Characters / Castlevania (2017): Dracula's Army

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Dracula's Army

Vlad Dracula Ţepeş

Voiced by: Graham McTavish (English), Naoya Uchida (Japanese), Carlos Segundo (Latin American Spanish), Klaus Dieter Klebsch (German)

"I do this last kindness in her name, she who loved you humans and cared for your ills. Take your family and leave Wallachia tonight. Pack and go, and do not look back. For no more do I travel as a man."

The Big Bad of the series and the "King of Vampires", Vlad Dracula Ţepeş. A powerful vampire whom secluded himself in his castle before being visited by a woman named Lisa, that event would end up changing his life forever. Unfortunately the Church got a hold of his wife and burned her at the stake after condemning her as a witch. Consumed by sorrow and pure raw rage, he now seeks vengeance on all of humanity for his loss, condemning them all to genocide...

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See his page here.

Dracula's War Council

In General

Dracula's direct subordinates, consisting of two human sorcerers (Devil Forgemasters) responsible for creating the demonic monsters (Night Creatures) that make up the bulk of his forces; along with several vampire warlords who are allied with him, who are in charge of their own respective vampire troops.

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• All There in the Manual: According to the director Samuel Deats, the five unnamed generals are Raman, Sharma, Chō, Zufall, and Dragoslav.
• Co-Dragons: They are Dracula's most powerful servants. However, Isaac and Hector are given lead over the others.
• Cosmopolitan Council: They were recruited from different parts all over the world — the two most prominent ones are an Austrian (Carmilla) and a Nordic (Godbrand). The other five's origins are never said out loud, but it's indicated by their names and their style of dress that they are German (Zufall), Russian (Dragoslav), Indian (Raman), Nepali (Sharma), and Japanese (Chō). This extends to the two Devil Forgemasters as well: Isaac is most likely African due to being black, while Hector is implied to be either Greek or Turkish due to being recruited from east of Rhodes.
• Council of Vampires: A given, but, rather unusually for this trope, the very human Devil Forgemasters precede them in authority.
• Dark Action Girl: In Season 4, we see that Carmilla is a terror in a fight. Raman and Chō are very skilled in combat and put up a good fight against Trevor, Sypha, and Alucard.
• Decadent Court: Dracula's war council is only held together by his own power. Carmilla's appearance leads to even more infighting and even an attempted coup.
• Equal-Opportunity Evil: They come from distinct ethnicities and backgrounds, and its established that not all of them are vampires such as Isaac and Hector. Dracula explains that the latter's loyalty is exceptional considering his genocidal plans against their race.
• Flat Character: Besides Hector, Isaac, Carmilla, and Godbrand, the other generals have no discernible personality, nor do they ever speak. Chō gets a little more through a flashback and some testimony in Season 3, but still no spoken lines.
• Good Old Fisticuffs: In contrast to the other Generals' weapons or unique powers, Dragoslav fights with his fists. He's one of the few to actually hurt Alucard sending him flying with a punch.
• Ironic Name: All of the Vampiric Generals that do not speak have names which considerably don't fit, especially concerning their actions.
  • Raman, the Indian vampiress, means "Beloved" in Hindi.
  • Sharma, the Nepali vampire, means "Happiness" in Nepali.
  • Chō, the Japanese vampiress, means "Butterfly" in Japanese, though she did fight very gracefully in the Season 3 flashback.
  • Zufall, the German vampire, means "Coincidence" in German.
  • Dragoslav, the Russian vampire, means "Dear Glory" in Russian.
• Meaningful Name: And on the other hand, all the Generals with speaking parts have names rather indicative of their goals and ideals.
  • Isaac means "he laughs" in Hebrew, which isn't fitting considering his personality, but fits the story of the name^*Isaac was the child of Abraham and Sarah, who laughed in disbelief when God told them they would have a child how he followed the word of a higher power through Dracula after initially disbelieving the possibility of the plan revealed to him.
  • Hector means "to restrain" in Greek, and he is by far the closest thing to a voice of morality in Dracula's court. Additionally, he himself spends all his time restrained either by his personal form of morality or by literal chains when Carmilla enslaves him.
  • Carmilla means "free-born" in Latin, ironic considering her vampire origins as a servant to a stronger vampire but fitting for her refusal to bend the knee to another ever again.
  • Godbrand has no dialectic meaning, but it's a portmanteau of "God" and "firebrand," reflecting his arrogance and aggressive personality.
• Plot-Irrelevant Villain: The generals' schemes and infighting make up most of Season 2 but have little to do with the conflict between Dracula and the heroes. The generals do not directly confront or even meet the heroes until the attack on Dracula's castle, at which point they are all killed. Similarly, Carmilla's coup against Dracula goes nowhere since she began her attack on Dracula at the same time as the heroes, whose actions scatter her forces and block her way into the castle.
• Posthumous Character: Chō receives more of a role in Season 3 after her death. Unlike the other Generals, the show establishes what she was doing before being called to Dracula and how she ran her court.
• Technician Versus Performer: Isaac and Hector respectively, concerning how they approach Night Creature forging. Isaac's mastery is the result of studying for years, while Hector has been reanimating animals since he was a kid.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: It's implied that none of the court members are particularly fond of one another. They question Dracula's leadership, but won't actually dare to challenge him to his face.
• Token Human: Isaac and Hector are the only humans among Dracula's court — a fact resented by the vampire generals.

Isaac

Voiced by: Adetokumboh M'Cormack (English), Mitsuaki Madono (Japanese), Carlo Vázquez (Latin American Spanish)

"You know... one day, the last one of you will ask me, 'Why did you work with Dracula to murder all of the people?'. And you know what I'll say? It's because you're all so fucking rude."

One of Dracula's two human generals and a Devil Forgemaster, using a knife in contrast to Hector's hammer. He is one of Dracula's most trusted friends even if he is human.

