Doppelganger

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Lament of InnocenceCastlevania III: Dracula's CurseCastlevania ChroniclesCastlevania: Symphony of the NightCastlevania: Portrait of Ruin

TrevorGrantSyphaAlucard

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StellaLorettaJonathanCharlotte

Background

The Doppelganger is a recurring boss in the Castlevania series. This demon assumes the form of another being, often mimicking its victims. The concept of a doppelgänger originates from Egyptian mythology, where it is believed that encountering one's doppelgänger signifies the intent to kill the original and assume their role in life.

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Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse The Doppelganger first appears in Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse, encountered at the end of the villa stage. Initially, it appears in an amorphous, blob-like state before transforming into the character the player is controlling (Trevor, Sypha, Grant, or Alucard). During the battle, the Doppelganger relentlessly pursues the player, constantly attacking. If the player switches characters, the Doppelganger will also change to mimic the new character. This provides strategic opportunities, such as repositioning during its morphing animation or choosing a more manageable form to fight against. The Doppelganger mirrors the main weapon and level of the character it is imitating. It wields the Banshee Boomerang as Trevor, the Axe as Grant, and Flames as Sypha. To defeat the Doppelganger, bring Holy Water if playing as Trevor or use the Lightning Bolt spell if playing as Sypha. Upon its defeat, the Doppelganger loses control of its transforming ability, rapidly cycling through all its forms before being destroyed. Castlevania Chronicles The Doppelganger appears as Simon's reflection in a mirror, breaking free to attack. It relentlessly pursues the player, mirroring Simon's equipped whip (Mysterious Whip, Chain Whip, or Morning Star Whip) and sub-weapon (Dagger, Holy Water, Axe, or Boomerang, excluding the Pocket Watch and Herb). Notably, when the Doppelganger uses a sub-weapon, it depletes the player's heart supply by one. Upon defeat, it releases a barrage of mirror shards while struggling before being destroyed. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night In Symphony of the Night, the Doppelganger is misspelled as "Doppelganger," a mistake that persists in later versions of the game. The Doppelganger appears twice in the game, each time taking the form of Alucard. Doppelganger10 is encountered early on as the second boss (third if counting Dracula from the prologue). It uses a Short Sword (9 ATT, Cut) and the Dagger sub-weapon (6 ATT, Holy). It can transform into mist or bat forms (15 ATT, Hit) before Alucard gains access to these abilities. Despite its abilities, it is highly vulnerable to status effects such as Curse, which can render its sword attack unusable temporarily. A shield can block its Dagger sub-weapon. Doppelganger40 is a stronger version found in the Reverse Caverns as an optional boss. This variant retains all the abilities of Doppelganger10, including Wing Smash (55 ATT, Hit), and gains access to additional equipment like the Gravity Boots and Leap Stone. It also uses the Rebound Stone sub-weapon (12 ATT, Holy), Terminus Est (35 ATT, Cut + Poison), and Stone Sword (5 ATT, Stone), though the latter is infrequently used. The effects of its Poison and Stone attacks can be mitigated with items like the Topaz Circlet, Medusa Shield, or Mirror Cuirass. Doppelganger40 is also vulnerable to these statuses, allowing players to exploit this weakness using the same equipment or weapons. Castlevania: Lament of Innocence The Doppelganger appears as a mid-boss in Lament of Innocence and is referred to as "Leon Fake" in Joachim Mode and Pumpkin Mode. It is encountered twice during the game, each time with distinct abilities and tactics. The first encounter takes place in the Dark Palace of Waterfalls. Here, the Doppelganger mimics Leon Belmont's abilities, including a copy of the Whip of Alchemy. Its attacks include a quick step, a three-attack or seven-attack whip combo, a flaming leap charge, unholy water attacks aimed at Leon or its own feet, and a replica of Leon's Cross Blazer technique (Holy Water + Purple Orb), which creates a cross-shaped flame. In Normal Mode, it retreats into the sewers after being defeated. In Crazy Mode, Leon must face two Doppelgangers simultaneously, both using the same move set. The second encounter occurs in the Pagoda of the Misty Moon. The Doppelganger appears with a red palette swap and increased health. This version abandons the Whip of Alchemy in favor of flaming fist attacks. While it retains its quick-step ability, flaming leap charge, and unholy water-based attacks, it replaces its whip attacks with melee strikes, including a downward kick, a fast two-hit punch combo, a single punch, and a three-hit punch combo. Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin The Doppelganger appears as the final boss of the Nest of Evil in Portrait of Ruin. Its form is randomized, taking on the appearance of either Jonathan or Charlotte, regardless of which character the player is controlling. When playing in alternate modes, the Doppelganger mimics the protagonist specific to that mode. The Doppelganger mirrors the player’s equipment and abilities upon entering the battle, though it does not use mastered skills. In Sisters Mode, the Doppelganger takes the form of Stella and Loretta, mirroring their boss mechanics from the main game. In Old Axe Armor Mode, it mimics the player’s Old Axe Armor form rather than the standard enemy variant. Upon defeat, the Doppelganger drops a Magic Crystal, the only boss in the Nest of Evil to do so. Following its defeat in the Normal campaign, players can proceed to claim the Greatest Five Dual Crush, the game's most powerful Dual Crush.

General Information

Name: Doppelganger

Other Names: Doppelganger Lv. 10, Doppelganger Lv. 40, Trevor Doppelganger, Doppelganger II

Origin: Castlevania

First Appearance: Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse (Release Order first appearance), Castlevania: Lament of Innocence (Chronological First Appearance)

Company: Konami

Creator: Hitoshi Akamatsu, Koji Igarashi

Gender: Varies on the target it's mimicking

Sexuality: Varies on the target it's mimicking

Pronouns: Varies on the target it's mimicking

Age: Unknown

Time Period: Irrelevant (As Doppelganger is an immortal, it has been through every time period in the Castlevania franchise after the 1000s)

Timeline: Main Timeline

Homeworld: Earth

Residence: Dracula's Castle

Story Role: Enemy, Minor Antagonist, Recurring Boss

Legacy: Local Legacy (Known mainly through folklore and myths)

Influence: Unknown Influence

Language: Varies on the target it's mimicking

Classification: Doppelganger, Child of the Night

Species: Demon

State of Being: Regular

Physiology: Varies on the target it's mimicking

In-Universe Creator: Chaos

Occupation: None

Affiliations: Dracula, Dracula's Castle

Enemies: Belmont Clan (Including: Leon Belmont, Trevor Belmont & Simon Belmont), Morris Clan (Including: Jonathan Morris), Lecarde Clan (Including: Stella Lecarde & Loretta Lecarde), Belnades Clan (Including: Sypha Belnades & Charlotte Aulin), Grant Danasty, Alucard, Soma Cruz

Height: Varies on the target it's mimicking

Weight: Varies on the target it's mimicking

Status: Has been both Alive and Deceased (Doppelganger frequently is killed by one of the many protagonists of a Castlevania game though he will always return as a Creature of Chaos)

Dates of Death: 1049 (Castlevania: Lament of Innocence), 1476 (Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse), 1692 (Castlevania Chronicles), 1797 (Castlevania: Symphony of the Night), 1942 (Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin Sisters Mode), 1944 (Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin)

Alignment: Chaotic Evil (Serves as a demon who assumes the form of its intended victims before killing them)

Threat Level: Street Threat (Serves as a demon who assumes the form of its intended victims before killing them)

Codex Statistics

Grade: S

Tier: Varies-B on Mimicry

Cardinality: Varies

Power Source: Chaos (All monsters and creatures are Creatures of Chaos, where they are empowered by Chaos, always rebirthing from Chaos with each rebirth, the creatures takes a new form)

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Varies on Mimicry (The Doppelganger is a demon who assumes the form of its intended victims before killing them, where it has taken the form of: Leon Belmont, Trevor Belmont, Grant Danasty, Sypha Belnades, 1400s Alucard, Simon Belmont, 1700s Alucard, Stella Lecarde, Loretta Lecarde, Jonathan Morris, & Charlotte Aulin)

Durability: Varies: Grounded on Mimicry

Striking Strength: Varies: Grounded on Mimicry

Lifting Strength: Varies: Grounded on Mimicry

Travel Speed: Varies: Grounded on Mimicry

Attack Speed: Varies: Grounded on Mimicry

Reaction Speed: Varies: Grounded on Mimicry

Stamina: Varies on Mimicry

Range: Varies on Mimicry

Intelligence: Varies on Mimicry

Knowledge: Varies on Mimicry

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Powers and Techniques

Creature of the Night AbilitiesInnate AbilitiesMimicry Abilities

Is a Creature of the Night, which gives:

• Superhuman Physical Characteristics (Even the smallest creatures of the night can destroy a bridge, one of Dracula's bats easily destroyed a stone ground block)
  • Superhuman Strength
  • Superhuman Durability
  • Superhuman Speed
  • Superhuman Reaction
  • Superhuman Lifting
  • Superhuman Energy Efficiency
• Intimidation (Creatures of the nights appearances can cause one to have their body's cells cry out in terror)
• Immortality
  • Ageless: The biggest hindrance to humans when attempting to accomplish something is their limited lifespans, a limitation that cannot be overcome, however, dwellers of the darkness do not apply to the laws of the human world, ignoring such limitations.
  • Immortal Metaphysical Aspect: Creatures of the Night can continue to exist even as a spirit and use their spirit form to form bodies out of inanimate material around them.
• Acausality (Causality Immunity; All immortal beings disrupt the flow of time according to Aeon, along with ignoring the very passage of time. With their souls being completely free from time. The biggest hindrance to humans when attempting to accomplish something is their limited lifespans, a limitation that cannot be overcome, however, dwellers of the darkness do not apply to the laws of the human world, ignoring such limitations)
• Free Will (Creatures of the Night do not follow the hand of God and instead choose of their own free will)
• Empowerment (Creatures of the night are empowered by the night, becoming stronger when it's night time)
• Evolution (Creatures of chaos can inherit evil natures awakening into stronger enemies with new abilities and less weaknesses)
• Resurrection (Self-Resurrection; Creatures of chaos can be brought back to life from the power of hate. This has also been shown with slain heads reviving as an angry wraith)
• Regeneration
  • Type: Cyclical (Creatures of chaos are in a state of a "regeneration cycle").
  • Source: Unholy Regeneration
  • Capabilities: Even the castle from Castlevania is a Creature of Chaos, where they are always rebirth from Chaos with each rebirth, the creatures takes a new form. Rebirth for creatures seem to their aspects, as the castle itself in every game essentially crumbles or fades away yet comes back in a new form.
• Invisibility (Creatures of Chaos possess a natural aura of darkness, which makes one unable to see those with an aura of darkness by the naked eye)
• Time Manipulation (1-T, Passive; All immortal beings disrupt the flow of time according to Aeon)
• Darkness Manipulation & Subjective Reality (Creatures of chaos very existence causes dark powers to flow beyond the control of the Elgos' grimoires, due to them collecting documented information on Dracula and his castle. Causing their power to materialize in the real world in the form of monsters. With the real world and world of grimoires being considered the same or "equal", compared to the like of Brauner's painting worlds that are quantum multi-layered spaces requiring understandings of theories such as "Curse Amplification")
• Text Manipulation & Plot Manipulation (Passive; Creatures of the night's dark powers allowed them to rewrite the Grimoires to strengthen their dark powers greatly. It is noted by Lucy that the "vital soul" of a monster is the cause of the grimoire chaos. Their vital souls are causing the grimoires contents to be overwritten changing history to things such as Jonathan Morris is now at a disadvantage in battle, or Charlotte fading from existence due to them messing with the history of the Grimoires, Maria starting to fade because Richter's history is being rewritten, where if the contents of the book change the creatures magic will keep growing and eventually overflow into reality, causing the grimoire to fall into chaos and even more monsters materializing into the real world. The text alterations also make the monsters stronger. With the real world and world of grimoires being considered the same or "equal", compared to the like of Brauner's painting worlds that are quantum multi-layered spaces requiring understandings of theories such as "Curse Amplification")
• Law Manipulation (Creatures of Chaos can alter grimoires, which do not adhere to the laws of reality)
• Power Modification (Creatures of the night alterations of the Grimoire can greatly limit the powers of those far stronger than them, such as Jonathan Morris' power being limited due to the alterations. The Chaos of the Grimoire destabilized the magic of the others).

• Resistance to
  • Ice Manipulation & Absolute Zero (All enemies in Castlevania III: Dracula's curse can eventually break out of being frozen from Sypha's ice magic. Along with this to protect against ice attacks in series, one normally wears rings that help them resist against absolute zero)
  • Time Manipulation (1-T; All immortal beings disrupt the flow of time according to Aeon, with their souls being completely free from time. With time in Castlevania being so potent that not even eternity can withstand time, along with even artificial life being subject to the laws of time. Some creatures of chaos are immune to time stop, normally being boss-level creatures)
  • Fate Manipulation (Temporal Fate; All immortal beings disrupt the flow of time according to Aeon, with their souls being completely free from time, with fate being a truth wound by time)

Standard Abilities Granted From MagicUnique Abilities

• Magic (Through utilizing magic, one has to have a deep understanding of Quantum Physics to utilize it to its fullest, requiring understandings of theories such as "Curse Amplification")
  • Alchemy & Principle Manipulation (Magic comes from alchemy, a field that experiments with the principles of God's creation of the world, along with being said to be as great a task as recreating God's creation of the Earth)
• Non-Standard Interaction (Extra-Planar Interaction; Magic is able to interact with beings such as Camilla Fernandez, Physical attacks are difficult to land as Camilla lives in the Astral plane, and her earthly body is completely ethereal)
• Limited Immersion & Dimensional Travel (3+1-D; Magic users can align their magic with the magic of another to enter into painting worlds)
• Summoning (Magic can be used in order to summon weapons and items inscribed in grimoires)
• Soul Manipulation (Yoko through the use of magic discovered a new ability to draw the monster souls out and use them)

Mimicry (Physiology Mimicry & Power Mimicry; The Doppelganger is a demon who assumes the form of its intended victims before killing them, where it has taken the form of: Leon Belmont, Trevor Belmont, Grant Danasty, Sypha Belnades, 1400s Alucard, Simon Belmont, 1700s Alucard, Stella Lecarde, Loretta Lecarde, Jonathan Morris, & Charlotte Aulin)

The Doppelganger is a demon who assumes the form of its intended victims before killing them, where it has taken the form of: Leon Belmont, Trevor Belmont, Grant Danasty, Sypha Belnades, 1400s Alucard, Simon Belmont, 1700s Alucard, Stella Lecarde, Loretta Lecarde, Jonathan Morris, & Charlotte Aulin, giving it:

Standard AbilitiesUnique Abilities of the targets it copies

Vampire AbilitiesDracula's MagicBelmont Bloodline

Can take the form of Vampires, like Alucard which gives: Superhuman Physical Characteristics (Vampires are considered far larger threats than the standard creature of the night monsters), Stealth Mastery (Vampires are able to attack stealthily in search of human blood), Disguise Mastery (Vampires will sometimes disguise themselves as villages in order to get near one), Immortality (Ageless; Vampires defy God's decree that life should be limited, and exist for eternity, with Mathias noting he has eternal life. Aeon notes that vampires exist for eternity. Walter is noted to be a vampire that has eternal life. The biggest hindrance to humans when attempting to accomplish something is their limited lifespans, a limitation that cannot be overcome, however, dwellers of the darkness do not apply to the laws of the human world, ignoring such limitations. Immortal Metaphysical Aspect; Vampires will someday come back to life despite them being killed due to being immortal), Acausality (Causality Immunity; All immortal beings disrupt the flow of time according to Aeon, along with ignoring the very passage of time. With their souls being completely free from time. The biggest hindrance to humans when attempting to accomplish something is their limited lifespans, a limitation that cannot be overcome, however, dwellers of the darkness do not apply to the laws of the human world, ignoring such limitations), Free Will (Vampires do not follow the hand of God and instead choose of their own free will, defying God's decree), Enhanced Senses (Vampires can smell that Reinhardt Schneider and Carrie Fernandez smell different from the usual adventurer), Surface Scaling (Vampires can stand on ceilings), Flight (Vampires can either naturally levitate grow wings to fly, turn into a bat, or into mist), Immersion (Vampires can infuse magic into paintings to increase their power), Empowerment (Vampires are loved by the night, making them so powerful that vampires like Walter Bernhard never been defeated before Leon Belmont gained the vampire killer. Noted by Leon that the night should help Joachim Armster as well due to him being a vampire, with the only reason it doesn't is due to Walter holding the ebony stone), Resurrection (Even if one somehow manages to kill a vampire, they will someday come back to life despite them being killed due to being immortal), Transformation (Shapeshifting; Vampires can assume the shape of a wolf, a bat or fog. Vampires can disguise themselves as huamns), Teleportation (Vampires possess the ability to teleport freely. Even non-threatening vampires such as Rosa, fade out from view), Power Suppression (Vampires can submerge their own vampiric powers if needed), Life-Force Absorption (Vampires can consume one's lifeforce, allowing them to heal themselves through biting into a victim), Vampirification (Vampires can turn others into vampires, Walter turned Rinaldo's daughter into a vampire), Invisibility (Vampires possess natural aura of darkness, which makes one unable to see those with an aura of darkness by the naked eye), Time Manipulation (1-T, Passive; All immortal beings disrupt the flow of time according to Aeon), Animal Manipulation (Bats serve under the control of vampires, being freely spawnned by any vampire), Cloth Manipulation (A vampire's blood can transform clothes, such as Hector combining a vampire's blood with a prince's clothes to get Dracula's clothes), Electricity Manipulation (Vampires can sometimes have electricity form around them as they transform), Soul Manipulation (The candles in Castlevania are people's souls that were taken by Death or by vampires), Text Manipulation & Plot Manipulation (Passive; Vampire's dark powers allowed them to rewrite the Grimoires to strengthen their dark powers greatly. It is noted by Lucy that the "vital soul" of a monster is the cause of the grimoire chaos. Their vital souls are causing the grimoires contents to be overwritten changing history to things such as Jonathan Morris is now at a disadvantage in battle, or Charlotte fading from existence due to them messing with the history of the Grimoires, Maria starting to fade because Richter's history is being rewritten, where if the contents of the book change the creatures magic will keep growing and eventually overflow into reality, causing the grimoire to fall into chaos and even more monsters materializing into the real world. The text alterations also make the monsters stronger. With the real world and world of grimoires being considered the same or "equal", compared to the like of Brauner's painting worlds that are quantum multi-layered spaces requiring understandings of theories such as "Curse Amplification"), Law Manipulation (Vampires can alter grimoires, which do not adhere to the laws of reality), Power Modification (Vampire's alterations of the Grimoire can greatly limit the powers of those far stronger than them, such as Jonathan Morris' power being limited due to the alterations. The Chaos of the Grimoire destabilized the magic of the others).

