History Characters / Castlevania

** [[CastlevaniaRondoOfBlood Sha]][[CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight ft]] and [[CastlevaniaBloodlines Elizabeth Bartley]] would like a word with you. Even so, it's saying something when Dracula looks like ''friggin' Saint Peter'' by comparison.

** VampiresAreSexGods: Even as Dracula, he had a beautiful, loving wife (although it's very possible that [[ButYourWingsAreBeautiful she saw the good in him]]). He also has something of a MadLove PsychoSupporter in the form of the [[EvilIsSexy deliciously]] [[{{Stripperiffic}} evil]] [[MsFanservice sexbomb]] [[TheVamp Carmilla]].

* HairColors: Usually some dark shade ([[YouGottaHaveBlueHair blue]], [[HairColorDissonance indigo]], [[ShinyMidnightBlack black]], etc.), but ''[=CotM=]'' had her as a brunette.

* PsychoSupporter[=/=]UndyingLoyalty: To Dracula, with some shades of MadLove.

One of the more infamous Belmonts (thanks to ''Symphony of the Night'') and probably Juste's son or at least his grandson. Richter has a girlfriend named Annette Renard, until Dracula suddenly takes an active stance and assaults his home, kidnapping Annette, her sister Maria and several other women. Richter heads to the castle, saves the maidens, confronts Dracula in the {{Narm}}iest way possible ("Die, monster. You don't belong in this world!") and kicks his ass.

* {{Expy}}: likely of [[{{Noir}} Yuumura Kirika]]; she's an amnesiac, emotionless young woman fighting on behalf of a mysterious church-based organization whose leader has a sinister ulterior motive... and she's even voiced by HoukoKuwashima.

---> "What... kind of brother would I be... if I didn't protect you...? That's... role."

* [[spoiler:BrainwashedAndCrazy: When he tries absorbing the third piece of [[{{MacGuffin}} Dominus]], it doesn't end well.]]

* FemmeFatalons

* {{Expy}}: It could pass for [[FrankensteinsMonster the Creature]] in a pinch, if not by matching his physical appearance.

* CharacterDerailment: In ''CaptainNTheGameMaster''. To quote TheNostalgiaCritic...
-->"Oh God, Simon... What have they done to you...!?"

* [=~Hey, It's That Voice!~=]: Jeff Manning, perhaps best known as the {{Narrator}}[=/=]Master Hand in the original ''Super Smash Bros.'', voices Shaft in ''[=SotN=]'', while KyleHebert takes over in ''The Dracula X Chronicles''. Their respective Japanese counterparts are KiyoyukiYanada and Dai Matsumoto ([[{{Karin}} Henry Marker]], [[{{Saiyuki}} Dokugakuji]], [[{{Halo 2}} Arbiter]], [[{{Guyver}} Sin Rubeo Amniculus]]).

* [=~Hey, It's That Voice!~=]: It would seem that PatrickSeitz is the go-to guy to portray Drac. With the exception of SteveBlum voicing the DarkLord in ''Curse of Darkness'', Seitz has portrayed Dracula in ''The Dracula X Chronicles'', ''Order of Ecclesia'', and ''Judgment''.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Mostly as [[InternetBackdraft backlash]] to [[CanonDiscontinuity her game being excluded from canon]] and Iga's perceived sexism towards a female heroine. She ''does'', however, have a sizable amount of fans from her status as a female Belmont (how many of ''those'' have you seen in this series?) and the intriguing twist of having the future generation of Belmonts being descended from Dracula. [[spoiler:The latter can be seen in a [[FridgeBrilliance different light]] thanks to ''Order of Ecclesia''.]]

* EnsembleDarkhorse: He wasn't that much of a fave in ''Dracula's Curse'', possibly because his main attack was throwing weak fireballs and he looked like a generic vampire. But then comes ''Symphony of the Night''...

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Quite possibly the most popular of the entire Belmont family, even though he's had far less appearances than Simon.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: A one-shot female heroine who's ''not'' affiliated with the Belmont family, kicks ass, and [[SexyBack is bringing sexy back]]. What's ''not'' to like?

* EnsembleDarkhorse: You (more or less) get to play as ''Dracula''. [[MNightShyamalan What]] [[RobotChicken a]] [[MemeticMutation tweest]]! [[WhamEpisode And a pretty damn good one at that.]] Soma quickly became a fairly popular protagonist. Fans like to joke that the only reason he was excluded from ''Judgment'' to prevent a '''[[MetalGearSolid3 TIME PARADOX]]''' by being in the same place as... [[{{Dracula}} himself]].

* EnsembleDarkhorse: If there is one question people will ask about Julius, it's why it's taking so ''damn'' long for Konami to actually put him in the spotlight for the 1999 battle.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Another notable villain. Her popularity isn't quite to Death, [[MemeticBadass Slogra]], or [[ThatOneBoss Galamoth]] levels, [[DistractedByTheSexy but it's not to hard see how she has a sizable fanbase in the first place]].

* IdenticalStranger: She looks almost exactly like Rosaly, to the point that Hector mistakes her for his departed love. As ''[=CoD=]'' progresses, Hector manages to subvert a LovingAShadow relationship.

A Belmont descendant that takes on Dracula when he revives... that's all his story is about in ''Adventure''. In ''Belmont's Revenge'', his story was fleshed out a bit with the birth of his son [[{{Woolseyism}} Soleiyu]] (properly Soleil), who was about to inherit the Vampire Killer until Dracula possessed him. Chris jumps back into action to save his son and succeeds. There is a remake of Adventure, which seems to be rather different in content, but that doesn't seem to matter due to the fact that Chris has an ExcusePlot going there anyway.

* NeedsMoreLove: Christopher and his are ''easily'' the most obscure members of the family. He ''did'' however, [[CharacterFocus have a comic line attributed to him]] in 2005, ''Castlevania: The Belmont Legacy''.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Another notable villain. Her popularity isn't quite to Death, [[MemeticBadass Slogra]], or [[ThatOneBoss Galamoth]] levels, [[DistractedByTheSexy but it's not to hard see how she has a sizable fanbase]].

The other Forgemaster. Not particularly happy with Hector's betrayal of Dracula, blaming the man for the fact that Trevor was able to get to Dracula at all (he says this outright in the Tokyopop manga). He has a devious and original scheme with which to get back at Hector, but [[spoiler:in truth it's not even really his scheme at all...Dracula is not the nicest of employers.]]

* FetishFuel: Let's see here. Redhead, HoYay in ''spades,'' lots of tattoos, [[WalkingShirtlessScene shirtless all the time]], ridiculously tight pants... Damn.

--->"What is a man ? A miserable little pile of secrets! But enough talk, have at you!

