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Name:Dante Sparda
Alias:Dante, Son of Sparda, Tony Redgrave
Age:In his 30's
Ranking:Hero
Physical Appearance:
Personality:Rather playful, he likes to toy with his enemies, yet he is very merciless and strikes down his enemies without breaking too much of a sweat. He enjoys slacking and putting things off to the last moment. He proffers to act alone, but he doesn't mind having company or team mates. He starts grudges with people very quickly, even if he doesn't mean to. Being the giant show-off he is, he will gladly change peoples minds about himself, and even have fun in doing so.
Although he never refers to himself as a hero, he knows he is acting for the good of human kind and is inclined to eliminate all super-natural threats, to help them. He doesn't favor a side either, and he may even switch sides if the odds shift that way, you never know with dante. But money is a big barter with him, so he will sign up with the highest bidder in some cases, being neck-high in debt.
But Dante is mostly a free-going character that likes to view from the sidelines, yet always is willing to be part of the action. Taking care of demons, devils, and monsters is just another day in the office for him.
Powers/Abilities:He can go into what is known as "Demon Trigger Mode" Because he is part demon, and his skin turns a pitch-black and becomes like steel.He moves much faster and his strength is increased ten-fold.:
Even on his own however, he is very physically and mentally strong, and he cannot be easily killed, laughing at weak attempts to kill him with things like swords, daggers, and guns.
Equipment:
UNIVERSAL TOOLS:
He is known for his big sword, Rebellion:
And he carries two Guns, Ebony and Ivory:
OTHER WEAPONS:
his Gilgamesh Armour is a combination of two bladed demon-metal gauntlets, two demon-metal boots, and a demon-metal mouth cover. They increase his speed a bit, and help with his physical combos, but he does not wear the Gilgamesh all the time.
LUCIFER:
Lucifer is an odd weapon, it is like a pair of wings that is worn over the shoulder, it produces demon mines that float in mid-air after being thrown. When the user snaps their fingers, the needle-like mines drill into the enemies and explode.
PANDORA'S BOX:
Pandora's box is yet another strange weapon, it looks like a briefcase with a golden skull in the center, but it holds many secrets. Pandora's Box is really Four weapons in one:
Psychological Flaws: when it comes to people important to him, he can get more emotionally driven and that can work against just about anyone, including Dante.(Thanks Gizmo)
Physical Flaws: He does strain himself if he uses devil trigger too much, and may collapse. He is a combination of both Close and long range, but he mostly fights close-range.
Other Flaws: He is almost always in debt, and could barely keep his own "base" together.
Brief History:Sometime before their eighth birthday, Eva gave Dante and Vergil each a half of the Perfect Amulet.
Eventually, Sparda died, and Eva and the twins were left alone. When Dante was eight years old, he and his family were attacked by demons. Devil May Cry 3 Eva was killed, and though both Vergil and Dante survived, the twins were separated, and Dante believed Vergil to have died.
At some point after this, Dante met Enzo and began a demon-hunting business under the alias Anthony "Tony" Redgrave.
After a shower, Dante eats a pizza until Enzo enters his shop and notifies him of a job. Later, Dante goes to Enzo's room at a brothel and finds demons in it, then kills them using Ebony and Ivory. He sees a leaflet stating that if someone were to find a missing girl named Alice, there would be a four million dollar reward. After a small fight with Enzo, Dante accepts the job, and heads out to find the girl.
Dante goes with Enzo to a castle, only to find demons. After going through a few fights, he finds out that Alice had run away with a demon "Rabi", who has possessed her rabbit doll. After a heated discussion between Dante and Rabi, and another demon, Rabi tells Dante that the human world is crooked, that Alice had run away because she was neither beautiful nor strong, something that was necessary for someone to be recognized in the human world. Rabi told Dante that although Alice had purity, purity was not recognized by humans, and that only demons still valued it. After he strips Alice of her purity, and transforms her into what the humans would consider beautiful, Alice starts to flirt with Dante, stating that she always knew her prince would come. Dante tells her that dreams like that can quickly become nightmares, and Alice transforms into a demon, then attacks Dante by biting him in the neck. This triggers a transformation in Dante, causing him to take on a shadowy shape similar to his Majin Form, which he uses to knock her out. He then reverts back to his human form, impressing Rabi. Rabi tells Dante that he was the one whom gave Dante the job, annoying Dante, until Rabi tells him that he transferred the four million dollars to his account already. When Dante asks why he did all this, Rabi states that he wanted to see "the legendary son of Sparda" in action. As Dante prepares to leave, Rabi states that he wants to buy his half of the perfect amulet, which Dante refuses to accept, and leaves.
