History VideoGame / DevilMayCry3DantesAwakening

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The weird face-ball thing that Jester spawns. [[spoiler:The right side of its face has a red eye and a scarred face just like Arkham. And, for that matter, Jester's own heterochromia.]]

* HeadsIWinTailsYouLose: Vergil! Dante! ItMakesSenseInContext.

* {{Hellgate}}: Temen-ni-gru is more of a Hell''tower'', but it still opened a link to the Demon World with the Human World.
* {{Hellhound}}: Cerberus.

* HighSpeedMissileDodge[=/=]RocketRide: Surfing on a rocket. Plus the scene where Dante basically playfights with Lady, spinning through the air while she shoots at him, hitting only his coat.

* HumanMomNonhumanDad: Eva's the human and Sparda's the demon for Dante and Vergil.
* HyperspaceArsenal: This is true throughout the whole series, but especially blatant here. While Vergil's sword(s) are always present, and Lady has a pistol, a machine-gun, a crossbow thingymajig, and even a rocket launcher all clearly visible on her body... we also have Dante, who can carry three swords, giant three-sided nunchaku, a scythe-guitar, huge gauntlets and greaves, two pistols, a shotgun, a demonic laser gun, an anti-tank rifle, and a rocket launcher (Lady's, as mentioned)... on his back? Inside his coat? In his pants pockets? It's worth noting that Beowulf and Artemis will show on Dante's avatar at all times if he has them equipped, but supposedly he's got them on his person at all times, since he tends to whip out Rebellion in cutscenes whether or not you have it equipped.

* IcyBlueEyes: Vergil (playing piercing-ice straight).
* ILetYouWin: Jester in ''3: SE''.

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Dante gets approximately eight scythe blades through his body in the first cutscene. He's not really bothered that much by them.
** After their first duel, Vergil manages to stab Dante through the chest with both his own Yamato and Dante's own Rebellion.
* ImmuneToBullets: Used lightly in ''3'', but otherwise heavily subverted. In fact, inverted at least twice.
** Played straight during two of Lady's cutscenes with Dante, the first him getting shot in the head twice, and the second to the stomach, right before his fight with Lady.

** [[ThatOneAttack Vergil with Spiral Swords]], (un)fortunately only on DMD, will lay on the hurt if you let Dante get hit by them. Inverted with Beowulf, whose feathers of light will punish you for staying too far.
** You can damage enemies when you activate the Devil Trigger, but this is less of an instant death radius and more of an instant minor annoyance with very little knockback radius. However, this technique can be charged so that the resulting explosion deals considerable damage. At max charge, it IS an InstantDeathRadius for most [[ContractualBossImmunity non-boss]] non-[[TurnsRed Devil]] [[SuperMode Triggered]] enemies.
* InstrumentOfMurder: Nevan, a guitar that shoots lightning, controls bats, plays loud enough to kill demons, and turns into a scythe. No, we can't emphasize that enough.

* KatanasAreJustBetter: Yamato.

* TheLadysFavour: Lady handing Kalina Ann to Dante [[spoiler:with the request that he "free" her father]] is this minus, y'know, the whole love interest thing.
* LargeHam: Dante acts like a cocky sonofagun almost constantly during the story and relentlessly mocks or mouths off to giant terrifying monsters. In the opening cutscene, Dante isn't fighting so much as ''playing'' with his enemies.

* LightAndMirrorsPuzzle: In order to make story progress as well the extra goodie.

* MalevolentArchitecture: Pretty much the entire tower of Temen-ni-gru, which was basically built to be as demonic as possible. But the most appropriate example is in one of the hallways. You thought those wall-saw-blades were annoying during fights when they were on the walls? [[FromBadToWorse Heh]].
* MarathonBoss: Vergil at the end of ''3'' is this, at least the first time. If you don't deal him enough damage when his guard is open (which is not often), they will be nullified quickly since he heals when in Devil Trigger. Of course, he is even less open when his health is low. And that's in Normal mode; in Dante Must Die, let's just say he's an endless nightmare.

* MeleeATrois: Between Dante, Vergil, and Lady, until [[spoiler:Arkham]] shows up and forces them all to work together.

