Pumpkin

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Pumpkin is a secret playable character in Castlevania: Lament of Innocence. The character can be unlocked by completing Joachim Mode. Pumpkin also appears as an Innocent Devil in Castlevania: Curse of Darkness and Castlevania: Labyrinth of Love.

Pumpkin
Agender Lament of InnocenceCurse of Darkness Level 1Level 2Level 3 “ It's me, Pumpkin! Thanks for the invite! I'll do my best to help you out! „ QueenBloodyTiny KingClown NoseNew Deli “ It's me, Pumpkin! I was aiming for a more grown-up feel, but I'm only a kid and not sure what that is! „ “ It's me, Pumpkin! Don't worry, I'm not injured. This is all fake blood. „ “ It's me, Pumpkin! My horse, my horse, my tiny kingdom for a horse... no, that's not right... „ “ It's me, Pumpkin! I wanted to be a clown, but could only find this nose. Still, pretty cool, isn't it? „ “ It's me, Pumpkin! I've recently become addicted to spices. But I still hate spicy hot food. „ Cursed PumpkinWhimsical AngelGenius Chef “ Quote „ ~ It's me, Pumpkin! Actually, I'm a genius in the kitchen. Pumpkin pie is my specialty. I'm starving! “ It's me, Pumpkin! I'm being as good as an angel. So go on, buy me a new toy. Please, please, please! „ “ It's me, Pumpkin! This costume, when I've finally got it all on, just makes me wanna be bad! „
Origin
Origin	Castlevania: Lament of Innocence
Creator	Koji Igarashi
First Appearance	Castlevania: Lament of Innocence
Characteristics
Species	Pumpkin, Plant
Gender	Agender
Pronouns	It/They
Sexuality	Unknown
Age	Unknown
Height	Unknown
Weight	Unknown
Status	Alive
Alignment	Lawful Neutral
Occupation	None
Time Period	1094 (Lament of Innocence), 1479 (Curse of Darkness)
Language	Common Language
Homeworld	Earth
Relationships
Affiliations	Rinaldo Gandolfi, Hector
Enemies	Dracula, Death, Isaac

Background

Pumpkin wields a unique sub-weapon, aptly named after itself. Unusually, this sub-weapon bypasses Death's defenses, making it the only one in Castlevania: Lament of Innocence that can be effectively used against him. True to the tradition of secret characters in Koji Igarashi's Castlevania games, Pumpkin is designed with a comedic twist—it has exceptionally low health yet possesses extraordinary super-strength, blending humor with its formidable power.

Appearance

General Description: Pumpkin is a small, round creature resembling a carved pumpkin with a simple, smiling jack-o'-lantern face. It has a short, humanoid body and stubby limbs proportionate to its size.

Facial Features: Its face is carved into the pumpkin’s surface, featuring two triangular eyes and a jagged mouth that emits a faint glow.

Clothing/Outfit: Pumpkin’s body is wrapped in a small, dark cloak that drapes over its shoulders, leaving its pumpkin head fully visible.

Special Features: The most distinct feature is its oversized pumpkin head, which defines its overall appearance.

Alternate Forms/Disguises: Different Pumpkin-type Innocent Devils share similar features, with variations in color, accessories, and detailing depending on their evolution form.

General Information

Name: Pumpkin

Other Names: Queen, Bloody, Tiny King, Clown Nose, New Deli, Cursed Pumpkin, Whimsical Angel, Genius Chef

Origin: Castlevania: Lament of Innocence

First Appearance: Castlevania: Lament of Innocence

Latest Appearance: Castlevania: Curse of Darkness (Latest canonical appearance), Vampire Survivors

Company: Konami

Creator: Koji Igarashi

Gender: Agender (Pumpkin likely has no true identification, as they turned themself into a Queen purely for a more "Grown-up feel" while also making themself a Tiny King)

Assigned Gender: Unknown

Sexuality: Unknown

Pronouns: It/They

Age: Unknown (Despite calling themself a kid, they've been alive since Lament of Innocence, meaning they've been alive for over hundreds of years)

Time Period: 1094 (During Lament of Innocence), 1479 (During Curse of Darkness)

Timeline: Main Timeline

Homeworld: Earth

Residence: Walter's Castle (In Lament of Innocence), Julia's Shop (In Curse Of Darkness; Hector and all of his Innocent Devils decided to stay with Julia in her shop at the end of Curse of Darkness)

Story Role: Hidden Playable Character, Supporting Protagonist

Legacy: Worldwide Legacy (Pumpkin is noted to be a legendary hero)

