History WesternAnimation / CastlevaniaNocturne

** Maria Renard's design is a wholesale throwback of her appearance in ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaTheDraculaXChronicles'', wearing a more masculine yet still very elegant outfit instead of the pink dress she wore in the ''Rondo of Blood'' era.

* TheDreaded: The Belmont clan as always invokes a sense of [[WorthyOpponent begrudging reverence]] to their vampiric enemies who know of them. [[spoiler:But Alucard's [[LegendaryInTheSequel reputation]] precedes him ''far'' more, as [[TheDragon after effortlessly killing Drolta]] and invoking his name as ''the'' son of Dracula, all of Erzsebet's forces pursuing Richter and his compatriots immediately flee for their lives.]]

* BadassNormal: Misrak, the right hand of the Abbot, is just a normal soldier, no powers of any kind. [[spoiler:Even without them he is able to cut down multiple vampires single handedly.]]

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: The Marquis, a vampire that rules the region the show takes place in, has a wife, who is utterly grief-stricken when the protagonists kill him, carries his head around with her, and eagerly takes part in a mission to try and kill Tara and kidnap Maria.

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Olrox in ''Symphony of the Night'' was a pale, gaunt figure who clearly took visual inspiration from Orlok of ''Film/{{Nosferatu}}'', and he was an even more monstrous bat creature in ''Lords of Shadow''. In ''Nocturne's'' trailer, he is instead a handsome dark-skinned man with long hair.

* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: In the games, Erzsebet Báthory showed up first in ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaBloodlines'', which took place during World War I, much later after Richter's time (albeit under the anglicized and awkwardly translated Elizabeth "Bartley"), while she appears during the French Revolution in ''Nocturne'' during Richter's time, as shown in the trailer and press material.

* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: In the two games Olrox has appeared in, ''Symphony of the Night'' and ''Lords of Shadow'', he's just an obstacle to be overcome by Alucard and Gabriel respectively. In ''Nocturne'', he's stated in the trailer and press materials to be closely connected to Richter, being the one responsible for killing Richter's mother.

* AscendedExtra: Olrox was just another boss monster to fight in his two video game appearances without much bearing on the plot, though he did have one significant role as the BigBad of the novel ''Castlevania: Reminiscence of the Divine Abyss'', which is set after the events of ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaDawnOfSorrow''. In ''Nocturne'', he's the one responsible for killing Richter's mother and stated in promotional materials to be a major supporting character.

** Richter gets one as he confronts a vampire in the trailer:

* DarkMessiah: The narration of the teaser mentions the coming of a "vampire messiah".

* LastOfHisKind: Unlike the games, and like Trevor in the previous series, Richter declares himself to be the last of the Belmonts in the second trailer. [[note]]In the classic game canon, Richter merely became the last of the Belmonts ''to wield the heirloom Vampire Killer whip'' until Julius centuries later.[[/note]] [[spoiler:This turns out to be a lie, as Richter winds up meeting an [[HeroOfAnotherStory old Juste Belmont]], his grandfather, in the countryside who's long since hanged up the whip [[DespairEventHorizon after he lost his wife and best friend]].]]
* MasqueradeBall: The teaser shows masked vampire nobles enjoying themselves at a masquerade ball.

* TheNightThatNeverEnds: The narration in the teaser states that the vampire messiah is "a devourer of light who will eat the sun". Fittingly a solar eclipse is shown along with this narration.

* OrcusOnHisThrone: Averted, unlike Dracula who spent too much of his time grieving [[TheLostLenore the death]] of Lisa to actively be a participant in the bloodshed beyond rallying his forces (at least, until he was actively ''[[LetsGetDangerous attacked]]'' by our heroes), Erzsebet Báthory is not afraid to get down in the dirty with the carnage immediately upon showing up in her plans to TakeOverTheWorld. [[spoiler:This proves to be what undoes the heroes group's chances for victory as she immediately bee lines for the Abbey upon [[TotalEclipseOfThePlot blotting out the sun]] to secure the Abbot's loyalty, which renders their attempts to cripple her forces AllForNothing and leaves them down a hero after Tera pulls a HeroicSacrifice to save Maria and allow Richter and the others to escape.]]

* {{Revenge}}: The teaser opens with Richter’s mother fighting and dying against a vampire in front of a young Richter’s eyes. The vampire (Olrox) then tells Richter that he killed her because she killed someone special to him.
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: As shown in the trailer, some of the villains are switched around from their place in the series' timeline.

* TimeSkip: While the first series was set in the 1400s, the trailer for ''Nocturne'' shows it is set in the 1700s amidst the French Revolution. More specifically 1792, the year ''Rondo of Blood'' coincidentally takes place (being set in Transylvania/Romania).
* TotalEclipseOfThePlot: The second trailer shows Richter from behind looking up at one in the sky.

* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: The teaser shows Olrox, immediately after killing Richter's mother in front of the young boy, coldly stating his intent to murder him as well... ''one day'', before simply leaving rather than tear Richter's defenseless throat out then and there.

* YourHeadAsplode: There is a brief shot in the teaser of the top half of a vampire’s head being blown off by a signature Belmont whip.

