One Villainous Scene - "You Must Be The Belmont" 

Only one blood line of humans would have this mindset... My favourite... The Belmonts... - Dracula probably

"Bash it till I crush it"😂

I think it was more like "this human, not a hybrid, not a magician, punched me in the nose both times to stagger me, not afraid, that crest, a Belmont, now I get to have some fun."

Worked for Simon😅

"Why does he keep punching ? He probably has broken bon-ohhhhhh BELMONT !"

Or the classic thing of "Yup, that bony knuckle tickling is definatly a Belmont punch"

Or just deduction. He already knew how the trio was made up and after Sypha was all ice and fire only the Belmont was left. But I enjoy Belmont being crazy enough to punch him more.

Spoiler ahead If you seen the fight with death, he also punches death in the form of the grim reaper

Trevor punching Dracula who's just thinking "Damn it Leon, do you see your idiot dependents?"

I like the second reasoning more. And yes it is more entertaining.

Ironic since, if this follows the game lore to any degree (I mean, they already screwed it by not having Grant as part of the team initially (Greta does not count) but go with it), he already threw away his humanity and teamed up with Death as one giant middle finger against God. So really, it's more like he regained his humanity for a time.

@@LordTyph I don't think it really follows the game lore because SPOILERS: Trevor fights Death in season 4, but it's implied by Death (who was disguised for most of the season) that Dracula wasn't aware of his true identity.

"...not as big a monster..." Ummm...did they miss the opening scene, with the forest of impaled corpses in front of his castle? Or when he's FONDLY remembering that time he butchered an entire village for "slighting" him? Or how about lying to Hector REPEATEDLY? Or when he CONSCIOUSLY tries beating his son to death? Being heartbroken because his wife is dead doesn't make Dracula any less of a monster. Considering at no point did it dawn on him that THOUSANDS of husbands had to endure the same pain because of HIM, I'd say he's an even BIGGER monster, because now he's also a hypocrite.

@@jmhaugen4757 I think they’re saying that because Dracula still obviously cares about Alucard and his wife. If he was the monster he thought he was, then he would’ve killed his son outright, twisting his rationale to justify the act. He wouldn’t have just given up and let Alucard kill him.

@@jmhaugen4757 fair though the Bishop easily is the biggest monster in the whole show.

The whole "Resurrecting every hundred years" is really just Dracula having a wild ass bender before taking a really nice nap

@@rustyshackle8000 he has a mad final boss complex.

Some things money can't buy. For everything else, there's Master Vamp.

Idk why, but I hear that in Takahata101's Perfect Cell voice

@@DMKleinArts It’s because Dracula did it MYYYYYYYY WAAAAAYYYY

Now I have the image that Dracula heard Dog toy squeaks from the bare knuckle tickles that Trvor gave him

@@camblycreeper7999 I think I've seen an edit of that somewhere

And thus the meme began

@@nickgrout2502 have you seen the GameCube noise edit

Link to video if someone made it please! XD

Someone once summed up Dracula's thought process at that moment as 'There's only one group of mad bastards crazy enough to throw a haymaker at the Prince of Darkness! Belmont! How're you doing? How's the family?'

@@KurganMacLeod “My family is extinct” “Good to hear!”

@@goroakechi6126 "Good to hear!!" Lmaooo that's exactly how dracula would react

Dracula's like "You look about as stupid as my buddy Leon."

Alucard and Sypha are like "Goddamnit Trevor now we've got to save your dumb ass."

her mind 😍 she pegged him to redemption

I like how the women in the show (the one's that we actually care about and have more than like 30 seconds of screentime) do not put up with the men's bullshit

@@gruffen4 The first scene in Dracula's castle really sold me on the show, honestly. Lisa coming in and just not taking Dracula's "Prince of Darkness" act had me like, "Where is this story going, the characters are amazing!"

@@dovalayn Ouch.

@@salvadortoscano2534 I want an entire series just about them it’s some of the best chemistry I’ve ever seen in anything

The Vampire Court sees all humans as barely sentient animals. That includes the Belmonts, but they refer to them as apex predators. It's like humans talking about a leopard.

When the vampires learn about the Belmonts, Carmilla says "I thought they were extinct". Not gone or dead, "extinct", which is such a perfect word for this because they really do see them as kind of a different species.

"the latest iteration" of the Belmonts

Exactly I love it bc it's a whole other level. But i guess that's the entire thing of the game and has been since day one: Belmont fight dracula

Right like the Belmont is just a thing that happens

that fight was so amazing, i was crying the moment they started fighting in alucard’s childhood room ;-;

As the captain says in s3. His last 2 decisions are to save the life of a friend and to spare the life of his son. Doesn’t sound like someone who truly wants all humans to die. Definitely one of the best sympathetic villains ever.

Ugh, that scene made me so sad

ngl, that was the first point I had to pause the show because I couldn't see what was happening through the sudden waterfall coming from my tear ducts. T_T It's so beautifully done it hurts.

@@justinadler4695 Agreed. And I especially love that The Captain, a pirate/mercenary of all people is not only the one to make the case for humanity’s continued existence, but that it actually works.

Holy shit. you're right!

Excellent analysis!

The only time he uses his claws in that fight, as I recall, is that single skin-deep slice to Sypha's arm. This not only shows, to my mind, that he's pulling his punches against Alucard, but also reinforces the point that Red makes about Dracula really, truly enjoying his little scrap with Sypha and, in particular, Trevor. He's absolutely relishing the long forgotten drama of playing his role as the villain and is in no way willing to end that in the many and varied abrupt and violent ways he absolutely could have - especially given the powers and abilities he does whip out during said fight. He's giving them the fight they want. The grandeur, the drama, the tension. Slowly ratcheting up the powers he unleashes as if he's both testing them and showing off. Which, in and of itself, plays back into the idea that he's in this whole mess in the first place because he not only feels emotion, but does so to a depth and power that mere mortals would find incomprehensible while reinforcing core character traits only hinted at previously, such as his love of drama and meticulous attention to detail. He's a really, *really* good villain.

Also know that Dracula was starving himself

@@Robert-rw5lm Another LITTLE detail I friggen forgot

The greatest accident of the Castlevania video games I believe is this relationship between Dracula and the Belmonts over the years and the different games

@@dedf15 that wasn't an accident though.

Seconding this -- Red, pls to give us! 🥺👉🏾👈🏾 ✨💛

Don’t threaten me with a good time

I NEED IT !!! as soon as Trevor mirrored the whole "anyone could have stood up and said no, we're not going to be like this" all those years ago when that episode came out, instant parallel between two characters who are both OVER LIVING IN THIS WORLD FULL OF PEOPLE WHO DON'T CARE ABOUT EACH OTHER, I'm here for it. make it a 100 minute rant for all I care, WE ARE ALL HERE FOR IT ! because really the truth is every realist is just an optimist whose heart has been broken and crushed underfoot by a careless, selfish foot. they're both angry because they care about higher ideals like justice and fairness. (I am totally not self projecting).

