DMC Demon Physiology

This blog will essentially be going over the general haxes shared by demons across the DMC franchise. If you dont wish to go through the entire thing(although you will still need to for scans) the summary of each section will start with a bold text. First we start with the demon names as this is the most important aspect of who they are as beings:

## Demon Names

In a manner of speaking names are conceptual existences that alter the very world itself [1]

Naturally, they should predate the human world and supersede the human world and demon world's alike since the world as it concerns the context of DMC3 Code Dante and Vergil should refer to the combined demon and human worlds in its primordial shape [2]. That is how fundamental these concepts are. Additionally, Demon names are blatantly stated to be the very truth of a demon’s being [1] and in comparison to the significance of this fundamental truth, mere bodies and even souls are practically irrelevant as even animalistic lower level demons send their soul/consciousness over gaps between the dimensional barrier to possess objects without the slightest care in the world about their safety [3] but with their names it is akin to just about losing everything. However, it should be noted that all demons eventually regain these names over time depending on the complexity of the names in question, but it may take eons in either case. “Even lesser demons could not have acquired a name in two thousand years”[1]. Now it should be noted that only demons of great intellect (and presumably great power) are able to strip a demon of a name by stealing it from them [1], however, it should be noted that even without going as far as to strike a demon’s name out by taking it away, wiser/more powerful demons like Mundus and the like would need to be slain by killing them so fundamentally that even the name which has far greater importance than either the body or soul/consciousness would be destroyed as well. In fact, I’d dare say that any higher level demons would need to be killed even beyond that as the demon sin, Pride who’s name was taken/stricken by Sparda, was still able to fight at a comparatively high level, enough in fact for *DMC 3 Code Dante/Vergil* Dante to have to fight in earnest which is no small feat to accomplish [1] as this Dante shouldn’t be terribly weaker then DMC3 Dante where he can literally send a member of the Cerberus tribe [4] flying casually without even going into the pseudo-devil trigger he does when fighting Pride here. Thus, an argument can be made for strong enough demons to have a powerful enough constitution to continue persisting even without a name/concept/abstract existence whilst trading blows with characters who can destroy/interact with a demon’s name/concept/abstract existence and this should apply doubly to higher level demons like Vergil, Mundus, Argosax, the Savior, etc. to name a few obvious candidates.

    **In basic summary,** Regeneration Negation (High-Godly), Regeneration (High-Godly), Object Manipulation, Soul Manipulation, Abstract existence (At least Type 2), Conceptual Manipulation (At least type 3).

Now with names out of the way let's move onto the next fundamental aspects of demon physiology: the magical energy system and how that interacts with demonic subjective reality.

## Demonic/Magical Energy and Demonic Actualization/Subjective reality

Now in the series of DMC the fundamental power system for demons is known generally as demonic energy or magical energy in some cases. We learn first and foremost that a demon’s physical power comes from their demonic/magical energy via the example of Dante, whose supernatural physique is owed to his demonic energy. Absorbing, destroying or nullifying a demon's magic basically renders them useless, as an example of this: Chen (a genius who spent decades researching demons) developed a gel capable of nullifying magic / demonic power for the sole purpose or research, he traps demons there and they become helpless, powerless, useless as everything including their physical power comes from said form of energy [5]. Demonic power is often used to boost someone's attributes, an example of this is when Gilver, using the nexus, starts making the demon world energy flood into the human world, having said energy close to him boosts his power and defense to the point Dante's attacks stopped working [6]. More examples of this are when (in the second novel) the demonic army starts marching towards the underworld, where Mundus is, and as they approach it their energies are being replenished while their powers grow to the point the demonic energy overloads their bodies paralyzing them and knocking out a part of them and when a powerful succubus that had managed to get into the human world had to fight Dante and in doing this exhausted all her demonic power, leaving the remaining bits to try and attack Dante in a futile last ditch effort [5]. This can be seen too in DMC1 when Dante and Mundus fight for the last time in the human world (although part of it has been retconned), being in the human world makes Dante weaker since he isn't able to draw power from the demon world itself to replenish his own power as quickly, which makes him weaker than he would be if he had all his energy [7]. Although slightly retconned by today's new material including the second game, the basic idea that without demonic power they are weak stands.

By the time of DMC5 we are told Demonic power can be gained from human blood, the more blood there is the more powerful the demonic power that comes out will be. This is explicitly shown when Urizen, being infected with human blood and bathing in it, grows so powerful to the point other demons consider him a Demon King despite not having eaten the fruit or being one by that point and even allowing him to defeat the most powerful iteration of Dante to that point in the series [8]. Demons use demonic energy to increase their durability and ap [9]. Demonic energy is also called magic, or magical energy (the Japanese dmc 1 guide even calls the demon world the “magical world). Demonic energy is also used for hax. All “magical abilities” derive from the same demonic energy pool, as shown with the fury [8]. Even half breeds like Dante and Vergil follow this same system, using demonic energy for ap/durability [10] and hax [4]. Reduction of energy weakens the demon, reducing durability and ap. Complete reduction will potentially kill the demon [5]. Magic power is used by Agnus for healing and strength [9]. Devil Trigger completely revitalizes the user and boosts all stats, via more demonic energy [8]. And lastly there is the savior, a large part of his power was drawn from Nero, who was being used as a battery of sorts to power the savior and when he was set free the savior lost part of his powers. To quote Nero inside the Savior: “The structure of the Savior's body is like a labyrinth with countless demons. Maybe they are like me, and they are the driving force behind the Savior.” This is further proven true when Nero gets absorbed within it, and its stated after that it gets weakened when he gets freed. Likewise when the Devil Sword Sparda is used to power the savior, it is described as using magical/demonic power [9]. With all of this it is pretty obvious that their powers, magical and physical come from the demonic energy running through them, this power as shown can be and is used to boost their physical attributes or to perform grandiose acts of reality warping. Now with that in mind it should be noted that all haxes and resistances will be layered since they all relatively scale to the same energy pool and the higher the energy pool the better their hax/resistances.

