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| 2 | [[Characters/Castlevania2017Protagonists Protagonists]] | '''Antagonists''' ([[Characters/Castlevania2017DraculasArmy Dracula's Army)]]]]-]]] |
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| 7 | !The Church |
| 8 | |
| 9 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 10 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/unnamed_15_0.jpg]] |
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| 12 | The (Roman Catholic) Christian Church. Their local branches in Wallachia catalyzed the series' overall conflict by ordering the execution of Lisa Tepes on bogus charges of witchcraft, thus motivating Dracula to declare his bloody vengeance against all of humanity. |
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| 14 | * AdaptationalVillainy: In the video games, the Church was the primary organization opposing Dracula with several good guys such as Sypha being associated with them. Here, they are responsible for everything going wrong and serve as one of the primary antagonists of Season 1. |
| 15 | * BrokenPedestal: For Prior Sala after learning that their execution of Dracula's wife led to the carnage that soon followed. |
| 16 | * ChristianityIsCatholic: Despite the show taking place in a region that is historically Eastern Orthodox, the Church here is depicted as unmistakably Roman Catholic in appearance. |
| 17 | * CorruptChurch: Though rather than being self-serving and in search of material wealth, they are controlling and fundamentalist in nature. |
| 18 | * GreaterScopeVillain: For the whole series alongside Dracula. Had they not executed Lisa on charges of witchcraft, none of the events of the series would have happened and even though they were dealt with in Season 1, the consequences of their actions continue to follow the heroes and shape the world well into other seasons. |
| 19 | * RenegadeSplinterFaction: Sala's priory breaks away from the Church, turning their crucifix upside down and adopting Satanist symbols like the alchemical symbol for sulfur meaning "Hell". |
| 20 | * TheTheocracy: They are depicted as having considerable power over Wallachia, implied to be greater to secular authorities with the only one seen (a mayor) say anything that might displease them on pain of torture and death. Once Dracula's carnage begins, they assume the role completely as both religious and political authorities in areas they operate. |
| 21 | * TokenGoodTeammate: No character associated with the Church is presented in a positive light, with the sole exception of one nameless priest whom Trevor orders to bless some water to help fight against Dracula's hordes in "Monument". He's on screen for all of four seconds with no dialogue. |
| 22 | * TooDumbToLive: The Church's zealotry in killing heretics nearly doomed Wallachia and humanity. Not only did they provoke Dracula by killing his wife on no grounds, they also almost completely eradicate the Belmont family and the Speakers, taking away humanities' best defenders against vampires and monsters. |
| 23 | [[/folder]] |
| 24 | |
| 25 | [[folder:The Bishop]] |
| 26 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bishop_netflix.png]] |
| 27 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MattFrewer (English), Mitsuru Ogata (Japanese), Creator/HumbertoSolorzano (Latin American Spanish), Axel Lutter (German) |
| 28 | \ |
| 29 | |
| 30 | -> ''"The Archbishop would prefer that life in Wallachia be kept simple."'' |
| 31 | \ |
| 32 | |
| 33 | The nameless bishop of the Catholic Church who [[KnightTemplar ordered Lisa Ţepeş burnt at the stake]], [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom setting the entire plot into motion]]. |
| 34 | ---- |
| 35 | * AgentScully: When Dracula appears after Lisa's execution and demands to know why she was killed, the Bishop outright refuses to believe that Dracula is real despite, you know, ''the twenty-foot high face made of fire that introduces itself as Dracula and is speaking directly to him.'' |
| 36 | ** AgentMulder: Zigzagged, they both are in fact, as the chief reason he refuses to believe Dracula is real is because he's convinced that the giant flaming visage is a trick from Satan, pretending to be Dracula... Yes, really. |
| 37 | * ArcVillain: Acts as one for the first season. His witch hunts set the plot in motion with the execution of Lisa Ţepeş, 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. |
| 38 | * AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:One doubts anyone shed a single tear for this guy when Blue Fangs tore his face off.]] |
| 39 | * AxCrazy: His need to destroy so-called "heretics" easily reaches into this, as Trevor notices almost immediately. |
| 40 | -->'''Trevor:''' The current bishop of this place is... well... he's beyond insane. Over the top and into new lands of... snake-''fuckingly'' crazy. |
| 41 | * BelievingTheirOwnLies: Trevor initially believes the bishop is just [[Main/HidingBehindReligion hiding behind religion]], like most people, to increase his power and satisfy his selfish desires. It's only after actually speaking with him that Trevor realizes in disbelief, "My God. You ''really'' believe it, don't you?" |
| 42 | * 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 they 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 at killing the Speakers falls apart as soon as Trevor reveals to the mob that the Church was the one responsible for the monsters' invasion. Amusingly, Trevor and his fellow heroes don't even seem to acknowledge his death at all, if they even knew of it, showing how inconsequential he is.]] |
| 43 | * CameBackWrong: Zigzagged. [[spoiler:His body is used to give life to a Night Creature (although more or less a zombified version of the Bishop) by Hector on Carmilla's orders. Unlike the Bishop himself, the creature [[{{Irony}} has God's blessing]], blessing the river and turning it into holy water to be used against Dracula's loyalists.]] |
| 44 | * CanonForeigner: In the original story, Lisa's death is merely the instigator of the plot, without much attention paid to it beyond that point. Here, the instigator himself was created to be the first ArcVillain. |
| 45 | * ChekhovsGunman: His carcass is shown in the Season 2 Trailers and in the series proper, probably just to show his fate. [[spoiler:It then turns out he does still have some importance: his reanimated body still has the authority to bless water, thus making him a weapon against vampires. One that Carmilla freely deigns to use.]] |
| 46 | * CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:He gets “kissed to death” by Blue Fangs, and by that, we mean ''Blue Fangs outright ripped his face off''.]] |
| 47 | * DeaderThanDead: [[spoiler:His reanimated corpse completely dissolves into the blessed river. He is probably not coming back from this, even if the others tried to resurrect him again.]] |
| 48 | * DirtyCoward: It's subtle, but he was hiding in his church alone while he sent his lackeys off to kill the speakers, confident the holy ground would keep any demons away. This is in contrast to the other nameless priest that actively was outside trying to help people. |
| 49 | * EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: He's ''never'' referred to by name, [[spoiler:further cementing his status as a forgettable HateSink that nobody will miss]]. |
| 50 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: When Trevor incredulously asks him how he believes the demons came because people weren't religious enough, pointing to the death of the archbishop as proof this can't be the case, the bishop responds, "The archbishop had certain... ''interests'' that I believe compromised his ability to protect the city and the country. We disagreed on matters of... clerical discipline." This could either be a reference to the archbishop's seeming laziness (he is seen being carried around before he was seen able to stand up) or to something [[PedophilePriest worse.]] In any case, it's left ambiguous what he was "interested" in that so disgusted even the bishop. [[UnreliableNarrator However]], given the bishop's remark about the archbishop wanting to keep things in Targoviste simple, the archbishop's interests simply might not line up with the bishop's own, and in terms of clerical discipline, we know that the bishop's own men are hardly the righteous sort. [[AmbiguousSyntax For all we know]], it was the ''Archbishop'' who had the standards in this case. |
| 51 | * EvilLuddite: Dismisses Lisa's advanced knowledge of biology and chemistry as witchcraft. Although his remark about wanting to keep the life in Gresit "simple" hints at more sinister motive, keeping people uneducated so they keep turning to Church for protection; scientists and doctors like Lisa are seen as unwanted competition. |
| 52 | * EvilOldFolks: His hair is white and receding, giving the impression of him being rather old. |
| 53 | * {{Expy}}: Very similar to Judge Claude Frollo from ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}''. Both are corrupt heads of power who use their standing and belief they do God's will to justify doing unspeakable awful things, [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist all the while believing themselves in the right for senseless murder and oppression]]. |
| 54 | * FauxAffablyEvil: He's a soft-spoken articulate man, which barely masks his cruel demeanor. This is best highlighted when he condemns Lisa to a painful burning, smirking all the way and saying: |
| 55 | -->"I believe she's exhorting Satan not to take revenge on us, which I suppose is almost commendable, for a witch. Perhaps I'll say a prayer for her. A small one." |
| 56 | * 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. He is even like this to the other priests, believing in clerical discipline and disagreed with the Archbishop over it. |
| 57 | * GenreBlindness: He is utterly clueless to how much danger he's in with an army of demons running around, convinced that faith alone would keep him from being torn to pieces like everyone else was. |
| 58 | * AGodAmI: In Dracula's HellOnEarth, the Bishop believes that Gresit will be the last major city in the country and that his authority in the Church will be the ''only'' authority. As he himself put it as Trevor leaves, for all intents and purposes, he will ''be'' the Church. |
| 59 | * GodIsDispleased: During the attack on the town by Dracula's forces, [[spoiler:the bishop comes to find out that in response to his abuse of power and burning of Dracula's wife, God withdrew His protection. Seconds later, the demons tear into and devour him]]. |
| 60 | * HateSink: The Bishop is designed to be as deeply unlikable 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. |
| 61 | * HidingBehindReligion: His supposed goals of helping the people are nothing but hollow lies for him to get away with murder and heartlessness, and he actually takes advantage of Dracula's rampage to increase his own power and standing within the Church. [[spoiler:In the end, God Himself is so disgusted with the Bishop's actions that he [[GodIsDispleased withdraws his protection]] and allows Dracula's demons to kill him.]] |
| 62 | * HumiliationConga: [[spoiler:Not only is he humiliated by one of Dracula's goblins before being killed in the most gruesome way, in Season 2, his corpse is reanimated by Hector to further advance the plans of the Bishop's enemies.]] |
| 63 | * ImplausibleDeniability: It really says something about how brain-numbingly arrogant he is when he watches Lisa's funeral pyre erupt into a hundred-foot tower of flame, manifest into the demonic face of Dracula himself and have it introduce himself ''as'' Dracula, before telling the entire city of Gresit YourDaysAreNumbered, and he '''''still''''' refuses to believe that Dracula even exists until the LegionsOfHell are upon them. [[SelectiveObliviousness But Lisa's centrifuge? Obvious witchcraft.]] |
| 64 | * {{Irony}}: [[spoiler:He did more good and held more holy power as a mindless, undead slave than he did in life.]] |
| 65 | * {{Jerkass}}: Everything he says is either hypocrisy, cruelty, or self-deluded arrogant prattling. He enjoys throwing his weight around, smirking as he gloats about how much the he controls the people through his church. "I will be the church..." indeed. |
| 66 | * KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Blue Fangs gives him a BreakingSpeech on how his KnightTemplar ways desanctified his church, reducing it to an "empty box" he was standing in and caused God to turn his back on him. [[FalseReassurance But don't fret.]] [[ImAHumanitarian Blue Fangs still loves him.]]]] |
| 67 | * KnightTemplar: The Bishop is obsessed with burning out what he views as 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; for example, when the Mayor of Targoviste mentions he briefly studied chemical sciences like Lisa did, the Bishop shoots him a DeathGlare that instantly shuts down his argument. 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. |
| 68 | * LaserGuidedKarma: The man is killed in his own church, [[spoiler:then resurrected and forced to serve the vampires, which he enabled to rampage over the Earth. Better yet, he's destroyed permanently in a river he sanctified]]. |
| 69 | * LightIsNotGood: He may wear the robes of a religious man, but make no mistake -- he is ''[[SinisterMinister in]] [[KnightTemplar no]] [[JerkAss sense]]'' a saint. [[spoiler:Even as an undead horror, he can still make holy water.]] |
| 70 | * LuddWasRight: His reaction to seeing the science and technology that Dracula had given Lisa is to accuse her of witchcraft which for the time period and her affiliation with an alchemist like Dracula would certainly be construed as witchcraft. |
| 71 | * 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. Even the demons see through these excuses and mock him for them. |
| 72 | * NoNameGiven: He's only known as "the Bishop". |
| 73 | * NoodleIncident: He was absent from Targoviste when Dracula returned to purge it. His talk with Trevor indicates he had a disagreement with the Archbishop over certain church matters and was sent away. What those disagreements were is left ambiguous. |
| 74 | * NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: The Bishop abuses his authority to use anyone fighting Dracula's monsters not affiliated with the Church as scapegoats to his denial that Lisa's death was his fault. He also seems fine with all the murder, as it gives him a higher standing in the Church with fewer people. Ultimately, his supposed goal of helping the people are just hollow lies to get away with murder and heartlessness. [[spoiler:It's no wonder God won't save him from Blue Fangs; the titular demon also claims that even his declaration of Lisa being a witch was just an excuse, implications being he killed her solely because her spreading her knowledge was a threat to his power over the ignorant masses.]] |
| 75 | -->'''[[spoiler:Blue Fangs]]:''' Your God ''knows'' we wouldn't be here without you...''this is all your fault, '''isn't it?'''''\ |
| 76 | '''Bishop:''' She was a witch!\ |
| 77 | '''[[spoiler:Blue Fangs]]:''' ''Lies?'' In ''your'' house of God? No ''wonder'' He has ''abandoned'' you... |
| 78 | * PetTheDog: A ''very'' small moment, which only leads to further emphasize what a bastard he is. When he hears Lisa implore Dracula to not take revenge, he admits that it's compassionate of her, and that he might say a small prayer for her later. |
| 79 | * PredecessorVillain: He is this for Dracula as his murder of his wife is what drove Dracula to KillAllHumans and thus kickstarting the story. |
| 80 | * ReforgedIntoAMinion: [[spoiler:Forgemaster Hector reanimates him into a servant for Carmilla's schemes.]] |
| 81 | * SinisterMinister: A self-righteous fundamentalist who throws blame for Dracula's rampage at everyone except himself. It's also implied that he thinks that surviving Dracula's rampage will give him more authority within the Church, as all the other great cities are losing. |
| 82 | * SkewedPriorities: Even after Dracula's goblins have already descended upon Gresit, the Bishop stresses that extermination of the Speakers is more important. Justified in that he's more or less stark raving mad. |
| 83 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: [[spoiler: He doesn't have much of a role other than to kill Dracula's wife and is easily dealt with by one of his minions in the show's fourth episode. However that action of killing Dracula's wife is what drove Dracula to KillAllHumans, thus causing the events of the series to occur.]] |
| 84 | * StarterVillain: He is the first villain the heroes have to face, [[spoiler:and he's easily killed by Blue Fangs, 4 episodes later in the Season 1 finale]]. |
| 85 | * TearOffYourFace: [[spoiler:In Season 2, one of Dracula's servants dumps a pile of bodies belonging to the people of Gresit, two of them being the dead Bishop and the Bald Priest. The former having half of his face bit off by Blue Fangs.]] |
| 86 | * TooDumbToLive: In the flashback proper where he arrests Lisa, she's initially kind and cordial to him, and he's very rude and assumes she is a witch. When she tries to explain that she does science that has been forgotten, he dismisses it, and interprets her warnings about Dracula as a threat. Then he orders her execution. The fact that he survived long enough to encounter Trevor is a miracle, since he single-handedly brought down Dracula's wrath on Wallachia. |
| 87 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: It was bad that the bishop killed Dracula's wife, but he did not anticipate Dracula himself to KillAllHumans. |
| 88 | * VillainousBreakdown: |
| 89 | ** He has a minor one while speaking with Trevor when the latter calls the Church out for branding the Belmonts as heretics simply because they were doing their job of defending Wallachia, shouting that the Belmonts "never understood the power of the word of God" and that the people of Gresit are his to command and ''will'' kill the Speakers if they believe it's God's will, then warns Trevor that by sundown, [[ImpliedDeathThreat he'll either be out of Gresit or be dead.]] |
| 90 | ** Later, when confronted by Blue Fangs inside his own church, he begins to crack under the demon's accusations, vehemently stating that his life's work has been in the name of God and denying that Dracula's genocide is his fault before screaming that Lisa was a witch. [[spoiler:By the time his face gets bitten off, the only thing leaving his mouth is frightened whimpering.]] |
| 91 | * VillainousLegacy: [[spoiler:He gets killed quickly by one of Dracula's minions. However, it clear that his murder of Lisa Tapes still influences the story, even after he died.]] |
| 92 | * WouldHitAGirl: Ordered that Lisa should be burned at the stake. And he admits to performing the same act to other women. |
| 93 | [[/folder]] |
| 94 | |
| 95 | [[folder:Burly]] |
| 96 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/burly_2.png]] |
| 97 | [[caption-width-right:350:"So now, I'm stupid? I work within the light of God Himself, but you can see things I can't with your magic?"]] |
| 98 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TimothyOmundson (English), Tomoyuki Shimura (Japanese), Armando Coria (Latin American Spanish) |
| 99 | \ |
| 100 | A member of Gresit's Church and a direct subordinate of its corrupt Bishop. He belonged to a group of equally corrupted priests who acted as the Bishop's thugs and who were often put in charge of doing all the dirty work. |
| 101 | ---- |
| 102 | * AssholeVictim: He is a very vile man, a DirtyCoward and delights in ordering people about, as well as inflicting pain on those he deems opposition. As brutal as it was, it's definitely karmic and cathartic when townspeople learn the truth of his and the Bishop's involvement in Dracula enacting genocide upon Wallachia. They all gang up on him and begin then slaughter him violently and mercilessly. |
| 103 | * BlastingItOutOfTheirHands: Trevor uses his Vampire Killer whip to try and snatch the cross-shaped stave off of his hands, which leads to him [[{{Fingore}} losing his right index finger]]. Although judging by the Vampire Hunter's cheeky apology, that was probably intentional. |
| 104 | * TheCameo: He makes an appearance in Season 2's "War Council" episode as one of the Bishop's thugs that accosted then arrested Lisa. While wrecking up her home, he gets startled by accidentally activating a centrifuge. |
| 105 | --> It moves on its own! |
| 106 | * CruelAndUnusualDeath: The poor bastard gets absolutely murdered by the angry mob, getting a pitchfork to the neck, spear to the gut, then stabbed and slashed several times. |
| 107 | * DirtyCoward: Is introduced accosting the Elder Speaker and gleefully answers yes to his question of "Will killing an old man make you less scared of the dark?" and that's not even the least of his cowardly actions. |
| 108 | * {{Fingore}}: Thanks to Trevor's whip, he loses his right index finger. And the former's apology might just be him being cheeky. |
| 109 | -->'''Trevor''': Oh hell. I'm sorry. I was trying to snatch the stave out of your hand. How's your finger?\ |