** In Japanese, he's been voiced by Masaharu Sato ([[{{Kinnikuman}} Buffaloman, Sunshine]], [[{{Yaiba}} Miyamoto Musashi]], [[DragonBall Adjutant Black]]) in ''[=SotN=]'', ''Lament'', and ''[=CoD=], Takuo Kawamura ([[SengokuBasara Amago Haruhisa]], [[HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi Katsuya Kumagai]] in ''[=HoD=]'', Yasuhiko Tokuyama ([[LovelyComplex Heikichi Nakao]]) in ''[=PoR=]'', and Koichi Sakaguchi ([[{{Gintama}} Prince Hata, Musashi]], [[FinalFantasyX Cid]], [[{{Kamen Rider Den-O}} Claw-Hand]]) in ''Judgment''.

* GhostPirate: CastlevaniaIIIDraculasCurse calls him this in the game manual. Perhaps it's just referring to his cursed zombie-like form in the clock tower. Then again, there are those mummy wrappings...

* RomanticRunnerup: To Trevor in regards to Sypha. According to ''Judgment'', he was so jealous of this status that he didn't even show up to their wedding. However, he gets over it and wishes the couple good tidings in the future.

--->" Dracula! In the name of my Mother, I will defeat you again!"

If there's someone else surpassing the Belmonts' popularity... it's this guy. Adrian is Dracula and Lisa's son. Unlike Dracula, he got to hear his mother's last words: to not hate humans. When his father begins his war on humanity, Adrian rebels and takes the name ''[[SdrawkcabName Alucard]]'' and... goes into a slumber, waiting for a potential ally to help him beat his father. This person happens to be [[strike:[[{{Retcon}} his son]].]] Trevor Belmont, who swiftly kicked his ass and offered his services. After beating his father, Alucard prompted to get himself to his slumber again...

* MemeticBadass: An infamous Nintendo Power cover, created to promote ''Simon's Quest'', depicts him holding Dracula's severed head. Coupled with the fact that he's the first Belmont and the only one to take on Dracula by himself, twice...

*** Said cover didn't last long as parents complained [[NightmareFuel it gave their kids nightmares]]. Dracula couldn't manage it, but a Belmont? A Hero? He's one fearsome son of a bitch.

A devoted servant and worshipper of the Dark Lord, she has actively involved in his resurrection on several occasions.

* FullFrontalAssault: Her [[OneWingedAngel true form usually]] is that of a naked woman riding ontop of a [[DemBones giant skull]].

** "Suffers"? Perhaps not. Such is Juste's mojo that [[LetsPlay Medibot]] claims that anyone who doesn't wish to date Juste is likely asexual.

** LittleMissBadass: Her abilities put ''Richter'' to shame.

* CursedWithAwesome: Is Dracula's reincarnation. But hey, he gets to use all those nifty souls to kick ass!
* EnsembleDarkhorse: You get to play as ''Dracula''. [[MNightShyamalan What]] [[RobotChicken a]] [[MemeticMutation tweest]]! [[WhamEpisode And a pretty damn good one at that.]] Soma quickly became a fairly popular protagonist. Fans like to joke that the only reason he was excluded from ''Judgment'' to prevent a '''[[MetalGearSolid3 TIME PARADOX]]''' by being in the same place as... [[{{Dracula}} himself]].

The son of Quincy Morris from Bram Stoker's Dracula novel. He witnessed his father's defeat of Dracula and swore to live up his name. When Elizabeth Bathory tries to revive Dracula, he sets out with his buddy Eric Lecarde, wielding the Vampire Killer, and successfully defeats both of them.

** YourMileageMayVary. Others saw it as a MostlyNarmless[=/=]NarmCharm combo of a BadassBoast, BadassCreed, and ShutUpHannibal driven right through Walter's heart. As one best put it, "Yeah, it is pretty badass. 'I'm going to kick your ass so hard the sun will stay up!'"

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Mostly as [[InternetBackdraft backlash]] to [[CanonDiscontinuity her game being excluded from canon]] and Iga's perceived sexism towards a female heroine. She ''does'', however, have a sizable amount of fans from her status as a female Belmont (how many of ''those'' have you seen in this series?) and the intriguing twist of having the future generation of Belmonts being descended from Dracula. [[spoiler:The latter can be seen in a [[HilariousInHindsight different]] [[HarsherInHindsight light]] thanks to ''Order of Ecclesia''.]]

* DemotedToExtra (Trevor reappears in ''Curse of Darkness'', Sypha gets to have a lot of descendants, Alucard goes on to become some sort of EnsembleDarkhorse, Grant was given nothing at all until ''Judgment''--and even in that, he's rewritten from a [[{{Keet}} genki go-getter]] (the Japanese ''CVIII'' script sees him declaring himself and Trevor {{Nakama}} immediately) into a [[CharacterDerailment self-centred emo navel-gazer.]] [[http://frobman.deviantart.com/art/It-s-Judgment-Time-110479732 And he's a mummy]].)

** All of this is compounded by the fact that Grant was something of an EnsembleDarkhorse from this game.

** Subverted though, as while Sypha is indeed stacked, as a mage, she's not a physically-oriented character.

* SealedGoodInACan: Twice canonically (after ''III'' and ''[=SotN=]''; he also did this in ''[[CanonDiscontinuity Legends]]''), with the large gaps between his appearances accounting for this trope at least a few more times.

* SecondLove: Although they are shown merely as good friends by the epilogue, it's implied that Julia will become this to Hector via a RelationshipUpgrade in the near future.

* {{Badass}}: He's the first Castlevania hero, who beats Dracula through a serious NintendoHard case (no nifty options like Item Crash, etc), then revives Dracula just to kill him again. BAD. ASS. His whole clan is a BadassFamily, but Simon takes the cake.)

* DepravedBisexual: Laura, the CatGirl seen in ''Rondo'' and ''[=PoR=]'', is her servant and apparently her lover.

* FullFrontalAssault: Her true form usually is that of a naked woman riding ontop of a [[DemBones giant skull]].

'''Legacy of Darkness/64'''

* CursedWithAwesome

* DarkChick

'''Bloodlines'''

* BlessedWithSuck (He's blessed with the power to kill Dracula by wielding the Vampire Killer, but that [[RetCon cursed him with the inability to heal his wounds]].)

* FanNickname ("Whip Guy")

After learning that John became cursed, Eric opted to have his family become the guardians of the Vampire Killer, so the power and curse do not get misused. Unfortunately, when Eric investigates a recently raised castle before ''PortraitOfRuin'', he gets ambushed by the vampire Brauner and is killed, and watches his daughters Stella and Loretta vampirized by Brauner. His spirit resides in the castle, and he helps out Jonathan and Charlotte in their quest.

His appearance is different in each game for some reason: in ''Bloodlines'' he's a {{Bishonen}}, in ''Portrait Of Ruin'' he's a BadassLongcoat, and in ''Judgment'' he's a CuteShotaroBoy.

