The Cursed History of Grant Danasty
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ต.ค. 2023
- Keeping too my October tradition, I wanted to cover a character from the Castlevania series, and Castlevania 3: Dracula's Curse might be one of the most influential game in the whole of Castlevania, inspiring not only Koji Igarashi to make Symphony of the Night as well as Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon. Though almost ironically, one of the main characters from C3, this being Grant Danasty has been all but forgotten to time. So I wanted to discuss my acrobatic lads cursed history!
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The fact he was excluded from the Netflix show for having a "dumb name" is just stupid. I feel like they didn't bother looking into the character at all past a US game manual.
they actually haven't even play the original game
It bummed me out so much he wasn’t in it, but it was still a great show. Just would have been better with him
Pretty much no one making the netflix anime actually likes or cares about the series
I get that having fans make a adaptation isn't always the best idea, but god damn can we at least get people who have some level of interest in the source material?
They didn't, otherwise they wouldn't have made the Belmonts enemies of the church when they worked for them in game.
Poor bastard. Not only did his crush end up with another guy, but he didn’t even get to be in the Netflix castlevania series. He was one of the major players and deserves appreciation
the Netflix part is actually a blessing in disguise for him
@@R_wir3 Even more so with the newest one
Screw the fake canon of him having a crush, that's amateurish and a dumb idea from the non canon game in the franchise: Judgment
Cuck Danasty, Grant22, Grant Smith, Sypha Pinkett, 2Trevor, Belpac, Slapvania, Cuckvania: Symphony of the Slap, “KEEP SYPHA’S NAME OUT YOUR F****** MOUTH”, Will Grant, Grant Slapping Chris Tepes at the Konami academy game awards.
People don t realize mention trevore and sypha riding ledge talking mention pirate of ledge Easter egg
The most baffling thing about this is that grant is not a hard character to write.
Literally the thief with a heart of gold archetype.
Literally just have him be trevor’s rival friend whose a comic relief.
One time me and some people were discussing Grant role if he were to appear in the show alongsife our fellow protagonists.
One said that Trevor & Grant would be too similar too each other in personality.
@@marcosgalvis3498the thing is that Trevor shares NOTHING with his game ounterpart. The game Trevor wasn't a drunkard who swore like a sailor and kicked people in the balls,. Lords of Shadow Trevor is more similar to the original than Netflix's version.
Its like if you made a Rocky movie swaped Rocky's personality with Paulie's.
@@phoenixdouchebag904 yeah i get it, at least they gave a reason as to why Trevor is lile this in the show after learning from his past amd the death of his family at the hand of the Wallachians.
Grant was pretty important to Castlevania as a whole, Trevor was a trained since he was born to be a vampire Hunter and carried a magical whip, Sypha was a sorceress and Alucard was Dracula's son, what did Grant represent? The common man, the kind of man that looked at the threat Dracula was and refused to let that happen, who impressed Dracula so much that rather than kill him he turned him into a servant, and that once freed from his curse he had no doubts in continuing his mission, showing the resolve that allowed him to stand next to legnds as an equal and a legend of his own.
Also the whole "Why would there be a pirate in a landlocked country" bullshit was incredibly dumb considering how inaccurate the whole show was with the time period, especially when they showed a hilariously inaccurate map of eastern europe, which meant the world was different enough from our own than they could have simply said that due to the existence of vampires that Wallachia still have access to the Black Sea through the Danube or something.
Not only that but Wallacia isn't *that* far from the Black Sea, and Dracula's castle is clearly situated on top of/nearby some body of water (a lake/river). (Never mind the vampire lore that vampires can't cross running water, we'll let that one slip.) Not only that, but the intro mentions many countries attempting to fight back against Dracula. Surely Grant could've come from elsewhere, heard of Dracula's reign of evil, and decided to stop him. Perhaps the ship you see in-game is his ship, taken over by Dracula's forces.
Not including him in the Netflix adaptation was rough. Putting him as an allusion to be made fun of by Trevor and Saint Germaine was uncalled for. And the final slap in the face was having two characters like him but not him in the final season.
Yes, his only powers was tiny knives and sweet hops, but he had heart!
That and helping with skipping some sections of the game
It was a blessing in disguise, they would have butchered the fuck out of him like they did to everyone else in that show.
@@ginger-ham4800oof, salty
@@mossystone584pointing out shit smells isn't really salty
The Robert E.O. Speedwagon of the Castlevania series.
Speedwagon is not a forgotten character in Jojo. Even in the SBR timeline there still a callback to his company.
Which suck because I can imagine Grant making a secret order of rouges meant to aid the Belmonts in fighting off monsters. In certain Castlevania games, they could supply sub-weapons or show up at certain points in a game to inform the player about what they're up against or give them an item to cross an inaccessible area. It would have been a good way for him to leave a legacy like the other did.
more like the waluigi or geno of castlevania
Man, so happy you're giving this guy some attention. Him being brushed under the rug for the new Castlevania series never sat well with me
Alongside Christopher Belmont, they are the most unlucky protagonists of the entire franchise being absolute forgotten by their company at every single turn.