This whole scene made me sob the first time I saw it. SO HEAVY

He would absolutely not do the same if it was Alucard that burned. Sure he would be absolutely devestated but the big difference is that LISA would be there to stop him, and he would never go agains her.

​@@JokkazArt Probably not. When he attacked Alucard, he knew his son would survive his attacks, Lisa wouldn't.

​@@T9C1PSayWha it still makes me sob

This.

ABSOLUTELY

DEFINATLY

I CRAVE MORE CONTENT LIKE THIS! PLEASE RED DO IT!

Preach

My favourite quote is that little speech that Alucard gives around the fire to Trevor and Sypha before they're attacked on the road. It's a great scene for so many reasons, but I'll explain why it speaks to me personally. Trevor and Sypha are talking about the "end of the world", and Alucard, amused at this choice of words and the sapiocentric thinking it betrays, clarifies that the world will still be here, but humans won't be. Life will go on, the world will persist, but without the layers of meaning imposed upon it by the humans who experience it. He goes on to very eloquently explain his father's point of view, losing himself in his musings, half forgetting that he has an audience. I can't remember the exact wording off the top of my head, but it ends with something like "...until all that's left is to look out over a world without art or memory or laughter, and know that he did his work well. That he did it all for love." I go back to rewatch this show every few months, because I just love it that much, and this scene *still* gives me shivers. It's not just this scene, either, but all kinds of subtle things all throughout the show. Another one I like is his moment to himself when he's drawing his parents' faces in the sand. I love how artfully and organically this all serves to illustrate Alucard's conflicted nature. He shares his father's pain and rage, justifiably so, but knows that his father's actions are wrong. He knows his mother would agree that Dracula needs to be destroyed, and he knows that it would thoroughly break her heart. He also knows that she would somehow find the strength to do what is necessary, and so with tears in his eyes, he resolves to do what he must.

@@SauceMeGud That writers did an amazing job making the characters feel like more than that and the VAs nailed it with their performances.

It's close. The best is: "The Morningstar Whip?! Well played Belmont. But I am not some petty vampire to be killed by your human magic. I am Count Vlad Dracula Tepes! AND I HAVE HAD ENOUGH!" That shit get me hyped every time!

@@Darkman1025 That scene was the definition of, "Ooh, shit."

"This is how they get us, Hector... They convince us that there is no future." This line from Isaac is the one that sticked with me since I watched it. It actualy bring a conclusion to the theme of the whole show, bringing the final ideological response to Dracula suicide-by-genocide attempt. The despair caused by loss, fear, pain, depression and isolation, even overwhelming, isn't insurmontable. Healing and growth is possible. And the fact that this conclusion is delivered by Isaac, arguably the most hatefull character in the cast, make his statement even stronger.

Oh god that makes it even more saddening. He probably lamented and decided that Lisa wouldn’t want this he shouldn’t do that, there are good people out there. Then he finds out the crushing reality that they are planning to celebrate a woman who dedicated her life to love, loving him and loving people, she wanted to save people and now they are celebrating her death, that is just crushing. I’m sorry for my grammar, but that just squeezes the heart more. After they’ve gotten their warning and heard her begging that they decided to celebrate her death completely pushed him over the edge.

I already sympoth7zed with Dracula because obvious reasons... yeah that makes me just agree with Dracula saying fuck it and trying to kill all humans. Like it's one thing to kill her because of a religious d8sagreement ad a "its a tragedy but it must be done" thing but to make a festival out of it

honestly i really cannot blame dracula at that point frankly everyone who could have and didnt immediately dip after his threat kinda deserved it : /

Yeah plus he spared the Old woman who told him what happened like he still believed in what Lisa taught him until he saw the festival at that point his faith in humanity was shattered

Underrated comment

And I, just as quickly, went from "Hell yeah!" to "Oh god, no..." in the same time span. Funny how that works. :'D

Shadowpeach in one sentence

Dracula bringing out the metaphorical belt, and then feeling terrible about it afterwards just hits so hard.

trevor and sypha were literally "the friends you have over at your house to hang out but you end up getting into a fight with your dad in front of them and they don't know what to do" 💀

"And now I'm ruining everything by becoming the monster she never thought I was." Except that Dracula was ALWAYS the monster he thought he was. He DELIGHTED in slaughter and the destruction of humans. Think about that scene were he's reminiscing about killing all the men in that one village, all for a "slight." Or when he recalls how he met Isaac for the first time; he had no idea who Isaac was or why those men were chasing him, but he still killed them all and THEN had a chat with the forgemaster. And look how quickly he turned to "kill all the humans" because his wife was killed. Not just "kill the priest responsible" or "raze the town that took her"...nope. ALL the humans. Millions of people who have no idea who Lisa even was, or had anything to do with her murder. Everyone has to go because his favorite person is dead. That's the sort of thinking a bratty child has. The sort of thinking a MONSTER would have. And here's a hot take; if humans deserve to die, then what about vampires, who are even WORSE than humans? Wouldn't humanity deserving genocide be an equal condemnation of vampires, who do the EXACT SAME THINGS humans do (and worse), yet rack up a higher body count since they have centuries to do them?

@@jmhaugen4757 On that last point, yeah. Dracula knows and is perfectly okay with the fact that once all the humans are dead, all the vampires will die from starvation shortly after. That's what his confrontation with Godbrand was all about

@@screamingcactus1753 vampires wouldn’t die from not drinking blood, they would just eternally starve. They could also drink pig blood.

@@mr.walkie8845 Is that from the show? Because that's not what I got from the video

@@screamingcactus1753 yes, Dracula makes a point that godbrand can just drink pig blood. And I don’t know whether or not for certain the fist thing I said is necessarily cannon to the show, That’s how vampires realistically work. It’s not a need for them to drink blood, just a want.

I always loved that detail. Like his humanity/sanity is finally breaking through.

Even within the king of monsters, who appointed himself as the hunter of humans, persists the meekest shred of humanity. Funny how in many humans such a trace is absent.

@@clayxros576 Well yeah, they're a miserable pile of secrets after all!

@@clayxros576 o

It also shows how powerful he is. He was so strong that he had to power down for The crew to kill him. It makes his character even better IMO

Amen

Warren Ellis is a fantastic writer. He's got many kickass comic books.

Empathy is amazingly flexible narrative trait

Way to make me sob!

I wish the guy himself was a bit more empathetic, but he sure knows how to make ppl empathize with his characters lol

Same. The whole scene is brilliant but the lamentation over the painting of the room and crafting of toys just says so much. It wasn't just a room his son stayed in, it was a room full of things that he made with his wife to bring their son joy. The difference between paying for nice things and making nice things.

