Simon Belmont

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“	The label of "hero" is just that-a label. Whether you are considered capable or useful or not is merely a product of circumstance.	„
	~ Simon to Lucy

“	To prove myself a true Belmont, even legends must fall before me.	„
	~ Simon Belmont to Alucard

Background

In the year 1691, exactly 100 years after his defeat at the hands of Christopher Belmont, Dracula started resurrecting himself once again. As the hearts of men began to darken and a cult of Dracula formed, the Dark Lord himself was resurrected on Easter Day. By this day and age, the Belmont Clan was still passing along their traditions of hard training and vampire hunting, with the newest member of the Clan to wield the Vampire Killer whip being Simon Belmont, the main playable character of Castlevania NES.

Much like his ancestors before him, Simon Belmont didn’t hesitate to take his whip and head to Dracula’s Castle; he was incredibly motivated by stories of his ancestors before him, namely Trevor and Christopher, who he hoped to live up to. Simon fought his way through Dracula’s Castle, destroying countless creatures of the night, before facing Count Dracula himself.

Although Simon was able to successfully slay the Dark Lord, unbeknownst to him, Dracula had placed a curse on Simon’s back, which would slowly kill him, in hopes of ending the Belmont bloodline for good. Unaware of this curse, Simon watched the castle crumble from far off.

Nearly a year passed, and Simon spent his days defeating any monster he saw near Transylvania, attempting to rid the land of any of Dracula’s remnants. While he was doing so, however, a strange man named Aeon appeared before him, and pulled him into a place known as the Time Rift. Here, Simon learned that there had been a convergence of time, and that a demon known as Galamoth sent his minion, the Time Reaper, to destroy the entire Castlevania time-space.

Eager to get the chance to meet heroes such as Trevor Belmont while traversing the Time Rift, Simon gladly went along with the plot. He hoped to not only save the timeline from destruction, but prove to himself that he was truly a legendary warrior, by challenging Trevor. Simon got his chance to do so, proving himself to Trevor, and finally defeating the Time Reaper. With everything done, Simon was returned to his own time, and continued hunting the demon stragglers.

Nearly six years following Simon’s adventures through the Time Rift, he began to feel incredibly weak. Kneeling at the Belmont Cemetery, he began to contemplate if he was going to soon die, and why. Out of nowhere, a mysterious woman appeared behind Simon, and informed him that seven years ago, Dracula had inflicted him with a terrible curse. She told Simon that the only way to break this curse would be to collect the body parts of Dracula, and then burn them.

Knowing this, Simon got up immediately and began searching all around Transylvania for the parts of Dracula’s body, and eventually he was able to track them all down; not without the help of a few townspeople, though. Simon finally placed the body parts at the altar and was ready to burn them, until they joined together and brought back Dracula’s soul.

Simon fought against Dracula’s Spirit as hard as he had the first time he faced the Dark Lord, and was successful in securing his defeat once again. After this hard-fought battle, Simon’s curse was finally dispersed, and he was brought back to peak health. The townspeople started looking up to Simon as the greatest hero of the age, and gathered around him, thus forming a village around the Belmont’s. This village would be where Simon’s grandson, Juste Belmont, grew up.

General Information

Name: Simon Belmont

Other Names Peter Dante (Simon was originally going to be named Peter Dante before they changed their minds)

Origin: Castlevania

First Appearance: Castlevania

Latest Appearance: Castlevania: Grimoire of Souls

Company: Konami

Creator: Hitoshi Akamatsu, Koji Igarashi

Actor

• Japanese Voice Actor: Kenichi Suzumura (Castlevania Judgment)
• English Voice Actor: Keith Silverstein (Castlevania Judgment)

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Heterosexual

Pronouns: He/Him

Age: 22 years old in Castlevania (Takes place 7 years before Castlevania II: Simon's Quest), 23 in Castlevania Judgment (Listed as such in Castlevania Judgment), 29 years old in Castlevania II: Simon's Quest (Takes place six years after Castlevania Judgment)

Birth Year: 1669 (Listed as 23 years old in Castlevania Judgment, which takes place in 1692)

Time Period: 1691 (During Castlevania), 1692 (During Castlevania Judgment), 1698 (During Simon's Quest)

