Characters / Devil May Cry - Heroes

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This page lists tropes related to heroes who appear in the classic Devil May Cry continuity.

For other characters that appear in the DMC franchise, see the Devil May Cry Character Index. For tropes related to the heroes in the alternate continuity reboot, see the DmC: Devil May Cry Character Page.

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Character-Specific Pages

• Dante
• Nero
• V

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General tropes

• '90s Anti-Hero: With the exception of Lucia, all of them fit this trope in either attitude, aesthetic or both.
  • Dante is a devil hunter who wears a red trench coat, fights with a sword and guns, and has emotional baggage due to the death of his mother, his rivalry with his brother and his demonic heritage. How much of his personality fits the 90s Anti-Hero depends on the writer. The first game and the anime depict him as a coolheaded person with some snarky moments and a somewhat sour demeanor, the second game makes him more stoic and aloof but still with some kinder moments, the third game depicts him as a Blood Knight and Thrill Seeker who is largely apathetic to all else and the fourth game depicts him as something of a Trickster Mentor.
  • Nero embodies this trope a lot more than Dante and in a more consistent manner. He is introduced as a moody teenager who is something of an outcast, but also has a kinder heart than he lets in on. He also becomes a Cyborg later on.
  • Trish wears a revealing leather outfit and fights with a sword and guns, just like Dante and Nero. She is also much more prone to pulling morally questionable stunts like encouraging Lady's wrong impressions about her, leading to a fight in the anime and giving the Sparda sword to the villains in 4. Trish even started out as a villain, suggesting that her occasional unscrupulous moments may be a result of her initial alignment.
  • Lady has the abrasive personality, traumatic backstory involving an evil father killing her mother and preference for firearms. In fact, Lady carries enough firearms for a single strike team and 5 gives her the sobriquet "Walking Arsenal".
  • V has a mysterious past, dark clothing, tattoos and a ruthless approach to fighting evil that makes him utterly terrifying. He is also the human half of Vergil made flesh, explaining his personality.
• Arc Hero: Dante is the main protagonist for most of the classic continuity. However, the first three games also have him sharing the spotlight with another hero who serves as his main ally, while the fourth and fifth games gave way for Nero, another main protagonist alongside him.
  • In 1, Trish is a servant of Mundus whose goal is to lure Dante to Mallet Island where Mundus can kill him. After being moved by Dante's kindness, Trish pulls a Heel–Face Turn and becomes Dante's ally, aiding him in defeating Mundus during the game's final battle.
  • In 2, Lucia is a member of a devil hunting clan from the island of Vie de Marli. She enlists Dante's help to deal with a man named Arius who seeks to claim the power of a great demon lord using her clan's scared artifacts. Lucia is the first DMC character to be playable alongside Dante and has her own story arc exploring her origins as Arius's discarded creation.
  • In 3, Lady isn't playable like Lucia is, but she serves this role nonetheless. Like Dante, Lady is related by blood to one half of the Big Bad Duumvirate consisting of Vergil and Arkham. While Dante has a final clash with Vergil, Arkham is killed by Lady.
  • In 4 and 5, Dante returns as a playable and prominent character for both games, but Nero replaces him as the main hero.
• Badass Crew: Dante leads the original Devil May Cry agency which specializes in hunting demons. Trish and Lady are his recurring partners, and are capable demon hunters themselves, even if not quite on Dante's level. In 5, Nero and Nico also tag along with them, but the two have their own mobile version of the Devil May Cry business.
• BFS: Dante has Rebellion, Trish has Sparda (until Dante permanently absorbs it in DMC5) and Nero has Red Queen.
• Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: The women. Trish is blonde, Lady is a brunette and Lucia is a redhead. In 4, Kyrie takes the role of the redhead.
• Contrasting Sequel Protagonist:
  • Dante is the main hero of the first three games, with Nero taking this role in the fourth and fifth games. Nero is depicted as being much more crass, abrasive and hotheaded than the irreverent and laid back Dante. Their fighting styles also differ with Nero using weapons and bare knuckle attacks while Dante relies on his guns and Devil Arms. That said, both of them have the same cocky personality in battle.
  • Trish, Lucia and Lady are the main heroines for the first, second and third games respectively and are quite different from one another.
    • Trish is a demon created in the image of Dante's mother by Mundus to lure the devil hunter to a trap where Mundus will kill him. Trish pulls a Heel–Face Turn and becomes an ally to Dante.
    • Lucia is a member of the Protectors of Vie de Marli, a clan of demon hunters who defend Dummary Island. Like Trish, Lucia brings Dante to the island where the plot takes place and is revealed to be a demon created by the main villain. Unlike Trish, Lucia was unaware of this initially and her allegiance doesn't change, remaining a hero. While Trish is a blonde white woman who dresses in black leather, Lucia is a dark-skinned redhead whose most striking article of clothing is her white cape.
    • Unlike Trish and Lucia, Lady is a human with no demonic heritage, relying on her skills with guns. She is also initially hostile towards Dante for being part demon, though she gets over this once she realizes Dante's heroism.
• Cool Sword:
  • Besides Rebellion and Sparda, Dante has wielded the lightning sword Alastor in 1, the fire and wind swords Agni and Rudra in 3 and his brother's sword Yamato in 4.
  • Trish has also used Sparda. Her Evil Counterpart in the Devil May Cry 2 prequel novel used Alastor.
  • Lucia wields a pair of curved swords called the Cutlaseer as her default weapons. She also has a pair of long swords called the Klyamoor and a pair of curved, serrated swords called the Zambak.
• Dark Is Not Evil:
  • Dante and Nero are Human Demon Hybrids who fight to protect the world from both evil demons and humans. Nero gets extra points for his name being the Italian word for "black".
  • Trish is an artificial demon created by Mundus for the purpose of luring Dante to Mallet Island so Mundus can kill him. Despite starting out as a villain, Trish pulls a Heel–Face Turn and becomes Dante's partner in Demon Slaying. She also wears black leather.
  • Similar to Trish, Lucia is an artificial demon created by a villain. Unlike Trish, however, Lucia is not a villain at any point in the story and is a member of a demon hunting clan tasked with defending her island home. Aside from her white cape and red hair, she wears a grey top and pants.
  • V wears black clothing, controls three shadowy familiars who were demon enemies from the first game and has a very mysterious air about him. He is still a good guy and is revealed to be the human half of Vergil.
• Defends Against Their Own Kind: Dante, Nero, Trish and Lucia are demons who protect the human world from other demons.
• Demon Slaying: Their occupations. Lucia belongs to a clan of devil hunters while Dante, Trish, Lady and Nero are independent devil hunters for hire.
• Dual Wielding: Dante, Trish and Lady often wield two guns at once. Lucia does this with her cutlaseer swords. Dante also dual wields the Agni and Rudra elemental swords in 3 and the Cavaliere buzzsaws in 5.
• Fighter, Mage, Thief:
  • The women: Trish is the fighter, being a super-strong demon with lightning powers and her fighting style revolves around punches, kicks and the Sparda sword. Lady as a Long-Range Fighter would be the mage, with guns and bombs as a substitute for magic. Finally, Lucia serves as the thief and is the closest thing to a Ninja the series has, being a Fragile Speedster knife-wielder with an acrobatic fighting style, and at one point she even infiltrates the villain's lair using a disguise.
  • The men: Nero is the fighter of the group possessing a BFS and using a fighting style that emphasizes quick and brutal attacks. V, as the mage, is a Squishy Wizard who uses Summon Magic in battle and is very good at crowd control. Dante uses a "Trickster style" introduced in 3 and could be considered a thief in that he uses Devil Arms made from demons he defeats - in a sense, he is "stealing" their powers for himself.
• Fire-Forged Friends: Trish, Lady and Nero initially had antagonistic relationships with Dant before becoming more friendly with him.
  • Trish was created by Mundus to be used as a weapon against Dante but turned on the demon lord after Dante saved her life and showed her kindness.
  • Lady starts out hostile and untrusting of Dante due to his demonic heritage but fighting side-by-side with him and seeing how heroic he can be caused her to change her mind.
  • Nero first met Dante when the latter shot Fortuna's religious leader in the face and then engaged Nero in battle. Nero ultimately realized the Order of the Sword's corruption and became Dante's ally before discovering their blood relation.
• Gun Fu/Gun Kata: Dante, Nero, Trish and Lady use moves inspired by both tropes in either cutscenes, gameplay or both. Dante's "Gunslinger" is focused on utilizing Gun Fu and Gun Kata.
• Impossibly Cool Weapon:
  • A lot of Dante's Devil Arms qualify. Special mention goes to Nevan, a cross between an electric guitar and a scythe which can shoot lightning and summon bats; Pandora, a suitcase that can take numerous forms^note 666 according to DMC4's files. including a missile platform, a large shuriken, a laser cannon and a chain gun; and Cavaliere, a pair of buzzsaws which can transform into a motorcycle.
  • The Sparda sword can switch between a sword, a spear and a scythe. It has been wielded by both Dante and Trish at different points.
  • Lady wields Kalina Ann, a rocket launcher with grappling hook bayonet and a cluster micro missile launcher attached.
  • Nero's Red Queen is a Flaming Sword with a fuel injection system similar to a motorcycle. It's exact complications mean that only someone of Nero's power and caliber is capable of controlling it.
    • DMC5 gives us Nero's new Devil Breaker which replaces the Devil Bringer after it is ripped off by Vergil. It's numerous functions include stopping time, a grappling hook and firing a rocket fist that Nero can surf on.
• Light Is Good:
  • Trish has blonde hair, shoots yellow lightning and her Devil Trigger surrounds her with yellow lightning bolts. She is also named after Beatrice, one of the heroines in The Divine Comedy who served as one of Dante's guides. Trish does start out as a villain but pulls a Heel–Face Turn.
  • Lucia is the most blatant example in the entire franchise. She wears a white cape, her name is Latin for "light" and her Devil Trigger more resembles an angel than a demon. Like Trish, Lucia was created by a villain but didn't start out as a villain unlike Trish.
  • Lady wears a white top and her true name is a reference to the Virgin Mary. She is the secondary hero of Devil May Cry 3 and is a demon hunter.
  • Nero's true Devil Trigger has a more human/angel look compared to Dante's, lacking the reptilean features and having feathered wings. Like Dante, Nero is a Human-Demon Hybrid who protects humans from malicious demons.
• The Musketeer: Only Dante, Trish and Nero use guns and swords in their arsenals. Lucia uses bladed weapons and a crossbow, Lady relies entirely on guns and grenades, and V is a wizard who uses his demon familiars.
• Named Weapons/I Call It "Vera": Their weapons all tend to have specific names, sometimes given to them by the heroes such as Lady's Kalina Ann, Dante's Ebony & Ivory and Nero's Red Queen and Blue Rose. Dante's Devil Arms retain the names of the demons they once were.
• Red Is Heroic:
  • Dante wears a red coat.
  • Lucia has red hair.
  • Nero wears a blue coat with red inner lining and a red hoodie underneath. He also has a Red Right Hand and a sword with red accents appropriately named Red Queen.
  • Force Edge, the sword which belonged to Dante's father Sparda, is red in its unsealed form. It has been used by both Dante and Trish who are heroes.
• Town Girls:
  • Lady is the butch girl, being the most abrasive and confrontational, and having short hair and scars. Trish is the femme one, having longer hair, the most sensual outfits and having more stereotypical female hobbies like shopping. Lucia is the in-between; she has long hair (but not as long as Trish) that she wears in a braid and is more feminine than Lady but not to the extent of Trish.
  • In 5, Nico takes the role of the butch girl, being a Wrench Wench with a lot of tattoos while Lady is the in-between. Trish retains her role as the femme character.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Dante, Trish and Lady have this dynamic among themselves, and Nero and Dante do as well. Their interactions are often heavy with sarcasm and mockery but they will be there for each other when it really counts.
• Who You Gonna Call?: Dante, Trish and Lady are demon hunters for a fee, though in Dante's case, he often ends up taking jobs where he gets little to no pay for a variety of reasons. Nero has his own branch of the Devil May Cry hunting business in 5.