@@pred6 He conveys so much with so little. As someone who does voice act, albeit not too often, I can only dream of getting to that level of awesome

Which is even further credit to Dracula's fucking *voice actor*!!! Mans absolutely *sells* the mask of Dracula and the man behind the mask that is Vlad Tepes. I feel you. I've yet to see that scene without feeling the same drop in my heart. The way he says "It's your home. [...] I'm killing our boy. [...] It's our boy. My boy. I'm killing my boy." You can *hear* him falling apart; realising exactly what he's doing. Who he's hurting. Continuing off of what Red was saying, this isn't just the child of his beloved Lisa. This is *his* boy. His sweet boy whom he *lavished* with love for a good eighteen years. His dear boy that he left not only to mourn alone, but to inevitably clean up his mess. The way he goes from Mother Fucking Dracula, the Lord of Darkness, to Vlad Tepes, flawed but loving father and grieving widower.

It's interesting to note that draculas castle is full of mechanical and magical wonders that could revolutionize the world and how they mean nothing to him compared to the simple toys and furniture found in that bedroom

@@sugar-high_kitsune I truly love that, because Dracula could so easily have been written as just "Man who loses his wife and becomes abusive father" But somehow, despite him LITERALLY attempting to murder him, he's never abusive in it? Or at least it doesn't feel that way?

Also all that depression and subsequent starvation just means he's still the most powerful being on the planet.

Yup. The only thing that stopped him was his love for his family and his crippling depression

Ya. A lot of villeins start off weak so you wonder why anyone is afraid of them, or they start off strong and get nerfed out of nowhere because the plot needs them to lose.

the way that the only way that they could beat Dracula was because he stopped fighting out of shame, that they wouldn't be able to beat him otherwise and would have been slaughtered and it works because we already know that he's doing this out of suicidal grief for his wife and how he's going against what she stood for, and how this hits the climax when he ends up in Adrian's room and realizes that he's killing their son amazing

This man is a charismainiac 100%

This reminds me of Critical Role, where this problem came up at least three times by now

Its good Soma Cruz had such a good teacher and mentor in Alucard... after the therapy...

I heard it in Alucards voice!

@@ProperDaveXD001 Ohh wow, that really works... Now hear it in the PS1 Symphony of the Night Alucard voice

250 in Alucard case. Maria Renard discovered it sooner

Wow good catch!

I wonder now... Alucard had DISAPPEARED for an entire year to recuperate after his fight with his father. An entire year where Dracula had no idea what happened to his son. I wonder if Dracula thought he... killed Alucard. And when he heard his Son was running around with a Belmont, that was the first time in a YEAR that he heard his son had survived the fight with him.

I didn't notice that until you mentioned it! Just... ouch...

@@cussundriakneal9904 I didn't realize that...fuck I absolutely *love* this show

cussundriakneal9904 i had STOPPED crying and now i am typing this comment through my tears. how dare you

I mean, looking at it. This is true. Sure, you can get rid of the one who committed the crime. But the point is to punish those responsible for his existence that lead him to commit the crime. To get rid of those responsible for giving the killer the weapon and power to do what he did. Only then, can you properly ensure something like this doesn't happen again so easily. It's curing the symptom vs eliminating the cause.

​@Jace which is why Dracula is a little bit understandable and why Trevor is p much against him as a job

​@@djktsjytej ok but Drac didn't cure a symptom, he chose to amputate the patient's head to stop an infection. Yeah technically it solves the problem, but it's not like the humanity gets to enjoy the benefits being "treated".

@@djktsjytej And to accomplish this you commit genocide? That’s a ridiculous rationalization and you know it.

@@d.n5287 This is exactly what the Boat Captain said to Isaac.

Like under achievements: Fucked a wizard Punched Dracula Stabbed death “AND I LIVED”

Same

and swapping autographs at the next VillainCon

At job interview: "And how do you know this person?" "I killed him, cut off his head" "he killed me, right as I was gonna hug my son."

- Any experience on the job? - Well, there was this time we managed to survive a Dracula phase 1 final boss battle. We kick ass.

Dracula: Must be a Belmont. He hits just like their women.

@@Karlos1234ify dude, I guarantee you Belmont women would def be crazier than the men. they'd be scarier than the monsters they fight

*Sees the literal avatar of evil* How bout I throw some haymakers.

@@kaelang12 ikr?

@@b-listjester8204 Trevor's life was a series of disappointing travesties that his best efforts weren't good enough to prevent. Trevor finding it in himself to face unspeakable evils to protect the undeserving world that tormented him was a victory siezed from the jaws of despair.

Half the video is about one scene the one the rest is just background

@@keysliceace5015 half this video is still double the length of almost all the other villainous scene videos I've seen :D

The show is so compact, there's nothing that's not necessary to appreciate the full extent of the whole, especially in the first two seasons before the plot splits.

OSP sure loves their preamble, but that's why we love them.

The context is the spice! You can't have a good scene without a hefty pinch of context!

Bro wore his wedding ring for an entire year after the death of his wife, and Carmilla called her a pet in front of his entire council. The fact she survived that encounter shows how much restraint the man has.

Not just that; Liza dragged out the wonderful person he could've been. Dracula did everything he did in this show because he wanted vengeance for Liza. Dracula saw Liza as everything good and beautiful about humanity; humans killed her and to him that proved humans were beyond redemption.

It's like destroying an evil tome that contained countless cures for ailments but decided to also be a nuclear warhead.

That one line stuck with me "He could've changed the world, I think he might have if not for my mothers death.", it gives the whole situation a grander sense of tragedy for the world at large. That feeling from Alucard of just "He was so close, he could've been a hero, my dad could've been a hero, he was so close."

@@zigzaghyena just one push...

*Flashbacks to the Library of Alexandria*

I teared up when I saw that in the synopsis and I teared up again when I saw it in the actual show.

I was in TEARS, TEARS

man that hit hard it was so good but also so sad

@@krislanc1239 Ditto, I swear I heard my heart shattering like glass. The delivery was devastating.

The voice acting nailed it.

"So, my dad showed up again, only his hair is white, he doesn't remember anything, and he's trashing his old home. Also he's a teenager for some reason. He's also dating someone new, and I know that my mother died centuries ago, that I should move on, but I can't help but feel conflicted. I mean, she's several centuries younger than him, he's practically robbing the cradle! Anyway, thanks for listening doc, but I have to go, there's this Belmont guy who's trying to murder him and I need to explain that my dad's not evil this time around. I think."

@@ObsidianKnight90 thanks for this! XD

@@ObsidianKnight90 nice

I like to think this therapist has the same outlook as that therapist from the Lucifer TV series, where they know it's actually Alucard but just go with it after the initial suprise. "...and don't get me started on Trevor. To this day people think we were the same person, but I was THERE WITH HIM when we had to MURDER my FATHER!" "Mhm, I can sense a bit of an identity crisis going on here..."

@@HyperfixationWizard I'd LOVE to see Linda just build up a supernatural therapy practice and then she gets surprised when a Normal human comes in. Plus I'd love to read Linda and Alucard together in a Therapy session.

Skallagrim actually did a video covering that very topic.

