Line #194 Headscratchers/Castlevania2017


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7	* People act like Dracula has been around for a long time but isn't this set in the same time the real life one was in power? What happened to him?
8	** The Castlevania series isn't quite the real world. Dracula's surname is taken from Tepes (the part of Vlad the Impaler's name which means "the Impaler", which wouldn't strictly be a surname), but he isn't the historical Tepes. Probably.
9	** Fridge Brilliance, it IS set during the time of Vlad the Impaler, and what was Dracula doing during this time? living life like a man, they are the same person, we just got it backwards, Vlad didn't become Dracula, Dracula disguised himself as a human named Vlad
10	* So the show is inconsistent on the scale of Dracula's genocide campaign. Half the time they specifically note that he's killing all the humans in Wallachia specifically, the other half they treat it like all humans will be dead. The heroic trio can be forgiven for assuming he just plans to kill everyone everywhere, but the other Vampires are openly concerned about sources of food once the humans are dead, despite presumably not being from Wallachia themselves and thus not directly effected by the genocide. On the other hand, if the plan is to just start in Wallachia and spread elsewhere afterwards, then an exodus from Wallachia wouldn't save anyone, and Dracula's "last act of kindness" is rather moot. So, which is it?
11	** Dracula's vague and ill-defined goals and methods are a major plot point throughout Season 2.
12	** Its also possible he originally planned for revenge on just Wallachia but in his grief of deciding to turn it into the worlds biggest murder suicide said fuck it kill them all, hes clearly not in his right mind so his "last act of kindness" likely wasn't thought threw, that or he just assumed the old lady would be dead of natural causes by the time his army spread out to the rest of the world
13	* So where are the other nations? its kind of implied the army is mostly contained to Wallachia for now so its not like there fending off there own demonic hoards and there are verified demons running around, how has a crusade not been called to storm in and attempt to fight them off?
14	** It's easy to forget (and no, not being sarcastic here - [[AnachronismStew it really is]]) but the series IS set in 15th century. It can take weeks if not months for news to travel, and there is a decent chance that the world at large hasn't got the first clue just what the hell is going on in Wallachia.
15	*** Going by that then, where's ''Wallachia's'' army? Where are the personal forces of the nobles, where is the King? Unless in the time skip between the beginning of his campaign and Episode 2 Dracula's armies wiped out all official human resistance, why is no one fighting back?
16	*** The subsequent seasons indicate that Dracula was defeating the Wallachian army when they encountered them. Plus, any medieval army will have difficulty dealing with an enemy who can literally teleport anywhere they want at a whim. All of the weeks and months spent mobilizing and marching against Dracula's army only for him to suddenly jump to a different part of the country, and now having to turn the army around and go to the new location effectively means that the army is a non-factor unless they garrison every city, which is also going to disperse all of their resources and make it easy for Dracula's troops to raid at will.
17	*** Season 4 also explains why the Wallachian King hasn't rallied any army to fight Dracula: He, along with presumably the rest of the royal family able to inherit, died when Dracula assaulted Targoviste.
18	* How does Forging work, exactly? More specifically, why is it that the process seems to be able to create/conjure demons from corpses sometimes, but other times it just brings the corpse back to life, as was the case for Hector's dog and the Bishop? If the basic concept for forging is sticking a departed soul into a dead body, what soul was implanted in the likes of those two for them to be, well, the same as they were when they were alive?
19	** It does different things at different times because the forgemasters want it to do different things with different bodies. It's like how ''sometimes'' a blacksmith puts iron into the forge and makes a knife, but ''other'' times he'll put it into the forge and makes a piece of armor.
20	* Does HolyBurnEvil? We see holy water kill demons, vampires, and Night Creatures, and we’re assured intact holy ground works, and consecrated weapons certainly work, but crosses don’t seem to? Surely they should work at least as well as the whip carried around by Trevor Belmont. What’s up with that? Like, in Season 4 Episode 7 Sypha says “Did that vampire hunter also die in India? Because Hindu vampires wouldn’t even know why he was waving a cross at them” when she sees the cross/sword/thing. What was she imagining? Was it a strategic thing? Was she thinking that the vampires would realize they’d be burned by the cross and thus attack as though it wasn’t going to, ruining the hunter’s plot to get them to back off and give him some breathing room or something? Or was she saying that the crosses outright wouldn’t do anything, possibly because they wouldn’t either believe in it or know it was a holy symbol?
21	** She was stating that a cross shouldn't burn a Hindu vampire because they wouldn't know what it was. The implication is that there is no such thing as inherent holiness; that it requires the subject to understand the significance or power said consecration. The series really doesn't answer the question either way, though; sunlight kills vampires, but we have no idea if that's due to the symbolic divinity of the sun or if it's some inherent part of vampire biology. Also, holy water killed a ton of vampires back in Season 2, but we don't know whether that was because those vampires believed in God or because the ones that burned knew that it was consecrated. On that note, we also don't know if the vampires in Dracula's castle could tell that the water was sanctified at a glance or if the saw other vampires being burned by it and decided not to take any chances. In short, we don't really get any full explanations either way.
22	** In S4 Trevor is able to recognize holy water just by looking at it, and later Vimey also recognizes it as such and calls it "nasty stuff". This would suggest that holy water is intrinsically different to normal water. As for how; Death comments that only humans can "reach into hell". Perhaps the same is true of heaven, or wherever holy-ness originates from. Channeling holy energy into water is just a form of magic that any human (and some non-humans) can learn and not something, say, that they need permission from a deity for (this would also mesh with the priests of the CorruptChurch still being able to do it even when their leadership is so corrupt the church is no longer consecrated). This is consistent with the games having evil monsters which can use holy aligned attacks.
23	* This has more to do with the upcoming spin-off, which is based on ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaRondoOfBlood'': Why are they skipping over Simon to get Richter? Does the staff just not want to invite ''WesternAnimation/CaptainNTheGameMaster'' comparisons?
24	** Likely they chose Richter because Simon's tale doesn't give them much to work with, Richter's does. Not that they haven't proven they can do so, but Simon would require creating the entire cast outside the Simon and Dracula (and Death) and fleshing out the story past "man solos Dracula's entire castle". Again, they added a lot to Trevor's tale, but they at least had Sypha and Alucard to work with, and some broad strokes details drawn from Symphony.
25	*** Adding to that, it may be a case of recognition. Trevor is somewhat secondary to that it was his game that introduced Alucard (who is one of the most iconic characters in the ENTIRE series), and Richter is memetically famous because of the legendary "DIE MONSTER. YOU DON'T BELONG IN THIS WORLD." scene.
