Things That Have Never Been Mentioned Or Even Remotely Implied In Canon But We, As A Fandom, Have Unanimously

Things that have never been mentioned — or even remotely implied — in canon but we, as a fandom, have unanimously accepted as Gospel:

Vergil acts like a cat

Nero likes memes

V is purple

Devil May Cry (2005)

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I had not thought of Goro in those terms before but you might be onto something... For all we know Maruki could have actually not been the one to bring him back. Maybe instead Goro saw what Maruki was doing, said, "Well that's fucked up," and simply willed himself back into existence with the sole purpose of beating him up!

Characters not dying just because they refuse to is one of my absolute favorite tropes. (When it's done well that is, looking at you every Sith Lord in the entirety of Star Wars lore that is killed by the hero only to return in a few years and do nothing interesting other than die again.)

I'm gonna ramble for a second because I think about the following characters a lot. Forgive me.

Also, spoilers ahead for Knights of the Old Republic II, Pathologic: The Marble Nest, and Devil May Cry 5

The one time I know of, (there could be others, massive franchise and all), that Star Wars actually did it well with a Sith character was Darth Sion from Knights of the Old Republic II. He's literally known as "The Lord of Pain" because he's in constant pain. He has taken many fatal injuries and just kept on going and he looks like an actual zombie but crusty. The only reason he's still alive is that he is 100% fueled by hatred and anguish and holding himself together with the force. It's an absolutely miserable existence but he just keeps on trucking until the player character has to actually convince him to die in order to progress.

Then in Pathologic: The Marble Nest we have the "prickly prick" Bachelor Daniil Dankovsky who essentially gets himself caught in a little time loop of a single day trying to figure out what went wrong because he's made defeating death itself his number one goal in life as simply refuses to lose to it.

I feel like Vergil from Devil May Cry also falls into this. I mean, he "dies" every other game but he's still going. He cuts himself in half rather than accepting death. Good for him! (Disclaimer: I don't actually support the mass destruction Vergil causes. Guy needs to stop summoning trees and go to therapy.)

i constantly think about how, at this point, atlus has characterized goro akechi as a man who's literally too angry to stay dead. thats SO funny

DMC4 Nero

My Neighbor Tototro, FBC style