Influence: Event Influencer (Fought and defeated Walter Bernhard, the original dark lord before Dracula)

Language: Common Language

Classification: Innocent Devil, Pumpkin-Type, Devils

Species: Pumpkin, Plant

State of Being: Regular

Physiology: Pumpkin Physiology

In-Universe Creator: Chaos (In Lament of Innocence), Hector (In Curse of Darkness)

Occupation: None

Affiliations: Rinaldo Gandolfi (Shown in his ending to be acquainted with Rinaldo Gandolfi), Hector

Enemies: Draucla (As innocent devils are loyal to their master, any one that is their masters enemy is their enemy), Death, Isaac

Height: Unknown

Weight: Unknown

Status: Alive

Alignment: Lawful Neutral (Innocent Devils have absolute loyalty to their creator and thus will follow whatever they decide)

Codex Statistics

Grade: A (Innocent Devils provide status enhancements to Hector, with Innocent Devils like Pumpkin greatly boosting all of Hector's stats)

Tier: 7-C

Cardinality: Finite

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: Town level (Potency) (Wields the Vampire Killer, a whip that is the bane of the children of the night. In its alternate continuity Pumpkin mode it is capable of fighting and defeating the likes of 1000s Death, where Alucard notes that Death is a force to be reckoned with, where not one other of Dracula's henchman being able to compare, Dracula also serves as the absolute evil, the opposite to God, where for God to be perfectly good, there must be a being of perfect darkness, being the entity opposite to God, with such power making him far superior to Golem from Castlevania Judgment, as he died to a random unknown hunter after his return from the time rift. Golem with his ultimate can shoot out a mouth blast that vaporizes everything it touches as far as the eye can see getting these results)

Durability: Town level

Striking Strength: Town Class (Potency)

Lifting Strength: Unknown: True Class

Travel Speed: Unknown: True level

Attack Speed: At most Faster Than Light (Can tag 1000s Death, where Alucard notes that Death is a force to be reckoned with, where not one other of Dracula's henchman being able to compare, which should make him far superior to enemies like the Sky Fish, who moves so fast that it appears as a beam of light and is only slowed down when time is stopped and the White Demon, who can move at the speed of light at short distances)

Reaction Speed: At most Faster Than Light

Stamina: Superhuman

Range: Below Standard Melee physically, Extended Melee with Vampire Killer (The typical whip is around 90 centimeters), Several Meters with Pumpkin Attacks

Intelligence: Genius Intelligence (Able to utilize sub-weapons that possess great attack and power which in Castlevania requires one to have a high intelligence to be able to do)

Knowledge: Novice level (Does not understand much and is treated like a kid)

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Powers and Techniques

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Creatures of Chaos AbilitiesInnocent Devil Physiology

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 (Mid-Godly overtime; 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, with this state being referred to as a "regeneration cycle")
• 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)

Superhuman Physical Characteristics (Innocent Devils receive their powers from a devil forgemaster transferring the energy into their shells, the more powerful the devil, the larger its power to stabilize), Accelerated Development (Leveling, Physical Stats and Abilities; Innocent Devils level up with experience points by defeating enemies), Evolution & Absorption (Through Innocent Devils absorbing "evolution crystals", they will evolve, having their from change and obtaining new types of abilities), Bestowal (Innocent Devils are mystical untainted familiars created by a devil forgemaster that grants status enhancements), Regeneration (Low-Godly; Innocent Devils will revert to their soul form if they lose all hearts, if the devil forgetmsaster gathers enough hearts for them the Innocent Devils soul can then be restored to material form), Immortality (Life and Death Immunity; Innocent Devils are unable to die no matter the attack), Teleportation (As one executes certain combos, the word "chain" may appear, if they chains correctly, the Innocent Devil will warp in front and add a cooperative attack), Creation (Innocent Devils will occassionally create "Devil Shards", which can be used to create new Innocent Devils).

Resistance to Mind Manipulation & Domination (Innocent Devils have absolute loyalty to their creator)

Standard Abilities Granted From MagicLament of InnocenceCurse of Darkness

• 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)

Weapon Mastery (Whip Mastery; Pumpkin can use the Vampire Killer in combat), Acrobatics (Pumpkin is capable of easily doing backflips and sidesteps), Multiple Jumps (Pumpkin is able to double jump), Perfect Guard & Power Absorption (Pumpkin is able to perfectly block attacks and absorb the power from them to use for their magic), Nullification (Status Nullification; Pumpkin's perfect guard functions exactly the same as Leon's perfect guard with the amulet where blocking with the Amulet allows Leon to block and absorb status effect moves, such as the gargoyles petrification beams along with Medusa's petrification light), Non-Standard Interaction (Abstract Interaction; Can interact with Death with its sub-weapons being able to bypass Death's defenses. 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), Explosion Manipulation (Pumpkin's regular attacks has him throw pumpkins that bounce and explode), Fire Manipulation (Can kick fast enough to the ground to set his legs on fire).