Damn, this is really cool!

31:32 You can actually see as Dracula enters the room, he bears his claws to strike Alucard, but then balls his hand up into a fist instead right before swinging.

the man essentially gave himself trauma over having traumatized his own child.

@@erinshipinski7332 As I imagine any decent parents would, honestly. If I were to have a child and then proceed to harm them like that, I’d never forgive myself. Definitely adds that one more layer to Dracula, because on some level he clearly wants to be a good and empathetic father, at least to the extent where he’s not carving up his son.

"What the f*ck is toilet paper?" also came out right at the start of Covid, so meta gallows humor there.

One of the things I appreciated a lot about Castlevania is how it often feels like a 90s direct-to-sleazy-video-stores OVA with overly-crude dubbing, except it actually has rather deep characters arcs to it.

Two of my favorite lines: "See, God hates me!" and "God is not here... this is an empty box..."

so it's shakespeare

@@camblycreeper7999 "God shits in my dinner once again"

so we all just skipped the unneeded bullshit the writers threw for the ending of season 3, i dont mind because i hate it too

@@monke9386 meh, it's not bad

@@monke9386 Okay, but many of us loved season 3, both for the many references to the lesser known Castlevania games but also because you can't have the story arc of season 4 without the set-up from season 3.

@Ryan Stewart You bring up a really good point. I really enjoyed season 3 and I never played the games. Season 4 definitely would not have packed the punch it did without season 3.

@@nighton3 I can understand why some people weren't so hot on it. It follows on from the stunning peak that was the finale of season 2, and you're going to be hard pressed to up the ante after fighting fuckmothering Dracula. Season 3 represents a sort of resetting of the stakes, a trough after a peak, and the writers used it to set the stage and introduce the characters they'd need for the amazing season 4. It was good writing.

I love "one character ragdolls another, then it's revealed that the guy with the tennis racket wasn't even at their best" fights. It's even better if they come back later in the story with their handicap removed.

100%

Yup

Yessssss

Yes we need to make this happen

Abso-fuckin-lutely. 😂❤

How are you literally everywhere?!?

think it was years actually like him traveling he might’ve feed but after lissa died he stoped

I read this in the voice of Alucard from hellsing abridged

@@Peagaporto man i can relate cause dracula with guns is definetly better

So not only are you everywhere, but you're there at roughly the same time as me. Dude, at this point I am just dying to know what your life looks like. Who _are_ you?

"I'm killing our son..."

Lisa wasnt even the first wife he lost. :(

And that final line "I must Already Be Dead" And then he just lets Alcuard kill him? Then the hug? THEN TREVOR CUTTING OFF HIS HEAD? It's like watching a Greek Tragedy.

I bawled

I was about to cry just watching it on here. So good!

"...on WHOSE SIDE?" [Ours] ...that's great news. [AGAINST] It's all F@(ked now, isn't it?

Context, I guess?

One scene in the castle, two seasons of build up that made it so good

That's also how you perfectly write an Overpowered antagonist/ character in general. So well executed, showing how strong he is in comparison but making the end feel so believable and devastating. (Instead of the many cheap ways to end a fight with similarly strong "bosses")

@@kazorikumo9765 Yes exactly! When I was watching the fight I was worried they'd pull some BS "power of friendship" teamwork or something because there was no way they were winning that fight against Dracula. But the vulnerability and his downfall felt natural since he allowed himself to be killed because he realized... he was already dead. He was killing his beloved baby boy and there's no way he could do that.

Its not about usimg kryptonits ita about managing to hit superman.

@@ineednochannelyoutube5384 He said "The Morning Star Whip. Well-played, Belmont." not "You managed to land a hit on me after I was rooted to the floor. Well-played Belmont."

I think it was that he brought the Morningstar to the fight that was "well played"

Well you could just use a dog whistle and superman's ears would explode so he's not really that hard to beat

@@marshallparks382 its the fact that he managed to smack dracula with the whip alone thats "well played" itself

That bit of context changes Alucard’s entire story

@@lucarvee he was there during her death in the show as well, at least near enough to hear her. She was probably saying it for both of them, But Alucard heard her and tried to tell Dracula that she wouldn't want this.

It's also basically Christ's plea to God on the cross, in fact Lisa is a Christ figure in the story.

If Alucard was there, what the f*** was he doing just standing there?!

@@wargriz8213 being in shock

the way he realizes it is just tragic... "I'm killing our son." It's like he's talking to both himself and Lisa over what he's doing

It was a masterful scene, it started in suspense with Dracula kicking our heroes asses. they got some hits in yes but it had the feeling of, 'How the hell are they going to win' and then the realization of what Dracula was about to do. the voice actor sold it so god damn well, how broken he sounded when he said 'Your greatest gift to me...and I'm killing him. I must already be dead.' just chills.

I literally started screaming at my screen, in about as near to tears as media can get me: "He's just a sad old man!"

Peepeepoopoo

Yeah

this is my exact thought process as well!

Let's not kid ourselves, the only damage dracula we as taking was self inflicted mental damage from fighting his son.

@@eternalkingdom8 *Asian voice * EMOTIONAL DAMAGE

The series does not follow the lore of the games; it's its own entity loosely based on the games, maybe 'inspired by' is a better word. There's nothing in the series to even imply that it does. To date, basically no serious 21st century media project with a significant budget to it has voluntarily shackled itself to decades of video game writing, and none are about to start. Video game writing has really only very recently begun to approach the quality (or at least effort-invested) expected of every other medium in the last few years and everyone vaguely involved with professional writing knows it, so tying a project with serious Prestige Television levels of effort put into its writing to shit written for low-effort pre-6th gen games would be suicidal. It would be like making a superhero movie that actually has to take eighty years of comic continuity into account. *Konami* barely cares about staying within the boundaries of their own canon within the games. There is literally no way in hell they would have been able to secure Warren Ellis if sticking to the video game canon was a requirement, and if it wasn't in the contract and the head writer has never played any of the games, it should be really obvious that they aren't relying on the games as their source of canon. Everything related to the games likely comes from a series bible supplied by Konami, from which names, weapons, and certain characters known to be iconic to fans of the games are used when appropriate.

@@iusethisnameformygoogleacc1013 but...... wasn't there a Portrait of Leon Belmont in the Belmont hold?

@@2495781 Yes there was. As far as I'm concerned, lament of innocence did happen in one form as far as I'm concerned.

@@Neobelmont1 i like to think that was the one game that is canon to the Netflix show. Since Dracula was kinda how they described him in the games just living to spite God and only really went on the war path when wronged.

@@iusethisnameformygoogleacc1013 Wow, way to sound like a pretentious douche. "herp derp old videogame stories bad and shit" Do you seriously call the likes of Ultima, Fallout 1+2, Metal Gear and Soul Reaver shitty in their writing? Not to mention you specifically said "pre 6th generation is shitty", when Lament of Innocence (which is the game that op referred to) is from the 6th generation.

