Not explaining something to you does not make it a plot hole, no matter how badly you want an explanation to be there. If I rewrite eva's story a bit, I can give you a more concrete example of what a plothole is supposed to look like
Plot hole:
Eva is a totally ordinary human. 2000 years ago she was personally there to help sparda fight the demons. 30 years ago she gave birth to sparda's sons. All three of these statements cannot be true at the same time; eva cannot be an ordinary human, while simultaneously being over 2000 years old, and no explanation can resolve this paradox. This would make it a plot hole.
Not a plot hole:
I don't know how Nero was born, or why dante changed his sign the second time.
It's not "not explaining it" it's that there's no explanation based on the established facts in the games that can resolve the contradiction - when would the human-hating Vergil have ever shacked up with someone in order to sire Nero? Everything shows him not caring about his human side or progeny, only getting Sparda's power. Why would Dante have changed his sign back after the phrase had such an impact on him? Or the contradiction that in DMC1 we're told Vergil died along with Eva, and yet DMC3 plays out as if he's been alive and well for some time, apparently making babies for some reason. You're conveniently not answering these.
People question why and how Vergil is Nero's father because it doesn't make any goddamn sense given Vergil's character, and the fact that given pretty much all logical timelines, he would have had to impregnate a woman when he was in his early teens (if I remember correctly), or given DMC1, he's supposed to be
dead.
When old vergil made a bid for sparda's power, he invited every demon, hunter, and even his brother to come try to stop him, his plan being to kill everyone who challenged him and then take the power as his prize. Sure, it's not the best plan and it would be way easier to do something sneaky, but in his eyes anything less of proving his absolute strength wouldn't have been the right way to claim the power of his father.
That is 100% pure headcanon you just said. That is not at all what the game nor any canonical material tells us. He didn't invite anyone to do anything, let alone to challenge him. He raised Temen-ni-gru for his own purposes, which inadvertently unleashed demons on the city. He begrudgingly accepted Arkham's help until he no longer needed it - whereupon he killed the guy. He "invited" Dante only because he needed his amulet, and ironically his invitation forced Dante to either get to the top of the tower where Vergil would trounce him and take the amulet (like he did), or die during his ascent, allowing for both easy pick up of the amulet and a minimal amount of effort on Vergil's part.
The fact that new vergil left these courses of action as his only available options is downright laughable. His only option was to hide in the shadows his whole life, make his brother do all the dirty work, use humans to gather intel, and then **** off his enemy with an underhanded trick so his brother would have an easier time? Those were his only options because he is weak.
Those were not his only options "because he was weak". They weren't even his only options, he just
preferred to play things close to his chest, hiding his identity, his power, and his race to help his plan along, and avoid drawing undue attention his way. Subtlety and subterfuge can go a long way in helping a plan to fruition, sometimes in ways brute force won't do. You can't claim he's weak because his way of doing things lacked him showing off, especially when
Vergil's Downfall clearly shows he's more than capable of dispatching demons just as Dante is - when seemingly wounded, even.
Don't confuse inaction with inability.
Oh, ok. From what I've seen I unerstood it differently, but maybe I mosunderstood it as child being part of giant plan, which will make question why he even need this plan. From it I can also finally understand why he still banged Lilith in the first place.
It certainly wasn't for her good looks :vomit: Well, maybe it was, people have
weird attractions sometimes.
Mundus didn't really have a plan anymore, since he's been living it for the past several millenia, reaping the rewards.
IT's nowhere on par with it. Seriously anybody with basic understanding of writing can see it. In case of Echidna it was giant tree-snake producing offsprings endlessly every 10 seconds. She didn't tries to protect them. She only gets ****ed at Dante/Nero. In case of Lilith it's much more grounded version of pregnant woman and it was her only child. Who Vergil killed why Lilith was completely helpless and done it from behind. Which is far. far worse than DMC4.
The old woman literally cried, why Vergil laughed at it....Did you forgot it? Sadism can be psychological too, it doesn't necessary have to be physical
It's demon killers killing demons. Both had just used their offspring in an attempt to kill them before, and despite Echidna wailing about her dead children whom she launched endlessly like ammunition, Lilith was wailing about losing her favor with Mundus, not at the loss of "her child", but at the loss of her ticket to the easy life. Echidna, in spite of how liberally she tossed around her seedlings, was given the capacity to care about them as her young, and her wailing over this is muted with a bullet. Lilith, who previously showed next to
no regard for Killing Face by forcing it to fight, berating it when it failed, and even stated that she didn't care about the child beyond anything more than as a way to stay in Mundus' favor, has her wailing over the loss of that favor muted with a bullet.
Yeah sure, she was shot while defenseless, but why is this even an issue? Because it's "not cool"? It's not supposed to be, but it still served a purpose. It was a conniving b!tch getting what was coming to her, delivered by a guy who was just as, if not more, conniving as her. Just desserts, really.
