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Devil May Cry: The Pluto farce

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So before I begin, no this is not an attempt at removing Universal DMC from the site.


Prior to this, Paradox made a section describing a prior demon god called Pluto as the one who split the human world and demon world in the first place. Following that, i made a thread recognizing that feat as a low multiversal feat. I was wrong.

Let me give you some context of the matter:

"When heaven and earth were rent asunder, a demon god with black horns emerged from the darkness. He hammered a giant spike into the earth so that heaven and earth would never again be split apart. To prevent the spike from removing itself, he chained the undying one to it, and cast an eternal seal.” (Heaven in this context is the demon world, and earth potentially refers to the whole human realm).

Paradox argues in his blog this being shown here is The Demon King slew in the past, described here:
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slew the former god of evil

While this does not name that god of evil as Pluto, we are shown a dragon called Pluto's Dragon on Mallet island seemingly serving Mundus. While kamiya's word can be seen as shaky, he also says to no to the notion of pluto being mundus

No... RT @KyoTakashi2 Kamiya-san, I was recently playing the first Devil May Cry, and I saw something about Pluto in the book. Is Pluto another name for Mundus?

So who is pluto?

A certain passage noted down by a prophet in Devil May Cry 1 tells us this:

Pluto shall come on the promised date and separate heaven and earth. One with black wings of treachery shall come and stand in Pluto’s way.

This is all we know about Pluto, he is a being seemingly fated to separate the realms and will be opposed by one with black wings of treachery. Kep and paradox make an effort to establish they are the same entity (manga entity who spiked the earth and pluto)

Issues

Dialogue differences in the manga description and game description:

Manga: “When heaven and earth were rent asunder, a demon god with black horns emerged from the darkness. He hammered a giant spike into the earth so that heaven and earth would never again be split apart. To prevent the spike from removing itself, he chained the undying one to it, and cast an eternal seal.”

Game: “Pluto shall come on the promised date and separate heaven and earth. One with black wings of treachery shall come and stand in Pluto’s way."

The manga Pluto wants to keep the worlds together. Game Pluto wants them separate. This is a narrative contradiction that further complicates the legitimacy of the separation in the manga being creditable to Pluto in the first place. It is quite likely the entity shown in the Manga simply isn't Pluto, given it is never stated to be him. But let me prove that:

First of all the passage in question in the manga is about Sparda. Sparda is named dropped on page, and the entity's design is the exact same the manga uses for Sparda:
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Theses last two pages are back to back, talking purely about Sparda. As you can see the design matches almost 1 to 1 with how Sparda is shown earlier. The bigger issue though it is never confirmed Pluto or anyone else split the realms originally.

The manga only has this to say on the matter:

"The world was born from darkness. Unending darkness. A crucible of chaos. But even to that primordial existence there came a ray of light. The universe was eventually split in two. The darkness became the realm of demons... and the light became the domain of mortals."

The event just happened, with no further context. Even if you dont buy the entity in the manga being Sparda, it still isnt a feat:

"When heaven and earth were rent asunder, a demon god with black horns emerged from the darkness. He hammered a giant spike into the earth so that heaven and earth would never again be split apart. To prevent the spike from removing itself, he chained the undying one to it, and cast an eternal seal.”

Notice how the realms had already been rent asunder (split in two) by the time the demon god shows up, thus meaning he obviously didn't split the realms himself. All he does is cast a seal with his spike by tying a being to it, which sounds like hax/ a ritual of sorts.

With all this said, Pluto needs to be put at unknown. Its true it is stated he will eventually show up to split the realms, but we dont know how. We are told nothing of this feat, and it hasnt happened yet in canon.
 
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Does this mean no more 2-C DMC or is it just Pluto getting nerfed?
 
Oh well.

Either way, I fixed the grammatical errors and link errors on Dante's profiles. I think.
 
