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Contents • • • • • • • • Conception and design [ ] Alucard debuted in for the, where he was designed by T. Fujimoto and I. He was intended to be a mirror image of his father, as evidenced by his name, his father's name spelled backwards. Much of the original artwork for the game was lost during the. Alucard's subsequent appearances would largely be designed by, who managed the character designs for and. Kojima's work in Symphony of the Night was her first breakthrough into the gaming industry, and her dark, gothic style borrows heavily from -style art. In Aria of Sorrow, Kojima's designs followed the 'different route' theme that producer was attempting to pursue with Aria of Sorrow by placing it in a futuristic setting.

Following this theme, Alucard's appearance as Genya Arikado was made much more contemporary, featuring modern attire as versus the medieval appearance of previous Castlevania characters. Kojima was not present in the design team for, and Arikado, along with the rest of the cast, were drawn in an style. Igarashi, also the producer of Dawn of Sorrow, wished to utilize the anime style as a marketing technique due to his belief that the targeted a younger audience than previous Castlevania games had. The anime style would also serve as a litmus test as to whether future Castlevania games would incorporate the style.

Voice actors [ ] Symphony of the Night was the second Castlevania game to use voice actors for the characters (the first being the for the, which released only in Japan at the time). The Japanese voice actor for Alucard was, and the English voice actor was. In, and, Alucard was English voiced. Igarashi noted that due to fan complaints over the poor voice acting in a majority of the original cast in Symphony of the Night, a new script for the game better translating the original Japanese text, as well as a set of new voice actors were used.

He is voiced by in the 2017 Netflix series. Appearances [ ] In the 1989 for the, Alucard is initially a encountered over the course of the game by the primary protagonist,. If the player defeats Alucard, he can be utilized as a playable character in the game. This was a significant departure from the first two Castlevania games for the NES, and the, which only featured as the primary playable character, and Alucard's abilities, a fireball attack and the ability to transform into a bat, were unique elements introduced into the series.

Following the defeat of Dracula and the game's conclusion, Alucard voluntarily goes into a protracted sleep to ease his feelings of and to prevent his powers from harming the world. Alucard's following appearance in the series is in the 1997 for the and, where he is featured as the game's protagonist and primary playable character. He is described as a man of great strength and inhuman beauty. Due to the brainwashing of the current member of the Belmont clan,, Alucard heads to his father's castle to find Richter and ensure that Dracula does not return into the world. He encounters Richter, who has been controlled by the dark priest Shaft into believing he is the lord of Dracula's castle, and Alucard manages to free him from the spell controlling him. In response, Shaft creates an inverted version of Dracula's castle for Alucard to travel through, and Alucard defeats Shaft, and ultimately, Dracula as well. Symphony of the Night also expands on Alucard's background, revealing how his human mother, Lisa, was hunted down and executed by humans who believed her to be a witch.

Despite this, Lisa admonished Alucard to respect humans and not hate them as his father did. Alucard's placement as a protagonist was unusual for the series up to that point, as previous Castlevania games had featured often members of the Belmont clan as the protagonists.

Symphony of the Night would later be re-released as part of the for the, on the for the, and part of, a compilation that contained Symphony of the Night alongside. Aside from the changing of the script and Alucard's English voice actor to Yuri Lowenthal, his role in the Symphony of the Night portion of The Dracula X Chronicles remains the same. The 1997 for the was Alucard's third appearance in the series. Similar to his initial appearance in Dracula's Curse, he is a boss challenging the skills of the game's protagonist,. After she defeats him, he accepts her strength and decides to submerge his powers by sleeping, believing that she will defeat Dracula in his stead. Koji Igarashi later removed Castlevania Legends from the official of the series, meaning that the plot of the game never occurred in the series'.

In the 2003 for the, Alucard is present in disguise as the enigmatic Japanese government agent Genya Arikado in order to prevent the powers of his father, who was finally killed by, from ending up in the wrong hands. He meets the game's protagonist,, and explains his 'power of dominance,' or his ability to absorb the souls of the monsters he defeats and use their abilities.

He instructs him to seek out the castle's throne room, where Soma realizes that he is Dracula's. Arikado subsequently advises Soma to destroy the flow of chaos in the castle to free himself from his fate, which Soma succeeds in doing. Alucard reprises his role as Arikado in the sequel to Aria of Sorrow, the 2005 Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow for the, where he works to stop the machinations of a cult headed by to create a new dark lord by killing Soma. Arikado initially requests that Soma does not become involved, but gives him a letter and talisman from Mina when he encounters him later in the game.