Resistance to Dracula's Castle (Can move around in and fight in Dracula's Castle back when it was owned by Walter and alongside Hector) 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)

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All previous powers and abilities, Human Achievements (Genius Chef Pumpkin is a genius in the kitchen, with pumpkin pie being his speciality)

Wields the Vampire Killer, which grants:

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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. Death decides who lives and who dies. 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)

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Power Modification (Orbs can combine with the sub-weapon in question to create completely new abilities from them they would not have otherwise)

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Explosion Manipulation (With Large Pumpkin, the Pumpkin + Red Orb combo, a larger pumpkin is made and bounces on the ground twice before exploding)

Homing Attack, Curtain Fire (Mutli-Directional), & Explosion Manipulation (With Pumpkin Missile, the Pumpkin + Purple Orb combo, seven pumpkins appear and are sent out one after the other, homing in on the target)

Size Manipulation & Explosion Manipulation (With Shock Pumpkin, the Pumpkin + Blue Orb Combo, drops a massive pumpkin that explodes)

Penetration Damage (Physical Penetration; With Rampage Pumpkin, the Pumpkin + Green Orb Combo, Pumpkin dashes forwards inside a massive pumpkin, slicing through any enemy he encounters)

Light Manipulation & Curtain Fire (Multi-Directional; With Grand Pumpkin, the Pumpkin + Yellow Orb Combo, a series of massive pumpkins spirals upwards around Pumpkin)

Explosion Manipulation (With Spread Pumpkin, the Pumpkin + White Orb Combo, a pumpkin is shot forward and explodes upon contact as a massive pumpkin)

Contact Damage & Curtain Fire (Directional; With Pumpkin Serpent, the Pumpkin + Black Orb Combo, a stream of dozens of small pumpkins led b a massive one moves around in a snake-like path)

Blessed (The Earth plate is blessed by the Earth), Damage Reduction (The Earth plate reduces damage by 5%. The Meteor Plate reduces damage by 10%. With Moonlight Plate, a magical plate that reduces daamge from enemies by 20%. With Solar Plate, a sun plate that reduces damage from enemies by 30%)

Nullification (Poison Nullification; With Anti-Poison Ring, has a 75% chance of nullifying special effects of poison attacks. Curse Nullification; With Cleric's Ring, has a 75% chance of nullifying special effects of curse attacks. Petrification Nullification; With Perseus' Ring, has a 75% chance of nullifying special effects of petrification attacks. Damage Nullification; With Talisman, a talisman that sometimes negates damamge from enemy attacks), Death Transferral (With Bloody Cape, converts any damage Pumpkin takes into hearts. With Sacrificial Doll, it will die instead of Pumpkin if Pumpkin is hit with a killing attack), Statistics Boost (With Aroma Earring, a wonderful scene that calms the mind and increases intelligence. With Assassin Necklace, critical hit for more damage than normal attacks. With Brisingamen, increases the usage time of relics. With Draupnir, an arm ring with magic to improve attack power. With Megingjord, the less health Pumpkin has, the greater damage they inflict. With Qigong Belt, by controlling the flow of chi, increases Pumpkin's constitution), Magnetism Manipulation (With Magnetic Necklace, scattered money will be gathered automatically), Sound Manipulation (With Piko-Piko Hammer, improves the sound effect of Pumpkin's whip), Supernatural Luck (With Raccoon Charm, a charm that brings great fortune).

Resistance to Ice Manipulation & Absolute Zero (With Artic Ring, a ring with magic to make Pumpkin more resistance to ice attacks. Along with this to protect against ice attacks in series, one normally wears rings that help them resist against absolute zero), Fire Manipulation & Heat Manipulation (With Ring of Fire, a ring that makes Pumpkin more resistant to fire attacks), Electricity Manipulation (With Ring of Thunder, a ring that makes Pumpkin more resistant to lightning attacks)