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• Accentuate the Negative: To Self-Serving Memory proportions. Isaac will always focus on the bad and push the good right out of his mind. For example, as the Captain notes, Isaac was pleased by the generosity of the merchant in Tunis but chooses to stew in anger at the soldiers for trying to run him out of town. After killing the mind-controlling wizard, he grows out of this view and is more at peace in Season 4.
• Adaptational Badass: Zig-Zagged version. His videogame counterpart is more powerful due to his ability to craft multiple Innocent Devils and, like that version of Hector, is implied to be a master of multiple forms of armed combat, particularly the spear. This version of Isaac only fights with a spiked belt and a short knife that can resurrect corpses into monsters, but he is far more intelligent and mature than his videogame counterpart. The biggest difference between the two versions of Isaac is their standing against Hector. The videogame Isaac, despite his powerful abilities, was considered to be inferior to Hector in terms of combat abilities and skill as a Devil Forgemaster. This Isaac is more intelligent than Hector and is capable of killing vampires and multiple people with just his belt and his knife, whereas Hector is always outsmarted by vampires and gets his ass kicked regularly.
• Adaptational Diversity: Isaac is both black and later revealed to be a Muslim in the show, whereas in the games he's a white redhead whose religion isn't ever indicated.
• Adaptational Heroism: In the games he's homicidally devoted to Dracula in addition to being a gigantic misanthrope and Hector's archenemy. This version of Isaac is far more levelheaded, capable of making genuine friendships with others and eventually forgives Hector, decides to let Dracula rest, and instead to make something new of Styria.
• Adaptational Modesty: Isaac in the games wore a very fetishistic outfit. Here, he dons a Devil Forgemaster's crest not unlike Hector's. Although he does occasionally strip down to flagellate himself.
• Adaptation Personality Change: In the original games, he was nothing short of a psychotic maniac. While he is still evil here initially anyway, he is portrayed as a more somber and nihilistic character with a tragic backstory.
• Adapted Out: There is no mention of his sister Julia, especially in his flashback in his youth.
• Admiring the Abomination: Isaac admires vampires, Dracula especially, seeing them as "pure" when compared to humans. He was also seemingly in love with his abusive master as a teenager.
• Affably Evil: Isaac carries himself with a dignified, gentlemanly aura, treats his night creatures well, and clearly believes in the golden rule of "treat others the way you want to be treated", albeit in his own twisted way. Every character who treats Isaac with kindness (Dracula, the Merchant, the Captain, Miranda, and to a degree, Hector) receives proper courtesy from Isaac in kind, while other characters he interacts with are generally less polite... and tend not to leave his presence alive.
• Alas, Poor Villain: He gives an in-universe eulogy to a night creature bat that struggled to fly back to the castle and died at the doorstep.
• Ambiguously Gay: There are a few hints that he might be this, such as when he suggests that him and Hector should kiss each other, the latter states that might be the first time he heard him say a joke, but Isaac says that he never does. The most notable example of this, however, is in a flashback: When he was being tortured for poking around his then-master's things, Isaac confessed that his motivations for doing so were because he loved him and wanted to help, which is said in a more romantic tone rather than in a filial one.
  • In the Japanese dub, he says "愛してる"(Aishiteru) A very serious form of saying I love you. One that is used only by married couples.
• And Then What?: In Season 3, Isaac has no real plans after avenging Dracula, something the Captain picks up on. He's not even fully sure if he wants to kill all humans like Dracula wanted.
• Avenging the Villain: Isaac's main goal after Season 2 is to find and kill Hector and Carmilla for betraying Dracula. By the time of Season 4, though, once he reaches Styria, Isaac chooses to spare Hector, saying "revenge is for children." His battle with Carmilla is partially for betraying Dracula but also because he believes that the world is simply better off without the overambitious vampiress.
• Badass Normal: By all intents and purposes, a normal human who is seen killing multiple vampires, who are stronger, faster, and more durable than humans, onscreen. And even manages to fight back against a powerful Magician's mind control powers and kill him. Although he does know his limits and is more than willing to let his Night Creatures help him in combat.
• Bald of Evil: Isaac is bald in this continuity rather than being a Evil Redhead like in the games. He loses the "evil" part by Season 4.
• The Beastmaster: Throughout his appearances in Seasons 3 and 4, he is seen amassing a massive army of night creatures. That he then uses to take down Camilla and her army in Season 4.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: Isaac explains that his Undying Loyalty to Dracula is because the latter was the first person to treat him with respect and kindness. This is a recurring thing with Isaac in Season 3, meeting the shopkeeper and captain actually makes him question his hatred of humanity simply because they were kind to him.
• Benevolent Boss: Treats his night creatures with respect despite their varying levels of sentience and capability of speech. He's even willing to have open discussions with FlysEyes even when the latter starts to openly question him, explaining that he sees night creatures as much more than just weapons.
• Berserk Button: Much like his friend Dracula he severely hates humanity's rudeness and cruelty which causes him to always see the negative side of them rather than the positives. In his defense he was abused by a man for only wanting to help and learn from him but was whipped for his troubles. As well as being frequently bullied by other random strangers for no reason after being saved by Dracula. Proving that a so called "monster" like his former master/friend Dracula was nicer to him than his own species.
  Issac: You know... one day, the last one of you will ask me; "Why did you work with Dracula to murder all of the people?". And you know what I'll say? It's because you're all so fucking rude.
• Beware the Quiet Ones: Despite being rather passive and keeping to himself, he should not be in any way underestimated. Killing Godbrand, a centuries-old and powerful vampire, didn't even require that much effort on Isaac's part. Carmilla is more difficult, but ultimately, Isaac beats her with tactical use of his night creatures, his knife, and a little help from Hector. He walks away from their confrontation without any noticeable injuries.
• Big Bad Ensemble: After the death of Dracula, he shares the antagonistic role with Carmilla in Season 3.
• Boomerang Bigot: Isaac hates humans with a passion as much as, if not more than, Dracula. And he is one.
• Breakout Character: Starts the show in Season 2 as a side supporting character to Dracula; however throughout Seasons 2 and 3, his nihilistic hatred for his fellow man & quest to understand the dichotomy of "kindness vs cruelty" have become so compelling and popular with fans that it's become a larger part of the overall story.
• Character Development:
  • During Season 3, he begins questioning his quest to destroy humanity after encountering several individuals who make him consider human kindness in spite of human cruelty. Unfortunately, every time he finds a kind individual who aids him, he always meets a group of guards that try to chase him off despite his large army of monsters at his back, leading him into despair, only now with an army of the monsters created from the dead at his disposal.
  • During Season 4, he manages to go through it again, this time more genuinely. While he still wants to avenge Dracula, he also accepts that his master wasn't perfect and deserves to rest in peace with his beloved wife. He accepts Hector was manipulated and willingly spares his life. Ultimately, he abandons his goal of human genocide and follows the Captain's advice, becoming the somewhat benevolent overlord of Styria and aiming to improve the world in his own way.
• Co-Dragons: With Hector to Dracula in Season 2.
• Combat Pragmatist: When fighting Carmilla in Season 4, he sends massive waves of his Night Creatures to weaken her before ever taking the field, and even then, when she's exhausted and injured, he still has his Creatures body-block any blows that could possibly harm him, and is perfectly happy to keep throwing Night Creatures at her until she drops.
• Covered in Scars: Being a former slave and a practitioner of flagellation, he's got quite a number of them all over his body and his Shirtless Scene gives us a good glimpse.
• Dark and Troubled Past: A former slave who has been beaten and mistreated by almost everyone he encountered.
• Dark Is Not Evil: By the end of the series, at least. He still commands a literal army of the damned, but he seems to have resolved to put his talents to a more constructive use than indiscriminately slaughtering humanity.
• Deadpan Snarker: So deadpan that he had to tell Hector that he wasn't in fact making a joke.
  Hector: I know that, strictly speaking, we've never really been friends.
  Isaac: It seems counterproductive to cultivate human friends when we're engaged in the project of ending the human race.
  Hector: [puts his hand on Isaac's shoulder] But we are in the same side.
  Isaac: …is this where we kiss like Benedictine monks from different monasteries?
• Decomposite Character: Alongside Hector, he shares a few similarities with Death to be specific, his Undying Loyalty and Villainous Friendship with Dracula. In addition, his appearance slightly resembles Zead — Death's human disguise. Given the events in the Season 2 finale, he might also be the show's equivalent of Shaft the dark priest.
• Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: After Dracula kicks him out of the castle to save his life, his arc largely consists of figuring out what to do with himself (and the world) now he's not going out in a blaze of glory.
• Due to the Dead: Following his killing the Magician, Isaac actually has his night creatures bury the bodies that were too mangled for him to use his craft on. Due to most of them having likely gone splat after they were suspended so high up in the air.
• The Dragon: While he and Hector are Co-Dragons with equal amount of authority as the ones heading the army, Isaac fills the position more as Dracula's most trusted confidant and aide. Notably, Isaac is the one who enters into combat at his master's stead even willing to face down the protagonists before they fight Dracula himself.
• Dragon Ascendant: After Dracula's death, Isaac decides he might like his own army and begins to create one...
• Earn Your Happy Ending: He goes through a ton of hardships, but by the end of the series, he is the ruler of Styria, while having the plans and means to build great things, after taking the philosophical talk he and the Captain had to heart.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • Isaac hates traitors.
  • He won't kill someone unless there is a good reason for it. Which means you are either threatening Dracula, or him. You threaten Dracula, you're dead. If someone threatens him, he warns them not to cross him and gives them a fair chance.
  • Despite being there to use their bodies for night creatures, he's briefly disturbed by the sheer callousness of the Magician using his mind-controlled slaves as missiles.
  • When a human body is too destroyed to use for Night Creatures, Isaac gives then a proper burial. He claims that it's to prevent the breeding of insects and the spread of disease, but that doesn't explain why the graves are marked and the dead bodies' possessions are laid to rest with them.
• Evil Is Petty: While the Shopkeep and Captain make Isaac rethink his hatred of humanity due to their kindness, he quickly returns to his mindset simply because he found it rude that the local authorities demanded that he leaves their towns when he has an army of night creatures at his beck and call.
  • This happens several times throughout the third season. Ordering a group of actual demons from hell to leave the city is a quite reasonable demand, yet Isaac treats it as an example of humanity's worst corruption. On the other hand he was intending to pass through peacefully until the city guards threatened him.
• Ethical Hedonist: A key plank of his gradually developing moral philosophy once he sets out alone and starts Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life. The very fact that it's possible to engage in harmless pleasures (like eating berries) and creative pleasures (like craftsmanship) is itself an argument for making them your goal in life. If you can feel good while making the world a better place, then why not do that?
• Evil Sorcerer: As a Devil Forgemaster, he's a skilled sorcerer who creates an army of demonic monsters to serve Dracula.
• Eye Scream: Isaac seems to have a fondness for inflicting this on his enemies. He killed his abusive caretaker by shoving his thumbs into his eye sockets and kills one bandit this way in the Season 2 finale.
• Expy: The combination of Isaac's personality, skin color, sexual orientation, Villainous Friendship with Dracula, and his intent of Avenging the Villain at the end of the second season is heavily reminiscent of Enrico Pucci, a human who was an incredibly trusted friend (and possible lover) of the villainous vampire Dio.
• Facial Markings: Isaac has four dot markings on the top of his left eye and three below.
• Fatal Flaw: Pride and Wrath. Anger and hatred are Isaac's strength to move forward, but it's to the point that he can't fathom a reason to live without hating humanity. He will accept whatever excuse he can to continue hating (and killing) people, ignoring any excuse to let go. He looks down on the rest of humanity with a sense of moral superiority despite frequently committing atrocities and easily being more violent, closed-minded and unforgiving than almost everyone else he kills. Thankfully with some lessons he's learned through his adventures, he learns to get over or at least tame these flaws.
• Fights Like a Normal: Isaac can turn the deceased into demons, and yet when he fights, he uses only his knife and his spiked belt with great efficiency. He made short work of Godbrand using completely mundane methods, too. Justified, as the act of forging only works on human corpses, not vampires. Either way he's a scarily effective combatant.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: His backstory has him start out as a slave. By the end of the season, he’s wiping out entire bands of slavers and adding them to an army of slaves he has planned. And by the end of the series, Isaac defeats Carmilla and is now ruler of Styria.
• Frontline General: Isaac doesn't cower behind the night creatures he sends into battle, he jumps right alongside them into the action. Even in his final showdown with Carmilla, Isaac has them whittle her down and absorb attacks that otherwise would've killed him, personally striking at Carmilla whenever he sees a chance.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: Isaac has numerous scars on his back from his self harm. He also two scars on the right side of his head.
• Good Feels Good: The crux of his Character Development. By Season 4, he realizes that ridding the world of monsters like the Magician and Carmilla makes him feel happy and decides that he can help improve the world in more constructive ways.
• Greater-Scope Villain: Near the end of Season 3, it is revealed that Isaac is the one behind the events of the main plot, as he is the one who created the demon that enthralled the monks in the priory into opening the Infinite Corridor, in an attempt to revive Dracula and continue his master's work.
• Hazy-Feel Turn: Isaac, though still using Night Creatures and being dangerous, ultimately takes over Styria and displays a kinder side, in addition to losing his goals of world domination and humanity's annihilation.
• Heal It With Fire: The flames his dagger produces when he is using it for forging can be used medically to cauterize wounds if needed.
• Heroic Willpower: A villainous variant when he overcomes the Magician's mind-slaving abilities long enough to stick a dagger in him.
• Humans Are the Real Monsters: Though Isaac hates humanity and plots their end, there are a number of scenes that show he doesn't subscribe to this mindset. Dracula saving him from the magicians who sought to chop him up was a major turning point in his beliefs, but unlike other characters, he doesn't view the capacity for evil as a purely human trait. He sees that same capacity in characters like Godbrand for their treachery, and he even defends this mindset when talking to Hector. Hector believes that animals only act on instinct and aren't capable of the kind of cruelty that humans are, while Isaac states that animals can be just as pointlessly cruel and that while humanity's evil is clear, it's not unique.
• Hypocrite: He's a Sufi Muslim who works for friggin' Dracula and summons hordes of demons using the corpses of all the people he has killed. He also seems to think that he can tell the moral character of a person by whether or not they were nice to him, while the utterly inhuman ways he treats everyone else is perfectly justified and excusable. By Season 4, he realizes this and starts treating others, even his demons, with more respect.
• Ignored Epiphany: Issac repeatedly meets people who make him question his misanthropy... quickly followed by him meeting people who defy every opportunity to let Isaac do things in a peaceful and civilized manner. Eventually, the good in him comes through in Season 4, and the epiphany sticks.
• Improbable Weapon User: While he mainly uses his Forgemaster Dagger, he isn't afraid of using the spiked belt he flagellates himself with against his opponents. He even kills Godbrand, a powerful vampire that's a part of Dracula's War Council with it!
• In Name Only: Really, he has literally nothing to do with the Isaac of Curse of Darkness aside from sharing the same name and position. It's just as well to take them as completely different characters.
• Ironic Name: Isaac means "He Laughs" in Hebrew which is ironic since Isaac has never been seen laughing and is one of the most serious characters in the series.
• Irony: Dracula wished for his two Devil Forgemasters to get along better in season 2. He gets his wish at the end of season 4, while he is dead and can't witness it.
• Karma Houdini: Even with all of his positive traits in mind, he worked with a cabal of vampires with the goal of wiping out the entire human race, then wandered from town to town and murdered not only the soldiers and guards who (rightly) tried to stop him from bringing an army of the undead into their cities, but then ordered said army to kill and convert any people they found in said cities. In the finale, he has a change of heart, defeats Carmilla, spares Hector and declares himself king, and that's seemingly the end of it.
• Love Freak: A dark take on this. Isaac believes there is not enough love in the world and wishes to rectify this... with genocide. Luckily for everyone else, he does eventually realise that this is Insane Troll Logic motivated by increasingly-irrelevant grudges and decides to make the world a better and kinder place in more conventional ways.
• Madden Into Misanthropy: Throughout Season 3, Isaac is shown some of humanity's good qualities by the unlikeliest of sources who he encounters in his journey for revenge. Unfortunately, he falls into the same situation one too many times where the populace of several towns wants him and his demons to either leave or die, causing him to drop his composure and murder everyone.
  Isaac: Why do I keep doing the same things and expecting different results? Is that not the definition of insanity?!
• Maker of Monsters: He's a Forgemaster, using his trade to create soldiers for Dracula's armies by using a magical dagger to tear the souls of the damned out of Hell itself to occupy the body of someone or something that was once alive, immediately mutating them into twisted abominations.
• Man Behind the Man: It's revealed that the Night Creature that attacked Lindenfeld, called the Visitor and corrupted Prior Sala and his cult, was one of Isaac's creations and part of a contingency plan to resurrect Dracula if anything happened to him.
• Misanthrope Supreme: Despite being human, Dracula trusts his two Devil Forgemasters because they genuinely hate humanity. Events in Season 3 cause him to doubt this mindset, but then other events transpire that quickly lead him right back to despising humanity. By Season 4, he properly grows out of it.
• Morality Pet: He is the only human Dracula treats with genuine kindness and respect after Lisa's death. When he prepares to die defending Dracula, his friend sends him away to safety.
• My Master, Right or Wrong: Isaac has Undying Loyalty towards Dracula, even when presented with evidence that Dracula's war against humanity would, at best, only result in a Pyrrhic Victory for the Vampires. Part of his character development in Season 4 is him coming to terms that Dracula may have not been the best.
• Nerves of Steel: Isaac always keeps a calm face, even when he's fighting vampires. In their confrontation, Carmilla snarls and curses like a cornered beast while Isaac doesn't lose his cool once.
• Never My Fault: In Season 3, he treats being ordered to leave a place by the townguards as confirmation that humanity is wretched, openly ignoring the fact that even the most tolerant of people wouldn't be happy with him bringing an army of demons into their town. The only thing in his defense is that he did both times intend to pass through peacefully and did not order his creatures to attack until after the guards in each case insisted on attacking rather than escorting them out of the city, but even this is an extreme and unjustified case of Disproportionate Retribution.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: The crux of his Start of Darkness. He came to truly love his first master for pulling him out of a life of squalor and began reading his materials in order to be of better help to him. His then-master repaid him by whipping him and accusing him of thievery.
• No-Nonsense Nemesis: Usually works as a Forgemaster on the sidelines; but if forced into direct action, he won't screw around. As soon as Godbrand confirms his intent to betray Dracula, Isaac doesn't hesitate to slaughter him via Sneak Attack and dispose of his ashes. And right after being separated from his master in the Season 2 finale — he proceeds to kill a group of bandits in self-defense (with similar Combat Pragmatism to how he killed Godbrand), raise their corpses as undead Mooks, and Start His Own army to continue Dracula's legacy. Combine this with his Undying Loyalty, and he's basically the Soundwave to Carmilla's Starscream.
• Not So Stoic: He's horrified and screaming when he realizes that Dracula means to go against his wishes and spare him, Dying Alone. The following two seasons have several moments letting him open up and show a wider variety of emotions.
• Only Friend: Since Dracula either merely tolerates or simply keeps a professional relationship with everyone else in his court — even, to some extent, Hector — Isaac is essentially the closest to thing Dracula has to a true friend after Lisa's death. So much so that when Isaac is prepared to sacrifice himself to protect Dracula, Dracula instead sends Isaac away through his mirror to save his life.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: He murdered the wizard so that he could use the wizard's slaves could be raw materials to build his army. However in Season 4 he admits that of all of his killings, the wizard's felt like he was doing the right thing.
  "I have killed many people, old wizard, for many reasons. But killing you felt just. It felt like repairing the world a little. I like that feeling."
• Pet the Dog:
  • He speaks to a demon corpse rather warmly while resurrecting it.
  I'm sorry. You struggled so hard to come back home. So loyal.
  • Isaac spares numerous people over the course of the third season, some of whom because they're nice to him.
  • When talking about purpose to FlysEyes, he offers the Night Creature a berry and asks if the beast would aspire to more than the destruction that Flys Eyes feels in in their nature. Upon seeing that the berries stir memories within him, Isaac leaves him the whole plate.
  • In Season 4, Isaac, having hunted Hector for his betrayal of Dracula, ultimately spares his life and allies with him, having had an epiphany and seeing how Hector's suffered.
• Pragmatic Villainy:
  • When he needs a ship, he talks with the nameless captain about sailing it. While Isaac ponders if it would simply be easy to kill the captain and his crew and sail the ship with his monsters; the captain convinces him otherwise as sailing requires a lot of skill and knowledge that neither Isaac nor his monsters have. That said, though he spared the captain out of pragmatism he does come to enjoy the man's company and by the end of the trip Isaac's decision to let him go was partly out of gratitude as well.
  • Downplayed in Season 4 when he orders the Night Creatures to bury the victims of the wizard. The victims in question were too decayed to be used to forge Night Creatures and further would attract plague and illness. However, beyond pragmatism, he wanted to give them the dignity of a proper burial and even had the Night Creatures bury them with personal effects. Isaac also wanted the town to be clean just in case future people would want to live in it.
• Precision F-Strike: Generally avoids profanity during most of the show, up until the second time he unleashes his horde on Genoa's city guard.
  Isaac: You know... one day, the last one of you will ask me, "why did you work with Dracula himself to murder all the people?". And do you know what I'll say? It's because you're all so fucking rude.
• Race Lift: He is portrayed as black in the show, whereas in the games he was a white redhead.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: Notably, his clothes are purely black compared to Hector's, his Devil Forgemaster fire/aura when working on bodies is red, and the Night Creatures he creates have red eyes with black sclera.
• Religious Bruiser: Isaac is a Sufi Muslim. He uses "Peace be upon him" when referring to the Prophet Muhammad, and the reason why he summons demons is to fulfill one of his sayings about "Hell being emptied".
• Self-Harm: Whips himself regularly with a short belt embedded with tiny spikes. When asked why he does it, he replies he does it for his own discipline, a sense of peace, numbing himself to a horrible world, and reminding himself that he still makes his own choices. In Season 3, he mentions that he stopped doing it as he struggles to find purpose in his life.
• Smiting Evil Feels Good: After he kills the Magician, he realizes that it felt different than when he killed anyone else, as though he was repairing the world a bit. Moves into Good Feels Good when he decides to use his army to repair the town and bury the bodies, realizing that he feels he has agency for the first time in his life and liking it.
• Spared by the Adaptation: In the games, Hector kills him and his body is destroyed when it is used to bring back Dracula. Here, the two make peace and Isaac ends the series alive and living comfortably as the new King of Styria.
• The Stoic: In the present, he's very cool and calm.
• The Teetotaler: He does not partake in alcohol for religious reasons, being a Sufi Muslim.
• Tragic Villain: It's hard not to sympathize with Isaac, despite his service to Dracula. Isaac is a former servant who genuinely cared about his master, only to be constantly hurt for his trouble. He self-harms to numb himself to the world, and ultimately wants little more than to protect Dracula, who he deeply cares about.
• Tranquil Fury: Issac knows how to keep his temper in check and will often not express his anger recklessly but very methodically which gives him a very cold tone.
• Undying Loyalty: The most loyal of all Dracula's subjects. Dracula confides in him far more than Hector or any of the others and Isaac even admits that he'll kill anyone suspected of taking action against them without a second thought. It's precisely for this reason that Dracula saves his life by sending him through a portal to a distant location.
• Unknown Rival: By the third season, Isaac has dedicated his life to avenging Dracula by killing Carmilla for her betrayal and continuing his vision of exterminating all of the humans. Carmilla is not even aware that Isaac managed to survive the events of the second season. When they finally meet face-to-face before battling, Carmilla dismisses Isaac as "the least interesting man in Dracula's castle."
• Villain Protagonist: As one of the viewpoint characters of the third season, Isaac falls into this. He's not even in direct opposition of the main heroes instead focusing on building his army to continue Dracula's goal of killing all humans, and looking to take revenge against Carmilla and Hector for their betrayal.
• Villainous Friendship: He serves Dracula with utter loyalty and it is clear Dracula holds him in high regard as well, trusting him with his concerns. The two openly refer to each other as friends and remember the moment of their first meeting down to the last detail.
• Villainous Valor:
  • In the Season 2 finale, it's implied he thinks he can't last against Alucard, since he tells Dracula he'll die fighting for his best friend. Isaac decides to fight anyway, because he thinks he owes that much to Dracula to give him a chance to live.
  • If you threaten him, he will give you a few warnings before going on the attack. Shame that most people don't get the memo.
• When He Smiles: He has an oddly beautiful one after killing Carmilla and stating he now wants to live for himself.
• Yank the Dog's Chain: Twice in Season 3, he starts to think that maybe humanity isn't so bad and twice, someone tries to kill him. This is partially his own fault, what with his public flaunting of his horrific demon army in a town and the local police are reasonably unsettled.
• You Are Worth Hell: Platonic example; he tells Dracula that it is worth dying for his best friend, if it means the world still has Dracula. Dracula doesn't quite agree, and sends Isaac away from the battle.
• You Don't Look Like You: You would likely not know he was meant to be the same character as his Curse of Darkness namesake unless we told you.