| 110 | '''Burly''': What fucking finger?! |
| 111 | * ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: The guy gets impaled by both a pitchfork and a spear. |
| 112 | * ImprobableWeaponUser: He carries around a stave that is more or less a long and large crucifix. The bearded priest threatens to beat the Elder Speaker to death with it. After Trevor... objects to this, he's next seen using a knife. |
| 113 | * LaserGuidedKarma: He was one of the priests that arrested Lisa to be burned at the stake, and once Gresit's mob finds out about the Church's involvement in incurring Dracula's wrath, they are more than happy to give him his just desserts for taking part in plunging Wallachia into its current predicament. |
| 114 | * MeaningfulName: He lives up to his name by being a bulky and muscular man with a seemingly permanent bad attitude. |
| 115 | * NoKillLikeOverkill: How he meets his end, once the angry mob of Gresit turns on him and his associates. He gets a pretty gruesome death at the angry villagers' hands. Starting off with a pitchfork to the neck, spear to the back, then getting slashed and stabbed repeatedly. |
| 116 | * SinisterMinister: The way he acts and talks is more like a thug than a priest really. |
| 117 | -->'''Burly''': (''Points a blade at Trevor'') Uh, careful. [[SarcasmMode My knife hand's not too steady, I could slip and take your eye out]]. The Bishop of Gresit requests your kind attendance at the church. |
| 118 | [[/folder]] |
| 119 | |
| 120 | [[folder:Bald Priest]] |
| 121 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/baldie_bishop_lackey.png]] |
| 122 | [[caption-width-right:350:He doesn't talk much but he's just as nasty as the rest of them regardless.]] |
| 123 | [[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:The priest after getting his eye whipped out.]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bandaged_baldy_5.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 124 | [[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:After being revived.]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/baldie_priest_demon.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 125 | |
| 126 | ->'''Voiced by:''' [[TheVoiceless None]] |
| 127 | \ |
| 128 | One of the Bishop's goons, who gives Trevor trouble when he arrives in Gresit. [[spoiler:Later, he comes back as one of Dracula's night creatures thanks to his Forgemasters.]] |
| 129 | ---- |
| 130 | * AssholeVictim: He's a vile bully and corrupt priest like his Bishop, so of course you won't feel sad when he gets his from Trevor. |
| 131 | * BadassPreacher: A rare evil version, he's a priest and is capable of fighting the likes of [[TheHero Trevor]] (badly, mind you, but still). |
| 132 | * BaldOfEvil: He has as much hair on his head as he has redeeming qualities. |
| 133 | * CameBackStrong: [[spoiler:His corpse is used to create a powerful staff/spear-wielding demon who takes on Trevor for a rematch in the Belmont hall. Being quite the formidable adversary for him too.]] |
| 134 | * TheCameo: He appears twice in Season 2, first he appears alongside Burly in "War Council" as one of the Bishop's goons that arrest Lisa then burn down her home. Then his corpse appears alongside [[spoiler:the Bishop's]] in "Shadow Battles". |
| 135 | * ChekhovsGunman: He's just a forgettable and disposable henchman for the Bishop, [[spoiler:but he comes back as a particularly formidable night creature later on and turns out to be one of the priests that arrested Lisa and burned down her home]]. |
| 136 | * DeviousDaggers: He carries a cross that conceals a knife blade. When Trevor sees him draw it, he rightfully calls the priest out for carrying what Trevor calls a "thief's knife". |
| 137 | * EliteMook: He's one of the few priests who can hold his own in a fight. [[spoiler:Even more so as a night creature, where he matches Trevor blow for blow.]] |
| 138 | * EyeScream: The poor bastard gets this ''twice''. Trevor whips out his eyeball in their first encounter, after the former was humiliating him for a few moments. Then later he takes an arrow to the ''other'' eye when Trevor uses him as a human shield. |
| 139 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:How he dies a second time. Having the staff-spear he was using broken in half and one of the pieces being used to impale him in the heart.]] |
| 140 | * HumanShield: How he met his end, with Trevor using him as a shield to block arrows from archer priests. He gets two for his troubles, and the first arrow hitting him right in the [[EyeScream remaining eye]]. |
| 141 | * MixAndMatchWeapon: Of a more mundane variety, [[spoiler:after being revived as a night creature]]. He trades out his hidden dagger for a strange yet sturdy staff that has a [[CarryABigStick club-like head on one end]] and the other being very pointy and used as a spear. Surprisingly, after Trevor breaks it. The vampire hunter gets lots of mileage from the pieces of his broken staff-spear. Even trying to use it against Dracula. |
| 142 | * MutilationConga: First, he gets his left eye whipped out. Then later, he gets hit through the right eye and heart with arrows. [[spoiler:Then he's forged into a night-creature still missing his eyes, attacks the heroes, and finally gets killed by Trevor ''again'']]. |
| 143 | * MythologyGag: In appearance only, but he resembles Zead from ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaCurseOfDarkness''. |
| 144 | * NothingUpMySleeve: Where he holds his unpriest-like dagger. |
| 145 | * ReforgedIntoAMinion: [[spoiler:Is ironically drafted into an army of demons along with his Bishop.]] |
| 146 | * SilentAntagonist: He never utters a spoken word. |
| 147 | * SinisterMinister: Befitting the Church of Gresit and being the Bishop's lackey, he's a corrupt and murderous priest. |
| 148 | * VillainousValor: Contrasting his bearded partner Burly, he actually seems fairly confident in fighting Trevor. |
| 149 | [[/folder]] |
| 150 | |
| 151 | !!Priory of Lindenfeld |
| 152 | |
| 153 | [[folder:Prior Sala]] |
| 154 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/prior_sala_3.png]] |
| 155 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NavidNegahban (English), YĹ«suke Sasaki (Japanese), Enrique Cervantes (Latin American Spanish) |
| 156 | \ |
| 157 | |
| 158 | A rogue priest in charge of the local monastery in Lindenfeld. He and his fellow monks were once visited by one of Dracula's night creatures, falling under its spell and being driven to madness. Now they have converted to a new religion -- rejecting God and Jesus in favor of revering Satan and Dracula instead. |
| 159 | ---- |
| 160 | * ArcVillain: He serves as the direct antagonist for Trevor and Sypha’s storyline. [[spoiler: With that said he is under the influence of the Visitor that attacked his priory and once its goal is accomplished, Sala makes a run for it]]. |
| 161 | * AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Technically speaking, he is the final victim of the Judge of Lindenfeld who was a prolific SerialKiller who specifically arranged his death according to his M.O. (sending their victims down to their deaths to a spike trap) with Sala's particular death being horrific being impaled in the head. But considering the man arranged the mass murder of an entire innocent village to open a portal to Hell, no one is going to weep his end]]. |
| 162 | * CardCarryingVillain: When Saint-Germain points out that the symbol worn by him and his followers stands for the elemental sign of sulfur meaning Hell, he is ''jubilant''. |
| 163 | * TheComicallySerious: Comes across this way whenever he interacts with Saint Germain. If nothing else though, at least he knows all about toilet paper...[[BrickJoke unless he heard that too from Saint Germain.]] |
| 164 | * CreepyBlueEyes: Has very wide, pale eyes. |
| 165 | * CreepyMonotone: Sala’s voice never inflects, even during his VillainousBreakdown. It really adds to his intense and unsettling aura. |
| 166 | * DecompositeCharacter: of the dark priest Shaft from the video games. He takes the [[SinisterMinister clerical aspects]] and the goal of [[spoiler:resurrecting Dracula]], but shares it at the same time with Isaac takes his utter loyalty and position as as TheDragon. Sala is ultimately [[spoiler:the pawn of an pawn of Isaac's, who momentarily flees from the monastery once his usefulness was fulfilled]]. |
| 167 | * TheDragon: [[spoiler:To the Visitor, since he leads the cult on its behalf and follows its instructions to open a portal to Hell so they can resurrect Dracula]]. |
| 168 | * TheExtremistWasRight: He believed the Catholic Church is evil and Dracula was a righteous being who was reunited with his love Lisa in Hell, waiting to be resurrected. The setting is run by a very CorruptChurch as shown as early as the first season, [[spoiler:and it turns out Dracula and Lisa are in Hell, despite any goodness she may have had in life.]] |
| 169 | * {{Foil}}: To the Bishop of Gresit, who was a fundamentalist KnightTemplar who followed his own twisted perception of God's commands. Sala, on the other hand, is a former Christian monk that went mad after learning the Bishop was the cause of everything that he went full-blown [[CardCarryingVillain evil cultist]]. |
| 170 | * GoMadFromTheRevelation: He used to be a Christian monk until the attack on his priory by Dracula's night creatures lead him to insanity. He turned away from the Church, blaming it for starting everything and began revering Dracula instead. |
| 171 | * HellishPupils: Sala's pupils are much larger than the other characters in the show. The camera focuses on his long stares to add to the unsettling air around him. His wide unblinking eyes further make his face somewhat difficult to read with his emotions usually blending together. |
| 172 | * ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:He falls on the Judge's spiked trap and gets impaled through the head]]. |
| 173 | * MoreThanMindControl: It's briefly speculated that the Night Creature that attacked the church [[spoiler:and took up residence within]], may have used magic to induce his and the other monks' madness, although it's left ambiguous how much was due to demonic magic and how much was due to [[GoMadFromTheRevelation learning the Church's role in Dracula's genocidal campaign]]. For what it's worth, [[spoiler:the moment the Visitor opens the portal to the Infinity Corridor, Sala becomes puzzled and terrified and immediately flees from the location (though he doesn't express remorse or regret for his actions)]]. |
| 174 | * ReligionOfEvil: He formed a cult of [[HollywoodSatanism Satanists]] who see Dracula as their DarkMessiah and Lisa as a MadonnaArchetype, attracting other deranged and unstable individuals into his plot. [[spoiler:His goal is to bring Dracula back to life.]] |
| 175 | * SinisterMinister: Somehow he manages to be even ''creepier'' than the Bishop of Gresit from previous seasons. It may have to do with him running an evil cult, along with his calm tone of voice. |
| 176 | * SoftSpokenSadist: Constantly speaks with a complete monotone despite being quite clearly insane. |
| 177 | * VillainHasAPoint: |
| 178 | ** Despite everything else, he isn't ''wrong'' in saying that the Church is at fault for Dracula's rampage. |
| 179 | ** On a more humorous note, he calls out the Count for treating him like a child that needs to be constantly reassured just because he's crazy. The Count sheepishly stops doing so. |
| 180 | * VillainousBreakdown: Loses all composure when [[spoiler:the Visitor doesn't just resurrect Dracula, but opens a gateway to Hell that he didn't even know was there]], running for his life. |
| 181 | -->'''Prior Sala:''' What the ''fuck'' is that? |
| 182 | [[/folder]] |
| 183 | |
| 184 | [[folder:The Visitor]] |
| 185 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/castlevania_visitor_8.png]] |
| 186 | A gigantic Night Creature that attacked the village of Lindenfeld following Dracula's defeat. It apparently disappeared after breaking into the local monastery and doing something strange to the monks inside. |
| 187 | ---- |
| 188 | * ArcVillain: It's the primary mover behind the Lindenfeld plotline, as it's the one manipulating Sala into [[spoiler:sacrificing the souls of the Lindenfelders to open a portal to Hell]]. |
| 189 | * BioluminescenceIsCool: It has a fairly distinctive appearance with brightly colored glowing tendrils. |
| 190 | * BreathWeapon: Its primary mean of attack is a powerful fire breath. |
| 191 | * TheCorruptor: Its influence was what led Sala and the priory into becoming demon-worshippers intent on resurrecting Dracula. |
| 192 | * FertileFeet: Its presence causes the growth of distinctive bioluminescent mushrooms. |
| 193 | * FinalBoss: Of Season 3. In the last few episodes, [[spoiler:the ritual works and he calls in a few buddies to fight Trevor and Sypha and ends up being the last thing Trevor fights in the season to prevent the resurrection of Dracula]]. |
| 194 | * GrowingMusclesSequence: Its originally wiry body swells with muscles once [[spoiler:it consumes the souls of Lindenfeld's population]]. |
| 195 | * HealingFactor: After [[spoiler:absorbing all the souls of Lindenfeld]], it gets a powerful regenerating ability, rapidly heals from even the devastating blasts of the Morning Star and shrugging off anything less than that. |
| 196 | * {{Irony}}: It appears to enjoy this, as it has itself crucified like a certain Christ, despite being an actual demon from hell. |
| 197 | * ItCanThink: Unlike most Night Creatures, it's intelligent enough to understand alchemical symbols and undertake a complex plan. |
| 198 | * {{Leitmotif}}: Synthesizer cords play whenever the Visitor is on screen, highlighting its otherworldly nature. |
| 199 | * TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:It's the brains behind Prior Sala's plan, while itself working the will of Isaac.]] |
| 200 | * ManipulativeBastard: It corrupted Sala and encouraged the priory to fulfill its plan of resurrecting Dracula. |
| 201 | * MightyGlacier: Not very agile, but can take a nasty beating and a (mostly) direct hit from it brings Trevor to his knees. [[spoiler:Trevor is forced to bring his ''other'' whip in order to deal any meaningful damage to the monster.]] |
| 202 | * MultipleTailedBeast: It has several tails in addition to its multiple arms and legs. |
| 203 | * MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: Not the Visitor's death, but [[spoiler:its plan is a failsafe of Isaac's in the case of Dracula's death]]. |
| 204 | * NearVillainVictory: [[spoiler: It successfully sacrifices the town of Lindenfeld and opens a direct portal to Hell. If Saint Germain hadn't redirected the Infinite Corridor to somewhere else at the last moment, Dracula would've been resurrected then and there.]] |
| 205 | * PlayAlongPrisoner: When Saint-Germain finds it [[spoiler:crucified in the chapel's basement]], it's there of its own volition. In fact, it is stated that being in that position was its own command in the first place, as part of its intended ritual. |
| 206 | * TheSpeechless: The Visitor never speaks a line despite many Night Creatures being shown to be able to talk. It nevertheless is able to form a plan and carry it on. |
| 207 | * SuperMode: [[spoiler:After absorbing the souls of Lindenfeld it becomes capable of fighting Trevor Belmont, who is at peak condition and armed with the Morning Star, head on.]] |
| 208 | * WalkingSpoiler: What exactly its role in the story is gives away a lot of the mystery and conspiracy of Season 3. |
| 209 | [[/folder]] |
| 210 | |
| 211 | [[folder:Creatures of the Corridor]] |
| 212 | Monsters that emerge from the Infinite Corridor (an interdimensional portal accessed from the basement of the Lindenfeld priory) after the Visitor seizes control of it and connects it to Hell. They may be demons from Hell, or simply a grab-bag of extradimensional monsters that fell through as the Corridor paged between destinations. |
| 213 | ---- |
| 214 | * AnnoyingArrows: One of them is able to fire arrows at Sypha and has seemingly endless ammunition. Though the "annoying" part is downplayed by the fact the heroes take special care to avoid actually getting hit by them, and considering their large size and how easily they destroy stone... |
| 215 | * BigRedDevil: One of them, a red minotaur with bat wings and fire powers, is the most stereotypical devil seen in the series. |
| 216 | * BossInMooksClothing: At first glance, they appear to be no different than Dracula's night creatures other than being [[LightIsNotGood lightly colored]], but they possess powers beyond their normal capacity like summoning black holes and are unrelenting in combat, giving a much harder fight to Trevor and Sypha than other any night creatures from before. Special note should be given the lion archer, who manages to keep Sypha on her toes for a prolonged period and even deflect a couple of her attacks. It takes a lot of dodging and creativity on her part to beat it. |
| 217 | * {{Cthulhumanoid}}: One of the creatures has an octopus-like head and is clearly the show's iteration of a Malachi from the video game. |
| 218 | * DiabolusExNihilo: While they gain access to the world of the living [[spoiler:because of the Visitor's efforts]], their precise origin on whether they are Dracula's servants or residents from other worlds that became displaced is never clarified. In any case, they remain unbound by anyone and have no allegiance to any antagonist but themselves. |
| 219 | * DivinelyAppearingDemons: Several of them have appearances that are very close to traditional angelic appearances, complete with [[LightIsNotGood white color schemes]], [[WingedHumanoid feathered wings]], and [[EyesDoNotBelongThere eyes all over]]. They're also homicidal and attempt to kill Sypha and Trevor as soon as they see them. |
| 220 | * EliteMook: They're clearly a cut above the other things Trevor and Sypha kill. These monsters are very dangerous and forces both heroes to bring their A-game to survive. This may be because they are brought '''directly''' from Hell itself, and possibly some from other dimensions altogether, through the Infinite Corridor as opposed to being embodied through a human vessel by a Forgemaster. |
| 221 | * HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace: And they are part of the reason why besides the portals opening at random, you also have to deal with monsters making incursions into Earth. |
| 222 | * ImmuneToFire: One of them is a hollow lizard-like creature full of fire that absorbs Sypha's fire magic effortlessly.%%Since it's based off an enemy from ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight'' called a Fire Demon, this makes sense.%%Why does this make sense? |
| 223 | * SkullForAHead: One of the creatures, based off a Fire Demon from ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight'', has a bovine skull for a head. |
| 224 | * SpikeShooter: The lion archer, instead of carrying arrows, can grow them directly from it's hand. This allows it to have a bottomless supply and also deploy them rapidly. It can even grow multiple ones at the same time. |
| 225 | * WrongContextMagic: One of them wields PowerOfTheVoid in the form of a summoned black hole, which is distinctly alien compared to the more traditional fantasy magics the other characters use, including other demons. Fittingly, it's a {{Cthulhumanoid}}, making it appear closer to a Lovecraftian monster than a demon. |
| 226 | [[/folder]] |
| 227 | |
| 228 | !Styrian Council of Sisters |
| 229 | |
| 230 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 231 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/carmillacouncil.png]] |
| 232 | [[caption-width-right:350: Left to right: Morana, Lenore, Carmilla, and Striga]] |
| 233 | |
| 234 | ->''"Vampires and sisters."'' |
| 235 | \ |
| 236 | |
| 237 | Carmilla and her three closest allies Lenore, Striga, and Morana, who conspired with her behind the scenes to launch a coup against Dracula. Although Carmilla is the official ruler of Styria, the actual power is shared amongst the four. |
| 238 | ---- |
| 239 | * DarknessVonGothickname: All four are named rather darkly, fitting for a council of vampire rulers. |
| 240 | ** Carrying over from the games, Literature/{{Carmilla}} is ''the'' LesbianVampire; the book originated many hallmarks of vampire fiction. |
| 241 | ** Morana is named for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morana_(goddess) a Slavic goddess]] of wintry death and harvest. |
| 242 | ** Lenore is named for Creator/EdgarAllanPoe's Lenore, giving her a very gothic and elegant air. |
| 243 | ** Striga is [[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/striga#Latin a Latin]] phrase for witch or evil spirit. |
| 244 | * DemotedToExtra: Despite being set up as the DragonAscendant in Season 3, [[spoiler: Carmilla's plan of conquest falls apart almost immediately, and they end up being neutralized by Isaac with Hector's help partway through Season 4, playing no part in the actual plot to resurrect Dracula. All of the sisters bar Lenore also only show up briefly, with Episode 6 serving to wrap up their plotline before the climax of the season even starts]]. |