Now on the topic of demonic energy it should be noted that an aspect of demonic energy is the willpower behind it as seen in the example of the fury and the lusachia [8]. In DMC4 Deadly Fortune, Dante theorizes that the demonified Credo’s death happened in such a way because it is a reflection of his own personal desire for how he should die, like an angel [9]. In the case of Nero in DMC5 we see that because he wanted it enough he not only regained his arm [8] in the shape of a human arm no less (which caused him emotional tension with in DMC4 [10]) but also gains the ability to make his arm translucent so he can still use the devil breakers which were made to originally be prosthetics for an armless Nero [8]. Thus, with the issue of actualization/subjective reality and what we know of demonic energy I am telling you that it is utterly impossible to somehow divide defense and attack power in a silly and arbitrary way that downscales DMC. In even more extreme cases one can use the example of Nightmare who is stated ad verbatim to be able to destroy the endless demon world [11] in a relatively quick fashion on multiple accounts [12]. Put that in a blender with Occam’s Razor and voila DMC scaling is as goated as always.

Continuing from the previous paragraph on the topic of demonic subjective reality it should be noted that Dreams, Memories and the Mind all share the same Metaphysical nature in DMC, but first, let's take a look into each individual's nature, starting by Dreams. Firstly, we have to understand that Sargasso's exist in dreams, and in this state they're said to be "transcendental" [13] and cannot be attacked, therefore, we could say the dreams are transcendental to reality itself (this doesn't give anything important yet), these dreams/nightmares have no form, being something more "abstract" rather than anything at all, and they're literally stated to be dreams because, well, dreams can't kill people. and coexist with memories in the same realm [12]. Now, other unconscious aspects such as memories are stated to be metaphysical [8], which goes well with the whole "dreams are transcendental" thing. Finally, dreams and memories coexist with memories in the same realm [12]. (because we see a young version of Vergil, whom is clearly not supposed to be a dream, but more-so a repressed thought or record of the events that happened to Vergil) With all of this, we might add that unconscious aspects like desires are capable of changing reality, like how Credo envisioned his death to be [9], how demons mutate their physical form [8]. It can also be said to be a source of power [11] in the verse from that can serve as a catalyst for demonic energy. Therefore, we can conclude that the unconscious such as Dreams, Memories and Strong Emotions have an impact on reality and are abstract while being transcendent to it. Now while I'm not quite sure what this might particularly grant DMC it does set an interesting precedent for demonic subjective reality overall.

Now with the fundamentals dealt with let us now proceed to the more miscellaneous haxes of various tiers of demons.

## Other Miscellaneous Haxes shared by all Demons

Supernatural Physical Characteristics/Object Manipulation: Now with the name section out of the way it is time to name the other more miscellaneous haxes all demons generally share. First and foremost it should be noted that demons (in their true forms) have a certain immunity to all modern weapons [3] which would include nuclear weapons which grants demons basic superhuman characteristics. Now I’m not sure if this applies to demons possessing certain matter as a proxy since there are inherent limitations imposed by such an existence [9]. Nevertheless, it should be noted that these limitations of possessing materials aren’t as stringent as described here when demons who possess sand in DMC3 like the Hell Prides which certainly don’t crumble like the sand it possesses [14] would in most circumstances (we see the Hell Prides stab Dante with scythes which would also be made of sand as well and see them survive strikes that would cause normal sand to instantly crumble [4]) but for true form demons this is absolutely true even for the animalistic lower level demons like Empusas. As it is wise practice and general custom for demon hunters to always use silver [9] when fighting lower level demons let alone stronger demons as it is highly effective against most low level demons. However, this doesn't necessarily count for mid or high level demons who can probably auto-negate most of the negative effects of silver in most cases (as Lady is never shown fighting demons on this level alone and the few times she does fight demons of this level alongside others [15] it everything she does consistently amounts to nothing [8]). In either case, whether demons are in their true forms or not they are undoubtedly superior to humans physically, hell Dante outright admits this to Agnus [10] as though it were common sense and in combination with the information above superhuman physical characteristics are a given.

**To summarize:**

Supernatural Willpower: Demons have supernatural willpower as they are capable of using the powers of the Beastheads, and it is confirmed that you need a strong will and mind to be able to do so and also to not get possessed by it [5].

Body Control: Demons can shape-shift all they want, even when possessing humans or objects and can also make weapons from their bodies depending on their subjective desires [15] to reference what was stated earlier on demonic actualization/subjective reality.

Power Bestowal: Demons are beings capable of becoming Devil Arms by either crushing them and gaining power over them or becoming friends with them via a form of power bestowal [3].

Immersion: Demons can use a kind of immersion to go through mirrors [4].

Self-Sustenance Type 2: Demons can survive indefinitely without food or water [12], and survive for extended periods of time underwater or in the vacuum of space given that they're primarily spiritual beings who have no reliance on the world's laws as even hybrids who cannot sustain themselves as well as demons can survive the vacuum of space indefinitely [7].

Acausality: Moving forward, we have Acausality, now demons whether lower, mid, or high tier have various resistances to causality to a certain degree in multiple ways. Demons naturally exist in a dimension with a different flow of time [7], and with a set of laws different from that of the human world [8]. Demons don't need to follow the laws that exist upon reality, those being from the human world or even the demon world depending on how powerful they happen to be [5].

