and yet, in her flashback in episode 3, her mentor said they must discard the god of the whites.

Love how this show basically confirms that every God from every culture exist side by side!

@@Metalora Were the slavers not Christian?

​@nonuvurbeeznus795 they forced there God on them

​@@Metaloradid vanblandido not kill Annette's mother because she was praising, singing (and marking her house) in her religion ?

Dies of cringe

This was basically their redemption for the whole "geometry" bs they did.

To be fair, it's stated that vampires and night creatures are vulnerable to magic, so one could argue that by forming the crosses with magic they became harmful to them at least for a while

He was cornered in a cemetery (consecrated ground) by a witch who had a historical grudge. He didn't like the use of magic on his plantation. He was right to be afraid.

I understood that reference

If it ain’t broke don’t fix it

fish angle

Its not a meme it has been used in anime for YEARS. The meme folks just made it seem like they did something new.

Gotta work smart, not hard. Especially when it comes to magic.

I really love the earth and metal manipulation as a powerset. It's so versatile and really only limited my the writer's imagination. This was a great example.

"now you die, trapped in a cage, like you made me live" Anette, probably

And then she makes swords. … … … …wish I thought of that… I guess.

She is popularly not considered creative.

I noticed too and he also voiced senator armstrong from mgr

Yeah I can hear mimir voice in 1:12

he also voiced Celebrimbor

“Brother!”

Along with Mortanius and Celebrimbor

Creators knew what they were doing 😂

Dude was overdosing on copium.

nah shes just some race swapped pandered character 😂

@@Corndigzshe’s better than the original damsel in distress Annette though 🤷🏿‍♂️

I loved the connections between her and Richter. Richter has a crisis of confidence because he loses his connection to his heritage. She has a crisis of confidence because Bathory seems impossibly ancient and powerful. Richter makes a connection to Juste and realizes that he's not alone in dealing with the loss that comes with the Belmont mission; he's not the first to have lost someone and that he's not alone. Annete's priestess reminds her that she comes from a heritage that's just as old and powerful and ancient. Like both echo this idea that while vampires may pretend to be the superior race with the powers and their immortality, humanity has its own strength, that we are as strong and ancient as the oldest vampire because we walk in the footsteps of those that came before us both in familial ties (ie, being a Belmont, with all the training and the power that comes with that) and in cultural ones (ie, the knowledge of Ogun's magic inherited from her mother and the knowledge of vodou inherited from Haitian slave culture) This is something particularly prescient for Annette as it was the practice of slaveholders to strip slaves of culture, to prevent them from making connections to their heritage or from forming new communities precisely because they didn't want them to recognize that strength and slip their bonds. It's a nice continuation of the themes of the first series as both Trevor and Alucard struggle to find themselves beyond the trauma and confusion brought about by their origins.

​@@allcinionexplainsitall5869If they made a original black character people would complain about "forced diversity". No matter what it's gonna piss a certain group of people off so Netflix is like "fuq it"

@@Corndigz oh I'm sorry you're right, definitely far more interesting to keep Annette a two dimensional damsel in distress whose only interesting trait is getting turned into a vampire in a non canon ending. Fake fan behavior tbqh

The shape confuses them, but true belief either from the one using the cross or from the vampire can cause damage

@@narutony1916 yeah that’s what I meant

That whole thing about "Vampires being evolved predators that can't handle geometric shapes" doesn't make sense when you realize they're just humans who were turned into demonic living corpses :/

@@midnightcoffee6463 Yes and no. Spiritually yes, they're humans who are infected with dark magic to make them living corpses. Biologically though, as hunters of the apex predator of the world, it only follows that theyd have brains that are different and able to handle the new senses and abilites they have

This was also what I had in mind!

Just sensitive and not being aware that it’s the original creators behind this series so their continued complaints and whines should be shoved down there esophagus and enjoy it 😂

For me it's not that Annette, Isaac and Orlox have been race-swapped and given a personality, its that people can't clearly tell the 300 year timeskip from the original series. Like, how do you not see the cultural and aesthetic changes? Not know about the French Revolution?

