Anti-Hero: Less interested in being a hero than taking his anger out on all the demons who made his childhood a living hell.Always Save the Girl: He adamantly refuses to abandon Kat after Mundus captures her and butts heads with Vergil repeatedly when he is ready to write her off and believe they can't save her.The Alcoholic: Comes across as this in the opening, chugging it down in a nightclub, throwing a bottle at a bartender (after he sees a demon behind him), and taking a swig after a hangover.Air-Dashing: Dante can perform an airborne dash using his Angelic powers.Age Lift: In the main continuity, Dante is the younger twin.Here he's a half-angel/half-demon Nephilim. Adaptation Species Change: A Half-Human Hybrid in his original incarnation.Other than the Healing Factor, all it does here is freeze time for his opponents- possibly a reference to the Quicksilver style from DMC3. The original Dante could use his DT to morph into a demonic form that granted him enhanced strength, agility, the ability to fly and regenerate health. Adaptational Superpower Change: His Devil Trigger.
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However, with his continuous usage of his Devil Trigger, his hair becomes a full white by the end of the story. Adaptation Dye-Job: Dante has black hair this time, whereas Vergil keeps the white hair.His Devil Trigger merely slows down time for his enemies in this version, something far less impressive than the power boost the original Dante gained from his DT.He's still able to do ridiculous feats, but they are slightly more grounded in actual physics (slightly), and his Devil/Angel Arms manifest as comparably Boring, but Practical weapons. He instead fights with a wild, unpolished, clearly self-taught style. While Dante is still certainly one of the most powerful beings in the setting, able to kill thousands of demons and look good doing it, he doesn't do so with the effortless, almost bored, grace of his classic counterpart.Adaptational Jerkass: He's much more brash, foul-mouthed, crude, and anti-social than the original Dante.Now he fights to rid the city of tyranny.
Dante grew up in various institutions, orphanages, youth correction facilities, and foster homes, but these were mostly operated by demons, and often resulted in torture and violence. The main character of DmC, Dante is the son of a demon named Sparda and an angel named Eva. "My name, by the way, is Dante! But you can call me 'Dante the Demon Killer'! Has a nice ring to it, don't you think?"