Resistance to Temperatures (Vampires bodies turn cold, with them feeling no heat), Biological Manipulation (Vampires biological functions are no longer required for them), Time Manipulation (1-T; All immortal beings disrupt the flow of time according to Aeon, with their souls being completely free from time. With time in Castlevania being so potent that not even eternity can withstand time, along with even artificial life being subject to the laws of time), Death Manipulation ("Death" loses all meaning for Vampires, as they defy God's decree that life should be limited, and exist for eternity. Where even if one "kills" a vampire they will simply just come back as they are not bound to death), Fate Manipulation (Temporal Fate; All immortal beings disrupt the flow of time according to Aeon, with their souls being completely free from time, with fate being a truth wound by time), Law Manipulation (Vampires defy God's decree that life should be limited, and exist for eternity)

Can take the form of Alucard, where Alucard's magic affects and can control the entirety of Dracula's Castle, along with this, Magnus noted that Alucard's magic is the same power as Lord Dracula's, which would give him the abilities of Dracula's magic and that of the Castle, as the castle is directly steered by Dracula's power, this gives him:

Walter's AbilitiesAs DraculaThrough his Castle

As Mathias absorbed Walter's soul to become Dracula, he has: Escape Prevention (Upon entering the forest Leon, Rinaldo noted that Walter made it so Leon could not leave), Darkness Manipulation (Due to the Ebony Stone, his demonic power allows him to make it eternally night in the forest under his control), Energy Absorption (Walter can get hearts out of objects and enemies, where hearts are a measure of one's stored energy, thus one is absorbing energy when gaining hearts), Domination (Walter has demons under his control), Sealing (Walter sealed away the Forgotten One due to an enormous uncontrollable power it had), Blessed (Noted that Walter is beloved by the eternal night), Teleportation (Teleported Sara to his side), Electricity Manipulation (Walter uses electricity to appear before Leon), Telekinesis (Telekinetically returned Sara to Leon), Sleep Manipulation (Walter can put one to sleep), Invulnerability (Metaphysical Invulnerability) & Forcefield Manipulation (Passive; Walter is completely immune to attacks from Leon), Light Manipulation & Teleportation (Can create pillars of light that he teleports around), Energy Projection (Can shoot out energy projectiles), Homing Attack (Walter can shoot out energy projectiles that home in on the target), Explosion Manipulation (Can shoot out orbs that explode on impact. With Demonic Megiddo, can release a massive blast of energy that explodes outwards), Transformation (Transformative Arsenal; When using Demonic Megiddo, Water transforms into his stronger demon form), Fire Manipulation (Conjures multiple pillars of fire underneath the target)

Superhuman Physical Characteristics (Noted that Dracula's strength exceeds even that of a werewolf), Human Achievements (When disguising himself as Malus, he could masterfully play the violin), Weapon Mastery (Bow & Arrow Mastery; Dracula in his Malus form wields a bow and arrow that he can shoot deftly), Animal Taming (Dracula can tame bicorns), Intimidation (Put fear into Isaac who felt he spoke out of line from just a glance. Dracula is noted to be the most terrifying creature in existence), Large Size in some of his true forms (Supersized; Appeared this large when unleashing his true form against Reinhardt Schneider/Carrie Fernandez), Aura (Dracula merely pushing out his aura was enough to make Richter and Maria flinch. Dracula's evil aura is far greater then the fake Dracula he sent to fight Reinhardt and Carrie. Dark Lord Soma has a thick darkness and suffocating evil due to having Dracula's aura. Dracula has a natural aura of Darkness around him), Immortality (Ageless; Mathias through absorbing Walter's soul denied God's decree of limited life and lives for eternity. Life and Death Immunity; Death serves Dracula with unfailing loyalty, where Death is noted to govern the fate of death, being noted to have the power to govern the end of all living things, and can use his scythes to kill abstractions such as distance and sound. Death decides who lives and who dies), Reincarnation (Non-Cycle, Memory Remembrance; Despite being killed for good by Julius Belmont, Dracula's soul reincarnated into Soma Cruz), Regeneration (At least Low-Godly normally; Freely burned away his body to fly out with his soul to create a new form. Can regenerate from just his blood. Regenerated back a new body from just his head. His Wraith Spawn while heavily weakened regenerated from his entire body being destroyed. Mid-Godly with Regeneration Cycle; Dracula has a regeneration cycle that allows him to come back as long as chaos exist within humans, only being ended by sealing his castle within a solar eclipse), Reliance (On Humanity's Evil; Dracula will keep coming back to life due to the evil minds of human beings. It is noted that Dracula's resurrection is not fueled by his own magic but through the lust for power, jealousy of others, belief in evil, the human emotions that fuel his resurrection), Supernatural Resilience (Can live as just a head, using his head to form an amalgamation of five demonic faces with an exposed brain), Supernatural Luck (Dracula's mere eye grants one a boost of luck), Extrasensory Perception (Dracula's eyeball can see invisible objects. Dracula's eyeball can see something that has been cursed away from sight. Dracula could sense the connection between Annette and the Belmont family. Can see the Bitterfly, a mutated insect, visible only to magicians. Soma Cruz upon awakening to becoming Dracula could sense where Alucard was), Transformation (Shapeshifting; Dracula can transform into different manners of beast and alike, during his fight with Simon Belmont he turned into a large white creature. Appeared before Simon Belmont as a flock of bats. Mathias can transform into a bat. Can transform into a werewolf. RemovalfcmY6_uRlgsGzXGnJ2/view?usp=sharing Dracula used what remained of his magical powers to transform his body into mist after Christopher defeated him. Can turn into a beast that moves so fast it catches on fire. Body Morphing; Can morph his body to sprouted wings, allowing him to fly with that, asides from his occassional levitation. Has done this against Richter/Maria to unleash his full power), Flight (Dracula can fly in a manner of different ways he can either call upon the Power of Darkness, giving him a form with massive wings, transform into a bat, naturally levitate), Afterimage Creation (Moves so fast he leaves afterimages behind), Intangibility (Phasing; Upon appearing in his fight against Simon Belmont, his head phased through the floor and then the rest of his body appeared), Empowerment (Made a pact with an Evil God, allowing him to call upon its power to help him), Resurrection (Self-Resurrection; It is noted by the Elgos, a group that fully documents all of history within the Grimoires, that Dracula normally can only be resurrected once every 100 years without the influence of human emotions causing irregularities. Through this end he can gather the magic needed to revive through negative human emotions. Repeated Resurrection, Resurrection of the Deceased; Through absorbing human blood, even on his corpse, he can come back to life. The battle between Desmond Belmont and Rohan Krause was enough to revive Dracula. Dracula has also shown to be able to resurrect from merely a single drop of blood hitting his body. Resurrection of Multiple Targets, Resurrection of the Deceased; Dracula revived dark gods with his powers), Reality Warping (Passive; Merely through transforming Dracula warped the very background of his castle. Caused the entire background to become warped ad distorted. Against John Morris/Eric Lecarde, completely warped the background once entering his true form), Teleportation & Light Manipulation (In his fight against Simon Belmont, he freely teleported around in his first form. Brings down pillars of light that he uses to teleport around. Causes a beam of light to appear that he can teleport around with. Dracula's death causes the light beam to come across the entire castle and teleport it away. He can use his light pillar teleportation technique as a means to trick his opponent by creating several, with him only appearing out of one. Teleported to Shaft after sensing a connection Anette had with the Belmont family), Duplication (Can create four giant heads of his to attack with. Dracula can make a figment of his magic that is a re-enactment of memories stored within his powers), Empowerment (Dracula can call upon the Power of Darkness to gain a new form that greatly upgrades all of his statistics), Weapon Creation & Weapon Control (Dracula can create knives that he can freely control to throw at Simon), Non-Standard Interaction (Dark Matter Interaction; Dracula has objects such as dark matter in his castle meaning he can interact with them, which barely interacts with ordinary matter), Possession (Can put his soul within a painting and bring it to life to use as an attack. Dracula can possess Devil Forgemasters to bring himself back to life, such as when he possessed Isaac to resurrect himself. Dracula's remains created a second spirit within Maxim that possessed him leaving Maxim's body and possessing Dracula's remains spawning way to Dracula's Wraith. Merely absorbing Dracula's magic corrupts one and turns them into another Dracula), Statistics Amplification (Dracula's strength increases each time he revives. Every 100 years Dracula gets stronger and stronger. Noted by Richter to get stronger every reincarnation), Statistics Boost (The more Dracula's hatred increases, the more the power of Chaos empowers him), Statistics Reduction (It's noted that every 100 years the forces of Good mysteriously become weak and the forces of Evil gain a foothold into the world. One that wears Dracula's clothes will have their luck reduced, however it is noted by Simon that Dracula grows stronger ecah time he revives), Telekinesis (Was telekinetically lifting Simon's wife into the air with the affect breaking once he died. Could telekinetically lift the blocks around in his boss fight), Contract Bestowal (Dracula can convince one into making a binding vow with him without their awareness), Battlefield Removal (Forced Teleportation; Can teleport other targets, such as teleporting Simon's wife to his arms. Forcibly teleported him and Reinhardt Schneider/Carrie Fernandez to a different realm when unleashing his true form. Forcibly teleported him and Cornell upon transforming into his true form. Application Based; Upon transforming he caused him and Richter/Maria to be put into a new realm), Breath Attack (Can shoot out attacks and projectiles from his mouth. Can shoot fireballs out of his breath. Can shoot fire out of his mouth. Shoots out glyphs from his mouth. Shot a giant energy ball from his mouth in his true form), Energy Projection (Can shoot out eye lasers. Can shoot energy beams out of his eyes and hands. Can shoot energy projectiles out into 4 directions diagonally. Created energy orbs around him that he can shoot outwards to attack. Can shoot energy projectiles from the sky that split and attack anything on the ground. Can shoot out energy projectiles that split into 3 projectiles that attack in the air. Can shoot out three energy projectiles that expand. Can shoot out a laser attack that travels across the ground and expand outwards), Curtain Fire (Directional; Creates an energy ball that fires multiple small energy bullets in a 360 degree area. Multi-Directional; Causes an entire blood rain to fall, with over hundreds of droplets, where if even one hits, it will deal damage), Homing Attack (Can shoot out several energy projectiles that home in on the target), Shockwave Generation (Upon resurrecting, unleashed a massive shockwave that pushed all of the cult members back. Unleashed a massive shockwave in his true form), Power Bestowal (Dracula’s Nail grants the ability to break things one otherwise couldn’t, along with increase one's strength. Dracula's mere fang can increase one's defenses. Dracula's presence greatly powers the creatures of the night, making them stronger as time goes on. Noted that Dracula can grant humans immortality, with The Order attempting to resurrect Dracula in order to receive greater power and eternal life. Even while sealed and deceased, Dracula's darkness alone covered Barlowe, having his strength return to him and giving him the power to destroy his seal), Fusionism (Dracula was able to fuse the abilities of a bat with those a human, in an alternate timeline), Creation (Dracula's evil and magic is the reason why devil forging exists, which has one create a devil. Through merely the use of his remains and using Maxim's will a castle similar to Castlevania was created), Corruption (RemovalfcmY6_uRlgsGzXGnJ2/view?usp=sharing Dracula used his last bit of magic to turn Soleil Belmont RemovalfcmY6_uRlgsGzXGnJ2/view?usp=sharing into a terrible demon), Attack Reflection (Passive; Dracula's mere rib bone reflects all projectiles back), Nullification (Passive {For all of them}, Curse Nullification; Dracula's mere eye has the power to negate curses. Petrification Nullification; His mere heart has the power to negate petrification. Poison Negation; His mere rib has the power to negate poison. Sealing Nullification; The power of Dominus can completely rid seals. Easily broke a seal placed by the man-beast on a creature), Transmutation (Noted by Dracula that if Hector has betrayed him he would use his magic to transform him into an especially hideous demon where he shall crawl on the ground and drink sewage as a hideous monster), Summoning (Dracula can summon enemies to fight for him. Maxim corrupted by the spirit of Dracula's remains was able to summon a boss to fight Juste), Invisibility (Dracula possesses a natural aura of darkness, which makes one unable to see those with an aura of darkness by the naked eye), Immersion (It is either through Death's help or Dracula's magic that Soma is able to enter the grimoires, , which Lucy notes to be impossible with her being the only one able to send people into grimoires), Absorption (Dracula can absorb any darkness based attack), Lifeforce Absorption (Dracula can bite his enemies and drain their lifeforce to heal himself), Soul Absorption (Dracula is able to absorb Death's soul, and by proxy the soul of others), Power Mimicry (One of the Dark Lord candidates that inherit his dark powers, Dmitri Blinov, can perfectly copy techniques after just being hit by them, copied the Power of Dominance from Soma Cruz through touching his soul and copying his ability), Information Analysis (One of the Dark Lord candidates that inherit his dark powers, Dmitri Blinov, who scanned the the memories of Soma's past lives), Subjective Reality (Noted by Maxim that the Castle was forged from the fabric of his mind, bringing what was in Maxim's mind into reality), Erasure (Metaphysical Erasure; Dracula's magic can overpower and erase one's will and spirit, with Albus only surviving due to gaining the blood of the Belmont clan), Regeneration Negation (Atemporal), Immortality Negation (Life and Death Immunity), & Irreversible Damage (Through Dracula absorbing Death's soul Death was also destroyed along with Dracula, even though Death appearing in the books is through nothing more than him possessing his image written in the text, where he can reform himself endlessly and no damage actually mattered to him), Hellfire Manipulation (Dracula's fire attacks are all hellfire, as even Desmond using fire attacks channeled from him are describe as such. Can shoot out 3 fire projectiles at once from his cape. Can shoot out green fireballs everytime he jumps. Can create two pillars of fire to trap a target and then hit them with a pillar of fire in the middle, sometimes being impossible to dodge depending on the position the person in. Can shoot out large fireballs from his cape. Causes pillars of pinkish fire to rise up. Can create an entire tornado of hellfire. Can burn his body to the point of nothing remaining but his soul. Caused all of the candles in the background to light up and blind the entire room before he appeared. Can set fire enemies that track onto a target. Can conjure fire from glyphs that drop down and spread outwards. One of the Dark Lord candidates that inherit his dark powers, Dario Bossi, has the ability to create fires, being implicated in countless inexplicable fires, and burned an entire room. Along with this Dario can use fire to teleport), Holy Manipulation (Can use Demonic Megiddo, which contains holy power), Crystal Manipulation (Can cause various crystals to come out of the ground to attack his foes), Vacuum Manipulation (Can create a strong vacuum to pull one in so he can bite them), Familiar Summoning, Matter Manipulation (3-D) & Metaphysics Manipulation (Dracula's evil and magic is the reason why devil forging exists, with the mere remnants of his magic being so strong Hector can use them to create an Innocent Devil. Devil Forging has one to giving it a shape and soul, giving it a shell and applying stable power to the shell so the mass of energy without conscious can be transformed into a living devil), Blood Manipulation (Can spit out blood as an attack. Can create spheres of blood from his attacks. Causes an entire blood rain to fall, with over hundreds of droplets, where if even one hits, it will deal damage), Soul Manipulation (Dracula can use soul steal, to steal one's soul, absorbing their entire existence within him. Can disconnect his soul from his body. God is unable to help the souls of those terminated by Dracula's hand), Animal Manipulation (Can shoot bats out of his mouth. Can shoot out three bats to attack. Sends out bats to attack for him), Mind Manipulation (Dracula put Soleil Belmont under his vampire spell. The suppressed desires of Maxim Kischine caused another spirit to be created due to him holding the remains of Dracula. Dracula's remains alone are enough to consume their mind, even being noted by Barlowe that dominus devours the mind. Not even the sacred blood of the Belmont Clan was enough to keep Albus from subcumming to the effects of the Dominus), Memory Manipulation (Accepting the Dominus interferes with one's memories and emotions. Dominus was the source that took Shanoa's memories. Dracula's magic showed Hector visions of his past with a form of his child self trying to convince him to become a devil and promising to be friends if he does so), Empathic Manipulation (Accepting the Dominus interferes with one's memories and emotions, stripping Shanoa of all of her emotions to the point that she could not shed a tear for Albus despite everything he did for her), Fear Manipulation (Dracula's mere rib bone is enough to make an ordinary hero feel like a spineless coward), Death Manipulation (Metaphysical; One attempting to use the Dominus will cost them their life, Shanoa using it nearly killed her only being saved by Albus taking her place and having his soul fade away), Weather Manipulation & Electricity Manipulation (Caused dark clouds to appear and came from a bolt of lightning. Cause massive electricity around the area before appearing. Causes multiple lightning bolts to rain down as he appears. Sent down electricity attacks against Desmond. Sent out a massive electricity wave. Creates massive electricity orbs from his glyphs. Summoned electricity from his hand that went across a small area. Electricity formed around him while he transformed into his adult state. Easily pushed Cornell back with the electricity field around him), Curse Manipulation (Dracula placed a curse on Simon after Simon defeated him, one that could only be undone by finding the five body parts of Dracula, resurrecting him and then defeating him, though if Simon takes too long he will die from the curse regardless of killing Dracula. The Curse also weakened Simon to where he was starting off with a leather whip, which is a weaker form the whip takes for inexperienced users. After being defeated by Trevor and his friends, Dracula left a demonic curse that enshrouded all of Europe in misery and torment, this curse keeps festering even if Dracula dies, where Hector needed to put all of his life-force and energy into dispelling the curse, greatly tiring him to the point that he was ready to die in the collapse of the Castle if Julia did not come rescue him. Along with this, even with the curse being removed, the curse was far too deep within people, making its mark hard to leave them, with some characters having it where only death could erase the curse), Disease Manipulation (The demonic curse caused a hideous plague and dire famine), Morality Manipulation (The demonic curse had people's hearts turn black and murderous, where the weak were slain without pity. The curse gave Hector an immense thirst for vegeance, attempting to make him kill Isaac so that he could possess his body. Dracula can cloud one's senses in darkness, having the evil eat away at their souls), Madness Manipulation (Barlowe was driven made by the power of Dominus, making him willing to give his life to resurrect Dracula. Those that had evil eat away at their souls were driven to madness, having them make a pact with the devil. Brauner using Dracula's power was noted by Charlotte that just the sight of him could drive an ordinary person mad), Glyph Manipulation (Conjures glyphs across the ground that create explosions. The glyphs also summon enemies to attack), Explosion Manipulation (Creates massive explosions from his glyphs. Can shoot out explosive projectiles from his lower mouth), Bone Manipulation (Throws out bones to attack with in his true form during his fight against John Morris/Eric Lecarde), Water Manipulation (Creates giant water bubbles that attack the target), Hell Manipulation (Passive; Dracula's existence is the reason why evil around the land is called, with him being defeated, the evil vanishes), Time Manipulation (Passive; Dracula's existence and magic was destabilizing the flow of time. Shanoa with the dominus is using a power of Dracula's, where Aeon notes that power is governed by time. With time in Castlevania being so potent that not even eternity can withstand time, along with even artificial life being subject to the laws of time), Text Manipulation & Plot Manipulation (Passive; Vital Souls are all just a part of Dracula's powers, where is noted by Lucy that the "vital soul" of a monster is the cause of the grimoire chaos where creatures of the night's dark powers allowed them to rewrite the Grimoires to strengthen their dark powers greatly, along with their vital souls causing the grimoires contents to be overwritten changing history to things such as Jonathan Morris is now at a disadvantage in battle, or Charlotte fading from existence due to them messing with the history of the Grimoires, Maria starting to fade because Richter's history is being rewritten, where if the contents of the book change the creatures magic will keep growing and eventually overflow into reality, causing the grimoire to fall into chaos and even more monsters materializing into the real world. The text alterations also make the monsters stronger. With the real world and world of grimoires being considered the same or "equal", compared to the like of Brauner's painting worlds that are quantum multi-layered spaces requiring understandings of theories such as "Curse Amplification". Death was going to use Dracula's magic to rewrite Dracula's defeat to Trevor making it where Dracula defeats Trevor Belmont instead where Dracula would go on living in the rewritten grimoire with each grimoire being its own world and the grimoires influence extends into reality), Law Manipulation (Vital Souls are all just a part of Dracula's powers, which alter grimoires, which do not adhere to the laws of reality), Power Modification (Vital Souls are all just a part of Dracula's powers, which the vital souls cause alterations of the Grimoire that can greatly limit the powers of those far stronger than them, such as Jonathan Morris' power being limited due to the alterations. The Chaos of the Grimoire destabilized the magic of the others).

