Was kind of disappointed that V's story wasn't something a little closer to this. I feel like having Vergil's human half do everything it can to try and stop his demon half and end the tale of Vergil once and for all would have been a better end to V's arc than just having Vergil again.
Was kind of disappointed that V's story wasn't something a little closer to this. I feel like having Vergil's human half do everything it can to try and stop his demon half and end the tale of Vergil once and for all would have been a better end to V's arc than just having Vergil again.
Because when you consider it, both V and Urizen was Vergil. It was never said or shown that Vergil's sense of humanity was on par with normal human-he did chop his own son's arm just to exact revenge, which translates to V having broken sense of duty of 'ending' Urizen. That, or V was all deceiving the gang all along: by hiring Dante and the gang to eliminate the devils taking chance to use the Qliphoth's power to dominate the surface, essentially pruning the tree to help it focus the energy into the fruit, Urizen could have accomplished his true goal faster-not to become strongest demon, but to create a healthy enough body to be combined with V, thus resurrecting Vergil in full capacity. Of course, maybe both V and Urizen don't know they are essentially manipulated to do exactly what Vergil wanted and just did whatever they wanted, but the end results are the same.
Because when you consider it, both V and Urizen was Vergil. It was never said or shown that Vergil's sense of humanity was on par with normal human-he did chop his own son's arm just to exact revenge, which translates to V having broken sense of duty of 'ending' Urizen. That, or V was all deceiving the gang all along: by hiring Dante and the gang to eliminate the devils taking chance to use the Qliphoth's power to dominate the surface, essentially pruning the tree to help it focus the energy into the fruit, Urizen could have accomplished his true goal faster-not to become strongest demon, but to create a healthy enough body to be combined with V, thus resurrecting Vergil in full capacity. Of course, maybe both V and Urizen don't know they are essentially manipulated to do exactly what Vergil wanted and just did whatever they wanted, but the end results are the same.
How I view it, Vergil expected his demon half to recover naturally so that they can re-fuse right away, but didn't expect him to be so unfettered that he'd go on his power-hungry quest for absolute strength. V wanted to correct that without having to die for it all, since it was a line he wouldn't dare to cross and felt responsible to apprehend Urizen. As far as we know, Vergil has never actively confronted and killed innocents on a whim, but Urizen shows just how toxic Vergil can be given his own self-worth and perception of humanity and demonhood. V realizes just how awful he can be (as Vergil) if his own goals are left unchecked, and why he mellows out considerably in his return. It was the difference between his code of honor (given what humanity he had in earlier titles) and Arkham that made Vergil a noble (if still morally ambiguous) individual
We could even interpret his question at the top of the Qliphoth tree as him coming to terms with what Dante said earlier about their mother, assuming he retained both Urizen and V's memories. Him committing to his final battle with Dante could be his way of reflecting on how far he's come and how the only way he can atone for everything is to have a warrior's death. When Nero showed up to put a stop to it all, it's because he feels both his father and uncle need to start fresh to take back the development they both lost during their childhood.
