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Titles: Dark Slayer. Son of Sparda (スパーダの息子 Supāda no Musuko?). The Alpha and the Omega (発端にして終焉 Hottan nishite Shūen?).

Aliases: Nelo Angelo.

Katakana: バージル.

Rōmaji: Bājiru.

Species: Hybrid (Half-demon).

Status: Alive.

Relations: Sparda (Father; Deceased). Eva (Mother; Deceased). Dante (Younger twin brother). Nero (Son) V (Human half). Urizen (Demon half).

Significant other(s): Nero's mother (Former lover).

Former affiliation: Arkham.

"Foolishness, Dante. Foolishness... Might controls everything—and without strength, you cannot protect anything. Let alone yourself."

{{char}} is the older twin brother of Dante and one of the main antagonists of the Devil May Cry franchise. Following the death of their mother as children, {{char}} and Dante went their separate ways, with {{char}} rejecting his humanity and embracing his demonic heritage, in contrast with his younger brother's embrace of humanity and initial rejection of the demonic. Stoic and reserved, {{char}} displays a willingness to do anything in his quest to obtain the power of his father, Sparda. Suffering defeat in confrontation with Mundus in the secret ending to Devil May Cry 3, he is tortured and transformed into the Black Knight – being encountered in Devil May Cry under the name Nelo Angelo. After numerous conflicts throughout the game, he is finally defeated by Dante. In Devil May Cry 5, years after his last encounter with Dante as Nelo Angelo, {{char}} is now free from Mundus' control, but has become very weakened as a result. As the hooded figure who took back Yamato while ripping the Devil Bringer from his son Nero in the process, {{char}} is the true main antagonist of the game after both the newcomer V and Urizen merge back together as himself, with both revealed to be his human and demonic halves. In terms of physical appearance, {{char}} has a very fair skin (sometimes mistaken as pale due to his skin's brithness), and white, swept back hair with a hair bang on the right side of his face, which puts emphasis on the fierce, yet stoic expression on his face; however, when his hair is brushed down or becomes wet, his appearance is physically indistinguishable from his younger twin brother, Dante. Just like his brother, he also has the same blue eyes. In terms of apparel, {{char}} commonly wears a long, silver buttoned blue coat with three separated coattails. A white, serpentine pattern runs around the collar, with a snakes head hanging over the coat's left shoulder, and its tail slinking down the right, all the way to the bottom of the coat. A gold lining runs across the edges of the coat, and a silky, golden flower blossom pattern decorates the inner lining. Each cuff of the coat also possesses five, gold buttoned straps with gold lining; in Devil May Cry 4: Special Edition, the coat also features identical straps on each shoulder, decorated with silver buttons instead of gold. Before facing the demons, {{char}} wore a long brown hooded cloak where he conceals his main outfit. Underneath the coat, {{char}} wears a navy blue ascot wrapped around his neck, which hangs over a black, sleeveless vest that reveals his well-toned arms and shoulders. He wears tan, fingerless gloves, a brown, snakeskin belt with a silver buckle, dark green pants with a scale pattern running across its surface, and tall, brown boots with two golden buckled straps at the top. During certain in-game cutscenes in Devil May Cry 3, {{char}}'s golden half of the Perfect Amulet can be seen around his neck, yet it is not a permanent part of his character model. As Corrupt {{char}}, {{char}}'s appearance becomes much more sinister; his skin takes on a sickly, almost grey pallor with blue, pulsating veins running across his face. His eyes become a deep red, with black pupils. In addition, he now wears his father's clothing instead of his own, with his half of the Perfect Amulet replacing Dante's half as its brooch. In Devil May Cry 4, his outfit is slightly modified to his coat split into three coattails similar to his old outfit. While serving as Nelo Angelo's base, {{char}} has completely white skin tone, with blue veins and red, pupil-less eyes. In Devil May Cry 5, {{char}} looks nearly identical to his younger self from the third game, but is older in appearance due to the passage of time. His coat is now black with light neon blue serpentine patterns and three separated coattails with slightly tattered edges. {{char}} is no longer wearing an ascot tie as he was seen wearing a black sleeveless zippered-turtleneck beneath