Because racists hate when black people are in media, especially when that character deals with the struggle specific to POC. It does not matter how important the first iteration of the character was, if it's no longer white they ruined it in their view. They elevate the white iteration, grasping at straws to justify why the version with barely anything to it is actually better. If Annette was still white they would treat her changes like they did with Sypha. They say that they should just make og black characters, but then they would argue that the "self insert oc" is taking up the screen time. It's a lose-lose situation, so you might as well do whatever you want.

@@nocturnalcove9736 I'm sorry I'm kind of confused on what your trying to say?

@aqua5758 agreed also something kind of funny to think about just based on my limited time taking classes on religious history I get the impression the speakers are heavily inspired by the Jews. This technically means Sypha is a race swap and in my experience racist really hate the Jews. So it's funny they haven't even picked up on it. Really shows the hypocrisy of their world view.

That's funny, because Vaublanc feared magic

Except they're in a graveyard. The property most certainly is consecrated and so is the metal bars used to make the cross/cage. As to why a vampire would think to do some feeding on holy ground is beyond me. They also did establish that holy water and consecrated objects CAN harm vampires. Hence the Belmont Whip, The Morning Star and when all those vampires ended up killed by holy water during Camilla's attempted siege/coup at Dracula's Castle.

@@prideofasia99 Ah, so the consecrated ground and all within it are what that killed the vampire, not the cross (probably). I thought the writer just forgot about the cross thing that Trevor explained.

I heard it's just a way to explain why the throwing cross works on vampires who believe in other religions like islam Hinduism ect. Faith seems to still work on vampires in this version of Castlevania based on the holy water from the original.

Same, I thought it was quite a big plot hole for the writers to miss as well.@@keroro407

different writer. It's just a contradiction I think

Unless the crosses themselves formed a metaphysical barrier that made trying to go between them pointless.

Trevor from former Castlevania series said that the shape of a cross confuses vampires and makes them panic. Bro was probably too mentally strained and scared to fly properly.

@@2ley695 makes sense, however she crampled those crosses in such a way that he would barelly be able to piece them apart as crosses, would make more sense if it was better set around to actually give the idea that he was surrounded by crosses instad of jumbled metal bars, but fair enough

They went apeshit over Isaac too (despite the fact he's the best character in the damn show), but this time she's a woman which makes it even worse for them that they gave her an actual personality and character rather than just being "Richter's girlfriend that he's trying to save".

​@@jaredknight8838I highly recommend you go watch "sacrificial trash" by Sarah Z to see why people are acting the way they are. It will really open up your eyes to internet criticism.

@@jaredknight8838 It's kindof something I tend to notice with the "anti diversity" crowd. If you have a character like Kratos from God of War for example, an original character designed to be a power fantasy for the male player: then it's ok for this "OC, do not steal" character to go on a rampage against the gods and win: yet somehow not be considered a "Mary Sue". Kratos and the Doomslayer from DOOM are Mary Sue's in every sense of the word. "Mary Sue" just means "Power Fantasy" However, woman aren't allowed to have power fantasies and the instant you show off a powerful female character she is immediately written off as a "Pandering Mary Sue" and called "SJW garbage" It's a lose/lose. You either rewrite an existing character to be more interesting like Anette and get slammed for "ruining a source character" or you create a new diverse character and get slammed for the "self insert OC taking up too much screentime." You cant win with the anti-SJW crowd.

