Incognito

"Sett will enter me and together we shall send this cursed town crashing down to hell."

- Incognito, Hellsing Episode 13: Hellfire

Incognito (インコグニート) is a powerful vampire from the dark continent, Africa. He also acts as the main antagonist of the Hellsing anime series and is a deadly adversary of Alucard.

He was responsible for the creation of the FREAK chip that creates impure Vampire. He's also a loyal servant to his unnamed master, and the master of Paul Wilson - much like Alucard and Seras Victoria. Though physically androgynous, he is generally thought to be male.

In Japanese, he was voiced by Takumi Yamazaki. In English, he was voiced by Isaac Charles Singleton Jr.

Physical
Incognito had a purple-ish grey skin and is almost as tall as Alucard. He also has a green eye, however, his left eye is distorted. It could possibly be his restriction to his power, similar to Alucard's restriction gloves. He was drawn as an incredibly lanky person, and has a left arm that's longer than his right arm. One most notable features of Incognito, aside from his left eye, is his head shape - he's bald and his head crown is pointy and very long.

Incognito's blood also appears to be a different color than red, as shown in episode 11 when Seras shot him multiple times. However, in episode 13, he was seen bleeding.

Clothing
He wore a piercing on his chin, forehead, the top of his head and his gynecomastia. He wore an earring on his left ear. He had a purple tattoo all over his body, and a red that looks like a third eye on his forehead, Interestingly, he wore another piercing on his forehead in his first appearance which is shaped like a triangle, combining it with the red tattoo on the middle of his forehead, it looks like the Illuminati.

He wore a gold necklace and golden cuffs on both of his arm, and he sometimes dons a beige coat. In his first appearance, he wore a white and a pink framed sunglasses, with green a green tie and a white shirt, but he stopped using them for an unknown reason.

Personality
He's a masochistic, sadistic vampire. Showing no remorse for what he is doing, and instead enjoys it - often laughs manically about it. Before being fused with Sett, he's shown to be calm and is incredibly patient, executing the first step of his plan very smoothly - meaning that he's a gifted tactician, even tricking the Hellsing Organization's leader, Sir Integra Fairbrook Wingates Hellsing. Like the Major from the original Hellsing manga, he seems to embrace the war that's going on around him - even saying that he lives for total destruction, and nothing else. He's quite psychotic, treating everyone he fights with extreme brutality and that his only reason for doing the things that he does is to hurt as many innocent people as possible and displays little to no guilt or shame for any of the horrible actions he or his allies commits. Incognito also sees pain as some kind of weird pleasure, as shown when after Alucard asked him, which method he should take to send him into a purgatory of eternal pain, Incognito claims that he's the one who wishes for eternal pain, this statement is possibly very true, as Incognito, often when getting shot, smiles and tells them to shoot more.

However, after fusing with Sett, his calm and patient personality took a turn and he's impatient, savage and egotistical, almost like Alucard. He claims that with the power of the ancient god, Sett, he will rule the world. Incognito is also known for being very manipulative, often asking questions which left victims open for an attack, something he did to Seras. Though he claimed to be loyal to his god, Incognito in truth, had no intention of ever letting Sett take over and was instead planning to betray the deity and steal its powers for himself, showing that he was incredibly ambitious and power hungry almost to the point of arrogance. Like Alucard, he's so confident in his ability, which led to his defeat in the hands of Alucard.

His ambitions proved so great that it led to him murdering Helena after he feared that she might cause problems for him in the future suggesting that he might've had a paranoid side to him. His arrogance and sadistic and over confident nature can also easily be abused, as when he had thought he had killed Alucard, Alucard instead got revived due to him not checking twice to make sure if he's really dead or not, and easily assumed that he would win in a second battle. He was also confident that Seras would die due to blood loss, and that's why she left her, however, this turns out to be not true and Seras managed to live to see another day. Ironically it was these character flaws that would lead to him being defeated and his plans thwarted before they even began.

