Character SummaryPhysical AppearanceDante is a muscular man sporting a head full of silver hair. He usually wears red clothes.
[Example]PersonalityDante is incredibly flippant, mouthing off to the most powerful of demons and generally enjoys pushing people's buttons. Dante is seemingly unable to be fazed no matter the circumstances.
While Dante can seem uncaring or downright callous, he has a strong sense of justice and values a fair fight. He is bothered about his half-demon heritage.
HistoryDante is borne through the union a demonic knight, Sparda and a human, Eva. Sparda chose to side with humanity and drive back an invasion of the human world by demons 2000 years ago. After his father's death, Dante and his twin brother Vergil were raised by their mother, Eva.
Before he grew up, Dante's family was attacked by demons and his mother was killed. This became the pillar supporting his strong desire to eliminate demons.
StoryDMC 1 - The Demon Emperor, Mundus, is planning a return. Or so said a mysterious woman named Trish. She leads Dante, who is eager to wrack vengeance on the one responsible for the deaths in his family, to a castle on Mallet Island and vanishes promptly after they arrive.
Dante explores the castle and comes across a wide variety of demonic minions. He also encounters his twin brother Vergil in the castle. Finally defeating him after 3 other encounters, Dante's half of an amulet, left behind by his mother, joins with his brother's half, and his sword changes into the Sparda sword.
Trish betrayed Dante and told him that she was working for Mundus. Despite that, Dante saved her life twice. During the fight with Mundus, the Demon Emperor tries to kill Dante but Trish takes the blow instead, causing Dante to take on the form of Sparda. Dante wins the fight and leaves the amulet and sword with Trish's immobile body before departing.
Before he could leave the island, Mundus returns once more to kill Dante who has reverted back to his original strength. Trish then comes and lends her powers to Dante, allowing him to defeat Mundus. Dante and Trish teamed up and are working together as partners. Dante renamed his shop to "Devil Never Cry".
DMC 2 - Lucia and Dante separately enters a museum that houses an important item known as the Medaglia. After defeating a group of demons in the museum, Lucia invites Dante to follow her to Dumary Island. At the island, Lucia introduces Dante to her mother, Matier. Matier explains that she once fought alongside Dante's father, Sparda, to defend the island against demons. She requests Dante's help in fighting Arius, an international businessman who uses demonic power and seeks to conquer the world. Dante flips a coin and decides to help after the coin showed "heads".
Lucia eventually confronts Arius, who reveals that she was his creation. Arius used his magic to blast her away. After meeting up with Lucia and Matier again separately, Dante decides by means of the coin to help save Lucia, who has gone to fight Arius again.
Meanwhile, Lucia enters the Uroboros tower and attacks Arius, who captures her. Dante arrives and trades the Arcana, which is used for summoning Argosax, for Lucia, then attacks Arius. Arius used Lucia as a decoy for himself to escape.
Dante leaves Lucia as she begins to wallow in self-doubt, to find Arius. He finds Arius in the middle of his immortality-inducing ritual and finishes Arius off with his pistols. Outside, Lucia confronts Dante and demands that he kill her because she fears she will become a demon herself. Before the issue can be resolved, a large stream of energy strikes the tower and a portal to the demon world is opened. Using the coin, once again, to solve their argument, Dante was "chosen" to enter the portal to deal with Argosax. He leaves the coin with Lucia and enters the portal.
After Dante departs, Arius is revived with demonic power and Lucia goes on to defeat him. Within the portal, Dante fights and defeats the partially summoned Argosax. Finding the portal closed, Dante instead drives further into the demon realm on a motorcycle.
After the final battle, Matier attempts to reassure Lucia about Dante's fate, insisting that Sparda returned from a similar trip. Lucia examines the coin Dante left with her and discovers that both sides are identical. Sometime later, Lucia sits in Dante's shop thinking about him and hears a motorcycle sound outside. She then goes out to investigate.
DMC 3 - A mysterious man called Arkham appears and attacks Dante in the name of his twin brother Vergil. After Dante defeats the monsters inside and outside his shop, a tower appears from the ground a short distance away. Sensing that Vergil is at the top of the structure, Dante decides to scale it.
After defeating Cerberus at the entrance to the tower, Dante is attacked by a woman on a motorcycle, whose name is revealed as Lady. Arkham, who works for Vergil, plans to take Dante's half of the amulet their mother gave them, and use its power to reactivate the tower's ability to connect the human and demon worlds. It was also revealed that Lady was pursing Arkham as the man, who is her father, murdered her mother.
Dante reaches the tower's summit and battles Vergilm only to be soundly defeated. Vergil steals Dante's half of the amulet, and departs for the control room located in the tower's basement. Dante finally gives chase and catches up with Vergil, who is having no luck reactivating the tower. The brothers battle again but are interrupted first by Lady and then Arkham. Arkham then reveals that he has been manipulating them all to reactivate the tower and that his plan was to cross over to the demon world and steal the Force Edge, the dormant form of Sparda's original sword which contains the bulk of Sparda's old power, and use it to rule over a demon-infested Earth. The tower then transforms as the spell is broken, carrying Arkham upwards to the summit, while Vergil vanishes in the confusion.