DEVIL MAY CRY 3
At the beginning of the game, a younger, cockier Dante is seen in his yet-to-be-named shop. Arkham comes to his shop and invites him to the Temen-ni-gru on behalf of his brother Vergil by sending a few Hell Prides, Lusts and a Hell Vanguard to attack him. Dante, though, effortlessly kills them all, and heads to the tower in search for an interesting time, and it is soon revealed that Vergil is attempting to reopen the portal to the demon world in order to obtain the full power of their father, which remains in the demon world within the Force Edge, Sparda's demon-forged sword. Within the tower, Dante encounters and defeats the demonic gatekeepers who were sealed away by his father, as well as the demon hunter Lady, who is in pursuit of her father Arkham, and the demon Jester, who guides him through the tower for his own reasons. Upon defeating most of these demons, Dante acquires their souls in the form of new weapons and combat styles. Dante, Lady, and Vergil eventually discover that Arkham is Jester, and was using all of them in order to open the portal and acquire the Force Edge for himself, using it as a means to gain Sparda's power. After defeating Arkham in the Demon World, Vergil and Dante duel for the ownership of the Force Edge. In the end of the battle, Dante claims ownership of the Force Edge, while Vergil chooses to remain in the Netherworld.
Dante matures considerably during the game and, inspired by Lady's courage and commitment to her own family, continues his demon hunting business with a greater sense of purpose. They become partners and he decides to call his shop "Devil May Cry", in reference to what Lady said to comfort him over the loss of his brother Vergil.
"Maybe somewhere out there even a devil may cry when he loses a loved one. Don’t you think?"
Devil May Cry
Devil May Cry begins with Dante being attacked in his office by a mysterious woman named Trish. He impresses her by easily brushing off her assault, and tells her that he hunts demons in pursuit of those who killed his mother and brother. She says the attack was a test and that the demon emperor Mundus is planning a return at Mallet Island. She takes him to the castle there, but abruptly disappears.
Dante explores the castle, slaying minor demons and finding weapons, and encounters the spiderlike demon, Phantom, while looking for a way to proceed through the castle. Dante wins the battle, but Phantom soon reappears and chases him through the halls of the castle. After further exploration and combat, Dante battles a demon named Nelo Angelo who impresses Dante with his confidence. The demon pins Dante to a nearby wall, but suddenly flees upon seeing the half-amulet Dante wears. The demon attacks twice more in later missions, and is eventually revealed to be Vergil, killed and manipulated by Mundus. After Nelo Angelo's final defeat, his half of the amulet joins with Dante's half-amulet, transforming the Force Edge into its true form, the Sparda.
When Dante next meets Trish, she betrays him and reveals that she is also working for Mundus. She lures Dante into a final fight with the bio-weapon Nightmare, but Dante manages to kill the monster. In the resulting chaos, the room collapses, and Trish is almost crushed. Dante saves her, claiming it was solely because of her resemblance to his mother. Furious because of her betrayal, Dante warns her to stay away from him. Yet when he finally confronts Mundus, who is about to kill Trish, Dante chooses again to save her but is injured. Mundus tries to finish him off, but Trish takes the attack instead. Dante's emotion at this tragedy unleashes his full power, allowing him to take on the form of his father. Afterwards, Dante and Mundus battle on another plane of existence with Dante victorious.
Dante leaves the Perfect Amulet and Sparda sword with Trish's immobile body before departing. However, just as Dante reaches the castle's hangar, Mundus, who is now back to his regular strength, returns and corners Dante. However, Trish also returns and lends Dante her power. Dante is able to defeat Mundus by sealing him away again. When Trish tries to apologize, she begins to cry. Dante tells her that it means she has become human and not just a devil, because "devils never cry". Dante and Trish narrowly escape on a plane as the island collapses. After the credits, it is revealed that Dante and Trish are working together as partners and have renamed the shop to "Devil Never Cry".
