Dante (Devil May Cry)

## Do-Gooder

* Human Form
* Devil Trigger
* Sin Devil Trigger

Stop his twin brother Vergil and retrieve his father's sword, the Force Edge/Sparda.
Defeat Arkham.
Destroy the Order of the Sword.
Find out who Urizen truly is and stop him.
Find Vergil and stop him from destroying the world.
(All Succeeded)

### Hobby:

Hunting Demons.
Reading magazines.
Sitting at his favourite desk.
Eating pizza.

### Family:

Sparda (Father) †
Eva (Mother) †
Vergil (Twin Brother)
Nero (Nephew)

### Friends/Allies:

Neil Goldstein †
Lady
Vergil (Former Arch-Rival; Redeemed Friend & Brother)
Trish
Patty Lowell
Morrison
Lucia
Nero (Student)
Credo †
Kyrie
V †
Nico

### Enemies:

Mundus (Arch-Nemesis)
Vergil (Formerly; Arch-Nemesis Turned Arch-Rival; Redeemed Brother)
Order Of The Sword
Arkham (Evil-Counterpart; Arch-Rival) †
Sid †
Arius †
Argosax †
Sanctus †
Agnus †
Urizen †

### Type of Hero:

Honorable Thrill-Seeking Mercenary

**Dante** is the main protagonist of the *Devil May Cry* franchise. He is the younger twin brother of Vergil and a son of the Dark Knight Sparda and the human Eva. He is also the uncle of Nero.

A hybrid between a human and a demon, Dante primarily works as a paranormal investigator and mercenary that hunts down devils and purge the world from evil, seeking vengeance to avenge his late mother, as well as save his brother from their demonic influence.

In Japanese, he is voiced by Toshiyuki Morikawa, and in English he is voiced by Reuben Langdon.

## Personality:

As seen in the beginning of the series, Dante is incredibly flippant, casually mouthing off to even the most powerful of demons, and he generally enjoys showing off and taunting his adversaries as often as he can. Dante also displays a fearless, almost disinterested attitude towards incredibly dangerous situations, such as assuming Trish simply had to use the bathroom after crashing through his office's front door on a motorcycle, being attacked by the Seven Hells in his office, being swallowed by Echidna, and effortlessly shrugging off wounds such as a head shot or impalement numerous times, the latter of which happens quite frequently for the Devil Hunter.

While maturing as time goes by, Dante never loses his care-free, devil-may-care attitude, except in *Devil May Cry 2*. He can be serious when the situation calls for it, but still maintains an overall laid-back demeanor during tense situations, and is never without a witty taunt or comeback. Although seemingly shown at times to be uncaring or callous, Dante maintains a very strong sense of justice like his father, and prefers to fight fairly, never fighting humans or opponents weaker than him. He can be counted on to do the right thing, even if he makes humorously cynical quips about it the entire time.

Unusually, while he has displayed discomfort with his own demonic side, only coming to accept it following the events of *Devil May Cry 3*, Dante has little qualms about accepting demons that choose the side of good and admires their desire to be human, such as Trish and Bradley. Though Dante is quoted as believing that "Humans are often worse than demons" in the anime, he refuses to kill full-blooded humans for any reason, believing it would make him no better than any Devil, be it human or demon.

In addition, Dante values family and friends very highly. He cared deeply for his mother and, despite their differences and conflicting ideals, for his brother, Vergil. Even after their intense duels and conflicts in *Devil May Cry 3*, Dante still tries to prevent Vergil from willingly falling off the edge of the Human World into the Demon World, and goes so far as to cry over losing him. While he says little about his father, Sparda, over the course of the series, Dante has been shown to clearly maintain a level of respect for him.

While bitterly claiming that "[he doesn't] have a father" in his first fight with Vergil in 3, he grows to respect him as the game goes on, proudly claiming in his final duel with his brother that not only do they carry Sparda's blood, but his soul as well. He also makes a humorous comment towards Arkham, smugly claiming that his father wasn't as hideous as his twisted form, citing his own physical appearance as proof.

Dante also enjoys fighting, shown when he restrains himself from using his full potential. In *Devil May Cry 4*, he was clearly going easy on his nephew Nero in their first confrontation, soundly defeating him in their second clash.