Timeline: Main Timeline

Homeworld: Earth

Residence: Potentially Translyvania (The endings of Castlevania II: Simon's Quest indicates he lives in Translyvania)

Story Role: Hero

Legacy: Worldwide Legacy (Leon started a legacy of the Belmont clan to hunting the night)

Influence: World-Changing Influence (By the 15th century, Dracula was so powerful that the church failed at attempting everything in its power to rid the world of him, having no choice but to turn to Trevor Belmont for salvation), showing the Belmonts overall influence around the world, causing hope against the evil of the world)

Language: English

Classification: Vampire Hunter, Belmont Clan Member, House Belmont

Species: Human

State of Being: Regular

Physiology: Humanoid Physiology

In-Universe Creator: God

Occupation: None

Affiliations: Belmont Clan, Potentially Desmond Belmont (As he is from the late 1600s while Simon is an adult during the very end of the 1600s, Desmond is likely either Simon's dad or at the very least an uncle), Juste Belmont (As he is Juste's grandfather)

Enemies: Creatures of the Night, Dracula, Carmilla, Death

Height: 185 cm

Weight: Unknown

Status

• During his Time: Alive, Deceased in the bad endings of Castlevania II: Simon's Quest (In the bad endings of Castlevania II: Simon's Quest, Simon dies either due to his fatal wounds or due to the curse)
• Modern Time: Deceased (As he existed back in 1600s, he is naturally dead from old age)

Date of Death: Bad Endings of Simon's Quest (Non-Canon Death), Unknown (For official death)

Alignment: Neutral Good (Simon is noted by the history books to be the most noble Belmont. After seeing the immense lack of confidence and self-doubt Lucy had, Simon and Alucard went to talk with her alone and try to help her through everything)

Protection Level: Global Protector (Leon started a legacy of the Belmont clan to hunting the night. Fought and defeated Dracula, where in Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse, Dracula plans to take over all of Europe, proceeded to amass an army to kill hundreds of soldiers to take over Europe, plagued the beautiful land located in the Southern Part of Romania into darkness by having devils attack it, planned to spread his evil grip to the rest of Europe)

Codex Statistics

Key: 1691 (Castlevania 1 Games) | 1692 (Castlevania Judgment) | 1698 (Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest)

Key Information

• 1691: This key covers the time period of Simon's first adventure.
• 1692: This key covers the events of Castlevania Judgment, where Simon is pulled into a time rift.
• 1698: This covers the events of Castlevania II: Simon's Quest.

Grade: S (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) | S | S

Tier: At least 7-C, Higher with Items | At least 7-C, Higher with Items | At least 7-C, Higher with Items, Far Higher with Dracula's Nail

Cardinality: Finite

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: At least Town level (Potency) (Can fight and defeat 1600s Dracula, who 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. Can fight and defeat enemies of this size. Can fight and harm Gaibon, who causes parts of the ceiling to collapse everytime he lands. Can fight and harm Koronaut who causes the entire castle to shake and blcoks to fall from the ceiling everytime he jumps. Can harm The Creature, who just from punching a wall can cause the entire room to shake. In Super Castlevania IV every time Simon attacks The Creature it causes the entire room to shake), Higher with Items (Simon's powers increase with the other weapons and instruments he finds within the castle), Far Higher with 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) | At least Town level (Potency) (Fought and defeated the Time Reaper, a servant of Galamoth), Higher with Items, Far Higher with Sheer Will | At least Town level (Potency) (Fought and defeated 1600s Dracula where Dracula's strength increases each time he revives), Higher with Items (The Thorn Whip deals twice the damage that Simon's leather whip deals. The Chain Whip deals four times the damage that Simon's leather whip deals. The Morning Star deals eight times the damage that Simon's leather whip deals. The Flame Whip is Simon's most powerful whip), Far Higher with Dracula's Nail (Enables Simon to break blocks he can't break with his regular whip), Higher with Items, Far Higher with Sheer Will

Durability: At least Town level (Can take his from a giant of this size), Higher with Items (Simon's powers increase with the other weapons and instruments he finds within the castle), Far Higher with Sheer Will | At least Town level, Far Higher with Sheer Will | At least Town level, Far Higher with Sheer Will

Striking Strength: At least Town Class (Potency), Far Higher with Sheer Will | At least Town Class (Potency), Far Higher with Sheer Will | At least Town Class (Potency), Far Higher with Sheer Will

