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!Other Antagonists

[[folder:Stone-Eye Cyclops]]
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A monster stalking the catacombs beneath Gresit that preys on those who search for the Sleeping Soldier.

* AttackItsWeakPoint: Trevor was only able to kill the cyclops by stabbing it through the eye.
* ClassicalCyclops: It's a huge, humanoid, one-eyed monster that lives in a cavern-like space and attacks anyone that approaches it. It can also fire a petrifying beam from its eye, which serves as its only vulnerable spot.
* CompositeCharacter: Of the SadlyMythtaken kind. It's a cyclops, but has the abilities of Medusa.
* EmotionEater: The cyclops feeds on the terror of its victims after leaving them trapped in stone.
* EyeBeams: The cyclops fires a continuous beam of light from its eye that turns anything it touches to stone.
* EyeScream: Trevor kills it by throwing a dagger into its eye.
* LoneWolfBoss: Trevor encounters him in the catacombs once and he has no ties to Dracula's invasion. Furthermore, it's implied that he has been around far longer.
* MadeOfIron: According to Trevor, putting a sword in its chest did cause a mortal injury. Unfortunately for Trevor, the attack had no stopping power allowing the fight to continue. It may have eventually died from the sword wound, but by the time it did, Trevor could very well have been killed.
* NoOntologicalInertia: The only thing that can return a petrified victim to normal is to kill the cyclops. Once it dies, all of the human statues in the area return to flesh and blood... including [[{{Gorn}} shattered ones]].
* NoSell: Trevor is able to stab his sword through its chest, yet this does nothing to the beast.
* SilentAntagonist: The cyclops makes no vocalization whatsoever.
* TakenForGranite: As the name implies, the cyclops turns its victims to stone with its EyeBeams.
* WouldHitAGirl: It turned Sypha into stone with the full intent of killing her afterwards.

[[folder:The Magician]]
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A nameless sorcerer whom Isaac encounters during his journey to find Carmilla's castle.

* ArcVillain: He serves as the antagonist for Isaac's storyline for the last few episodes of Season 3, but is more or less a nonentity beforehand.
* AssholeVictim: He enslaved the populations of several towns for his own gain, to the point that death is a mercy for his victims. So it's hard to feel bad for him when Isaac kills him.
* BiblicalMotifs: His magic takes the form of [[SicklyGreenGlow sickly green]] crowns of thorns around his victims' heads.
* BodyOfBodies: During Isaac's attack on his city, he makes his minions float up and combine into a giant sphere of bodies to essentially create the show's iteration of Legion from the video game.
* CharmPerson: When Isaac reaches him, he resorts to direct mind control to try and remove the threat.
* EvilVersusEvil: When it comes down to it, he is pretty much the same thing as Isaac since he enslaves people with magic to do his bidding. Isaac seeks his downfall so he can incorporate the Magician's minions into his own demonic army so he can take on Carmilla.
* EvilOldFolks: He looks just like how you'd expect an evil wizard to look; elderly, decrepit, white-bearded, and strangely attired.
* EvilSorcerer: He's a ruthless wizard who specializes in the use of MindControl spells to turn hundreds of innocent people into his slaves.
* FakeUltimateMook: His personal bodyguard is a huge man covered in armor who dwarfs all the other slaves in size. Despite his imposing appearance, Isaac dispatches him with little difficulty.
* FlunkyBoss: He's not much of a physical threat himself, but instead relies on his mind-controlled thralls to attack his enemies, although his "flunkies" are themselves a proper boss when they form into a single mass.
* GenericDoomsdayVillain: One day he goes around enslaving towns, no reason given. He's so personality-less that he doesn't even say a word to Isaac.
* GigglingVillain: He has no lines of dialogue except softly laughing at Isaac when facing him.
* MageTower: He's a magician, and rules over his city from top of a tall tower.
* MassHypnosis: He rules over an entire city built by his {{mind control}}led {{slave|Mook}}s.
* NoNameGiven: His name is never uttered onscreen, not by Miranda (the only person who might be familiar with him) or himself (who never says anything in front of Isaac).
* OrcusOnHisThrone: He sits comfortably at the top of his castle and throws his endless waves of slaves at Isaac and his army as he waits for the Devil Forgemaster to confront him. This actually makes sense, as he's a SquishyWizard with no combat capabilities other than his mind control spell.
* RuleOfSymbolism: The Magician's fancy hat and elegant robes slip off him as Isaac kills him and holds him aloft, exposing him for what he was beneath all his power: a mad, withered old man.
* SicklyGreenGlow: His magical combination manifests as pale green thorns encircling the heads of his victims.
* SigilSpam: Every person mind-controlled by him shares a [[SicklyGreenGlow pale green]] halo in the shape of a crown of thorns with an eye in the front, suggesting that he may be able to see through any or all of them.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: He's a minor ArcVillain with neither a name nor any lines. However, fighting off his mind control and then killing him allows Isaac to realize his own agency, [[spoiler:leading to his HeelFaceTurn and his decision to free Styria and spend his life making the world better rather destroying it all.]]
* SquishyWizard: He's a great magician with the power to control hundreds of slaves, but also very frail and unable to physically fight back against an opponent that can get past his minions and shrug off his mind control.
* VillainOfAnotherStory: The Magician has absolutely no affiliation, association, or connection with any of Dracula's forces, and was never even directly relevant or involved with the series' overall conflict until Isaac learned about him.
* TheVoiceless: He never says even a single word during any of his time onscreen.
* WakeUpCallBoss: He is the first serious challenge that Isaac faces since Dracula's end after several [[CurbStompBattle slaughters]]. His enchanted army actually manages to kill many of Isaac's night creatures, and Isaac himself would have ended up as just another one of his slaves were it not for a colossal effort of will to resist the MindControl spell.