Statistics Boost (With Black Bishop, a chess piece that increases Pumpkin's attack temporarily. With White Bishop, a chess piece that increases Pumpkin's defense temporarily. With Wolf's Foot, lets Pumpkin run fast like a wolf), Contact Damage (Aura; With Lucifer Sword, creates an aura around Pumpkin that damages any enemies that come into contact with them), Light Manipulation & Invisibility (With Crystal Skull, unbelievable technology allowing Pumpkin to disappear by bending light), Perception Manipulation (With Crystal Skull, enemies cannot detect Pumpkin while their invisible even if Pumpkin attacks them they will not notice), Creation (With Little Hammer, produces money everytime it hits), Restoration (With Meditative Incense, the incesne burned by magic gradually recovers Pumpkin's hearts), Fire Manipulation (With Svarog Statue, flames sprout from Pumpkin's footsteps), Invulnerability (With Invincible Jar, invincible to all enemy attacks), Regeneration (With Saisei Incense, the incense burned by magic gradually recovers Pumpkin's health)

Healing (With potion, medine that recovers 50 health. With High Potion, medicine that recovers 100 heath. With Super Potion, medicine that recovers health fully. With Big Meat, recovers health. With Neapolitan, recovers health. With Shortcake, restores health. With Small Meat, restores health. With Tomato Juice, recovers health), Restoration (With Heart Repair, medicine that recovers hearts. With Mana Prism, recovers magic), Statistics Boost (With HP Max Up, increases the amount of Pumpkin's maximum health. With Heart Max Up, increases the amount of Pumpkin's maximum heart count. With MP Max Up, increases the amount of Pumpkin's maximum magic), Purification (With Serum, recovers from poison. With Uncurse Potion, medicine that purges curses), Holy Manipulation & One Hit KO (With Rosario, a holy item that instantly destroys all enemies on screen), Teleportation (With Magical Ticket, enables Pumpkin to transport to the front of Rinaldo's house. With Memorial Ticket, will teleport Pumpkin back to the last save point they accessed), Light Manipulation (With Marker Stones, can place a mark on the map with a magical stone that shines a color depending on the specific marker stone)

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Equipment

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• Vampire Killer: The complete form of the Whip of Alchemy, infused with the soul of Sara Trantoul. It can slay anything related to the vampires, including gods such as Death. This whip would be passed down to the rest of the Belmont Clan, and used to slay Dracula countless times.

Orbs

• Black Orb: A glowing magical black orb dropped by the Forgotten one, Pumpkin can combine this with their sub-weapons for special attacks.
• Blue Orb: A glowing magical blue orb dropped by the Undead Parasite, Pumpkin can combine this with their sub-weapons for special attacks.
• Green Orb: A glowing magical green orb dropped by Joachim, Pumpkin can combine this with their sub-weapons for special attacks.
• Purple Orb: A glowing magical purple orb dropped by Medusa, Pumpkin can combine this with their sub-weapons for special attacks.
• Red Orb: A glowing magical red orb dropped by Golem, Pumpkin can combine this with their sub-weapons for special attacks.
• Yellow Orb: A glowing magical yellow orb dropped by Succubus, Pumpkin can combine this with their sub-weapons for special attacks.
• White Orb: A glowing magical white orb found in the Anti-Soul Mysteries Lab, Pumpkin can combine this with their sub-weapons for special attacks.

Clothing

• Earth Plate: Armor plating blessed by the earth. It reduces all damage received by 5%.
• Meteor Plate: A starlight plate that reduces enemy damage by 10%.
• Moonlight Plate: A beautiful plate of armor that reduces enemy damage by 20%.
• Solar Plate: Leon's best plate of armor, which reduces all damage received by 30%.
• Anti-Poison Ring: A green ring that protects Leon by nullifying 75% of poison damage.
• Arctic Ring: A blue ring that increases resistances to ice attacks.
• Cleric's Ring: A purple ring that protects Leon by nullifying 75% of a curse.
• Perseus's Ring: A grey ring that reduces the chances of petrification by 75%.
• Ring of Fire: A red ring that increases resistances to fire attacks.
• Ring of Thunder: A yellow ring that increases resistances to electric attacks.

Items

• Potion: Restores Pumpkin's a small amount of health.
• High Potion: Restores Pumpkin's a large amount of health.
• Super Potion: Completely restores Pumpkin's health.
• Serum: Medicine that completely cures poison.
• Uncurse Potion: Medicine that completely purges a curse.
• Aroma Earring: Earrings that release a pleasant scent, which calms the mind and increases intelligence.
• Magnetic Necklace: A necklace that draws in metal (specifically coins) scattered around. It also improves blood circulation.
• Megingjord: The less health Pumpkin has when wearing this, the more power they output on enemies.
• Sacrificial Doll: When Pumpkin is defeated, this doll will keep them alive and take their place in death.