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29	* How exactly did Lisa expect not to be burned at the stake eventually? In her introduction, she outright says to Dracula that other people already consider her to be a witch.
30	** Lisa bore no ill will to the people, thinking they were just ignorant and miserable. She was clearly very optimistic and believed they would come around to her way of thinking once she started actually making a difference. In the end, she was just a bit too optimistic.
31	** If the Bishop specifically hadn't decided to use her as a scapegoat in his rise to power, she probably would have been fine (the towns folk would probably have appreciated having a decent doctor).
32	** Despite what media (like, well, Netflix Castlevania) would have you believe, witch burnings were not ''that'' common outside of a few specific times and places. Some people might spit at her feet when she passed or refuse to speak to her, but reaching the point where they were actually willing to drag her out and kill her was unusual.
33	** Yeah, about that. Casual research on my part indicates that it's believed that between the 1400s and 1700s, [[https://qz.com/1183992/why-europe-was-overrun-by-witch-hunts-in-early-modern-history/ tens of thousands of people]] were executed for witchcraft. Likewise, Wikipedia claims that [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_executed_for_witchcraft#:~:text=We%20do%20not%20know%20the,between%203%2D4%20million%20people those numbers may be LOW-balling it]], with some scholars believing that the numbers may have reached the ''millions''. At the bottom of that same Wikipedia page, they list a number of known people that were executed for witchcraft (many of them burned) and at least seven are from the 15th century. And again, those seven are only ones we have ''records'' for. So no, Lisa being accused of witchcraft and burned at the stakes was NOT uncommon during that period.
34	*** This is true, but there ''is'' another reason you're forgetting that makes it unlikely that Lisa would have expected a witch-burning in that exact time and place. Wallachia, where she lived, was not Catholic; it was Eastern Orthodox. At least in the real world, the Eastern Orthodox church at the time did not accept the existence of witchcraft and therefore didn't have systematic witch-hunts. (Mentioned eg. [[https://etd.ohiolink.edu/apexprod/rws_etd/send_file/send?accession=bgsu1143482826&disposition=inline here ]] and [[https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=cOmyAcgxFgAC&oi=fnd&pg=PR5&dq=%22Eastern+Orthodox%22+%22witch+hunts%22&ots=l17wpyMfRf&sig=U-OXV40YVQXq20Rz6h7lOMkCuUc#v=onepage&q=%22Eastern%20Orthodox%22&f=false here]].) Of course, in Castlevania the situation may have been very different, what with the supernatural being demonstrably real; the schism may not even be a thing, and this may simply be an example of ChristianityIsCatholic.
35	*** As you stated, whether Wallachia was Catholic or not in real life is irrelevant, because it ''is'' in ''Castlevania'', with a major religious center directly placed in Targoviste, and that is the setting Lisa lived in. She can't use logic that people would have in the real world, because she does not live in that world.
36	* How could the priests be so stupid? Dracula isn't exactly subtle in his communication: he tells them they have a year's head start before he wipes out the city, and they ''celebrate the anniversary of her death''? And afterward, why don't the surviving priest do what Trevor suggests, that is creating defenses with salt and holy water? There is being sanctimonious and there is being TooDumbToLive. You can't rule over the people if you're dead.
37	** It's implied that while the Belmonts have extensive knowledge on the supernatural (''"Stone Eye Cyclops, right out of the family bestiary"''), the average citizen does not. Not only that, but Dracula gave no sign after the burning on what he was doing, luring the town into complacency. The only ones who realized what danger the people of Wallachia were in were Lisa and Adrien, both of whom attempted to appeal to him before he went too far.
38	** Additionally, the Archbishop's speech states that Lisa's execution and Dracula's threat occurred "a little over" a year ago, indicating that the celebration is not occurring on the exact day of Lisa's death but sometime shortly following. Because nothing happened on the anniversary date itself, they (foolishly) assumed that the threat was an empty one; their celebration was less to commemorate Lisa's death and more of a "the threat has passed and we're all alive" kind of thing.
39	** The priests act so stupid because ''they are'' that stupid. The Bishop was quite literally yelling at demons that they couldn't enter the house of God ''while they were standing there in front of him.'' His main concern while night creatures were raiding his town and impaling heads on walls was how he could use the genocidal vampire army to become the ruler of Wallachia. He's an absurdly delusional, self-absorbed, power-mad fanatic.
40	* Where was Alucard when his mother was burned? Why wasn't there a security system at their house? Basically, how could ordinary priests burst into one of Dracula's houses and steal his wife, not knowing she's married to ''Dracula'', and succeed in killing her?
41	** Drac followed Lisa's wish and lived like a mortal, so they were living in a normal house, not inside Castlevania, so no security systems there.
42	** Besides which, Lisa "forgive them for they know not what they do" Tepes doubtless would not have allowed any form of security that would harm people, so anything that ''was'' in place to protect her in the absence of her husband and son would have been something that could be overwhelmed by a sufficiently determined mob of would-be witch-burners.
43	** Besides, she knew Dracula was traveling without powers, so the only reason she would plead aloud to spare the people would be if someone else could hear her. Someone who later plans to honor her wishes. Say... her teenage son, perhaps?
44	** She is clearly talking to Dracula in the scene. She is screaming up at the sky, not addressing someone in the crowd, and the words she says allude to '''''Dracula''''''s character development, not to her son's. The point remains that if Alucard was there, '''''he would not just sit there and watch his mother die a horrible, painful death'''''. It does not matter one wit what happened in ''Symphony of the Night'' because this is an adaptation in a different medium that follows different plot threads. And this whole interpretation depends on thinking the woman '''''being burned alive at the stake''''' is only going to take actions that, from a cold and logical viewpoint, will have a tangible result. ''Humans do not work that way''.
45	*** Following on this thread, even ''if'' Alucard saved Lisa, her life was still over at that point; she would be hunted by the Church, likely forced to abandon her work as a doctor, and have to live in hiding for the rest of her life. Saving Lisa also would have meant potentially having to ''kill'' her captors. Not much of an issue for Alucard, but would [[AllLovingHero his mother]] have approved of him doing such a thing?
46	*** It's a little absurd to think that Alucard would let his mother '''die a painful, horrible death of burning at the stake''' on the off chance that she ''might'' be upset that he killed the people that were going to horribly murder her.