Trish

The Bewitching Devil

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^{Click here to see her DMC 4 disguise}Gloria

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"It looks like we have a winner."

Voiced by: Sarah Lafleur (DMC, Viewtiful Joe: Red Hot Rumble), Cristina Pucelli (Viewtiful Joe ^note Silvia's audio, played in reverse, is used for all females who take her place in the extra characters' stories, Trish included; one of Lafleur's lines ("Dante...") is used in Dante's story, however), Luci Christian (The Animated Series), Danielle Burgio (DMC4, Marvel vs. Capcom 3), Wendee Lee (DMC5)

Atsuko Tanaka (The Animated Series, Marvel vs. Capcom 3, DMC4: Special Edition, DMC5; Japanese)

Face Model: Ariana Diamant (DMC5)

A mysterious woman with lightning powers, Super-Strength, and a striking resemblance to Dante's deceased mother who hired Dante to stop Mundus in the first Devil May Cry.

It's eventually revealed in that game that Trish is actually a demon made by Mundus to kill Dante. However, after multiple failed attempts, Mundus decides to use her as bait for Dante instead, only for Trish to betray her master and together with Dante seal the demon lord away for good.

Trish now works as Dante's Hypercompetent Sidekick at his devil-hunting business Devil May Cry.

Her moveset in 2 and 4SE has her use the Devil Sword Sparda. Trish can toss Sparda out and leave it spinning in mid-air, upon which she results to simply beating her enemies to death with lightning-enhanced martial arts. In 2 she can directly put the Sparda down on the ground to focus on Bare Knuckle techniques. Her ranged weapons are the twin handguns Luce and Ombra, and she later gains Pandora as well. Her main advantage is that a lot of her moves set up area-of-effect attacks to continually damage enemies, and most of her martial arts moves leave lightning trails behind her as she attacks. The result is that while Trish doesn't do a whole lot of damage on her own, she fills the playable arena with tons of stuff for enemies to take damage from- and that damage certainly adds up.