@@jaredknight8838 I'd say part of the reason why people chilled with Isaac over time is for how extremely well written and mature he was. Not only that, he was still very similar to game Isaac in so many ways, loyal to Dracula, worked with him during his war, and wanted revenge on Hector. Season 2: his loyalty to Dracula is in full force and we have time to connect with him, we can feel how much it hurts him to know Dracula's dead. Season 3: He leads an entire army, hellbent on avenging Dracula, and killing Hector and Carmilla, yet... he is shown kindness time and time again, through the blind merchant, and the captain. He develops a bit of kinship with Miranda, the old forgemaster. His scenes are deeply philosophical and stick with you. Then there's the mad old magician at the end of his storyline in season 3. While never said outright, we can infer he sees himself going down the path of the magician, alone, mad, and using people for his own ends and robbing them of their will and lives, just like he does with his knife and forgemaster magic. Season 4: The culmination of his character development, he's pacified after spending time to reflect. He forgives Hector and lets his revenge go, instead choosing to kill Carmilla not because of revenge, but because the world is better off without her. After all is said and done, he chooses to rule and more importantly, live. Yes Isaac's story changed heavily after season 3, yes his backstory and character is different from the games, BUT! He still shared many of Isaac's story elements and more importantly, was EXTREMELY well-written. Contrast Annette. Yes, her game counterpart is just a damsel in distress with no other role in the story other than that she's Richter's girlfriend/fiancée and develops a friendship with Maria offscreen. But it's the character that fans knew and thought of for years. Come nocturne, she is a former slave who wields African magic, a revolutionary, and doesn't resemble her game counterpart in any way at all, minus the romantic interest she has with Richter towards the end of the season. She is essentially a different person with Annette's name. Not only that, her personality is standoff-ish, dismissive of other's pain (as seen when she's angry with Richter for running away, despite the highly understandable reason being this ONE vampire killed his mother as a young boy and it's partly his fault she died.), highly political, and a bit selfish (As seen when she wants to rescue Eduoard and ignoring Maria's and Tera's concerns in a very rude manner). Yes, a lot of it can be justified due to being a slave. I can't even begin to imagine the pain and absolute hell that life would be, so of course it would affect your personality negatively. Look at the world and people around you. So many have had something terrible happen to them at some point and that affects their personality negatively. It had happened to me too as I had trauma from the past that put a hamper on my personality and my relationship with certain people. When I moved past it, I became kinder and a better person. So yes, of course, Annette at this stage in her life would be confrontational, impulsive, reckless, and just... be a young woman with a dark past. However, not everyone is going to like or connect with that for reasons that vary from person to person. So of course, people will react to her negatively. Not only that, real world politics and modern media has affected many people's taste in media and characters in one way or another. So when a character of color comes, with political revolution as a main part of her character, you can't blame people who are tired of politics having alarm bells go off in their heads. Not only that, swapping a character's race will always, ALWAYS, be controversial. It's inevitable. The only way I've seen to mitigate that controversy is by writing the character well and likable. Look at Isaac and Commissioner Gordon from The Batman (2022) for example. Lastly, Annette doesn't really change all that much as a character during the season. Sure, she loses Eduoard, forgives Richter, and kills her former slave master... but those are external events happening to her (minus forgiving Richter, that's internal.) Look at her as a person at the beginning and look at her at the end, barely any change. Contrast... pretty much everyone in season 1 of Castlevania (2017). Everyone changed, Sypha began to open up to Trevor and started to respect him, Dracula at first wanted to be left alone, then at the end of episode 1, he issued extinction on all humanity after Lisa's murder, the Bishop had his faith shattered by the demons, the villagers, at first were against the speakers and Trevor, then they turned to their side. The church was mighty and ruling, now their sins were exposed and they were toppled. Alucard, while offscreen for the most part of season 1, went against his father in honor of his mother, failed, and decided to team up with humans to stop his father. His character couldn't be explored much, but there was an anticipation to see who he was and who he'd become, something the next season and there on delivered (minus season 3, hate what they did to Alucard). And Trevor? Season 1 episodes 2 to 4, were all about him, we see him as a drunk who can barely defeat other drunks, we see him with an apathy to humanity, we see him broken and lost... and yet he chooses to stand up for what's right and oppose Dracula and save humanity. But in Nocturne, Annette doesn't get much change or character development... thus, she is a flat character. Combine all of this, and that is a big part of why Annette is controversial.

​@@62cky4powerthirst Thankfully, a lot of people are becoming aware of the anti-woke crowd and they are tired of them.

Agree mate . Season was awesome ! Also, to be honest, today we have even more slavery and such than even back then . Nothing new .

People who bitch about that stuff are just idiots.

Because it didn't understand it's religion, did not understand the setting and did not feel like a Civil War it was flat without nuance their arguments for the royalists or the revolutionaries are just a highly rose-tinted of history It is a fanfiction

​@@thesteammachine1282but at the time, the transatlantic slave trade and colonialism is what made France the world power it is today.

Yeah, he explained it I think briefly when he was building that dagger from the pieces he collected and used it to kill death .