Resistance to Extreme Heats (Unaffected by moving so fast he catches on fire), Extrasensory Perception (Dark Lords are incapable of being sensed by the likes of Death), Attack Reflection (His reincarnation can attack and harm Graham Jones, where he's absorbed the power of the castle, and inherited Dracula's powers, where Dracula's mere rib bone reflects all projectiles back), Darkness Manipulation & Hell Manipulation (Dracula has a natural resistance to the darkness element. Dracula's mere ribs protects from the powers of wickedness), Holy Fire Manipulation (Can take holy water hitting him, with it only momentarily having him cry out in pain, before emerging just fine), Curse Manipulation (Dracula's mere heart clears curses), Time Manipulation (1-T; Noted that the stop watch has no effect on moving platforms in the castle and most bosses. With time in Castlevania being so potent that not even eternity can withstand time, along with even artificial life being subject to the laws of time), Sealing (Dracula's power allowed Soma to easily repel away a multi-layered seal called aurora a multilayered rectangular barrier ritual that was supposed to isolate Soma and then remove Dracula's powers from him. Even while greatly weakened, when the Aurora was used on Dracula, he greatly resisted it, requiring two master magicians to affect him. Dracula's power is so great that very few magical items can truly hold his magic within a seal, requiring the usage of an entire library worth of grimoires in order to truly seal away just his magic alone. The only reason Brauner was able to seal away Dracula was due to him not reviving completely otherwise his seals would be easily broken by Dracula's power), Fire Manipulation (Dracula is naturally strongly resistant to fire-based attacks), Electricity Manipulation (Dracula is naturally strongly resistant to thunder based attacks), Poison Manipulation (Dracula is naturally immune to poison based attacks), Spatial Manipulation (Brauner using Dracula's power spatially segregated Dracula from the castle), Soul Manipulation (Dracula's soul was put in a vessel, yet despite many organizations efforts, their glyphs couldn't even scratch him), Power Modification, Information Manipulation, Text Manipulation & Plot Manipulation (Dracula's magic and powers have no limits posed on it from the grimoires where heroes summoned from the catalogue are unable to stray too far from its contents and have limited actions they can do having summoned heroes have their powers greatly limited from their true strength), Fate Manipulation & Death Manipulation (Death serves Dracula with unfailing loyalty, where Death is noted to govern the fate of death, being noted to have the power to govern the end of all living things, and can use his scythes to kill abstractions such as distance and sound. Death decides who lives and who dies), Immortality Negation (The Vampire Killer is unable to strip Dracula of his immortality whereas the Vampire Killer can render immortal skeleton death gods like Death, mortal, having him bleed from attacks, giving him mortality as shown when Death dies to his own scythe cutting off his head and having blood spurt out, something not possible as a skeleton, and can kill Death to the point that he requires Mathias to survive in order for him to rise from the dead)

• Magic (The castle pulses with dark magical power. The castle uses magic to do things like re-animate corpses, along with skeletons)
• Reality Warping (The Castle does not work on standard logic, where changing rooms can have one view a completely different background, such as room with a blue sky that is reflecting up and downwards and having the clouds rotate at a fast speed)
• Transmutation (Beings that come near are subject to the castle's influence, such as a local barnyard owl which was mutated just from flying near it)
• Save and Load (The castles magic has rooms where one can sit on a chair and is enveloped in the angelic wings of light, allowing them to save their progress, with these chairs being acknowledged in rooms in the castle with a description)
• Possession (The castle possesses objects with its magic, such as a ouija table)
• Bestowal (The castle enables one to keep their mind after dying, becoming a ghost)
  • Mind Bestowal (The castle can bestow a mind through its magic)
  • Soul Bestowal (The castle can bestow a soul through its magic. Imbued the Mud Man with a tormented soul)
  • Power Bestowal (The castle grants enemies to attack under the power of magic. The magic of Dracula's power that empowers the owl enemy)
• Resurrection (Resurrection of Multiple Targets; The castle uses magic to return creatures of chaos back to life)
• Sealing (Dracula's magic captured Aguni, a primitive god of fire. The Castle has doors sealed off without solving puzzles. This can extend to walls being sealed off where explosions will not affect it until the seal is gone)
• Telekinesis (The Castle can lift parts of levels apart. The castle has blocks that float and levitate up and downwards to crush opponents or send them into spikes)
• Immersion (Can bring paintings to life and have them attack)
• Mimicry (Physiology Mimicry; The castle contains mirror worlds where perfect clones of oneself can fight. The Castle can also do this without mirror worlds, where they make a perfect copy that have all of their moves and sub-weapons, and can freely switch to a different person to copy their abilities)
• Teleportation (The castle has access to the teleporter seat, the seat of a device that allows instant movement across Valachia. The castle has objects that fade in and out while trying to platform on them)
• Invisibility (Parts of Dracula's castle are invisible such as invisible stairs, and invisible platforms)
• Necromancy (The castle can raise the dead to attack whoever enters a room. The castle reanimates human bones as monsters by its evil magic. The Castle created the Executioner from numerous dead bodies)
• Fusionism (The Castle can create an abomination made from numerous dead bodies)
• Mind Manipulation (Everything that enters the castle is under the control by the power of Dracula's castle, the ghost of Eric Lecarde needed to cast a magic barrier to bind himself so he could be free from the control of the castle. The Castle corrupts the minds of those who enter it, such as making Maxim Kischine feel strange ever since coming to it. It also corrupted the mind of Hugh turning him against Nathan with Nathan noting he's being controlled by Dracula. The castle increases one's dark desires, allowing Dracula to easily control them. The magic of Dracula's power that empowers the owl enemy also spurs it to violence)
• Madness Manipulation (The Castle warped Gergoth, a once-gentle beast and drove it mad)
• Elemental Manipulation & Chaos Manipulation (The castle infuses some enemies with chaos, giving it all elemental properties)
• Blood Manipulation (The castle imbues blood all over a skeleton, making them always return to life no matter what damage is done to them. The Castle has areas where its blood can form new enemies)
• Acid Manipulation (The castle has areas of acid rain falling)
• Size Manipulation (Magically enlarged a toad through the use of demonic baptism)
• Fear Manipulation (Even while far away, Curtis and Michelle felt malicious intent from the castle where their bodies seemed to squeal "run away". Michelle even being at the entrance to the castle had her body telling her to not go in and her leg muscles being petrified like stone)
• Perception Manipulation (The Castle is able to warp the users perceptions, making a room where it is split into three parts that do not operate under standard spatiality and directionality)
• Poison Manipulation (The very waters of the castle are poisonous, killing one in an instant if they fall into it)
• Gravity Manipulation (3-D; The castle has rooms with reverse gravity)
• Curse Manipulation (The Curse status that spirits inflict comes from them absorbing the magic power around the castle. The Castle cursed a human to turn into a lizard man)
• Life Manipulation (The castle can bring inanimate statues to life to attack. Can cause the glass murals to come to life and attack)
• Soul Manipulation (Those that die in the castle become one of the floating spirits that wander the halls of the castle for eternity)
• Plant Manipulation (The castle can cause even the trees to attack. The castle can cause the plants and leaves to form a wraith)
• Forcefield Manipulation (The castle set up a barrier seal outside of it to make people unable to enter. Evil energy can create barriers blocking one until they defeat all enemies)
• Fire Manipulation (Can cause fire across an entire room just from causing a chandelier with candles to fall, setting everything, even people on fire)
• Portal Manipulation & Battlefield Removal (Application Based; The castle can create portals that send one to another dimension, where time is stopped. Brought a wandering merchant in through swallowing him into a dense fog. The castle has magic energies that seal the gateway to hell)
• Summoning & Glyph Creation (The Castle can summon creatures of chaos to spawn and attack whoever enters a room through enemies spawning from glyphs. The castle can make glyphs that teleport one outside of the castle by standing over it. A lot of these creatures are summoned from Hell)
• Water Manipulation (The Casles Waters seem to be very hazardous, as it instantly kills enemies upon touching them)
• Spatial Manipulation (3-D; The castle can shift the room to make it where Trevor needs to escape upwards that will instantly kill him if it reaches him. The castle can make blocks disappear and re-appear, making it difficult for one to traverse around the castle. The Castle made it, where the stairway Soma was walking up with Mina, went longer hen usual, trying to keep Soma from going to the Shrine and instead bringing him to the castle)
• Sense Manipulation (Caused Soma's senses to dim even entering the chaotic darkness near the Castle)
• Weather Manipulation & Electricity Manipulation (The Castle is the reason for a massive cloud that covered the entire sky. Can conjure thunderstorms around itself that can summon enemies during it's flashes of lightning. Can summon enemies through the lightning bolts it makes)
• Dark Matter Manipulation (The castle contains dark matter within it that beings can use for weapon creation)
• Abstract Manipulation & Hell Manipulation (The castle can create a core of evil made from hatred, envy, anger and other dark emotions)
• Text Manipulation & Plot Manipulation (The vital souls are noted to be apart of the Castle's power, where is noted by Lucy that the "vital soul" of a monster is the cause of the grimoire chaos where creatures of the night's dark powers allowed them to rewrite the Grimoires to strengthen their dark powers greatly, along with their vital souls causing the grimoires contents to be overwritten changing history to things such as Jonathan Morris is now at a disadvantage in battle, or Charlotte fading from existence due to them messing with the history of the Grimoires, Maria starting to fade because Richter's history is being rewritten, where if the contents of the book change the creatures magic will keep growing and eventually overflow into reality, causing the grimoire to fall into chaos and even more monsters materializing into the real world. The text alterations also make the monsters stronger. With the real world and world of grimoires being considered the same or "equal", compared to the like of Brauner's painting worlds that are quantum multi-layered spaces requiring understandings of theories such as "Curse Amplification". Death was going to use Dracula's magic to rewrite Dracula's defeat to Trevor making it where Dracula defeats Trevor Belmont instead where Dracula would go on living in the rewritten grimoire with each grimoire being its own world and the grimoires influence extends into reality)
• Law Manipulation (The vital souls are noted to be apart of the Castle's power, which alter grimoires, which do not adhere to the laws of reality)
• Power Modification (The vital souls are noted to be apart of the Castle's power, which the vital souls cause alterations of the Grimoire that can greatly limit the powers of those far stronger than them, such as Jonathan Morris' power being limited due to the alterations. The Chaos of the Grimoire destabilized the magic of the others).