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• Action Girl: She doesn't get a lot of action scenes in 1, but even in that game's intro cutscene, she is clearly capable of taking on or hurting Dante. It's an amazing feat that she is one of the few beings besides Mundus and Nelo Angelo who can do that in the first game. Later installments helped this trait of hers shine even further, such as involving her in more fights, or making her playable (in 2 and 4:SE). In the fourth game, Trish also disguised herself as Gloria, yet she can still single-handedly wipe out a horde of Scarecrows with just a pair of daggers.
• Artificial Human: Trish is a demon created in the image of Dante's mother Eva to lure him into a trap. Mundus claims he could easily make more copies of her and this is shown not be an empty boat as seen in the Devil May Cry 2 prequel novel where Dante goes to an alternate reality where Mundus has an entire army of demonic Eva duplicates.
• Ascended Demon: A demon Mundus created to lure Dante into a trap and kill him. Dante's selflessness and Mundus' ruthlessness convinced her to side with Dante and she's been helping him hunt down demons ever since.
• Asshole Victim: And given her actions in the first game, there's not much sympathy to be had for her. Then she takes a hit for Dante, comes back to life, and reforms.
• Assist Character: Serves as this for Nightmare in Dante's final battle with the creature, periodically shocking Dante from behind the barrier separating them once Nightmare is on its last legs and Trish decides to show her true colors.
• Back from the Dead: If it wasn't a Disney Death.
• Badass in Distress: In 5, Urizen defeats Trish and uses her as a host vessel for Cavaliere Angelo.
• Beauty Equals Goodness: Her file in the first game describes her as "hauntingly beautiful". Her reveal as a servant of Mundus makes her an example of Beauty Is Bad at first but she becomes the opposite trope after her Heel–Face Turn.
• Becoming the Mask: She's just posing as Dante's guide, but after his anger towards her for revealing her true alignment, she decided to be his friend for real.
• BFS: Apart from Dante, Trish is one of the recurring wielders of the Devil Sword Sparda in its awakened form. Said sword has a large curved blade attached to the side of its main body and hilt, and compared to Dante's Rebellion, this sword has a longer reach, and can extend itself further or transform during some of its attacks.
• Big Damn Heroes: Comes to Dante's aid and lends him her power to defeat Mundus.
• Bilingual Bonus: The Special Edition of 4 named her diving kick attack as "Inazuma" even in the English text. "Inazuma" is the Japanese word for "lightning", fitting for her lightning and electricity powers.
• Breakout Character: She joins Dante in the Marvel vs. Capcom 3 lineup.
• Car Fu: In 1, Trish bursts through Dante's door on her motorcycle, then she hurls it at him.
• Combat Stilettos: She wears high-heeled boots, and she kicks enemies with them.
• The Comically Serious: Best shown in 5; when Dante gets the Dr. Faust hat from Nico, he promptly channels Michael Jackson and pulling off a brief dance routine that wouldn't be out of place in one of his music videos after manifesting a scarf of demonic energy, complete with moonwalking, pyrotechnics, and the neon "Devil May Cry" sign on Nico's van flashing in the background. When it's all over, Nico looks like a little kid who just met her idol and is cheering for him, while Trish just stands there, absolutely stonefaced.
• Cool Shades:
  • For all of one cutscene. That same cutscene where she repeatedly kicks Dante, shocks him with electricity, and then throws a motorcycle at him via Super-Strength... only for him to shake it off like it was nothing.
  • For her appearance in 2 as a Secret Character, Trish dons her sunglasses while DTed. Ditto for her playable appearance in the Updated Re-release of 4.
• Crucified Hero Shot: This happens to Trish when she is held captive by Mundus in 1.
• Custom Uniform of Sexy: As Gloria, Trish dresses in white just like most of the other members of the Order of the Sword. Unlike the males, however, Gloria's outfit is a one-piece that shows off her cleavage and thighs and comes with thigh-high boots.
• Damsel in Distress:
  • Subverted near the end of the first game when she gets out of this on her own to save Dante from being killed by Mundus.
  • In Devil May Cry 5, she and Lady are defeated and taken prisoner by Urizen at the beginning of the story.
• Dance Battler: As Gloria.
• Defeat Means Friendship: In the first game after Nightmare's third death.
• Demoted to Extra: The romantic nature of her relation to Dante was completely toned down once Kamiya was no longer at the helm of anything Devil May Cry related; at the end 1 she and Dante grew to be very close (their final theme tune is even called "Seeds of Love – Trish & Dante"), in Viewtiful Joe they appear as pretty much a Battle Couple; however everything after that gave a new angle to their relationship, in 2 Trish isn't in the story at all, Dante is alone and she is merely an one-note unlockable character, the anime made Trish work far away from Dante very often and played the fact she weirds him out due having his mother’s appearance, 3 introduced the fact Dante is not very lucky with girls despite his appearance, and in 4:SE Trish even teases Dante about his inability to "get the girl" at the end (contrasting him with Nero and Kyrie), showing the two are mostly just good partners currently. DMC5 sees she and Lady both taken out very early by Urizen and with Sparda having been combined with the remains of Rebelllion to make Devil Sword Dante she lacks a weapon to return to the fray with for the the entirety of the game.
• Depending on the Writer: Trish's personality as Dante's partner was somewhat different in Kamiya's vision when portrayed in Viewtiful Joe; Trish was more of a traditional partner who follows the hero, Dante, being the voice of reason and expressing deep concern for him, coupled with jokes that Trish was being too "motherly". Trish in Itsuno's vision, and effectively the canon version of Trish as it stands, is more of a playful independent spirit, who, while undoubtedly loyal to Dante, she isn't above playing tricks and teasing him, such as increasing his debt and delivering Sparda right into the enemies' hands to make things more fun; still, Dante has also been adjusted accordingly, being able to take all of Trish’s playfulness.
• Devious Daggers: Gloria is shown using curved daggers in battle against demons. She appears to be working for the villainous Order of the Sword but is revealed to be Trish, Dante's heroic ally who is spying on the villains.
• Dressed Like a Dominatrix: She wears a black leather corset, pants, and high-heeled boots. All she's missing is a Whip of Dominance.
• Dual Wielding: Uses two retractable knives as Gloria.
• Diving Kick: One of her bread and butter moves because it generates a lightning trail which will shock enemies continuously.
• Elemental Punch: Her Bare Knuckle fighting style consists of lightning-charged punches and kicks.
• Erotic Eating: She seems to enjoy eating pizza a bit more than most.
• Et Tu, Brute?: When Mundus ended up trapping her to a wall by the time Dante arrives to his throne room.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • Trish may have been working for Mundus, but she doesn't like Dante being angry with her over it.
  • When Dante is fuming at how Mundus treats his henchmen after seeing him callously kill off Griffon and then briefly recounts the story of how Mundus took the lives of his family, Trish gives him a genuine look of sympathy. First signs of her future alignment shift?
• Everyone Loves Blondes: Mundus tried to capitalize on Eva's beauty by making Trish in her image in an almost successful attempt at baiting Dante (he appears to be drawn to Trish solely on the basis of her resemblance to his departed mother, but nothing comes to pass).
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: She can't understand why Dante saves her, despite betraying him.
  Trish: Dante, why did you save my life?
  Dante: Because you look like my mother.
• Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: A downplayed case in 5. After Dante saves her from Cavaliere Angelo, she has a conversation with V about what Urizen actually is, since, as a demon herself, she can tell Urizen isn't one. Then it hits her: neither is V.
  Trish to V: My god, what are you, then?
• Fanservice Pack: Trish was actually somewhat petite and slender in the original game. You wouldn't know that judging by 4 and MvC3 where the size of her breasts as well as how much cleavage was shown off were increased (not to mention the amount of bounce given to her). 5 returns her proportions to being more similar to the first game.
• Femme Fatale: Prior to her Heel–Face Turn, although bits and pieces of this pop up again from time to time.
• Flanderization: Trish's Heel–Face Turn in the first game was remarked on by Mundus as being "sudden" ("Failure is one thing, but taking on an odd behavior like that..."). Later games have her as extremely impulsive and moody for no reason.
• Golden Super Mode: Her Devil Trigger grants her an aura of golden electricity rather than altering her physical appearance.
• Good Wears White: As Gloria in 4. She also wears a white shirt in one episode of the anime and has a white top as an alternate skin in 5.
• Gorgeous Garment Generation: In 5, Lady and Trish are both rescued in the buff from the bowels of some demons. Trish uses magic to respawn her usual outfit, while Lady has to make do with some of Nico's threads.
• Ground Punch: Trish in 4:SE has Collider, a ground punch with the same charged attack mechanics as Dante's Shock! However, she does it by enhancing her fist with her lightning powers.
• Guns Akimbo: Luce and Ombra, as seen in 2 and 4. These guns were originally Sparda's handguns (though, in spite of that, the "For Tony Redgrave" engraving still appears on them).
• Healing Factor: Thanks to her demonic nature, Trish recovers health while in Devil Trigger state.
• Heroic Sacrifice: At the end of 1, when Mundus is about to fire his Agony Beam on Dante, Trish pushes the latter out of the way and is killed. She gets better.
• Hero of Another Story: In Devil May Cry: The Animated Series, it's stated that Trish had struck out on her own for a while as a solo demon hunter. However, the only fights we see her partake in are with Dante and Lady.
• High-Heel–Face Turn: Trish is the only demoness among Mundus's servants and the only one to turn good.
• Honey Trap: The role(s) she was created by Mundus to carry out; it was Trish's job to seduce Dante/earn his trust and lure him to his doom at Mallet Island. Eventually, she becomes what she pretended to be due to Dante becoming so angry towards her for revealing her true alignment that he breaks off all contact with her.
• Hunter of His Own Kind: A full-blooded lightning devil who also takes up devil hunting jobs.
• Hurricane Kick: She can do an electric charged spinning bird kick maneuver for one of her combo finishers.
• Identical Stranger: For Eva. Dante is at a loss for words the moment Trish takes off her sunglasses in the first game and reveals that she looks just like his mother. We later learn this is an exploited trope by Mundus; making her look exactly like Eva makes it much easier to lure Dante into trap.
• Informed Attractiveness:
  • She is described as "hauntingly beautiful" by her file in the first game.
  • Gloria's Library File in 4 mentions her "exotic appearance and voluptuous assets" setting her apart from the rest of the Order.
• Informed Attribute: Dante believes that the only villain who can beat Trish is Vergil, but while Trish is powerful, she has never shown the power to be among the heavyweights like Mundus or Argosax.
• I Owe You My Life: This is why she doesn't attack Dante after Nightmare's third death and tried to reason with him about her betrayal before he cuts her off.