[[folder:The Mastermind '''(UNMARKED SPOILERS)''']]
!! Death
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MalcolmMcDowell (English), Creator/SatoshiTsuruoka (Japanese), Carlos Barragán (Latin American Spanish)

-> ''"I am not a vampire as you understand it.'' '''''Death''''' ''is my meat."''

An elemental spirit that feeds on death itself. All the events of Season 4 were orchestrated by him to bring back Dracula, and it's not until said goal is close to completion that he reveals himself.

* AdaptationalBadass: In the games, Death is simply one of Dracula's many servants. Here, Death is the GreaterScopeVillain of the series and is implied to have been manipulating Dracula into waging a genocidal war on humankind. He is also the FinalBoss of the series.
* AdaptationalJerkass: The game version of Death, while a villain, was [[AffablyEvil generally polite to his enemies]] and was unfailingly loyal to Dracula. This version of Death is a raging, slimy swearaholic who just wants to kill people to satiate himself, with no loyalty to anyone.
* AdaptationalVillainy: While always an opponent, most of Death's ambitions in the games are to serve Dracula and find a way to resurrect him whenever he's dead, and was completely loyal to him. Here, however, Death's an OmnicidalManiac who wants to drive Dracula insane during the resurrection to use him as a tool to wipe out all life on Earth.
* AllPowerfulBystander: He's a being that can casually manipulate the Infinite Corridor, but is merely a spirit, and is unable to affect the human world on a large enough scale to kill the souls whose death he could feed off of, and needs an agent like Dracula in order to do it. He also can't reach into Hell to resurrect Dracula, as only humans can do that. Needless to say, he is ''pissed'' about this arrangement.
* AndYourLittleDogToo: When preparing the final blow on Trevor, Death promises to personally kill Sypha next.
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Invoked, but subverted. Early cultures based their depictions of TheGrimReaper on him, and he styles himself as the embodiment of death, but he is really just a fancy vampire who feeds on the life force of dying humans.
* ArchEnemy: He establishes himself as Trevor Belmont's deadliest and most personal enemy on the show despite only having one scene with him, and fixates on him when first learning of his presence. Trevor knows a great deal about Death and treats him with absolute seriousness, while Death would return the sentiment once Trevor foils his plans and the two face each other head on.
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: His final form is a gigantic monstrosity that is bigger than anything the heroes have ever faced, and could easily hold Trevor in the palm of his hand.
* AxCrazy: All he wants to do is feed, and he'll slaughter the whole world to ensure he never goes hungry again.
* BadassBoast: When Trevor says that killing things like him is his business, Death responds thus:
-->'''Death:''' I was put here at the dawn of life here on Earth to feed on the last breath of every one of you fuckers. I'm a little more than a... "thing".
* BadassBystander: Due to Death being a spirit, he can't interact with Hell or actually kill in order to feed on the death of his own victims. Doesn't stop him from being a superpowered EldritchAbomination.
* BadassLongrobe: He wears one of these, [[SkeletonsInTheCoatCloset accentuated with bones]].
* BelievingTheirOwnLies: According to Trevor and the Belmont family, anyways. Death is supposedly not the actual incarnation of death, but is simply a vampiric spirit/elemental that feeds on death. Humanity mistook him for death personified which Death eagerly encouraged. By the time Season 4 comes around, Death truly believes that he was put on Earth (presumably by God) to feed on the death of every living thing on the planet. Whether the Belmonts or Death is correct about his origins doesn't matter. What matters is that Death has gotten so arrogant that he loses the battle due to his pride and his need to be recognized.
* BigBad: The main villain of Season 4. All the plans and manipulations to bring back Dracula were orchestrated by him.
* BigNo: He screams this when Trevor exorcises Dracula and Lisa from the Rebis, destroying all of his plans.
* CharacterCatchphrase: "Do you know me?" and, by extension, "You know me". The former is almost exclusively used in his Varney form, with the exception of stating it (minus one word) to Trevor. The latter is stated repeatedly to Saint-Germain during TheReveal. As he presents himself as the physical embodiment of Death itself, the implication is that people who know him are familiar with death in some form or another -- a fact which greatly pleases him.
