If anything, the zombies, ghosts, vampires and skeletons in Castlevania are livelier than Konami itself.

To be fair to Dracula having a niece, maybe she's a great niece. He did used to be a human of House Cronqvist before he became Dracula, so maybe she's a distant descendant of the Cronqvist line he particularly liked, and decided to turn. Likewise, Carmilla did have a humanoid form before Lords of Shadow and the Netflix show, she had one in Circle of the Moon.

Everyone: I thought you were dead! Build the Roster: My death was... greatly exaggerated

I feel the perfect Devs for this would be Soul Calibur devs, perhaps a fun crossover with Bandai Namco. I mean Nightmare/Siegfried would be the perfect Guest character(s) for both the Light & Night sides.

I could imagine Leon Belmont's story mode, he fights his descendants and calls Dracula by his former name lol

There's something kinda adorably hilarious about Cornell asking Alucard if he can match the speed of a wolf, considering Alucard can literally turn into a wolf equipped with a knock off Metroid speed booster

27:44 If I understand correctly, "Elizabeth Bartley, niece of Dracula" is an invention of localizers. In Japanese version she is who she is obviously supposed to be, Elizabeth Bathory, the Blood Countess, the serial killer noble from Transylvania. She is infamous for bathing in blood of maidens believing that it will prolong her youth... which most people now agree she never did and it was a later invention. To my knowledge there is no traceable blood relation between her and historic Vlad III/Tepes/Dracula, though one of the members of her family did lead a military campaign together with Vlad, but he wasn't Elizabeth's ancestor. In short, she is not Dracula's niece. Kid Dracula wouldn't exactly be too weird. If the story of this hypothetical Castlevania Judgement 2 continues from the previous one, then he actually could be written in fairly organically. The main boss of Judgement, Time Reaper, works for Galamoth who started out as the main villain of Kid Dracula. So if Judgement 2 revolves around another Galamoth plot then Kid Dracula would have a good reason to be involved.

"Grant looking like a cross between a mummy and Voldo." So...just looking like Voldo.

Thorgi in his aria of the night video: "I'm not going to spoil the big secret ending" Thorgi two days later: Spoils the big secret ending (For Aria of the night) Whoops XD

One thing that's surprising, but makes sense the more I thought about it is that the roster is kind of zoner heavy. It makes sense considering how many characters have access to long ranged attacks (especially bosses). Also disappointed that there's no mention of Shaft

I can't imagine how uncomfortable it would be to fight wearing clothing like that... Like look at Simon, he's practically wearing a metal ribcage on the outside, and with all that skin showing...he'll have cuts and bruises all over himself.

I would kind of want Slogra and Gaibon as a duo characters. Maybe Gaibon could ride on Slogra's back and even lift him around when he's not flying around to attack on his own.

I have a good suggestion for building a fighting game, Dungeons and Dragons. I'd imagine their be a story mode that brings in classic and loved characters across the franchise, like Drizzt Do'Urden, Tasha, Strahd, Minsc and Boo, Raistlin Majere, Lady of Pain, Someone from the Magic setting, Maybe someone from Critical Roll? There are a lot of settings and worlds and characters to draw from, the fun part is finding the right mix of races and classes and franchise representation in the roster. I can also see this having a nice character creation mode. I see this working best as a 3v3 fighter with a forth support character that add a effect like with Persona 5 Area what if.

I'd have no issue with a third of the roster having access to a whip, just as long as the whip is used in wildly different ways for each character. There's a lot of different styles and moves using a whip that can be spread out to the different belmonts

Build the Roster: Evil Zone 2. The first game came out on the Playstation back in 1999 and was basically different protagonists from what seem to be representing different anime/manga genres and sub-genres coming togethor to fight off an evil presence that brought them all togethor. Horror, martial arts, fantasy, magical girl, tokasatsu, almost had one character per genre. With anime and manga being more popular than ever before and games having more characters selectable than years ago, I think we can add more caricatures and archetypes such as male and female love interest from a romance, knowledge hungry inventor from a steampunk, the hard working prodigy from sports, the isekai human turned into a monster or creature of some kind, you could even somehow add in the parody character or two that are out of Panty and Stocking as an example. Stages would be more detailed and fit with each and every genre and sub genre as well as the music for the stages like fighting in a school yard and class room or the magical girls kingdom. They all had rivals as well, each and every one of them, so it would be funny to see others like how a sports character talks to a horror villain or a steampunk inventor talks to to either the male or female live rival. So while you wouldn't be picking out a character persay, you would be picking out the archetype and caricature to represent the genre and subgenre they come from.

