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Bela is the main antagonist of Hotel Transylvania 2. He is Vlad's former sidekick and the leader of Vlad's bat cronies as he is a bat crony himself.
He believes that humans and monsters shouldn't be together, see each other, or talk to each other.
Official Profile[]
Appearance[]
Bela is a big black and grey bat with claws for nails, red feral eyes.
Personality[]
He would do anything against humanity. However, unlike Vlad, who dislikes humans simply out of concern that they could be a potential threat to monsters, Bela's disgust of humanity appears to take on a more villainous and manipulative level as he shows no hesitation or remorse when attempting to kill Dennis after finding out that he is a human-vampire hybrid.
Hotel Transylvania 2[]
Bela is first seen with Vlad when Vlad receives his letter from Mavis inviting him to Dennis' fifth birthday party.
Bela with Vlad
Bela at first seems angry that Vlad's family never told him about another child being born, but Vlad calms him down. When Vlad reads the letter and finds out that the party is at a hotel, he likes it, but gets angry and believes humans are at the hotel. This causes his army of bat cronies to go crazy and start flying around the cave as Bela roars. But Vlad calms Bela and his army down, letting them know that he raised his son to hate humans and eat their souls. When Vlad and Bela arrive at the Hotel for the party, Bela smells humans and says they should tear the place down. Vlad reminds Bela that he's gonna smell humans in the outside world and instructs him to wait for him outside, claiming this is "family business". Bela reluctantly agrees, but decides to spy and look through the window to observe.
Bela confronts Dennis and Winnie
Later in the aftermath of Dennis' birthday party, Bela watches as Dennis and Winnie run away from the hotel. He is getting suspicious and starting to think Dennis is a human. Bela goes crazy when he finds out that there are humans in the hotel. He follows close behind Dennis and Winnie, watching them as they travel deeper into the forest. Eventually Bela catches up to them and attacks the two in Winnie's treehouse. Winnie tries to defend Dennis, telling Bela that he is wrong, but Bela angrily retorts that he is not. He then tells Dennis and Winnie that he is holding them hostage to lure everyone away from the hotel so he and his minions can destroy it. Dennis tells Bela that it would make his grandfather sad, but he is dismissed and mocked at when Bela calls him a "weak little boy."
Bela causes Dennis to unlock his vampire side
As Bela teases Dennis, Winnie bites His hand. Bela yells in pain and throws Winnie to the ground, causing her to whine. Seeing this, Dennis erupts in rage and finally transforms into his Vampire self and attacks the fiendish Bela. While fighting with Dennis, Bela calls for his army of cronies to come and assist him. Dracula and the rest of the gang arrive and help in fending off the army of demonic bat creatures. Bela tries to fight back, but Dennis manages to use his newfound strength to defeat him. In a last ditch effort Bela, refusing to flee, lunges toward Johnny to stab him with a sharp branch, but is stopped in mid-air by Vlad, as he has had a change of heart. Levitating him in the air Vlad warns Bela to never come near him or his family again, and shrinks him down in size where he is then grabbed and licked by the Werewolf Kids. He is grossed to death.
Memorable Quotes[]
- "Humans don't belong with monsters!"
- (To Dennis and Winnie) "Well, well, well... the little human and his pet!"
- (To Vlad) "HOTELS ARE FOR HUMANS!!!"
- "HUMANS???"
- (Referring to the Hotel) "I smell humans! Tear it down!"
- (To Winnie) "Stop squirming!"
- "Because this is WRONG! Why doesn't anybody get that?! Humans don't belong with monsters!"
- "I am not! I am holding you hostage, and me and my crew are going to tear that human-hugging hotel to shreds!"
- (To Dennis) "Really? Why not?"
- "Because why?!"
- "Oh, sad?! And what are you gonna do about it?!
- "You know why you don't know?! Because you're just a WEAK... LITTLE... BOY!!!"
- (To Vlad) "AND HE NEVER TOLD YOU?!"
Trivia[]
- He is named after iconic Dracula actor, Bela Lugosi.
- He might be based off the Bat People from the 1974 horror film, The Bat People and the 1969 film Latitude Zero.
- He also might be based on Man-Bat, a bat supervillain and enemy of Batman.
- Bela means "beautiful" in Latin, which is ironic as Bela is not particularly beautiful.
- Just like Quasimodo in the first film, Bela directly tried to kill Jonathan.
- In early concept art, Bela was designed to look extremely old like Vlad. This was changed in an attempt to make Bela more scary.
- Bela is voiced by retired Marine Corps officer and comedian Rob Riggle, who previously voiced the Skeleton Husband from the first film.
- Despite being the main antagonist, Bela had less than 10 minutes of screen-time. But his intentions to destroy the hotel and actions to try kill Dennis and Johnny are still what makes him evil. He also only has roughly 13 lines.
- In a early draft of Hotel Transylvania 2's script Bela was presumably not present either that or he was unnamed and just the bat cronies were attacking Dennis and Winnie. This suggests that Bela may have been added in at last minute. Originally Vlad was gonna be the main antagonist & the leader of the cronies as he was gonna be the one who summoned the cronies to destroy the hotel after finding out Drac likes humans.
- In the April and July 2014 drafts theres a cronie referred to as sentry this may had been a placeholder name that became Bela.
- Bela's existence was first confirmed when the cover for the Art of Hotel Transylvania 2 was leaked. However his name was unknown at the time.
- His name was confirmed in August 2015 when pages of the book Drac is back were leaked online
- His first in film appearance was in a TV spot in August 2015 as he was pretty absent in the marketing for the film.
- Bela appears to have eight fingers on each wing (real bats have 4 fingers on each wing, since the wing is the bat's arm), which counts as an anatomy error, since all mammals have 5 or less.
- His defeat is similar to bowser's from Illumination's The Super Mario Bros Movie as both villains get shrunken in the end.
- Some of his lines were originally used for a deleted character named Carter Quinston the original main antagonist before Bela was added. Some of the lines included "you're just a weak little boy" and "because why?".
Gallery[]
- Main article: Bela/Gallery