Past
While it is unknown how did he become a vampire, and even his identity is unknown. However, it is hinted that he came from the "Dark Continent", which is an obvious reference to Africa. It can be assumed that, like how Sir Integra found Alucard, Incognito's master found Incognito some where, and the latter happens.

Order 08 and Order 09
Incognito first appeared when Alucard sensed his presence when he arrived in England. He eventually occupied a castle and performed a ritual on an unidentified man. Incognito began operations within the castle, causing the Hellsing Organization to investigate. Under orders to apprehend supposed IRA terrorists, the SAS 22nd Regiment ordered Hellsing to stand aside. It is uncertain, but possible, that Incognito deliberately leaked information to the SAS about the possible terrorists both to delay Hellsing and to provide himself with troops as the entire SAS unit were later turned into FREAKS. Despite Hellsing's withdrawal, Alucard continued to investigate and came face to face with Incognito for the first time. The two exchanged greetings of a sort, establishing that they were both original vampires armed with human weapons and were prepared to engage one another. Incognito then told Alucard that they are different, and Alucard doesn't have a master to serve anymore. Incognito then shoots Alucard with his Grenade Launcher and The spines goes through Alucard's chest and Incognito had ordered the Baobhan Sith (pronounced baa'-van shee), Laura, to turn Integra into a ghoul. Alucard was quick to return to Integra's side and eliminated Laura. With Alucard otherwise occupied, Incognito completed his efforts to transform the 22nd Regiment of the SAS into FREAKs and then orders them to attack Cambridge and Trafalgar Square.

Order 11, Order 12 and Order 13
Aware of the potential threat that Helena could pose to his plans, Incognito attacked and devoured her. Despite Incognito's power, Helena was able to force her way partly free of Incognito's body and provide information to Seras Victoria before being beheaded and killed. Aware of the trap at the Tower of London, Incognito then decided to turn the tables on the Hellsing forces by causing a fierce battle against each other which has drawn the attention of the British army and thus framing the Hellsing Organization as terrorists. Multiple Hellsing Soldiers died because of him and Alucard sensed something was very wrong, thus leaving Integra to pursue Incognito. Alucard and a Hellsing Member, Chris Pickman formed a duo and killed multiple Incognito's SAS Ghouls, shortly before Seras Victoria, who witnessed Peter Fargason's death and in a fit of rage comes in with the Harkonnen and kills multiple SAS Ghouls as well, including Paul Wilson who she killed with one of Harkonnen's bullet by slamming it on him mouth. Alucard, after being forced to shoot Chris enters the Tower of London to confront Incognito, who was waiting for him. Both of them get's ready with Incognito pulling out his Grenade Launcher and releases his Dark Magic powers and Alucard pulling out the Jackal and releasing Level 2. Incognito shoots at Alucard but Alucard dodges it and shoots back with the Jackal which blows Incognito's shoulder. Incognito however, encourages Alucard to attack him and manages to scars Alucard's cheek. Incognito was caught off-guard when Alucard instantly ran towards him after getting scarred. He then shoots Incognito's head and thought that he won, until he realizes that Incognito tricked him. Incognito has planned this from the very beginning and Alucard calls him "cunning". Incognito taunts Alucard and gets up while slashing Alucard, who couldn't move, 3 times. Alucard saw Seras with the Jackal's ammo, and tells her to run. Seras however, disobeys him and ends up getting heavily injured by Incognito's dark magic. Incognito laughs and taunts Alucard, Alucard responds back angrily that he will send him to the bottom of Judecca, saying that he should lick Satan's ass down there. He uses his telekinesis power to grab the Jackal's magazine. He pulls the trigger at Incognito's head once again, but, Incognito simply phased his head becoming temporarily invulnerable, Incognito proceeds to telekinetically hurled the Jackal's bullets back at Alucard, giving him a "taste of his own blessed silver". As Alucard dies, he tells Seras that she should've listened to him. Seras tries to drink Alucard's blood and Incognito tells Seras that it won't do anything by drinking his blood.