Hector

Voiced by: Theo James (English), Takahiro Sakurai (Japanese), Alejandro Orozco (Latin American Spanish)

One of Dracula's two human generals and a Devil Forgemaster who performs necromancy.

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• Abusive Parents: His father was a greedy, power-hungry Alchemist who'd insult Hector when he says he's being cruel and his mother outright told him to his face she never wanted him.
• Adaptational Curves: Inverted. Hector is much less muscular than his game counterpart.
• Adaptational Dumbass: In the game, Hector was mature and knew about the misgivings of Dracula's plan. Here, he's a Manchild who is easily fooled by nearly everyone. Even though he sees through part of Dracula's plan, he fools himself into believing he's convinced Dracula to limit it to just a culling.
• Adaptational Villainy: In the original continuity, he rebelled against Dracula because he started to kill humans and also was The Hero of his own game. Here, while he does have a problem with genocide, he still remains a loyal follower in spite of his concerns. It's somewhat mitigated by having a sympathetic backstory that pushes him into Anti-Villain territory. He does betray Dracula, but that is because he is tricked by Carmilla into doing it.
• Adaptational Wimp: Is hit with this trope hard. While the game Hector was a complete badass capable of facing Dracula himself, this Hector is reduced to ineffectually cringing and begging for Carmilla's mercy when she pummels him into submission. Even more galling was that he didn't even lose his powers like his game counterpart. This trend doesn't end in Season 3. It somehow gets worse. Poor guy spends the entire season being able to do absolutely nothing. Finding a meek-looking vampiress that he may use to escape? She's stronger than she looks and wipes the floor with him. Him seemingly having leverage over the vampires because they need his loyalty? He gets magically enslaved and loyalty is no longer needed. A vampire falling in love with him and offering to break him out so they can be together? Too bad, she's just lowering his guard so she can place the aforementioned magical enslavement on him. Quite a far cry from his video game counterpart. This is reversed eventually, as in Season 4, he plays the Council of Styria to his own ends and even slices off his own finger.
• Adaptation Personality Change: In the games, Hector was an angry and vengeful man who was distrusting and belligerent to everyone he came across. In the show he is stoic and much more affable, as well as too naive and easily manipulated.^*Although with everything he's gone through in this show, it's not impossible for him to have a similar personality to his videogame counterpart down the line.
• Adapted Out: There's no mention of Rosaly, his late wife from the games, anywhere in this show.
• Affably Evil:
  • He's the most approachable out of Dracula's generals and tries to stay on civil terms with the rest.
  • While he's fine with the mass murder of humanity, he'd rather just stop at culling them and give them merciful deaths.
  • Even Hector's interactions with the night creatures he summons are gentle. In "Back in the World," he first removes the arrow out of a corpse's eye before forging it into a night creature, reasoning that no one would enjoy waking up with an arrowhead stuck in their eye socket. Then he pets the freshly transformed creature, encourages it to take a breath, and tells it how Carmilla's soldiers will work with it, all in a tone a proper parent would take with their young child.
  • Even when he cages Lenore, Hector doesn't really injure or taunt her for being Out-Gambitted, despite having good reason to. He even steers Isaac away from her and freely offers his life to his old colleague. When Isaac spares him, Hector still helps him out in every way he can.
  • Hector has even been aiding Saint Germain and the loyalists in finding a way to bring back Dracula simply because he feels he owes it to his friend for betraying him (even though Isaac himself says his part was small in comparison to Carmilla's machinations.
• Aggressive Categorism: As part of his simplified, childish worldview, Hector believes humans as a whole are inherently evil and, therefore, species that appose them, e.g. vampires, are inherently good. It takes a lot of abuse at the hands of vampires for him to wrap his head around the idea that they are just as able and willing to commit all the atrocities mankind is guilty of.
• A Match Made in Stockholm: With Lenore in season 4. Lenore never actually treats him as anything other than a romantic partner and Hector is protective of her when Isaac comes around to conquer Styria.
• Ambiguously Brown: His skin is slightly more tanned than other European characters, but he doesn't appear to be full-blown black like Isaac. His birthplace isn't stated, but it's implied he might be a Turk (due to his ethnicity) or a Greek (due to his name) ^noteHe is most likely an Ottoman Greek living in Anatolia. Greek subjects of the Ottoman Empire were allowed to retain their language and (to a limited extent) religion all the way to the modern age.
• Ambiguous Situation: It's left ambiguous altogether if Lenore ever actually treated Hector as her Sex Slave, or if she changed her mind or was always bluffing about it in the first place. There is a Time Skip in between Seasons 3 and 4, but it's clearly not that long, and she and Hector have a genuine relationship when we revisit them, with no sexual abuse of him so much as implied and Hector even being comfortable trading innuendos with her in Snark-to-Snark Combat.
• Animal Motifs: Dogs. He's introduced having made a zombie dog using his Forgemaster ability, and both Carmilla and Lenore call him a pet and use lines would expect a person to use with a dog with him like "Good Boy".
• Anti-Villain: Hector views humans like animals and is fine with the idea of killing some and letting the rest live, but he clearly has his unease when it becomes clear Dracula is advocating for wholesale genocide.
• The Atoner: An evil version in Season 4. He wants to bring back Dracula to make up for his own actions being a part of Dracula's downfall. He eventually abandons the mission at Isaac's behest.
• Barrier Warrior: Besides his Forgemaster abilities, Hector displays in Season 4 the ability to create magical constructs with preparation. He traps Lenore with bars of blue energy and gives Isaac a medallion that summons a corridor leading right up to where Carmilla is and keeping her from escaping at the same time.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: He desires to make humanity into a cattle species for vampires to feed on. There won't be as many around, but it will keep humans in line as pets to the vampires. Lenore then turns him into her pet with a magical ring that binds him against harming her or those who wear the ring.
• Believing Their Own Lies: Tricks himself into thinking he has talked Dracula down from extincting the human race into just culling them into manageable livestock for vampires to eat. Dracula lets him believe this, but is rather open about how he doesn't actually care about what happens so long as people die. Alucard, Isaac, Carmilla, and Godbrand all see the logical end of how Dracula's actual actions would lead to the extinction of humans.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Hector is naive and pretty friendly compared to some of the other villains. And a Forgemaster like Isaac, lest people forget. It takes some time, but when Isaac launches his assault on Styria, Hector traps Lenore in a magic cage, gives his former colleague a way he's been setting up for the last month to reach Carmilla more quickly, and chops off his own finger with the ring that binds his night creatures to her will. All while retaining his usual politeness.
• The Blacksmith: As a Forgemaster, he uses his own magic hammer to resurrect the dead.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: When you consider it a kindness to cull humanity like herding cattle, it's hard to be anything but this trope.
• Boomerang Bigot: While not as strong as Isaac, Hector also has a disliking for humans even though he is one.
• Bullying a Dragon: Hector attempts to threaten Lenore to get himself free. This same woman is an immortal vampire with supernatural abilities. Needless to say, she wipes the floor with him.
• Butt-Monkey: Out of all the characters on the show, Hector life is full of suck. He gets manipulated twice by vampire women, who both beat the shit out of him for kicks. Is made a slave in Season 2 and Lenore threaten to turn him into her sex slave by the end of Season 3. And just when things seems to be looking up, the light at the end of the tunnel suddenly goes dark.
  • Subverted in Season 4, Hector finally gets some agency for himself and helps Isaac takes over the castle by the end of the season.
• Character Development: In Season 4, Hector outgrows his I Just Want to Be Loved tendencies and naivety, learning to use the Council of Styria to his own wishes yet not losing his idealistic nature. Ultimately, he abandons his mission to revive Dracula and decides to settle down and write books, realizing what he wants more than anything is peace. There's a modicum of this displayed, as when he talks to Saint Germain, his last words in their conversation are "Don't trust Varney." The Hector of previous seasons would never have been so suspicious, but Hector turns out to be completely right.
• The Chessmaster: In Season 4, Hector learns more than a few lessons in scheming. First, he sets up plenty of traps, stalling for time and plotting behind the scenes, in addition to preparing an escape route. Then, when Isaac arrives, he traps Lenore to ensure she is unharmed, offers up his life to Isaac, who spares it, and reveals that he has been the mastermind behind the plot to resurrect Dracula. He outplays Lenore, sets up his entire operation under Carmilla's nose, and, if not for himself and Isaac deciding not to go forward, could have achieved his end goal at Isaac's side. Not content to finish off there, Hector proceeds to seal Carmilla's defeat. Definitely not bad for The Chew Toy.
• The Chew Toy: The man just cannot catch a break by anyone he trusts. Dracula, Carmilla and Lenore all lie to, use and betray him, and force him into worse and worse forms of servitude.
• Child Prodigy: Implied; Isaac describes Forging as a skill to be learned, but a flashback depicts Hector reanimating animals at an early age, using only coins he had on hand, so he may have been born with natural talent for it.
• Co-Dragons: With Isaac to Dracula until Carmilla manipulates him into betraying Dracula.
• The Confidant: In Season 4, Hector spends his times with Lenore rather listening to her complains about Carmilla's secret plans, and even shows enough sympathy to give her some advise.
• Crazy-Prepared: Hector hides little pebbles with runes carved into their surface all about Carmilla's castle when he can finally move about without hindrance. He then reveals to Isaac that they generate a magical tunnel that leads up all the way to Carmilla's conference room and traps her from escaping. Just in case he needed to escape from the highest point of the castle.
• Creepy Child: He had a thing for resurrecting recently dead or decaying animals, to the horror of his parents.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Tries to strangle Lenore. She responds by kicking the absolute crap out of Hector without so much as breathing hard.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Hector grew up with Abusive Parents and killed them at one point.
• Deadpan Snarker: Hector throws a couple of good one-liners at Godbrand and holds his own in Snark-to-Snark Combat with Lenore.
• Decomposite Character: Alongside with Isaac, he shares a few similarities with Death, such as his necromantic powers and being undyingly loyal to Dracula.
• The Dog Bites Back: After spending pretty much all his time in Season 3 being abused and humiliated by Carmilla and Lenore, Hector more than gets even with them by Season 4, betraying Carmilla and setting up traps to aid Isaac, ultimately leading to Carmilla's death.
• Downfall by Sex: Deciding to have sex with Lenore, and tell her that he "will be loyal to her" in the throes of passion is what leads to him being forcefully enslaved by a magic ring.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: Hector manages to play the Council of Styria to his own ends, make amends with Isaac, and live a happy mortal life, with intention to start writing a book. Although sadly he won't be able to live a life with Lenore like he wanted.
• Even Evil Has Standards: He's perfectly okay with killing humans en masse and reducing them to harmless livestock for vampires to feed, yet he does not at all like causing undue suffering or torture and would prefer quick and merciful deaths.
• Evil Sorcerer: As a Devil Forgemaster, he's a skilled sorcerer who creates an army of demonic monsters to serve Dracula (and later Carmilla).
• Failed a Spot Check: Despite traveling with Carmilla for an entire month, he never notices that she doesn't wear any ring. This comes back to bite him hard as Lenore is able to trick him into ignoring the soon-to-be slavemaster ring on her finger by telling him that the entire Styrian quartet wear one.
• Fashionable Asymmetry: His Devil Forgemaster's outfit has a white glove on his right hand and a finger-less black glove on his left.
• Fatal Flaw: Hector has a twofer; he suffers from a Poor Judge of Character and has a habit of undervaluing his own power. This is best illustrated in the third season where Lenore manages to gaslight and trick Hector into becoming her slave. Hector had been so caught up with trying to escape from his captivity from the sisters that it never occurred to him that he carried the most leverage in his "negotiation" with Lenore. We see him operate without this flaw at a couple points, most notably in Season 4, where he proves to be an utterly brilliant plotter and a clever forgemaster in his own right
• Fingore: Slices off his ring finger with Isaac's knife in order to sever Lenore's connection to him.
• Fluffy Tamer: He's actually really good with animals. One problem: They're all zombies. Notably, he's so good with night creature animals that they act like tamed pets instead of the slavering monsters one would expect.
• Foil: To Isaac. Both of them are the only human generals in Dracula's council and have a certain amount of disdain for humanity. Hector wears blue, is more personable, and has been noted on his Manchild nature while Isaac wears red, is reserved except towards Dracula, and his troubled past made him less wide-eyed than Hector. Also, while Hector came to trust Carmilla over Dracula, it led to him being enslaved by her, while Isaac's Undying Loyalty toward Dracula was rewarded when the vampire saved him from death.
• Gilded Cage: Finds himself in this at the end of Season 3. He's got luxurious living quarters, fine food and drink, an expansive selection of books and a beautiful lover... who plans to use him as a Sex Slave (though Season 4 reveals she didn't really mean this one, at least) and forces him to make a demon army under the threat of being put in unimaginable pain by a slave ring.
