How Old is Dante? - Devil May Cry Explained

Thanks to the latest info, we can finally narrow down the age of the legendary demon hunter, the Son of Sparda, Dante!

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Dante's age across the series in text form:
8 - Eva's Death
18 - DMC3 Manga
19 - Devil May Cry 3
29 - Devil May Cry 1
33 - Anime & Devil May Cry 2
38 - Devil May Cry 4
43 - DMC5 Before the Nightmare
44 - Devil May Cry 5

[atomskthepirateking]

He's around 43-44 in DMC5 and Nero is 24-25

[Toxivello]

The BGM is one of my favorite OST's. DMC 3's 2nd Vergil fight.

[xXSonTJXxx]

If you say nero was 19 in dmc4 that means hes 24-25 years old in dmc5

[Corbin_Shadow]

Awesome video! 👍 I had always wondered this myself, but personally I always thought Dante was 28 during Devil May Cry 1. If Dante and Vergil are 8, and 20 years later Trish says Dante lost a brother and mother, that'd make the twins 28 in DMC1. Furthermore, personally I always assumed Vergil *ahem* did the deed back in Fortuna with that lady in the red dress before ever meeting Arkham. Once Vergil met Arkham, he would be constantly busy with helping Arkham in preparing to raise the Temen-Ni-Gru Tower. Since Vergil knows this would be the true and sure way of obtaining Sparda's power, he would no long need to pursue more knowledge on Sparda in other places, like Fortuna. So for me personally, it just makes sense that Vergil would be doing stuff like looking around in places like Fortuna before the events of the Manga. For simplicity's sake, let's say about a year before the Manga, placing Dante and Vergil's age at 17. With that out of the way, here's my personal timeline of events:

(Also, I've added my rough idea of potential years each of the games take place, mainly due to the years that Devil May Cry 1 and Devil May Cry 4 were released in real life, somehow coincidentally matching up with the ages I have Dante placed at during the events of those games)

1973 - Dante and Vergil are born
1981 - Dante and Vergil's home is destroyed, aged 8
1990 - Vergil visits Fortuna, impregnates Nero's mother, Vergil age 17
1991 - Vergil meets Arkham, Nero recently born, Vergil age 18
1992 - DMC3, Dante and Vergil 19, Nero 1
2001 - DMC1, D&V 28, Nero 10,
2004 - DMCA, D&V 31, Nero 13, Patty 8 (more on this section later)
2004 - DMC2, D&V 31, Nero 13 (later the same year)
2008 - DMC4, D&V 35, Nero 17, Patty 12
2013 - DMC5 Before the Nightmare, D&V40, Nero 22, Patty 18
2014 - DMC5, D&V 41, Nero 23, Patty 18

Patty being 8 during the events of the Anime is proven by the information in game, as we know Patty has turned 18 as stated in this video. Now, as for why I aged Dante up 3 years from 28 to 31, is admittedly because of one voiceline from Trish in the Anime, stating: "Haven't I been telling you for years to cut down on the pizza" (or something to that effect), and admittedly, this evidence is flimsy if we consider that the Japanese version says something completely different during this scene, not stating that it was years, so we don't know what to go off of here. But, if we do go by that, the minimum of "years" here would at least be 2 years, making Dante 30, but the context implies that she had been telling him this before she had officially left the Devil May Cry office to go solo, only occasionally stopping in. I imagine it had been some time since she made this decision, maybe around a year even, making Dante 31 by this point. DMC2 would be the same, taking place later that same year, supported by the Before the Nightmare Novel stating "Around 10 years ago" Lucia had last worked with Dante when they fought Arius. Keyword here being "Around" 10 years, as later, after the 1 year time skip, it is established that exactly 10 years have passed since Dante had taken care of Patty during the Anime, and now she is 18, and we are in DMC5 proper. Finally, my decision to make Nero 17 during the events of Devil May Cry 4 rather than being 19, as developers suggest. Again, some more partly flimsy evidence here, as I'm taking this from the questionable Canon status of the Devil May Cry 4 Deadly Fortune novel, with a scene of Sanctus stating that a mysterious man (heavily implied to be Vergil) showed up in his personal chambers one day in Fortuna looking for something, and this happened 16-17 years prior to when he is telling this story to Nero. So, Vergil would have been in Fortuna 16-17 years before DMC4, lining up with Dante and Vergil's age of 35 here. Vergil being 17, conceiving Nero. One year later, Nero had been recently born and Vergil is 18. 17 years later, Vergil 35, Nero 17. Leading finally to DMC 5 Before the Nightmare, 5 years after DMC4, and DMC5 taking place 1 year after. Dante and Vergil 41, Nero 23.

This is just how I personally see the ages working, and I am in no way trying to invalidate the calculations already made here in this video. Obviously there are just some discrepancies in terms of the information that Capcom has given us over the years, leading to all the confusion and different calculations being made by fans of the series. Again, I loved this video! It got me thinking about the topic for the first time in a long while. So thank you! And I hope someone else will see this comment and hopefully either agrees with it or corrects me on it if they have better information than I do. I did admit to using some questionable Canon status entries in the series as well as a sentence possibly lost in translation from the Anime, but hopefully some dedicated enough fan can finally deduce the definitive answer.

[nexscene]

I always thought Dante was in his 60s because DMC2 Dante looks like he's in his 30s or 40s.

[MohammedEssa]

I thought Dante would be a lot older. Like born in Victorian era or something???

[zionleach]

I would've liked to see what Kamiya would've done. Seems the DMC lore is a mess. Personally I always thought Dante was in his early 20's and not late 20's. . But Drew Coombs said the original script he was given cited him as 23.

[SeraphKH]

I have a question is dante immortal because nothing seems to be capable to kill him so I wonder if age can or will he just live forever