* TheChessmaster: Hands down the best in the series, leading everyone where he wants them without them knowing, under seemingly harmless aliases.
* ColdHam: In his true form, Death shows himself to be an arrogant being who is a master of the BadassBoast. But, he remains restrained and snarks with TranquilFury.
* CompositeCharacter: He carries the traditional look of the character, but has far more agency beyond serving Dracula with his origins and motivations being closer to Chaos from the mainline games or Satan from the reboot, but his personality definitely takes influence from the self-serving, ManipulativeBastard of Zobek, the Lord of Death, from ''Lords of Shadow'', who reeks of a FauxAffablyEvil demeanor seeking to torture and corrupt Dracula further to [[OmnicidalManiac fulfill his ambition]]. Death's backstory as an ancient, all-consuming embodiment of nothingness who plans to resurrect Dracula also gives him a lot more in common with [[VideoGame/CastlevaniaAriaOfSorrow Chaos]] than with his own in-game counterpart.
* CrownShapedHead: Death's skull is open, with the edge of the opening spiked to look like a crown.
* DecompositeCharacter: His role as Dracula's right-hand goes to Isaac. This Death doesn't seem to have any personal connection to Dracula beyond seeing him as a useful tool to acquire souls.
* DeadpanSnarker: As dead as his own bones. Part of what makes him so LaughablyEvil is his ironic, often bitterly caustic sense of humor.
-->'''Death:''' Is there a point to this? Are you dictating your fucking obituary to me, Belmont?
* TheDeathOfDeath: Subverted. Death does die at the hands of Trevor Belmont, but since he's more of a elemental vampire that feeds on the death of others rather than embodying the concept of death, there's no universal repercussions from killing him.
* DefeatEqualsExplosion: His death causes a massive blast which destroys a large chunk of the castle and would've killed Trevor were it not for Saint Germain.
* DemBones: His design is a skeleton on top of musculature.
* TheDogWasTheMastermind: The foolish, arrogant lout Varney was an EldritchAbomination playing everyone for fools and nearly ushered in the apocalypse.
* DragonWithAnAgenda: Although ostensibly Dracula's servant, he holds no real loyalty to Dracula and simply sees him as a useful way of spreading death on a massive scale. As shown when he manipulates Saint Germain into fusing Dracula and Lisa into a [[TwoBeingsOneBody Rebis]], which is quite obviously a FateWorseThanDeath, but serves his purposes as the resulting [[TragicMonster abomination]] would most certainly lash out in indiscriminate wrath until no life would be left on Earth, without any of the qualms that so tormented Dracula during his first go at it.
* EldritchAbomination: According to Belmont lore, so-called Death is actually a primordial elemental that is nourished by the energy of death, the way vampires are sated by blood. He claims he was "put on this earth" at the dawn of life itself. Where he came from, and what created him, are never answered.
* EvilIsPetty: He has been manipulating the entire plot of Season 4 to get back his 'treasure', a.k.a. the death of living creatures that sustains him that Dracula's genocide was supposed to feed him. He's also incredibly annoyed that the humans are able to resurrect Dracula, and has nothing but contempt for them.
* EvilSoundsRaspy: Unlike the deep-voiced Dracula or soft-spoken Sala, Death's voice is rather hoarse and guttural.
* FatalFlaw: {{Pride}} along with his sadism and hunger. Death could very well have succeeded in his plan if he hadn't chosen to cast off his mask and threaten Saint Germain into completing the ritual. He also takes too much time knocking Trevor around and taunting him instead of finishing the Belmont off. This results in his defeat.
* FinalBoss: He is the final BigBad of the series.
* ForTheEvulz: While he has goals and desires, he also openly states he finds the cruel things he does to reach them to be fun.
* GeniusBruiser: Huge and frighteningly powerful, especially after feeding on so many demises making him rival Dracula himself, but also exceptionally intelligent, orchestrating the entire season without fail.
* GreaterScopeVillain: The instigator of the series as a whole, despite only showing up personally in the final season. Not only is he behind the attempts to revive Dracula in Seasons 3 and 4, but he implies he's been trying to push Dracula into waging genocide against humanity for ages, only for the heroes to steal Dracula from him by killing the vampire lord in Season 2. In other words, all the human attacks that turned Dracula into a MisanthropeSupreme, the church deciding to burn Lisa at the stake, all of it was thanks to his manipulations.