He then kidnaps Integra and prepares for a ritual to summon Sett, and was successful. Though Integra already told Alucard to release Level 1, his most powerful form.

Alucard uses the blood of the fallen Hellsing Soldiers to heal and then teleports behind Incognito and proceeds to taunt him. An annoyed and angry Incognito then commands Sett to strike Alucard, Alucard dodges Sett, and is immediately impressed by Incognito complimenting his powers. Incognito curses Alucard after he holds Sett's mouth and taunts Incognito while Sett is blasting him. Incognito sees an eye and then 2 Baskerville heads coming out of Alucard and proceeds to attack Baskerville, causing a huge explosion that sends them both to the sky.

Alucard and Incognito battles in the sky. Alucard's Baskerville bites onto Sett, Sett tries blasts Alucard, Alucard blocks Sett's blasts using Baskerville's head, then Sett and Baskerville clashes with each other which made them both fall. Alucard and Incognito impacted a cathedral after their fall from the sky, their collision lit up the entire building on fire from the inside. They both recover, and is ready for a standoff and Incognito claims that he will never be able to destroy him and says that he wishes to have eternal pain, to which, Alucard says that he has a disgusting hobby, and that he will send Incognito to a world that only exists in pain. Incognito pulls out the Grenade launcher out of his arm and proceeds to vomit a set of dark magic spines into the cartridge assembly of the gun. Incognito shoots Alucard with his Grenade launcher while running straight towards him. Alucard dodges the dark magic spines from the Grenade Launcher and runs straight towards him with the Jackal. They both got a huge chunk of their torso blown off and Alucard's Jackal is broken. Incognito taunts Alucard after healing the massive hole in his torso but Incognito was terrified when he realizes Sett has merge with Alucard and his hair begins to glow hot and holds onto a cross with silver and then pouring it on his broken Jackal which he later uses to impale Incognito. Before Incognito dies, he asks Alucard for his identity. Alucard shows his true face briefly. and impales Incognito once again, killing Incognito.

His unnamed Master
It's not really stated as to what kind of relationship this individual had with Incognito. But given that Incognito often seemed to do as he pleased (it was never confirmed which actions were ordered and which weren't) it's possible that Incognito, unlike Alucard to his master Integra, was not completely under this person's control.

He and his master were also the ones who created the plan to take over England, which would've been successfully if Integra hadn't released Alucard's restraint to level one. His master also seems to have control over the London Military, and were the ones who ordered them to attack the Hellsing Organization and framed them.

Nevertheless, they seem to be working really well with eachother, as their plan were coming in very smoothly, until Alucard uses the blood of the dead Hellsing soldiers to revive himself.

Laura
Laura was a true vampire like Incognito, Seras, Helena, and Alucard that served Incognito and made an attempt on Integra's life both for revenge and under orders.

Paul Wilson
Paul was a newly turned FREAK and while appearing only for a short amount of time acted as a right hand to Incognito. Although Incognito and Paul never interacted in any rpisodes of the Hellsing anime, it can be assumed that he's loyal to him.

The Valentine Brothers
Luke Valentine and Jan Valentine were minor characters that never interacted with Incognito directly or at least not on screen but attacked The Hellsing Mansion on his request.

Alucard
Incognito is a deadly adversary for Alucard, and the two greatly hates eachother.

Although Alucard respects him a little and praises him for his powers, the two still hated each other so much due to Incognito's personality. Incognito is both sadistic and masochistic. In one scene he says that he lives for nothing but destruction and in another, after being wounded by Alucard, exclaims about his love of pain, which Alucard replies that he has a disgusting taste, though Alucard was willing to show his real Identity to Incognito.