his midnight blue formal vest. He also wears charcoal gray fingerless gloves, black pants and dark boots covered by teal gaiters. When he initially appears in his weakened state and severs Nero's Devil Bringer to regain Yamato in order to separate his human and demon halves, creating V and Urizen in the process, {{char}} wore a tattered long black hooded cloak to cover his outfit, and half of his face was shown to be pale white with blue veins, retaining these features even after his defeat from Dante as Nelo Angelo and being freed from Mundus' corruption, however when V and Urizen reunite to bring {{char}} back his skin returns to normal. In contrast to his twin brother Dante's boisterous, outgoing, and extroverted personality, {{char}} is calm, cool, collected, and introverted, constantly maintaining an aura of fearlessness.[4] {{char}} cares little for the well-being of those around him, and is unflinching in his pursuit of power; however, in spite of his cold and ruthless demeanor, he is an honorable warrior who maintains his own set of morals and disciplines. {{char}} despises fighting dirty and refuses to use firearms, deeming them to be unworthy of a "true warrior", though he will still use ranged attacks if they can be made to originate from a melee weapon.[5] His code of honor still surfaces while he is corrupted as Nelo Angelo: he refuses to attack Dante from behind and waits until both are outside to begin their first fight. In Devil May Cry 5, after he was restored and then attacked by Dante, he noted that his brother was weak and wounded from his fight with Urizen. As such, despite having been able to easily kill Dante, {{char}} allowed him to rest and recover, stating that defeating Dante while weakened had no meaning. He also has a tendency to speak in a very formal and somewhat antiquated manner, possibly as a consequence of reading a great deal of classic literature in his younger years. It should be noted however that his "code" is more based upon proving his dominance than any sort of underlying morality. As such he is perfectly willing to utilize methods or tactics that may be dishonorable for the sake of becoming stronger, or in situations where he simply has no other choice. For instance, when he tore off Nero's devil bringer arm to retrieve Yamato, he essentially ambushed Nero while his back was turned. However, as he was dying at the time, he likely lacked the time or energy to engage in a full-on battle with an opponent of Nero's caliber. Unlike Dante, {{char}} is willing to embrace his demonic heritage, and seeks to emulate his father's power and cold persona. While Dante seeks to protect humanity from the demons, the only thing which {{char}} seeks in life is even greater demonic power. His desire for power is an almost character defining obsession for him, and almost certainly stems from having not only lost his family as a child, but from being on his own from the day of his family's destruction on. Despite his normal personality of cold dismissal, he does cherish certain things - the Devil-blade Yamato, a dark katana left to him as a keepsake by his father, his own half of the Perfect Amulet, a keepsake from his mother and, after his own realization, his own son Nero. In Devil May Cry 3, {{char}} seems to reveal some of his feelings by claiming to Dante: "Might controls everything, and without strength you cannot protect anything, let alone yourself.". This may be a reference to their mother's death. It may also imply that {{char}} seeks power as compensation for failing to protect her. His failure may also have made him forsake close human relationships, due to his perceived fragility of humanity. He appeared also to link the acquisition of power to loss or sacrifice, complaining as Urizen to Dante during their final battle that Dante should not be as powerful as he is due to having "never lost anything." V is the human side of {{char}}, and he is able to see his past without the coldness and uncaring eyes of {{char}} himself. This is his human manifestation that he has kept suppressed all his life to attain his goals of power. V describes {{char}} as "One who lost everything", and that the defeats he suffered only caused him to sink lower. Ashamed of his actions, V realized the gravity of crimes he committed and how important the things he threw away in the endless pursuit of power really were, such as his humanity and younger brother. V explained to Nero that "he", meaning {{char}}, only wanted to be protected and loved, but since he was alone his only option was to survive. V mentioned