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->'''Sypha:''' Who are you?\\
'''Trevor Belmont:''' The man who'll kill Dracula.
''Castlevania'' is a 2017 animated series for Creator/{{Netflix}} produced by Creator/FrederatorStudios and animated by Powerhouse Animation Studios. It's based on the ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' series of games, specifically the prequel ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaIIIDraculasCurse'' with elements of ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight'' thrown in.
As such, it deals with Trevor Belmont (Creator/RichardArmitage), the last living member of the disgraced Belmont clan of superpowered vampire slayers. When darkness in the form of {{Dracula}} (Creator/GrahamMcTavish) appears in Eastern Europe, Trevor must take a stand to continue his family's tradition of killing the Prince of Evil...
The series is written by Creator/WarrenEllis and produced by [[Film/TheGrey Adi]] [[Film/{{Dredd}} Shankar]]. Season 1, consisting of four 22-minute episodes, premiered on July 7, 2017. A second season of eight episodes has been greenlit and is in production.
Witness [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIMrFnl5NiA the first teaser]], if you dare.
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!!Tropes include:
* AccompliceByInaction:
** The reason Dracula decides all of Wallachia has to pay for Lisa's execution. The Bishop burned her at the stake, but the people, even those who knew it was wrong, didn't dare speak up.
** Trevor [[NotSoDifferent feels the same way]], telling the Speakers' Elder that by not speaking out against the Church, the populace is just as to blame for the Belmonts' excommunication and the Speakers' current situation.
* ActionGirl: Sypha, a sorceress with mastery over the elements. Although instead of being a member of the Church, she's the granddaughter of the Elder for a group of Speakers, a nomadic people who search and preserve oral history over written history.
* AdaptationalBadass: Lisa of Lupu Village. She traveled all the way to Dracula's castle, which was at that time stationed in a barren wasteland littered with skeletons on pikes, just to try and convince him to teach her science so she could become a proper doctor.
* AdaptationalJerkass: Zigzagged with Trevor. In the classic continuity games, the Belmonts were upstanding heroes who, despite the Church's actions, never wavered when there was evil to be fought. Here, Trevor is a bitter and foul-mouthed loner who, to put it bluntly, clings to past victories and holds a grudge against everyone. He eventually snaps out of it and proceeds to save Gresit from both the corrupt church's influence and Dracula's minions.
* AdaptationalVillainy: In the original games, the Church played a very minor supporting role in the story (Sypha herself worked as their agent instead of being a nomadic scholar) and outside of exiling the Belmonts, they were never actual enemies. In the series proper, one of their members is responsible for kicking off the plot in the first place by executing Lisa, their exceptional corruption is emphasized and they serve as secondary antagonists for Season 1.
* AdaptationDyeJob: Sypha's hair is more of a strawberry blonde hue than the game's bright flaxen tone, while Alucard's is a darker shade of blonde instead of the platinum blond seen in Ayami Kojima's character art from ''Symphony of the Night'' or the jet black seen in the original ''Dracula's Curse''.
* AdaptedOut:
** This appears to be the fate of Grant Danasty. As of the end of the first season, Grant is the only one of Trevor's companions from the game not to show up, nor has he been featured in any form of advertisement for the series. ''However'', Grant was the last of the foursome to be introduced in the game and so far, all of Trevor's allies have been introduced exactly like in the game (Sypha turned to stone by the cyclops, Alucard sleeping in isolation), and given how the show's been confirmed to have at least one more season, Grant could appear in Season 2 when the team reaches the Clocktower.
** A minor one, but at no point does "wall chicken" make an appearance in Season 1. The closest to the infamous recurring health item is when Trevor buys a piece of dried goat meat for breakfast after entering Gresit.
* TheAlcoholic: Due to the Church excommunicating the Belmont family and destroying their ancestral home, Trevor Belmont has spent his days since then as a vagrant wandering the land from tavern to tavern, spending what little remains of his family fortune on booze.
* AnachronismStew: In spite of the game/animation being set in 1476, there are many present-time elements thrown in, like intricate machinery that raises Alucard's coffin, or the electric lights in the Cyclops' catacomb lair. Although this is explained in-universe; the reason Lisa comes to Dracula's castle is that he has scientific knowledge beyond that of regular humans. With that said, this is on par with the games as a whole, which feature futuristic technology outside of the time period any given game is supposed to be set in.
* AnimatedAdaptation: Of ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaIIIDraculasCurse''.
* {{Animesque}}: Considering what Frederator Studios' [[WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents other]], [[WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot more]] [[WesternAnimation/ChalkZone well-known]] [[WesternAnimation/AdventureTime titles]] are like, this comes off as a very shocking surprise to anyone expecting something a lot more cartoonish.
* ArcVillain: The Bishop, acting as one for the first season. His witch hunts set the plot in motion with the execution of Lisa Tepes, and he also blames the Speakers for the demon invasion, sending an angry mob after the only people who were trying to fix the situation. Ultimately, Dracula is the bigger threat, [[spoiler: and see BigBadWannabe for what happens to him during the fourth episode.]]
* AxCrazy: As Trevor puts it, the Bishop is beyond insane. A number of the clergy under the Bishop are no better, though there are exceptions.
* BadassBoast:
** Trevor tries one in episode 2, though it doesn't remain impressive for long:
--->'''Trevor:''' I'm Trevor fucking Belmont, and I've never lost a fight to man nor fucking beast! ...[[OhCrap Oh shit]]!
** Trevor gets a more heartfelt one in episode 3:
--->'''Trevor:''' I don't know any of you. But that doesn't matter, does it? [[BadassFamily My family]]: the family you [[HeroWithBadPublicity demonized and excommunicated]], has fought and died through generations for this country. We do this thing... for Wallachia, and her people. We don't have to know you all. [[WeHelpTheHelpless We do it anyway.]] And it's not the dying that frightens us; it's never having stood up and fought for you. I'm Trevor Belmont. Of the House of Belmont. And dying... has ''never'' frightened me.
* BadassSpaniard: Sypha, who has a more pronounced Hispanic accent, which reflects her possible origins from Spain since Belnades was originally written as Velnumdes, believed to be a Japanese corruption of the common Hispanic surname "[[Videogame/Castlevania64 Fernandez]]".
* BarBrawl: Trevor gets into one in the second episode with some drunks who [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer blame the Belmonts for Dracula's evil, even over the other Great Houses and the Church]].
* BigBad: {{Main/Dracula}} is the main antagonist of the show who unleashed the demons to destroy Wallachia.
* BigBadWannabe: [[spoiler:The Bishop is ultimately taken down very easily by Dracula's minions once they find him, shrugging off the idea of God still protecting him, and only bother taking their time killing him because of his direct role in Lisa's death and Dracula's revenge on Wallachia. Otherwise, he's not a threat at all. Even his attempt of killing the Speakers falls apart as soon as Trevor reveals to the mob that the Church was the one responsible for the monster's invasion.]]
* BeardOfEvil: Dracula is rocking [[https://pmcvariety.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/netflix-castlevania-dracula.png a downright sinister one.]]
* BerserkButton: Trevor is barely able to conceal the fact that he's a Belmont when he hears patrons at a bar dragging his family's name through the mud.
* BestialityIsDepraved: A story recounted by Bosha the goat herder near the end of the first episode, wherein he blinded someone by bashing them across the eyes with his shovel after finding them "fucking [one of his goats] to within an inch of its life".
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Alucard, Trevor, and Sypha, respectively.
* BloodierAndGorier: Than anything put out by Frederator Studios in the past. The very first episode includes wanton slaughter of civilians, including women and children, complete with blood, gore, and entrails lining the streets.
* BoyishShortHair: Unlike the game, where Sypha has long hair she keeps hidden in her robes, this incarnation has her hair cut short.
* BystanderSyndrome: Brought up throughout the first season: Dracula blames "innocent" humans for doing nothing to save his wife from being burned at the stake, and Trevor paraphrases a line from Edmund Burke about how evil can succeed when good people do nothing when lamenting the fate of the Belmont clan.
* CallBack: In the first episode, Trevor is kicked in the testicles twice during a bar fight. In the fourth, he attempts the same on Alucard, who dryly states, "Please. This isn't a bar fight. Have some class."
* CanonForeigner:
** Played with, in regards to Sypha's backstory. She was originally an agent of the Church in the games, but here she's a member of a group of nomadic scholars called the Codrii Speakers, who are an original creation made for the animated series.
** The Bishop responsible for burning Lisa and kicking off the plot in the first place was also created solely for the series.
* ChristianityIsCatholic: A rather egregious instance, considering that the majority of real life Romanian citizenry is Eastern Orthodox. Although it's stated that the region's clergy has become corrupt and self-righteous. The Bishop's smug InfoDump as Trevor leaves the Church reveals that he's planning on using Dracula's invasion to rebuild the clergy into his own vision of how the Church was supposed to be. Hell, the only reason was sent to Gresit in the first place was a "difference in clerical discipline" between him and the Archbishop.
* ClusterFBomb: Most of the characters drop these when they speak, especially Trevor.
* CombatPragmatist: Trevor, when he's stone-cold sober. During his duel with Alucard, he tries to [[GroinAttack knee him in the groin]], and [[NoSell when that doesn't work]], headbutts him.
* CorruptChurch: It'd be easier to list the amount of times the Church ''didn't'' fuck up in a colossal way or pin the blame on the wrong people just for being different [[spoiler: which is exactly ''once'' when Trevor commissions a local priest to consecrate some holy water during the nightly demon raid]]. It also didn't help their reputation with the fact that the Catholic Church in Wallachia was ''directly'' responsible for Dracula putting a death sentence on the human race when they burned Lisa at the stake for being a witch. [[spoiler: Even the show's equivalent of ''Pazuzu'' calls out just how corrupt and self-righteous the Church has become, claiming that their actions makes God puke before biting the Bishop's head off.]]
* CrapsackWorld: Wallachia turns into quite the hellhole after Dracula unleashes his legions upon it. Most of the major cities have fallen, and the ones that haven't are ruled over by a corrupt church that shift the blame for nightly raids by monsters on whatever targets can be conveniently labeled as heretics.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Than anything from the video game series up to this point. Not even the ''Lords of Shadow'' games, in terms of being dark and edgy, can top the Netflix series. Most of this is due a rather heaping helping of gore, swearing, and InfantImmortality being very, ''very'' averted. To put it in perspective, even the darkest moment of ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsOfShadow2'' where Dracula butchers a family to regain his youth [[GoryDiscretionShot couldn't be depicted explicitly]], while the innocent deaths are shown very ''casually'' in this show. This also counts for Frederator Studios in general. Before ''Castlevania'', they mostly did children friendly shows for kids' networks. This cartoon of course is anything ''but'' kid friendly.
* DeadpanSnarker:
** Trevor, all the way. It might seem that the man has an untold stash of caustic remarks reserved for every occasion.
** Sypha dabbles in this, too. See ToiletHumour.
* DeathOfAChild: Not even children are spared the wrath of Dracula's hordes. One goblin is seen [[EatsBabies carrying a dead baby in its mouth]].
* DefeatEqualsExplosion: A solid hit from Trevor's whip will cause demons to swell and explode.
* DevilButNoGod: Averted. Dracula's minions acknowledge the presence of God, but take delight in lecturing the Bishop that because of the Bishop's hubris and self righteous actions, he is beyond God's protection.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: Season 1 ends with Trevor's fight with Alucard, although Blue Fangs -- who is fought just before -- is more fitting an example of this, as Alucard's battle with Trevor is more or less a SecretTestOfCharacter.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Dracula decides to exterminate the population of Wallachia for the execution of his wife, Lisa. While Dracula is understandably upset at his wife's death, his own son Alucard points out that the former's revenge will kill many more people who were just as innocent as Lisa. It's just that Dracula doesn't care.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Lisa, a woman who wanted to heal people and make the world a better place, is brutally executed for heresy. Her last words are "Forgive them, they don't know what they're doing."
* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:Blue Fangs makes it very clear that the Bishop, and the Church as a whole, ''completely'' disgusts him, and that they shame God.]]
* EyeScream:
** When fighting one of the Bishop's men, Trevor slashes him across his left eye, plucking it out. Later, [[AssholeVictim the poor bastard]] gets shot in the ''other'' eye with an arrow fired by a fellow priest.
** Unsurprisingly, the Cyclops is killed after being stabbed in its single eye.
* FemmeFatalons: The Targoviste Archbishop has these and, as expected, he's a fanatic who decides to ''celebrate'' the one-year anniversary of Lisa's death.