* AmericanKirbyIsHardcore (US version of ''Bloodlines'' has his portrait [[ViewerGenderConfusion look like]] [[http://www.castlevaniadungeon.net/Games/cvbforeign.html a man]])
* BadassLongcoat (''[=PoR=]'' self)
* {{Bishonen}} (''Bloodlines'' self)

* CuteShotaroBoy (''Judgment'' self)
* FanNickname ("Spear Dude" in ''Bloodlines'')
* MagicSkirt (''Bloodlines'' self)

'''Portrait of Ruin'''

* AmericaWinsTheWar (How odd that the two games where the main hero is American occur during WorldWarI and WorldWarII...)
* CatchPhrase ("No problem!")
* HeyItsThatVoice (He has the same voice in Japan as [[CodeGeass Suzaku Kururugi]] and [[{{Bleach}} Kira Izuru]]. The fact that he looked kinda like a more cheerful Izuru doesn't help...)
** Hilariously, in the NA version, he's voiced by Liam O'Brien, who's noteworthy for providing the voices of Joachim and Isaac.
*** Oh, and [[{{Naruto}} Gaara]]
* HotBlooded (SHOWTIME!)
* LikeBrotherAndSister("[Charlotte]'s like my kid sister!")
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend (Around Charlotte)
* ShutUpHannibal (Gives one to Brauner)
* WellDoneSonGuy (Hates his dad at first, but in the end, he's something like this)

* BerserkButton ("''Jonathan!'' Stop treating me like a child!")

* CuteWitch (No hats, but the broom is spot on)
* DeathGlare (Every time her BerserkButton is pressed)
* ImprobableWeaponUser ([[ThrowTheBookAtThem Uses books.]] That have weapons inside them.)
* JustAKid (Everyone ridicules her as this, she doesn't like it. ''[[MadArtist Brauner]]'' is the only one who doesn't treat her like this. )

* AnIcePerson: Loretta

* ElegantGothicLolita
* {{Expy}}[=/=]{{Homage}}: Of [[RozenMaiden Suiseiseki and Souseiseki]]

* CallingYourAttacks ("'''BLOOD ART TECHNIQUE!!!'''")

'''Aria of Sorrow/Dawn of Sorrow'''

* CursedWithAwesome (Is Dracula's reincarnation. But hey, he gets to use all those nifty souls to kick ass!)
* HikaruMidorikawa (voice)
* DarkIsNotEvil (He fights by absorbing the souls of his defeated enemies, yet remains a fairly [[DoggedNiceGuy nice guy]])
* LateArrivalSpoiler (He's the reincarnation of Dracula. This is made explicit in the opening cutscenes of ''Dawn of Sorrow''.)

* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend (Around Mina Hakuba, his VictoriousChildhoodFriend. It takes the sheer gravity of what he's been through (and HundredPercentCompletion) for him to even allow her to openly hold his hand at the end of ''Aria''.)
* SlouchOfVillainy (He IS Dracula's reincarnation after all)
* SuperpoweredEvilSide (If the player makes the wrong choice, this surfaces and Soma becomes Dracula.)
* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy (Again. Notice a pattern, here? Oh, IGA.)
* {{Woolseyism}} (In the Japanese version, he is a Japanese native named Souma Kurusu. In the American version, he's a foreign exchange student.)

The next Belmont after Richter to wield the Vampire Killer. Y'see, there was a prophecy that it wouldn't be wielded by the Belmonts again until a great battle in 1999, and when that magic time rolled around, Julius was the lucky one to be on Dracula duty. Julius has the honor of being the one who beat Dracula for good, sealing Castlevania in an eclipse (thereby denying Dracula's soul access to the stone that was keeping it out of the cycle of reincarnation long enough to resurrect), but the battle cost him his memory, and he lived as an amnesiac for over thirty years under the name 'J.'

* BadassGrandpa (By the time ''Aria of Sorrow'' rolls around, he's in his fifties but can still kick Soma's ass. ''While consciously holding back.'')

* CoolOldGuy (See above)
* [[GrandmaWhatMassiveHotnessYouHave Grandpa What Massive Hotness You Have]] ([[ArtShift Less applicable]] in ''Dawn'', but I'd be happy to look half so good at fifty-plus...)

* GrowingUpSucks (Or so he says. The fact that most of his adult life has been spent as an amnesiac hobo has probably affected his judgement in this matter.)
* ShoutOut: Like most Castlevania games since and including ''Symphony of the Night'', both ''Aria'' and ''Dawn'' featured a mode of play that allowed you to go through the game as if it were a classic Castlevania. The best part? If you get Soma's bad ending a little over halfway through the game, it still counts as beating the game and unlocks Julius Mode.

'''Judgment'''

* {{Expy}} (Of St. Germain from ''Curse of Darkness''; his alternate color scheme even matches his outfit.)
** (Also looks a lot like Near from ''DeathNote'', thanks to him being a [[AntiVillain not-so]] EvilAlbino.)
* HighClassGlass (Unlike St. Germain, he doesn't normally wear the appropriate top hat.)
* ImprobableWeaponUser (Fights with a clock...spear...thing. Just what the hell ''is'' that, anyway?)

* PlaceBeyondTime (The time rift; in addition, it is revealed that he has ''no'' home time.)
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong[=/=]TimePolice (His goal is to stop a plot by [[spoiler:Galamoth of ''Kid Dracula'' and ''Symphony of the Night'' fame]] to dispose of Dracula in the past, replace him, and, you guessed it, TakeOverTheWorld.)

* StealthMentor (To the point of imparting words of wisdom to his opponent before landing the final blow.)
* TimeMaster (Duh.)
* TimeStandsStill (One of his specialties, as well as his strongest attack.)
* VerbalTic (He is in love with the word "time". Loves making puns with it, too.)
* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy (If Simon looks like Light, then Aeon looks like Near.)

* [=~Hey, It's That Voice!~=]: Tom Wyner ([[DigimonAdventure Devimon]], [[StreetFighterIITheAnimatedMovie M. Bison]]) voices Death in ''Lament of Innocence'' and ''Curse of Darkness'', while TravisWillingham takes over in ''The Dracula X Chronicles'' and ''Judgment''.

::'''Walter Bernhard

* GoodScarsEvilScars: It's heavily implied that in the final battle with Dracula in ''III'', Trevor got a parting gift from Dracula in the form of a scar across his left eye. It's visible in ''Curse'', although ''Judgment'' [[TheyJustDidntCare changed it around]], instead claiming that Trevor ''[[EyeScream lost]]'' his eye, hence the eyepatch.

* {{Badass}}: No Belmont? No problem, Alucard with kill his father ''himself''.

* EvilCounterpart[=/=]{{Foil}}: To Hector. [[ManlyManAndSensitiveGuy Whereas Hector is masculine, Isaac is very effeminate]] and [[RedOniBlue less level-headed]]. Their sense of dress and appearances are also mirrored. In a sense, Isaac represents everything Hector isn't.

* [=~Hey, It's That Voice!~=]: She's voiced by Tomoko Fujino ([[YggdraUnion Aegina Eine Artwaltz]], [[ElementalGelade Aljeena]]) in Japanese and Dorothy Elias-Fahn ([[{{Cyborg 009}} 003]], [[RozenMaiden Tomoe Kashiwaba]], [[LoveHina Naru Narusegawa]], [[RurouniKenshi Kaoru Kamiya]]) in English.