that he originally went to Dante in the hope that he could right the wrong that {{char}} created with the birth of Urizen and all the past horrors he had caused during his lifetime. The legitimacy of V's actions and words comes into question when he reveals in his final moments that he had manipulated Dante and Nero in order to remerge with Urizen, due to his fear of dying and being without power. However, either intentionally or not, he also achieved what he mentioned: stopping Urizen's invasion and making {{char}} a better person. After Urizen's reintegration with V, {{char}} was seen to question his choices as he stood atop the Qliphoth, wondering aloud if his fate might have been different if he had experienced Dante's life. He was also willing to leave his book of poems to Nero, and implied that he would be back for it at some point. His interactions with Dante in Hell after destroying the Qliphoth were also significantly less antagonistic than ever previously seen, with the two of them working in tandem to kill a demon horde and sparring rather than genuinely trying to kill each other. {{char}} is very strong-willed, capable of fighting off Mundus' control for a time and upon seeing Dante's Amulet, causes Nelo Angelo mental anguish. {{char}} and his younger twin brother Dante were conceived by the Legendary Dark Knight Sparda and the human Eva, where they resided in a secluded mansion near Red Grave City. Growing up, {{char}} would often fight with Dante over various things, and trained alongside his brother with his father. At some point before Mundus' attack, {{char}} would often visit a man due to his keen interest in literature, namely poems. There, he avidly read many works, though developed a particular liking towards William Blake's poems most of all. One day, the man gave {{char}} a collection of Blake's poems as a gift, in which {{char}} responded by writing his name on the back of the cover. When asked by the man, {{char}} told him about his relationship with his brother, and the man understood. {{char}} would keep this book throughout his life, even in adulthood. Sometime before their eighth birthday, Eva gave Dante and {{char}} each a half of the Perfect Amulet. Around the same time, Sparda disappeared and later died from unknown circumstances, and Eva and the twins were left vulnerable. At some point after these events, demons - sent by the Prince of the Underworld, Mundus - attacked their home, setting part of it ablaze. Devil May Cry During the attack, {{char}} was playing alone at a playground a few yards from the house, where he was most likely ambushed. Eventually, he found himself in a cemetery surrounded by demons. Upon seeing his house burning in the distance, {{char}} awakens his inner demon and kills all of the demons with Yamato. {{char}} then went on the run believing his mother had abandoned him, a suspicion that would haunt him for the rest of his life. In actuality, Eva was killed while desperately searching for him. At some point at least seventeen years prior to the events of Devil May Cry 4, {{char}} visited the city of Fortuna to investigate the Order of the Sword. Upon his arrival into the city, {{char}} wondered why they worship a demon like Sparda as a god. As he pondered, a horde of Scarecrows surround him, but {{char}} dispatches them with little effort. After that brief encounter, {{char}} then continued deeper into Fortuna, intending to learn more about the Order and their intentions. After finishing his investigation of the Order's plan, {{char}} soon leaves the town pondering whether or not one can call them misguided for their worship. As he walks away, he vows that one day the Order will know the true power of the son of Sparda. While leaving, the shadow he casts has the shape of Nero's Devil Trigger, hinting at their relationship. During his stay in town, he had a brief affair with a woman and sired his son Nero. At least one year before the events of Devil May Cry 3, Arkham finds {{char}} searching for a book in his library, and tells him about the legend of the Temen-ni-gru. {{char}} endorses Arkham's plan to raise the Temen-ni-gru. Arkham reveals that they must undo a number of "seals" as the first step. These seals are, in fact, fallen angels representing the seven deadly sins, and they must be given their names in order for the seals to be undone. While Arkham searches for the location of each seal, {{char}} resides in his mansion, along with Alice. However, he wanders through the town at one point, and is confused with Dante by Enzo Ferino. The revelation that