* TheGrimReaper: Downplayed. He looks the part, with the skeletal appearance and the scythe, and Trevor mentions that it's one of his names, but he's not actually the real embodiment of death (as in, [[{{Psychopomp}} the one to personally bring death to every being on Earth]]), but rather more of a "[[ElementalEmbodiment death elemental]]", a primal, ancient magical being that feeds on the energies of death and grows stronger from them. Trevor also adds he did inspire the Grim Reaper iconography, but ancient peoples did not understand what they were seeing and assumed that he was the incarnation of death. As Trever explains to Sypha, ancient people "were trying to make sense of what they saw".
* HorrorHunger: He's driven to feed off the life force of humans after death and is eternally frustrated by only being able to consume only small bits at a time. His big plan is to essentially become the most powerful being on Earth and finally end his insatiable hunger by using Dracula to murder all of humanity and feed off their collective life force.
* IAmTheTrope: He calls himself Death itself... but he really isn't. He's simply a very specific type of vampiric spirit that feeds on whatever LifeEnergy humans give up when they die.
* {{Irony}}: As Varney, he needles Ratko by pointing out that for all his dressing up what he does as being an efficient soldier, he's still basically just another killer and vampire, which sets Ratko off into his [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech rant]] about how he's better than Varney and a superior soldier and warrior than anyone else. Come his fight with Trevor, Trevor calls Death little better than a [[ItIsDehumanizing thing]] to be slain per family tradition, which Death protests saying he is [[BadassBoast more than that]], only for Trevor to call him simply another killer in the world like him. Death doesn't appreciate the turnaround.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Death has a huge ego, especially when he disguises himself as Varney, and he has no loyalty to anyone but himself. Not even to Dracula whom he plans to forcibly resurrect just to reap the benefits of the mass-murdering rampage that result from [[CameBackWrong Dracula's madness upon his revival]].
* {{Jerkass}}: He's crude, petty, egotistical, and just generally unpleasant on a personal level.
* {{Kaiju}}: Less a traditional "ambigiously animal-like monster" than the usual examples, but he absolutely fits the bill when he grows to the size of Dracula's castle.
* KickTheDog:
** He snaps an old man's neck for no reason apart from petty frustration.
** His torture of Dracula and Lisa by fusing them into the Rebis is absolutely nightmarish, specifically designed to torment the former into (even further) insanity.
* KnightOfCerebus: While Castlevania is far from a light series, Death's reveal darkens the mood even more and almost brings about the end of the world.
* LargeHam: He flips between this and ColdHam on a dime. Oh yeah, Malcolm [=McDowell=] is having the time of his unlife.
* LaughablyEvil: He's nothing less than pure evil, but he's such an unrepentantly petty and snarky dick on a personal level in spite of being some kind of ancient evil that he's pretty hilarious.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: Death makes full use of this trait with Saint Germain, convincing him that he needs to bring Dracula back if he wants any chance of reuniting with his beloved. Death also intentionally wants Dracula and Lisa fused together in a rebis, as sensation of his wife trapped inside him would push Dracula into even greater depths of maddened carnage than before.
* MakeMyMonsterGrow: Self-inflicted in the final fight by devouring the Infinite Corridor key, growing from simply towering over humans to ''[[{{Kaiju}} towering over Dracula's castle]]''.
* ManipulativeBastard: He manipulates Saint Germain, Hector, Ratko, and many other vampires in his quest to bring back Dracula and continue his plans of genocide against humanity. He would've succeeded too, were it not for Trevor interrupting the ritual at the last second, and his own hunger getting the better of him.
* MasterActor: He plays the smug, SmallNameBigEgo Varney and the mysterious Alchemist flawlessly.
* MasterOfDisguise: He poses as Varney with his powers to manipulate everyone by playing as [[TheDogWasTheMastermind the local boisterous idiot]], and also as the Alchemist to manipulate Saint Germain, to fulfill his goal of resurrecting Dracula.
* MightyGlacier: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. In his giant form, Death remains stationary from the waist down. He is, however, very fast with scythe strikes and punches. Trevor gets thrashed and beaten within an inch of his life during the first half of their fight.