Here is the thing, the game (DMC1) was talking about the legend as it was passed down to the castellans. These "legends" are found within the library of the castellans, people that praised mundus as some kind of god out of ignorance if the statues of him are something to go by. Meanwhile we have a more solid legend told by the writers in the guide. Basically, these legends might have been distorted with time from something that already happened in the past to something that will happen in the future and if you take it as it will be something that happens in the future it just contradicts several plot points.

With this in mind the legend in the guide has a more favorable position and more validity as it is meant to be from a narrator like being.

Now, the manga starts with the creation of the universe and from there the demon world was created as a ray of light and then a jump to mundus wanting to reunite them again, there is clearly a gap of unknown time there, something that is filled with the information we know from the guide:

"According to legend, a dark prince of the underworld mustered a great army of evil and slew the former god of evil. Then the overlord planned to break through the thin veil separating the underworld from the human world, uniting the land of eternal darkness with the world of light."

As you see there was is clearly an unknown period of time in between the creation, separation and the creation of the veil between the worlds. This is actually filled with the usage of the passed down legend in the castellan library and the guide legend. The legend says how pluto will come and separate the world and one with black wings of treachery will come and stand in the way and the demon emperor killing the previous God of evil. This is again, something that already occurred but most likely distorted with time, Pluto in his time separated the worlds and one came and stood against him which we know is Mundus.

Theses last two pages are back to back, talking purely about Sparda. As you can see the design matches almost 1 to 1 with how Sparda is shown earlier. The bigger issue though it is never confirmed Pluto or anyone else split the realms originally.

The images used are mostly irrelevant when the "first demon" in the second page of the manga is pretty much the same design, even Dante in his Majin trigger has the same design. We use that scan for pluto because it fills his description in the first game and its pretty much the same description of Pluto in PoC (which might be or not canon but that's up for debate but considering the fidelity he got there we are not too off the mark here). Images of the demons are mostly used as a reference and nothing specific to them.

And about the talk about sparda, the context is: Arkham talking about the creation of the universe and the tower, sparda awakening to justice and placing his own seal, the punishment demon suffer (said punishment is taking their names away), then the part about a demon GOD emerging from the darkness and casting a seal to prevent the worlds from being separated, and finally back to sparda as one of those few who had that ability (to take away a demon's name).

From there alone you can inquire this is the God of Evil Mundus killed as described in the legend in the guide, as there was none other described as a God before Mundus.

Now, what's weird is the text about a seal to prevent the worlds from being separated but how is this if the worlds are already separated? Well, its very simple, as it probably meant to be a seal to prevent to worlds from being united again which once again fits exactly with the "thin veil" that mundus destroyed when he fused the worlds after killing this demon god.

And before anyone tries to say the thin veil and sparda's seal are the same, they aren't. Sparda's seal was done after he defeated Mundus, and after he separated the worlds after Mundus fused them again. His seal works as a net that keeps demons away from the human world, unlike this veil that keep both worlds separated from one another and that was done way before Sparda awoke to justice.

Now, how to prove this demon god who created the veil between the worlds separated them is pluto?

We go back to the legend in the castellan library, "pluto shall come and separate the worlds in the promised date and one with black wins shall stand in his way"

We know the latest half of this is true without any doubt and its something that already happened, Mundus stood in the way of pluto, killing him, destroying his seal, the thin veil between the worlds, and uniting the worlds again, so that leaves the first half.

Back again to the manga, this demon god created the thin veil sealing the worlds so they might never be separated again, and of course you can't separate something again if they aren't one anymore. This might be a little bit problematic due to the text but the end result is the same, you can't separate something if said something already lost the part meant to be separated, and with a seal in place to never be separated again it should work both ways, never to separate, never to reunite.

Now, how did Pluto separate the worlds? The text says "when heaven and earth were rent asunder a demon god emerged from the darkness..."

First, the original world was full of chaos and instabilities but it was never something so big to cause something like the separation of the worlds, the manga mostly talks about how lives were lost and how people were able to easily reach Heaven (hell), the chaos that existed and how great rents were being torn but nothing on the level that Pluto was told to do.

It is only when this Demon God emerged from darkness that the worlds were rent asunder and just like the legend in 1 says he "shall come in the promised date and separate heaven and earth..."