* {{Fingore}}: Trevor removes a priest's finger when disarming him with Vampire Killer. He apologizes profusely as he was only trying to pull his stave away:
-->'''Priest:''' WHAT FUCKING FINGER!?
* FlashStep: Alucard performs a few to hit Trevor from behind. It's recognizable as his signature backstab skill when wielding his personal sword in the games, BattleAura and all.
* FollowInMyFootsteps: Lampshaded by Alucard when discussing why he (and indirectly Trevor) feel they must stop Dracula:
-->'''Alucard:''' Why? Because it is what my mother would have wanted. And we are all, in the end, slaves to our families' wishes.
* ForegoneConclusion: [[spoiler: If this series sticks to the video game canon, Trevor will defeat Dracula. He will then marry Sypha, and their progeny will carry on the Belmont tradition of vampire hunters.]]
* TheFundamentalist: The Bishop is utterly convinced that anyone not directly in service to the Church (like the Belmonts or the Speakers) is an evil heretic that must be destroyed. Also, he sees himself as the ultimate religious authority in Wallachia due to all the other major cities being destroyed by Dracula's forces.
* GodzillaThreshold: The Belmont family was sent away from the land because of their superpowered nature. Who else, but a Belmont could defeat Dracula?
* {{Gorn}}: In the first episode alone, Dracula's legions are shown horrifically eviscerating people, tearing them to shreds and strewing their remains through the streets. Gresit, as shown in the second episode, is similarly decorated in blood, corpses, and body parts.
* GreaterScopeVillain: Vlad Dracula Tepes, who barely shows up in the first season, leaving the Belmont fighting and countryside terrorizing to lesser antagonists.
* GroinAttack:
** Happens to Trevor a couple of times during his BarBrawl:
-->'''Trevor:''' Please leave my testicles alone!
** Trevor tries one on Alucard during their fight. [[BallsOfSteel It doesn't work]]:
-->'''Alucard:''' Please. This isn't a bar fight. Have some class.
* HateSink: The Bishop is designed to be as deeply unlikeable as possible. He's a hypocritical, self-righteous fundamentalist who is directly responsible for bringing Dracula's wrath down on Wallachia (by personally arranging for Lisa to be burned at the stake), and spends the rest of the season using anyone not affiliated with the Church (from the Belmonts to the Speakers) as scapegoats. It's even heavily hinted that part of him is secretly ''glad'' that Dracula's army has devastated Wallachia so badly, since it gives him more authority over the surviving populace in his mad quest to "burn out" every sin in the country.
* HeartbrokenBadass: Dracula loved Lisa deeply. When he learned that she was killed as a heretic, he damned humanity as a whole and sent his legions out to commit wholesale genocide.
* HeroAntagonist: Alucard duels with Trevor after being discovered in the catacombs by him because the latter figured out the former is a vampire, and therefore must be evil. However, Alucard only got trapped there in the first place because he tried to stop his father from unleashing his demonic army and when the duel reaches a draw, he agrees to help Trevor and Sypha to fight Dracula.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: The Belmonts were excommunicated by the church for their dealings in magic when fighting the forces of darkness. Trevor carries this stigma with him. Similarly, the Speakers, including Sypha, are blamed by the church for attracting Dracula's legion, with the bishop whipping the people of Gresit into an AngryMob to kill them.
* HolyBurnsEvil: Holy water and Sypha's magic ice walls burn Dracula's demons, while Trevor's consecrated whip causes them to ''explode''.
* HumansAreBastards: What Dracula wholeheartedly believes. He didn't have much love for humans before he met Lisa, but once she died as a witch, all bets were off. When Alucard attempts to talk Dracula down, claiming that his wrath will kill a lot of innocent people, Dracula snaps at him, showing how useless talking has become:
-->'''Dracula:''' There ARE no innocents! Not anymore!
* HumanShield: Trevor uses the KnifeNut priest as one when another tries shooting him with arrows.
* IdiotBall:
** The people of Wallachia's reaction to Dracula's one year deadline to make their peace with God is to completely ignore it, and hold a celebration on the anniversary of Lisa's death. Dracula is ''not'' amused, has his castle erupt from the ground and destroy the Targoviste cathedral, and releases an army of demons which kill everyone in town and begin to raze the countryside. This is actually TruthInTelevision since people during the Dark Ages, especially those in high positions of power, were very arrogant and did a lot of dumb things:
-->'''Dracula:''' One year. I gave you one year to make your peace with your God. And what do you do? ''Celebrate the day you killed my wife''. One year I gave you, while I assembled my armies. And now I bring your death. You had your chance.
** [[spoiler:Dracula's goblins embrace this in the last episode. They're giant flying demons who were previously shown to effortlessly overpower any human, and yet, apparently, being ''walled in'' by Sypha's Blue Splash was enough to make them suicide-charge the pikemen.]]
* ImpoverishedPatrician: Trevor Belmont, last member of the fallen noble house, who wanders the countryside with nothing more than a satchel of diminishing coins in his pocket.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler:The Bishop is devoured by demons inside his own church, as one calmly explains that even God is disgusted with him.]]
* KillItWithWater: Trevor has a priest gather water to make into holy water, which burns Dracula's goblins.
* KnightTemplar: The Bishop is obsessed with burning out his view of sin. Whenever someone rises up with a different belief, he condemns them as a heretic that is harming society and seeks to have them killed. He sees the church as the highest authority and uses the chaos brought by Dracula to rise up in the ranks. Trevor himself is taken aback not just by the man's cruelty, but by the utter conviction he has in his deluded morality.
* LateArrivalSpoiler: They stop hiding Sypha's gender soon after her petrification wears off. And rather than having his [[https://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/original/8/87790/1760798-alucard_jpmanual.png original design]] from ''Castlevania III'' Alucard is shown to be a pretty boy like in ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight''.
* TheLegionsOfHell: Dracula's army is composed of demonic creatures that only attack at night and are commanded to slaughter everyone in Wallachia.
* MagicFromTechnology: The source of some of Dracula's powers appears to be this, judging by the clockwork mechanisms within his castle and associated monster lairs.
* MexicanStandoff: The Season 1 finale has one of these between Trevor and Alucard. Alucard is about to bite Trevor's neck, but if he does so Trevor will stake him through the heart.
* MohsScaleOfViolenceHardness: Level 9. There's buckets of blood, and it loves strewing about entrails, but the violence itself isn't particularly intense, making it a fairly light Level 9.
* MyNameIsInigoMontoya: Trevor introduces himself this way when preparing to face off with the Bishop's men. Also, during the bar fight, he says "I'm Trevor fucking Belmont, and I've never lost a fight to man nor fucking beast."
* MythologyGag:
** The poster seen in this page is a near shot-for-shot recreation of the first ''Castlevania'''s [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/04/67/09/04670905d01f645e5df1f6d70ed3bd82.jpg box art,]] albeit with Trevor rather than Simon.
** The pillar of fire Dracula envelopes himself in before teleporting heavily resembles the beam of light he uses in the final battle of ''VideoGame/SuperCastlevaniaIV''.
** Trevor taking off his cloak in the third episode mirrors the opening of the game, where he whips off his cloak after praying.
** Adding into CompositeCharacter, the Cyclops now has an EyeBeam similar to [[VideoGame/CastlevaniaChroniclesOfSorrow Balore]] and Medusa.
** Lisa's death, rather than occurring in the outskirts of a village as seen in Alucard's ''Symphony'' nightmare, now happens in a church, assumed to be the same one seen in the opening of the game.
** When Trevor agrees to recover the body of the Speaker Elder's grandchild, he assumes it's his grand''son''. After finding out said missing grandchild is his grand''[[SamusIsAGirl daughter]]'', he snarks that he wishes the Speakers would quit having their men and women dress the same, with Sypha saying afterwards that it makes it "safer to travel [that way]".
** [[spoiler: Blue Fangs, the demon that kills the Bishop, seems to be the show's equivalent of Pazuzu, who does appear in the game as the Lesser Demon boss]].
** The Speakers are said to have messages from the future, similar to [[VideoGame/CastlevaniaCurseOfDarkness St. Germain]] knowing of the Battle of 1999.
** After entering Gresit, Trevor talks to the various villagers, reminiscent of gathering quest information from [=NPCs=].
** The fourth episode's demon attack seems to parallel the first stage in ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaRondoOfBlood''.
** The Belmont crest that Trevor has on his chest and back is near-identical to the Belmont coat-of-arms from the ''Lords of Shadow'' continuity.
** The series intro has Alucard holding his sword in front of his face, very similar to the box-art for ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight''.
** Episode 1 has a moment where Dracula is framed in such a way that it looks identical to his character image in text boxes from ''Symphony of the Night''.
** In a case of ColourCodedForYourConvenience, the head art director for the show went with using the NES sprite colors as a palette reference while designing Dracula, Trevor, and Sypha to make them more recognizable for fans of the game. Alucard, on the other hand, uses an altered version of his ''Symphony of the Night'' design instead of his NES design.
** Dracula's shadow vampires are clearly based off the Vampire Warriors and Carmilla's monstrous OneWingedAngel design from ''Lords of Shadow''.
** Alucard does one of his special moves from [=SotN=] during his fight with Trevor.
* NeverMyFault: The Bishop throws fault at everybody for Dracula's rampage except himself, even though he was the one who ordered Lisa to be burned at the stake as a witch.
* NoOntologicalInertia: Justified. When the cyclops falls, each of its victims immediately de-petrifies. As Trevor explains, this variety of cyclops uses its magic to ''keep'' its victims in their state because it leaves them conscious and aware of their surroundings so it can feed on their fear. Unfortunately, all the damage done to the "statues" persists when the spell keeping them petrified ends, meaning that the undamaged Sypha was the only one who actually ''survived'' the transition back to flesh-and-blood, while the other statues that were shattered reflect grievous mutilations when reverting back to their true form.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Alucard, who treats his duel with Trevor as a very serious matter and even admonishes him for using a GroinAttack ("Have some class"), finally just ends the fight by punching Trevor square in the face.
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: The Bishop had Dracula's wife burned at the stake and threatens to have the Speakers killed in order to stop Dracula's rampage. However, it's blatant even during Lisa's death that the Bishop is just a cruel man who uses God as an excuse to justify his actions and avoid responsibility for Dracula's wrath. Similarly in regard to killing the Speakers, he seems to genuinely believe that killing them will stop the demon attacks...but then he comments on how saving Gresit will elevate his status in the church, partially by simple virtue of there being fewer and fewer cities of comparable size and importance.
* OneWomanWail: The first teaser (or rather the second half of the teaser) starts off with this.
* OrnamentalWeapon: Subverted. In artwork for the games and even in sprites/renders, Trevor and the other Belmonts carry swords that they never use in gameplay, but here Trevor wields his sword almost as much as the Vampire Killer whip.
* PetTheDog: In what he describes as his last act of kindness, Dracula warns Lisa's neighbor (the one who came to pay respect to her memory) to take her family and flee Wallachia before he destroys it.
* PivotalWakeup: Alucard does this, though not at a classic ninety degree angle; he more or less floats out the coffin.
* PluckyGirl: Lisa. Having exhausted all of her other alternatives, she quite literally bangs her fist on the door of a vampire lord's castle and ''demands'' to be shown the tools of science. Dracula finds her antics amusing.
* ProlongedPrologue: The entire first season is more or less an explanation about the world of ''Castlevania'', where Dracula only appears in the first episode (itself a prologue to what is ''itself'' effectively a prologue), and the quest to kill Dracula only truly begins at the end of the fourth episode -- which is the last of the season. Thankfully, the second season was greenlit the day that the series made its debut on Netflix.
* RainOfBlood: The invasion of Dracula's army is preceded by a rain of blood falling from the skies.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: The Bishop gets a coldly menacing one from Blue Fangs [[spoiler:right before he's devoured ''face first''.]]
-->'''Blue Fangs:''' God is not here... this is an empty box. Your God's love is not unconditional. He does not love us, and He does not love you. Your life's work makes Him puke. Your God knows that we wouldn't be here without you.
* {{Retraux}}: The first teaser begins with someone booting up a UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem version of Netflix to bring up the footage of ''Castlevania''.
* RuggedScar: Trevor has the "cut over one eye" variation on the left side of his face. Alucard has a scar across his chest from his first battle with Dracula.
* SaltSolution: Trevor teaches the villagers to bathe their blades in salt to cut through Dracula's demons.