Lifting Strength: At least Class 10 (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, which should make them superior to Hector's Battle-Type innocent devils who can move entire tree logs that are blocking roads out of the way where logs can weigh around 15 to 5 tons and Hector's battle-type innocent devils can lift open large iron doors that "no man could force open". Superior to Trevor Belmont who is able to easily lift grown men with his whip and slam them on the ground), Far Higher with Sheer Will | At least Class 10, Far Higher with Sheer Will | At least Class 10, Far Higher with Sheer Will

Travel Speed: At least Superhuman (Can outrun a bridge falling apart while fighting enemies. Even while it comes out of nowhere. Comparable to Leon Belmont, who was able to escape Walter's Castle while running from the top floor to the entrance, before the entire structure collapsed), Far Higher with Sheer Will | At least Superhuman, Far Higher with Sheer Will | At least Superhuman, Far Higher with Sheer Will

Attack Speed: At most Faster Than Light (Can tag 1600s Dracula, who 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, making him faster then enemies such as 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), Far Higher with Sheer Will | At most Faster Than Light, Far Higher with Sheer Will | At most Faster Than Light, Far Higher with Sheer Will

Reaction Speed: At most Faster Than Light (Can avoid attacks from a giant moving so fast it leaves behind afterimages. Can dodge a shockwave attack. Can tag the Wolf Woman who moved so fast she left behind afterimages), Far Higher with Sheer Will | At most Faster Than Light, Far Higher with Sheer Will | At most Faster Than Light, Far Higher with Sheer Will

Stamina: Superhuman+ (Went through over 18 stages of Dracula's castle fighting enemies back to back without showing any signs of tiring. During his second adventure to slay Dracula, Simon was inflicted with a curse that was slowly killing him, and yet still traversed the land and defeated the Dark Lord)

Range: Standard Melee, Extended Melee with Vampire Killer (The typical whip is around 90 centimeters), Higher with Morning Star (The Morning Star enhances the range of his whip), Tens of Meters with throwing daggers and axes

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. Able to use a whip in combat, a hard weapon to be used to, to defeat various vampires. Able to solve Dracula's riddle), Higher or Lower with certain weapons (Some weapons can increase or decrease Simon's intelligence)

Knowledge: Grandmaster level (Can fight and defeat Dracula, where he was a genius tactician as Mathias, who they called "Cronqvist the Wise". Alucard notes that Simon's skill and the smell of blood makes him a Belmont to the core. Fought on rising water while the platforms were falling apart and the merman kept attacking from the water. Proceeded to fight a Skull Dragon in these conditions. Can fight against multiple enemies while walking on sinking quicksand. Climbed up a large flight of stairs while having to deal with several enemies attacked to the walls and on each platform. Climbed up a clocktower with various platforms attempting to drop him while also fighting against the enemies. Can outrun a bridge falling apart while fighting enemies. Even while it comes out of nowhere. Traveled up a stairway with enemies coming out of the blocks. Can fight and defeat a perfect clone of himself. Traveled through a forest where enemies attempt to sneak attack him through taking the form of leaves and emerge from the ground . Trevor was the one that left behind many of the fighting techniques the Belmonts use today with Richter noting that Trevor refined those fighting techniques that have been handed down through the Belmont line, making all of the Belmont & Morris line have fighting techniques refined by Trevor and greater)

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Powers and Techniques

Innate AbilitiesWith Equipment

Belmont BloodlineStandard Abilities Granted From MagicUnique Abilities

Is a member of the Belmont Bloodline, which gives him:

• 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)
  • Superhuman Strength
  • Superhuman Durability
  • Superhuman Speed
  • Superhuman Reaction
  • Superhuman Lifting
  • Superhuman Energy Efficiency
• 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. Belmonts have the ability to sense the presence of beings physical and spiritual that cannot be seen by ordinary humans)
• 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 Resistances

• 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)
  • 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 (His reincarnation is unaffected by the effects Dracula's 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 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)

• 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; 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 maneuverability around his field. Dagger Mastery; With daggers, noted to be fast and accurate 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 much worry)
  • Extreme Heat (Unaffected by candles on a chandelier falling and causing the entire 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)

