Victor Belmont

The name "Victor Belmont" originally comes from an ultimately-cancelled Castlevania game for the Sega Dreamcast, Castlevania: Resurrection, meant to come out in 2000. In this game, Count Dracula is risen from the dead by an evil Countess in the year 1666, when the power of evil was at its peak, and the Belmont family had no champions to face him. Because of this, the powers that be directly intervened for a change of pace and pulled two warriors from the past and future to 1666 in order to do battle with the forces of darkness, only to be returned home should they succeed in defeating Dracula. One of these heroes was Sonia Belmont, the protagonist of the 1997 Nintendo Game Boy game Castlevania: Legends, coming from the year 1450, and the other was a new character named Victor Belmont, a man from the 1800s, who had actually turned his back on the Belmont legacy and tried to flee his destiny, only to be pulled back in time and forced to face off against Dracula anyway. The game was eventually cancelled by Konami's (justified) lack of faith in the Dreamcast platform, and Victor Belmont was rendered non-canon.

Almost a decade and a half later, the name finally became canon, although not in the original Castlevania lore. In Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2, part of the Lords of Shadow reboot series set in the year 2047, protagonist Gabriel Belmont, now the vampire lord Dracula, discovers a mysterious figure investigating the cathedral where he'd been in a deathlike sleep for five hundred years, a figure identified only as "the Hooded Man". After pursuing him some distance, and defeating Abaddon, a monstrous demon that had also been hunting him, Dracula confronts the Hooded Man, who attacks him using a Combat Cross and battle relics like holy water and blessed throwing knives, just as Gabriel himself had wielded a thousand years ago. Although Dracula is victorious, he spares his opponent when he realizes that the Hooded Man was fighting him to defend a stronghold of innocent survivors from the demonic invasion of Castlevania City. Surprised that the lord of vampires would spare him, the man introduces himself as Victor Belmont, leader of the Brotherhood of Light and last of the Belmont clan.

Knowing something of the plans of the Acolytes of Satan to bring their lord to Earth that he may conquer it, and knowing that something incredibly powerful had already killed one of the three Acolytes, Victor correctly guessed that Dracula was opposing his old enemy Satan, and was searching for the locations of the other two Acolytes. To this end, Victor accompanied Dracula through the streets of Castlevania City, defending themselves from demon attacks on a number of occasions, until they reached a large metal statue, where Dracula (and a just-arrived Zobek's Lieutenant) hid to the side while Victor issued a challenge to the Acolytes in plain sight. The second Acolyte, Nergal Meslamstea, had the power to control inanimate objects such as statues, and he sent his power down to the statue to respond to the challenge and kill Victor with its decorative metal sword. Just before he allowed himself to be slain, Victor turned to where Dracula was hiding and told him "Now you're the last Belmont," revealing that he had somehow known all along that Dracula's true identity was Gabriel Belmont, first of the family line. Victor Belmont's death was not in vain; after his sacrifice, Dracula was able to trace the power of Nergal back to his hiding place, ultimately engaging the Acolyte in combat and killing him. Dracula also discovered that Victor had somehow been in possession of a shard of the mysterious Mirror of Fate, which he had been tasked with retrieving by his son Trevor.