How come the Force Edge didn't awaken when Arkham got the 2 Amulets and awoke Sparda's power?
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lorddemolatron
I think im sort of dimensional traveller lol
Ixbran
Smashing~
Most probably Sparda made it so that only someone of his bloodline could activate the sword. Trish got Sparda cause it was Dante that activated it before giving it to her. And it remained that way for even Sanctus to use it, though with not much success cause he lacked love and compassion.
Chancey289
Fake Geek Girl.
Another plot hole really. So play around with head canons.
I like the idea of it being something like Thor's Mjolnir, but the whole "love and compassion" thing sounds so sappy here. It's cooler in Scott Pilgrim.
I like the idea of it being something like Thor's Mjolnir, but the whole "love and compassion" thing sounds so sappy here. It's cooler in Scott Pilgrim.
Sparda (the devil, not the sword) made love and compassion a totally badass thing. Everyone that dared to tell him otherwise got their rear end introduced to a very hard foot. :3
Chancey289
Fake Geek Girl.
This gives me an idea to draw Sparda in Scott Pilgrim style receiving the Power of Love.
LordOfDarkness
The Dark Avenger © †
Arkham had the two amulets to create the perfect amulet and the sword to give him Sparda's power. But only through being a son of Sparda or having Sparda's blood can one really use that power. Arkham simply became something that was false. He never was a true demon anyway.
I would say that when it concerns the weapons, you need demonic blood within you to be able to fully utilise them. Force Edge didn't change to its true form because Arkham was weak and couldn't even control the power he unleashed. Also Force Edge again I would say needed someone from Sparda's bloodline to initiate the change.
I would say that when it concerns the weapons, you need demonic blood within you to be able to fully utilise them. Force Edge didn't change to its true form because Arkham was weak and couldn't even control the power he unleashed. Also Force Edge again I would say needed someone from Sparda's bloodline to initiate the change.
Foxtrot94
Elite Hunter
Basically this.
Even in the game files (or maybe it was on the paper manual in the game box) it's said that the form Arkham acquired (the blob form) came out from the evil he held in his heart rather than the actual power of Sparda. Meaning that he didn't acquired that power (duh), and that's why the sword didn't transform.
Dante was able to turn Force Edge because he actually is capable of love and compassion and so on, you know the story. That made him worthy to awake Sparda sword. Most likely him belonging to the Sparda bloodline had a part too.
Also, being worthy of the sword thanks to human feelings plays a role in utilizing it at its full potential too, not only in activating it. Let's not forget that none of its wielders in the series, meaning Trish, Sanctus, and if you count Force Edge, Arkham, have been able to properly use the power of the sword. Only Dante in the first game could.
DragonMaster2010
Don't Let the Fall of America be Your Fall
I thought it was because in DMC3, Arkham threw away his own humanity and therefore, his ability to love, and that's what made it so incomplete. Vergil couldn't awaken it because he needed the other half of the amulet, but even then, he too probably couldn't open it, because he had no love in his heart to protect anyone and only wanted power--a power he wouldn't even get.
in DMC4, the sword was already released with the amulets and Dante's bloodline put into it. However that's all that's been released; just its cosmetic form, but not the true power that comes with it. This can only come with the love for humanity and the will to protect not out of fame like Sanctus did, but to protect out of actual love from the heart.
This is one of the reasons I think Trish can use it and utilize its power.
in DMC4, the sword was already released with the amulets and Dante's bloodline put into it. However that's all that's been released; just its cosmetic form, but not the true power that comes with it. This can only come with the love for humanity and the will to protect not out of fame like Sanctus did, but to protect out of actual love from the heart.
This is one of the reasons I think Trish can use it and utilize its power.
berto
I Saw the Devil
Everyone keeps overlooking the fact that devil arms are not just clunks of metal. they, too, have souls and even wills of their own.
I have to look up where I read it but the reason Dante can't devil trigger with Sparda in DMC1 is because it's waiting to confront that one enemy. It won't release its full power against anyone else.
I have to look up where I read it but the reason Dante can't devil trigger with Sparda in DMC1 is because it's waiting to confront that one enemy. It won't release its full power against anyone else.
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Absent Nova
Phantom Thief
Because Arkham is a scrub and Dante and Trish are awesome.
Foxtrot94
Elite Hunter
Well actually he outsmarted everyone in DMC3 xD
DragonMaster2010
Don't Let the Fall of America be Your Fall
alright, a smart scrub, but a scrub no less