Vampire KillerSub-WeaponsItems

Standard Vampire Killer AbilitiesSimon's Quest

Wields the Vampire Killer, which grants:

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 wielded 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)

• Holy Fire Manipulation (With the Flame Whip, a whip that is in completely engulfed in flames, allowing Simon to burn the wickedness into nothing. The flame whip can even work on enemies made of fire)

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• Time Stop (1-T; With the watch, completely stops everything in time. Shown again within Castlevania Chronicles with it changing the color of the environment to indicate stopped time. With Hourglass, stops enemies movements in 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)
• Holy Fire Manipulation, Heat Manipulation & Earth Manipulation (With Fire Bombs, splits the earth under the target creature, incinerating anything in its path. Also known as Holy Water and creates a fire under the area it lands. Being strong enough to easily destroy things Simon himself can destroy)
• Fire Manipulation (With Torch, throws down a torch that causes a fire pillar)
• Deconstruction (Macroscopic; The Holy Water is capable of disintegrating walls and floors, due to them being made from evil beings)
• Light Manipulation (With the cross, creates a great flash of light)
• Nullification (Barrier Nullification; With the magic cross, can break the barrier leading into Castlevania)

All previous subweapons.

• Penetration Damage (Metaphysical Penetration; With the Silver Knife, penetrates through enemies, passing through them as it damages them)
• Holy Fire Manipulation & Paralysis Manipulation (With the Sacred Flame, deals creates a fire pillar that damages and stuns enemies hit by it. This can even stun Death. The Gold Knife burst into flames upon contact with enemies and stuns them, doing repeated damage on the enemy it comes into contact with)
• Death Manipulation (With the Gold Knife a knife used by the god of death)
• Statistics Reduction (With the Gold Knife Carmilla's pupil becomes dim)
• Attack Reflection (Dracula's rib bone reflects all projectiles back)
• Nullification (Poison Negation; As he possesses Dracula's rib bone, he should have the effects of the Rib of Vlad, which has the power to negate poison)
• Extrasensory Perception (Dracula's eyeball can see invisible objects)
• Ricochet Manipulation (With the Diamond, ricochets and bounces around the walls while dealing damage to enemies)

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• Invisibility & Intangibility (Phasing; With invisibility potion, turns Simon invisible and renders him safe from harm for a few seconds. With Blue Crystal, renders Simon invisible and intangible)
• Power Modification (Limited; With double shot, allows Simon to shoot out two throwing weapons in a row as opposed to just one. With triple shot, allows Simon to shoot out three throwing weapons in a row as opposed to just one)
• Healing (With pork shop, revives a lot of Simon's health. With magic crystal, fully heals Simon. Can heal with a potion)
• Contact Damage (With Sapphire Ring, deals damages to enemies Simon walks into)
• Holy Manipulation (With the cross, destroys all enemies on screen. With Gold Cross, wipes out all enemies. Holy Water can even kill red skeletons, who revive endlessly due to their blood)
• Battlefield Removal (Application Based; With Silver Cross, prevents enemies from appearing)

All previous items.

• Nullification
  • Invisibility Nullification; With the White Crystal, reveals an invisible platform. With the Blue Crystal, reveals hidden paths at lakes along with doing what the White Crystal can do. The Red Crystal can do everything the Blue and White Crystal can do.
  • Curse Nullification; The Crystals clear the curse of the river.
• Soul Manipulation (With the Silk Bag, causes a soul/spirit to be blown into the laurels when Simon wraps them in a silk bag)
• Invulnerability (Metaphysical Invulnerability; With the Laurel, makes Simon invincible to enemy attacks, and it protects him from poisons)
• Summoning (The Red Crystal can summon a tornado)
• Water Manipulation (The Blue Crystal can drain the water from a lake, allowing Simon to traverse down it, being noted as the ground accepting/receiving the water)

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Equipment

WeaponsEquipment

Whips

• 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. This whip would be passed down to the rest of the Belmont Clan, and used to slay Dracula countless times.
  • Morning Star: An add on to the whip that increases it's power in two different stages. The first stage gives it a short chain and the second gives it a long chain.
• Flame Whip: This is a powered up version of the Vampire Killer (Morning Star) Whip, which is given the elemental attribute of fire.

