History TearJerker / Castlevania

* Lisa's first meeting with Dracula, where the two quickly warm to each other's company, becomes much HarsherInHindsight if you already know what happens to her. Indeed, not one minute later, it flashes forward 20 years to show her being burned at the stake for being accused of witchcraft, and with her dying breath, begging Dracula not to hurt anyone, [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre to be better than them.]] [[ForegoneConclusion Sadly, we all know]] [[KillAllHumans what comes next...]]

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* ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaJudgment'' has Golem's storyline: [[spoiler:Golem spends his storyline trying to figure out if he really has a soul and hoping to find a place to live. During this process, his creator, Carmilla, declares he can never be human and tries to destroy him, and then Death notes that he has a soul, but tries to destroy him for no longer being a mindless servitor. Then, whilst Golem is revelling in the proof that he has a soul, Aeon reveals that if he leaves the time rift, then he will lose his soul and revert back to his mindless former self. However, unless he stops the Time Reaper who is creating the rift, all of humanity will eventually be destroyed. After hearing this, Golem makes a HeroicSacrifice and battles Time Reaper, because "that's what a human would do". He ends up stranded in ruins, a mindless beast once more, and ends up being destroyed by some random nameless nobody of a hunter.]]

* For a while, people were looking forward to a {{Metroidvania}} starring Julius Belmont in his youth, chronicling his truly epic adventure in finally killing Dracula for good in the Battle of 1999. Now with Iga having left Konami to continue the Castlevania Legacy with the SerialNumbersFiledOff with BloodstainedRitualOfTheNight (and thus not being allowed to make the story himself) and Konami generally showing no interest whatsoever in continuing those styles of games or even that continuity of Castlevania, it looks like that story is never going to be told.

It can get worse. Take the Sandy Grave and the Lost City. It was around the beginning of the 1900s when the Egyptian Pyramids were being excavated and their stuff being taken to museums within Europe. This adds at least a little more emphasis when Brauner mentions within the Sandy Grave of how "humans despoil the natural world". The Lost City by comparison is one undespoiled and the monsters within probably represent "the mummy's curse".

Then there's the Dark Academy and the Forest of Doom. Both of them are broken down or horrifying academies with forbidden things being learnt or simply schooling left in ruin. Part of the Nazi Agenda was censorship of non-Nazism ideals and teaching them over other curriculums. These can respectively represent the Forest of Doom (other ways being left to ruin) and the Dark Academy (where bad ideals are taught).

Finally, there's the City of Haze and 13th Street. The most obvious impression one gets from these places is that these can represent Britain, specifically London. Sure, these look the least harmless, but think about the factor that PoR takes place in 1944. The City of Haze is deserted save for monsters patrolling it's streets, and the theme is called "Victorian Fear". Meanwhile, 13th Street looks the same, except that it's during the night at sunset. Or more explicitly, what appears to be sunset. What if the far off red light in the background is really fire? What if the City of Haze and 13th Street represent Great Britain before AND after the German Air raids respectively?

* Was this Troper the only one who found ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsOfShadow'' to be heart-wrenching? [[spoiler:Not only is the entire game one big effort to bring back Gabriel's lost love, Marie, but by the end, even after you defeat Satan, he can't bring her back. Gabriel then winds up becoming the Prince of Darkness, and is tortured by not only his immortal existence, but also with the knowledge that he was the one to kill Marie.]] And if we ''REALLY'' want to take things further, [[spoiler:the two DLC packs, Reverie and Resurrection, chronicles Gabriel's full descent into darkness, complete with killing off demon child Laura, and this Troper really liked her.]] Let the waterworks commence.

[[caption-width-right:254:''"Smile for me. That will be enough."'']]

* ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaOrderOfEcclesia''. Pretty much any scene involving Shanoa and Albus counts, but the major tear jerker comes at the very end, when [[spoiler:the now dead-by-your-own-hand Albus, who had given up his soul to Dominus in order to spare Shanoa from making the same sacrifice, takes off for the afterlife after seeing Dracula's end.]]

-->''"Dracula''': Tell me... What... what were Lisa's last words?\\

* In ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaRondoOfBlood Dracula X Chronicles]]'', if you don't save Annette, [[spoiler:she gets turned into a Succubus and Richter has to kill her.]]