Castlevania Judgement was based. Probably not technically good, but based. I think Miriam from Bloodstained would make for a fun DLC Cameo character, though she runs the risk of potentially feeling a bit samey when Shanoa is already in the game. Zangetsu would probably feel more unique.

DLC: Pyramid Head, Red Sonja, Vampirella and the "Splatterhouse" hero. Request: how would you make "Star Wars: Masters of Teras Kasi" ...well...excellent as a remake, please?

The only thing I know about Castlevania Judgement is that it gave us the greatest remix of Vampire Killer ever (of all time)

Great picks, I wonder what the game would be like if they could go crazy with adding Belmonts? Seeing how many there are, it feels like they could fill up an entire roster with just them 😂

Honestly it would've been cool if someone like Kentaro Miura would've done the redesigns for the characters a lot of his character design would go hand in hand with Castlevania's but sadly that'll never happen

I love this roster, I’m just slightly sad that Eric is off it. Btw, Kid Dracula is legit Alucard. The final boss from Kid Dracula shows up in SotN. It’s hilarious.

What we wanted: This, maybe a new game What we got: NFTS Thanks konami, my expectations were at 0 and some how you dug deeper

...small thing, but no mention of Carmilla's human form in Circle of the Moon? It may not be considered canon, but I'm pretty sure it was the first time she was actually depicted that way (or at least played more of a hand in the story than as just another recurring boss). And her design's a lot better in CotM than it was in Judgment. And speaking of Circle of the Moon, Nathan Graves is 100% the character I'd want to see in a hypothetical Judgment 2 (even if there's almost zero chance of it happening). Sure he fights with a whip, same as the Belmonts, but I think the CotM card-based magic system could be incorporated into his moveset in such a way to make him stand out against the other protagonists.

I have a request for an episode of either build the roster, or let’s make a sequel (in this case a new game) Mega Man Clash: a platform fighting game based on the mega man franchise, that would act as a crossover between all of the different mega man series!

I doubt Konami would actually do this, but what if we got Jonathan Joestar and Dio Brando (part 1 version) on this roster?

Instead of Balore, i think Frankenstein & Igor would be better. They would play like Fera and Thor from MK.

Kinda sad to not see Aeon back, considering I think he's a pretty cool character and that he was the one who brought the cast of Judgement 1 together in the first place. I also feel like the Aria of Sorrow has a bit too much representation? Counting your DLC picks, it's got 4 characters, which is a lot of a 16 to 20 character roster. I'd probably cut out Graham, personally. Other then that, I like most of this roster. Good work as always, Thorgi.

For Death, his Judgement redesign literally only needed a hood. The redesign was sick.

I would honestly buy this. Also in terms of other characters, maybe Mathias Cronqvist & Sonia Belmont just so we can see the potential Mathias has as well as just bringing back Sonia

If you wanted to get wacky with the legal issues, then a DLC season of the Bloodstained cast would be pretty slick. Miriam, Zangetsu, Dominique and Alfred would be a solid four.

Two ideas for future episodes: Tatsunoko vs Capcom 2 A new Shonen Jump crossover fighter

Aeon in this game is my only hope and those puns were beautiful.

Very good use of the bait-and-switch gag at the start there. I thought it was building up to a nonsequitur, but then it made perfect sense :)

I was always under the impression that Golem was actually Balore but they couldn't keep the trademark on his name for some reason. Side note, I could totally see the final boss of the second game being Galamoth, pulling a "Fine, I'll do it myself" after the defeat of Time Reaper.

