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Basically Dante is an overly confident guy, since his powers and abilities are tremendous he rarely takes fights seriously and doesn't bother with them. This specifically goes to his DMC3 Pre-DT and DMC4 keys.
I know that Vol1 explains his "overconfidence and arrogance" as mere tactics to throw his enemies off the game but this changes in 2 (3 if you count Before the Nightmare) games.
In the beginning of the DMC3 Manga Dante is presented as a hedonistic person, he barely takes his work seriously and doesn't really care about demons besides killing them for his own pleasure, this carries on to the beginning of DMC3 in which he lets himself get impaled just for the ***** and giggles. At this point the arrogance and the joking is real, he is overconfident in his abilities as proven by him defeating the black knights that were sent after him, this because his power kept growing to the point he could deal with dozens of them while months earlier he almost got killed by a single unit.
This of course changes after Vergil beats the crap out of him and he realizes he has a legacy to uphold so this weakness doesn't fall for his Post DT key.
Then in DMC4 this arrogance and overconfidence comes back, this time with more power and the reason behind it is simple, to quote the novel:
"He usually wouldn’t think about stuff like that - he’d been pretty confident in the abilities he inherited from his father, and so far, hadn’t had any reason to believe he could lose..." Deadly Fortune, Volume 2 p. 101
His great power has made him get bored in fights to the point he would stand still and let demons attack him for free just to see what they are capable off:
"Dante just stood there, doing nothing. Sometimes he found it fun to let his enemies get a hit on him - to see what they were capable of, and to make things more interesting. Demon hunting could get real mechanic and boring if he just always went all out, after all." DF, Vol2 p.106
He is also willing to drag out fights just to amuse himself:
“Don’t tell me this is already too much for you?” Dante wanted to wait and see what she’d reply if he gave her time to recover, but he quickly dismissed that thought. It seemed like she would go down with either the next hit or with a single shot of his gun - he was actually, a bit upset that it was already over DF, Vol2 p.112
This is repeated all over DMC4, he could have ended the whole mess in a blink but decided to just chill out and wait, all because his power being so great that not even demon gods could give him a proper fight. DMC4 Dante is basically Saitama :v
In short, his Pre DT and DMC4 keys get the overconfidence and arrogance back, he is willing to drag fights and let himself get hit just to have some fun.
Somehow my dumb ass confused nihilistic with hedonistic, fixed that part
I know that Vol1 explains his "overconfidence and arrogance" as mere tactics to throw his enemies off the game but this changes in 2 (3 if you count Before the Nightmare) games.
In the beginning of the DMC3 Manga Dante is presented as a hedonistic person, he barely takes his work seriously and doesn't really care about demons besides killing them for his own pleasure, this carries on to the beginning of DMC3 in which he lets himself get impaled just for the ***** and giggles. At this point the arrogance and the joking is real, he is overconfident in his abilities as proven by him defeating the black knights that were sent after him, this because his power kept growing to the point he could deal with dozens of them while months earlier he almost got killed by a single unit.
This of course changes after Vergil beats the crap out of him and he realizes he has a legacy to uphold so this weakness doesn't fall for his Post DT key.
Then in DMC4 this arrogance and overconfidence comes back, this time with more power and the reason behind it is simple, to quote the novel:
"He usually wouldn’t think about stuff like that - he’d been pretty confident in the abilities he inherited from his father, and so far, hadn’t had any reason to believe he could lose..." Deadly Fortune, Volume 2 p. 101
His great power has made him get bored in fights to the point he would stand still and let demons attack him for free just to see what they are capable off:
"Dante just stood there, doing nothing. Sometimes he found it fun to let his enemies get a hit on him - to see what they were capable of, and to make things more interesting. Demon hunting could get real mechanic and boring if he just always went all out, after all." DF, Vol2 p.106
He is also willing to drag out fights just to amuse himself:
“Don’t tell me this is already too much for you?” Dante wanted to wait and see what she’d reply if he gave her time to recover, but he quickly dismissed that thought. It seemed like she would go down with either the next hit or with a single shot of his gun - he was actually, a bit upset that it was already over DF, Vol2 p.112
This is repeated all over DMC4, he could have ended the whole mess in a blink but decided to just chill out and wait, all because his power being so great that not even demon gods could give him a proper fight. DMC4 Dante is basically Saitama :v
In short, his Pre DT and DMC4 keys get the overconfidence and arrogance back, he is willing to drag fights and let himself get hit just to have some fun.
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