Devil May Cry: The Animated Series
Unlike the games, the animated series focuses on Dante's "normal" missions, and his day-to-day life.
On a regular day in the office, Dante is hired to transport a young girl named Patty Lowell to her father's house to receive her inheritance. However, she is revealed to have been a decoy for the true heir, and takes to living with Dante until her mother is found. Other recurring characters include Lady, Trish, Morrison (Dante's liaison, much like Enzo), and Sid, a lesser demon who is later revealed to be the true antagonist of the animated series.
[edit] Devil May Cry 4
Everything was set into motion when Lady came to Dante's office, offering a job. She told him about the Order of the Sword—a small congregation in the castle town of Fortuna, which worships Sparda—much to Dante's surprise.
Dante: "They worship a demon as a god?"
She explained that there is a legend of Sparda in that he served as a feudal lord at the city a long time ago. She also said that although peaceful worship can't be condemned, the Order's members recently started catching demons and collecting Devil Arms, interfering with her work. Trish, who was present and heard all this, departed with the Sparda sword, leaving a "see you there" message written in lipstick on the hanger. There was nothing for Dante to do but to go to Fortuna after her.
Later it is revealed that the Order's increased activity was because of The Savior - a giant artificial demon brought by the Order, which is only controllable with Sparda's blood and sword.[2] They started creating smaller copies of the true Hell Gate, which they powered with the gathered Devil Arms. These were needed to harvest demons in order to power The Savior, as well as to lure Dante to Fortuna. It seems that Dante became aware of their plan, most likely through Trish, who disguised herself as Gloria and handed over the Sparda sword to infiltrate the Order.
Dante makes his entrance in Fortuna through the roof of the Opera House during the Festival of the Blade, executing the town's vicar Sanctus and slaying several Holy Knights who try to subdue him. Nero, one of the Holy Knights, enraged that his love-interest Kyrie has been endangered, interrupts Dante and keeps him busy until Kyrie and her brother Credo can escape. After a brief fight with Nero, Dante reveals to him that the slain knights were actually demons, and leaves with a cryptic message to Nero, claiming that "We’re the same...you and...I...and them [the fallen knights]. Though I suspect you carry something different from the others". He then leaves Nero and heads for Fortuna Castle. On Credo's orders, Nero follows Dante, catching up to him at the entrance to Mitis Forest. However, Dante escapes by falling from the cliff into the forest. Nero finally confronts Dante within the Order's headquarters, but Nero no longer seeks to capture Dante because he has been betrayed by the Order. However, Dante challenges him for his brother's sword, Yamato, which Nero now possesses. After an intense battle, Nero at last gets the upper hand, but then Dante easily knocks Nero off, making Nero realize that Dante has been playing with him from the beginning. Dante explains that Yamato is the key to the Demon World, but allows Nero to continue using the sword because Nero needs it to rescue Kyrie.
However, Nero is absorbed by the Order's partly awakened The Savior, which is controlled by the revived Sanctus. Credo is mortally wounded trying to stop Sanctus, and the Yamato is taken by the Order's scientist, Agnus, to open the true Hell Gate in Fortuna. At the dying Credo's request, Dante follows The Savior back to town to rescue Nero and Kyrie after sending Trish to help the citizens escape to safety. Along the way, he kills Echidna, Dagon, and Berial, destroys the three fake Hell Gates they had emerged from, and obtains the Devil Arms that had powered the gates. Once he returns to the Opera House where this all began, he finds Agnus. The two fight, ending with Dante killing Agnus. Dante recovers the Yamato, closes the Hell Gate, and destroys it.
This catches the attention of Sanctus, who attempts to kill Dante using The Savior. However, Dante is able to weaken The Savior enough that he can reawaken Nero by returning the Yamato to him. Dante continues to distract The Savior while Nero tracks down Sanctus and slays him. Nero succeeds and breaks free of The Savior with Kyrie and the Sparda in his hands. However, before Dante could drag away an apology from Nero, The Savior reawakens as The False Savior, a much weakened version created by the weapon's merge with Sanctus. Nero hands Dante the Sparda, and attacks the atrocity with his Devil Bringer, destroying it.
