Sparda was a demon, he turned out to just be an average guy who could love and lived with his family.
I've said multiple times I'm not saying Dante should be some amazing hero. But they shouldn't play him up as a hero while he has these massive moral imbalances that they don't even address.
I don't know why you think it's okay to kill something because it had bad parents.
Well for one he isn't the literal anti-christ. Mundus can be compared to Satan but this isn't accurate to the bible.
I agree, I just think there needed to be more tension built up to Vergil's betrayal.
Mundus would be dead before he could raise the kid and there's nothing stopping them from just taking the baby from Lilith.
Neither are bad ideologies it's when it goes too far where it becomes insidious.
No, the problem is that you have no clue if the demon baby will destroy the world and it being a demon isn't really relevant because demon's have conscious thoughts and as shown by Sparda can just be normal people.
Well yes, because then it would have been grown up and made its own choice. The problem is pre-emptively killing it only based on "I don't like the parents."
Yup, I kind of wonder how many lives were lost when Dante and Vergil unsealed the gate to Hell and unleashed demons around the world though. Ah, well #DEMONS #YOLO
And doing what with it? It clearly wanted to kill Dante. I doubt it would allow itself to be taken by them. And then if it grew up and discovered that Dante and Vergil killed Mummy and Daddy, the whole revenge killing cycle would start again.
Based on basic emotion and coaxing by its mother. I don't think it would be able to resist much.
No it wouldn't. Not everybody is a psychopath like Dante and Vergil and if it did then they'd be justified in killing it.
So if it can't resist, then surely it is evil before birth. It is connected to the mother, shares Lilith's desire to kill Dante. Therefore, it is evil.
They are not psychopaths.Why does very argument you make hinge on Vergil, not Dante, killing a demon spawn? Vergil saw it as the greter good, most of the gmaers also see the killing for the greater good. That is the whole point of this game. To encourage discussion on the perception of right and wrong and the moral grey area inbetween. Whta you see as wrong, other people see as justified.
yes they should play him off as the hero if he's flawed and every decision doesn't have a good outcome, its called depth, its like saying spiderman shouldn't be played off as a hero when he decides to not stop the robber in his origin, he's still the hero because of what he BECOMES LATER, and in the situation, addressing the killing of a demon who btw was twenty feet tall before its even born and is sentient enough to respond to dante's presence and want to kill him is not bad storytelling, like i said, most people would rather dante and vergil having a playful conversation instead of an anime style conversation where their arguing could potentially compromise the mission because of their conflicting views
I'm not, I'm sharing my opinion. What's the issue here?
I've responded to all of these points already. What exactly is wrong with discussion?
It wasn't even capable of actual thought and it did its actions based on instinct and basic emotion.
Not really. Babies do a lot of strange things based on their ignorance. That doesn't mean anything for how they feel about it later in life.
Because Dante barely seemed to care and that's what the thread is about.
Well that's all well and good but they never really make a point or go anywhere with it so I doubt that was their intention.
Now that is a bogus assumption now that I replayed the boss fight it absolutely knows what lilith is saying during the combat Lilith gives that thing orders so its capable of understanding... So we can't even call it innocent
Thanks for the example. You see the difference between Peter not stopping the robber and Dante not stopping Vergil is Peter not stopping that robber is a big point in his story. It's a flaw, but they elaborate on it and make a point of it. It's brought up all the time in his comics, films and tv shows. It's bad storytelling because even though Dante has these issues they don't do anything with it like they do with Peter Parker.