History WesternAnimation / Castlevania2017

* Arson,Murder,andJaywalking: A prime example is found in Season 2's conversation between Hector and Godbrand, where Hector says "Godbrand, you've never met anything you didn't immediately kill, fuck, or make a boat out of."

* ArsonMurderandJaywalking: A prime example is found in Season 2's conversation between Hector and Godbrand, where Hector says "Godbrand, you've never met anything you didn't immediately kill, fuck, or make a boat out of."

* Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: A prime example is found in Season 2's conversation between Hector and Godbrand, where Hector says "Godbrand, you've never met anything you didn't immediately kill, fuck, or make a boat out of."

* Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: A prine example is found in Season 2's conversation between Hector and Godbrand, where Hector says "Godbrand, you've never met anything you didn't immediately kill, fuck, or make a boat out of."

''Castlevania'' is a 2017 {{Animesque}} adult animated series for Creator/{{Netflix}} produced by Creator/FrederatorStudios and animated by Powerhouse Animation Studios (with assistance from Creator/MuaFilm[=/=]Tiger Animation and Creator/HanhoHeungUp in Korea, and D'Art Shtajio in Japan). It's based on the ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' series of games, specifically the prequel ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaIIIDraculasCurse'' with elements of ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight'' and ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaCurseOfDarkness'' thrown in.

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: They are very standard vampires, as undead demonic beings with sharp features like PointyEars and FemmeFatalons. They also tend to have grey skin. All of them are superhumanly fast, strong, and resilient to injury; some of them might display other powers like shapeshifting, telekinesis, or teleportation, to name a few.

* {{Catchphrase}}: Trevor "I don't care" Belmont.

* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Even though the entire plot arc takes place in southeastern Europe, most of the cast is voiced by actors of American/British origin.

The series is written by Creator/WarrenEllis and produced by Creator/AdiShankar. Season 1, consisting of four 22-minute episodes, premiered on July 7, 2017. A second season consisting of eight episodes premiered on October 26, 2018. A third season comprising ten episodes [[https://www.ign.com/articles/netflixs-castlevania-season-3-release-date-set-for-march-5 premiered]] on March 5, 2020. A fourth and final season premiered on May 13, 2021. A {{Sequel}} series / AnimatedAdaptation of ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaRondoOfBlood'' starring Richter Belmont and Maria Renard set during the UsefulNotes/FrenchRevolution titled ''WesternAnimation/CastlevaniaNocturne'' was announced on June 11, 2022 and is set to premiere on September 28, 2023.

The series is written by Creator/WarrenEllis and produced by [[Film/TheGrey Adi]] [[Film/{{Dredd}} Shankar]]. Season 1, consisting of four 22-minute episodes, premiered on July 7, 2017. A second season consisting of eight episodes premiered on October 26, 2018. A third season comprising ten episodes [[https://www.ign.com/articles/netflixs-castlevania-season-3-release-date-set-for-march-5 premiered]] on March 5, 2020. A fourth and final season premiered on May 13, 2021. A {{Sequel}} series / AnimatedAdaptation of ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaRondoOfBlood'' starring Richter Belmont and Maria Renard set during the UsefulNotes/FrenchRevolution titled ''WesternAnimation/CastlevaniaNocturne'' was announced on June 11, 2022 and is set to premiere on September 28, 2023.

* WorldOfJerkass: ''Castlevania'' opts for a ''very'' cynical outlook on pretty much everyone. Half of the average human beings are stupid, superstitious, and belligerently ignorant, while the other half are cruel, greedy, and delusional. Vampires are no better. Even the three main heroes bicker and fight amongst themselves, with two of them being just as [[KnightInSourArmor cynical about humanity as the villains while opting to save them anyway]]. The exceptions to this (the Speakers and Lisa) are persecuted, hunted, and mocked by both sides. [[spoiler: [[BittersweetEnding Bittersweetly]] [[DefiedTrope defied]] in the final episode. The world will more or less be a hostile place to live in; however, that doesn’t mean the trio (along with Isaac and Hector) can’t plant the seeds of a more ideal world and nurture it by reaching out and connecting with like-minded people]].

* WorldOfJerkass: ''Castlevania'' opts for a ''very'' cynical outlook on pretty much everyone. Half of the average human beings are stupid, superstitious, and belligerently ignorant, while the other half are cruel, greedy, and delusional. Vampires are no better. Even the three main heroes bicker and fight amongst themselves, with two of them being just as [[KnightInSourArmor cynical about humanity as the villains while opting to save them anyway]]. The exceptions to this (the Speakers and Lisa) are persecuted, hunted, and mocked by both sides.

