a REAL family for so long and also having come from a family where you were judged by expectations. There's ALOT of possibilities there.
As much as I liked Transformania, There's ALOT of missed potential in the HT franchise that I would love to see explored.
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Was in a protective mood night before last. The first is kind of an image I've had for a while somewhat inspired by Drac stopping Ericka from going into the cave and offering to go first, albiet it kinda morphed into looking more like him defending her in HT3. I just liked the idea of even though he's now the less powerful of the two him still being protective. And of course while I was drawing that the second image came to mind. Any excuse to draw Ericka being the fiercely protective badass she is, I will gladly take.
Also somewhat inspired by a pic of @bees-self-ships Cook/SI ship where Hook defends her SI.
May try one with Johnavis too some point.
Bonus from @lovelylivelyv: Man I love both of these! I headcanon the first is him defending her from people who disapprove of the gorgon look/think she’s ugly that way. And ofc protective/angry Ericka is always great.
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I’m not even ride or die for hotel Transylvania 1 or anything (even tho it’s a comfort movie) theres a lot that could be fixed in it and it certainly isn’t a genndy tartakovsky magnum opus but oh my god I wanna make a video essay/analysis comparing the animation in 1 to 4 so so so badly bc the animation in ht4 bugs me so much
Anyways shoutout to @thou-babbling-brook for watching hotel Transylvania 4: transformania for my birthdayyyyyy
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Hotel Transylvania (Thehypercutter Style) Cast
Hotel Transylvania 1 (Thehypercutter Style): "Ananas Dragon Cookie, who operates a high-end resort away from the human world, goes into overprotective mode when a girl discovers the resort and falls for the Dragon's teenaged daughter."
Hotel Transylvania 2 (Thehypercutter Style): "Ananas Dragon Cookie and his friends try to bring out the cartoon creature in his half human, half dragon grandson in order to keep Black Lemonade Cookie from leaving the hotel."
Hotel Transylvania 3 (Thehypercutter Style): "Ananas Dragon Cookie and company participate in a cruise for sea-loving cartoon creatures, unaware that their boat is being commandeered by the cartoon creature-hating Koopa family."
Hotel Transylvania Transformania (Thehypercutter Style): "After one experiment, Shining Glitter Cookie turns into a cartoon creature and everyone else becomes human. Now it has to be seen whether they will be able to reverse this experiment."
Ananas Dragon Cookie (Cookie Run) as Dracula
Dragon! Ananas Dragon Cookie (Cookie Run) as Dracula (Bat)
Diego Brando (Jjba Part 7) as Dracula (Human)
Mango Cookie (Cookie Run) as Himself/Dracula's Advisor Friend
Black Lemonade Cookie (Cookie Run) as Mavis
Sunny (Wings of Fire) as Mavis (Bat)
Shining Glitter Cookie (Cookie Run) as Johnny
Stella (Angry Birds) as Johnny (Monster)
Corrupted Steven (Steven Universe) as Johnny (Mega Monster)
Parfait Cookie and Rockstar Cookie (Cookie Run) as Themselves/Johnny's Friends
Silver (Angry Birds Movie) and Chuck (Angry Birds) as Themselves/Monster Parfait and Monster Rockstar Cookies
Zomberries (Poptropica) as the Zombies
Madeleine Cookie (Cookie Run) as Frankenstein
Caesar Zeppelin (Jjba Part 2) as Frankenstein (Human)
Espresso Cookie (Cookie Run) as Eunice
Pitaya Dragon Cookie (Cookie Run) as Wayne the Werewolf
Anasui (Jjba Part 6) as Wayne the Werewolf (Human)
Royal Meringue Cookie (Cookie Run) as Wanda the Werewolf
Terrible Terrors (How to train your dragon) as Werewolf Puppies
Durpleton (Centaurworld) as Murray the Mummy
Budwin (Flipline) as Murray the Mummy (Human)
Stabby (Centaurworld) as Himself/Murray's Son
Henry Stickmin (Henry Stickmin) as Griffin
Roy (Flipline) as Griffin (Visible)
Hiro, Henry and Kenji (Ttte), Reginald Copperbottom and Right-Hand Man (Henry Stickmin), Emporio (Jjba Part 6), Ched (Centaurworld) as Themselves/The Monsters’ Friends
Samurai Jack (Samurai Jack) as Himself/Human Hiro
The Scotsman (Samurai Jack) as Himself/Human Right Hand Man
Josuke (Jjba Part 4) as Himself/Human Kenji
Pepperoncino Cookie (Cookie Run) as Himself/Human Ched
Kestrel (Wings of Fire) as Martha
Elder Custard Cookie (Cookie Run) as Quasimodo
Various Characters as Humans and Monsters
Pond Dino Cookie (Cookie Run) as Dennis
Tsunami (Wings of Fire) as Dennis (Bat)
Snapdragon Cookie (Cookie Run) as Winnie Werewolf
Max (Sam and Max) as Blobby
Rabbit (Monty Python and the Holy Grail) as Blobby (Jello)
Lemon Cookie and Hero Cookie (Cookie Run) as Mike and Linda
Longan Dragon Cookie (Cookie Run) as Vlad
Dragon! Longan Dragon Cookie (Cookie Run) as Vlad (Bat)
Malefor (Spyro) as Bela
Cake Monsters (Cookie Run) as Bela's Minions
Snakefruit Cookie (Cookie Run) as Ericka van Helsing
Bowser (Mario) as Abraham van Helsing
Fig Cookie (Cookie Run) as The Kraken (Good)
The Nowhere King (Centaurworld) as The Kraken (Evil)
Milk Cookie (Cookie Run) as Frankenginger
Ellie Rose (Henry Stickmin) as Crystal
Earl Grey Cookie (Cookie Run) as Stan the Fish
Iggy (Jjba Part 3) as Tinkles
Iggy (Jjba Part 3 OVA) as Tinkles (Regular Dog)
Koopa Troopa (Mario) as Gigi
Rainy Turtloid (Megaman X) as Gigi (Monster)
Gamera (Godzilla) as Gigi (Mega Monster)
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