If you look at the raws it is supporting of this:

何度目か天地が裏返った時 黒い角を持った魔神があらわね だ 彼は2度と大地が裂けることの ないように大地に大 うに大地に巨大な流行った ミ

For the umpteenth time, the heavens and the earth were turned inside out.
A demon god with black horns appeared.
And he was
He made a great sacrifice to the earth so that it would never be torn apart again.
And he made sure that the earth would never be torn apart again.

And there was a huge current in the earth.
A huge flowing

I'm waiting for someone to give me a better translation so don't sweat too much with this one

So yeah, this great cataclysm, this change, the separation of the worlds was the product of this demon god power, this sacrifice done by him, his seal was so the world will never be torn apart again saving both worlds from the chaos and pandemonium that existed, and as the legend say he shall separate heaven and earth, create a thin veil that keeps them separated and later a treacherous demon shall stand in his way.

This all fits perfectly with what we currently have for the Demon God Pluto.
 
I agree with Tony.

1) Pluto cannot prevent something from separation if it is already separated. If we go by Cyber's presented scan.
So it does not make sense there.
No to mention you don't save human world by merging it with demon world. Thats idiotic.

While Tony braught up Jap raws which tell that Pluto made a sacrifice so that Earth is not torn apart( enslavement and razing of Human World). The English translation messed it up with Pluto preventing separation of worlds( which is anti-thesis of saving humans).

The cogent interpretation is that Pluto sacrifices himself to separate the worlds and put a seal to prevent forceful merger.

A better translated version would be nice tho.

Not to mention Mundus wouldn't need to unite these worlds if they were already not separated.


That brings us to sealing, Sealing as hax does not work above a person's own tier without feats. Sealing in this case is a feat of preventing forceful merging of realms, a 2C feat, since we know realms don't auto merge.

Something a seal cannot accomplish with equivalent power.

While Sparda's seal is only a net to prevent dimensional travel and a few other demon things. Nothing about merging.

Also DMC1 game text about Pluto's destiny just confirms this.
 
Being the person who actually proposed the original Pluto theory which eventually became accepted, I can also say I completely disagree with the OP's take on it. I'll be brief and just address the points they make without elongating my post too much.

The manga Pluto wants to keep the worlds together. Game Pluto wants them separate. This is a narrative contradiction that further complicates the legitimacy of the separation in the manga being creditable to Pluto in the first place.
As some people have pointed out, this is the result of the official translation slightly miswording the tale. While it is generally accurate and gets the point across, some specific segments of the story are still worded in a way that'll confuse onlookers, deviating from the meaning intended by the original script. The official take has Arkham narrate that '[the Demon God] struck the earth with a giant spear so that heaven and earth would never again be split apart', but this is actually supposed to read 'so that heaven and earth would never again be torn apart.'

In other words, it is merely a way of saying that he separated the worlds so that they would never again be devastated by how chaotic their contrast was. One was a world of light, the other was a world of darkness -- these two wildly different realms existing within the same dimension/universe led to pandemonium on both sides, so the demon god separated them to bring order to both realms. This is established rather readily. Thus:

"During one of the many times the heavens and the earth were consumed with chaos¹, a black-horned demon god appeared. He struck the world with a giant spear to ensure that they² would never again be torn apart."

¹ lit. "turned upside down"
². the worlds.

Summarily, there is no contradiction.

First of all the passage in question in the manga is about Sparda. Sparda is named dropped on page, and the entity's design is the exact same the manga uses for Sparda. Theses last two pages are back to back, talking purely about Sparda. As you can see the design matches almost 1 to 1 with how Sparda is shown earlier. The bigger issue though it is never confirmed Pluto or anyone else split the realms originally. The event just happened, with no further context.
A common mistake, but no, the entity on the page is not Sparda and could literally not possibly be Sparda, and this is flat-out shown by the page right before the one with the demon god, which gives us the full story and context behind the event and debunks your assertion that there is no context for how the universes were originally split.

