Devil May Cry 4 - Mission 17 Cutscene - Agnus Redux 

10 years later and Dante is Dancing in front of Agnus' Daughter

Its funny cause agnus hadnt stuttered a single time in this performance

I absolutely adore the fact Agnus is going along with it. Other games show humanity in their villains through moments of grief or stress. DMC shows humanity in their villains by having moments where they can be just as goofy and childish as the main character.

Dante: Is sanity the price to pay for power? Vergil: YES.

Classic Dante=Uses Shakespeare just to taunt his opponent. Donte=Throws insults any 6th grader could come up with.

Many a protagonist would just scoff at Agnus waxing Shakespearian. Not Dante. He'll see it as a challenge.

You know what's the best part? Agnus is taking part in this "performance" as well, that's why this works so damn well, because Itsuno just said "fuck it", and now it's one of the best scenes in the whole series. Because why not, these are goofy, b-movie storylines, and I mean that in a good way! So let them goof it up!

"You summon and kill! Summon... and kill!" Dante literally predicted V's gameplay.

When you realize that this one scene alone was more Shakespearean than the entirety of DmC.

The thing a lot of people miss here is that Agnus STARTED it. Dante walked in, saw the spotlight on Agnus and grabbed a chair to have a blast. Either Agnus knew that Dante would play along based on his personality or he probably figured he'd lose and die so said "fuck it, I'll make it dramatic"

Vergil: "To V or not to V ... That, is the question." *Nero and Kyrie as Romeo & Juliet

"You summon and kill... Summon and kill... I fail to see the logic here. Is... SANITY... The price to pay... FOR POWER!?"

And here we discover Dante has a love of improv theatre...

Villain: *does overdramatic speech* Any other Protagonist: "You're insane/ You make me sick bla bla bla" Dante: "LET ME BE EVEN MORE OVERDRAMATIC!"

Dante: I got my looks from my mother, and from my father, my powers and unholy. ACTING. TALENT...

any other protag would just sit back and let the villain monologue. dante's like "no. this is my show. no1 is as cheesy as me!"

i love how they're trying to one up each other through this

Throughout this whole game, Dante was just a big loveable dork, but this scene was the cherry on the cake. I knew Dante was the more fun loving out of the twins, but his scenes in this entire game were just ridiculous. This scene proves he's a dork and Lucifer just makes him a romantic dork.

All right Ninja Theory, can your "Shakespearian" top THIS?

I love how Agnus just starts out kinda serious but then Dante just plays along. I'm pretty sure that if there had been an audience for that, they both would've bowed before kicking the shit out of each other and in another life, they probably would've been decent friends!

You watch and comment. Watch and comment... I can obviously see the logic here. Is subscribing... the price to pay... FOR ENTERTAINMENT?

I wish this was an actual thing, i'd pay anything to watch it live.

It feels like these two spent their entire lives waiting for an opportunity to do something like this.

The best part about this scene is how unprompted it is in the actual game. You just enter the cathedral and they start shakespearing it out

This scene was so influential on me that I literally cannot hear a melodramatic monologue with thinking of interupting it with "You summon and kill. Summon and kill..."

Nico: not that I care or anything but how *did* you kill my old man? Dante: well it started with a poetry slam.

I love this scene wholeheartedly because of how it portrays Dante SO well. He's such a dork but at the same time such a lovable dork. He's so into the gag you can't help but smile and at the same time, his oozing confidence makes you still think he's so damn cool! He's so not afraid to make a fool out of himself it's COOL TO WATCH! Plus, the way he's TOYING with Agnus: he's so sure he got the situation under control he can't help but PLAY WITH THE ENEMY, like a cat playing with his food. Dante's so cool. DMC4 has the best Dante, IMO.

I love how Agnus just rolls with it

I find it very interesting that they stick to actual rules of theater throughout most of it. They actually never expose their back to the audience part of the level

I've seen pigs with less ham...

Ham to Ham combat, so very funny to watch.

This cutscene alone is better than all that dmc bullshit !