** There's also the literal Doppelganger boss.

* NintendoHard: The initial Western release actually ''removed'' the Easy mode and the other difficulties all ranked down ''in name'' to compensate; so Normal mode was actually the ''Hard mode from the Eastern release''. When the ''Special Edition'' was released later, the difficulties were kept the same as the Japanese release. As the Western "Hard" difficulty had no analogous equivalent in the Japanese version, it was given the new title "Very Hard" in ''Special Edition''.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Jester; [[spoiler:he is later revealed to be Arkham and masterminded the MeleeATrois between Dante, Vergil, and Lady]].

* OffhandBackhand: The "shoot in two different directions simultaneously" variant.
** Vergil does one to the Hell Vanguard that Dante defeated to [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness dispatch it]].

* OneToMillionToOne: Nevan teleports across her room (read: battle arena) by dissolving into bats.

* PainfulTransformation: Limited; Dante howls in pain during his first chronological Devil Trigger usage, but never does so again during subsequent uses.
** During one of the later cutscenes, Temen-ni-gru starts moving, morphing Dante in and out of his Devil Trigger form repeatedly. He looks around, apparently more interested in falling dust and the tower's shaking than his own changing body.

* PercussiveMaintenance: Dante to his jukebox in the beginning, although he does leave a dent in it. Later, he needs to operate a machine to open the cage containing the next plot coupon. The machine's key is actually an ornamental spear. So he stabs the machine with the spear and, when nothing happens, kicks it. It works.

* PolarOppositeTwins: Dante and Vergil.

* ThePowerOfRock: Nevan.

* RazorWind: Dante's Drive and Vergil's Judgement Cut.

* ReducedToDust: Most of the demon mooks dissolves into sand upon defeat, particularly the Hell types.

* SandInMyEyes: "It's only the rain."
* SealedBadassInACan: Sparda's power.
* SecretAIMoves: Vergil has these.
* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:Lady.]]

* SerratedBladeOfPain: Agni and Rudra.

* SharedUnusualTrait: Lady and Arkham have heterochromia, which indicates [[spoiler:that they're ''related'', and that relation pretty much is why she is even ''there''.]]
** Similarly, [[spoiler: Jester and the moon face in his boss fights also having heterochromia foreshadows his relationship to Arkham. The moon face even has similar burn scars to Arkham.]]
* ShieldedCoreBoss: Leviathan's Heartcore is encased in a hard shell that opens up for a short time when one of two adjacent organs is destroyed and before it regenerates.

* ShirtlessScene: The first mission, as well as the Coatless costume.

* ShoutOut: The achievement in the HD version for defeating Arkham is "[[Franchise/{{Batman}} Asylum]]"; it's possible that the character was originally named after said asylum. Additionally, Jester was originally going to be named after ComicBook/TheJoker.

** However, it's implied that the two were like this (well, minus the ass-kicking) before they drifted apart.

* SpinToDeflectStuff: One of Vergil's moves.

* TheStoic: Vergil, though he does [[NotSoStoic snap on occasion]].

* SuperMode: Devil Trigger.

* TearsOfBlood: One of the puzzles.

** {{Gluttony}}: Their blowing breath are meant to keep the gluttonous away from comfort and indulgence.

* SexIsViolence: Dante and Nevan's boss battle. Their pre-fight [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything cutscene looks more like a prostitute propositioning a john in a brothel]], she taunts him by calling him "sugar", [[OrgasmicCombat makes noises that sound like she's climaxing]], can replenish her health by kissing Dante and after being defeated compliments Dante while he holds her in a lover's embrace.

* InterplayOfSexAndViolence: Dante and Nevan's boss battle. Their pre-fight [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything scene looks more a prostitute propositioning a john]], she taunts him by calling him "sugar", [[OrgasmicCombat makes noises that sound like she's climaxing]], can replenish her health by kissing Dante and after being defeated compliments Dante while he holds her in a lover's embrace.

* AlreadyUndoneForYou: Played straight. For most of the game, Dante try to reach Vergil and Arkham at the top of the tower, yet all obstacles and puzzles are left untouched.

* BadassLongcoat: Dante and Vergil.
* BadassNormal: Lady, who makes her way in the world of demon-slaying through judicious application of GunFu.
* BaldOfEvil: Arkham.