Sub-Weapons

• Dagger: A collection of throwing daggers in Simon’s possession, which can be thrown at enemies at high speeds.
• Gold Knife: The knife wielded by Death himself, which he used to reap the lands and bring death to the living.
• Axe: An axe made with silver, which Simon uses to throw at his enemies.
• Fire Bomb: A jar of holy water that erupts into flames once it is released out of its container.
• Boomerang: This is a boomerang, which is shaped like a holy cross. It returns to Simon after being thrown.
• Watch: A watch that allows Simon to stop time for a brief moment, although it is costly in hearts for him to use.
• Cross: This cross works as the ultimate repellant for dark creatures, destroying all that are within Simon’s vicinity.
• Invisibility Potion: This potion not only makes Simon invisible, but also invulnerable, for a short period of time.
• Sacred Flame: This fireball not only deals incredible damage, but can paralysis an enemy in place for a second.
• Sword: A longsword that Simon wields as a secondary weapon to his whip.
• Torch: A torch that Simon throws into the ground, which explodes into a pillar of flame.
• Bomb: An explosive that Simon throws, which detonates on contact.
• Boomerang: This is a boomerang, which is shaped like a holy cross. It returns to Simon after being thrown.
• Pocket Watch: A watch that allows Simon to stop time for a brief moment.

Dracula Parts

• Dracula’s Rib: The rib bone of Count Dracula, which will deflect projectiles from enemies.
• Dracula’s Heart: The heart of Count Dracula.
• Dracula’s Eye: The eye of Count Dracula, which allows Simon to see past illusions such as fake blocks.
• Dracula’s Nail: The nail of Count Dracula, it grants Simon strength to break blocks he usually couldn’t.
• Dracula’s Ring: A ring worn by Count Dracula, the final item needed to grant access into Dracula’s Castle.

Clothing

• Simon’s Plate: A breastplate passed down through generations of Belmont’s.
• Armor: A plate of armor that Simon wears while he was inflicted by the curse placed upon him by Dracula.
• Simon’s Bandana: A bandana passed down through generations of Belmont’s.
• Cape: A large cape Simon briefly wore during his first-ever adventure. It was passed down through generations of Belmont’s.

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Notable Techniques

Whip Combos

Simon uses the whip to link both basic and advanced combos, whether stationary or in motion. Some combos move him forward or upward, giving him solid range.

Air Combos

Simon can wield the whip to strike with both vertical and horizontal lashes.

Evading Move

Simon can perform a Thumb Roll in his facing direction, allowing him to dodge any attack as long as he keeps rolling and avoids rolling out of bounds.

Binding Whip

Simon pulls the enemy toward him with a whip, setting up a base combo for either Rising Whip or Holy Ruin.

Rising Whip

Simon charges his whip and delivers an upward strike to the enemy.

Holy Ruin

A surge of energy bursts from a simple strike with Simon's whip.

Dancing Whip

Simon tosses the whip at close range; it inflicts minimal damage but can irritate the enemy.

Twisting Arrow

Simon performs a torpedo dive at his enemies, with higher jumps resulting in stronger hits.

Whip Tornado

Simon charges his whip and performs a 360-degree spin, striking all around him.

Sudden Impact

Simon charges his whip, spins it, and slams it down in front of him, piercing through all defenses with a surge of energy.

Vampire Killer (Simon Version)

Simon charges at his enemy, delivering a blow to set up the Super Finisher. As he charges his whip, the Golden Cross on his back shines brightly. He rushes at his foe, who can't comprehend his speed and power in time to block. Simon strikes his opponent five times vertically and then charges his whip again, increasing its power before delivering another ninety-three hits that create the illusion of a sphere. He concludes with two final, powerful strikes, bringing the total to 99 hits. Landing on the ground, Simon explains to his opponent the power of a Belmont.

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Other

Standard Tactics: Simon will use the vampire killer in combat along with a number of different sub-weapons and items that best suit the sitution.

Weaknesses

• Castlevania: Nothing notable.
• Castlevania II: Simon's Quest: Has been inflicted with a curse placed on him by Dracula, that kills him in the bad ending of the game.

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.

Miscellaneous Feats

• Can break open walls to find hidden items or enemies there.
• Can break stone blocks with his whip.
• Broke apart stone pillars with his whip.
• Can easily break open ice blocks with his whip.
• Can destroy full stone blocks with his whip.

