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Who's your favorite Belmont in the Castlevania series?
- Thread starter SolVanderlyn
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poorlonelycomputer
Member
This guy right here
Auron_Kale
Member
Richter, because I loved his move set and weapon crashes.
Unlocking his mode in SotN was one of the best rewards ever.
Unlocking his mode in SotN was one of the best rewards ever.
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
Updated the OP to add Victor. I won't add Sonia or Jonathon, because this is strictly for canon, mainline members of the Belmont clan. And it won't stop people from choosing them, anyway.
That's a little unfair, given that you've already gone into two seperate canons.
kunonabi
Gold Member
Than why include the shitty LoS characters? If were going by IGA's canon than they aren't worth including either.
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
They're still canons, though. I'm not going by Iga's canon, but by franchise canon. Sonia was clearly retconned out of her existing canon and thus no longer exists in that universe. I guess I can add her under her own section, but she's a non-factor in the series' timelines, just like the Igaverse version of Victor.
Choppasmith
Member
Came in expecting Captain N Simon, leaving satisfied.
Came for this. Leaving satisfied.
MrCunningham
Member
Best Belmont is best.
Though really...
Richter Belmont and Simon Belmont (from the NES games)
Daytonabot
Banned
Richter has the distinct advantage of starring in the best game ever made, so I'll go with him.
Seven Force
Banned
Julius is by far my favorite (and my second favorite character in the series behind Alucard), with Richter and Trevor behind him.
I mean seriously. We're talking about the guy that not only beat Dracula for good, he kicked his ass so thoroughly, he reincarnated as a good guy.
I don't think the Belmont clan ever stopped existing, I imagine they just generally layed low since they weren't allowed to use the Vampire Killer 'til '99.
I mean seriously. We're talking about the guy that not only beat Dracula for good, he kicked his ass so thoroughly, he reincarnated as a good guy.
I don't think the Belmont clan ever stopped existing, I imagine they just generally layed low since they weren't allowed to use the Vampire Killer 'til '99.
chaobreaker
Member
Nathan Graves.
He has the heart of the cards on his side.
He has the heart of the cards on his side.
blankempathy
Member
Richter. Die Monster.
Oh yeah right, that's what it was. What was the reason for that again though?
Something happens with Richter.
Its speculated that because of being controlled Belmont's lost the right to use Vampire Killer but im not sure if it was ever confirmed in canon the exact reason.
MisterArrogant
Neo Member
I feel the love.
spyhunterzero
Member
Basically the Belmont clan became too susceptible to the dark side that they needed to be purified before being able to use the Vampire Killer again.
I think it was going to explained in the cancelled Dreamcast game that was going to have Sonia Belmont appear in it. Currently, it isn't actually explained in any of the Castlevania games.
Anyways, the canon of the Castlevania games is a complete mess, so I wouldn't put much stock in it. Iga's canon actually retconned which century the original Castlevania took place in, so it wasn't really built on a solid foundation. It also seems rather arbitrary (and potentially petty).
In any case, I am a fan of the original: Simon Belmont. To be honest, I have been somewhat soured on Richter thanks to how often he showed up in some of the more modern Castlevanias, such as the choice to have him be the biggest Belmont cameo in Portrait of Ruin.
Gabriel Belmont grew on me across Lords of Shadow, too. I haven't played LoS2 yet, though, so it is possible that the character could be ruined for me as well.
I am Christina Aguilera
Member
Castlevania IV was so much more fun imagining that I was running around as this guy
While it hasn't gone into too much detail in the games, the Belmonts had been forbidden to use the vampire killer till Dracula's natural 100 year rebirth cycle so till then it was passed on to other distantly related groups to handle any of Drac's early resurrections by his minions, the last of which was dealt with by Johnathan Morris in Portrait of Ruin before it was passed back to a young Julius Belmont to fight in the Demon Castle wars of 1999.
Its speculated that Julius might train an apprentice after Dawn of Sorrow in case
Its speculated that Julius might train an apprentice after Dawn of Sorrow in case
Soma might lose control or if another incarnation of Dracula appears, till then he would try to rebuild the Belmont clan and have a child to have the whip passed onto them one day.
this for me
zerokoolpsx
Member
You forgot Grant Danasty, Trevor's first ally.
My favorite is Trevor, followed by Richter.
Non-belmont is easily Alucard. Has so many appearances in the series.
My favorite is Trevor, followed by Richter.
Non-belmont is easily Alucard. Has so many appearances in the series.
sixteen-bit
Member
I like Simon's Chronicles redesign 'cause he cute
otherwise, my favorite is Medieval Ryu (Richter)
otherwise, my favorite is Medieval Ryu (Richter)