SIMON BELMONT

is a protagonist in the ''Castlevania'' video game series. He has starred in nine different games, six of which are remixes of the same events. He was also featured in several other Konami games, among cameo and official appearances. Examples include ''Ganbare Goemon 2'' (Super Famicom, 1993), ''Snatcher'' (Sega CD), and ''DreamMix TV World Fighters'' (Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2).

Contents

History

Time periods

Captain N: The Game Master

Appearance

Game appearance history

Trivia

See also

History

During the life of Simon Belmont, the Belmont name was well known and quite famous, making Simon famous as well. When the Count Dracula once again awoke in 1691 and started terrorizing the people of Transylvania, they sought out Simon, who was promptly on the case.
He would fulfill the Belmont legacy once again, defeating Dracula. However, Dracula was not one to just up and admit defeat. Instead, this time he sacrificed an early resurrection and placed a curse on Simon. By having his minions take his body parts and hide them all over Transylvania, he believed and hoped that Simon could not find them all in time and the curse would over take him and the Belmont family lineage would succumb. However, that did not happen, as Simon would be successful in locating all the body parts to resurrect Dracula and promptly defeating him, thus lifting the curse.
While ''Super Castlevania IV'' is only a remake of the original ''Castlevania'' in the official Japanese Canon for the series by Koji Igarashi, Konami USA modified ''Super Castlevania IV'' when they localized it into a sequel to ''Castlevania II: Simon's Quest'' by altering the introduction story within the manual and game itself, making the game the third time Simon took on Dracula. Konami USA still reflected the modification within the US canon, as seen in a Konami timeline printed in an issue of ''Nintendo Power'' around the release of the "Sorrow" series. However, recently Konami USA left out the US Version of ''Super Castlevania IV'', in their Xtreme Desktop Timeline, which indicates that Konami USA has changed their decision, and are taking the series closer to IGA's vision.

Time periods

★ 1691 - ''Castlevania'' and subsequent remakes: ''Vampire Killer'', ''Super Castlevania IV'', ''Castlevania Chronicles''/Akumajō Dracula X68000, Haunted Castle (arcade game)

★ 1698 - ''

★ 1748 - '' (as a hidden character; not a canonical appearance)
The games which took place in 1691 are all known as ''Akumajō Dracula'' in Japan. Those were all versions of the same game, with nearly the same storyline. The North American version of ''Super Castlevania IV'' was modified to take place in 1698 (taking place after Castlevania II), and was reflected in Konami USA's timeline. However, the Japanese version of the game takes place in 1691 like all the rest of the ''Akumajō Dracula'' remakes. The later Xtreme Desktop timeline leaves ''Super Castlevania IV'' version out completely.

Captain N: The Game Master

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'Simon Belmont' was one of the stars and protagonists in the animated series ''. He was a member of the N-Team, a group of mostly video game characters who defended Video Land against the evils of Mother Brain and others. He does not appear in the comic book form of ''Captain N''.
The Simon Belmont of ''Captain N'' is portrayed very differently from his video game counterpart. Instead of being a tough, battle-hardened blonde hero with his whip, he appears as a vain, narcissistic man of beauty and style. He consistently admires himself and makes sure his hair is never a mess. He is a coward at heart in the series, usually leaving Kevin Keene to the fighting unless he wants to impress someone.
Throughout the series, Simon Belmont has a crush on Princess Lana. However, from the moment Kevin appears, Simon has bouts of jealousy and tries harder to gain the affection of Princess Lana.
One item that Simon has in the series is a seemingly bottomless backpack, from which he is often able to pull a variety of strange and useful objects.
In one episode, in which the N-Team were in their worst nightmares after eating a cursed apple, because of his physical stature, he was referred to as Simon "The Body" Belmont, flexing it all before losing his muscles, his teeth and his hair.
Simon Belmont was voiced by Andrew Kavadas in the show; Kavadas' appearance was also used as the design for Belmont's character.

Appearance

Simon's design and appearance has changed significantly from game to game. His hair-color most notoriously changes with almost every game and there are sometimes inconsistencies between the character's depictions between the game and its packaging. In the first ''Castlevania'' (Akumajo Dracula) game and on the Japanese cover of Super Castlevania IV Simon has brown hair, on the cover of Castlevania II and the western covers for Castlevania IV however he is depicted as a blonde. In CV2 his sprite however has black hair. In the arcade ''Haunted Castle'' he has blue hair. In his current redesign, which also alters his facial appearance to a more effeminate one, he has red hair.
Simon's attire has also changed from game to game. In some adaptions (mostly in games considered redesigns of the first game) he is shown wearing a headband. In ''Castlevania'' and the later ''Castlevania Chronicles'' he wears a leathery outfit, though the current design adds a strange furry collar to it. Also, Simon's outfit was initially brown, whereas the current costume is red. Simon is also depicted wearing red armor in CV2 and Vampire Killer, but the armor is blue in Haunted Castle and CV4.

Game appearance history

Game Title	Console/Platform	Year	Notes
''Vampire Killer''	MSX2	1986	The protagonist
''Castlevania''	Famicom Disk System/NES	1986/1987	The protagonist
''	Famicom Disk System/NES	1988	The protagonist
''Konami Wai Wai World''	Famicom	1988	One of several protagonists
''Super Castlevania IV''	Super Famicom/SNES	1991	The protagonist
''	Famicom	1991	One of several protagonists
''Akumajō Dracula''	Sharp X68000	1993	The protagonist
''Castlevania Chronicles''	PlayStation	2001	The protagonist
''	Game Boy Advance	2002	Appears only in Boss Rush Mode
''DreamMix TV World Fighters''	GameCube, PlayStation 2	2003/2005	One of several fighters

Trivia

★ EGM, famous for their April Fool's jokes, once printed an article stating that Simon Belmont could be unlocked as a playable character in TMNT2.

★ At the end of the original NES version of Castlevania, Simon is actually credited as "Simon Belmondo", his literal Japanese name.

★ According to Nintendo Power, the worst cover for a Nintendo Power was one depicting Simon Belmont holding the decapitated head of Dracula (the scene was a depiction of Castlevania 2). It is considered the worst cover because hundreds of parents called in to complain about the goriness of the cover. As a result of the image, it was reported in the complaints that children suffered nightmares resulting from the image.

See also

★ List of Castlevania characters