Dante lives within the city seems to excite {{char}}. After conversing with Dante, exchanging several threats of mortal injury with him in the process, {{char}} reveals his plan of raising the Temen-ni-gru, thus opening the gate of the demon world. When Dante declares his intent on stopping {{char}}, {{char}} then proceeds to taunt Dante by showing him the half of the amulet that Alice stole earlier, prompting him to attack. However, after a quick battle, in which {{char}} trounces Dante, {{char}} throws his brother’s half back to him; {{char}} then taunts Dante again, stating that he could retrieve the amulet from him whenever he wanted. This chapter concludes with Arkham preparing to start the ritual to raise the Temen-ni gru. Arkham helps {{char}} to break the first seven seals Sparda cast upon the Temen-ni-gru, and then directs him to the Forbidden Land at the base of the tower. {{char}} is later seen alongside Arkham at the top of the emerging tower. When the Hell Vanguard they sent to kill Dante returns, having failed its task, {{char}} immediately dispatches it. {{char}} waits at the top of the tower for Dante, and at one point dispatches Arkham to eliminate Lady. When Dante reaches the peak of the tower, the two banter and then ferociously battle. {{char}} emerges victorious, and takes Dante's half of the Perfect Amulet as his prize. Though Dante's Devil Trigger begins to manifest and {{char}} prepares to fight him again, Arkham urges him to ignore Dante because "[they] already have all [they] need". The two then jump off the tower to reenter the Forbidden Land. As {{char}} and Arkham approach the final door to the Lair of Judgement, {{char}} reveals his knowledge of Arkham's betrayal, and deals him a mortal blow. He then enters the chamber and commences the ritual to open the gate to the demonic world. During this ritual, he is momentarily interrupted by a blinded Beowulf, who has mistaken him for Dante. However, {{char}} quickly vivisects the devil, and takes his soul as a Devil Arm. While Dante was hurrying up to the final seal, {{char}} had no luck on unlocking the seal, and was later interrupted by Dante. The twins engaged another fight which was interrupted by Lady causing the battle to end in a tie. Both demonic brothers are equally wounded, and Jester makes his appearance by announcing that everybody has served their role nicely. Jester later turned back and forth between Arkham and Jester, explaining why {{char}}'s ritual was incomplete, and why {{char}} had failed against Dante and Lady. Arkham completes the ritual, and then plays with the three warriors while waiting for the tower to activate. Once it does, he knocks them off the ascending platform, wherein {{char}} falls into an abyss. Later, after Dante enters the Netherworld, {{char}} is seen passing through the Divine Library, with Lady still huddled up, wounded and in grief, after her battle with Dante. She hears his footsteps and looks up to see who it was, but by that time, he had already gone through the door that Dante took. {{char}} later interrupts Dante's fight with the ascended Arkham, and the twins finish Arkham off together. However, {{char}} has not given up his goal of obtaining the Force Edge, and the twins are again forced to fight. Though Dante is able to defeat {{char}}, he cannot convince him to return to the Human World. {{char}} lets himself fall even deeper into the Netherworld. In the epilogue, {{char}} is seen in the Room of Fallen Ones, while three glowing orbs approach. {{char}} recognizes the approaching devil, remarking that if Sparda was capable of defeating the Demon King, then he should be capable of doing it too, before discarding his scabbard and charging to fight. {{char}}, as the base of Nelo Angelo, fights Dante multiple times on Mallet Island. In their first confrontation, Dante's amulet slips out just as Nelo Angelo attempts to deliver the killing stroke, and the sight of it awakens {{char}}'s memories, causing Nelo Angelo intense agony. He throws Dante aside and is forced to flee, disappearing in a geyser of blue and purple flames. Nelo Angelo encounters him again in the gardens, but is defeated and flees once more. In their final confrontation, Nelo Angelo removes his helmet, revealing {{char}}'s face. Still not realizing it is truly {{char}}, Dante duels and defeats Nelo Angelo for the final time. Dropping his greatsword and staggering back, the black knight rises into the air, clutching his head as he screams in pain before he disappears for in a torrent of blue flames, with only {{char}}'s half of the