Bury the lore… under a mountain of politics.

Also, wasn’t Dante the main character of this thing?

Why It Completely Misses the Point

You wouldn’t be able to tell from watching the show, considering he gets less screen time than side characters like Lady. Because of course he doesn’t—it’s 2025, and you can’t have a straight white male as the main protagonist of any show, don’t you know? That simply wouldn’t sit well with modern audiences.

But Adi, isn’t this show about an early 2000s video game series, which the majority of its fanbase should probably be in their 30s or 40s at this point? Maybe you should consider what they would like to see in a DMC show instead of pandering to modern audiences, right? But I guess that would be too rational.

🧬 Adi Shankar’s War on Mysticism

One thing you’ll notice when you watch basically anything produced by Adi is that he simply cannot accept any mythology that relies on creeds, religions, or any form of mystical powers that are beyond human comprehension. To him, everything can and must be explained through science, or else it simply cannot be taken seriously.

This show actively goes out of its way to explain demon DNA, and how we are somehow descended from the same ancestors, and that demonic weapons and artifacts are simply instruments based on quantum physics. Oh, and Hell itself is simply a parallel dimension which has been separated from our own using these said instruments.

Wow, way to take out everything that was cool or fantastical about this series with just a few annoying scenes filled with boring exposition, Adi.

🛐Anti-Religious Undertones

It becomes pretty obvious that dear Adi and the people behind this simply can’t cope with the possibility of the existence of gods, and that basically, if you believe in one or are religious in general, that means you areautomatically a bad person. I mean, the only openly religious character in this show is literally the main antagonist who is to blame for everything evil that happens in the show.

C’mon Adi, you could at least try to hide it a little better. And don’t think about lying about it on Twitter, because I don’t think it’s gonna go well, haha.

See, the thing that people like Adi fail to realize is that even the greatest scientific minds in human history—Einstein, Newton, Planck—despite their numerous discoveries and scientific advancements, still had the humility to reach the conclusion that, at the end of the day, there must still be some sort of god or higher power out there that is simply beyond our understanding—that is responsible for the universe being the way that it is—and that that is a perfectly logical and acceptable assumption to make.

Yeah, let that sink in, Adi.

🎭Disrespecting the Lore: The Legend of Sparda

One of the main points of contention with this show is the blatant misunderstanding or outright disrespect it has for its own characters and lore. The legend of Sparda is treated like it’s just a dumb story about a guy who did nothing but the bare minimum, and that he wasn’t even that special to begin with.

I swear, the audacity of the people at Netflix. I mean, just look at the way Lady—or rather, Mary Arkham—tells the story of Sparda in the show and compare it to how she tells it in the games.

You can practically taste the entitlement and narcissism on this one. Another great example of Adi Shankar writing right there. I’ll get back to Sparda in a bit.

💥 Mary “Lady” Arkham – A Character Assassination

Oh, and yeah—she calls herself Mary Arkham in this show instead of Lady. Because taking and using the name of her father, who killed her mother in front of her eyes and basically ruined her life, and then wearing it like it’s something to be proud of, makes perfect sense.

Seriously, this is on the same level of brain rot as Rey Palpatine taking the name Skywalker for herself after showing nothing but disrespect towards Luke. Did you even play DMC3, Adi? The whole reason why Lady is called Lady is that she prefers to have no actual name than to use the name given to her by her monstrous father.

Oh, and forget about her mental and emotional intelligence, forget about her femininity, and basically everything that made her an actual strong female character in the games. Lady is now an overly abrasive, irrational, and entitled brat that curses more than an Irish sailor. Because that’s what a strong female character is, don’t ya know?

I mean, are we are still doing this old song and dance, guys? Haven’t we had enough Mary Sue-ing and girlbossing to last a lifetime?

And yeah—as you can probably guess by now, she is better than Dante at pretty much everything, even though she is just a normal human, and he is basically a half-demon demi-god who is otherwise nigh invincible. But don’t worry, the show conveniently nerfs Dante whenever it suits them in order to accommodate for Lady—I mean, Mary’s—girlbossing (yas queen).

🍕 Dante: The Wacky, Inconsistent Shell of His Former Self

And speaking of Dante, I guess you could say that he is the closest to his video game counterpart, but that isn’t saying much in this show.

Sure, he is basically the wacky “Wahoo Pizza Man” that we know, but there is still much that this show gets wrong about him—and not just the inconsistency of his power level.

See, Dante—as much of a jokester as he is—still has quite a bit of depth to his character. Dante is a character that, for one, holds a great deal of respect and reverence toward his mother, who died protecting him from a demon attack. He carries out his mission to use his demon powers to save as many people as he can, in part because of this childhood trauma. He actively becomes abrasive whenever someone even attempts to tarnish his mother’s memory.

So yeah, the idea that Dante of all people would be making “yo mama” jokes is simply absurd, and it shows how little they think of his character.

⚔️ Anti-Demon Weaponry and Its Impact

Also, while we are still on him—the idea of there being anti-demon weapons and ammunitions that are able to specifically target demon DNA or cells and cause them to explode on impact is also pretty stupid.

I mean, if you have access to this level of firepower that can theoretically take out even the most powerful demons, doesn’t that take away pretty much all threat and danger that demons otherwise posed? Why should we be afraid of demons if even a normal human person can render a super-powered demon harmless with just a well-placed shot from one of these standard-issue guns?

But it’s all based on science, don’t ya know?

💡Revisiting Sparda’s Legacy

Anyway, back to Sparda. The very reason why Sparda is such a prominent figure in the DMC universe isn’t just because he’s Dante’s father.

See, in DMC lore, demons are inherently evil and power-hungry, and are incapable of showing any empathy toward other beings. And that is precisely what made Sparda unique or special. He was the only exception to this rule. He was, by all intents and purposes, an anomaly—something that should never have existed.

A demon who was not only able to show empathy and care about humans, but also actively rebelled against his own king, fought against his own kind, and then separated the demon world from the human world in order to save humanity.

That is why Sparda became a legend and a revered figure in that universe.

But the show actively diminishes Sparda’s deeds and makes it so actually, Sparda wasn’t even special to begin with. Why, you ask?

Because in this show, demons are simply a misunderstood race—a race comprised in large part by peaceful refugees that are very human in nature and are simply trying to get by—all while being ruthlessly targeted and killed by the U.S. government, the real villains of this show.

Final Thoughts

Must I say anything more?

It’s pretty clear what kind of message this show is trying to convey—one that is very much tailored to a modern audience who probably never actually played a DMC game before, probably never will, and doesn’t really care about this IP.

It’s a shame that yet another beloved franchise was reduced to a simple tool for spreading “modern” political propaganda, instead of catering to the loyal and passionate fans that made this series what it is.

I mean, I like listening to Bury the Light as much as the next guy, believe me—but that isn’t nearly enough to blind me from what this show actually is.

And speaking of which, apparently Vergil is now a willing servant to the guy who ordered the attack that got his mother killed. Take that, DMC fans.

This isn’t DMC. DMC is about family, about what makes someone human. It’s about brothers and friends—not this modern politics slop.

While I’m writing this, it seems that a Season 2 has already been confirmed, despite the mixed reception this first season had.

And oh boy, I can’t wait to see where they take this circus next.