Netflix’s New Devil May Cry Trailer Was Engineered to Make Your Inner Edgy Teenager Hype

When Netflix unveiled the opening theme for its Devil May Cry anime, fans were astonished by the show’s galaxy brained and thematically appropriate use of the Limp Bizkit’s nu metal song, “Rollin’.” In keeping trend with the show’s use of early 2000s edgy music choices, the new trailer for Capcom’s popular character action game showcases even more blisteringly fast action and braggadocious one-liners to the score of Papa Roach’s “Last Resort.” Devil May Cry‘s new trailer is concerned with one thing and one thing only: making Dante look cool as hell as he saves the world from a demon army. To demonstrate just stylish the devil hunter for hire is against that demon army, we see Dante mow through an armed militia with ease, parkour off the wings of a free-falling airplane, swing his motorcycle around like a baseball bat, and parry missiles with his sword. Just when things look like the show will be an easy W for Dante, the butt-end of the trailer teases a confrontation with his twin brot ... Read full article.