• In a Single Bound: Just as Trish and Dante arrive at Mallet Island, she reaches for the other side of the cliff in a single jump, while Dante has to walk through the castle instead.
• It Amused Me: Pretty much functions as the linchpin of 4's plot due to this trope.
• Jiggle Physics: Her breasts seem to bounce somewhat arbitrarily. Works just fine for the viewers, though.
• Kick Chick: 2 notwithstanding, what scant amount we see of Trish's actual fighting ability outside of her electrokinesis and all assorted weaponry seems tailored around kicking. This carries over to MvC3 and 4:SE.
• The Lady's Favour: She lends the Devil Arm Sparda back to Dante later on in 5, as he continues into the heart of the demonic Qliphoth tree.
• Lightning Bruiser: Trish is strong enough to lift a motorcycle, fast enough to get the jump on Dante and durable enough to survive attacks from Mundus. Also, she's a literal example given her lightning powers.
• Living Battery: In 5 she is used as one for Cavalier Angelo.
• Love-Interest Traitor: Played with. While Trish legitimately comes to care for Dante, any perceivable Ship Tease doesn't surface until after Trish switches sides, and then gets dropped/downplayed in later entries. Before then, Trish was simply Dante's client and Mysterious Backer, although her uncanny resemblance to his late mother is one of two main motivating factors in Dante taking the job.
• Make-Out Kids: In 4:SE, witnessing a smooching session between Nero and Kyrie is too disgustingly sweet for Trish apparently, as she gets visibly irritated upon seeing it and immediately walks away from it. Odd since her running for Dante’s embrace in the final moments for 1 was just as mushy.
• The Missus and the Ex: In the anime, with Lady being the "ex" (since she knew Dante first).
• The Mole: Hinted to be working for the Order in 4 to help out Dante. Of course, she doesn't actually bother to tell Dante that she's stealing Sparda, just leaving a note instead...
• Ms. Fanservice: She's an attractive woman in nothing but a skimpy midriff-exposing bodice and Painted-On Pants. Motion Artist Tomoya Ohtsubo even explains in the 3142 Graphic Arts artbook that Trish's fanservice is intentional, as she was "really pushed to be as sexy as possible". This even applies to her outfit and fighting style while disguised as Gloria in 4. After being captured by Urizen in 5, she's also completely naked before she's given a Modesty Bedsheet and reconstructs her clothes using magic.
• Murderous Thighs: As Gloria, no less. Given her status as the above trope, it's justified. It also was a wonder that Capcom wasn't called out for that entire sequence.
• Must Make Amends: The driving force behind her actions near the end of the first game after realizing her creator sees as nothing but a disposable tool, while Dante actually treats her like a person.
• Named Weapons: Her default equipment, guns Luce and Ombra ("Light" and "Shadow" in Italian), as well the sword Sparda.
• Navel-Deep Neckline: Her outfits leave a part of the cleavage area open. This is more evident with her lacy one-piece disguise as Gloria revealing her stomach and part of her chest in 4.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: In 1, by revealing to Dante that she's working for Mundus, she pisses him off to the point of almost killing her. Way to go, Trish.
• Odd Friendship: Dante is the son of the Legendary Dark Knight Sparda, a demon who slaughtered the armies of the Underworld and sealed away the demon emperor Mundus to protect humanity, while Trish is an artificial demon created by Mundus for the express purpose of luring and getting Dante killed in Mallet Island. And yet, by the end of the first game, these two are close enough for Dante to entrust her with the sword of Sparda, her creator's greatest enemy. She later became a long-time ally of Dante in the next adaptations and sequels.
• Of Corsets Sexy: Trish wears one with a giant thunderbolt-shaped slit down the front.
• Opposites Theme Naming: Trish's twin handguns are named Luce and Umbra ("Light" and "Shadow" in Italian) and are appropriately colored.
• Our Demons Are Different: Trish's powers work differently compared to the part-demon descendants of Sparda. She can easily channel lightning from her hands, her Devil Trigger state just gives her a yellow/golden aura instead of physically manifesting a monstrous form (she even does it stylishly by wearing sunglasses), and she can completely alter her appearance, including her natural hair and skin color under the guise of "Gloria". On top of these abilities, she's a demon specifically made by Mundus to resemble the twins' mother, Eva.
• Out of Focus: Trish and Lady surprisingly get this in DMC5. Despite being integral Action Girls of the earlier installments, the anime and even playable in the previous mainline game, they don't contribute much to the story, getting defeated early on and after getting rescued, spend the rest of the game in Nico's van and don't help in defeating the Big Bad Urzien.
• Painted-On Pants: Her leather pants are so tight they look more like latex paint than actual clothing.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: Inverted. Both Dante and Sanctus are immediately able to tell who Gloria is. Dante laughs when he sees her, and Sanctus even mutters, "Oh, it's you, Gloria," to Trish when she's not even Gloria anymore. Yet Trish and Gloria look nothing alike, so the fans couldn't tell who Gloria is until The Reveal and assumed she was a new character.
• Please, Don't Leave Me: Begs Dante not to leave her behind because of The Reveal that she's working for Mundus in 1, but it fails.
• Pretty Freeloader: Trish and Lady often loiter around the Devil May Cry office a lot. Most of it is for business reasons since they're Dante's demon-hunting partners, but they do have the habit of lazing around there for no reason as well, often mooching off his pizza and other resources, or making him pay their shopping bills. Granted, they're strictly Platonic Life-Partners with him, and all three are fine trading all the snark in the world with each other.
• Promoted to Playable: She's a selectable character in 2 and 4:SE.
• Redemption Equals Death: Earns her Heel–Face Turn whe she dies protecting Dante from Mundus. She gets better (possibly thanks to Eva) not too long after though.
• Secret Character: In 2, you unlock Trish as a playable character after clearing Dante's campaign on Hard mode, although she can be used on both campaigns.
• She-Fu: A bit of this when she roughs up Dante at the beginning of 1. This comes back in full force when she's masquerading as Gloria, but given the circumstances, she was probably playing it up. Averted with her playable stint in 2, where all of Trish's attacks when she's not wielding Sparda are taken from Dante's repertoire with Ifrit in the previous game. 4:SE also depicts Trish with a less exaggerated combat style that employs a mix of her natural lightning powers, footwork, and swordplay skills.
• Ship Tease: Despite the mainline series eventually dropping any sort of romantic relation between Trish and Dante as it went by, some guest and spin-off appearances still try to give a nod towards it, Trish’s banter against Dante upon winning against him in Marvel vs. Capcom 3 is she claiming to be "the one who wears the pants in their relationship", and in the Pachinko title, Devil May Cry X, Dante and Trish take on a mission together, one scene has Dante comically trying to get Trish to play around as if they are on a date.
• Shipper on Deck: Makes fun of Lady being "clumsy"^note the Japanese connotation of "being bad at telling one's feelings" and Dante being "dense" regarding each other in Vol.1 of the Audio Drama CD. Although it could just be Trish simply teasing both of them.
• Shock and Awe: She has a number of electrical abilities that she uses in combat, or for torturing people.
• Shout-Out Theme Naming: Is named after Beatrice Portinari, one of Dante's Love Interests from the La Vita Nuova, and is also identified as his guide to Heaven in The Divine Comedy.
• The Smurfette Principle: The only female subordinate of Mundus (and, in fact, the only living female in 1). Gloria is also the only female executive of the Order of the Sword.
• Stance System:
  • In 2. By default, her moves with Sparda mimic Dante's in the first game. She can also Sword Plant the blade, allowing her to access his moves with Ifrit and then subsequently call back the sword to her hand to switch back to swordfighting.
  • In 4:SE, Trish retains her Sparda swordplay and hand-to-hand abilities from 2, but the latter stance is now officially called "Bare Knuckle" and utilizes her lightning powers. For ease-of-use, her Sparda moveset is tied to the Style button, while her Bare Knuckle moveset is tied to the standard melee button. Few of her Bare Knuckle moves are also dependent on the Sparda being thrown beforehand via the Round Trip skill.
• Sticks to the Back: There's nothing that would strap a weapon on Trish's back, yet the Sparda still sticks like this when she's not using it.
• Stripperific: As Gloria. The way she fights in a cutscene only serves to emphasize how little skin her outfit covers.
• Super-Empowering: In the final battle of 1, she temporarily lends her power to Dante allowing him to finish off Mundus and send him back to the demon world.
• Super Mode: Possesses a Devil Trigger in 2 and 4:SE, but it merely manifests as Trish donning her sunglasses and gaining a golden aura. Kamiya, however, assumes that Trish really does have a natural demonic form. If canon (possibly backed by fellow artificially-created demon Lucia), this would imply Trish merely does so out of preference.
• Symbol Motif Clothing: Her corset features a thunderbolt pattern right down the middle, representative of her command over lightning.
• Sword and Fist: In both of her playable appearances, Trish's fighting style revolves around the combination of Sparda and her bare hands for combos. A cutscene shows her as Gloria taking down a group of demons with a fighting style that mixes knife fighting with fluid, acrobatic movements.
• Taking the Bullet: Throws herself in front of Dante to shield him from one of Mundus's Agony Beams.
• Tears of Remorse: Sheds them as part of her Heel Realization in 1.
• Teleportation: One of her powers.
• Throwing Your Sword Always Works: When she's not shooting lightning (especially in 4:SE), Trish can also rely on Round Trip. For added effect, Sparda takes the form of a scythe as it racks up hits.
• Token Heroic Orc: The only full-blooded demon among the main heroes besides Lucia
• Took a Level in Badass: In 1, she can shoot lightning and ends up with the Sparda sword while working as Dante's partner at the end, but is the only one in Mundus's group who does not have a boss fight. In 4, she shows herself to be a more capable fighter both as Gloria and as herself, although this is only seen in cutscenes. The Animated Series, and Trish's playable appearances in 2, MvC3, and 4:SE, however, fully give off the impression that the girl can fend for herself just fine when Dante's not around.
• Undying Loyalty: Towards Mundus. She goes back to him after Dante leaves her behind despite knowing of her punishment for failing him. However, she gradually loses this loyalty towards him when he has taken her hostage in the second-to-last mission of 1 and transfers this to Dante instead.
• The Unfought: In 1. The most she does is hang out behind the barrier of Nightmare's arena in the third battle and zap you with lightning. She's also this, as Gloria, in 4.
• Vapor Wear: As Gloria in 4. It actually makes her usual look seem conservative!
• Victoria's Secret Compartment: A cutscene in 4:SE shows her keeping lipstick in her corset.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: After starting out hostile towards each other, Trish and Lady have this relationship. They seem to get along best when they're making Dante's life miserable.
• Whole Costume Reference: Her black leather number and dual pistols are lifted directly from the eponymous lead of 1996's Barb Wire.

