Devil May Cry (Nintendo Cinematic Universe)

Devil May Cry is a Japanese graphic novel series.

Volume 1
A mercenary named Dante must continue the legacy of his father, the legendary Sparda, and seal Mundus away once and for all.

Volume 2
Dante teams up with Lucia to stop a businessman named Arius from raising the demon Argosax and achieving supreme power.

Dante's Awakening
Dante is invited by his brother Vergil to "spend some time together" in Temen-ni-gri.

Volume 4
When Dante seemingly goes rogue, Nero must protect the Order of the Sword, unaware for their true intentions.

Volume 5
Teaming up with V, Dante and Nero set out to destroy Demon King Urizen.

Volume 1

 * Dante is attacked in his office by a mysterious woman named Trish. He impresses her by easily brushing off her assault, and explains that for years, he has hunted demons in pursuit of the ones who killed his mother and brother.
 * Trish explains that her attack was a test, and that the demon emperor Mundus, whom Dante holds responsible for the deaths of his family, is planning to cross over into the human world after centuries of imprisonment. They arrive at an immense castle on the mysterious Mallet Island, where Mundus has steadily grown his power and influence over the years in preparation for his ascension. Trish quickly abandons Dante, who is forced to continue on his own.
 * Dante explores the castle, fighting off demons summoned by Mundus to attack him and overcoming all sorts of devious puzzles, traps, and tricks. He also obtains two magical weapons, a sword called Alastor and a pair of gauntlets known as Ifrit, and encounters the first of Mundus' servants, a giant spider/scorpion demon known as Phantom. Dante wins their battle, but Phantom escapes and swears revenge before Dante eventually impales and kills him.
 * Dante goes on to defeat the other servants: a giant demon bird known as Griffon, a living bioweapon referred to as Nightmare, and a masked "dark knight" known as Nelo Angelo who impresses Dante with his confidence.
 * In their first battle, Dante manages to defeat Nelo Angelo and is about to deliver the final blow when his opponent suddenly overpowers him. Nelo Angelo prepares to kill Dante, but hesitates and then flees upon seeing the half-amulet Dante wears, which contains a picture of his mother. After two more encounters, his true identity is revealed as Dante's identical twin brother, Vergil, brainwashed by Mundus and made one of his minions. After Vergil seemingly dies, his amulet joins with his brother's half, and "Force Edge", Dante's primary sword which he inherited from his father, changes into its true form and becomes the Sparda sword.
 * When Dante tries to save Trish from Nightmare, she betrays him and reveals that she is a spy for Mundus, but when her life is endangered, Dante chooses to save her. Claiming he did so only because of her resemblance to his mother, he warns her to stay away. Yet when he finally confronts Mundus, who is about to kill Trish, Dante again chooses to save her and is injured. Mundus fires a beam to kill him, but Trish takes the attack instead. This unleashes Dante's full power, thus allowing him to take on the form of Sparda. Dante and Mundus then battle on another plane of existence.
 * Despite Mundus' overwhelming power, Dante is victorious, and, believing her to be dead, leaves his amulet and sword with Trish's body before departing.
 * Returning to the island, Dante finds that the castle is collapsing, and is cornered by the injured Mundus, having used the last of his power to cross over into the human world.
 * Dante fights Mundus, but is unable to defeat him until Trish suddenly appears and infuses Dante's guns with her magic.
 * Dante banishes Mundus back to the demon world, and the emperor vows to one day return and finish his conquest.
 * When Trish tries to apologize, she begins to cry, and Dante tells her it means she has become human and not just a devil, because "devils never cry".
 * Dante and Trish escape on an old biplane as the island falls into the sea.
 * Dante and Trish now work together as partners and have renamed Dante's business "Devil Never Cry".

