History Characters / CastlevaniaNocturne

* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler: Grew up in a loving Russian Speaker clan that was soon persecuted by Erzsbet's army. Tera escaped and managed to avoid torture and imprisonment, but when she went back to try and rescue her family from the dungeons, she found everyone dead but her sister, who'd already been turned, forcing Tera to perform a MercyKill. All this was enough to send her fleeing west and turn Bathory into her own personal case of TheDreaded.]]

** While hashing out the finer details of their church's servitude to her, Erzsabet grows [[RedEyesTakeWarning particularly enraged]] when Mizrak brings up the notion there would be a god they worship who's not she.

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: In Bloodlines, Drolta was an aged, ugly old crone. In Nocturne, she's shown to be more youthful-looking and [[HotterAndSexier drop-dead gorgeous]].
* AdaptationSpeciesChange: In the games, she was a regular human crone who practiced black magic. Here, she is portrayed as a vampire. [[spoiler: Interestingly, in Episode 7, it is implied that she actually might not even be a normal vampire, but some form of demon. Appears to be a succubus if not THE Succubus given she could fire her fingers out at the heroes like the one encountered in Alucard's Nightmare within [[VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight Symphony of the Night's Boss Fight]]]].

* BlackEyesOfEvil: Downplayed. With the lexicon Olrox gave them, she starts reading off the incantation in the book to open the gates of Hell to help Anette push the machine into it. As she does so, her eyes turn black from invoking dark magic. However, they go away when her concentration breaks, mainly due to seeing her daughter in danger.

* CuteMonsterBoy: A rare male example. For all the BodyHorror typical of a Night Creature's appearance, he gets off with flowing curly hair, a slightly more bestial body, wings, and horns that do very little to detract from his attractiveness. Even the extra set of hands grasping his face make him look more demure and vulnerable than anything else, [[spoiler:especially when he uses them in his first appearance to Annette to hide his face in shame.]] Despite being a Night Creature, his physical changes evoke the imagery of a Seraphim. His lower horns curve like a halo, his two sets of bat wings wrap around his body & his second set of hands resemble the Seraphim's final set of wings, which shielded their eyes.
* FaceMonsterTurn: Dies early, comes back as a Night Creature, and gets sent to kill Richter, Anette, Tera, and Maria. [[spoiler:However, he is able to maintain enough of himself to avoid slaying Anette at the sight of her, and this allows him to retain his sense of self and identity, and he uses it to begin helping other Night Creatures remember who they were as well.]]

** Speaking about her father, the sun god Amun Ra through her connection to Sekhmet, is a huge one for Erzsebet. Becoming visibly irate as she cites him a [[AttentionWhore self-important]] rat bastard whom stole praise from her.
** While hashing out the finer details of their churches servitude to her. Erzsabet grew [[RedEyesTakeWarning particularly enraged]] when Mizrak brought up the notion there would be a god they worship whose not her.
-->'''Mizerak:''' "He is a man of God.''\\
'''Erzsabet:''' "[[PunctuatedForEmphasis I AM A GOD]]."

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The real-life Elizabeth Bathory was dead long before the French Revolution began. Justified in she's an ancient, immortal vampire who's been alive since Ancient Egypt.

* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Depictions of Elizabeth Bathory as an evil vampire are far from unheard of, but here she's a dark messiah who seeks to seize control of the entire world.

* MomentOfWeakness: Though generally very courageous, Olrox is the one thing he truly fears. [[spoiler:When Olrox appears during a mission to save Edoaurd/put Edouard out of his misery, in which Richter also finds out what the Abbot's connection to the vampires is, Richter is so terrified by his sudden appearance that he drops everything and flees the crypt, basically leaving his companions to flee on their own. It is something he clearly is not proud of.]]

** He could also be seen as one for the previous Forgemasters, Isaac and Hector. Isaac and Hector were affectionate towards the Night Creatures they made, with Isaac in particular treating them as autonomous beings. The Abbott is a BadBoss who treats his Night Creatures like disposable tools. Their methods of creation also differ, with Isaac and Hector intimately forging each corpse into their Night Creatures, while the Abbott has them created in a factory like assembly line products. [[spoiler:Furthermore, Isaac and Hector allied with Dracula because of injustices they personally endured at the hands of other humans. The tragedy that drives the Abbott into fully serving his vampire master is not committed by his fellow humans but by said master, and indirectly as a result of his own poorly thought-out villainous actions no-less. While Isaac and Hector were broadly misanthropic, the Abbott ironically believes his alliance with Erzsebet is the only way he can protect a narrow group of followers, his congregation specifically.]]

