Devil May Cry 4 is an action-adventure hack and slash video game developed and published by Capcom in 2008 for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Windows platforms. The game is the fourth installment to the Devil May Cry series. The story follows Nero, a teenager possessing demonic powers who is on a mission to stop the series' main character, Dante, after he assassinates demons from the Order of the Sword including its leader. During the game, the player controls both Nero and Dante as they fight enemies in close combat using firearms, swords, and other weapons. Devil May Cry 4 was the first entry in the series to release for multiple consoles at the same time; during its development, Capcom focused on all versions achieving the same visual quality. What if I told you that there are theories out there? After researching, I found these theories that blew my mind and there was one that shocked me
Nero and Kyrie are Ichigo and Orihime as well as Renton and Eureka: Nero is considered one of Ichigo Kurosaki, considering his BFS, Hot-Blooded personality, light-colored hair, Super Mode in which they access "dark" (demonic in Nero's case, Hollow in Ichigo's case) power (which is the power of the very beings that they hunt), and voice actor. Also, both characters are the Love Interest of characters dubbed by Stephanie Sheh. Also, Kyrie looks suspiciously like Orihime, has a similar protector/love interest and even has the same voice actress. Wow! How does Johnny and Stephanie are unexpectedly play characters with one another. Ha, they make a good couple right? Well, Johnny's married to somebody else but I bet these two in real life are good friends but hey, they make good chemistry in character, yes?
Nero's Devil Bringer is: Nelo Angelo's arm. Agnus mentioned that the Order of the Sword had studied a powerful demon-arm and that was the source of their powers. Somehow Sanctus and his followers salvaged Yamato and fragments of Nelo Angelo (Vergil) from the remains of Mallet Island and used them to build their power, but then Sanctus comes up with a back-up plan as construction of their Saviour nears completion. What if they can't get Dante to form the Saviour's core? They'll need a back-up, so Sanctus selects a young and expendable member of the order for an experiment. If it fails, no one of importance was lost. If it suceeds, the new Sparda-hybrid should be easy enough to manipulate. And so, after Nero is severely injured Sanctus has his arm amputated and the arm of Nelo Angelo grafted in it's place, blaming it's demonic appearance on side-effects of his demon attack. Sanctus just didn't anticipate how Badass Nero would become with the power of a son of Sparda now his to control. Except that Devil Arms are the name of the demonic, living weapons that are commonly the manifestation of a defeated devil's soul or power, such as Gilgamesh, Lucifer and Pandora. The Devil Arm that the Order was studying was strongly implied to be Yamato. Also, going by everybody's reactions, Nero just had something like a broken arm at the start of the game. Despite that, he still got his arm from Vergil. The origins of Nero's arm are a bit fuzzy. The manual states he got the Devil Bringer after a demon attacked him, but there are other sources that stated he always had it. Nero got the Devil Bringer shortly before the game, if his blackout-flashback during mission 7 is to be believed. Kyrie's concern over him "not having fully healed" at the beginning of the game is obviously about his arm, which she (along with everyone else) presumably thinks is broken. Agnus' bit about studying "an extremely powerful Devil's Arm" is probably just a dubbing error regarding "Devil Arms", the official name for all demonic weapons. The Devil Bringer itself is purely a manifestation of Nero's demonic lineage - apparently according to some reliable source he's Vergil's son.
Nero is Truly Human: The only reason he's described as being part-demon is because of his Devil-bringer. Even Kyrie agrees as she quotes, "
Nero somehow inherited his power from Vergil: Potentially, he could be Vergil's own son. This would account for the similarity in appearance between Nero and the Sons of Sparda, as well as how he can "possess the blood of Sparda". And let's review a few more points. Nero showed a particular connection with Yamato, Vergil's sword.
Dante eventually allowed Nero to keep Yamato, even after showing concern that it should be "kept in the family".
The entity that follows Nero during his Devil Trigger looks remarkably similar to Nelo Angelo. For that matter, Nero Angelo would be the correct transliteration to begin with. And doesn't the Nero/Nero Angelo blend seem familiar, with Credo/Credo Angelo, Agnus/Agnus Angelo, and so on? One problem- if Dante's around thirty in DMC 4, and Vergil was the same age, he'd have to have been around thirteen at the time for Nero to be his son. Only if Nero was born with the Devil Bringer. If, like the rest of the Order seems to have been, he was modified in the (relatively) recent past, it works. Not even. Sparda is pretty much a natural immortal, yes? What's to say he didn't pass some of that on to his kids? Lady looks a HELL of a lot older in DMC 4 than she did in 3, not to mention that she and Dante aren't an item (Dante may have opted to not go through the heartbreak from watching his girl age and die; they seem pretty attracted to each other in 3) and she's had SERIOUS macular degeneration in the intervening years—look at those coke bottle glasses. Or in Trish's case Dante could just be squicked out by the idea of dating a woman who looks uncannily like his dead mother. I doubt Dante has an Oedipus Complex of any sort. Sparda is not a natural immortal. He died. That's not what immortality is. They're sunglasses. And she doesn't look old, sheesh. Overly simple explanation: Nero's arm has the power to steal powers via absorbing magic items. Nero gets DT after absorbing Yamato. Nero literally has Vergil's Devil Trigger. Variation of that theory. Some part of Vergil's spirit is inside Yamato, hence Nero's little possessed moment after holding it for the first time (hence the quote that the "Nero is Vergil's son" camp is claiming as evidence). Personality traits don't transfer to children, especially if they never knew their parents in the first place. Rather, Vergil is partially possessing or living inside of Nero. The above is canonically true. Even if Nero isn't related to Vergil in any other way, all Devil Arms are literally the weaponized remnants of demons. When Vergil died, it makes sense that everything left of him would have been absorbed into Yamato (Take a look at how Sparda's sword behaves for evidence of this).