* SamusIsAGirl: Sypha. However, unlike the NES game which depicted her as a mysterious hooded figure of ambiguous gender, here [[GenderReveal she gets revealed]] early on, as Trevor recognize her for being a woman as soon as she de-petrifies. Her feminine features are more blatant since she rarely puts on her hood.
* TheScapegoat: The Belmonts and the Speakers are both blamed by the church and the populace for inviting Dracula's legion upon them due to their dealings in arcane matters.
* ShamingTheMob: [[spoiler:Trevor manages to turn the mob against the priests rallying them by pointing out that the Bishop was the one to blame for Dracula's war against humanity in the first place.]]
* ShirtlessScene: Alucard awakens wearing only a pair of really tight pants, boots, and nothing else. On top of that, he only stops to pick up his shirt and coat after [[spoiler: his fight with Trevor]], which takes up the majority of the latter half of episode 4.
* ShutUpHannibal: Just as a defeated Blue Fangs is howling at Trevor and Sypha that Dracula has an army of demons, [[spoiler: Trevor shuts him up with a crack of his whip, splitting his head in two.]]
* SinisterMinister: Not just the Bishop, but the priests under his influence. Trevor casually points out that they act rather un-priestly, and for contrast, he later requests [[GoodShepherd an actual, ordained priest]] to come forward and help save Gresit from the demons.
* SkyFace: Dracula, twice. The first time around he uses this trick to give the people of Targoviste a warning, and the next to order his demons to lay waste to all cities of Wallachia.
* TheStoic: Alucard, par for the course with his character. While his father demonstrates his anger by [[TrashTheSet trashing his laboratory]] and loudly declaring that all of Wallachia shall pay, Alucard calmly implores him to let it go as he himself also grieves for his mother's death.
* SympathyForTheDevil: ''Dracula'', of all people. His genocidal rage against the people of Wallachia comes down to revenge for the death of his wife, Lisa, a doctor and woman of science who was burnt alive as a witch while begging for mercy from the people around her. While it's impossible to justify what he does, it does make the ensuing carnage a bit easier to watch considering those people were ''celebrating the anniversary of Lisa's death'' just to spite him.
* TakenForGranite: Sypha is first discovered by Trevor in a petrified state. In contrast to the backstory for the Famicom version, she doesn't seem to be fully aware of being petrified this whole time, although she's aware of how Trevor climbs on her as he use her to boost himself to kill the Cyclops.
* TearsOfBlood: Dracula cries [[MusicalNod bloody tears]] when he learns of Lisa's death.
* TemptingFate: The Archbishop gives a speech to his people to celebrate Lisa's death, and celebrating about how "the Devil's" warning a year prior was a lie. Before he's finished talking, blood starts raining from the sky, and all hell literally breaks loose.
* ToiletHumour: Sypha offers to "pee in a bucket" and pass it off as beer when Trevor asks the Speakers for some.
* TorchesAndPitchforks: The Bishop raises a mob against the Speakers, whom he's blamed for the demon attacks.
* TrainingThePeacefulVillagers: When Dracula's demons attack Griset, Trevor quickly mobilizes the villagers and teaches them how to properly fight the demons by bathing their blades in salt and using holy water to harm them.
* VillainHasAPoint: [[spoiler:Dracula's minions hammer on the Bishop that it was his actions and arrogance that lead to the destruction of Wallachia, not the Speakers... as they are eating him.]]
* VomitDiscretionShot:
** Trevor after leaving the bar.
** Sypha after returning from a stone state.
* WalkTheEarth: Lisa convinces Dracula to "walk as a mortal man" in exchange for teaching her science, even continuing to do so while they were married. It surprises nobody that he stops doing it after she's killed.
* WhipItGood: The signature Vampire Killer can be seen as Trevor's weapon of choice. The wounds it inflicts demonstrate how effective a whip is in a Belmont's hands, as he can use to remove limbs and eyes.
* WoundThatWillNotHeal: The reason Alucard went into a slumber was to heal the wound that Dracula inflicted upon him after he tried to stop him from summoning a demon army. He can regenerate simple wounds well enough, as Trevor later finds out.
* YouDidntAsk: This is Sypha's response when Trevor asks her why she never told him that she has magical abilities.
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[{{Tagline}} In darkness, a hero returns.]]]]
->'''Sypha:''' Who are you?\\
'''Trevor Belmont:''' The man who'll kill Dracula.
''Castlevania'' is a 2017 animated series for Creator/{{Netflix}} produced by Creator/FrederatorStudios and animated by Powerhouse Animation Studios. It's based on the ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' series of games, specifically the prequel ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaIIIDraculasCurse'' with elements of ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight'' thrown in.
As such, it deals with Trevor Belmont (Creator/RichardArmitage), the last living member of the disgraced Belmont clan of superpowered vampire slayers. When darkness in the form of {{Dracula}} (Creator/GrahamMcTavish) appears in Eastern Europe, Trevor must take a stand to continue his family's tradition of killing the Prince of Evil...
The series is written by Creator/WarrenEllis and produced by [[Film/TheGrey Adi]] [[Film/{{Dredd}} Shankar]]. Season 1, consisting of four 22-minute episodes, premiered on July 7, 2017. A second season of eight episodes has been greenlit and is in production.
Witness [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIMrFnl5NiA the first teaser]], if you dare.
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!!Tropes include:
* AccompliceByInaction:
** The reason Dracula decides all of Wallachia has to pay for Lisa's execution. The Bishop burned her at the stake, but the people, even those who knew it was wrong, didn't dare speak up.
** Trevor [[NotSoDifferent feels the same way]], telling the Speakers' Elder that by not speaking out against the Church, the populace is just as to blame for the Belmonts' excommunication and the Speakers' current situation.
* ActionGirl: Sypha, a sorceress with mastery over the elements. Although instead of being a member of the Church, she's the granddaughter of the Elder for a group of Speakers, a nomadic people who search and preserve oral history over written history.
* AdaptationalBadass: Lisa of Lupu Village. She traveled all the way to Dracula's castle, which was at that time stationed in a barren wasteland littered with skeletons on pikes, just to try and convince him to teach her science so she could become a proper doctor.
* AdaptationalJerkass: Zigzagged with Trevor. In the classic continuity games, the Belmonts were upstanding heroes who, despite the Church's actions, never wavered when there was evil to be fought. Here, Trevor is a bitter and foul-mouthed loner who, to put it bluntly, clings to past victories and holds a grudge against everyone. He eventually snaps out of it and proceeds to save Gresit from both the corrupt church's influence and Dracula's minions.
* AdaptationalVillainy: In the original games, the Church played a very minor supporting role in the story (Sypha herself worked as their agent instead of being a nomadic scholar) and outside of exiling the Belmonts, they were never actual enemies. In the series proper, one of their members is responsible for kicking off the plot in the first place by executing Lisa, their exceptional corruption is emphasized and they serve as secondary antagonists for Season 1.
* AdaptationDyeJob: Sypha's hair is more of a strawberry blonde hue than the game's bright flaxen tone, while Alucard's is a darker shade of blonde instead of the platinum blond seen in Ayami Kojima's character art from ''Symphony of the Night'' or the jet black seen in the original ''Dracula's Curse''.
* AdaptedOut:
** This appears to be the fate of Grant Danasty. As of the end of the first season, Grant is the only one of Trevor's companions from the game not to show up, nor has he been featured in any form of advertisement for the series. ''However'', Grant was the last of the foursome to be introduced in the game and so far, all of Trevor's allies have been introduced exactly like in the game (Sypha turned to stone by the cyclops, Alucard sleeping in isolation), and given how the show's been confirmed to have at least one more season, Grant could appear in Season 2 when the team reaches the Clocktower.
** A minor one, but at no point does "wall chicken" make an appearance in Season 1. The closest to the infamous recurring health item is when Trevor buys a piece of dried goat meat for breakfast after entering Gresit.
* TheAlcoholic: Due to the Church excommunicating the Belmont family and destroying their ancestral home, Trevor Belmont has spent his days since then as a vagrant wandering the land from tavern to tavern, spending what little remains of his family fortune on booze.
* AnachronismStew: In spite of the game/animation being set in 1476, there are many present-time elements thrown in, like intricate machinery that raises Alucard's coffin, or the electric lights in the Cyclops' catacomb lair. Although this is explained in-universe; the reason Lisa comes to Dracula's castle is that he has scientific knowledge beyond that of regular humans. With that said, this is on par with the games as a whole, which feature futuristic technology outside of the time period any given game is supposed to be set in.
* AnimatedAdaptation: Of ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaIIIDraculasCurse''.
* {{Animesque}}: Considering what Frederator Studios' [[WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents other]], [[WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot more]] [[WesternAnimation/ChalkZone well-known]] [[WesternAnimation/AdventureTime titles]] are like, this comes off as a very shocking surprise to anyone expecting something a lot more cartoonish.
* ArcVillain: The Bishop, acting as one for the first season. His witch hunts set the plot in motion with the execution of Lisa Tepes, and he also blames the Speakers for the demon invasion, sending an angry mob after the only people who were trying to fix the situation. Ultimately, Dracula is the bigger threat, [[spoiler: and see BigBadWannabe for what happens to him during the fourth episode.]]
* AxCrazy: As Trevor puts it, the Bishop is beyond insane. A number of the clergy under the Bishop are no better, though there are exceptions.
* BadassBoast:
** Trevor tries one in episode 2, though it doesn't remain impressive for long:
--->'''Trevor:''' I'm Trevor fucking Belmont, and I've never lost a fight to man nor fucking beast! ...[[OhCrap Oh shit]]!
** Trevor gets a more heartfelt one in episode 3:
--->'''Trevor:''' I don't know any of you. But that doesn't matter, does it? [[BadassFamily My family]]: the family you [[HeroWithBadPublicity demonized and excommunicated]], has fought and died through generations for this country. We do this thing... for Wallachia, and her people. We don't have to know you all. [[WeHelpTheHelpless We do it anyway.]] And it's not the dying that frightens us; it's never having stood up and fought for you. I'm Trevor Belmont. Of the House of Belmont. And dying... has ''never'' frightened me.
* BadassSpaniard: Sypha, who has a more pronounced Hispanic accent, which reflects her possible origins from Spain since Belnades was originally written as Velnumdes, believed to be a Japanese corruption of the common Hispanic surname "[[Videogame/Castlevania64 Fernandez]]".
* BarBrawl: Trevor gets into one in the second episode with some drunks who [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer blame the Belmonts for Dracula's evil, even over the other Great Houses and the Church]].
* BigBad: {{Main/Dracula}} is the main antagonist of the show who unleashed the demons to destroy Wallachia.
* BigBadWannabe: [[spoiler:The Bishop is ultimately taken down very easily by Dracula's minions once they find him, shrugging off the idea of God still protecting him, and only bother taking their time killing him because of his direct role in Lisa's death and Dracula's revenge on Wallachia. Otherwise, he's not a threat at all. Even his attempt of killing the Speakers falls apart as soon as Trevor reveals to the mob that the Church was the one responsible for the monster's invasion.]]
* BeardOfEvil: Dracula is rocking [[https://pmcvariety.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/netflix-castlevania-dracula.png a downright sinister one.]]
* BerserkButton: Trevor is barely able to conceal the fact that he's a Belmont when he hears patrons at a bar dragging his family's name through the mud.
* BestialityIsDepraved: A story recounted by Bosha the goat herder near the end of the first episode, wherein he blinded someone by bashing them across the eyes with his shovel after finding them "fucking [one of his goats] to within an inch of its life".
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Alucard, Trevor, and Sypha, respectively.
* BloodierAndGorier: Than anything put out by Frederator Studios in the past. The very first episode includes wanton slaughter of civilians, including women and children, complete with blood, gore, and entrails lining the streets.
* BoyishShortHair: Unlike the game, where Sypha has long hair she keeps hidden in her robes, this incarnation has her hair cut short.
* BystanderSyndrome: Brought up throughout the first season: Dracula blames "innocent" humans for doing nothing to save his wife from being burned at the stake, and Trevor paraphrases a line from Edmund Burke about how evil can succeed when good people do nothing when lamenting the fate of the Belmont clan.
* CallBack: In the first episode, Trevor is kicked in the testicles twice during a bar fight. In the fourth, he attempts the same on Alucard, who dryly states, "Please. This isn't a bar fight. Have some class."
* CanonForeigner:
** Played with, in regards to Sypha's backstory. She was originally an agent of the Church in the games, but here she's a member of a group of nomadic scholars called the Codrii Speakers, who are an original creation made for the animated series.
