"It was a legend no one would forget..."

Its' story began millions of sanguine moons before today... for in that time, a time before human civilization, human corruption, human senslessness, and freaking ice cream...

DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH!!!

For over one hundred forty million years, they governed the world with their blood partners, Natural Selection and the challegened truth known as Evolution. With a momentous occaision in the Yucatan peninsula sixty-five million years ago...

THEY VANISHED!!!

But the story doesn't end there.

Those who knew of the imminent disaster prepared and gradually changed their forms in advance.  They evolved into creatures who would eventually leave your Mercedes Benz caked with pigeon crap...but anyway...it gets darker...

A dark night in 1597 saw the return of two prehistoric terrors who were in themselves ages distant from one another.  The flying reptile Pteranodon, who coexisted with the dinosaurs, and the terrestrial dinosaur, Coelophysis, would finally return. The Grim Reaper of Death spilled its dark magics upon their bones, and the two fear dragons became one.

This night the word "BERRIGAN" would be uttered as the fresh, weak zombie fossil rose from the floor, its knees buckling like those of a newborn foal.

Slogra: The Dinosaur Knight, for the legends of another dialect.

Unto the Berrigan, The Grim Reaper of Death bestowed an enchanted trident; a spear with three lethal ways to easily slide through you... It also had one way to bathe your body and soul in flame; just as well, the blinding light and sharp, air-splitting noise created by exploding bullets of fire would be sufficient enough for Berrigan to stalk in for the final kill.

Count Dracula chose this creation to be one of his guardians elite, joining the long standing Grim Reaper of Death along with a recently created zombie gargoyle.

Simon Belmont fought this abhorrence and won...
...but not untouched by its sword of a beak.

In 1797, the Grim Reaper of Death decided to revive the Berrigan demons. The blue gargoyle would also be resurrected. Together, they would lead the attack against Count Dracula's rebellious, girly, wussmaster pretty-boy son. Because the Berrigan had little or no time at all to refresh its aggressive fighting instincts, and also due to the fact that it was then fighting in an area as big as a baseball stadium and no longer a single room,
Slogra was less than what it was in 1597.

Eric Ricardo (Japan version)

On a side note, from Spain will come an absolute stranger to the Vampire Killer business who rips off the Berrigan's idea; killing guys with a trident. This man(?), named Eric LeCarde, wields a stupid little upgradable spork... The date is 1917 and the crime is CastleVania Bloodlines.

Eric Le Carde (USA version)

Oh, WOW! YOU HIT HIM!
Watch as he rockets into the air!
You're cool now, aren't you....


POWER UP TIP!!!
"Where you stand, it's gonna land!"


Whoever said that dinosaurs were stupid probably never experienced the Slogra, 'cause once his trident is destroyed, he uses his sharp beak as an even deadlier weapon!


Comin' at you with tha BEAK!

I DARE YOU TO UNDERESTIMATE SLOGRA!!!
I BET EVEN HE DARES YOU TO!!!

In 1991's Super CastleVania IV, THE MAN serves as one of the last brutal masters, and when Slogra makes the scene, "STAY ALERT, STAY ALIVE," like those cadet kids say.

Slogra makes the scene falling from the ceiling aloft, and will ensue his mercilless attack with an unending stream of flame bullets that sometimes will burst in mid-flight. If he is hit, he'll be sent FLYING! Then FALLING atop your head! Remember the age old rhyme, "Where you stand, he is gonna land..."

STAY FROSTY, because in a very rare manuever, Slogra will slide across the floor with his spear out in an effort to skewer or mow down his opponent. If you think you're diesel and Simon can rip the trident from his weaponless talons, SLOGRA WILL BE COMIN' AT YOU WITH THA BEAK!

Not only will Slim Sloggy stick you with the trident,
the Berrigan will blow you away with a nastily flaming
report from his primitive flame rifle, the flash and burst confusing
a hapless Simon Belmont in the midst of his joyous 16-bit frolic.

Slogra improves his color dynamics for his PlayStation
debut in CastleVania Symphony of the Night, but isn't
as effective. That's Gaibon's fault for requesting a huge
room for them to fight in. Stupid gargoyle.

In Konami's 1990 Game Boy card The CastleVania Adventure, the instruction manual names this rotting, beaky winged corpse the Death Bat.

(Undying gratitude to MrP of MrP's CastleVania Realm for making possible a 10 year reunion between me and the instruction manual's drawing of the Death Bat. Click it for a bigger image.)