That line of the price of power, is so fucking amazing... I think I can hear all the developers thinking about this whole sphiel like this and worded exactly like that, basically summing up all cartoony villains in one single delivery. ^^ these scenes is why I don't think anyone can hate DMC 4, because this game really handled both the new star and old star quite perfectly I would say.

Honestly, despite evil shit, Agnus was amazing, and theatre cutscene just skyrocketed his likeabilty points. His design has so much unique points, so damn charismatic. Like his stutter, exremely buff build for a nerd, skin color, the way his personality can shift from a nerd, to a coward, to someone concerned and obedient (with Sanctus), to a truly menacing villain (mostly from voice, but also remember how easily he stopped Nero's swing after Containment Room fight?). Lots of temperament! Big praise to the voice actor, TJ Storm, and I suppose devs took him as a body model too - look at the build of that man damn, Agnus is freaking packin'... Both ugly and hot, lol. Shame he worked for the bad guys, but you can't deny that he was a true genius, and his biggest interest was science. Like pretty much every supernatural thing (and some natural like swords) the Order of the Sword has is the work of Agnus, there's so much INCREDIBLE stuff he's done, and even Nero's sword is his work, how ironic. Or what about Ascension Ceremony for example? What about time-manipulation devices? Hell Gates? All these artificial demons? Freaking laser barriers? It's mindblowing honestly, Agnus is op in terms of scientific intelligence (well to be *completely honest* many of this is for the sake of a varied gameplay, it's simplier to not explain too much and just say "It's all Agnus", but still). Apparently even knight's uniform is designed by him, though no good source? I get why he liked to feel powerful, but doesn't seems like his main goal was to be a ruler of the world or whatever. His death is a shame, he was fun and interesting, but yeah, a villain. I mean dying after providing one of the very best cutcenes in the game, also in such a beautiful way (the note falling on his face, gasping and turning his head slightly, no gore involved as well) - a good deal for him. Credo's death on the other hand (beautiful but meaningless and undeserved)... Well, at least Agnus has a daughter who inherited a lot of his traits (not "evil coward" ones, thankfully). And his music theme is amazing. Annoying boss fight tho, at least it's a good looking and funny spectacle (I mean the way he fights, not the cutscene with Dante :D, it's amazing as well, one of the very best in the game). Summoner boss concept is interesting but yes, annoying.

This, the Nevan scene from 3, and the Micheal Jackson scene from 5 are the reasons that I love this Dante and not DmC's Donte

Take a scientist and the most cocky lovable character in gaming history equals this master peice!

Well... I know this cutscene by heart, is that a problem ?

I remember getting to this scene at 3 o'clock in the morning and wondering if someone had spiked my dinner. XD Dante's amazing, gotta be one of the best game protagonists of all time.

Vergil:I'm gonna kill those fools for tocuhing my SWORD!

I wonder how Vergil would do this since he’s the one that likes poem

someone else came here after the michael jackson cutscene?

14 years late, I just finished this game yesterday. Had to record this scene to watch again cause it just killed me. I absolutely love Dante and love his ridiculous quips.

Instead of just ignoring agnus and immediately fighting like a average protagonist he actually tries to have some fun with him God i love dante so much

I always lose it at him sliding in on a bench with confetti

Doctor: you have 2 minutes to live Me: pick up this video

Dante is one of the most comical characters in video games

I love his face when he says "what is rightfully mine"

Yeeeessssss Itsuno. Just DROWN ME IN THAT PREMIUM HIGH-GRADE STINKY SWISS CHEESE!

lol if Opera is as awesome as this i wouldn't mind going to see it plus the confetti is just an added bonus

Doing this with Legendary Dark Knight Dante is so much better, just because he looks so hilarious.