• Resistance to
  • Time Stop (1-T; Areas in the Castle are unaffected by time being stopped, and blocks and objects will still fall. Noted that the stop watch has no effect on moving platforms in the castle. Christopher stopping time on an elevator does not stop the elevator from moving, machinery still moves along, and floating objects still float. With time in Castlevania being so potent that not even eternity can withstand time, along with even artificial life being subject to the laws of time)

Can take the form of Belmonts like Trevor Belmont, giving it there Belmont Bloodline, which gives it: Superhuman Physical Characteristics (The Belmonts are known as the most powerful and renowned vampire hunters within the world of Castlevania. During and before Trevor's time, the Belmont's were feared because of their immense power), Acrobatics (Due to Belmonts superhuman nature, they possess very athletic and acrobatic bodies, examples include Richter easily flipping over Death's scythe attack while also jumping around and fighting Death while on a moving horse carriage. Richter also showcases this with his boss fight in Dracula X where he must jump across platforms while also fighting against Dracula. Julius showcasing extreme acrobatic leaps to reach the top of a castle drawbridge), Genius Intelligence (Belmonts are trained and some of the best users of various sub-weapons, which in Castlevania requires one to have a high intelligence to be able to do), Martial Arts (Striking Arts; Trevor left behind all of his fighting techniques to each new Belmont clan member and Morris clan member), Weapon Mastery (No matter the Belmont, they have all showcase a natural gift in using weapons, with Christopher showcasing the tools of his family's destiny are always the axe, dagger, cross, & stop watch. Many of the famous Belmont weapons were left behind by Trevor, with him noting them to be the axe, dagger, cross, holy water, and stop watch), Sheer Will (The Belmonts are all ones with strong courage and willpower, where having a strong constitution dictates and influences how fast one can recover from status effects such as poison or curse. Belmonts are pillars of strength, willing to keep fighting even when weakened greatly and having their existence slowly erased from history. Simon claims that the Belmonts and Morrises did not defeat Dracula because of the Vampire Killer, with the reason behind heroes' capacity to fight against evil lying not in their physical strength but the noble desire to drive away evil and usher in all that is good, the desire to protect the world for all of humanity, with the courage to fight to protect others being the true essence of a hero and a Belmont's strength, with this even applying for other heroes such as Shanoa, Maria, Charlotte, and even Arikado. The Belmonts will is far greater than even the likes of the Fernandez/Belnades Clan, including Camilla Fernandez, where its noted she had great spirit and struggled mightily against the curse before she became a vampire), Aura (Belmonts release a glow of aura around them, that envelops their body), Non-Standard Interaction (Metaphysical Interaction; Belmonts can interact with ghosts with their whips and sub-weapons. Elemental Interaction; Belmonts can interact with enemies that are the mist itself with their whips and sub-weapons. Belmonts can interact with creatures of the night made of sand. Can interact with creatures of the night made of fire. Can fully disperse and destroy water bubbles instead of the attack just going through it. Blood Interaction; Can harm and kill enemies made of blood. Abstract Interaction; Belmonts can interact with and kill Death, where Death is death, being the absolute presence, the awe, the religion, and the dark god. He refers to death itself as him. Noting that he is completely death and human death is only a part of Chaos. Olrox when seeing Death fight serious notes that he senses the overwhelming existence of death and states that death really exists), Nullification (Pain Immunity Nullification; The Belmonts can make the White Dragon visibly react to pain and scream out in pain, where it is an immortal being immune to pain and suffering. Abstract Nullification; The Belmonts can nullify and destroy the scythes from Death, who can use his scythes to kill abstractions such as distance and sound. Death decides who lives and who dies), Immortality Negation (Ageless & Life and Death Immunity; The Belmonts can render immortal skeleton death gods like Death, mortal, having him bleed from attacks, giving him mortality as shown when Death dies to his own scythe cutting off his head and having blood spurt out, something not possible as a skeleton. The Belmonts can kill Death to the point that he requires Mathias to survive in order for him to rise from the dead. Death is a being unconstrained by mortality), Resurrection Bypassing (The Belmonts can kill zombies, who are corpses brought back to life from the power of hate), Enhanced Senses (Belmonts such as Trevor could sense the power of a Belmont within Simon and also could tell he did not seem to grasp the fundamentals of combat in Judgment's time rift), Extrasensory Perception (Belmonts can feel others being in an area, such as Simon Belmont being able to feel Trevor Belmont is in the time rift. Leon could sense and feel that Joachim Armster was a vampire. Leon could sense the rage from a Vampire Killer. Trevor could sense a bad omen approaching. Christopher Belmont felt a "chill" upon Dracula's return. Belmonts such as Juste could sense Death's overwhelming power. Belmonts such as Juste could sense the aura of the two different layers of the castles. Belmonts can see beings like the Bitterfly, a mutated insect, visible only to magicians. Julius could sense the dark powers within Soma Cruz. Julius could sense Dracula's powers at work within Graham, though could tell from sensing Graham that he very likely was not Dracula. Julius when fighting Soma could feel the evil spirit within Soma but also Soma's good spirit), Precognition (Premonitions; Belmonts can have future premonitions through their dreams, such as Christopher dreaming about Dracula stealing his son and turning him evil, far before he even had one), Magic (Due to coming into contact with Rinaldo and gaining the whip, Rinaldo granted him a magic amulet. where Leon gained magical energy that would naturally be passed down to all of his descendants. Belmonts such as Julius naturally have magical powers due to this, along with Juste having magical powers deriving from the Fernandez (Belnades) family), Principle Manipulation (Magic comes from alchemy, a field that experiments with the principles of God's creation of the world), Afterimage Creation (Belmonts can envelop themselves in an aura of light that allows them to move so fast, their light projections cannot keep up), Glyph Creation & Portal Creation (The Belmont blood acts as a key to the infinite corridor), Empowerment & Holy Manipulation (Belmonts can amplify weapons, Leon holding The Whip of Alchemy had it become more powerful then before, with Rinaldo stating that the whip fits Leon better than it fits him, despite him being the one to make the Whip of Alchemy. Medusa even noted that it wasn't so powerful before believing the whip gained its complete form. Belmonts can call upon the power of the light and use it to amplify their strength to be stronger and faster, this is also shown with Trevor Belmont's ultimate in Castlevania Judgment. The Belmonts can use their stored energy (hearts) and transfer it into subweapons to make regular weapons as strong as they are along with magically enhancing them), Invulnerability (Metaphysical Invulnerability; Belmonts have an inborn self-defense ability known as "Burning Mode" which makes them invincible and raises their status to twice the normal level), Statistics Boost (Belmonts get stronger from hearing of someone's grief, wanting to help them), Reactive Power Level (As Dracula grows stronger each time he revives, the Belmonts have had to keep up, evolving to be powerful even without the strength of the Vampire Killer), Sealing (Metaphysical Sealing; Belmonts can capture the spirits of enemies equal or greater to an area boss and use their abilities from their soul), Nullification (Sealing Nullification; Belmonts such as Julius can completely destroy barriers, however depending on how strong the barrier is, they may have no more energy to fight)

Standard ResistancesCastle ResistancesVampire Killer

Resistances to Extreme Colds (Belmonts can walk in ice cold rooms without much worry), Extreme Heats (Belmonts can travel in boiling hot rooms without much effect. They can also fight enemies such as the Flame Elemental who emerges from the lavas of the room with the whole room being so hot it's colored red. Richter showcases this where he moves around in a burning city without much effect or limitation to his movements), Absorption (Belmonts can fight and take hits from the mist, a creature that swallows up the living), Life-Force Absorption (Belmonts can take hits from the Spirit, which is an evil spirit that sucks up people's life energy), Corruption (Belmonts can be bitten by vampires without instantly turning), Helfire Attacks (Belmonts can take hits from the Flame Demon, a demon that wields the fires of Hell), Status Effect Inducement, Poison Manipulation, & Curse Manipulation (The Belmonts are all ones with strong courage and willpower, where having a strong constitution dictates and influences how fast one can recover from status effects such as poison or curse), Paralysis Inducement (Belmonts can be paralyzed, and slowly recover from the effects of it), Attack Reflection (Belmonts can hit Dracula with different projectile attacks, this extends to even Morrises', where Dracula's mere rib bone reflects all projectiles back), Petrification (Belmonts can take hits, from Medusa heads who can turn one into stone upon contacting them. Belmonts can can break out of, being petrified), Erasure (Metaphysical Erasure; The blood of the Belmont Clan can keep one's spirit from being erased from Dracula's magic), Time Stop (1-T; Belmonts are unaffected by time being stopped. With time in Castlevania being so potent that not even eternity can withstand time, along with even artificial life being subject to the laws of time), Poison Manipulation (Belmonts can take hits from the poison zombie, which spews a deadly poison that can rot flesh on contact), Fear Manipulation (Belmonts can be within Dracula's presence along with holding and using Dracula's rib bone where Dracula's mere rib bone is enough to make an ordinary hero feel like a spineless coward), Light Manipulation & Holy Manipulation (Belmonts have a natural resistance to holy elemental attacks), Absolute Zero (Belmonts can take ice from the frost demon, a demon that wields absolute cold and a total command of cold, making it superior to the likes of Cyril who can wield absolute zero and is seen as a standard ability from a creature of the night), Essence Manipulation (Belmonts can take hits from Succubus, who can suck up a person's essence), Sleep Manipulation (Belmonts are able to resist sleep based abilities, such as Leon resisting Walter's attempt to put him to sleep), Death Manipulation & Fate Manipulation (Temporal Fate; Belmonts cannot be killed by the likes of Death and his scythes, who is noted to govern the fate of death, being noted to have the power to govern the end of all living things, and can use his scythes to kill abstractions such as distance and sound. Death decides who lives and who dies), Law Manipulation (Belmonts are unaffected by contracts, where Renon had Reinhardt unknowingly agree to a contract with Satan where if he spends over 30 thousand gold pieces, his soul is forfeit, with Reinhardt being able to kill Renon and negate the contract altogether, where contracts are made to be absolute and bind one to it's agreements)

Resistance to Dracula's Castle's Abilities (Belmonts are able to travel in or around Dracula's Castle without feeling any of the adverse effects from the castle) The Castle Abilities Include: Reality Warping (The Castle does not work on standard logic, where changing rooms can have one view a completely different background, such as room with a blue sky that is reflecting up and downwards and having the clouds rotate at a fast speed), Transmutation (Beings that come near are subject to the castle's influence, such as a local barnyard owl which was mutated just from flying near it), Possession (The castle possesses objects with its magic, such as a ouija table), Sealing (Dracula's magic captured Aguni, a primitive god of fire. The Castle has doors sealed off without solving puzzles. This can extend to walls being sealed off where explosions will not effect it until the seal is gone), Mind Manipulation (Everything that enters the castle is under the control by the power of Dracula's castle, the ghost of Eric Lecarde needed to cast a magic barrier to bind himself so he could be free from the control of the castle. The Castle corrupts the minds of those who enter it, such as making Maxim Kischine feel strange ever since coming to it. It also corrupted the mind of Hugh turning him against Nathan with Nathan noting he's being controlled by Dracula. The castle increases one's dark desires, allowing Dracula to easily control them. The magic of Dracula's power that empowers the owl enemy also spurs it to violence), Madness Manipulation (The Castle warped Gergoth, a once-gentle beast and drove it mad), Size Manipulation (Magically enlarged a toad through the use of demonic baptism), Fear Manipulation (Even while far away, Curtis and Michelle felt malicious intent from the castle where their bodies seemed to squeal "run away". Michelle even being at the entrance to the castle had her body telling her to not go in and her leg muscles being petrified like stone), Curse Manipulation (The Curse status that spirits inflict comes from them absorbing the magic power around the castle. The Castle cursed a human to turn into a lizard man), Life Manipulation (The castle can bring inanimate statues to life to attack. Can cause the glass murals to come to life and attack), Soul Manipulation (Those that die in the castle become one of the floating spirits that wander the halls of the castle for eternity), Abstract Manipulation & Hell Manipulation (The castle can create a core of evil made from hatred, envy, anger and other dark emotions), Text Manipulation & Plot Manipulation (The vital souls are noted to be apart of the Castle's power, where is noted by Lucy that the "vital soul" of a monster is the cause of the grimoire chaos where creatures of the night's dark powers allowed them to rewrite the Grimoires to strengthen their dark powers greatly, along with their vital souls causing the grimoires contents to be overwritten changing history to things such as Jonathan Morris is now at a disadvantage in battle, or Charlotte fading from existence due to them messing with the history of the Grimoires, Maria starting to fade because Richter's history is being rewritten, where if the contents of the book change the creatures magic will keep growing and eventually overflow into reality, causing the grimoire to fall into chaos and even more monsters materializing into the real world. The text alterations also make the monsters stronger. With the real world and world of grimoires being considered the same or "equal", compared to the like of Brauner's painting worlds that are quantum multi-layered spaces requiring understandings of theories such as "Curse Amplification". Death was going to use Dracula's magic to rewrite Dracula's defeat to Trevor making it where Dracula defeats Trevor Belmont instead where Dracula would go on living in the rewritten grimoire with each grimoire being its own world and the grimoires influence extends into reality), Law Manipulation (The vital souls are noted to be apart of the Castle's power, which alter grimoires, which do not adhere to the laws of reality), Power Modification (The vital souls are noted to be apart of the Castle's power, which the vital souls cause alterations of the Grimoire that can greatly limit the powers of those far stronger than them, such as Jonathan Morris' power being limited due to the alterations. The Chaos of the Grimoire destabilized the magic of the others)

Can take the form of Belmonts like Trevor Belmont, and use the Vampire Killer, giving it:

The Whip of AlchemyThe Vampire Killer

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Non-Standard Interaction (Metaphysical Interaction; The Whip of Alchemy can interact with ghost. Elemental Interaction; The Whip of Alchemy can interact with enemies that are the mist itself), Air Manipulation (The Alchemy whip can create a large gust of wind with its finishing attack in a combo. The Alchemy whip can create wind blades around its user to protect them from all directions), Light Manipulation (The Alchemy whip can bring down holy light to attack the enemy), Holy Manipulation (Holy Whips cannot be touched by people weak to holy magic or else it will burn their hands and cause them to disintegrate).

Resistance to Mimicry (The Castle is unable to perfectly mimic Leon's weapons)

All previous powers and abilities to a greater extent, Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Anti-Type Weaponry (Can harm and kill anything related to vampires, even if they are a divine being), Extrasensory Perception (The Vampire Killer can sense who is a vampire, even those who are half-vampire such as Alucard), Magic (The Vampire Killer has been referred to as a magic whip), Contact Damage (Just through enemies merely touching the Vampire Killer they will be damaged by its effects), Non-Standard Interaction (Abstract Interaction; Can interact with and kill Death, the abstract concept of death. Metaphysical Interaction; The Vampire Killer can interact with the creaturEs of the night which includes ghosts. This is also shown in Haunted Castle Revisited. Noted by Simon Belmont that the Vampire Killer will cleave one's soul. Elemental Interaction; The Vampire Killer can interact with creatures of the night made of sand. Can interact with creatures of the night made of fire. Can fully disperse and destroy water bubbles instead of the attack just going through it. Blood Interaction; Can harm and kill enemies made of blood), Nullification (Invulnerability Negation; The Vampire Killer can completely remove Walter's invulnerability to where he was immune to all other weapons prior other then the Vampire Killer. Power Nullification; Julius sealed the Vampire Killer within Dracula's castle in order to rip away Dracula's soul and magic. Energy Nullification; Should be comparable to other magical whips that have been used to negate Dracula's Demonic Megiddo. The Vampire Killer can nullify energy projectiles through hitting them, even those from Dracula. Can negate fire projectiles. Electricity Nullification; Can completely disperse and nullify electricity attacks. Seal & Forcefield Nullification; The Vampire Killer can easily break open barrier seals. Transformation Nullification; Christopher with the Vampire Killer injured Dracula so bad to the point that he was unable to transform back into "human" form. Abstract Nullification; The Vampire Killer can nullify and destroy the scythes from Death, who can use his scythes to kill abstractions such as distance and sound. Pain Immunity Nullification; The Vampire Killer can make the White Dragon visibly react to pain and scream out in pain, where it is an immortal being immune to pain and suffering), Regeneration Negation (Holy; Christopher with the Vampire Killer injured Dracula to the point that his powers were greatly depleted and he was unable to do things like simply transform back into "human" form. Juste with the Vampire Killer could permanently kill Dracula's Wraith to where he'll fade from the world for good who regenerated from the complete destruction of his body),, Immortality Negation (Ageless & Life and Death Immunity; The Vampire Killer can render immortal skeleton death gods like Death, mortal, having him bleed from attacks, giving him mortality as shown when Death dies to his own scythe cutting off his head and having blood spurt out, something not possible as a skeleton. The Vampire Killer can kill Death to the point that he requires Mathias to survive in order for him to rise from the dead. Death is a being unconstrained by mortality. Immortal Metaphysical Aspect; Can harm and kill anything related to vampires, even if they are a divine being), Resurrection Bypassing (The Vampire Killer can kill zombies, who are corpses brought back to life from the power of hate), Purification (The Vampire Killer can purify people who was turned into a monster. Christopher with the Vampire Killer purified his son of the evil effects of Dracula), Fire Manipulation (Enemies fade into fire upon being struck with the Vampire Killer. Enemies burst into flames when struck by the vampire killer, with the flames attaching to anything it's connected to, such as a spider having its webs burst into flames too. The whip can have fire burst around the enemies even without them dying. Causes even objects like coffins to burst into flames. This is even shown in Lament of Innocence, once Leon has the vampire killer. This is even shown in graphic novels such as Belmonts Legacy), Explosion Manipulation (Trevor swinging the whip at the ground caused the ground to explode), Memory Manipulation & Soul Manipulation (The Vampire Killer holds the souls of the many Belmonts who once wilded it, the Vampire Killer could also possibly hold the souls of Belmonts who have not even touched it yet, as it was originally planned to have it summon Julius from the future but they ultimately didn't go with the idea), Lifeforce Absorption (Even if the The Vampire Killer accepts one as its master, it still chips away at one's life force with every lash. One must sacrifice their lifeforce in order to wield it), Deconstruction (The Vampire Killer can reduce one to just a skeleton), Light Manipulation (The Whip can create orbs of light to light up torches)

Resistance to Attack Reflection (The Vampire Killer can harm Dracula with attacks where Dracula's mere rib bone reflects all projectiles back), Mimicry (Doppelganger is unable to mimic the vampire killer during the time of Lament of Innocence)

Leon BelmontTrevor BelmontSypha BelnadesGrant DanastyAlucardSimon BelmontStella LecardeLoretta LecardeJonathan MorrisCharlotte Aulin

Social Influencing (Social Status & Strength; Leon is a baron revered as the most powerful of the land's knights, granting him fame and fortune. His strength made many believe his company of knights were invincible. Noted to be famous as a knight. Leon was known just from his first name alone), Weapon Mastery (Whip Mastery; Leon is able to use a whip in combat despite never using one beforehand. Sword Mastery; Used to wield and use a sword in combat before having to give it back to the company after he gave up his title. Dagger Mastery; Able to use and throw a dagger at blinding speeds with pinpoint accuracy. Axe Mastery; Can throw two axes at once having them clear through all enemies in the way), Multiple Jumps & Acrobatics (Leon is capable of jumping again while he's jumping to execute a double jump. Leon can use his whip to traverse and swing around areas. Had to navigate and parkour around a large amount of blocks in a short timeframe before they returned back), Accelerated Development (Battle, Skills and Techniques; The more Leon uses different types of attacks and techniques, the more he learns new and different techniques to utilize in combat, this can also be done through guarding attacks), Perfect Guard (Leon can guard from an attack at the last possible instant to gain magic and hearts), Supernatural Luck (Leon's luck statecan influence the likelihood of enemies dropping valuable or important items), Sheer Will (Leon's constitution dictates and influences how fast he can recover from status effects such as poison or curse. Leon's courage had him run into the Eternal Forest to fight against Walter and save Sara despite possessing no weapon), Information Analysis (Leon is able to learn an enemy's name from attacking them, along with their strengths and weaknesses. Where seeing the amount of damage, names of enemies, and their data are normally done through special items), Energy Absorption (Leon can get hearts out of objects and enemies, where hearts are a measure of one's stored energy, thus one is absorbing energy when gaining hearts), Save & Load (Leon is able to save his progress at holy sanctums within the castle), Fire Manipulation (Able to kick down with his foot, lighting it on fire).