After both of Celia's 'dark lord's candidates,' and, are defeated, Arikado stops Celia's attempt to force Soma to awaken into the new dark lord, but inadvertently allows Dmitrii to revive himself. He confronts him, but is stopped when Dmitrii uses Celia as a sacrifice to seal his powers. Following Soma's battle with Menace, a giant demon that sprouts from Dmitrii, Arikado explains to Soma that he is not destined to become the dark lord, nor does he need to. In the game's, Arikado is playable as Alucard after he is found in the castle. Alucard was one of the playable characters in for the, a fighting game based on the series. Lords of Shadow [ ] Alucard appears in, a chapter of the Lords of Shadow reboot series. It is revealed that this version of Alucard was originally Trevor Belmont, the son of Gabriel and Marie Belmont, conceived before Gabriel was turned into a vampire and became the dark lord Dracula.

Trevor grew up not knowing of his true origin until the Brotherhood of Light reveals to him who his parents were. Believing that his father Gabriel murdered his mother in cold blood, he decides to pursue him in the hopes of destroying him and bringing peace to the land. After infiltrating the castle, Trevor successfully fights his way to the throne room, where he confronts Dracula without letting on that he is his son, or telling Dracula his name. Although Trevor puts up a valiant effort, in the end he is defeated and stabbed in the heart with his own Combat Cross. Dying and gazing at the Mirror of Fate he finally realizes the truth of what really happened to Gabriel and feels sorry for him, calling him his father. Dracula, confused, gazes at the mirror as well and learns who Trevor was all along. Remorseful and horrified for killing his own son who had been unknown to him the entire time, Dracula desperately tries to bring him back to life by giving him his blood, which seems to be in vain.

Dracula mourns over his loss, and places Trevor in a coffin with the name Alucard, since he never learned his son's real name. Many years later Alucard awakens, with pale white skin, white hair, and glowing orange eyes. He meets up with Dracula and his own son, Simon. Alucard tries to finish what he started, angry that his father turned him into a vampire. Dracula asks Alucard to join him in remaking the world and destroying the brotherhood, but Alucard refuses.

Dracula proceeds to attack Simon for being a Belmont, wishing to end the Belmont bloodline due to his hatred of his past life. Alucard and Simon manage to defeat Dracula, and part ways as Dracula's castle crumbles. Alucard appears in the sequel as a supporting character.

Since the game takes place centuries later, Alucard's personality and standing towards his father has drastically changed. He believes that Dracula can still be redeemed and makes it his goal to free the world from tyranny and vanquish the evil that had corrupted him and his father. He concocts a centuries spanning plan to put his father into a deep sleep by piercing his heart with the Crissaegrim sword, in order to make both the lord of the dead, Zobek and Satan himself, believe that Dracula is dead, so they can come out in the open. Once they do, Alucard would remove the sword so Dracula can resurrect and then destroy Zobek and Satan for good.

Dracula agrees with his son's plan and awakens centuries later during modern times. Throughout the game Alucard also appears as a younger Trevor Belmont and guides Dracula through his Castle to help him recover his old powers and missing memories. In order to not draw suspicion to his plan, Alucard masquerades himself as Zobek's Lieutenant and eventually reveals his true identity to his father once he remembers their pact. They destroy Zobek and Satan and appear to be on good terms in the end. Alucard is also the protagonist of the DLC Revelations, taking place shortly prior to the events of the game.

In other media [ ] Alucard makes a minor appearance in, voiced. Here, he is depicted as a rebellious teenager who enjoys skateboarding and music, much to his father's chagrin. He appears in the Season 3 episode 'Return to Castlevania', initially posing as an ally to the heroes before revealing himself to be in league with the Count.

Alucard appears as a major character in the 2017 animated series, voiced. While grieving over his mother's death, he attempts to stop his father from taking revenge on humanity, as that would not be what she wanted, but Dracula attacks him and leaves him injured, forcing him to spend a year recovering. He is eventually reawakened by Trevor Belmont and Sypha Belnades, and after a brief battle, he agrees to aid them in stopping his father. Reception [ ] Alucard has received praise and criticism from several video game publications, primarily concentrating on his role in Symphony of the Night. Featured him in their article 'All Time Greatest Game Hero'.

In a review of Symphony of the Night, RPGFan celebrated the fact that Alucard was not a member of the, the protagonists of most Castlevania games, and that the fact he was Dracula's son added 'an element of depth to the plot' due to the varied reactions he would receive from the inhabitants of Dracula's castle. RPGamer disagreed with this assessment, noting that the plot and Alucard's role 'isn't very deep' and secondary to the concentration on gameplay. GameSpot called Alucard's sprite and running animation 'easily some of the most impressive visuals in the entire Castlevania library.' James Paul Gee noted that 'even though Alucard is a, he has no distinctive skills associated with this profession'. In 2012, ranked him as the 91st best hero in video games.