* {{Leitmotif}}: "Dance of Illusions"/"Illusionary Dance" has become the iconic song for the battle with Dracula, having been used in ''Rondo of Blood'', ''Dracula X'', ''Symphony of the Night'', ''Castlevania 64'', ''Legacy of Darkness'', ''Judgment'', and ''Harmony of Despair''. [[spoiler:It even shows up in Julius Mode of ''Dawn of Sorrow'', when you have to face [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Soma as the new Dark Lord]] [[CallBack in a battle almost directly lifted from earlier battles with Drac]].]]

* [=~Hey, It's That Voice!~=]: Voiced by MasayaOnosaka (JPN) and Kirk Thornton (ENG) in ''Judgment''.

* CompleterMonster: ForTheEvulz does even ''begin'' to describe how morally reprehensible his actions are. Most of the villains here are like ''saints'' compared to this guy.

* [=~Hey, It's That Voice!~=]: She's voiced by Tomoko Fujino ([[YggdraUnion Aegina Eine Artwaltz]], [[ElementalGelade Aljeena]]) in Japanese and Dorothy Elias-Fahn ([[Cyborg009 003]], [[RozenMaiden Tomoe Kashiwaba]], [[LoveHina Naru Narusegawa]], [[RurouniKenshi Kaoru Kamiya]]) in English.

::Carmilla

* [=~Hey, It's That Voice!~=]: Jeff Manning, perhaps best known as the {{Narrator}}[=/=]Master Hand in the original ''Super Smash Bros.'', voices Shaft in ''[=SotN=]'', while KyleHebert takes over in ''The Dracula X Chronicles''. Their respective Japanese counterparts are KiyoyukiYanada and Dai Matsumoto ([[{{Karin}} Henry Marker]], [[{{Saiyuki}} Dokugakuji]], [[Halo2 Arbiter]], [[{{Guyver}} Sin Rubeo Amniculus]]).

* HeroAntagonist: At first, to Trevor in ''[=CoD=]''.

** The same goes for ''Rondo of Blood'' and ''Curse of Darkness'', as there, he was respectively voiced by HiroyaIshimaru and Mahito Oba ([[KinnukumanNisei Announcer Yoshigai]], [[StarFox Wolf O'Donnell]], [[OnePiece Smoker]]'s [[TheOtherDarrin second and current voice]]).

* BoobsOfSteel, JigglePhysics: In ''Judgment''. Maria even makes note of it. [[BigBreastsBigDeal Sypha isn't so proud, though]])
-->''Sypha'': Will you stop? These things only get in the way.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: A one-shot female heroine who's ''not'' affiliated with the Belmont family

* [[spoiler:FakeDefector: He was GoodAllAlong, but his ploy to spare Shanoa [[WellIntentionedExtremist did veer a bit off of the deep end.]]

** [[CoolGuns Cool Gun]]: His Agartha.

Good ol' {{Dracula}}, the King of Vampires you all know. [[strike:[[{{Retcon}} He is Vlad the Impaler reincarnated]]]] In a twist, he doesn't start out as Vlad the Impaler, but a [[TheStrategist genius war strategist]] named Mathias Cronqvist. After his wife Elisabetha died, Mathias used his friend Leon Belmont in a XanatosGambit to steal the soul of Walter with the Crimson Stone, gaining the allegiance of Death. He reveals that he has forsaken {{God}}, who took away his wife, and will continue to curse Him for eternity. He retreats and changes his name to Vlad Tepes, while Leon [[BadassBoast swears to]] [[{{Narm}} kill an entire time of day.]]

He found a second chance at redemption after meeting a woman named Lisa Fahrenheit. They bonded and Lisa gave birth to [[{{Dhampyr}} half-vampire]] Adrian Fahrenheit Tepes AKA [[SdrawkcabName Alucard]]. [[BurnTheWitch Unfortunately, Lisa ended up being burned at the stake for]] ''[[DisproportionateRetribution practicing medicine]]''. Dracula snapped, declared that HumansAreBastards and [[KillAllHumans decided to wage war against the world]], [[RageAgainstTheHeavens and God himself]]. Thankfully for humanity, Leon's oath lasted throughout the centuries, and the Belmont clan (with assistance from the Morris and Belnades families on occasion) have thwarted his undead armies every time.

[[NighInvulnerable Of course, that hasn't stopped him in the least.]] He '''''always''''' finds a way to [[BackFromTheDead come back]], [[WhyWontYouDie no matter]] [[JokerImmunity what]]. It's gotten to the point where people see him as a god, or something of a god, as [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by him in ''Rondo of Blood'' and ''Symphony of the Night''.

* AGlassOfChianti (Naturally the vampire-specific version, A Glass Of Blood. He'll often toss the glass and let it shatter on the floor just before he rises from his throne to whoop ass.)

* AsLongAsThereIsEvil (He loves to give this kind of speech after his defeats. He's right, too.)
-->'''Dracula''': It was not by my own hand that I am once again given flesh.
* BackFromTheDead (''[[WhyWontYouDie Way]]'' [[JokerImmunity too many times]].)
* BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil (Dracula is the Dark Lord, a mandatory position that serves as the balance to {{God}} on Earth.)

* GoddamnedBats (Has a lot of it in his repertoire. Can turn into them, too)
* HumansAreBastards (His rationale for destroying humanity.)
-->'''Dracula''': I was called here by... ''humans''... who wishes to pay me tribute!

* LoveMakesYouEvil (Lost two wives; one to sickness, the other to witch hunters. [[UnstoppableRage He did not take this well]].)

* NarmCharm ('''''[[MemeticMutation "What is a man?! A miserable little pile of secrets! But enough talk, HAVE AT YOU!"]]''''')
* NumberOfTheBeast (He tends to have 6,666 HP in Metroidvania games.)
* NorioWakamoto (His usual voice in Japan. Did not do Mathias, though.)
** Also did not portray him in ''[[DisContinuity Judgment]]'', where he is voiced by JojiNakata
* OneWingedAngel (Most of the time since the first game. Drops it a few times here and there, notably at ''Order of Ecclesia'', but still hellishly tough)

** Dracula has a ''ridiculous'' number of different OneWingedAngel forms and strategies. A list of them can be found [[http://www.vgmuseum.com/mrp/morphs.htm here]].

* OurVampiresAreDifferent (''Really'' different, seeing as how he's more like {{Satan}} than anything else.)
* PublicDomainCharacter (One of the oldest)
* SlouchOfVillainy (Drac loves his thrones)
* TakeThat (His will to live forever is a form of this towards God's decree of limited human life)
* ThisCannotBe (Many times when he's defeated)

* {{Badass}} (Kind of hard to be Death and not be this)
* BattleButler (Very samurai-like in personality.)
* TheDragon (The most loyal of Drac's servants.)
* EnemyMine (Subverted in ''Portrait of Ruin'': he almost makes an offer to team up with Jonathan and Charlotte to defeat Brauner, but Jonathan rejects him since he's still working for Dracula, after all. They still wind up helping him, regardless.)
* FourIsDeath (In most of his {{Metroidvania}} incarnations, he has 4,444 HP.)
* TheGrimReaper (or {{Shinigami}}, his name in Japan)
* OneWingedAngel (Sometimes transforms into a skeletal dragon thing with scythes for arms. [[PowerupLetdown Often is much easier to defeat in this form.]] He does have other OneWingedAngel forms, and a list of them can be found [[http://www.vgmuseum.com/mrp/form-reaper.htm here]].)
* PraetorianGuard (Slogra and Gaibon)
* SdrawkcabName (In ''Curse of Darkness'', he uses the alias [[GratuitousEnglish "Zead"]].)
* SinisterScythe (He's Death, what did you ''expect''? He ups the ante with a wicked ''dual-bladed'' scythe in ''Aria Of Sorrow''. In ''Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth'', he gets laser scythes.

