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Ah, sorry for the confusion, there was a 2013 reboot called DmC: Devil May Cry (which specifically kept the m in the acronym lower-case for some reason) that was developed by Ninja theory that flopped pretty bad, the original DMC do be a bit dated but is still an incredible experience in its own right.

As for Dante being cocky: yeah I completely forgot about that when writings that, he does absolutely ooze overconfident-little-shit vibes in DMC3 and now that I think about it comparing Netflix Dante to all versions of game Dante instead of just the ones the same age and younger than Netflix Dante was a bit unfair.

It also doesn't help that my familiarity with Dante stems from other forms of DMC media besides just the games, which I think paints a fundamentally different picture of Dante than the games alone, with an especially good example being the original Madhouse anime, which is canon to the games, which somehow bridges the gap between the original DMC and DMC3 surprisingly well.

I honestly could go about arguing about how Adi completely fucked up the DMC show for much longer but let me summarize to the best of my abilities: I think the point about Dante's lack of agency in the narrative is one of the three fundamental cornerstones of why this show failed as Devil May Cry adaptation, the others being a complete mischaracterisation of the Demons on a fundamental level which both undermines the core themes of DMC and ruins Sparda's role in the narrative, and of course we have the travesty that is 'Mary Arkham', who curses like a sailor for reasons beyond me, has plot armor stronger than Goku and whoes mere existence is an insult to Lady as Lady would rather choke on tar than say her birth name for reasons that are understandable at least for me.

Anyways thank you for coming to my TED talk and have a pleasant morning/day/evening, and know that long, super ln-depth research and long essays are the bane of my existence.

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as someone who hasn't played the games and mostly knows Dante through the "I'm dummy thicc and the clap of my a** keeps alerting the guards" and him dancing like MJ memes, gotta say he seemed in character.

though I remember gaining interest because a fanboy on youtube was complaining so I spent a decent amount of the show trying to figure it out...I eventually did? it's a matter of agency? like they didn't give him enough agency to feel like the main character? didn't feel like his decisions really counted.

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Fuck let him remake DMC1 and direct a DMC6. After that Netflix trash and the Reboot we deserve it.

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“Dude let’s go to Comic Con this weekend! I got tickets”

Take photos, make friends, meet a celebrity, wander around artist alley or geek out however you like! Just make sure your wallet survives ;)

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To expand on this, in the games he does specific silliness to him that gets expanded upon as Itsuno and his crew kept getting to write the character, but there is also an inherent confidence to him. Never in a thousand years, in the games, the previous anime, the manga, even the novels, was Dante caught lacking in such a way as in the first episode of this show.

Where he struggles to come up with a one-liner. Like what. The guy who spontaneously decided to use a fucking rocket fired from a rocket launcher directly at him as a surf board feels the need to express that he failed to come up with a one-liner. A thing about Dante's quipping and yapping is that despite loving to shit-talk his opponents, he also knows when to shut up.

I would like to think that canon Dante would have simply moved on without saying to talking to the lady he just saved instead of trying to be 'hee hee hoo hoo misa relatabel' before forcing himself to come up with some corny one-liner stolen from some random TV reference. Even DMC3 Dante (the same guy who rocket surfed) wasn't that dull, even if the shit he went through pre-DMC3 (explored mostly in DMC5 and written media) left him quite mentally unstable and emotionally distant, that did not stop his natural talent to clown on anything and anyone (that wasn't Vergil, or the literal monarchs of hell Mundus and Argosax) if he so wishes.

So yeah, thank you for this take, and I hope you have a pleasant evening unmarred by my deranged rambling. I just don't like this show and I do think it's somehow worse than DmC: Devil May Cry, because at least it was made very obvious that they were doing their own thing and I do believe its fans when they say the gameplay held up well despite the poor narrative.

oh no.

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as someone who hasn't played the games and mostly knows Dante through the "I'm dummy thicc and the clap of my a** keeps alerting the guards" and him dancing like MJ memes, gotta say he seemed in character.

though I remember gaining interest because a fanboy on youtube was complaining so I spent a decent amount of the show trying to figure it out...I eventually did? it's a matter of agency? like they didn't give him enough agency to feel like the main character? didn't feel like his decisions really counted.

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go to settings > dashboard > interface and turn on show timestamps. please. do this for me i'm begging

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You’re not depressed. You just need $250,000 in your bank account.

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“can mutuals dm you?” my mutuals can fire me from a cannon through a brick wall, looney tunes style. as long as we’re all having fun

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my first contribution to the dmc fandom

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help help help

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KIANA🧡💥💥

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when your art program’s closing message hits you straight in the heart and makes you stop and contemplate the state of it all

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"oh i really love xyz character-" really? outside the context of shipping?

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do you think every cardinal has a hypothetical pope name already chosen in their head