** The Bishop responsible for burning Lisa and kicking off the plot in the first place was also created solely for the series.
* ChristianityIsCatholic: A rather egregious instance, considering that the majority of real life Romanian citizenry is Eastern Orthodox. Although it's stated that the region's clergy has become corrupt and self-righteous. The Bishop's smug InfoDump as Trevor leaves the Church reveals that he's planning on using Dracula's invasion to rebuild the clergy into his own vision of how the Church was supposed to be. Hell, the only reason was sent to Gresit in the first place was a "difference in clerical discipline" between him and the Archbishop.
* ClusterFBomb: Most of the characters drop these when they speak, especially Trevor.
* CombatPragmatist: Trevor, when he's stone-cold sober. During his duel with Alucard, he tries to [[GroinAttack knee him in the groin]], and [[NoSell when that doesn't work]], headbutts him.
* CorruptChurch: It'd be easier to list the amount of times the Church ''didn't'' fuck up in a colossal way or pin the blame on the wrong people just for being different [[spoiler: which is exactly ''once'' when Trevor commissions a local priest to consecrate some holy water during the nightly demon raid]]. It also didn't help their reputation with the fact that the Catholic Church in Wallachia was ''directly'' responsible for Dracula putting a death sentence on the human race when they burned Lisa at the stake for being a witch. [[spoiler: Even the show's equivalent of ''Pazuzu'' calls out just how corrupt and self-righteous the Church has become, claiming that their actions makes God puke before biting the Bishop's head off.]]
* CrapsackWorld: Wallachia turns into quite the hellhole after Dracula unleashes his legions upon it. Most of the major cities have fallen, and the ones that haven't are ruled over by a corrupt church that shift the blame for nightly raids by monsters on whatever targets can be conveniently labeled as heretics.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Than anything from the video game series up to this point. Not even the ''Lords of Shadow'' games, in terms of being dark and edgy, can top the Netflix series. Most of this is due a rather heaping helping of gore, swearing, and InfantImmortality being very, ''very'' averted. To put it in perspective, even the darkest moment of ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsOfShadow2'' where Dracula butchers a family to regain his youth [[GoryDiscretionShot couldn't be depicted explicitly]], while the innocent deaths are shown very ''casually'' in this show. This also counts for Frederator Studios in general. Before ''Castlevania'', they mostly did children friendly shows for kids' networks. This cartoon of course is anything ''but'' kid friendly.
* DeadpanSnarker:
** Trevor, all the way. It might seem that the man has an untold stash of caustic remarks reserved for every occasion.
** Sypha dabbles in this, too. See ToiletHumour.
* DeathOfAChild: Not even children are spared the wrath of Dracula's hordes. One goblin is seen [[EatsBabies carrying a dead baby in its mouth]].
* DefeatEqualsExplosion: A solid hit from Trevor's whip will cause demons to swell and explode.
* DevilButNoGod: Averted. Dracula's minions acknowledge the presence of God, but take delight in lecturing the Bishop that because of the Bishop's hubris and self righteous actions, he is beyond God's protection.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: Season 1 ends with Trevor's fight with Alucard, although Blue Fangs -- who is fought just before -- is more fitting an example of this, as Alucard's battle with Trevor is more or less a SecretTestOfCharacter.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Dracula decides to exterminate the population of Wallachia for the execution of his wife, Lisa. While Dracula is understandably upset at his wife's death, his own son Alucard points out that the former's revenge will kill many more people who were just as innocent as Lisa. It's just that Dracula doesn't care.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Lisa, a woman who wanted to heal people and make the world a better place, is brutally executed for heresy. Her last words are "Forgive them, they don't know what they're doing."
* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:Blue Fangs makes it very clear that the Bishop, and the Church as a whole, ''completely'' disgusts him, and that they shame God.]]
* EyeScream:
** When fighting one of the Bishop's men, Trevor slashes him across his left eye, plucking it out. Later, [[AssholeVictim the poor bastard]] gets shot in the ''other'' eye with an arrow fired by a fellow priest.
** Unsurprisingly, the Cyclops is killed after being stabbed in its single eye.
* FemmeFatalons: The Targoviste Archbishop has these and, as expected, he's a fanatic who decides to ''celebrate'' the one-year anniversary of Lisa's death.
* {{Fingore}}: Trevor removes a priest's finger when disarming him with Vampire Killer. He apologizes profusely as he was only trying to pull his stave away:
-->'''Priest:''' WHAT FUCKING FINGER!?
* FlashStep: Alucard performs a few to hit Trevor from behind. It's recognizable as his signature backstab skill when wielding his personal sword in the games, BattleAura and all.
* FollowInMyFootsteps: Lampshaded by Alucard when discussing why he (and indirectly Trevor) feel they must stop Dracula:
-->'''Alucard:''' Why? Because it is what my mother would have wanted. And we are all, in the end, slaves to our families' wishes.
* ForegoneConclusion: [[spoiler: If this series sticks to the video game canon, Trevor will defeat Dracula. He will then marry Sypha, and their progeny will carry on the Belmont tradition of vampire hunters.]]
* TheFundamentalist: The Bishop is utterly convinced that anyone not directly in service to the Church (like the Belmonts or the Speakers) is an evil heretic that must be destroyed. Also, he sees himself as the ultimate religious authority in Wallachia due to all the other major cities being destroyed by Dracula's forces.
* GodzillaThreshold: The Belmont family was sent away from the land because of their superpowered nature. Who else, but a Belmont could defeat Dracula?
* {{Gorn}}: In the first episode alone, Dracula's legions are shown horrifically eviscerating people, tearing them to shreds and strewing their remains through the streets. Gresit, as shown in the second episode, is similarly decorated in blood, corpses, and body parts.
* GreaterScopeVillain: Vlad Dracula Tepes, who barely shows up in the first season, leaving the Belmont fighting and countryside terrorizing to lesser antagonists.
* GroinAttack:
** Happens to Trevor a couple of times during his BarBrawl:
-->'''Trevor:''' Please leave my testicles alone!
** Trevor tries one on Alucard during their fight. [[BallsOfSteel It doesn't work]]:
-->'''Alucard:''' Please. This isn't a bar fight. Have some class.
* HateSink: The Bishop is designed to be as deeply unlikeable as possible. He's a hypocritical, self-righteous fundamentalist who is directly responsible for bringing Dracula's wrath down on Wallachia (by personally arranging for Lisa to be burned at the stake), and spends the rest of the season using anyone not affiliated with the Church (from the Belmonts to the Speakers) as scapegoats. It's even heavily hinted that part of him is secretly ''glad'' that Dracula's army has devastated Wallachia so badly, since it gives him more authority over the surviving populace in his mad quest to "burn out" every sin in the country.
* HeartbrokenBadass: Dracula loved Lisa deeply. When he learned that she was killed as a heretic, he damned humanity as a whole and sent his legions out to commit wholesale genocide.
* HeroAntagonist: Alucard duels with Trevor after being discovered in the catacombs by him because the latter figured out the former is a vampire, and therefore must be evil. However, Alucard only got trapped there in the first place because he tried to stop his father from unleashing his demonic army and when the duel reaches a draw, he agrees to help Trevor and Sypha to fight Dracula.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: The Belmonts were excommunicated by the church for their dealings in magic when fighting the forces of darkness. Trevor carries this stigma with him. Similarly, the Speakers, including Sypha, are blamed by the church for attracting Dracula's legion, with the bishop whipping the people of Gresit into an AngryMob to kill them.
* HolyBurnsEvil: Holy water and Sypha's magic ice walls burn Dracula's demons, while Trevor's consecrated whip causes them to ''explode''.
* HumansAreBastards: What Dracula wholeheartedly believes. He didn't have much love for humans before he met Lisa, but once she died as a witch, all bets were off. When Alucard attempts to talk Dracula down, claiming that his wrath will kill a lot of innocent people, Dracula snaps at him, showing how useless talking has become:
-->'''Dracula:''' There ARE no innocents! Not anymore!
* HumanShield: Trevor uses the KnifeNut priest as one when another tries shooting him with arrows.
* IdiotBall:
** The people of Wallachia's reaction to Dracula's one year deadline to make their peace with God is to completely ignore it, and hold a celebration on the anniversary of Lisa's death. Dracula is ''not'' amused, has his castle erupt from the ground and destroy the Targoviste cathedral, and releases an army of demons which kill everyone in town and begin to raze the countryside. This is actually TruthInTelevision since people during the Dark Ages, especially those in high positions of power, were very arrogant and did a lot of dumb things:
-->'''Dracula:''' One year. I gave you one year to make your peace with your God. And what do you do? ''Celebrate the day you killed my wife''. One year I gave you, while I assembled my armies. And now I bring your death. You had your chance.
** [[spoiler:Dracula's goblins embrace this in the last episode. They're giant flying demons who were previously shown to effortlessly overpower any human, and yet, apparently, being ''walled in'' by Sypha's Blue Splash was enough to make them suicide-charge the pikemen.]]
* ImpoverishedPatrician: Trevor Belmont, last member of the fallen noble house, who wanders the countryside with nothing more than a satchel of diminishing coins in his pocket.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler:The Bishop is devoured by demons inside his own church, as one calmly explains that even God is disgusted with him.]]
* KillItWithWater: Trevor has a priest gather water to make into holy water, which burns Dracula's goblins.
* KnightTemplar: The Bishop is obsessed with burning out his view of sin. Whenever someone rises up with a different belief, he condemns them as a heretic that is harming society and seeks to have them killed. He sees the church as the highest authority and uses the chaos brought by Dracula to rise up in the ranks. Trevor himself is taken aback not just by the man's cruelty, but by the utter conviction he has in his deluded morality.
* LateArrivalSpoiler: They stop hiding Sypha's gender soon after her petrification wears off. And rather than having his [[https://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/original/8/87790/1760798-alucard_jpmanual.png original design]] from ''Castlevania III'' Alucard is shown to be a pretty boy like in ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight''.
* TheLegionsOfHell: Dracula's army is composed of demonic creatures that only attack at night and are commanded to slaughter everyone in Wallachia.
* MagicFromTechnology: The source of some of Dracula's powers appears to be this, judging by the clockwork mechanisms within his castle and associated monster lairs.
* MexicanStandoff: The Season 1 finale has one of these between Trevor and Alucard. Alucard is about to bite Trevor's neck, but if he does so Trevor will stake him through the heart.
* MohsScaleOfViolenceHardness: Level 9. There's buckets of blood, and it loves strewing about entrails, but the violence itself isn't particularly intense, making it a fairly light Level 9.
* MyNameIsInigoMontoya: Trevor introduces himself this way when preparing to face off with the Bishop's men. Also, during the bar fight, he says "I'm Trevor fucking Belmont, and I've never lost a fight to man nor fucking beast."
* MythologyGag:
** The poster seen in this page is a near shot-for-shot recreation of the first ''Castlevania'''s [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/04/67/09/04670905d01f645e5df1f6d70ed3bd82.jpg box art,]] albeit with Trevor rather than Simon.
** The pillar of fire Dracula envelopes himself in before teleporting heavily resembles the beam of light he uses in the final battle of ''VideoGame/SuperCastlevaniaIV''.
** Trevor taking off his cloak in the third episode mirrors the opening of the game, where he whips off his cloak after praying.
** Adding into CompositeCharacter, the Cyclops now has an EyeBeam similar to [[VideoGame/CastlevaniaChroniclesOfSorrow Balore]] and Medusa.
** Lisa's death, rather than occurring in the outskirts of a village as seen in Alucard's ''Symphony'' nightmare, now happens in a church, assumed to be the same one seen in the opening of the game.
** When Trevor agrees to recover the body of the Speaker Elder's grandchild, he assumes it's his grand''son''. After finding out said missing grandchild is his grand''[[SamusIsAGirl daughter]]'', he snarks that he wishes the Speakers would quit having their men and women dress the same, with Sypha saying afterwards that it makes it "safer to travel [that way]".
** [[spoiler: Blue Fangs, the demon that kills the Bishop, seems to be the show's equivalent of Pazuzu, who does appear in the game as the Lesser Demon boss]].
** The Speakers are said to have messages from the future, similar to [[VideoGame/CastlevaniaCurseOfDarkness St. Germain]] knowing of the Battle of 1999.
** After entering Gresit, Trevor talks to the various villagers, reminiscent of gathering quest information from [=NPCs=].
** The fourth episode's demon attack seems to parallel the first stage in ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaRondoOfBlood''.
