SkunkyArt | ZercherGoroshi — Darth Vader vs Gabriel Belmont

Both started life with unfair conditions (Anakin being the son of a slave, and Gabriel being supposedly the bastard son of a wealthy landowner, that got abandoned near a convent)

Both got raised and trained by a group of powerful warriors, that are associated with Light (the Jedi order and the Brotherhood of Light), but who, long ago, indirectly created their own enemies (the Sith Order was created by the Exiles, which were a group of Dark Jedi warriors who got banished by the Jedi Order, while the Lord of Shadows were the leftover bodies of three divinely empowered saints who, in order to transcend human limitations, discarded all chaotic elements within themselves, and ascended to Heaven)

Both were extremely powerful and talented members of their organisation, even becoming the Chosen One of their world’s greated forces (The Force, and the christian God), but were consumed by a dormant darker side (Yoda sensed a lot of fear within the young Anakin, which was the first feeling that would lead to the dark side of the force, while Gabriel was prone to dark, brooding moments that only his lover, Marie, could appease.)

Both had a love interest that were born from a noble family (Padme being a queen, and Marie the daughter of a wealthy family) that they ended up killing while blinded by a stronger force (Anakin Force Choked Padme to unconciousness, consumed by anger after wrongfully thinking she betrayed him, and Padme was dying as a result. Marie, meanwhile, was killed by Gabriel while he was wearing the Devil Mask.)

Both of their fallen love interests gave birth, while heartbroken by their lovers’ paths to darkness, to a son (Luke and Trevor) that would later end up fighting their respective fathers.

Both were manipulated, while in their emotionally weakest moments, by an older man, who was seen as an ally to the order they were raised in, and who were actually very powerful members of the orders’ enemies (Anakin had his fear and anger fueled by Chancellor Palpatine, who was actually the Sith Lord, Darth Sidious, while Gabriel wore the Devil Mask because of Zobek, who did this in order to make Gabriel follow a path of vengeance, and use him as a pawn to get the pieces of the God Mask. Zobek was actually a Lord of Shadows himself, and the Dark Lord of the Dead)

Both slayed powerful members of the enemies organizations (Anakin was the one who killed Sidious’ previous apprentice, Dooku, while Gabriel killed Cornell and Carmilla) before becoming one themselves (Anakin became the Sith Apprentice Darth Vader, and Gabriel the immortal vampire, Dracula)

Both had guides that helped them despite their sleeping darkness, and that they ended up killing in a fateful battle (Obi-Wan and Pan. No, not Dragon Ball Pan.)

Both were badly injured in a major moment in their story, but ended up being once again alive and able to fight (Anakin got his legs and left arm sliced, before getting a third degree burn at the end of his first fight with his master Obi-Wan. Gabriel got electrocuted by Zobek when he revealed his treason.)

Both, after transforming into the Dark Lords they would inevitably become, they would end up in the state they would be destined to be in : suffering (Suffering is the last step in the Dark Side path, according to Yoda, while Gabriel transformed into Dracula after losing everything. Both remained cold, cynical, brooding men after their transformation).

As said before, they would end up battling their sons (Luke and Trevor), and they would defeat them in a one-on-one fight. However, both expressed regret after the fight, and would instead save their sons from death (Darth Sidious was torturing Luke after his defeat, but Vader ended up saving his son by tossing Sidious into a giant pit. Meanwhile, Gabriel ends up fatally wounding Trevor, but as what he thought would be his last words, Trevor revealed to Dracula that they are father and son. Gabriel, torn with regret, would transform Trevor into Alucard to save him).

Their impacts were so important, that they would end up shaping the life of their grandchildren, albeit in opposite ways (Vader would become an example to the son of his daughter Leia, Kylo Ren. Dracula would, however, become his grandson Simon’s sworn enemy, as he blames Dracula for the death of his mother.)

After two battles with their son (Vader fought Luke once, when he revealed he was his father, and then another time before saving him from Palpatine, and Gabriel fought his son, the first time as Trevor, the second time as Alucard, while the latter was helped by Simon), they would end their feud on good terms (Vader dies shortly after the fight, but expresses his regret and his love for his son in his dying words, while Alucard comes back to his father and sides with him in order to give Dracula what he truly wants : true death, eternal peace).