Relics

• Black Bishop: A chess piece carved in detail out of ebony. It will increase your attack temporarily. Found in the first floor of the House of Sacred Remains.
• Crystal Skull: Unbelievable technology that allows you to disappear by bending light. Dropped by the Phantom.
• Invincible Jar: Invincible for a time, dropped by Mirage Skeleton.
• Little Hammer: Little hammer that grants wishes. Producers money every time it hits. Found in the second basement of the Dark Palace of Waterfalls.
• Lucifer's Sword: Unleashes an attack wave. Ornamental piece not suited for battle. Found in the second floor of the Ghostly Theater.
• Meditative Incense: This incense burned by magic gradually recovers your hearts. Found in the Dark Palace of Waterfalls (coin-collecting mine shaft ride).
• Saisei Incense: The incense burned by magic gradually recovers your health. Found in the second floor of the Garden Forgotten by Time.
• Svarog Statue: A statue in the image of the fire god. Flames sprout in your footsteps. Found in the first floor of the Castle Entrance.
• White Bishop: A chess piece carved in detail out of ivory. It will increase your defense temporarily. Found in Rinaldo's Shop.
• Wolf's Foot: Lets you run fast like a wolf. Also allows you to jump farther than normal. Found in the third floor of the Anti-Soul Mysteries Lab.

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Notable Techniques

Lament of InnocenceCurse of Darkness

Orb	Name	Create	Effect
Red Orb	Large Pumpkin	Pumpkin + Red Orb	A larger pumpkin is thrown in an upward arc, which bounces along the ground twice before exploding. Its explosion covers a greater area.
Purple Orb	Pumpkin Missile	Pumpkin + Purple Orb	7 pumpkins appear in a half-circle formation in front of Pumpkin and are sent out one after the other, seeking out targets.
Blue Orb	Shock Pumpkin	Pumpkin + Blue Orb	A massive pumpkin falls from above onto the ground. Beams of light are then emitted from it before exploding.
Green Orb	Rampage Pumpkin	Pumpkin + Green Orb	Pumpkin dashes forwards quickly inside a massive pumpkin, slicing through any enemy he encounters.
Yellow Orb	Grand Pumpkin	Pumpkin + Yellow Orb	A series of massive pumpkins spirals upward around Pumpkin.
White Orb	Spread Pumpkin	Pumpkin + White Orb	A pumpkin is shot forward, which explodes upon contact as a massive pumpkin.
Black Orb	Pumpkin Serpent	Pumpkin + Black Orb	A stream of dozens of small pumpkins led by a massive one moves around in a snake-like path for 8 seconds before flying off the screen. When they ram into a target, they may move on to another once that one is destroyed.

Pose

Pose is an Innocent Devil ability featured in Castlevania: Curse of Darkness. It is exclusively used by all Pumpkin-Type Innocent Devils. This ability does not require any Hearts to cast, but it is considered the least effective ability in the game in terms of combat. Despite its utility in no resource consumption, it offers minimal impact during battles, making it largely useless in practical terms. All Pumpkin does with this skill is several poses.

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Other

Standard Tactics: Pumpkin due to its sheer nature as a childish pumpkin being is a wild card, using whatever it feels like doing.

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.
• Innocent Devil Weaknesses: When an Innocent Devil performs a special ability, its heart energy will be consumed, when all hearts are consumed, the Innocent Devil will no longer be able to perform any actions until it acquires more hearts.

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

• If Pumpkin stands still, it will hum Joachim's theme song, Melancholy Joachim.
• Pumpkin's dying cries are actually Joachim's cries in the English voice setting, only sped up. This happens in both games for the PlayStation 2, regardless of the voice language setting.
• Pumpkin reappears in Castlevania: Curse of Darkness and Castlevania: Labyrinth of Love (pachinko game) as an Innocent Devil.
  • The Pumpkin Mace also refers to him, describing him as a "legendary hero". This would imply that his section in Lament of Innocence has some continuity to it.
  • Pumpkin also inspired the Pumpkin Head equipment item.
• The description of the Pumpkin Mace in Castlevania: Curse of Darkness refers to a "legendary hero". This is obviously a reference to the character Pumpkin from Castlevania: Lament of Innocence, who was the third playable character unlocked.
• Pumpkin wears the Prince's Clothes.
• Pumpkin-Types are adapted from the character of the same name from Castlevania: Lament of Innocence, and is described as an "legendary hero" in Curse of Darkness.

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

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