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* [[Despair Event Horizon]]: Gabriel, learning that {{spoiler|it was he himself who murdered Marie unknowingly, breaks down horribly and gets electrocuted by a Satan-controlled Zobek - until Marie urges him to fight on}}. Yet again, after the defeat of {{spoiler|Satan, Gabriel crosses this once more after realizing that he cannot resurrect Marie with the God Mask. After watching Marie fly away, he completely breaks down, heartbroken... forever...}}
** He almost crosses this after his {{spoiler|mind-controlled murder of Claudia, too...}}
* [[Determinator]]: Gabriel's determined spirit persevered despite some [[My God, What Have I Done?|revelations]] that would have broken a normal man. He did not care for the creatures that roamed the land, if they stand in his way, he will not hesitate to destroy them.
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: More specifically, {{spoiler|Did You Just Air Joust With Satan, Punch Him Out, And Then Strangle Him!?}}
** Justified in that Gabriel has had his power boosted by all the souls in limbo, and the bestiary specifically states that {{spoiler|Satan's power is limited while he is on Earth}}.
** {{spoiler|Pan is an old god whom Gabriel has to kill.}}
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* [[Face Heel Turn]]: {{spoiler|Gabriel, absorbs the power of the Forgotten One at the end of the Ressurection DLC. After executing the demon, he destroys the combat cross, signifying his total hatred for God, the Brotherhood, and Mankind, before crossing the portal back to earth. He is now officialy a villain.}}
* [[Fan Disservice]]: The demon summoned by the Dark Crystal sub-weapon is very female, very topless, and very hideous. Fortunately, you can skip the summoning cutscene (or not, [[Nightmare Fetishist|if that's your thing]]).
** Carmilla's {{spoiler|[[One -Winged Angel]]. Until then, she was proving that [[Evil Is Sexy]], but she then transforms into a hideous, naked humanoid vampire-esque beast. [[Yandere|"Look upon Carmilla... am I not beautiful?"]] [[Squick|No comment]].}}
*** {{spoiler|[[Evil Makes You Ugly]], period...}}
** And of course, it wouldn't be a Kojima game without a naked dude, right?
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* [[Karmic Death]]: The abbot Vincent Dorin was indirectly responsible for an entire village being killed by vampires because he kept the only artifact capable of killing them to himself. Guess what becomes of him when he is left at the mercy of vampires when the artifact is taken from him by Gabriel Belmont and Zobek.
* [[Kill the Cutie]]: {{spoiler|Claudia.}}
* [[Kill 'Em All]]: {{spoiler|Every single main character dies horribly, save for Zobek, who turns out to be mysteriously still alive in the modern era! Laura isn't killed either, and becomes something of a [[What Happened to The Mouse?]] until the ''Reverie'' DLC came out.}}
* [[Kleptomaniac Hero]]: Gabriel taking gems from his fallen brethrens, as if they are going to use them anyway.
* [[Knight in Sour Armor]]: Gabriel. After having done so many terrible things to some others - or so he said, he still continues his journey bitterly thanks to the heavy weight the world has placed upon him as well as the thought of his beloved wife.
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** The giant spiders also count.
** Not to mention Brauner, who can be miles away one moment and right in your face the next. And he doesn't have speed boots like Cornell.
* [[Load -Bearing Boss]]: When Malphas goes down, so does her entire castle.
* [[Love Redeems]]: Laura nearly kills Gabriel, but spares him after seeing him and Marie's spirit embrace. Almost makes Laura a [[The Woobie|woobie]], given how often the game mentions how Laura misses her mother (who died long ago; Laura's a centuries old [[Undead Child|vampire]]). {{spoiler|Also Gabriel himself in the end, although the [[The Stinger]] kind of throws it out the window.}}
* [[Manly Tears]]: {{spoiler|When Marie's spirit ascends into Heaven during the ending, uber-badass Gabriel Belmont breaks down and starts sobbing.}}
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* [[Our Goblins Are Different]]: They look more like pygmie chimpanzee-men than the usual gremlins you may be used to. They're fond of throwing around grenades, too.
* [[Our Werewolves Are Different]]: At the very least, mention must be made of the Wargs, which are horses that have contracted lycanthropy and are ridden by ''other werewolves''.
* [[Our Vampires Are Different]]: The vampires here are fairly standard (even going with the correct practice of exchanging blood in order to become a vampire, as opposed to merely having it drained from you), but they aren't able to assume human forms unless they are several centuries old. They also have [[Buffy -Speak|weird Crab-leg-claw-talon thingies]] protruding from their shoulders in addition to large bat wings. Olrox and Brauner aren't even human in origin; they're ''demons'' that Carmilla turned into vampires (and thus don't have the ability to become human-looking).
* [[Power Glows]]: Cornell transfers his power (or Soul. Or something else.) into the werewolf-shaped pillars that surround his arena. They start to glow, his chest stops glowing.
