What is it you don't find realistic?
He's held his dead mother in his arms when he was a child.
He doesn't seem to know who his father is.
He's been raised at an orphanage.
He's been tortured at the orphanage.
He's posted in the media as a terrorist.
He's hunted by demons.
All things considered, don't you find the way Dante is as realistic? When thinking about the things he's been through?
He knows demons are producing this Virility stuff to control humans, so he slaps it out of some fat guys hand and tells him to quit drinking it or else it would kill him.
He knows the bouncer works for the demons, so he smacks him up when he won't let him in.
He gives the cameras the finger and throws bricks at them to provoke the demons who are watching him.
He's angry, he hates demons, he has authority issues, he deals with this reality he lives in by being sarcastic and being a smartass, and he knows that he has supernatural powers, so he provokes the demons who are after him to get some of all that frustration out, picking fights with them, not just because he knows that killing demons is the right thing to do, but because he gets some sadistic feeling of revenge out of it as well. The world is after him and he responds back in an aggressive way. The world he lives in has made him the asshole he appears to be in the game.
For someone who lives his life, then yeah, I really do think he acts in a realistic way.
Let us turn this around and let me ask you all this...
Considering Dante and the life he lives, what do you think would be the realistic way for him to be like?
Stop making such logical arguments.
All joking aside, I quite enjoyed this post, and am looking forward to many more like it.
People are just... people. You have to deal with the horrible, ugly, soul-crushing disasters that happen to you in life, even if it's in the worst possibly way. As long as you can escape it, you'll have to do whatever you can do just get out of it, or confront it, or do whatever else you feel like doing in the face of your problems.
And
who cares what other people think? They're not helping you. All you have in life is yourself, and maybe if your lucky, a few choice family members and friends.
Other than that, you're on your own.
Screw society.
Gotta agree with Berto., ZeroLove.
New Dante is just a character in a game. He's not a real person. No matter how hard NT tries with DmC, they can never recreate real human emotions into a character, because people react to things differently. Yes new Dante is a dramazation of people with a bad life, or as I call new Dante's life "His Fonz life," but people react to things differently then how new Dante reacts.
I'm black, I'vs seen how some people of my race are, and trust me, new Dante doesn't act like that.
But this isn't a "who's life has it worse" thread.
Good, I'm glad you said that.
Because personally, I think Karma is an equal-opportunity sort of b.astard. It doesn't really care who it screws over, Chris Rock rants be damned.
I haven't read all the posts, yet, but I'm going to reply to this.
I have known girls that fit that description. I was friends with one, once. She was angry at everything, swore almost all the time, did drugs, drank as often as she could, and slept with whatever guy or girl she could. That was in high school. Last I heard, not much had changed. Does that make her unrealistic? Even though she is a real person. She was a coward, and didn't have to deal with as much hell as this Dante, but that didn't change what she had become. She had friends that were the same way, some were even worse.
Saying that people like that are unrealistic is, as others have said, ignorance. And I didn't even grow up in a city. These girls were from small towns. So, remember, there are people just like him in the world. He's likely to change toward the end of the game since the story is about his progression.
Don't base his whole character on what you've seen, because that's not how he's going to be in the end.
Where is this girl and do you have her number??
...The trashier, the better. Bonus points if she was on Jerry Springer.
Anyway, you're right about this being about Dante's own personal journey, with his ego being just as much of a villain as Mundus is. It's kind of like Iron Man 2, but without it being a two-hour long trailer for The Avengers.
Yes, all of this. What's important here is how will that happen.
The whole game is a parody of our society, after all. It's exaggerated in a very visceral way and kind of fun and over the top if you ask me.
He's definitely a very unpolished guy and you can even see that in the way he moves in combat. In the GT Invisible Walls interview, doesn't that guy say that Vergil starts out telling him that he's destined for more? Dante is pretty much a wandering, violent dude with no purpose in the beginning of this story.
I'm Puerto Rican. I know this feels. This Dante is just a sad jerk compared to what real people do, unintentionally or not.
So, only Latinos "know how it is"?
Like I said, I'm pretty sure things gets real damn ugly for
everyone.
Ok, I'm half-kidding. I know that there's some-- ok, there's a
lot of truth to this.
Do you know what they call Medellin?
The Murder Capital of the World.
Do you know how many people you have to waste in order to get that title?
Anyway, back on topic:
While this world is over the top in this universe, it's still very much grounded in their perception of reality. It bends the rules just enough to make you think that it could happen in this world... while on acid.
I call it the "Shadowman Effect". It's very similar in the fact that while it took place in the real world, Shadowman had the ability to travel to the afterlife at will. And that's pretty much what happens here, with Limbo.
If I upset anyone with this post, I am sorry, and will immediately redact it. I only said these things purely for the sake of (poorly thought out) humor.
I said I can understand why a person would think all characters are unrealistic if all you read/watch/play is crazy over the top action stories with unrealistic characters. If that's all you ever get exposure to then of course that would shape your overall perception of the subject. I obviously play over the top games, I also read manga and pulp fiction. But I've also read classics and played games with great characterization, so I know it's possible. 