** The Belmont crest that Trevor has on his chest and back is near-identical to the Belmont coat-of-arms from the ''Lords of Shadow'' continuity.
** The series intro has Alucard holding his sword in front of his face, very similar to the box-art for ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight''.
** Episode 1 has a moment where Dracula is framed in such a way that it looks identical to his character image in text boxes from ''Symphony of the Night''.
** In a case of ColourCodedForYourConvenience, the head art director for the show went with using the NES sprite colors as a palette reference while designing Dracula, Trevor, and Sypha to make them more recognizable for fans of the game. Alucard, on the other hand, uses an altered version of his ''Symphony of the Night'' design instead of his NES design.
** Dracula's shadow vampires are clearly based off the Vampire Warriors and Carmilla's monstrous OneWingedAngel design from ''Lords of Shadow''.
** Alucard does one of his special moves from [=SotN=] during his fight with Trevor.
* NeverMyFault: The Bishop throws fault at everybody for Dracula's rampage except himself, even though he was the one who ordered Lisa to be burned at the stake as a witch.
* NoOntologicalInertia: Justified. When the cyclops falls, each of its victims immediately de-petrifies. As Trevor explains, this variety of cyclops uses its magic to ''keep'' its victims in their state because it leaves them conscious and aware of their surroundings so it can feed on their fear. Unfortunately, all the damage done to the "statues" persists when the spell keeping them petrified ends, meaning that the undamaged Sypha was the only one who actually ''survived'' the transition back to flesh-and-blood, while the other statues that were shattered reflect grievous mutilations when reverting back to their true form.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Alucard, who treats his duel with Trevor as a very serious matter and even admonishes him for using a GroinAttack ("Have some class"), finally just ends the fight by punching Trevor square in the face.
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: The Bishop had Dracula's wife burned at the stake and threatens to have the Speakers killed in order to stop Dracula's rampage. However, it's blatant even during Lisa's death that the Bishop is just a cruel man who uses God as an excuse to justify his actions and avoid responsibility for Dracula's wrath. Similarly in regard to killing the Speakers, he seems to genuinely believe that killing them will stop the demon attacks...but then he comments on how saving Gresit will elevate his status in the church, partially by simple virtue of there being fewer and fewer cities of comparable size and importance.
* OneWomanWail: The first teaser (or rather the second half of the teaser) starts off with this.
* OrnamentalWeapon: Subverted. In artwork for the games and even in sprites/renders, Trevor and the other Belmonts carry swords that they never use in gameplay, but here Trevor wields his sword almost as much as the Vampire Killer whip.
* PetTheDog: In what he describes as his last act of kindness, Dracula warns Lisa's neighbor (the one who came to pay respect to her memory) to take her family and flee Wallachia before he destroys it.
* PivotalWakeup: Alucard does this, though not at a classic ninety degree angle; he more or less floats out the coffin.
* PluckyGirl: Lisa. Having exhausted all of her other alternatives, she quite literally bangs her fist on the door of a vampire lord's castle and ''demands'' to be shown the tools of science. Dracula finds her antics amusing.
* ProlongedPrologue: The entire first season is more or less an explanation about the world of ''Castlevania'', where Dracula only appears in the first episode (itself a prologue to what is ''itself'' effectively a prologue), and the quest to kill Dracula only truly begins at the end of the fourth episode -- which is the last of the season. Thankfully, the second season was greenlit the day that the series made its debut on Netflix.
* RainOfBlood: The invasion of Dracula's army is preceded by a rain of blood falling from the skies.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: The Bishop gets a coldly menacing one from Blue Fangs [[spoiler:right before he's devoured ''face first''.]]
-->'''Blue Fangs:''' God is not here... this is an empty box. Your God's love is not unconditional. He does not love us, and He does not love you. Your life's work makes Him puke. Your God knows that we wouldn't be here without you.
* {{Retraux}}: The first teaser begins with someone booting up a UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem version of Netflix to bring up the footage of ''Castlevania''.
* RuggedScar: Trevor has the "cut over one eye" variation on the left side of his face. Alucard has a scar across his chest from his first battle with Dracula.
* SaltSolution: Trevor teaches the villagers to bathe their blades in salt to cut through Dracula's demons.
* SamusIsAGirl: Sypha. However, unlike the NES game which depicted her as a mysterious hooded figure of ambiguous gender, here [[GenderReveal she gets revealed]] early on, as Trevor recognize her for being a woman as soon as she de-petrifies. Her feminine features are more blatant since she rarely puts on her hood.
* TheScapegoat: The Belmonts and the Speakers are both blamed by the church and the populace for inviting Dracula's legion upon them due to their dealings in arcane matters.
* ShamingTheMob: [[spoiler:Trevor manages to turn the mob against the priests rallying them by pointing out that the Bishop was the one to blame for Dracula's war against humanity in the first place.]]
* ShirtlessScene: Alucard awakens wearing only a pair of really tight pants, boots, and nothing else. On top of that, he only stops to pick up his shirt and coat after [[spoiler: his fight with Trevor]], which takes up the majority of the latter half of episode 4.
* ShutUpHannibal: Just as a defeated Blue Fangs is howling at Trevor and Sypha that Dracula has an army of demons, [[spoiler: Trevor shuts him up with a crack of his whip, splitting his head in two.]]
* SinisterMinister: Not just the Bishop, but the priests under his influence. Trevor casually points out that they act rather un-priestly, and for contrast, he later requests [[GoodShepherd an actual, ordained priest]] to come forward and help save Gresit from the demons.
* SkyFace: Dracula, twice. The first time around he uses this trick to give the people of Targoviste a warning, and the next to order his demons to lay waste to all cities of Wallachia.
* TheStoic: Alucard, par for the course with his character. While his father demonstrates his anger by [[TrashTheSet trashing his laboratory]] and loudly declaring that all of Wallachia shall pay, Alucard calmly implores him to let it go as he himself also grieves for his mother's death.
* SympathyForTheDevil: ''Dracula'', of all people. His genocidal rage against the people of Wallachia comes down to revenge for the death of his wife, Lisa, a doctor and woman of science who was burnt alive as a witch while begging for mercy from the people around her. While it's impossible to justify what he does, it does make the ensuing carnage a bit easier to watch considering those people were ''celebrating the anniversary of Lisa's death'' just to spite him.
* TakenForGranite: Sypha is first discovered by Trevor in a petrified state. In contrast to the backstory for the Famicom version, she doesn't seem to be fully aware of being petrified this whole time, although she's aware of how Trevor climbs on her as he use her to boost himself to kill the Cyclops.
* TearsOfBlood: Dracula cries [[MusicalNod bloody tears]] when he learns of Lisa's death.
* TemptingFate: The Archbishop gives a speech to his people to celebrate Lisa's death, and celebrating about how "the Devil's" warning a year prior was a lie. Before he's finished talking, blood starts raining from the sky, and all hell literally breaks loose.
* ToiletHumour: Sypha offers to "pee in a bucket" and pass it off as beer when Trevor asks the Speakers for some.
* TorchesAndPitchforks: The Bishop raises a mob against the Speakers, whom he's blamed for the demon attacks.
* TrainingThePeacefulVillagers: When Dracula's demons attack Griset, Trevor quickly mobilizes the villagers and teaches them how to properly fight the demons by bathing their blades in salt and using holy water to harm them.
* VillainHasAPoint: [[spoiler:Dracula's minions hammer on the Bishop that it was his actions and arrogance that lead to the destruction of Wallachia, not the Speakers... as they are eating him.]]
* VomitDiscretionShot:
** Trevor after leaving the bar.
** Sypha after returning from a stone state.
* WalkTheEarth: Lisa convinces Dracula to "walk as a mortal man" in exchange for teaching her science, even continuing to do so while they were married. It surprises nobody that he stops doing it after she's killed.
* WhipItGood: The signature Vampire Killer can be seen as Trevor's weapon of choice. The wounds it inflicts demonstrate how effective a whip is in a Belmont's hands, as he can use to remove limbs and eyes.
* WoundThatWillNotHeal: The reason Alucard went into a slumber was to heal the wound that Dracula inflicted upon him after he tried to stop him from summoning a demon army. He can regenerate simple wounds well enough, as Trevor later finds out.
* YouDidntAsk: This is Sypha's response when Trevor asks her why she never told him that she has magical abilities.
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[{{Tagline}} In darkness, a hero returns.]]]]
->'''Sypha:''' Who are you?\\
'''Trevor Belmont:''' The man who'll kill Dracula.
''Castlevania'' is a 2017 animated series for Creator/{{Netflix}} produced by Creator/FrederatorStudios and animated by Powerhouse Animation Studios. It's based on the ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' series of games, specifically the prequel ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaIIIDraculasCurse'' with elements of ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight'' thrown in.
As such, it deals with Trevor Belmont (Creator/RichardArmitage), the last living member of the disgraced Belmont clan of superpowered vampire slayers. When darkness in the form of {{Dracula}} (Creator/GrahamMcTavish) appears in Eastern Europe, Trevor must take a stand to continue his family's tradition of killing the Prince of Evil...
The series is written by Creator/WarrenEllis and produced by [[Film/TheGrey Adi]] [[Film/{{Dredd}} Shankar]]. Season 1, consisting of four 22-minute episodes, premiered on July 7, 2017. A second season of eight episodes has been greenlit and is in production.
Witness [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIMrFnl5NiA the first teaser]], if you dare.
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!!Tropes include:
* AccompliceByInaction:
** The reason Dracula decides all of Wallachia has to pay for Lisa's execution. The Bishop burned her at the stake, but the people, even those who knew it was wrong, didn't dare speak up.
** Trevor [[NotSoDifferent feels the same way]], telling the Speakers' Elder that by not speaking out against the Church, the populace is just as to blame for the Belmonts' excommunication and the Speakers' current situation.
* ActionGirl: Sypha, a sorceress with mastery over the elements. Although instead of being a member of the Church, she's the granddaughter of the Elder for a group of Speakers, a nomadic people who search and preserve oral history over written history.
* AdaptationalBadass: Lisa of Lupu Village. She traveled all the way to Dracula's castle, which was at that time stationed in a barren wasteland littered with skeletons on pikes, just to try and convince him to teach her science so she could become a proper doctor.
* AdaptationalJerkass: Zigzagged with Trevor. In the classic continuity games, the Belmonts were upstanding heroes who, despite the Church's actions, never wavered when there was evil to be fought. Here, Trevor is a bitter and foul-mouthed loner who, to put it bluntly, clings to past victories and holds a grudge against everyone. He eventually snaps out of it and proceeds to save Gresit from both the corrupt church's influence and Dracula's minions.
* AdaptationalVillainy: In the original games, the Church played a very minor supporting role in the story (Sypha herself worked as their agent instead of being a nomadic scholar) and outside of exiling the Belmonts, they were never actual enemies. In the series proper, one of their members is responsible for kicking off the plot in the first place by executing Lisa, their exceptional corruption is emphasized and they serve as secondary antagonists for Season 1.
* AdaptationDyeJob: Sypha's hair is more of a strawberry blonde hue than the game's bright flaxen tone, while Alucard's is a darker shade of blonde instead of the platinum blond seen in Ayami Kojima's character art from ''Symphony of the Night'' or the jet black seen in the original ''Dracula's Curse''.
* AdaptedOut:
** This appears to be the fate of Grant Danasty. As of the end of the first season, Grant is the only one of Trevor's companions from the game not to show up, nor has he been featured in any form of advertisement for the series. ''However'', Grant was the last of the foursome to be introduced in the game and so far, all of Trevor's allies have been introduced exactly like in the game (Sypha turned to stone by the cyclops, Alucard sleeping in isolation), and given how the show's been confirmed to have at least one more season, Grant could appear in Season 2 when the team reaches the Clocktower.
** A minor one, but at no point does "wall chicken" make an appearance in Season 1. The closest to the infamous recurring health item is when Trevor buys a piece of dried goat meat for breakfast after entering Gresit.
* TheAlcoholic: Due to the Church excommunicating the Belmont family and destroying their ancestral home, Trevor Belmont has spent his days since then as a vagrant wandering the land from tavern to tavern, spending what little remains of his family fortune on booze.
* AnachronismStew: In spite of the game/animation being set in 1476, there are many present-time elements thrown in, like intricate machinery that raises Alucard's coffin, or the electric lights in the Cyclops' catacomb lair. Although this is explained in-universe; the reason Lisa comes to Dracula's castle is that he has scientific knowledge beyond that of regular humans. With that said, this is on par with the games as a whole, which feature futuristic technology outside of the time period any given game is supposed to be set in.