* [[Precision F -Strike]]: When Claudia is trying to distract the Stone Titan.
{{quote| '''Claudia:''' "Down here, '''you bitch!'''"}}
* [[The Precursors]]: The architects of Agharta and the Titans.
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*** And we also have {{spoiler|Zobek}} as the [[Metal Gear|Big Boss]].
*** {{spoiler|Pan is Grey Fox, whose fighting style and personality is not dissimilar to Pan's.}}
** Also, Scrolls of deceased knights talking about a tree named [[The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time (Video Game)|"Dek]][[Spell My Name With an "S"|uh"]].
*** From another scroll: A deceased knight mourns the death of two of his companions and vows revenge. The names of those companions? [[Day of the Tentacle|Sister Laverne and Brother Bernard]]. The log is signed H{{spoiler|oagy}}.
** The game's visual style is heavily influenced by the films of [[Guillermo Del Toro]], and several elements could be considered shout outs, from the appearance of Pan to the fact that the ghouls' lower jaws split open in a fashion identical to those of the Reaper Strain vampires in ''Blade II''.
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** {{spoiler|[[God of War (Video Game)|"Bring back the dead! Rule the world! Destroy the universe! CHALLENGE THE GOD HIMSELF!!!"]]}}
** Gabriel's answer to the Forgotten One's boast? [[Symphony of the Night|"Enough Talk...! Have at you!"]]
* [[Show, Don't Tell]]: Averted. At least insofar as character development is concerned.
* {{spoiler|[[Super -Powered Evil Side]]: The three Lords of Shadow to the three founding members of the Brotherhood. Simply put, the founders used a spell to become angels, but their dark sides were left behind as a result.}}
* [[Stealth Mentor]]: Pan in a sort of way. {{spoiler|His boss battle is also a way to teach how to fight Satan (he even states this in one of his battle quotes). }}
** It also forces Gabriel to realize he's been a bit of a selfish prick.
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* [[Stop Helping Me]]: Played with. A character like this is introduced but after a few missions of annoying you, {{spoiler|she's killed. [[And There Was Much Rejoicing]].}}
* [[Swamps Are Evil]]: Goblins, trolls, poisonous bogs... and clingy naiads that have ''really'' let themselves go.
* [[Tall, Dark and Handsome]]: Gabriel. Even Zobek thinks so: "He's so dark, so beautiful".
* [[Mind Reading|Telepathy]]: How Claudia communicates with Gabriel.
* [[That Man Is Dead]]: {{spoiler|Gabriel. "Don't you ''dare'' call me that!"}}
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* [[The Vamp]]: Carmilla, including in the literal sense.
* [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]]: {{spoiler|The climax of the Carmilla battle.}}
* [[Tragedy]]: No other Castlevania games have been so dark and hopeless compared to Lords Of Shadow... and Gabriel is the first Belmont who is [[Anti -Hero|not so nice at all]] - although he is not related to the original Belmont clan in any way.
* [[Tragic Dream]]: {{spoiler|Gabriel's hope of resurrecting Marie from death is shattered in front of his very eyes at the end of his journey...}}
* [[Tragic Hero]]: Gabriel
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* [[Whispering Ghosts]]: Disembodied voices can be heard in The Dead Bog stage.
** {{spoiler|The souls that engulf Gabriel once he gets fried by Zobek via [[Agony Beam|Agony Beams]] also whisper things like "Your time has come!" "Stay with us!" "Come with us!"}}
* [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]]: {{spoiler|Gabriel, in the epilogue, lives to modern times as the immortal Dracula. Unfortunately, it seems all he really wants to do is die. Zobek tries to recruit him to prevent Satan's return, and promises to cure Dracula of his immortality.}}
* [[Wicked Witch]]: Baba Yaga. {{spoiler|Sends Gabriel on a quest to assist in a spell that will make her a [[Hot Witch]].}}
** {{spoiler|Sadly, we never get to see this transformation.}}
* [[Womanin Black]]: Carmilla fits this to a T.
* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]: {{spoiler|Dracula}}.
* [[Worthy Opponent]]: {{spoiler|The Forgotten One calls Gabriel this.}}
* [[Xanatos Gambit]]: {{spoiler|As it turns out, it was all a plot by the Lord of the Dead, who turns out to be Zobek. He was the one who cast the spell to separate the world from the heavens in order to trick his fellow Lords of Shadow and their heavenly counterparts into thinking an old prophecy was coming true in order to get them killed and finish off Gabriel to absorb their power. He also made Gabriel kill his wife.}}
* [[Yin -Yang Bomb]]: Gabriel gets a couple of pendants that let him absorb Light and Dark energy.
* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: How Gabriel deals with <s>practically</s> every mount that isn't a shapeshifted Pan. The spiked chain Rinaldo Gandolfi created was for such a purpose.
** {{spoiler|You can also do this to your own white pieces after winning the Vampire Wargame.}}
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