Dracula sound at once worldly and feral, aristocratic and satanic". The Verge agreed in regards to Dracula's characterization, finding him as a "sympathetic character as opposed to cartoonish villain with no real motivation beyond an unjustified drive to be evil". Dave Trumbore of Collider found Dracula's thirst of revenge understandable despite the chaos he makes. Dan Seitz at Uproxx agreed but felt the series sidelined the character. In an interview regarding Dracula's humanization, Anime News Network told the Netflix staff, Dracula's humanization in the Netflix was better than the ones from other anti-villains like Magneto or Thanos which Executive Producer Adi Shankar found as an accomplishment. References Castlevania characters Demon characters in video games Dracula in written fiction Fictional characters with immortality Fictional counts and countesses Fictional knights in video games Fictional mass murderers Fictional Romanian people Fictional Swedish people Konami antagonists Male characters in video games Male video game villains Vampire characters in video games Video game bosses Video game characters introduced in 1986 Video game characters who can teleport Video game characters with slowed ageing Video game characters with superhuman strength Video game characters who use magic Video game mascots Nobility characters in video games Undead supervillains Vampire supervillains