What about Sonia Belmont from Castlevania Legends?
@@alienalchemist also her. But sadly she got de-canonized by IGA, so not much we can do about her.
They could've made Hammer in Aria/Dawn of Sorrow Grant's descendant, but NOOOOOOO
It makes a whole lot of sense. Or why is he even in the castle in both games.
Nobody forgot him, they just went “We are not worthy of this greatness,” and didn’t try
When I saw the ship captain Isaac interacted with in the Netflix show I was hoping for some kind of reference to Grant
It would have cost them nothing to have the captain say his name was Grant
As a Heavy main, I must first express my rage at having my main be called cursed.
And as a Heavy main, I must second admit that he absolutely has been cursed.
if nothing else the a posing heavies and hoovies and other such memery marks him for that alone
*Plays Soviet national anthem on world's tiniest violin*
Let's just hope Grant Danasty may one day finally be recognize for his importance in Castlevania.
The last bastion of hope for him is getting put into the zombie puppet arena fight in nocturne when they adapt stuff from Sotn
@@aboriginite We can only hope.
@@aboriginitehow? he wasn't even introduced in the first show.
He was blessed by not being in the netflix series considering the game of thrones clone abomination it became post season 2.and how awful nocturne is
They really need to expand upon the Danasty Dynasty
Indeed.
Would be cool if Grant after the events of CV3 created a force dedicated to protect the innocent from monsters that terrorized villages in Wallachia if a Belmont wasn't there to protect them.
I couldnt start to appreciate him till Judgement where he got a more standout design. Poor guy got shafted hard but still has a good ass name
You liked the Judgment design? eeeewwww.... If you've ever been cheated on: I don't blame your gf
@@Firguywhat?
I really don't understand why the Netflix show completely forevent including Grant in spite of the theme of revenge that echoes throughout the seasons. Grant's quest for vengeance could've contrasted well with Isaac's own initial desire to enact vengeance for the very same man who served as the source of Grant's hatred. It would have been neat to see the two interact and bounce off of each other. What is the difference between righteous vengeance and self-indulgent hatred? Is it what you intend to do afterwards to honor your loss? Or is there even a difference?
Honestly I assume Grant is not a popular character in Japan and not being like by the developers. Compared to the others, I wouldn’t be surprise that they considered Grant forgettable.
“Hack” is right!
The writing on the Netflix show was abysmal. Leaving Grant out is a blessing in hindsight. I’d hate to see what Ellis would’ve done to him.
And it’s mind boggling, when you realize that Trevor, Sypha & Alucard never cross paths with Hector, Isaac or Carmilla.
Anyway, that aside, great video on Grant! Really interesting about the origins of his name.
At least he's not coming back after those allegations.
That does it
Next time I play a rogue in D&D, he's gonna be a Dynasty
Let's honor the poor bastard with the amazing mobility and bad attack
I was so sad about Grant's exclusion from the Netflix series, he's my favorite Castlevania character :(
Justice for Grant! He was my favorite to play back in the day.
Its so weird seeing such a cool character be Ignored.
In gameplay alone he sounds like a real trip to play as, a hyper mobile Character with very poor offensive abilities relying in positioning and item use.
Hell In Dead Cells you give the Beheaded a knife and he is pretty much Grant, only missing the ability to climb ceelings.
Meti is so bitingly critical in this one and I love it so much. Justice for grant
Mojoplays (the Video game version of Watchmojo) said that grant dynasty was cut because Warren Ellis first thought thought he was making a movie of Castlevania and grant can’t fit the setting, before Castlevania turns into a tv series. Saint Germain also mentioned Grant Dynasty.
Yeah but that guy added vikings and japanese.
Grant does not deserve such disrespect.
Finally someone talks about Grant being done dirty.
The Brando CV3 music video might be one of the most recognition he has gotten in recent years.
With all the changes made in the animated series, the "reasons" to exclude Grant just sound like excuses, really.
How rare to see a video on grant.
“You live for the sake of others, your tales will passed down for eternity.” - Aeon’s finisher quotes to Grant Danasty(Castlevania Judgment).
… Later, ignored by Netflix 😢.
Any CV character spared the indignation of appearing in the shitflix show is the ultimate mercy.
Heck I wasn't even a big fan of Grant but when the show came out and they got to Alucard, I was looking at the screen going "you guys are still missing someone, where's the thief?"
