#dmc franchise

[a-bluedream-posts]

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[renvy-art]

most unserious duel for the fate of the world ever

version w/o text bubbles under readmore :3

[3142-redgrave-avenue]

Welp its over for ikemen 2007 anime dante. Goodbye. So long, your google image results. I will miss you and cherish every frame i have left before April 2025.

The time has come, my handsome devil.

[storytellering]

Do you think DMC has a incestuous subtext? I am kind of new to the franchise (and also the fandom... Which isn't really respectful that I can see) and I want to know if I am not the only one who thinks that it's pretty obvious why the ships between DVN have many believers.

First of all, welcome to DMC, anon! And OH BOY, you'll definitely find that that's the majority opinion, at least within the Spardacest circles - honestly, most "normie" circles too. Every grass-touching, non-internet poisoned dudebro I've ever met and talked dmc with has made one or two incest jokes at me about it, definitely noting how the rivalry between the twins is very charged - the only people I've found who flat out deny it are the antis. To go more in depth about the actual subtext there - well, one should start with the roots of dmc in dmc1, right? DMC1 is definitely a gothic game - it's everywhere in the aesthetics, the inspirations, the imagery and the environment, and what is gothic horror without the incest? The initial incest in Kamiya's dmc, before Itsuno stepped in, was definitely obvious in Dante and Trish (who I'm pretty sure according to kamiya at least were supposed to be endgame) - and like, c'mon. You can say all you want that she only looks like his mom, she isn't actually Eva, she doesn't even have her personality... but from a moral perspective, that's still weird as fuck if we're going by real life standards, right? You wouldn't fuck a clone of your mom without it being at least a little bit incestuous.

Then Itsuno stepped in from 3 on, and the incestuous undertones became more focused on the immediate Sparda family - the twins, and eventually, Nero.

...Do I need to even explain it? Sure, in 3 the twins bicker and banter like real brothers, but there's definitely a suggestive edge to it - so many quips between them that really cannot be explained by "oh haha brotherly banter" without it getting at least a little bit weird. Not to mention all the "impalement as penetration" comparisons that can be drawn, and I'll leave a nice little video that goes deeper into a lot of that (as well as the gothic inspirations in the dmc franchise) so you can hear it from the mouth of someone far more eloquent than me.

And then in 4... I mean, if the amount of people who almost ubiquitously shipped Dante and Nero as soon as 4 dropped and continued doing so until 5 officially confirmed their relation (which, to be fair, Nero being Dante's nephew had actually been hinted at all along, but exactly because of so many people shipping them and not wanting it to be incestuous/the dudebros not liking Nero very much when 4 was new, pretty much everyone in the english speaking side of the fandom had been in denial about it until 5 spelled it out in big, bold letters) is kind of the test, no? That the tension and chemistry is so obvious the moment the incest element is hidden or unclear, everyone is suddenly in agreement about it. I could go on and on and on about Nero's obvious puppy crush/hero worship on Dante, Dante's immediate fondness of Nero, how if you read the 4 novels it's even more blatant and in your face... but all I'm gonna say is that that initial fight scene was softcore porn and no one can convince me otherwise, lmao. Listen, I'm just saying that if the intention wasn't to be suggestive, having Nero wrap his legs around Dante to pull him closer, bite his gun, and then straddle him like that was a very poor choice. Honorable mention for the reboot, whose devs were VERY aware of the tension between the Spardas in the og franchise, called it out by saying their game wasn't gonna do "all that gay shit" (obviously in the early 2010s the issue wasn't the incest, but it being GAY incest 🙄) and then accidentally made their version of the twins SO very....... whatever the hell is going on with the reboot twins. Not not-incestuous and definitely not straight, I'll tell you that.

And then 5, again. Do I need to explain it? Nero and V are, once again, a perfect textbook example of "couple that had so much natural chemistry everyone was flocking to it before it was revealed to be incest", plus the way everything about Dante's story, at the end, now that he's a weathered old man, is made to revolve around Vergil... yes, Dante is a depressed old alcoholic because he pushed everyone away, because of the laundry list of issues he ended up with because of everything that happened in his life, BUT Vergil was always front and center within it, even when he wasn't there. That Dante's story quite literally begins and ends with Vergil... well. I dunno about you, that just doesn't feel like your regular siblings dynamic. Also another honorable mention: "I'll make you submit" is a totally normal thing to say to your estranged father. Not weird at all with absolutely zero implications. OH, not to mention, even if we stay purely within canon and don't even look deeper at any implications or subtext... the literal only canon couple is incestuous, too. Let's not forget Kyrie and Nero are adopted siblings, Nero was raised as her brother, and the game itself calls it out in the character descritption (in 4's character bios it says Kyrie is at once Nero's "lover and family") + it's quite literally spelled out in the novels (having Nero think that "well, while it's true that he's been raised with Kyrie as siblings, he would've liked her even if they weren't family"). There's SO much more I could still go into, I have quite literally spent the past 3 years replaying the games over and over and overthinking/hyperanalizing every single frame, rereading the novels and the mangas to the point I could cite them by memory, and it's just... I dunno. I saw someone else say this somewhere, but if you're into DMC and grossed out by incest... this might not be the franchise for you.