** Played completely straight by Jester when Vergil attempts to attack him.

* BattleInTheRain: The first Vergil battle.

* BelligerentSexualTension: The relationship between Dante and Lady. Granted, they didn't become the OfficialCouple, but which has so far for Dante?

* BlackBlood: Some of the demons are made of and bleed ''sand''.
* BladeBrake: Lady with her bayonet.

* BrickJoke: ''3'' follows up on the "Jackpot!" brick from ''1'', with Vergil getting in on the action as he and Dante deal the killshot. The subtext is that Dante and Vergil started out in the demon slaying business together, and "Jackpot!" was something they liked to say. Which adds a ton of subtext to the use in the first game, considering Dante is saying it to the guy who possessed and caused the death of his brother...

* BulletCatch: Vergil's Yamato-spinny move.

* BulletDancing: Inverted when Dante uses it against the villainous Jester. Parodied when Jester starts doing the Charleston.
** In the bonus boss fights against Jester, he does this whenever you attempt to shoot him, though after a few shots he's tired out and left wide open for some sword hits.

* ByThePowerOfGreyskull: Averted - Vergil's soundbite prior to Devil Trigger signifies the usage of a move, not the DT itself that can be done wordlessly, plus Dante and Playable Vergil don't say anything while [=DTing=] either.
** Played straight with Vergil's pre-(Super) Devil Trigger soundbite ("You're going ''down''", for those wondering) in Mission 20, in that he never [=DTs=] without saying it.

* CaptainObvious: Jester.
-->'''Jester:''' You're not going to shoot me, are you? If you do, I'll die, you know.
* CardCarryingVillain: Arkham.
* CarFu: Dante uses Lady's motorbike to drive up Temen-ni-gru's outer wall, falls towards it for a short distance, and then is besieged in midair by Blood-goyles. So he beats all of them up with the motorbike, [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments which explodes shortly after he lands, leaving only the handlebars]].
* CatchAndReturn: Vergil does this in a cutscene. That is, he catches and returns [[BulletCatch bullets]], [[CutscenePowerToTheMax With his sword]].

* ChekhovsGun: The Damned Chessmen are a common threat throughout the tower. [[spoiler:In Mission 18, you finally square off with the entire chess board, king included.]]

* CloseRangeCombatant: Swordmaster is a style for those who like using Devil Arms. Sacrificing ranged damage for pure, brutal swordplay, Swordmaster users are not to be trifled with. Hitting the Style button will allow you to perform a Devil Arm move, and can change up how a weapon functions. Leveling it up unlocks more moves.

* CompetitiveBalance: Whether it’s comparing the different ways Dante can deal out the hurt with his various weapons or styles or just comparing him to other playable characters. Actual ''tournaments'' have been held around getting the best score in ''3''.

* ConflictKiller: [[spoiler:Arkham]]. The conflict picks up ''immediately'' after [[spoiler:the [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome awesome]] RivalsTeamUp]].

* CosmeticallyAdvancedPrequel: ''3'' is set before ''1'', yet the controls are significantly more elaborate in ''3'', leaving Dante — by comparison — positively arthritic in the original.

* CreativeClosingCredits: Where you have to kill as many demons as possible as a timer winds down while the credits roll. If you kill 100 enemies before the end, you'll see a secret scene.

* CripplingOverspecialization: Doppelganger is the last style obtained by Dante over the course of the game, and summons a doppelganger of Dante on command to fight with him. While the extra Dante takes a load off your back (and even unlocks a 2-player mode!), it forces you to use him frequently, causing it to become a hindrance in boss fights where dodging, enhanced swordplay, better ranged combat, or blocking would work better.

* CutsceneIncompetence: Even if you beat Vergil on top of that tower without getting hit once, the cutscene makes it look like you were losing the whole time, with Dante panting and barely keeping up while Vergil calmly deflects most of his attacks. Then Vergil stabs Dante through the guts with his own sword.

* DeadlyUpgrade: Seen in a rather painful way.

* DeathOrGloryAttack: The Royal Release is ridiculously hard to time, but has the potential to be the strongest attack in the game.

* DefeatMeansFriendship: After an entire game of butting heads, Dante and Lady finally come to terms with each other after he beats her in proper combat.