47	** Back on the topic of where was Alucard, presumably the events of Lisa's burning and his confrontation with Dracula occurred on the same night. While Dracula can apparently teleport or at least move very, ''very'' fast, season 4 shows that Alucard is somewhat more restricted in his mobility. In short, Alucard was still at the castle, probably doing some personal studying or just looking after the place for a while while his father was out travelling so that people or other vampires didn't try to loot it.
48	* Why does everyone in the show insist that Dracula's a myth? I mean, some sources claim that he did not torment humanity (i.e. hiding) prior to Lisa's arrival, but that field of very real skeletons on stakes before his very real castle contradicts that. If Lisa found him, how come no one else? Moreover, Trevor mentions that his bloodline fought and died protecting Wallachia too, and he knows Dracula's a thing; most likely the Belmonts were fighting Drac's minions. So in the end, he must have been hunting down humans in one way or another, no? If the Belmonts really fought and died then the series must follow the standard ''Castlevania'' timeline i.e. Drac is Mathias, not Vlad III. There was no time when he was still a living count.
49	** The field of skeletons is really old, according to Drac himself (he says he doesn't impale people anymore when he meets Lisa). It's likely that Vlad created that field while he was still a living count, and that's all the public opinion knows for a fact about him, that he was a terrible human being who maybe dabbled in the occult. It's likely that no one gets close to the castle because of it, or because they believe the "myth" (and those who did go to the castle probably never came back). The Belmonts, being a family of monster hunters, know better than to dismiss any such myth without confirmation.
50	*** In addition, the whole field is skeletons. It does take time for all of the flesh to rot off someone to leave just a skeleton. And in time, 'evil' people do sometimes fade from memory and become legends or myths.
51	** It's Church propaganda. The very same reason why they excommunicated the Belmonts, because the idea that there are things that are outside of the Church's power to control or put down is damaging to their grip on the people.
52	* So Vlad performs his last act of kindness by telling the old lady to flee Wallachia, right? But then he goes and tells everyone in the square burning his wife that they've got 1 year before he kills everyone in Wallachia... doesn't that mean they all get the same "kindness" the old lady got? I mean, even more, because if some rando said "leave Wallachia" I might not, but when the 20-foot-tall flaming skull-head says "I'ma kill everyone in this here country in 1 year," I'm moving to Sweden.
53	** Difference is pretty simple, it's kindness in the case of the old lady because she showed fondness for Lisa so Drac just told her to leave before he started preparing. The villagers, on the other hand, were participants to Lisa's burning or were indifferent to it, so Drac ''threatened'' them.
54	* Alright, but if Drac really dabbles in the occult and dark magic, why doesn't the holier-than-thou Church step in? I mean, if according to the Bishop Drac "doesn't even exist", there shouldn't be any problem taking him out and preserving the "simplicity" of the commoners' lives?
55	** Simple reasons: he's powerful, wealthy, and isolated, and ''very openly'' all of those things. It's not really about rooting out dark forces, it's about blaming someone who can't or won't fight back. As he is, he's just something mysterious for people to fear.
56	** Quite possibly they did form a mob against him at some point and said mob was never seen again. The church promptly covered it up, and convinced even themselves ''that it never happened and Dracula doesn't exist''.
57	** The second season heavily implies exactly that, as Drac once murdered 40 merchants and strung their corpses and entrails up on the outskirts of the town simply because one of them ''offended him''. Given how old Adrian is, it's likely that after Drac settled down with Lisa he simply disappeared and the church was all too happy to simply pretend he didn't exist after the decades have passed. As for why the one asshole priest didn't believe in him? That one priest didn't seem like he had all his marbles to begin with and likely bought into the church's teaching way too hard.
58	** Why would they go after someone they thought didn't exist? Also, the skeletons outside imply it didn't go well for the last people that tried.
59	** The Church likely has gone after Dracula. The thing is, he's ''Dracula''. After a bunch of likely crusades against one vampire that ends with the crusades never coming back, they likely decided to pretend he didn't exist.
60	* It's probably some concealing magic, but I'm still gonna ask. How come no one paid attention to the travelling-like-man Dracula? He has pointed ears and ungodly height, for God's sake.
61	** ''Because'' he was those things. It's the dark ages, where people are superstitious, and while female "witches" are easily overpowered, an obviously demonic man that left well enough alone was something they decided wasn't worth messing with.
62	* The Bishop claims that, with all other major cities being destroyed, he will be the only church authority left. Even ignoring the inexplicable existence of the Catholic Church in Romania... has this guy seriously forgotten the existence of the pope?
63	** By that, the Bishop clearly means "in Wallachia", given that the other major cities in question were also of Wallachian origin. Plus, at the time, Romania wasn't its own thing; around this time in history, Wallachia was its own separate principality.
64	* Alucard claims that every trap he set to defend himself was mechanical. What about the flesh and blood monster, the Cyclops?
65	** Perhaps it moved in during his year asleep, though that does raise the question of why Alucard's traps didn't kill or repel it if it wasn't intended to be there.
66	** Maybe the Cyclops didn't move in deep enough, or not in the right direction?
67	** Maybe it's a mix between this and ChaosArchitecture like in subsequent games?
68	* Why didn't the demons just fly up to avoid being trapped and enclosed by Sypha's ice walls? With the exception of Blue Fangs....THEY HAVE FUCKING WINGS! If Sypha made a roof of ice to go with the walls than that would've made sense but there was literally nothing stopping those demons from flying straight up.
69	** Also those demons can shoot fireballs of death from their mouths so why didn't they try doing that to break/melt the ice walls? Yeah ice better then fire my ass Trevor!
70	** The simplest explanation is that they didn't care. They were already on the ground and there were humans in front of them that they had orders to kill, so they tried to kill said humans. The ice walls just limited the directions they could go while on the ground.
71	* In the Netflix series, Trevor Belmont mistakes Alucard for Dracula because "no-one knows what Dracula looks like", despite the fact that hundreds of people have seen giant burning image of Dracula's face, twice.
72	** Given the circumstances where he appeared, most people wouldn't be able to accurately reconstruct his face. The giant burning face would get more comments along the lines of, "Kept on turning into a giant skull" or "Was the devil himself," instead of, "Had a goatee" or "Pointy chin." Not to mention that it would be hard to make out the details when the details are just shadows on fire. Adding the trauma of the experience wiping out the memory, and the lack of photography or professional sketch artists, it would be safe to say that no one has much of an idea of what he looks like.
