I believe the new devil may cry is going to be a psychological
evaluation of Dante as he grew up and became the Dante that we know and love
today. Now as funny, and light hearted Dante is in the later games you can
observe that he does have his potentially “asshole” moments, which of course we
all do but if you also look at his fighting styles when he’s fighting with
demons you’ll notice that his style is rather brutal and relentless and in a
macabre way he does derive a sick sense of pleasure from it. Now question…for
someone so light hearted how did he gain this dark side to him? I believe that
answer will lie within the new Dante. This new Dante is the Dante that we know
at his youngest, more rebellious and adolescent years, most likely at the time
where he was known as Anthony or “Tony” Redgrave. Now from research, that I’ve
done and the general psychological knowledge I posess, this particular time in
his history was when he had almost forgotten his “real” name, which is why I
believe that when Dante’s being interrogated in the trailer he’s not answering,
because he doesn’t quite know himself. This is when he is questioning his own existence
and the responsibilities he may face by taking on his true name.
Now when Dante was a child his mother was ripped apart by demons, he may have even witnessed
such brutality, which would have made him aware of how relentless demons are,
which would cause him to take no mercy on his own demonic challenges. Where he
gets his twisted pleasure in killing is from his demonic side. In all reality,
Dante despises his demon side, and he hates the fact that he derives pleasure
from his carnal instinct to kill but as he becomes older he realizes that no
matter what those feelings will never go away and aims his bloodlust at demons
to protect mankind. When he was younger though he was practically suicidal and
was looking to possibly be overcome by taking on an insane mission but he just
ended up becoming the best of the best in the mercenary underworld.
Yes, Dante was suicidal at one point, and looked to many ways to kill himself without
doing it outright per say. When he realized that it really was not going to
work he actually became rather miserable and antisocial, which in many aspects
he still is today. He only rarely has visitors and even then, his visitors are
more like business associates than actual “friends” making it so he can become detached
without feeling any real guilt, so you could even go as far as to say that
Dante does have commitment issues. Dante is afraid of becoming close to someone
he loves and the answer lies within his mother’s death. Dante was very attached
to his mother and when she died, he was devastated as any young child would be.
Without a mother, a father, or even his brother around Dante wandered the
streets aimlessly completely torn and afraid for his own life. Now think, how
would you turn out if all that happened to you? You would be pretty screwed up
too right? You would be angry, depressed, and all sorts of huge emotions right?
To have so many strong emotions fill you at once is an overload for a child and
growing up with these strange instincts and desires would have been scary. With
no one to express to and for no one to understand would have also been
frustrating and depressing as well. So naturally Dante would have become as
everyone says “Emo” though when said like that in reference to the stereotype and
not the actual psychological evaluation of it all, it makes it look bad. Also,
in addition to emotional torment, he would have started developing and his body
would have started to rage with hormones, like any normal adolescent, so his
emotions would have escalated and become unbalanced making him angrier, even
more depressed and uncaring to a world that didn’t really care about him. I
would also think that because of his hatred towards society at this point in
his existence he would have been in and out of juvenile halls or possibly even
jails like a revolving door. Which is why I think that interrogation room is
part of a jail unit, and the reason he’s chained up is because he’s too
powerful and dangerous to be meddled with, and he was most likely drugged to
make him passive. As for prior drug use I couldn’t say but it could be very
probable but would most likely not be depicted in the game for reasons within
our own society. Also at this point in his life Dante isn’t really fighting
demons to help mankind, he’s doing it for more selfish reasons actually. He’s
doing it as an act of vengeance for his mother’s death, and as a way for him to
express himself, which is why he’s so destructive. At this point and even later
in his life, his relentless and brutal ways of killing are an emotional release
and his destructiveness to everything around him is one in the same. Later on
he realizes that he can utilize his destructive means to create a business and
become an entrepreneur as well as help a society that still doesn’t exactly
want him until his help is truly needed. In all reality, Dante is hated by many
people, and he always will be until his help for certain situations is required,
then people change their tune. Anyway, as I could go on for several pages, this is a general statement of the reason for the new look for Dante and a small psychological evaluation of the history of our beloved character. I wrote this so people can read it and truly understand how the Ninja Theory company may be looking at
this. Yes they took some creative liberty but they did so on psychological evaluations
of the character and not for reasons that everyone else seems to be assuming.
if anyone has questions that I did not cover in the above statement please feel free to comment! thank you for reading and I hoped you all enjoyed reading it as I did writing it.
