Hector (Netflix's Castlevania)

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## Base Breaking Character

### Powers/Skills

Demon summoning
Devil forging
Reanimation

### Allies

Lenore
Isaac
Dracula (formerly)

### Enemies

Carmilla
Striga
Morana
Varney (Death)

### Goals

Help Dracula in his war against humanity (failed)
Seek revenge on Carmilla for manipulating and abusing him (succeeded)
Resurrect Dracula as a form of atonement for his betrayal (abandon)

### Why Do Some People Hate The Character?

He is viewed as a downgrade of his game counterpart.
Some view him as a pathetic charcater, who lacks agency in the story.
Some felt his story matters little when compared to other characters in the series.

### Why Do Some People Love The Character?

His story is sympathetic and many felt bad for the situations he goes through.
He has cool powers and holds an interesting relationship with Isaac and Dracula.
Hector's relationship with Lenore is seen as cute and complex.

### Type of Base Breaking Character

Wasted Monster Creator

**Hector** is one of the major characters of *Castlevania: The Animated Series*, who serves as Dracula's most trusted servants. He is a lonely pacifist who seeks to have humanity be ruled by vampires as he felt it would bring order to mankind with their flaws being controlled. Later on in the series, he becomes a slave for Carmilla, who wants to take over as the new ruler of vampires and constanly abuse Hector. As a useful slave, Hector uses his chances to get revenge on Carmilla for manipulating him.

He is voiced by Theo James in the English dub and Takahiro Sakurai in the Japanese dub.

## What Makes Him a Base-Breaking Character?

### Why Do People Like Him?

* He has a sympatheic backstory of being abused by his parents, who strongly hated him with his mother disliking his existence and his father telling him that the world is cruel and should stop whining about it. In response to this abuse, he burned down his home killing both of his parents.
* Hector has an interesting set of powers relating to forging monsters and reanimating the dead.
* He has a cute care for animals and strongly sympathize with them.
* His interactions with Isaac and Dracula is interesting with it establishing their relationship and why Dracula cares about them.
* Many sympathize his constant suffering in the hands of Carmilla, who was manipulating Hector to betray Dracula and took him as her personal slave while beating and berating him.
* His relationship with Lenore is considered by others of being interesting and complex for both characters.

### What Do People Hate About Him?

* Some fans felt the adaptation made a heavy downgrade of Hector's character as he went from a fighter to a gentle pacifist.
* Some of his detractors felt that his story is pretty irrelevant when compared to other characters in the series including Isaac, who has a more interesting story arc of learning his purpose in the world and growing out of his misanthropic beliefs.
* Detractors tend to mock Hector as they felt he is a pathetic manchild, who does not stand up for himself against those who are trying to manipulate him.
* His naive personality is viewed as annoying since he does not question the motives of those who are trying to use him and landing in worse situations for himself because of it.
* His detractors felt he did not develop at all as a character until the end of the show.
* Many detractors view Hector as a poorly written character as they could not sympathize with him and the situations he land himself into.

## External Links

* Hector on the Villains Wiki
* Hector on the Villainous Benchmark Wiki
* Hector (animated series) on the Castlevania Wiki

## Navigation

Animated Films
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Live-Action Television
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Animated Television
*She-Ra and the Princesses of Power*
Shadow Weaver
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*The Dragon Prince*
Rayla
Other
Bowlboy

See Also
Paramount Base Breaking Characters