Ron Does Stuff

You know what, I thought there wouldn’t be an explosion in the previous episode since it took a more introspective approach to Mary’s and the bunny’s story, but there was an explosion because Mary blew up the warehouse where the Makaians were hiding.

This episode starts with the bunny back in the demon dimension and it looks like he won’t be alive for much longer as he continues to fiddle with the mechanism that is keeping him alive right now. He’s headed towards something, which I assume is the demon king. But assuming makes an ass of me specifically because it is not the demon king but some other demon who just happens to have Vergil’s blood in a vial. I actually think that this demon is Vergil and the bunny proves me right! I think? It was a pretty obvious hint! We also learn that the bunny still needs Dante’s blood to fully break down the wall between dimensions.

Back in the present day, Dante and Mary are arguing about who gets to confront the bunny and it got me soul-searching a little because I really am not a fan of the Mary character and the way she keeps using expletives. And I don’t understand why because I generally don’t have a problem with women swearing? If there’s anybody who gets a pass to swear, women should because of all the shit they go through on the daily. But the way they’re doing it with Mary’s character feels inauthentic somehow. Is this the way she is in the game? Or is this me just needing to work on some misogynistic tendencies on my part?

It’s Mary who confront the bunny and she tries to bargain with the bunny using Dante as the bargaining chip. It’s the bunny who folds first, especially when Mary tries to bring up his ulterior motive of bringing down DARKCOM, leading to Mary kicking demon butt when the bunny reneges on the deal. But since she’s not the lead of this show, she eventually gets taken down and is about to be killed before Dante swoops in to the rescue.

But it doesn’t lead to the confrontation that I thought it would as the bunny convinces Dante to see the demon dimension for himself. The bunny gives the Thanos justification for bringing down the wall, saying that the humans who die with the initial fall will result in an equilibrium for both worlds. I do like the bunny’s point of view about Sparda though. Why is he considered a hero for saving one species over another? What makes him any different from the bunny? Is it because he saved the “better looking” species?

Dante does all the superheroics but the encounter that I’m really interested in is the one between the bunny and Mary, when she’s finally confronted with what she did way back then and also made to see how her situation isn’t really any different from the bunny’s. It’s the most compelling moment of the episode for me.

In the end, Dante defeats the demons and the bunny, but the bunny leaves an ominous message for him. Dante could have stopped what was going to happen…but what is going to happen? And then the vice president arrives.