• Hazy-Feel Turn: After all the torment Hector goes through, his worldview changes. By Season 4, while he's still misanthropic and has a darker side, he ends up finding safety in Styria under Isaac's rule and drops any mission to resurrect Dracula or cull mankind.
• Horrible Judge of Character: This has become something of a reoccurring flaw for Hector leading to him suffering a lot of misery.
  • He pledges himself to Dracula because of his disdain for humanity, knowing that Dracula is planning to kill all the humans. Hector just wants a culling and population control. He deludes himself into believing Dracula agreed to it, despite Dracula stating he was looking for "(a merciful) end to the human plague."
  • He really thinks Carmilla respects and values him. Carmilla later tricks him into becoming an accomplice in her coup, not realizing that she was plotting to assassinate Dracula.
  • Come Season 3 now a captive of Carmilla, he places all of his trust in Lenore who is the first person to show him true affection in his life, but this was all a ploy on her end to make him her slave.
  • In Season 4, Hector completely subverts the trope. He plays Lenore and the Styrian Council to his own ends, talks to Isaac respectfully and ends up being spared, before finding safety. For the first time, Hector finds his rightful place and is sufficiently respected.
  • Also in Season 4, Hector subverts this as well is the only one to see through Varney's act and warns Saint Germain not to trust him as he leaves him with his final order to resurrect Dracula. Granted, he probably didn't know that he was actually Death the entire time, but he was the only one to know something didn't add up about Varney.
• Human Pet:
  • In the flashback to Dracula recruiting Hector, Hector suggests instead of killing all humans, Dracula cull them into manageable numbers to serve as food for vampires, akin to livestock and comparable to pets.
  • Carmilla openly calls him her pet at the end of Season 2.
  • Lenore in Season 3 truly makes him her pet. The other vampire sisters even jokingly exclaim "You adopted him!"
    • Season 4 reveals that the whole Human Pet was at least partially an act from Lenore's side, in order to protect him from Carmilla, and also because is implied she developed genuine feelings form him. She treats him more as her confidant, than her pet.
• The Idealist: While Dracula is cynical and Isaac is nihilistic, Hector is far less angry with the world, seeing humans as more "flawed" than outright evil. Preferring the company of animals (both regular and reanimated), Hector will routinely compare humans and vampires to animals to better comprehend them to compensate for his lack of social skills and would prefer that humanity is "culled" to a more sustainable level than outright driven to extinction. While Dracula admires his naive innocent and Isaac respects him to a point, his simplistic and naive view of the situation has gotten him in trouble numerous times. That said, while he grows out of his naivety, Hector never grows out of his idealism, which ultimately sees him through to the end; he's even idealistic enough to spare Lenore, the woman who tormented him through his time in Styria, and mourn her as she dies.
• I Just Want to Be Loved: Hector's desire for the company of people who accept and appreciate him is the impetus behind every decision he makes.
• Innocent Blue Eyes: Hector has bright, blue eyes. And despite his villainous role, he's gentle and sweet.
• Irony: He wished for Dracula's war to leave a fragment of the human race alive as penned cattle for the vampires, living at the sufferance of their masters and with no control over their lives — a fate he genuinely thought was kind. At the end of Season 2, he becomes a vampire's helpless pet, living at her sufferance and with no control over his life — and very much does not enjoy this. He even despairs in Season 3 when made Lenore's pet, saying his life is ruined.
  • Dracula wished for his two Devil Forgemasters to get along better in season 2. He gets his wish at the end of season 4, while he is dead and can't witness it.
• Long-Haired Pretty Boy: His hair comes down to his shoulders, and he's quite easy on the eyes.
• Love Hungry: A reoccurring weakness of Hector's. Having grown up without knowing love, he's quick to take what passes as "love" wherever he can get it. He wants to be of service to Dracula because the vampire treats him like a friend, he thinks Carmilla is safe to grow close to when she shows interest in him (and pets his undead dog), and Lenore gets him to drop his guard in a matter of nights by feigning friendship. Hell, even his hobby of resurrecting animals as pets is a sign of this: The Undying Loyalty effect of forging means they are a wellspring of unconditional affection.
• Made a Slave:
  • At the end of Season 2, he is enslaved by Carmilla in order to create more demons for her army.
  • By Lenore in Season 3. Now if he even thinks of turning against the four vampire sisters he will feel unimaginable agony. That said, this doesn't seem to work very well in Season 4, as he successfully manages to turn against them. That's possibly due to Lenore's atachment and generosity toward him and the fact Lenore herself is conflicted about his actions, unknowing what "betrayal" would be.
• Maker of Monsters: He's a Forgemaster, using his trade to create soldiers for Dracula's armies by using surgical tools to bring once-living things back to life as monstrous night creatures.
• Male Frontal Nudity: Hector spends the first half of the third season stripped naked and locked in a cell. The viewer gets treated to the full display in the third episode, though it comes from the result of watching him get beaten by Lenore.
• Manchild: Everyone equates Hector with the same child who was raising dead animals to be his pets — a kid who never really grew up. He dislikes the chaos of the bickering generals and relates everything back to animals, something he understands. This makes him naive and easily manipulated as a result. Dracula and Isaac likens him to a child, while Carmilla likens him to a puppy in light of his aforementioned animal motif.
• Manipulative Bastard: In Season 4, Hector displays a surprising level of social savvy and manipulative skill. He blackmails a vampire to acquire needed resources, utilizes the fact Lenore gives him free reign to his advantage to set up a plan, goes behind the Council’s back and sets up Dracula's resurrection behind the scenes, readies an escape route, and already has a trap for Lenore when she comes to help him deal with Isaac, having used Lenore as his Unwitting Pawn to ensure the downfall of the Styrian Council. Overall, it's a huge step up from his Horrible Judge of Character nature of prior seasons.
  • Hints at this in his first episode of Season 4 with a very simple and easily discarded move: being given the freedom of the castle, Hector proceeds to open all the windows and move all curtains to let the sunlight into the library during the day. In a vampire castle. Ensuring that he won't be disturbed as he reads and plots.
• A Match Made in Stockholm: Hector falls for his captor, Lenore. Even when he helps Isaac take the castle, he insists on her being spared and seems to still have some serious fondness for her, fitting his idealistic nature. When she wants to die, Hector allows her to and shows her nothing but sympathy despite her abuse and manipulation of him.
• Misanthrope Supreme: Like Isaac, he too hates humanity and unlike in the games, willingly joined Dracula to cull humanity, unlike the game counterpart who left Dracula's service when he started hunting humans. Though he often disagrees with acts of unnecessary cruelty and states that while he loathes humanity, he doesn't want a genocide, just a culling.
• Morality Pet: Hector thinks he's one to Dracula, not knowing that Dracula was planning on purging all of the humans. When Lenore questions him if he really believed that he would be exempt from Dracula's purge, he can't confidently answer. This ends up being a reoccuring Fatal Flaw of Hector's as well because he also believed that he was this to Carmilla and later Lenore herself. That said, he does turn out to be this to Lenore in Season 4, as she ends up questioning her actions partially due to him and ultimately commits suicide.
• Morton's Fork: As Lenore repeatedly tells him, he truly has no good options as a captive of the Styrian sisters. His choices are to rot in a dungeon eating maggot-infested meat, be tortured until he complied with their wishes, be tortured just because, be killed, or humor Lenore's attempts to treat him civilly even though she confesses that her goals are sinister. It turns out that these options are all lies; Lenore's ultimate goal is to enforce a slave pact on him which makes the other options unnecessary.
• Mystical White Hair: A Devil Forgemaster with silver hair, even as a child.
• Oh, Crap!: In Season 3, Hector becomes absolutely horrified the moment that Lenore gently and sweetly shoos him during a conversation with her sisters, the way one shushes a dog that wants attention at the wrong time.
  "Shush. The real people are talking."
• Pet the Dog: Literally. He often raised dead animals with his powers and he treated them as his pets. He is often seen accompanied by an undead puppy during the series. Deconstructed slowly, however: his constant infantilization of deadly creatures as harmless animals is viewed as childish.
• Pretty Boy: He's a slender young man with a slim face. His good looks have been noted by Carmilla and Lenore.
• Properly Paranoid: In Season 4, his last words to Saint Germain are "don't trust " Varney." Indeed, the plan ends up destroyed by that very character, although Hector underestimates them, not realizing they're Death.
• Race Lift: His animated counterpart is rather Ambiguously Brown while in the games he was pale as a ghost. (It's stated that he's from "east of Rhodes", so he may be Turkish or Greek.)
• Raising the Steaks: He has reanimated animals since he was a boy. One of these is an undead pug named Cezar.
• Self-Made Orphan: He murdered his abusive parents by locking them inside their house and burning it to the ground.
  Hector's Mother: Hector? Hector, unlock this door at once! Are you burning something out there?! (her and Hector's Father's voices fade out into agonised screams against the roar of flames)
• Sex Slave: He is turned into one by Lenore, and she makes it clear that she wants him treated well and to have a large bed because she plans to "train" him to be better at sex. That said, Season 4 makes it ambiguous exactly whether she's actually used him for these purposes, as their relationship seems to be on good terms, Lenore implies that it was an act to protect him from her Ax-Crazy sister, Carmilla and Hector actually seems rather comfortable around her.
• Shameful Strip: In Season 3, he is locked in a cage completely naked and wears nothing except a collar after becoming Carmilla's slave.
• Slave Collar: Forced into one of these by Carmilla and then again by Lenore.
• Support Party Member: Unlike Isaac, who can and does kick ass with the best of them, Hector doesn't display much in the way of combat skills. His hammer is used mostly as a Forging tool as opposed to a weapon, and while he's capable of impressive feats of magic, they usually require some level of preparation beforehand. For that reason, unlike Isaac, Hector is fairly helpless in a fight without night creatures backing him.
• Took a Level in Badass: Season 4 has Hector finally grow a spine. Conspiring with Saint Germain and Varney, he manages to outwit Carmilla's court and traps Lenore in a magical cage in his efforts to bring Dracula back.
• Tragic Villain: Hector is undeniably evil, being a willing participant in Dracula and Carmilla's schemes, desiring to see humanity culled and dominated by vampires, but he was born with an abusive family and powers he struggled to control, is strung along by different people, and instinctively flocks to anyone who shows him affection. He is constantly on the receiving end of suffering, and ends Season 3 a miserable, broken slave because he just wanted to be cared for and Lenore deceived him. Even when he [gets to live happily thanks to his manipulations in Season 4, he loses a finger and, despite wanting to spend his life with Lenore and genuinely seeming to care for her, ends up watching her die as she would rather die free than be a prisoner in a Gilded Cage. This is also lampshaded in Season 4, as he mentions he's going to write a book to teach others to avoid his mistakes... a smart move, considering their sheer abundance.
• Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: As a child, Hector would re-animate dead animals. He has never understood why people have a problem with this because, in his eyes, he is restoring life and not making monsters.
• Underestimating Badassery: Exploited Trope. Hector is an easily-manipulated idealist who spends much of his time getting manipulated. This leads to people forgetting that he is a Forgemaster, and an incredible plotter as well. Once he sheds his Fatal Flaw, he utilizes Lenore's pitying nature to his advantage, having her stall Carmilla as he plots Dracula's resurrection and the fall of Styria's rulers. In the end, while he may not be proficient in combat, Hector was on the court of Dracula himself for a damn good reason.
• Unwitting Pawn: It doesn’t dawn on Hector until the season's end that the reason Carmilla specifically reached out to him as her "ally" to stage a coup against Dracula was because she planned to enslave Hector after the fact to be the forger for her own army. After Dracula does die, Hector attempts to break away and gets beaten into submission as a response.
• Villain Protagonist: Downplayed Trope compared to Isaac. Hector is a protagonist in Season 3, with the season usually being presented through his sympathetic viewpoint, but he's not doing anything villainous at the time and spends most of it a prisoner. This is played straight in Season 4, where he is attempting to resurrect Dracula and is shown actively scheming against the Council of Styria.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Crossed with Misanthrope Supreme. Everything Hector says genuinely indicates he sees humanity as a barbaric species, and believes they would be better off with a culling and enslavement by vampires. He also doesn't believe in outright genocide as a solution.
• You Are Not Alone: When Lenore commits suicide by walking out into the rising sun to avoid becoming Isaac's slave after losing her power and sisters, Hector sympathetically follows her and stays nearby so she won't die alone, despite the two parting on affectionate-but-sombre terms moments beforehand. This genuinely makes Lenore happy in death, her final act before dissolving being to smile kindly at him.
  Lenore: Is that all there is to it? (sees Hector, and smiles fondly) Hector... you are a silly man!