Can I just say that the intro for Build the Roster feels simply yet kind of satisfying?

I absolutely love this! Castlevania lore is something I legitimately started learning about last year so hearing an entire video going over many characters especially Soma and Gabriel is amazing to me.

43:55 (spoilers for lords of shadow) Dracula&Gabriel: *arguing* Soma: Can I have a bagel? Dracula&Gabriel: *arguing intensifies* Soma: Can I PLEASE have a bagel!

The video no one expected, but the video we needed. Interesting to see where it goes.

I always assumed (especially with the white hair & fighting monsters) that Kid Dracula, was just Alucard when he was very young.

For a future instalment of Build the Roster, you should build the roster for a Danganronpa fighting game. Spike Chunsoft has recently been making tons of new stuff for the series and the creator, Kazutaka Kodaka, has said that he was interested in making a fighting game in the future for Danganronpa.

Here's an idea I've toyed with time and again: A RWBY fighting game. BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle already showed how the main characters and Neo would work. So how could the concept be made into a full game?

Even in hypothetical games, Grant gets screwed over.

Shanoa, Charlotte and Soma are so badass! But what about these? Light Nathan Graves Carrie Fernandez Stella Lecarde Night Student Witch Maid Persephone Frozen Shade

It would be funny if Galamoth was the villain of Judgement 2 (he WAS the one who sent Time Reaper) and he faces Kid Dracula.

I really like that base roster, but I'm not so sure about the DLC picks. No offense, of course. Personally, as someone who has never played Castlevania but enjoys the concept: Julius Belmont (I do agree on this one), Grant Danasty, Stella Lecarde, Galamoth

Here are two interesting ideas for characters: Shaft from Rondo of Blood with the four classic Castlevania bosses as summons and Pyramid Head from Silent Hill

I love you for picking Kid Dracula. Also, Simon Belmont from Captain N???? That show had an entire castlevania episode and their version of Alucard was WILD.

Another great vid Thorgi

So, if Konami decides to make a good castlevania fighting game and they put in Trevor, what are the chances they give him the same voice as the one from the Netflix series, complete with swears?

Another great episode !!

The premise of Judgement is great....its execution was ....well it was written in the book the artist is responsible for the art for. Also I think Aeon could be in the base roster as he's technically his own faction

This is my favorite series on YT 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

If we have a rival thing like in the first Castlevania, Soma Cruz and Dracula HAVE to face off! I don't want to see anything else.

I was genuinely afraid when you said only 8 Heroes that Soma would fall by the Wayside. I'm glad my fears were unfounded. And I love that you gave Charlotte some thought. I liked using her far more than Jonathan in PoR, even though facets of the game seemed geared to make you focus on him and leave her aside.

Wow, I just bought this game on ebay literally a few days ago since I was feeling nostalgic, and then this video come out. What a perfect coincidence

Wow lots of cuts. I would have kept Cornell, Grant, Eric Lecarde, & Aeon. As for additions I would have included Hector and Isaac because it would be weird having one but not the other. Also Sonia Belmont to make up for Resurrection's cancellation.

For those that saw this earlier,Kid Dracula is from the game of the same name that only appeared in Japan for the Famicom system. You can get a chance to play the game and learn of the character,plus where he fits in the Castlevania timeline,by buying the Castlevania Collection game because Kid Dracula appears in there.

i love castlevania, thank you for this~

"The 35th anniversary is coming up!" How naive we all were...