Dante battles his way back up the tower and fights Lady for the right to pursue Arkham. Dante wins the fight and Lady lends him her most powerful weapon. Reaching the summit once again, Dante crosses over to the demon world and catches up with Arkham. Arkham assumed Sparda's demonic form but is overwhelmed and morphs into a blob-like creature.
Halfway through the fight, Vergil appears and assists his brother to defeat Arkham. Arkham is thrown out of the demon world in a weakened state and lands atop the tower, where Lady kills him. In the demon world, Dante and Vergil battle over ownership of the Force Edge and the amulet halves. Dante is victorious. As the portal closes, Vergil decides to stay behind and vanishes into the darkness with one half of the amulet.
Returning to the human world, Dante meets Lady outside the tower where she coins the phrase "devil may cry" while trying to comfort Dante over the loss of his brother. They form a friendship and a partnership in demon-slaying, and he names his shop "Devil May Cry".
DMC 4 - The game opens with Nero rushing to the Opera House where the Order of the Sword is conducting a ceremony. Meanwhile at the Opera House, Kyrie, Nero’s romantic interest, is beginning to open the ceremony with a song and is disappointed not to find Nero in the audience. She begins her song nonetheless while Nero battles several demons on his way to the Opera House. He arrives just in time to hear the ending. Kyrie then joins Nero in the audience and is given a golden necklace as a present.
The High Priest of the Order of the Sword, Sanctus, calls for the members of the Order to join him in prayer, subsequently boring Nero. Despite Kyrie's protests, Nero decided to leave when his right arm begins to glow. At this moment, Dante bursts through the ceiling and assassinates Sanctus.
Thinking that Kyrie is in grave danger, Nero engages Dante to protect her. When Dante gained the upper hand, Nero's right arm, the Devil Bringer, awakens and uses its power to seemingly kill Dante by impaling him with his own sword upon the statue of Sparda. Dante insinuates that he and Nero are the same and revealed that the knights were possessed with a demonic appearance. Dante then leaves from the hole in the ceiling before more reinforcements arrive.
Credo, the leader of the Order's knights and Kyrie's brother, orders Nero to capture Dante as a punishment for his crimes. Upon leaving the Opera House, a demonic horde attacks the city. As a result of battling with the demons, Nero and Kyrie are separated.
Nero then journeys to Fortuna Castle, meeting Gloria, a new member to the Order, on the way there. Nero fights his way into the depths of Fortuna Castle. It is revealed that Sanctus was combined with the soul of a demon in an attempt to revive him. Agnus, the mastermind of the Order's demonic power manipulation, is also introduced.
Nero finally reaches Agnus' facility where he is ambushed by several white knights and injured. Vergil's broken katana, Yamato, responds to Nero and mends itself before flying into his hand. Nero fends off Agnus' attacks with the aid of a spectral blue demon hovering behind him before he collapses in exhaustion. Agnus flees back to Sanctus and informs him of Nero’s new-found power. Credo vows to take care of Nero while Gloria takes over Nero’s pursuit of Dante.
Credo, who has also been infused with demonic power giving him the characteristics of an Angel, confronts Nero but is defeated. At that moment, Kyrie arrives to see Nero with his demonic arm standing over her defeated brother. Agnus used the confusion and distraction on Nero’s part to kidnap Kyrie and flee. Deciding to investigate more, Credo shelves his feud with Nero.
Nero meets Dante once again and a battle ensues for the possession of Yamato. Despite winning, Dante decides to let Nero keep Yamato. Gloria appears before Dante as Nero leaves and it is revealed that Gloria is actually Trish, Dante’s partner in his demon hunting business “Devil May Cry”.
Nero catches up with Sanctus and the “Savior”, an enormous demon which the Order intends to bring to life using Nero and Yamato’s power. Using Kyrie as a shield, Sanctus successfully captures Nero. Sanctus reveals that the Savior requires the essence of Sparda to reach full power. While he had originally intended to use Dante as the core, he accepts as a substitute, claiming that Nero is also a descendant of Sparda.
Credo attempts to rescue the Nero and Kyrie but is fatally wounded by Sanctus. Dante arrives and asks for his sword. Nero is absorbed into the Savior while Agnus uses Yamato to open the true Hellgate, releasing a multitude of demons onto the city. Sanctus arrives with the Savior and begins to exterminate the demons. Dante, upon hearing Credo’s dying request to rescue Kyrie and Nero, fights his way back towards the city. On his way, he destroys the three smaller Hellgates used to release the demons.
Dante arrives back at the Opera House and kills Agnus. He then retrieves Yamato and uses it to destroy the true Hellgate before confronting Sanctus and the Savior. Dante drove Yamato into the chest of the Savior, where it is retrieved by Nero, allowing him to defeat Sanctus on the inside as Savior is invincible from the outside. After rescuing Kyrie, Nero used his Devil Bringer to destroy the Savior and Sanctus.
Entrusting Nero with Yamato, Dante departs. Nero and Kyrie's reunion is interrupted by another demon attack.
Other InformationDante is adept in utilising a variety of weapons, consisting of both firearms and melee weapons. Of particular interest are the twin handguns "Ebony and Ivory". The guns are hand-made with "For Tony Redgrave, By.45 Art Warks" engraved onto them and never requires reloading. His half-demon heritage grants him supernatural powers.
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