* CameBackWrong: Invoked [[spoiler:, InhumanHuman variety. In Season 4 climax, Death attempts to have Dracula resurrected by deliberately stuffing his and Lisa's souls into a misshapen rebis body so that the agony of such resurrection (due to the messed-up body and also due to having Lisa suffer a similar fate) will drive Dracula so insane as to restart his genocidal campaign for Death's benefit.]]

The series is written by Creator/WarrenEllis and produced by [[Film/TheGrey Adi]] [[Film/{{Dredd}} Shankar]]. Season 1, consisting of four 22-minute episodes, premiered on July 7, 2017. A second season consisting of eight episodes premiered on October 26, 2018. A third season comprising ten episodes [[https://www.ign.com/articles/netflixs-castlevania-season-3-release-date-set-for-march-5 premiered]] on March 5, 2020. A fourth and final season premiered on May 13, 2021. A {{Sequel}} series / AnimatedAdaptation of ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaRondoOfBlood'' starring Richter Belmont and Maria Renard set during the UsefulNotes/FrenchRevolution titled ''Castlevania: Nocturne'' was announced on June 11, 2022 and is set to premiere on September 28, 2023.

The series is written by Creator/WarrenEllis and produced by [[Film/TheGrey Adi]] [[Film/{{Dredd}} Shankar]]. Season 1, consisting of four 22-minute episodes, premiered on July 7, 2017. A second season consisting of eight episodes premiered on October 26, 2018. A third season comprising ten episodes [[https://www.ign.com/articles/netflixs-castlevania-season-3-release-date-set-for-march-5 premiered]] on March 5, 2020. A fourth and final season premiered on May 13, 2021. A {{Sequel}} series / AnimatedAdaptation of ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaRondoOfBlood'' starring Richter Belmont and Maria Renard set during the UsefulNotes/FrenchRevolution titled ''Castlevania: Nocturne'' was announced on June 11, 2022.

* MagicMirror: Several appear throughout the series, many broken into shards that fit together when needed.
** Dracula has one which can be used as a portal, which he uses to save Isaac by throwing him through it at the end of Season 2.
** Trevor finds a somewhat broken "Distance Mirror" in the Belmont Hold that Alucard says could be used for remote viewing. With a little work, Alucard and Sypha use it [[spoiler:to trap Dracula's Castle and bring it to them]].
** Isaac finds one that answers his questions by showing him what he wants to know, as he asks to see Hector, after which he asks to see where Hector is (inside Carmilla's castle, somewhere Isaac doesn't recognize) and the owner of the castle (Carmilla, as Isaac didn't know that).
** The magician owns a large one that can be used as a portal, which Isaac intends to use as a portal for his army after he kills said magician.
** Smaller magic mirrors can be used as magical video phone, such as when Varney uses his mirror to contact Isaac. Hilariously, not only this mirror may be sentient (demanding Isaac to address it as "Sir" before connecting him to Varney), it can be ordered to filter caller ID (shown when Isaac tells the mirror to block Varney going forward).
* {{Magitek}}: Dracula seems to operate with a knowledge of SteamPunk "[[MagicFromTechnology arcane tech]]" beyond the parameters of the era, and the lighting and plumbing in Alucard's lair beneath Gresit (according to Trevor's grandfather's accounts) are also in Dracula's castle. This is seen as [[MagicFromTechnology strange and mystical]] to others given the time period, evoking ClarkesThirdLaw.

** Played straight and justified in one scene of Season 2 where Dracula goes after a group of traders who "wronged" him. However he wasn't exactly targeting their wives and children (who were already long gone by the time he found them), just them. He isn't depicted as any less evil for sparing them, but just more petty. Imagine watching your entire village burn down and seeing the corpses of countless men, including your [=husband/father=] impaled on sticks just so you would see it.

* NotUsingTheZWord: Despite it being established that they're summoned from Hell, and most people assuming anything like them would come from there anyway, the demonic hoards plaguing the land are almost always ever called "Night Creatures" rather than simply "demons" or anything to that effect. Even Hector and Isaac, the two responsible for creating them in the first place, use this specific terminology.

** [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] alongside DragonInChief. Season 4 has Varney and Ratko. Varney seems to be driving part of the plot forward, contacting others, trying to assemble people to bring back lord Dracula, because [[ICouldaBeenAContender He Coulda Been A Contender]], but then Ratko gives him a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech and proceeds to take over the situation in Tragovista, and assaults Trevor and Sypha. [[spoiler:Ratko dies after a tough battle, and Varney is eventually revealed as the season's BigBad in the form of DEATH.]]