Incognito is also a cunning tactician, making Alucard, who's very arrogant and thought that he could kill Incognito very easily, have a difficult time fighting him during his "count" state. However, that all changes when Alucard was revived, Incognito's personality, slightly changed; He is more arrogant, because he believes that Sett, will destroy Alucard easily. Incognito is both sadistic and masochistic. In one scene he says that he lives for nothing but destruction and in another, after being wounded by Alucard, exclaims about his love of pain.

However, they're not really different from each other; both are incredibly violent and sadistic and belittles their opponents when they have the chance to do so and both favors their masters, Alucard with Integra and Incognito with his unnamed master. Ironically, during their first fight, Alucard got defeated due to the fact that he underestimated Incognito, and Incognito later lost due to underestimating Alucard during their final battle, being so confident that he could win as he "has the power of the ancient God, Sett".

Overview
A true vampire, the "Real Undead", Incognito is a very dangerous opponent. Unlike Alucard, he appears to fight very calmly and wait until the perfect time to strike back, making Incognito a very dangerous opponent. He's also manipulative, often asking you questions that would make you question your decision, and then leave you open for Incognito to strike. He's also the one responsible for the creation of the "FREAK chips", which would turn normal humans, into artificial vampires. Like Alucard, Incognito has a wide variety of abilities, including telekinesis, gravity defiance and phasing. However, the most notable one is his dark magic power. Bullets blessed with silver also appears to be quite useless to Incognito, as he was shot multiple times with it but he didn't even flinch.

Abilities and Strength:

 * Superhuman Strength: As a true vampire, like Alucard, Incognito has a strength beyond that of the strongest humans, ghouls and even, artificial vampires. Fledglings like Seras was easily push aside by Incognito, as shown in episode 11 and Helena, a true vampire, was devoured and her head was sliced off easily. However, it seems that Helena doesn't have that much ability, and is much weaker than true vampires like Alucard and Incognito.
 * Superhuman Endurance: True vampires like Incognito is able to withstand bullets. One notable example is when Seras Victoria shot him on the face multiple times, however, Incognito didn't even flinch and instead, smiles.
 * Regeneration: Like all vampires, Incognito has the ability to regenerate from his wounds. However, since he is a true vampire, it is common fact that he regenerates faster than ghouls or artificial FREAKs and normal vampires like the Cheddar Priest. It seems that he can control whether he wants the wound to regenerate, or not, as he was seen with the bullet holes when Seras shot him, which would normally regenerate instantly. Incognito also possesses regenerative abilities that may actually exceed those of Alucard, as Incognito was able to shrug off the effects of both the Jackal and the Casull.
 * Immortality: Like Alucard, Incognito is biologically immortal. It is unknown if he was the first vampire to ever exists or Alucard, but we do know that he is at least hundreds years old.
 * Teleportation: It is not clear if he uses his teleportation power to appear in England or he even has this power, but it is assumed that he has some sort of teleportation power as it is impossible to go there without some kind of transportation, but there were no boats or anything - he just appeared out of nowhere, standing menacingly.
 * Third Eye: Similar to Alucard and Seras' third eye, Incognito has a "Third Eye" ability, in which, it allows him to see things from very far distances. This ability really helps in his weapon accuracy.
 * Telepathy: Similar to how Alucard uses telepathic ability to communicate with Seras, Incognito uses this ability to communicate with Paul Wilson - as demonstrated in episode 9.
 * Hematophagy: A normal vampiric ability, Incognito has the ability to consume blood.
 * Hemokinesis: Transcended vampires like Incognito has the ability to manipulate blood, as he was seen drinking Integra's blood without even biting her neck. Only a small hole was needed and he is able to suck it without biting the victims neck.
 * Soul Absorption: By draining a person of their blood, Incognito gains dominance over their souls and very forms.

Dark Magic
His dark magic, represented by the glowing sigils covering his body, allows him to withstand what would otherwise be a killing shot from the Casull or Jackal. His powers enable him to phase out part of his body in response to an attack. When Alucard fired a bullet at point blank range at Incognito's eye, Incognito simply phased his head becoming temporarily invulnerable. His magic also allows him to turn an opponents attack back on themselves such as when he telekinetically hurled the Jackal's bullets back at Alucard, giving him a "taste of his own blessed silver". His dark magic also enhances many of his abilities and physical strengths, however, it gives Incognito a huge ego boost. The glowing sigils can also weaken true vampires by surrounding the room with it, as shown in episode 13.