[alicethenobody]

I will always find it funny how Ninja Theory was like “We don’t want OUR Dante to be a gay cowboy we need to make sure he appears as heterosexual as possible.” And then look what Capcom put in DMC5…

[grinkubus]

my hot take is that vergil being a woman would've made more sense character and plot wise, change my mind

[femaleboysblog]

i want moots so please like if you enjoy:

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[doomedtoxicyuri333]

guys are we Cooked lets be honest here

[ridgystacis]

that single tweet from johnny yong bosch is about to ruin my life until april cause before they had my curiosity but now they have my attention

[muse-write]

I’ve gotten through the stupid Leviathan’s Heart level and I’m now on the much more fun vampire bat opera singer level (for anyone unfamiliar with DMC that is not the weirdest thing in this game). And I’m figuring out combos and weapon switching, I feel so cool!!! I spent a good hour tonight just reloading the same basic enemy corridor so I could practice combos and I killed so many things in so many cool ways, I’m finally getting the most out of the game! I keep dying to Nevan but that’s just a given whenever I fight a boss because I’m terrible at video games.

[meri-meri-mwah]

I can't be the only one who gets the biggest whiplash when I realize that majority of the DMC games are from early to late 2000s (2001-2008).

And the only "recent" one we have is from 2019.

I mean, this could be a good opportunity to think about potential remakes.

[undefeatablesin]

WIP update on the 6 fanart meme lmao 🫡✨️

[scalproie]

BOND WITH YOUR DAD THE OLD FASHIONED WAY

go on a roadtrip

(gently) bully his pets

show your shared distaste of smoking

go to the theatre

have him show you his childhood playgrounds

play catch

save him from the demon sorceress responsible for the raid on his home back when he was 8 and then support him as his body slowly crumbles into dust

inadvertently help him reunite with the Demon King, his former body, half of his soul, and incarnation of his demonic nature

be confused when the stranger emerging from this union express gratitude toward you

find out he was your father all along

what the fuck

call your gf

stop an old family argument with rational words

PUNCH YOUR UNCLE

SUPLEX YOUR DAD

hold onto your father's favorite childhood book, an object so meaningful and important to him, he consider it the keepsake of his humanity, that he now entrust to you, symbolizing he not only recognize and accept you as his own, but that you yourself are your father's humanity, his son, that he admit defeat to and promise to come back to

read the book on the ride home to feel closer to your dad

get bullied by your friend

decide to deal with your feelings by some good cathartic work-related violence on invasive species

[folksy]

i looove resident evil and i have for years so i would always love to talk about it .. ummmm right now im into rhett & link .. they provide me with some much needed joy

omg I need someone to talk to resident evil with…. so I bought the origins collection for my switch in early 2022 but didn’t finish them until later in the year. I finished 0 first which I realize is something I shouldn’t have done given it expects you to have played 1 and 2 first. then in march of last year I got the rest of the games available for the switch (4/5/6 trilogy, and 2r, 3r, 7, and village). I was playing 4 for the first time when the remake came out which I really feel highlights my relation to current culture lol but I did it and all the RE engine games last spring/summer. I had started 5 and 6 (literally had only started the prologue in 6 though) and didn’t finish them until this past summer. this summer I also played the original 2, 3, and cvx. I just finished the original 1 the other day. have watched all the cgi movies this year. so I’m a much newer fan but I’m very invested!! I wish I had gotten into them sooner (especially since I got all the gamecube games which are so expensive now complete in box). I am excited to see what the next game will be like since we’re done with the winters (I haven’t finished the rose dlc yet). if they’re going to use existing characters instead of making another new protagonist I wouldn’t be surprised if we got a jill and chris game like I know leon is really hot rn because of the remakes but jill and chris are the poster children of resident evil. to me. it’s been so long since jill has had a game (outside of her remake), the 30th anniversary of the first game is coming up, and even though they haven’t been the focus of 7 and village, there has been BSAA stuff going on which has been the main thing tying those games to pre-RE engine resident evil until the whole spencer and umbrella reveal in village. I am also interested in how the remake timeline is going to pan out as given the ending of 4r and separate ways, they’re going in a different direction with 5r.

I sometimes see rhett and link stuff come up on youtube and will watch it (like shorts). I remember I watched them when they had like maybe a couple hundred thousand followers? maybe even less than that so it’s so crazy seeing how many they have now and knowing they’re prolific enough to buy smosh

[malewifehenrycooldown]

was watching someone’s let’s play of ninja gaiden black to gage whether or not it’s a game for me and… oh boy… they weren’t lying about it being the dark souls of its day…

[akkivee]

mc rip i think should do a collab with bad ass temple lol