Lady
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| Lady | |
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| Devil May Cry 3, Devil May Cry 4 | |
| Voice actor(s): | (En:) Kari Wahlgren (DMC3 and DMC4 voice actor, uncredited[1]), Stephanie Cheeva (DMC3 motion capture), Laura Napoli (DMC4 motion capture), Melissa Davis (Anime) (Ja:) Fumiko Orikasa (Anime) |
| Alias: | Mary |
| Species: | Human |
| Role: | Ally |
| “ | What happened next? Nothing, really. We took care of all the remaining devils and that was it. I still have a job to do that's far from done, which is to eliminate every last demon. | ” |
—Lady, Devil May Cry 3 | ||
Lady first appeared in Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening, and later in that game's spin-off manga, as well as the 2007 anime series. In the game, she appears in numerous cutscenes, fights Dante as a boss character, and teams up with Dante during the game’s closing credits, though she is not controllable by the player. She also provides the game’s framing narration, telling the story of how she met Dante and Vergil, and how Dante picked the name "Devil May Cry" for his shop, which was something she had said while trying to comfort Dante over the loss of his brother.
Her original name, Mary, was given to her by her father Arkham, but she chose to renounce that name when her father murdered her mother. Dante first called her "lady" when she refused to tell him her name. Like her father, she has the genetic condition heterochromia, which render each of her eyes a different color. While still a normal human, she is also an exceptionally skilled firearms expert and extremely acrobatic in close quarters combat[2]. Her most powerful weapon is the Kalina Ann, a customized missile launcher similar to a MANPADS.
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Description
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Lady seems younger than Dante. When she is first seen in Devil May Cry 3, she wears a schoolgirl outfit. But this later changed into a formal equipment in the fourth game, probably by the amount of time that passes between the two installments. In her latest appearance, she wears sunglasses to conceal her eyes.
PersonalityEdit
Lady is very fierce, rough, and tough enough to keep up with Dante. Although, when she kills her father, Lady breaks down and cries, showing a more sentimental side. She also appears to have a bit of a crush on Dante, as she appears to show a softer side when around him and she gets a little jealous when she learns that Dante is good friends with Trish. She originally hates all demons, even half-demons, however; as she matures, she learns that humans and demons are equals in their capacity for both righteousness and destruction.
HistoryEdit
Devil May Cry 3Edit
Before meeting Dante, Mary's father, Arkham, killed her mother for reasons unknown to her. Because of this, she disassociated herself from the name her father gave her. She quickly developed a hatred towards not only her father for his horrendus act, but also against all demons, which she blamed for corrupting him. In a quest for revenge, she begins to climb the Temen-ni-gru in pursuit of Arkham.
She first meets Dante just after his battle with Cerberus. She fires a missile from Kalina Ann at Dante, who dodges the missile and rides it around the chamber like a flying skateboard. Dante releases it, and the missile blows a hole in the other side of the chamber. She then drives her motorcycle through the hole, continuing up the tower.
She fights her way up through the tower, taking a different path than Dante. As she approaches the top, she is confronted by Arkham, who calmly asks her why she points a gun at her own kin. She then claims the only family she had was her mother attempts to shoot him, but Arkham dodges her bullets and flips her off the side. She fires at him with her handguns as she falls, and one bullet grazes his cheek.
Below, Dante, in devilishly proper timing, catches her by the ankle. She then shoots Dante in the forehead, and he drops her. By jamming the blade of the Kalina Ann into the wall of the tower, she manages to stop her fall only a short distance away. Dante peers over the ledge to express his outrage at being shot, so she shoots at him again. This time Dante catches the bullet in his teeth, but leaves her be.
Still without a name, she presses on. She does not see Dante again until Leviathan nearly falls on her. Not sure what to make of it, she draws her gun as the eye begins to move. In a fountain of blood, Dante bursts forth from the eye. He starts to walk away, following a sign left by Jester, but she stops him. The two exchange a few words, but are attacked by demons. She and Dante stand back-to-back and fight off the demons. During the battle, Dante asks what her name is, to which Lady responds that she doesn't have one, and that he can call her whatever he likes. Dante, in a rather dismissive way, replies "Whatever, Lady," before leaping away and leaving the rest of the demons for her to deal with.