Also included Alucard on their list of the 50 greatest video game characters, ranking him as 34th. Alucard's appearance in Aria of Sorrow and Dawn of Sorrow as Genya Arikado was also noted by reviewers. RPGamer celebrated how the greater concentration on supporting characters, including Arikado, were a welcome change from previous Castlevania games.

RPGFan derided Arikado's 'cool and impassive personality' as stereotypical, but praised the game's character development as setting him apart from previous supporting characters in the series. The switch to an anime style for the character designs in Dawn of Sorrow was notably criticized, as many reviewers preferred the designs made by Ayami Kojima. Deplored the 'shallow, lifeless anime images' and called the images 'down to the level of 'generic Saturday morning Anime' quality.' Download Dragon Nest Mods Display.

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/ Maria: Richter. / Richter: You saved me. • Konami (1997-10-02).

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. Alucard: It seems your power is insufficient. / Shaft: Five years, five years to gather my powers for this, and all for not. / Alucard: You claimed to love the darkness, go then and dwell there for all eternity.

• Konami (1997-10-02). Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. Alucard: Go back whence you came, trouble the soul of my mother no more. / Dracula: H.how.how, how is it I've been so defeated?

• Konami (1997-10-02). Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. Dracula: You have ever been the ally of humans. Have you forgotten what they did to your mother? • Konami (1997-10-02). Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.

Dracula: What.what were Lisa's last words? / ' Alucard: She said do not hate humans.

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/ Sonia: Oh, Alucard! / Alucard: It looks like this time it is I who have learned a lesson. / Sonia: Alucard, did you purposely.? / Alucard: No, Sonia.

You have made me believe in your strength. • Konami (1997-11-27). Castlevania: Legends. Game Boy Color. Alucard: Do not trouble yourself about it, Sonia. Now, I must sleep. I fear we shall not meet again.

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Genya Arikado: You're late, Julius. / Julius Belmont: Arikado? Or should it be Alucard? / Alucard: That doesn't matter.

I had to transform to draw out my full power. • Konami (2003-05-06). Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow. Game Boy Advance.

Konami Tokyo. J: My real name is JULIUS BELMONT.

I am a descendent of a clan that has fought against Dracula for ages. / Soma: And that person who destroyed Dracula in 1999 was.

/ Julius: Yes. • Konami (2003-05-06). Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow. Game Boy Advance.

Konami Tokyo. Arikado: So it has awakened. / Soma: What? / Arikado: The spirit of the creature you killed has just entered your body. You have the power to absorb the abilities of the monsters you kill.

• Konami (2003-05-06). Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow. Game Boy Advance. Konami Tokyo. Soma: Finally. I clearly understand.

• Konami (2005-10-04). Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow. Konami Tokyo. From the Library Menu: Soma Cruz: The rebirth of Dracula, he has the ability to dominate the souls of monsters and use their powers as his own. A year ago, he learned that he was destined to become the dark lord. However, he overcame the chaos that raged within and escaped that fate.

• Konami (2005-10-04). Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow. Konami Tokyo. Genya Arikado: They want to resurrect the lord of darkness.

Like some sought to do with Dracula. / Soma Cruz: I guess they don't like the fact that I didn't become the 'lord of darkness'.

/ Genya Arikado: Not only that, they intend to create a new lord by eliminating you. • Konami (2005-10-04). Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow. Genya Arikado: Also, Mina entrusted me with this. It's for you.

/ Soma Cruz: What? And a talisman? • Konami (2005-10-04). Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow. Konami Tokyo. Genya Arikado: That Mina is a fake! / Celia Fortner: Arikado!

Why must you always get in the way? / Genya Arikado: How clever of you to use a Doppelganger. Ah, but you haven't won just yet. • Konami (2005-10-04). Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow.

Konami Tokyo. Dmitrii Blinov: I should thank my lucky stars for making good my escape. I managed to loosen myself when the boy's emotions shifted momentarily.

/ Celia Fortner: I thought you'd died. / Dmitrii Blinov: Shedding my former body was a desperate gamble. But it has worked out quite well. • Konami (2005-10-04). Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow. Konami Tokyo. Soma Cruz: You killed your own ally?

/ Dmitrii Blinov: She had always dreamed of seeing the dark lord. She served me to the end in my becoming. She should feel honored.

Not only that, she even helped me take care of that pesky Arikado. / Soma Cruz:?! / Genya Arikado: He's right. His sacrifice reversed the flow of my dark power • Konami (2005-10-04). Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow.

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