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

• According to a statement made by the head director of the three Famicom Castlevania games, Hitoshi Akamatsu, the inclusion of the whip as Simon's weapon of choice is a reference to Indiana Jones.
• Simon was originally planned to be named "Peter Dante".
• Castlevania Judgment, for Nintendo's Wii, marks Simon's third appearance in a 3D fighting game, after his bouts in Battle Tryst and DreamMix TV: World Fighters. Like many of the other playable characters, Simon is also able to use his traditional sub-weapons in the game.
  • Keith Silverstein, Simon's English voice actor, also did the voice of Albus in Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia.
• The original concept behind the 2010 series reboot Castlevania: Lords of Shadow was to remake the original Castlevania starring Simon. While this idea was ultimately not followed through, Lords of Shadow's protagonist, Gabriel Belmont, wears armor which is reminiscent of Simon's artwork and sprite from Simon's Quest (confirmed in an interview by developer David Cox). This is presumably a reference to Gabriel being the first main character of a new Castlevania series, as Simon was of the original franchise.
  • Simon Belmont's sprite also appears in Lords of Shadow after enabling Cheat mode. The sprite copies Gabriel's movements.
• Simon Belmont was the initial protagonist of Paul Anderson's original script for Castlevania: The Movie. Several rewrites of this script took place and it's not known if he was still planned to make an appearance in the final cut. The project was ultimately canceled.
• At the end of the original Castlevania, the name listed in the credits under "The Hero" is Simon Belmondo, while in Simon's Quest it is consistently Simon Belmont.
• His interaction with Genya Arikado in Grimoire of Souls is technically the only time that he and Alucard directly interacted with each other canonically, as Simon and Alucard had previously interacted in Captain N: The Game Master.

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

With Castlevania NES
19-0-0

With Haunted Castle
19-0-0

With Super Castlevania IV
27-0-0

With Castlevania Chronicles
21-0-0

With Haunted Castle Revisited
19-0-0

Combined
105-0-0

VictoriesLossesInconclusive

CastlevaniaJudgmentCastlevania II: Simon's Quest

Castlevania NESVampire Killer MSXHaunted CastleSuper Castlevania IVCastlevania ChroniclesHaunted Castle Revisited

• Phantom Bat - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Stage 03 of Castlevania

• Queen Medusa - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Stage 06 of Castlevania

• Mummy Men - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Stage 09 of Castlevania

• The Creature & Igor - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Stage 12 of Castlevania

• Death - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Stage 15 of Castlevania

• Dracula - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Stage 18 of Castlevania

• Vampire Bat - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Stage 03 of Vampire Killer

• Medusa - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Stage 06 of Vampire Killer

• The Mummies - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Stage 09 of Vampire Killer

• Frankenstein’s Monster - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Stage 12 of Vampire Killer

• Death - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Stage 15 of Vampire Killer

• Dracula - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Stage 18 of Vampire Killer

• Medusa - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Stage 1 of Haunted Castle

• Skele-Dragon - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Stage 2 of Haunted Castle

• Stained-glass Knight - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Stage 3 of Haunted Castle

• Golem - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Stage 4 of Haunted Castle

• 'The Creature - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Stage 1 of Haunted Castle

• Dracula - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Stage 1 of Haunted Castle

• Rowdain Skeleton - Fight
  • Coniditons: None.
  • Location: Block 1-3 of Super Castlevania IV

• Medusa - Fight
  • Coniditons: None.
  • Location: Block 2-2 of Super Castlevania IV

• Orphic Vipers - Fight
  • Coniditons: None.
  • Location: Block 3-3 of Super Castlevania IV

• Puweyxil - Fight
  • Coniditons: None.
  • Location: Block 4-1 of Super Castlevania IV

• Koranot - Fight
  • Coniditons: None.
  • Location: Block 4-4 of Super Castlevania IV

• The Dancers - Fight
  • Coniditons: None.
  • Location: Block 6-3 of Super Castlevania IV

• Lord Grakul - Fight
  • Coniditons: None.
  • Location: Block 7-2 of Super Castlevania IV

• The Creature - Fight
  • Coniditons: None.
  • Location: Block 8-2 of Super Castlevania IV

• Golden Bat - Fight
  • Coniditons: None.
  • Location: Block 8-2 of Super Castlevania IV