Carmilla

See the Styrian Council.

Godbrand

Voiced by: Peter Stormare (English), Shinpachi Tsuji (Japanese), Oscar Gómez (Latin American Spanish)

"Bigot! I like boats, I'm a fuckin' Viking. We're supposed to make boats out of things!"

One of Dracula's vampire generals and a Viking.

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• Abhorrent Admirer: For Carmilla. He has been apparently trying to court her for years, but she tells Dracula that she'd only consider him if every other vampire male (along with half of the females, and some animals) on Earth dropped dead.
• Affably Evil: He's the only one of Dracula's generals shown to be able to (attempt to) hold a genuinely friendly conversation. With Isaac and Hector no less, despite openly viewing them as being beneath him for being human. He even expresses concern over how Isaac ritually maims himself.
• And Then What?: His main contention with Dracula is founded on his concern over what the vampires will do for food when the human "livestock" is eradicated.
• Beware the Silly Ones: Godbrand is for the most part a comedic character and the main source of levity amongst Dracula's forces. He's still a powerful and violent monster, and around "Broken Mast", he leads a raid on a defenseless village and starts eating children.
• Boisterous Bruiser: He's a boastful Viking who loves battle, blood, boats, and sex. He sticks out like a sore thumb among his more somber, aristocratic peers.
• The Brute: Unabashedly so. He is a Viking after all, foul/loud-mouthed and aggressive as evidenced by his first scene. He takes great joy in mutilating his enemies and ripping his prey apart. That said, he takes major concern with Dracula being content to run a war that way, and voices to Hector that a serious war should be run with much more order.
• Butt-Monkey: He garners little respect from Dracula, his fellow generals, or even the stoical human forgemasters. The only thing Dracula's forces seem to agree on completely is Godbrand's stupidity.
• Call a Human a "Meatbag": Godbrand looks down on humanity and almost always calls humans "livestock", as they're little more to him than animals to hunt and feed on.
• Canon Foreigner: He has no direct game counterpart.
• Cassandra Truth: He and Isaac seem to be the only ones capable of seeing how Dracula's plan (or lack thereof) would logically end — with the needless extinction of humanity followed by the vampires slowly starving to death. He still believes in Dracula's cause, and isn't even fully insubordinate, but would rather it be done effectively so that neither species fully dies. He attempts to privately raise these concerns with Dracula, Carmilla, and Isaac, but is respectively threatened, beaten, and killed by them, because he was exactly right, but no one was willing to admit it out loud.
• Does Not Like Spam: He tells Dracula he dislikes drinking pig's blood because it gives him the shits.
• Dumbass Has a Point: His pigheadedness and stupidity are notorious, but are mostly just limited to overestimating the right and power of vampires, which is an issue other vampires share but are less vocal about. Godbrand is surprisingly observant to what's going on around him and raises legitimate points and concerns:
  • He immediately points out how odd it is that Dracula would summon some of the world's most powerful vampires to his castle, declare war on humanity, then immediately leave Hector and Isaac in charge and take a backseat to the whole war effort, eventually realizing that Dracula's too depressed to come up with an actual plan beyond "kill everyone", and that the Lord of Darkness is so despondent over his wife's death that he clearly hasn't fed in a while. That said, he also recognizes that, even with Dracula in a weakened and depressed state, he still wouldn't want to challenge him. And considering the Curbstomp Battle that Dracula unleashes on the heroes once they finally fight, he's totally right in that assertion.
  • He also pokes a gaping hole in Dracula's logic concerning his proposed genocide: If the vampires kill off the entire human race, they're going to starve to death.
  • He also points out that Alucard is more than just "a spoiled child" as Isaac calls him, and that everyone should take him more seriously; being Dracula's half-vampire son leaves him without conventional vampire weaknesses and makes him more powerful than the average vampire. Having been raised by Dracula (who has been established as being Super Intelligent) also makes Alucard almost as clever and savvy as him. Combining all of this with Alucard's ideological opposition to his father's war on humanity makes him a Wild Card that could potentially upset the entire game, a fact Godbrand is proven right about when he, Trevor, and Sypha decimate the Council of Vampires and kill Dracula all by themselves.
• Dumb Muscle: Godbrand is rather thick-headed and needs a lot of things explained to him. Carmilla at one point snaps at him in "Old Homes" when he doesn't understand why the Belmont Hold is so important and has to angrily explain that it stores several ancient artifacts and knowledge used to destroy their kind "through fucking centuries," something which Godbrand himself should know. He also thinks he would feel like running water could kill him... despite the fact that it, like poison, is something that he would have to have knowledge could kill him without "feeling" it could kill him, and the fact that vampires Cannot Cross Running Water, but aren't necessarily killed by it. This trope is also played with in that while he can be very thick, he's actually surprisingly astute when it comes to things directly related to combat, like accurately assessing Dracula and Alucard's strength and noticing before everyone else that Dracula's plans make no strategic sense.
• Early-Bird Cameo: His dream flashback contains one. One of the pirates on his crew is the axe-wielding, teleporting vampire who fights Alucard in season 4.
• Everyone Has Standards: Isaac's self-flagellation disturbs him and he even says that he wishes Isaac would stop doing it, actually sounding concerned when he does so.
• Fearless Undead: During the "Running Water" Seinfeldian Conversation, Godbrand points out it might be able to kill him, but lists the reasons why it hasn't happened in centuries and why he's rightly unafraid. Later he has his dream sequence flashback, where he: begins a hunt shortly before sunrise, and jumps off a cliff, over running water, onto his moving boat, where he then freely hangs off of the bow.
• Fiery Redhead: The only General with red hair and he is a violent, loud Viking.
• Foil: As the two named vampires generals of Dracula, Godbrand is an excellent almost-by-the-book foil to Carmilla. Personality-wise, he's crass, dumb, and violent — the typical brute enforcer — while she was sophisticated, manipulative, and played the power game like a Vampire Cersei Lannister — the typical Femme Fatale. Both have contrasting Hidden Depths: Godbrand is surprisingly observant and pragmatic, immediately asked about Dracula's long-term plan, accurately assessed his power, and wisely decided to back down. Carmilla showed a lack of foresight in her attempted coup and a sadistic and cowardly side. Appearance-wise, she has white hair and a red dress while he has red hair and white skin.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: No major character in Dracula's army really likes him. Carmilla would only entertain the notion of hooking up with him if all of the vampiric males (plus some females and animals) died off. Dracula regards him as a little pissant. Hector sees him as a rude annoyance, especially for mocking Hector's hobby to his face (while everyone else does so behind his back). And Isaac straight-up kills him after Godbrand implies they will betray Dracula to his face. No one seems to miss him or take much notice of his absence beyond mild annoyance. That said, his conversations with Dracula, Isaac, and especially Hector all show that Godbrand is close to and consults with his subordinates and the other generals.
• Ghost Pirate: A variant in that he is an undead Viking.
• Hidden Depths: Godbrand is generally considered to be a moron by his higher ranking allies. That said, he's not only the most vocal about the flaws of Dracula's Kill All Humans campaign, but he also theorizes that Dracula hasn't been feeding recently and that the whole plan is a large-scale suicide run on the vampire lord's part meant to take everything else with him. The latter is something that Alucard later picks up on (and they were both proven right in the end) and even in regards to the former, Godbrand still readily admits that he wouldn't dare to try and fight Dracula.
• Horny Vikings: While he doesn't wear a Viking helmet, he is a proud Viking and takes readily to the whole "Rape, Pillage, and Burn" aspect of Viking life.
• Hypocritical Humor: Twofold. Godbrand sees humans as little more than livestock — literally — and openly whines and gripes about humans taking over the reins. Yet he legitimately takes offense to Hector and Isaac snarking about his Viking lifestyle, and then calls them out on being bigoted:
  Godbrand: Why would he talk to you rather than me? Perhaps he wants to meet with his own kind.
  Hector: Godbrand, you've never met anything you didn't immediately kill, fuck, or make a boat out of.
  Isaac: I don't understand why our lord doesn't tie you up with the rest of the animals.
  Godbrand: (Beat) Bigot! I like boats. I'm a fucking Viking. We're supposed to make boats out of things!
• I Take Offense to That Last One: An annoyed Hector points out that Godbrand never met anything he didn't want to "kill, fuck, or build a ship out of." Godbrand is more confused at the mention of ship-building as an insult than actually insulted.
• Laughably Evil: Godbrand's a vicious Blood Knight with nary a redeeming quality and he's terrifying when he gets serious, but this goes hand-in-hand with his entertaining bullheadedness and Paper Tiger tendencies. He gets more comedic moments than any other antagonist in the series. Partially this is because his evil tends to be small-scale and completely impersonal; he'll kill people with ruthless brutality to feed, or even just when he's bored, but he's not really that interested in the large-scale villainy or scheming of Dracula and Carmilla.
• Nobody's That Dumb: He may be a pigheaded, bloodthirsty Boisterous Bruiser, but even he knows he's no match for Dracula. He admits this freely.
• Only Sane Man: Unexpectedly so; while he's a Blood Knight and a bit on the thick side, his focus on practicality and personal pleasure means that he's more skeptical of the other vampires' sweeping plans for world domination or human extinction, while his experience with combat gives him a more accurate assessment of Dracula and Alucard's capabilities than Carmilla (even if his tendency to dismiss humans leads him to fatally misjudge and underestimate Isaac.) He also lacks the Freudian Excuse most of the villains have. These things mean that he's often the voice of reason during discussions.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Godbrand is a Blood Knight who relishes fighting, has a high opinion of himself, and from his first appearance displays a willingness to loudly question Dracula's orders. Yet when a noticeably unhinged and furious Dracula gets in his face after one too many complaints, Godbrand uncharacteristically shuts up, looks unusually stoic (most likely to hide his nervousness), and gets out of the room as fast as possible. Later when he's talking with Carmilla, despite having deduced that Dracula is suicidal and is weakened by not consuming blood, he bluntly remarks that he would not like to try and fight Dracula.
• Paper Tiger: As a vampire lord, he is more powerful than any normal human and most vampires, but his fellow generals seem to look down on him, while Dracula says Godbrand's bark is far worse than his bite.
• Pragmatic Villainy: He is the most vocal in the concern that the war's management is needlessly bloody and inefficient. Unfortunately, he raises this issue to people who either want it that way, or aren't in a position to do anything about it.
• The Right of a Superior Species: Godbrand's vampiric arrogance is so powerful that he is incapable of conceptualizing humans as anything but cattle that simply need to be culled in waves, and is unwilling or unable to treat the devil forgemasters as comrades, even when they agree with him on most points.
• Shout-Out: His design bears resemblance to Isaac's game design. Both have red hair, Supernatural Gold Eyes and only wear pants and armor, which exposes their toned chests.
• Sir Swears-a-Lot: Hoo, boy! And you thought Trevor was fond of throwing around the word "Fuck"!
• Small Name, Big Ego: Played with; he's one of Dracula's generals, meaning that he has significant influence in Vampire society, and when we see him fight against humans, he's a supernatural killing machine, but Dracula remarks that he makes a lot of noise in an effort to appear more important and dangerous than he really is.
• Smart Ball: Despite his stupidity, boorishness, brutality, and (literal) bloodthirstiness, he has a firm enough grasp of it that he could almost count as the Only Sane Man. He's the first to realize that Dracula intends to die after wiping out humanity, and the most vocal in stating that concerns that the war's organization is unnecessarily inefficient.
• Tempting Fate: He dreams of previous hunts, including an occasion where he was out killing humans, alone, shortly before daybreak, without wearing any sun protection (and little clothing), and ending with jumping off a cliff, over running water, onto one of his moving boats. All this for the thrill of the hunt, not to actually feed on the blood. He does all of this without any issue, but he dies at the end of the same episode.
• The Starscream: Played with. He is the first and most vocal critic of Dracula's plan, yet is quick to drop it when Dracula threatens him. He also doesn't disagree with the stated goal, just recognizes that the strategy would never actually get there. However, it's really Carmilla who talks Godbrand into mutiny — though Isaac puts an end to the viking before anything can come of it.
• Underestimating Badassery: He thinks Isaac is no danger, being a human. How wrong he was.
• The Watson: He's used as a sounding board for Isaac and Hector in order to get some of their powers and motivations revealed to the audience.
• Would Hurt a Child: He happily leads a massacre of an entire town, kids included.