Volume 2

 * Lucia and Dante separately enter a museum where an important item called the Medaglia is stored.
 * After defeating a group of demons in the museum, Lucia invites Dante to follow her to the Dumary Island, where he is introduced to Matier, her mother.
 * Matier explains that she once fought alongside Dante's father, Sparda, to defend the island against demons. She asks Dante to help fight Arius, an international businessman who is using demonic power in an effort to conquer the world.
 * Dante flips a coin in answer, and decides to help when the coin lands on heads.
 * After Dante leaves, Matier and Lucia discuss the Arcana, the items required for Arius to raise the demon Argosax.
 * Lucia eventually confronts Arius, who reveals that she was his creation. When she moves to strike him, he uses his magic to blast her away. Shortly afterward, Dante meets up with Lucia, who gives him the last of the Arcana before leaving.
 * Dante then encounters Matier and tries to pass the Arcana to her. Matier, in turn, asks Dante to take the Arcana to save Lucia, who has gone to fight Arius again. Dante flips the coin again to decide if he will help; it lands on heads, and he departs to aid Lucia.
 * Meanwhile, Lucia enters the Uroboros tower and attacks Arius, who captures her. Dante arrives and trades the Arcana for Lucia, then attacks Arius. To escape, Arius forces Dante to decide between saving Lucia or killing him.
 * Lucia, worried about the ritual and conflicted about herself, wonders how they will stop Arius. Dante waves her off, stating he will find a way.
 * Dante leaves Lucia to think as he departs to defeat Arius.
 * Matier arrives a short time later, sets Lucia's mind at ease, and persuades her to rejoin the fight against Arius.
 * Dante arrives at the tower to find Arius in the middle of his immortality-inducing ritual. However, Dante is not worried as he switched one of the Arcana with a false coin. Another fight ensues, in which Dante finishes Arius off with his pistols.
 * Outside, Lucia confronts Dante and demands that he kill her because she fears she will become a demon herself. Before the issue can be resolved, a large stream of energy strikes the tower and a portal to the demon world is opened.
 * Dante and Lucia argue over who will enter and close it from the inside; Dante offers to leave the issue up to fate. He flips the coin and it once again lands on heads, leaving Dante to enter the portal to deal with the partially summoned Argosax, after leaving the coin with Lucia.
 * After Dante departs, Arius returns to life bearing demonic power.
 * While Lucia fights Arius, he finds himself injured and attempts to distract her, a tactic which fails, and Lucia goes on to defeat him.
 * Within the portal, Dante fights and defeats Argosax. Finding the portal closed behind him, Dante instead drives further into the demon realm on a motorcycle.
 * In the aftermath of the battle, Matier attempts to reassure Lucia about Dante's fate, insisting that Sparda returned from a similar trip. Lucia examines the coin Dante left with her and discovers that both sides are identical.
 * Sometime later, in Dante's shop, Lucia muses about Dante. Outside the sound of a motorcycle echoes, and Lucia leaves to investigate.

Dante's Awakening

 * A mysterious man, Arkham, arrives at Dante's yet-unnamed shop with an invitation from Dante's brother Vergil in the form of a demonic attack.
 * After Dante defeats a group of demons, a huge tower erupts from the ground nearby, eclipsing the sprawling city surrounding it. Sensing that Vergil is on top of the structure, Dante interprets this as a challenge. He begins fighting more demons during his journey, some of which become his weapons once defeated.
 * Dante is attacked by a woman on a motorcycle who turns out to be Lady, Arkham's daughter, who wants revenge on her father for causing her mother's death.
 * It is revealed that Arkham works for Vergil; they plan to take Dante's half of their mother's amulet and use its power on the tower to connect the human and demonic worlds.
 * After a number of battles and an encounter with a being named Jester, Dante reaches the tower's summit and battles Vergil.
 * Vergil defeats Dante by stabbing him with his own sword, Rebellion, steals his amulet and leaves.
 * Dante's blood releases a seal on Rebellion, causing Dante's dormant demonic powers to emerge, and he sets out in pursuit. He catches Vergil in a control room in the tower's basement, where Vergil cannot reactivate the tower.
 * The brothers fight again, until they are interrupted by Mary and Jester.
 * Jester reveals himself to be Arkham, who has manipulated them all to reactivate the tower in order to reach the demonic world. There he plans to steal the Force Edge, the dormant form of Sparda's sword with his power, using it to rule a demon-infested Earth.
 * The tower transforms as the spell is broken; Arkham is carried to the summit, and Vergil disappears in the confusion.
 * Dante battles his way back up the tower, fighting Mary for the right to pursue Arkham. He is victorious, and Mary lends him her most powerful weapon.
 * Reaching the summit, Dante crosses to the demonic world and catches Arkham, who has by now assumed Sparda's demonic form.
 * Overwhelmed by power, Arkham transforms into a blob-like creature and attacks Dante. During their fight, Vergil reappears, and the brothers work together to expel Arkham from the demonic world. Weakened, Arkham lands on the tower where Mary finds him. She renounces her name and calls herself Lady, a nickname given to her by Dante because she refused to tell him her name, before killing him.
 * In the demonic world, Dante and Vergil fight for ownership of the Force Edge and the amulet halves. After Vergil's defeat, he remains as the portal closes, vanishing with his half of the amulet.
 * Dante meets Lady outside the tower. They become friends and begin a partnership as demon-slayers; Dante ends up naming his shop "Devil May Cry".
 * Vergil awakens in the demonic world, weak but determined, as he charges into battle against his father's old foe Mundus.