When Dante finds the seemingly dead body of Arkham, Lady arrives at the scene. Seeing the body of her despised father, she asks Dante if Arkham was killed by Dante. When Dante replies with an unsatisfactory, "So what if I did?" Lady flies into a rage and shoots at Dante, though he dodges or counters every shot. While venting her anger on Dante, she explains Arkham's sins and that he is her father. She laments about Arkham's death being her responsibility since they are family, but ultimately sends Dante on his way. Some time after Dante's departure, Arkham awakes, though he is still on the verge of death. He tells Lady that it was a demon who tricked him into killing his wife, and pins the blame on Vergil. After saying this, he takes his last breath. Lady then cries over him and promises to avenge his death by stopping Vergil.
Lady then catches up to Dante as he is fighting Vergil, and joins the clash. Soon after, Jester stops the battle. Jester reveals that he is in fact the alter ego of Arkham. Arkham also reveals that he lured Dante, Vergil, and Lady into that chamber, stating that all of them are the key in his plan to unlock the path to Demon World. In Lady's case, she is the descendant of a human priestess who Sparda sacrificed to seal the Temen-ni-gru. Jester mocks the brothers, saying they are weak. After slamming Lady's face into the floor, he stabs her thigh with the Kalina Ann in order to draw her blood and break the seal. Lady, Vergil, and Dante together try to put an end to Arkham, but, since they are weakened from having fought each other, he easily dispatches them and knocks them off of the rising platform on which they were standing. Lady very nearly falls again as the floor beneath her and the sons of Sparda collapses, but Dante catches her. She insists that it is her job to stop Arkham since he is her father, and uses the grappling hook on the Kalina Ann to ascend to the top of the tower. Dante, however, doesn't think she is a match for Arkham, and follows her by a different route.
Lady's battle with Dante occurs in the Divine Library. When Dante goes to the top of the tower to teleport to the Demon World, Lady stops him and aims her gun at Dante, saying that it is her responsibility to stop Arkham and Dante should not interfere. Dante insists that it is his responsibility, too, and demands that Lady get out of the way. Lady refuses and their battle begins. After her defeat, Dante remarks that this whole mess started with his father, and he should sort it out. Lady acquiesces, and entrusts Dante with Kalina Ann in exchange for his name. Some time later, Lady is shown catching a glimpse of Vergil going to the top of the tower.
After Arkham's acquisition of Sparda's power and subsequent defeat at the hands of Dante and Vergil, Arkham falls back to the human world. As Arkham, weakened and bloodied, tries to recover, Lady finds him. With Lady training her gun at him, Arkham pleads his innocence and begs her for his life. Lady shoots him regardless, several times. Lady then cries beside his body.
Lady reappears at the end of the game beside Dante, and converses about the aftermath. This is where she coins the famous phrase 'Devil May Cry' after seeing Dante shedding tears for his brother. Afterwards, the demons still left in the human world appear and attack both of them. Lady fights beside Dante. Then, the scene shifts to Lady's commentary about the future, the demons left in the human world, and about Dante's newly opened shop. Through her interactions with Dante, Lady realizes that demons are capable of both good and evil, just as humans are.
Devil May Cry: The Animated SeriesEdit
In the anime, she works as a solo Devil Hunter but sometimes calls on Dante for jobs, and sometimes for the money that he owes her. She also was unaware of Dante's earlier partner, Trish (from the first Devil May Cry), until she was hired to kill a demon that Trish was also hunting. Lady is hired by a priest who claimed the blond woman was controlling the demons terrorizing the town he was in. After realizing that she was tricked and dealing with the demon possessed priest, Lady and Trish grow to like each other. Unfortunately for Dante, this means buying expensive clothes and leaving him with the bill. During the Abigail incident, Lady and Trish kill a large amount of lesser demons while Dante kills Sid. Also during the episode where she first meets Trish, Trish asks if Lady likes Dante, Lady quickly says no and goes on to point out Dante's flaws.
