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Sin Devil Trigger
Name information
Alternate names	Majin Form Ultimate Devil Trigger
Katakana	真魔人
Japanese	Template:Translation
Form info
Users	Dante
Real-life information
Appearances	Devil May Cry 2 Devil May Cry 3 (manga) Devil May Cry 5

The Template:Translation or SDT, referred to as the Majin Form in the context of Devil May Cry 2, is a special second Devil Trigger form.

Appearance

The Majin Form's appearance in Devil May Cry 2 resembles Dante's previous transformation into Sparda, but more bestial. The head is surrounded by large ram-like horns with a second smaller set extending from the top. It is shown to have reptilian feet and four bat-like wings which are darker than the body. Dante wields a pair of bright red retractable spikes in his forearms, similar to the demonic needles used by Mundus.

In Devil May Cry 5, Dante's Sin Devil Trigger has a somewhat similar appearance. It has two pairs of wings, and the horns on top of the head are now longer. The chest and head glow with incandescent orange in a similar manner to Berial, and the whole body is wreathed in demonic flames. The solid parts of the body seem to be a combination of metal and black demonic stone: any areas of exposed "skin" are covered in square scales.

Story

Devil May Cry 3 manga

While Dante is confronting Alice, she bites him and starts sucking his blood. Dante then changes to a demonic form, overpowering and subduing her. Dante stares down Rabbi before returning to his human form, exhausted.

Devil May Cry 5

During the incursion of the Qliphoth in Red Grave City, Dante is defeated by Urizen and the Rebellion's blade is shattered in the battle. After V locates Dante and gives him Sparda, the demon hunter journeys to the ruins of his old family home.

Contemplating a photograph of his family, Dante ponders why Sparda had given him the Rebellion, recalling how he had once awakened his potential when Vergil stabbed him through the chest with the sword. He considers that, if Yamato is the sword that divides, Rebellion is perhaps the inverse. Much to Griffon's horror, he decides to test this theory by thrusting the broken hilt of Rebellion into his stomach.

Through this he fuses the remains of Rebellion, the sword Sparda and possibly his own powers. By doing so he unlocks his true potential, a devil form powerful enough to confront the mighty Demon King. On confronting Urizen, he calls the Devil Sword Dante into existence in his hand, and thereafter adds it to his arsenal when in human form.

Nico's report on Sin Devil Trigger Dante states that there is "no telling" how much power Dante has in this state, speculating that he may even be more powerful than Sparda himself. In her report on Devil Sword Dante she states she isn't sure if Dante used his own powers or those inherent to Rebellion to create the new weapon.

When Dante finally faces Vergil in combat, the latter also possessed a more powerful Devil Form, which Nico speculated was a consequence of "his time bein' Urizen."

Gameplay

Devil May Cry 2

The form is not documented in any version of the game's manual, seemingly intended as a secret for the player to discover. It is activated if Dante uses his Devil Trigger while at less than 10% health (ie, when the remaining health in the bar has turned red).  Once the form has been activated, it cannot be manually cancelled: Dante stays transformed until the Devil Trigger gauge is completely depleted. It restores health just like the normal Devil Trigger. While in this form, Dante is invulnerable: he does not take damage, his attacks cannot be interrupted, and he does not flinch when hit.

In terms of combat, Dante in this form possesses much faster movement speed, and has enhanced physical strength. He can fly much like with the Aerial Heart. His attacks in this state are based on demonic powers and very different, using red wrist-mounted spikes for his melee attacks and throwing red fireballs as his ranged attack. The form ignores Dante's normal equipment: his equipped weapons and Amulet components have no effect on this capabilities.

While it is active, the Devil Trigger gauge constantly drains as normal, but in addition using any of its attacks will drain a set amount of the gauge. Its basic moves drain for each button press, and spinning moves for each rotation. The most economical use of the form is simply spamming fireballs, as these deal catastrophic damage to enemies while having a fairly reasonable DT gauge cost: it is easy to throw fifteen or more in a single use, more than any boss in the game can withstand. The player can use Devil Stars to prolong the effect.

Dante can also expend all of his remaining DT energy to create either an enormous area-of-effect shockwave, or a ray of energy to deal heavy, concentrated damage. These are actually fairly mediocre uses of the mode given how much damage the regular moves do: they are best employed as finishers at the end of activating it.

