Because if you WANT to see him dishonourable and it fits your fiction, doesn't change how he described in game, you know
There's a difference between seeing something that isn't there, and understanding someone's actions and calling it out by definition.
Nothing shows otherwise. And don't start with excuses like "stabbed helpless man AKA Arkham".
His
actions show otherwise! Literally everything he
does in DMC3 is dishonorable - and you can't wave "stabbing Arkham" away when it's one of the main tenants of his total lack of honor. If he was as honorable as people think he is, then he wouldn't have killed him unarmed and unaware, he wouldn't have threatened humanity by raising Temen-ni-gru and unleashing demons, he wouldn't have selfishly used everyone he ever met to further his goals. Vergil is not honorable, he a flippin' sociopath to the nth degree.
Dante has said he's honorable. The excuse that he's using the term wrong makes no sense.
It totally makes sense, considering he never does anything honorable to support the notion in the game where it's said, and actively does the opposite in DMC3. I guess you could argue he actually
is more-so in DMC1 because he's been brainwashed and whatnot, but that's about it. He's a bit more...respectful, at most.
Also - I would
love for someone to toss some actual points at me instead of saying I'm just wrong on my own point. And please don't get me wrong, I'm not saying this as some standoffish "prove me wrong, bishes~" I legitimately would like to see these points because I'm curious and
want to see the other side of this particular discussion, and it always bugs me when people don't :/
Honor is about respect, both given and demanded in return; it's about
face, one's dignity and social reputation; Vergil has absolutely no use for honor (a seemingly very
human concept, beeteedubz) because he both uses people for his own gain regardless of their well-being, and actively gives exactly zero
curly tops about what other people think of him.
Then take it at face value. The series' canon is much less complicated and contradictory than most.
It's...pretty jiggered for what little there actually is that's not following the same formula. Especially when all the supplemental material can't keep itself in line. However, that's why the initial products, the games, take precedence over all else, even if they tend to contradict each other in certain ways.
That's one of the most basic facets of canon. New information overrides and retcons old information. That's just how it works. And honestly, you have nothing to support the idea that the comic isn't canon other than your own opinion of events.
Retcons
need to fit within the framework of what came before it, despite what it's changing or revealing. They become justifications for existing information without drastically altering the source - like how Vergil ends up stuck in Hell and lose to Mundus, becoming Nelo Angelo, instead of the previous belief of him being brainwashed as a kid. If something can't uphold those guidelines, it becomes a contradiction of information - like if suddenly Dante's hair was bright pink and everyone addressed him like it always had been, or
actively mentions it like it's always been that way.
You taking in all new information is surely alright, no one can stop you after all, but given the contradictory and non-canonical nature of a lot of the supplemental material, it's just a little hard to swallow.
Dante and Nelo Angelo havin' a little chitchat in the comic is actually pretty cool, but it completely contradicts what the game has shown of the character, and none of the games that take place chronologically after it take the information divulged solely in the comics into consideration. Woulda been nice though. Maybe it's because the comics were seemingly written, in English, apart from anyone at Capcom in order to make money off of merchandise, not to expand on the story or lore like an Ultimania.
Not to mention, the creators of the comic proooobably took a few
artistic liberties (as artists do) in order to actually make the story more worthwhile, since there's no awesome gameplay to fall back on.
Vergil's cutscenes in Devil May Cry 3 Special Edition were taken directly from the manga, with only minor stylistic changes like the way he wore his hair.
The first volume of the manga seems to have come out after the first game. Special Edition may have come out a bit after the second volume (dates are fuzzy, half my library is back home :/), but Special Edition takes the concept of Vergil and Arkham's meeting, not directly takes it from the manga. If it was a direct takeaway, there would have been that demon lady that Vergil killed, and then it moves directly into Vergil standing at the base of Temen-ni-gru, no quest of unlocking seals that's depicted in the manga. Man...still wish those volumes would have continued, honestly :/ Maybe it would have explained the "It's been a year since we last met" line.
Also, just a random thought
because of the comic panels shown. For some reason I had always thought of Nelo Angelo's face as just being a faceplate on his helmet >.< I'm not sure how I feel about the idea of it being an actual face. Maybe it's because it never shows emotion...?