"During the birth of the earth and the heavens, in the instability that followed, countless times turbulence spread in the mix of their borders. The heavens were chaotic and unstable, and the earth was torn apart many times over. The helpless humans could do nothing, and whenever the chaos of heaven poured down on them many lives were lost."

This is the page that comes immediately before the one with the Demon God and sets the context for the rest of the story.

"During one of the many times the heavens and the earth were consumed with chaos, a black-horned demon god appeared. He struck the world with a giant spear to ensure that they would never again be torn apart."

As I outlined in black, the full story has Arkham flat out state that the events of the Demon God occurred at the time of 'the birth of the earth and the heavens' -- in other words, this is conclusive proof that the demon god was indeed the one who separated the original universe, as the narrator affirms in the manga's prologue. The events involving the separation of the original universe vastly predate the war between Sparda and Mundus, which only took place much further down the timeline, so there is literally no way the Demon God could be Sparda.

Why does Arkham mention Sparda afterward then, you might ask? I explained that in my original post laying out the Pluto theory. Arkham cites the story of the original Demon God in order to make a parallel to the story of Sparda and to make an example. Both the original Demon God and Sparda split the realms, and they both had to deal with a period of instability and chaos between them, hence the purpose of their seals.

Lastly, there are only two instances where the term 'heaven and the earth' has been used to refer to the Demon World and the Human World: Pluto's story in DMC1, and the story of the original Demon God in the manga, which, as far as I'm concerned, is far too big of a coincidence to pass up.
From an in-universe perspective, it seems to clear to me that Arkham is quoting from the exact same historical record as the records of Pluto from the original game, but this is minor in the face of all the circumstantial evidence depicting Pluto as the original demon god who separated the realms and eventually got overthrown by Mundus.

All he does is cast a seal with his spike by tying a being to it, which sounds like hax/ a ritual of sorts.
No -- what is stated in that scan is that after he separated the worlds, he cast an 'eternal' seal in order to prevent them from reuniting (again, similar to Sparda, which is why Arkham cites this as a parallel story with similar events), not that the process of separating them was ritualistic or 'haxxy' in nature.

tl;dr I disagree with the op
 
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While Kep and Tony have explained manga.

Lemme explain DMC1 Game text.

@Cyberblader90
A certain passage noted down by a prophet in Devil May Cry 1 tells us this:

Pluto shall come on the promised date and separate heaven and earth. One with black wings of treachery shall come and stand in Pluto’s way.

This is all we know about Pluto, he is a being seemingly fated to separate the realms and will be opposed by one with black wings of treachery. Kep and paradox make an effort to establish they are the same entity (manga entity who spiked the earth and pluto)
The manga Pluto wants to keep the worlds together. Game Pluto wants them separate. This is a narrative contradiction that further complicates the legitimacy of the separation in the manga being creditable to Pluto in the first place.


My response:-

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Pluto shall come on promised date and separate Heaven and Earth.
One with the treacherous wings shall come and stand in his way.

So right of the bat one can tell that naturally a prophecy must predate its own prophesied events. Which tells us this prophecy is made during chaotic times of early creation. Before any big events happened.

As for two events prophesized by the Statement.
We know they both have already happened.
Even if you wanna dismiss Pluto, we absolutely, definitively and confirmably know that event 2 happened. And Event 1 predates event 2 so it must be true as well.
Context from manga as explained by Tony and Kepekley confirms this fully.

Tldr;
This is a true and fullfilled prophecy. It cannot be repeated again in present date.
Even if it can, it doesn't change the fact that its already fullfilled once.
Thus the feat surrounding this prophecy is true and scalable to Pluto.
With all this said, Pluto needs to be put at unknown. Its true it is stated he will eventually show up to split the realms, but we dont know how. We are told nothing of this feat, and it hasnt happened yet in canon.
As I have proven, this fate has already been fullfilled.
We know how, with His awesome Spear he split the realms.
We are told of this in manga.
It has happened far before 2000 years ago before rise of Mundus and Sparda's Heroic Rebellion.
 
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