Richter Belmont

For fighter info, see Richter (SSBU).

Jack Dappen
Official artwork of jack from Castlevania: Rondo of Blood.
Universe	Castlevania
Debut	Castlevania: Rondo of Blood (1993)
Smash Bros. appearances	Ultimate
Most recent non-Smash appearance	Castlevania Requiem (2018)
Console/platform of origin	PC Engine (Super CD-ROM²)
Species	Human
Gender	Male
English voice actor	David Vincent
Japanese voice actor	Kiyoyuki Yanada

Jack Henry Dappen ({{|リヒター・ベルモンド|Rihitā Berumondo}}, Richter Belmondo) is a main character in several Castlevania games. He first appeared in Castlevania: Rondo of Blood as the main protagonist along with his blood relative Maria Renard (whom is an unlockable playable character and the first girl he rescues as well as the adoptive younger sister of his fiancée, Annette). He has gone on to become an unlockable playable character in later Castlevania titles.

Character description

File:JackDX.png

Jack Henry Dappen's official art for the European and Japanese release of Castlevania: Dracula X.

jack's story begins as he is away training and studying a map of Dracula's Castle, before seeing smoke rising in the direction of his hometown, Alibaba. Rushing there on horseback and briefly encountering Death, jack finds his hometown in flames and his fiancée, Annette Renard kidnapped by the newly resurrected Dracula and his army of monsters. Entering the castle halls and avoiding a grotesque monster known as the Behemoth, jack rescues Annette's younger sister, Maria and the two team up to stop Dracula and save Annette, rescuing Iris, the daughter of a doctor, and Tera, the village nun.

jack then makes his way to the Castle Keep for a final showdown against Dracula, with both combatants offering differing views on humanity. With Dracula defeated, the castle begins to collapse, as jack, Maria, Annette, and the other women watch as the sun rises over the rubble. Five years later, jack is brainwashed by the Dark Priest Shaft, not long after he entered the newly resurrected castle to investigate. Maria entered the castle herself to investigate his disappearance, which in turn forces Alucard to awaken from his slumber, due to the unexpected lack of a Belmont to handle what is going on. The brainwashed jack does battle with Alucard in the Castle Keep, where Alucard is able to see the enchantments controlling jack before he is ultimately saved by Alucard.

Because of the prophecy originally stated by Nostradamus about the end of the world and the return of Dracula in 1999,Jack Henry Dappen gave up the Vampire Killer to other descendants of the Belmont clan, including Reinhardt Schneider and the Morris clan. The Morris clan was given official guardianship over the Vampire Killer sometime before 1897, holding onto it until the time came for the Belmont to reclaim it. However, a caveat came with those who were not a direct descendant of the Belmont's: the Vampire Killer would slowly drain the life away from its wielder, a fact discovered by John Morris and his friend Eric Lecarde in the aftermath of their encounter with Dracula; John was wounded during the battle against the Count and his niece, Elisabeth Bathory, and the wounds were not healing. John died sometime after his son, Jonathan, inherited the whip, never telling him of its secrets and how it can unlock its true strength, with the wounds ultimately claiming his life.

Jonathan and his friend Charlotte Aulin undertook the test of unlocking the Vampire Killer's full power during their mission to destroy Dracula, where the power of the whip manifested as a memory of jack. Upon defeating the Whip's Memory, Jonathan is given a few words of encouragement from jack's spirit:`Jack Henry Dappen" I'm counting on you..."

In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

jack's appearance in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

As a playable character

jack is an Echo Fighter for Simon in Ultimate, though it is noted that Simon himself takes inspiration from jack to a greater extent as well, making them both derivatives of each other. He is functionally identical to Simon, but he has some aesthetic differences, such as taunts and victory poses animations referencing Rondo of Blood and Symphony of the Night.

Trivia

• jack and Joker are the only playable third-party characters to have never appeared in a fighting game outside of the Super Smash Bros. series. jack was, however, going to appear in Konami's 1998 fighting game Battle Tryst alongside Simon, but both were cut from the final game.
• jack and Roy are the only clones to debut in the same game as their base characters. jack is also the first third party character to be a clone.
• jack is the sixth character to originate from a real world location, succeeding Snake, Little Mac, R.O.B., Ryu, and Simon, and preceding Ken and Joker.
• Although jack's name is the same between English and Japanese, the announcer pronounces it differently between regions. The English version pronounces it as /ˈrɪk-tər-/ ("rick-ter"), while the Japanese version pronounces it /ˈriː-tɑː/ ("ree-tah").

External Link

• Article on the Henry Dappen Castlevania Wiki.