When the battle is finally over, Nero thanks Dante for his help. Afterwards, he attempts to return the Yamato to Dante, but tells him to keep it.
Nero: "What…? I thought this meant a lot to you...?"
Dante: "That’s the only kind of gift worth giving. I want to entrust it to you, and so I am. What you do from here is your call."
Nero asks if he will meet Dante again, but Dante leaves without a word.
After Dante returns to his shop, Lady enters and thanks Dante and Trish for helping her by eliminating the Order. She hands them the case with their payment, but it is revealed to contain only a few banknotes. Against Trish's protests, Lady claims that it was her fault that the situation got out of hand. Dante calms them down by commenting: "We take what we can get, right?". Suddenly, the phone rings, and Trish informs Dante that it is a customer with the password and is in the vicinity. Trish and Lady decide to come with Dante on this mission, and the scene ends.
The second Devil May Cry novel, this story takes place immediately before the second game. Unlike DMC2, Dante retains his talkative, carefree personality from all of the other games and is allied with a woman named Beryl, who parallels Lady and wields a Spiral-like rifle.
Dante aids the character Lucia in defeating Arius, an international businessman who uses demonic power and seeks to conquer the world by attaining the power of Argosax the Chaos. At the end of the game, Dante must go into the demon world to stop a major demon from escaping, but the gate closes behind him and he is trapped. With no way back to the human world, Dante heads even deeper into the demon world on his motorcycle. There is an extra scene after the credits, in which Lucia is sitting in Dante's office when she hears a motorcycle outside and rushes out to see who it is. Whether this is Dante or not is unknown.
The Devil May Cry novel was originally written to explain Dante's past, but with the release Devil May Cry 3, major contradictions removed it from the continuity. It is possible that the books events could indeed take place before Devil May Cry 3. If one were to put the events of Devil May Cry 3 before the final chapter of the book, everything would make canonical sense. It takes place immediately before the first game, with Dante going by the alias of Tony Redgrave. He has numerous encounters with a man named Gilver, who hides his face with numerous bandages and wields a katana. In the end, the man is revealed to be Vergil before he became brainwashed by Mundus.
Three issues of a comic adaptation of the first game were published by Canadian publisher Dreamwave Productions in 2004, but was left unfinished when the company went bankrupt in 2005. Although the comic loosely follows the plot of the first Devil May Cry game, it has major contradictions with the game (like Nelo Angelo's ability to speak) and is thus considered non-canonical. The third issue ended with Dante being knocked out by Trish.
[edit] Reboot and DmC
A new rebooted Dante will appear in the recently announced DmC. His appearance is largely altered, having a more western-like style and looking completely different than the Dante from the previous games.
The new Dante as he appears in the reboot.
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Reason for being on AM:Well, this site has an interesting plot, and fans of DMC will agree that characters from DMC-Dante especially-is just perfect for it.
Sample RP:
Dante eased back into his chair, and kicked his legs onto his desk, watching the dust fly off."Hmm....I guess it might be a good idea to spruce the place up a bit...eh, it isn't supposed to be a freakin' princess castle, I'll clean it when I really need to..." "is that so?" dante looked up slowly.{Please don't be-} But he could already see her blond hair hanging over the side of the desk. "What is it? I am busy, go away Trish..." Trish giggled to herself. "Your working REALLY hard, I can tell. But I guess it would be a good idea to clean the place up. Just because we kill demons doesn't mean it has to LOOK like we kill demons..."
Dante laughed, and it obviously made Trish angry. "But the sign on the front of the building says 'DEVIL MAY CRY'..." Dante stood up and walked across the room, some dust fell off the slowly revolving fans on the ceiling and landed on his head. While brushing it off, Trish gave him a playful 'I told ya so' Look."yeah, maybe we should clean the place...I'll give you a twenty if you do it for me." "DO I LOOK LIKE A MAID!? And you already owe me at least fifty bucks, twenty won't cut it." Dante poured himself a glass of wine."I guess...then I'll just keep it as it is. Trish sat down on the couch opposite of where Dante was standing, and screamed a bit as a few spiders crawled out the crease."FINE, I'll do it, but I'm adding it your tab!" "fine by me." Dante smiled as he saw Trish get to work.