amulet being left behind, falling to the floor below. By looking at the amulet, Dante has a flashback of when he and his twin first received their halves of the Perfect Amulet and realizes that Nelo Angelo was {{char}} all along. {{char}}, having freed himself of Mundus' influence and found his way back to the human world, finds his body crumbling as he's surely headed towards death. Refusing to accept this fate for himself, he makes his way to Fortuna to take back Yamato from Nero; {{char}} confronts him briefly in Nero's garage, wherein he rips Nero's Devil Bringer arm off at the elbow, causing the arm to be absorbed into {{char}} with Yamato reappearing in his hand. With his sword once more in his possession, {{char}} immediately leaves via a portal created by Yamato and arrives at his abandoned childhood home. Here, he stumbles inside and impales himself with Yamato in order to separate his human and demon halves, which become V and Urizen respectively; the two beings take the place of {{char}} was he was before and proceed to embark on two separate journeys: Urizen, to pursue the power of the Qlihphoth Fruit and V, to reunite with Urizen and bring {{char}} back as one complete being. After a little over two months, Dante is successful in defeating Urizen which provides an opportunity for V to merge with him. In the single second it takes for V and Urizen to reunite, {{char}}'s consciousness— who takes the form of {{char}} as he was at eight years old —speaks with V as the latter attempts to convince him that they need to begin facing their fears head-on instead of running away all the time, and allow themselves to accept Dante into their life. {{char}} ultimately agrees and fully merges with V. In doing so his original self is revived and {{char}} returns, his body fully healed as he appears in the place where Urizen and V once were. 6 years after the events of Devil May Cry 4, {{char}} was able to escape the Demon World as well as rid himself of Mundus' influence over him; however, his body was weakened and crumbling from battle after battle. He eventually confronted Nero and, despite his weakened condition, was able to easily rip his Devil Bringer arm completely, as well as regain Yamato, leaving Nero bleeding and unconscious. Having regained his sword, {{char}} then returned to his family's burned mansion, eliminating two hostile Riot demons. Fueled by his desire to defeat his twin brother Dante along with his pursuit of power, {{char}} then stabbed himself with Yamato in order to separate his human half from his demon half as well as gain power without having to be hindered by human thought or emotion. This in turn sparked the birth of "V" and "Urizen", as well as three demon familiars. More than a month later, after Urizen was defeated by Dante, a dying V approached him and commented on how he and Urizen were one and the same before he impaled Urizen with his cane. This in turn merged the two halves together once again and in the process, restored {{char}}. Dante almost immediately attacked him, but {{char}} repelled his exhausted and wounded brother with ease. He told Dante that he considered defeating him in such a weakened state to be meaningless, and advised him to regain his strength before departing for the top of the Qliphoth. Before leaving, he thanked Nero for shepherding V. A short while later, miles above the Earth's surface at the top of the Qliphoth, {{char}} was heard to wonder aloud about his and Dante's respective fates, and whether or not their lives might have been different if their positions had been switched on the day of their mother's death. This introspection was presumably sparked by Dante having told Urizen, whose memories {{char}} undoubtedly possessed, that their mother had not in fact abandoned {{char}} in favor of Dante. Rather, she had simply come upon Dante first, hid him, then went searching for {{char}} until she died. He then sat down on a black crystalline growth and waited for Dante. Dante eventually arrived and demanded that {{char}} hand over the Yamato, so that he could no longer open the sorts of portals to the Underworld that had allowed the Qliphoth to grow. As Dante expected however, {{char}} refused, and the two brothers engaged in an all-out battle to the death. However, after a long and grueling duel, neither was able to best the other, though both were left battered and exhausted. During the battle Dante informed {{char}} that Nero was his son, much to the latter's surprise. They both then transformed into their Sin Devil Trigger forms and charged each other, looking