*** He does have his own [[ReviveKillsZombie Achilles Heel]], though. In CV1, the Cross sub weapon makes him easier.
* XanatosGambit (Loves to use these to help Dracula revive.)
** BatmanGambit (These, too.)

'''Lament of Innocence'''

* {{Bishonen}} (He held the title of 'The most androgynous Castlevania protagonist EVER')
* [=~Hey, It's That Voice!~=]: His US voice actor is DaveWittenberg, which means... [[{{Dissidia}} he's Kefka]] (And [[{{Naruto}} Kakashi Hatake]]. And his [[NobutoshiCanna Japanese voice]] you may recognize as [[{{Macross 7}} Basara Nekki]], [[FateStayNight Lancer]] or [[SuperRobotWars Axel Almer]].
** Don't forget [[SoulSeries Maxi]], [[SonicTheHedgehog Knuckles the Echidna]], and [[{{Naruto}} Kakashi Hatake]]
* HoYay (At first, it looks like it with Mathias. Later would probably end as... FoeYay maybe?)
* KnightInShiningArmor (Almost literally)
* LawfulGood (He comes to Walter's castle unarmed, having [[LawfulStupid relinquished his sword along with his knighthood]].)
* {{Narm}} (''"I'll kill you AND THE NIGHT!!!"''. Maybe Mathias/Dracula was Narmy because he learned it from Leon...)

'''Legends'''

* HairOfGold (though an unusually {{Badass}} example)

* MysteriousParent (By association; Alucard's implied to be Trevor's dad.)
* {{Narm}} (Oh wow, her exchanges with Dracula have this aplenty from both sides... Must be genetic, eh, Richter?)
* ShowSomeLeg (You thought Isaac was the first to wear kinky boots in battle? Think again!)

'''Dracula's Curse'''

[[strike:[[{{Retcon}} Sonia's son]]]] Leon's descendant. When Trevor was young, he went into exile as the people feared the Belmont clan's powers. But when Dracula strikes, Trevor takes the Vampire Killer whip from the Poltergeist King, and travels around Wallachia to save the land and win the people's trust. It works, and the Belmonts are no longer feared. He also gets to marry one of his allies, [[BlackMagicianGirl Sypha Belnades]].

* AllOfTheOtherReindeer (At his time, his family was feared due to their power, prompting him to fight Dracula to prove that his family is good)
* EyepatchOfPower (Has this in ''Judgment'')
* KnightInShiningArmour (Personality-wise in ''Curse of Darkness''--[[HumbleHero he's quick to point out]] to Hector that he didn't beat Dracula alone; he had a LOT of help from people just as brave as him.)

* TheMario (Out of the four heroes in ''Dracula's Curse'', he's the balanced one.)
* {{Woolseyism}} (His original name was ''Ralph C. Belmondo'')

::'''Grant [=DaNasty=]'''

** At least he wasn't heard or mentioned in ''CaptainNTheGameMaster''. He should feel lucky for that.
* FragileSpeedster (Second worst constitution, but makes up for it with wall-climbing)
* KnifeNut (This aspect of him is played up in ''Judgment''.)

* {{Pirate}} (He has this design in ''Dracula's Curse'')

* ThemeNaming (Danasty is taken from the name of a family that were enemies of Vlad Tepes: Dinesti)

* BlackMagicianGirl (Not so rough in personality, but you get the idea.)
* BoobsOfSteel, JigglePhysics (In ''Judgment''. Maria even makes note of it. [[BigBreastsBigDeal Sypha isn't so proud, though]])

* DefrostingIceQueen (''Judgment''-unique. According to her ''Judgment'' personality, she's very much a LawfulNeutral character who [[VanHelsingHateCrimes persecutes all that even dares wield dark powers]], and is [[CharacterDerailment a bit bitchy]] in doing her job. By the end of ''Dracula's Curse'', however, it is implied that she... got better by [[IfYouKNowWhatIMean spending time]] with Trevor. This is totally absent in ''Castlevania III'''s JP iteration, where she's formal and amiable.)
* FireIceLightning (Her three basic elemental spells)
* SamusIsAGirl (In her later appearances, this is dropped.)
* SpellMyNameWithAnS (In ''Harmony of Dissonance'', her name is spelled as [[MyHeroZero Cipher]]. Considering the little amount of story thus far (only existing so the Belmonts can have magic), it's almost fitting... until ''Judgment'' fixed her name back to Sypha)
** More than likely, her name ''is'' a pun on Cipher, seeing as... well ...she is, with relation to her sex.

* SquishyWizard (Lower constitution than Grant, but damn it, those spells!)

If there's someone else surpassing the Belmonts' popularity... it's this guy. Adrian is Dracula and Lisa's son. Unlike Dracula, he got to hear his mother's last words: to not hate humans. When his father begins his war on humanity, Adrian rebels and takes the name ''[[SdrawkcabName Alucard]]'' and... goes into a slumber, waiting for a potential ally to help him beat his father. This person happens to be [[strike:[[{{Retcon}} his son]]]] Trevor Belmont, who swiftly kicked his ass and offered his services. After beating his father, Alucard prompted to get himself to his slumber again...

...only to awaken again after hearing of Richter Belmont's disappearance. Nobody's around to investigate Dracula's castle, so Alucard goes in himself. He meets up with Richter's ally Maria and they search for Richter. They find that he's been {{Brainwashed}} by the dark priest Shaft and used to resurrect Dracula. Alucard frees Richter and defeats his father once again and returns to his slumber, waiting again to oppose his father.

* BigGood (as Arikado)

* DarkIsNotEvil (He has all the traditional vampire powers, but uses them for good.)
* {{Dhampyr}}[=/=]HalfHumanHybrid (Lisa is human, Drac is a vampire... you get the idea.)
* EnsembleDarkhorse (He wasn't that much of a fave in ''Dracula's Curse'', possibly because his main attack was throwing weak fireballs and he looked like a generic vampire. But then comes ''Symphony of the Night''...)

* [=~Hey, It's That Voice!~=]: Recent continuity has him voiced by [[{{Naruto}} Yuri]] [[Ben10AlienForce Lowenthal]]. Japanese-wise, he was at first voiced by RyotaroOkiayu, but recent continuity had MamoruMiyano to voice him (to match YuriLowenthal's 'youngster' voice?)
* IHateYouVampireDad (Although Alucard hates Dracula, Dracula is still fond of him.)