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Category:Anime, Video game(Devil May Cry Series)
Name:Dante Sparda
Alias:Dante, Son of Sparda, Tony Redgrave
Age:In his 30's
Ranking:Hero
Physical Appearance:
Personality:Rather playful, he likes to toy with his enemies, yet he is very merciless and strikes down his enemies without breaking too much of a sweat. He enjoys slacking and putting things off to the last moment. He proffers to act alone, but he doesn't mind having company or team mates. He starts grudges with people very quickly, even if he doesn't mean to. Being the giant show-off he is, he will gladly change peoples minds about himself, and even have fun in doing so.
Although he never refers to himself as a hero, he knows he is acting for the good of human kind and is inclined to eliminate all super-natural threats, to help them. He doesn't favor a side either, and he may even switch sides if the odds shift that way, you never know with dante. But money is a big barter with him, so he will sign up with the highest bidder in some cases, being neck-high in debt.
But Dante is mostly a free-going character that likes to view from the sidelines, yet always is willing to be part of the action. Taking care of demons, devils, and monsters is just another day in the office for him.
Powers/Abilities:He can go into what is known as "Demon Trigger Mode" Because he is part demon, and his skin turns a pitch-black and becomes like steel.He moves much faster and his strength is increased ten-fold.:
Even on his own however, he is very physically and mentally strong, and he cannot be easily killed, laughing at weak attempts to kill him with things like swords, daggers, and guns.
Equipment:
UNIVERSAL TOOLS:
He is known for his big sword, Rebellion:
And he carries two Guns, Ebony and Ivory:
OTHER WEAPONS:
his Gilgamesh Armour is a combination of two bladed demon-metal gauntlets, two demon-metal boots, and a demon-metal mouth cover. They increase his speed a bit, and help with his physical combos, but he does not wear the Gilgamesh all the time.
LUCIFER:
Lucifer is an odd weapon, it is like a pair of wings that is worn over the shoulder, it produces demon mines that float in mid-air after being thrown. When the user snaps their fingers, the needle-like mines drill into the enemies and explode.
PANDORA'S BOX:
Pandora's box is yet another strange weapon, it looks like a briefcase with a golden skull in the center, but it holds many secrets. Pandora's Box is really Four weapons in one:
Weaknesses
Psychological Flaws: when it comes to people important to him, he can get more emotionally driven and that can work against just about anyone, including Dante.(Thanks Gizmo)
Physical Flaws: He does strain himself if he uses devil trigger too much, and may collapse. He is a combination of both Close and long range, but he mostly fights close-range.
Other Flaws: He is almost always in debt, and could barely keep his own "base" together.
Brief History:Sometime before their eighth birthday, Eva gave Dante and Vergil each a half of the Perfect Amulet.
Eventually, Sparda died, and Eva and the twins were left alone. When Dante was eight years old, he and his family were attacked by demons. Devil May Cry 3 Eva was killed, and though both Vergil and Dante survived, the twins were separated, and Dante believed Vergil to have died.
At some point after this, Dante met Enzo and began a demon-hunting business under the alias Anthony "Tony" Redgrave.
After a shower, Dante eats a pizza until Enzo enters his shop and notifies him of a job. Later, Dante goes to Enzo's room at a brothel and finds demons in it, then kills them using Ebony and Ivory. He sees a leaflet stating that if someone were to find a missing girl named Alice, there would be a four million dollar reward. After a small fight with Enzo, Dante accepts the job, and heads out to find the girl.
Dante goes with Enzo to a castle, only to find demons. After going through a few fights, he finds out that Alice had run away with a demon "Rabi", who has possessed her rabbit doll. After a heated discussion between Dante and Rabi, and another demon, Rabi tells Dante that the human world is crooked, that Alice had run away because she was neither beautiful nor strong, something that was necessary for someone to be recognized in the human world. Rabi told Dante that although Alice had purity, purity was not recognized by humans, and that only demons still valued it. After he strips Alice of her purity, and transforms her into what the humans would consider beautiful, Alice starts to flirt with Dante, stating that she always knew her prince would come. Dante tells her that dreams like that can quickly become nightmares, and Alice transforms into a demon, then attacks Dante by biting him in the neck. This triggers a transformation in Dante, causing him to take on a shadowy shape similar to his Majin Form, which he uses to knock her out. He then reverts back to his human form, impressing Rabi. Rabi tells Dante that he was the one whom gave Dante the job, annoying Dante, until Rabi tells him that he transferred the four million dollars to his account already. When Dante asks why he did all this, Rabi states that he wanted to see "the legendary son of Sparda" in action. As Dante prepares to leave, Rabi states that he wants to buy his half of the perfect amulet, which Dante refuses to accept, and leaves.
