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A DLC titled "Trials of St. Lucia" was released on April 29th, 2010.

 

* [[Adaptation Distillation]]: The sinners Dante encounters in the book are all there, and you get the option of forgiving them or smiting them. They even say a lot of the same things. Virgil's speeches are mostly accurate. Even the original political satire survived mostly intact ("In these popes and cardinals, greed suffered its excess") The design of the Nine Circles in game is actually quite accurate with Alighieri's descriptions (except for the level of Greed, and the changes there are understandable). About the only thing that's really different is Dante himself, and the whole "Famous pagans as lords of hell" thing. Also, a few politically incorrect things, like Mohammad in hell, and crusaders in heaven have been taken out as well.

* [[The Anime of the Game]]: Here called ''Dante's Inferno: The Animated Epic''.

* [[Anthropomorphic Personification]]: A number of the demons, like those in Gluttony.

* [[Art Shift]]: [[The Anime of the Game]] goes through at least four different art styles over the course of the story. Most notable with Vergil, who goes through the most drastic changes in appearance each time.

* [[The Atoner]]: Dante. When Death tells him that not only is he damned, but everyone he loved, he goes on a quest, not only to redeem himself, but everyone else he loves as well. [[Double Subverted]] at the end.

* [[Ax Crazy]]: Dante himself, during the Crusades.

* [[Badass]]: Dante all the way. He starts off the game by ''killing Death'' and taking his scythe. He proceeds to fight his way through Hell, ultimately killing any and every demon that gets in his way. All as a [[Badass Normal|baseline human]], to boot.

* [[Building Swing]]: One of Dante's primary means of locomotion.

* [[Calling the Old Man Out]]: Subverted; Dante's father taunts him to do it, but Dante absolves him instead of punishing him. Dante's father's last words to his son are:

* [[Censor Steam]]: Subverted in the final cutscene.

* [[Collapsing Lair]]: Lust and Heresy.

** Also, between Dante and Death after Dante ''steals Death's scythe''... and cuts him in half with it.

* [[Dead All Along]]: Dante, [[Spoiler Opening|of course]].

* [[Demon Slaying]]: Considering that almost every enemy in the game is a demon, this is a given.

* [[Demoted to Extra]]: Malebolge and Cocytus, which compared to the other circles are the less expanded levels. Many of the guardians of Hell in the original novel however appear as statues (like the Minotaur, Geryon and Pluto).

* [[Deranged Animation]]: The flashbacks to the Crusades.

* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: In Dis, Virgil explains that the heretics are locked into coffins that will open only on the Judgment's Day. In the original novel, the coffins were open and would eventually close only after the world's end.

* [[Dirty Old Man]]: Dante's father.

* [[The Determinator]]: Dante starts out his quest by killing Death, the proceeds to bring a one man holy war down upon all of the legions of hell that dare to stand in his way, up to and including the Devil himself.

* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: The nameless assassin, in retaliation for {{spoiler|Dante sleeping with his wife as part of a deal for freedom which Dante actually honored, a deal that ''she'' offered}}, {{spoiler|kills Dante, travels all the way to Europe to find Dante's home, and kills Dante's father and his love Beatrice}}. His [[The Determinator|determination]] is nearly on Dante's level.

* [[Driven to Suicide]]: Well, the [[Captain Obvious|Suicides forest]]. At one point Dante is influenced by a demonic tree and, if not quick enough, kills himself.

* [[Eat Me]]: Against {{spoiler|Cerberus}}.

* [[Fire and Brimstone Hell]]: [[Sarcasm Mode|You don't say]].

** Though actually is sometimes averted.

* [[Good Is Not Nice]]: The Absolve finishers aren't too terribly less brutal than the Punish finishers. For those who haven't played the game, the Absolve finishers literally burn the sin out of the damned, causing them to ''explode'' in holy light.

* [[The Grim Reaper]]: The first boss; he's sort of weak, actually, compared to the [[Eldritch Abomination|other things]] to be found in Hell.

* [[Heroic BSOD]]: {{spoiler|Dante when he finds his mother in the Forest of Suicides, since he always thought she had died from a fever when he was a child.}}

* [[Historical Domain Character]]: You find famous souls scattered about all over the place, such as Boudica, Attila the Hun, and a couple different Roman emperors, among others. In addition, there are a significant number of people present who were not famous, but whom the real life Dante had a personal beef with and so wrote into the original story to get back at.