* TheObiWan (For Soma.)
* SdrawkcabName (One of the oldest versions of this: Alucard = Dracula spelled backwards.)
* SlouchOfVillainy (Inherited from his father)

* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy (Along with [[FinalFantasyVII Sephiroth]], he was one of the characters that made this trope popular on the Playstation.)

'''Curse of Darkness'''

* CargoShip (See SlouchOfVillainy below. Lampshaded, of all things, by the Woodman's Chair instructing you to "sit carefully, or it may look rather rude")
* DisposableWoman (Rosaly exists solely for this reason; at the end, he ends up with a woman who looks just like her...it's kind of ''sad'' when you're going, "At least she got Fridged offscreen...?")
* [=~Hey, It's That Voice!~=]: CrispinFreeman, AKA [[CodeGeass Jeremiah Gottwald]], [[TalesOfSymphonia Regal Bryant]] or [[{{Naruto}} Itachi Uchiha]]. Freeman also previously voiced Mathias Cronqvist.
* HoYay and FoeYay (Oh boy, lots of it with Isaac)
** Arguably with Trevor, too. The cutscene after their first battle is...interesting looking.
* ImprobableWeaponUser (Thanks to the marvels of the item-crafting system of [=CoD=], Hector's arsenal includes a frying pan, a nail bat, a gatling gun, a wicked electric guitar and a holy police baton)
* {{Revenge}}
* SlouchOfVillainy (Hector gets to sit in more than 10 different types of chairs throught his adventure. Truly the pinnacle of this tropes in the series)

* SpannerInTheWorks (Messes up the last part of Death's plan [[spoiler:by not succumbing to Dracula's curse]] but...)
* UnwittingPawn(The plan still worked to an extent, thanks to him, though [[spoiler:Isaac is the ultimate Xanatowned party.]])
* [=~What Do You Mean, It's Not Awesome?~=] (The teleporters in this game work by ''shooting you through a railgun'' to your destination.)

* FetishFuel (Let's see here. Redhead, HoYay in ''spades,'' lots of tattoos, shirtless all the time, ridiculously tight pants... Damn.)

* [=~Hey, It's That Voice!~=]: [[LiamOBrien Liam O'Brien]] in the North American version.
* HoYay + FoeYay (''Boatloads'' of it with Hector and Trevor.)

'''Adventure/Belmont's Revenge'''

* PapaWolf (''"I want my son back, [[PrecisionFStrike you son of a bitch.]]"'')
* TheSouthpaw (He is the only left-handed Belmont to remain in canon. Richter is only a lefty when he's being messed with by Shaft and Drac. Trevor's ambidextrous, but that only half-way counts.)

'''Original/Simon's Quest'''

* {{Badass}} (He's the first Castlevania hero, who beats Dracula through a serious NintendoHard case (no nifty options like Item Crash, etc), then revives Dracula just to kill him again. BAD. ASS. His whole clan is a BadassFamily, but Simon takes the cake.)

* BadassNormal (Armed with naught but a whip and a few subweapons, he defeats Dracula twice, by himself.)
* BarbarianHero (His first official appearances had him look like this, although as time went on he changed a bit; oddly enough, Kojima's Bishounen design for him is also the one in which he looks the ''most'' barbaric; go figure that one.)
* CharacterDerailment (In ''CaptainNTheGameMaster''. To quote TheNostalgiaCritic...)
--> ''Oh God, Simon... What have they done to you...!?''

* FanNickname (His ''Judgment'' self is called "Simon [[DeathNote Yagami]]", thanks to his character design.)
* MemeticBadass (An infamous Nintendo Power cover, created to promote ''Simon's Quest'', depicts him holding Dracula's severed head. Coupled with the fact that he's the first Belmont and the only one to take on Dracula by himself, twice...)

*** Said cover didn't last long as parents complained [[NightmareFuel it gave their kids nightmares]]. Dracula couldn't manage it, but a Belmont? a Hero? He's one fearsome son of a bitch.
* RedheadedHero (His actual hair color changed quite a bit, but eventually he wound up a redhead for good.)

* TheCameo ([[spoiler:Input [[ClassicCheatCodes The Konami Code]] when the Konami symbol shows]] as you boot up ''Harmony of Dissonance'', and you get to play as Simon in BossRush mode. ''8-bit'' Simon. And he can ''still'' whoop every monster the game chooses to throw at him.
** Not to mention his random cameos in other Konami games, his most recent having him take part in a track-and-field tourney along with other Konami personalities like Pentaro, [[{{Gradius}} Vic Viper]] and [[MetalGear Solid Snake]].

'''Harmony of Dissonance'''

Simon's grandson, a prodigious warrior who inherits the Vampire Killer in his mere teens. Juste is unique that he has a LOT of the Belnades blood in him, making him a MagicKnight. For some reason, he likes [[RealMenWearPink decorating rooms]]. He is best buds with swordsman Maxim Kischine and is the lover of Lydie Erlanger. At one point, Lydie vanishes, Dracula's castle rises and Maxim leads him there (acting a bit strange in the meantime). Juste investigates the castle, finding out that Maxim is being possessed, and ends up repeating Simon's feat of gathering Dracula's parts and reviving him only to destroy him again. Juste saves Lydie and Maxim, and it's all good.

* HoYay (With Maxim)
* MagicKnight (Has the most spells amongst the Belmonts, and still whips as hard as he can cast)
* RealMenWearPink (His decorating taste)
* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy (Suffers from this as much as Alucard)
** "Suffers"? Perhaps not. Such is Juste's mojo that Medibot claims that anyone who doesn't wish to date Juste is likely asexual.

'''Rondo of Blood/Dracula X'''

--->"I'm a Belmont, that's my job"

Four years later, due to a plan by the dark priest Shaft, Richter gets possessed and raises Dracula's castle, acting as its master. He's freed by Alucard, and leaves the rest to him. Since the release of ''PortraitOfRuin'', he is canonically the last Belmont to wield the Vampire Killer until Julius Belmont in 1999.

* BadassInDistress (He was {{Badass}} in his debut, then he got caught and below in ''Symphony Of The Night''. Then, he retains much of the badassery off-screen, but [[spoiler:Jonathan Morris can feel it when he fought the Whip Memory in his form]])
* BrainwashedAndCrazy (in his tenure of distress)

* KnightInShiningArmor (For a total of four girls!)
* MemeticBadass (His [[UnflinchingWalk pimpin' stride]] is considered incredibly manly...even ''divine''.)
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone (Once he realizes he's helped to revive Dracula.)
* {{Narm}} ("Die, monster. You don't belong in this world!")

Four years later, when Richter vanishes, a grown up (and really hot) Maria tries to investigate the castle herself, but she ends up meeting Alucard and works together with him. She saves Richter, and develops feelings for Alucard but is unable to convince him to remain awake. (However, if you get the Best Ending, Maria runs after Alucard, leaving Richter on the cliff. In the Audio Drama "Nocturne of Recollection", Maria and Alucard are living together, but if this is canon, it has yet to be confirmed in any of the games; given the barely-lukewarm response to the drama, it's unlikely that it will be included in mainline canon).