73	** Also, by the look of it no-one left Targoviste alive. There were Speakers in Targoviste during the burning of Lisa, but we're never given any indication they were there when Dracula descended upon the city and, if they were, they probably died with the rest. Even the Bishop was not there for the sack itself, lending credence to the idea that everyone who was on Targoviste on the day of the festival is probably dead or undead by now.
74	* Trevor convinces the people to rise up against the corrupt priests, who are promptly murdered. Why wasn't that one ordained priest killed with the rest of them? He was probably one of the nicer ones, but mobs aren't known for being picky.
75	** Since the corrupt priests were employed by the Bishop, its possible the ordained priest was Gresit's local priest before they arrived and he was known well by the people.
76	** If I recall, he only specifically called out one guy whom the mob turned on. He didn't say "death to priests" he said "death to this priest." Even if he had, Trevor wasn't telling the mob anything new, he was motivating them to turn on the people abusing them. The people likely knew which priests were abusing their power and focused on them. He directed their rage.
77	* Is it just me, or Blue Fangs' voice changes between scenes?
78	** In one scene, he's speaking softly, in the other he's shouting.
79	** Possibly because he's a demon of chaos, so his voice is continually shifting and morphing.
80	* Why exactly would the people believe Trevor enough to rebel against the church? In his speech he condemns them for killing an innocent woman and incurring Dracula's wrath, but why would they even believe that - Lisa really ''was'' involved with Dracula and for all they know she really was a witch. Yet they change sides almost instantly, why?
81	** Trevor isn't so much "revealing" this as putting it out in the open. Even as it's happening, we see that some people are uneasy about the execution. Most likely? The vast majority of people ''already knew and understood'' what was happening and why, but the church was too powerful and could have them killed. Then here comes this guy Trevor who says all that out loud, and also points out that the priest is hideously outnumbered by people, and the dam breaks.
82	** Also they where an angry mob, scared for the life desperately looking for something, anything, to make the demon attacks stop and be safe again. The church promised them salvation, but the demons attacked again, and now Trevor stands there, and offers them another solution. So with the failure of the church, and another leader stepping up, the anger of the mob shifts.
83	* How ''does'' Trevor know the true circumstances of Lisa's demise? Given the place where it happened was razed and people in general don't seem to know much about it (or the ones that do died), did he happen to just find a select few people who 1) are not dead, 2) knew Lisa, and 3) believed she was innocent?
84	** There's a year between Lisa's execution and Dracula going after people. It's unlikely that ''everybody'' in that city stayed there the whole year. There are probably people who left -- probably people who ''did'' know Lisa and liked her -- who were able to put two-and-two together after the city that killed her was burned down by demons exactly like Dracula said it would be.
85	** He literally got the story from the Elder Speaker and the very Bishop that murdered her. Granted, the Elder didn't strictly say Lisa was innocent, but considering the Bishop's the kind of man who'd have you burned at the stake because you write with your left hand, Trevor could probably assume she did absolutely nothing wrong. And if nothing else, he could be throwing some accidentally correct flair into his whole speech to make the people see who their real enemy is.
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89	* How is an undead abomination made from the corpse of a man whose actions in life were so evil that he inadvertently ''deconsecrated'' a cathedral capable of making holy water at all, much less a good sized river full of it?
90	** It's possible that despite his actions, he's still ordained himself and blessing holy water just works based on a ritual. It's also possible that being under the control of the (innocent if a bit out there) Hector meant that his sins didn't apply. Whatever the specifics, it's probably a hint as to how holy blessings work in the setting.
91	*** Trevor's call for a priest does help validate this. He doesn't ask for a good priest, simply one that was properly ordained in a Church. Which also fits with Catholic belief that while technically anyone can perform the ritual to create holy water, it's only holy water if it's done by an ordained minister.
92	** He always had Holy powers, he just used them for his own selfish needs.
93	*** No, in the first season the demons mock him as they kill him, saying that God abandoned him due to his sins and lack of faith. It seems ''weird'' that his reanimated corpse would retain holy powers after that.
94	*** Sure, but that doesn't seem to matter within this series. Holiness, salvation, unholiness and damnation seem to be concrete functions or set rules within the world. Despite all of her good intentions, Lisa still went to Hell. Despite his devout Islamic faith, Isaac can still summon the souls of the damned into night creatures. And Sypha at one point questions whether or not a cross would work on Hindu vampires.
95	*** One, it isn't known ''why'' Lisa was in Hell, if by her own choice, if she is cast there, if she went there to be with her husband. Second, it wouldn't be weird if God, who is believed to see things in more than three dimensions but the past and all possible futures, to allow this once holy man to channel some of this Divine Blessing once more in a longer run gambit against a greater evil. The Blessing of Braila destroys hundreds of soldier vampires and gives the three heroes a strong chance against the surviving lot. They cannot be overwhelmed now. In addition, the crashing of the castle spreads the blessed water and reduces Carmilla's forces to a tithing and leaves her unable to do further harm against the city. All of this happens because of one undead Bishop being granted permission to bless the waters once again. That is two to three good actions coming from this unorthodox origin of the prayer.
96	*** Sure. "Works in mysterious ways" could totally be the reason, but unfortunately can't really be accounted for in a discussion. However, we have no actual indication that GodIsGood in this series, either. By the same token that we MIGHT be able to accredit everything working out to God being a master chessmaster, it could also have just been dumb luck. That's the rub.
97	** Also, there's no indication that the church was ever actually a safe haven. Blue Fangs was taunting and tormenting the man, and the Bishop clearly had no idea how magic actually worked. That said, he was still a properly ordained holy man.
98	** I thought that although the Bishop was corrupt in life and a damned and undead slave to Carmilla afterward, God himself (who is likely to exist in the Netflixvania universe due to the fact that [[HolyBurnsEvil holy water has demonstrably harmful effects on vampires and demons]]) consecrated the river and let Carmilla ''think'' that the undead Bishop did it so that her forces could be mostly wiped out by the shockwave that occurred when Sypha teleported Dracula's castle away.
99	** One possibility is that the fact that the undead abomination's actions were self-destructive (he was creating holy water while standing in it) allowed him to eke out a bit more holy power through ritual self-sacrifice - ie. given that he was both a disgraced priest and an undead abomination now, destroying himself in order to kill a bunch of vampires was sufficiently holy and in line with Christian concepts of martyrdom that it worked.