Right? This is a *teenager* here! A *child* that has just had to *MURDER* the last familiar tie he has! But he did it because it was the right thing to do, and his mother's dying wish; to be *better* than the humans that took her away. He legally isn't considered physically mature enough to even *drink* in the some countries, but he's in charge of killing his own father: Motherf*cking DRACULA. The fact that he holds himself together for *so long* is astounding.

I am honestly horrified at the thought of killing a random stranger I've never met before. I couldn't even begin to fathom how it must've felt for Alucard having to come to bare with the idea that he must kill his father, A GOOD FATHER, because he had lost himself to his grief and rage.

Something that Red and Blue did really well in highlighting the tragedy of it. Alucard isn't prepared at all to kill his father beyond knowing it is the only thing that will finally make Dracula stop.

Kinda makes watching Trevor get thrown around like a toy feel a little good

Same 😭

That line was heartbreaking. Poor Alucard.

@@Kat-gp6gj That whole season was poor Alucard

@@benjdelphi It really was. I've never felt so bad for a fictional character before. He deserved that happy ending!

My brain is hardwired for Zelda and read that as ocarina of evil before it read it correctly

@@HorrorFan0117 *doots threateningly*

@@HorrorFan0117 I mean, every Castlevania title that I know of has some sort of musical reference in it, so that's not as bad of a guess as you make it seem

@@stephenfong1144 What's the reference in Circle of the Moon?

@@a.j.9727 Learned a new Castlevania title today

As if the childhood room wasn't sad enough, you throw this gut punch at me?

This just made me wonder where Alucard was. Lost a few days in the library?

Ahhhhh! That's so much MORE sad then I thought; why would you do this?!?

Yup. Just like in the game

@@Agent719 I wonder that too. But I also think Alucard was probably unable to do anything at the time because he would've been killed for being the spawn of Satan.

And her and her family are the last of the humans he will spare. There’s also the fact that he’s going to kill them anyway if he went through with his plan.

It IS also really subtil that He tells her to leave, Take her Family und flee. She learns that while Lisa was Not a witch she meddled with forces beyond human knowledge

He also open palm strikes Trevor across a room when he could have easily gutted him then and there. He's pulling his punches with everyone in that fight.

​@@nathanrandall7003 And to round out the observations, throwing a massive fireball at a magician like Sypha is just asking for it to be sent back at you.

HOLY SHIT!!! I NEVER caught that but your right!!! Dracula LAID Open his sons chest the last time they fought wounding his son so badly he had to heal for a year! Now he’s just brawling with his son. The fury is still there but looking back... he’s subconsciously holding back

We also see this when dracula is fighting with Trevor and sypha. He doesn't hesitate to use his claws when fighting them but when alucard comes along he starts punching.

also the funny thing about it is that he has to hold himself back even after starving himself for years which means at full power they probably could have done nothing to dracula.

Godbrand was just a loud-mouthed psychopath and Dracula had zero respect for him. He was just a tool. All the vampire lords were just tools to Dracula. And Godbrand was the bluntest of them all. A big, boisterous club to batter at humanity. No skill or style. And no value beyond his military utility. I wonder if Godbrand ever got it...

@@Bird_Dog00 Nope, he dies with his back to a loyal man that he has just finished confessing betrayal to. Godbrand has literally no foresight.

He was a simple vampire with simple tastes...which included boats.

@@AuspexAO I dunno, he did at least grasp that dracula's plan was suicide for him specifically and all other vampires collaterally, so he wasn't a complete idiot. He did misjudge Isaac very badly though.

Anybody forgot that Leon Belmont is Mathias' best friend who he screwed up because misery loves company.

*comeuppance

Yeah, Blue Teeth was such a fantastic minor villain

Oh man, the one exchange I loved most from that was "My life's wooork is in his name!!" Followed by "Your life's work. *Makes. Him. Puke* ". When a freakin' demon verbally slaps you in the face that hard, you know you're the real villain all along.

Plus the implication that his raised zombie corpse was more holy in the eyes of God than he ever was in life due to its ability to bless an entire river of water.

"But you kill people all the time!?" "Yes and I'm a MONSTER!"

Also Dracula just ate that fire. Any other vampire would have died and bro just ate it.

@@Karhall Right? Throughout the entire season we see how devastating Sypha's fire is. Literally not ten minutes ago we see her incinerate a vampire general in about two seconds. But now with Dracula, the fire does basically nothing. It doesn't even singe his hair.

We should’ve known Varney was Death, he was voiced by Malcom McDowell.

“I’m going to eat you your soul, shit you out, then use you to smother your girlfriend”

“Why is it that only human hands can reach into hell? Don’t you think that’s weirdly fucked up?” Instantly became the best villain in the entire show.

@@theless-than-goodhunter7019 Best villain line ever even more so than it was just Tuesday

That’s not the quote, but okay.

"Only one human clan would be so stupid and ballsy to punch the Lord of Darkness in the face. Belmont! How are you, how's the family?"

"They're all dead! Also, why are you acting like you know me!" "Oh, sorry about that. Often get you Belmonts mixed up with one another. I even mistake your great great uncle twice removed as your 7th great great great great cousin."

@@torazely Read this in TFS Alucard's voice without even trying.

Dracula: You must be the Belmont. How is the Family? Belmont: ... Dracula: Yeah the church killed my family too, that's rough buddy. So shall we get this fight to the death over with ?

@@SinHurr me too lol

Ugh that scene ripped me apart man...

Me: *watches Alucard and Dracula fight and is get excited* Dracula: "I'm killing our boy." Me: "Take my heart why don't you?"

"Your greatest gift to me, and I'm killing him."

"I must already be dead."

To be fair, it was more of a masterful recontextualization. The way he said it, made him sound like a biblical figure ready to punish humanity for their sins, and they had that time to repent or flee. If he had instead said ''I'm going to spend a year to raise an army to start a war with you people'', then it's much more likely that people would have started preparing defenses and made themselves ready for him, rather then treating him as a Satan analogue that could be dismissed by superior faith.

The children didn't

We usually do.

No, he just needed 1 year to build his army.

@@kotorandcorvid4968 Yeah, but they would've grown up to hate even more if they were allowed to live.

YES!!! She strolls in, he does his "Prince of Darkness" routine, and she's just, "I'm not here for theatrics, I just wanna help people, you got the goods or not?" Dracula's surprise was mirrored with my own, and I respected the man for saying to her face, "I think I like you." xD Absolutely incredible, all of it

Did Morrison have a hand in this show? If so that's explain some things

I think you're getting Warren Ellis confused with Grant Morrison, but otherwise agreed. It's especially amazing given season four was obviously truncated due to alleged issues with Warren Ellis apparently.

@@MusicoftheDamned Ellis? That explains even more. Lol is that weird?

@@mad0813 Weird? In what sense? I could get not realizing it even though Warren Ellis's name is literally on every title card. Since there's no superheroes for him to malign, the only other obvious tells are mostly in Trevor's dialogue, a bit of Godbrand's, and that entire bar scene in season 1.