DEVIL MAY CRY 3
At the beginning of the game, a younger, cockier Dante is seen in his yet-to-be-named shop. Arkham comes to his shop and invites him to the Temen-ni-gru on behalf of his brother Vergil by sending a few Hell Prides, Lusts and a Hell Vanguard to attack him. Dante, though, effortlessly kills them all, and heads to the tower in search for an interesting time, and it is soon revealed that Vergil is attempting to reopen the portal to the demon world in order to obtain the full power of their father, which remains in the demon world within the Force Edge, Sparda's demon-forged sword. Within the tower, Dante encounters and defeats the demonic gatekeepers who were sealed away by his father, as well as the demon hunter Lady, who is in pursuit of her father Arkham, and the demon Jester, who guides him through the tower for his own reasons. Upon defeating most of these demons, Dante acquires their souls in the form of new weapons and combat styles. Dante, Lady, and Vergil eventually discover that Arkham is Jester, and was using all of them in order to open the portal and acquire the Force Edge for himself, using it as a means to gain Sparda's power. After defeating Arkham in the Demon World, Vergil and Dante duel for the ownership of the Force Edge. In the end of the battle, Dante claims ownership of the Force Edge, while Vergil chooses to remain in the Netherworld.
Dante matures considerably during the game and, inspired by Lady's courage and commitment to her own family, continues his demon hunting business with a greater sense of purpose. They become partners and he decides to call his shop "Devil May Cry", in reference to what Lady said to comfort him over the loss of his brother Vergil.
"Maybe somewhere out there even a devil may cry when he loses a loved one. Don’t you think?"
Devil May Cry
Devil May Cry begins with Dante being attacked in his office by a mysterious woman named Trish. He impresses her by easily brushing off her assault, and tells her that he hunts demons in pursuit of those who killed his mother and brother. She says the attack was a test and that the demon emperor Mundus is planning a return at Mallet Island. She takes him to the castle there, but abruptly disappears.
Dante explores the castle, slaying minor demons and finding weapons, and encounters the spiderlike demon, Phantom, while looking for a way to proceed through the castle. Dante wins the battle, but Phantom soon reappears and chases him through the halls of the castle. After further exploration and combat, Dante battles a demon named Nelo Angelo who impresses Dante with his confidence. The demon pins Dante to a nearby wall, but suddenly flees upon seeing the half-amulet Dante wears. The demon attacks twice more in later missions, and is eventually revealed to be Vergil, killed and manipulated by Mundus. After Nelo Angelo's final defeat, his half of the amulet joins with Dante's half-amulet, transforming the Force Edge into its true form, the Sparda.
When Dante next meets Trish, she betrays him and reveals that she is also working for Mundus. She lures Dante into a final fight with the bio-weapon Nightmare, but Dante manages to kill the monster. In the resulting chaos, the room collapses, and Trish is almost crushed. Dante saves her, claiming it was solely because of her resemblance to his mother. Furious because of her betrayal, Dante warns her to stay away from him. Yet when he finally confronts Mundus, who is about to kill Trish, Dante chooses again to save her but is injured. Mundus tries to finish him off, but Trish takes the attack instead. Dante's emotion at this tragedy unleashes his full power, allowing him to take on the form of his father. Afterwards, Dante and Mundus battle on another plane of existence with Dante victorious.
Dante leaves the Perfect Amulet and Sparda sword with Trish's immobile body before departing. However, just as Dante reaches the castle's hangar, Mundus, who is now back to his regular strength, returns and corners Dante. However, Trish also returns and lends Dante her power. Dante is able to defeat Mundus by sealing him away again. When Trish tries to apologize, she begins to cry. Dante tells her that it means she has become human and not just a devil, because "devils never cry". Dante and Trish narrowly escape on a plane as the island collapses. After the credits, it is revealed that Dante and Trish are working together as partners and have renamed the shop to "Devil Never Cry".
