Nelo Angelo

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Nelo Angelo
Name data
Titles	Template:Translation
Aliases	Template:Translation Black Angel
Katakana	ネロ・アンジェロ
Rōmaji	Nero Anjero
Personal data
Species	Artificial Demon (Black Knight)
Status	Destroyed
Relations	Mundus (Creator) Vergil (Base)
Professional data
Affiliation	Mundus and his army
Occupation	Mundus' knight
Real world data
Appearances	Devil May Cry Devil May Cry 2 (novel) (Mentioned) Devil May Cry 3: Special Edition Devil May Cry 4 (DF) (Mentioned) Devil May Cry 5: Before the Nightmare (Mentioned) Devil May Cry 5 – Visions of V –
Actors	David Keeley (DMC; as Vergil)
Music	Ultra Violet (Nelo Angelo Battle) (DMC) EV-11 (Nelo Angelo Appears - Battle Ver.2) (DMC) Super Ultra Violet (Nelo Angelo Appears - Battle Ver. 3) (DMC)

Nelo Angelo is a demon created by Mundus using Machiavelli's Black Knight armors. He serves as a boss and primary rival for Dante in Devil May Cry. He is playable as a secret character of sorts via Devil Trigger with Vergil's Corrupt Vergil or Super Corrupt Vergil costume.

Appearance

As Nelo Angelo, body is a heavy, olive green/jade green colored armor with blue, pulsating lines running across it, and a purple cape. His head is a helmet with a humanoid face with glowing orange eyes. It also has red and blue horns protrude from the top and frame his face, the Black Knight also has round shoulder pauldrons, a pointed chestplate, and grieves with spiked knee pads. Nelo Angelo carries a massive, unnamed broadsword which erupts a fiery blue aura when attacking.

In his final confrontation with Dante, Nelo Angelo removes his helmet to reveal revealing Vergil's face true face, now sporting completely white skin, with blue veins and red, pupil-less eyes.

Personality

Nelo Angelo is an honorable fighter who does not attack enemies who are unaware of his presence. He is rather cocky and will taunt his opponants, chuckling at them and beckoning them to attack him.

Gameplay

As a boss in Devil May Cry, Nelo Angelo mirrors Dante's moveset. His armor and zweihänder serve as his weapons and he attacks with slow but strong sword slashes, punches and kicks that generate an azure-colored flame. He can also charge up to fire explosive azure blasts of energy with either weapon. Nelo Angelo teleports in a blaze of azure flames. He uses his large sword as a shield and in his final fight he uses Summoned Swords as a long-ranged weapons in various formations.

Nelo Angelo is a secret playable character in Devil May Cry 3 Special Edition. He serves as Devil Trigger form for Vergil's Legendary Dark Knight (Corrupted Vergil) costume and its Super variation unlocked after finishing Hard and Dante Must Die modes respectively. He uses techniques based on his Devil May Cry attacks, all of his unique moveset is unlocked from the start and he also can use Vergil's Dark Slayer Trick tecniques and Summoned swords. His two weapons - greatsword and gauntlets - are represented by Yamato and Beowulf in weapon select respectively and recognized as such for the Combat Statue (Adjudicator) purposes.

Moveset

• Greatsword
• Gauntlets

Action	Command	Description
Four Hit Combo	, , / . ,	A powerful four-hit combo, with a double twisted ark finisher.
Streak	++ /++	A quick rushing attack with a broad ark swing, knocking everybody in the way
High Time	++ /++	An upward slash, lifting up an enemy in the air. Holding the attack button will make the player go airborne as well.
Helm Breaker	/ (mid-air)	A crushing downward slash, landing on demons heads, strong enough to crack sturdiest helms or demonic skulls.

Action	Command	Description
Glove Combo	, , /,,	Three-hit attack, ending with a high-kick by either knocking enemy in the air or crushing it down.
Kick 13	++ /++	A quick energy-infused roundhouse kick, blasting the front enemies off.
Magma Drive	++/++	Lunge forward and deliver an uppercut to an enemy, potentially launching them into the air.
Jump Kick	/ (mid-air)	Diving kick performed in mid-air that pierces an enemy with supersonic speed.
Meteor	hold /	A powerful fireball. Press / twice more with the right timing in order to release two more fireballs in quick succession.

Story

Background

Vergil becoming Nelo Angelo.

After Vergil was defeated by Dante, he tries to fight the Prince of Darkness. The Son of Sparda is defeated in his weakened state and Mundus transformed Vergil into Nelo Angelo, removing his human weakness. Devil May Cry 5 – Visions of V –

Events on Mallet Island

Nelo Angelo first appears to Dante as a reflection in the bedroom's mirror, from which he emerges and challenges Dante to a duel in the castle garden. They fight, and while Dante seems to gain the upper hand, Nelo Angelo overpowers him and manages to pin Dante to a wall. However, Dante's amulet slips out just as Nelo Angelo attempts to deliver the killing stroke, and the sight of it awakens Vergil's memories, causing Nelo Angelo intense agony. He throws Dante aside and is forced him to flee, disappearing in a geyser of blue and purple flames.

Nelo Angelo reveals his true identity.

He returns sometime later to challenge Dante in the garden near the Colosseum, but is defeated and again forced to flee. He returns one last time in a hall in the warped castle, where Dante points out Nelo Angelo's "guts and honor", before questioning the knight's loyalty to Mundus. Nelo Angelo doesn't respond to Dante's words, instead he unleashes his full power, showing Dante his true face in the process (yet Dante shows indifference, still not recognizing his brother in his corrupted state). He challenges Dante one last time, and though he is no longer holding back and using the full extent of his power, Dante defeats Nelo Angelo for the final time.