In the anime, Dante gets bored with fighting weak opponents and only finds entertainment in fighting strong opponents who will give him a challenge. Dante's enjoyment of fighting was further emphasized in his pre-battle banter with Echidna, asking her if she agreed with him that "a fight every now and then makes life more interesting".

Despite Dante's handsome appearance, he often has terrible luck with women, a condition he ironically reflects upon in *Devil May Cry 3* when Lady shoots him through the head after he attempts to keep her from falling.

In the animated series, Dante was shown to be one of the few characters in the Devil May Cry series to swear. Dante was frequently shown to be foul-mouthed, repeatedly swearing in almost every episode.

Despite verbally complaining about being in debt, Dante seems quite willing to perform missions solely for the good of them, and rarely, if ever, enforces payment from poor clients. In fact, Dante will typically refuse any job he dislikes, regardless of how much it pays, but will immediately take on any paranormal cases, especially those involving demon hunting, with or without pay. Many of his clients take advantage of his hospitable nature, and leave bills for property damage caused during the mission instead of paying for his services. Interestingly, despite his claims of having low funds, Dante still manages to pool up enough money to buy pricey luxuries for his office, such as a pool table, a jukebox, and several expensive pieces of musical equipment such as electric guitars.

He often borrows from Lady, attempting to gamble to repay his debts to her and others. However, he has extremely bad luck with all forms of gambling, even something as simple as a coin toss, and loses any game not involved with demon hunting. As a result, he is deep in debt to Lady, and is often left with no money at all after she takes her cut. However, in Devil May Cry 4, Lady actually pays him a small, single role of bills for his "assistance", implying that he no longer owes her money.

Dante has a fondness for pizza, usually with "everything" on it, and while he complains about olives, he always ends up with them on his pizza. In the animated series, he is also shown to favor strawberry sundaes as well, with it being pointed out on several occasions that those two foods are seemingly all he eats. He also has a fondness for alcohol, specifically beer.

## Powers And Skills:

**Overall Abilities:** Due to his paternal heritage form the legendary Dark Knight Sparda, Dante has similar powers to his father, which has made him a threat to all the enemies caught in his path. Despite his heritage, it has been believed that his immense supernatural powers doesn't come solely from his paternal heritage, but also because he possesses all his father's virtues, such as love and mercy, and protecting others. When speaking to Agnus, he himself implied that the reason Agnus and Sid were powerless despite his gained demonic powers, was because that they gave up their virtues or let their souls rot. It may mean demons can reach their full potential by having the ability to protect and care for another, but this may only be for Dante, Vergil, and Nero due to their being part human as well as part demon. As such, Dante has achieve numerous feats that have surpassed even his father, who was regarded as a god-like figure.

* **Demonic Power Manipulation:** Dante can channel his demon energies into objects, such as his guns or even the air itself.
* **Telekinesis:** He has displayed some level of telekinetic abilities as the bike Trish threw instantly stopped in front of him and was levitating in front of him.

**Supernatural Condition:** Through virtue of his parental demonic lineage, Dante has supernatural physical abilities

* **Supernatural Strength:** Dante has virtually incalculable strength, due to his demonic heritage. He possesses supernatural strength to the point where he can punch through stone with little effort and overpower demons much larger than him.
* **Supernatural Mobility:** His super-speed is so great that he can move faster than the eye can see and his agility is at a supernatural level, allowing him to perform feats such as jumping great heights and balancing on a moving rocket. His reflexes are also similarly enhanced as well, as he instantly dodged many attacks from his opponents in the blink of an eye, before his opponents even realized he had evaded their attacks.
* **Supernatural Stamina:** Even after temporarily dying and taking a lot of punishment, he only showed slight signs of tardiness.
* **Supernatural Durability:** While not bulletproof, his physical constitution can withstand high levels of physical trauma. When Beowulf punched him with his immense physical strength, Dante showed no signs of pain, fatigue or damage. He even withstood being shot on the head and being stabbed in the chest multiple times with his sword Rebellion without it effecting him too much.
* **Regenerative Healing Factor:** His supernatural healing abilities are so developed that they are able to instantly heal the damage done to his physiology. He can instantly heal from almost any wound, surviving being stabbed throughout most of his body by the scythes of a group of Hell Prides. Other examples include when he is impaled by his sword and when Lady shot him in the head, which only irritated him.
* **Supernatural Senses:** He is able to sense oncoming attacks from miles away. He was even able to sense the presence of Dagon hiding in the storms. His enemies always have an extremely hard time evading him or even sneaking upon him.

