History YMMV / BloodRayne

* RetroactiveRecognition: ''[=BloodRayne=] 2'' was Creator/TroyBaker's ''second'' video game role. The guttural voice he uses for Kagan makes it hard to spot him, but Severin is much closer to one of his "standard" voices, bar the British accent.

* BestKnownForTheFanservice: Rayne is seen as a gaming sex symbol of the 2000s.

* RetroactiveRecognition: ''[=BloodRayne=] 2'' was Creator/TroyBaker's ''second'' video game role. The GutturalGrowler voice he uses for Kagan makes it hard to spot him, but Severin is much closer to one of his "standard" voices, bar the British accent.

* WTHCastingAgency: Creator/MichaelMadsen?! Creator/MichelleRodriguez?! Creator/BillyZane?! Music/{{Meatloaf}}?! ''Creator/BenKingsley?!'' OK, Ben did it out of AwesomeDearBoy, but still! And that's just the ''first'' film.

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* AcceptablePoliticalTargets: In most of the first game you are an American fighting [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazis]] in 1938.

* {{Sequelitis}}: Not that the first movie really was that well-received, but the sequels were considered even ''worse,'' something few would have even believed to be possible.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: Despite the improvements featured in the ''Terminal Cut'' of the first ''[=BloodRayne=]'', at launch some players complained about the game's censorship across all regions by removing all Nazi imagery and changing the skin color of the zombie enemies to green like in the Japanese release of the original game, which is made even worse by the fact it was not even being sold in Germany. Patch 1.04 for ''Terminal Cut'', however, eventually restored the Nazi imagery and the original flesh colors of the zombies.

* FoeYay
** Rayne and the Butcheress in the first game. Also Rayne and the doppelgänger twins.
** Rayne and the minions. [[FoeRomanceSubtext Some of their taunts are like this.]] The sounds Rayne makes while feeding on them are reminiscent [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything of something else]]...

* AuthorsSavingThrow: Despite the improves featured in the ''Terminal Cut'' of the first ''[=BloodRayne=]'', at launch some players complained about the game's censorship across all regions by removing all Nazi imagery and changing the skin color of the zombie enemies to green like in the Japanese release of the original game, which is made even worse by the fact it was not even being sold in Germany. Patch 1.04 for ''Terminal Cut'', however, eventually restored the Nazi imagery and the original flesh colors of the zombies.

* MorePopularSpinoff: ''Bloodrayne'' was originally a spinoff of ''VideoGame/{{Nocturne}}'', a ''Franchise/ResidentEvil''-style third person survival horror game for the [=PC=].

* CompleteMonster: See [[Monster/BloodRayne here]].

* CompleteMonster:
** [[BigBad Kagan]], much like his video game counterpart, is a powerful vampire king and Rayne's father, [[ChildByRape having raped and murdered her mother]]. Taking advantage of a lawless land, Kagan has an army of vampires and humans at his disposal to [[KillAllHumans wipe out the human race]]. Kagan seeks the eye, heart and rib of the ancient vampire Belial (Beliar in the first game) to [[CannibalismSuperpower further empower himself]]. When Rayne allies herself with the Brimstone society, Kagan sends his army to the Brimstone headquarters, killing hundreds of innocent people. When Kagan captures Rayne and discovers she empowered herself with Belial's pieces, he plans to ritually extract the pieces from her. In the final fight, he manages to [[HeroKiller kill the Brimstone leader, Vladimir]], before facing Rayne in a final duel.
** There's also [[YMMV/BloodrayneIIDeliverance Billy the Kid]]. See that page for details.

** [[BigBad Kagan]], much like his video game counterpart, is a powerful [[VampireMonarch vampire king]] and [[ArchnemesisDad Rayne's father]], [[ChildByRape having raped and murdered her mother]]. Taking advantages of a lawless land, Kagan has an army of vampires and humans at his disposal to wipe out the human race. Kagan seeks the eye, heart and rib of the ancient vampire Belial (Beliar in the first game) to further empower himself. When Rayne allies herself with the Brimstone society, Kagan sends his army to the Brimstone headquarters, killing hundreds of innocent people. When Kagan captures Rayne and discovers she empowered herself with Belial's pieces, he plans to ritually extract the pieces from her. In the final fight, he manages to kill the Brimstone leader, Vladimir, before facing Rayne in a final duel.