 * Enhanced Physical Strength: His physical strength was massively enhanced, to start; he wielded a 40mm MGL that weigh around 4.8kg, and then he carried a browning M2, along with an M134 Minigun - no human could ever do this, and Incognito's grenade launcher is already heavier than the Jackal, nor the Casull. So, it's possible that Incognito, with his dark magic ability, Incognito is physically more powerful than Alucard.

His distorted left eye may also be apart of his black magic, possibly an activation of some sort, as in some scenes, he suddenly glares his left eye to activate an ability, such as his telekinesis ability, or body phasing ability. For the body phasing and telekinesis part, Incognito's glowing sigils are visible, however, it was not until Incognito opens his distorted eye in which, he telekinetically hurled the Jackal's bullets back at Alucard and was able to completely destroy the Jackal, and decapitated Alucard.


 * Body Phasing: Incognito was able to simply phase his head, becoming temporarily invulnerable. This is quite similar to when Alucard disappears, then appears out of nowhere. He can also control what part of his body he wants to become invisible, as only his head was not visible when he used this ability.
 * Invisbility: Incognito has the ability to turn himself invisible, however, it is visible that only normal humans cannot see him, or even FREAK vampires - true vampires like Seras and Alucard, with the help of their "third eye" has the ability to see Incognito. But, they can only see his glowing purple sigils, his physical body is entirely invisible.

Incognito's neon purple/pink beams that appeared in episode 13 are also considered apart of his dark magic abilities, and it appears to be so strong in fact, Seras almost died; however, unlike Anderson's bayonet that she caught in episode 3, the beams cannot be touched, and went straight to her neck and appears to have done more damage than the bayonets Anderson uses. Although it's debatable whether or not it was these beams or just another one of Incognito's ability, it was most likely that it was these beams that appears to had hold Alucard in place, therefore, he cannot move while being slashed by Incognito's beams.

Sett
During the final arc of the anime, Incognito summons an entity named Sett, and absorbs the demon with the intent to bring ruin and destruction to everything.

Skills
In addition to his dark magic and weapon, Incognito is a cunning tactician as evidenced by his earlier match against Alucard. By throwing his FREAK vampire soldiers at Alucard, and encouraging Alucard to attack him, Incognito tricked Alucard into expending his own ammunition and then walking into the trap he had set. By trapping Alucard with his dark magic, and depriving him of his ammunition, Incognito was able to severely wound, and temporarily kill Alucard. Very intelligent, he discovered how to summon Sett, an ancient god and is a powerful sorcerer and dark magic.

SWORD OFF ARMSCOR 40mm MGL CUSTOM
Incognito's well-known weapon is the grenade launcher he uses, named "Sword-Off Armscore 40mm MGL Custom", or simply known as the "Sword-Off". The grenade launcher's cartridges are filled with powerful dark magic spines. When the launcher is fired, the cartridge shatters, launching the spines. What effect these have on a human target is never shown in the anime, though they appear to be very powerful, as Alucard has noted. When reloading is required, Incognito vomits a set of dark magic spines into the cartridge assembly of the gun. Incognito was shown multiple times pulling this out of his skin, the reason why is unknown. This weapon is first used against Alucard (who identified it by name) in episode 9; after the powerful vampire asks what Incognito has done (to his master Integra), Incognito shoots him and the spines go through his chest, causing him noticeable pain. The weapon is later used against Alucard again in their confrontation in episode 12, where the spines slash up Alucard's face and damage his body; and again in eisode 13, where Alucard (in his Level 1 form) dodges the spines. When Incognito is seen impaled at the end of the episode, the MGL is still hanging front his arm by its chains.