* {{Mocking Sing Song}}: After beating Trevor to an inch of his life, Death takes the time to insult him when he falls down.
* MorphicResonance: As Varney, not only does he lack irises, making his pupils look like empty sockets along with his sclera being the same tone of his skin, but the coat he wears has a collar that's been partially popped open, making it look like a scythe blade.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain:
** Although in all fairness, he couldn't have known how it would backfire. Bringing back Dracula and trapping him with Lisa to drive him to new heights of madness was a good plan and it almost works if not for Trevor killing the Rebis. However, because he brought them both back for a moment, the backlash of the spell unraveling means that both Dracula and Lisa are resurrected in new bodies. Dracula would have probably been brought back by someone else eventually, but Death's method ensured that he had his MoralityChain with him, and thus he has no desire to destroy humanity.
** His plan would have succeeded had he simply remained where he was and allowed Saint Germain to resurrect Dracula. Teleporting to Dracula's castle, seemingly for no reason other than to witness the event himself and to taunt Germain, allowed Trevor and Sypha to follow him and turn the tide of the battle.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Inflicts this on Trevor, to GameBreakingInjury levels.
* NoSell: In the final battle with Trevor, direct hits from the Morning Star bounce off him.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: As Varney, he came off as a stupid jackass who took credit for everything that everyone else did, to the point where nobody took him seriously. In reality, he was pulling every string at once to have his plan come to fruition.
* ObstructiveCodeOfConduct: He cannot reach into Hell and therefore needs human help to resurrect Dracula and Lisa.
* OmnicidalManiac: His ultimate goal is the extinction of all life on Earth, in order to feed on the life energy that it will give off as it perishes.
* TheProblemWithFightingDeath: Averted. Trevor makes it clear that while this thing calls himself Death and he looks like TheGrimReaper, he's not a {{Psychopomp}} or incarnation of death, just a being that eats souls.
* PsychopathicManchild: His constant swearing and talking about how things will be "fun" makes him come off as an edgy teenager.
* SinisterScythe: He wields a large scythe decorated with human skulls.
* SirSwearsALot: He drops enough f-bombs in just one season before and after ditching his "Varney" disguise to rival Trevor over the course of four entire seasons.
* TheSociopath: A charming manipulator who sways Saint Germain to his side for a false promise and a bloodthirsty, egoistical psychopath who is willing to drive Dracula insane upon resurrection just so he can feed on the deaths of millions that would result from the devastation, not caring one bit of any imbalance that may result from the extinction of humanity. And he's all too eager to gloat about it.
* SophisticatedAsHell: He constantly switches between speaking like an upper-class man and swearing like a sailor.
-->'''Death:''' Why is it that only human hands can reach into Hell? Don't you think that's weirdly fucked-up? I can't do it.
* TimeAbyss: He claims to have been born at the dawn of life on Earth.
* TranquilFury: Evident rather quickly once he reveals himself from the cracks in his FauxAffablyEvil nature by being a massive SirSwearsALot that Dracula's death has left him in a state of perpetual rage against everyone, even his allies, just barely held back by his smarminess.
* VillainBall: He really didn't need to reveal himself to Saint Germain and threaten his life to complete the ritual; Saint Germain was already set to do so. The only purpose for the reveal was to provide some EvilGloating just before his moment of triumph, but that just winds up tipping off Trevor and the others as to what is really going on.
* WalkingSpoiler: Not just the fact he was impersonating other characters for all of Season 4, but the fact that he was going to show up in the series ''at all''.
* WouldHurtAChild: In addition to his followers sacrificing children to him, he wants to revive Dracula so he would kill all humanity, including children.
* YourHeadAsplode: How he finally [[{{Pun}} bites it as Trevor stabs him with the]] [[ItOnlyWorksOnce God-Killing dagger]] in the head, causing his head to crumble and rupture away before [[DefeatEqualsExplosion finally exploding violently]] with enough force to obliterate not only Death's entire body, but a whole section of Dracula's castle in the aftermath.