* CompleteMonster:
** First game and the comic series:
*** [[BigBad Jurgen Wulf]] was a German UsefulNotes/WorldWarI war criminal fascinated with the occult. Becoming the leader of the [[{{Ghostapo}} Gegengeist Gruppe]], Wulf uses his position to seek out the parts of Beliar, the first devil to ascend to self-proclaimed godhood. He introduces himself having summoned the Queen of the Underworld and her offspring to infect and wipe out a whole town to get Beliar's rib. Later, when he discovers Rayne's friend Mynce was a DoubleAgent, he rips Mynce's heart out in front of Rayne. Returning in the comics, it's discovered decades later that Wulf was resurrected from Hell by what he calls "Saviours", ancient beings that far predate the universe, and denounces his past as a Nazi in their favor. Wulf takes over Red Blood Run, a HumanTrafficking operation that abducted thousands of innocent people to forcibly experiment on them and turn them into vampires. This was part of a greater conspiracy in which Wulf infiltrates Brimstone with his "Saviours" in a plot to usurp God and sell out humanity as his masters subjugate all creation.
*** [[MadScientist Dr. Bathory Mengele]], aka "{{The Butcher}}ess", is a particularly vicious member of the Gegengeist Gruppe and proud descendant of UsefulNotes/ElizabethBathory, continuing her "family tradition" of [[BloodBath bathing in the blood]] of virgins. Growing a fascination with the parasitic Daemites, she keeps breeding them to further the GGG's plans, but mainly for her own amusement. Bathory callously feeds her soldiers to the Daemites, enthusiastically describing to Rayne how they horrifically infect and kill their victims, as well as her considering setting them loose on America. In the comics, Bathory reemerges decades after her seeming death as a treacherous ally to the Kagan Cult and master of an army of NaziZombies. When Rayne confronts her, its revealed that Rayne was one of many young girls and teenagers taken by Bathory to have their blood collected when Bathory realizes she's a dhampir and attempts to test a Daemite larvae on her, before gutting Rayne and leaving her to die.
** ''[=BloodRayne=] 2'': [[ArchnemesisDad Kagan]] is Rayne's [[IHateYouVampireDad father]]. A powerful VampireMonarch, Kagan has a fascination with the {{Dhampir}} race and creates his own by [[SerialRapist raping]] human women to produce offspring before eventually killing every member of their maternal family and everything they care about, leaving them with nobody but Kagan himself to rely on. Kagan ended up working with the Nazis to further his own goals and killed Rayne's mentor and friend, torturing him by strangling him with his own intestines before the man used a grenade to destroy himself with Kagan, except Kagan had survived. Kagan uses a plan to blot out the sun and leave a vampire kingdom for himself and his kind, to rule as a king. Kagan displays no care for any other being, coldly informing one of his daughters her services are no longer required before having her thrown into a miles-long drop, and later mocks Rayne by declaring she's scarce worth the "effort I took to create it."

** Initially ''[=BloodRayne=]: Terminal Cut'' came with censorship of the Nazi imagery in the game and changed the zombie skin colors to look less human like in the Japanese version of the original game, which lead to some complains about said changes and some modders to try and undo the changes in the PC version. Thankfully these changes were reversed officially for all platforms with the 1.04 patch.

* ItsHardSoItSucks: Due to SurpriseDifficulty in ''Betrayal'', many complain about the game being a NintendoHard platformer and [[RageQuit put it down from frustration]]. It also doesn't help that the third-person shooter games aren't very hard games either.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Part of the fanbase's reaction to the ''[=BloodRayne=]: Betrayal'' gameplay trailer, due to {{Metroidvania}} design and the {{animesque}} style of it. And it's about as [[NintendoHard hard]] as the 2D ''VideoGame/NinjaGaiden'' games.

** There's some in the first movie, between Rayne and some vampire chick she feasts upon.

* AcceptablePoliticalTargets: In most of the first game you are an American fighting {{Nazis}} in 1938.

** Rayne and the female minions in the second game.

* VideoGameMoviesSuck: [[SarcasmMode Thanks]], Uwe Boil.

* ComplacentGamingSyndrome: The way to beat almost all of the bosses in the first game is to build up your blood meter by hitting them, then activate blood rage and curbstomp them into bloody chunks. ''Blood Rayne 2'' is almost exactly the same, except you build up the blood meter by executing minions instead of just whacking at the boss.