One Villainous Scene - "You Must Be The Belmont"

The best part of this scene is that Dracula doesn’t flinch at the first punch, and only after the second recognizes Trevor as a Belmont. It’s not the punch that identifies him, it’s the fact that after throwing a punch and seeing it have exactly zero effect, Trevor thought “no I’ll keep doing it, it’ll work this time”

Trevor: Finally finds his family heirloom and the greatest vampire slaying weapon ever. Also Trevor: Decides to punch the greatest vampire ever in the face. Dracula: "Yep, it's a Belmont."

Fighting your son over the death of your wife: emotionally draining Fighting a Belmont: that’s just FUN

Rewatching the series, I really like that the vampires all refer to "the Belmont" as an "it." Not a "he" or "she" or "them," but rather a force or organization that targets vampires. Thus Dracula's line "the Belmont" isn't so much saying "you're a member of the Belmont family" but rather an acknowledgment of "oh, so you're it this time, huh? Okay."

"Dracula's only weakness is that he's not as big of a monster as he thinks he is." Holy DAMN. I actually clapped.

The most heroic music was playing inside Trevor’s head when he punched Dracula. Meanwhile in Dracula’s head: Mii channel music plays

I don't know why, but the way Dracula says "we painted this room, we made these toys" just gets me to tear up every time.

I think it speaks volumes that Dracula says "I'm killing our boy". Alucard isn't just Lisa's son, he didn't just mean something to Dracula cause Lisa did. He was his son. He raised him and loved him just as much as he loved Lisa. And you know that he would have done the exact same thing if it was Alucard instead of Lisa.

Red: “Unless you want my 50 minute rant as to why I think Trevor and Dracula’s foil relationship is really interesting…” YES PLEASE!!!!!

A comment i've seen on the internet about the 'you must be the belmont' line is the scene around it. Trevor punches him twice to no effect and Dracula immediately knows who he must be, some have argued he recognized the family crest on Trevor but its far more entertaining to imagine that he's like, 'only one clan of humans would be crazy enough to try and just punch me'.

The fact that Dracula is wearing his wedding ring all this time really is just the perfect little chef's kiss for his characterization.

Dracula's son: "Let's go find that one guy that did this crime." Dracula: "That guy only exists because the others want to believe in what he says."

“I’m killing our boy, Lisa I’m killing your greatest gift to me… I must already be dead.” Made me bawl my eyes out. Helluva way to end a Big Bad Boss Fight.

It goes from “Final Boss Battle” to “Violent Domestic Dispute” and it’s done so amazingly

I think I speak for everyone here when I say "Yes, we absolutely wish to hear Red's 50 minute rant about Dracula and Trevor's foil relationship".

Lisa took one look at Dracula and went “I can fix him”, and you know what? She really did it.

"This entire catastrophe has been nothing but the world's longest suicide note." is the best quote of the series.

There was a very clever detail I only noticed on rewatching it: throughout the fight with Alucard, and ONLY when fighting Alucard, Dracula is always holding back. The flashback to their fight goes to pains to show Dracula raising his hand, claws out, to his son, reminds us of this with focus on the claws, and asserts the harm every time we see Alucard’s wounded chest - an injury the second or third most powerful vampire in that world hasn’t recovered from after a year. When he fights Trevor the camera lingers a moment longer on every blow, showing not just the tremendous power but lingering on the pain, the blood coughing up, that these are absolutely not blows o just shake off. With Sypha he claws her in a way that is highly framed, and we see not just the blood but her struggling to recover from it, the first time she has been really seriously wounded on camera. He is swinging claws out, full force, every time. And yet with Alucard, he hits him with a closed fist, or a palm stroke, or a wild telegraphed swing to make him move back, but he never touches his son with his claws. You aren’t looking for it the first time, but knowing his breakdown is coming, you see the first threads of it here. Even here, in a seemingly-blind rage, fighting for his war and his life, he can’t let himself strike his son with his claws, can’t repeat the wound he dealt him a year ago. Even if he doesn’t feel it consciously, he is ashamed, even angry with himself for hurting his child a year later. And at the last moment when he realises what he’s doing, it’s after he made to strike his son full force, claws out, just like a year ago. He can fight him, fight him very hard - but he can’t bring himself to hurt him. The seeds for what happens at the end of the fight are set from the start.

Lisa’s plea on the burning stake is taken straight from Symphony of the Night, however it’s shown in the game that she’s talking to Alucard who was present at her burning.

"You must be the Belmont." Fun. "I'm killing our boy." Heart completely broken. Only a great writer can balance that on the VILLAIN.