** On that note... The whole series from Dracula's viewpoint. Yes, Dracula is a monster. Yes, his life sucks, basically because {{LoveMakesYouEvil}}... And also there is the pieces of art by Kojima with him holding his first and second wife in the exact same way... A tearjerking continuity nod.

* In ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaRondoOfBlood Dracula X Chronicles]]'', if you don't save Annette, [[spoiler: she gets turned into a Succubus and Richter has to kill her.]]

* ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaJudgment'' has Golem's storyline: [[spoiler: Golem spends his storyline trying to figure out if he really has a soul and hoping to find a place to live. During this process, his creator, Carmilla, declares he can never be human and tries to destroy him, and then Death notes that he has a soul, but tries to destroy him for no longer being a mindless servitor. Then, whilst Golem is revelling in the proof that he has a soul, Aeon reveals that if he leaves the time rift, then he will lose his soul and revert back to his mindless former self. However, unless he stops the Time Reaper who is creating the rift, all of humanity will eventually be destroyed. After hearing this, Golem makes a HeroicSacrifice and battles Time Reaper, because "that's what a human would do". He ends up stranded in ruins, a mindless beast once more, and ends up being destroyed by some random nameless nobody of a hunter.]]

* Was this Troper the only one who found VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsOfShadow to be heart-wrenching? [[spoiler:Not only is the entire game one big effort to bring back Gabriel's lost love, Marie, but by the end, even after you defeat Satan, he can't bring her back. Gabriel then winds up becoming the Prince of Darkness, and is tortured by not only his immortal existence, but also with the knowledge that he was the one to kill Marie.]] And if we ''REALLY'' want to take things further, [[spoiler:the two DLC packs, Reverie and Resurrection, chronicles Gabriel's full descent into darkness, complete with killing off demon child Laura, and this Troper really liked her.]] Let the waterworks commence.

* ''{{Castlevania}}: Order Of Ecclesia''. Pretty much any scene involving Shanoa and Albus counts, but the major tear jerker comes at the very end, when [[spoiler:the now dead-by-your-own-hand Albus, who had given up his soul to Dominus in order to spare Shanoa from making the same sacrifice, takes off for the afterlife after seeing Dracula's end.]]

* Was this Troper the only one who found Castlevania: Lords of Shadow to be heart-wrenching? [[spoiler:Not only is the entire game one big effort to bring back Gabriel's lost love, Marie, but by the end, even after you defeat Satan, he can't bring her back. Gabriel then winds up becoming the Prince of Darkness, and is tortured by not only his immortal existence, but also with the knowledge that he was the one to kill Marie.]] And if we ''REALLY'' want to take things further, [[spoiler:the two DLC packs, Reverie and Resurrection, chronicles Gabriel's full descent into darkness, complete with killing off demon child Laura, and this Troper really liked her.]] Let the waterworks commence.

* [[Castlevania]]: Order Of Ecclesia. Pretty much any scene involving Shanoa and Albus counts, but the major tear jerker comes at the very end, when [[spoiler:the now dead-by-your-own-hand Albus, who had given up his soul to Dominus in order to spare Shanoa from making the same sacrifice, takes off for the afterlife after seeing Dracula's end.]]

* ''{{Castlevania}}: Order of Ecclesia.'' Pretty much any scene involving Shanoa and Albus counts, but the major tear jerker comes at the very end, when [[spoiler:the now dead-by-your-own-hand Albus, who had given up his soul to Dominus in order to spare Shanoa from making the same sacrifice, takes off for the afterlife after seeing Dracula's end.]]

* The ending to SymphonyOfTheNight's Dracula fight. The revised dub particularly, excluding (mostly) the original version's NarmCharm. View it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_QlNfb5WVY here]]

* The worst ending in HarmonyOfDissonance could count.
* In [[RondoOfBlood Dracula X Chronicles]], if you don't save Annette, [[spoiler: she gets turned into a Succubus and Richter has to kill her.]]

* The ending to SymphonyoftheNight's Dracula fight. The revised dub particularly, excluding (mostly) the original version's NarmCharm. View it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_QlNfb5WVY here]]

* The ending to Symphony of the Night's Dracula fight. The revised dub particularly, excluding (mostly) the original version's NarmCharm.
View it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_QlNfb5WVY here]]