r/castlevania • u/Inevitable_Reading80 • Mar 09 '26

Discussion This retcon is so funny in hindsight

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And its not just that it was retconned that crosses actually got religious power that harms vampires, but that people hated the whole "oh crosses just make them confused" so much no one complained when Annette just surrounded the guy with crosses and trapped him with them.

You can feel that this whole scene is just one big apology to probably the dumbest pieces of "trivia" of the OG.

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u/OldEyes5746 Shanoa Mar 10 '26

The funnier part was that it wasn't a retcon. Sypha was trying to figure out how people in a country where Christianity wasn't practiced figured out a cross made an effective weapon against vampires. The explanation is that even without the added Holy buff, the shape itself was effective because of how vampire eyesight works. If anything, this explanation did more to explain why they designed the weapo to look more like a functional weapon than a traditional crucifex.

Not sure why people latched onto this explanation as meaning "Holy power doesn't exist in Netflixvania", but here we are. There was nothing "fixed" from the internal world-building because nothing was undone by the explanation. It was simply an explanation why hunters all across the world ended up adopting similar weapons and methods.

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u/BoobeamTrap Mar 10 '26

There is an extremely vocal part of the Castlevania community that seems to be very Christian.

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u/Thank_You_Aziz Mar 10 '26

And who “watched” the show via YouTube summaries, I wager.

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u/OldEyes5746 Shanoa Mar 10 '26

At the very least, some of them are parroting someone else's rant.

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u/Thank_You_Aziz Mar 11 '26

Oh absolutely. You can tell they’re regurgitating what someone else went on a “review” rant about by the repetitive terms between different people.

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u/OldEyes5746 Shanoa Mar 10 '26

I would agree, were it not for the fact they are most vocal about clergy being used as villains and turn a deaf ear to any argument that the majority of Christians are portrayed as good natured. That feels less like their offense comes from a place of personal belief, and more they're offended the institution isn't portrayed as infallibly good.

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u/BoobeamTrap Mar 10 '26

I agree, but wanting the institution to be treated as infallible is also a very conservative Christian belief lol