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** Dante is also paired with Morrigan from ''[[Darkstalkers]]''.
* [[Faux Symbolism]]: See "[[Rule of Symbolism]]" on the main page, for starters.
* [[Flanderization]]: Dante started out in ''1'' as a [[Disney]] [[Anti-Hero]] (a [[Knight in Sour Armor]]). He posed as a mercenary and was picky about which jobs he took, but he would only refuse if the job lacked demons of any sort, taking the mission ''regardless'' of how much he got paid as long as demons were involved. Despite the wisecracking personality he had, he knew when to serious the hell up if it meant saving the world. Dante in ''1'' was kind enough to offer mercy to Griffon and Trish despite both of them wanting him dead (and it pays off on Trish's end; she joins him). Despite the animated series happening a short time after ''1'', they basically inverted his character as he is much more money-minded than demon-minded and prone to [[Out of Character]] and hypocritical moments, such as calling Modeus "pathetic" for wanting to avenge his dead brother. His [[Perpetual Poverty|debt]] to various people we've barely heard of are played up to uncomfortable laughs, and he's suddenly grown some [[Destructive Savior]] tendencies along with it. The later games just make him a [[Jerkass]].
** A bonus picture of ''3'' has Lady holding up the handlebar of her destroyed bike, with Dante shrugging in the distance. While it's understandable that she would want to be paid back for it, like the "debt" point, it's overplayed. Her later appearances end up having to do with either money Dante owes her for her bike, or money Dante owes in general.
** Trish's [[Heel Face Turn]] in the first game was remarked on by Mundus as being "sudden" ("Failure is one thing, but taking on an odd behavior like that..."). Later games have her as extremely impulsive and moody for no reason.
** [[Characterization Marches On]]: These personality traits first surfaced in ''The Animated Series'' and subsequently stuck for ''4''.
*** Until ''4'', however, this could have been justified as Dante mellowing out over time. He makes the expected leap from [[Jerkass]] to [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]] over the course of ''3'', which would naturally bring him up to the more [[Knight in Sour Armor]] portrayal of ''1''. As stated before, however, ''4'' more or less [[Jossed]] this.
* [[Freud Was Right]]: The ''entire theme'' of Trish (specifically, the implication was that Mundus was using her as a [[Honey Trap]] for Dante in the first game), but subverted. As said in [[Oedipus Complex]] under Dante's entry in the characters sheet, it doesn't work on Dante -- he's visibly disturbed by her appearance.
* [[Game Breaker]]: ''Devil May Cry 3'''s style Quicksilver puts Dante into bullet time for rather long periods of time, though it eats up is devil gauge. However, with enough devil gauge restoring items it becomes a little broken.
** When playing in a unlocked mode with a certain costume, Dante has unlimited Devil Trigger. The game then essentially becomes "Dante slaughters everything in bullet time", so long as the player wants to be cheap.
** ''Devil May Cry'' has Shotgun Hiking. With Air Hike and a shotgun you can [[Good Bad Bugs|endlessly jump and juggle an airborne target until it dies or you mess up the trick.]]
* [[Goddamned Bats]]: From ''DMC4'', you have the Chimera Seeds. [[Layman's Terms|Bladey Planty thingies]] that just love to attach to other monsters so they can interrupt your combo. And that's just the tip of the iceberg, as on higher difficulties pretty much every mook is one.
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* [[Good Bad Bugs]]: Jump Cancelling, which allows for infinite aerial maneuvers.
* [[He's Just Hiding]]: Vergil, Sparda... Eva might be next, at this rate.
* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: Arius' corporation goes by the name of [[Ouroboros|Uroboros]]. [[Resident Evil 5|Sound familiar?]]
** Doubly so if you consider Arius' international enterprise and the fact that {{spoiler|Possessed Arius sports some psuedo-Ouroboros tentacles.}}
* [[Ho Yay Shipping]]/[[Foe Yay Shipping]]: Dante and Nelo Angelo--and arguably Mundus--from ''1'', Dante and Vergil in ''3'', and somewhere out there is Dante/Nero... not to mention Dante/Weapons, which is what happens when the fanbase starts personifying them.
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** Is sanity the price to pay... '''[[Ham-to-Ham Combat|FOR POWER?!]]'''
*** Any of Dante's one-liners.
** I should have been the one to fill this dark page with '''''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79ddOyvnh6o LIIIIIIIIIIIGHT!!!!!]'''''
*** That last one is notably bad to the point that several videos have the audio edited in. There's even a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDLuXNpUF7w version] swapping his lines with that of [[Mega Man X|Zero]] ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUbZbAWVYZg and vice versa]), a character who also had a [[Tear Jerker|legitimately heartfelt moment]] [[Narm|ruined for the same reasons]].