Soul Manipulation/Possession/Object Manipulation/Resurrection (Types 1 and 2)/Immortality (Types 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, and possibly 9): All demons can send their consciousness from the Demon World to the Human World from small gaps [3] and they can also rebuild their bodies when they are possessing things and can even materialize themselves when they die, once their rage and fury are mixed together to create the demons called Soul Eaters [16]. However, it is required that they possess nearby materials using only their souls to be able to reform their bodies back provided the body in question is one formed via possessing matter. Given the nature of demons as evil spirits, soul manipulation is the bread and butter of any demon, big or small, weak or powerful as all demons can threaten to take Dante’s soul away to hell if he lets himself be caught lacking [17]. At times demons [5] can feed on human souls [4] and even [7] demon souls [4] to strengthen their power [10]. Their Devil Trigger state allows them to heal their wounds instantly [8]. Demons don't age at all [3] [9], and thanks to their regeneration [12], they can also survive great amounts of damage [16] and also can possess others to exist in the Demon World while preserving the body/soul as alive [15] with the unfortunate experience of having a demonic guest within them or as a possessed undead [6] body akin to a zombie. Demons oftentimes project their consciousness [3] or spirit [14] across the Dimensional Wall they are in, (most prominently shown using sand [14], marionettes [17], etc.) whilst leaving other parts of themselves within the Demon World. These are then used as "avatars" for the Demons to torment humanity, through these mediums that allow them to repeatedly strike at muggles even if their physical form is disturbed.

Fear Manipulation, Despair Manipulation, Empathic Manipulation, Pain Empowerment, Blood Empowerment, Madness Manipulation and Aura: The mere presence of demons causes fear [5] (another example can be found here: Vergil was able to make Sanctus instinctively feel fear [9]), can also feed off despair and get stronger from it [6]. Demons receive more demonic power if they hit their opponents or take damage [13]. Demons get stronger by receiving human blood [8] and even the blood being in their bodies already increases their demonic powers [7]. The mere presence of a demon causes despair, fear and insanity [6]. Demonic aura can exert supernatural pressure on the victim, with an attempt to crush their will and psyche [5].

Corruption (Chaos, Aura, Symbiotic Absorption, Madness, Viral, etc.): Implanting demonic powers in someone to gain powers beyond what ordinary people are capable of, requires that the person in question has a strong mind and body to not become a mindless beast in the process [9]. In other words all demonic energy is intrinsically corruptive unless it is used by demons for the purpose of not corrupting someone.

Dimensional travel: Demons can travel between [1] the Demon World and the Human World and can also get out of Fault's body, which is another dimension [10].

Now we move onto the next stop: general resistances shared by all demons.

## General Resistances of Demons

**Demons in general are Resistant to the following:**

Reality Warping, Transmutation, Corruption (Chaos, Aura, Symbiotic Absorption, and Viral) and Dissasembly via Matter Manipulation (Atomic Level), Size Manipulation, Petrification, Hellfire Manipulation, Soul Manipulation, and Conceptual Manipulation: Demons are resistant to the Beasthead's assimilation process, which assimilates human mass and soul by deconstructing them into basic magical energy, and in the process they also transmute human matter and soul to stone. Hellfire is summoned in surroundings. Beastheads directly derive their power from the demonic energy shared by the Demon World [5]. Demons are also resistant to the Demon World, which can also transform souls into monsters [4] and people into trees and warp reality in the Human World [6]. They are also unaffected by the Qliphoth tree roots, which sucks the blood of humans and turns them into pollen [8], and they can also resist their own attacks, which are capable of affecting, destroying souls, and even concepts given what was stated earlier on their most important aspect, "the demon names." Demons are unaffected by the Demon World, which can corrupt everything in the Human World, including souls [5] and can also corrupt the air [18]. They can also breathe in the demonic air, which turns normal people into monsters [19].

Resistance to Biological Manipulation: Demons are also resistant to biological manipulation as they are unaffected by the Demon World, which can change humans biologically [6].

Resistance to Fate Manipulation: Demons are naturally resistant to fate manipulation as they are resistant to the Beasthead’s ability to bind the fates of weak users or those marked by it to itself, to never let them escape, and to inevitably devour them [5].

Possible Invulnerability to any purely physical attacks short of silver (possibly) or holy water for true form Demons: Demons in their true forms are capable of withstanding every modern weapon being thrown at them and getting up like nothing happened to them [3].

Resistance to Illusion Creation, Statistics Reduction, and Corrosion Inducement: Demons are unaffected by the Demon World, which just by approaching is enough to be affected by powerful illusions that can also reduce the strength of those being affected by it, and by the nexus, which is capable of reducing the strength of someone that enters inside there and can also decay and rot everything [6] when it is consuming the Human World and they are also unaffected by the Demon World itself, which is not only able to corrode people by being close to its influence at night when its effects became stronger, but to also corrode people like Dante, who needed to adapt to it to survive his body not being corroded by the influence of the Demon World on Mallet Island [7] even though he was resistant to the nexus many years prior when he fought for the last time against Gilver, which the nexus was corroding the Bobby Cellar, and, eventually the entire Human World [6].

Resistance to Empathic Manipulation, Fear Manipulation, Despair Manipulation, Madness Manipulation, and Aura: Demons are unaffected by being in each other's presence even though the presence of their Demonic aura can exert supernatural pressure on the victims [5]. Not to mention that their presence alone causes despair, fear and insanity [6] and are also unaffected by the Demon World, which can also cause despair, fear and insanity in the hearts of those who enter it [5].

Resistance to Mind Manipulation, Corruption (Madness), Possession: Demons are unaffected by the Demon World, which can warp the minds of men [18] and they are also capable of using the powers of the Beastheads, and it is confirmed that you need a strong will and mind to be able to do that and not get possessed by it [5].

Resistance to Space-Time Manipulation and Time Stop: Demons are unaffected by any stoppage of time [18] caused by the Demon World and they are physically unaffected by the creation and continuous warping of closed off space-time loops on top of them [18][20]. They can also leave and enter the loop casually as evidenced by how the lesser demons casually spawn into the warped area without the slightest care [20].

Resistance to Physics Manipulation: Demons live in the Demon World, where the laws of physics are different from the Human World [8].

Resistance to Gravity Manipulation: Demons live in the Demon World, where the laws of gravity are different from the Human World [4].

Resistance to Law Manipulation: Demons came from the Demon World, a place that has different laws that exist upon reality compared to the Human World and when they decide to step into the Human World, they also don't need to follow the laws that exist upon that reality [5].

Resistance to Absorption/Corruption (Symbiotic Absorption): Demons are unaffected when the Demon World is consuming the Human World [6].

