History Characters / BloodRayne

* HellBentForLeather: In the 1940's he's seen in a leather Nazi uniform. In the present day he's seen in a more modern-looking black leather ensemble.

* BladeBelowTheShoulder: Her signature weapons.

* NinetiesAntiHero: Rayne's name is an XtremeKoolLetterz variant of the word "Rain", wields [[ImpossiblyCoolWeapon weapons which are designed more for the cool factor than practicality]], is very much a MsFanservice and is not exactly an idealist. She even resembles [[Creator/ChaosComics Chastity]], a vampire heroine created in the 90s who also has red hair, wears black leather and is a vampire.

* StrongerWithAge: Older Rayne is clearly stronger than she was in the first game, it is heavily implies that a dhampyr in that game series' universe becomes more powerful with age - just like vampires themselves.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: The first game was written as a sequel to ''VideoGame/Nocturne1999'', where Rayne is heavily based of off the dhampyr Spookhouse agent Svetlana. She also has notable qualities of the same games protagonist the Stranger, both being effective field agents, snarky towards pretty much everyone and driven by hatred for monsters, as opposed to Svetlana's normally sweet personality.

* AdaptationalSympathy: In the comic ''Prime Cuts'', a loose adaptation of the second game, Ephemera is given a more tragic air. [[spoiler: In this version, Ephemera previously tried to escape and lead a normal life, having had a romance with Severin. Then Kagan comes about, to stealing Ephemera back, with Empherma agreeing to go with Kagan to spare Severin’s life. In the present, nothing remains of the woman Severin once loved, but he does look back on their past in a mournful manner, not present in the game.]]

* CastingAShadow: Her primary power. It takes the form of teleporting through shadows, healing by absorbing them, and throwing blades or shards of darkness.

* ShadowArchetype: Puns aside, she is Rayne would have become if Kagan got his hands on her. She still wants to kill her father but for power, not revenge.
* ShadowWalker: Can teleport by diving into shadows that act as portals.
* TheStarscream: She secretly wants her father dead so she can take over his kingdom, which is how Kagan wants it.

* TragicVillain: The comics depict her as this, [[spoiler:with her past romance with Severin being genuine. Despite being Kagan's desired heir, she did try to escape his influence and settle for a normal life. Then Kagan found her, and only agreed to spare Severin if she reveals the truth to him, and leave him heartbroken. While nothing remains of the woman Severin once loved, with even her “love” for him now being a twisted VillainousCrush, Severin does look back at their past sombrely.]]

* MsFanservice: Oh yeah. Both games, a bare midriff, [[BoobsOfSteel huge breasts]], and mile long legs. Especially in the second game, where she wears a [[LittleBlackDress gorgeous black dress]] with a NavelDeepNeckline, and it's possible to unlock a couple of different outfits for her to wear including many variations of said dress. And she posed nude for Magazine/{{Playboy}}.

* {{Dhampyr}}

* UngratefulBastard: Xerx resurrected Kagan after he was blown up by Professor Tremayne. He "thanks" him for that by constant humiliation.

[[folder:Professor Tremayne]]

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: His surname alternates between Zere''z''ki and Zeren''s''ki.

* YouAreWhoYouEat: Besides being Puppeteer Parasite, they seem to inherit at least some of the skills of their host body, as Daemite-possessed Elite Soldiers can block frontal attacks.

[[folder:Simon and Sigmund Kreig, the Doppelgänger Twins]]

* FinishingEachOthersSentences: They briefly do this briefly before their boss fight.

* GetBackHereBoss: They spend the entirety of the boss battle running around at top speed around the pillars of the room, throwing telekinetic shuriken at Rayne and, occasionally, fighting back in melee if attacked.

%%* TheBaroness: Of the sexpot variety.

* TheVoiceless: He doesn't say a single word. The Daemite who possesses his body later on does talk, but just says pretty standard Daemite stuff.

* ChurchMilitant: A Nazi priest who's eager to shoot anyone who isn't into "Aryan superiority" beliefs.
* CrazyPrepared: Has a freakin' ''gun nest'' built into his pulpit.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: He sought the Heart of Belial to become eternal. [[spoiler:One of his surviving copies succeeds in acquiring it, but instead he inadvertently resurrects Belial, who then takes over his body]].