100	** Complicating matters is that the fourth season implies that holy powers in the setting operate on either AllMythsAreTrue or ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve logic, meaning that ''any'' faith in ''any'' religion is capable of defeating vampires. Have they all discovered practical rituals that are effectively magic? Is the priest's power fueled by the beliefs of others? Was the genuine faith of the people who performed his investiture sufficient to allow even his reanimated corpse to create holy water, even though having an undead abomination performing it makes a mockery of those beliefs? Who knows!
101	* If the Belmonts had been virtually extinct for over a decade (Trevor can't even remember how old he was when the rest of the family died), why would a random, nothing village goatherder be able to remember their names, recognize their crest at a casual glance, and think that they're relevant enough to be to blame for a crisis that happened years after they were allegedly wiped out, as shown in the first and second episodes of season 1?
102	** Probably because the Church specifically blamed them, and they were a prominent family (remember that the point of a crest is that [[SigilSpam people recognise it]]) for centuries before then. It's not too hard to imagine that someone over the age of majority recognises it, and remembers them as the scapegoat.
103	** Also, if any game canon still applies, Leon came out of France after relinquishing his knighthood, so he would've been just some random guy when he arrived in Wallachia. 400 years later, his descendants were landed gentry with a basement full of dead monsters, magical artifacts, and ancient lore. The Belmonts have probably been kicking ass and slaying demons in Wallachia for most of the last ''four centuries'', so the name would still be well-known even without the vilification from the church.
104	** The man does describe the Belmonts as one of the Old Houses, so it would fit with the idea they were a known and, likely, powerful and influential clan in the country. The Church could easily have turned their crest into a sign of demon-worshiping and other malicious slander. It would be part of their propaganda against the Belmonts. "Look at this crest! This is the mark of the Belmonts, a clan of devil-worshipers! Know the crest and tell the Church about any who might be bearing it! Destroy any building with it on its faces."
105	* Where's Death in all of this? You'd think that Dracula's [[HeteroSexualLifePartners closest confidant and friend]] would be at his side at all times, but he's nowhere to be seen. Are they saving him for later?
106	** Maybe Isaac's going to run into Zead at some point?
107	*** Either that, or Isaac is a CompositeCharacter with Zead - note the loyalty to Dracula and the tall, bald appearances that they share.
108	** The writers decided to not place the same Death from the original timeline in this version of Castlevania. The closest to Dracula's "confidant" is Isaac.
109	** It is unknown if Dracula wields the actual Crimson Stone in this story.
110	** Death eventually appears in Season 4.
111	* So Carmilla's new plan is enslaving Hector to build up her undead army... sorry, but how does she think this is a good idea? I thought the Forgemaster's armies were necessarily loyal to the ''Forgemaster's'' will, not Carmilla's; moreover, if Carmilla understands how Hector's abilities work, she should be aware of that. At this point she's treated Hector so deplorably that his will is probably saying "drag this hag to hell". How does she expect to make his will match hers?
112	** By beating and torturing him until his own will is broken.
113	*** Makes sense enough, coming from a SmugSnake like Carmilla. Still, breaking Hector's will wouldn't necessarily make him agree with Carmilla's goals; it just means he'd not risk defying her, and- at least in this troper's experience- that's not exactly the same thing. If Hector's will is broken, wouldn't his army become directionless? On a different note: doesn't Carmilla know what Hector did to the last two people who abused him? And, moreover, that Castlevania's vampires don't seem to be fireproof?
114	** Carmilla seems to think she is a ChessMaster when, in actual fact she is more impulsive that her apparently cool exterior shows, as shown by her blessing an entire river and not thinking of things like splash zones, or that now she has given a city an almost infinite supply of something that hands down, ''will'' kill a most of the unholy creatures that it comes into contact with, her tasking a Forgemster who probably hates her with creating an army explicitly loyal to him, reeks of DidNotThinkThisThrough, so far all of her half baked plans have bit her in the ass, and she still has the gall to think she is a front runner for BigBad status, probably usurped by Hector or Issac in the next season.
115	** Season 3 indeed shows that Carmilla beating the shit out of Hector means he's not inclined to do her any favors, and giving him access to Devil Forging tools means the first thing he'd do with a night creature army is turn it on her. The bulk of Hector's story in Season 3 revolves around Carmilla and her council's attempts to secure Hector's loyalty despite Carmilla's actions. Her treatment of Hector was part DidntThinkThisThrough, part "I need him cowed and at my side right now, making him do what I want is tomorrow's problem." Carmilla's sisters routinely call her out for making dealing with Hector more difficult, but Carmilla has a point that, at the end of Season 2, Hector made it very clear he wasn't interested in Carmilla's schemes and manipulations any more. Beating him into submission was about the only option she had if she wanted any possibility of access to his skills.
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119	* Why was Lisa in Hell? While Dracula had committed hundreds of actions that were despicable, no matter how much his love for Lisa had made him think of redemption, Lisa showed to be nothing but a king hearted soul. Speaking of which, why was Dracula willing to leave Hell, when he was spending time with his beloved?
120	** There are a ''lot'' of things that can get you sent to Hell, depending on the dogma you're talking about, even if you're a good person otherwise. Also, who says Dracula was willing to leave? Or leave alone, for that matter? We get one wordless, 15-second scene of him just looking at the portal, so we know nothing of whether he would have left, or tried to bring Lisa with him.
121	** Here is a very simple way of looking at it: Dracula was NOT getting into Heaven no matter what, right? And Lisa loves Dracula despite everything he had done. So, if Lisa's idea of Heaven is to be with her husband, then Hell is the only place she ''can'' go. Lisa cannot really be happy in Heaven because it means she will never be with her husband again and Dracula has to live in Hell while Lisa is somewhere that is forever out of his reach. The fact that both of them are together again is arguably a kindness really.
122	** That still raises the issue that Lisa could feel enough loneliness in "Heaven" that YouAreWorthHell would be seen as a better alternative. Even if we accept that she willingly forewent heaven to be with her beloved, then there are probably millions upon millions of people who either did not make that choice and wound up separated from their loved ones forever...or who ''did'' make that choice and are in Hell no matter how good they were in life.
123	*** Then maybe that's the real point of Hell? Perhaps it's more along the lines of third-class accommodations for the souls of the dead than actual punishment. Some may go there not necessarily because of how evil they were, but because there was nowhere else for them to go. You can't put Lisa anywhere Dracula isn't and you can't put Dracula anywhere but Hell. If evil people are allowed loved ones in Hell, then maybe ain't all that bad. Also, you're assuming actual choice is involved here. No one said that. And you're assuming millions of people are separated from loved ones in this scenario, but you have to acknowledge Lisa as an extreme example seeing as how she her ''loved one'' is literally Dracula.