| 245 | * DragonAscendant: The council's goal in the third season is to carry on Dracula's original plan of walling and herding off a large enough number of humans to serve as their eternal food supply, before his VillainousBreakdown led to his "kill all humans" vendetta. |
| 246 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: All of the other three sisters become horrified at what Carmilla is planning, albeit for different reasons. In addition to realizing that Carmilla lied about the scope of her plans for conquest. Lenore becomes horrified by the scope of the violence that Carmilla wants, realizing that it will result in nothing but suffering and destruction for humans and vampires alike. Morana has an existential crisis over the fact that victory would mean a ForeverWar, where the quartet would be seperated from each other by being forced into horrible, endless battle for all time. Striga realizes that Morana is right, and although she is used to war, she witnesses common farmers rise up to die fighting her army in vain (fearing not having done anything to save their world and families more than dying to vampires), understanding it would never stop, and she and Morana would be forever separated trying to hold the empire together. This is even without realizing that Carmilla has decided that she wants to rule the entire world, not just all the lands around. |
| 247 | * FamilyOfChoice: They consider each other sisters, and two of them are in a relationship. |
| 248 | * FantasticRacism: Like Carmilla, the rest of the council only views humans as little more than livestock. Lenore is the one outlier, as she is willing to negotiate with humans who prove to be valuable to their ambitions. |
| 249 | * FemalesAreMoreInnocent: Discussed, invoked, and downplayed. While the Styrian Council all attempt to make themselves into smarter, wiser, more forward-thinking vampire lords than the self-centered and destructive men they shun, they also fall into some of the same trappings due to their own desires for conquest. However, each of them demonstrate a marked improvement to other vampires. |
| 250 | ** Like Dracula, Carmilla holds ambitions for worldwide conquest, but stops short of Dracula's desire for total genocide by opting to keep humans as a food supply instead. |
| 251 | ** Like Varney, Morana is a keen strategist and planner, but has the practicality and wisdom to make Carmilla's plans work, and also recognize when they're doomed to fail. She also has moral objections to the sheer amount of death Carmilla's plans would've created, something nearly no other vampire in the series has made. |
| 252 | ** Lenore alone stands out among all other vampires by being a negotiator first of foremost, and her empathy and kindness prove to be genuine (to a lesser degree). |
| 253 | ** Like Ratko and Dragan, Striga is a skilled and steadfast soldier, but has a sense of honor and restraint that the vast majority of vampires lack. And like Morana, she also objects to the sheer amount of deaths that Carmilla's constant pursuit of power would cause. |
| 254 | * FourTemperamentEnsemble: Each of the four sisters neatly fall into shades of this: |
| 255 | ** Carmilla, the ruler, is the Sanguine. She comes up with the ideas that the others rallies behind. |
| 256 | ** Striga, the fighter, is Choleric. She serves as the VoiceOfReason and tries to rein in Carmilla's more ambitious ideas. |
| 257 | ** Lenore, the diplomat, is Phlegmatic. She is [[FairPlayVillain the most willing to negotiate]] with enemies, but also the most manipulative of the four. |
| 258 | ** Morana, the planner, is Melancholic. She is the most willing to think of the long term consequences of their actions, and strategizes how to enact Carmilla's schemes. |
| 259 | * HeelRealization: [[spoiler: Morana and Striga go through a minor one. While they don't fully repent their ways, they are genuinely unnerved by humanity's willingness to sacrifice themselves, even in hopeless battles to defend their lands. Morana also expresses some displeasure at how many lives the invasion will cost. This causes them to doubt Carmilla's plan can actually work. When Carmilla is killed, they realize that vampires' endless scheming is doomed to ruin their lives, when all they want to do is spend time together, opting to leave Styria to burn rather than end up getting themselves and their remaining forces killed trying to avenge her.]] |
| 260 | * HyperCompetentSidekick: Carmilla is the one who comes up with all the great schemes, but she almost always needs her three sisters to make them a reality. |
| 261 | -->'''Striga:''' I think that whatever we achieve, we achieve it ''together''. You and me. Carmilla throws a crazy plan at us, and it's us who make it work.\ |
| 262 | '''Morana:''' Or put another way... we make it work ''despite'' Carmilla. |
| 263 | * ItIsDehumanizing: Carmilla's sisters shares her knack for referring to Hector as "It." The only exception is Lenore, who is seemingly the most empathetic of the four. [[spoiler: Though just the same, she peppers all her compliments to him by saying "Good Boy" and by the season's end views him as a pet and servant, though her feelings turn out to be genuine. Admittedly, Hector also has a thing about seeing all power relationships in terms of pets that several characters commented on, so she might have just been playing into it]]. |
| 264 | * ALighterShadeOfBlack: |
| 265 | ** They wish to dominate mankind, much like Dracula. Unlike Dracula, they have no intention of wiping them out and want to keep them as food. |
| 266 | ** The Council as a whole is this in regards to Dracula's. Carmilla's Council is drawn together on the basis of mutual respect and camaraderie. While Carmilla is the one who takes the lead with their goals, the other members balance out her ambitions. By comparison, Dracula's Council was a thinly held together alliance dictated by [[MightMakesRight their fear of Dracula]]. Dracula ruled with an iron fist, and forced others into going along with his whims. And more than anything else, the majority despise one another. |
| 267 | * PragmaticVillainy: Rather than wiping out humanity like Dracula, their goal is to control a section of their country, keeping humans like cattle to serve as food. Their logic behind this is that this will give them a steady supply of food, if they can breed and control the humans selectively. Morana even discusses things like guards, supply lines, etc. when discussing how to go about this. |
| 268 | * TrueCompanions: Occasional bickering aside, the four sisters are loyal to one another and work as a unit to see their goals achieved. [[spoiler: Subverted in Season 4, where the other sisters come to realize Carmilla's greed is going to doom them all, and Striga and Morana opt to leave Styria to fall rather than potentially die avenging her. This can be attributed to Carmilla's actions having completely destabilized their working dynamic, which once enhanced each other strengths while negating each others flaws.]] |
| 269 | * UnderestimatingBadassery: All of them think of Hector as no threat after seeing how easy he is to toy with and manipulate. Unfortunately for them, they're forgetting that he's a powerful Forgemaster, and that he was on Dracula's Council for a damn good reason, as [[spoiler:Hector, after growing a spine, proves to be TheChessmaster who undermines their entire operation and plays a massive role in not only almost getting Dracula resurrected, only stopping of his own volition, but also singlehandedly supplying the path to let Isaac kill Carmilla, toppling their empire. Upon seeing what he and Isaac have wrought, [[KnowWhenToFoldEm Striga and Morana decide it's not worth it to come for him.]]]] |
| 270 | * WomenAreWiser: ZigZaggingTrope. The Styrian Council are made up of groups of women who've all been victimized or marginalized in some way by men -- both human ''and'' vampire. This gave each a perspective that something was wrong with the world at large, and each chose to make their own haven to get away from it all. This has also put them under constant attack and contempt from men (again, both human and vampire) who want to see them fail or get destroyed simply because they're women. Due to their wisdom and relationship dynamic where each's strengths are enhanced together and their personality flaws erased, they manage to build one of the most prosperous and stable vampire kingdoms around for ages. [[spoiler:It gets deconstructed hard when Carmilla starts going off the deep end, destabilizing what they have to chase after control and power over ''everything'', the entire world, as fast as possible. The rest of the sisters realize that her ambitions are going to cause the destruction of their paradise, with two of them [[KnowWhenToFoldEm escaping to live their lives somewhere else]] and the last [[DrivenToSuicide killing herself]] rather than live caged ever again]]. |
| 271 | [[/folder]] |
| 272 | |
| 273 | [[folder:Carmilla]] |
| 274 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/carmilla_netflix.png]] |
| 275 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JaimeMurray (English), Creator/MieSonozaki (Japanese), Erica Edwards (Latin American Spanish) |
| 276 | \ |
| 277 | |
| 278 | ->''"I'm nothing'' but ''ambition. I'm a queen."'' |
| 279 | \ |
| 280 | |
| 281 | One of Dracula's vampiric generals. She hails from Austria and is the last arriving member of his War Council. |
| 282 | ---- |
| 283 | * AdaptationalCurves: {{Inverted|Trope}}. Carmilla is gaunter and less busty in the animated series than in the video game, though still slender. |
| 284 | * AdaptationalJerkass: Carmilla has always been portrayed as a villain in the original games, but if there is one common trait in previous continuities, it was her slavish devotion to Dracula, sometimes serving as an {{Yandere}} for him like in ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsOfShadow2''. In the animation, however, she [[spoiler:has nothing but disdain and contempt for him and is actively plotting to undermine and usurp him]]. |
| 285 | * AdaptationalModesty: Carmilla wears less revealing clothing than her game counterpart (who was ''naked'' in most of her boss fights). |
| 286 | * AdaptationDyeJob: Sort of. Carmilla is most often portrayed as a brunette in the games (both the original and ''Lords of Shadow'' continuity), although only on in GaidenGames, and alternate continuity games -- in her [[http://castlevania.wikia.com/wiki/File:Carmilla_RoB.JPG canon to the main continuity appearance in Rondo of Blood]], she is portrayed with [[WhiteHairBlackHeart silver-hair]], as she is portrayed in the animation. |
| 287 | * AmbitionIsEvil: At the start of the series, Carmilla and her sisterhood are living what is by all appearences an extremely comfortable and secure life as ageless vampire aristocrats in a lavish mountaintop fortress, enough so as to make them extremely well-off and powerful by modern standards, let alone medieval ones. Carmilla's driving motivation is her discontent with even this and her desire to own and expand more and more, which is what drives both her villainy and eventual downfall. While she doesn't turn against her original master or [[spoiler:Dracula]] until she was convinced that they were insane and without regard for their vampire underlings, which was a completely correct observation, by Season 3 she has become motivated chiefly by imperial ambitions and her desire to place as much of Europe and its people as possible under her rule and control. Come Season 4, [[spoiler:she's making plans of expanding Styria's borders to encompass other vampire territories where the rulers had fallen, and, in a conversation with Lenore, Carmilla states that she wouldn't be satisfied with less than the world in the palm of her hand]]. |
| 288 | -->'''Carmilla:''' I'm nothing ''but'' ambition. |
| 289 | * AxCrazy: Subtle but present. She defaults to violently assaulting Godbrand to focus his attention and... well, see the MaskOfSanity entry. |
| 290 | * BadassBoast: [[spoiler:Towards Isaac as she's about to die. She tells him she'll be waiting for him down in hell to see if he can actually be killed twice.]] |
| 291 | * TheBaroness: Fits this trope like a glove due to her cruel and domineering personality, beautiful looks and being condescending to men in general. If [[spoiler:chaining Hector like a dog and calling him her pet]] isn't enough to qualify, then nothing else will. |
| 292 | * BedFullOfWomen: Inverted and implied. When she wakes up in the middle of the day to Striga and Morana’s talk of her plans, she offhandedly remarks she could hear them from her bed and over three men’s snoring, indicating they were with her. |
| 293 | * TheBerserker: During her final battle with [[spoiler: Isaac and his night creatures,]] Carmilla has been reduced to this fighting style, with no strategy or display of abilities besides speed and power. She's still capable enough to kill so many that they leave a pool of blood that fills and flows out of the room. |
| 294 | * BetterToDieThanBeKilled: [[spoiler: After Isaac and his troops storm Carmilla's castle and Isaac directly confronts and defeats her, she opts to stab herself with her scimitar in a [[TakingYouWithMe suicide attack]].]] |
| 295 | * BigBad: She and her sisters form a FiveManBand with Hector in season three. Carmilla is their driving force and the one who comes up with their "schemes", ultimately becoming the main villain for Hector and Isaac's storyline. |
| 296 | * BigBadEnsemble: [[spoiler:With Dracula in Season 2, since she secretly plans to oust him because she finds him weak and indecisive. With him out of the way by the end of the season, she is this with Isaac for Season 3]]. |
| 297 | * BigBadWannabe: [[spoiler:Although she comes off as more resourceful and cunning than the Bishop from Season 1 and genuinely wants to take Dracula's position as BigBad, her plans are ruined by the heroes' unexpected intervention as Sypha's spell leaves Dracula's castle out of her reach and even worse, her army was completely destroyed, leaving her unable to take control herself. With that said, Dracula's destruction plays to her advantage and she aims to fix her army shortage with Hector as her slave. During Season 3, she is trying to figure out of way to get Hector to create an army for her... only for her companion Lenore to solve the problem completely by herself to Carmila's befuddlement. Season 4 all but spells out that Carmilla is pretty much useless as a schemer when she doesn't have her sisters with her. Without [[BrainsAndBrawn Morana and Striga]], Carmilla is defeated by Isaac (with Hector's sabatoge and assistance) when he invades Styria. She never even meets Trevor's group, let alone fights them]]. |
| 298 | * BrokenPedestal: Prior to the start of the story, Carmilla specifically sought Dracula out, expecting him to be a strong and charismatic leader. To her displeasure, she found that he was just as much of a slave to his vices as her previous abusive master. |
| 299 | ** Becomes one to her sisters in Season 4, with Striga and Morana's realizing they would be in a [[ForeverWar neverending war]] due to humans never ceasing to resist them and Lenore's finding Carmilla's new ambitions of world conquest to be insane. |
| 300 | * CleavageWindow: One of her red dresses has this, giving us a pretty good view of her white chest and the sides of her breasts. |
| 301 | * CombatPragmatist: While Carmilla is often arrogant and smug, she rarely engages in direct combat or gets physical unless she knows she has a huge advantage. She manipulates and schemes, but is cautious and never tries to confront people out in the open. This is further emphasized when she finds out a Belmont still exists and she immediately loses her cool and borderline demands that they find the Belmont and any weapons or relics the Belmonts have collected so they cannot be used against the vampire army. Compared [[SurroundedByIdiots to some of the other vampires]], it demonstrates that her arrogance (usually) doesn't blind her to the very real threat of death. |
| 302 | * ControlFreak: This turns out to be her ultimate reason for trying to take over the world. As someone who was deprived of agency and choice for the vast majority of her life, with the existing structures of power (both human and vampire) working against her AND her sisters simply due to her gender, her ambition has become to take over the entire world to finally attain that same dominance for herself. |
| 303 | * CorneredRattlesnake: [[spoiler:Surrounded by Isaac's night creatures and trapped in her conference room courtesy of Hector, Carmilla stands her ground, lashing out at anyone that moves to attack her.]] |
| 304 | * DeathByAThousandCuts: [[spoiler:She's gradually whittled down by Isaac's army bit by bit until even a human like him can face her on relatively even footing.]] |
| 305 | * DefiantToTheEnd: At no point does Carmilla ever bow, keeping her ambition and willful nature to the end rather than surrender or cower. [[spoiler: Ultimately, even when she faces off against Isaac, she gets the last word -- namely, a last sentence as she destroys herself in a last attempt at [[TakingYouWithMe killing Isaac too.]]]] |
| 306 | * DehumanizingInsult: About halfway through the second season, she starts referring to Hector as "puppy." |
| 307 | * DemotedToExtra: Despite being one of the major antagonists of the series [[spoiler: she ends up this in Season 4, only showing up briefly to showcase how much greedy her plans have become before Isaac attacks and defeats her with four episodes left to go.]] |
| 308 | * DidNotThinkThisThrough: [[spoiler:It's pointed out in Season 3 that her plan to force Hector create an an army for her was a terrible idea. Carmilla's treatment of him meant he had no reason to obey her, and since his creatures are loyal to him, creating the army would just give him the means to get his revenge. It's made clear she didn't actually think about where Hector was actually supposed to get the bodies to create an army either, not without depleting the vampires' food supply.]] |
| 309 | ** [[spoiler:Morana and Striga realize firsthand that Carmilla hadn't considered that humans will never stop opposing them even after if subjugated, and they would be condemned to fight an [[ForeverWar unending war]] if her plans came to fruition.]] |
| 310 | * [[DiscOneFinalBoss Disc Two Final Boss]]: [[spoiler: Despite being a major antagonist for the series, Carmilla gets killed off in the sixth episode of Season 4, leaving Varney/Death as the sole BigBad for the remainder of the series.]] |
| 311 | * DoesNotLikeMen: Carmilla has a very low opinion of men in general, regarding every single male character she interacts with as children, beasts, or old fools. She despises the other women in Dracula's Inner Court, ChĹŤ and Raman, because they're "too indecisive" (i.e. don't despise men as she does and won't betray Dracula). |
| 312 | * DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: An older woman in high heels who enjoys stomping on the men who piss her off and takes a significantly younger (albeit adult) man as a pet. You do the math. |
| 313 | * DragonAscendant: [[spoiler:Appears to be set up as the next BigBad after Dracula's death. Ultimately subverted as it is Death who takes the helm of continuing Dracula's legacy to KillAllHumans and her storyline is treated more as a side.]] |
| 314 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: Marches into Dracula's arguing court long after being summoned by the prince of darkness, which silences them and puts all eyes on her. She then asks Dracula point-blank why he never bothered to turn his late wife Lisa into a vampire like the rest of them. Then, after [[BerserkButton earning Dracula's ire]] and being summoned to speak with him privately, she manages to convince him that she was just asking what everyone else was already thinking and she is truly on his side, which spares her his wrath. A powerful presence, self-important, ManipulativeBastard all in one. |
| 315 | * EvenEvilCanBeLoved: [[spoiler:All of Carmilla's sisters are saddened at her death, even while acknowledging she had it coming.]] |
| 316 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: The sole humanizing trait of her personality preventing her from being completely monstrous, she truly cares for her sisters, Lenore, Striga and Morana. |
| 317 | * EvilCannotComprehendGood: Carmilla cannot believe that Dracula actually loved Lisa when he refused to turn her into a vampiress, seeing him as a mad old man throwing a tantrum over the death of his pet. She repeatedly refuses to acknowledge or accept that Dracula had genuine feelings for Lisa, even though it is clear that Lisa's humanity is exactly the reason why Dracula fell in love with her in the first place. |
| 318 | * EvilCounterpart: |