evaluation of Dante as he grew up and became the Dante that we know and love
today. Now as funny, and light hearted Dante is in the later games you can
observe that he does have his potentially “asshole” moments, which of course we
all do but if you also look at his fighting styles when he’s fighting with
demons you’ll notice that his style is rather brutal and relentless and in a
macabre way he does derive a sick sense of pleasure from it. Now question…for
someone so light hearted how did he gain this dark side to him? I believe that
answer will lie within the new Dante. This new Dante is the Dante that we know
at his youngest, more rebellious and adolescent years, most likely at the time
where he was known as Anthony or “Tony” Redgrave. Now from research, that I’ve
done and the general psychological knowledge I posess, this particular time in
his history was when he had almost forgotten his “real” name, which is why I
believe that when Dante’s being interrogated in the trailer he’s not answering,
because he doesn’t quite know himself. This is when he is questioning his own existence
and the responsibilities he may face by taking on his true name.
Now when Dante was a child his mother was ripped apart by demons, he may have even witnessed
such brutality, which would have made him aware of how relentless demons are,
which would cause him to take no mercy on his own demonic challenges. Where he
gets his twisted pleasure in killing is from his demonic side. In all reality,
Dante despises his demon side, and he hates the fact that he derives pleasure
from his carnal instinct to kill but as he becomes older he realizes that no
matter what those feelings will never go away and aims his bloodlust at demons
to protect mankind. When he was younger though he was practically suicidal and
was looking to possibly be overcome by taking on an insane mission but he just
ended up becoming the best of the best in the mercenary underworld.
Yes, Dante was suicidal at one point, and looked to many ways to kill himself without
doing it outright per say. When he realized that it really was not going to
work he actually became rather miserable and antisocial, which in many aspects
he still is today. He only rarely has visitors and even then, his visitors are
more like business associates than actual “friends” making it so he can become detached
without feeling any real guilt, so you could even go as far as to say that
Dante does have commitment issues. Dante is afraid of becoming close to someone
he loves and the answer lies within his mother’s death. Dante was very attached
to his mother and when she died, he was devastated as any young child would be.
Without a mother, a father, or even his brother around Dante wandered the
streets aimlessly completely torn and afraid for his own life. Now think, how
would you turn out if all that happened to you? You would be pretty screwed up
too right? You would be angry, depressed, and all sorts of huge emotions right?
To have so many strong emotions fill you at once is an overload for a child and
growing up with these strange instincts and desires would have been scary. With
no one to express to and for no one to understand would have also been
frustrating and depressing as well. So naturally Dante would have become as
everyone says “Emo” though when said like that in reference to the stereotype and
not the actual psychological evaluation of it all, it makes it look bad. Also,
in addition to emotional torment, he would have started developing and his body
would have started to rage with hormones, like any normal adolescent, so his
emotions would have escalated and become unbalanced making him angrier, even
more depressed and uncaring to a world that didn’t really care about him. I
would also think that because of his hatred towards society at this point in
his existence he would have been in and out of juvenile halls or possibly even
jails like a revolving door. Which is why I think that interrogation room is
part of a jail unit, and the reason he’s chained up is because he’s too
powerful and dangerous to be meddled with, and he was most likely drugged to
make him passive. As for prior drug use I couldn’t say but it could be very
probable but would most likely not be depicted in the game for reasons within
our own society. Also at this point in his life Dante isn’t really fighting
demons to help mankind, he’s doing it for more selfish reasons actually. He’s
doing it as an act of vengeance for his mother’s death, and as a way for him to
express himself, which is why he’s so destructive. At this point and even later
in his life, his relentless and brutal ways of killing are an emotional release
and his destructiveness to everything around him is one in the same. Later on
he realizes that he can utilize his destructive means to create a business and
become an entrepreneur as well as help a society that still doesn’t exactly
want him until his help is truly needed. In all reality, Dante is hated by many
people, and he always will be until his help for certain situations is required,
then people change their tune. Anyway, as I could go on for several pages, this is a general statement of the reason for the new look for Dante and a small psychological evaluation of the history of our beloved character. I wrote this so people can read it and truly understand how the Ninja Theory company may be looking at
this. Yes they took some creative liberty but they did so on psychological evaluations
of the character and not for reasons that everyone else seems to be assuming.
if anyone has questions that I did not cover in the above statement please feel free to comment! thank you for reading and I hoped you all enjoyed reading it as I did writing it.