* AnimatedAdaptation: Of ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaIIIDraculasCurse''.
* {{Animesque}}: Considering what Frederator Studios' [[WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents other]], [[WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot more]] [[WesternAnimation/ChalkZone well-known]] [[WesternAnimation/AdventureTime titles]] are like, this comes off as a very shocking surprise to anyone expecting something a lot more cartoonish.
* ArcVillain: The Bishop, acting as one for the first season. His witch hunts set the plot in motion with the execution of Lisa Tepes, and he also blames the Speakers for the demon invasion, sending an angry mob after the only people who were trying to fix the situation. Ultimately, Dracula is the bigger threat, [[spoiler: and see BigBadWannabe for what happens to him during the fourth episode.]]
* AxCrazy: As Trevor puts it, the Bishop is beyond insane. A number of the clergy under the Bishop are no better, though there are exceptions.
* BadassBoast:
** Trevor tries one in episode 2, though it doesn't remain impressive for long:
--->'''Trevor:''' I'm Trevor fucking Belmont, and I've never lost a fight to man nor fucking beast! ...[[OhCrap Oh shit]]!
** Trevor gets a more heartfelt one in episode 3:
--->'''Trevor:''' I don't know any of you. But that doesn't matter, does it? [[BadassFamily My family]]: the family you [[HeroWithBadPublicity demonized and excommunicated]], has fought and died through generations for this country. We do this thing... for Wallachia, and her people. We don't have to know you all. [[WeHelpTheHelpless We do it anyway.]] And it's not the dying that frightens us; it's never having stood up and fought for you. I'm Trevor Belmont. Of the House of Belmont. And dying... has ''never'' frightened me.
* BadassSpaniard: Sypha, who has a more pronounced Hispanic accent, which reflects her possible origins from Spain since Belnades was originally written as Velnumdes, believed to be a Japanese corruption of the common Hispanic surname "[[Videogame/Castlevania64 Fernandez]]".
* BarBrawl: Trevor gets into one in the second episode with some drunks who [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer blame the Belmonts for Dracula's evil, even over the other Great Houses and the Church]].
* BigBad: {{Main/Dracula}} is the main antagonist of the show who unleashed the demons to destroy Wallachia.
* BigBadWannabe: [[spoiler:The Bishop is ultimately taken down very easily by Dracula's minions once they find him, shrugging off the idea of God still protecting him, and only bother taking their time killing him because of his direct role in Lisa's death and Dracula's revenge on Wallachia. Otherwise, he's not a threat at all. Even his attempt of killing the Speakers falls apart as soon as Trevor reveals to the mob that the Church was the one responsible for the monster's invasion.]]
* BeardOfEvil: Dracula is rocking [[https://pmcvariety.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/netflix-castlevania-dracula.png a downright sinister one.]]
* BerserkButton: Trevor is barely able to conceal the fact that he's a Belmont when he hears patrons at a bar dragging his family's name through the mud.
* BestialityIsDepraved: A story recounted by Bosha the goat herder near the end of the first episode, wherein he blinded someone by bashing them across the eyes with his shovel after finding them "fucking [one of his goats] to within an inch of its life".
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Alucard, Trevor, and Sypha, respectively.
* BloodierAndGorier: Than anything put out by Frederator Studios in the past. The very first episode includes wanton slaughter of civilians, including women and children, complete with blood, gore, and entrails lining the streets.
* BoyishShortHair: Unlike the game, where Sypha has long hair she keeps hidden in her robes, this incarnation has her hair cut short.
* BystanderSyndrome: Brought up throughout the first season: Dracula blames "innocent" humans for doing nothing to save his wife from being burned at the stake, and Trevor paraphrases a line from Edmund Burke about how evil can succeed when good people do nothing when lamenting the fate of the Belmont clan.
* CallBack: In the first episode, Trevor is kicked in the testicles twice during a bar fight. In the fourth, he attempts the same on Alucard, who dryly states, "Please. This isn't a bar fight. Have some class."
* CanonForeigner:
** Played with, in regards to Sypha's backstory. She was originally an agent of the Church in the games, but here she's a member of a group of nomadic scholars called the Codrii Speakers, who are an original creation made for the animated series.
** The Bishop responsible for burning Lisa and kicking off the plot in the first place was also created solely for the series.
* ChristianityIsCatholic: A rather egregious instance, considering that the majority of real life Romanian citizenry is Eastern Orthodox. Although it's stated that the region's clergy has become corrupt and self-righteous. The Bishop's smug InfoDump as Trevor leaves the Church reveals that he's planning on using Dracula's invasion to rebuild the clergy into his own vision of how the Church was supposed to be. Hell, the only reason was sent to Gresit in the first place was a "difference in clerical discipline" between him and the Archbishop.
* ClusterFBomb: Most of the characters drop these when they speak, especially Trevor.
* CombatPragmatist: Trevor, when he's stone-cold sober. During his duel with Alucard, he tries to [[GroinAttack knee him in the groin]], and [[NoSell when that doesn't work]], headbutts him.
* CorruptChurch: It'd be easier to list the amount of times the Church ''didn't'' fuck up in a colossal way or pin the blame on the wrong people just for being different [[spoiler: which is exactly ''once'' when Trevor commissions a local priest to consecrate some holy water during the nightly demon raid]]. It also didn't help their reputation with the fact that the Catholic Church in Wallachia was ''directly'' responsible for Dracula putting a death sentence on the human race when they burned Lisa at the stake for being a witch. [[spoiler: Even the show's equivalent of ''Pazuzu'' calls out just how corrupt and self-righteous the Church has become, claiming that their actions makes God puke before biting the Bishop's head off.]]
* CrapsackWorld: Wallachia turns into quite the hellhole after Dracula unleashes his legions upon it. Most of the major cities have fallen, and the ones that haven't are ruled over by a corrupt church that shift the blame for nightly raids by monsters on whatever targets can be conveniently labeled as heretics.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Than anything from the video game series up to this point. Not even the ''Lords of Shadow'' games, in terms of being dark and edgy, can top the Netflix series. Most of this is due a rather heaping helping of gore, swearing, and InfantImmortality being very, ''very'' averted. To put it in perspective, even the darkest moment of ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsOfShadow2'' where Dracula butchers a family to regain his youth [[GoryDiscretionShot couldn't be depicted explicitly]], while the innocent deaths are shown very ''casually'' in this show. This also counts for Frederator Studios in general. Before ''Castlevania'', they mostly did children friendly shows for kids' networks. This cartoon of course is anything ''but'' kid friendly.
* DeadpanSnarker:
** Trevor, all the way. It might seem that the man has an untold stash of caustic remarks reserved for every occasion.
** Sypha dabbles in this, too. See ToiletHumour.
* DeathOfAChild: Not even children are spared the wrath of Dracula's hordes. One goblin is seen [[EatsBabies carrying a dead baby in its mouth]].
* DefeatEqualsExplosion: A solid hit from Trevor's whip will cause demons to swell and explode.
* DevilButNoGod: Averted. Dracula's minions acknowledge the presence of God, but take delight in lecturing the Bishop that because of the Bishop's hubris and self righteous actions, he is beyond God's protection.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: Season 1 ends with Trevor's fight with Alucard, although Blue Fangs -- who is fought just before -- is more fitting an example of this, as Alucard's battle with Trevor is more or less a SecretTestOfCharacter.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Dracula decides to exterminate the population of Wallachia for the execution of his wife, Lisa. While Dracula is understandably upset at his wife's death, his own son Alucard points out that the former's revenge will kill many more people who were just as innocent as Lisa. It's just that Dracula doesn't care.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Lisa, a woman who wanted to heal people and make the world a better place, is brutally executed for heresy. Her last words are "Forgive them, they don't know what they're doing."
* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:Blue Fangs makes it very clear that the Bishop, and the Church as a whole, ''completely'' disgusts him, and that they shame God.]]
* EyeScream:
** When fighting one of the Bishop's men, Trevor slashes him across his left eye, plucking it out. Later, [[AssholeVictim the poor bastard]] gets shot in the ''other'' eye with an arrow fired by a fellow priest.
** Unsurprisingly, the Cyclops is killed after being stabbed in its single eye.
* FemmeFatalons: The Targoviste Archbishop has these and, as expected, he's a fanatic who decides to ''celebrate'' the one-year anniversary of Lisa's death.
* {{Fingore}}: Trevor removes a priest's finger when disarming him with Vampire Killer. He apologizes profusely as he was only trying to pull his stave away:
-->'''Priest:''' WHAT FUCKING FINGER!?
* FlashStep: Alucard performs a few to hit Trevor from behind. It's recognizable as his signature backstab skill when wielding his personal sword in the games, BattleAura and all.
* FollowInMyFootsteps: Lampshaded by Alucard when discussing why he (and indirectly Trevor) feel they must stop Dracula:
-->'''Alucard:''' Why? Because it is what my mother would have wanted. And we are all, in the end, slaves to our families' wishes.
* ForegoneConclusion: [[spoiler: If this series sticks to the video game canon, Trevor will defeat Dracula. He will then marry Sypha, and their progeny will carry on the Belmont tradition of vampire hunters.]]
* TheFundamentalist: The Bishop is utterly convinced that anyone not directly in service to the Church (like the Belmonts or the Speakers) is an evil heretic that must be destroyed. Also, he sees himself as the ultimate religious authority in Wallachia due to all the other major cities being destroyed by Dracula's forces.
* GodzillaThreshold: The Belmont family was sent away from the land because of their superpowered nature. Who else, but a Belmont could defeat Dracula?
* {{Gorn}}: In the first episode alone, Dracula's legions are shown horrifically eviscerating people, tearing them to shreds and strewing their remains through the streets. Gresit, as shown in the second episode, is similarly decorated in blood, corpses, and body parts.
* GreaterScopeVillain: Vlad Dracula Tepes, who barely shows up in the first season, leaving the Belmont fighting and countryside terrorizing to lesser antagonists.
* GroinAttack:
** Happens to Trevor a couple of times during his BarBrawl:
-->'''Trevor:''' Please leave my testicles alone!
** Trevor tries one on Alucard during their fight. [[BallsOfSteel It doesn't work]]:
-->'''Alucard:''' Please. This isn't a bar fight. Have some class.
* HateSink: The Bishop is designed to be as deeply unlikeable as possible. He's a hypocritical, self-righteous fundamentalist who is directly responsible for bringing Dracula's wrath down on Wallachia (by personally arranging for Lisa to be burned at the stake), and spends the rest of the season using anyone not affiliated with the Church (from the Belmonts to the Speakers) as scapegoats. It's even heavily hinted that part of him is secretly ''glad'' that Dracula's army has devastated Wallachia so badly, since it gives him more authority over the surviving populace in his mad quest to "burn out" every sin in the country.
* HeartbrokenBadass: Dracula loved Lisa deeply. When he learned that she was killed as a heretic, he damned humanity as a whole and sent his legions out to commit wholesale genocide.
* HeroAntagonist: Alucard duels with Trevor after being discovered in the catacombs by him because the latter figured out the former is a vampire, and therefore must be evil. However, Alucard only got trapped there in the first place because he tried to stop his father from unleashing his demonic army and when the duel reaches a draw, he agrees to help Trevor and Sypha to fight Dracula.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: The Belmonts were excommunicated by the church for their dealings in magic when fighting the forces of darkness. Trevor carries this stigma with him. Similarly, the Speakers, including Sypha, are blamed by the church for attracting Dracula's legion, with the bishop whipping the people of Gresit into an AngryMob to kill them.
* HolyBurnsEvil: Holy water and Sypha's magic ice walls burn Dracula's demons, while Trevor's consecrated whip causes them to ''explode''.
* HumansAreBastards: What Dracula wholeheartedly believes. He didn't have much love for humans before he met Lisa, but once she died as a witch, all bets were off. When Alucard attempts to talk Dracula down, claiming that his wrath will kill a lot of innocent people, Dracula snaps at him, showing how useless talking has become:
-->'''Dracula:''' There ARE no innocents! Not anymore!
* HumanShield: Trevor uses the KnifeNut priest as one when another tries shooting him with arrows.