Honestly great list of characters but here me out for a few more DLC character ideas I have like 4 of my own and I think you might like them. Though 2 of them are more of an unlikely surprise that would be welcome. *LIGHT* _Kokoro Belmont_ I know this sounds like a fake Belmont but she's real and from Otomedius Excellent, a spin off of the Gradius series. She would likely be the Kid Dracula of the warriors of light side. I imagine her playstyle being similar to the Belmonts but for the sake of giving her something unique she rides in her modified Stavros Riding Viper and be a high speed zoner. I don't know how to make a ship work in a fighting game but you could do something similar to Tails is Sonic Adventure 2 and turn the ship into a mech with it's beam whip and such. Plus I can imagine a Super where she uses her Platonic Break, "Lightning Sword" a cross-shaped beam that looks to be a modified version of the Grand Cross. _Solar Boy Django_ This one would be a guest character. Being the main protagonist and a different vampire hunter from another Konami series, "Boktai" Django has equipped a few weapons over the course of his adventures but we'll be going with his iconic main weapon and only weapon from the first game, the Gun Del Sol. Being a solar powered gun, it fires ball of solar energy for his main attack, with it's EX changing to a short range wave in front of him that rapidly drains HP from enemies. He will also be given his Solar Sword from Boktai 2 for the sake of close quarters combat. For Special Attacks, he doesn't do much on his own so I think we could have him tap into his other weapons or even use the powers of his Dark Trance if we wanted to. Speaking of Supers he got a few obvious ones such as his Pile Drivers, a device used to purify Immortals, as he summons Master Otenko to use them. A nice touch could be that if used on Warriors of the Night they are greatly weakened for the rest of the battle. Though this Super can only be used once and deals subpar damage to make up for it. He also has another super in the form of his Sol Trance form from the Japan only Boktai 3 by fusing with Master Otenko. With it he temporary becomes much stronger for a short period of time at the cost of draining the Super meter. He also replaces his Dark Trance abilities with the ability to fire off blasts of sunlight and such. Perhaps having unlimited super meter for the duration of the form but can't use any other supers? *NIGHT* _Aeon_ Despite not being a villian, he was on the warriors of the night side in Judgment. But still I'm surprised you didn't bring him up considering he's supposed to be a major player in the events of the first game and arguebly the best part of it. I imagine his moveset being similar but reworked to be better balanced. Perhaps with a few new moves to make him feel a bit more refreshed. He also NEEDS to have new lines for his Super, "Requiem of the 13th Hour" flaunting the power he has over time or providing words of wisdom. And with these faces I can think of a few while changing things up to better fit the reworked returning faces. Such as... Richter: "You may have made your mark in history, but every mark fades in time." Soma: "Despite everything you still continue to defy fate as the dark lord. You have truly earned your era of peace, reincarnation of Dracula." Django: "Even the power of the sun can not complete with the power of time young hero of another world." _Dark Boy Sabata_ Being the rival of Django from the Boktai series if Django was to join, someone from his series has to join the side of the night to balance things out and why not his older twin brother Sabata. While it's also bending the rules considering that even though he is associated with the dark, the Dark Boy isn't really a villain. Even going as far as to save Django's life on numerous occasions. I imagine him fighting similar to the Solar Boy only with an altered moveset to better fit the Dark Boy. Starting with his Gun Del Hell, the dark counterpart to the Gun De Sol it would work as a slower but stronger variation of it firing Dark Matter. For the sake of giving him a close range weapon he could use the Sword of Darkness, while he never uses it in the games his brother Django has and considering it's the dark counterpart to the Solar Sword it would only be fitting. Though while Django doesn't have much good in the way of potential special attacks besides his Gun De Solar outside of either Dark Trance abilities and other weapons. Sabata has some already existing options, like his Dark Warp teleport or Zero Shift to teleport a shirt distance and bypass enemies. He's also got Ice Spear and Fire Ball to summon several icicles and conjures an icy mist and conjure several explosive fireballs respectively. As for his possible Supers, he has Black Sun which allows him to block out the sun, or any other forms of light, for a short period and Black Hole has him use the Gun De Hell to create a black hole capable of sucking in energy projectiles and enemies to trap them. Side note was considering The Count of Groundsoaking Blood, over Sabata but I think the latter is more interesting playstyle wise and the count is too similar to Dracula anyway. While I imagine Django and Sabata would be incredibly unlikely and more of pipe dream guest characters I imagine many would be excited to see them again.

