I suppose this might be a difference in how one reads the scene. I personally always interpreted it as being the like of "come on vampire, pull out your vampire shit already".
That is fine, but the only other vampire we meet who isn't a direct Alucard descendant is the priest. He doesn't have any soul stock or any other abilities, even though he's drinking loads of blood and even knows he can turn virgins. Without evidence that other vampires all possess that ability, we only have Alucard and essentially his daughter, who possess those powers, and one other vampire who doesn't. Although we do have the fact Anderson has never encountered or even heard of such a power before. This clearly contradicts it being common, especially since this also implies the Vatican has no record of such a power. The fact that Yumie and Heinkel are also vampire hunters contradicts standard vampires being stronger than them too.
I seriously doubt she doesn't have the capacity to do that. It's probably only a matter of skill and experience. She does get covered in shadow and change her clothing in a gag near the end though.
When did she change her clothing? I'm honestly fine with Seras reaching that sort of range, in fact I'd have liked to see a sequel where she's revealed to have surpassed Alucard due to her relationship with Pip, and Alucard in turn gains new powers based on quantum mechanics, making the two of them stronger than ever before while they face some new and improved enemy.
At the point that we see her, yes. I still think it's moreso an issue of experience.
Maybe. It is strange that she only uses her replaced arm for transformations though.
Notice how Alucard said he "hasn't had this much fun in a while". Meaning he's definitely fought supernatural threats that have excited him in the past. I don't think in this instance he's referring to Van Helsing or Millennium during the 1940s either, since in the case of the former I don't think he'd regard the experience of being absolutely crushed out of his entire world view as particularly "fun", and in the case of the latter the only supernatural creature he fought that was of any note was the Captain.
It's hard to be sure though. Alucard probably had lots of fun killing and fighting when he was human, he was very much enjoying fighting Anderson which suggests Van Hellsing might have been fun, and he likely did slaughter loads of Millennium vampires in WWII, which might have been fun by sheer numbers. It's also possible they had enhanced vampires back then too, and it's possible he'd already fought Walter, although since the Dawn was canned we never saw these things. His statement was very open-ended. In addition, a vampire being almost comparable to Luke isn't the same as being Alucard's equal.
I'm comparing her to contemporaries like Luke and Dandy, whom both managed to eke out until they got Alucard to release Level 1. Rip was a toy for base Alucard, which is consistent with her being particularly unimpressive as a human.
Not so sure about that. Alucard releases level 1 in order to move the jet after her bullet shredded it. He also used level 1 abilities to shred the vampires right after, and still possessed transformation abilities when he moved to finish Rip. It seems to me he was in level 1 when he fought Rip. He just used his red coat form, which admittedly has less physical strength, but he still had his shapeshifting abilities. Still, that doesn't matter. Rip was a weak little wimp, and yet she was stronger than the priest, the only other vampire we meet. She also seemed at least comparable to Heinkel who routinely kills vampires.
Now don't get me wrong, the starting quality of the sire has a lot to do with it. Seras probably wouldn't have turned out nearly as strong as she did if she got turned by that priest. But, that's only applicable to my eyes for those who gets turned.
That's fine. Seras is sired by Alucard, and I agree that's why she's special.
Those who get called to by the blood, like the Major? They absolutely have the potential to do that. It seems to be a special thing that only happens to special individuals who reach absolute rock bottom.
The Major and Alucard are extremely unique individuals though. Both are military geniuses with insatiable blood-lust and thousands of loyal followers, the same followers whose blood calls to them which might be key, and both hit rock bottom and refused to die. Both were driven by an insatiable thirst for war and death, and both had an indomitable willpower. We're pretty much limiting this to historical figures. It seems like an assumption to think other vampires like that even exist, much less that they're common. Granted such a being could have been introduced to a Hellsing sequel, perhaps a vampire like Alucard who is revealed to be another historical figure like Genghis Kahn. But people like that are already extremely rare, not something that just happens.
We treat blood as a vessel for life and the soul for this verse, which you should know, as you were there during that CRT. This would logically lead to the fact that every vampire has a soul stock. Whether they can access it to an extent similar to Alucard and Seras is a different matter, but by the rules of the verse, they should have it.
The fact that the blood Alucard consumed was that of his loyal followers might be the key. Sort of like how Seras gained power from Pip because he asked her to drink him in. But that still limits us to historical figures and the like.
I can't tell you why Anderson has never it before. Maybe it's cause any vampires that pop up in the modern age get outed so quickly that they have no chance to build it up. This seems to be supported by Alucard, who even
complains that vampires these days are way too impulsive. It could be that Anderson tracks down the supernatural too quickly for it to build itself and actually pose a threat to him.
It seems more like the vampires are being turned by each other, and are all carrying a heavily diluted form of Alucard's original vampirism. The Major's experience matches Alucard's so closely it seems like the ability to turn via just drinking the blood requires some pretty serious conditions to be met, as I described above. The fact that Anderson and the Vatican have no record or understanding of Alucard's abilities heavily contradicts those powers being possessed by other vampires even throughout history.
So in short we have two means of becoming a vampire, one which involves a sire, which in the vast majority of cases would be a random vampire, and this means literally results from a vampire doing exactly what they do when they create huge numbers of ghouls except that they do it to a virgin of the opposite sex, which wouldn't be uncommon, and one which requires a highly unique individual in a highly unique situation, and seemingly requires thousands of deaths all at once. In other words, one can happen any one of the many times a day a vampire feeds while the other requires a war and a highly unique leader on the losing side.
Alongside that we have the Vatican which has been hunting and killing vampires for centuries, and Anderson and his team who have been doing it for ages as well as being part of the Vatican, and they haven't encountered abilities like Alucard's, have no record of the true nature of his abilities even though they know he's Count Dracula, and have evidently never encountered any such vampire. And in the midst of that the only vampire we meet who isn't Alucard or Seras is the priest, who displays no such abilities either. I could buy that if the Major had become a vampire he'd have been strong, but the number of vampires who are turned that way, or by such a vampire, seems to be minimal at best.