| 319 | ** Even though the two never interact, she is this to Sypha personality-wise. They share similar interactions with their male colleagues, especially when they refer to them as [[{{Manchild}} grown-up children]]. The difference is that Sypha is an example of WomenAreWiser who ultimately respects her friends and works together with them, while Carmilla is TheBaroness who has nothing but contempt for the men around her and [[spoiler:only uses them as pawns to fulfill her own ends]]. It's also fitting that [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience they]] dress [[BlueIsHeroic in]] opposite [[LadyInRed colors]]. |
| 320 | ** Even more subtle, but Carmilla is actually this to Lisa, as well. Both are blue-eyed, red garbed, ambitious, determined, strong willed and persuasive women. Both Lisa and Carmilla also willingly traveled to a vampire’s castle to seek betterment and knowledge, but while Lisa impressed Dracula making him fall in love and marry her, Carmilla however... got turned into a vampire and trapped in a horrific situation as her sire's sex slave. Unlike Lisa, Carmilla is embittered, conniving and cruel, along with a lust for power due being enslaved for so long. It's telling that Carmilla writes off Dracula loving Lisa off as him "keeping a pet" and [[EvilCannotComprehendGood Carmilla can't understand why]] Dracula didn't just turn her into vampire (like her) if he wanted to keep Lisa safe. |
| 321 | * EvilIsPetty: The NoHoldsBarredBeatdown Carmilla delivers to Hector at the end of the second season was ultimately and completely unnecessary since she had already taken him prisoner with her troops. She gets called out for doing so by Morana. |
| 322 | * FantasticRacism: While not as vocal about it as Godbrand, who constantly refers to humans as livestock, this attitude is still present in her character. She believes that the only positive role humans can play towards vampires are pets. |
| 323 | * FemaleMisogynist: Although claiming to hate men and only want the best for her "sisters", she patronisingly mocks the gentle feminine traits of Lenore, apparently has a harem of men that she sleeps with and views Dracula’s loving marriage with his human wife Lisa as him “keeping a pet”, saying to Hector if Dracula really loved her, he would’ve turned her into a vampire. She eventually shows that she has no patience for anyone who isn't a female vampire who is actively aiding her ForeverWar against humans and/or men. Ultimately even her own vampire sisters become horrified by Carmilla’s schemes and antics, and, when Styria falls, choose their respective lovers over saving her. |
| 324 | * FemmeFatale: Practically a given from the moment she first appears, and is even willing to test Dracula's anger proudly in the open in the process of starting her subtle manipulations. |
| 325 | * FinalSpeech: [[spoiler:"Look at you all. You're not ''big enough'' to kill me! You're ''nothing''. You don't ''deserve'' my blood. And when ''you'' die and go to Hell, [[SeeYouInHell I'll be there waiting for you]]. With a sharp, bloody stick, and the determination to see if you can die twice. I am Carmilla of Styria, and ''fuck you''! [[TakingYouWithMe I win.]]"]] |
| 326 | * TheFriendNobodyLikes: Among the Styrian council, feelings about her are... mixed. Her sisters are loyal to her and appreciate what she built, but they criticize her actions and decisions behind her back, and sometimes to her face -- especially in regards to how she has grand plans that she doesn't think through and leave her sisters to fix. |
| 327 | * FreudianExcuse: Carmilla's hatred of men stems from being kept as a sex slave by an older male vampire. Even when she finally killed him and established Styria with her sisters, the wider vampire community cut them off and left them to fend for themselves against various armies simply because they were a kingdom ruled by women. She would have been content with Styria, but the abuse and dismissal she's suffered drove her to become a MyopicConqueror obsessed with dethroning everyone who wronged her, which in her eyes is every male vampire in existence. |
| 328 | * {{Foil}}: To Dracula himself; they are different genders, opposite hair colors, they have opposing elemental themes (Dracula being associated with hellfire while Carmilla has both a frosty personality and lives on a snow capped mountain), Carmilla is generally in control of her emotions despite a few cases of snapping whereas Dracula is ''painfully'' in thrall to his sorrow and anger at mankind. [[spoiler:At the end of Season 2, Dracula is slain as a part of his VillainousBSOD due to said emotional instability and having a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment, his plans stopped by his own hand and the main heroes, whereas Carmilla lasts until Season 4 but her downfall is the result of her own [[HoistByHerOwnPetard schemes leaving her vulnerable]] and Isaac seeking revenge, she fights to the end but is TheUnfought for the heroes. They both end up killing themselves, but for different reasons; Dracula to atone for almost killing his son in his madness, Carmilla to deny Isaac [[BetterDieThanBeKilled the honor]] of killing her and to try and take him with her.]] |
| 329 | * GreenEyedMonster: After living her entire life being mistreated by men or left to die by them, Carmilla has an obsession with claiming everything "Stupid, evil, old men" own as her own and killing them just for the sake of having what they have. |
| 330 | * HoistByHerOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Her plan of using the resurrected Bishop to bless the river water around a stronghold that Dracula's forces attempt to seize, and drops them into it, killing them. When the heroes attempt to forcibly teleport Dracula's Castle, the water is sent cascading onto her own soldiers, killing most of them as well.]] |
| 331 | * HorrifyingTheHorror: [[TerrorHero A]] heroic [[TheDreaded example]] with the Belmont clan towards her. Carmilla is smug and arrogant throughout her entire time at castle Dracula and doesn't even mind getting under Dracula's skin. The instant she hears that a Belmont still exists, she immediately loses the smug attitude, becomes tense, and suggests that they send people out to find any weapons or knowledge the Belmonts had used to hunt down vampires. [[spoiler:Given that she becomes TheStarscream and has her own agenda to take over, this fear is justified. Given that the clan has been doing this for centuries and that it's almost certain that the night creatures have tried and been unsuccessful in their destruction, [[BadassFamily this fear is justified.]]]] |
| 332 | * {{Hypocrite}}: For all her arguments about most men being childish and throwing temper tantrums, she is blind to her own [[PsychopathicWomanchild womanchild tendencies]], like lashing out at others for not getting what she wants. [[spoiler: Notably, every flaw that she's accused men of having (short-sightedness, over-reaching plans, greed, uncontrollable lust for power, poor management, self-destructive tendencies, flawed tactics, inflated egos, ''[[MisanthropeSupreme etc.]]'') are all flaws that she herself displays at one point or another. ]] |
| 333 | * IcyBlueEyes: Cold, blue eyes that match her cruel heart. |
| 334 | * IgnoredEpiphany: When asked by Lenore if she would be happy once she has the world, [[MotiveRant after ranting about why she's doing what she's doing]], she somberly restates the question, before answering... |
| 335 | -->'''Carmilla:''' "Will I be happy when I've done that? ...I don't know. I don't know if I even ''care''. But I will have everything they've had, and they will [[PunctuatedForEmphasis all. Be. Dead.]] I ''will'' have the world I want, Lenore. And that will be enough." |
| 336 | * ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler: Self-inflicted, as she'd rather [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled kill herself than be killed by Isaac and his Night Creatures]].]] |
| 337 | * {{Irony}}: |
| 338 | ** [[spoiler:Despite all her bragging about the sisterhood of her council compared to the rest of vampire society; said council realizes that her plans of world domination and suppression of humanity is impossible to maintain, with their attempts to do so rendering one redundant (and alienated from her) and the others unavailable for assistance when Carmilla is in dire need of them, resulting in her death.]] |
| 339 | ** [[spoiler: Her plan to defeat Dracula and claim his territory was to subvert some of his generals due to his mistreatment of them, use unconventional tactics and Hector's forgemaster powers to reduce his army, and then swarm him with numbers to whittle him down until the power difference didn't matter. Come Season 4 and the attack on her lands, Lenore rushes to protect Hector instead of her due to her actions, Hector has laid a magic trap that reduces her army while isolating her, and Isaac whittles her down with his knife and his entire army of monsters, negating the power difference between them.]] |
| 340 | * {{Jerkass}}: Out of all Dracula's generals, Carmilla is the cruelest of them all, being a sexist, condescending, and surprisingly violent woman who manipulates everyone around her for her own gains. |
| 341 | * KickTheDog: Carmilla's [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown brutal]] treatment of [[MadeASlave Hector]] in the second season definitely qualifies. Deconstructed however, because her side story in the third season revolves around her and the council now trying to decide how to handle Hector being their forgemaster since Carmilla's actions have turned him into too much of a WildCard who resents her. |
| 342 | * LadyInRed: Wears a dark crimson dress and certainly qualifies as an evil example. |
| 343 | * LadyOfWar: She is an aristocratic FemmeFatale who would rather not fight, but she proves an absolutely formidable OneWomanArmy when she needs to. |
| 344 | * ManipulativeBastard: Towards Hector. At first, she tries to reason that Dracula is far too depressed to actually win the war to get him on her side while continually praising his skill and intelligence. [[spoiler:But the moment that she got what she wanted, she dropped the act and openly stated she saw him as a puppy and now he's forced to help as he's done too much already.]] |
| 345 | * MsFanservice: {{Downplayed|Trope}}; Carmilla isn't as busty as her original incarnation and her looks aren't focused on very much, but she's still one of the most noticeably slender and beautiful women in the series. She does a bit of a SupermodelStrut in her debut, wears form-fitting dresses, including one with a CleavageWindow, and at least one shot in the episode "Shadow Battles" focuses on her shapely rear-end as she makes a rather sexy pose. This is played up in Season 4 where Carmilla has a more sexualized [[LadyInRed red dress]] that has a NavelDeepNeckline and shows off her legs, although [[AdaptationalModesty it's still tamer]] than a lot of Carmilla's outfits ([[FullFrontalAssault or lack of outfits]]) from the games. |
| 346 | * MaskOfSanity: Carmilla puts on a good show of being calm and collected, but [[spoiler:when she begins beating Hector into submission, this slips noticeably, revealing a wild, sadistic monster under that ice. By the fourth season, the mask is off entirely with even Lenore terrified of her, and Striga and Morana losing faith in her untenable schemes.]] |
| 347 | * MisanthropeSupreme: Carmilla does not hold a high opinion of her fellow vampires, let alone humans. Much of her disdain seems to come from the fact that the court is either too foolishly loyal or too cowardly to actually confront Dracula on his insane desire to destroy all humans, [[spoiler: but later it's revealed that she suffered under a vampire master in the past, and now projects his flaws onto every male she speaks to, even ones she's never met in person.]] |
| 348 | * MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: She held this opinion and is also [[spoiler:the last known of the vampire aristocracy standing after Season 2.]] Ultimately subverted as while she is a capable villain, she is nowhere near as dangerous as Dracula or [[spoiler:Death]] and she is [[spoiler:cornered and defeated by Hector and Isaac, who are both male]]. |
| 349 | * MyopicConqueror: Lenore, Morana and Striga all discover alongside the audience that ultimately Carmilla is more enticed with the idea that she can rule all she can see and grasp than with the actual work behind it. |
| 350 | * NiceJobFixingItVillain: |
| 351 | ** Ultimately, all her machinations help the main trio more than they help her. In particular, her [[spoiler:river of holy water all but wipes out the vampire {{mooks}} (including her own) letting the trio storm the castle relatively unopposed, not to mention her scheming keeps two of Dracula's generals out of the final fight, as her scheming led to Godbrand's death and Hector being sidelined]]. Also, after [[spoiler:Dracula's death]], her betrayal prompts Isaac [[spoiler:to go after her instead of the heroes. The journey Isaac takes in the process results in his decision to abandon Dracula's cause of KillAllHumans and persuading Hector to do the same so the main trio never ends up having to deal with two powerful forgemasters.]] |
| 352 | ** [[spoiler:Her unchecked ambition and [[StupidEvil impulsive]] tendencies ultimately engineer her downfall and the destruction of the very kingdom she boasted about ruling: enslaving Hector and constantly abusing him led to his subverting her from within. Her armies were all stretched thin with two of her sisters away because of her [[TakeOverTheWorld insane plan]], meaning that when Isaac attacked, with Hector's removing her control of his Night Creatures, she was doomed without any of the main trio's ever having to glance her way.]] |
| 353 | * NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Does this to Hector after making him her slave. |
| 354 | * NotSoAboveItAll: Despite holding herself in higher regard than all of Dracula's war council, she gets pretty easily sucked into a conversation about whether running water can kill a vampire or not. |
| 355 | * OhCrap: While the Belmonts are TheDreaded among all the intelligent night creatures, Carmilla seems the most disturbed by the fact that a Belmont still exists. She immediately proposes that they go to the Belmont ancestral home and surveillance of it in the chance that the Belmont goes back there or that they can find any magic, relics, or knowledge that the Belmonts used to hunt monsters for centuries and secure them to protect Dracula (and herself) from danger. [[ProperlyParanoid She is absolutely right in her assumptions and concern in both a Belmont returning there and that there is a massive cache of items, relics, knowledge, and weapons hidden there.]] Then there's her reaction when Sypha forcibly teleports Dracula's castle away. |
| 356 | -->'''Carmilla:''' "What the [[PrecisionFStrike fuck]] just happened...? |
| 357 | * OneWomanArmy: Carmilla is a powerful vampiress who can hold her own in a fight. In Season 4, she takes on a massive amount of Night Creatures and slew dozens, however her strength has its limits and she becomes more drained from the ordeal of cutting down even more that attack her. [[spoiler:While holding her own against Isaac, Carmilla realizes she can't win, so she takes her own life out of spite and in a final gambit to kill him.]] |
| 358 | * OutOfFocus: Partly in Season 3 while she still appears and is still important, she fades somewhat to the background while her council gets focus in her story line. |
| 359 | * PlotIrrelevantVillain: [[spoiler: Despite being a recurring villain since Season 2, Carmilla's actions hardly have any impact to the main storyline, especially since she never directly comes into conflict with Trevor and his allies. She even gets killed before she had a chance to face them]]. |
| 360 | * PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Aside from her [[FantasticRacism low views on humans]], Carmilla is also [[DoesNotLikeMen very dismissive of men]], constantly calling them "stupid old men" or "useless". |
| 361 | * PragmaticVillainy: [[spoiler:When the consecrated water crashes down on her army after the castle is teleported away, she makes an effort to keep Hector with her when she jumps out of danger, as she needs the Devil Forgemaster to rebuild her army.]] |
| 362 | * ProfaneLastWords: [[spoiler: "I am Carmilla of Styria, and [[PrecisionFStrike FUCK YOU!]]"]] |
| 363 | * RapeAsBackstory: Implicit, given that she was kept as a SexSlave [[TheStarscream and was very much not happy about that]]. This seems to have her made her very disdainful towards men. |
| 364 | * ResignationsNotAccepted: [[spoiler:After Dracula is killed, Hector attempts to break off ties with Carmilla and go his own way. Carmilla responds by beating him into submission because she was really serious about him being her [[ExactWords pet dog now]].]] |
| 365 | * {{Schemer}}: She's called as much, even by her own sisters. When Lenore talks with Hector, she talks about how when Carmilla is left to herself for a while especially when planning, she starts "scheming again". |
| 366 | * SheWhoFightsMonsters: All her life (and un-life), Carmilla has been [[SurroundedByIdiots surrounded by men]] who do nothing but mistreat her and her sisters, fuck things up, and face no consequences. She formed the Council of Styria specifically to create a place where they would be free of that, but even then, they are either ignored or under constant attack ''because'' they are women. Thus, Carmilla reveals that she will never be satisfied with any amount of security -- instead, she demands to kill all these idiot men and take everything that they have. Gradually, her MaskOfSanity slips and reveals that she has internalized every single negative trait that she has suffered, feeling entitled to have "her turn" at being abusive and DrunkWithPower, rather than finding peace. |
| 367 | * ShockAndAwe: Carmilla can infuse herself with powerful surge of lightning, to boost her speed and empower her blows. |
| 368 | * SinisterScimitar: Carmilla uses a wicked-looking curved sword when she has to defend herself against Isaac's night creatures, befitting her cruel, vicious personality. |
| 369 | * SmallNameBigEgo: Considers herself a brilliant schemer. [[spoiler: Even though it's made clear most of her ideas only work because Striga, Morana, and Lenore make them work, to her credit, her attempted coup in Dracula's castle went off nearly without a hitch, only being foiled by unexpected interference from a third party.]] |
| 370 | * SmugSnake: Arrogant, manipulative, scheming, condescending, and self-assured... And completely incredulous and caught off-guard when things don't go her way. The one time she gets physical is when [[spoiler:she strikes and punches Hector into submission after he has been restrained and collared]]. |
| 371 | ** Furthermore, she's not as clever as she thinks she is, as Isaac and Dracula had her figured out from the outset, and the only reason Dracula didn't stop her was because he could not care less in his depression. |
| 372 | ** [[spoiler:As said above, her idea of creating a vampire fiefdom with humans as livestock is feasible due to the power vacuum left behind by Dracula, but that's all it is: an idea. It takes the combined efforts of Striga, Morana, and Lenore to work through the monumental logistics to make an actual plan to get there and find a way to make Hector loyal. Altogether, Carmilla is ambitious but incompetent when it comes to the real workings behind it with almost all of the work being done by someone other than her. Even then her plans would have been feasible if she were willing to take her time and be content with just a limited expansion along her borders, but she wants EVERYTHING even beyond the governless regions as fast as possible.]] |
| 373 | * TheStarscream: |
| 374 | ** In her backstory, she was made a master vampire's bride until, in her words, he went mad as he became old and cruel, so she killed him. |
| 375 | ** In Season 2, [[spoiler:she plots to do the same to Dracula because he reminds her of her maker]]. |
| 376 | * SurroundedByIdiots: |
| 377 | ** Carmilla doesn't think that highly of the war council that Dracula put together or Dracula himself. Thinking the men are either manchildren, old fools, or beasts while the women are too scared or too enraged to do anything. |
| 378 | ** In Season 3 [[spoiler:it's revealed to be the other way around with Carmilla's being the impatient idiot that her sisters have to deal with.]] |
| 379 | * SuperSpeed: Seems to be her forté. Once she finally starts fighting, she's a blur compared even to other vampires. |
| 380 | * StupidEvil: While Carmilla's sisters praise her ideas and will try to make them work, they're all quick to call her out for serious oversights. For example, they realize that ''forcing'' Hector into being their forgemaster (especially when he was already cooperating with her) AND beating him to a pulp isn't going to make him work for them. And ''they'' consider humans to be nothing more than cattle just like she does. |
| 381 | * TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:Attempts to do this with Isaac with the explosion generated from her death. It nearly works but one of his demons shields him from the blast.]] |
