datamining confirmed you turn away from the order and end up fighting and defeating vergil. This prediction ended up being 100% true. The rest is yet to be seen. Another popular prediction is that mundus will end up being a really huge, fat blob of a demon, and after he's defeated, dante will force feed him his children that lillith is constantly birthing.
Force-fed babies was part of the "leaked ending" that was confirmed false. And the only thing really confirmed was that Dante and Vergil will fight, which isn't much of a surprise at all, since it's such an important part of their classic dynamic.
Think anything can sound generic when you describe things as I have? Okay, challenge accepted: "queen of the damned", book version. Strip it down to its extremely generic elements and make it sound as cliche and ordinary as possible.
It's been a
long time since I've peeked at that one, unfortunately...but uhhh...ancient ancestor of "evil beings" is awakened and plots to kill humans and their own kind and rule the world, injured person is turned into one of the "evil beings" against their will, character kills big bad evil and takes their place. That's as good as I can do :x
Kinda funny though, because vampires are such a common thing these days (like zombies), it almost wouldn't have hurt the "generalization" to still call them vampires instead of "evil beings."
being a nephalim is not a unique trait in a story. You could slap in being a nephalim as the *last* part of writing your story and have it change nothing. Your character's actions and motivations are what make the story, not the labels.
You could say that, but those "labels" are what often part of a character's actions and motivations. To use Queen of the Damned as an example, how much less important would Akasha be if we never knew what she was and why she was doing the things she did? Without them, she's just a random antagonist who wants to take over the world. If Dante wasn't a Nephilim, he'd just be random duder on the street who gets caught up in something big, completely removing the significance of his heritage and how it affects him throughout the story. Even the classic Dante being "cambion" (a "label" as you call it) is an important part of trying to establish his character. Take away that and he's just "generic, cocky demon hunting with a grudge." Hell, being half-demon is already an oft-used trope >.<
If I copied the exact plot of the matrix, but I made the main character a nephalim, and the antagonists demons instead of robots, would it be a unique plot because "it's presented differently"? Because from what I've been hearing from you guys, you seem to think it would.
So then...demons are enslaving humanity in a virtual reality program to use as batteries in a dying world and the only one who can stop them is the hybrid of a demon and angel? That doesn't really work :/ You can't lift the "exact plot" of something and change only a few things, because then so much else has to change to follow suit - why are the demons using a computer program? Why do demons, being immortal, need to use the humans as batteries in the first place, when they don't need electrical energy to survive. How was a Nephilim created when Angels aren't established in this Matrix rip-off universe? The finer details become very important in not only explaining and justifying the setting and whatever else in the piece, but can also end up making it different from others that use similar tropes :/
Even then, the Matrix Trilogy itself is a very intricate story that differentiates itself well from other "chosen one saves the enslaved" stories because of its finer details/labels/whatever you wanna call them.
what I suspect is happening is you just don't know how to properly communicate what it is you want to say. You mean to tell me that all the little things that happen during the course of the story are more important than the story itself, not that changing everyone's name tags makes for a unique story. Am I correct?
No. I'm not saying the "little things" are more important than the story itself, I'm saying that those "little things" - details like what a character is, or where they came from, etc - are just as important in their own way in establishing the story as something of its own, or establishing the story at all. Like I said before, stories
can be unique, but when it starts to use tropes, greater emphasis is placed on how the trope is done differently from others that do it too, like any number of the "chosen one saves the enslaved," "ancient evil reappears to take over the world," "Romeo and Juliet," and "rebellion fights against evil tyranny" stories.
Details are
very important. It's the same reasoning behind why reading a slimmed-down synopsis of a story will never have the same impact as actually
reading the story in its entirety.
The fact remains that you seem to be condemning DmC's story just because it uses tropes, and it just really sounds like you're being a cynical hipster about things.