124	*** You can't have it both ways. Either there's an EasyRoadToHell or there isn't. Either your personal feelings influence where you end up (that's what I mean when I refer to a "choice") or they don't. If either of those two things are used to explain why Lisa is in Hell, then yes--there are probably millions of people in Heaven separated from loved ones (because there's an EasyRoadToHell) or there are millions in Hell because they didn't want to give up loved ones. Lisa's particular loved one may have been Dracula, but it's not like you have to be as evil as him to get into Hell. Also, while we're not told how bad Hell is, we know based on the creatures that come from there that it isn't a particularly pleasant place, either.
125	** It's my personal headcanon that the Lisa we saw is an illusion meant to keep Dracula in hell. If and when he discovers the truth, the cycle of him constantly being resurrected will begin.
126	** Considering how much of a woman of science Lisa was and how quickly she denounces superstitions, she might have been atheist. Refusing to believe in God or accept Him as your Lord would do the trick in a setting where He is all too real.
127	** We haven't seem much in the way of proof that this Hell is the literal Christian Hell (thus having a Heaven counterpart), and the series kinda seems to lean on the original's AllMythsAreTrue mentality. It may be that that place is just the Afterlife, and whether it gets interpreted as Hell or Heaven or something entirely different is up to each person's beliefs.
128	* Maybe this borderlines on being a rhetorical question, but what exactly is ''wrong'' with Isaac? He despises the human race and believes they should all die, though not without just cause, but he seems to operate with a bizarre, almost hilarious lack of self-awareness when it comes to dealing with other people. He killed the bandits who attacked him in the desert. Fair enough. Yet when he enters the city with his army of demons, the guards all rally to fight them. Isaac then later condemns the humans who attacked him, saying they were full of hatred and fear. That’s technically true, but that’s a very reasonable response given the context and it's kind of Isaacs own fault in the first place. They are afraid because the Night Creatures are literally demons and they clearly don’t respond to things like love, so why is Isaac expecting any other kind of reaction? Even when he arrives in Genoa, the soldiers point out the demon attacks that are happening in Wallachia, attacks which Isaac himself help to perpetrate, but all Isaac does is complain that they are being ''rude'' to him. That’s supposed to be human cruelty?
129	** I think it stems from Isaac's fallacious belief that all others are working from the same pool of knowledge as him and will act logically according to this. He knows his creatures are only dangerous if he orders them to attack, and he only wishes to leave the city and thus poses no threat. The guards of course know neither of these things, but he fails to see their perspective and thus thinks the only reason for them to demand he turn around on pain of death is simply because of spite. His past has led him to draw back from others and ignore their viewpoint, leading to a self-fulfilling cycle that allows him to justify his misanthropic beliefs. It is a definite flaw, stemming from great arrogance and little empathy, and hopefully one that is explored in more depth.
130	** A major point of Isaac's character development through the show is that he is acting from an extremely limited viewpoint, and that his encounters with various people over the course of his journey are showing him that he's wrong about many things. He even jokes to Hector in Season 4 that he's "actually talking to people." It's quite clear that Isaac had a very, very stunted and limited view of humanity and the world as a whole.
131	* Why the everloving hell didn't Trevor & Sypha destroy the alchemy marks they found around town!? They didn't know the exact purpose of the marks, but they did know that it was something bad, & they had a couple hours between when they formed their plan of attack with the Judge and when they actually attacked.
132	** They probably thought it was just graffiti, not thinking a group of priests would have the knowledge to cast magic of that caliber. The symbols themselves don't seem to have had any magic to them, being only target for the ritual, and thus easily overlooked. They were fairly overconfident after all, and hadn't faced magic uses outside of Dracula's in your face stuff.
133	* Would Hector be able to escape the ring's curse by cutting off his finger?
134	** Probably, but since that would be disloyalty, he'd have to deal with it dancing all over his pain receptors first, likely to the point of making him pass out to prevent him without some sort of countermeasure first.
135	** Turns out [[spoiler: yes, it's that easy. Doesn't even activate the ring to hurt him while he does it.]]
136	* What convinced Sumi & Taka that the best way to lure Alucard into a trap was to have ''sex'' with him? Sure it worked, but given Alucard didn't show any interest in either of them or really in sex in general, why would that of all things be their plan for rendering him vulnerable? All it would have taken for the ploy to fall apart was for Alucard to go "wait, no, stop I don't like either of you like that", and that would have been it. Heck, if all they needed was to slip those magic binds onto him, why not just do it when they're sparring so they have a good preexisting reason to get close? There's even a scene prior to the sex scene where they're both ''holding onto'' Alucard by one arm each, that would've been a near-perfect opportunity.
137	** We're not privy to their inner thoughts, so we can't know why they did that. Perhaps they thought that was when he'd be the most vulnerable.
138	* ''Was'' the priory being controlled by the Visitor? Given that Sala doesn't seem to understand what's going on when the portal to Hell opens - even though accessing hell was exactly what he wanted - it would make more sense that he was under some sort of influence. But on the other hand, he kills the Judge without even stopping to think about it, implying that he does actually oppose those who were trying to stop him and therefore what he was doing was something he actually believed in.
139	** They were not being directly controlled, but influenced. He killed the judge because the judge was an enemy. He didn't stop to think about all the factional aspects during his freak out because humans generally don't.
140	* Why is Dracula still a vampire in Hell? Assuming his origin story is similar to how it is in the games, he was originally human, so why wouldn't he revert to that upon going to Hell?
141	** Why would he? None of the games have shown him "reverting" to human when he died, and in fact he keeps coming back as a vampire.
142	** Because it's a transformation of his original human self. If Dracula stays a vampire in Hell, why doesn't Lisa stay a barely-living burnt up husk in Hell?
143	** Yes, it's a magical transformation that changed the very core of what he is. It's a ''very'' different thing than simply burning to death.
144	** Dracula's origins have not been explored that deep. It is possible that this is retconned in this continuity.
145	* Was Dracula trying to go through the portal and come back to life? If so, why? He spent most of the show wanting to be dead, and by the time he ''did'' die he was more or less convinced it was what he deserved. And just as well, he gets to be with Lisa in hell, so why would he even want to come back?
146	** We don't know if he was trying to go through the portal. And perhaps if he was, he would've brought Lisa with him.
147	* If it's really possible to open portals to the afterlife and resurrect people with them, why didn't Dracula take advantage of this to get Lisa back? With his seemingly endless pool of knowledge on magic and science, it'd make sense that he would know how to do it - and even if he didn't, a creature like the Visitor could have just as easily told him how.