Lucia

"Till next time, son of Sparda."

^{Click here to see her Devil Trigger form}

"Dante told me... devils never cry!"

Voiced by: Françoise Gralewski

A red-haired woman raised by the island of Vie de Marli's Clan of demon-human hybrid warriors. She protects the island from demons and helps Dante fight a Corrupt Corporate Executive named Arius who's trying to open a Hell Gate in Devil May Cry 2. She uses an array of throwing knives and daggers in combat, along with the ability to transform into a white birdlike demon.

She's eventually revealed to be a defective artificial demon created by Arius. However, after a Heroic BSoD where she pleads for Dante to kill her out of fear she'll turn against the very people she wants to protect, and a Get A Hold Of Yourself Man from the leader of her clan, she decides she is a hero regardless. When Dante goes through the Hell Gate to fight Bigger Bad Argosax in the climax, Lucia stays behind to kill a deformed, possessed Arius.

At the end of Devil May Cry 2 she is last seen in Dante's office, waiting for him to return, but returns briefly in the prequel light novel of 5, to assist Dante on the island against a new threat.

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• '90s Hair: Lucia has '90s inspired curtain hair that completely covers one eye and ends in a braid.
• Action Girl: Lucia is the first playable example of this in the entire franchise. She gets her own campaign in 2 and is also a capable demon hunter just like Dante. She also has the distinct honor of being the only female character in the games to canonically take on a final boss on her own and win.
• Airplane Arms: While running in her Devil Trigger form.
• Ambiguously Brown: Lucia has a darker skin tone than Dante and hails from an island off the coast of the Americas. According to character designer, Daigo Ikeno, her skin tone◊ was one of the ways in which she was supposed to be a contrast to Trish from the previous game. Making things even more complicated is the fact that she is an artificial demon created by Arius.
• Animal Motifs: Birds (see Winged Humanoid below). Arius' Secretaries also share this motif, as seen by their bird-like eyes and Cool Masks in the shape of beaks.
• Artificial Human: She's an artificial demon.
• Automatic Crossbows: Like Dante in the first game, Lucia can use a rapid-fire bowgun underwater. Her version has an angel motif.
• Badass Cape: She wears a short white cape.
• Badass in Distress: Lucia is perfectly capable in-game, but has to be rescued by Dante from explosions in cinematics twice. She also doesn't accomplish much without Dante, being captured by Arius and staying behind while he enters the portal to Hell. She does, however, kill Arius when he returns as a demon.
• Bow and Sword in Accord: Lucia primarily fights with two curved swords. She can also be equipped with a bow gun but only for underwater levels.
• Braids of Action: A small one that's over her left shoulder.
• The Bus Came Back: After nearly 16 years of being absent from the franchise, Lucia finally returns in the prequel novel for 5.
• Clone Angst: Subverted, albeit not at first. By the end of the game, however, Lucia realizes that (thanks to Dante and her Parental Substitute Matier) it doesn't matter if she's one of several artificially-created demons as long as she has close ties to her friends and family.
• Combat Parkour: Lucia's fighting style makes use of graceful, acrobatic movements.
• Combat Stilettos: And unlike the other ladies, she actually uses them in battle.
• Crucified Hero Shot: Happens when Lucia is captured by Arius, but before she's saved by Dante.
• Death Seeker: On the verge of a Despair Event Horizon and fearing that she'd lose control of her demonic nature and end up hurting her loved ones and other humans, Lucia ventures through the second half of her story with a suicidal depression. She even asks Dante to kill her before the final battle, although Dante's kind words help her cope with who she is.
• Devious Daggers: Lucia uses throwing knives instead of guns like most of the playable characters in the games. At one point she tries to kill the main villain by disguising herself as one of her fellow artificial demons to get close to him. Unfortunately, he sees through the disguise.
• Do Not Call Me "Paul": She doesn't like being called Chi.
• Dual Wielding: Just about every weapon she uses.
• Everything Sounds Sexier in French: She has a vaguely French accent as a result of her being played by Françoise Gralewski.
• Feather Flechettes: In her Devil Trigger form she will launch feathers from her arms instead of throwing knives.
• Flawed Prototype: According to Arius, she's defective. His Bodyguard Babes are supposedly stronger than her, but Lucia goes on to defeat Arius himself when he's transformed into a full demon.
• Foil: To Trish. One wears black clothing, the other is perhaps best identified by her white scarf. As Trish is shown to be proficient with knives while moonlighting as Gloria in 4, they share a weapon choice as well. Both are clients and eventual partners of Dante who hire his services to draw him out to a remote island in the middle of nowhere to deal with the Big Bad's threat and generally do their own thing for the rest of the game, only crossing paths with Dante sparingly. Both women also happen to be creations of said villain, although Trish is aligned with Mundus, whereas Arius discarded Lucia like a broken toy because he saw her as defective, leading to her upbringing at Matier's hands. Trish has a change of heart and feels terrible for how she strung Dante along, whereas Lucia fears her demonic nature means she'll turn on humanity; Dante ends up alleviating their sadness with the same phrase: "Devils never cry." As such, each woman is reassured that that they're not only human in looks, but human in spirit because they can in fact shed tears and feel genuine emotion towards others.
• Gaiden Game: Her story could be seen as this. This is despite the fact that Lucia is arguably the true protagonist of 2 as opposed to Dante and not its deuteragonist.
• Generation Xerox: In the past, her mother and Sparda fought side-by-side and had a brief fling. In the present, Lucia fights to save humanity along side Sparda's son whom she develops feelings for, though he only thinks of her as a friend.
• Good Wears White: Her white cape is her most distinct article of clothing.
• Happily Adopted: It turns out that Matier isn't Lucia's birth mother, but she doesn't care because the love was real.
• Heroic BSoD: Has a massive freakout after getting The Reveal she's an artificial demon herself.
• Hunter of His Own Kind: Her entire clan consists of demon-human hybrids that are willing to hunt down demons to protect their home. Lucia herself is a full-blooded demon who was discarded by her creator for being a "defect".
• I Cannot Self-Terminate: Once Arius has been dealt with, Lucia tearfully begs Dante to kill her as well, as she cannot bear the fact that she's one of the villain's artificial demons. Dante naturally refuses, telling her that "devils never cry".
• Informed Flaw: Despite being supposedly a "flawed model", she is far more powerful than any secretaries who are supposed to be "good models".
• I Will Wait for You: According to Before the Nightmare, Lucia returned to her homeland and waits to see Dante again. She knows that Dante is unlikely to marry her, but merely wants "one happy memory" with him, which Dante continuously avoids.
• Kick Chick: Lucia uses swift, graceful kicks as a physical melee move when not using her twin curved blades.
• The Lady's Favour: Subverted/gender flipped. While it is Dante who ventures forth to fight Argosax, he is the one who entrusts his lucky coin to Lucia, asking her to keep it safe for him. It is then that she discovers that it's a trick coin. Lucia is later seen flipping it in the epilogue, but leaves it behind as she fervently rushes out to reunite with Dante.
• Light Is Good: Her Devil Trigger form is mostly white and angelic looking in contrast to the darker Fallen Angel look that the other Secretaries have or Dante's more freakish looking appearance in DT mode. Her name is also derived from ''lux'', the Latin word for "light".
• Lightning Bruiser: Thanks to her demonic nature, Lucia can be quick (as evidenced by her attacks and aerial combos), can tank shockwaves that break the city around her, and can even tap into her own powerful Super Mode.
• Luke, I Am Your Father: She was created by Arius, the second game's main antagonist.
• Mark of Shame: The χ-shaped symbol on her left shoulder, which Arius uses to pound home the fact that she's nothing more than a "mannequin".
• More Expendable Than You: She says, but if anything, this actually made her more worthy of living than himself in Dante's eyes.
• Our Ancestors Are Superheroes: Subverted. She initially believes she is descended from demon-human hybrids as a member of the Protectors Clan, but she is revealed to be a demon created by the villain Arius.
• Our Demons Are Different: Lucia is an artificial Secretary demon.
• Out of Focus: Lucia makes scant few appearances after DMC2 despite being the Deuteragonist of the game, with her most recent appearance being more than a decade later in the prequel novel Devil May Cry 5: Before the Nightmare. Her lack of exposure, is largely attributed to DMC2's infamous reputation among the fanbase and Loose Canon status in the main continuity's overall lore.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: Inverted. She infiltrates Arius' office disguised as one of his Sexy Secretary Bodyguard Babes — all of whom are part of the same set of lookalike clones she's a prototype of, so a change of clothes would presumably be all that's needed to fool Arius. Yet impressively enough, Arius is not fooled.
• Put on a Bus: Lucia hasn't appeared in any game after 2, largely due to its poor reception, though she did appear in the prequel novel to 5.
• Reverse Grip: How she holds her Cutlaseer.
• Sequel Non-Entity: Lucia was the Deuteragonist of 2, the first character other than series protagonist Dante to be playable, and the first playable female character in the franchise. Thus far, Lucia is the only playable character of the Devil May Cry games to not appear in any of the following games. She does appear in the DMC5 prequel novel Before the Nightmare but she hasn't appeared in any of the games since her debut in 2.
• Shout-Out Theme Naming: Named after Saint Lucy, also known as Lucia in The Divine Comedy. Lucia is a Christian martyr who acts as an intermediate and instructs Virgil to lead Dante through Hell and Purgatory.
• Shoo Out the New Guy: Unlike Lady and Nero who became staples of the series, Lucia simply disappeared after the second game despite the ending implying she might join Dante. She doesn't appear in the next games, and was only brought back in the Before the Nightmare light novel which serves as a prequel to DMC5. This is partly due to the ambiguous nature of where the second game fell on the timeline, For the longest time, the game was considered almost noncanon and essentially shunted to happening after the fourth game, before it was decided that it did in fact happen to take place before DMC4.
• Suicide by Cop: Subverted. Lucia attempts this when she learns that she is not her mother Matier's biological daughter but one of the artificial demons created by Arius. Fearing she will lose control of herself and attack those she is supposed to protect, she attacks Dante to goad him into killing her. Fortunately, Dante has faith in her humanity and refuses to kill her.
• Super Mode: Lucia has a Devil Trigger just like Dante. However, hers is more angelic and bird-like in appearance.
• Super Prototype: She's much more powerful than the secretaries, who are supposedly "superior models".
• Throw Down the Bomblet: Aside from her knives, she has access to compact bombs called Cranky Bombs, which can be either set or thrown. They're also one of two subweapons usable underwater (the other being the bowgun).
• Token Heroic Orc: Lucia is the only heroic demon created by Arius and is the only other heroic full-blooded demon in the series other than Trish.
• Tomato in the Mirror: Downplayed. She always knew she had demonic powers but assumed that it was because she comes from The Vie de Marli's Clan which consists of demon-human hybrid protectors of the island. Arius later reveals that she was never human at all but rather one of several artificial demons designed to serve him and was discarded for being defective. She still pushes onward but Arius's claim that she's destined to turn on humanity gives her a lot of emotional turmoil for the rest of the game.
• Unresolved Sexual Tension: Debatable, but Lucia definitely appears to warm up to Dante by the end of the game. It's mostly one-sided, though Dante does seem to warm up to Lucia somewhat as well despite his more detached attitude.
• What Measure Is a Non-Human?: She has a complex with this after realizing she's a demon.
• White Sheep: A telltale sign between Lucia and the other Secretaries is the lack of malicious-looking bird-esque eyes.
• Winged Humanoid: To contrast with Dante's more demonic visage while DT'ed, her Devil Trigger form is some sort of angelic bird woman resembling a dove. Her wings are actually on her arms (with her feathers being used as projectiles in place of her knives) and she doesn't gain wings to fly with unless she has the Aerial Heart equipped. Lucia's unlockable Secretary outfit is instead patterned after a raven/Fallen Angel.
• You Are Number 6: Her original name is Chi (χ), the 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet. While it's unknown if Arius made 21 or more demons like Lucia, he's shown to have at least a few around.