A member of the local Knights of St. John[[note]]Better known as UsefulNotes/TheKnightsHospitallers[[/note]] who serves as the Abbot's right-hand man. He is fully aware of the Abbott's dealings with vampires, but due to his deep faith is slowly becoming disillusioned with the man.

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:He was never truly an evil man, but he was complicit in helping the Abbott help the vampires of France. But upon learning that the Abbott is willing to sacrifice his own daughter to secure an alliance with Erzsebet, Mizrak fully abandons him and goes to warn Richter and the others about the Abbott's plans.]]

* {{Irony}}: He's a deeply pious man of the cloth despite being misled by the Abbott [[spoiler:and ultimately pulls and HeelFaceTurn to atone for assisting him]]. He also just so happens to develop an intimate relationship with a vampire, a being people of his faith typically label "unholy". Furthermore, the Bible condemns homosexual relationships, and it just so happens that Olrox is also a man.

* TokenGoodTeammate: Outside of an unnamed priest that showed up in one episode in the first series's first season, Mizrak is the first man of the cloth in the Netflix continuity who isn't portrayed as horribly corrupt or fanatical. He was merely misled by the Abbott into believing their actions were justified [[spoiler:and turns on him the moment he realizes just how far he's strayed from God.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:''"I dreamt last night about the world we are making. The Empress of Russia, the Holy Roman Emperor, the Ottoman Sultan, the Pope, all kneeling before me...."'']]

* TheBaroness: Played with. She aesthetically adheres to the Sexpot version, being an extremely sadistic, attractive, and leather-bound villainess who wears an enormous variety of gorgeous outfits. That said, she seems to eschew overt sexuality on principle, acts (mostly) professionally when working with both her fellow vampires and human conspirators, and in fact warns Mizrak and the Abbott from making any sexual advances.

* VanHelsingHateCrimes: [[spoiler:Olrox's lover was a compassionate vampire who fought to free people during the Revolutionary War, despite the Americans having exploited and killed his people, solely in the name of fighting tyranny. She still killed him regardless of his morals, earning her Olrox's wrath. However, it's unknown if Julia was actually aware of the morals of Olrox's lover as she isn't all-knowing or all-powerful. So Julia's decision to kill Orlox's lover may stemmed from the mistaken belief that they were a threat.]]

* LikeBrotherAndSister: Richter and Maria bicker and tease each other like siblings. Maria is even explicitly referred to as someone who's like a sister to Richter.

* LikeBrotherAndSister: Richter and Maria bicker and tease each other like siblings. Maria is even explicitly referred to as someone who's like a sister to Richter.

* {{Hunk}}: A big, beefy slab of a man who multiple characters note the attractiveness of. [[spoiler:It's the first thing about him that gets Olrox's attention.]]

* SixthRanger: [[spoiler:he joins the heroes during the first season's final episode.]]

* HollywoodVoodoo: Downplayed. She calls upon the loa Papa Legba to aid her with her magic [[spoiler: when trying to push the Abbot's machine back into hell]] and many of the runes seen when invoking her powers are voodoo vèvè. However, she seems to hold the Christian God apart from her own, unlike real-life Vodou which incorporates Roman Catholicism into its beliefs. Might be justified, as the religion was still forming during this time period.

* PsychoLesbian: Seems to take a demented glee in butchering and violating a great number of the many young females she has her fanatics enslave for her. Given how willing she was to recapture one whom had gotten away some decades ago in Maria's mother; Terra.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: The English release of ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaBloodlines'' depicted her name as "Elizabeth Bartley." ''Nocturne'' uses the original Japanese version's spelling which was in line with the historical Bathory.

%%* UnrelatedInTheAdaptation: No longer Dracula's niece, unlike the original in ''Bloodlines''.

* InstantExpert: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. Richter was trained in how to use magic from a young age, able to cast decently-powerful fireballs as a child, but lost access to his magic after witnessing his mother's death. [[spoiler:When he re-awakens his magical powers to a whole new level and becomes a MagicKnight, he showcases not only extremely powerful fire blasts, but the ability to utilise Ice and Lighting as well, and readily implements them into his hand-to-hand fighting styles despite not training with magic for near a decade, implying that it's naturally returning to him on instinct. However, Richter's initial usage showcases a degree of overwhelming force, but arguably little finesse, save using his ice powers to create ElementalArmour for defence and offence. When he reunites with Tera and Maria, he showcases slightly better control, being able to imbue his magic into his whip for increased effect, but arguably still an unrefined use of raw magic that is mainly for amplifying his existing physical abilities rather than using magical methods of overwhelming opponents]].

* BigBad: She essentially serves as the main villain of ''Nocturne.''