Also, This weapon weighs more heavily than the Casull, or the Jackal.

Ammunition
The Multiple Grenade Launcher's cartridges are filled with powerful, red, helical spines which are powered with dark magic and resemble DNA chains. When the launcher is fired, the cartridge shatters, launching the spines in a manner similar to a shotgun. While the effect these have on a human target is never shown in the Anime, they appear to be powerful enough to be of note to Alucard. When reloading is required, Incognito vomits green slime, which congeals into a set of dark magic spins into the cartridge assembly of the gun.


 * Caliber: 40mm Grenade (however, Incognito uses a specialized bullets combined with dark magic)
 * Total length: 392mm
 * Weight: 4.8kg
 * Magazine: 8 rounds (cylinder magazine)



M134 Minigun and a Browning M2
in Hellsing Episode 10 :"Master of Monster", Incognito is shown wielding a minigun and what seems to be a M2 Browning heavy machine gun, though it was never seen or used again. The reason is not clear, it is speculated that they either run out of budget or it would be too difficult for him to use 3 weapons.

M1234 Minigun

 * Length: 801.6 mm
 * Barrel Length: 558.8 mm
 * Caliber: 7.62 mm (0.308 in)
 * Cartridge: 7.62×51mm NATO

Browning M2

 * Length: 1,654 mm (65.1 in)
 * Barrel Length: 1,143 mm (45.0 in)
 * Cartridge: .50 BMG

FREAK Chip
The FREAK chip was created by Incognito and Incognito's Master. The chips empower the user to become vampires, in that they will never be fatigued as they have high stamina. In some cases it can revert the aging process and give the user special abilities like transforming into unsightly wingless bat-creatures or telepathy. The chip has been used to transform characters like Paul Wilson, Luke Valentine and Jan into false vampires. A large amount of chips loaded into a person could create an undead of greater power, though it would still be ultimately weaker than a true vampire, or even a true undead fledgling.

S.A.S Ghouls
While his master uses his ability over the England Military, Incognito has control over his SAS ghouls, however, unlike normal ghouls, these SAS ghouls looks like a werewolf, and they're very much more agile than average ghouls, making them a very dangerous foes. These SAS ghouls were later killed by Chris Pickman with the help of Alucard, and Seras Victoria.

Dark Magic Power-up
At the end of episode 10, Incognito made an appearance; it shows him doing some kind of ritual underneath the Bobhan Castle. This ritual's purpose is most likely to power up his already powerful, dark-magic ability as it showed him roaring and feeling incredibly powerful. He then proceeds to summon the SAS ghouls.

Sett
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Voice Actors

 * Japanese Dub: Takumi Yamazaki
 * English Dub: Isaac C. Singleton Jr.
 * Portuguese Dub (Brazil): Fábio Tomasini
 * German Dub: Claus Brockmeyer

Trivia

 * It can be argued that Incognito is an indirect reference to The Major and serves as a stand in for him in the anime series. Incognito claims to have been born for no purpose save to bring ruin and destruction to all while the Major says his only goal is to ignite a grand war.Nosferatu.jpg
 * Though his true identity is unknown, It has also been argued that, while Alucard is inspired by Count Dracula, Incognito may have been inspired by, or be, the vampire Count Orlok, from the 1922 silent movie Nosferatu due to a few similarities.
 * His appearance is very similar to Zorin Blitz, as they both have one distorted eye, and markings on the side of their faces and bodies.
 * He is the only character, aside from Alexander Anderson, to come close to killing Alucard in battle.
 * He is the only character other than Alucard in either series' to kill a true vampire.
 * He is mainly superior to Alucard before he activated his level 1 form.
 * Incognito's appearance also bears resemblance to the reptile-like vampires from Robert Rodriguez's movie, From Dusk till Dawn.
 * Since vampires turn to dust when they die, it is possible that Incognito managed to live a bit longer after Alucard impaled him because he did not turn to dust.