I honestly think that instead of Carmilla, one could have Blackmore from OoE instead as he has a more interesting moveset to work with, manipulating his shadows to attack for him like a Puppet Character and zoning with his Dark Fireballs would separate himself from the rest. Though with Carmilla, I do think adding in her partner, Laura in some assists would be more beneficial to her as those two mostly work as a team. Either to drain enemy meter or rush in to deal damage.

If there's one thing I've learned from playing fighting games it's that you can make anything work as a character with enough work & creativity. So I'd say keep Balore this huge monster & work around it. Make it so he can't move, but has a long range unblockable grab to force the opponent in close. And to keep with his hulking monstrosity vibe, he wouldn't have hit stun, but he'd be kinda slow & you could attack either his arms or body to do damage.

Love the Build a Roster videos!! Would love to see how you'd do this for Soul Calibur, Samurai Shodown, Killer Instinct, Bloody Roar/Beastorizer, Jump Force, and Terrordrome: Rise of the Legends (especially since there's so many legendary monsters from around the world and urban legends to pull from!!).

This is what I would do for the roster (though your roster was great! This is hypothetical after all!) Warriors of light Aeon- he’s like the mascot you can’t leave him out Simon- duh Alucard- duh again Shanoah- great rep. For the ds games Cornell- werewolf’s are awesome and he is a good n64 rep Soma- good gba rep. and a fan favorite Maria- I guess she can rep. for the tg16 Leon- he is underrated and we need a ps2 rep. (Hector could work too) Warriors of night Dracula- duh Death- duh again Elizabeth- she is also underrated and can rep. For SEGA genesis St. Germain- he is more of an anti hero and death hates him but I feel he would have great interactions with the cast( especially aeon) Issac- he’s a cool character who’s game appearance needs more representation (I love his portrayal in curse of darkness though I like the show version as well) Ortega- yeah completely agree with you on this one Knight armor- iconic enemies for the games with so many different appearances Carmila- she kinda needs to be here, so yeah DLC (I would love to have 3rd parties like Nightmare or demitri but I’ll stick to 1st parties) Eric- I would love too see him appear before he becomes wind Gabrielle- never crossed my mind but I love it Any Belmont/spell caster hero- just, sure Pyramid head or psycho mantis- I feel some other representation would be good and these guys could fit.

Okay that opening gag really got me, there is nothing more terrifying than Konami

My delight when I called Kid Dracula the moment before he was revealed was powerful.

"if you never played any of the games I'm surprised you got this far thank you for watching" you are welcome. I may not have played any of the games but I did in fact buy them... I just have a very hard time actually playing the games that I buy and I enjoyed the anime and Smash. This definitely is good learning about the characters.

Well, you definitely got the three characters I'd want to see in there in there - Alucard, Death, Kid Dracula...

Charlotte! Jonathan!, Charlotte! Jonathan!, Charlotte! Jonathan!... (Loop) Yes I've played Portrait of Ruin , how did you know?

Carmilla should have a masquerade mask with a little handle the references her older design

If only we got this for the 35th anniversary of Castlevania, instead of, NFTs...

Belnades doesn't need to be another ranger spellcaster. It'd befit her to be on the more aggressive and close range end of the spectrum.

Ask and you shall receive! Thanks for making this

Just finished Order of Ecclesia two days ago. Shanoa was such a masterwork in character design, no wonder she became such a fan-favourite.

Justice for Juste Belmont The og strongest Belmont and the only Belmont mage

I hope you keep the Castlevania Judgement 1 redesigns, because those are AWESOME.

PLEASE make Issac's super move or EX move be summoning his blue stand, whom I've named NSYNC, from the anime! Because that beast was too cool!