Resistance to Extreme Heats (Can travel in the boiling hot rooms of the anti-soul mysteries lab without any real repercussions. Can fight the Flame Elemental who emerges from the lavas of the room with the whole room being so hot it's colored red), Poison Manipulation (If Leon is poisoned, he will slowly recover from the effects of the poison. Can take hits from the poison zombie, which spews a deadly poison that can rot flesh on contact), Curse Manipulation (If Leon is cursed, he will slowly recover from the effects of the curse), Petrification (If Leon is turned the stone, he will be able to break out of it), Paralysis Inducement (If Leon is paralyzed, he will slowly recover from the effects of it), Absorption (Can fight and take hits from the mist, a creature that swallows up the living), Life-Force Absorption (Can take hits from the Spirit, which is an evil spirit that sucks up people's life energy), Hellfire Manipulation (Can take hits from the Flame Demon, a demon that wields the fires of Hell), Absolute Zero (Can take ice from the frost demon, a demon that wields absolute cold and a total command of cold, making it superior to the likes of Cyril who can wield absolute zero and is seen as a standard ability from a creature of the night), Essence Manipulation (Can take hits from Succubus, who can suck up a person's essence), Sleep Manipulation (Leon resisted Walter's attempt to put him to sleep)

Social Influencing (Social Status; After defeating Dracula, Trevor and the Belmonts were honored by all the people. Charisma; Alucard noted that Trevor had the ability to enchant others, with those qualities earning him reliable allies even within Dracula's castle), Acrobatics (Able to flip and spin in the air while doing attacks), Martial Arts (Trevor can incoporate hand to hand combat in his whip attacks, being able to do multiple fast kicks), Intimidation (During and before Trevor's time, the Belmont's were feared because of their immense power), Animal Taming & Vehicular Mastery (Land Vehicles; Trevor is able to ride horses), Weapon Mastery (Whip Mastery; Trevor is able to use his whip in combat deftly, twirling it in various directions, making it hard for an enemy to get in close to him. Dagger Mastery; Trevor can throw and utilize daggers in combat, throwing them with pinpoint accuracy. He can also throw a multitude of them at once. Axe Mastery; Able to throw axes at fast and pinpoint speeds. With his axe item crash, he can boost the power of his axe and cause the ground to uproot from slamming it. Cross Mastery; Trevor can accurately and deftly throw crosses at enemies), Aura (Trevor unleashes a yellow glow aura around himself, and also covers his whip in a green aura), Flight (When using attacks like Grand Cross, Trevor is able to momentarily fly in the air), Non-Standard Interaction (Elemental Interaction; Can interact with creatures of the night made of fire. Metaphysical Interaction; Can harm and kill spirits and ghost), Extrasensory Perception (Trevor was able to see through Alucard's disguise and tell it was him due to sensing his essence), Empowerment (Alucard noted that when he fought alonside Trevor, he felt like he was able to call upon more power then he previously thought possible), Save and Load (Trevor sits on a chair and is enveloped in the angelic wings of light, allowing him to save his progress), Energy Absorption (Trevor can get hearts out of objects and enemies, where hearts are a measure of one's stored energy, thus one is absorbing energy when gaining hearts), Curtain Fire & Weapon Control (Able to throw multiple daggers at once and control the trajectory of them with his item crash), Fire Manipulation (Able to light himself on fire and charge at his opponent while on fire).

Resistance to Petrification (Can take hits from Medusa heads, who can turn one into stone upon contacting them), Death Manipulation (Can take hits from Death and his scythes, who is noted to govern the fate of death, being noted to have the power to govern the end of all living things, and can use his scythes to kill abstractions such as distance and sound. Death decides who lives and who dies)

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Weapon Mastery (Staff Mastery; Asides from using it for magic, Sypha can also use her staff in direct combat), Sheer Will (Simon claims that the Belmonts and Morrises did not defeat Dracula because of the Vampire Killer, with the reason behind heroes' capacity to fight against evil lying not in their physical strength but the noble desire to drive away evil and usher in all that is good, the desire to protect the world for all of humanity, with the courage to fight to protect others being the true essence of a hero and a Belmont's strength, with this even applying for other heroes such as Shanoa, Maria, Charlotte, and even Arikado), Magic (Sypha is directly noted to be a witch), Extrasensory Perception (Sypha is able to sense the energy one radiates, believing Shanoa to believe a vampire when she came across her), Non-Standard Interaction (Elemental Interaction; Can interact with creatures of the night made of fire. Metaphysical Interaction; Can harm and kill spirits and ghost), Nullification (Energy Nullification; Sypha can negate energy projectiles with her staff), Regeneration Negation (Sypha's freezing and then attacking the red skeletons can negate their regeneration, who endlessly regenerates, from any kind of damage due to it absorbing blood), Energy Absorption (Sypha can get hearts out of objects and enemies, where hearts are a measure of one's stored energy, thus one is absorbing energy when gaining hearts), Summoning (Sypha can summon the grimoire to use for her special attack), Subjective Reality (Sypha can utilize the grimoire to send out different magic attacks, With the real world and world of grimoires being considered the same or "equal", compared to the like of Brauner's painting worlds that are quantum multi-layered spaces requiring understandings of theories such as "Curse Amplification"), Text Manipulation & Forcefield Manipulation (Uses the Grimoire to cause a barrier made out of the text from the grimoire to trap her opponent in and proceed to use a massive blast), Plot Manipulation (As Sypha can utilize the grimoire to control the forces of nature, to where she can manipulate the text within it, she can rewrite it. Where overwriting the contents of the Grimoire can change history to things such as Jonathan Morris is now at a disadvantage in battle, or Charlotte fading from existence due to them messing with the history of the Grimoires, Maria starting to fade because Richter's history is being rewritten, where if the contents of the book change the creatures magic will keep growing and eventually overflow into reality, causing the grimoire to fall into chaos and even more monsters materializing into the real world. Though it should be noted that it is unknown what exactly is contained within Sypha's grimoire, thus she is only limited to what is in her grimoire), Death Manipulation & Elemental Manipulation (Sypha has harnessed the power of the dead in order to control the elements), Ice Manipulation & Absolute Zero (With the ice magic, can freeze things instantly. Sypha's ice can instantly freeze an entire river. Along with this to protect against ice attacks in series, one normally wears rings that help them resist against absolute zero), Fire Manipulation (With the flames spell, Sypha wields fire magic allowing her to burn enemies to nothing), Electricity Manipulation & Homing Attack (With electricity spell, shoots out three eletrical orbs that home in on targets).

Standard ResistancesCastle Resistances

Resistance to Petrification (Can take hits from Medusa heads, who can turn one into stone upon contacting them), Death Manipulation (Can take hits from Death and his scythes, who is noted to govern the fate of death, being noted to have the power to govern the end of all living things, and can use his scythes to kill abstractions such as distance and sound. Death decides who lives and who dies)

Resistance to Dracula's Castle abilities (Sypha is able to enter Dracula's castle without any adverse effects done to her). The Castle Abilities Include: Reality Warping (The Castle does not work on standard logic, where changing rooms can have one view a completely different background, such as room with a blue sky that is reflecting up and downwards and having the clouds rotate at a fast speed), Transmutation (Beings that come near are subject to the castle's influence, such as a local barnyard owl which was mutated just from flying near it), Possession (The castle possesses objects with its magic, such as a ouija table), Sealing (Dracula's magic captured Aguni, a primitive god of fire. The Castle has doors sealed off without solving puzzles. This can extend to walls being sealed off where explosions will not affect it until the seal is gone), Mind Manipulation (Everything that enters the castle is under the control by the power of Dracula's castle, the ghost of Eric Lecarde needed to cast a magic barrier to bind himself so he could be free from the control of the castle. The Castle corrupts the minds of those who enter it, such as making Maxim Kischine feel strange ever since coming to it. It also corrupted the mind of Hugh turning him against Nathan with Nathan noting he's being controlled by Dracula. The castle increases one's dark desires, allowing Dracula to easily control them. The magic of Dracula's power that empowers the owl enemy also spurs it to violence), Madness Manipulation (The Castle warped Gergoth, a once-gentle beast and drove it mad), Size Manipulation (Magically enlarged a toad through the use of demonic baptism), Fear Manipulation (Even while far away, Curtis and Michelle felt malicious intent from the castle where their bodies seemed to squeal "run away". Michelle even being at the entrance to the castle had her body telling her to not go in and her leg muscles being petrified like stone), Curse Manipulation (The Curse status that spirits inflict comes from them absorbing the magic power around the castle. The Castle cursed a human to turn into a lizard man), Life Manipulation (The castle can bring inanimate statues to life to attack. Can cause the glass murals to come to life and attack), Soul Manipulation (Those that die in the castle become one of the floating spirits that wander the halls of the castle for eternity), Abstract Manipulation & Hell Manipulation (The castle can create a core of evil made from hatred, envy, anger and other dark emotions), Text Manipulation & Plot Manipulation (The vital souls are noted to be apart of the Castle's power, where is noted by Lucy that the "vital soul" of a monster is the cause of the grimoire chaos where creatures of the night's dark powers allowed them to rewrite the Grimoires to strengthen their dark powers greatly, along with their vital souls causing the grimoires contents to be overwritten changing history to things such as Jonathan Morris is now at a disadvantage in battle, or Charlotte fading from existence due to them messing with the history of the Grimoires, Maria starting to fade because Richter's history is being rewritten, where if the contents of the book change the creatures magic will keep growing and eventually overflow into reality, causing the grimoire to fall into chaos and even more monsters materializing into the real world. The text alterations also make the monsters stronger. With the real world and world of grimoires being considered the same or "equal", compared to the like of Brauner's painting worlds that are quantum multi-layered spaces requiring understandings of theories such as "Curse Amplification". Death was going to use Dracula's magic to rewrite Dracula's defeat to Trevor making it where Dracula defeats Trevor Belmont instead where Dracula would go on living in the rewritten grimoire with each grimoire being its own world and the grimoires influence extends into reality), Law Manipulation (The vital souls are noted to be apart of the Castle's power, which alter grimoires, which do not adhere to the laws of reality), Power Modification (The vital souls are noted to be apart of the Castle's power, which the vital souls cause alterations of the Grimoire that can greatly limit the powers of those far stronger than them, such as Jonathan Morris' power being limited due to the alterations. The Chaos of the Grimoire destabilized the magic of the others)

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Weapon Mastery (Chakram Mastery; Grant is capable of using two chakrams in battle for a variety of different techniques and attacks. Dagger Mastery; Grant can use throwing daggers against opponents with pinpoint accuracy. Axe Mastery; Can throw an axe at an upward arc to damage anything that gets in its way), Acrobatics (Grant is capable of jumping higher then even Trevor Belmont), Surface Scaling (Grant is able to climb on surfaces), Penetration Damage (Physical Penetration; Uses throwing daggers as a weapon, which can stab directly into an opponent), Sheer Will (Simon claims that the Belmonts and Morrises did not defeat Dracula because of the Vampire Killer, with the reason behind heroes' capacity to fight against evil lying not in their physical strength but the noble desire to drive away evil and usher in all that is good, the desire to protect the world for all of humanity, with the courage to fight to protect others being the true essence of a hero and a Belmont's strength, with this even applying for other heroes such as Shanoa, Maria, Charlotte, and even Arikado), Afterimage Creation (Moves so fast, he can create afterimages), Non-Standard Interaction (Elemental Interaction; Can interact with creatures of the night made of fire. Metaphysical Interaction; Can harm and kill spirits and ghost), Energy Absorption (Grant can get hearts out of objects and enemies, where hearts are a measure of one's stored energy, thus one is absorbing energy when gaining hearts), Curtain Fire (Directional) & Thread Manipulation (His ultimate has him controlling the threads of hundreds of daggers and throwing it all at the opponent).

Standard ResistancesCastle Resistances

Resistance to Petrification (Can take hits from Medusa heads, who can turn one into stone upon contacting them), Death Manipulation (Can take hits from Death and his scythes, who is noted to govern the fate of death, being noted to have the power to govern the end of all living things, and can use his scythes to kill abstractions such as distance and sound. Death decides who lives and who dies)

Resistance to Dracula's Castle abilities (Grant is able to enter Dracula's castle without any adverse effects done to him). The Castle Abilities Include: Reality Warping (The Castle does not work on standard logic, where changing rooms can have one view a completely different background, such as room with a blue sky that is reflecting up and downwards and having the clouds rotate at a fast speed), Transmutation (Beings that come near are subject to the castle's influence, such as a local barnyard owl which was mutated just from flying near it), Possession (The castle possesses objects with its magic, such as a ouija table), Sealing (Dracula's magic captured Aguni, a primitive god of fire. The Castle has doors sealed off without solving puzzles. This can extend to walls being sealed off where explosions will not affect it until the seal is gone), Mind Manipulation (Everything that enters the castle is under the control by the power of Dracula's castle, the ghost of Eric Lecarde needed to cast a magic barrier to bind himself so he could be free from the control of the castle. The Castle corrupts the minds of those who enter it, such as making Maxim Kischine feel strange ever since coming to it. It also corrupted the mind of Hugh turning him against Nathan with Nathan noting he's being controlled by Dracula. The castle increases one's dark desires, allowing Dracula to easily control them. The magic of Dracula's power that empowers the owl enemy also spurs it to violence), Madness Manipulation (The Castle warped Gergoth, a once-gentle beast and drove it mad), Size Manipulation (Magically enlarged a toad through the use of demonic baptism), Fear Manipulation (Even while far away, Curtis and Michelle felt malicious intent from the castle where their bodies seemed to squeal "run away". Michelle even being at the entrance to the castle had her body telling her to not go in and her leg muscles being petrified like stone), Curse Manipulation (The Curse status that spirits inflict comes from them absorbing the magic power around the castle. The Castle cursed a human to turn into a lizard man), Life Manipulation (The castle can bring inanimate statues to life to attack. Can cause the glass murals to come to life and attack), Soul Manipulation (Those that die in the castle become one of the floating spirits that wander the halls of the castle for eternity), Abstract Manipulation & Hell Manipulation (The castle can create a core of evil made from hatred, envy, anger and other dark emotions), Text Manipulation & Plot Manipulation (The vital souls are noted to be apart of the Castle's power, where is noted by Lucy that the "vital soul" of a monster is the cause of the grimoire chaos where creatures of the night's dark powers allowed them to rewrite the Grimoires to strengthen their dark powers greatly, along with their vital souls causing the grimoires contents to be overwritten changing history to things such as Jonathan Morris is now at a disadvantage in battle, or Charlotte fading from existence due to them messing with the history of the Grimoires, Maria starting to fade because Richter's history is being rewritten, where if the contents of the book change the creatures magic will keep growing and eventually overflow into reality, causing the grimoire to fall into chaos and even more monsters materializing into the real world. The text alterations also make the monsters stronger. With the real world and world of grimoires being considered the same or "equal", compared to the like of Brauner's painting worlds that are quantum multi-layered spaces requiring understandings of theories such as "Curse Amplification". Death was going to use Dracula's magic to rewrite Dracula's defeat to Trevor making it where Dracula defeats Trevor Belmont instead where Dracula would go on living in the rewritten grimoire with each grimoire being its own world and the grimoires influence extends into reality), Law Manipulation (The vital souls are noted to be apart of the Castle's power, which alter grimoires, which do not adhere to the laws of reality), Power Modification (The vital souls are noted to be apart of the Castle's power, which the vital souls cause alterations of the Grimoire that can greatly limit the powers of those far stronger than them, such as Jonathan Morris' power being limited due to the alterations. The Chaos of the Grimoire destabilized the magic of the others)