[[Characters/Castlevania2017Protagonists Protagonists]] | '''Antagonists''' ([[Characters/Castlevania2017Dracula Dracula]], [[Characters/Castlevania2017DraculasArmy Dracula's Army]], [[Characters/Castlevania2017StyrianCouncil Styrian Council]]]]-]]]

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Monsters that emerge from the Infinite Corridor (an interdimensional portal accessed from the basement of the Lindenfeld priory). They may be demons from Hell, or simply a grab-bag of extradimensional monsters that fell through as the Corridor paged between destinations.

* ClassicalCyclops: It's a huge, humanoid, one-eyed monster that lives in a cavern-like space and attacks anyone that approaches it. It can also fire a petrfying beam from its eye, which serves as its only vulnerable spot.

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* NoOntologicalInertia: The only thing that can return a petrified victim to normal is to kill the cyclops. Once it dies, all of the human statues in the area return to flesh and blood... including [[{{Gorn}} shattered statues]].

* TakenForGranite: As the name implies, the cyclops turns its victims to stone with its eye.

* CameBackWrong: Zigzagged. [[spoiler:His body is used to give life to a night creature (although more or less a zombified version of the Bishop) by Hector on Carmilla's orders. Unlike the Bishop himself, the creature [[{{Irony}} has God's blessing]], blessing the river and turning it into holy water to be used against Dracula's loyalists.]]

* SmallRoleBigImpact: [[spoiler: He doesn't have much of a role other than kill Dracula's wife and is easily dealt with by one of his minions in the show's fourth episode. However its that action of killing Dracula's wife is what drove Dracula to KillAllHumans, thus causing the events of the series to occur.]]

* TooDumbToLive: In the flashback proper where he arrests Lisa, she's initially kind and cordial to him, and he's very rude and assumes she is a witch. When she tries to explain that she does science that has been forgotten, he dismisses it, and interprets her warnings about Dracula as a threat. Then he orders her execution. The fact that he survived long enough to encounter Trevor is a miracle, since he singlehandedly brought down Dracula's wrath on Wallachia.

* VillainousLegacy: [[spoiler: He gets killed quickly by one of Dracula's minions. However, it clear that his murder of Lisa Tapes still influences the story, even after he died.]]

* DeathOfDeath: Subverted. Death does die at the hands of Trevor Belmont, but since he's more of a elemental vampire that feeds on the death of others rather than embodying the concept of death, there's no universal repercussions from killing him.

* {{Catchphrase}}: "Do you know me?" and, by extension, "You know me". The former is almost exclusively used in his Varney form, with the exception of stating it (minus one word) to Trevor. The latter is stated repeatedly to Saint-Germain during TheReveal. As he presents himself as the physical embodiment of Death itself, the implication is that people who know him are familiar with death in some form or another -- a fact which greatly pleases him.

* VillainousLegacy: [[spoiler: He gets killed quickly by one of Dracula's minion. However, it clear that his murder of Lisa Tapes still influences the story, even after he died.]]

* NoKillLikeOverkill: How he meets his end, once the angry mob of Gresit turns on him and his associates. He gets a pretty gruesome death at the angry villagers hands. Starting off with a pitchfork to the neck, spear to the back, then getting slashed and stabbed repeatedly.

* BadassPreacher: A rare evil version, he's a priest and is capable of fighting the likes of [[TheHero Trevor]] (badly mind you but still).

* MutilationConga: First he gets his left eye whipped out. Then later, he gets hit through the right eye and heart with arrows. [[spoiler:Then he's forged into a night-creature still missing his eyes, attacks the heroes, and finally gets killed by Trevor ''again'']].

* {{Fingore}}: Thanks to Trevor's whip he loses his right index finger. And the former's apology might just be him being cheeky.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: The poor bastards gets absolutely murdered by the angry mob, getting a pitchfork to the neck, spear to the gut, then stabbed and slashed several times.

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: The guy gets impaled by both a pitchfork and a spear.