@@MusicoftheDamned They REALLY CRAPPED THE BED with that 4th season. The final villain and final battle were incredibly lame. season 4 was a rush job.

I guarantee Simon and Leon probably tried the old right hook before

@@fangsabre Simon wouldn’t be born for a while, way after Trevor if I remember right. He’s like the Great Grandson of *Trevor’s* Great Grandson

@@apollo193 I'm unfamiliar with the canon timeline, I thought the games happened before the show

@@fangsabre Some of them would, some wouldn’t….. Trevor in game lore would be around about 200 years before Simon. Though I personally wouldn’t take all game lore as fact. Castlevania the series is an adaptation after all, some things can and have been changed

Belmont's are known for their mad boxing skills

This is him at his earliest. It’s implied every time he dies and is reborn in the games, it’s less Dracula and more Chaos that’s coming back, which is why he is some much more violent and monstrous in some titles than others.

well, he is a man of science and reason. the show really makes him a very logical villain, who's motivated by emotions and vengeance.

@@nevermore7285 Oh dude, I never even thought of it like that! That makes so much sense!

But isn't chaotic energy the most human thing?

@@JoshtheOverlander Yeah. It's one of the reasons why they introduced Soma Cruz. Chaos is the elemental, metaphysical "bad guy" that merely used Dracula as a vessel for centuries before he outlived his usefulness. Dracula may have recruited his army from Hell, but Chaos is not inherently satanic.

If you've played Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Richter and Alucard says something similar at the end, but it's a direct quote from Edmund Burke: The only way for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.

In all fairness, the lifespan of a creature like Dracula is so long that they have a completely different perspective. And in time, perhaps even Alucard would come to see things as his father did. As creatures, like us humans, who have such limited lifespans it is impossible for most, and difficult for ALL, to even comprehend anything but our tiny and very short existences. A creature that can live for thousands of years has had that thousands of years to work on themselves. They say to us "Why can't you just be better?!" Our response would be "We're trying, but it is hard!" But they wouldn't understand that anymore than we can understand them. Dr. Manhattan had the same problem. His perception was so different than everyone else's that finding any ground to negotiate with him was just impossible. At any rate, we humans are not capable of enacting the correct judgments on such beings. It would be like the squirrel in my backyard being angry at me for cutting my grass; the squirrel doesn't know that I own the property. The backyard is MINE; the squirrel doesn't know or understand that. Where in this case, the squirrel would be humans.

The biggest difference between Dracula and Trevor in these moments is the placement of blame. Dracula blames the innocents for not having courage, while Trevor blames the guilty for choking it out of the innocent.

The fuck? Does this Count have Afternoon tea with the village mayor? xD Still interesting

Salvador Toscano no he just knows that playing the role of the villian means he will be able to come back over and over again. Another vampire in the book logically overcomes his weaknesses and does all kinds of logical evil moves to keep power over people and when he is killed the village makes sure to do everything they can to prevent him from coming back.

That's from which of the books? Didn't read this one yet..

I love the Discworld novels, I think there was a TV show about it not too long ago that was pretty good, but something I can't get over is that, not even death knows what happens after you die. Hes just like, "Sometimes its a door, sometimes its an arch, but what happens past that? God only knows." He's also super bummed about his job as death having to deal with the souls of the dead. Which is actually in total contrast to Death in Season 4 of Castlevania who's just tired of everyone's shit

@@jacktheripper7735 There IS a new TV show that... Pratchett's daughter has distanced herself from and all the fans have condemned it, because it's nothing like the actual books and is in fact quite insulting. HOWEVER... there's also a number of live action films ("Hogfather" and "Color of Magic," as well as "Going Postal"), as well as a few low budget animated films. And a few older video games. I HIGHLY recommend "Hogfather" and "Color of Magic," both are simply superb.

Because Dracula knew the the only one with the balls to run up and punch him in the face, multiple times in fact, could only be a Belmont.

I love foil, it's so shiny

Which is why Isaac focuses his revenge on Carmilla instead of trying to go after the heroes.

You gotta love how Camilla's betrayal coincided exactly with Sypha teleporting the castle despite neither of them having any contact or even knowledge of what the other is up to. Camilla is like "What the fuck just happened to the castle???" and Trevor, Alucard and Sypha see a bunch different vampires fighting each other and probably also though "Are we interrupiting something???"

NO! NO! NO! Many people say I am sick in the head. NOOOO!!!! I don't believe them. But there are so many people commenting this stuff on my videos, that I have 1% doubt. So I have to ask you right now: Do you think I am sick in the head? Thanks for helping, my dear ta

I would also LOVE yo watch that. Castlevania is a really interesting show, both for the good parts and its flaws, and Red's perspective about matters like those is always very formative.

@@AxxLAfriku I-I... pardon????

Please I need that in my life

I'd watch the fuck out of that.

It IS the bloody vampire killer

"Ahhh, the MORNING STAR! Well played!"

The fact that he acknowledges the power of the weapon that struck him like a second ago is a power move in itself. I certainly would not fight King Arthur, get stabbed and then proclaim: 'Ah, Excalibur, I see. Good pick, that weapon is borderline overpowered, you know?'

it wasn't just a shallow betrayal either, his betrayal ended up getting belmonts fiancee killed, and in said first belmonts game you are given a magic whip that harms creatures of the night, well once he meets her she tells him he has to finish her before she fully turns into an evil vampire, alchemist turned said whip into *THE* vampire killer after her sacrifice and tepes was also a man who rejected god and stole a magic artifact to become the owner of evil and chaos.

I think that lore has changed in the TV show.

​@@HelloHuman1The do mention Leon as the first Belmont when Trevor finds the hold though

What is ironic is that Renaldo (the name of the alchemist) made the whip using the research of the Mephiles family, more precisely Mathias' (who will become Dracula), who was trying to revive Elisabeth (his first fiancée). By trying to defy god, Mathias not only created powerful enemies (the Belmont clan) but also unknowingly created the weapon that will destroy him, the alchemist whip, who will become the vampire killer (and then transformed into the morning star).

Trevor isn't interested in clearing the family name. He's fighting monsters because he's a Belmont. Fighting monsters are what Belmonts do. It's just there is a monster over there threatening an innocent over there well, fuck now I have to go clean up another god damned mess. A major part of Trevor's growth throughout the series is relearning that it is good to care about other people as people and not just things to prevent ending up as a monster's lunch.

Exactly as Noah said, this is directly stated in the final fight of season 4 “I’m a Belmont, recognizing things and killing them is what we do”

That's a hell of a reach (though to be fair you made it clear this was your subjective take rather than something backed by what's in the show).