Devil May Cry: The Animated Series
Unlike the games, the animated series focuses on Dante's "normal" missions, and his day-to-day life.
On a regular day in the office, Dante is hired to transport a young girl named Patty Lowell to her father's house to receive her inheritance. However, she is revealed to have been a decoy for the true heir, and takes to living with Dante until her mother is found. Other recurring characters include Lady, Trish, Morrison (Dante's liaison, much like Enzo), and Sid, a lesser demon who is later revealed to be the true antagonist of the animated series.
[edit] Devil May Cry 4
Everything was set into motion when Lady came to Dante's office, offering a job. She told him about the Order of the Sword—a small congregation in the castle town of Fortuna, which worships Sparda—much to Dante's surprise.
Dante: "They worship a demon as a god?"
She explained that there is a legend of Sparda in that he served as a feudal lord at the city a long time ago. She also said that although peaceful worship can't be condemned, the Order's members recently started catching demons and collecting Devil Arms, interfering with her work. Trish, who was present and heard all this, departed with the Sparda sword, leaving a "see you there" message written in lipstick on the hanger. There was nothing for Dante to do but to go to Fortuna after her.
Later it is revealed that the Order's increased activity was because of The Savior - a giant artificial demon brought by the Order, which is only controllable with Sparda's blood and sword.[2] They started creating smaller copies of the true Hell Gate, which they powered with the gathered Devil Arms. These were needed to harvest demons in order to power The Savior, as well as to lure Dante to Fortuna. It seems that Dante became aware of their plan, most likely through Trish, who disguised herself as Gloria and handed over the Sparda sword to infiltrate the Order.
Dante makes his entrance in Fortuna through the roof of the Opera House during the Festival of the Blade, executing the town's vicar Sanctus and slaying several Holy Knights who try to subdue him. Nero, one of the Holy Knights, enraged that his love-interest Kyrie has been endangered, interrupts Dante and keeps him busy until Kyrie and her brother Credo can escape. After a brief fight with Nero, Dante reveals to him that the slain knights were actually demons, and leaves with a cryptic message to Nero, claiming that "We’re the same...you and...I...and them [the fallen knights]. Though I suspect you carry something different from the others". He then leaves Nero and heads for Fortuna Castle. On Credo's orders, Nero follows Dante, catching up to him at the entrance to Mitis Forest. However, Dante escapes by falling from the cliff into the forest. Nero finally confronts Dante within the Order's headquarters, but Nero no longer seeks to capture Dante because he has been betrayed by the Order. However, Dante challenges him for his brother's sword, Yamato, which Nero now possesses. After an intense battle, Nero at last gets the upper hand, but then Dante easily knocks Nero off, making Nero realize that Dante has been playing with him from the beginning. Dante explains that Yamato is the key to the Demon World, but allows Nero to continue using the sword because Nero needs it to rescue Kyrie.
However, Nero is absorbed by the Order's partly awakened The Savior, which is controlled by the revived Sanctus. Credo is mortally wounded trying to stop Sanctus, and the Yamato is taken by the Order's scientist, Agnus, to open the true Hell Gate in Fortuna. At the dying Credo's request, Dante follows The Savior back to town to rescue Nero and Kyrie after sending Trish to help the citizens escape to safety. Along the way, he kills Echidna, Dagon, and Berial, destroys the three fake Hell Gates they had emerged from, and obtains the Devil Arms that had powered the gates. Once he returns to the Opera House where this all began, he finds Agnus. The two fight, ending with Dante killing Agnus. Dante recovers the Yamato, closes the Hell Gate, and destroys it.
This catches the attention of Sanctus, who attempts to kill Dante using The Savior. However, Dante is able to weaken The Savior enough that he can reawaken Nero by returning the Yamato to him. Dante continues to distract The Savior while Nero tracks down Sanctus and slays him. Nero succeeds and breaks free of The Savior with Kyrie and the Sparda in his hands. However, before Dante could drag away an apology from Nero, The Savior reawakens as The False Savior, a much weakened version created by the weapon's merge with Sanctus. Nero hands Dante the Sparda, and attacks the atrocity with his Devil Bringer, destroying it.