Chō

Dracula's vampire general from Japan. Her backstory is expanded during a Season 3 flashback.

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• Bare-Handed Blade Block: Used the technique to disarm and defeat a katana wielding vampire hunter.
• Blind Weaponmaster: She easily defeats a samurai vampire hunter with her eyes closed throughout the duel.
• Bodyguarding a Badass: For her own personal amusement, she had a human Praetorian Guard. Even ignoring how vampires are physically superior to humans, she was one of the oldest and most powerful of her kind.
• Crippling Overspecialization: Based on what we see of her, she's highly skilled at battling honorable opponents in single combat, but not at all as skilled against multiple opponents. Sumi even notes that she never had to, since her court was in a location "where no army could reach her". When facing the main trio, she's killed quickly.
• Culture Equals Costume: Her attire combines elements of Chinese, Korean, and Japanese fashion. It's ultimately established in Season 3 that she's Japanese.
• Dance Battler: In a Season 3 flashback, Chō is shown to dodge and slash up a would-be vampire hunter in a manner akin to traditional Japanese dancing, elaborate hand movements and all. Of course, she has her human court as an audience, so this really was more of a performance than a fight.
• Did Not See That Coming: She clearly had never had to face elementalists, otherwise she might have thought twice about turning into mist... while facing an opponent armed with ice magic.
• Dirty Coward: Implied by Taka during his recounting of the time living as her servant, as he notes how she lived in an isolated castle where "no army could reach her, no superior force could end her" and only fought occasional hunters one-on-one, meaning she purposefully avoided confrontations with stronger opponents and only picked on those she knew she could win against.
• Dragon Lady: A beautiful, sadistic, and powerful Japanese vampire who served Dracula.
• Fatal Flaw: While she's a formidable opponent, her own theatricality leads to her not paying attention to her surroundings: When fighting Alucard, she's caught off-guard by him, and ultimately she's blindsided and killed by Sypha when she chooses to take her time attempting to make a grand killing blow while in mist form.
• Femme Fatalons: A trait common to vampires. Hers are sharp and strong enough to use like swords.
• Hero Killer: She slew many Japanese vampire hunters. Often forced her human slaves to watch how easily she slew them.
• Literally Shattered Lives: How she mets her end: Sypha freezes her while in mist form, then shatters her into several pieces.
• Masquerade: She ruled the vampires of Japan from a Hidden Court in the mountains of northern Japan.
• Noble Demon: Averted. Initially it seems she obeys a Code of Honour, challenging vampire hunters to single combat. It becomes immediately apparent she merely enjoys toying with humans, uses the fights to demoralize her slaves, and denies opponents any opportunity to regain their honor.
• Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: Sumi and Taka describe her as this. While she was presumably at least one of the most powerful vampires in Japan and worthy of holding the title of one of Dracula's generals, she was overconfident as she had never really needed to face anyone capable of seriously challenging her.
• Poisonous Person: Could excrete a poisonous liquid from her hands.
• Praetorian Guard: It amused her to have human warriors as an honor guard.
• Sadist: Enjoys inflicting brutality on others during combat. Practices a psychological version for governance.
• Silent Antagonist: Doesn't speak to anyone during her appearances.
• Smug Snake: Taka and Sumi hoped to exploit her overwhelming overconfidence, combined with knowledge from observing her personal fighting style, to kill her. Ultimately, while she was overwhelmingly powerful compared to normal people and proud of it, she was nothing more than a speed bump for the main trio, and Sypha killed her with almost contemptuous ease by abusing Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors.
• Super Smoke: She's able to assume mist form and uses the technique to avoid taking damage during combat. Unfortunately it makes her vulnerable to a freezing spell.
• The Unfought: Ultimately, despite all their planning and preparation, she is this to Taka and Sumi, as Sypha kills her in Season 2.
• Two Girls to a Team: Within Dracula's Inner Court after Carmilla betrays Dracula. She's seen hanging with Raman during the meeting in Season 2.

Varney's Cabal

In General

A group of Dracula's former subordinates and allies who remained loyal after his defeat, trying to enact a complicated scheme to bring the King of Vampires back to life.

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• Beast of Battle: Aside from the numerous variants of lesser Night Creatures at their disposal, the cabal also has access to a Gergoth, a massive, bipedal abomination capable of firing Frickin' Laser Beams from its mouth. It's tough enough that it takes the main trio working together to defeat it.
• Co-Dragons: Dragan and Ratko serve as this to Varney AKA Death.
• Early-Bird Cameo: Varney makes himself out to be this, despite his absence from the original War Council on screen. However, the Cabal does contain a true cameo: The Teleporting Viking shows up very briefly as a member of Godbrand's old crew in a dream sequence in Season 2.
• Elite Mooks: In addition to the Quirky Miniboss Squad there were two unnamed members who put up a fight against the heroes 1 on 1. First being a Night Creature that can turn intangible and fire spikes, the other a teleporting viking vampire with dual axes.
• Flesh Golem: Zigzagged — though the group had access to at least two golems who appeared to be the classic versions made of rock, when damaged they oozed red blood, putting their true origin into question.
• Giant Spider: One of the most common types of Night Creature seen serving the group were giant spiders with humanoid heads and torsos, which they used to funnel refugees towards Dracula's castle and later assault it.
• Our Goblins Are Different: The Flea Men are the weakest creatures among the cabal's forces, being squat, green humanoids with long noses and sharp teeth who dual-wield axes and swarm their opponents.
• Quirky Miniboss Squad: Dragan commands an elite team of vampire magicians from all over the world with several nasty abilities, such as commanding dark energy, manipulating bones and skeletons, weaving enormous spiderwebs and throwing bolts of solid acid.
• Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: The group is composed from the remnants of the numerous disparate forces brought together by Dracula before being shattered and culled at Braila. It includes Slavic, Asiatic and Nordic vampires, vampiric sorcerers, powerful and rare Night Creatures and Death as its Man Behind the Man.
• The Remnant: The last of Dracula's original followers who remain dedicated to his cause, kept unified by their desire to see mankind wiped off the world.
• Resurrect the Villain: Their main goal in Season 4 is bringing Dracula back from the dead by any means neccesary. They succeed, but not in the way they imagined and all of them die in the process.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: No love is lost between Varney and Ratko, and it can be reasonably assumed this is the case for most of the subordinates coming from disparate backgrounds and specialisations. It certainly is so for Dragan and Saint Germain as well.
• Teleport Spam: One viking vampire can teleport using his axes and makes very good use of this ability during his fight against Alucard.
• Undying Loyalty: To Dracula, for a variety of reasons, though those who do get explored had personal motives for fighting for him to begin with. Many simply see him as their strongest and most potent weapon, Death in particular.
• Unwitting Pawn: They were all this to Varney/Death, who manipulated the entire force into a suicidal attack on Dracula's castle just to be able to fuel the spell which would bring Dracula back to life.
• Vestigial Empire: The cabal has access to many powerful warriors and weapons from Dracula's former army, but they are only kept unified by the promise ressurecting Dracula and their leaders find it very difficult to cooperate effectively.
• Villainous Legacy: Even months after his death, Dracula's power is the only thing keeping the last vestiges of his disparate forces unified.
• We Have Reserves: During their attack on Dracula's castle they keep sending in more troops, heedless of the resistance, to ensure as many humans as possible are killed. Justified, seeing as every single death which they cause serves to fuel Dracula's ressurection.

Varney

Varney of London since before it was London

Voiced by: Malcolm McDowell (English), Satoshi Tsuruoka (Japanese), Carlos Barragán (Latin American Spanish)

An English vampire in Dracula's court who was sent to Targoviste to secure it.