**Supreme Combatant:** The half-demon has also used a number of demon-fighting styles. These include the Swordmaster Style, emphasizing mastery of Devil-Arms and their elemental powers, Trickster, which focuses on quick dodging and maneuvers, Gunslinger, which emphasizes mastery of firearms and their techniques, Royalguard, which focuses on blocking and countering enemy attacks, Doppelganger, which creates a dark clone of Dante that aids him in battle, and Quicksilver, which slows down time around Dante while allowing him to move at ultra-fast speeds. Dante has proven capable with a large variety of weapons, which he has gathered throughout the games.

## Crosspedia Entry:

Owner of the establishment called "Devil May Cry," Dante makes his living as a Devil Hunter. He has an easygoing, somewhat mocking attitude, but is always on his game.

As a half human and half demon from the bloodline of the Legendary Dark Knight Sparda, he has combat and physical abilities that far outstrip those of a normal human. These can further be increased through his transformation into his Devil Trigger, which also grants him the power of flight.

In his human form, he skillfully fights with the Rebellion, a sword once used by his father, and two guns called Ebony & Ivory.

Near the start of his career, he took on the massive tower called "Temen-ni-gru," a nest for devils and demons. He eventually halted their dark aspirations to invade the human world.

## Trivia:

* One recurring event in the games except for *Devil May Cry 2* is that Dante is stabbed through the chest by his own sword.In Devil May Cry Trish stabbed him with the Force Edge, In Devil May Cry 3 Vergil stabbed him with the Rebellion, in the animated series Sid impaled him to a cross with the Rebellion, in Devil May Cry 4 Nero impaled him to a statue with the Rebellion, and in Devil May Cry 5 he stabs himself with the Rebellion to create the Devil Sword Dante which in turn he stabs himself to access Sin Devil Trigger.
* His voice actor, Reuben Langdon, also voiced Ken from the popular Street Fighter series, and did the motion capture work for Chris Redfield from the Resident Evil games, both also made by Capcom.
* Dante appears to have skill with rock instruments, since he demonstrated the ability to play an intense solo from “Taste the Blood” on Nevan and has a set of drums and a guitar in his office.
* Recently in an interview, Dante’s creator, Hideki Kamiya, was asked who would win in a battle between Dante and Bayonetta, another character he created due to the similarities between them. He said that “No man can overwhelm Bayonetta.” However, in the online series, Death Battle, Dante was matched up against Bayonetta in a fight to the finish with all of their abilities analyzed and he emerged the winner on the assumption that he simply cannot be killed but that she can.
* In an episode of the animated series, Dante racks the slide on his gun the same way Alucard cocks his gun in the first episode of the anime, *Hellsing*, using his teeth. It is also noted that both possess similar guns (one black, the other silver) and outfits, are hunters who pursue their own kind, have similar attitudes of irreverence and amusement towards dangerous situations and their adversaries, and are infamous for withstanding and regenerating from grievous injuries.
* The chronological order of the *Devil May Cry* series does not follow the release order of the games and related media. *Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening*, is a prequel to *Devil May Cry*, followed by the anime series then *Devil May Cry 2*, then *Devil May Cry 4* and *Devil May Cry 5*. Before the release of *Devil May Cry 5* which retconned the series continuity, *Devil May Cry 2* had taken place after *Devil May Cry 4*.
	+ The change where *Devil May Cry 2* was changed to take place before *Devil May Cry 4* pleased fans who see it a plausible explanation of Dante's character development between the first game and latter series; throughout *Devil May Cry 2*, he displayed much stoic behavior and devoid of carefree side he's best known for due to still mourning over losing Vergil for a second time at Mallet Island before his meeting with Nero whom he correctly deduced as his nephew and Vergil's son through their resemblance and how Yamato's powers reacted to him.
* Dante fought Bayonetta in the season 3 premiere of DEATH BATTLE and won.