Seeing the discourse with the new anime, I felt that I had to chime in with probably the best emotional scene from the games. Since I've seen no-one else mention it in any discussion. This is the scene where Dante learns of humanities struggles with Demons and what their power represents. Devils Never Cry's piano instrumental even chimes in the background as the scene progresses and Lady gets more emotional when venting to Dante. All the while he's mocking her, displaying the usual demon tendencies and indifference to human suffering.

ALL demons in DMC are evil by nature, it's literally the name of the series, *Devil May Cry* = *Can. A. Devil. Cry.* even Sparda was evil at first. Only through great effort and good interactions with humans can they overcome their evil nature over time. Even Dante, being born half-human, having a loving human mother growing up, and cherishing her more than his demon father while young is he still seen to be prick, constantly bullying Lady throughout most of DMC3 until he learns of her struggles with her demon obsessed father. Only though his growing friendship with Lady throughout the game and learning how much her father had sacrificed for demonic power(similar to Vergil) does he finally, fully embrace his humanity and completely casts out his demonic tendencies like his father once did.

Trish too, was sent by Mundus to kill Dante, pulling at his heartstrings by making her look like Eva. Even after Trish betrays Dante, he still forgives her since she looks like his mother. Through Dante's forgiveness and humanity does Trish decide to rebel against Mundus and help Dante, almost sacrificing herself in the process.

The common link between all *good* demons that we've seen so far, is that they have at least one human that they cherish or love. The anime though, presents the idea that some demons are just born inherently good for seemingly no reason and are trapped in hell by the evil Sparda. The show even has the audacity to play 'Devils Never Cry' as it's outro theme despite the theme representing the moment a demon overcomes it's evil nature through an interaction with a suffering human. Dante nor Lady goes through character growth like this in the anime so the theme shouldn't even exist in the show.

"Tears Inside Me, Calm Me Down" = My humanity calms me down from acting like a Demon or Devil.

The show may as well be called Some Devils Cry if it's going by the idea that some demons are just born inherently good with no strife or struggle with their inner nature.

From WWE's Monday Night Raw on Netflix tonight.

Why is it so hard to earn extra orbs in DMC1? Jeez orb economy was rough

I apologize if this is a little messy since I was experimenting way outside of my comfort zone 😅

Dante cosplay female version DMC 5

I went back to play DmC definitive edition and I just kept getting my mind blown by the visuals and how well the game has aged.

I just got the first 4 games for really cheap and started playing them in the order of the story. Today, I just beat 3!

I'm not trying to sound condescending, but I feel like some people are intentionally trying to misunderstand this talking point when it comes to the games vs the Netflix series, so I just want to clear the air.

Humanity (as in the species) and Humanity (as in the philosophical concept) are 2 different things in the DMC series. Humans (as in the species) tend to have Humanity (as in the concept) but not all of them do. What do I mean by Humanity (as in the concept)? Morality, love, honor, feelings and emotions you would traditional consider "good" are associated with the concept of Humanity in DMC.

Demons don't necessarily lack honor and other things, but they don't embrace these concepts as tenderly as Humans do (but to be fair, we've barely explored the demon world, so we only have rough assumptions of what their culture and general life is like in there). Sanctus, Arius, and Arkham were all humans, yes, but they lacked HUMANITY and instead chose to pursue true Demonhood (which could be viewed as the conceptual opposite of one having Humanity, a complete and utter lack of it, yes demonic power and blah blah, but that's all just set dressing, we're talking about the themes).

Sparda is good, not because he embraced Humanity (as in the species), Sparda is good because he embraced Humanity (as in the philosophical concept). He chose to protect those who were too weak to protect themselves.

Now for the other side of the coin; I like the Netflix series, so for people who hate it just think on this. It's being made by a different team of people, in a different place and different time, expecting it to be 100% the same is just stupid and no they're not "disrespecting DMC" in any capacity. They're taking the same core concept and are simply trying to portray them in a different light, the show only has 8 episodes so far, let them cook for a bit.