Resistance to Life manipulation: Demons are unaffected by the Beasthead's mere presence, which is capable of robbing the life from everything in its surroundings, including sounds, waves and wind, as well as living creatures which begets a level of resistance to life manipulation [5].

Resistance to Magic Manipulation: Demons resist being in large quantities of magic that can suffocate a normal human and make them lose consciousness with extremely large quantities able to corrupt humans as shown above [9].

Resistance to Absolute Zero Temperature Manipulation: Demons are unaffected by being in the ice rooms made by King Cerberus [8] and King Cerberus himself is capable of manipulating ice that reaches absolute zero temperature [21].

Resistance to Disease Manipulation: Approaching the Demon World, being inside or near a Demon World nexus causes "unearthly illness" which makes it difficult to concentrate and causes intense nausea and dizziness [6].

Resistance to Sleep Manipulation status effect inducement: Demons are unaffected by the Demon World, which is capable of putting people to sleep in seconds [6].

Enhanced Resistance in Devil Trigger: Lucia with her Devil Trigger form is completely immune to certain powers and abilities in this state when her base form wouldn't resist it [18], and Dante when he's partially transformed is still capable of being completely immune to certain powers and abilities that he couldn't resist in his base form [1].

It should be noted that demons (ones that show some form of capability for thought) are generally smarter than humans from the HW, therefore, they should get Above Average Intelligence at the very least [22].

Now with that out of the way, the next stop on the chopping block are the mid-level demons and their unique abilities/resistances.

## Haxes/Resistances of Mid-Level Demons

Mid Tiers make up most of the bosses in the franchise. As they are much more powerful than mere lesser Demons, they have everything before on a higher level, plus the following: Mid-level Demons are beings capable of becoming Devil Arms. A Devil Arm is the manifestation [4] of a devil's power, soul, and likely their name. These higher ranking demons are able to reform their bodies from this state again to keep fighting. Basically higher ranking demons are able to become devil arms (their souls taking a physical form [3] and from that creating their bodies again (from a manifestation of their souls and likely their names back to their own bodies [12]).

Also Mid-Level Demons have increased resistance to death manipulation. Most of the demon generals from the alternate universe were able to withstand a fight against the armada of Mundus's Trish Clones, which could instantly cause death with the stroke of his sword and some only suffering minor injuries [5].

In addition, due to demonic subjective reality and how the demonic magic system generally works demons at this level should be resistant or outright immune to the haxes of lesser demons like the Poker Demon whose ability, which gives incredible luck in probability-based games, however, they become corrupted with greed and a irresistible sense of wanting to play more and more. This effect goes as far as changing reality. When the main user of this effect loses in a game of chance, they instantly die without a seemingly physical cause, this also happens to the ones the main user is playing against if they happen to lose [15]. It would be contradictory to the narrative if demons of this degree would be felled by a lesser demon of no repute who are not known in the demon world whereas a mid-level demon like a member of the famous Cerberus tribe would be known within the demon world. Mid-Level Demons should also have increased resistance to Soul Manipulation and resistance to Paralysis Inducement as they should be more then capable of fighting off the Soul Eater, which paralyzes its prey and eats their souls [16].

Should generally be resistant to the bangle of time [7] which cannot affect bosses [23], but can still affect other lower level demons [7] who are already casually resistant to space-time manipulation. In other words, mid tier demons should have increased resistance to time manipulation and likely spatial manipulation.

Should also be able to casually outpace and surpass any lower-level demons in strength, speed, or durability. The significance of this really comes to shine when considering lower-level demons like the furies who can jump through space-time on raw demonic power alone and considering that an extremely casual Dante who’s actively suppressing himself to prolong his enemy’s suffering and not instantly oneshot these fodders and can do this to the furies while they're in between their space-time jump there’s no justifiable reason why mid-level demons would ever be slower then furies [8].

Additionally, given that it is demons of this level that are often fighting at the level of Dante/Vergil like Pride in DMC3 Code Vergil it stands to reason that demons of this level should have a level resistance to the Power Null and Resistance Negation of the Yamato [9] provided that they are not too much weaker then the users of weapons like the Yamato granting mid-level demons resistance to power nullification and resistance negation.

It seems likely that demons of this level should also have rather acute senses; acute enough to perform feats such as this given their age and experience [5]. However, this should grant demons a level of Extrasensory Perception and Enhanced Senses (Aura, Soul, FTL, Awareness, Extra, etc.).

As an added side-note, while they may not have as many Resurrection types as the High Level Demons we will begin to discuss it should be noted that Dante was a mid-level hybrid when he killed Demon Kings like Mundus who could revive even after death (by DMC demon's absurd standards) and that demons of this tier could survive fighting Dante for a duration like Phantom, Griffon, Shadow, and Nightmare.

Moving forward, one can guess what comes next; the High-Level Demons.

## Haxes/Resistances of High-Level Demons

High Tier Demons, also known as the God tiers, are the most powerful type of demon in the series. They're made up of the Demon kings and those who rival them in power. They have everything before on a much higher level, plus the following:

Mundus was able to come back [7] after being completely destroyed [24] by a bloodlusted Dante [7], who's able to target not only the physical body of his opponents, but also their mind, soul, and conceptual existence. It should also be noted that Mundus was also previously killed by Sparda ad-verbatim before being sealed away [19] and this is kill at the absurd standard set by higher level demons like the deadly sin Pride who’s truest conceptual self; his demon name was still in the process of being regained, but nevertheless continued to persist regardless against a Dante who can access body, mind, soul, and concept via every attack he launches. As a result, demons on this level should have all types of Resurrection. Furthermore, this sets the precedent that demons at this level should have Existence Erasure (Types 3 and 4) to threaten other demons on their level as well as a degree of resistance to said Existence Erasure.

Should have layers of resistance to the bangle of time [7] which cannot affect bosses generally, but can still affect other lower level demons. Should also have layers of resistance to time haxes like Geryon’s time manipulation which can affect demons who are already acausal by nature and can likely affect mid-level demons of rivaling powers [4] as well who’d already be resistant to the bangle of time.