* DegradedBoss: Hell's Vanguard, the boss of Mission 2, reappears as merely a strong mook later and loses the lifebar, though it does gain potential Devil Trigger ability.

* DifficultButAwesome: Royal Guard. If you do manage to pull it off, though, it looks [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kitFV4F8hbM amazing.]] Using RG to cancel Spiral and Kalina Ann is also difficult but rewarding to master.
** To elaborate, the style lets you completely nullify damage by pressing block at the right instant, just as an attack hits you. This also boosts style rating, Devil Trigger energy, and lets you save power for monstrous counter-atttacks, but you'll have to memorise enemy attack cues and patterns to get the timing right.

* DifficultySpike: The most difficult in the entire series.

* DoubleJump: Air Hike makes its return, but frustratingly, it must be bought on three separate weapons for 20,000 Red Orbs each and isn't available at all for Cerberus or Nevan.

* EnergyWeapon: Artemis that shoots out lasers.

* EvilPlan: [[spoiler:Jester/Arkham's entire plan]].
* EvilTwin: Vergil.
* EyeScream: The way Dante leaves Leviathan's body.

* FallenAngel: The Fallen, of course.
* {{Fanservice}}: The developers seem to have recognized their sizable female fanbase as of ''3'', as shirtless Dante being an unlockable most ''definitely'' qualifies.

** Nevan. The [[HornyDevils type of demon she is]] justifies this, but still. ''"Sugarrr."''
* FingerlessGloves: on both Dante and Vergil.
* FingerTwitchingRevival: After Vergil stabs him, Dante does this. He promptly gets stabbed again. With his own sword.

* FlashStep: The various "Trick" techniques by Vergil and "Air Trick" by Dante after maxing out Trickster Style. Vergil occassionaly takes this to TeleportSpam levels in the second and third boss battles with him.

* GameMod: Most notably, the Style Switching Mod that allows you to switch styles on the fly as you can do in ''4''. There were attempts to fix the original PortingDisaster of a PC version, but the release of the HD Collection in 2018 nullified the need for it.

* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Beowulf.

* GodivaHair: Nevan.

* PossessionImpliesMastery: Each weapon that Dante obtains (with the exception of Beowulf, which to be fair is just armored gauntlets and boots) is introduced by him playing around with it in a manner that shows he is incredibly skilled with it, from masterfully pulling off sick spins with Cerberus to skillful slashes with Agni & Rudra and managing to pull off a quick one-man show with Nevan.
** [[AllThereInTheManual Supplemental materials]] state that this is one of Dante's canon superpowers. Upon coming in contact with a tool or weapon, he is instantly able to wield said object with absolute mastery. [[RuleOfCool Even in ways it wasn't intended for]].

* RedOniBlueOni: Dante and Vergil, naturally.
** There's also the ''literal'' example of Agni and Rudra, two talkative demon swords wielded by headless demon bodies, one red and one blue, though they both seemed the same.

* InterplayOfSexAndViolence: Dante and Nevan's boss battle. Throughout the fight, she taunts him by calling him "sugar", [[OrgasmicCombat makes noises that sound like she's climaxing]], can replenish her health by kissing Dante their pre-fight [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything scene looks more a prostitute propositioning a john]] and after being defeated compliments Dante while he holds her in a lover's embrace.

* SadlyMythtaken: Hello, towering light demon Beowulf.
** Hey look, the guard dog of the Underworld is... an ''ice'' elemental?

** The sad thing is, the character design for Beowulf is nearly ''perfect''... for another demon entirely. Four wings? Scorpion tail? Claws and talons? Lion-like face? Beowulf, aside from his light powers, is a nearly perfect depiction of the demon [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pazuzu Pazuzu.]]

* MetalScream: The cutscene for gaining Nevan ([[ThePowerOfRock which makes a lot of sense, really]]) along with the game's {{theme song}} "Devils Never Cry."
-->"'''Serving justice that dwells in me!'''"\\
"'''Lifeless corpses as far as the eye can ''SEE!!!'''''"

-->'''Dante''': "I'm beginning to think I've got rotten luck with women."

-->'''Jester:''' "You're not going to shoot me, are you? If you do, I'll die, you know."

