Kind of in awe of Peter Cushing's Van Helsing characters and the way they will just decide to physically fight Dracula. In so many forms of vampire media, it's established that vampires are too fast/strong for this to ever work as a strategy, and even though that's only touched on in the Hammer movies, in-universe Van Helsing either doesn't know, or does not care.
And this is key: Van Helsing does *not* know how to fight. He is not good at it. He is going in there with a crucifix, and maybe a backup crucifix or a bible or a vial of holy water. He usually loses the crucifix mid-fight and has to improvise. Dracula throws him around a lot. About fifty percent of the time, Van Helsing ends up with a vampire homoerotically choking him, which may or may not be part of the appeal.
But the thing is... it works. I can't even say that the confidence isn't justified. Because the vampires usually don't know how to fight either. Why would they? Usually they just hypnotise people and then bite them. They've never anticipated a guy with the physique of the average librarian coming at them ready to throw hands. Especially since Van Helsing just does not stop. Keeps getting up. It doesn't matter how often he gets knocked around because all he has to do is stick it out long enough to get within staking range, or cobble together a makeshift sign of the cross, and the vampire is toast from there.
This behaviour is also genetic because while Van Helsing Original Flavour pioneered the concept of throwing yourself at a vampire and keeping throwing yourself at the vampire until the vamp goes down, Van Helsing 2.0 living in the 20th century found out that Dracula was back, and immediately stood his 60-something-year-old self up, put on his grandpa cardigan and started sharpening stakes, because fuck you, that's why.
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