When the battle is finally over, Nero thanks Dante for his help. Afterwards, he attempts to return the Yamato to Dante, but tells him to keep it.
Nero: "What…? I thought this meant a lot to you...?"
Dante: "That’s the only kind of gift worth giving. I want to entrust it to you, and so I am. What you do from here is your call."
Nero asks if he will meet Dante again, but Dante leaves without a word.
After Dante returns to his shop, Lady enters and thanks Dante and Trish for helping her by eliminating the Order. She hands them the case with their payment, but it is revealed to contain only a few banknotes. Against Trish's protests, Lady claims that it was her fault that the situation got out of hand. Dante calms them down by commenting: "We take what we can get, right?". Suddenly, the phone rings, and Trish informs Dante that it is a customer with the password and is in the vicinity. Trish and Lady decide to come with Dante on this mission, and the scene ends.
The second Devil May Cry novel, this story takes place immediately before the second game. Unlike DMC2, Dante retains his talkative, carefree personality from all of the other games and is allied with a woman named Beryl, who parallels Lady and wields a Spiral-like rifle.
Dante aids the character Lucia in defeating Arius, an international businessman who uses demonic power and seeks to conquer the world by attaining the power of Argosax the Chaos. At the end of the game, Dante must go into the demon world to stop a major demon from escaping, but the gate closes behind him and he is trapped. With no way back to the human world, Dante heads even deeper into the demon world on his motorcycle. There is an extra scene after the credits, in which Lucia is sitting in Dante's office when she hears a motorcycle outside and rushes out to see who it is. Whether this is Dante or not is unknown.
The Devil May Cry novel was originally written to explain Dante's past, but with the release Devil May Cry 3, major contradictions removed it from the continuity. It is possible that the books events could indeed take place before Devil May Cry 3. If one were to put the events of Devil May Cry 3 before the final chapter of the book, everything would make canonical sense. It takes place immediately before the first game, with Dante going by the alias of Tony Redgrave. He has numerous encounters with a man named Gilver, who hides his face with numerous bandages and wields a katana. In the end, the man is revealed to be Vergil before he became brainwashed by Mundus.
Three issues of a comic adaptation of the first game were published by Canadian publisher Dreamwave Productions in 2004, but was left unfinished when the company went bankrupt in 2005. Although the comic loosely follows the plot of the first Devil May Cry game, it has major contradictions with the game (like Nelo Angelo's ability to speak) and is thus considered non-canonical. The third issue ended with Dante being knocked out by Trish.
[edit] Reboot and DmC
A new rebooted Dante will appear in the recently announced DmC. His appearance is largely altered, having a more western-like style and looking completely different than the Dante from the previous games.
The new Dante as he appears in the reboot.
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Reason for being on AM:Well, this site has an interesting plot, and fans of DMC will agree that characters from DMC-Dante especially-is just perfect for it.
Sample RP:
Dante eased back into his chair, and kicked his legs onto his desk, watching the dust fly off."Hmm....I guess it might be a good idea to spruce the place up a bit...eh, it isn't supposed to be a freakin' princess castle, I'll clean it when I really need to..." "is that so?" dante looked up slowly.{Please don't be-} But he could already see her blond hair hanging over the side of the desk. "What is it? I am busy, go away Trish..." Trish giggled to herself. "Your working REALLY hard, I can tell. But I guess it would be a good idea to clean the place up. Just because we kill demons doesn't mean it has to LOOK like we kill demons..."
Dante laughed, and it obviously made Trish angry. "But the sign on the front of the building says 'DEVIL MAY CRY'..." Dante stood up and walked across the room, some dust fell off the slowly revolving fans on the ceiling and landed on his head. While brushing it off, Trish gave him a playful 'I told ya so' Look."yeah, maybe we should clean the place...I'll give you a twenty if you do it for me." "DO I LOOK LIKE A MAID!? And you already owe me at least fifty bucks, twenty won't cut it." Dante poured himself a glass of wine."I guess...then I'll just keep it as it is. Trish sat down on the couch opposite of where Dante was standing, and screamed a bit as a few spiders crawled out the crease."FINE, I'll do it, but I'm adding it your tab!" "fine by me." Dante smiled as he saw Trish get to work.
Theme Songs:
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