Devil May Cry 5

The Sin Devil Trigger bar is added above the regular DT bar after Devil Sword Dante is acquired, even if Dante has one of his other swords equipped. It fills slightly when Dante takes damage, but is not filled by taunts or stylish combat like the regular DT gauge. The main method of filling it is using the move Accumulate, which transfers power from the regular DT gauge to the SDT gauge. It takes 12 bars of the DT gauge to fill the SDT gauge. A distinctive sound effect is heard when the SDT gauge is filled: it is important to pay attention to this, since the command for using SDT is the same as the command for filling the gauge. Charging the gauge does not have an associated animation, and the player can do it while performing other actions.

It takes a short time to activate SDT, indicated by the gauge filling outwards from the middle: the move then activates when the button is released. A bestial roar can be heard when the move is ready and Dante's SDT demon form will briefly appear over him. As with Accumulate, Dante can perform other moves while SDT is being readied or ready. The player can release the button to stop filling the bar at any time with no consequence, but once it is filled there is no way to cancel it in-game and the player is committed to using SDT. This can be circumvented by pausing the game, letting go of the DT button, and resuming.

Once activated, there is normally a short animation of Devil Sword Dante impaling Dante though the chest, during which Dante cannot take damage: this ends with an explosion which will deal damage to all enemies nearby. Health is not restored by SDT, but Dante does gain so-called "super armor" in this state, meaning his attacks cannot be interrupted, he cannot be staggered or knocked down, and he takes drastically reduced damage from enemy attacks.

SDT removes access to Dante's normal weapons and Styles, instead having its own moveset with a regular sword combo that ends with a gigantic 360-degree sword sweep, a homing "Stinger" which functions like Alastor or Nevan's Vortex, a high-damage fireball attack (representing Ebony/Ombra), a rapid-fire laser bolt attack (representing Ivory/Luce), a descending ground-pound AoE attack like a much more powerful version of Balrog's Cruiser Dive which is more reminiscent of Ifrit's Inferno, and a unique grapple attack which will deal enormous damage if an enemy is held for long enough. Its ultimate move, Judgement, unleashes a flurry of sword moves that hit every enemy in the current area, terminating in a massive explosion. This move will instantly end SDT once it concludes, but cannot be interrupted once started even if the SDT gauge expires, so is a good way to finish off a use of SDT.

The SDT form also has the ability to dodge, and a Trickster-like teleport move. Rather than walking, it glides along the ground: it also has Air Raid, allowing the player to press jump to have Dante hover in mid-air at his current altitude. Unlike prior versions of Air Raid, SDT's version allows Dante access to all of his normal attacks.

The bar normally starts to deplete as soon as the animation of Dante being impaled concludes, but at SSS style rank the animation is skipped, Dante simply changing forms like the normal Devil Trigger, and the bar does not start to deplete for five seconds. When the SDT bar is fully depleted, Dante will drop to the ground on one knee, and is unable to act and vulnerable for a short time.

Normally, the player cannot interrupt SDT once activated. By purchasing the ability "Quadruple S" an exception is created: if the player enters SDT at SSS rank and is still in the 5-second period where the SDT bar does not deplete (during which the border of the SDT bar will glow white), they can manually cancel out of SDT mode and retain their full SDT bar. Leaving SDT mode this way does not result in the usual short period of vulnerability for Dante.

Moveset

• Devil May Cry 2
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Note: names of the attacks are taken from Devil May Cry 2 Official Complete Guide

Action	Command	Description
UDT Ground Combo	PS: , , , , XBOX: , , , ,	A powerful five-hit combo with a wide radius, ending with a lunging double-swing. Drains DT with each swipe.
Air Raid	In mid-air PS: to gain height, to lower XBOX: to gain height, to lower	Switches to flying mode.
UDT Air Raid Combo	In Air Raid PS: , XBOX: ,	Strikes in mid-air, with a 360° spin. Drains DT with each swipe.
Archivolt	In mid-air after jump PS: XBOX:	Spins towards the ground, slashing with a 360° spin. Drains DT with each spin.
Whirlwind	In mid-air after jump PS: Direction + XBOX: Direction +	Spins towards enemies like a buzzsaw. Drains DT with each spin.
Crimson Bolide	PS: XBOX:	Shoots a ball of demonic energy. Button can be tapped to fire more in quick succession. Drains DT with each shot.
Doomsday	With target lock off PS: + XBOX: +	Releases an explosion of demonic energy with a wide AoE. Drains all DT. Note: Has no effect on Argosax the Chaos.
Lævateinn	PS: + + XBOX: + +	Releases a damaging beam that will lock-on to enemies. Drains all DT.