Social Influencing (Beauty; Mina notes that Alucard's face is too beautiful, commenting that "He's almost perfect"), Martial Arts (With different fists type weapons Alucard can utilize his bare fists in combat, the iron fist is owned by a karate master which Alucard uses in combat), Weapon Mastery (Sword Mastery; Alucard can utilize swords in combat, including special swords, such as the Rune Sword which can fly from Alucard's hand to attack enemies. Alucard can utilize different types of swords, double swords, and short swords in combat. Club Mastery; Alucard can utilize various different clubs in combat. Axe Mastery; Alucard is able to use the axe, throwing it an arch to hit airborne enemies with, he throws it fast enough for it to have afterimages. Knife Mastery; Can throw knives at high speeds. Boomerang Mastery; With the Cross, can throw it like a boomerang, with the weapon always coming back to Alucard. Shield Mastery; Alucard can utilize shields not only for defense but for a different variety of different magical options such as summnign enemies, increasing his defense, giving him protection to status ailments, etcetera), Immortality (Noted that humans will return to dust eventually, but he will live on forever) Enhanced Senses (Alucard could tell from Richter's scent that he was a Belmont), Body Control & Flight (Can grow out wings to fly around and attack with), Transformation (Shapeshifting; Appears before Trevor as a flock of backs before turning into a form that looks similar to Dracula. Alucard can naturally transform into a bat. Alucard can transform into the form of a mist to pass through objects), Acrobatics & Multiple Jumps (Alucard is able to double jump), Extrasensory Perception (Alucard felt a strange presence from Aeon. Alucard is able to sense a great amount of of magic in the monsters soul. Can see the Bitterfly, a mutated insect, visible only to magicians. Sensed a strong surge of magical power), Flight (Can transform into a bat to fly), Non-Standard Interaction (Elemental Interaction; Can interact with creatures of the night made of fire. Metaphysical Interaction; Can harm and kill spirits and ghost), Energy Absorption (Alucard can get hearts out of objects and enemies, where hearts are a measure oe one's stored energy, thus one is absorbing energy when gaining hearts), Soul Absorption (Alucard through defeating enemies can absorb their soul, which he can use to upgrade his equipment), Fire Manipulation (Can shoot fireballs out of his cape), Energy Projection (Can shoot out energy projectiles from his cape), Restoration (Passive; Alucard's magic will gradually restore overtime), Summoning (With Summon Spirit, Alucard summons a fierce spirit that attacks all enemies. With Tetra Spirit, summons four spirits that attack all enemies. With Sword Brothers, Alucard summons the sword brothers within his sword familiar), Suppression (Alucard's powers can slown down the flow of evil going into Soma), Invulnerability (Metaphysical Invulnerability; Alucard occasionally turns into his full vampire form when petrified where he is invulnerable to all attacks), Teleportation & Hellfire Manipulation (With Hellfire, the same as Dracula's signature attack, Alucard telpeorts and then shoots out three fireballs, charing it longer lets Alucard shoot out two chaos balls of hellfire, Alucard is also invulnerable while using the technique), Healing & Blood Manipulation (With Dark Metamorphosis, Alucard awakens his vampire nature and heals from any drop of blood), Glyph Manipulation (Alucard can conjure glyphs while in the middle of a combo, using it to boost himself at fast speeds towards the opponent), Forcefield Manipulation (Alucard even in his weakned Genya Arikado form, can make a protective barrier around Mina so no monsters try to harm her), Explosion Manipulation (Causes his enemy to explode after hitting them with his hyperattack), Poison Manipulation (With Gas Cloud, Alucard turns into a poisonous cloud), Soul Manipulation (With Soul Steal, Alucard steals the souls from his enemies, healing him. Even in his weakened Genya Arikado form, Alucard is capable of using soul steal), Text Manipulation & Plot Manipulation (Through gathering enough magical power, one can rewrite what the Grimoire has inscribed on them to gain their abilities and powers back).

Standard ResistancesResistances from his DoppelgangerCastle Resistances

Resistance to Petrification (Can take hits from Medusa heads, who can turn one into stone upon contacting them. Can break out of being petrified), Attack Reflection (Can harm Dracula, where Dracula's mere rib bone reflects all projectiles back), 'Fear Manipulation (Can hold the Rib of Vlad, where Dracula's mere rib bone is enough to make an ordinary hero feel like a spineless coward), Radiation Manipulation & Heat Manipulation (Alucard can shoot off the neutron bomb, an enhanced radiation weapons, being a low-yield thermonuclear weapon designed to maximize lethal neutron radiation, without feeling any of the effects), Dream Manipulation (Broke free from the Succubus' spell where she took Alucard to the dream world putting him in a nightmare of reliving his mother's murder. Broke free from the dream Magnus constructed for him, putting Alucard into a glimpse into his past, viewing a dream of when he drank Lyudmil's blood), Fate Manipulation & Death Manipulation (Can take hits from Death and his scythes, who is noted to govern the fate of death, being noted to have the power to govern the end of all living things, and can use his scythes to kill abstractions such as distance and sound), Holy Manipulation (Alucard can resist the rosario which instantly kills creatures of the night)

Resistance to His Abilities (Alucard can fight his doppelganger who has all of his abilities and weaknesses, where his doppelganger can resist his abilities)

Resistance to Dracula's Castle abilities (Alucard is able to enter Dracula's Castle without any adverse effects done to him). The Castle Abilities Include: Reality Warping (The Castle does not work on standard logic, where changing rooms can have one view a completely different background, such as room with a blue sky that is reflecting up and downwards and having the clouds rotate at a fast speed), Transmutation (Beings that come near are subject to the castle's influence, such as a local barnyard owl which was mutated just from flying near it), Possession (The castle possesses objects with its magic, such as a ouija table), Sealing (Dracula's magic captured Aguni, a primitive god of fire. The Castle has doors sealed off without solving puzzles. This can extend to walls being sealed off where explosions will not affect it until the seal is gone), Mind Manipulation (Everything that enters the castle is under the control by the power of Dracula's castle, the ghost of Eric Lecarde needed to cast a magic barrier to bind himself so he could be free from the control of the castle. The Castle corrupts the minds of those who enter it, such as making Maxim Kischine feel strange ever since coming to it. It also corrupted the mind of Hugh turning him against Nathan with Nathan noting he's being controlled by Dracula. The castle increases one's dark desires, allowing Dracula to easily control them. The magic of Dracula's power that empowers the owl enemy also spurs it to violence), Madness Manipulation (The Castle warped Gergoth, a once-gentle beast and drove it mad), Size Manipulation (Magically enlarged a toad through the use of demonic baptism), Fear Manipulation (Even while far away, Curtis and Michelle felt malicious intent from the castle where their bodies seemed to squeal "run away". Michelle even being at the entrance to the castle had her body telling her to not go in and her leg muscles being petrified like stone), Curse Manipulation (The Curse status that spirits inflict comes from them absorbing the magic power around the castle. The Castle cursed a human to turn into a lizard man), Life Manipulation (The castle can bring inanimate statues to life to attack. Can cause the glass murals to come to life and attack), Soul Manipulation (Those that die in the castle become one of the floating spirits that wander the halls of the castle for eternity), Abstract Manipulation & Hell Manipulation (The castle can create a core of evil made from hatred, envy, anger and other dark emotions), Text Manipulation & Plot Manipulation (The vital souls are noted to be apart of the Castle's power, where is noted by Lucy that the "vital soul" of a monster is the cause of the grimoire chaos where creatures of the night's dark powers allowed them to rewrite the Grimoires to strengthen their dark powers greatly, along with their vital souls causing the grimoires contents to be overwritten changing history to things such as Jonathan Morris is now at a disadvantage in battle, or Charlotte fading from existence due to them messing with the history of the Grimoires, Maria starting to fade because Richter's history is being rewritten, where if the contents of the book change the creatures magic will keep growing and eventually overflow into reality, causing the grimoire to fall into chaos and even more monsters materializing into the real world. The text alterations also make the monsters stronger. With the real world and world of grimoires being considered the same or "equal", compared to the like of Brauner's painting worlds that are quantum multi-layered spaces requiring understandings of theories such as "Curse Amplification". Death was going to use Dracula's magic to rewrite Dracula's defeat to Trevor making it where Dracula defeats Trevor Belmont instead where Dracula would go on living in the rewritten grimoire with each grimoire being its own world and the grimoires influence extends into reality), Law Manipulation (The vital souls are noted to be apart of the Castle's power, which alter grimoires, which do not adhere to the laws of reality), Power Modification (The vital souls are noted to be apart of the Castle's power, which the vital souls cause alterations of the Grimoire that can greatly limit the powers of those far stronger than them, such as Jonathan Morris' power being limited due to the alterations. The Chaos of the Grimoire destabilized the magic of the others)

Weapon Mastery (Whip Mastery; Through reading an ancient tome left to him by his ancestors revealing the secret of the whip, he learns that the whip can snap in eight directions, giving him complete manuverability around his field. Dagger Mastery; With daggers, noted to be fast and accrurate attack weapons for Simon. Axe Mastery; With Axe, Simon is able to throw them at his opponents. In Vampire Killer he throws the axe as he would his boomerang. Boomerang Mastery; Can wield and use a boomerang in combat, with it always coming back to Simon), Acrobatics (Can use the whip to latch onto objects to swing around them), Social Influencing (Social Status; Simon Belmont is a warrior respected even by kings. Lucy notes that according to their data, Simon Belmont is the most celebrated and revered Belmont), Sheer Will (Simon ventured alone into the evil-infested den that is Dracula's castle with no fear), Aura (Had a fiery blue aura around himself after his wife was stolen from him), Accelerated Development (Leveling, Physical Stats; Simon levels up as he defeats more enemies, gaining more health, strength, and defense. Noted that the long Simon survives the greater his experience rating and the stronger his vulnerable soul will become), Healing (Simon leveling up has him restore all of his lost health and wounds), Energy Absorption (Simon can get hearts out of objects and enemies, where hearts are a measure of one's stored energy, thus one is absorbing energy when gaining hearts).

Resistance to Extreme Colds (Simon can walk in ice cold rooms without mcuh worry), Extreme Heat (Unaffected by candles on a chandelier falling and causing the enire room to catch on fire including enemies), Ice Manipulation & Absolute Zero (Can take magic attacks from the Wizard without being frozen who is the reason for all of the frozen characters in the background of the Frozen Cave. Along with this to protect against ice attacks in series, one normally wears rings that help them resist against absolute zero), Petrification (Unaffected by Medusa's gaze, and can break out of her other attacks that petrify him. Can take hits from Medusa Heads who can turn one into stone upon contacting them. Can break out of the petrification attacks from Medusa), Poison Manipulation (Can walk through a poison swamp and only have his health be drained, having no aftereffects from leaving the swamp), Death Manipulation (Can take hits from Death, who is noted to govern the fate of death, being noted to have the power to govern the end of all living things, and can use his scythes to kill abstractions such as distance and sound), Fear Manipulation (Can hold and use Dracula's rib bone where Dracula's mere rib bone is enough to make an ordinary hero feel like a spineless coward), Attack Reflection (Simon can hit Dracula with projectile attacks, where Dracula's mere rib bone reflects all projectiles back)

Weapon Mastery (Sword Mastery; Stella is a skilled sword wielder. Noted to be a skilled swordsmaster), Sheer Will (Simon claims that the Belmonts and Morrises did not defeat Dracula because of the Vampire Killer, with the reason behind heroes' capacity to fight against evil lying not in their physical strength but the noble desire to drive away evil and usher in all that is good, the desire to protect the world for all of humanity, with the courage to fight to protect others being the true essence of a hero and a Belmont's strength, with this even applying for other heroes such as Shanoa, Maria, Charlotte, and even Arikado. Alucard notes that having something to protect surpasses the limits of strength), Afterimage Creation (Moves so fast that she creates afterimages), Accelerated Development (Battling & Leveling, Physical Stats and Abilities; As Loretta and Stella travel throughout the castle battling enemies and bosses they gain level ups, getting stronger, faster, more durable, and having better abilities and resistances), Flight (Stella and Loretta are able to naturally fly around, even while not vampires), Teleportation (Teleported to where Jonathan and Charlotte were), Extrasensory Perception (Stella and Loretta could sense their father's power), Penetration Damage (Metaphysical Penetration; Stella does a slashing attack made from pure magic), Non-Standard Interaction (Abstract Interaction; Charlotte can interact with and kill Death, where Death is death, being the absolute presence, the awe, the religion, and the dark god. He refers to death itself as him. Noting that he is completely death and human death is only a part of Chaos. Olrox when seeing Death fight serious notes that he senses the overwhelming existence of death and states that death really exists), Shockwave Generation (Stella sends out massive energy waves with her attacks), Energy Projection (Stella sends out an energy projectile from her sword), Energy Absorption (Stella can get jewels out of objects and enemies, with jewels being a means to charge energy and thus they are essentially hearts, where hearts are a measure of one's stored energy, thus one is absorbing energy when gaining hearts), Air Manipulation (Stella sets up a few random crescent-shaped wind projectiles in the air, after setting them up, the wind projectiles start firing), Memory Manipulation (The power of the Lecarde family, can perform a ritual unlocking the true power of the whip and have the power to incarnate the memory of the Belmonts engraved in the whip).

Standard ResistancesCastle Resistances

Resistance to Curse Manipulation (In Sisters Mode, Loretta and Stella are shown to possess immunity to curses), Death Manipulation & Fate Manipulation (Temporal Fate; Stella can take hits from Death and his scythes, who is noted to govern the fate of death, being noted to have the power to govern the end of all living things, and can use his scythes to kill abstractions such as distance and sound. Death decides who lives and who dies)

Resistance to Dracula's Castle (Loretta and Stella are able to enter Dracula's Castle without facing any adverse effects) The Castle Abilities Include: Reality Warping (The Castle does not work on standard logic, where changing rooms can have one view a completely different background, such as room with a blue sky that is reflecting up and downwards and having the cloud srotate at a fast speed), Transmutation (Beings that come near are subject to the castle's influence, such as a local barnyard owl which was mutated just from flying near it), Possession (The castle possesses objects with its magic, such as a ouija table), Sealing (Dracula's magic captured Aguni, a primitive god of fire. The Castle has doors sealed off without solving puzzles. This can extend to walls being sealed off where explosions will not affect it until the seal is gone), Mind Manipulation (Everything that enters the castle is under the control by the power of Dracula's castle, the ghost of Eric Lecarde needed to cast a magic barrier to bind himself so he could be free from the control of the castle. The Castle corrupts the minds of those who enter it, such as making Maxim Kischine feel strange ever since coming to it. It also corrupted the mind of Hugh turning him against Nathan with Nathan noting he's being controlled by Dracula. The castle increases one's dark desires, allowing Dracula to easily control them. The magic of Dracula's power that empowers the owl enemy also spurs it to violence), Madness Manipulation (The Castle warped Gergoth, a once-gentle beast and drove it mad), Size Manipulation (Magically enlarged a toad through the use of demonic baptism), Fear Manipulation (Even while far away, Curtis and Michelle felt malicious intent from the castle where their bodies seemed to squeal "run away". Michelle even being at the entrance to the castle had her body telling her to not go in and her leg muscles being petrified like stone), Curse Manipulation (The Curse status that spirits inflict comes from them absorbing the magic power around the castle. The Castle cursed a human to turn into a lizard man), Life Manipulation (The castle can bring inanimate statues to life to attack. Can cause the glass murals to come to life and attack), Soul Manipulation (Those that die in the castle become one of the floating spirits that wander the halls of the castle for eternity), Abstract Manipulation & Hell Manipulation (The castle can create a core of evil made from hatred, envy, anger and other dark emotions), Text Manipulation & Plot Manipulation (The vital souls are noted to be apart of the Castle's power, where is noted by Lucy that the "vital soul" of a monster is the cause of the grimoire chaos where creatures of the night's dark powers allowed them to rewrite the Grimoires to strengthen their dark powers greatly, along with their vital souls causing the grimoires contents to be overwritten changing history to things such as Jonathan Morris is now at a disadvantage in battle, or Charlotte fading from existence due to them messing with the history of the Grimoires, Maria starting to fade because Richter's history is being rewritten, where if the contents of the book change the creatures magic will keep growing and eventually overflow into reality, causing the grimoire to fall into chaos and even more monsters materializing into the real world. The text alterations also make the monsters stronger. With the real world and world of grimoires being considered the same or "equal", compared to the like of Brauner's painting worlds that are quantum multi-layered spaces requiring understandings of theories such as "Curse Amplification". Death was going to use Dracula's magic to rewrite Dracula's defeat to Trevor making it where Dracula defeats Trevor Belmont instead where Dracula would go on living in the rewritten grimoire with each grimoire being its own world and the grimoires influence extends into reality), Law Manipulation (The vital souls are noted to be apart of the Castle's power, which alter grimoires, which do not adhere to the laws of reality), Power Modification (The vital souls are noted to be apart of the Castle's power, which the vital souls cause alterations of the Grimoire that can greatly limit the powers of those far stronger than them, such as Jonathan Morris' power being limited due to the alterations. The Chaos of the Grimoire destabilized the magic of the others)