148	** Presumably either he didn't know about it, or he wasn't able to make it happen. The Visitor didn't ''create'' the portal; he just found it.
149	*** But the Visitor knew where the portal was and what to do with it - given that Isaac can get info from the demons he commands, why not tell Dracula?
150	*** Because Isaac never asked it.
151	** Who says Dracula ever knew this Visitor? He was very hands-off with his conquest, and he was single-minded. If it wasn't about wiping out humanity, he didn't want to hear about it.
152	** Only humans are able to work resurrection magic, and there aren't very many humans willing to work with Dracula.
153	* It's honestly kinda of funny regardless but why is their ''house'' in Hell too?
154	** Perhaps it's like a symbol for the two. That was the last place Lisa was alive and the first thing Dracula saw when he returned from his trip. It would likely remind him forever how he failed to save his wife from the dogmatic church, which to him would be hell.
155	* What exactly were Sala and the monks going to do if some sizeable portion of Lindenfeld's population just decided not to be at home when it was time for them to be sacrificed? Heck, what if the townsfolk decided to aid in the storming of the monastery - wouldn't they have been completely screwed?
156	** Possibly. It's impossible to plan for everything your enemies can possibly do.
157	** For the former, what else would everyone be doing at dinner time, after dark, in a small town in the 1500's? And for the latter, yeah that probably would have screwed him over but he never intended for there to be a fight in the first place and the Judge tried to keep it a secret until the end.
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160	[[folder:Season 4]]
161	* Varney... just Varney [[spoiler: His walking war crime of second in command seems to buy that Dracula sent him to Targovishte, but how did that come about? Did Death just recite his coverstory at the disorganized and confused ranks of Dracula's surviving faithful in that self-important tone until they convinced themselves he was a bag of hot air who got ReassignedToAntarctica for being That Annoying??]]
162	** It is highly likely that Varney was an actual vampire and everything being said was true, but at one point was replaced by Death. Alternatively, Death could have been masquerading as Varney from the very beginning to overwatch Dracula’s progress.
163	** Considering what an expert at playing the long game this version of Death is, him being Varney from the beginning feels very likely. As for the being sent to Targoviste thing, he probably did so willingly, only pretending to resent it, so he could sow the seeds for his backup resurrection plan in case Dracula failed (and whaddya know, he did).
164	* Did Hector actually know something tangible about why Varney wasn't to be trusted? Or was it just that he was a sketchy jerk and Hector had been burned by trusting the wrong person in a very memorable and recent way?
165	** Three times Hector has made deals with vampires before Varney came into his life. Each one promised him what he seemed to want most. Each one of them lied, manipulated, and two made him a slave. So, he probably figured that if Varney is offering him what he wants now with no apparent strings attached, then there is some big price to pay later on. He is warning the other person about Varney because Hector knows he was blinded by his desires before.
166	** In addition to the above, the fact that Varney is a sketchy jerk gives Hector reason to distrust him. Varney is, by all accounts, a self-important little prick who nobody can stand, yet he's putting together a grand scheme to resurrect Dracula. Hector's already dealt with one vampire who's mannerisms are at odds with their intentions, he's got every reason to think Varney's not quite what he seems.
167	* So....about that ring. Lenore said it would allow them to control Hector and thus control the Night Creatures. And if he so much as thought about betraying them, he would be in agonizing pain. Yet, in Season 4 Hector can walk about the castle freely, read books on magic and even talk to other prisoners. In doing so, he was able to steals a magic mirror, research how to bring Dracula back, set up a network of contacts to set all the preparations in motion while also planting talismans around the castle. Now, either Lenore was exaggerating or that ring has some hilariously ''liberal'' definitions of disloyalty. Hector was even able to trap Lenore in a magic cage with spell and helped Isaac take the castle. How can he be allowed to do that? Why didn't Lenore just order him to let her out? What good was that ring at all if it can't actually inhibit Hector?
168	** Granted, the ring definitely should have been utilized more in Season 4, but it seemed as though each of the sisters had to individually activate it to "punish" Hector for disloyalty. Clearly, it didn't work by thought, or else Hector's reaction at the end of Season 3 would have been enough to activate it. Lenore also makes it clear that she's been protecting Hector the whole time, and she clearly didn't like using the ring to force him to do things with her. Also, by the time Hector placed her in the cage, it was far too late to use it; no matter how much pain he was in, Hector could simply ignore her orders. And again, it was clear that she and Hector cared about each other, as he refused to let Isaac kill her. So again, while the ring ''certainly'' should have been utilized at some point in the season, but the internal logic was still somewhat consistent.
169	** Even so, the ring is still almost useless in the grand scheme of it. The ONLY time it seems to do anything is when Hector creates a Night Creature, it appears to transfer control of it from Hector to Lenore and Carmella. Hector was still quite free to sabotage and plot against them, so the ring honestly does not hold that much sway. And the idea that Lenore did ''not'' want to use the ring on Hector just comes off as inconsistent. She clearly seemed happy when she made Hector her ''pet'' and mockingly shushed him when he was trying to ask something. It's not just the ring, the whole angle of Hector turning the tables feels really, really unearned based on everything we saw of him in the last two seasons.
170	** shrug Again...I don't think anyone disagrees that the ring ended up being rather pointless and that more should have been done to give the appearance that Hector was truly enslaved. But as I said, it is what it is, and Headscratchers aren't really for complaining about the fleshing out (or lack thereof) of plot threads.
171	** The ring's main focus is on preventing Hector from directly attacking any of the vampire sisters or removing the ring. Beyond that it doesn't do anything else. The vampires were arrogant enough to think that would control him - and arrogance is the most common FatalFlaw in the whole of the vampire race, as we see throughout the series. It's quite in-character for everyone outside of Lenore to view Hector as cowed livestock, and even Lenore (rightfully) believes Hector won't harm her. The ring did its job, it's just that the job was way too narrowly-defined when Lenore had it created.
172	** Lenore was definitely exaggerating on the whole "If he even thinks about it" thing. Obviously someone you've enslaved is going to think about bad things happening to you and he wouldn't be any use if he was constantly in terrible pain. As for all his magicking about the castle, the ring must have specific definitions on what qualifies as betrayal, and as a Forgemaster who knows a thing or two about magic, he's exploiting it. In his own words, he didn't make the barrier to harm any of the sisters, only to keep himself from being harmed, and when he trapped Lenore, it was to keep her safe. If one had to guess, the ring specifically keeps him from performing an actual physical act of betrayal, like stabbing Carmilla with a knife or ordering his night creatures to kill her and her sisters.