• The Mummy - Fight
  • Coniditons: None.
  • Location: Block A-2 of Super Castlevania IV

• Slogra - Fight
  • Coniditons: None.
  • Location: Block B-3 of Super Castlevania IV

• Gaibon - Fight
  • Coniditons: None.
  • Location: Block B-3 of Super Castlevania IV

• Death - Fight
  • Coniditons: None.
  • Location: Block B-3 of Super Castlevania IV

• Dracula - Fight
  • Coniditons: None.
  • Location: Block B-4 of Super Castlevania IV

• Giant Bat - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Stage 03 of Castlevania Chronicles

• Skull Dragon - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Stage 06 of Castlevania Chronicles

• Wizard - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Stage 09 of Castlevania Chronicles

• Medusa - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Stage 12 of Castlevania Chronicles

• Wolf Woman - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Stage 15 of Castlevania Chronicles

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

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

• Dracula - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Stage 24 of Castlevania Chronicles

• Medusa - Fight
  • Conditions: None
  • Location: Stage 1 of Haunted Castle Revisited

• Skeleton Snake - Fight
  • Conditions: None
  • Location: Stage 2 of Haunted Castle Revisited

• Stained Glass Warrior - Fight
  • Conditions: None
  • Location: Stage 3 of Haunted Castle Revisited

• Golem - Fight
  • Conditions: None
  • Location: Stage 4 of Haunted Castle Revisited

• The Creature - Fight
  • Conditions: None
  • Location: Stage 5 of Haunted Castle Revisited

• Dracula - Fight
  • Conditions: None
  • Location: Stage 6 of Haunted Castle Revisited

• Aeon - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Time Rift

• Carmilla - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Time Rift
  • Note: Fights against characters in the time rift are technically not the actual characters but one's desires being made within the time rift, such as why some characters like Dracula kill others in their story mode but the characters is alive and defeats Time Reaper in their own story mode, never meeting Dracula.

• Eric Lecarde - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Time Rift
  • Note: Fights against characters in the time rift are technically not the actual characters but one's desires being made within the time rift, such as why some characters like Dracula kill others in their story mode but the characters is alive and defeats Time Reaper in their own story mode, never meeting Dracula.

• Sypha Belnades - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Time Rift
  • Note: Fights against characters in the time rift are technically not the actual characters but one's desires being made within the time rift, such as why some characters like Dracula kill others in their story mode but the characters is alive and defeats Time Reaper in their own story mode, never meeting Dracula.

• Maria Renard - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Time Rift
  • Note: Fights against characters in the time rift are technically not the actual characters but one's desires being made within the time rift, such as why some characters like Dracula kill others in their story mode but the characters is alive and defeats Time Reaper in their own story mode, never meeting Dracula.

• Grant Danasty - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Time Rift
  • Note: Fights against characters in the time rift are technically not the actual characters but one's desires being made within the time rift, such as why some characters like Dracula kill others in their story mode but the characters is alive and defeats Time Reaper in their own story mode, never meeting Dracula.

• Shanoa - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Time Rift
  • Note: Fights against characters in the time rift are technically not the actual characters but one's desires being made within the time rift, such as why some characters like Dracula kill others in their story mode but the characters is alive and defeats Time Reaper in their own story mode, never meeting Dracula.

• Cornell - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Time Rift
  • Note: Fights against characters in the time rift are technically not the actual characters but one's desires being made within the time rift, such as why some characters like Dracula kill others in their story mode but the characters is alive and defeats Time Reaper in their own story mode, never meeting Dracula.

• Trevor Belmont - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Time Rift
  • Note: Fights against characters in the time rift are technically not the actual characters but one's desires being made within the time rift, such as why some characters like Dracula kill others in their story mode but the characters is alive and defeats Time Reaper in their own story mode, never meeting Dracula.

• Aeon - [1]
  • Conditions: Match was a rematch.
  • Location: Time Rift

• Time Reaper - Fight
  • Conditions: Match was a rematch.
  • Location: Time Rift

• Vampira - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Laruba Mansion

• Death - Fight
  • Conditions: The match was a rematch.
  • Location: Brahams Mansion

• Dracula - Fight
  • Conditions: The match was a rematch.
  • Location: Dracula's Castle

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