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• Arc Villain: He's this for Trevor and Sypha's storyline in Season 4.
• Been There, Shaped History: He notes being around since London was a Roman border town. This is given more depth following The Reveal. As Death himself, he has been around since the beginning of life itself.
• Big Ego, Hidden Depths: He's a braggart who goes on and on about how old and trusted he is, when nobody really respects him. But when he tells Ratko that he's much more than he seems, he's not bluffing.
• Canon Character All Along: This random, smug Jerkass who is only introduced in the final season is, in truth, the second most important villain in the entire Castlevania franchise, Death.
• Evil Brit: Varney "of London" is a vampire with a Cockney accent.
• Evil Counterpart: His arrogant attitude, annoying antics, bumbling mannerisms, and constant swearing makes him very similar to Trevor Belmont, especially since he also has Hidden Depths like Trevor. Unlike Trevor, whose a Jerk with a Heart of Gold who would protect innocents and do the right thing, Varney is actually Death, a malevolent and manipulative being wanting to bring death on a grand scale to suffice himself.
• Evil Smells Bad: Even among the other members of Dracula's court, Varney is described as smelling quite horrid. In fact, he reeks like death.
• Five-Second Foreshadowing: When Dragan has his men bring the rebis to where Saint Germain is conducting the ritual, the latter makes to open the spirit barrier that keeps others out. Varney casually takes over and clears a hole big enough that they can move in with a wave of his hand, and apparently takes in some of the souls flowing into the room with a comment of "Just a little taste." No vampire demonstrates the ability to manipulate soul energy in the series prior, yet somehow, a grimy bottomfeeder like Varney can do it? A tiny hint that there's more to him than at first glance...
• Foreshadowing: When Ratko delivers a scathing "The Reason You Suck" Speech on how Varney is useless and Ratko's the one doing all the work, Varney holds his ground and tells Ratko that the only reason Varney keeps him around is that all the death Ratko causes nourishes him. Earlier in the season, Trevor mentioned that Death feeds on death. And of course, it turns out that Varney was not speaking metaphorically....
  • When he and his cabal invade the Unseen Court's hiding place in the Targoviste catacombs, they find that Zamfir and the guards have been rather thorough in preparing for vampires, complete with filling canals full of Holy Water and making sure it runs so that no vamp can cross it. Varney proceeds to casually hop over one such canal as though it were a minor inconvenience. Because he's not a vampire at all; he's something far more powerful and primal: Death itself.
  • In the first episode, when Varney was ranting on top of the watchtower he claimed to be one of Dracula's first loyal followers and Dracula was going to give him everything, despite the fact that Dracula sent him to an utterly destroyed city while not even mentioning him once. It all makes sense when you realise Varney was Death; being an infamous murderer killing on an unprecedented scale, Dracula naturally earned Death as his follower. Dracula didn't need to make any promise either — by committing mass-murder and genocide, Dracula was already giving Death everything he needed.
  • The left side of his coat collar looks like a scythe and the right side looks like Death's hood.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: It's noted that Dracula sending him to secure the very first town that Dracula razed in his revenge against humanity probably has more to do with Dracula getting Varney away from him than any actual importance. The Reveal puts this into question. Was he there on Dracula's orders, or was he there simply to feed on all the death that Dracula's initial attack had caused?
• Hidden Depths: He is able to figure out that for all of Rakto's talks about being a soldier he's really nothing more than a butcher by his smell alone.
• It Amused Me: Despite having a seemingly low patience for being ridiculed or ignored due to his Smug Snake nature, he is surprisingly perfectly content listening to Ratko lay into him with a massive "The Reason You Suck" Speech for said behavior finally getting on the vampire's nerves and doesn't show any need to retaliate for his comments against him because Ratko is playing into his hands by helping spread death in his name whether he knows it or not, feeding Death admirably while he sets up his plan to revive Dracula.
• Laughably Evil: He may be an evil bastard, especially when he's revealed to be Death, but his bumbling mannerisms and Cartman-levels of swearing has made him the most humorous antagonist on the show. Even the reveal in question only ramps this up; not just because of the sheer contrast, but also because this version of Death has comically low amounts of fucks to give about anything or anyone, and sounds utterly done with everything Belmont has to say to him, not even losing his swearing and entirely lacking the decorum The Grim Reaper usually has.
• Manipulative Bastard: He took the form of a woman in the Infinite Corridor to convince Saint Germain to revive Dracula.
• Non-Standard Character Design: Almost all of the humanoid characters in the series are drawn with irises in their eyes. Varney only has dots for pupils. The special design hints at his special nature.
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: Done brilliantly throughout Season 4. Varney comes across as a Small Name, Big Ego and a Miles Gloriosus who no one takes seriously, even getting "The Reason You Suck" Speech out of Ratko, who gets tired of hearing Varney's boastful claims while he does all the fighting while traveling together. He keeps this act up, all the way until Count Saint Germain is about to open the portal to bring back Dracula. Then he reveals he was manipulating Germain, Ratko, and everyone else around him for years and is in fact Death, who wanted Dracula to fulfill his plan of murdering as many humans as possible so he can feast on their souls.
• Public Domain Character: You'd be forgiven for not believing so (especially if you're not English) as he's a reference to the penny dreadful serial Varney the Vampire, which predates not only Bram Stoker's Dracula, but even Sheridan le Fanu's Carmilla. This is why he's also constantly complaining about being overshadowed by them.
• Really 700 Years Old: While this obviously applies to every vampire in the show, Varney claims to have been active in London "since before it was London", back when it was a Roman ghost town. Since the show takes place in the 1470s, and the Roman colony of Londinium was abandoned in the mid-to-late 5th century, Varney has to be between, at minimum, 900 years old. He's actually far, far older.
• Remember the New Guy?: For someone who keeps boasting about the fact that he was personally sent by Dracula to Targoviste, a.k.a. the town that Dracula and his wife lived in and the first he started razing, hence a site of tremendous importance to Dracula, Varney has never been seen in the series or even mentioned by any of the other high-ranking vampires, leading the audience to think he's just some delusional minor character. He's not a minor character. In fact, he's someone who would be very familiar to fans of the games. He's Death.
• Skintone Sclerae: Not exactly, but his iris-less eyes, combined with his pale vampire skin give off this effect. Could also possibly be a hint that he's not actually a vampire, but Death himself.
• Small Name, Big Ego: He goes about saying how he's one of Dracula's most trusted minions, but he's also been assigned to Targoviste, which Dracula already razed to the ground and is now occupied by struggling refugees. Downplayed since it turns out he is FAR more dangerous than he lets on.
• Sophisticated as Hell: Attempted and failed miserably; Varney tries to sound like an upper class man, but keeps flubbing when it comes to vocabulary. He drops the pretenses after taking his true form, becoming far more composed, but more openly and casually vulgar.
• Unexplained Accent: A vampire claiming to date back at least as far as Roman Briton is speaking with a late nineteenth century cockney accent in the 1470's. Actually makes a degree of meta-sense since Varney is based on a Victorian pop culture character of the same name.
• Winged Humanoid: Like Ratko and Dragan, he displays the ability to sprout a pair of massive bat-like wings from his shoulders.

Ratko

Voiced by: Titus Welliver (English), Erick Selim (Latin American Spanish)

A Slavic vampire assisting Varney in securing Targoviste.

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• Ax-Crazy: Ratko is very eager to spill human blood on any occasion, and his first thoughts after seeing Trevor and Sypha were how happy it would make him to wear their smooth, soft skin.
• Blood Knight: Unusually, he's lacking the "prefers a fair fight" aspect of this. He'll happily take a victory that entails cutting all his enemies' throats in their sleep.
• Card-Carrying Villain: Hateful, bloodthirsty, dishonourable and immensely proud of it. Speaks for himself really:
  Ratko: You're not a vampire. I'm a fucking vampire. I lie and I cheat, because lying to pigs is meaningless, and I'm hungry. I take everything anybody has, every last fucking drop, and then I hunt for more. I am not a criminal. I am fucking perfect.
• Combat Pragmatist: He's more than happy to gang up on Trevor with the night creatures under his command, and talks at length about how pragmatic he considers himself; he goes into great detail during his "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Varney, but it boils down to what would be considered war crimes and terrorism in the modern world because it gets the job done faster.
• Defiant to the End: His final words to Trevor before Trevor stakes him?
  Ratko: Fuck your eyes!
• Foil: Although the two never meet or interact on-screen, he nicely contrasts Striga, another military vampire of seemingly Slavic origin. The difference between them is that while Striga is a Blood Knight who believes that War Is Glorious and should be conducted honorably, Ratko is a Combat Pragmatist who will use every dirty trick in the book to win, and dismisses the open army-to-army warfare that constitutes Striga's bread and butter as "prancing around on a field".
• Genius Bruiser: Ratko figures out that Targoviste's defenders have been taking magical relics from their treasury in the mistaken belief that they just naturally protect them from the supernatural. He then has one of the night creatures tag Zamfir with a charm that feeds him the location of the Underground Court.
• Hates Being Touched: At least by regular humans. He goes ballistic when a mother and her child push him to try and save Trevor's life.
• Irony: The part of his "The Reason You Suck" Speech speech to Varney where Ratko boasts at lengths about how he is given to the Earth to feed off everything on it and how that makes him perfect actually fits Varney AKA Death far better than Ratko could ever hope to be.
• Master Swordsman: Ratko doesn't wield a massive greatsword like Striga, or a bizarre, exotic flail like Dragan. In spite of this, he's more than a match for Trevor with a plain longsword, which lends some credit to his claims of being "the best vampire war-fighter in three hundred years." He dominates Trevor for the vast majority of their actual fight, and Trevor only kills him after not one, but three bystanders risk their lives to distract him, one of them dying in the process.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: He delivers a scathing one to Varney in Episode 7, stating how Varney is nothing more than an arrogant fop who leeches off others' hardwork. Amusingly, he is absolutely correct on all accounts as Varney is really Death, a vampiric spirit who needs agents like Dracula to get souls on large scale. Ratko himself later gets a short but poignant one from Zamfir, who tells him that compared to Dracula, he is just a man and that her people will survive him. It distracts him long enough for Trevor to recover and put an end to him.
• Recurring Element: He is essentially this season's version of Godbrand, a vampire brute who has a high opinion of himself and calls out their respective leaders on their perceived faults. The difference is that Godbrand, for all his faults, knows his limits, and decided against antagonising Dracula. Ratko, on the other hand, has no idea what he's up to when he antagonizes Varney, and is never cowed into submission like the former.
• Right for the Wrong Reasons: He finds Varney so pathetic that, during his "The Reason You Suck" Speech to him, as far as he's concerned Varney isn't even a vampire. He's right, but not the way he thinks he is; Varney isn't some ordinary vampire, he's Death, a vampiric spirit that devours souls.
• Sadist: Besides being more than eager to slaughter hapless civillians if it means "winning", he toys with Trevor during their fight, goading him into giving him more of a challenge. Trevor prophetically notes that he shouldn't play with his food.
• Small Name, Big Ego: A more subtle example than the deliberately over-the-top Varney, but Ratko's Motive Rant reveals that he considers himself "the best vampire war-fighter in three hundred years", and resents his designation as Varney's subordinate immensely, claiming he has had to "hide his skills" so as not to arouse suspicion. Though he does nearly kill Trevor with minimal effort, he is by no means the most dangerous vampiric opponent in the show, and his extended "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Varney is eventually revealed to be a demonstration of how spectacularly he's misjudged his boss.
• Snakes Are Sinister: He keeps a pair of snake-like Night Creatures around as pets and attack animals.
• Sociopathic Soldier: He has an extended monologue to Varney about how winning by any means necessary and slaughtering his enemies (and their families) is what war's all about. And more to the point, how he wouldn't consider someone more honorable a "real" soldier.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: With Varney, whose pretensions and grand-standing he loathes, finding it to be the embodiment of everything wrong with vampires in general. Varney himself states that he "tolerates" Ratko as he finds his bloodlust "nourishing", a statement which gains a lot more weight once Varney's true identity is revealed.
• Underestimating Badassery:
  • He doesn't think much of Trevor Belmont, being confident in his victory once the two clash. The sentiment ends up costing him his life.
  • His whole "The Reason You Suck" Speech he lays hard against Varney for his Miles Gloriosus Smug Snake attitude despite being, for all intents and purposes, a bottom feeder from any sensible person's point of view ends up falling flat when its later revealed that Ratko was unknowingly trash-talking to a being that is actually comparable to Dracula himself in power who can very much back his boasts if push came to shove, but didn't act out because Ratko's outburst amused him more than anything rather than pressed a Berserk Button.
• Vampire Vords: Being a (presumably) South Slavic vampire, he speaks with a very faint accent of this sort.
• Winged Humanoid: Like Varney and Dragan, he displays the ability to sprout a pair of massive bat-like wings from his shoulders.
• Would Hurt a Child: Besides fantasizing about ripping out the throats of every human on the planet, Ratko also doesn't take kindly to a mother and her daughter pushing him at one point, immediately going for the kill.

Dragan

Voiced by: Matthew Waterson

A poweful vampire commander introduced in Season 4, he leads a small army that are remnants of Dracula's own after his death and most of the war council's generals having perished alongside him. He also works with St. Germain to resurrect Dracula.