173	* [[spoiler:What exactly did Death have to gain from humanity's extinction?]]
174	** Life energy to eat. As for later, he didn't think that far ahead. He's a lot like Mr. Grimm in Twisted Metal 2.
175	*** Given he can hop between dimensions, it's entirely possible that the extinction of humanity in one isn't that big a deal to him.
176	* Why does [[spoiler:Death]] say he can't influence the world enough to start his own campaign of death & destruction when he spends pretty much all of his screentime doing exactly that? He can evidently assume the form and powers of other beings in the physical world - [[spoiler:when disguised as Varney he had the characteristic vampiric strength and ability to grow wings so he seems to have actually gained those abilities by transforming]] - therefore, what exactly is stopping him from assuming a physical form and killing en masse himself? Sure, having Dracula do it would probably make the process more efficient but it also took a lot of time and effort, and ultimately failed anyway, so why not just do it himself?
177	** He didn't just want to kill a village full of people, or even an entire country -- he wanted nothing less than worldwide genocide on a scale never seen before. And the only vampire with enough pull and power to put that in play was Dracula. Even if he tried to do it as Varney, we don't know how strong he actually is in that form, and everybody ''hates'' him, anyway. He could, presumably, try out new vampire identities until he found one that people were willing to trust/follow, but we see that he's kind of an egomanical brat even in his ''true'' identity, and even ''ignoring'' that, several people mention how much they hate Varney because of the way he smells. Presumably, he smells like rotting meat or even Death itself.
178	* Why was Varney/[[spoiler:Death]] in Tragoviste? Varney says he was sent there by Dracula to claim the city in his name, which was undoubtedly just an excuse by Dracula to get rid of Varney and that fits with his character [[spoiler: until you think about the whole being Death angle]]. But what does Tragoviste have to do with [[spoiler: resurrecting Dracula? What they needed was to get into the castle and have Saint Germain open the Infinity Corridor, and have the Rebis body made. This is all taken care of by Saint Germain and Dragan. The only thing in Tragoviste that Death needed was the mirror to teleport to Dracula's castle. But why not just....travel there? There was nothing actually in Tragoviste that was needed for the ritual to work aside from being a contrived way to bring Trevor and Sypha back to the castle to help Alucard.]]
179	** It's possible that there was more to his plan than we ended up seeing on screen. We know that they needed access to Dracula's castle to resurrect him, because that is where he died, but the plan also involved bringing back Lisa as well (in order to combine their souls in one body), and she died in Targoviste. Varney could use the same kind of magic that Saint Germain was using, as we saw when he made a hole in the barrier around the ritual, even if he wasn't capable of doing the whole thing himself. Assuming that they needed access to the location Lisa died to bring back her soul, then activating the mirror and opening a path between Targoviste and the place the ritual was being cast could have been close enough to count, with Varney handling that part, and jumping through and closing the door after the requirement had been met.
180	* What will happen to Targoviste? Trevor & Sypha left to join Alucard and are planning on settling down by the castle so it doesn't seem like they'll be going back there any time soon -- especially with Trevor heavily wounded and Sypha pregnant -- and Zamfir is dead, so who's going to oversee the city's revival now?
181	** Someone who's not insane, presumably. There are other Speakers in the region, too.
182	* So I may have missed something, but why did Trevor fight Death on his own? Like, Sypha and Alucard were right there, and sure, the castle was collapsing, but both of them can fly. What was stopping them from going to help?
183	** There was that massive storm raging around the tower, which likely would have stopped them from reaching him.
184	** As far as either of them knew, Death was unkillable. Alucard was even wondering how exactly Trevor pulled it off. As far as either of them would know, he was giving up his life to provide them a chance to get away from Death.
185	* Wouldn't Lisa, as a woman with such humanity she plead for the lives of her own killers, have some ''concise opinions'' on Dracula's omnicidal campaign? I know she was at least able to overlook Dracula's past history of bloodshed due to him becoming a better person while with her, but does she not have anything to say about him attempting to essentially kill the whole world, not only betraying her values but also her dying wish?
186	** That may have been a matter of discussion after she got over the whole '''”coming back to life after being in Hell”''' ordeal.
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189	[[folder:Crossover with Devil May Cry?]]
190	* So Adi Shankar reveals that he's going to make a ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'' animated series along with a 3rd season of Castlevania and not only that, both series are part of a SharedUniverse. How is that gonna work? First, Castlevania and Devil May Cry are owned by different game companies (Creator/{{Konami}} and Creator/{{Capcom}} respectively) and they don't take place on the same Earth (While Castlevania has the same RealLife history as our world albeit one where Vampires, magic and supernatural creatures exist, the world of Dmc has a different history where the world was almost invaded by demons, their version of the Church worships a demon who fought and defended humanity and Dmc 5 even takes place in an alternative version of London with a different name). Secondary, did Shankar even get permission from both Capcom and Konami to have a crossover with their franchises? Capcom and Konami have so far from I seen haven't said anything about this crossover since it's only Shankar himself who said its happening. Plus both companies might not like it if Shankar does something to anger them with their franchises like say make one character look better than the other. Furthermore, both series have different tones with Castlevania being a gothic horror adventure while Dmc is a cool, action game with a sense of humor with snarky heroes.
191	This sounds less like a official crossover and more like a fanfic.
192	** For the how, season 3 introduced the Infinite Corridor, a magic portal that can connect to any point in time and space. Sounds like a handy way to visit other worlds, or in this case other franchises. As for the legal issue, that relies entirely on whether or not Konami and Capcom are willing to play ball. So we're halfway there.
193	** Honestly, it sounds like a new rule must be made these days: All forms of media can and must have, in some form, a crossover with similar media.
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196	[[folder:Nocturne]]
197	* With Nocturne confirmed, who will be the main antagonist of the show? Season 4 concluded with Dracula and Lisa being resurrected after the destruction of the Rebis. Instead of revenge, both Dracula and Lisa live a normal life peacefully, while confused as to how they were revived. Additionally, they gave Alucard time to cope with the new living conditions as head of the castle. While Nocturne happens 300 years after Dracula's Curse, are they going to re-tell what happened between the times?
198	** The main antagonist role could be given to the dark priest '''Shaft''' (that one villain from ''Rondo of Blood'' and ''Symphony of the Night'').

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