>>103986367This. The Church didn't murder Lisa. The Bishop did. One delusional prick used the Church to murder an innocent woman, and cause the deaths of thousands more.
Yet the Bishop is never treated as the main villain. He gets killed by a random demon and gets tossed on the pile with the other corpses. He gets violated by dark magic like all the others and Dracula never personally confronts his wife's killer. He holds humanity responsible.
Even Dracula himself, the true villain of the series, spends most of it a numb wreck. He can't bring himself to care about killing the humans. He can't eat or sleep. He's truly dead without his wife. Defeating the villain wasn't a satisfying climax. It was an ugly conflict that culminated in a son euthanizing his father.
Warren Ellis might be an edgy tool that needs to inject swear words everywhere, but I truly believe Castlevania was well written. He took a story built on operatic cliches and either subverted the cliches or played them realistically.
Trevor is the last son of a noble house, and is a homeless drunk
Alucard is a moody pretty Mary Sue, but genuinely acts like a son forced to kill his father
Sypha is found as a damsel in distress, but spends the rest of the show as a badass and extremely likeable hero
Dracula is the Prince of Darkness, Son of the Dragon, unstoppable Juggernaut of infernal power with total dominion over the hordes of Hell and the undead aristocracy. But we see him as a deeply tragic, deeply human figure crippled by grief. Even in his final moments, as he finally realizes what his rampage is costing him, he show more humanity than any representation of the character before.
Castlevania is a flawed masterpiece, and I can't wait to see what else is in store