Lady

The Walking Arsenal

^{Click here to see her DMC 4 self}

^{Click here to see her DMC 3 self}

"Mary died a long time ago. My name... is Lady."

Voiced by: Kari Wahlgren (DMC3, DMC4), Melissa Davis (The Animated Series), Kate Higgins (DMC4:SE, DMC5; credited as Kate Davis)

Fumiko Orikasa (The Animated Series, Project X Zone, DMC4: Special Edition, DMC5; Japanese)

Face Model: Andrea Tivadar (DMC5)

A Badass Normal demon slayer formerly known as Mary who first meets Dante in Devil May Cry 3. Her current name came from Dante's penchant to just call her "Lady" after she refused to introduce herself in that game.

In 3, she seeks to kill her demon-worshiping father Arkham as revenge for Arkham murdering her mother years earlier, only to turn out to unwittingly be part of the key to Arkham and Vergil opening a Hell Gate. At climax of the game, she is finally able to kill her father and together with Dante seal the Hell Gate he opened for good. Afterwards, she continues her work as a demon hunter, and eventually hires Dante to investigate the Order of the Sword in 4.

Being a normal human who lacks demonic powers or brute strength, Lady employs Gun Fu and a Hyperspace Arsenal of weapons in battle instead, including a pistol & a submachine gun (a Custom Browning Hi-Power/CZ 75B Hybrid and a custom Vz.61 Skorpion with a bayonet attached to it) , throwing knives, grenades, and her custom rocket launcher "Kalina Ann." She becomes playable in 4SE, putting all of these weapons to good effect, and trades out her handgun, submachine gun and knives for a pair of high-caliber handguns. Lady has limited fighting ability due to being a normal human, but can still keep up due to her guns putting out a surprising amount of damage. Indeed, firearms are mostly combo tools in Devil May Cry games rather than substitutes for your sword, but for Lady most of her damage and style points come from said firearms. Her DT is also a powerful, room-clearing shower of grenades rather than a transformation. While this does a huge amount of damage, it also means she can't heal, which incentives she stay at a distance and pelt away at her foes from safety.