* BrainFood: Hedrox can gain information by devouring his victim's brains. Using the "mouth" on his arm

* ImmortalitySeeker: He sought the Heart of Beliar to become the ultimate immortal.
* ImplacableMan: Nothing short of dumping him into water will stop him.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Wulf is dismembered and decapitated by Rayne.

* ArtifactOfDoom: His relics are unholy in nature.

* NonStandardGameOver: [[TimeLimitBoss Take too long to defeat him]] and he will grow so large that he will crush both Rayne and Jurgen.

[[folder:Professor Trumain]]

* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette
* TheDragon: To her father.

* LivingShadow

* MadeOfIron: She's completely immune to all of Rayne's attacks, including her Rage ability, making her a PuzzleBoss. Ultimately the only thing that's ever shown to harm her is concentrated weaponized sunlight.

[[folder:Turned and Foremen]]
* BullfightBoss: Turned have a tendency to charge at Rayne to ram her. If they hit a wall, you can attack them while they're stunned. In Xerx's tower is even possible to one-shot a Turned by tricking him into charging in a window.

** {{Foreshadow}} If you listen at two mooks behind a closed door earlier, you'll hear them talking about the Unraveler and how it works as a guardian for Kagan's hideout.

* ContinuitySnarl: In the second game, everyone believes Kagan has been killed back in the 1930’s, with Rayne and her allies seeking out his remaining loyal children. However, the comic ''Prime Cuts'', a broad adaptation of the game, reveals Kagan and Severin encountered eachother about a decade decade prior. This wouldn’t stand out too much, except within the game, Severin is under the impression Kagan was dead as well.

* ContinuitySnarl: At the second game, everyone believes Kagan has been killed back in the 1930’s, with Rayne and her allies seeking out his remaining loyal children. However, the comic ''Prime Cuts'', a broad adaptation of the game, reveals Kagan and Severin encountered eachother about a decade decade prior. This wouldn’t stand out too much, except within the game, Severin is under the impression Kagan was dead as well.

* NoodleIncident: His past with Ephemera.
* NonActionGuy: Contrasting to Rayne's ActionGirl. Severin is never shown partaking in any action Rayne does, acting only behind the scenes.

* BreakHisHeartToSaveHim: [[spoiler: Turns out that Ephemera did love Severin genuinely and would have been living a normal and peaceful life with him had not Kagan came in and threatened to kill Severin. She chooses to go with Kagan so that Severin would be spared. However, too much time with Kagan eventually twisted Ephemera into the heartless villain she is in the present.]]

* IronicName: Her name sounds like a stylized version of the word ''rain''. Dhampirs (and vampires in general) consider water as one of their weakness and can outright kill them if left exposed enough.

* IronicName: Her name sounds like a stylized version of the word rain. Dhampirs (and vampires in general) consider water as one of their weakness and can outright kill them if left exposed enough.

* CreepyMonotone: She speaks in an emotionless, almost bored tone of voice for the most part. Justified, as she was on her job. However there are few instances of which the monotony breaks, such as being implanted by Beliar's relics which can be painful even for a dhampir like her or her horrified reaction when Mynce dies at Wulf's hands. She sounds more emotional in the second game, which makes more sense considering that she is about to settle her score against her father once more, who she hates beyond the intensity of thousand suns.

* BrokenBird:She's an embittered, snarky, highly misanthropic loner who thinks nothing of cutting through waves of human mooks the way regular people would kill ants, but at the same time is willing to risk her own life to save people and prevent the vampires from gaining more power.

** In the first game, she declares that she will kill Mynce when she finds her working with Jurgen Wulf. [[ReverseMole Except she's not]]. Later, Wulf is at the top of her shit list for attempting to kill her back at Louisiana and most especially when he killed her mentor and friend Mynce.

A dhampyr who served as Rayne's mentor[=/=]friend and a Brimstone Society operative. She seemingly dies during one mission in Louisiana. [[spoiler: Five years later, she reappears years later but as the second in command of the Gegengeist Gruppe (G.G.G.), the Nazi organization that deals with the supernatural.]]

