Vergil (Devil May Cry)

"Vergil: You feeling accepted yet? Of your existence? Or your strength? Nero: Both, you fucking asshole!" "-Vergil to his son." Vergil is the first son of the demon Sparda and human Eva, and the older twin brother of Dante. He is a recurring antagonist in Devil May Cry, the main antagonist of Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening (also a playable character in its Special Edition), and the final antagonist of Devil May Cry 5. Following the death of their mother as children, Vergil and Dante go their separate ways, with Vergil rejecting his humanity and embracing his demonic heritage, in contrast with his younger brother's embrace of humanity and initial rejection of the demonic. Stoic and reserved, Vergil displays a willingness to do anything in his quest to obtain the power of his father, Sparda. Suffering defeat in confrontation with Mundus in the secret ending to Devil May Cry 3, he is tortured and transformed into the Black Knight – being encountered in Devil May Cry under the name Nelo Angelo (also alternatively spelled Nero Angelo). After numerous conflicts throughout the game, he is finally defeated by Dante.

Why He Rocks

 * 1) While his brother  Dante is a man about style, Vergil is the brooding and aloof type that cares about motivation more than anything.
 * 2) Vergil's calm, cool, collected personality, violent, yet elegant, pained, yet so prideful, has inferiority complex, and has been a victim to post traumatic stress disorder shows that not all power hungry villains are generic and cliched. It just needs to be done right.
 * 3) * Even in the mixed reception of the DmC reboot, he still has charm and likability than the reboot counterpart of his twin brother.
 * 4) Speaking of Dante, their sibling rivalry is one of the sole reasons of what made Devil May Cry an awesome franchise.
 * 5) Vergil had already suffered alot from his life: finding out that his mom is already dead, believes that his human self is what makes him weak, wants to get more power, yet he has his twin brother as his obstacle, and has been brainwashed to become Mundus' knight.
 * 6) After being free of Mundus' control, Vergil is now dying, so he went to steal his son Nero's arm, went to his childhood home, stabbed himself with the Yamato, and can now split himself into V. To escape his pain, suffering and his weak self.
 * 7) * Speaking of V, he has a knack for reading poetry and literature.
 * 8)  Just like his brother and his son, he has his own badass theme.
 * 9) Lots of memorable dialogue:
 * 10) * "Where's your motivation?"
 * 11) * "I need more power!/So this is power..."
 * 12) * "Defeating you has no meaning."
 * 13) * "That day... if our positions were switched, would our fates be different? Would I have your life, and you mine?"
 * 14) * "If you want it, then you'll have to take it. But you already knew that."
 * 15) * "So it is written." (As V)
 * 16) * "I have no name. I am, but two days old. Just kidding, you can call me V." (As V)
 * 17) * "Show me to enlightenment, Dante!" (As Urizen)
 * 18) * (After using Judgement Cut) "You think you can stand a chance?"

Bad Qualities

 * 1) His design as Urizen was too messy and hard to follow. Fortunately, he looks much cleaner and better when he achieved his true form.
 * 2) V's name made it really obvious that he is the other half of Vergil. Not to mention some of the cutscenes, including his origin gave it away.
 * 3) Outside the Special Edition of the games, he's not a playable character.

Trivia

 * Vergil's name in DMC comes from Publius Vergilius Maro, commonly known as Vergil, a Roman poet, and author of the Aeneid. He is as well a character in Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, being a companion to Dante in the epic poem.