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• Action Girl: She can take out demons with enormous ease, despite being a normal human being.
• The Alcoholic: Morrison's Letters in 5 indicate that Lady occasionally goes on massive benders to cope for what she saw in 3.
• Anti-Hero: Pragmatic Hero to a degree, more demonstrated in 3 and TAS
• Appropriated Appellation: She refuses to tell Dante her true name and tells him to call her whatever he wants, to which Dante responds, "Whatever, lady." At the end of the game, she embraces "Lady" as her name, telling her father that "Mary died a long time ago."
• Apocalypse Maiden: She's desperately trying to stop her father's schemes in 3, but her blood is the final key he needs to break Sparda's seal in Temen-ni-gru and open the gates to the demon world because she's a descendant of the original maiden Sparda sacrificed to seal it in the first place.
• A-Team Firing:
  • After her battle with Dante. Possibly justified in that Dante just walked over her the same way Muhammad Ali slugged out George Foreman. At the very least, the fact that she collapses after he takes the gun from her implies she's utterly exhausted from trying to keep up with him.
  • In her playable appearance in 4:SE, a few moves involve spamming gunfire in a semicircle area in front of her to hit anything unfortunate enough to be standing close. Involved guns include a shotgun, rapid-firing spread shots, and a Macross Missile Massacre from Kalina Ann that functions via Button Mashing.
• Badass Biker: Lady's first appearance in 3 is on a motorcycle, and she proceeds to blow some demons away via the exhaust pipe as she leaves the scene. It's a pretty snazzy ride to boot (complete with Weaponized Exhaust!). Too bad that Dante wrecks it.
• Badass in Distress: In 5, Urizen defeats Lady and uses her as a host vessel for Artemis.
• Badass Normal: Whether she's this or has a Charles Atlas Superpower is hard to say, but she's basically the only competent demon slayer we meet in the series who's not part demon, full demon, or turning themselves into a demon. She's just a human with some guns. Well, a whole lot of guns, but it's still impressive that a human can slay demons without worrying too much about it. She also has ridiculous stamina and acrobatics that allow her to dodge the demons' attacks and maintain a safe distance.
• Bayonet Ya: Kalina Ann comes with a bayonet that also functions as a grappling hook. In 4:SE, she can whack enemies with it.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: Her relationship with Dante in 3.
• BFG: Kalina Ann, a rocket launcher which she carries on her back, even while doing acrobatic maneuvers.
• Boots of Toughness: Unlike Trish, Lady opts for more practical combat boots. Although, the boots she wears in 4 have notable high heels, making them less practical.
• Bottomless Magazines: She doesn't run out of ammo during the in-game boss fight against her in 3. She's also never seen reloading her Kalina Ann rocket launcher.
• Breakout Character: Although she didn't join Dante in MvC3 (the best she got was a card for Heroes and Heralds mode in Ultimate), she does show up as a playable (Solo) unit in Project × Zone and eventually became playable in 4:SE.
• Casting Gag: Fumiko Orikasa voices Lady in the Japanese version. She also did the voice for Holly Summers from No More Heroes. Both have a rocket launcher as their signature weapon.
• Charles Atlas Superpower: She's a normal human who's able to keep up with naturally more powerful demons by just packing a lot of guns and ammo. Her training regimine must be amazing.
• Character Narrator: She narrates the prologue and epilogue cutscenes of 3.
• Charged Attack: As a playable character, all of her guns can be charged up up to three levels. Her handguns charge up the fastest, while Kalina Ann takes the longest to charge up, but is also one of her most powerful attacks.
• Combat Stilettos: In 4, although they're not as high as Trish's. Her boots in 5 lack the heels.
• Cool Bike: She had one in 3 before Dante completely wrecks it after using her bike to destroy several demons in Temen-ni-gru. She later rides a red 1974 Ducati 750 Supersport in TAS.
• Cool Shades: In 4.
• Cry Laughing: Happens at the start of Mission 20 in DMC3, after she finishes off her father Arkham. After unloading a whole clip from her gun in him, she drops to her side, laughing into the air before being overcome with tears mid-laughter.
• Cute Bruiser: She's 18 or probably less during her first appearance!
• Daddy's Girl:
  • Although it's not outright stated, it's hinted at that Lady at one point loved her father deeply. One of the first hints was when Arkham faked his death she almost immediately believed his lies about being manipulated, and accepted what Arkham said without any hesitation or questions. The second hint is near the ending. After being defeated by Dante in a duel, she requests that Dante free her father from his madness revealing that hatred isn't the only thing motivating her. Finally after being defeated by Dante and Vergil Arkham is killed by Lady, despite all that Arkham had done Lady still continues to refer to him as her father before pulling the trigger. Lady's crying afterwards hints that she really didn't want to do it despite all of her hate, and shows she was trying to convince herself to hate him the entire time.
  • When trying to convince Nero not to confront Vergil after learning he was his Vergil's son in 5, she sorrowfully mentions that killing one's own father is never to be taken lightly and always worth a second thought, no matter what the reasons are.
• Damsel in Distress: She and Trish are defeated and captured by Urizen at the beginning of Devil May Cry V and has to be rescued by Nero.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Lady has a supreme asshole of a father who murdered her mother and used her in a horrible plan to open the Hell Gate that Sparda closed.
• Dash Attack: She has her own version of Stinger, but she does it with a shotgun. If the player follows up with O/A, she'll follow the initial shot with an extremely powerful buckshot that pushes her farther back than when she started. (Dante could previously use these moves, Gun Stinger and Point Blank, in 3 while using Gunslinger Style, appropriately enough.)
• Defeat Means Friendship: After an entire game of butting heads in 3, Dante and Lady finally come to terms with each other when he beats her in proper combat.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: She's very tense and cold for most of the game. It's not until the above trope comes into play that Lady starts to lighten up.
• Demoted to Extra: In 4 and 5, she has relatively little to do with the plot, instead having become one of Dante's work associates who collaborates with him on various demon hunting contracts. Reasonably justified in DMC5 as she's shown to be out of her league after being defeated by Urizen early in the game alongside Trish, Dante, and Nero, while losing the Kalina Ann in the chaos. Nico makes a replacement for her, but once Vergil is resurrected Nico rents it to Dante to give him extra firepower for recent developments leaving Lady with no weapon to return to the fight with for the entirety of the game.
• Depleted Phlebotinum Shells: How does she fight demons with no magic? Increasingly more dangerous ammunition, from hollow-points, napalm, to explosive rounds.
• Determinator: Even though she more than likely knows that she's outmatched in various ways by both Dante and Vergil, she still doesn't give up on her mission throughout 3.
• Difficult, but Awesome: In 4:SE, her Kalina Ann is quite the high risk, high reward weapon. On the risk side, everything but its melee attacks and Double Jump require you to stand still. On the reward side, it has damage and spread on par with the Shotgun, but without the need to be at close range (on top of the two moves that are basically Macross Missile Massacres).
• Do Not Call Me "Paul": She doesn't like using her real name, Mary.
• Drives Like Crazy: In 5, at one point Nero is nearly crushed by Nico's van making a Dynamic Entry. Nero is quick to point fingers at Nico for doing so, only for Nico to reveal Lady was the one behind the wheel this time around; cue Lady peeking out the window with a smile and playful wave.
• Drowning My Sorrows: Morrison's third letter in DMC5 implies Lady drinking for some time after the events of DMC3. When Morrison met her, she once slipped out the fact that she and Dante each killed a member of their families. Though this story piqued Morrison's curiosity, he just chalked it up to the "drink", initially believing it as being "booze-induced".
• Everyone Calls Her "Barkeep": She goes by the name "Lady" and is one, though her true name is Mary.
• Fanservice Pack: In 4, just like Trish, the size of her breasts is increased and she shows off considerably more skin that her first appearance. 5 returns her to resembling her original proportions closer.
• Flanderization: A bonus picture of 3 has Lady holding up the handlebar of her destroyed bike, with Dante shrugging in the distance. While it's understandable that she would want to be paid back for it, like the "debt" point, it's overplayed. Her later appearances end up having to do with either money Dante owes her for her bike, or money Dante owes in general.
• Glass Cannon: She's this in 4: Special Edition (what with her focus on ranged combat).
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: She has numerous scars, including one running across the bridge of her nose and, after the events of 3, a rather large one on her thigh. However, as she's one of the good guys, they're all pencil thin and detract very little if at all from her overall looks.
• Good Wears White: She wears a white shirt or jacket most of the time.
• Grappling-Hook Pistol: Kalina Ann's bayonet is actually a harpoon that can be fired out to reel enemies in or to rappel up walls.
• Ground Pound: One of her aerials includes plunging Kalina Ann's bayonet into the ground, which creates a small shockwave on impact.
• Guns Akimbo: She dual wields a pair of automatic pistols.
• The Gunslinger: More so than the other heroes, if only because she carries even more firearms than them. 4:SE makes Lady playable for the first time in the series. As the true owner of the Kalina Ann, her style incorporates a lot more explosives; different kinds of missiles and grenades, but she also uses dual handguns and shotguns with some of the moves Dante uses, in addition to her own rapid fire shots.
• Hero of Another Story: Just like Trish, Lady also has her independent devil-hunting career in Devil May Cry: The Animated Series that is never really seen aside from a few snippets of her hunting demons on her own.
• Hollywood Healing: Lady has zig-zagged this trope across multiple installments. In 3, Arkham stabbed her leg with the Kalina Ann's bayonet but there's no open wound on her (partly because of the game engine's limitations). Only Charles Atlas Superpower explains how she easily got back up on her feet and kept fighting after it happened. Later on, both the anime and 4 show that she did receive a nasty scar on her leg from that incident, yet she didn't suffer any lasting effects, even on 5.
• I Call It "Vera": Kalina Ann, her rocket launcher which she named after her mother.
• Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: After Lady is beaten by Dante in a boss fight of 3, she shoots several more times at him but is wide off the mark, probably as a result of having just been exhausted.
• Informed Attribute: Dante believes that the only villain who can beat Lady is Vergil, but while Lady is skilled, she has never shown the power to be among the heavyweights like Mundus or Argosax.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She starts off as a jerkass in 3, with bad first impressions to Dante and all, such as shooting his face when he just rescued her from falling, and fighting him simply because he's a half-demon. Over time, Lady had a Character Development after Arkham has been dealt with, becomes one of Dante's trusted allies, and acts more carefree than before.
• The Lady's Favour: Her temporary relinquishing of Kalina Ann to Dante in 3 with the request to "save" her father Arkham, minus the part about being a love interest (possibly).
• Living Battery: In 5 she is used as one for Artemis.
• Long-Range Fighter: Gameplay-wise, Lady relies entirely on firearms, with her melee attack mostly useful for knocking enemies away and giving her some breathing room. Luckily, her guns do more damage than other characters' and she can charge them up to three levels.
• Macross Missile Massacre: Her "Hysteric" move for the Kalina Ann, which fires a cluster micromissles and you can button mash to fire even more.
• Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter: She's actually Arkham's daughter.
