Does the franchise and Christianity mix? Or are there any differences.
What are the differences from...
1) Devil May Cry
- Sparda
- Dante, Vergil, Nero, Trish & Lucia.
- The demons
- Mundus
- Angelos
2) Christianity - The bible
- The real savior - Jesus.
- Satan
- Angels
1.)
Sparda:
The infamous swordsman who had his name on every demon tongue in the demon world, also noted to be Mundus's 'favourite' or 'best', either way they were pretty close as they looked at one another as brothers. (don't ask me where I get this info, it's in my notebook of analysing the DMC story so probably got it from the manga/comic/anime) He rebelled against Mundus joining the demon world with the human world and fought for the human race, simply because his soul was at odds with the idea of enslaving people. He seals the demon world with Mundus inside it and resides in the human world, less his full demonic power which was also sealed into the demon world. Sparda ends up with Eva, we know that they fall in love and that the boys are born.
Compared to Christianity's Lucifer:
God's most beautiful angel and most powerful, became proud and vain and wanted to overthrow God's authority, eg. he rebelled against God. Lucifer was cast out of heaven and onto the earth along with the other angels he brainwashed, therefore winning the title of 'fallen angels', where he and his minions have deceived, corrupted and broken people in his bid to condemn their souls along with himself. There was some naughty business going around with the fallen angels and the women of mankind producing hybrids or whatever you want to call them, which is similar to the story of Sparda and Eva (Eva possibly/probably being inspired by Eve, the 'first' woman God made)
2.)Dante & Vergil (I don't really care about the other characters, sorry ):
The yin and yang of the DMC world, one chose to do good for others, the other chose to do good for himself. Selfless vs greed. Dante sets up shop in the end, eventually becoming as powerful as Sparda or at least as famous as him anyway. His customers find him and he charges them some kind of fee, but for the most part he ends up doing jobs that he doesn't get paid for and just gets himself even deeper in debt. Or, the people he knows gets him into debt. Or both, I guess. He was also hunted by his own kind because he was known as the traitor's son.
Compared to Christianity's Jesus:
Jesus was the most selfless person to ever walk the earth. He came to spread God's word and love to all people, and in doing so He saved many souls and freed many people of demons. He did it for free too, no charge. He didn't have a shop but He went out to find people and people came to find Him to hear what He had on offer. He was also prosecuted for doing what was right. Jesus is God incarnate and He was the first person to carry the Holy Spirit within Him. You could say that Jesus listened and did as His soul told Him too. The difference here is that Dante is the son of Sparda, possibly inspired by Satan, whereas Jesus is God in human form.
3.) The demons, Mundus and Angelos:
To simplify this a bit more, the angelos were pretty much demons since their intention was to rule over mankind and become powerful, that was their aim anyway. Mundus aka The Dark Prince wanted to join the two worlds and rule over it, still not 100% sure why he wanted to do that but yeah.
Compared to the Biblical demons:
Err...well there's definitely some similarities. Some demons in DMC was inspired by the demons mentioned in the Bible, but a lot of them are based off mythology with a twist a la DMC style. The difference is that in reality demons don't care about power or ruling over mankind. All that matters is how many of us they take down with them, at any and every means possible and available to them. A rough example would be Katy Perry - she's pretty, has a good voice, has catchy songs, colourful music videos, comes from a parish family or some other religious background. It's all cover up. She sings about how it's okay to be a lesbian and act on the desires of the flesh (I kissed a girl), how it's hot and cool to wear skimpy clothes and have 'fun' with boys (Starstrukk), and how attractive it would be to fall in love with a demon (the E.T. song). But people are so brainwashed by Satan and his sneaky tricks that most people don't notice, or think they don't care or that there's no harm in it. Anyway, not here to preach, just saying what I've discovered.
Oh, also, Mundus is portrayed as the ruler of his kingdom yet Sparda is stronger than him to defeat him. Mundus is also inspired Lucifer. Because there's just no way Satan could pawn God, else he'd have done it a loooooong time ago.
Biblical angels:
You don't need wings to be Godsent. 'Nuff said.