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• Ax-Crazy: Enjoys death and carnage as much as most other vampires, and is renowned as "Dragan of a hundred ambushes and a thousand deaths". His first words to Saint Germain were him wondering what would happen should he kill and devour the latter.
• Convenient Replacement Character: Dragan and his forces serve a nearly identical role to Dracula's original court in Season 2 and likewise get wiped out by the protagonists as a warm up before their bigger fight.
• Double Weapon: His his metal quarterstaff has two chains with large spiky clubs attached to each end of the staff.
• Dumb Muscle: Unlike Varney and Ratko, whose backstories and motivations get at least partially explored, Dragan remains nothing but the big guy in charge of their forces. Saint Germain tells him to his face that Dragan needs him because he "doesn't have the skills or the wit" to enact their plan. It also doesn't flatter his intelligence that he allows his Quirky Miniboss Squad to be wiped out by the heroes before he goes to fight them on his own.
• Epic Flail: His large metal staff has two large spiky clubheads attached to chains on each end of the staff. His skills with it rival even Trevor's Morning Star.
• Flat Character: He and his army basically exist to provide St. Germain's scheme to revive Dracula with muscle, a host body for his Rebis and little else.
• Four-Star Badass: Dumb Muscle Dragan may be, but he's still a fantastic fighter. He manages to hold his own against the trio, long after they have each been established as a One-Man Army.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: Alucard ends up bisecting him with Sypha's help.
• The Heavy: With Varney and Ratko as the main organizers and Saint Germain as The Mole, Dragan is the one tasked with actually commanding the cabal's forces, particularly when they assault Dracula's castle in the finale. He is also the last obstacle the heroes have to face before confronting the season's Big Bad.
• Life-or-Limb Decision: During the Trio's fight with him. Trevor successfully hits his arm with the morning star, but as it's about to combust, he rips it off and hurls it at Trevor like a grenade, causing it to explode and hurt Trevor instead of himself.
• Super-Toughness: Even by vampire standards, Dragan's durability and stamina are impressive. He is one of the toughest vampires seen in the series barring Dracula and maybe Alucard as shown when survives the effects of being hit with the Morning Star long enough to rip off the effected area before it can kill him, and also flies through a concentrated blast of Sypha's fire while most other vampires hit by such an attack have been shown to die quickly. It ultimately takes a direct hit from Alucard's sword, empowered by his magic and an electric blast from Sypha to actually kill him.
• Mook Chivalry: Just sits on the sidelines while his best warriors fight the trio, only stepping in after all of them are dead. Possibly Justified due to his weapon being a potential risk to his allies in a fight, as he either runs the risk of hitting them in the crossfire or he holds back with it and thus not at his full potential. That and his squad actually had the trio dead to rights until the last second, so he likely didn't think he needed to intervene till it was too late.
• Mix-and-Match Weapon: His weapon is a pretty interesting one. Being a metal quarterstaff with both ends having large spiky clubs that are also attached to chains.
• No-Sell: He holds his ground well considering he faces the main trio alone at once, brushing off Sypha's attacks in particular. When Trevor's whip grazes his arm, causing it to begin exploding, Dragan rips it off himself, hurling the exploding limb at Trevor and knocking him out.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: His suit of armor is mainly comprised of metals painted or colored red and black. Being a vampire, whom leads his own army and is planning to resurrect Dracula makes him plenty evil.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: With Saint Germain. Seeing as the latter is confident Dragan needs him to enact his plan, he has no qualms about slapping the vampire around and insulting him to his heart's content. Dragan vows to kill him in return.
• Variable-Length Chain: The chains on each end of his staff can somehow extend to lengths that almost rival Trevor's own Morning Star.
• Winged Humanoid: Like Varney and Ratko, he displays the ability to sprout a pair of massive bat-like wings from his shoulders.

Other Minions (Night Creatures and Vampire Soldiers)

In General

"There's an army of us! An army! From Hell!"

— Blue Fangs

The henchmen and monsters comprising most of Dracula's forces. They include various vampire soldiers who directly serve either Dracula or one of his fellow vampire generals; along with the Night Creatures, which are a horde of hideous demons created and controlled by the Devil Forgemasters, using modified human bodies that are possessed by damned souls from Hell.

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• Attack! Attack! Attack!: Some of the Night Creatures are more or less mindless and don't have much strategy when it comes to fighting besides being on the offensive as much as possible.
• Bat Out of Hell: Literally, in this case.
  • The weakest and most common members of Dracula's army, and the first seen, resemble twisted humanoid bats with distinct arms and wings.
  • Demons more closely resembling actual bats, but the size of oxen and capable of running on all fours with their wings folded, are among the monsters that attack the Belmont manor.
• Demon of Human Origin: In addition to being forged out from human corpses, Season 3 shows that the souls bound to their bodies are those of human sinners who were damned to Hell, such as FlysEyes being a Greek philosopher in life who was damned for betraying his fellows.
• Elite Mooks: Multiple demons in the army, particularly in Season 2, prove capable of giving the protagonists quite a fight.
• Extra Eyes: A large number of Night Creatures have extra sets of eyes over what the demon/mythological creature they're based on would normally have even if they wouldn't serve much of an advantage considering where they're positioned on their heads: the most obvious example is probably Abel, Isaac's personal demon, who has two pairs of eyes right on top of one another.
• Heavily Armored Mook: Carmilla's vampire soldiers wear plate armor in contrast to Dracula's own troops, although not that it does them any good usually. Especially thanks to the strong opponents they have face.
• In the Hood: Dracula's vampire soldiers all wear hooded cloaks, covering their face in shadow with their glowing red eyes being what's visible most ofthe time.
• Kill All Humans: Their purpose is to wipe the human species off the face of the Earth, and they offer no quarter or mercy to any human in their way, not even women or children.
• The Legions of Hell: They are an endless horde of demons and damned souls summoned by Dracula with the purpose of laying waste on mankind.
• Mooks: The winged goblins that compose the bulk of Dracula's forces, and are generally their weakest members, are the most notable example, but by the later seasons most night creatures and vampire soldiers are there chiefly to be cut down by the dozen by the heroes and the more powerful vampires.
• Our Minotaurs Are Different: The horde that attacks the main characters while they're in the ruins of the Belmont house includes a gigantic minotaur with apelike arms, which serves as the monsters' main muscle both in smashing through the seal and in leading the charge against the heroes.
• Our Goblins Are Different: The series' interpretation of the Flea Men are noticeably very Goblin◊-like◊.
• The Scourge of God: As Blue Fangs put it, it was the humans' cruelty that made God turn away from them and allowed the demons to run rampant and destroy everything in their path.
• Was Once a Man: All of the vampires were obviously once human, and the Devil Forgemasters use human corpses as vessels for damned souls from Hell (many of which were formerly human themselves) to manifest in the mortal world as the demonic Night Creatures.
• Zerg Rush: When facing stronger opponents, Night Creatures usually resort to this to try and overtake them. It usually doesn't work but it can get their enemies on the ropes.

Blue Fangs

Voiced by: Fred Tatasciore (English), Kenshiro Usuki (Japanese), Dennis Mohme (German), Salvador Reyes (Latin American Spanish)

"Lies? In your house of God? No wonder He has abandoned you."

The demon at the head of the assault on Gresit.

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• Breaking Speech: Blue Fangs dresses the Bishop down entirely, revealing that he has no protection from God because God is disgusted with what the Bishop has done in His name.
  Bishop: You cannot enter the house of God.
  Blue Fangs: God is not here. This is an empty box.
  Bishop: God is in all his churches!
  Blue Fangs: Your God's love is not unconditional. He does not love us. And He does not love you.
  Bishop: I have done His bidding. My life's work is in His name!
  Blue Fangs: Your life's work... makes Him puke.
• Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Distinguished from his fellows by his blue colored glow. These fangs and eyes also denote that he was likely created by Hector given that his creations also have blue eyes.
• Deadpan Snarker: He throws in a little snark into his Breaking Speech.
  "Lies? In your house of God? No wonder He has abandoned you."
• Even Evil Has Standards: Blue Fangs makes it plainly clear that, although he is quite glad to have been brought into the mortal world for some fun and mayhem because of the consequences, even he is disgusted by the Bishop's actions and the actions of the Church and that they shame God with their rampant fanaticism.
• Evil Sounds Deep: Even before he's shown, his raspy bass voice lets the audience know exactly what kind of creature we're dealing with.
• Expy: His overall design, besides the giant, glowing blue fangs, is likely based on the wargs from the games, most notably the Fenrir enemies from Curse of Darkness.
• Faux Affably Evil: He speaks in a deep, polite tone, but his words to the Bishop are simply scathing.
• God Is Displeased: The demon is quite happy to inform the Bishop that God hates evil, no matter the source, and His divine protection isn't without conditions.
• Ludicrous Gibs: After his head is slashed by the Vampire Killer, his body explodes like any other demon.
• Mook Lieutenant: He has a distinctive design that makes him stand out from the other demons, he speaks and thus is characterized more than the hordes of monsters, and he leads the Gresit assault. This also makes him the final boss of sorts for the first season.
• No Name Given: Even the audio description refers to him as Blue Fangs.
• "Not So Different" Remark: Invokes this in a mocking fashion towards the Bishop, pointing out that he is more like a demon than a pious servant of God. And that God holds him in the same low regard as the hordes of hell.
• Occult Blue Eyes: His six eyes glow with the same unnatural blue as his fangs.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Delivers a much-needed one to the Bishop.
• Tranquil Fury: At one point during his otherwise calmly sounding, scathing Breaking Speech to the Bishop, his spikes extend and the fur on his back flares up, subtly hinting at just how disgusted he is by the Bishop's sanctimonious hypocrisy and blatant lying.
• Villainous Breakdown: When he's been skewered on an icicle after several of his demons have been killed, he rants and raves about Dracula having "an army [of us] from Hell". A far cry from his calm demeanor when speaking to the Bishop.
• Villain Has a Point: His vicious takedown of the Bishop points out an undeniable fact: It was the Bishop and his actions that brought Dracula's army to Wallachia.
• Villains Never Lie: Blue Fangs words to the Bishop are as brutal and harsh as they are true. He even goes as far to call out the Bishops lies when he tries to make excuses for his actions.
• Would Harm a Senior: Although, the senior in question was the self-righteous jerk who started the whole mess.

Gaibon and Slogra

Gaibon (left), Slogra (right)

Two notable monsters from the game series encountered by our heroes after they left the town of Gresit.

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• Bash Brothers: Much like in the game, they battle in tandem.
• Breath Weapon: Gaibon shoots fire for his part in the battle
• Elite Mooks: While they're just monsters like the other creatures the main trio fights, they are skilled enough to go toe-to-toe with Alucard and keep him on the defensive.
• Flying Mook: Gaibon is capable of flight.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Slogra is killed with its own spear.

FlysEyes

Voiced by: Gildart Jackson (English), Yohei Tadano (Japanese), Roberto Mediola (Latin American Spanish, Season 3), Dafnis Fernández (Latin American Spanish, Season 4)

"I woke up in Hell, because this world is insane, and I learned something about sin. I learned... to like it. Yet here I am, back on the surface of the Earth... strong and free, in a world where thinking is considered something that should be tortured and murdered."

A Night Creature in Isaac’s army with the ability to speak, much like Blue Fangs.

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• Always Chaotic Evil: Discussed. When Isaac decides to spend time to repair the city and bury the dead that can't be reanimated, FlysEyes argues that Night Creatures exist to kill and destroy. Isaac counters by offering the demon a berry, causing FlysEyes to remember the first time he ate a berry in his first life. Isaac then points out that a being that exists solely to kill wouldn't be able to enjoy a simple pleasure like that, so there must clearly be more to them than that.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Subverted. He claims that he was sent to Hell for being a philosopher, but Isaac sees through it. He was actually damned because he betrayed his fellows.
• Evil Feels Good: Came to this conclusion during his time in Hell.
• Hazy-Feel Turn: By proxy of being beholden to Isaac who also pulls one by Season 4. It's complicated a bit by the fact that Isaac expresses interest in letting his Night Creatures choose what they want to do with their new lives, and while it's apparent that FlysEyes does still have some humanity left inside him, whether he will follow in Isaac's footsteps or go with his original goal to spread suffering isn't expanded on. At the very least he does show some identification for Isaac's changed point of view.
• Morton's Fork: In his past life, he had this dilemma: He says nothing, he dies loyal to his men. He speaks, he dies a traitor. He was a dead man either way.
• Number Two: Due to his ability to speak and capacity for thought, FlysEyes holds a degree of authority amongst Isaac's horde and is seen giving orders to other Night Creatures. Isaac himself speaks directly to him but has a different Night Creature, Abel, serve as The Dragon.
• The Philosopher: A former Athenian philosopher. He keeps Isaac company with his philosophical talks.
• Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: In life, he ratted out his fellow philosophers to the Christians to save his own life. He was rewarded with death instead.
• Straw Nihilist: In life he was executed for being a Greek Philosopher in the time of Christian repression, and was sent to Hell for betraying others in a futile attempt save his own life. As a Night Creature, he described the world as insane and is happy Isaac brought him back with the power to make others suffer in life as he did.
• Wicked Cultured: He was a philosopher in his human life, before he went to Hell and became a demon. Even still, he's pretty clever and well-spoken when he converses with Isaac.

Abel

A Night Creature that serves Isaac in Season 4.

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• Barehanded Blade Block: Grabs Carmilla's wrist and sword blade to stop an attack in its tracks.
• Flash Step: Its speed and durability are Abel's greatest assets, frequently appearing in the blink of an eye to block lethal blows with his body.
• Good Old Fisticuffs: Abel doesn't carry any weapons, his main method of attack is to punch his enemies. His hands seem to be particularly durable, enough to block sword swings from Carmilla to an extent.
• Irony: He is named after the good brother from the Bible and is exactly as loyal as his namesake, yet he is still a demon.
• Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs: One unfortunate human in his way is subjected to this.
• Undying Loyalty: Isaac doesn't need to issue any commands to Abel, who immediately aids him for transport or combat assistance against Carmilla herself. He blocks many attacks from the vampiress that could've killed his master, even shielding him from the explosion Carmilla releases upon killing herself.
• The Voiceless: Abel doesn't speak, grunt, growl or make a single word throughout his time onscreen.
• Winged Humanoid: Abel can fly and carry his master via the feathered bat-like wings on his back.

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