I have two ideas for a Build the Roster episode right here. 1: A sequel to Dissidia NT on the PS5 incorporating guest characters and including the Final Fantasy spinoffs 2: A Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm-like crossover game with a lot of characters from Shonen Jump to the Dengeki Bunko PS3 fighting game... I mainly made this because I mainly wanted to be my best girl of choice (Asuna by the way...) in a 3D arena fighter

Thorgu be like : let's turn everything into a fighting game

I'm super happy to see this. Just makes me think of all the character I would wish for like Joachim Armster (LoI) & Henry Oldrey (LoD)

Huh , Castlevania had a fighting game Well this would be interesting but I know like nothing about Castlevania outside of Simon , Richter, Alucard Also Dracula beats Ganondorf in Death Battle so there is that

Sonia as a secret fight; she's bassicly an hybrid of the 3 Belmonts of the base roster but she mostly uses her mystical powers. I also mainly do that for the Trevor's interactions.

My best friend had Judgment on the Wii back in the day. We spent a ton of time playing it, despite being too young to really understand it. A retrospective on this would be awesome.

After the Belmont I couldn't help it, I squealed like a like an excited gopher at my girl getting in.

Would love to see Nathan from circlet of the moon. The card system could have been represented as random effects that range from Buffs to changing his moveset

Aw, I was hoping you'd put in Julius. He knows kung-fu. Haha.

33:17 I'd say he's too big for any saving. Unlike Ridley. I'd say the Creature would be a better pick.

Idea for charlotte She can call Jonathan for some of her moves, maybe like a puppet fighter, that combines some slow spells and pressure with Jonathan (wich can use MORE than just whips, contrary to what the video says, he can use shortswords, greatswords, spears, hammers and can also punch very fast, he can throw daggers, grenades, the bible, axes, can do martial arts, etc)

I would have added Albus as well. a mix between fire arms and hand to hand combat would be an interesting combo for a character

Imagine how Soma and Dracula would react to each other.

So I'm not disappointed with the Aria/Dawn of sorrow representation here, but I will say I was hoping you'd save one of your weird, niche picks for Hammer. Just have him throwing around weapons and items that he picked up from the castle, maybe some actual military hardware.

23:25 this got me so excited for no reason lol

Man, no one ever gives respect to my guy Nathan graves, the DSS system would be so complicated but so cool in a fighting game

I know this video is over a year old now and you've probably played Dawn of Sorrow by now and also just know more about Julius in general, but to rattle off some more reasons that he's peak Belmondo besides permanently killing Dracula: -All of his appearances that we've seen firsthand are while he's in his 50s, yet he still appears as the most powerful character in both games, including over Alucard, and was likely even more ridiculous in his prime -During his boss fight in Aria of Sorrow, you can see the castle literally falling apart in the background just from him charging up Grand Cross, before he even unleashes it, and this is directly followed by Soma asking why he's been holding back during their fight -Soma completely trusts him to come kill him again if he loses control to Dracula's soul, and if you get the bad ending in either Sorrow game Julius does exactly that -In Dawn of Sorrow, you have to fulfill the early DS touchscreen gimmick quota by drawing Magic Seals every time you finish off a boss to actually get rid of it, or else it will regenerate endlessly. Late in the game, you come across Julius and Soma asks how he's getting around the castle, to which Julius replies that he just kinda obliterates bosses so thoroughly that they can't regenerate fast enough, shocking Soma who thinks that shouldn't even be possible to do -At the end of the game, there is a barrier to basically Hell that nobody can get through, so Julius decides to just blow it open with a Grand Cross. This serves as an excuse to sideline him so Soma can be the one to go finish things but a wild feat to top off his run through the castle Honestly you could just go with the fact that Alucard scales above Richter who is the other strongest Belmont and that already says enough about Julius, but his feats are fun to think about

Time to plan the Christmas fighting game lol

Arthur, Dante and Jonathon Jostar as guest characters lol

Seeing Kid Dracula here makes me more happy than it should

I scrolled down pretty far and didn't see this name, Nathan Graves. Despite being a wielder of the whip, he did NOT feel like a Belmont(Considering he wasnt), and i think his play style with his card abilities would have been awesome. Change up his cards during battle and his moveset would change, and it would be awesome for chain attacks.

That impersonation in the beggining reminded me of Dean Pelton from Community, hahaha

Carmilla predates Dracula (from a literary stand point)