Netflix’s Castlevania franchise is full of tragedy, but no character’s story is more tragic than Alucard’s. Despite being one of the franchise’s main heroes, directors Sam and Adam Deats certainly demonstrate a penchant for putting him through pain. Alucard’s whole story in Castlevania can be summed up in four words: he didn’t deserve that.
Across four seasons of Castlevania and two seasons of Castlevania: Nocturne, Alucard does nothing wrong beyond bickering with Trevor or Richter. All he ever tries to do is be the good man his mother raised him to be and try to protect humanity, yet his life has been overflowing with suffering since the day his mother died.
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Alucard Endures the Loss of His Mother Without His Father
Castlevania Season 1, Episode 1 “Witchbottle”
The debut episode of Netflix’s Castlevania series is heartwarming, tragic, and shocking all in under 25 minutes. Fans see the very first moments Dracula and his wife begin falling in love, only to ruin the moment shortly afterward with her unjust execution. To punish the humans of Targoviste for his dear wife’s murder, Dracula unleashes his hellish army of Night Creatures across Wallachia, which leads to one of the bloodiest animated scenes in Netflix history. To say that Dracula’s grief and rage are palpable is a gross understatement.
While Dracula’s rage is the very foundation of the original Castlevania TV series, audiences never had never seen Alucard mourn his mother. It’s obvious in later episodes that he adores Lisa just as much as Dracula did. While it isn’t on-screen, fans can certainly expect that Alucard is hit with just as much anger and sorrow as his father after her death. The tragedy of the situation is compounded by the fact that the two did not have the chance to mourn her together.
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Alucard’s Father Hurts Him For Trying to Save his Mother’s People
Castlevania Season 1, Episode 1 “Witchbottle”
Alucard loves and cherishes both of his parents, even if his appearance and worldview mostly reflect the influence of his mother, Lisa. He was in just as much pain as Dracula was, if not more. In addition to coping with his mother’s death, Alucard had to talk his own father down from his murderous grief. Unfortunately, Dracula was in no mood to tolerate a single word of disagreement in the wake of his vengeance.
In Castlevania Episode 1, fans see a mysterious figure attempt to stop Dracula before the coils of his fury can fully grip him. Alucard is later revealed as the figure whom Dracula silenced all because he attempted to convince his father that violence wasn’t the answer. As if losing his mother wasn’t enough, Alucard practically loses both parents once his father injures him as he desperately tries to enforce the ideals and wishes of the mother he loved.
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Alucard Makes the Difficult Decision to Kill His Father
Castlevania Season 1, Episode 4 “Monument”
The injuries Alucard sustains during the fight with Dracula end up being bad enough to put him in a coma. He then gets taken to the catacombs beneath Gresit to be hidden away. During the period that Alucard is unconscious, the legend of “The Sleeping Soldier” takes root. This legend is the very reason Sypha ventures into the dangerous underground. The story of the Sleeping Soldier speaks of how he would vanquish the devil who brought hell upon Wallachia.
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Once Trevor and Sypha eventually wake him from his sleep, Alucard immediately attacks them. They engage in a short skirmish that ends with Alucard deeming Trevor and Sypha suitable candidates to help him on his mission to kill Dracula. He later laments the situation in Castlevania‘s Season 2 premiere, but the most heartbreaking thing is that Alucard had already been testing Trevor and Sypha’s skills in their initial fight. This implies that killing his own father was something he had already resolved to do long ago, while the wound of his mother’s death was still fresh.
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Alucard’s Friends Leave Him to Bear His Father’s Death Alone
Castlevania Season 2, Episode 8 “End Times”
Throughout the earliest seasons of Netflix’s Castlevania, Alucard has an unshakable resolve to save humanity by killing his father. He never falters, nor does he ever seem to show any hesitation. The reality of what he has to do doesn’t hit him until the very last moment of Castlevania’s most decisive battle, where Dracula himself is caught in a nostalgic trance as he gazes upon Alucard’s childhood bedroom. During Dracula’s remorseful trance, Alucard finally hesitates before choosing to put his father out of his misery.
What absolutely breaks fans’ hearts even more is the fact that Trevor and Sypha leave without helping Alucard grieve. Fans see Alucard unravel in his grief alone, with no support. Alucard isn’t one to wear his heart on his sleeve, but that’s what makes the moment that he finally allows himself to cry so powerful. The family he loved had completely fallen to ruin, and the friends that he relied on did not stay even a day to help him recover from all that trauma.
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Alucard Makes Dolls Resembling His Friends to Feel Less Lonely
Castlevania Season 3, Episode 1 “Bless Your Dead Little Hearts”
In the wake of his father’s demise, Alucard is left with both the Belmont Family home and Dracula’s castle to watch over. He now has everything he could ever need to sustain himself, but he’s still completely alone with nobody in either home to interact with. Even as Alucard fishes peacefully in the streams nearby, it’s obvious how much he misses his friends.