* [[Holy Hand Grenade]]: Dante's trusty cross.

* [[Horny Devils]]:

* [[Large Ham]]: Many; King Minos, Lucifer, and the [[No Name Given|cutscene bishop]] are the most obvious examples.

** One of the damned souls in Heresy gives us a fine exemple of scenery chewing:

* [[Like a Badass Out of Hell]]: Dante.

* [[Male Frontal Nudity]]: Lucifer's very large, very ''furry'' penis is on full display.

** Dante's is also visible during the ending. Blink and you'll miss it, but it's clearly there.

* [[Mook Debut Cutscene]]: The various "sin" demons all have one, a [[Squick|squicky]] one if possible.

* [[Mook Maker]]: Cleopatra again. [[Squick|Don't ask how she makes them]].

** Also, {{spoiler|slaying Lucifer's titanic body frees his human-sized true form that was trapped within.}}

* [[No Name Given]]: The [[Large Ham]] cutscene bishop.

* [[No OSHA Compliance]]: It ''is'' Hell, after all. Bridges are especially prone to collapsing, cracking, and generally falling apart.

* [[Notice This]]: There's a glowing wheel attached to anything in need of pushing, pulling, or climbing.

* [[Oedipus Complex]]: {{spoiler|Dante and his father end up duking it out in the Fourth Circle of Hell.}}

* [[Ominous Latin Chanting]]: It wouldn't be a game set in Hell without it.

* [[One True Faith]]: [[Zig Zagged]]. Pagans are in supposedly in Hell, but Lucifer tells Dante that those he fought in the Crusades are not, after all, in ''this'' Hell.

* [[Posthumous Character]]: The majority of the characters shown in-game are already dead -- this being Hell, after all -- although Beatrice and Dante deserve special mentions.

* [[The Power of Friendship]]: {{spoiler|Dante returns Lucifer to his prison by using the souls of his family and friends.}}

* [[Redemption Equals Death]]

* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: The game's enemies include, among other things, giant naked succubi, not to mention all the demonic creatures liable to offend anyone of a religious upbringing.

* [[Satan]]: Well, obviously. He's the [[Big Bad]] and [[Final Boss]].

* [[Scenery Gorn]]: The one positive trait everyone can agree on.

* [[Serial Escalation]]: Often, primarily in the level design, and most visibly in terms of [[Squick|squick factor]]. Gluttony is somewhere near the top of this, although Violence's ''giant river of boiling blood'' competes.

* [[Sequel Hook]]: Don't forget, the ''Inferno'' is only the first canticle of Dante's epic. {{spoiler|After defeating Lucifer, Dante arrives at the base of Purgatory and is briefly reunited with Beatrice. He tears off the cross on his chest and casts it aside. As he begins his climb to redemption, the cross transforms into a snake, which sneaks away as Lucifer's laugh is heard.}}

** {{spoiler|Beatrice and Lucifer, briefly.}}

* [[The Vamp]]: Cleopatra, who doubles as [[The Baroness]]. The temptresses may also count, but they don't really try to seduce Dante, as they're too focused on tearing him to shreds.

* [[Viral Marketing]]: ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRMiRFJzIKA Mass: We Pray]'', a spoof of [[The Moral Substitute]] which actually had people very worried that it was a ''real'' product. Also, notable people in the media who cover video games received items tailored to a specific Deadly Sin:

*** [[Zero Punctuation|"Fair enough, but I'd rather go to the hell for the wrathful than the hell for the EA marketing department- which I'm pretty sure is the EA marketing department."]]

** "Greed" consisted of a cheque for a large sum of money; if they didn't cash it, they were branded as "wasteful", wheras if they cash it, they're "greedy".

* [[Wall Crawl]]: One of the other ways of getting around Hell. By the way, the walls you crawl on throughout Hell are made out of the ''souls of the damned'' -- who keep moaning and screaming over their damnation as you crawl all over them.

* [[We Can Rule Together]]: Lucifer proposes this to Dante in the end.

* [[World of Ham]]: It's Hell. If people aren't screaming lamentations or cackling madly, something's wrong.

 

=== The DLC includes the following tropes: ===

 

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