• Made of Iron: In 3, she gets stabbed through the thigh with the enormous bayonet of her Kalina Ann rocket launcher, has it wiggled or twisted around in a way that would realistically cripple the leg for life if you didn't bleed out first, but she's back up for a boss fight shortly afterward, and then she climbs up the outside of a damn tower. She lacks the Healing Factor and Super-Toughness of the sons of Sparda, yet manages to shake off almost as much as they do. When you fight her as a boss, she's just as durable as any of the demon bosses.
• Madonna Archetype: She's a Badass Normal who has Ship Tease with Dante, named Mary before taking on the name Lady.
• Male Gaze:
  • Her introduction to the story in 4? Dante's POV, aimed squarely at her cleavage, before looking up.
  • One of the Randomized Title Screens in 5 briefly has the camera focusing on Lady's cleavage and neck.
• Mechanically Unusual Fighter: For a series that places much emphasis on stylish melee combos, Lady in the Special Edition of 4 stands out for being the only playable character who's primarily focused around ranged attacks and combos; she has a grand total of three melee abilities (one basic ground combo, one air combo, and one Helm Breaker-style attack) and no Devil Trigger (her Devil Trigger gauge instead powers a Combo Breaker that involves throwing several grenades around herself), but boasts a vast array of ranged abilities that allow her to keep crowds of enemies at bay and empower her guns to levels never before seen in the series.
• Missing Mom: Her mother was killed by her father.
• The Missus and the Ex: In the anime, with Trish being the "missus" (being the newer of Dante's female friends).
• Modesty Shorts: In 3, Lady is wearing some short black leggings◊ under her "ammo skirt". Probably very wise with all the acrobatic flipping she does and especially when Handsome Lech Dante is holding her upside down by one leg during a cutscene.
• More Dakka: If her rockets and grenades won't kill her targets, Lady's other method of fighting is to unload as many bullets as possible with her firearms consisting of handguns, submachine guns, or a shotgun. When she became playable in the Special Edition of 4, some of her combos (especially with her handguns) consist of fast, multi-hitting shots that encourage sustained fire against the target, usually with Button Mashing involved.
• Ms. Fanservice: In 3, Lady is a very attractive young woman who wears violet spats and so the camera makes sure you get a lot of looks at her legs and butt. Her outfit in 4 shows off much more skin with her Navel-Deep Neckline and shorts with a lack of skirt than it did in 3. While it gets toned down in 5 we're still treated to quite a few nice shots of her body as she spends some of early scenes buck naked before Nico finally gets her some clothes. A main menu scene in New Game Plus playthroughs has Lady poke her head out of a shower in the van, obviously naked yet again.
• Navel-Deep Neckline: Her barely-buttoned business jacket shows off the entirety of her cleavage and some of her stomach in 4. She dresses a bit more conservatively in 5.
• Older Than They Look: In 4 and 5. Although her explicit age is never mentioned, she's about the same age as Dante in 3, which would put her, at the very least, in her 40s by the time 5 rolls around, making her hypothetically old enough to be Nero's mother. Hell, she could even be older than Trish, considering the latter was created by Mundus presumably just before the events of 1. However, that doesn't stop Lady from looking very young, especially when compared to Dante. The end of 5 draws a minor bit of attention to this, as Lady states that she's been thinking it might be time for her to settle down soon.
• Only a Flesh Wound: Lady, the only entirely human character in 3, gets stabbed through the thigh with an enormous bayonet, but manages to quickly stand back up as she, Dante and Vergil point their weapons at Arkham. She's still up for a boss fight not long afterward, and then climbs up a building!
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Since she dislikes her real name, she goes by Lady.
• Our Ancestors Are Superheroes: Lady is a devil hunter with Charles Atlas Superpower and is descended from a priestess who helped Sparda seal a gateway to the demon world two thousand years ago.
• Out of Focus: Trish and Lady surprisingly get this in DMC5. Despite being integral Action Girls of the earlier installments, the anime and even playable in the previous mainline game, they don't contribute much to the story, getting defeated early on and after getting rescued, spend the rest of the game in Nico's van and don't help in defeating the Big Bad Urzien.
• Parental Abandonment: Lady is on the receiving side of this. Her father Arkham killed her mother, and set off in his quest for power.
• Platonic Life-Partners: With Dante. Director Itsuno had to clarify this further by specifically stating that their relationship is not romantic, but whatever bond they shared is more focused on understanding what the other had gone through.
• Plucky Girl: Not even getting her ass kicked by Dante is enough to stop her. Her determination does pay off in the end — she gets to kill Arkham after all.
• Pretty Freeloader: Trish and Lady often loiter around the Devil May Cry office a lot. Most of it is for business reasons since they're Dante's demon-hunting partners, but they do have the habit of lazing around there for no reason as well, often mooching off his pizza and other resources, or making him pay their shopping bills. Granted, they're strictly Platonic Life-Partners with him, and all three are fine trading all the snark in the world with each other.
• Progressively Prettier: Compare Lady in her debut to Lady at the time of 4 and 5. Semi-justified since she's several years older. And she wasn't exactly unattractive to begin with, as her fandom will attest.
• Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: She shares her birth name with the Virgin Mary, and the name she takes on after 3 is based on one of Mary's titles, Madonna, which is Italian for "Our Lady". The Virgin Mary also appears in The Divine Comedy, which goes along with the franchise's Shout-Out Theme Naming to that poem.
• Rocket Jump: Her double jump as a playable character has her shooting the ground with Kalina Ann while airborne, since she's a Badass Normal who can't summon magic platforms like the other characters.
• Sad Clown: Though she is outwardly much peppier in 4 and especially 5 than she was during the events of 3, supplementary materials and dialogue lines suggest that she isn't so over things internally. When Nero is struggling with possibly having to kill his father Vergil, Lady is quick to tell him that patricide is not something one easily gets over with, while having a sad look on her face as she says this, and as Nico states in her notes on Lady, someone who is as dedicated to demon hunting as she is can't be all that stable mentally.
• Spin Attack: Bayonet Sweep is one which is handy for getting enemies away due to its high knockback.
• Self-Made Orphan: Although when your father is Arkham, it has to be done. She considers this an act of grave responsibility and even for all the vengeance that was powering her motivation it's not something she takes any joy in, at best expressing a deflated relief that it's finally done. This comes back around when cautioning Nero against killing Vergil in 5, showing she never really let go of the hurt of having to act as the arbiter of her father's demise, evil man as he may have been.
• Shameless Fanservice Girl: In 5, Lady is shown not to be very modest when she drops her Modesty Bedsheet right in front of Nico, while asking her for clothes.
• Shared Unusual Trait: Her heterochromia is something she shares with her father. As implied by illustrator Tatsuya Yoshikawa in page 217 of the 3142 Graphic Arts artbook, she wears sunglasses in 4 to hide it.
• She-Fu: Lady fights this way in 3 when she's not simply shooting her enemies. In one cutscene, she sits with one leg over the other on a scythe stuck in a wall before spreading her legs to kick at two enemies simultaneously.
• Ship Tease: She develops a crush on Dante and gets jealous of Trish in TAS.
• Shout-Out: According to character designer Daigo Ikeno, her original appearance was inspired by "the black-haired Julia Volkova of the Russian girl group" t.A.T.u.
• Swiss-Army Gun: As well as fire off regular missiles, Kalina Ann can fire off volleys of homing mini-missiles as well as the bayonet as a grappling hook.
• That Man Is Dead: At the end of 3, she tells Arkham that Mary died a long time ago, embracing "Lady" as her name.
• The Team Normal: Lady is the only playable hero with no demonic or magical powers, relying only her skill with guns.
• Throw-Away Guns: After using Trigger Happy or Two Hand, Lady will throw away her pistols and pull out a new pair rather then reloading them.
• Throw Down the Bomblet: As a playable character, her replacement for Devil Trigger is her tossing grenades around her in a screen-clearing attack, based upon an evasive tactic she uses against Dante when faced as a boss in 3, she can also throw a cluster of grenades at enemies with her Scatter attack, which is also handy for dodging.
• Took a Level in Cheerfulness: Throughout much of 3, she's driven by the desire to have revenge for her mother. In TAS and 4, while still somewhat playfully professional in her dealings with Dante, she doesn't display as much of her old temperament of being cold towards demons, shown by her working with Trish. In 5, Lady's eagerly rushing to join in the hunt with Trish and Dante. Just look and compare her official character renders for each game — in 3 she's scowling, in 4 she's much more relaxed, and in 5 she's fully grinning.
• Trying Not to Cry: After Lady shoots and kills her father Arkham, she breaks down into tears. Before the cutscene ends, she notes that she was not expecting to cry and tries to recover.
• Tsundere: Shows shades of this in the anime when Trish wonders if she is in love with Dante.
• Ungrateful Bastard: In 3, Dante saves her from falling to her death when Arkham tosses her off the tower. Lady's response is to demand he let her go, and then shoot him in the face. Dante is rightfully pissed and calls her out on it.
  Dante: What the hell was that for? Here I am trying to help you, and you show your thanks by shooting me?!
• Unorthodox Reload: While fighting some demons in close quarters, a nearby explosion from her rocket launcher sends approximately three of Lady's guns flying, all of which spent some time in the air during their reloading process; she puts a magazine clip in her mouth, throws two more clips in the air, catches a pair of guns first, then lets the guns catch their respective clips. Immediately after, she repeats the latter trick with another pair of handguns from her holster. The last handgun falls near her, then she reloads it too while catching it.
• Van Helsing Hate Crimes: Initially in 3, Lady was introduced as a demon hunter who believed all demons are evil. Dante helps convince her that not all demons are evil, and that not all humans are good. She later gets over it and accepted his notion, best evidenced by her own narration at the epilogue:
  Lady: But now I realize, there are human as evil as any devil, as well as calm and compassion demons in this universe. At least I've found one so-called devil who's able to shed tears for those he cares about. That's enough for me to believe in him.
• Vengeance Feels Empty: She's spent years pursuing her father for killing her mother, and hates him for all the atrocities he's committed... but despite everything, she can't bring herself to completely hate him. When she finally kills Arkham in 3, she breaks down Cry Laughing, and in 5, she tells Nero that killing Vergil, recently revealed to be the latter's father, will leave a huge emotional scar on him, obviously speaking from experience.
• Victoria's Secret Compartment: In episode 5 of TAS, she casually tucks in a large stack of bills into her shirt.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: After starting out hostile towards each other, Trish and Lady have this relationship. They seem to get along best when they're making Dante's life miserable.
• Walking Armory: Lady has visible bags and pouches of ammunition and weaponry in her every attire and always carries at least two hand guns, two SMGs, and Kalina Ann on her person. 5 gives her the sobriquet "The Walking Arsenal".
• Weak, but Skilled: Has no demonic powers but is still a competent demon hunter.
• What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Likewise. Lady goes from outright hating all demons to realizing that there are not only demons out there with noble, heroic spirits, but humans with hearts blacker than that of any demon.

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