​@@noahhobson4521 I disagree. When we meet Trevor, he is a broken man who's 'out of practice,' which implies he hasn't done any monster-fighting in years. He clearly holds no regard for the monsters currently ravaging Wallachia, and he only goes to the speaker town to find food. His original plan was to escape the town before the next raid, avoiding the monsters outright. Does that sound like someone who's beholden to a familial monster-hunting obligation? He doesn't even think about defending people until he meets the speaker clan. He clearly cares about the spearkers' safety, even though other people, and not monsters, are out for them. It's really this early on that his motivation becomes caring enough about humanity to save them from doom. There are many quotes early on that shows he views the killing of innocents as an intrinsic wrong, and his motivation is thus to protect innocents. He's fighting monsters because he wants to protect people, and the most effective way to protect people as a Belmont is to fight monsters. He couldn't have a clean conscience at night if he simply let innocents die. His deep, intrinsic motivation to protect overpowers his nihilistic outlook.

_"The devil you know is better than the devil you don't"_ Is that an actual saying? That's poetic-I want that to be an actual saying.

Ow

Im upset you made this scene even more sad for me, but also appreciate it.

my heart

I noticed it, and started crying along with Alucard there. I've loved Castlevania for over a decade, and that shit hit hard.

That's awesome but so incredibly sad too. Great reveal too! ❤ Thank you!!!

Every good antagonist needs a Third-Act breakdown xD

I mean, lets be fair, the entire first two seasons was Drac's existential crisis. That half-hour was just a brief manic euphoria before he fell back into the hole

Being an immortal takes you through the 7 steps of grief at a slower rate. In my personal opinion. Alucard is a douche. I haven't really seen the show just bits. But I know. Locking someone up And providing therapy can help. Vs Just murdering them. . It's like Wow my dad has anger issues because the town killed his wife/mymom. There's only 1 Way to fix this. I have to kill my dad. . Why not work things out. I know he's all powerful but I'm just saying that's why you lock him up. Buuut Sometimes if that isn't an option I understand the murder. . Imagine the impact of feeding Dracula alucards blood. How would he react?

@@dandywaysofliving You didn't see the show, so you don't know that Alucard *already tried* talking Dracula down and had to heal for a *whole year under a town* from almost dying by Dracula's claws afterward. Dracula was commiting suicide by genocide, punishing all of humanity for a few bad eggs in power. Alucard's a "douche" because he has to deal with Trevor, which is understandable. Why not watch the show before making any opinions on it or it's characters?

@DandyWays OfLiving it wasn't an option. Alucard, as OSP mentions, already tried to reason with Dracula and talk him down, and was seriously injured as a result and had to spend a year recovering before Trevor and Sypha find him. He loves his father deeply, but he knows that his father is so far gone in his grief that the only way to stop him is to kill him. He goes through with it because he knows his mother didn't want her husband/his father to go that far. Lisa, knowing how violent and insane Dracula's vengeance would be, cried out *as she was dying* for him to spare humanity. Dracula did not hear her, but Alucard did. If any of the main protagonists is a douche, it would be Trevor. Try watching the show first.

Yeah the bishop couldn't keep demons out of a literal church but one random priest turned buckets of water into actual holy water that burned the demons when they touched the ice made from it. It's like "Its not the faith that is evil its guys doing dumb messed up stuff with it"

For me it was the scene in the first season when Trevor and the Speakers argue over the angry mob that is about to come to their house and the Speakers are like "Look, we may loose, but we rather stand our grounf for what we believe then run. Shouldn't you Belmont's do the same?"

@TruSandwich damn, just noticed how old I am

@TruSandwich basically what he means is the castlevania games that came after rondo of blood, which is symphony of the night onwards. Which is the more modern castlevania games. Anything that is "og" is like the original castlevania games. Like castlevania 1-3 original.

@TruSandwich ah. Apologies for misunderstanding

Who's using Dracula as a comedic character nowadays?

@@adamkaris Basically every Halloween special from a kid show and movies like Hotel Transylvania, also including low budged movies and shitty adaptations.

@@adamkaris Some of the most notable versions of Dracula from recent years are from Billy and Mandy, Hotel Transylvania, and Hellsing Abridged.

@@adamkaris A LOT of things. Basically anywhere he shows up, it'd be shocking if he were scary

@@adolfopaezdiaz4371 You, OP, and others have forgotten that castlevania games existed before the show. So you guys should clarify yourselves.

And Dracula's reaction was like: I can only think of one group of idiots that would run up and try and punch me, "You must be the Belmont."

Have you ever tried to punch someone so their hair moves like THAT? Professional BOXERS can't do that. And they can knock you out with just one punch. And Dracula doesn't react. Doesn't move. Doesn't care.

@@Mysteri0usChannel The only thing I ever punched that hard was in fact, a punching bag in the boxing gym. Even then I had to be careful not to damage myself either with the weight and force of my own punch. Trevor here, we clearly hear them impacts on Dracula and he just goes. "So you must be the Belmont."

Dracula is bringing up the philosophical point that humanity must want him to do bad stuff on SOME level if these cults keep bringing him back. Richter's no-nonsense rebuttal is that regardless, Dracula is an evil monster and he's going to die for what he CHOOSES to do each time he's brought back. Then Dracula counters with the advanced philosophical counterpoint of fireballs stacked just under a Belmont's maximum jumping height...

@@SBJ_Tube Honestly, if they keep this version of Dracula when adapting later Castlevania games, it would honestly be pretty fitting: “What is this, Belmont? The 3rd time we’ve been at this? The fourth? How many centuries, how many BLOODY TIMES must I be reincarnated before mankind finally understands that I simply want to die, and STAY DEAD!” “… Have you thought about reincarnation? A new mortal life and all that? Hear that’s a thing out in the Orient…” “Oh, that never fucking works.”

@@watchm4ker that would be glorious

@@watchm4ker "I came back as a Japanese teenager with white hair once. That was weird."

@@SBJ_Tube Both are some hard-hitting philosophical points

Poor sad dad Vlad...

Yeah, at 31:32 , the camera focuses just on dracula's hand as he starts to attack with his claws but then stops and balls his hand into a fist. It's such a great little detail!

it always loops back into love for poor mathias and his soul... fortunately in the OG timeline his love finally does come to fruition a la soma and his own adventures and finally he is freed from his own curse.