* IdiotBall:
** The people of Wallachia's reaction to Dracula's one year deadline to make their peace with God is to completely ignore it, and hold a celebration on the anniversary of Lisa's death. Dracula is ''not'' amused, has his castle erupt from the ground and destroy the Targoviste cathedral, and releases an army of demons which kill everyone in town and begin to raze the countryside. This is actually TruthInTelevision since people during the Dark Ages, especially those in high positions of power, were very arrogant and did a lot of dumb things:
-->'''Dracula:''' One year. I gave you one year to make your peace with your God. And what do you do? ''Celebrate the day you killed my wife''. One year I gave you, while I assembled my armies. And now I bring your death. You had your chance.
** [[spoiler:Dracula's goblins embrace this in the last episode. They're giant flying demons who were previously shown to effortlessly overpower any human, and yet, apparently, being ''walled in'' by Sypha's Blue Splash was enough to make them suicide-charge the pikemen.]]
* ImpoverishedPatrician: Trevor Belmont, last member of the fallen noble house, who wanders the countryside with nothing more than a satchel of diminishing coins in his pocket.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler:The Bishop is devoured by demons inside his own church, as one calmly explains that even God is disgusted with him.]]
* KillItWithWater: Trevor has a priest gather water to make into holy water, which burns Dracula's goblins.
* KnightTemplar: The Bishop is obsessed with burning out his view of sin. Whenever someone rises up with a different belief, he condemns them as a heretic that is harming society and seeks to have them killed. He sees the church as the highest authority and uses the chaos brought by Dracula to rise up in the ranks. Trevor himself is taken aback not just by the man's cruelty, but by the utter conviction he has in his deluded morality.
* LateArrivalSpoiler: They stop hiding Sypha's gender soon after her petrification wears off. And rather than having his [[https://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/original/8/87790/1760798-alucard_jpmanual.png original design]] from ''Castlevania III'' Alucard is shown to be a pretty boy like in ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight''.
* TheLegionsOfHell: Dracula's army is composed of demonic creatures that only attack at night and are commanded to slaughter everyone in Wallachia.
* MagicFromTechnology: The source of some of Dracula's powers appears to be this, judging by the clockwork mechanisms within his castle and associated monster lairs.
* MexicanStandoff: The Season 1 finale has one of these between Trevor and Alucard. Alucard is about to bite Trevor's neck, but if he does so Trevor will stake him through the heart.
* MohsScaleOfViolenceHardness: Level 9. There's buckets of blood, and it loves strewing about entrails, but the violence itself isn't particularly intense, making it a fairly light Level 9.
* MyNameIsInigoMontoya: Trevor introduces himself this way when preparing to face off with the Bishop's men. Also, during the bar fight, he says "I'm Trevor fucking Belmont, and I've never lost a fight to man nor fucking beast."
* MythologyGag:
** The poster seen in this page is a near shot-for-shot recreation of the first ''Castlevania'''s [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/04/67/09/04670905d01f645e5df1f6d70ed3bd82.jpg box art,]] albeit with Trevor rather than Simon.
** The pillar of fire Dracula envelopes himself in before teleporting heavily resembles the beam of light he uses in the final battle of ''VideoGame/SuperCastlevaniaIV''.
** Trevor taking off his cloak in the third episode mirrors the opening of the game, where he whips off his cloak after praying.
** Adding into CompositeCharacter, the Cyclops now has an EyeBeam similar to [[VideoGame/CastlevaniaChroniclesOfSorrow Balore]] and Medusa.
** Lisa's death, rather than occurring in the outskirts of a village as seen in Alucard's ''Symphony'' nightmare, now happens in a church, assumed to be the same one seen in the opening of the game.
** When Trevor agrees to recover the body of the Speaker Elder's grandchild, he assumes it's his grand''son''. After finding out said missing grandchild is his grand''[[SamusIsAGirl daughter]]'', he snarks that he wishes the Speakers would quit having their men and women dress the same, with Sypha saying afterwards that it makes it "safer to travel [that way]".
** [[spoiler: Blue Fangs, the demon that kills the Bishop, seems to be the show's equivalent of Pazuzu, who does appear in the game as the Lesser Demon boss]].
** The Speakers are said to have messages from the future, similar to [[VideoGame/CastlevaniaCurseOfDarkness St. Germain]] knowing of the Battle of 1999.
** After entering Gresit, Trevor talks to the various villagers, reminiscent of gathering quest information from [=NPCs=].
** The fourth episode's demon attack seems to parallel the first stage in ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaRondoOfBlood''.
** The Belmont crest that Trevor has on his chest and back is near-identical to the Belmont coat-of-arms from the ''Lords of Shadow'' continuity.
** The series intro has Alucard holding his sword in front of his face, very similar to the box-art for ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight''.
** Episode 1 has a moment where Dracula is framed in such a way that it looks identical to his character image in text boxes from ''Symphony of the Night''.
** In a case of ColourCodedForYourConvenience, the head art director for the show went with using the NES sprite colors as a palette reference while designing Dracula, Trevor, and Sypha to make them more recognizable for fans of the game. Alucard, on the other hand, uses an altered version of his ''Symphony of the Night'' design instead of his NES design.
** Dracula's shadow vampires are clearly based off the Vampire Warriors and Carmilla's monstrous OneWingedAngel design from ''Lords of Shadow''.
** Alucard does one of his special moves from [=SotN=] during his fight with Trevor.
* NeverMyFault: The Bishop throws fault at everybody for Dracula's rampage except himself, even though he was the one who ordered Lisa to be burned at the stake as a witch.
* NoOntologicalInertia: Justified. When the cyclops falls, each of its victims immediately de-petrifies. As Trevor explains, this variety of cyclops uses its magic to ''keep'' its victims in their state because it leaves them conscious and aware of their surroundings so it can feed on their fear. Unfortunately, all the damage done to the "statues" persists when the spell keeping them petrified ends, meaning that the undamaged Sypha was the only one who actually ''survived'' the transition back to flesh-and-blood, while the other statues that were shattered reflect grievous mutilations when reverting back to their true form.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Alucard, who treats his duel with Trevor as a very serious matter and even admonishes him for using a GroinAttack ("Have some class"), finally just ends the fight by punching Trevor square in the face.
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: The Bishop had Dracula's wife burned at the stake and threatens to have the Speakers killed in order to stop Dracula's rampage. However, it's blatant even during Lisa's death that the Bishop is just a cruel man who uses God as an excuse to justify his actions and avoid responsibility for Dracula's wrath. Similarly in regard to killing the Speakers, he seems to genuinely believe that killing them will stop the demon attacks...but then he comments on how saving Gresit will elevate his status in the church, partially by simple virtue of there being fewer and fewer cities of comparable size and importance.
* OneWomanWail: The first teaser (or rather the second half of the teaser) starts off with this.
* OrnamentalWeapon: Subverted. In artwork for the games and even in sprites/renders, Trevor and the other Belmonts carry swords that they never use in gameplay, but here Trevor wields his sword almost as much as the Vampire Killer whip.
* PetTheDog: In what he describes as his last act of kindness, Dracula warns Lisa's neighbor (the one who came to pay respect to her memory) to take her family and flee Wallachia before he destroys it.
* PivotalWakeup: Alucard does this, though not at a classic ninety degree angle; he more or less floats out the coffin.
* PluckyGirl: Lisa. Having exhausted all of her other alternatives, she quite literally bangs her fist on the door of a vampire lord's castle and ''demands'' to be shown the tools of science. Dracula finds her antics amusing.
* ProlongedPrologue: The entire first season is more or less an explanation about the world of ''Castlevania'', where Dracula only appears in the first episode (itself a prologue to what is ''itself'' effectively a prologue), and the quest to kill Dracula only truly begins at the end of the fourth episode -- which is the last of the season. Thankfully, the second season was greenlit the day that the series made its debut on Netflix.
* RainOfBlood: The invasion of Dracula's army is preceded by a rain of blood falling from the skies.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: The Bishop gets a coldly menacing one from Blue Fangs [[spoiler:right before he's devoured ''face first''.]]
-->'''Blue Fangs:''' God is not here... this is an empty box. Your God's love is not unconditional. He does not love us, and He does not love you. Your life's work makes Him puke. Your God knows that we wouldn't be here without you.
* {{Retraux}}: The first teaser begins with someone booting up a UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem version of Netflix to bring up the footage of ''Castlevania''.
* RuggedScar: Trevor has the "cut over one eye" variation on the left side of his face. Alucard has a scar across his chest from his first battle with Dracula.
* SaltSolution: Trevor teaches the villagers to bathe their blades in salt to cut through Dracula's demons.
* SamusIsAGirl: Sypha. However, unlike the NES game which depicted her as a mysterious hooded figure of ambiguous gender, here [[GenderReveal she gets revealed]] early on, as Trevor recognize her for being a woman as soon as she de-petrifies. Her feminine features are more blatant since she rarely puts on her hood.
* TheScapegoat: The Belmonts and the Speakers are both blamed by the church and the populace for inviting Dracula's legion upon them due to their dealings in arcane matters.
* ShamingTheMob: [[spoiler:Trevor manages to turn the mob against the priests rallying them by pointing out that the Bishop was the one to blame for Dracula's war against humanity in the first place.]]
* ShirtlessScene: Alucard awakens wearing only a pair of really tight pants, boots, and nothing else. On top of that, he only stops to pick up his shirt and coat after [[spoiler: his fight with Trevor]], which takes up the majority of the latter half of episode 4.
* ShutUpHannibal: Just as a defeated Blue Fangs is howling at Trevor and Sypha that Dracula has an army of demons, [[spoiler: Trevor shuts him up with a crack of his whip, splitting his head in two.]]
* SinisterMinister: Not just the Bishop, but the priests under his influence. Trevor casually points out that they act rather un-priestly, and for contrast, he later requests [[GoodShepherd an actual, ordained priest]] to come forward and help save Gresit from the demons.
* SkyFace: Dracula, twice. The first time around he uses this trick to give the people of Targoviste a warning, and the next to order his demons to lay waste to all cities of Wallachia.
* TheStoic: Alucard, par for the course with his character. While his father demonstrates his anger by [[TrashTheSet trashing his laboratory]] and loudly declaring that all of Wallachia shall pay, Alucard calmly implores him to let it go as he himself also grieves for his mother's death.
* SympathyForTheDevil: ''Dracula'', of all people. His genocidal rage against the people of Wallachia comes down to revenge for the death of his wife, Lisa, a doctor and woman of science who was burnt alive as a witch while begging for mercy from the people around her. While it's impossible to justify what he does, it does make the ensuing carnage a bit easier to watch considering those people were ''celebrating the anniversary of Lisa's death'' just to spite him.
* TakenForGranite: Sypha is first discovered by Trevor in a petrified state. In contrast to the backstory for the Famicom version, she doesn't seem to be fully aware of being petrified this whole time, although she's aware of how Trevor climbs on her as he use her to boost himself to kill the Cyclops.
* TearsOfBlood: Dracula cries [[MusicalNod bloody tears]] when he learns of Lisa's death.
* TemptingFate: The Archbishop gives a speech to his people to celebrate Lisa's death, and celebrating about how "the Devil's" warning a year prior was a lie. Before he's finished talking, blood starts raining from the sky, and all hell literally breaks loose.
* ToiletHumour: Sypha offers to "pee in a bucket" and pass it off as beer when Trevor asks the Speakers for some.
* TorchesAndPitchforks: The Bishop raises a mob against the Speakers, whom he's blamed for the demon attacks.
* TrainingThePeacefulVillagers: When Dracula's demons attack Griset, Trevor quickly mobilizes the villagers and teaches them how to properly fight the demons by bathing their blades in salt and using holy water to harm them.
* VillainHasAPoint: [[spoiler:Dracula's minions hammer on the Bishop that it was his actions and arrogance that lead to the destruction of Wallachia, not the Speakers... as they are eating him.]]
* VomitDiscretionShot:
** Trevor after leaving the bar.
** Sypha after returning from a stone state.
* WalkTheEarth: Lisa convinces Dracula to "walk as a mortal man" in exchange for teaching her science, even continuing to do so while they were married. It surprises nobody that he stops doing it after she's killed.
* WhipItGood: The signature Vampire Killer can be seen as Trevor's weapon of choice. The wounds it inflicts demonstrate how effective a whip is in a Belmont's hands, as he can use to remove limbs and eyes.
* WoundThatWillNotHeal: The reason Alucard went into a slumber was to heal the wound that Dracula inflicted upon him after he tried to stop him from summoning a demon army. He can regenerate simple wounds well enough, as Trevor later finds out.
* YouDidntAsk: This is Sypha's response when Trevor asks her why she never told him that she has magical abilities.