Sheer Will (Simon claims that the Belmonts and Morrises did not defeat Dracula because of the Vampire Killer, with the reason behind heroes' capacity to fight against evil lying not in their physical strength but the noble desire to drive away evil and usher in all that is good, the desire to protect the world for all of humanity, with the courage to fight to protect others being the true essence of a hero and a Belmont's strength, with this even applying for other heroes such as Shanoa, Maria, Charlotte, and even Arikado. Alucard notes that having something to protect surpasses the limits of strength), Accelerated Development (Battling & Leveling, Physical Stats and Abilities; As Loretta and Stella travel throughout the castle battling enemies and bosses they gain level ups, getting stronger, faster, more durable, and having better abilities and resistances), Flight (Stella and Loretta are able to naturally fly around, even while not vampires), Extrasensory Perception (Stella and Loretta could sense their father's power), Non-Standard Interaction (Abstract Interaction; Charlotte can interact with and kill Death, where Death is death, being the absolute presence, the awe, the religion, and the dark god. He refers to death itself as him. Noting that he is completely death and human death is only a part of Chaos. Olrox when seeing Death fight serious notes that he senses the overwhelming existence of death and states that death really exists), Energy Absorption (Stella can get jewels out of objects and enemies, with jewels being a means to charge energy and thus they are essentially hearts, where hearts are a measure of one's stored energy, thus one is absorbing energy when gaining hearts), Memory Manipulation (The power of the Lecarde family, can perform a ritual unlocking the true power of the whip and have the power to incarnate the memory of the Belmonts engraved in the whip), Glyph Manipulation (Can conjure glyphs to summon ice enemies out of to attack her opponents), Curtain Fire (Rapid Fire), Ice Manipulation & Absolute Zero (Loretta sends out an ice spell that deals a continuous attack. Dropped large icicles to stop Jonathan from finishing off Stella. Along with this to protect against ice attacks in series, one normally wears rings that help them resist against absolute zero).

Standard ResistancesCastle Resistances

Resistance to Curse Manipulation (In Sisters Mode, Loretta and Stella are shown to possess immunity to curses), Death Manipulation & Fate Manipulation (Temporal Fate; Loretta can take hits from Death and his scythes, who is noted to govern the fate of death, being noted to have the power to govern the end of all living things, and can use his scythes to kill abstractions such as distance and sound. Death decides who lives and who dies)

Resistance to Dracula's Castle (Loretta and Stella are able to enter Dracula's Castle without facing any adverse effects) The Castle Abilities Include: Reality Warping (The Castle does not work on standard logic, where changing rooms can have one view a completely different background, such as room with a blue sky that is reflecting up and downwards and having the cloud srotate at a fast speed), Transmutation (Beings that come near are subject to the castle's influence, such as a local barnyard owl which was mutated just from flying near it), Possession (The castle possesses objects with its magic, such as a ouija table), Sealing (Dracula's magic captured Aguni, a primitive god of fire. The Castle has doors sealed off without solving puzzles. This can extend to walls being sealed off where explosions will not affect it until the seal is gone), Mind Manipulation (Everything that enters the castle is under the control by the power of Dracula's castle, the ghost of Eric Lecarde needed to cast a magic barrier to bind himself so he could be free from the control of the castle. The Castle corrupts the minds of those who enter it, such as making Maxim Kischine feel strange ever since coming to it. It also corrupted the mind of Hugh turning him against Nathan with Nathan noting he's being controlled by Dracula. The castle increases one's dark desires, allowing Dracula to easily control them. The magic of Dracula's power that empowers the owl enemy also spurs it to violence), Madness Manipulation (The Castle warped Gergoth, a once-gentle beast and drove it mad), Size Manipulation (Magically enlarged a toad through the use of demonic baptism), Fear Manipulation (Even while far away, Curtis and Michelle felt malicious intent from the castle where their bodies seemed to squeal "run away". Michelle even being at the entrance to the castle had her body telling her to not go in and her leg muscles being petrified like stone), Curse Manipulation (The Curse status that spirits inflict comes from them absorbing the magic power around the castle. The Castle cursed a human to turn into a lizard man), Life Manipulation (The castle can bring inanimate statues to life to attack. Can cause the glass murals to come to life and attack), Soul Manipulation (Those that die in the castle become one of the floating spirits that wander the halls of the castle for eternity), Abstract Manipulation & Hell Manipulation (The castle can create a core of evil made from hatred, envy, anger and other dark emotions), Text Manipulation & Plot Manipulation (The vital souls are noted to be apart of the Castle's power, where is noted by Lucy that the "vital soul" of a monster is the cause of the grimoire chaos where creatures of the night's dark powers allowed them to rewrite the Grimoires to strengthen their dark powers greatly, along with their vital souls causing the grimoires contents to be overwritten changing history to things such as Jonathan Morris is now at a disadvantage in battle, or Charlotte fading from existence due to them messing with the history of the Grimoires, Maria starting to fade because Richter's history is being rewritten, where if the contents of the book change the creatures magic will keep growing and eventually overflow into reality, causing the grimoire to fall into chaos and even more monsters materializing into the real world. The text alterations also make the monsters stronger. With the real world and world of grimoires being considered the same or "equal", compared to the like of Brauner's painting worlds that are quantum multi-layered spaces requiring understandings of theories such as "Curse Amplification". Death was going to use Dracula's magic to rewrite Dracula's defeat to Trevor making it where Dracula defeats Trevor Belmont instead where Dracula would go on living in the rewritten grimoire with each grimoire being its own world and the grimoires influence extends into reality), Law Manipulation (The vital souls are noted to be apart of the Castle's power, which alter grimoires, which do not adhere to the laws of reality), Power Modification (The vital souls are noted to be apart of the Castle's power, which the vital souls cause alterations of the Grimoire that can greatly limit the powers of those far stronger than them, such as Jonathan Morris' power being limited due to the alterations. The Chaos of the Grimoire destabilized the magic of the others)

Martial Arts (Jonathan is noted to be a master martial artist, can utilize knee stricker, a martial arts attack), Weapon Mastery (Whip Mastery; Jonathan is able to use the whip in combat, being capable of dangling around, dealing damage to any enemy that comes into contact with it. Jonathan is able to wield various different weapons in combat. Knife Mastery; Can throw out multiple knives at once at deft accuracy. Can throw bwaka knives like boomerangs. Sword Mastery; Can throw four kinumutsu's at once at fast speeds and with deft accuraccy. Axe Mastery; Can throw axes at arcs to catch enemies in the air. Spear Mastery; Can utilize and throw spears in combat. Shuriken Mastery; Can throw shurikens at fast speeds and with deft accuracy. Can throw yagyu shurikens at fast speeds and with deft accuracy. Kunai Matery; Can throw kunais at fast speeds and with deft accuracy. Bladed Mastery; Can utilize discus to cut through enemies. Boomerang Mastery; Can utilize and throw boomerangs that always return back. Cross Mastery; Can use and throw a cross like a boomerang, with it always returning back to Jonathan. Crossbow Mastery; Can use the crossbow with deft accuracy. Explosives Mastery; Can throw and utilize grenades in combat. Spiked Ball Mastery; Can utilize steel balls in combat. Can swing around a giant spiked wrecking ball in combat. Unique Weaponry; Can throw and utilize paper airplanes in combat. Can throw and utilize cream pies in combat. Can throw and utilize darts in combat), Accelerated Development (Battle & Leveling, Physical Stats & Abilities; As Jonathan and Charlotte progress through the castle they will level up, getting stronger, faster, more resistant to abilities, and gain more abilities and skills), Afterimage Creation (With Rocket Slash, moves so fast he leaves behind afterimages), Statistics Boost ((With Offensive Form, a stance that emphasizes offense, allowing Jonathan to do far more damage then he normally does. With Defensive Form, a stance that emphasizes defense, increasing Jonathan's defense against attacks), Energy Absorption (Jonathan can get hearts out of objects and enemies, where hearts are a measure of one's stored energy, thus one is absorbing energy when gaining hearts), Shockwave Generation (With Aura Blast, a technique that converts mental energy into a shockwave)

Superhuman Physical Characteristics (Can provide an equal amount of effort of pushing as Jonathan Morris, showing equivalent strength to a Belmont), Weapon Mastery (Book Mastery; As a mage, Charlotte is a master of books, being capable of sprouting weapons out of it, using the books for various spells, and using the book itself as a weapon), Aquatic Breathing (Jonathan and Charlotte can fight underwater just fine without needing to go above ground for air), Save and Load (Jonathan and Charlotte bathe under the holy light of a holy statue, allowing them to save their progress), Sheer Will (Simon claims that the Belmonts and Morrises did not defeat Dracula because of the Vampire Killer, with the reason behind heroes' capacity to fight against evil lying not in their physical strength but the noble desire to drive away evil and usher in all that is good, the desire to protect the world for all of humanity, with the courage to fight to protect others being the true essence of a hero and a Belmont's strength, with this even applying for other heroes such as Shanoa, Maria, Charlotte, and even Arikado. Alucard notes that having something to protect surpasses the limits of strength), Accelerated Development (Battle & Leveling, Physical Stats & Abilities; As Jonathan and Charlotte progress through the castle they will level up, getting stronger, faster, more resistant to abilities, and gain more abilities and skills), Extrasensory Perception (Charlotte is able to sense if there is any malice or not within a spirit, along with being able to sense ghosts. Can sense the dark magical power from Dracula's castle. Charlotte can sense the movement of magical energy), Non-Standard Interaction (Abstract Interaction; Charlotte can interact with and kill Death, where Death is death, being the absolute presence, the awe, the religion, and the dark god. He refers to death itself as him. Noting that he is completely death and human death is only a part of Chaos. Olrox when seeing Death fight serious notes that he senses the overwhelming existence of death and states that death really exists), Berserk Mode (With Berserker, increases Charlotte's strength, but she is limited to attacking only as she's in a berserk frenzy) & Statistics Boost (With Speed Up, greatly enhances Charlotte's speed. With Strength Boost, boosts strength temporarily. With CON Boost, boosts constitution temporarily. With INT Boost, boosts intelligence temporarily. With All Boost, boosts all status attributes temporarily), Immersion (Charlotte can align her magic with the paining's magic so that she and Jonathan can enter the painting world), Purification (Charlotte can purify one during their early stages of vampirification, completely breaking the vampire's curse. Charlotte's potency can even purify those who have completely become a vampire. With Sanctuary, an advanced spell that cures status abnormalities for all within range. With Cure Poison, a spell that neutralizes poison. With Cure Curse, a spell that dispels curses), Healing (With Heal, restores health), Petrification (With Summon Medusa, summon Medusa and activate the eye of petrification) & Summoning (With Summon Crow, summon crows to use in battle. With Summon Ghost, summon a ghost to use in battle. With Summon Skeleton, summons skeletons to use in battle. With Summon Gunman, summon skeleton gunmen to use in battle. With Summon Frog, summons frogs to use in battle), Transformation (Shapeshifting; With Toad Morph, morphs Charlotte into a toad. With Owl Morph, allows Charlotte to morph into an owl), Nullification (Attack Nullification; With Clear Skies, a defensive spell that neutralizes ranged attacks), Flight (In her Owl Morph state, she has the wings of an owl, allowing her to fly), Telekinesis (With Stone Circle, grants the protection of spirits of stone), Time Stop (1-T; With time stop, stops time in the entire area. With time in Castlevania being so potent that not even eternity can withstand time, along with even artificial life being subject to the laws of time), Glyph Manipulation (Charlotte conjures magic out of her glyphs), Acid Manipulation, Poison Manipulation & Water Manipulation (With Acidic Bubbles, create poisonous bubbles), Air Manipulation (With Gale Force, tear through enemies with raging winds. With Tempest, summon a storm of violent winds), Fire Manipulation (With Raging Fire, fires a burst of flame. With Salamander, an ancient fire spell that summons a powerful fire lizard), Ice Manipulation (With Ice Fang, summon a sharp, fang-like pillar of ice. With Ice Needle, launch cutting shards of ice. With Cocytus, call forth the frozen winds of hell to create a fearsome blizzard), Electricity Manipulation (With Thunderbolt, call thunderbolts down from the sky. With Chain Lightning, creates a chain reaction of lightning bolts. With Thor's Bellow, an ancient lightning spell that creates a ball of lightning), Light Manipulation (With Spirit of Light, strike enemies with concentrated light. With Piercing Beam, fires a concentrated beam of powerful light), Portal Manipulation (With Dark Rift, opens a hole into a dark dimension), Earth Manipulation (With Rock Riot, dump rocks onto the enemy), Darkness Manipulation (With Nightmare, a concentrated mass of fear and agony born from the darkness), Explosion Manipulation (With Explosion, a ranged weapon that fires bolts), Curse Manipulation (With Hex, incant a powerful curse), Damage Manipulation (With Eye for an Eye, a spell of vengeance that shares damage received with enemies, the fully charged version makes the affected enemies be damaged twice the amount that she receives), Luck Manipulation (With Luck Up, boosts luck temporarily), Mind Manipulation (With MIND Boost, boost MIND temporarily).

Standard ResistancesCastle Resistances

Resistance to Attack Reflection (Can hit Dracula, where Dracula's mere rib bone reflects all projectiles back), Petrification (Charlotte can break out of being petrified), Status Effect Inducement, Poison Manipulation, & Curse Manipulation (Charlotte has a powerful constitution, where having a strong constitution dictates and influences how fast one can recover from status effects such as poison or curse), Fear Manipulation (Can wield the Blank Book, a book so frightening the words ran away leaving it blank), Death Manipulation & Fate Manipulation (Temporal Fate; Charlotte can take hits from Death and his scythes, who is noted to govern the fate of death, being noted to have the power to govern the end of all living things, and can use his scythes to kill abstractions such as distance and sound. Death decides who lives and who dies)

Resistance to Dracula's Castle (Charlotte can easily identify Dracula's Castle and travel within it without any adverse effects) The Castle Abilities Include: Reality Warping (The Castle does not work on standard logic, where changing rooms can have one view a completely different background, such as room with a blue sky that is reflecting up and downwards and having the cloud srotate at a fast speed), Transmutation (Beings that come near are subject to the castle's influence, such as a local barnyard owl which was mutated just from flying near it), Possession (The castle possesses objects with its magic, such as a ouija table), Sealing (Dracula's magic captured Aguni, a primitive god of fire. The Castle has doors sealed off without solving puzzles. This can extend to walls being sealed off where explosions will not affect it until the seal is gone), Mind Manipulation (Everything that enters the castle is under the control by the power of Dracula's castle, the ghost of Eric Lecarde needed to cast a magic barrier to bind himself so he could be free from the control of the castle. The Castle corrupts the minds of those who enter it, such as making Maxim Kischine feel strange ever since coming to it. It also corrupted the mind of Hugh turning him against Nathan with Nathan noting he's being controlled by Dracula. The castle increases one's dark desires, allowing Dracula to easily control them. The magic of Dracula's power that empowers the owl enemy also spurs it to violence), Madness Manipulation (The Castle warped Gergoth, a once-gentle beast and drove it mad), Size Manipulation (Magically enlarged a toad through the use of demonic baptism), Fear Manipulation (Even while far away, Curtis and Michelle felt malicious intent from the castle where their bodies seemed to squeal "run away". Michelle even being at the entrance to the castle had her body telling her to not go in and her leg muscles being petrified like stone), Curse Manipulation (The Curse status that spirits inflict comes from them absorbing the magic power around the castle. The Castle cursed a human to turn into a lizard man), Life Manipulation (The castle can bring inanimate statues to life to attack. Can cause the glass murals to come to life and attack), Soul Manipulation (Those that die in the castle become one of the floating spirits that wander the halls of the castle for eternity), Abstract Manipulation & Hell Manipulation (The castle can create a core of evil made from hatred, envy, anger and other dark emotions), Text Manipulation & Plot Manipulation (The vital souls are noted to be apart of the Castle's power, where is noted by Lucy that the "vital soul" of a monster is the cause of the grimoire chaos where creatures of the night's dark powers allowed them to rewrite the Grimoires to strengthen their dark powers greatly, along with their vital souls causing the grimoires contents to be overwritten changing history to things such as Jonathan Morris is now at a disadvantage in battle, or Charlotte fading from existence due to them messing with the history of the Grimoires, Maria starting to fade because Richter's history is being rewritten, where if the contents of the book change the creatures magic will keep growing and eventually overflow into reality, causing the grimoire to fall into chaos and even more monsters materializing into the real world. The text alterations also make the monsters stronger. With the real world and world of grimoires being considered the same or "equal", compared to the like of Brauner's painting worlds that are quantum multi-layered spaces requiring understandings of theories such as "Curse Amplification". Death was going to use Dracula's magic to rewrite Dracula's defeat to Trevor making it where Dracula defeats Trevor Belmont instead where Dracula would go on living in the rewritten grimoire with each grimoire being its own world and the grimoires influence extends into reality), Law Manipulation (The vital souls are noted to be apart of the Castle's power, which alter grimoires, which do not adhere to the laws of reality), Power Modification (The vital souls are noted to be apart of the Castle's power, which the vital souls cause alterations of the Grimoire that can greatly limit the powers of those far stronger than them, such as Jonathan Morris' power being limited due to the alterations. The Chaos of the Grimoire destabilized the magic of the others)

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Equipment

Varies depending on the target

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Notable Techniques

• Form Mimicry: The Doppelganger is a demon who assumes the form of its intended victims before killing them, gaining all of their strengths, Weaknesses, abilities and resistances.