-->"'''Serving justice that dwells in me!'''"
-->"'''Lifeless corpses as far as the eye can ''SEE!!!'''''"

--> '''Dante:''' "My mother always used to tell me that my father was a man who fought for the weak. He had courage and a righteous heart."

-->'''Dante''': "Why do I gotta take the heat for my father?"

* SticksToTheBack: Vergil almost averts this entirely, as he always carries Yamato's scabbard in his left hand, but then he has to go and pick up Force Edge in the final battle, which does this.

* StrongFamilyResemblance: Obviously, as Dante and Vergil are twins, but this becomes really noticeable when Vergil is caught in the rain and his hair is slicked down just like Dante's.

"Now... I'm motivated!"\\

''(The assume the position and stack their guns on top of each other)''\\

-->''(Dante draws Ebony and Ivory to finish off [[spoiler:Arkham]] but has Ebony swatted away. Vergil catches it.)''//
'''Vergil:''' I'll try it your way for once.//
'''Dante:''' Remember what we used to say?//
''(The assume the position and stack their guns on top of each other)''//

* BackToBackBadasses: Lady and Dante, as well as Dante and Vergil.

"You...! ''TRASH''!"

* HeroKiller: As per their in game description, Abysses. Along with [[EldritchAbomination lurking in realms far beyond hell]], these are SuperpoweredMooks are nasty combinations of the best strengths of the 7 Hells jailers: they can counter when knocked back, lunge forward like Hell Lusts, can fling off their scythe blades to attack from afar, have a teleporting scythe throwing attack, and come in groups, demanding some NintendoHard defying reflexes and dexterity. They are even put in the climatic Demon World GimmickLevel stages, making the trek through a defining experience of hellish.

* HeroKiller: As per their description, Abysses. Along with lurking in realms far beyond hell, these are SuperpoweredMooks are nasty combinations of the best strengths of the 7 Hells jailers: they can counter when knocked back, lunge forward like Hell Lusts, and can fling off their scythe blades to attack from afar. They are even put in the climatic Demon World GimmickLevel stages, making the trek through a defining experience of hellish.

* ArmedLegs: Dante wields these with his Beowulf Devil Arm.

* ArtShift: The HQ illustrations in this game looks very different from the actual models used for the gameplay and cutscenes. At least the first and second games used the same style for the covers and models.

* CarFu: Dante uses Lady's motorbike to drive up Temen-ni-gru's outer wall, falls towards it for a short distance, and then is besieged in midair by demons. So he beats all of them up with the motorbike, [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments which explodes shortly after he lands, leaving only the handlebars]].

** The Agni and Rudra boss is a justified example; when one of the brothers is defeated, the survivor grabs the loser's sword and starts DualWielding, gaining access to a few combo attacks.

%%* CreepyCentipedes: Gigapede.

* DoomedHometown: Dante wrecks his shop with a '''sneeze''' in the second mission and it can't be accessed again for the rest of the game. Played for laughs (especially since the shop's been torn to hell by the previous mission and the sneeze is just the last straw).

* EnergyWeapon: Artemis.

** Played straight during two of Lady's cutscenes, the first getting shot in the head twice, and the second to the stomach, right before the fight with Lady.

* RedOniBlueOni: Dante and Vergil.

* ReducedToDust: The demon mooks dissolves into sand upon defeat.

* ShirtlessScene: The first mission, as well as the Coatless costume.

*** Lady / Mary - Refers to the Catholic Madonna ("Our Lady" in Italian), otherwise known as the Virgin Mary.

* TheStoic: Vergil, though he does [[NotSoStoic snap on occasion]].
* TheWorfEffect: Upon his first appearance, Vergil kills the Hell Vanguard that was just a boss in one cut.

* YouWillNotEvadeMe: Kalina Ann has such a move in Gunslinger style.

''Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening'' is a StylishAction HackAndSlash video game for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2, developed and published by Creator/{{Capcom}} in 2005.

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* ElementalPowers: All over the place with the Devil Arms, ranging from ice (Cerberus) and fire (Agni of Agni & Rudra) to thunder (Nevan) and light (Beowulf).

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: After their first duel, Vergil manages to stab Dante through the chest with both his own Yamato and Dante's own Rebellion.

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