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* AccompliceByInaction: The reason Dracula decides all of Wallachia has to pay for Lisa's execution. The Bishop burned her at the stake, but the people, even those who knew it was wrong, didn't dare speak up.
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* AccompliceByInaction: AccompliceByInaction:
** The reason Dracula decides all of Wallachia has to pay for Lisa's execution. The Bishop burned her at the stake, but the people, even those who knew it was wrong, didn't dare speakup.up.
** Trevor [[NotSoDifferent feels the same way]], telling the Speakers' Elder that by not speaking out against the Church, the populace is just as to blame for the Belmonts' excommunication and the Speakers' current situation.
** The reason Dracula decides all of Wallachia has to pay for Lisa's execution. The Bishop burned her at the stake, but the people, even those who knew it was wrong, didn't dare speak
** Trevor [[NotSoDifferent feels the same way]], telling the Speakers' Elder that by not speaking out against the Church, the populace is just as to blame for the Belmonts' excommunication and the Speakers' current situation.
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* DefeatEqualsExplosion: A solid hit from Trevor's whip will cause demons to swell and explode.
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* SaltSolution: Trevor teaches the villagers to bathe their blades in salt to cut through Dracula's demons.
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* TheScapegoat: The Belmonts and the Speakers are both blamed by the church and the populace for inviting Dracula's legion upon them due to their dealings in arcane matters.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: Sypha's hair is more of a strawberry blonde hue than the game's bright flaxen tone, while Alucard's is a darker shade of blonde instead of the platinum blond seen in Ayami Kojima's character art from ''Symphony of the Night''.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: Sypha's hair is more of a strawberry blonde hue than the game's bright flaxen tone, while Alucard's is a darker shade of blonde instead of the platinum blond seen in Ayami Kojima's character art from ''Symphony of the Night''.Night'' or the jet black seen in the original ''Dracula's Curse''.
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* ShirtlessScene: Alucard awakens wearing only a pair of really tight pants, boots, and nothing else. On top of that, he only stops to pick up his shirt and coat after [[spoiler: his fight with Trevor]], which takes up the majority of the latter half of episode 4.
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* BadassSpaniard: Sypha, who has a more pronounced Hispanic accent, which reflects her possible origins from Spain since Belnades is the Japanese corruption of "[[Videogame/Castlevania64 Fernandez]]", a common Hispanic surname.
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* BadassSpaniard: Sypha, who has a more pronounced Hispanic accent, which reflects her possible origins from Spain since Belnades is the was originally written as Velnumdes, believed to be a Japanese corruption of the common Hispanic surname "[[Videogame/Castlevania64 Fernandez]]", a common Hispanic surname.Fernandez]]".
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* TemptingFate: The Archbishop gives a speech to his people to celebrate Lisa's death, and celebrating about how "the Devil's" warning a year prior was a lie. Before he's finished talking, blood starts raining from the sky, and all hell literally breaks loose.
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* AnachronismStew: In spite of the game/animation being set in 1476, there are many present-time elements thrown in, like intricate machinery that raises Alucard's coffin, or the electric lights in the Cyclops' catacomb lair. Although this is explained in-universe. The reason Lisa comes to Dracula's castle is that he has scientific knowledge beyond that of regular humans. With that said, this on par with the games as whole that feature futuristic technology outside of the time period its supposed to be set.
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* AnachronismStew: In spite of the game/animation being set in 1476, there are many present-time elements thrown in, like intricate machinery that raises Alucard's coffin, or the electric lights in the Cyclops' catacomb lair. Although this is explained in-universe. The in-universe; the reason Lisa comes to Dracula's castle is that he has scientific knowledge beyond that of regular humans. With that said, this is on par with the games as whole that a whole, which feature futuristic technology outside of the time period its any given game is supposed to be set.set in.
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* ShutUpHannibal: Just as a defeated Blue Fangs is howling at Trevor and Sypha that Dracula has an army of demons, [[spoiler: Trevor shuts him up with a crack of his whip, splitting his head in two.]]
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Lisa, a woman who wanted to heal people and make the world a better place, is brutally executed for heresy. Her last words are "Forgive them, they don't know what they're doing."
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** Trevor tries one in season 1 episode 2, though it doesn't remain impressive for long.
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* FollowInMyFootsteps: Lampshaded by Alucard when discussing why he (and indirectly Trevor) feel they must stop Dracula.
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* FollowInMyFootsteps: Lampshaded by Alucard when discussing why he (and indirectly Trevor) feel they must stop Dracula.Dracula:
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-->'''Alucard:''' It is what my mother would have wanted. And we are all, in the end, slaves to our families' wishes.
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-->'''Alucard:''' It Why? Because it is what my mother would have wanted. And we are all, in the end, slaves to our families' wishes.
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* FollowInMyFootsteps: Lampshaded by Alucard when discussing why he (and indirectly Trevor) feel they must stop Dracula.
-->'''Alucard:''' It is what my mother would have wanted. And we are all, in the end, slaves to our families' wishes.
-->'''Alucard:''' It is what my mother would have wanted. And we are all, in the end, slaves to our families' wishes.
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* BadassBoast: From Episode 3:
-->'''Trevor:''' I don't know any of you. But that doesn't matter, does it? [[BadassFamily My family]]: the family you [[HeroWithBadPublicity demonized and excommunicated]], has fought and died through generations for this country. We do this thing... for Wallachia, and her people. We don't have to know you all. [[WeHelpTheHelpless We do it anyway.]] And it's not the dying that frightens us; it's never having stood up and fought for you. I'm Trevor Belmont. Of the House of Belmont. And dying... has ''never'' frightened me.
-->'''Trevor:''' I don't know any of you. But that doesn't matter, does it? [[BadassFamily My family]]: the family you [[HeroWithBadPublicity demonized and excommunicated]], has fought and died through generations for this country. We do this thing... for Wallachia, and her people. We don't have to know you all. [[WeHelpTheHelpless We do it anyway.]] And it's not the dying that frightens us; it's never having stood up and fought for you. I'm Trevor Belmont. Of the House of Belmont. And dying... has ''never'' frightened me.
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* BadassBoast: From Episode BadassBoast:
** Trevor tries one in season 1 episode 2, though it doesn't remain impressive for long.
--->'''Trevor:''' I'm Trevor fucking Belmont, and I've never lost a fight to man nor fucking beast! ...[[OhCrap Oh shit]]!
** Trevor gets a more heartfelt one in season 1 episode 3:
-->'''Trevor:''' --->'''Trevor:''' I don't know any of you. But that doesn't matter, does it? [[BadassFamily My family]]: the family you [[HeroWithBadPublicity demonized and excommunicated]], has fought and died through generations for this country. We do this thing... for Wallachia, and her people. We don't have to know you all. [[WeHelpTheHelpless We do it anyway.]] And it's not the dying that frightens us; it's never having stood up and fought for you. I'm Trevor Belmont. Of the House of Belmont. And dying... has ''never'' frightened me.
** Trevor tries one in season 1 episode 2, though it doesn't remain impressive for long.
--->'''Trevor:''' I'm Trevor fucking Belmont, and I've never lost a fight to man nor fucking beast! ...[[OhCrap Oh shit]]!
** Trevor gets a more heartfelt one in season 1 episode 3:
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[spoiler:The Bishop gets a coldly menacing one from Blue Fangs right before he's devoured ''face first''.]]
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[spoiler:The The Bishop gets a coldly menacing one from Blue Fangs right [[spoiler:right before he's devoured ''face first''.]]
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler: Blue Fangs makes it very clear that the Bishop, and the Church as a whole, ''completely'' disgusts him, and that they shame God.]]
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler: Blue [[spoiler:Blue Fangs makes it very clear that the Bishop, and the Church as a whole, ''completely'' disgusts him, and that they shame God.]]
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[spoiler:The Bishop gets a coldly menacing one from Pazuzu Blue Fangs right before he's devoured ''face first''.]]]]
-->'''Blue Fangs:''' God is not here... this is an empty box. Your God's love is not unconditional. He does not love us, and He does not love you. Your life's work makes Him puke. Your God knows that we wouldn't be here without you.
-->'''Blue Fangs:''' God is not here... this is an empty box. Your God's love is not unconditional. He does not love us, and He does not love you. Your life's work makes Him puke. Your God knows that we wouldn't be here without you.
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* BestialityIsDepraved: A story recounted by Bosha the goat herder near the end of the first episode, wherein he blinded someone by bashing them across the eyes with his shovel after finding them "fucking [one of his goats] to within an inch of it's life".*
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Our heroes - Alucard, Trevor and Sypha respectively.
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Our heroes - Alucard, Trevor and Sypha respectively.
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* BlondeBrunetteRedhead:Our heroes - Alucard, Trevor Trevor, and Sypha Sypha, respectively.
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* BestialityIsDepraved: A story recounted by Bosha the goat herder near the end of the first episode, wherein he blinded someone by bashing them across the eyes with his shovel after finding them "fucking [one of his goats] to within an inch of it's life".*
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Our heroes - Alucard, Trevor and Sypha respectively.
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Our heroes - Alucard, Trevor and Sypha respectively.
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* NoOntologicalInertia: Justified. When the cyclops falls, each of its victims immediately de-petrifies. As Trevor explains, this variety of cyclops uses its magic to ''keep'' its victims in their state because it leaves them conscious and aware of their surroundings so it can feed on their fear. Unfortunately, all the damage done to the 'statues' persists when the spell keeping them petrified ends, meaning that the undamaged Sypha was the only one who actually ''survived'' the transition back to flesh-and-blood, while the other statues that were shattered reflect grievous mutilations when reverting back to their true form.
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* NoOntologicalInertia: Justified. When the cyclops falls, each of its victims immediately de-petrifies. As Trevor explains, this variety of cyclops uses its magic to ''keep'' its victims in their state because it leaves them conscious and aware of their surroundings so it can feed on their fear. Unfortunately, all the damage done to the 'statues' "statues" persists when the spell keeping them petrified ends, meaning that the undamaged Sypha was the only one who actually ''survived'' the transition back to flesh-and-blood, while the other statues that were shattered reflect grievous mutilations when reverting back to their true form.
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* WhipItGood: The signature Vampire Killer can be seen as Trevor's weapon of choice.
** The wounds it inflicts demonstrate how effective a whip is in a Belmont's hands, as he can use to remove limbs and eyes.
** The wounds it inflicts demonstrate how effective a whip is in a Belmont's hands, as he can use to remove limbs and eyes.
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* BerserkButton: Trevor is barely able to conceal the fact that he's a Belmont when he hears patrons at a bar dragging his family's name through the mud.
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* {{Gorn}}: In the first episode alone, Dracula's legions are shown horrifically eviscerating people, tearing them to shreds and strewing their remains through the streets. Gresit, as shown in the second episode, is similarly decorated in blood, corpses, and body parts.
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* HeroWithBadPublicity: The Belmonts were excommunicated by the church for their dealings in magic when fighting the forces of darkness. Trevor carries this stigma with him.
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* HeroWithBadPublicity: The Belmonts were excommunicated by the church for their dealings in magic when fighting the forces of darkness. Trevor carries this stigma with him. Similarly, the Speakers, including Sypha, are blamed by the church for attracting Dracula's legion, with the bishop whipping the people of Gresit into an AngryMob to kill them.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: Than anything from the video game series up to this point. Not even the ''Lords of Shadow'' games, in terms of being dark and edgy, can top the Netflix series. Most of this is due a rather heaping helping of gore, swearing, and InfantImmortality being very, ''very'' averted. To put it in perspective, even the darkest moment of ''[=LoS2=]'' where Dracula butchers a family to regain his youth [[GoryDiscretionShot couldn't be depicted explicitly]], while the innocent deaths are shown very ''casually'' in this show. This also counts for Frederator Studios in general. Before ''Castlevania'', they mostly did children friendly shows for kids' networks. This cartoon of course is anything ''but'' kid friendly.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: Than anything from the video game series up to this point. Not even the ''Lords of Shadow'' games, in terms of being dark and edgy, can top the Netflix series. Most of this is due a rather heaping helping of gore, swearing, and InfantImmortality being very, ''very'' averted. To put it in perspective, even the darkest moment of ''[=LoS2=]'' ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsOfShadow2'' where Dracula butchers a family to regain his youth [[GoryDiscretionShot couldn't be depicted explicitly]], while the innocent deaths are shown very ''casually'' in this show. This also counts for Frederator Studios in general. Before ''Castlevania'', they mostly did children friendly shows for kids' networks. This cartoon of course is anything ''but'' kid friendly.