Dropping his greatsword and staggering back, Nelo Angelo rises into the air, clutching his head as he screams in pain before he disappears for in a torrent of blue flames, with only his half of the amulet being left behind, falling to the floor below. By looking at the amulet, Dante has a flashback of when he and his twin first received their halves of the Perfect Amulet and realizes that Nelo Angelo was Vergil all along. Devil May Cry

Aftermath and legacy

Nelo Angelo's armor washed up on the shore at some point along with fragments of Yamato. Agnus studied those remains and used them to create Alto Angelos and Bianco Angelos. Devil May Cry 4: Deadly Fortune

Powers and Abilities

Nelo Angelo is a powerhouse with powers and abilities similar to Dante. He has supernatural strength and can fire concentrated demonic energy from his fists or create contsructs to attack his enemies. He wields a strange black zweihänder with ease. Nelo Angelo is capable of using his own, much stronger, versions of some of Dante's attacks, making him a force to be reckoned with in Devil May Cry. However, he cannot use his Summoned Swords until his final battle with Dante, though he can use them in different formations and in much greater numbers. Nelo Angelo is also capable of imbuing his gauntlets and greaves with his demonic power, manifesting as blue flames and electricity.

• Powers
• Abilities
• Arsenal

Supernatural strength, speed, and endurance: Nelo Angelo is capable of fighting Dante as a near equal, and even defeated him during their first encounter.

Supernatural agility: Despite being covered head to toe in armor, Nelo Angelo is capable of jumping and flipping through the air with no hindrance.

Demonic power manipulation: Nelo Angelo's energy manifest as a blue flame occasionally accompanied by blue electricity. He can coat his sword, hands, and feet in his energy to augment his attacks. By concentrating his energy into his hand, he can launch a fireball or manifest Summoned Swords.

Teleportation: Nelo Angelo can teleport in a puff of blue flame. He also once teleported in a burst of lightning.

Swordsmanship: As Nelo Angelo, Vergil remains an exceptional swordsman, capable of nearly matching Dante on equal footing.

Hand-to-hand combat: Nelo Angelo was capable of disarming Dante and quickly gaining the upper hand and defeating him in unarmed combat during their first encounter.

Summoned Swords:Spectral swords created by Nelo Angelo's demonic power and used as projectiles or to orbit around himself as a shield. He is also able to teleport them around an opponent in various formations where they typically rotate around the target before attacking.

Devil Trigger-like state: Nelo Angelo enters an empowered state where his helmet is removed and he becomes significantly taller and stronger.

Greatsword: Nelo Angelo's signature black and silver sword.

Appearances

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Devil May Cry 3 Special Edition (2006)

Nelo Angelo is a secret playable character (as DT form for Vergil's Legendary Dark Knight costumes). See Gameplay section.

Nelo Angelo is also featured on Very Hard S rank Clear Bonus Art

Other Media

Viewtiful Joe: Red Hot Rumble

Nelo Angelo is an EX Color for Jet Black in the PSP version of the game.

Project X Zone 2

Nelo Angelo, also appears as a Rival Unit. He exists as a separate entity from Vergil, who is time-displaced from the past prior Devil May Cry 3 whilst Nelo Angelo exists as his present timeline incarnation.

Street Fighter × All Capcom

Nelo Angelo was featured in the Japanese mobile RPG card card game in two versions: in helmet with flaming sword, and without helmet surrounded by dark aura, taunting.

TEPPEN

Nelo Angelo appears as four cards.

Background and development

Name

The name Nelo Angelo is a misspelling of "Nero Angelo" (Italian: "Black Angel") which is rendered in Japanese as ネロ・アンジェロ (, Nero Anjero^?)—since the same characters are used in Japanese to represent both L and R it can be unclear which letter is supposed to be used when translating back to Latin script.

While the name was spelled correctly in the original Japanese game manual, incorrect spelling was featured in the Enemy file section of the game itself. This mistake subsequently made its way to western localizations of the game as well as novel translations, comics and later games. After introducing Nero developers acknowledged original mistake but still maintained the current spelling, possibly to avoid confusion with new main character.

The name itself is a reference to the black angels mentioned in the Divine Comedy (Inferno, Canto XXIII, 131).

Design

Horns on Nelo Angelo's helmet are a reference to the Vincent D'Onofrio's character Carl Stargher in the 2000 Tarsem Singh film The Cell.

Trivia

• Nelo Angelo's battle theme, Ultra Violet, bears similarities to Sparda's second battle theme, S. The composer stated this was done to foreshadow the connection between Nelo Angelo and Sparda.
• Although Corrupt Vergil appears as a DLC outfit in Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, his Nelo Angelo Devil Trigger was excluded due to technical difficulties implementing the model with Vergil's character frame. Instead, he is given Sparda's Devil Trigger, and paired with Yamato, unintentionally references the original Devil May Cry's unlockable Sparda costume, where the Yamato was first introduced. Later, In Vergil's campaign in Devil May Cry 4: Special Edition, Corrupt Vergil once again eschews the Nelo Angelo Devil Trigger in favor of Sparda's true form; interestingly, the Yamato's sheathe grafted to Vergil's left arm in Devil Trigger is also grafted to Sparda's left arm.
• Vergil's Level 3 Hyper Combo in Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3, Dark Angel, is a direct reference to Nelo Angelo.
• In Devil May Cry 3: Special Edition, while using his Nelo Angelo Devil Trigger seen with his "Corrupt Vergil" costume, he is able to verbalize words while taunting (e.g. "Come on!"), despite the fact that Nelo Angelo was incapable of speech in the original Devil May Cry.