* AdaptationalLocationChange: Factoring in the French Revolution at all since it was in progress around the time ''Rondo'' was set means that the entire setting itself shifts from the {{Uberwald}} of Transylvania/Romania (as in most Castlevania games and the first Netflix series) to France, where the game characters are now from. This doubles down on stuff established in the first series like making the Belmont patriarch Leon and thus the Belmont clan
[[AdaptationalNationality originally French.]]

* AdaptationalLocationChange: Factoring in the French Revolution at all since it was in progress around the time ''Rondo'' was set means that the entire setting itself shifts from the {{Uberwald}} of Transylvania/Romania (as in most Castlevania games and the first Netflix series) to France, where the game characters are now from. This doubles down on stuff established in the first series like making the Belmont patriarch Leon and thus the Belmont clan.

[[AdaptationalNationality originally French.]]

* AdaptationalLocationChange: Factoring in the French Revolution at all since it was in progress around the time ''Rondo'' was set means that the entire setting itself shifts from the {{Uberwald}} of Transylvania/Romania (as in most Castlevania games and the first Netflix series) to France, where the game characters are now from. This doubles down on stuff established in the first series like making the Belmont patriarch Leon and thus the Belmont clan [[AdaptationalNationality originally French.]]

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* EnemyMine: Despite Olrox being the one who killed Richter's mother and taunting the young Belmont that he will kill him too one day, it's highlighted in the official synopsis that ''he'' is the one who approaches Richter first in his older age due to disagreeing with the direction that Erzsebet Báthory is taking things and clearly needing his help to stop her ambitions. [[spoiler:This is due to the fact that Olrox's [[TheLostLenore former love]] was someone who fought in the Revolutionary War back in America and, despite the fact he had his lands stolen by the settlers there, fought for freedom alongside them [[VanHelsingHateCrimes before being slain by Julia Belmont for being a vampire]] — in turn, Olrox realizes quickly that if Erzsebet succeeds in conquering Europe, she'll stomp all over his love's ideals for a free world, and thus sees siding with Belmont as the lesser evil despite the animosity shared between the two.]]

* ArtisticLicenseReligion: [[spoiler: Erzebet claimst he moon as her sister, problem is all three gods the egyption acociaty with the moon, as fans of moon knight will tell you, were male.]]

** Tera, Annette's mother, is a Speaker who had formidable magic skills and slays several night creatures over the course of the first season.

** Richter is given a mother named Julia, which brings to mind Julia from ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaCurseOfDarkness Curse of Darkness]}'' and Julius Belmont from the ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaAriaOfSorrow Sorrow]]'' [[VideoGame/CastlevaniaDawnOfSorrow duology]].

* RaceLift: Annette goes from European to a former slave from Haiti, while Olrox, who was a more-or-less transparent {{Expy}} of Orlok i.e. Dracula himself from ''Film/{{Nosferatu}}'', is now of Aztec descent.

* AllMythsAreTrue: All religions at least, so it seems. Despite multiple characters stating their disbelief in religion, those religions seem to have power. Annette's powers apparently come from a Haitian god of metal that she is a descendant of and even though she is not a Christian, she uses metal crosses to great effect to trap a vampire who is burned just by touching them.

* Annette was European in the games (though her exact place of birth is unspecified). In ''Nocturne'' she is Caribbean, therefore hailing from Central America.
* In general terms, all the "French" characters in the show derived from the games are from Transylvania/Romania originally due to the AdaptationalLocationChange. [[note]]Even Maria Renard, whose localized surname ''is'' French, yet also a BlindIdiotTranslation that stuck. In Japanese it's ラーネッド, (Rāneddo), closer to "Rarned" or rather a transliteration of "Learned".[[/note]]

* In general terms, all the "French" characters in the show derived from the games are from Transylvania/Romania originally due to the AdaptationalLocationChange.

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Olrox in ''Symphony of the Night'' was a pale, gaunt figure who clearly took visual inspiration from Film/{{Nosferatu}}, and he was an even more monstrous bat creature in ''Lords of Shadow''. In ''Nocturne's'' trailer, he is instead a handsome dark-skinned man with long hair.

* AdaptationalNationality: Annette was European in the games (though her exact place of birth is unspecified). In ''Nocturne'' she is Caribbean, therefore hailing from Central America.

* RaceLift: [[https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/castlevania-nocturne-news-release-date Per Netflix]], Annette, who was Caucasian in the games, is Black and a former slave from Haiti, while Olrox, who was gray-skinned and thus didn't have a definite ethnicity in the games, is of Aztec descent (and played by Hunkpapa Lakota actor Creator/ZahnMcClarnon).

* TimeSkip: While the first series was set in the 1400s, the trailer for ''Nocturne'' shows it is set in the 1700s amidst the French Revolution. More specifically 1792, the year ''Rondo of Blood'' coincidentally takes place (being set in Romania).

* TimeSkip: While the first series was set in the 1400s, the trailer for ''Nocturne'' shows it is set in the 1700s amidst the French Revolution. More specifically 1792, just like in ''Rondo of Blood''.

* TimeSkip: While the first series was set in the 1400s, the trailer for ''Nocturne'' shows it is set in the 1700s amidst the French Revolution.