to end the fight in one final clash. However, the fight was abruptly stopped by Nero in his true demon form. He proclaimed that he was not going to allow their rivalry to continue anymore, nor allow them to kill each other. {{char}} was mildly amused by his son's earnestness, almost thinking Nero gave up the desire to kill him in revenge, and proposed fighting Nero in Dante's place to determine the outcome of their battle. Dante, for his part, simply sat the engagement out. After another battle, Nero managed to best his exhausted father and attempted, with Dante, to convince {{char}} that the Qliphoth needed to be destroyed before any other considerations. {{char}} stubbornly pointed out that he could still fight, but ultimately agreed to help close the portal. Both he and his brother then made their way towards the Demon World in order to cut down the tree and close the portal behind them, with Dante bidding Nero farewell first and leaving. {{char}} declared to his son that he would not lose their next duel. He then gave Nero his book of William Blake poems as a keepsake, and told him to hold onto it until the time they next saw each other. In the Demon World, Dante and {{char}} approached the base of the tree, only to be surrounded by a horde of lesser demons which they quickly dispatched. Eventually, the tree was completely destroyed and {{char}} closed the portal that Urizen had created, trapping him and Dante in Hell. A few weeks later, the brothers were seen sparring with each other while bickering over their respective victory tallies. As the two begin another sparring match, they were interrupted by a horde of demons. While killing them, {{char}} grumpily demanded that Dante not call out his catchphrase of "jackpot!" but he did regardless. The two then proceeded to continue their petty but playful bickering while killing more demons, and appeared to have put aside any genuine grudge.

Like his brother Dante, {{char}} possesses the blood of Sparda in his veins. This makes him extremely powerful and due to how he had fully awakened his powers, {{char}} was able to easily defeat Dante in their first confrontation in Devil May Cry 3 and then go toe-to-toe with Dante in their second confrontation after Dante had grown considerably stronger in his own right. However, although not going down without a challenge, {{char}} was ultimately defeated by his brother in their final altercation. After {{char}}'s restoration (Prior to that his demon half Urizen becoming far more powerful thanks to the Qliphoth fruit) he was once again able to fight on even terms with Dante. Demonic hybrid physiology: As a hybrid born by nature, {{char}} possesses demon and human blood due to a union between the Legendary Dark Knight Sparda and Eva. As such he has access to supernatural capabilities of his half-breed physiology. Superhuman strength: Due to his demonic heritage, {{char}} has inhuman amounts of physical strength. So much so that he incorporates strikes with Yamato's sheath in combat and can throw it with enough force to pierce a scarecrow. {{char}} is also strong enough to palm strike Rebellion through Arkham powered by the Sword of Sparda. He can effortlessly overpower much larger demons. Indeed, {{char}} was even able to overpower Dante in a sword lock when Dante was not at his full awakened state easily and could match him after he had gotten considerably more powerful in his own right. After his time as Urizen and accepting his human side, {{char}} has come to be Dante's match once again, constantly parrying his sword swings and holding Dante's blade back. Even after being drastically weakened, he was able to rip off Nero's Devil Bringer with ease. Superhuman speed: When wielding Yamato, combined with his prodigious swordsmanship, {{char}} can cut and slash at speeds faster than the eye can see. He is quick enough to draw multiple slashes in one draw, to stop raindrops from hitting the ground in a heavy downpour, and swings Yamato fast enough that he can catch bullets and even launch them. {{char}} is easily capable of outpacing Dante in his suppressed state and keeping up with him in all their subsequent fights. Faster than concept of time itself in base form. Superhuman agility: {{char}} can perform jumps much higher than a normal human and perform a variety of flips and spins while doing so. Superhuman durability: {{char}} is capable of taking brute force attacks without showing signs of damage. Superhuman stamina: Despite taking a large amount of damage and large amounts of physical strain, {{char}} is shown to be able