Devil May Cry 4Edit
Lady, along with Trish, reappears in Devil May Cry 4 and tells Dante about the Order of the Sword cult in the city of Fortuna who "have butted in on some of [her] jobs". She also hints that the cult may have something more to them than what meets the eye. Because of this, she is responsible for getting Dante and Trish involved in the events in Fortuna by assigning them there.
Later on, after the events in Fortuna, she comes back to Dante's shop to pay for their services, implying that Dante doesn't have any debt to her anymore, even if the amount she paid was small. Trish complains about this small payment to which Lady reasons that the events that happened there escalated because of Trish's actions. She later accompanies Dante and Trish to their next assignment.
Other appearancesEdit
Marvel vs. Capcom 3Edit
Lady appears in Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 as an ability card for the DLC mode Heroes and Heralds.
BackgroundEdit
Lady shares her original name, Mary, with the Virgin Mary, who called on St. Lucia and Beatrice to aid the poet Dante Alighieri in his sojourn through Hell. As such, her chosen name of "Lady" is likely then a reference to one of the Virgin's other names, "Madonna" (Italian for "Lady").
TriviaEdit
- In Devil May Cry 3, the player can unlock an alternate costume for Lady. She wears it only if the player chooses to use special costumes.
- The motorcycle she rides in the anime is a red 1974 Ducati 750 Supersport. -it may be a more recent model, '04 Ducati Paul Smart
- Lady has immense skill in billiards, as shown in the anime.
- Lady is also portrayed shooting pool with a friend on page 51 of volume 2 of the manga.
- In Devil May Cry 4's secret ending, Dante is looking at a magazine with Lady's picture in it.
- In Polish version DMC4 Lady does not recognize her nickname, just as a woman. This is a bug in the Polish translators.
- At one point, Trish assumes Lady harbors romantic feelings for Dante, which Lady hastily denies.
- From DMC3 to DMC4, the scars on Lady's face appear to have healed and her breasts increased by three cup sizes.
- This may be explained by the amount of time that passes between the two installments, giving Lady time to mature and heal.
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ The Internet Movie Database
- ↑ Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening, Character — Lady: "While being a human female and therefore born of weak flesh and blood, she has made devil-hunting her life's work. She hates all demons and wants to destroy them all."
| Characters |
| Arkham - Dante - Lady - Vergil |
| Bosses |
| Agni & Rudra - Beowulf - Cerberus - Doppelganger - Geryon - Gigapede - Leviathan - Nevan |
| Lesser Demons |
| Arachne - Blood-goyle - Damned Chessmen - Dullahan - Enigma - The Fallen - Seven Hells of the Demon Army - Soul Eater |
| Weapons |
| Devil Arms: Agni & Rudra - Beowulf - Cerberus - Nevan - Rebellion
Fire Arms: Artemis - Ebony & Ivory - Kalina Ann - Shotgun - Spiral |
| Styles |
| Dark Slayer - Doppelganger - Gunslinger - Quicksilver - Royalguard - Swordmaster - Trickster |
| Locations |
| Dante's Office - Demon World - Human World - Residential Area - Temen-ni-gru |
| Characters |
| Agnus - Credo - Dante - Gloria - Kyrie - Lady - Nero - Sanctus - Trish |
| Bosses |
| Bael & Dagon - Berial - Containment Room - Echidna - The Savior |
| Lesser Demons |
| Alto & Bianco Angelo - Assault - Basilisk - Blitz - Chimera Seed & Chimera - Cutlass - Fault - Frost - Gladius - Mephisto & Faust - Scarecrow |
| Weapons |
| Nero: Blue Rose - Devil Bringer - Red Queen - Yamato
Dante: Ebony & Ivory - Coyote-A - Rebellion - Gilgamesh - Pandora - Lucifer - Yamato |
| Techniques |
| Buster - Dark Slayer Style - Gunslinger Style - Royalguard Style - Swordmaster Style - Trickster Style |
| Locations |
| Fortuna - Fortuna Castle - Mitis Forest - Lost Woods - Foris Falls |
