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“ | Here, every little story is a huge thing. A farming accident. A sickness. A lost child. A death. They have an importance to the place. | „ |
~ The Judge, which foreshadows his true nature. |
The Judge is a major character in the Netflix animated series, Castlevania. Originally known to be a kind and soft-spoken figure, he was revealed to be a cold-blooded child murderer who had lured "annoying" children him into a death trap.
He was voiced by Jason Isaacs, who also voiced Zhao from Avatar: The Last Airbender.
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Close to Being Pure Evil?[]
- He put up a noble and reasonable façade in order to run the town, using the actions of creatures and Prior Sala's cult as his cover to commit crimes.
- He lured children under an apple tree, where a death trap was set under it where they would fall to their death. He would take their shoes as his trophies.
- In one of his murders, he showed disdain to a child who ran around the town, shouting at him angrily, before pretending to forgive the boy and asked him to pick apples from his apple tree. This led the boy to fall into his death trap and was killed, meaning that he deliberately lured his victims to their death.
- The reason the Judge killed children was largely because he despised them. In his twisted sense, those children were disruption of his town's order and should be eliminated.
- The Judge had been cryptically describing his murders as "little pleasures" to run the town, of which Trevor realized it at last when he saw evidence of the Judge's crimes. It meant that the Judge did find enjoyment in killing those he believed to be disobedient and disruptive, meaning he had absolutely zero well-intentions.
- He also quite hypocritical, since he arrived at the capital when he was 8 years old, which was one of the ages for misbehaving children his own age back then.
- Puts his town's people under firm control in order to keep the order under his control.
- The Judge seemed to have some redeeming qualities at first, but after his true nature and intention had revealed, it was thrown out the window and/or interpreted as nothing but a lie of a hypocrite.
- Although he seemed to be horrified by the actions of Prior Sala's cult and Dracula's followers at first, which involved causing deaths and misery in the town, it was a point of a hypocrite, as he also committed crimes against townspeople that disobeyed him. It was only because Sala stood as an obstacle to his rule.
- At first, after being fatally stabbed, the Judge showed some apparent honor to Sala even if the latter fatally wounded him, warning to Sala and telling him how to flee the town. However, the Judge was actually seeking his own revenge against Sala by manipulating him (Sala) into the aforementioned death trap, killing Sala in the process.
- Whilst his crime's scale was not that massive in comparison of Dracula or the Bishop, the Judge's serial killing mainly targeted children and was purely for self-serving attitude under the pretense of kind figure, which made him stand out in the series' human villains just like the Bishop.
- In contrast to Sala, Carmilla or the Bishop, who either (originally) followed Dracula or the Church, the Judge had no affiliation ever since the beginning of his appearance. This meant that the Judge had even less resources than the Bishop. As a result, all he did by killing people (mostly children) that offended him by the mere sight seemed to be even more shocking and cruel. It would only benefit the Judge himself and his twisted image of his village only.
What Prevents Him from Being Pure Evil?[]
- He has high regards over Belmonts and shows respect to Trevor. Whilst the Judge tricked Sala into his death, he didn't do the same thing to Trevor or Sypha, meaning he did have some honor.
- It's also been implied that the reason for the Judge's high regards and respects to Trevor could be because that he was one of the people who witnessed the wrongful persecution and excommunication of nearly all the Belmonts by the hands of the Church. But unlike the rest of the public who celebrated the Belmont Clan's near extinction, the Judge might've instead been distraught by such event that he may have secretly became anti-social to everyone else, while also started in thinking positively of the Belmonts only. This might've also explain that the Judge also has some standards against the Belmonts' unfair treatment by everyone else.
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