The appearance of Sparda.

[ZeroLove]

I have looked around for images of Sparda and found different versions of how his appearance should be. I have always thought he looked like he did in Devil May Cry 3:

And his demon form:

But other pictures have him look like this:

From what I get, all the above pictures are considered to be official, but why is there such a huge difference between the two human forms? And which one do you like the best?

 

[Tony_Redgrave]

Originally the first - and most well known - costume was supposed to be Dante. At some point the first Devil May Cry would be cut into two parts. In the first half we'd have the usual Dante, carefree and red-coated as usual, then somewhere in the middle of the game, "something" bad would happen, and Dante would revert to becoming more serious about Devil Hunting and his heritage, adopting that costume. That's why even he is looking like a Dante/Vergil with different clothes and hairstyle. I don't know whether he would really have a monocle or use the extra weapons he uses in DMC1 (Luce&Ombra and Yamato) but that's the story. However as you all know this kind of story wasn't followed up in the end and Dante remained Dante, with this version becoming "Sparda".

The 2nd picture is from the first DevilMayCry concept art book. Back from their early ideas. However in the end Sparda became how we know him to be and so in the same book, you can see pictures of Sparda in which he's like that too:

 

[Laurence Barnes]

when i first saw spardas human form (first picture) i thought it was vergil because of the hair but then i saw that he had force edge so i thought dante dressed all strange until i saw his dt then i knew

 

[Subject 64432B]

His DMC3 appearance doesn't differ much from Vergil's looks.....so I wouldn't take it for granted.
I prefer the look from Tony's post.

 

[DeamonslayeR]

i think the second human form picture was before he met eva and when he saw her he mustve thought "im not gonna get that hotstuff lookin like this" and so getting a haircut,shampooing it and getting some new duds and voila

 

[Laurence Barnes]

His DMC3 appearance doesn't differ much from Vergil's looks.....so I wouldn't take it for granted.
I prefer the look from Tony's post.

well i prefer his demon look overall XD

 

[Subject 64432B]

well i prefer his demon look overall XD

That "fly" thingy just didn't get to me xD
Hate that look

 

[Laurence Barnes]

That "fly" thingy just didn't get to me xD
Hate that look

or me cuz it made him look a bit like some sort of giant bug

 

[Subject 64432B]

or me cuz it made him look a bit like some sort of giant bug

I'm afraid of bugs xD
And Sparda deserves more badass DT than some bug thing.

 

[Laurence Barnes]

I'm afraid of bugs xD
And Sparda should have more badass DT than some bug thing.

well it would look nice as the same but instead of bug like features he should look like a evil knight

 

[DeamonslayeR]

I'm afraid of bugs xD
And Sparda deserves more badass DT than some bug thing.

well something like the devil forms of jin and kazuyya in the new tekken cgi movie those were killer devil forms

 

[Subject 64432B]

well it would look nice as the same but instead of bug like features he should look like a evil knight

Like this ^^

 

[Laurence Barnes]

Like this ^^

how did i know you were going to post that XD

 

[DeamonslayeR]

Like this ^^

so we went from a fly to a BAT......MAN XD

 

[Subject 64432B]

This one's not bad either:

No flies or bats.
And his sword looks kinda badass.

 

[DeamonslayeR]

This one's not bad either:

No flies or bats.
And his sword looks kinda badass.

lol hahahahahahaha the shoes

 

[Laurence Barnes]

This one's not bad either:

No flies or bats.
And his sword looks kinda badass.

kiiiinda XD more badass dude XD

 

[Laurence Barnes]

KA POW BADASS!!!!

 

[DeamonslayeR]

KA POW BADASS!!!!

OK NOW THAT IS THE SH!!!!!!!T

 

[Laurence Barnes]

OK NOW THAT IS THE SH!!!!!!!T

uhuh and it took me 2 minutes to find XD