** The people of Wallachia's reaction to Dracula's one year deadline to make their peace with God and to completely evacuate outside of the country is to completely ignore it, and hold a celebration on the anniversary of Lisa's death. Dracula is ''not'' amused, has Dracula's Castle erupt from the ground and destroy the Targoviste cathedral, then releases an army of demons which kill everyone in the city and begins to raze the countryside:

* DualWielding: Trevor uses both a whip and a short sword in conjunction. In Season 3, he uses both at the same time when fighting off large night creatures. [[spoiler:When facing off against the Visitor, Trevor dual wields whips.]]

* GreaterScopeParagon: [[VideoGame/CastlevaniaLamentOfInnocence Leon Belmont]] is this to the Belmont family as he has prepared an underground library to prepare to fight Dracula.

* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: Sypha uses her magic from afar in combat, while Trevor and Alucard prefer a more hands-on approach with their weapons (and body, in Alucard's case). [[spoiler:Season 2 shows that she can at least hold her own in close combat (with a ''vampire general'' no less), but she still mainly relies on her ranged magical attacks.]]
* HappyEndingOverride: [[spoiler: Saint Germain seemingly ended Season 3 on an optimistic note, leaping into the corridor to reunite with his lost love. Season 4 reveals she was long gone and he's undergone a FaceHeelTurn in order to bring her back.]]

* ImpliedLoveInterest: Season 2 sets up sparks between Trevor and Sypha, with the finale implying that it could bloom into something more. They are a romantic couple in season 3. In the game series, they eventually get married and continue the Belmont line.

* InfinityPlusOneSword: [[EpicFlail The Morning Star whip]] that Trevor gets from the Belmont keep. It's so powerful that it kills any demon or vampire in one hit and while Dracula is too strong for it to finish him with a single stroke, it is powerful enough to bring him to his knees with a solid shot to the body.

* Fans of the games noted that Lenore, in terms of design, looks almost exactly like the artwork for [[spoiler:The Succubus of ''Symphony of the Night'']], giving us a clue that her [[spoiler:plan to get Hector under her thrall, is to sleep with him.]]

* ArtisticLicenseEngineering: The entirety of Gresit stands on spacious catacombs while teeming with three-storied houses, giant walls, and towering cathedrals. In real life, this sort of city would instantly cave in on itself. This does somewhat happen in the final episode of Season 1, where the main square crumbles and lets Trevor and Sypha find the Sleeping Soldier. [[spoiler:This is also lampshaded in Season 2 when Sypha forces Castlevania to move to the Belmont estate lands; she admits that it's aboveground while they're in a gigantic library underground. At least in Castlevania's case, the castle's magical {{Bizarrchitecture}} might have prevented it from falling in.]]

*** Trevor and Sypha go off to have more adventures (and it's implied that something romantic might bloom between them), but Alucard [[spoiler:chooses to stay behind and safeguard the combined knowledge of Castlevania and the Belmont Hold. He ends the season alone, grieving for his parents' deaths, and grappling with the fact that he killed his father]]. The season ends with [[spoiler:him breaking down in tears]] to hammer in the bitterness.

* CameBackStrong: A villainous example. [[spoiler:The living Bishop of Gresit might have been abandoned by God, but the reanimated one has enough favour with God to bless ''an entire river'', resulting in the deaths of many vampires due first to Carmilla's betrayal then later to the floods resulting from Castlevania's many movements]]. [[spoiler:However, it is implied that God knew that Carmilla's and Sypha's plans would overlap, and so He let the Bishop bless the water despite loathing the man, because this would save the whole city. So maybe not so much CameBackStrong as GambitPileup]]?

** The people of Wallachia's reaction to Dracula's one year deadline to make their peace with God and to completely evacuate outside of the country is to completely ignore it, and hold a celebration on the anniversary of Lisa's death. Dracula is ''not'' amused, has Castlevania erupt from the ground and destroy the Targoviste cathedral, then releases an army of demons which kill everyone in the city and begins to raze the countryside:

** Carmilla on witnessing [[spoiler:Castlevania being dragged around the town of Braila, then disappearing altogether to the Belmont estate, wiping out most of her forces in the process]]:

* KickTheSonOfABitch:
** The bishop is devoured by demons inside his own church, as one calmly explains that even God is disgusted with him.
** In the Season 2 finale, [[spoiler:Isaac gruesomely kills a group of bandits that tried to sell him into slavery and, it's implied, wanted to eat him, then later raises their corpses as monsters]].