Female villains?

Heh, Miketendo you have no need to worry. Female villans are sure to be in there. The demons IGA is basing his monsters on include female forms. I don't want to spoil anything, but even in a previous update they showed art for a female boss. As far as how much these characters have personality, we don't know.

Docteur, women can be villans too. Let's not go very deep into polarizing gender politics too much here though. I see enough of that on Facebook. Please everyone be cool.

Aside from Elizabeth Bartley in Bloodlines (who gets usurped by Dracula in the end - though I guess that's true in almost every game) I can' think of any female that had a headline role as "the villain" in a Castlevania game. Carmilla is just the second in command to Dracula, "the Succubus" doesn't even have a name (which should tell you how far up the totem pole she is), the Lecarde Sisters are basically under Brauner's spell, etc. Since I'm 99% convinced Gebel is not the true villain of this game, I'd be super down for  female villain <3



This is a false dichotomy. Nobody wants shitty characters but there is no reason or realistic fear that a character designed because of a desire for progressiveness has to be shitty or hard to incorporate or anything. You might not get what you want if you ask for something, assuming what you're asking for is reasonable or sensible, but you 100% won't get it if you don't ask. That's all this ever is. Sometimes people are dumb or unrespectful and sometimes what they are saying or asking for can be dumb - those people deserved to be called out. However at the end of the day expressing a demand for better representation isn't an inherent usurpation of artistic creativity or independence. It's just saying "hey I'm here, I like your work and I think it would be super cool if X happened and it might me like your work even better. Just think about it <3"

Don't get me wrong, I wasn't trying to include women for the sake of inclusion. But as a franchise that's had female heroes and villains, I always thought it'd be cool if Miriam would fight against a female antagonist as well...not necessarily the main baddie but maybe a miniboss. I'm sure Iga's got it all worked out though, as XombieMike mentioned.