| 382 | * TakeOverTheWorld: States that this is her intent by Season 4. [[spoiler:[[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]], as Striga and Morana find well before conquering the territory Carmilla initially set out to claim that they are forced into constant battles, and are going to have endure endless battles in the future along with constantly working to maintain the logistics of holding territory. And in the long term, Styria wouldn't benefit from it.]] |
| 383 | * TermsOfEndangerment: After the wheels of coup against Dracula get set into motion, Carmilla drops any pretense of pleasantries she was showing towards Hector and starts referring to him as [[DehumanizingInsult puppy]]. [[spoiler: After Dracula's death, Carmilla proves that she really does view Hector as her pet now.]] |
| 384 | * UnderestimatingBadassery: DownplayedTrope compared to Lenore. While Carmilla is generally a complete SmugSnake, she catches on to the fact that [[spoiler:Hector is stalling and planning something]]. That said, she doesn't do anything about it, figuring it will be harmless compared to her grand scheme; it's an error that has serious ramifications, because [[spoiler:Hector is a key component in annihilating her dreams of an empire]]. |
| 385 | * TheUnfavourite: To Dracula. Carmilla was not invited to Dracula's War Council to genocide humanity. She only knew of the meeting because Godbrand revealed the secret information in an attempt to bed her. |
| 386 | * TheUnfought: [[spoiler:Nobody gets to confront her at the end of Season 2, neither the heroes (who didn't even know about her) nor Dracula (who found out about her betrayal, but didn't have time to do anything about it).]] |
| 387 | * UnknownRival: |
| 388 | ** Carmilla is this to the protagonists; while she expresses appropriate dread at the presence of a Belmont and Alucard to ruin their plans and has an monster band sent to deal with them, the heroes themselves don't even know about her. [[spoiler:During the climax, they accidentally sabotage her plans by teleporting Castlevania (Dracula's seat of power that she intends to usurp) out of her reach and during the ensuing chaos, her armies get swallowed by the rivers' blessed waters effectively crippling her forces]]. |
| 389 | * UnreliableNarrator: Carmilla is very insistent how she and her sisters are unique as women ruling over vampires. Yet of the seven vampires who comprise Dracula's inner court, almost half are women. Including Carmilla herself, there was ChĹŤ and Raman. Season 3 confirmed ChĹŤ was one of the dominant vampires in Japan. |
| 390 | * VengeanceFeelsEmpty: Her big plan is to take the whole world for herself and her sisters. She claims it's a way to take away from the men who had taken everything away from her. When Lenore feebly asks if conquering everything would truly make her happy, Carmilla has a quiet moment of insight. She admits that while she doesn't know if it ''would'' make her happy, just being able to do it and continuing to take would be enough for her. |
| 391 | * VillainBall: At the end of Season 2, she takes the time to beat Hector within an inch of his life when he rightfully protests his forced servitude towards her, taking obscene pleasure as she does so. In Season 3, when she explains her plan to have him create a night-creature army for them, her fellow matriarchs are right to point out that all this does is make him less cooperative, leaving Lenore to fix it for her. |
| 392 | * VillainHasAPoint: |
| 393 | ** For all her arrogance, she does make entirely legitimate points: if Dracula had turned Lisa or even provided her with some basic protection, then the church would have been unable to kill her; Dracula doesn't actually have a plan for his war council; no one can stand up to him because he can invoke BecauseISaidSo; and he is an "old man" ravaged by grief who is engaged in pointless destruction. |
| 394 | ** Her betrayal and murder of the vampire who sired her is a straight example, as she alludes to him being abusive. The series also takes place before the industrial revolution, when physical abuse in many regards was not out of the ordinary. So, we had an authority figure who basically answered to no one, is specifically described as being cruel in an era when abuse was practically the norm, and on top of that he's an immortal vampire living in a secluded place where none of his subjects could seek outside help, on top of making her a sex slave. In short, he had it coming. |
| 395 | ** In Season 4, she repeatedly threatens Hector, whom she believes is stalling to undermine their efforts at building an army. However, she is opposed every time by Lenore, who is trying to protect him and believes that Hector is too powerless to be a real threat. [[spoiler:She turns out to be completely correct; Hector ''was'' stalling and was putting his own plans into action the whole time.]] |
| 396 | * VillainousFriendship: She's so close to her three friends Lenore, Striga and Morana that she considers them her sisters as well as her equals. |
| 397 | * VillainousValor: Carmilla, befitting her arrogant nature, carries bravery in spades when challenged at her own castle. [[spoiler:She kills countless night creatures, fights Isaac despite being tired and wounded, and finally willingly destroys herself in one last attempt to try and take him out with her.]] |
| 398 | * VisionaryVillain: What she brings to the table among the four vampiresses. The other, three for all their competency, lack the ambition and vision to start something new. Carmilla keeps initiating new ideas and plans for the group. That said, Carmilla is flighty and weak on the details so the others have to come up with ways to make her plans a reality. |
| 399 | * Was Once a Man: Camilla herself stated, she was turned centuries ago. Meaning that she, was a human before. |
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| 401 | |
| 402 | [[folder:Lenore]] |
| 403 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/eszuarmwkaaspo7.jpg]] |
| 404 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JessicaBrownFindlay (English), Ayaka Kuroki (Japanese), Andrea Arruti (Latin American Spanish, Season 3 Episodes 1-3), MarĂa JosĂ© Moreno (Latin American Spanish, rest of Season 3) |
| 405 | \ |
| 406 | |
| 407 | ->''"I make peace. And because of that, people think I'm soft. People think I'm weak. You won't make that mistake again, will you?"'' |
| 408 | \ |
| 409 | |
| 410 | One of Carmilla's Sisters who acts as the diplomat of the group. |
| 411 | ---- |
| 412 | * AffablyEvil: As the self-proclaimed Diplomat of the council, Lenore is courteous in her interactions with Hector rather than trying to kill or torture him like the rest of the council. [[spoiler:This doesn't stop her from giving him a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown or making him a slave at the end of the third season]]. Season 4 shows that she ''is'' genuine, but she is still quite the schemer. |
| 413 | * AlasPoorVillain: Befitting a character who's not as vile as Carmilla yet not as sympathetic as Morana and Striga, [[spoiler: Lenore ends up DrivenToSuicide by the end of Season 4; out of not only severe guilt at what she'd put Hector through [[BecomingTheMask after genuinely coming to like him]], but the loss of her sisters, power and freedoms under Isaac's rule. After saying her goodbyes to Hector, he somberly tells her to "be free" after she reassures him that it's what she wants. Then when Lenore [[SuicideBySunlight steps into the light of a sunrise]], Hector comes outside to join her [[YouAreNotAlone so she won't be alone]], which [[WhenSheSmiles makes her truly happy in her final moments]]]]. |
| 414 | * {{Ambadassador}}: She claims this is her role in the group. She acts diplomatic, using logic and reason to show their goal is the same as what Hector desired under Dracula, but still a powerful vampiress who isn't meek and weak when Hector tries to attack her at the end of their first conversation. It ends poorly for the forgemaster. |
| 415 | * AmbiguousSituation: It's left ambiguous altogether if Lenore [[spoiler: ever actually treated Hector as her SexSlave, or if she changed her mind or was always bluffing about it in the first place. There is a TimeSkip in between Seasons 3 and 4, but it's clearly not that long, and she and Hector have a genuine relationship when we revisit them, with no sexual abuse of him so much as implied and Hector even being comfortable trading innuendos with her in SnarkToSnarkCombat.]] |
| 416 | * AndThenWhat: She hits Carmilla with this question in Season 4, and Carmilla's response serves as an [[spoiler:OhCrap moment that the Styrian sisters are in way over their heads.]] |
| 417 | * AnimalLover: According to Carmilla, she once found a spider with one of its legs broken, and "tore the castle apart finding something small enough to make a splint out of". |
| 418 | * {{Animorphism}}: She can turn into a swarm of bats when threatened. |
| 419 | * AntiVillain: She is the "Diplomat" of the Styrian quartet, preferring to use diplomacy to end conflict rather than force. However, that [[spoiler:doesn't stop her from using outright lies and trickery, as well as magical enslavement. Season 4 reveals that she truly is on the more benevolent side of this trope -- she becomes horrified by what Carmilla is planning and genuinely grows to have feelings for Hector.]] |
| 420 | * BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Unlike other vampires, who look decidedly less human and more bestial and dissolve rather horrifically when exposed to sunlight, the beautiful and feminine Lenore's SuicideBySunlight causes her to simply dissolve into ash without pain. |
| 421 | * BecomingTheMask: At first, Lenore's treatment of Hector seems kind by the standards of the Styrian Council, [[spoiler:only for it to to turn out to be a means to an end. In season 4, however, Lenore turns out to genuinely have affection for Hector, having developed it in seducing him, and treats him kindly.]] |
| 422 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: She ingratiates herself and befriends Hector [[spoiler:only to reveal that it was all a scheme to turn him into her personal SexSlave while also fulfilling the goals of her sisters]]. Then it's [[spoiler:Subverted in Season 4, where she reveals that she really was ALighterShadeOfBlack all along.]] |
| 423 | * BlueAndOrangeMorality: Lenore is an animal lover by vampiric standards. Unfortunately, she sees humans as another species of dumb animals, so she equates [[spoiler:turning Hector into her slave]] with domestication. She genuinely does not understand how Hector could be unsatisfied with [[spoiler:an existence where he's safe and comfortable, but not free, but eventually realizes at the end when she is put in her own gilded cage, refusing to tolerate it]]. She comes to acknowledge this, as [[spoiler:she eventually talks to Hector about how vampires don't really understand human thinking after the immortality they have.]] |
| 424 | * CantKillYouStillNeedYou: Part of her dilemma in Season 4 is the fact that they needs Hector's skills as a forgemaster for their plan to work, and thus need his loyalty. Too bad for her that by the time she's figured this out, Lenore has already put a slave ring on Hector's hand, and forced him into it. This ensures his cooperation, but not his loyalty. [[spoiler:She eventually a level of kindness toward Hector, apologizing to him for what he's gone through, seemingly with genuine regret. Hector ultimately tries to spare Lenore's life, but she commits SuicideBySunlight rather than face what's coming next.]] |
| 425 | * CharacterDevelopment: Lenore changes by Season 4, having come to question her actions after Carmilla's over reaching plans of conquest render her role redundant, leaving her with too much time to think as well as bond with Hector. [[spoiler: She eventually gains some level of kindness toward Hector, ultimately apologizing to him for what he's gone through and exercising complete politeness.]] |
| 426 | * TheChessmaster: Much of the third season involves the council trying to decide how to ensure Hector's loyalty so that he can reliably create their army. The sisters conclude that true loyalty is impossible at this point, so Carmilla and Morana are perfectly satisfied torturing him while Striga simply wants to kill him. Lenore opts to try and reason with him. [[spoiler:Through {{gaslighting}}, she manages to trick Hector into becoming her slave, and forms a pact in which he is unable to either disobey or turn his forged monsters against his masters. The rest of the council are both impressed and horrified with her efficiency]]. |
| 427 | * CondescendingCompassion: Lenore doesn't treat Hector like a person, let alone someone truly worthy of respect. When she presents him [[spoiler:to her sisters with the ring, she shushes him when he tries to speak up and brushes aside his concerns of being forced into slavery by stating that he's now her pet and [[ForYourOwnGood that's what he needed all along]]. She does [[TookALevelInKindness eventually change out of this, however]]]]. |
| 428 | * CurbStompBattle: Delivers a brutal beatdown to [[spoiler:Hector after he tries to strangle her]] without so much as breathing hard. She might look like a slight young woman, but like all vampires Lenore is a more than capable combatant who simply abhores violence unless pushed. |
| 429 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: In Season 4, she opens up a bit about her past to Hector, revealing that her genuine desire for diplomatic solutions to problems stems from her being a child of war herself, and essentially having her upbringing ruined by the endless cycle of bloodshed and desire for power -- something she muses on and is concerned about it becoming a problem again in regards to [[spoiler:Carmilla's bid to rule the world]]. |
| 430 | * DatingCatwoman: Despite her treatment of him in Season 3, in Season 4, [[spoiler:Hector and Lenore are shown to still be on extraordinarily good terms. Although he still schemes against her to gain his freedom, he does so with the intention of protecting her life, even above his own. Her actions demonstrate that the feeling is rather mutual]]. |
| 431 | * DeadHatShot: When [[spoiler:Lenore [[SuicideBySunlight walks into and burns up in the morning sunlight by her own volition]], all that's left of her afterward is her sash.]] |
| 432 | * DeadpanSnarker: Lenore frequently makes sarcastic, albiet polite comments towards Hector and Carmilla. |
| 433 | * DidTheyOrDidntThey: Despite Lenore's stated intention to use Hector as a SexSlave, we are left with no real indication that she went through with it, other than the two trading sexual innuendos. Other than that, the two seem more like PlatonicLifePartners. |
| 434 | * DissonantSerenity: The way she casually discusses horrible topics like eating people and torture comes off as both creepy and oddly endearing. [[spoiler:It tricks Hector into letting his guard down and trusting Lenore long enough to enslave him. Then later, she discusses the manner in which she enslaved Hector with her sisters almost like a giddy child explaining their science project. This same dissonance as she shushes him and implies that he's not one of the "real people" causes [[OhCrap the reality to finally sink in for Hector]]]]. |
| 435 | * DragonInChief: [[spoiler:The end of Season 3 makes it clear that Lenore is, despite her dainty appearance and mannerisms, the most dangerous of the vampiric sisters]]. |
| 436 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: In several ways. |
| 437 | ** Lenore is a vampiress and ultimately thinks her kind is above humans, but her view of humans (according to vampires) is similar to how an animal lover loves animals. |
| 438 | ** She prides herself on being the "Diplomat" of the group, using social charm and manipulation to win people over. And yet while she does engage in screwing people over, she also insists that the people she uses gets something out of the deal as well to benefit them. [[spoiler: Best shown that when she gets Hector to work for the sisters, she also gets him better living quarters, freedom of the castle, better treatment and safety.]] |
| 439 | ** In Season 4, she's seen to be distraught about Carmilla's plans. [[spoiler:Not only does Carmilla's sheer greed and envy make her distressed, but the scope of her plan and the amount of suffering involved towards humans disturbs her, especially visible when she talks about it to Hector later.]] |
| 440 | * EvilCounterpart: |
| 441 | ** She serves as one to Sypha in Season 3. They are both redheads whose romantic relationships are in focus for the season. They have both used the line "good boy" when talking to their respective love interest; but while Sypha was joking, [[spoiler:Lenore really means it. Sypha might wear the pants in her relationship, but she actually respects Trevor while Lenore (at least up until Season 4) only sees Hector as a pet]]. Sypha in Season 3 is something of a BloodKnight who enjoys adventures while Lenore is a self-declared diplomat, but while Sypha is benevolent and can work with anyone for the greater good -- as seen by her friendship with {{dhampyr}} Alucard -- Lenore instead looks down on humanity and is working on turning Eastern Europe into a blood farm. |
| 442 | * {{Expy}}: It's not apparent right away, but as the season goes on it's easy to see that Lenore is [[spoiler:the series' version of The Succubus boss from the games, purposefully using her sexuality to manipulate and control Hector into doing what ''she'' wants him to do]]. |
| 443 | ** Lenore's design draws more than a little comparison to Wanda, the love interest in the classic erotic novella ''Literature/VenusInFurs''. The story is about Gregor, a man who becomes a sexual slave to a red-haired, pale-skinned mistress who wears white furs, much like Lenore. The novella's content actually inspired the term masochism, named after its author Sacher-Masoch. It is important to note, however, that Gregor ''wanted'' to be Wanda's slave for his own gratification, where Hector was forced and tricked. |
| 444 | * TheFace: She describes herself as the "diplomat" of the four sisters, and prefers to use conversation and commerce to get what they want. [[spoiler:As well as lies and treachery, when possible]]. |
| 445 | * FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler: She decides to meet her end by exposing herself to the sunlight. Before she crumbles to ashes, she's completely calm and smiles at Hector one last time.]] |
| 446 | * FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: PlayedWith Lenore has a delicately feminine outward appearance, making her seem almost princess-like. She even acts the part of a sweet and caring young lady, at least on the surface. In reality, she's a cruel and sadistic person who revels in sexual abuse among other nasty proclivities. That being said, her niceness to Hector is actually 100% genuine and in Season 4 she still treats him with respect and care. |
| 447 | * FairPlayVillain: She presents herself as this; when trying to reason with Hector, she repeatedly asks him what he wants and rebukes any notion of coercing him into doing what she wants because she believes in commerce--both parties get a little of what they want. [[spoiler:Ultimately zig-zagged, though. The season ends with her getting ''ALL'' of what she wanted: a loyal forgemaster who can create monsters that can't betray them as well as a brand new pet/SexSlave that she can enjoy for herself. That said, she goes out of her way to tell her sisters that Hector will be pampered in his new role, explicitly stating "He gets ''something'' out of this" without any real reason to make such a promise]]. Season 4 reveals that she was completely sincere about her desire for diplomacy and to protect Hector. |
| 448 | * FetishizedAbuser: At the end of Season 3, [[spoiler:she claims Hector as her SexSlave while exhibiting little concern for his feelings or dignity. While she ''does'' demand that her sisters allow him to live in luxury while within their castle, this is simply PragmaticVillainy on her part: she wants her new pet to be comfortable, healthy, and ready to service her sexually. Downplayed in Season 4, however, where it's revealed that her affection toward Hector was actually genuine. She still keeps him as her slave, of course; but she does her best to make sure he's kept safe and treated well. When Hector puts her into a cage, she has the opportunity to torture him with the ring incantation but she never does it.]] |
| 449 | * FieryRedhead: Subverted. She's fairly calm most of the time and tells Hector she makes peace, but when pushed, she can become ''very'' violent. |
| 450 | * FreudianExcuse: While being a vampiress comes with inherent aggressive instincts and she has a condescending view of humans, she took on the role of "diplomat" because she doesn't have the stomach for war, the entirety of her human life plagued with wars and assassinations that killed her original family. |