I think you got the wrong thing out of both the game version, and the netflix adaptation. The game version is dramatically different, being more akin to Dr. Doom in terms of sheer vanity due to his alchemical prowess, and hating the church and god for the fact that his Wife, possibly the only thing tying him down, died despite his service to both. Mathias becoming Dracula was only about him mocking god and humanity, and never about getting revenge on humans or the church, it was existential. Warren Ellis' character doesn't even have a good reason for wanting to betray all of human life, he literally dated Lisa as his first human interaction in the show, and then he travels for a bit, abandoning her in the castle with no protection or guards. In the games, it's hard to tell if Dracula ever even truly changed at all, and the best we can surmise is that he was bored and Lisa got lucky by meeting him when he was still "biding his time", since during this time he was letting the Belmont's kill demons and absorbing the souls of their prey, gathering power. It could even be debated that Dracula was always planning the genocide, and Lisa just slowed him down and gave him a reason to bide his time longer (until she died naturally), and the fact that he didn't stop humans from finding and burning her probably had more to due with him being a vampire in hiding. Lisa got lucky he wasn't doing anything yet, though it's hard to know how she could see the good in him despite how he had already created the being Death as a symbol of all of the evil of mankind as his servant, but he was lying low so maybe he hid Death from her. He probably hid a lot from her, but she desperately wanted to believe there was good in him and that it was somehow her job to make him see that. In conclusion, In the games we see a villain who loves being a villain, a man who's made up his mind about mocking all of life and god who merely entertains a mortal human women while he bides his time, and he ends up developing feelings for her while doing this, or his dialogue in SOTN means nothing. The Netflix Version is depressed and expositioned to be "insane" in season 4, even though her being burned is something he totally had power to prevent had he stayed with her or if they traveled together (also I find it hard to believe that he didn't at least think that she might be burned as a witch given his huge castle next to a city of highly religious zealots, a castle the Belmonts couldn't raid to kill him due to it's power to teleport, and he left her alone, possibly in the castle, unguarded, while he traveled). Either way, don't mix up these two versions, they are VERY different, and one is an actual villain while the other is Warren Ellis' attempt at making a sympathetic antagonist where you need to ignore certain details to appreciate.

@@MasonTheStoryteller She didn't stay in the castle, the castle was guarded by monsters that wouldn't recognize her as his wife.

@@MasonTheStoryteller but in the Netflix version Lisa didn't lived in the Castle thou? After Dracula decided to travel like a man to honor Lisa's request, she moved to small house in a country side as doctor.

I hope I'm not being rude when I ask why you felt it was necessary to draw our attention to this. The similarity is so obvious that it hardly bears mentioning. Or am I missing your point? Is there something more here?

@@SauceMeGud :D

@@SauceMeGud well, I never made the connection so I’m glad he mentioned it lol

As some people may not be read or familiar with it, it’s supposed to be the juxtaposition to show how the “heretic” is much closer to the core than the church is. Again, to point out the hypocrisy of the church. A heretic is acting closer to Jesus than the very ones that are supposed to worship him. It also does a complete subversion of the whole thing as Jesus dies with no intervention, while Dracula (commonly associated to the power of the Devil) responds, making it also a flip of the situation. Though, at the same time they do show that the church isn’t completely lost and that the power of God does exist in some way. You have a priest who was able to successfully bless water and Trevor’s amusement over it mumbling “Guess he was a priest after all,” which does hint that there is a “Divine Force of Good”, but it’s extremely limited by the wickedness of man. Which would then point towards…we’ll, maybe Dracula is right then?

This is almost certainly intentional mirroring.

Her final words - at least in the series - are basically copy-pasta of Jesus' last words while hanging on the cross, where Jesus begs his father (God) to not punish and be merciful towards those who put him there. Im not sure how I feel about the similarities... :p

@@astadew It was probably intentional, given Castlevania's strong religious subtext.

Yeah. I feel quite certain that the *only* reason Alucard wasn't the *FIRST* person to leap to Dracula's cause was Lisa's final speech. *She* is *THEIR* good, *THEIR* humanity. Because, again, this is a *teenager* in the body of an adult man. His one solace would have been his father, whom he *loves* and I genuinely feel that, if it weren't for Lisa, Alucard would've likely been swept up in his own emotions and (at least at first) sided with his father. He WANTED revenge, he WANTED someone to pay for his mother's death. But I also think that he would've had a much less linear progression than his father. Could've been swayed by the right people, and so on...

What was game Alucard's reason for not rescuing his mother?

@@dansomething7742 Apparently Lisa asked Alucard to let it happen to save their souls from eternal damnation. I'm going off the wiki here, as this information apparently comes from the prequel mini manga.

My view on the hole God damn people to hell is that. Rather, we damn ourself to hell. To Liza, heaven would been hell without Dracula, a vampire gained power by make a deal with the devil when God failed him, and without her son, Alucard, who mostly will end up in hell for the same reasons Lisa, to be with family. Liza herself placed knowledge over God. We can only serve one master. The thing about Vlad the Impaler first wife in the real world, she died by suicide, she killed herself because she believed Vald died in battle against the Ottomans, the battle that made the Ottomans believe Vald was a demon of some sort. The church at the time denied Vald's wife a Proper bliarly beacuse they believe people who did suicide were damn to hell. Vald distance himself for the church after that and Damning God and the church. This is the reason why he considered a Vampire or demon. Even though he should be labeled as a hero, so one who would give everything to protect his people and his wife

Lisa goes to hell? What?! I only just finished season 2.

About lisa in hell, in christianity its sometimes said that you can kind of choose at the end, so she might have choosen hell to meet dracula there. Just an interpretation of mine.

In this series, god is depicted as unfair and with the church so it makes sense that Lisa would be sent there despite not deserving it

we saw her in hell. but not in torment, i have no doubt that she was there merely for Dracula. who would have refused heaven even if offered,

does an anti vampire exploding flail count as trevors own strength though. i feel like its a cobo of his skill and his families craftsmanship

Actually, assuming that this series has the same lore as the games (which it more-or-less appears to), then it's because that whip is alchemically made to kill monsters & is further enhanced by virtue of having the angry soul of Trevor's vampierised great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmother sealed within it who uses her anger at being turned & her unwanted dark powers to make it literally the best at slaying chaosspawn.

@@gingermcgingin4106 I guess it's fair to include that as trevors strength as much as it's fair to include syphas magic or alucards magic and natural power.

@@kodaxmax i mean he is very good at wielding such an unwieldy object, and when fighting a creature that can move at mach speeds being able to whipe them with a heavy flail is definitley his own strength

@@spiceyicey you see all those combos he does with the thing? He's not just good with that flail, he's fucking godly with it.

Except the priests. They're right bastards, and they damn should be, when something's set in that time period.

@@Technotoadnotafrog Even to an extent they feel like people too. Even the bishop had standards in regards to the arch bishop's apparent appetites. In his eyes, he no doubt believed there was corruption in the church, and that everything he did was a brutal necessity.

Okay, I can think of two characters that were just poorly written now. Fuck, season 3 was just off.

I agree with you for every major character except Hector. He pissed me off so bad. lol

LoI most likely isn't canon for the show. Otherwise Dracula would definitely react differently to seeing Trevor, a Belmont try to attack him.

Other than Hector they did my boy dirty

@@nilan3294 I don’t know about that. There’s the so you’re the Belmont line which to me sounds like Dracula was expecting a Belmont and got Leon’s message loud and clear. Also Leon’s portrait is shown at one point which makes that game seem pretty canon to me.

@Alexander I hope you are doing better now.

@@LuminousKugelblitz I am, thanks Edit: man, this post was only 8 months ago? COVID time is a bitch