New video from Meti is a win. Keep up the great content!
seeing this video appear in my sub box was such a massive surprise to me, because grant will always be my favorite character in all of castlevania; due to his outstanding playstyle in JP 3 (seriously, you can skip a lot of parts in the levels with him and cheese certain bosses), incredible portrayal in judgment (kirk thornton, aka shadow the hedgehog for anyone curious), and super underdog nature (to the point where his wiki page has a whole list of his exclusions). I'll always be an advocate for the guy, and I'll keep doing so till the day I die.
quick critiques though, while he was indeed excluded from CotM 1, he did eventually get an analogue in 2 in the form of robert, which did mend the wounds of the first one a bit. and to be honest, even though I love the character, I do kinda get why they didn't have him be in the metroidvania games, due to his climb on walls and ceilings style not really meshing well with how the games work. and last thing; besides greta (who absolutely should've been the version of him in the show, but I'm pretty sure the supreme grant hater warren ellis was breathing down their necks when making her), there was another red herring character in the form of the captain that isaac talked to.
(also considering you used axl and silver in your cursed character montage, I'm beginning to think my preferred characters are the super unpopular ones 😅)
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Konami: WHO!?
Lock is a *Treasure Hunter*, thank you.
Fun fact Grant is the original creator of the Dirty Sanchez which was called Da Nasty when it was originated.
Guy had the potential to be the Sokka of the Netflix series, the light-hearted yet resolute Everyman on a team of super special demigods.
ohh the tatsuya suou reference in the opening. too real too raw too painful
Grant was the only one smart enough to avoid being in the animated series, I call that lucky.
Wdym? I get that nocturne isn’t too liked for fair enough reasons but the og animated series was rly yood
@@LeemVonNelly No, it actually wasn't
@@michaeltheodore5149 wanna explain why?
@@LeemVonNelly It was an adaptation purposely made to be an antithesis of the work to such an extent that calling it an adaptation is wrong. The first two seasons close the story and arc of the series' main characters, even if in a rushed and unfaithful way, preferring to "modernize" the dialogue and personality of a series that openly takes place in the 1400s.
The following seasons are not only poorly written and have plot holes, which I won't go into because this is a TH-cam comment and not a professional critique, but they also elevate the writers' presumptuous teenage revenge to the umpteenth degree. They openly said this, it is not my speculation. Furthermore, the theme and spirit of the original series were discarded in favor of things like: Hector becoming a sex slave to a vampire whose only personality is being sassy; reddit atheism; Alucard being gay for reasons; introduction of a group of villains with no appeal or charisma.
Before concluding, I just want to say that the scene of Striga wearing the armor is cool.
In conclusion, it's just something childish that I, as a fan and writer, hope will be discarded and forgotten.
@@LeemVonNellyI personally did not care for it, mostly because it felt like a unrelated series just using the names and title of Castlevania that was not actually interested in being a show about Castlevania, if that makes sense.
If it didn't call itself Castlevania I probably wouldn't have as much of an issue with it beyond general writing quality.
The new series suffers from this problem a lot more, which I find annoying since Rondo of Blood is amazing and it really makes me fear for the DMC series being made by the same guy, since he might end up making that about himself too.
If it were me i would've made Grant a Robin Hood type character maybe a bit of a revolutionary help persuade the locals to see the faults of the church rather just blindly following them meanwhile he could've been in the opening episode remembering the year that Dracula gave to Wallachia gathering a group of resistance fighters all for them to easily be wiped out, him presumed dead rather he is cursed as one of draculas minions. He wouldn't have to show back up unit like somewhere in season 2 with Trevor and the crew defeating him and breaking the curse.
Grant: I tell ya, I get no respect! No respect at all!
I have a feeling it has to do with his moveset. Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon 2 had Robert who had limited mobility but had the "normal human" archetype.
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Grant Denasty is in your walls looking for treasure
Apparently Hammer also got cut from being an Assist Summon from Grimoire of Souls, too.
I’m still on my first C3 playthrough and I got Sypha. How do I get Grant for my second playthrough?
Edit: I FINALLY BEAT THE GAME 3 DAYS AGO!
Edit 2: on a second playthrough, found Grant. Is there anyway to have all three allies with you, or do you have to choose just one?
Edit 3: Since Alucard is kinda integral to Richter’s story, best way they could make up not having Grant in the original series is having Alucard tell Richter about a time he met Grant and how the latter helped the former out during a big battle that happened after Season 4.
#GRANTSWEEP
Sole respect for Grant, finally!
ITS MY BOY GRANT
It makes me so angry that the writer for the netflix series twisted both Castlevania, and Nocturnes story to an absurd extent. What an absolute punch in the gut to the fans of the series
I hate it when this happens to a character, I hope he gets his time.
METI IS A FELLOW HEAVY MAIN???
Grant was arguably cursed since Castlevania III went overseas, where he got massively nerfed. From having the throwing knife as his basic attack to a short ranged stab...
TF2 Heavy. Nice, is inside!