| 451 | * TheFriendNobodyLikes: Downplayed. The rest of the council do genuinely love Lenore but she is respected the least. Even when she achieves something impossible for them, the very next set of circumstances schemed up render those same skills irrelevant and the scheme itself is so far reaching that it is ruinous to their kingdom. It's quite telling that [[spoiler:when both Striga and Morana feel Carmilla die, they assume any circumstances which would have lead to it would have involved Lenore dying first]]. |
| 452 | * {{Gaslighting}}: Her interactions with Hector can certainly cross into this territory. [[spoiler:Making him question himself of why he ever allied with Dracula in the first place, telling him that Carmilla's previous NoHoldsBarredBeatdown of him was actually an act of mercy, convincing him that ''she'' is his one true life-line. This all culminates in Lenore tricking Hector into becoming her slave]]. |
| 453 | * GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler:She decides to commit suicide as she refuses to live in a GildedCage for the rest of her life and walks outside to see the sunrise for the first time. As she turns to Hector playfully telling him it wasn't that special, while she has [[WhenSheSmiles a soft, sincere smile on her face]] appreciating the view as she immediately turns to ash.]] |
| 454 | * {{Hypocrite}}: |
| 455 | ** When explaining her role as the Council's Diplomat to Hector, she goes on about the idea that both parties have to be willing to give something up in order for satisfactory compromise to be made. And yet, by season's end, Lenore never actually makes any sacrifices herself. [[spoiler:She tricks Hector into becoming her slave, but because she took a [[SexSlave special interest]] in him, she decides to improve his living conditions against her sister's wishes. So in the end, everyone else had to accommodate while [[ManipulativeBastard Lenore got basically everything that she wanted]]]]. |
| 456 | ** Lenore is quick to [[VillainHasAPoint accurately]] point out to Hector that Dracula manipulated and deceived him, treating it as a reason Hector should trust her instead. [[spoiler:Lenore is ultimately not only manipulating Hector in a [[IJustWantToBeLoved much more personal way]], Dracula, while deceptive, treated Hector well, gave him a place on his council, was polite to him, and treated him like a colleague for the most part. Right at the end of Season 3, Lenore is much worse to Hector once he's under her control, and indicates that she ''doesn't even view him as a person''. That said, [[TookALevelInKindness Lenore does ultimately change out of this by Season 4]] despite still keeping him under her control, and it's hinted she didn't go through with [[SexSlave making him her sex slave]]]]. |
| 457 | ** Despite thinking Hector's life is better under her care and questioning why he would be opposed to it, [[spoiler: she kills herself rather than live under Isaac's rule in a GildedCage, though this can be ironically attributed to Hector's influence rubbing off on her.]] |
| 458 | * IDieFree: [[spoiler:Commits SuicideBySunlight, rather than live locked up under Isaac's authority.]] |
| 459 | * InLoveWithTheMark: It's unclear how genuine her affections to Hector were in Season 3, but Season 4 shows she seems to be truly loving towards Hector from sharing her worries to him and [[spoiler: as Isaac invades the castle, the only person she rushes to is Hector as she tells him they have to leave. While in the end [[DrivenToSuicide she chooses to die]] of her own free will than live in a GildedCage with Hector, she does send him off with one last smile as she turns to ashes.]] |
| 460 | * {{Irony}}: |
| 461 | ** [[spoiler:Lenore is unable to understand why Hector would protest over being in a gilded cage with her granting him every possible comfort despite his lack of freedom. By the time the tables are turned with her being trapped in a gilded cage, he has granted her the character growth to understand why and as such, she takes her own life. With an additional layer of irony that this ruined his intentions to protect her life.]] |
| 462 | ** [[spoiler:After Isaac takes over, she has a discussion with Hector on the nature of change given their new circumstances and how an immortal vampire's virture is to inherently desire stability instead. That Carmila's plans brought that stability and even though, those same plans at a larger scale created chaos, they were founded in that same virture. Hector counters by stating a distinction, that while Carmilla's former plans granted them strength, the latter was just her seeking power. Lenore accepts this irony, stating that seeking power created chaos and ruined their lives. She goes on to say that "Big, international, non-diplomatic, projected power" is a parasite which only gives might and lacks the utilities of strength (as seen in how it disrupted the core foundation of their nations four part council which depended on each others strength and eliminated each others personal flaws), constantly seeking to be fed for its own sake with more power. When Hector compares thiss to being just like a vampire, Lenore has a shocked look on her face and resentfully accepts it is true, which seems to only further convince her of what she is about to do next with her life proven to be a lie and her true nature shown to her.]] |
| 463 | * LaserGuidedKarma: Lenore spends pretty much all of Season 3 [[spoiler: gaining Hectors affections and manipulating him into a GildedCage.]] In Season 4, Hector [[spoiler: does exactly the same thing -- literally going beat for beat, albeit without any of Lenore's crueler acts, and Hector, when confronted with her in the same situation he was once in, lets her die free rather than trying to force her to obey him.]] |
| 464 | * LastWords: As Lenore [[spoiler:[[SuicideBySunlight gazes upon the sunrise]], she sees Hector nearby and smiles, fondly telling him: [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther "Is that all there is to it? Hector... you]] ''[[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther are]]'' [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther a silly man!"]]]]. |
| 465 | * ALighterShadeOfBlack: She’s even more manipulative than Carmilla, and completely on board with her plan to forge a vampiric empire with humans for chattel. Her only redeeming qualities being she’s not unnecessarily violent, or needlessly cruel in getting what she wants, [[spoiler:and while she makes wild claims of cruelty when she magically enslaves Hector into being her pet and sexslave, she instead insists on his well-being and comfort like most responsible pet owners]]. Season 4 exacerbates this side of her, where [[spoiler:she decides not to commit to some of the more exploitative claims and aspects of her control over Hector, instead using her position to protect him from Carmilla while also becoming more and more unsure about whether what they're doing is really right. In the end she doesn't even stand in the way as Carmilla's plans fall apart and even running to save Hector first. In the end, rather than going out vengefully, she opts to leave Hector & Isaac alone and lets herself die]]. |
| 466 | * LimaSyndrome: [[spoiler:Really grows to love Hector in season 4 and when Isaac attacks Styria, Lenore immediately rushes to safeguard Hector.]] |
| 467 | * TheLostLenore: True to her name, [[spoiler: Lenore commits suicide in front of Hector, despite the implications they have mutual feelings for each other]]. |
| 468 | * ManipulativeBastard: Lenore's "negotiations" with Hector very quickly crosses over into this. [[spoiler:She convinces Hector early on that ''she'' is his only lifeline and only ever offers him [[WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency small concessions to butter him up]]. More than anything else, she constantly belittles any leverage that Hector brings to the table despite the explicit dilemma of the season for the sisters is that [[CantKillYouStillNeedYou they need Hector's loyalty as their forged master]]]]. |
| 469 | * MartialPacifist: By her own admission, Lenore absolutely hates physical violence. Even more passive "violence", like coercion or deceit, inevitably make her feel guilty and remorseful (particularly with someone she cares about). That said, she is ''still'' a vampiress and will defend herself if necessary, although she is by no means a warrior. Even her actions in season 3 [[spoiler: against Hector end up burdening her to the point she treats him with genuine fondness and expresses how she deeply regrets her actions]]. |
| 470 | * AMatchMadeInStockholm: [[spoiler:With Hector in season 4. They're genuinely fond of each other and Lenore never treats him badly. When Isaac comes in to take over Styria, Hector is fine with being killed, but he asks that Lenore be spared.]] |
| 471 | * MsFanservice: She gets naked during Season 3 climax while [[spoiler:having sex with Hector]] and unlike Sypha, we actually do see everything. [[spoiler:The circumstances quickly turn it into horror, however, as she uses the opportunity to stick a magic ring on Hector and enslaving him to her will]]. Season 4 gives her more elegant gowns and nightwear, most of which is very flattering to her body, and is often seen barefoot. |
| 472 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: With the progression of Season 4, [[spoiler:Lenore discovers that her supposed control over Hector was just loose enough that he could plot against them in plain sight, leading to Isaac backing Carmilla into a corner and having her kill herself. She also comes to genuinely regret her treatment of Hector, and makes peace with him before her [[SuicideBySunlight death]].]] |
| 473 | * NotSoHarmlessVillain: By the end of Season 3, Lenore proves to everyone, including her sisters, that she is probably the most dangerous of them all. [[spoiler:While lacking the ambition, power or inventiveness of the other sisters, Lenore used her wits, charm and cunning to solve what the other three had written off as an "impossible" problem. When they learn just how thoroughly Lenore has secured Hector's obedience, they are incredibly impressed and proclaim that Lenore is the true genius among them. [[AndThenWhat This doesn't last however]], and she, as a diplomat, [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness ultimately becomes redundant by the next step]] in their plans for conquest, which over reaches far beyond what was promised and is just another sign that Carmilla's plans are destabilizing their nation into ruin]]. |
| 474 | * ObliviouslyEvil: [[spoiler:The true cap to Lenore's behavior towards Hector is that she is oblivious to his pain and is even convinced that she is doing what's in his best interests. When she realizes that she's wrong, she abandons her sociopathy, acknowledges what she's done, and treats Hector well.]] |
| 475 | ** [[spoiler:Another issue is her inability to accept change, explaining it as an immortal vampires |
| 476 | * OhCrap: |
| 477 | ** When Carmilla shows Lenore a map of the known world and states that her intention is to rule ''all'' of it by force, Lenore begins to freak out. Lenore (as well as Morana and Striga) were under the impression that Carmilla's scheme would simply expand their immediate influence in neighboring regions and provide enough "livestock" for them to live comfortably for centuries. But with Carmilla revealing the true scope of her ambitions, Lenore realizes that not only did Carmilla openly lie previously about the scope of her plans, but that the resulting death and suffering would be on a scale unheard of. Also, as she notes later, she was also terrified because Carmilla seemed ''angry'' at her. |
| 478 | ** When Hector reveals how he OutGambitted all of the Sisters and has Lenore trapped in a magic cage, she quietly begins to freak out. |
| 479 | * OneToMillionToOne: Can transform into a swarm of bats. She uses this ability to escape from Hector's clutches when he furiously grabs her after she reveals she's slipped the Slave Ring onto him. |
| 480 | * OutOfFocus: Barely does anything in Season 4 and doesn't appear all that much. This actually plays into her CharacterDevelopment, as she points out that [[spoiler:with Carmilla scheming to take over the world, and Striga and Morana away to survey the land they will be invading]], there is currently little need of a diplomat like herself and as such is left both to reflect on her actions and that of Carmilla's over reaching plans destabilizing what they already have. |
| 481 | * PetTheDog: She is the only one of the Styrian sister to treat Hector with any kindness. [[spoiler:Which turned out to simply be a means to an end. Her one and only true (seeming) gesture of kindness is to demand to her sisters that Hector will be get something back for being their slave. Although, that is implied to only be for selfish reasons as well]]. Then, in Season 4, [[spoiler: she ultimately plays it straight; she apologizes to Hector for what she's done, has an epiphany, is shown to treat him well, and ends up parting with him on sombre yet kind terms.]] |
| 482 | * PragmaticVillainy: She demands that her sisters give Hector a nice home, comfortable living quarters, and freedom within the castle because she wants him to be compensated for what he does. [[spoiler:Her reasons are partly because he will be her personal sex slave, and she does not want him harmed, unclean or unkempt. That said, she also just wants him treated nicely since she's developed a fondness for him in the fourth season]]. |
| 483 | * RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:In her last moments, Lenore apologizes to Hector and fondly refers to him as a "silly ''man''", instead of a "good boy" like previously. It goes to show that, despite everything she'd put him through -- and acknowledging herself that vampires in general have a ''very'' hard time caring for others outside of themselves, especially humans -- [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther Lenore did legitimately come to love him]]]]. |
| 484 | * ShadowArchetype: Lenore is a ShadowArchetype to Hector. They share beliefs in the culling of mankind and the view of them as animals, both being animal lovers, but while Hector does it out of a genuine belief that mankind needs guidance, Lenore is more than willing to exploit those beliefs to get what she personally wants out of humans. This is driven home in the fourth season: [[spoiler:While Hector uses her as his own UnwittingPawn just as she used him, he does it all without the slightest element of the crueler flourishes she had in her plan; Hector never gaslights Lenore, makes a point of her remaining unharmed, and proves to be unlike her in perhaps the biggest way possible, as when Lenore would rather [[IDieFree die than live]] in a GildedCage, Hector, rather than making any attempt to stop or enslave her as she did him, lets her go and [[YouAreNotAlone accompanies her out]], showing an entirely different mentality between the two of them and demonstrating how Hector's CharacterDevelopment has dulled his misanthropic edge. In the end, the two had the same ideas, but Hector hasn't been corrupted by Lenore's centuries of vampirism and descent into sociopathy.]] |
| 485 | * SheepInSheepsClothing: Lenore appears very approachable, sweet and caring. She admits that she prefers diplomacy to violence, and tries to make sure that all parties in negotiations get a little of what they want. [[spoiler:However, she is still a vampiric lord, and is more than willing to use deceit and coercion to get what she wants. But even ''then'', she gets pained by her conscience if she resorts to such measures, and even comes to regret what she did to Hector in the end; taking the time to apologize to him and [[YouAreNotAlone legitimately appreciating his company]] when she dies]]. She's by far the nicest full-blooded vampire we've ever met in the series. |
| 486 | * ShoutOut: To a certain [[Literature/TheRaven lost Lenore]]. |
| 487 | * SilkHidingSteel: She speaks calmly and softly, with her small height and delicate features making her seem weaker than her sisters. Hector learns the hard way that just because she's not outwardly threatening doesn't mean she's not just as dangerous as her sisters could be. |
| 488 | * SuicideBySunlight: Lenore [[spoiler:ultimately kills herself by going outside during the morning sunrise. This is because [[IDieFree she doesn't want to be turned into a slave for Isaac]], has nothing to her life any more after [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness losing her sisters and power]], out of [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone severe guilt at everything she put Hector through]], and coming to terms with the fact that being a vampire will only cause him more harm in the long run.]] |
| 489 | * SuperSmoke: Shapeshifts into a mist cloud to leave Hector's cell after beating him up. |
| 490 | * SympatheticSlaveOwner: In Season 4, she is ultimately very kind and defensive of [[spoiler:Hector, stating that she's prevented Carmilla from harming him several times, and even making him her first priority for escaping the castle when it's under attack. For his part, Hector seems to reciprocate her kindness, although he still schemes and makes massive sacrifices to regain his freedom]]. |
| 491 | * ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman: Carmilla's abuse and enslavement of Hector, despite needing the night creatures he creates to enact her future schemes, is taken as an "impossible" problem by the Council. However, it provides the ''perfect'' chance for Lenore (long thought to be the weakest and most useless of the group) to prove herself. [[spoiler:She manages to succeed to a degree far exceeding even what the other Sisters expected. However, she succeeds ''so well'' that she unexpectedly returns to being useless again. Even Morana and Striga basically write her off as being any possible help to running the vast empire that Carmilla intends to create. Given that their 4 way dynamic ussually plays off each others strengths while negating each others weaknesses, this is the first sign that Carmilla's plans are not going to work out.]] |
| 492 | * TokenGoodTeammate: Lenore likes [[InvokedTrope to present herself as this]] as the council's diplomat and peacemaker. Carmilla implies that she has a track-record of mothering animals (having supposedly torn the castle apart trying to find a splint for a spider) and lacks some of the more overtly malicious tendencies of her fellow matriarchs. [[spoiler:Of course one must not forget that she is still a vampiric dignitary, having manipulated him into putting on a [[ShockCollar ring that inflicts pain when he disobeys her]] and has turned him into her SexSlave and pet. Granted, he still will be living well compared to how the others would have treated him, but slavery is still slavery no matter how [[GildedCage gilded his cage is]]. She ultimately plays this straight however, showing that [[CharacterDevelopment she deeply regrets how she treated Hector and apologizes to him for it]], and still treats him with kindness to the point where he cares deeply for her despite plotting to escape]]. |
| 493 | * UnderestimatingBadassery: Of the Council, Lenore gets it easily the worst. Thanks to having absolutely ''toyed'' with Hector in Season 3, she dismisses him as a threat entirely, defending him to Carmilla and seeing him as someone to be pitied rather than to be feared. [[spoiler:The look on her face when Hector traps her in an energy cage is one of pure shock and realization at the knowledge that he had used her as an UnwittingPawn and exploited this to bring down the Sisters]]. |
| 494 | * UnwittingPawn: Of [[spoiler:Hector]], of all people. [[spoiler: Hector uses her generosity toward him and the free reign she gave him to stall, prepare a plan to resurrect Dracula, and betray Carmilla. When Isaac arrives and Hector prepares for Isaac to kill him, he traps her in a magical cage, leaving her utterly helpless and only spared because Hector wills it.]] [[LaserGuidedKarma How the tables turn.]] |
| 495 | * TheVamp: Both [[FemmeFatale figuratively]] and [[VampiresAreSexGods literally]]. [[spoiler:She seduces Hector, tricking him into falling in love/lust with her so that she can enslave him]]. |
| 496 | * VictoryIsBoring: In Season 3, Lenore manages to [[spoiler:get absolutely everything she wanted. Which leads her to be completely bored in Season 4, since all of her problems are solved and the Sisters have no more need of her skills. The only thing she can do is talk to Hector and watch him work, which lets him pick up on her ennui.]] |
| 497 | * VillainHasAPoint: |
| 498 | ** Lenore might be trying to win over Hector's loyalty, but she is correct that Dracula lied to and manipulated him, and Hector only assumed he would be an exception to Dracula's plans for humanity without actually making an agreement that he would be spared. |