* FanNickname ([[DeathNote Misa Renard]], her ''Judgment'' self.)
* TheFourGods (Four of her animals are cuter versions of them)

* ImprobableWeaponUser (Animals, including owls, doves, dragons, cats...)
* {{Pettanko}} (Only in ''Judgment''; she's obsessed about her chest size and admires the other females' assets.)
* SheIsAllGrownUp (''SOTN'' self. Even applies to her subweapons)

Now that that little obligation is out of the way, Shaft was an evil priest who was helping Dracula kidnap little girls. Later, he was instrumental in keeping Richter BrainwashedAndCrazy during Symphony Of The Night.

Tropes Associated with Shaft

* TheDragon to Dracula, and played this role to a brainwashed Richter
* EvilSorcerer: his narrative role.
* LightIsNotGood: He ''is'' technically a priest

'''Circle of the Moon'''

Another non-Belmont (and WhiteHairedPrettyBoy), he is trained alongside [[HoYay Hugh Baldwin]] by Morris Baldwin, a member of a group of vampire hunters who defeated Dracula. He is chosen over Hugh to inherit the [[strike:[[RetCon Vampire Killer]]]] Hunter's Whip (''not'' the Vampire Killer), which leads to [[{{Understatement}} some]] [[FoeYay resentment]] on Hugh's part. When Dracula is revived by Carmilla, Nathan and co. go to the castle to put him down. Dracula separates Hugh and Nathan from Morris, whom he [[JamesBondage kidnaps]] in order to use in a ritual to release his true power. Nathan and Hugh split up, and eventually come to blows when Hugh is put under MoreThanMindControl by Dracula. Nathan beats him, frees Morris after a fight with Dracula, and everybody escapes the castle.

''[[CircleOfTheMoon CotM]]'' was also retconned by Igarashi, but this didn't stop him from borrowing the card system and adapting it into [''[HarmonyOfDissonance HoD]]'''s spellbook system. Igarashi un-retconned ''Circle of the Moon'' a few years later, but called this an AlternateContinuity.

'''Order of Ecclesia'''

A [[TallDarkAndBishoujo tall, dark and beautiful]] member of the Order of Ecclesia, an organization trying to find a way to defeat Dracula without using the Belmonts (or so she thought), and she has a REALLY SexyBack to contain the Glyph which contains her magical power. Shanoa was chosen to host Dominus, a glyph containing a portion of Dracula's power to kill him, but the Glyph was stolen by her brother figure Albus, and in the process she loses her memories and emotions. She is told to hunt down Albus, but eventually smells a rat in her organization after Albus tells her the truth regarding Dominus. Albus was trying to protect Shanoa from Dominus, since anybody who uses its full power will have their soul consumed. It turns out Barlowe, Ecclesia's leader and Shanoa's adoptive father, has been corrupted by Dominus and is trying to revive Dracula. Shanoa defeats him but Barlowe manages to revive Dracula anyway. Shanoa goes to the castle and defeats Dracula with Dominus, but is spared death thanks to Albus, who uses his soul to save her. Shanoa vanishes after Dracula's defeat, and Ecclesia's achievements are lost to history.

* DetachedSleeves (her shoulders also stores some of her glyphs)
* EmotionlessGirl (After the first botched attempt to use Dominus.)
* {{Expy}} (likely of [[{{Noir}} Yuumura Kirika]]; she's an amnesiac, emotionless young woman fighting on behalf of a mysterious church-based organization whose leader has a sinister ulterior motive...and she's even voiced by Houko Kuwashima.)
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer (Female [=NPCs=] and enemies flirt with her.)
* HoukoKuwashima (Japanese voice)

* MagicKnight (Thanks to the glyphs, she can wield any weapon you can think of.)
* MegaManning (Some glyph attacks copies other enemies' attacks)

* SexyBack (And HOW!)
** A candidate for MostTriumphantExample.
* ShootTheShaggyDog (Just read her whole story)

---> "What... kind of brother would I be...if I didn't protect you...? That's...my role."

* [[spoiler: BrainwashedAndCrazy: When he tries absorbing the third piece of [[{{MacGuffin}} Dominus]], it doesn't end well.]]

* [[spoiler: HeroicSacrifice: takes Shanoa's place for it.]]

A [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent man-beast]] from a clan of similar individuals who sealed away their transformation ability in order to live alongside humans. But through rigorous training, he managed to regain such abilities. He heads to Dracula's castle to find the ones responsible for kidnapping his "sister" Ada, a survivor from a previous man-beast attack. After a confrontation with his jealous rival Ortega, he destroys Dracula and saves Ada, but at the cost of his alternate form. [[MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning A form that is used to revive Dracula again, stronger than ever...]] His presence in ''Judgment'' marks the game as an [[AlternateContinuity officially-sanctioned AU]].

A witch who valued her beauty more then anything else in the world. She entered Dracula's service by sacricing 100 children including her own daughter. Is defeated by Carrie Fernandez.

* LaterArrivalSpoiler (He's the reincarnation of Dracula. This is made explicit in the opening cutscenes of ''Dawn of Sorrow''.)

Here is the character list of the {{Castlevania}} series, sorted according to their in-game timeline appearances. There be spoilers here!

Good ol' {{Dracula}}, the King of Vampires you all know. [[strike:[[RetCon He is Vlad the Impaler reincarnated]]]] In a twist, he doesn't start out as Vlad the Impaler, but a [[TheStrategist genius war strategist]] named Mathias Cronqvist. After his wife Elisabetha died, Mathias used his friend Leon Belmont in a XanatosGambit to steal the soul of Walter with the Crimson Stone, gaining the allegiance of Death. He reveals that he has forsaken {{God}}, who took away his wife, and will continue to curse Him for eternity. He retreats and changes his name to Vlad Tepes, while Leon swears to [[{{Narm}} kill an entire time of day.]]

* {{Large Ham}}: Just look at some of his quotes!

* HeyItsThatVoice: His US voice actor DaveWittenberg, which means... [[{{Dissidia}} he's Kefka]] (And [[{{Naruto}} Kakashi Hatake]]. And his [[NobutoshiCanna Japanese voice]] you may recognize as [[{{Macross 7}} Basara Nekki]], [[FateStayNight Lancer]] or [[SuperRobotWars Axel Almer]].

Unfortunately... IGA thinks that her story somehow ruins the entire Belmont family story, by making them Dracula's descendants. As such, Sonia was retconned from the Castlevania timeline, including her latter scheduled reappearance in Castlevania Resurrection.

* HairOfGold (though an unusually BadAss example)

** ...[[MisBlamed He's got a point, you know.]]

[[strike:[[RetCon Sonia's son]]]] Leon's descendant. When Trevor was young, he went into exile as the people feared the Belmont clan's powers. But when Dracula strikes, Trevor takes the Vampire Killer whip from the Poltergeist King, and travels around Wallachia to save the land and win the people's trust. It works, and the Belmonts are no longer feared. He also gets to marry one of his allies, [[BlackMagicianGirl Sypha Belnades]].

