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Do Tragic Characters get a tragic ending?

MegaMad9

The Mad Man
NT has often been touted as being great story tellers with having fantastic visuals to back it up.
I noticed that Dante and Vergil are often called "tragic characters" by many of the previewers who got to see some of the storyline.
Here's something from IGN (this may have been posted already, but at least use it as context)
http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/11/19/dmc-has-nothing-left-to-prove
Now, a tragic character is one that has one major flaw and the audience usually feels pity, sympathy, empathy, and compassion.
For some specific types of tragic characters, click this link: http://changingminds.org/disciplines/storytelling/characters/tragic_characters.htm
Would this mean that one of the characters (most likely Vergil or Kat) will have a major flaw and die?
Which type of tragic character would Dante, Vergil, Kat, or whomever fall into, if you even think something bad will happen to them?
I was also thinking that if the game does end on a sad note, like Vergil or Kat dying, then this would be a pretty good song for the credits:
Maybe they could have someone else sing it but replace "Nicola and Bart" with "Dante and Verg", it's just an idea.
And no, I actually heard of this song from before I watched Ground Zeroes trailer, I've been a fan of Ennio Morricone since watching spaghetti westerns with my grandpa.
 
The article is talking more about Dante and Vergil's tragic past, and how they are almost destined to go through a lot of ****. It's not necessarily on the character's themselves.

Max Payne is a tragic character, but it's not because of a flaw of his, it's the circumstances he's thrust into. The same is possibly true for Dante and Vergil, and the tragedies they face are brought upon by the circumstances of their birth, their parents, and the fate of their family. It even mentions Dante's hedonistic attitude as something he indulges because he doesn't feel he will be around for long - he's accepted the fact that some day soon he may be overpowered and killed by demons.

It makes it all the more interesting because then you have Vergil approaching him, explaining that there's so much more to him, that he has a grander fate, but only if he takes hold of it. Dante's unwillingness to live for others is something we'll see him cast off through the story, but it's entirely possible that Vergil's intentions could spell a different type of tragedy for him. Some bad events could take place simply because Vergil called upon Dante, and there could be floods of anger and regret because of this. Kat could die, Vergil could become corrupted, or Dante himself could suffer some other tragedy that really hits the characters hard.

It could also be talking about their past in regards to Eva's tragic death, and how close they really were. We can all imagine how close Dante was with his mother in the classic series, but it was never something that was ever explicitly stated. Until we see those close familial bonds, we can't truly know the tragedy that comes with the family being torn apart, right? It's in line with something I say all the time; being told something, and experiencing something, are two entirely different things.
 
Dante has a more tragic past then Vergil though. Dante literally had nothing after his mother's death. no memory of his family or background and no real motivation to live anymore. He got tortured by demons everyday non stop and has had to fight his entire life just to stay alive.

Vergil was taken in by a rich family and was a genius, graduating high school and creating the Order with his money and brains. His step father was taken from him by demons and now he wants to defeat them all.

Kat's a runaway after killing her step father who was a demon, and joins the order in finding a little usefulness to the extinction of demon kind.
 
In a way, you could say Vergil may have felt a very different kind of pain since his memories remained intact over the entire course of his adolescence and adult life. Dante has sort of become numb to the circumstances he's in, while Vergil seems a bit more concerned with vengeance. Surely, once Dante learns more about himself, he may feel the same way, but having lost his memories may give him a very different perspective. His new and old feelings about demons colliding could give him power.

I see Dante as a character who could easily grow to teach Vergil a few lessons about dignity and serenity.
 
Dante will probably be the tragic character,
after such a long time he had found people that actually cared for him but if Kat dies and vergil falls into the demon realm
he would be all alone again, having to face the hardships of his world all alone
that would eventually lead him to open his shop. After falling into the demon realm, vergil might just get corrupted even more, and gets even more hell bent on revenge. He comes back and starts a family while secretly coming up with a bigger plan to wipe out demon kind ( regardless of the existence of good demons) and humankind along with them. Dante gets to know of his plans and finds no other way to stop him other than killing him, infront of his child, turning himself into the same kind of villain to vergils' son, that mundus was to him.
 
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