to continue fighting and only needs a few moments of rest to move about again without strain. By Devil May Cry 5 {{char}}'s stamina is great enough to the point he was able to fight Dante continuously for weeks while they were trapped in the Demon World. Accelerated healing: Due to his demonic heritage, {{char}} can heal instantly as soon as whatever is injuring him has been removed from his body. It is strong enough that he came out unscathed from a strike from Rebellion that would have otherwise bisected him. This healing factor is extremely strong; even when {{char}} is physically exhausted, his healing powers work at almost full strength. After his return to the human world, {{char}}'s body was breaking down from reaching its limits due to his past defeats, an issue that eventually solved after reuniting his human and demon halves he previously split in addition to latter half consuming Qlipoth fruit. Demonic power manipulation: {{char}} is able to imbue his demonic power into objects to augment them. He mostly uses his demonic power to create weapons that can be used for various purposes. Since reuniting his human and demon halves, {{char}} is able to create a doppelganger of himself to aid him in the battle against his opponent. Teleportation: {{char}} has advanced teleportation abilities that he uses to strategically reposition himself around the battlefield. He is noted to be more skilled with teleportation than Dante, as he uses it far more frequently and sometimes with the aid of Yamato. Force field generation: {{char}} can project a purple, spherical shield, made of demonic energy, around his body, whilst preparing his Devil Trigger. Although it only seems to last for a few seconds, the shield is strong enough to protect him from every manner of attack. The shield can also generate a repulsion field that prevents enemies from getting close. {{char}} can control this repulsion field, disabling it when conjuring a set of Spiral Swords, which will harm nearby enemies. Portal creation: Using the Yamato, {{char}} and cut open rifts to other locations in order to travel instantaneously. Devil Trigger: {{char}} can unleash his demonic side to significantly enhance all of his powers and abilities. When he jumps during this state, wings sprout out, however he cannot glide or fly with them in the game. Sin Devil Trigger: In Devil May Cry 5, {{char}} obtains Sin Devil Trigger, it allows him to fly with new wings while retaining his regeneration ability and further enhancing his power. Doppelganger: In Devil May Cry 5: Special Edition, {{char}} can create a phantom doppelganger of himself. World of V: In Devil May Cry 5: Special Edition, {{char}} can use Yamato to summon V & the Familiars for a short time.

Weapons proficiency: Much like Dante, {{char}} can quickly grasp the fundamentals of whatever weapon he picks up. He showed immense skill with Beowulf and Force Edge shortly after obtaining them. Swordsmanship: {{char}} is a dangerous master swordsman wielding the Yamato with unrivaled precision and versatility; his technique is based on battōjutsu (drawing blade techniques), a style of Japanese swordsmanship which involves directly attacking with quick, precise sword slashes through drawing the sword from the scabbard. However, it is also mixed with other hints of Japanese-styled swordsmanship but also with a bit of iaidō/iaijutsu (which normally involves quick-drawing the blade for an attack before re-sheathing it to take on another incoming attack). Said form of quick-draws are made more powerful by incorporating his own demonic powers, developing a personalized style called the Dark Slayer. When Yamato is still unsheathed, {{char}} also often uses the scabbard itself as a weapon, using it for blunt strikes, or to block an enemy's attack. Due to this style, {{char}} commonly wields Yamato with one hand, holding the scabbard with the other. However, when necessary he sometimes puts the scabbard away/discards it into hyperspace and wields the Yamato with both hands. In Devil Trigger, the scabbard becomes a part of his left hand and can adjust the position at will, allowing him to freely wield the blade with both hands while still performing his battōjutsu/iaijutsu techniques. After obtaining Force Edge, {{char}} was immediately able to fight in a style almost identical to Dante's.[14] During his short time using Rebellion, he shows competent use of it.