* KnightInShiningArmour (Personality-wise in ''Curse of Darkness'' - he's quick to point out to Hector that he didn't beat Dracula alone; he had a LOT of help from people just as brave as him.)

* IsntItSad (Trevor reappears in ''Curse of Darkness'', Sypha gets to have a lot of descendants, Alucard goes on to become some sort of EnsembleDarkhorse, Grant was given nothing at all until ''Judgment'' - and even in that, he's rewritten from a genki go-getter (the Japanese CVIII script sees him declaring himself and Trevor Nakama immediately) into a [[CharacterDerailment self-centred emo navel-gazer.]] [[http://frobman.deviantart.com/art/It-s-Judgment-Time-110479732 And he's a mummy]].)
** What's more, while Julius Mode in ''Dawn of Sorrow'' was conceived and plays out like a colossal ShoutOut to ''Dracula's Curse'', it lacks a Grant counterpart in any form; you can switch between Julius, Yoko, and Alucard. Apparently they were originally going to include Hammer in Julius Mode as the Grant analogue, but aseemingly couldn't justify a hearty tough guy like Hammer playing like a FragileSpeedster.
** At least he wasn't heard or mentioned in CaptainNTheGameMaster. He should feel lucky for that.

* {{Nakama}}: What he believes he and Trevor to be right from the off in [[CastlevaniaIIIDraculasCurse CV3's]] Japanese script.

* DefrostingIceQueen (Judgment-unique. According to her ''Judgment'' personality, she's very much a LawfulNeutral character who [[VanHelsingHateCrimes persecutes all that even dares wield dark powers]], and is [[CharacterDerailment a bit bitchy]] in doing her job. By the end of ''Dracula's Curse'', however, it is implied that she... got better by [[IfYouKNowWhatIMean spending time]] with Trevor. This is totally absent in Castlevania III's JP iteration, where she's formal and amiable.)

* MostCommonSuperpower, {{Gainaxing}}, BoobsOfSteel (In ''Judgment''. Maria even makes note of it. Sypha isn't so proud, though)
-->''Sypha'': Will you stop? These things only get in the way.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS (In Harmony of Dissonance, her name is spelled as [[MyHeroZero Cipher]]. Considering the little amount of story thus far (only existing so the Belmonts can have magic), it's almost fitting... until ''Judgment'' fixed her name back to Sypha)
** More than likely, her name -is- a pun on Cipher, seeing as...well...she is, with relation to her sex.

** This turns into {{Nightmare Fuel}} when you realize that her original (Japanese) dialogue implies that she was ''conscious and aware'' the whole time she was a rock.

* EnsembleDarkhorse (He wasn't that much of a fave in Dracula's Curse, possibly because his main attack was throwing weak fireballs and he looked like a generic vampire. But then comes Symphony of the Night...)

* HeyItsThatVoice: Recent continuity has him voiced by [[{{Naruto}} Yuri]] [[Ben10AlienForce Lowenthal]]. Japanese-wise, he was at first voiced by RyotaroOkiayu, but recent continuity had MamoruMiyano to voice him (to match YuriLowenthal's 'youngster' voice?)

* NamesTheSame: There are major differences between him and the Alucard from {{Hellsing}}

** You can make him sit on chairs in Symphony Of The Night. Serves no practical purpose other than to show off the attention to detail in his sprites.

** Judgment seems to be trying to hybridize them, with disturbing results.

* HeyItsThatVoice: CrispinFreeman, AKA [[CodeGeass Jeremiah Gottwald]], [[TalesOfSymphonia Regal Bryant]] or [[{{Naruto}} Itachi Uchiha]]. Freeman also previously voiced Mathias Cronqvist.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome (The teleporters in this game work by ''shooting you through a railgun'' to your destination.)

* HeyItsThatVoice: Liam O'Brien in the North American version.

* {{Badass}} (He's the first Castlevania hero, who beats Dracula through a serious NintendoHard case (no nifty options like Item Crash, etc), then revives Dracula just to kill him again. BAD ASS. His whole clan is a BadassFamily, but Simon takes the cake.)

* RedHeadedHero (His actual hair color changed quite a bit, but eventually he wound up a redhead for good.)

* HeyItsThatVoice: You may recognize the dulcet tones of [[SilentHill Harry Mason]] in Richter's [[strike:impassioned]] narmy confrontation with Dracula at the beginning of ''Symphony of the Night''.

* ShesAllGrownUp (''SOTN'' self. Even applies to her subweapons)

* EvilSorcerer: his narrative role

[[CircleOfTheMoon CotM]] was also retconned by Igarashi, but this didn't stop him from borrowing the card system and adapting it into [[HarmonyOfDissonance HoD's]] spellbook system. Igarashi un-retconned Circle of the Moon a few years later, but called this an AlternateContinuity.

* BigBrotherInstinct / KnightTemplarBigBrother: Makes him more of an AntiVillain

* {{Expy}}: [[WordOfGod Iga]] says Albus was based around himself, but he resembles Balther from FinalFantasyXII so much more.

* LikeBrotherAndSister: To Shanoa

A distant relation to the Belmont clan, though not distant enough to free him from his duty of destroying Dracula whenever he arises. He was raised in the ways of the church and abhors attacking women and children, a trait that comes into question when he comes across a female vampire named Rosa in the abbey grounds. Even after her demise at the hands of [[TheGrimReaper Death]], he remains resolute, successfully destroying Dracula's new incarnation and proving that even the damned are worthy of forgiveness. Unfortunately, he's very difficult to play as, and thus only those with the maddest of superskills (and stubbornness aplenty) reach the end of his story. And if you think he's got a silly name, well - he was almost Schneider Belmont.

* WouldntHitAGirl: Initially, but then he's forced to fight Rosa, making him drop this.

A witch who valued her beauty more then anything else in the world. She entered Dracula's service by sacricing 100 children including her own daughter. Is defeated by Carrie Fernandez

* HoYay: Most of the Bloodlines fanfics that can be found are of the Ho Yay variety with him and Eric. It boggles, considering there was barely any characterization in the game to begin with.

* BoobsOfSteel / {{Pettanko}}: Stella and Loretta, respectively.

* {{Expy}} / {{Homage}}: Of [[RozenMaiden Suiseiseki and Souseiseki]]

* ItWasHisSled (He's the reincarnation of Dracula. This is made explicit in the opening cutscenes of ''Dawn of Sorrow''.)

* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend (Around Mina Hakuba, his VictoriousChildhoodFriend. It takes the sheer gravity of what he's been through (and HundredPercentCompletion) for him to even allow her to openly hold his hand at the end of Aria.)

* {{Badass Beard}}: So far the only Belmont with facial hair, and quite impressive facial hair at that.

--> '''[[StreetFighter M. Bison]]''': ''[[MemeticMutation OF]] [[http://frobman.deviantart.com/art/It-s-Judgment-Time-110479732 COURSE!!]]