That's just a bonus. Holy items like cross and holy water can definitely f**k them up for holy reasons. That's why in the first season of Castelvania, Trevor, despite being not a fan of Christianity itself, finds a priest to bless the water in order to fight the vampire

To be fair Laublanc was a cowardly racist, the idea of a woman he abused likely made him panic.

In ways yes, the geometric shape freaks the hell out of them, but vampires are also a type of daemon who are subject to the powers of consecration a kind or miraculous power. Magic itself can be made holy and can be used to channel the powers of existing gods, the effectiveness of the cross and really any consecrated thing such as holy water is given its properties through intent or otherwise prayer. Therfore magicians can channel the energies of beings such as the Christian god in order to subdue and burn daemons such as vampires as effectively as any ordained preist, for doing so is kind of magic in of itself.

The shape make freak them out but it's still a holy symbol and holy power hurts vampires. Especially if it's consecrated.

@@Igarappappayeah, plus Vaublanc seems to be Christian to at least some degree, according to Annette. It might burn him because he believes in the power it holds against him.

@@vincentgeiszler3749 I don't think that's how vampires work in this setting. God and Heaven are definitively real in this universe and consecrated objects will harm a vampire regardless of their own personal beliefs.

​@@Igarappappa But there Are different gods. Pretty sure Sypha even asks "Why would eastern vampires care about crosses?" When Trevor was explaining his new weapon.

Would be pointless though because Annette could tear it off or something like that.

to me its because Trevor is not a schoolar, he had a theory, not necessarily the truth

​@@NosdelDCarmothat could be the case

I understood it as working because the metal comes from consecrated ground. Consecrated objects like the Belmont whip or like Holy Water burn vampires, after all.

@@tartoflan that makes much more sense... And some places that became corrupted by people, like some churchs, lose this effect

How it can be true when we literally saw Dracula getting burn after touching the cross. Don't remember the exact episode.

Yep! Used to happen with the crazy priests in the last castlevania series also .

Indeed. The big branch of the church in their universe tends to be quite corrupted, but the Belmonts are on the side of God , even if they were excommunicated by the church. Yet, God is definitely on their side. Clearly seen that as humans, only their clan tends to surpass the superhuman abilities and they probably have preserved more ancient knowledge than the church it self. Also the Belmonts uniforms, tend to have the cross in the family insignia,holy weapons and as small ornaments . Off topic,(and definitely no schooling or sounding preachy ), but the best way to write God is with a capital G .As its from respect to Him if one believes that He is the only one. Cheers mate 👍

When you hold it, you also have to accept it and believe in it. Otherwise its just a cross symbol .

@@thesteammachine1282 Essentially, it's the wielders faith in concert with the cross. That's why the Bishop couldn't defend himself with his cross, as he lost all true devotion to God in favor of his self-serving pursuit of power.

also it's iron

They're in a graveyard. It's consecrated.

@@denzelwynter Oooooh, that does make sense. Thanks for the answer!

Only on Netflix.

It would have been unnecessary. He was her literal slave master and he killed her mother in front of her. When he was trapped and dying, he used these things as insults. It's accurate enough and cruel enough.

when you're white and mad:

@@TheBiggestMoronYouKnow oh i am a sinner and my biggest sun is being white

​@@BasiliscBazyour biggest sin is not knowing how to spell

​@@BasiliscBaz Come on

The plot device shaped as white woman in distress does not exist and no one actually cares about. This is an actual fleshed out character.

Which one? the blonde one or the purple haired one? seriously, Simon Belmont himself has like 10 different designs, but now everyone is going apeshit because they changed the design of the most memorable, deep and iconic character of the whole game franchise: Annette, who can't forget Annette? who has like two, but obviously VERY iconic, lines of dialogue in Rondo and was just basically a plot device

​@@hahaimout1693 This is the perfect evidence that is really is just about her skin color. They just want to spin it to a culture war. Because almost no one is upset about Tera being completly different.

If you mean the game's version she was a horrible character and won't be missed.

@@Ninjaananas I AM MAD about their version of Tera. How DARE they turn MY Tera into a HOT, SEXY and very attractive MILF that I would date in a heartbeat? This is SCANDALOUS, boycoting netflix until the new season of Castlevania comes out. And yeah, their Annette is a real character, unlike the video game one.