Should have Clairvoyance/Cosmic Awareness/Precognition/Clairvoyance resistance/Cosmic Awareness resistance/Precognition resistance given the abilities of the Beastheads, a casually made construction [5] (not a weapon like Nightmare [7]) of a crafty high-level demon like Mundus who would never create something stronger then himself [5]. And given what we know about the demonic magic system alongside demonic subjective reality Mundus should have the same abilities as his creations. Thus, it stands to reason that higher level demons at this level should all have cosmic awareness/clairvoyance or at least cosmic awareness/clairvoyance/precognition resistance to be competitive since Mundus and Argosax could wage an entire war against each other that split both sides of the underworld in half and are consistently stated to be rivals before the time-skip [3].

## Hybrid Haxes and Resistances

So with demons basically done we now move forward to Hybrids [18]. While usually far more powerful than Low Tiers Demons (who are animalistic and mindless which stops them from taking full advantage of their subjective reality) due to their human emotions (especially when the half-demon in question is willing to fight for something beyond just the preservation of their own life) and human blood flowing through their veins, Hybrids however, lack the same physiology since they are half-human as opposed to being born from the Demon World or as the creation of some higher level demon, and thus, their Empathic Manipulation, Fear Manipulation, Madness Manipulation, Despair Manipulation, Empowerments and Type 1 Immortality can usually be used via their Devil Trigger, which is their full demon form. Although Sparda's descendants were shown to be able to perform greater feats and have also demonstrated notable regeneration in their normal form In their later forms), this is something that only scales to them because they have a superior power source to normal demons and hybrids. Also given the example of Dante/Tony Redgrave in DMC Volume 1 it should be noted that Hybrids depending on the mastery of their abilities may be more susceptible to the illusions, corrosion, and absorption that are caused by larger concentrations of demonic energy unless they adapt to such environments sufficiently. Furthermore, given the example of Dante when he still denied his truest self as Tony Redgrave it should be noted that lower level hybrids of this level who are barely experienced with their abilities will scale quite low. Other than that, with practice they should have most everything listed above and have a higher degree of blood empowerment given that they already have human blood flowing within their veins that replaces itself, let alone when paired with the factor of various injuries combined with the demonic ability to regenerate. It should also be noted that because of the noble heritage of hybrids like Dante, Vergil, and Nero they're likely to have superior abilities then just any run of the mill hybrid like those in the Protectorate clan (but since Matier trained the artificial demon Lucia in the ways of the Protectorate Clan and didn't think her strange [20] compared to her Protectorate clan peers hybrids should definitely have the majority of haxes common to demons). However, rather then generalize I have dedicated the sections below to surveying the likely abilities hybrids of differing levels of mastery should be capable of performing.

* (Low-Tier Hybrids)
* (Mid-Tier Hybrids)
* (High-Tier Hybrids)
 (**Abilities/Haxes of Low Tier Hybrids like Tony Redgrave, DMC Volume 1 Dante, and DMC3 Dante prior to his awakening**

Accelerated Development: They are capable of becoming much stronger, faster and more skilled when they are in middle of combat, after a battle or after being defeated, like when Dante was able to improve his skills extremely fast in combat and was also shown to be capable of noticing patterns in his opponent's style and adapt to fight accordingly, even against demons like the Black Knights, who have command of techniques that allow them to spot patterns far beyond their opponent's abilities [6], and the Black Knights were created by Mundus to kill a teenaged Dante and Vergil after carefully studying how Dante, Vergil and Sparda fight [3]. In short they should have accelerated development.

Resistance to Extreme Temperatures, Magma Manipulation, Fire Manipulation, Hellfire Manipulation, and overall Heat Manipulation: They have resistance to extreme heat, hell fire, fire, magma, etc. Vergil was unaffected by the fire burning his house when he was a kid [12]. Nero was capable of resisting when he got close to the flames of Berial [9].

Resistance to Possession and Biological Manipulation: Have inherent resistance to possession even as children [5]. Nero and Dante are shown to be capable of fighting off Chimera Seed when they try to take over their bodies [10], which when the seeds parasite their victims, they start absorbing the nutrients of the bodies and eventually turn them into a tree of the Demon World. The Chimera Seed is also able to make a demon way more aggressive [9]. Dante was capable of fighting off the lesser demon Infestant when they tried to take over his body [18] in DMC2, however, given the lower status such demons have it can be deduced that strong enough lower level hybrids can do the same.

Enhanced Senses (Aura, Soul, FTL, Awareness, Extra, etc.): They are capable of seeing evil spirits when they are leaving the body of the hosts which are invisible to the human eyes [6], can see the souls that a Hell Greed summons [16], is capable of seeing aura and detecting danger from his surroundings, is able to sense the smell of flesh and blood behind a door, and also sensed the dark aura that was radiating from the blood [6], can see the aura of his opponents [5], can track smells over long distances to find a target [9], can sense killing intents and they are also capable of seeing through powerful illusions, with enough experience they should be capable of seeing through dangerous demonic illusions like the one created by a Sin that is capable of driving normal people insane [1] and with enough adaptation can see beings [4] or projectiles moving FTL speed before they can reach him [16].

Acrobatics: They repeatedly show great maneuvers of balance, agility, dexterity, coordination like when Dante uses Air Hike or Wall Hike, regularly performs hypermobile movements with their body and they can also traverse a large variety of terrains with no issue, including hazardous ones in the demon world).

Soul Manipulation/Non-Physical Interaction: Overtime and with practice they can grow to be capable of harming intangible demons and can kill incorporeal demons [16] and can interact with abstract demon souls.

Resistance to Body Puppetry: With enough practice Dante and other hybrids should be capable of breaking out of the Marionette’s puppeteering screech which strings victims like puppets [7].

Extrasensory Percepion: Can detect difference in power levels [5], and can sense someone tens of kilometers away, like when Vergil sensed Lady tens of kilometers away from the top of the Temen-ni-gru while she was at the bottom or when Dante was capable of sensing Vergil when he was on top of the Temen-ni-gru [4] tower and can also sense killing intent. Hybrids of this level can also instinctively move or attack faster than they can think [6].

