Well, you may be right. Like if Dante actually meets him while travelling throught the hell or something. Tho whenever DmC2 will see the light of day is the whole other question now, seeing the sales...
I guess he was the general, leading the army into the fight, as well as a heavy-hitter, taking on the ones like Beowulf and etc. while soldiers were facing lesser demons. Also I think that the thing that made him a legend was the fact that he was a Demon, being able to fall in love with a human women and fight for her against his own kind.
Same here, would love to see Sparda kicking ass in the large scale all out war against the demon forces...
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