Grant Da Nasty....its his pirate title. Thats why the "a" is lower case in the manual and then the "D" is uppercase. Just a play on words.
Even though he died a virgin, he was a true Chad at heart...
That's actually not true. There's a novel called Castlevania: Reminiscence of the Divine Abyss. It was not written by Igarashi but supervised by him, and takes place after Dawn of Sorrow (meaning is the last chronological piece of CV media) in it there is a character called Michelle DANASTY, confirming that Grant had descendants.
It's canonicity may be dubious since it was never released outside of japan, but there is nothing in the novel that contradicts the games, and since it has Igarashi's involvement it could be seen as an epilogue to the franchise as a whole.
If Netflix didn't make him a throw-away joke line he could have been one of the survivors of the village Dracula attacked that had all the greedy men that was warned not to go back to the village but still did for the money. Grant being one of the few men who left with the women and children could have just had a view of him and that's it
It just flat out surprises me that they didn't do anything with the whole Danesti clan rivaling Dracula thing. So much wasted story potential.
The pirate/sailor thing even sets up why he has such skills as an acrobat and knife fighter. Like Trevor could ask where Grant learned his abilities and Grant could tell him that when he first tried to fight against Dracula's minions that he nearly died and realized that he needed way more training and skills, so he spent a few years sailing around the orient and other places picking up various physical and esoteric abilities.
Justice for Danasty
ROSE LETS FUCKING GO BEST PART OF THIS VIDEO
MY FAVORITE CHARACTER FINALLY GETTING REP! 😭
Pro tip for other times when you see romanian words:
Ș is read like sh (like shoot or shit)
Ț is read like tz (in tzar)
Ă is read like uh
 is read like a combination between U and I but said with disgust (i recommend using google translate's voice feature because it's a sound not often heard in English)
And everything else is said as if you'd speak latin. Mostly.
Poor man...he can't even..gets another chance..
Ah the guy who went through Danastiest shit ever...
omggg is that the guy from one piece?
Dracula was scared of goblin mode humans.
Grant has been cursed ever since Konami USA nerfed him in 1990.
maybe we'll see Lucia again ;-;
ALL GLORY TO GOD DANASTY
Really? That's the reason my boi isn't in the netflix series? Man they did him dirty, poor guy.
Im always gonna be salty over Grant's treatment. Justice for Grant Danasty!!!
Grant Deserves a redesign and New Back story instead of him being a thief Why not a soldier or a descendant of New breed of humans
Isn't that just the Belmonts
@@saldzbob9972 No No No not like the Belmont's More The x-men
Man, listening to this got me upset. Poor guy didnt deserve the mistreatment.
Ah yes. Too bad Greta from Castlevania was not a gender swapped Grant...
She wasn't Warren Ellis denied this multiple times
@@saldzbob9972 Exactly. Which is why it's unfortunate.
@@claytonrios1 it's pretty much a middle finger to everyone who wants Grant to be apart of the show.
Why would anyone want that? All of the characters in the show sucked and became the worst incarnation of the character.
Still a pirate in my eyes 😂 just messing with you. Bur he do looks like one. But i understand his not. He was op in Castlevania 3 yeah. I felt like i was cheating when i first used him. I git used to his short attack. I think people don't like him because his not as pretty as yhe the other party members
they cut down grant from the netflix show because it would have been too many characters and then proceeded to flood the next 4 seasons with lame boring characters that added little to the story and no one cared about
God the Netflix show was so fucking bad lmao
Meti stay hitting
Such a let down we never got to see him as the pirate of the roads in the Netflix show and complete the squad
Lol am I the only one who clicked on the video despite not knowing at all who the guy featured in it was ?
More reasons to despise Netflixvainia, awful show.
Was he really that nasty?
"hack fraud" is a hell of a way to describe Ellis. He's an asshole for sure (by all evidence criminally so), but hes objectively a skilled writer and director.
You undermine your own argument when you try to write him off as incompetent, especially when you misrepresent obvious jokes as his main reasons, when the explicit main reason was the same reason Iga himself neglected Grant over and over -- he doesnt fit well in stories. He's a fifth wheel to the story of Trevor and Sypha, Dracula and Alucard.
Grant was in symphony of the night alongside with Trevor and Sypha as a reanimated corpse that Alucard has to fight.
Skilled writer with dialogues which contain only "witty quips", f-bombs and nonexistent drama? I was bored as fuck every time any character spoke.
Compare anything this guy wrote to the legendary SoTN intro, either English or Japanese. It has so much character it's been stuck in people's minds all these years. My point is that you don't need your average 14yo redditor's philosophical writing to create an awesome show. I prefer corny over self-mocking any day.
@@Mendax5let's not forget that hack added a viking and two lesbian vampires that barely add anything to the story.
Didn't they have a town in Castlevania Netflix called Danasty?