| 499 | ** She is also right about the overall plan she had for Hector being to his benefit in some way. [[spoiler:Yes, Hector is now her slave, but he will now live in good conditions, unlike before where he was naked, cold, and fed mouldy bread and rotten meat in a dirty, insect-infested cell. And most importantly, he will not be tortured or killed, which is what the other sisters of the council were planning to do to him, because they believed he would never agree to help them as their Forgemaster because of Carmilla's mistreatment]]. |
| 500 | * VillainousFriendship: She really does have her sisters in high regard. Even though she didn't need to, after enslaving Hector, she gives the others rings similar to her own to control Hector -- making him a shared resource for the team. She's also the most apologetic of Carmilla's increasingly megalomaniacal ambitions. |
| 501 | * WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency: Lenore makes her treatment of Hector seem kindly and generous, which it is in comparison to the other Council members. However, this ignores not only the power imbalance of their relationship, but the fact she's a member of a group who is keeping him prisoner. This is especially prominent [[spoiler:in the Season 3 finale, where she puts Hector under the spell of a slave ring and makes him into a pet; while Lenore is right in that it's much better than the horrible treatment he was going through before, that doesn't change the fact she's bent him to her will at risk of horrible pain and he's clearly horrified and miserable]]. Notably, she herself points this out eventually. [[spoiler:In Season 4, she has a monologue where she talks to Hector and admits that, as a vampiress, she loves to take but hates to give.]] |
| 502 | * WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: While Lenore doesn't actually have any "empathy" powers, she is the physically weakest of the Styrian sisters and crafted her unique skillset toward conversationalism and diplomacy. The rest of the Sisters all mock her for this, as well as her compassionate nature. This makes her jump at the chance to prove herself by solving the "Hector problem" that the rest of them see as impossible. The inherit lack of need for her skills in Carmilla's plans to rule the world by pure force as quickly as possible, is a major red flag that it will go terribly awry. |
| 503 | * WhenSheSmiles: Right as she's about to [[spoiler:[[SuicideBySunlight commit suicide by going out into the light of the rising sun]] to avoid becoming Isaac's slave, Lenore sees that [[YouAreNotAlone Hector has come to join her]] despite them saying their mutual goodbyes. At that moment, she gives him a genuinely beautiful smile and one last compliment before she dissolves into dust and blows away on the breeze]]. |
| 504 | -->'''Lenore:''' Is that all there is to it? [[spoiler:[''sees Hector nearby, and smiles fondly''] Hector... you ''are'' a silly man!]] |
| 505 | * YouAreNotAlone: When she [[spoiler:is in the process of committing suicide by walking out into the rising sun, Hector comes outside to be with Lenore so she won't die alone; which makes her genuinely smile]]. |
| 506 | * YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: She fears that this is what has happened to her in Season 4, after [[spoiler:solving the "Hector problem". She is correct; all of her sisters feel she's basically become useless after gaining Hector's loyalty and powers. While they don't plan to harm her for it, it basically makes her powerless in their quartet; which she herself soon becomes aware of.]] |
| 507 | [[/folder]] |
| 508 | |
| 509 | [[folder:Striga]] |
| 510 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/strigajpg.jpg]] |
| 511 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/IvanaMilicevic (English), Hiroko Kiso (Japanese), Rebeca Patiño (Latin American Spanish) |
| 512 | \ |
| 513 | |
| 514 | ->''"Vampires always have plans, don't we? Maybe it's just in our nature to overreach, grasp at too much at once, try to drink everything. Maybe that's why in the end, we win all the battles but always lose the war."'' |
| 515 | |
| 516 | \ |
| 517 | One of Carmilla's Sisters who acts as the general of the group. |
| 518 | ---- |
| 519 | * AmazonianBeauty: She's very tall and incredibly well-muscled, huge even by human male standards, but still has an attractive feminiity to her. It's only the fact that Carmilla, Lenora, and Morana are so much more classically beautiful that makes her merely handsome by comparison. |
| 520 | * AnimalMotifs: ''Ravens.'' Her standard outfit has a steel ravenhead pauldron which carries over to her corvid-styled armor, with the "beak" of its helmet providing additional sunshade for her face behind an amber faceplate. |
| 521 | * TheBerserker: In spite of her calm, pragmatic and intelligent nature, on the battlefield, Striga is an utter maniac. |
| 522 | * {{BFS}}: Carries a giant sword in battle, which she can [[OneHandedZweihander wield with one hand]], freeing up her other hand for [[SwordAndFist punches]]. |
| 523 | * {{Bifauxnen}}: You'd be forgiven for thinking she's an androgynous man at first glance with her tall height, muscles, clothing and rather deep voice. |
| 524 | * BlackKnight: She fulfills this role in Carmilla's army, being not only a shrewd strategist, but a frighteningly capable fighter. Her "day armor" is colored black, as well. |
| 525 | * TheBrute: She is explicitly referred to as the "fighter" of the quartet and certainly packs the physique that goes along with it. Unlike most examples she is no less intelligent than the rest of the villains, and is actually a good deal smarter than Carmilla. |
| 526 | * ButchLesbian: Is in a relationship with Morana, and is both androgynously masculine-looking and a gruff fighter. |
| 527 | * CreepyCrows: Her day armor has a raven motif which, combined with her immense strength and ferocity, makes her all the more intimidating in battle. |
| 528 | * CodeOfHonour: She's implied to hold a strong martial code. While she can make elaborate military plans well into advance, it didn't occur to her until Morana mentioned it that [[OnlyInItForTheMoney mercenaries could be bribed into switching sides]] since there'd be no honor for such turncoat actions. |
| 529 | * ADogNamedDog: ''Striga'' and related terms are used as names for certain kinds of vampires, witches, and [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs vampiric witches]], particularly in Southern and Eastern Europe. |
| 530 | * EveryoneHasStandards: She thinks nothing of slaughtering human solders, but she's genuinely disturbed fighting humans who were not ever in battle before taking a stand against them, and uses that as evidence that humans would never stop fighting for their right to live. |
| 531 | * FourStarBadass: She's the military leader of Styria and in Season 4 we truly see what a monster she is on the battlefield, tearing through men and horses like they're tissue paper. |
| 532 | * GeniusBruiser: Even though she is supposed to be TheBrute of Carmilla's tetrarchy, Striga is absolutely no [[DumbMuscle Godbrand]], being prudent when it comes to reviewing their strategy, tactics and their forces' capabilities. She is also smart enough to tell the difference between trained soldiers and desperate farmers and determines that if the latter manages to give her forces significant trouble, she will seriously have her work cut out for her claiming the territory Carmilla wants and defending it after it's claimed. |
| 533 | * HorrifyingTheHorror: While out out scouting territory, she and Morana come under attack by the locals. While Striga soundly wins, she's also astounded and shocked at how much damage a bunch of farmers without proper training did to her forces and that they even chose to fight her in the first place. |
| 534 | * KryptoniteProofSuit: Striga keeps a special suit of plate armour that completely covers her skin, just in case she needs to fight during the day. |
| 535 | * TheLancer: Striga is the sister that will point out the flaws in Carmilla's plans regardless of its potential. And while Carmilla is happy to let her sisters work out the details of her plans while she messes around, Striga is the type of person to meticulously plan out every step even at the cost of sleep. |
| 536 | * LargeAndInCharge: One of the rulers of Styria and she's the size of Dracula but with far more muscle. |
| 537 | * LesbianVampire: She is a ButchLesbian vampiress in a relationship with a LipstickLesbian one. |
| 538 | * LightningBruiser: Striga is not only very muscular and tall, but lightning quick. |
| 539 | * MasculineFeminineGayCouple: In her relationship with Morana, Striga is the more masculine counterpart to Morana's more feminine character. |
| 540 | * MeaningfulName: ''Strigoi'' are vampiric goblins in Romanian folklore. |
| 541 | * NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Striga is Latin for witch or evil spirit. |
| 542 | * OnlySaneWoman: She's the most willing of her sisters to question Carmilla's plans, constantly finding holes in her logic that Carmilla is either unwilling to focus on, or just doesn't seem to realize. It's actually somewhat downplayed initially in Season 4, due to the rest of Carmilla's inner circle coming around to realizing just how insane Carmilla is becoming, while Striga is initially defensive when Morana questions if Striga can continue to fight the opposition for the foreseeable future. After ripping through a group of farmers that ambushed her forces in broad daylight, Striga comes around to Morana's line of thinking, as the simple fact that they were ''farmers'' meant that humans weren't just going to quietly accept their being conquered. |
| 543 | * OneWomanArmy: She's practically a goddess of death once we get to see her on the battlefield. |
| 544 | * PragmaticVillainy: Striga is the most cautious of the four and views Hector as too much a WildCard for his forged army to potentially be useful. She states that she'd rather kill him before he becomes a potential threat than chance it. |
| 545 | * RealMenHateAffection: Gender inverted, ButchLesbian Striga jokes that Morana's statement of them falling in love in a fairy tale castle makes her sick. |
| 546 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler:After Morana points out how insane Carmilla's plan is, seeing her theory come true firsthand in how desperate people are to live freely, and finally losing Carmilla to Isaac's assault on their castle, Striga and Morana head out west and leave Styria behind to live out their days together]]. |
| 547 | * ShoutOut: In her day armor, with her almost comically out of place BFS, she looks quite similar to [[Manga/{{Berserk}} Guts with his Dragonslayer in his Berserk armor]], and even more like [[VideoGame/DarkSouls Artorias]], another {{Expy}} of Guts. |
| 548 | * UnholyMatrimony: Striga and Morana are evil vampiresses who're in love with one another. |
| 549 | [[/folder]] |
| 550 | |
| 551 | [[folder:Morana]] |
| 552 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/moranajpg.jpg]] |
| 553 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Yasmine Al Massri (English), Yukari Oribe (Japanese), Kerygma Flores (Latin American Spanish) |
| 554 | \ |
| 555 | |
| 556 | One of Carmilla's Sisters who acts as the planner and torturer. |
| 557 | ---- |
| 558 | * AmbiguouslyBrown: Although she is [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morana_(goddess) named after a Slavic pagan goddess]], her skin tone is noticeably much darker than that of her pale European sisters. It's not clear what exactly her ethnicity is. |
| 559 | * DeadpanSnarker: Morana is frequently sarcastic and often engages in SnarkToSnarkCombat with Carmilla. |
| 560 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: While she gives a speech to Striga about cruelty in Season 4. [[spoiler:Although she makes it clear she has no love for humans and laces her critiques with [[PragmaticVillainy pragmatisim]], the cruelty of Carmilla's plan has rattled her. The level of death and abuse they intend for the humans has really gotten under her skin even if she does see them as livestock]]. |
| 561 | * TheEvilGenius: In the Styrian quartet, she handles logistics, economics, and grand strategy. Striga may be the military general who knows how to plan and prosecute a war then hold the territorial gains, but Morana is the one who can make the war irrelevant with the proper application of coin. |
| 562 | * HypercompetentSidekick: Her job in essence is to take Carmilla's insane schemes and rework them into something manageable. |
| 563 | * InformedAttribute: Morana is repeatedly mentioned to have a penchant for torture [[{{Sadist}} (for both business and pleasure)]] by the other members of the council. As of Season 3, her debut, that aspect of her character has yet to be shown implicitly or explicitly, mostly due to Lenore taking the spotlight. |
| 564 | * LesbianVampire: She is a LipstickLesbian vampiress in a relationship with a ButchLesbian one. |
| 565 | * LipstickLesbian: She is very feminine in appearance and character, and is in a relationship with Striga. |
| 566 | * MasculineFeminineGayCouple: In her relationship with Striga, Morana is the more feminine counterpart to Striga's more masculine character. |
| 567 | * MeaningfulName: There is a Slavic goddess of death and rebirth called Morana. |
| 568 | * NonActionGuy: Carmilla and Striga are warriors while Lenore's beating of Hector shows some degree of fighting ability. Morana, however, works purely in the technical details and organizes things. When actually doing field work, she loudly complains of the physicality of the whole thing and when they come under attack, Striga makes sure she's protected while she does the fighting herself. |
| 569 | * NumberTwo: To Carmilla, Morana's job is said to be the organizer, making Carmilla's insane schemes possible. Morana is also willing to consider the potential of Carmilla's plans before she considers how likely it is. |
| 570 | * PragmaticVillainy: Morana calls out Carmilla on her pointless NoHoldsBarredBeatdown of Hector from the end of the second season. Though it's not a case of the moral issue of it as much as it is calling Carmilla causing their forge master to resent them and become a potential WildCard. |
| 571 | * PrivateMilitaryContractors: Her solution to the food supply and manpower issue of Carmilla's plan. Styria is rich and with their wealth, they'll hire out all the mercenaries in the neighboring areas and use them as fodder. Anyone dying in battle will then become material for Hector's forge. |
| 572 | * SarcasticDevotee: Despite how much Morana swipes back and forth with Carmilla, she's very loyal to her and her sisters as well. |
| 573 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler:After becoming aware of how insane and infeasible Carmilla's plan is, seeing the evidence firsthand, and then finally losing Carmilla to Isaac's attack, she opts to leave Styria behind and go west with Striga to live out their days together]]. |
| 574 | * TheStrategist: Morana is the brains of the council, creating the strategies to enact the ideas Carmilla comes out with. |
| 575 | * TortureTechnician: Lenore states that Morana is fond of torture in Season 3 but this aspect is never really shown in the series. |
| 576 | * WineIsClassy: Her first appearance shows her holding a glass of wine. |
| 577 | * UnholyMatrimony: Morana and Striga are evil vampiresses who're in love with one another. |
| 578 | [[/folder]] |
| 579 | |
| 580 | !Other Antagonists |
| 581 | |
| 582 | [[folder:Stone-Eye Cyclops]] |
| 583 | [[quoteright:647:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/castlevania_cyclops.png]] |
| 584 | |
| 585 | A monster stalking the catacombs beneath Gresit that preys on those who search for the Sleeping Soldier. |
| 586 | ---- |
| 587 | * AttackItsWeakPoint: Trevor was only able to kill the cyclops by stabbing it through the eye. |
| 588 | * ClassicalCyclops: It's a huge, humanoid, one-eyed monster that lives in a cavern-like space and attacks anyone that approaches it. It can also fire a petrifying beam from its eye, which serves as its only vulnerable spot. |
| 589 | * CompositeCharacter: Of the SadlyMythtaken kind. It's a cyclops, but has the abilities of Medusa. |
| 590 | * EmotionEater: The cyclops feeds on the terror of its victims after leaving them trapped in stone. |
| 591 | * EyeBeams: The cyclops fires a continuous beam of light from its eye that turns anything it touches to stone. |
| 592 | * EyeScream: Trevor kills it by throwing a dagger into its eye. |
| 593 | * LoneWolfBoss: Trevor encounters him in the catacombs once and he has no ties to Dracula's invasion. Furthermore, it's implied that he has been around far longer. |
| 594 | * MadeOfIron: According to Trevor, putting a sword in its chest did cause a mortal injury. Unfortunately for Trevor, the attack had no stopping power allowing the fight to continue. It may have eventually died from the sword wound, but by the time it did, Trevor could very well have been killed. |
| 595 | * NoOntologicalInertia: The only thing that can return a petrified victim to normal is to kill the cyclops. Once it dies, all of the human statues in the area return to flesh and blood... including [[{{Gorn}} shattered ones]]. |
| 596 | * NoSell: Trevor is able to stab his sword through its chest, yet this does nothing to the beast. |
| 597 | * SilentAntagonist: The cyclops makes no vocalization whatsoever. |
| 598 | * TakenForGranite: As the name implies, the cyclops turns its victims to stone with its EyeBeams. |
| 599 | * WouldHitAGirl: It turned Sypha into stone with the full intent of killing her afterwards. |
| 600 | [[/folder]] |
| 601 | |
| 602 | [[folder:The Magician]] |
| 603 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/skjermbilde_399.JPG]] |
| 604 | %% [[caption-width-right:350:some caption text]] |
| 605 | A nameless sorcerer whom Isaac encounters during his journey to find Carmilla's castle. |
| 606 | ---- |
| 607 | * ArcVillain: He serves as the antagonist for Isaac's storyline for the last few episodes of Season 3, but is more or less a nonentity beforehand. |
| 608 | * AssholeVictim: He enslaved the populations of several towns for his own gain, to the point that death is a mercy for his victims. So it's hard to feel bad for him when Isaac kills him. |
| 609 | * BiblicalMotifs: His magic takes the form of [[SicklyGreenGlow sickly green]] crowns of thorns around his victims' heads. |
| 610 | * BodyOfBodies: During Isaac's attack on his city, he makes his minions float up and combine into a giant sphere of bodies to essentially create the show's iteration of Legion from the video game. |
| 611 | * CharmPerson: When Isaac reaches him, he resorts to direct mind control to try and remove the threat. |
| 612 | * EvilVersusEvil: When it comes down to it, he is pretty much the same thing as Isaac since he enslaves people with magic to do his bidding. Isaac seeks his downfall so he can incorporate the Magician's minions into his own demonic army so he can take on Carmilla. |
| 613 | * EvilOldFolks: He looks just like how you'd expect an evil wizard to look; elderly, decrepit, white-bearded, and strangely attired. |
| 614 | * EvilSorcerer: He's a ruthless wizard who specializes in the use of MindControl spells to turn hundreds of innocent people into his slaves. |
| 615 | * FakeUltimateMook: His personal bodyguard is a huge man covered in armor who dwarfs all the other slaves in size. Despite his imposing appearance, Isaac dispatches him with little difficulty. |
| 616 | * FlunkyBoss: He's not much of a physical threat himself, but instead relies on his mind-controlled thralls to attack his enemies, although his "flunkies" are themselves a proper boss when they form into a single mass. |
| 617 | * GenericDoomsdayVillain: One day he goes around enslaving towns, no reason given. He's so personality-less that he doesn't even say a word to Isaac. |
| 618 | * GigglingVillain: He has no lines of dialogue except softly laughing at Isaac when facing him. |
| 619 | * MageTower: He's a magician, and rules over his city from top of a tall tower. |
| 620 | * MassHypnosis: He rules over an entire city built by his {{mind control}}led {{slave|Mook}}s. |
| 621 | * NoNameGiven: His name is never uttered onscreen, not by Miranda (the only person who might be familiar with him) or himself (who never says anything in front of Isaac). |
| 622 | * OrcusOnHisThrone: He sits comfortably at the top of his castle and throws his endless waves of slaves at Isaac and his army as he waits for the Devil Forgemaster to confront him. This actually makes sense, as he's a SquishyWizard with no combat capabilities other than his mind control spell. |
| 623 | * RuleOfSymbolism: The Magician's fancy hat and elegant robes slip off him as Isaac kills him and holds him aloft, exposing him for what he was beneath all his power: a mad, withered old man. |
| 624 | * SicklyGreenGlow: His magical combination manifests as pale green thorns encircling the heads of his victims. |
| 625 | * SigilSpam: Every person mind-controlled by him shares a [[SicklyGreenGlow pale green]] halo in the shape of a crown of thorns with an eye in the front, suggesting that he may be able to see through any or all of them. |
