In dmc 5 before the nightmare it is also explained that after that incident mundus minion find vergil first and not dante because dante changed name and vergil doesn't... However vergil was able to defeat his minions because he had inherited Yamato when he was very young... Also since dmc 5 seems to have make Canon some part of the dmc novels and dmc 3 manga, there is this flashback scene in the manga that is similar to the dmc 5 scene, Eva hide dante behind some stone and tell him to never come out, and to hide and run no matter what, in this scene vergil is not present but is in another place and it s shown to be fighting mundus minion alone but in the end as a child there was little he could have done and he is stabbed by them, however he managed to survive... So if we take this in account, dante was well protected by his mother who motivated him to survive and change name while vergil got to fight alone and since he was an emotional person, that event signed him for his life, and from that moment onward he only tryed to survive no matter what, even by doing bad things... Also how do people address the anime episode 8 in all of Dante past? A mean that episode is pretty vague about the fact that Antony and dante are the same person or not, however by the end of the episode we can assume that they are one and the same, but it's strange since they never mentioned vergil and since Eva and dante lived in that city for many years I wonder were vergil was, and why Dante called himself antony, the only explanation I have is this: the dmc 5 flashback happened, dante go by himself and changed name in antony Redgrave, he was adopted by a women and they want to live in the city of episode 8 of the anime, than after fire trowing demon assaulted the city antony understand That he must run again like his mother told him... So the only explanation for me is that the women who sayd to be antony mother was not Eva but someone who adopted him after she died in Redgrave city...