Nero is not Vergil OR Dante's son, but Mundus's: Lifting this directly out of a fanfic I'm writing, but based on his name and some behaviors, I'd argue Nero could be Mundus's kid somehow, given he shares his name with Nero Ceaser, who is one of the most described tyrants in the Bible (you know 666? Number of the beast? Those numbers were a way to say His name without letting his guard know you were criticizing him). Given Devil May Cry is based in part off the works of Dante Aligheri, who would certainly have believed in Revelations and considered Nero pure evil. Despite being raised in a society that worshipers Sparda, Nero gives him indifference at best, disdain at worst and, given the time she spent as a character (overthrowing a blatant stand in for the Pope), he could even be a false profit. All traits of The Antichrist who, in Devil May Cry, would be Mundus's son.
Nero is not actually related via birth to Sparda at all: SAY WHAT?! You heard right! As noted above, there's all sorts of problems with the timeline by trying to tie Nero into it as actually related via his parents. Nero was infected with Vergil's soul during the attack where he met his girlfriend, or at least that's what the manual and official back story seem to imply. The only reason he has the blood of Sparda and resembles the twins so much is because Vergil's soul has been living in his arm for several years. For all we know, he could have been a dumpy, stocking guy with red hair and freckles before this event and slowly morphed over the course of a few years into the Nero we meet in 4.
Or, Nero is related to Revolver Ocelot; one character design◊ at least suggests he got fashion tips from our favorite chronic backstabber. In the manual and the official backstory says he had gotten injured a few months/weeks prior to the game. He can still resemble the twins and have the blood of Sparda, or the change could have simply happened overnight, even. For the sake of comprehension, though, it's best to think he's related to Sparda through a third child he'd had in the earlier part of 2000 years, and the family line kept going on the down-low until the only real dominant trait left in Nero was having superhuman powers and the white hair/resemblance to the twins.
Nero is or is related to Sora from Kingdom Hearts: Wow! Didn't see this one coming! You know Kingdom Hearts with Square Enix meets Disney and they made this awesome crossover? Well, what if I told you that Nero and Sora could be possibly related to one another? MAN, THAT WOULD BE CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!! I mean, the two are similar with one another. Despite the differences and the franchises; they seem to be similar with the clothes, they're kinda similar. If Nero is related to Sora, then his Devil Trigger is really an anti-form. Imagine the whole DMC crew dressed up as the characters... A disturbing thought indeed...
Nero is a reincarnation of Rush Sykes from The Last Remnant: You know the video game The Last Remnant? Remember Rush Sykes? Hmm? Hmm? In some botched cross-universe reincarnation, he ended up in Devil May Cry but somehow kept his Remnant in the form of the Devil Bringer. The powers of his Remnant are somehow equated to "having the Blood of Sparda" but really is not so. Along with this, he retained very unimportant memories from his previous life as Rush, so the reason he's so confused about who 'Dante' is throughout most of the story is because he's thinking about that random shopkeeper from Ghor. Also, he misses David and thinks Credo is some Captain Ersatz of him, Kyrie really reminds him of his sister Irina except completely useless, and Roeas got hotter somehow (he's really looking at Gloria, but the fact that she's "really blonde" under the disguise wouldn't help him much). Or alternately...Kind of interesting.
Nero is an alternative version of Hellboy and Ichigo: Remember when Nero and Ichigo were compare to one another? Well, here we go again but could Nero be similar to Hellboy too? Nice! He may be some sort of mixed-clone, combining aspects of the two, or the product of some inter-dimensional Mr. Seahorse sex or any other claim you care to suggest. In addition to having the same voice actor as Ichigo, he combines aspects of the two, most notably in his weapons of choice and powerset (he has Hellboys strength, durability, hugeass revolver and Power Fist, combined with Ichigos BFS and superpowered evil-side- note that when using there more powerful forms, both Nero and Ichigo switch from a BFS to a katana), and elements of their personalities (notably, Nero's disrespect for the chain of command and protocol of the Order of the Sword resembles that of Ichigo for the Soul Society, or Hellboy for the BPRD). While we're on the subject, Kyrie is Orihime. No seriously, she has red hair, wears almost the same clothes as Orihime in the Hueco Mundo arc, and even share the same voice actress! Also, Dante is Grimmjow, Las Noches is the Order of the Sword's castle, and Sanctus is Aizen. Aww, hell yes!
Nero and Kyrie are Jack and Sally from Nightmare Before Christmas: Nightmare Before Christmas follows the misadventures of Jack Skellington, Halloweentown's beloved pumpkin king, who has become bored with the same annual routine of frightening people in the "real world." When Jack accidentally stumbles on Christmastown, all bright colors and warm spirits, he gets a new lease on life -- he plots to bring Christmas under his control by kidnapping Santa Claus and taking over the role. But Jack soon discovers even the best-laid plans of mice and skeleton men can go seriously awry. In non musical terms; Nero may not be an optimistic skeleton who is considered a Pumpkin King but he is setting things right like any other hero would. And Kyrie may not be a stitch up doll however she has feelings for someone important to her. And they'll be together, forever and ever for it is play as anyone can see...they're simply meant to be! Heehee! Also, Oogie Boogie like Sanctus but without the hammy-ness? Or Lock, Shock and Barrel like the stuttering Angus? Hmm....Jack and Sally were good friends, but they were secretly in love with each other.
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