Telekinesis: Can call/summon weapons from any distance with enough practice [12].

Can imbue demonic/magical energy within objects in use in order to strengthen the ap, durability, and overall effectiveness of the object [9] in question which should extend to vehicles as well [15] in that a hybrid at the higher echelons of the lower tier of mastery should be capable of making their vehicles much faster.

Possible Psychometry/Weapons Mastery: Should have a degree of psychometry as even lower tier hybrids like Dante before his awakening are able to have an instinctive mastery of weapons [4] even though he has never used them before.

Regeneration (Mid as a starting point and eventually High Godly as an end point): Prior to a proper awakening to his demon powers Dante, then Tony Redgrave was completely capable of easily surviving being shot in the head and face at point-blank range, along with his entire body getting shot by a gang [6]. Could survive trading blows with Mid-Tier demons like Full Power Gilver, Cerberus, and the Pride even before awakening [6][4][1].

Resistance to Poison Manipulation/Acid Manipulation: Capable of resisting different types of poison and acids from lesser demons numerous times throughout their life, like when Dante, then Tony Redgrave was unaffected by the demon monkey's poisonous blood [6], which was poisonous enough to dissolve his own body. They are also shown to be unaffected when Beelzebub spat out poison on him or when they are unaffected by the Nobody's poisonous bodies [7] when they die and explode into pieces and also when they are unaffected by Chaos's neurotoxin sacs inside his chest, which he spits on his enemies [8].

Resistance to Power Absorption: Unaffected when entering inside the Fault's body, which is confirmed to absorb magic power of their prey [25]. Unaffected when Nobody's attempt to absorb their magical powers with its dance [7].

Rage Empowerment: With rage a hybrid at this level (or any level for that matter) can get stronger then they are normally [6].

Resistance to Sound Manipulation: Should have a level of resistance to sound manipulation[15].

Resistance to Soul Manipulation and Paralysis Inducement: Capable of fighting off the Soul Eater [16], which paralyzes its prey and eats their souls

Increased Empathic Manipulation, Fear Manipulation, Despair Manipulation, Aura, and likely Madness Manipulation: With sufficient power and mastery of that power, lower tier hybrids can cause even demons to feel genuine fear and despair (and likely insanity) [6] in a manner akin to how demons automatically cause humans a sense of fear, despair, and insanity with their auras. It should also be noted that Vergil was casually able to make Sanctus instinctively feel fear [9] in merely his base form alone prior to the events of both DMC3 as well as even DMC3 Codes 1 and 2.

While at first they may only be able to kill demons possessing differing matter they can grow to consistently nullify Demonic Regeneration even to the degree boasted by demons like Cerberus when he had permanently lost two of his heads to Dante before his awakening [4] or a relatively inexperienced Nero who had not yet activated Devil Trigger, but was still able to fatally wound Berial and he needed to retreat to the Demon World to recover his strength and even after coming back to the Human World again, Berial states that he is not completely recovered from his battle with Nero [9]. Furthermore, lower level hybrids can take the same kind of attacks that they dish out and should thus, have proper demonic regeneration with enough adaptation.

Resistance to Absolute Zero, Resistance to Ice Manipulation, Resistance to Matter Manipulation (Molecular): Nero is capable of surviving attacks from the Frost's claws even before unlocking his Devil Trigger, whose air can reach beyond absolute zero and can kill any of their victims without feeling any pain [7] and can also survive an attack from Frost when he enters a molecular scattering state, causing their molecules to pass through the target to cause damage and Frost's claws can freeze his opponents and are capable of breaking out of the ice [10].

Resistance to Holy Manipulation: Should be utterly resistant to the explosion of the holy water [10] that kills lesser demons instantly in 1-4, Dante was capable of withstanding attacks from the Fallen's holy spear [16].

Conceptual Manipulation, Abstract Manipulation (undetermined type), Regeneration Negation, Immortality Negation, Existence Erasure (Types 4 and likely 3): With practice they are capable of taking, destroying, or restoring demons' names. And as stated above to even change a Demon's name is to change the world, the value of everything. They can also bypass the immortalities of Demons and kill even Mid-Tier Demons with their inherent resistance to Existence Erasure with enough practice, however, if they start out as Tony Redgrave did they may not be adapted enough to utilize this skill with impunity.

Dimensional Storage: With practice they can learn to pull out or store all weapons and items they have or find on their travels as illustrated by the extensive inventory Dante can carry in DMC3 even prior to his awakening and given Dante’s state of dress in the events of DMC3 I highly doubt he’d be able to carry all those items in just his coat pockets/pants pockets alone [4].

Stamina: As hybrid demons, they can last hours in battle without pause, fighting entire hordes of demons and fights against Demon Bosses without rest [6] or relevant signs of fatigue, only showing it against prolonged fights against those who were comparable to them. And even then they are consistently shown to need only mere seconds to recover after combat and this stands even for lower level hybrids like Dante prior to his awakening.

Fusionism: With practice they are capable of fusing themselves with other people or with objects [8], like when V absorbed Urizen.

Resistance to Space-Time Manipulation, Durability Negation, Power Nullification, and Resistance Negation: With practice they can resist space-time manipulation, power nullification, and durability negation like the abilities of the space-time distorting Yamato [9], like for example, not being sliced into pieces by the Judgment Cut [4]. Should have a level of resistance to Power Null or Resistance Negation [9] given Dante's continuous interactions with being sliced by the Yamato [4] even before his awakening.

