History VideoGame / CastlevaniaLordsOfShadow

* ManlyTears: [[spoiler:When Maria's spirit ascends into Heaven during the ending, uber-badass Gabriel Belmont breaks down and starts sobbing.]]

** [[spoiler:[[GodOfWar "Bring back the dead! Rule the world! Destroy the universe! CHALLENGE THE GOD HIMSELF!!!"]]]]

** [[MegamanX What am I fighting for?]]

* [=~You Can't Fight Fate~=]

* [=~Show, Don't Tell~=]: Averted. At least insofar as character development is concerned.

-->--'''Kevin Pereira''', Attack of the Show!

-->--'''Kevin Pereira'''

* HeyItsThatVoice:
** [[TheFullMonty Gaz]] is Gabriel. Oh, and he used to be [[AdolfHitler Hitler]]. '''HEIL GABRIEL!'''
*** In Japan, Gabriel is [[{{Gundam 00}} Ali Al-Saachez]]. [[strike:[[OhCrap WTH!?]]]] '''[[MemeticMutation GABRIEL, MIGHTY IS HE!]]'''
** [[StarTrekTheNextGeneration Captain Picard]] is Zobek.
** [[{{Californication}} Karen]] is Marie.
** [[HarryPotter Lucius Malfoy]] is...well, that would be giving it away.
** In Japan, Pan is [[{{Gundam 0083}} Anavel Gato]] and [[MetalGear Solid Snake]], but ironically takes the role of [[MetalGearSolid Grey Fox]] in this game.

** "[[{{Portal}} The Cake is not a lie!]]"
** The magic creating portals and warps is called [[{{Portal}} Aperture Magic.]] Granted, aperture is a real word that makes perfect sense there, but given the Cake line...

* FridgeBrilliance: Gabriel is rumored to be a son of the Cronqvist merchant family. [[spoiler:Considering what became of [[CastlevaniaLamentOfInnocence the last Cronqvist]] we saw in the series....]]
** Zobek [[spoiler:is alive and well at the end, and talks to Dracula like they've been friends for a while. But then, he's the Lord of the Dead, a.k.a. Death -- of course he and Drac are pals.]]
* FridgeLogic: The Priest sacrificed Wygol Village just for [[spoiler:the Holy Water subweapon?]] Sure, it's effective, but can the old man even use it? Or if this version repels vampires all on its own, how come it doesn't work that way on your belt?
** Claudia is mute and talks to people through telepathy, she also converses with her Golem like that, which might be justified as he's an organic, albeit magical creature (At least he looks organic once you've taken off his suit of armor). But how the heck can she distract a Titan by yelling at him telepathically? They are just rocks and magical runes... or do they have a brain, do they feel pain? If that's the case, I think we're stepping into FridgeHorror territory if we start thinking about how the second Titan must have felt, lying around, shattered in pieces for decades...
*** Given that, according to the bestiary, the Golem [[spoiler: is the magitek equivalent of a cyborg, that is the reanimated corpse of a mute killer seeking redemption by helping around an innocent ward]], and that the Titans are magical creations of Claudia's people, it could be easily the FridgeHorror case [[spoiler: with the shattered Titans being all suffering, broken animated beings simply too damaged to carry on their mission]]. Rather than a brain, Claudia's ''Gift'' may require [[spoiler: just a living soul to work, afterall]]. Even if they were simply soulless beings, it would have had no sense making them unable to be controlled by the ''Gift'', given that from what we could glean all Agarthians had telepathic and magic abilities, and Claudia just uses is as a stand-in for her useless voice box, but nothing prevented her from using the ''Gift'' for its intended purpose.
**** Another example of FridgeLogic could set in, as, if Claudia's telepathy could control Golems, she could have been much more effective than acting as a mere element of distraction. However, for every intent an purpose, despite she's older than she looks, Claudia is a juvenile member of an extint race, and if her father left her a magical [[spoiler: zombie/robot/cyborg]]/guardian thing, it's because he felt her unable to fend for herself.

** Needless to mention, it is easily the darkest entry of the Castlevania series thus far thank to the involvement of [[strike:[[MetalGear Solid Snake]]]] HideoKojima.

* [[ABoyAndHisX A girl and her magical Golem]]: Claudia and the Black Titan. She's a CuteMute girl, the last of her kind, he's a magitek animated suit of armor feeding off the souls of the baddies trying to do her harm. Daddy knows best, indeed.

* BestBossEver: There's a {{Magitek}} {{Golem}} who you fight, that constantly rains down meteors made of the lost relics of an ancient civilization upon you. ''It's the second boss, and it isn't even the ClimaxBoss''. [[BeyondTheImpossible And they just get better from there]].

** Mind you, this has been the trait of all the Castlevania games.

** [[Pan is an old god whom Gabriel has to kill.]]

** A Shout Out to [[MGS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrlHGCpstzc]]. (It's not only the music you hear, but the camera angle when Gabriel is inside the tunnel is a reference to MGS's gameplay, too.)

** A Shout Out to MGS:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrlHGCpstzc (It's not only the music you hear, but the camera angle when Gabriel is inside the tunnel is a reference of the Metal Gear gameplay.)

* CthulhuHadTheFlu: [[spoiler: The bestiary specifically states that Satan's power is limited while he is on Earth]].
** The Forgotten One [[spoiler: is only engaged by Gabriel when the former is weakened after using a big part of his power to break the seals of his prison. At full power, the Forgotten One could obliterate Gabriel in an instant, as shown if he gets sight of Gabriel.]]

* SchizoTech: Frankenstein's laboratory, the game is supposed to be set in 1047 AD, yet we encounter lots of mechanical devices powered by electricity, the Mechanical Monstrosity which is effectively a robot with a human brain, and a '''Tesla coil''' with ''that very same name'' (Nikola Tesla was born in 1856).