Castlevania: [SPOILER] Really is The Best Successor to Dracula’s Kingdom – CBR – Comic Book Resources

WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Castlevania Season 3, streaming now on Netflix.

Fans were no doubt curious about how Season 3 of Netflix's Castlevania would deal with its Dracula arc after the vampire king was killed off last season. Trevor, Sypha and his son, Alucard, murdered the dark overlord, creating a power vacuum within the species,which came as a surprise as he's the franchise's main villain.

A coup was attempted on his empire by Carmilla of Styria and while she didn't finish him off, many expected her to claim his title, especially as Alucard didn't care for his kind. However, while she touts the power, it's not the usurper who actually proves to be the best successor to everything Vlad the Impaler created and left behind, it's actually his former Forgemaster, Isaac.

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Isaac's one of the most nuanced and relatable characters in the show, with much of his background, revealed last season, painting a humanized figure as he worked to create Night Creatures for Dracula. He's a gay, black man, oppressed, used and abused all his life and eventually sold into slavery. To make matters worse, he was turned into a vampire by sinister humans, making his journey heartbreaking as hell. It's why Dracula had an air of sympathy towards Isaac, teaching him everything to the point Isaac's peer, Hector, was jealous, as well as Alucard.

Isaac seemed to be the Chosen One, that is until Dracula started to wonder if mass genocide was indeed the best solution for mankind. Dracula teleported Isaac away when his attackers came, but you could sense there was a fracture before then as Isaac lost confidence in his boss for shifting his priorities when it came to executing humans. Isaac felt they were a virus and it became clear, in time, he'd finish the job.

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This season, however, there's a lot more depth to him as the baton's passed, and a lot more of the doctrines embedded in him show why he is the way he is. He's considered extremist and with different people he meets this season, he speaks about his Islamic faith, the prophet Muhammad and what could be construed as his crusade of war. But when he encounters a Jamaican Captain to take him from Africa back to Europe so he can hunt Carmilla and her slave, Hector, things take a surprising turn.

The Captain educates him on his current vision -- saying he's down for purging the bad but if Isaac kills everyone, people like him, the good ones will die too. This isn't real, tangible change and so, the Forgemaster now wants something more than vengeance -- he wants to course correct the planet along the lines of Thanos. It's more than just population reduction like what Hector wanted, though, it's about rebuilding the new one by burning the old one and fine-tuning who gets to live.

It's a bit better than what Dracula had planned, which was just turning humans into livestock, and with Isaac's new outlook, he seems to want coexistence with man and monster; he wants to step out of the shadows and change the world for the better, for everyone. It's also more logicalthan Drac's mission, which was based on emotions and him losing his wife Lisa to humans. Isaac has now gone from that kind of vendetta to cleansing the planet for the "greater good." Admittedly, heexperiences hiccups at Genoa with humans once more opposing him out of sheer ignorance and he takes out a village to create a new army, but these are just temporarymeasures for the larger battle.

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He needs an army and has to kill for it, the same way the Mad Titan did to assemble his Infinity Stones and the Gauntlet. The endgame, thereafter, is the true victory, and with a teleporting mirror, alegion with no infighting and a magical tower, Isaac nowhas more than a castlecompared to the Impaler. He will be the defining point that ensures the best of his species (and everyone else's) makes it to the future because that's the only way to create a better tomorrow.

What makes the idea of Isaac being the new Dracula all the more enticing is that a fourth season could even see him squaring up against his former teacher, giving us a true battle for the vampirethrone.

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