Reactive Evolution, Resistance to Illusion Creation, Resistance to Life Manipulation, Resistance to Corrosion Inducement, Resistance to Corruption, Resistance to Soul Manipulation, Resistance to Blood Manipulation: They can consistently adapt to anything that doesn't kill them instantly, gaining new powers, abilities and resistances against corresponding threats in mere seconds or at the higher end over an unspecified period of time, like when Dante adapted to the hazardous environment of the Demon World [6] in his base form to overcome its effects by the time DMC3 roles around [4]. Vergil was shown to be capable of adapting to a dangerous demonic illusion created by a Sin [1] that is capable of driving normal people into insanity. They are also shown being capable of adapting to others' different types of powers and abilities when they transform to their pseudo demon forms, like when Dante was able to adapt by transforming instinctively into a kind of panic mode pseudo devil trigger to fight off Alice when she was sucking his life force [2], or when Dante was capable of instinctively adapting by semi-transforming to fight off a Sin when he was stripping away his blood [1]. At the same time this semi-transformation should be capable of resisting the Queen Empusa’s blood manipulation [8] as Queen Empusa’s are narratively lower level demons far weaker then one of the seven deadly sins sealed in the Temen-ni-gru. They are easily able to adapt to and overcome attacks that are able to destroy their souls and names.

Now with the haxes/resistances of lower level hybrids aside we move to the awakened or mid-level hybrids.) (**Abilities/Haxes of Mid-Level Hybrids or Hybrids who have awakened their actual Devil Trigger**

Will have everything above to a greater level with some extra feats worth consideration: Dante in DMC1 demonstrates an instinctive sense for evil beings [7].

Enhanced Non-Physical Interaction, Immortality Negation and Power Nullification (Was capable of interacting with and eventually killing an alternate timeline Mundus who existed as an empty void even by the ludicrous standards of non-physical existence set by run-of-the-mill demons) [5]

Increased Telekinesis: Can throw his weapons and call them back [7], can control his weapons trajectory [20] after throwing them and can also stop a motorcycle that was thrown in the air telekinetically [7].

Increased Resistance to Spatial Manipulation and possibly Resistance to Vector Manipulation and Increased Extrasensory Perception: A feat worth considering is the following which would grant further resistance to spatial manipulation. As mentioned by Nero, after the Mitis Forest was contaminated with demonic energy the mapping of the forest changed along with the fact that no matter where you go, you will always end up going where you started, the forest can [9] distort its victims [25]. Nero who while struggling to find his footing in the forest at first quickly adapts enough to find his way through it [9], so this should safely apply for a Resistance to this example of a spatial manipulation and possible vector manipulation hax.

Telepathy: Can communicate telepathically with other people and can also hear people's thoughts [5].

Resistance to Death Manipulation: Could withstand fighting Alternate Trish and should have a greater level of resistance to Alternate Trish's death hax than the Human Army Demon Generals as Dante couldn't care less about Alternate Trish's ability to use death hax as much as how physically strong and ferocious she was in comparison to his own physical power with the added annoyance of having to deal with the inherent flight abilities granted by Alastor [5].

Increased Fusionism: They are capable of fusing themselves with other people or with objects, like when Dante's absorbed and fused both Rebellion and Devil Sword Sparda into his body and also when Nero when he was shown to be capable of fusing his arms with the Devil Breakers [8].

Explosion Manipulation: Upon transformation, they can perform a Devil Trigger explosion [4] by holding their own powers inside themselves and letting it out in a powerful explosion which then triggers into their demon forms and causes significant damage to their enemies.

Increased Extrasensory Perception: Can sense killing intent to an inter-dimensional extent [24].

Flight: If the Hybrid in question is one which has a Devil Trigger with inherent flight capabilities they are capable of flying [1] even when they are partially transformed.

Increased Stamina Recovery, Increased Regeneration, Increased Resistance to Regeneration Negation: Hybrids of this caliber can recover their stamina and energy when they are in Devil Trigger at an increased rate in the middle of combat. In Devil Trigger their wounds heal instantly [8] in comparison to their already (seemingly instant) potent and powerful regenerative abilities in base form. Also another feat worth note is Nero’s feat of regenerating from the Savior forcing his Consciousness, Memories, Body and Soul meld together within its body [9].

Surface Scaling: They can walk on walls [4].

Water Walking: They can walk on water [4].

Increased Resistance to Power Absorption: It should be noted that Dante (who was a mid-level hybrid at the time) was capable of fighting off Nightmare's magic absorbing powers and he was also capable of using Nightmare Beta, which absorbs magic energy from the user [7].

Resistance to Cosmic Awareness, Precognition, and Clairvoyance: When serious, Dante was capable of surprising Chen when he had fused with the Beastheads, who was stated and show multiple times to be able to predict the future (which should be able to see things at a range of all possible timelines of all universes given the range of the Beastheads ability to teleport people freely throughout the multiverse and the narrative of the Beastheads having primacy over all time-space (in all its varying iterations demonstrated within the DMC verse proper via Occam’s razor) and also is aware of events that exist even beyond space and time [5].

Increased Resistance to Sound Manipulation: A feat worth considering for hybrids at this level is that Dante was also shown to not be affected by the Beastheads' loud roar and was also unaffected by the dreadful metallic sound that is even louder than the Beastheads' roar himself [5].

Increased resistance to Biological Manipulation, Soul Manipulation, Power Absorption, Absorption, Life Manipulation: Nero was capable of resisting his body and soul being absorbed by the Savior, as long as his demonic/magic powers are not nullified and he doesn't fall unconscious [9].

Increased resistance to Conceptual Manipulation, Corruption (Viral and Aura), Mind Manipulation, Memory Manipulation, Power Nullification, and Possession: Vergil was more than capable of resisting a sealed Mundus's powers when the Prince of Darkness tried to corrupt, take control over his mind and body, change his memories, give him a new name/concept, and restrict his demonic/magic powers and only was able to make him obey to some extent when he gave back his amulet [12], the very same amulet that once belonged to his mother.

Resistance to Battle Field Removal, Forced Healing, Sealing, Telepathy, Duplication, and Power Mimicry: Nero was completely unaffected by the Malphas's stones [8], just while Malphas was shown to also use her stones for traps [26]. The stones from Malphas's body can steal the cores of V's summons and lock them away and also traps/BFR's V into a pocket dimension, which can take away his demonic/magic powers and can also heal him, the stones can also recreate Goliath, Cavaliere Angelo and Artemis out of V's memory and Nero was also unaffected by the stones on Malpha's body and on the surroundings when he fought against her [8].