Volume 4

 * Nero is a young demon hunter who lives on the isolated island of Fortuna and is also a member of the Order of the Sword: a religious sect of knights who worship the Legendary Dark Knight Sparda as a God.
 * Dante arrives, and murders The Order's leader, the High Priest Sanctus, in front of the entire congregation. At the same time, an army of demons invade the city, putting everyone, including Nero's love interest Kyrie, in danger.
 * Tasked with stopping Dante by Kyrie's brother Credo, the Captain of the Holy Knights, Nero's journey leads him to discover that he is in fact a descendant of Sparda himself, and Dante is not his enemy.
 * Under orders from Sanctus, Agnus, has been siphoning the power of the long lost Devil Arm Yamato, the sword of Dante's brother Vergil, to create a demonic army, and imbue high-ranking members of the Order with demonic power.
 * To Agnus' shock, the shattered Yamato restores itself in Nero's presence, and flies to Nero's aid.
 * With The Order's plans revealed, Agnus flees to inform the newly resurrected Sanctus.
 * As Nero sets his sights on The Order, he discovers to his dismay that Credo is part of the conspiracy, until he ends up being deceived as well when they witness Kyrie being kidnapped by a newly revived Sanctus. He intends to use a creature known as Savior to defeat the demon army he's created, as a means of strengthening the people's worship of Sparda.
 * With the Sparda Sword already in his possession, and needing the blood of a descendant of Sparda along with the Yamato, Sanctus captures Nero to power The Savior's core.
 * Dante arrives, with Trish, who was revealed to be a spy within The Order, and makes a promise to the dying Credo to save Nero and Kyrie.
 * Splitting up, Trish evacuates Fortuna's human residents, while Dante destroys all the Hell Gates scattered over Fortuna, and defeats Agnus, reclaiming the Yamato sword for the last time.
 * Confronting the Savior in a sky battle above Fortuna, Dante drives the Yamato through The Savior's chest, where Nero recovers it inside, freeing himself and Kyrie, and defeating Sanctus.
 * Nero is able to make peace with the power it has given him to protect those he cares about.
 * Before Dante leaves, he decides to entrust Nero with the Yamato, and Kyrie and Nero share their first kiss in the ruins of Fortuna.
 * Back at Dante's office, Lady arrives. It was revealed that Lady sent Dante and Trish to Fortuna in the first place as The Order had begun butting in on some of her jobs, which was why Trish immediately went undercover to expose The Order's true colors.

Volume 5

 * On 16 May, devil hunter Nero hunts a demon named Urizen after a dying man takes his demonic arm and the sword Yamato. Traveling to Red Grave City, he finds a demonic tree called Qliphoth planted in the city, which is killing people for their blood.
 * Dante's group confronts Urizen but, empowered by the Qliphoth, he incapacitates them and overpowers Nero when he intervenes.
 * Dante stops Urizen from capturing Nero, but is defeated and ejected from the Qliphoth with his sword Rebellion shattered. His allies Lady and Trish are captured to be used as demon-cores while a client of Dante, V, convinces the weakened Nero to escape.
 * On 15 June, Nero returns to Red Grave outfitted with the "Devil Breaker" prosthetic arm, made by his friend and gunsmith, Nico.
 * Nero meets up with V, who is seeking Qliphoth for its fruit—born of condensed human blood—which makes whoever consumes it the king of the Underworld. As the pair destroy the Qliphoth's roots while searching for Dante, Nero rescues Lady while V splits off to discover the Devil Sword Sparda - along with a hibernating Dante, whose presence was hidden by the sword.
 * After awakening from his coma, Dante frees Trish and begins fighting his way to Urizen.
 * Trish learns from V that Urizen is actually the demon-side of Dante's brother Vergil, who used Yamato's power to separate his demon and human halves - the latter manifesting as V, whose body is breaking down.
 * Realizing Rebellion can merge forms together, Dante uses it to absorb the Sparda into himself, unlocking his full demonic power and creating a new weapon, the "Devil Sword Dante."
 * Nero attempts to confront Urizen again and is overpowered once more, but Dante rescues him  and gains the upper hand with his new powers.
 * Urizen takes his leave when the Qliphoth bears fruit and consumes it to empower himself further.
 * While Dante arrives first to face Urizen, Nero rescues V from the demon Malphas and learns of Dante's history with Vergil.
 * Nero and V reach Dante just as he defeats Urizen, but a dying V intervenes and merges with Urizen before Dante can finish him, reviving Vergil.
 * Vergil returns to the Qliphoth tree, telling Dante to recover his full strength before they battle again.
 * Nero insists on going after Vergil himself, but Dante reveals Nero is Vergil's son, proven by how the Yamato reacted to him during the Fortuna incident where they first met, and refuses to let Nero kill his own father.
 * Dante then faces V's familiars - revealed as the embodied memories of Vergil's time as Nelo Angelo - and they elect to die by Dante's hand to lessen Vergil's trauma.
 * Dante and Vergil fight again, where Vergil learns Nero is his son.
 * Nero settles his emotions in a call to Kyrie and resolves not to let his father and uncle die, fully awakening his demonic powers and regrowing his arm.
 * Intervening in their fight and forcing Dante out, Nero vows to end the pair's sibling rivalry and defeats Vergil, who gives Nero V's book to remember him by.
 * Vergil joins Dante in a one-way trip to the Underworld to cut the Qliphoth down and seal the portal before it rips Red Grave City apart, with Nero departing as the Qliphoth falls.
 * Weeks later, Trish and Lady are hired for a new job by Morrison, whom Dante left in charge of his office.
 * In the Underworld, Dante and Vergil continue sparring while demons attack them, now friendly rivals instead of enemies.

Volume 1

 * Based on Devil May Cry.

Volume 2

 * Based on Devil May Cry 2.

Dante's Awakening

 * Based on Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening.

Volume 4

 * Based on Devil May Cry 4.

Volume 5

 * Based on Devil May Cry 5.