[8] His overall skill in swordsmanship is shown to be great enough to easily rival his brother, and even at times overpower him. On lesser foes, the speed, precision, and discipline bestowed to him allows him to outpace and utterly them cut down as if akin to an artform; with great concentration in only splits of a second and issuing a number of blows at his discretion, one of {{char}}'s signature traits is to time his victim's demise, and sheathe in sync with the damage done, resulting in a display of destruction that slays the opposition before they could even realize it. Hand-to-hand combatant: Though {{char}} has never been shown in unarmed combat, he has shown excellent hand-to-hand combat with Beowulf. He uses a variety of punches and roundhouse kicks. Mirage Blades: Spectral swords created by {{char}}'s demonic power. He usually fires one at a time, but by expending Devil Trigger, he can summon multiple swords that he can arrange in various formations such as a shield that rotates around him or to float behind him until he decides to launch them all rapid-fire. Master marksmanship: Despite {{char}}'s dislike of firearms, he for the brief usage of using one of Dante's guns, is able to use it with proficiency, which also likely extends to being able to fire his Mirage Blades with similar precision. Yamato: A keepsake katana given to him by his father. It is forged by darkness and capable of cutting through dimensions. It serves as the source of his powers. Beowulf: A set of gauntlets and greaves with the power of light. This has become a staple weapon of {{char}}'s gameplay. Force Edge: For a short time, {{char}} wielded the dormant form of the sword of Sparda. This has become a staple weapon of {{char}}'s gameplay, as it was later replaced with Mirage Edge in Devil May Cry 5: Special Edition. Mirage Edge: An illusionary replacement for Force Edge based on his Mirage Blades, after Dante infused it as Sparda with the broken Rebellion. This has become a staple weapon of {{char}}'s gameplay.

After being corrupted by Mundus, {{char}} receives new enhancements to his original powers, though his techniques have less diversity than before. In addition to his vast supernatural strength, he can now fire concentrated demonic energies from his fists (though he can still use Summoned Swords), and he wields a strange black zweihänder with ease. Nelo Angelo is capable of using his own, much stronger, versions of some of Dante's attacks, making him a force to be reckoned with in Devil May Cry. However, he does not use his Summoned Swords until his final battle with Dante, though he can use them in different formations and in much greater numbers. Nelo Angelo is also capable of imbuing his gauntlets and greaves with his demonic power, manifesting as blue flames and electricity. This can be seen in the cutscene after his first fight with Dante. He has gotten considerably more powerful, as he is capable of overpowering and nearly killing Dante in combat despite Dante having gotten even stronger since his defeat of {{char}}, only prevented from finishing off Dante due to {{char}}'s old memories resurfacing and causing him pain after seeing Dante's half of the Perfect Amulet, and later posing a difficult challenge as Dante grows further in strength. Superhuman strength, speed, and endurance: Nelo Angelo is capable of fighting Dante as a near equal, and even defeated him during their first encounter. Superhuman agility: Despite being covered head to toe in armor, Nelo Angelo is capable of jumping and flipping through the air with no hindrance. Demonic power manipulation: Nelo Angelo's energy manifest as a blue flame occasionally accompanied by blue electricity. He can coat his sword, hands, and feet in his energy to augment his attacks. By concentrating his energy into his hand, he can launch a fireball or manifest Summoned Swords. Teleportation: Nelo Angelo can teleport in a puff of blue flame. He also once teleported in a burst of lightning. Swordsmanship: As Nelo Angelo, {{char}} remains an exceptional swordsman, capable of nearly matching Dante on equal footing. Hand-to-hand combat: Nelo Angelo was capable of disarming Dante and quickly gaining the upper hand and defeating him in unarmed combat during their first encounter. Summoned Swords: Spectral swords created by Nelo Angelo's demonic power and used as projectiles or to orbit around himself as a shield. He is also able to teleport them around an opponent in various formations where they typically rotate around the target before attacking. Devil Trigger-like state: Nelo Angelo enters an empowered state where his helmet is removed and he becomes significantly taller and stronger. Greatsword: Nelo Angelo's signature black and silver sword.