Watches this scene out of boredom...30 seconds later re-installs game and stays up all night playing

There are so very few DMC villains who match Dante's theatrics, Agnus was among the highlights of this game. They even let him have his daughter among the 5th game's supporting characters! Even Kyrie didn't get any screen time in that game

This is peak Dante.

i have to admit that the first time i saw this scene, i didn' like at all. but now a realize it's actually amazing

This is the best cutscene in the entire game, The lucifes cutscenes is my second favorite :D

1:40 is the best part

Irony of death by Ivory. Goldstein's masterpiece vs Goldstein's failure.

this is basically just a contest for who is the biggest drama king

And then you learn that was Nico's father in Devil May Cry 5....... At least she hated him.

Knowing how melodramatic and poetic Vergil was, Dante has been probably waiting his whole life to do something like this.

The only theatre play id glady go watch

Your move ninja theory

Dante being Dante.

Li Mei: "By Argus, who are you people?!" Nico: "Ah'm sorry, by *_whonow?!"_*

Anyone saying the faust hat scene is dumb, forgot about this or haven't even seen it

This is why we all loved the old Dante. Can't Capcom just declare the 2015 DMC non-canon and give us what we actually want? I mean, the gameplay was good, but it still didn't feel like a DMC game.

If DmC was a new IP, there wouldn't be a shitstorm around it.

I like to imagine that one of the weapons in pandora is a confetti cannon which is where Dante got it

*Poetic Demons* I wish for that in Devil May Cry 5 Edit: I'm so using this scene as an inspiration to create my high school drama script (Thank you Divine Comedy and Resident Evil for being the theme sources of this series)

And this is why I say Dante makes the Devil May cry series what it is. It’s just not DMC without him.

Despite being wacky woohoo pizza boy Dante has an appreciation for theater, acting, and Shakespeare which makes you wonder if he got that from Vergil or if he’s got a copy of a midsummer nights dream in his desk

Angus:it takes a journey to hell for them to accept and praise there god Dante:that's where you're wrong kiddo

Reporting from 2019. Dmc 5 delivered the goods

The first time I played DMC:4 after the first three DMC I saw this and and the end of this scene, I was clapping my hands as if I was in a theater.

I’m so glad to see the Poetic part of Sparda in Dante

And at this moment Nico became Dante fangirl.

They need to make a random flashback scene between vergil and dante... Vergil: bet u can't do this... Dante: bet u I can, here hold my beer and watch this... 2 min later... Vergil: damn it dante did u have to break yer leg while u were at it? Dante: shut up verge it'll heal in a sec now gimmie my beer back... And yes I know I spelled stuff wrong that was the point

I couldn't help but laugh at this. They really caught me of guard with this one. Well done.

*Applauds*

This one cutscene fucks all new DMC.

Dante is the greatest protagonist of all time, even if he was second banana for a large part of the game >>; Thanks for uploading a great quality version of this, koukoupuffs ;]

...metal, opera...and moonwalk?

The part where Dante says For Power!? Got me

Who's doing the lights for them?😂😂😂

Who came here after playing dmc 5

Truly the best cutscene.

I literally search: dmc 4 best curscene and this appeared

i have never wondering Agnus had a hot daughter.

When I first saw this cutscene I was like WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW?! but I knew I liked it

Is it my imagination, or does Agnus sound like he hollowfied at 1:25? Bleach fans will know what I mean by that

Probably one of the best scenes!

if dante makes it into super smash bros. would absolutely love in the story mode to the final boss him,sonic & especially bayonetta(doing a goofy badass tango with dante/both posing and shooting the boss as it's trying to attack.:3) having a adoring moment like this.

God I love how this is my first exposure to the series

I like that Dante and Agnus just decide to do a bit.

This is the dumbest thing they could have put in a stylish action game and Dante and Agnus are major dorks. It’s perfect.

Was crushing on RE4 Leon,came back here to remind myself who the real deal is.

Favorite scene.

It's like Xavier Renegade Angel except I can't take it seriously!

Just finished this and I had to rewatch it, how did I not play this years ago

One must question who is going along with who's bit? Dante is known for his pre-fight antics, but Agnus was the first to speak AND had the skull prop ready for when Dante showed up.