Devil May Cry: Difference between revisions

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* [[Absolute Cleavage]]: Gloria, and to a lesser extent Trish and Lady.

* [[Absurdly Sharp Blade]]: Every time a sword is used in a cutscene.

** [[Metal Gear|It's a Japanese action game series with many nods to American action cinema. Twin sons fight over their inexplicably missing father's legacy]].

* [[Eye Scream]]: The way Dante leaves Leviathan's body in ''Devil May Cry 3''.

* [[Fake Ultimate Mook]]: The Mega Scarecrows in ''Devil May Cry 4'' are huge and have a crapload of health, but that's about it. They are even slower than regular Scarecrows, flinch at the slightest hit and rarely replicate - you just have to watch out for their roll attack, and their back blade which falls back two seconds after they die.

* [[Fallen Angel]]: The Fallen, of course.

** The "Flock off, featherface!" line could have just been [[Just for Pun|a pun]]. Griffon ''was'' a [[Don't Explain the Joke|bird]] demon, after all...

* [[Go Through Me]]: The details are vague, but it's implied by the manga and through Dante's dialogue {{spoiler|as he cries over Trish's apparent death}} in ''Devil May Cry 1'' that Eva did this in order to allow a young Dante to hide when demons attacked their home.

* [[Grappling Hook Pistol]]: Part of the Devil Bringer's functions. Kalina Ann has a [[Bayonet Ya]] that can be fired to do this.

* [[Grievous Harm with a Body]]: Nero's various Buster moves tend to involve throwing mooks around, with predictable results if they hit other mooks.

* [[Jumped At the Call]]: ...But only if it shows up in person. Dante picks up the phone, blows whoever is calling him off, hangs up, and then instantly goes to Temen-Ni-Gru when Arkham shows up in person. For all we know, that was Arkham himself calling on the phone.

** If it was, he would have been on a mobile phone just outside the door, considering he walked in about five seconds after Dante put the phone down.

* [[Katanas Are Just Better]]

* [[Kung Fu-Proof Mook]]: Envies from ''Devil May Cry 3'' are functionally identical to the most basic Prides except for their nigh-immunity to launches and knockbacks.

* [[Our Souls Are Different]]: Done to a head-scratching degree in this series. In ''Devil May Cry 3'', the souls of defeated devils turn into Devil Arms/combat Styles for use by whoever gets them, but it's never known what exactly happens to a ''human'' soul once ''their'' bodies are destroyed. In ''Devil May Cry 1'', devils are pretty much referred to as having no souls at all to speak of, and the same is said about humans that "become devils" in ''Devil May Cry 3'' and ''Devil May Cry 4''. Anyone expecting ''Devil May Cry 4'' to be consistent with ''Devil May Cry 3'' though is going to get very confused at Echidna, Bael, Dagon and Berial ''not'' turning into Devil Arms after being beaten. Needless to say, ''Devil May Cry 2'' is out of the question.

* [[Overshadowed by Awesome]]: Part of the problem with the second game, when compared to the first. The fact that it was mediocre and forgettable didn't help either though.

* [[Painful Transformation]]: Limited: Dante howls in pain during his first chronological Devil Trigger usage, but never does so again during subsequent uses.

** During one of the later cutscenes, Temen-Ni-Gru starts moving, morphing Dante in and out of his Devil Trigger form repeatedly. He looks around, apparently more interested in falling dust and the tower's shaking than his own changing body.

* [[Teleport Spam]]: Blitz from ''Devil May Cry 4''. To a lesser extent, Vergil in ''Devil May Cry 3''.

* [[Tell Me About My Father]]: Averted. Dante cares little about wanting to know about Sparda (to the point where Lady knows more of the legends than he does), and Nero has yet to know who his father is to even ask.

* [[That Man Is Dead]]: Lady rejecting her previous name of {{spoiler|Mary}}.

* [[Theme Naming]]: The Seven Hells from ''Devil May Cry 3'', although the semblance is spotty at best. Also, five of the important characters draw their names from ''The [[Divine Comedy]]'', and the Order of the Sword have a Christian hymn theme going.

** The [[Down the Drain|underwater sequences]] in the first two games also count; the former was [[First-Person Shooter]] and limited you to a specific gun while your speed was ''severely'' limited in the latter (even with the Aqua Heart equipped). Oh, and did we mention that [[Underwater Boss Battle|one boss is fought underwater]] in ''Devil May Cry 2''?

* [[The Unfought]]: {{spoiler|Credo in human form}}.

* [[Updated Rerelease]]: ''Devil May Cry 3: Special Edition''. PC version of ''Devil May Cry 4'' also had improvements over the console releases.

* [[Urban Fantasy]]

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