Increased Resistance to Illusion Creation: Dante at this tier of hybrid demon physiology was capable of seeing through the illusions in Mallet Island [24]; the very island that was the epicenter of Mundus's new plan to take over the universe.

Increased Resistance to Space-Time Manipulation: They are unaffected by the Bangle of Time, which can stop time and freeze lesser demons in place [7], despite demons being shown to be unaffected by other means of time Manipulation, like not being affected by the Demon World, whose approach is capable of casually stopping the flow of time and warping space [18].

Increased Aura (Explosive), Empathic Manipulation, and Fear Manipulation with Object Manipulation; Likely Increased Madness Manipulation and Despair Manipulation: Chen and Dante in their battle caused inanimate and unconscious objects to feel real fear all throughout the building and could destroy said objects via aura alone in base. They also showed casual immunity to eachother's fear hax and destructive aura [5].

Analytical Prediction and Increased Reactive Evolution: With enough practice/adaptation a hybrid demon at this level could grow to be able to match the clairvoyance/cosmic awareness/precognition of the Beastheads, via analytical predictions which grants hybrid demons with this adaptation a precise level of analytical prediction [5].

Increased Resistance to Possession and Supernatural Willpower: Dante casually resisted Ducas's attempt to possess him when he has the Beastheads with him and stated that even as a child it wouldn't work on him [5]. They are also capable of wielding the Force Edge without turning into a giant blob monster [4] like Arkham, which is also later confirmed by Griffon that you need a strong body and mind to be able to wield the true form of the Force Edge, the Devil Sword Sparda [12].

Existence Erasure (Types 3 and 4) and Resistance to Existence Erasure (Types 3 and 4): Could permanently kill Mundus who could come back from 'death' or complete non-existence going by the even to the ludicrous standard set by demons in DMC and their High Godly Regeneration.

Resistance to Probability Manipulation and Death Manipulation with increased resistance to Empathic Manipulation and Corruption (Madness, Greed, Self): Dante is unable to be cursed by the Poker Demon's ability (note that while the Dante who displays this feat fits into the high level hybrid section), which gives incredible luck in probability-based games, however, they become engrained with greed and a irresistible sense of wanting to play more and more. This effect goes as far as changing reality. When the main user of this effect loses in a game of chance, they instantly die without a seemingly physical cause, this also happens to the ones the main user is playing against if they happen to lose. Dante can stop Patty whom got possessed when they were playing a game of "who dies first". Dante is also able to let himself be shot and lose the game in purpose, letting himself win. When Dante loses to Lady, he doesn't outright die, he just pretends he's dead [15]. This would also be a feat that adds towards Dante's inherent resistance to death manipulation.

A Hybrid Demon at this level should have senses acute enough to be able to differentiate whether they are in their own home timeline or not as evidence in DMC Volume 2 when Dante senses he is in alternate timeline by sensing and analyzing his environment [5]. In other words, Hybrid demons at this level should likely have Improved Information Sensing and Analysis. Now with that out of the way we move to the final section: The High Level Hybrids.) (**Abilities/Haxes of High Level Hybrids or Hybrids who have unlocked 100% demonic energy DT transformations or above like Desperate Devil Trigger or Sin Devil Trigger**

Has everything to a far greater extent and since hybrids with this level of mastery over their powers should be capable of using 100% demonic energy level transformations like Desperate Devil Trigger/Majin Devil Trigger (note that Dante’s Dreadnaught falls into this first category, but is a Dante exclusive form since it builds off his Royal Guard technique [9]) or Sin Devil Trigger [8] which is narratively implied to utilize both 100% of a hybrid’s demonic and human potentials. In either case, access to these forms increase all previous attributes to near impossibly high levels of effectiveness.

Enhanced Fate Manipulation (Unaffected [10] by the demon dice and statue that manipulate the fate of everyone that enters inside the Game Room [25], which is capable of binding even Demons, like Nero, who was forced [10] to play the game to reach the Containment Room)

Increased Resistance to Spatial Manipulation and possibly increased resistance to Vector Manipulation and Increased Extrasensory Perception: A feat worth considering is the following in which Dante, a high level hybrid has shown to easily [9] get past the Mitis forest in the DMC4 Deadly Fortune novel.

Increased Absorption and Fusionism: In addition, they gain a greater degree of absorption as hybrids who transform to these levels can fuse their weapons into their skin like Dante in DMC2 when he shifts into his Desperate Devil Trigger [27] or Vergil when his Yamato is absorbed into his very skin [8] during his transformation into Sin Devil Trigger.

Increased Stamina: Also one feat worth noting is that both Dante and Vergil, after cutting down the Qliphoth tree on June 15, resumed their friendly rivalry for 39 days straight, from June 15 to July 23 [8] with only extremely short breaks to catch their breath.)

## References

[1] DMC 3: Code 2

[2] DMC 3: Code 1

[3] DMC5 Before the Nightmare

[4] DMC3: Dante's Awakening

[5] DMC Volume 2

[6] DMC Volume 1

[7] DMC1

[8] DMC5

[9] DMC4 Deadly Fortune

[10] DMC4

[11] Devil May Cry Kaitai Shinsho Guide Book

[12] DMC5 Visions of V

[13] Devil May Cry 1 Brady Guide

[14] Devil May Cry 3 Perfect Capture Guide

[15] DMC: The Animated Series

[16] Devil May Cry 3 Brady Guidebook

[17] Devil May Cry 1: Prima Guidebook

[18] Devil May Cry 2 Brady Guide

[19] Devil May Cry 3142 Graphic Arts

[20] DMC2

[21] Devil May Cry 5 Official Artworks

[22] Devil May Cry – Soundtrack Guide

[23] Devil May Cry Guide: IGN

[24] Devil May Cry Memorial Album Precious Tears

[25] Devil May Cry 4: Prima Guidebook

[26] Devil May Cry 5: Official Artworks

[27] Devil May Cry 2 Official Complete Guide