Alucard’s mentality deteriorates so much in isolation that he makes dolls resembling Trevor and Sypha, the only friends he had ever known at that point. The loneliness weighs on him so much that he speaks to the dolls as though they were the real thing. Alucard is in such desperate need of interaction that he makes himself vulnerable to complete strangers before properly gauging their trustworthiness.
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Sumi & Taka Brutally Betray Alucard With False Friendship
Castlevania Season 3, Episode 10 “Abandon All Hope”
During Alucard’s period of isolation in Castlevania Season 3, he is eventually discovered by a pair of hunters. Hunters Sumi and Taka, humans taken captive by the vampire Cho in Castlevania Season 2. They traveled long and far to find Alucard, and he immediately welcomes them out of a desire for connection after so much time alone. The three grow closer suspiciously fast, but Alucard overlooks it as he soaks up the joy of companionship once more.
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To everyone’s shock, Sumi and Taka were intentionally taking advantage of Alucard’s vulnerability. The pair noticed just how much he needed closeness and offered him intimacy, but only as a ruse to lower his guard and kill him. Their brutal betrayal breaks fans’ hearts for Alucard all over again. Alucard offers his home and kindness to strangers, only to be deceived in the most despicable way.
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Alucard’s Childhood Home Becomes a War Zone For the Second Time
Castlevania Season 4, Episode 8 “Death Magic”
The final episodes of Castlevania’s last season cover a trio of epic battles, one of which takes place within Alucard’s castle. Alucard had initially offered his home as refuge for the denizens of the nearby village of Danesti to keep them safe from the impending attack of vampires and night creatures. It’s an idea he’s hesitant about, but Alucard still opens his childhood home to people who need it.
The place that had once been Alucard’s sanctuary becomes a war zone for the second time when Dragan attacks. Many of the people he wanted to protect were mercilessly slaughtered during the siege. Alucard is betrayed yet again when Saint Germain takes advantage of the chaos to enact his plan to gain control of the Infinite Corridor. Worst of all, Alucard’s childhood bedroom would be turned into an altar for a ritual to resurrect his parents from the dead.
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Saint Germain Traumatizes Alucard With His Parents’ Death All Over Again
Castlevania Season 4, Episode 9 “The Endings”
In the final season of Castlevania, Saint Germain attempts to create the Rebis by summoning Dracula and Lisa’s souls from hell. Once their souls are placed inside the Rebis, Dracula will forever be haunted by his wife’s agonized screams in this new form. Death intends to drive Dracula to an irreversible point of madness so he can wreak havoc across the world once again. The spell is almost complete before Trevor destroys the Rebis vessel in the nick of time.
Unfortunately, Alucard had already witnessed the torture that his mother and father endured, and it had barely been a year since Alucard killed his father. Although he was relieved that the creation of the Rebis had failed, he had to witness the suffering of his parents before they were killed all over again. Alucard continues to believe that his parents are gone for good, as he never finds out that the entire ordeal brings Dracula and Lisa back to life in separate forms.
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Alucard Stays Loyal to the Belmont Line For Centuries
Castlevania: Nocturne Season 2, Episode 8 “A Line of Great Heroes”
In Castlevania: Nocturne, the spin-off that takes place 300 years after the events of the original Castlevania series, Alucard takes more of a backseat to the plot. However, that doesn’t mean Alucard’s life is void of any pain or sorrow. He’s been a devoted ally to the Belmont family line for centuries. It’s a role he had assumed happily, but given his immortality, Alucard has more than likely watched his friends’ descendants die one after another.
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Alucard makes this claim himself in the finale of Castlevania: Nocturne Season 2. The Belmonts never stopp vampire hunting, and so many of them likely met tragic and premature deaths. The grief eats away at Alucard enough that he has to distance himself from the Belmonts because he grows exhausted from watching them disappear. For Alucard, it may be like watching Trevor and Sypha die countless times over.
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Alucard has Suffered the Pain of Losing Love to Death More Than Once
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Alucard isn’t exempt from the consequences of immortality. He’s doomed to outlive the vast majority of the people he meets, which means any romances that come to fruition will always end with him mourning. Castlevania: Nocturne’s rendition of Olrox unsurprisingly suffers the same fate. However, Olrox is never above turning his lovers into vampires so they can live on with him eternally.
In Castlevania: Nocturne Season 2, Episode 6, Alucard admits to falling in love “countless times.” As far as fans know, he never turned them into vampires. Alucard is no stranger to how much it hurts to lose a loved one, and the audience witnesses the pain of it through Olrox. If Alucard has fallen in love more than once in the past 300 years, then he’s endured the full spectrum of grief with each devastating loss.