| 626 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: He's a minor ArcVillain with neither a name nor any lines. However, fighting off his mind control and then killing him allows Isaac to realize his own agency, [[spoiler:leading to his HeelFaceTurn and his decision to free Styria and spend his life making the world better rather destroying it all.]] |
| 627 | * SquishyWizard: He's a great magician with the power to control hundreds of slaves, but also very frail and unable to physically fight back against an opponent that can get past his minions and shrug off his mind control. |
| 628 | * VillainOfAnotherStory: The Magician has absolutely no affiliation, association, or connection with any of Dracula's forces, and was never even directly relevant or involved with the series' overall conflict until Isaac learned about him. |
| 629 | * TheVoiceless: He never says even a single word during any of his time onscreen. |
| 630 | * WakeUpCallBoss: He is the first serious challenge that Isaac faces since Dracula's end after several [[CurbStompBattle slaughters]]. His enchanted army actually manages to kill many of Isaac's night creatures, and Isaac himself would have ended up as just another one of his slaves were it not for a colossal effort of will to resist the MindControl spell. |
| 631 | [[/folder]] |
| 632 | |
| 633 | [[folder:The Mastermind '''(UNMARKED SPOILERS)''']] |
| 634 | !! Death |
| 635 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/death_castlevania_show.png]] |
| 636 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MalcolmMcDowell (English), Creator/SatoshiTsuruoka (Japanese), Carlos Barragán (Latin American Spanish) |
| 637 | \ |
| 638 | |
| 639 | -> ''"I am not a vampire as you understand it.'' '''''Death''''' ''is my meat."'' |
| 640 | \ |
| 641 | |
| 642 | An elemental spirit that feeds on death itself. All the events of Season 4 were orchestrated by him to bring back Dracula, and it's not until said goal is close to completion that he reveals himself. |
| 643 | ---- |
| 644 | * AdaptationalBadass: In the games, Death is simply one of Dracula's many servants. Here, Death is the GreaterScopeVillain of the series and is implied to have been manipulating Dracula into waging a genocidal war on humankind. He is also the FinalBoss of the series. |
| 645 | * AdaptationalJerkass: The game version of Death, while a villain, was [[AffablyEvil generally polite to his enemies]] and was unfailingly loyal to Dracula. This version of Death is a raging, slimy swearaholic who just wants to kill people to satiate himself, with no loyalty to anyone. |
| 646 | * AdaptationalVillainy: While always an opponent, most of Death's ambitions in the games are to serve Dracula and find a way to resurrect him whenever he's dead, and was completely loyal to him. Here, however, Death's an OmnicidalManiac who wants to drive Dracula insane during the resurrection to use him as a tool to wipe out all life on Earth. |
| 647 | * AllPowerfulBystander: He's a being that can casually manipulate the Infinite Corridor, but is merely a spirit, and is unable to affect the human world on a large enough scale to kill the souls whose death he could feed off of, and needs an agent like Dracula in order to do it. He also can't reach into Hell to resurrect Dracula, as only humans can do that. Needless to say, he is ''pissed'' about this arrangement. |
| 648 | * AndYourLittleDogToo: When preparing the final blow on Trevor, Death promises to personally kill Sypha next. |
| 649 | * AnthropomorphicPersonification: Invoked, but subverted. Early cultures based their depictions of TheGrimReaper on him, and he styles himself as the embodiment of death, but he is really just a fancy vampire who feeds on the life force of dying humans. |
| 650 | * ArchEnemy: He establishes himself as Trevor Belmont's deadliest and most personal enemy on the show despite only having one scene with him, and fixates on him when first learning of his presence. Trevor knows a great deal about Death and treats him with absolute seriousness, while Death would return the sentiment once Trevor foils his plans and the two face each other head on. |
| 651 | * AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: His final form is a gigantic monstrosity that is bigger than anything the heroes have ever faced, and could easily hold Trevor in the palm of his hand. |
| 652 | * AxCrazy: All he wants to do is feed, and he'll slaughter the whole world to ensure he never goes hungry again. |
| 653 | * BadassBoast: When Trevor says that killing things like him is his business, Death responds thus: |
| 654 | -->'''Death:''' I was put here at the dawn of life here on Earth to feed on the last breath of every one of you fuckers. I'm a little more than a... "thing". |
| 655 | * BadassBystander: Due to Death being a spirit, he can't interact with Hell or actually kill in order to feed on the death of his own victims. Doesn't stop him from being a superpowered EldritchAbomination. |
| 656 | * BadassLongrobe: He wears one of these, [[SkeletonsInTheCoatCloset accentuated with bones]]. |
| 657 | * BelievingTheirOwnLies: According to Trevor and the Belmont family, anyways. Death is supposedly not the actual incarnation of death, but is simply a vampiric spirit/elemental that feeds on death. Humanity mistook him for death personified which Death eagerly encouraged. By the time Season 4 comes around, Death truly believes that he was put on Earth (presumably by God) to feed on the death of every living thing on the planet. Whether the Belmonts or Death is correct about his origins doesn't matter. What matters is that Death has gotten so arrogant that he loses the battle due to his pride and his need to be recognized. |
| 658 | * BigBad: The main villain of Season 4. All the plans and manipulations to bring back Dracula were orchestrated by him. |
| 659 | * BigNo: He screams this when Trevor exorcises Dracula and Lisa from the Rebis, destroying all of his plans. |
| 660 | * CharacterCatchphrase: "Do you know me?" and, by extension, "You know me". The former is almost exclusively used in his Varney form, with the exception of stating it (minus one word) to Trevor. The latter is stated repeatedly to Saint-Germain during TheReveal. As he presents himself as the physical embodiment of Death itself, the implication is that people who know him are familiar with death in some form or another -- a fact which greatly pleases him. |
| 661 | * TheChessmaster: Hands down the best in the series, leading everyone where he wants them without them knowing, under seemingly harmless aliases. |
| 662 | * ColdHam: In his true form, Death shows himself to be an arrogant being who is a master of the BadassBoast. But, he remains restrained and snarks with TranquilFury. |
| 663 | * CompositeCharacter: He carries the traditional look of the character, but has far more agency beyond serving Dracula with his origins and motivations being closer to Chaos from the mainline games or Satan from the reboot, but his personality definitely takes influence from the self-serving, ManipulativeBastard of Zobek, the Lord of Death, from ''Lords of Shadow'', who reeks of a FauxAffablyEvil demeanor seeking to torture and corrupt Dracula further to [[OmnicidalManiac fulfill his ambition]]. Death's backstory as an ancient, all-consuming embodiment of nothingness who plans to resurrect Dracula also gives him a lot more in common with [[VideoGame/CastlevaniaAriaOfSorrow Chaos]] than with his own in-game counterpart. |
| 664 | * CrownShapedHead: Death's skull is open, with the edge of the opening spiked to look like a crown. |
| 665 | * DecompositeCharacter: His role as Dracula's right-hand goes to Isaac. This Death doesn't seem to have any personal connection to Dracula beyond seeing him as a useful tool to acquire souls. |
| 666 | * DeadpanSnarker: As dead as his own bones. Part of what makes him so LaughablyEvil is his ironic, often bitterly caustic sense of humor. |
| 667 | -->'''Death:''' Is there a point to this? Are you dictating your fucking obituary to me, Belmont? |
| 668 | * TheDeathOfDeath: Subverted. Death does die at the hands of Trevor Belmont, but since he's more of a elemental vampire that feeds on the death of others rather than embodying the concept of death, there's no universal repercussions from killing him. |
| 669 | * DefeatEqualsExplosion: His death causes a massive blast which destroys a large chunk of the castle and would've killed Trevor were it not for Saint Germain. |
| 670 | * DemBones: His design is a skeleton on top of musculature. |
| 671 | * TheDogWasTheMastermind: The foolish, arrogant lout Varney was an EldritchAbomination playing everyone for fools and nearly ushered in the apocalypse. |
| 672 | * DragonWithAnAgenda: Although ostensibly Dracula's servant, he holds no real loyalty to Dracula and simply sees him as a useful way of spreading death on a massive scale. As shown when he manipulates Saint Germain into fusing Dracula and Lisa into a [[TwoBeingsOneBody Rebis]], which is quite obviously a FateWorseThanDeath, but serves his purposes as the resulting [[TragicMonster abomination]] would most certainly lash out in indiscriminate wrath until no life would be left on Earth, without any of the qualms that so tormented Dracula during his first go at it. |
| 673 | * EldritchAbomination: According to Belmont lore, so-called Death is actually a primordial elemental that is nourished by the energy of death, the way vampires are sated by blood. He claims he was "put on this earth" at the dawn of life itself. Where he came from, and what created him, are never answered. |
| 674 | * EvilIsPetty: He has been manipulating the entire plot of Season 4 to get back his 'treasure', a.k.a. the death of living creatures that sustains him that Dracula's genocide was supposed to feed him. He's also incredibly annoyed that the humans are able to resurrect Dracula, and has nothing but contempt for them. |
| 675 | * EvilSoundsRaspy: Unlike the deep-voiced Dracula or soft-spoken Sala, Death's voice is rather hoarse and guttural. |
| 676 | * FatalFlaw: {{Pride}} along with his sadism and hunger. Death could very well have succeeded in his plan if he hadn't chosen to cast off his mask and threaten Saint Germain into completing the ritual. He also takes too much time knocking Trevor around and taunting him instead of finishing the Belmont off. This results in his defeat. |
| 677 | * FinalBoss: He is the final BigBad of the series. |
| 678 | * ForTheEvulz: While he has goals and desires, he also openly states he finds the cruel things he does to reach them to be fun. |
| 679 | * GeniusBruiser: Huge and frighteningly powerful, especially after feeding on so many demises making him rival Dracula himself, but also exceptionally intelligent, orchestrating the entire season without fail. |
| 680 | * GreaterScopeVillain: The instigator of the series as a whole, despite only showing up personally in the final season. Not only is he behind the attempts to revive Dracula in Seasons 3 and 4, but he implies he's been trying to push Dracula into waging genocide against humanity for ages, only for the heroes to steal Dracula from him by killing the vampire lord in Season 2. In other words, all the human attacks that turned Dracula into a MisanthropeSupreme, the church deciding to burn Lisa at the stake, all of it was thanks to his manipulations. |
| 681 | * TheGrimReaper: Downplayed. He looks the part, with the skeletal appearance and the scythe, and Trevor mentions that it's one of his names, but he's not actually the real embodiment of death (as in, [[{{Psychopomp}} the one to personally bring death to every being on Earth]]), but rather more of a "[[ElementalEmbodiment death elemental]]", a primal, ancient magical being that feeds on the energies of death and grows stronger from them. Trevor also adds he did inspire the Grim Reaper iconography, but ancient peoples did not understand what they were seeing and assumed that he was the incarnation of death. As Trever explains to Sypha, ancient people "were trying to make sense of what they saw". |
| 682 | * HorrorHunger: He's driven to feed off the life force of humans after death and is eternally frustrated by only being able to consume only small bits at a time. His big plan is to essentially become the most powerful being on Earth and finally end his insatiable hunger by using Dracula to murder all of humanity and feed off their collective life force. |
| 683 | * IAmTheTrope: He calls himself Death itself... but he really isn't. He's simply a very specific type of vampiric spirit that feeds on whatever LifeEnergy humans give up when they die. |
| 684 | * {{Irony}}: As Varney, he needles Ratko by pointing out that for all his dressing up what he does as being an efficient soldier, he's still basically just another killer and vampire, which sets Ratko off into his [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech rant]] about how he's better than Varney and a superior soldier and warrior than anyone else. Come his fight with Trevor, Trevor calls Death little better than a [[ItIsDehumanizing thing]] to be slain per family tradition, which Death protests saying he is [[BadassBoast more than that]], only for Trevor to call him simply another killer in the world like him. Death doesn't appreciate the turnaround. |
| 685 | * ItsAllAboutMe: Death has a huge ego, especially when he disguises himself as Varney, and he has no loyalty to anyone but himself. Not even to Dracula whom he plans to forcibly resurrect just to reap the benefits of the mass-murdering rampage that result from [[CameBackWrong Dracula's madness upon his revival]]. |
| 686 | * {{Jerkass}}: He's crude, petty, egotistical, and just generally unpleasant on a personal level. |
| 687 | * {{Kaiju}}: Less a traditional "ambigiously animal-like monster" than the usual examples, but he absolutely fits the bill when he grows to the size of Dracula's castle. |
| 688 | * KickTheDog: |
| 689 | ** He snaps an old man's neck for no reason apart from petty frustration. |
| 690 | ** His torture of Dracula and Lisa by fusing them into the Rebis is absolutely nightmarish, specifically designed to torment the former into (even further) insanity. |
| 691 | * KnightOfCerebus: While Castlevania is far from a light series, Death's reveal darkens the mood even more and almost brings about the end of the world. |
| 692 | * LargeHam: He flips between this and ColdHam on a dime. Oh yeah, Malcolm [=McDowell=] is having the time of his unlife. |
| 693 | * LaughablyEvil: He's nothing less than pure evil, but he's such an unrepentantly petty and snarky dick on a personal level in spite of being some kind of ancient evil that he's pretty hilarious. |
| 694 | * LoveMakesYouEvil: Death makes full use of this trait with Saint Germain, convincing him that he needs to bring Dracula back if he wants any chance of reuniting with his beloved. Death also intentionally wants Dracula and Lisa fused together in a rebis, as sensation of his wife trapped inside him would push Dracula into even greater depths of maddened carnage than before. |
| 695 | * MakeMyMonsterGrow: Self-inflicted in the final fight by devouring the Infinite Corridor key, growing from simply towering over humans to ''[[{{Kaiju}} towering over Dracula's castle]]''. |
| 696 | * ManipulativeBastard: He manipulates Saint Germain, Hector, Ratko, and many other vampires in his quest to bring back Dracula and continue his plans of genocide against humanity. He would've succeeded too, were it not for Trevor interrupting the ritual at the last second, and his own hunger getting the better of him. |
| 697 | * MasterActor: He plays the smug, SmallNameBigEgo Varney and the mysterious Alchemist flawlessly. |
| 698 | * MasterOfDisguise: He poses as Varney with his powers to manipulate everyone by playing as [[TheDogWasTheMastermind the local boisterous idiot]], and also as the Alchemist to manipulate Saint Germain, to fulfill his goal of resurrecting Dracula. |
| 699 | * MightyGlacier: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. In his giant form, Death remains stationary from the waist down. He is, however, very fast with scythe strikes and punches. Trevor gets thrashed and beaten within an inch of his life during the first half of their fight. |
| 700 | * {{Mocking Sing Song}}: After beating Trevor to an inch of his life, Death takes the time to insult him when he falls down. |
| 701 | * MorphicResonance: As Varney, not only does he lack irises, making his pupils look like empty sockets along with his sclera being the same tone of his skin, but the coat he wears has a collar that's been partially popped open, making it look like a scythe blade. |
| 702 | * NiceJobFixingItVillain: |
| 703 | ** Although in all fairness, he couldn't have known how it would backfire. Bringing back Dracula and trapping him with Lisa to drive him to new heights of madness was a good plan and it almost works if not for Trevor killing the Rebis. However, because he brought them both back for a moment, the backlash of the spell unraveling means that both Dracula and Lisa are resurrected in new bodies. Dracula would have probably been brought back by someone else eventually, but Death's method ensured that he had his MoralityChain with him, and thus he has no desire to destroy humanity. |
| 704 | ** His plan would have succeeded had he simply remained where he was and allowed Saint Germain to resurrect Dracula. Teleporting to Dracula's castle, seemingly for no reason other than to witness the event himself and to taunt Germain, allowed Trevor and Sypha to follow him and turn the tide of the battle. |
| 705 | * NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Inflicts this on Trevor, to GameBreakingInjury levels. |
| 706 | * NoSell: In the final battle with Trevor, direct hits from the Morning Star bounce off him. |
| 707 | * ObfuscatingStupidity: As Varney, he came off as a stupid jackass who took credit for everything that everyone else did, to the point where nobody took him seriously. In reality, he was pulling every string at once to have his plan come to fruition. |
| 708 | * ObstructiveCodeOfConduct: He cannot reach into Hell and therefore needs human help to resurrect Dracula and Lisa. |
| 709 | * OmnicidalManiac: His ultimate goal is the extinction of all life on Earth, in order to feed on the life energy that it will give off as it perishes. |
| 710 | * TheProblemWithFightingDeath: Averted. Trevor makes it clear that while this thing calls himself Death and he looks like TheGrimReaper, he's not a {{Psychopomp}} or incarnation of death, just a being that eats souls. |
| 711 | * PsychopathicManchild: His constant swearing and talking about how things will be "fun" makes him come off as an edgy teenager. |
| 712 | * SinisterScythe: He wields a large scythe decorated with human skulls. |
| 713 | * SirSwearsALot: He drops enough f-bombs in just one season before and after ditching his "Varney" disguise to rival Trevor over the course of four entire seasons. |
| 714 | * TheSociopath: A charming manipulator who sways Saint Germain to his side for a false promise and a bloodthirsty, egoistical psychopath who is willing to drive Dracula insane upon resurrection just so he can feed on the deaths of millions that would result from the devastation, not caring one bit of any imbalance that may result from the extinction of humanity. And he's all too eager to gloat about it. |
| 715 | * SophisticatedAsHell: He constantly switches between speaking like an upper-class man and swearing like a sailor. |
| 716 | -->'''Death:''' Why is it that only human hands can reach into Hell? Don't you think that's weirdly fucked-up? I can't do it. |
| 717 | * TimeAbyss: He claims to have been born at the dawn of life on Earth. |
| 718 | * TranquilFury: Evident rather quickly once he reveals himself from the cracks in his FauxAffablyEvil nature by being a massive SirSwearsALot that Dracula's death has left him in a state of perpetual rage against everyone, even his allies, just barely held back by his smarminess. |
| 719 | * VillainBall: He really didn't need to reveal himself to Saint Germain and threaten his life to complete the ritual; Saint Germain was already set to do so. The only purpose for the reveal was to provide some EvilGloating just before his moment of triumph, but that just winds up tipping off Trevor and the others as to what is really going on. |
| 720 | * WalkingSpoiler: Not just the fact he was impersonating other characters for all of Season 4, but the fact that he was going to show up in the series ''at all''. |
| 721 | * WouldHurtAChild: In addition to his followers sacrificing children to him, he wants to revive Dracula so he would kill all humanity, including children. |
| 722 | * YourHeadAsplode: How he finally [[{{Pun}} bites it as Trevor stabs him with the]] [[ItOnlyWorksOnce God-Killing dagger]] in the head, causing his head to crumble and rupture away before [[DefeatEqualsExplosion finally exploding violently]] with enough force to obliterate not only Death's entire body, but a whole section of Dracula's castle in the aftermath. |
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