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Dante
Aliases & name spellings
- Dante (ep 0144 00:01:23, heard “Luc Dante”; then “Dante” throughout).
- “the right hand man and Royal demon god [guard] of Lucif” (ep 0144 00:01:23); “the Royal rightand man of lucid [Lucif]” (ep 0144 00:26:13).
Overview
One of Lucif’s demon royal guards and his right-hand man, with a skull-like face and a mask/armour (ep 0144 00:01:23–00:01:35, 00:30:15). He hunts the loved ones of the godkiller for Lucif’s “grand show” (ep 0144 00:03:07–00:03:19). He killed Bardock (ep 0144 00:35:49–00:37:48) and Goten (ep 0145 00:23:43–00:33:48). With his twin Virgil he merged into Gohan as black sludge to form Sparda, their father (ep 0158 00:24:28–00:25:13; ep 0159 00:04:10, 00:33:14), and Sparda later spent both twins as shields against Goku’s smite, ending them (ep 0167 00:06:43–00:07:09).
Affiliations & relationships
- Lucif: his lord; Lucif “wishes to kill” Goku personally (ep 0144 00:11:18).
- Targets: Trunks, to show his corpse to Vegeta (ep 0144 00:02:57–00:03:19).
- Possibly the demon guard who killed King Vegeta and Tien (ep 0137) — but Virgil later has King Vegeta’s corpse (ep 0148 00:36:55–00:40:10), and the series never says which twin did it (unclear). See guard-hunt.
- Sparda: his father (ep 0159 00:04:10); Dante becomes a face on Sparda’s right pectoral (ep 0159 00:33:14).
- Virgil, his elder twin brother (ep 0147 00:37:33–00:38:01), also beside Lucif when he merged the realms in Ultra Trunks’s timeline (ep 0146 00:19:00–00:19:21).
- (Inferred): one of the “two new demonic royal guards” Dai made under Lucif’s control, who murdered Zeno (ep 0151 00:03:51–00:04:15); in ep 0102 two horned demon warriors in red and black armour crushed Zeno’s head.
Abilities / traits
- Electric-coated punches; a demonic apparition appears behind him when he goes all out (ep 0144 00:15:39, 00:32:58–00:33:11).
- His mask/“Royal armor” had not been cracked “since Millennia ago” until Bardock’s head-butt (ep 0144 00:30:15–00:30:47).
- Fought Supreme Instinct Bardock at “level two” — “2% of my power instead of one” (ep 0144 00:34:47–00:35:20).
- Breaks into a flock of black crows to escape (ep 0147 00:14:25–00:14:39).
- Black portals in his palm swallow an attack and send it back through another; a fist through a portal (ep 0147 00:25:46–00:27:09).
- Final form (ep 0150): transforms with Virgil — wings, a changed face, heavier armour; “two devils, not demons” (ep 0150 00:32:08–00:36:11).
Variants
- None shown; in Ultra Trunks’s timeline he stood beside Lucif with Virgil when the realms merged (ep 0146 00:19:00–00:19:21).
Status
- Destroyed by Goku’s smite-laced Kamehameha, used by Sparda as a shield (Sparda, ep 0167 00:06:43–00:07:09). Before that: badly hurt (ep 0147), then merged into Gohan as part of Sparda (ep 0158 00:24:28–00:25:13).
History
- ep 0144 00:01:03–00:04:03: finds Trunks and knocks him out.
- ep 0144 00:08:37–00:11:34: mistakes Bardock for Goku, then learns he is Goku’s father.
- ep 0144 00:11:34–00:34:22: fights Bardock; his mask is cracked; their punches meet as equals.
- ep 0144 00:34:33–00:37:48: reveals he was at 2% and tears off Bardock’s face.
- ep 0145 00:11:28–00:37:32: rises at “Three percent” from Golden Oozaru Goten’s beam, throws the ape into the sky, goes to “4%”; the young Trunks’s head-butt deflects his beam into Goten’s neck; his fist is stopped by Ultra Trunks; faces Goku and Vegeta.
- ep 0146: his ki ball explodes at Goku’s glance; drilled underground; blocks Goku at 10%; burned by Nimbus Thunder — “the power of Lucif’s former host”; goes to 25% and returns unmarked; trees die around him (00:04:35–00:36:38).
- ep 0147: struck five times at once, dragged to an icy planet; escapes as black crows; a 50% blast; his helmet and arm armour cracked; returns Goku’s Kamehameha through palm portals; beaten by five Kamehamehas, then held up by his twin Virgil (00:06:29–00:38:08).
- ep 0148: set down by Virgil; says he was at 50%, about to go to 70; “I alone… Could wipe them out at 100”; Ultra Trunks’s beam drives him back and Trunks and Goku chase him (00:26:11–00:34:28).
- ep 0150: at 70% too fast for Ultra Trunks; beaten by him and Goku; their combined beam burns off the last of his mask; urges Virgil to “trigger” their power before Lucif’s arrival; takes his final form (00:21:00–00:36:11).
- ep 0151: in his final form, unseen even by Goku, elbows him into base form (00:32:48–00:33:57).
- ep 0153: dodges the Final Flash, catches Vegeta’s leg in a ruse with Virgil (00:11:31–00:16:55).
- ep 0154: dragged underground by Vegeta; told Virgil is dead; knocked down and blasted through the planet by a Super Saiyan 2 devil Vegeta; sees the planet explode far away (00:05:58–00:33:33).
- ep 0155: punches the SS2 Vegeta clone aside and runs to Virgil’s crash site, shocked at what he sees (00:18:36–00:21:04).
- ep 0157: cradles Virgil; sees the portal open above them (00:33:02–00:35:27).
- ep 0158: watches Gohan arrive; with Virgil turns beast-like, dissolves into black sludge and envelops Gohan (00:05:40, 00:23:12–00:25:13).
- ep 0159: as a face on Sparda’s right pectoral, swallows Trunks’s blast (00:32:39–00:33:14).
- ep 0167: Sparda says he traded Dante’s and Virgil’s lives as shields against Goku’s smite (00:06:43–00:07:09).
- ep 0246: Goku conjures an image of Dante among old foes and blows it up — “Goten says hi!” (00:06:25–00:07:25, 00:12:03).
Open questions
- How strong is he at full power? See dante-power.
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