Action	Command	Description
Accumulate	In human or devil form, hold	Expend the DT gauge and charge the SDT Gauge.	Activation
Shift	On ground, press + L stick ← or → + /	Quickly dodge the enemies' attacks with lightning-speed side maneuver	Shift
SDT Combo	Press --	Perform a crushing three-stage combo attack that unleashes the full power of the Devil Sword Dante.	SDT Combo
The Ombra	Press	Energy blasts from your palms slam into the enemy with terrific force.	The Ombra
Air Raid	During a jump, press while falling	Spread your wings and hover in the air. Tilt L joystick to move while hovering, or press to fold your wings and fall to earth.	Air Raid
Advent	Press	Move at hyper speed, reaching the enemy in the blink of an eye.	Advent
Sin Stinger	Press + L joystick forward +	Charge into the enemy surround by a whirlwind of swords. Tears through any enemy, leaving tattered shreds in your wake. Hold to keep the attack going.	Sin Stinger
Judgement	Press +	Unleash all of your power at once, bathing nearby enemies in lethal damage. Expends all of your SDT Gauge.	Judgement
Sin Inferno	Press + L joystick back +	Slam a thunderous punch into the ground, making the fires of hell erupt around you and launch any nearby enemies into the air. Fire elemental attack	Sin Inferno
Demolition	Press and hold	Grab an enemy and trigger a blast from within, shattering the enemy with raw explosive power.	Demolition
The Luce	Press and hold	Focus energy into your outstretched wings and raze the earth with a laser barrage. Hold to keep the attack going.	The Luce
Quadruple S	While transformed into Sin Devil Trigger form with Stylish Rank SSS, press when the SDT Gauge glows	When transformed into Sin Devil Trigger with Stylish Rank SSS, press while the SDT Gauge is glowing to disengage your transformation. This allows you to unleash your Sin Devil Trigger power for a moment and attack.

Development

Dante's Ultimate Devil Trigger form as seen in the Devil May Cry 4 Artbook.

The Devil May Cry 2 form was treated as a secret in-game and had no documented name: neither was an official name provided for any of its moves. but in Devil May Cry 2 Art Collection, the "真魔人モード" from Japanese and the "Ultimate Devil" from English, both are explicitly mentioned. The Devil May Cry 2 strategy guide by Bradygames was the only official source of an English name, calling it the "Super Morph." Fans instead dubbed it the "Desperate Devil Trigger" or DDT, based on the criteria for activating it, and this was the most commonly used name in the fandom for a significant period.

At some point prior to the release of Devil May Cry 4 the English site for the Devil May Cry series, when describing Devil May Cry 2, referred to it as the "Majin Form." Despite being a result of poor translation ("Majin" being the name for the normal Devil Trigger forms in Japanese), this has stuck as the official English name, being used in translations of later interviews.

Hideaki Itsuno would later speak of his desire to iterate on the Majin Form. According to him, he liked the idea of Dante unleashing his full power to enter a more powerful Devil Trigger state that reflected his demonic nature on a conceptual level, but accepted that in DMC 2 it had been implemented in such a way that most players were unaware it even existed.

Itsuno's team worked on a "Double Devil Trigger" for Dante early in the development of Devil May Cry 4. This form's name was officially translated as "Ultimate Devil Trigger" in interview text, though it is often known by the fan nickname "Perfect Devil Trigger."

According to the information translated from the Devil May Cry 4 artbook, the Ultimate Devil Trigger's power would have been greater than that of the Dark Knight Sparda. This, in turn, was said to cause Dante to be nearly impossible to defeat. However, this form would be double-edged, due to the fact that Dante could eventually lose his humanity and sanity and become a feral being. It is unclear if there would have been some kind of in-game mechanic related to this, or if it was simply backstory fluff.

According to the illustration of Dante's Ultimate Devil Trigger, Dante's wings unfurl and grow much longer, with Rebellion becoming a tail. His body becomes almost entirely black, save for some red, glowing cracks in the chest, hands, tail, and inner wings. No other abilities were described.

The Ultimate Devil Trigger was eventually abandoned due to time constraints, and it is not clear if work on it ever proceeded beyond concept art and basic story outlines. However, with the start of work on Devil May Cry 5, Itsuno was able to resurrect the idea and fully realize it.

Trivia

• Vergil's Devil Trigger form in Devil May Cry 5 has a more reptilian look, holding its wings folded down in a similar manner to the tails of Vergil's coat. Its glow is ice-blue with swirling cold mist surrounding it, and it possesses twin blue arm-mounted blades. A thick tail with a barbed tip extends from between its shoulders. The head's overall shape resembles a traditional samurai helmet, with the addition of two thick tubes to the sides that vent energy in a manner resembling exhausts.