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Other

Standard Tactics: The Doppelganger will assume the form of the character it takes and copy their tactics.

Weaknesses

• Creature of the Night Weaknesses: Creatures of the night become weaker when exposed to the morning sun. Garlic significantly weakens creatures of the night, and causes demons to die if its placed on the ground. If a vital soul is defeated, the grimoire will revert back to its original content.
• Standard Vampire Weaknesses: After a vampire is sufficiently weakened, the sunlight can kill them. Otherwise Vampires can stand out in the sunlight just fine. Though some weaker vampires can have the sun burn them overtime, killing them. Oak Stakes are able to break through the magic of a weakened vampire. Defeating a vampire will stop the effects of someone they have bitten, but only before they've turned. This is shown in Harmony of Dissonance where through Juste killing Dracula's Wraith, the bite marks on Lydie have vanished. Vampires reflections do not appear on mirrors, making them easier to identify. Vampires are noted to be weak during the dawn.
• Unique Weaknesses: The form it takes will have the weaknesses of the character.

Note

• Contrary to popular belief, holy attacks and the whips in Castlevania can affect and harm people that aren't apart of the creatures of the night. Leon's doppelganger can use holy water and holy attacks against him in this fight along with the alchemy whip despite Leon being a pure and noble warrior. Simon's doppelganger can harm him with the vampire killer, despite Simon being a noble hero. Holy Water even works and harms enemies such as the "Holy Armor", a knight who has natural holy powers. Corrupted enemies such as Charlie Vincent, use holy water attacks on Carrie and Reinhardt. Characters like Jonathan Morris wear armor like the Holy Mail, an armor that reduces damage from holy attacks.
• The Sky Fish feat moving so fast that it appears as a beam of light and only slows once time is stopped is a natural indication of Faster Than Light travel as at the speed of light, time is zero from its perspective. Soma Cruz having a hard time catching up with it initially does not mess with his scaling either as we know it's an unquantifiable level into Faster than Light at the most.

Explanation

Usage of games like Castlevania Legends & Castlevania: Circle of the Moon

Castlevania Legends

The game was originally meant to be a prequel to all the other games in the Castlevania series, this can be seen with Sonia's boss fight against Dracula serving as the first time Dracula ever encountered a Belmont along with the ending of the game saying "this story marks the beginning of the Belmont family legend that has been passed on through many ages". Along with this, Sonia shared a relationship with Alucard, heavily implying that her child is between her and Alucard. The existence of Lament of Innocence already greatly messes with this. The game manual even mentions that Sonia was the first of the Belmont family to leave her name to posterity as a vampire hunter. Despite Leon Belmont being the one to start the legend of the Belmont Hunters being vampire hunters. Along with this, Trevor is canonically the first Belmont to defeat Dracula. Iga has gone out of his way to note too that Castlevania Legends was intentionally redacted from the timeline so that it doesn't conflict with the timing used in other titles.

Castlevania: Circle of the Moon

Although it was in the original 2006 timeline, it was removed by Iga from the timeline, along with Castlevania (N64), Legacy of Darkness, and Legends.

Why abilities from them are still usable for main timeline

These games were at one point officially a part of the original timeline before ultimately being removed, making them hypotheticals that could be done. This is further supported by an interview in the History of Castlevania - Crescent of the Moon book, where executive producer of Castlevania Netflix Adi Shankar noted that even the "non-canon" games are parallel timelines in the overall multiverse, sharing the same spirit and lore. While one could argue his statement shouldn't be used, it comes from a book titled, "History of Castlevania - Crescent of the Moon", where it wouldn't make much sense if his statement was wrong and there was no correction over it. The book even has asterisks to give further context, yet they never claim him wrong. Along with this, it's consistent with the fact that most of the Castlevania games that are "non-canon" now were originally a part of the timeline. Thus this statement is usable. Thus abilities and the likes from these games can carry over to the main timeline games.

Trivia

• The Trevor Belmont Doppelganger in Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse will throw a red version of the Banshee Boomerang. However, in the Japanese version of the game, it throws the regular Banshee Boomerang that Trevor uses.
• Besides the two Doppelganger boss fights that take place in Symphony of the Night, the player also faces yet another boss battle midway through the Reverse Colosseum where they must fight fake versions of Trevor, Sypha and Grant. However, unlike the Doppelganger, who is a creature that can take the form of other living beings, these actually are a trio of zombies impersonating those characters.
• In Symphony of the Night, if Doppelganger40 is defeated before Doppelganger10 (commonly done in Richter Mode or Maria Mode, or via sequence breaking), the latter will not appear. This implies both are the same Doppelganger, Doppelganger40 being a leveled-up version of himself, similar to how Alucard himself can level up (as hinted by the "LV" in the Doppelganger's Japanese name).
  • However, if this is done, the Doppelganger10's Life Max up will be unobtainable.
• The rotating circular gate in the Outer Wall from where Doppelganger10 comes out in Symphony of the Night is a replica of the Aztec sun stone, mainly differing on their central parts, where the original slab has the face of an Aztec solar deity.
  • Doppelganger40 is fought at the Reverse Caverns, the castle opposite of the normal castle. It is possible the portal took the Doppelganger to the Reverse Castle after his first defeat. Similar portals are seen in Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance, transporting characters between Castle A and Castle B.
• Doppelganger10's boss fight only triggers when entering the room from the left side. Entering the room from the right (via sequence breaking) will not load the boss.
• Shadow, a boss which appears in Harmony of Dissonance, is basically another type of doppelganger. However, instead of copying and adopting the form of the protagonist, it takes the form of a Black Panther, a Moth and an Evil Sword. It also shares the trait that its transform ability goes out of control upon defeat.

Misconceptions

"Gaiden" means "Non-Canon" or "Alternate Timeline"

This stems from the belief that when Iga or a producer calls a Castlevania game a "Gaiden" it is therefore non-canon or an alternate timeline and can be dismissed. This, however, is not the case.

The term "Gaiden" merely just means a side story, spin-off, or a separate tale. The term "Gaiden" does not determine the canonicity of a work, it just lets you know if the game is a spin-off/side-story or if it's a main story. Take, for instance, the Kingdom Hearts series. Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories would be considered a gaiden, as it's a side-story and spin-off title that isn't a mainline numbered title, however, it is in all manners canon and important to play to understand Kingdom Hearts II.

The same can be applied to Castlevania itself, Castlevania Symphony of the Night is a gaiden game. Yet it is very obviously canon and pretty important to play to understand more of Alucard's backstory. The idea of a Gaiden game for the Castlevania series itself would be any game not dealing with one of Dracula's main 100-year-resurrections, which in this case, even Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest is in a way a gaiden, despite being completely canon.

This is all to say that Gaiden does not at all mean "non-canon" or "alternate timeline" and should never be treated as such, the term itself has nothing to do with the canonicity of a product.

IGA Statements Quoted by a Fan

Any statements Iga has made about Judgment that don't come from this IGN interview or a sourced and reputable article are not usable. This is, of course, referring to the popular statements used when discussing Judgment's Canoncity about a fan asking IGA about the game's Canoncity on Facebook, here are some of them below:

Fan: You mentioned Legend of Cornell was an alternate continuity. However, Cornell appears in Castlevania Judgment, which I believe is not an alternate continuity. How does that work? is he from a different universe than the other characters? It is not really explained in the game itself so I was hoping you could give some clarification on the issue.

IGA: Judgment is a work that surpasses space and time and brings them together.

Fan: I get it. So, is the explanation I suggested in the previous reply possibly correct?

IGA: I don't think it's exactly correct. Judgment is a work born of thinking it would be fun to remove all the hedges and bring characters that appeared throughout the series together. I think that you need to view it as an event from another world which does not consider things like timelines or parallel dimensions at all.

Now these seem like pretty clear-cut statements until you start to try to find where these come from.

They come from both a timeline archive discussion on the Castlevania Wiki back on January 15th, 2012 and from a forum post from the same user as the wiki article.

There is no way to find anything sourced or verifiably proven that this person spoke to Iga. Trying to look up the person didn't get any real results either.

Some other issues fall under the inconsistencies within these Iga talks, the person claims that Iga confirmed that Order of Shadows and the Arcade are non-canon because they were intended from the very beginning to be such, however, an officially sourced interview has the lead game designer of Order of Shadows state that Iga was actively involved with ensuring the game was consistent with the current canon, this would be a weird thing to do if he intended it to be non-canon from the very beginning.

He also claims that Iga said Super Castlevania IV was an alternate continuity, when the wiki also notes Iga saying that the games are all legitimate and the same scenario of defeating Dracula, however this quote is also unsourced, they just claim Iga says this with no link or anything.

There is another one not related to the user who spoke to Iga, but a user on reddit who claimed that a magazine claimed that Castlevania: Circle of the Moon was stated to be in a "different time axis". Attempting to get it translated got no wording that said anything like that, with it not even mentioning anything about canon, timeline, time axis, or any other wording of the sort in a machine-translated attempt. Do note however that this is a machine translation so it could potentially be that it is there, but until a reputable and verifiable translator can confirm or deny this translation, the jury is out with it and it will not be used for the canoncity of Circle of the Moon.

Thus all of these quotes are merely hearsay until shown or proven otherwise.

Remakes/Remasters Being Non-Canon

This comes from an Iga quote that says:

"IGA: FC版とX６８０００版ですが、X６８０００版はFC版をベースにアレンジを加えたものになっています。ゲームのアレンジは、その時に応じて、色々と施されるものですので、正直どちらも正統であると思ってよいのではないかと思っています。結論として、ドラキュラと戦い勝つというシナリオで、中間部分の切り抜きが違うと考えてもよいのではないかと考えています。スーパーファミコン版も違いますし…。どうしてもと考えるのであれば、FC版を尊重すべきかと考えます。

Translation: Regarding the Famicom version and the X68000 version, the X68000 version is an arrangement based on the Famicom version. The arrangement of a game is the kind of thing where you add a lot of different things as needed, so honestly speaking, it think they both should be considered legitimate. In conclusion, I think they should be considered as the same scenario of fighting to defeat Dracula, just with a different middle part. The Super Famicom version is different as well... If you simply must have a clear answer, the Famicom version must be given deference."

Now the quote itself doesn't state remakes or remasters are non-canon despite what people believe. It's moreso a quote of Iga stating that all of them are the same scenario, just with differences. However, an interesting point is that Iga says the NES version should be given "deference", as in to defer to the NES version.

Of course, though, this has the same issue as the Judgment quotes, everyone claims Iga said this, but there is no source of him saying this. In fact, in Castlevania Chronicles, there's a reward interview you receive from Iga himself where he talks about the game, Iga pretty much explains how the game came to be and never says anything about the game not being canon or to defer to the original, if anything he treats this as just an updated version of the original. Interestingly to note too, the original he's talking about is not Castlevania on NES but instead, he's talking about the computer version of Castlevania, though it borrows a lot of elements from Castlevania NES.

Overall due to the quote itself having no source, it is unusable. The way we will treat remakes, remasters, or ports here however is that they are all equally canon unless stated otherwise. Most of these tell the same story with the only real differences being extra background information added, such as Haunted Castle having it be Dracula stole Simon's wife, though the same overall story still applies even here. Iga himself has already expressed that the original Castlevania's story is pretty simple and Simon having a wife does not affect anything in the overall narrative. Super Castlevania IV notes that Simon is a vampire, though this was due to a novel writer making him a vampire in their novel. The novel was originally supposed to be an adaptation of Super Castlevania IV but was then dropped and made its own thing. Super Castlevania IV itself is still canon, but the subplot of Simon being a vampire is not. The most recent timeline even acknowledges it as canon.

Iga Only Allows Stuff He Works on To Be Canon

There is a weirdly believed idea in the fandom that Iga only considers works he worked on canon, however, an officially sourced interview has the lead game designer of Order of Shadows state that Iga was actively involved with ensuring the game was consistent with the current canon, along with this Iga did not work on a lot of Castlevania games considered canon, such as the NES trilogy and the Gameboy games. In fact, he has only made 12 Castlevania games, out of the 30 Castlevania games in total, and most of them from the older console eras are still a part of the canon. Thus Iga does not only allow stuff he works on to be canon.

Iga is a Producer of Castlevania: Circle of the Moon

A Nintendo Power magazine calls Iga the producer of Circle of the Moon, with Iga talking like he worked on the game in that interview. However Iga can be found nowhere in the credits of the game. Making this Nintendo Power issue questionable as to if they were talking to Iga or if the game was mixed up. Though we have direct in-game proof that Iga was not a producer of Circle of the Moon.

Elements and Statements can be used from Lords of Shadows for the main continuity

This argument comes from Adi Shankar saying that even "non-canon" games are parallel timelines in the overall multiverse, sharing the same spirit and lore. However, the Lord of Shadow games are directly noted in an interview with the lead developer, that the game has nothing to do with the canon, sharing none of the lore or original stuff for the characters. This directly conflicts with Adi Shankar's statement and it was very likely he was not even thinking of Lords of Shadows when making this statement but moreso games like Castlevania Legends. On top of this, Adi Shankar has no actual position within Konami, and being an executive producer for the Castlevania anime, thus he does not have any true say in terms of how Castlevania canon works and can only be used at most as a supporting piece of evidence.

Codex Statistics Questions

Q: Shouldn't the characters be around Tier 2 for defeating the Time Reaper who would've destroyed the very fabric of time, attempted to destroy the specific era of time, cause all beings everywhere to disappear, forever and that the age was on the verge of collapse?

A: We actually never get a direct outright method of Time Reaper's plan for doing this, from what Aeon mentions to Golem, if the Time Rift is not erased, all beings everywhere will disappear, forever, implying that it's the Time Rift causing this, this is further backed up by the fact that in Time Reaper's boss fight, there is a vortex in the background consuming everything, meaning this is an overtime feat that scales to no one physically.

Q: Shouldn't they get tier 2 for Dracula's influence destabilizing the flow of time?

A: This is a potent ability but has nothing to do with Attack Potency, there is no quantification for "destabilizing the flow of time", along with this, even if it was taken as physically, then it would be overtime as the effects are not noticeable throughout most of Curse of Darkness. Thus this is merely potent Time Manipulation.

Q: Shouldn't Dracula and by proxy anyone that scales to him get tier 2 for him being able to sustain his castle?

A: This goes under our Stabilization Feats standards, which treats sustaining feats are non-combat applicable Attack Potency normally, though in Dracula's case the Castle is speficially powered by the existence of a Dark Lord, and doesn't necessarily need their strength to rise. In the Castlevania novel, the castle rose without a Dark Lord as an example. Along with this, no one scales to the collapse of the castle, in Curse of Darkness Hector would've died to the collapse of the castle if Julia didn't come save him, and Isaac died within the castle. In other cases the Castle does not collapse, but instead slowly fades away. At the end of Dawn of Sorrow Soma Cruz and Genya Arikado (aka Alucard) must escape the collapsing abyss.

Q: Shouldn't Castlevania characters that scale to Death have Infinite speed due to Death being able to kill distance itself with his attacks?

A: Killing distance to attack is not a speed feat, it's a method of Spatial Manipulation by circumventing and ignoring distance, while one can say the attack spawns on you instantly, this is not really something quantifiable. Along with this, it would only scale to characters comparable to Death during post-Dawn of Sorrow, as Soma notes Death is far faster than he remembered from his fight with him in Dawn of Sorrow.

Battle Records

0 - 6 - 0

VictoriesLossesInconclusive

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• Leon Belmont - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Dark Palace of Waterfalls

• Leon Belmont - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Pagoda Of The Misty Moon

• Trevor Belmont, Sypha Belnades, Grant Danasty, & Alucrard - FIght
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Stage 9-04 of Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse.

• Simon Belmont - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Stage 18 of Castlevania Chronicles

• Alucard - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Outer Wall

• Stella Lecarde & Loretta Lecarde - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Nest of Evil

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Versus Threads

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