A dhampyr who served as Rayne's mentor[=/=]friend and a Brimstone Society operative. She seemingly dies during one mission in Louisiana, but she reappears years later as the second in command of the Gegengeist Gruppe (G.G.G.), the Nazi organization that deals with the supernatural.

* BackFromTheDead: Mynce appeared to have perished while fighting the Maraisreq. She mysteriously returned later [[FaceHeelTurn as a G.G.G. supporter]]. [[spoiler:Mynce survives again after fighting Rayne and being thrown off a cliff. She died for real after Wulf pulled out her heart, and even then, the tie-in comics reveal she had reincarnated into another body.]]

* BigWhat: [[spoiler: Her reply when Rayne tells her that Wulf has the possession of Beliar's heart, which is not a good news.]]

* BrokenPedestal: She is this to Rayne after she discovered Mynce survived and joined the Nazis. [[spoiler: Although she gets over it when Mynce reveals she's a double agent planted by Brimstone.]]
* CutsceneIncompetence: [[spoiler: She dies towards the end of the first chapter when a Maraisreq sneaks up behind her and eats her because she was distracted by a frog. However, since it turns out she wanted to fake her own death, emerged to meet with her boss Wulf who is at Louisiana as well for the relic and is probably working at the GGG as Brimstone's spy for some time now, this might have been deliberate on her part.]]

* TheDragon: She is Wulf's second-in-command within the G.G.G. [[spoiler: Being a DoubleAgent however, she is more TheStarscream]].

* {{Foreshadowing}}: There are hints that she is actually involved in the G.G.G. plot [[spoiler: and how ultimately she is on Rayne's side. Eagle-eyed players will already notice a figure resembling her when the cutscene of which Rayne arrived from Argentina to Germany and the silhouette of the Oberscharführer at the target list awfully resembles her. Made even more obvious of the leg shot with mounted blades when a soldier does the orders of the Oberscharführer to unload the crates (in which Rayne slipped herself there). Alongside her admission of saving her back at Louisiana and giving her the instructions of how to acquire her next target list shortly after Rayne arrived to Germany, Mynce is pretty much working behind the scenes to give Rayne an informal debriefing about what to do next.]]
* FragileSpeedster: She's weaker than other bosses, having about the same amount of health as the basic MookLieutenant G.G.G. Officers, but fights with a very fast and aggressive combat style very similar to Rayne's.
* GlassCannon: Compared to the Butchress, Mynce has lower health. However, she can deliver tremendous damage than her which can kill Rayne if the player is not careful.
* GoodAllAlong

* TheMentor
* MirrorBoss: Fights similarly to Rayne, though her boss fight is shorter and less elaborate than the one with Dr. Bathory.

* SacrificialLion: She died early in the game, making Rayne vow to destroy the Masareiq. [[spoiler:When Wulf kills Mynce [[KilledOffForReal (this time for good)]], Rayne becomes driven to avenge her at any cost and make him pay.]]

* BrokenPedestal: She is this to Rayne after she discovered Mynce survived and joined the Nazis. [[spoiler: Although she gets over it when Mynce reveals she's a double agent.]]

* DoubleAgent: [[spoiler:What her real role is within G.G.G., as she is secretly a Brimstone spy.]]

* CreepyMonotone: She speaks in an emotionless, almost bored tone of voice for the most part. Justified, as she was on her job. However there are few instances of which the monotony breaks, such as being implanted by Beliar's relics which can be painful even for a dhampir like her or her horrified reaction when Mynce dies at Wulf's hands. She sounds more emotional in the second game, which makes more sense considering that she is about to settle her score against her father once more.

* CreepyMonotone: Her inflection changes maybe once in the first game. Otherwise, she speaks in an emotionless, almost bored tone of voice for the most part. Justified, as she was on her job. However there are few instances of which the monotony breaks, such as being implanted by Beliar's relics or her horrified reaction when Mynce dies at Wulf's hands. She sounds more emotional in the second game, which makes more sense considering that she is about to settle her score against her father once more.