** A slight one came after Dante's redesign, where people drew other famous characters such as [[Super Mario Bros.|Mario]] and [[Sonic the Hedgehog|Sonic]] in a similar style, [[Take That|mocking]] the "edgy" look of Donte. [[Stylistic Suck|Being drawn in MS Paint]] helped.
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* [[Nightmare Fuel]]: Depending on your personal threshold, Nobodies and The Underworld in ''1''. But especially Nobodies.
** Fittingly enough, [[That One Boss|Nightmare]]. Yes, it is a large mass of gelatinous darkness with human bones stuck inside and it's slithering towards you. Have fun.
** Mundus's crumbling appearance during the final fight with him can only be described as this.
** The sequence inside the Leviathan in ''3''. Especially running away from the hungry, giant Gigapede in the intestines.
** Most of the guardians of Temen-ni-Gru, especially Beowulf.
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*** Of course, they are rather justified in this respect - the whole "half-angel" thing doesn't even remotely gel with existing canon, as Eva being Dante and Vergil's human mother was a central plot point in both ''DMC1'' and ''DMC3''. In short, it's an example of [[Canon Defilement]].
*** And suddenly it's a [[Continuity Reboot]]. ''[[Sarcasm Mode|Surprise surprise]]''.
**** What is this? It's suddenly back to being a Rebirth with Capcom trying to humanize Dante (despite them putting him as a half-angel/half-demon in this game already). Capcom, [[Precision F-Strike|MAKE UP YOUR FUCKING MIND!]]
** Also, it's T-rated. Cries of Capcom completely missing the point of the [[Rated "M" for Manly|entire franchise]] abounds.
** Of course, complaints have extended straight out to the gameplay as well, mostly because of slow and dull-looking combat and how Dante seems to take forever and a half to kill a single enemy. Really, when people think ''Devil May Cry 2'' looks like a halfway-decent entry to the series compared to this, ''you're doing something wrong.''
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*** Although to compensate for the customizeability, you can only get additional Proud Souls after you finish a mission, making it so that you can't get any new abilities mid-mission, and the cost of every single ability goes up when you buy one, making maxing out all abilities prohibitively expensive, far more expensive than the total cost of all abilities in any of the previous games... and naturally [[Last Lousy Point|there's an achievement for getting all abilities]]. Furthermore, few people actually use the Red Orbs for anything beyond the storebought [[Heart Container|Blue and Purple Orbs]] and thus most of them just end up going to waste after you get the maximum number of both. The only good aspect about them is the fact that Proud Souls are shared between characters, meaning Dante won't start off with zero abilities when the game switches over to him.
** Whose great idea was it to put a time limit on Bloody Palace?
** While the [[Down the Drain|underwater sequences]] in the first game were neither horrible nor impressive, in ''2'', [[That One Level|they become this]]. And guess what? You get to play as them with ''only'' Lucia. And did we mention that there's a [[Underwater Boss Battle|boss to be faced]]? [[Sarcasm Mode|Have fun!]]
** The style system in ''3''. Why the hell should the player choose between the ability to [[Flash Step]] and that to guard? Between multi-aiming with guns and additional melee attacks? This is a great source of [[Fake Difficulty]] against bosses or enemies you face for the first time, and gets especially annoying in the penultimate boss, where the fact of having Vergil fighting with you ''prevents you from using any of your styles''. Thankfully, ''4'' allows you to change styles whenever you want, including mid-combo, making the system much more interesting to exploit, [[Difficult but Awesome|if tricky to master]].
* [[Seinfeld Is Unfunny]]: When it came out, reviews lauded the first game for its fast action and deep gameplay; today many players who try it find it kind of slow, clunky and limited (not to mention the infamous [[Damn You, Muscle Memory!|triangle jump]]). It has the right to be, since it basically set all the foundations of the modern Beat 'em All genre, three years before ''[[God of War (series)|God of War]]'' and Itagaki's ''[[Ninja Gaiden]]''.
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* [[Tear Jerker]]: The opening video for ''4''.
* [[That One Attack]]: If you get swallowed by Nightmare, you're sent into a demonic dimension where you must fight several [[Dem Bones|Sargassoes]] and one of the previous bosses to get out.
** This also doubles as Nightmare's [[Achilles' Heel]]. Escaping from this dimension deals a sizable portion of damage to Nightmare's health bar. However, [[It Only Works Once]]; you can only be swallowed up by Nightmare once as all subsequent attempts to eat Dante simply results in a normal bite.
* [[That One Boss]]: Griffon, Nightmare, Trismagia, Leviathan's Heart, Arkham, {{spoiler|Dante}}, etc... You take your pick.
* [[That One Level]]: Chapter 10 in ''4'' will make you ''hate'' [[Laser Hallway|lasers]]! And that's just before fighting [[That One Boss|Dante]]...
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