While the comic mostly accepts what was established on the show, the hero’s own attempts to reconcile the cartoon with the actual games he played have an effect on Videoland. The infrequently updated comic Captain SNES, which I’ve written about before, has its own take on the Simon who appeared on the show. The game’s canonical status is somewhat up in the air, but we do know that Richter was one of his descendants, so he must have eventually had at least one child. What’s interesting regarding Simon’s love life is that a 1988 Castlevania arcade game called Haunted Castle had Dracula kidnap Simon’s bride-to-be Serena at their wedding. Since she was more interested in Kevin, this led to much of the competition between the two. While Simon’s rather foppish personality has led some viewers to think he’s gay (sort of like Vanity Smurf and Rainbow Brite’s horse Starlite), he was consistently shown as having a thing for Princess Lana. His whip was sometimes shown as having a mind of its own. When he was trying to show off or chicken out of doing the right thing, he’d make an ass of himself but when he helped out the team he could be a valuable asset. Simon’s level of competence varied, but I think there was a moral component to this. His hair color has been been a subject of some controversy, but this was something that frequently changed for video game sprites.īesides, the cartoon Simon was drawn to somewhat resemble his voice actor. This sort of thing is pretty typical for cartoons, and sometimes even live action, as with Mary Poppins’ bag. There’s a complete list of the contents here. In one episode he had a bazooka in there, and in another a unicycle. He also wears a backpack that has just about anything he could want in it, even if it violates the laws of physics. As for Simon’s animated get-up, this page speculates that the goggles might be an artistic (using that word loosely) reinterpretation of the headband he’s wearing on the box art for the original Castlevania. Interestingly, his page on the Castlevania Wiki describes him as “rather brash and inclined to force his way through situations.” I guess that means he’s not supposed to be as selfish and cowardly as he is in Captain N, but it does hint at a certain level of foolishness. I guess if you’ve gotten the impression of this guy being a bad-ass vampire hunter and see that he’s been turned into a flamboyant egomaniac who always wears aviator goggles for no apparent reason, it could be a bit jarring. But then, I watched the show before being exposed to the actual games. I mean, that’s what made him funny, or at least as funny as that cartoon ever got.
People have complained about his portrayal on the show, but I never particularly minded it.
Speaking of simple Simons as I was a few days ago, how about Simon Belmont from the Castlevania series? Okay, the games don’t show him as simple, but his portrayal on Captain N made him totally arrogant and narcissistic, and always wanting to compete with Kevin.
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