OK, let's go through the steps. I have three big points about this fight
1) The Godly point
If there’s godliness involved you have to look at the concept. The Greek had polytheism, and thus Kratos being one of the, oh so many, Gods. Omnipotence is splitted between them all
And Christianity has one God and one Devil, which supposedly are two sides of the world making it go. God helps the good in heaven; the Devil punishes the bad in hell. And Dante comes from that kinda world, where I never saw the heaven side. So I guess there’s only the Devil in DMC, making it a monotheistic God with all god power combined. And lookie here, Sparda killed/sealed his own God. Then Dante did the same in DMC.
Thus I guess Kratos being one of many, and killing Ares only with the help of other gods (weapons, magic attacks) is just a great guy who did a good pawns job in the hand of other gods (Athena and so on)
And Dante is a descendent of “god”-killer and “god”-killer on his own. He didn’t get more than he had. Everything he does, he does on his own. So he could have the title of God of War + God of SSStylish Fighting + God of melee combat (he’s great with anything) + God of Firearms (Kratos don’t even know the word)
So that’s about who’s godlier
2) The battle spirit point
The main thing is battle spirit. Let’s look at Kratos…
- Filled with anger/hatred/bloodthurst and ext. He can be controlled through that.
- Suicidical
- Just attacks straight away
- Is tormented by his past memories
Dante
- “At first I didn’t give a damn, but now I know what’s important. I know what I need to do.”
I never heard Kratos say stuff like that. Dante has a head on his shoulders. And he does the “right” thing. Kratos just kills most he sees, unless he needs it for the mission.
- What ever happens to him, he always goes on, no matter how hard he gets hit. He never thinks of suicide
- Attacks with style!
- He treads lightly. He fights with a smile on his face. The smile almost never comes off. Some guy from a gaming journal even said: “Dante manages to look and act cool, even when he’s getting beat up.”
Anybody here know Gutts from Berserk? Well, paradoxically Dante is more like him in terms of battle spirit. You’d expect that from Kratos, but it’s Dante.
3) The Game point
- Kratos can die in the game, from normal undead hordes of zombies. (including GoW-II, where he has the God-title). So I suppose Dante’s not worse than any zombies and can kill Kratos.