While other services have found success adapting beloved video games, such as Prime Video with Fallout and Peacock with Twisted Metal, Netflix remains the most active in this space. The streamer has especially thrived with its animated shows, from the original Castlevania, which began in 2017, to its follow-up, Castlevania Nocturne, the award-winning League of Legends series Arcane, and the more recent Splinter Cell: Deathwatch. Last year saw Adi Shankar, who helped produce both Belmont-centric adventures, return to the platform in smokin’ sexy style with his long-awaited passion project, Devil May Cry, based on the Capcom series of action games. Not only was it met with widespread critical acclaim, but it also drew in an impressive 5.3 million views over its first four days.
Season 1 introduced viewers to Dante (Johnny Yong Bosch), the iconic white-haired, wisecracking demon hunter-for-hire, as he finds himself in the middle of an epic battle between good and evil. The fate of the world ends up on his shoulders when a sinister terrorist called the White Rabbit (Hoon Lee) threatens to open a gateway to Hell and unleash its inhabitants upon the world. After stopping the threat and being taken into custody by his DARKCOM pal Lady (Scout Taylor-Compton), though, he’s now about to awaken for Season 2, complete with a few upgrades. Ahead of the premiere, a new trailer has been released that shows Dante returning to the fight to find his missing brother, Vergil (Robbie Daymond), and face down the demons of his past.
The footage opens with Dante getting rearmed with his beloved pistols, Ebony and Ivory, and a new coat. Now looking more than ever like his game counterpart, he’s been unfrozen from DARKCOM’s custody to deal with a developing situation. Vergil is back, and seeing him brings all his feelings of family bubbling back to the surface. However, after being left behind in the fire Dante believed claimed him, Vergil is working for the Prince of Darkness himself, Mundus, setting the mirroring forces on a collision course. A mysterious man reveals that they both “have roles to play in the coming reformation,” some event that again threatens the fate of the world. By the end of this rip-roaring, death-defying journey, the brothers may find themselves on the same side to oppose a more dire threat to everything they love.
Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Survival Quiz Which Sci-Fi World Would You Survive? The Matrix · Mad Max · Blade Runner · Dune · Star Wars
Five universes. Five completely different ways the future went wrong — or sideways, or up in flames. Only one of them is the world your instincts were built for. Eight questions will figure out which dystopia, galaxy, or desert wasteland you’d actually make it out of alive.
💊The Matrix
🔥Mad Max
🌧️Blade Runner
🏜️Dune
🚀Star Wars
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You sense something is deeply wrong with the world around you. What do you do? The first instinct is often the truest one.
02
In a world of scarcity, what resource do you guard most fiercely? What we protect reveals what we believe survival actually requires.
03
What kind of threat keeps you up at night? Fear is useful data — if you’re honest about what you’re actually afraid of.
04
How do you deal with authority you don’t trust? Every dystopia has a power structure. Your approach to it determines everything.
05
Which environment could you actually endure long-term? Survival isn’t just tactical — it’s physical, psychological, and very much about where you are.
06
Who do you want in your corner when things fall apart? The company you keep is the clearest signal of who you actually are.
07
Where do you draw the line — if you draw one at all? Every survivor eventually faces a moment that tests what they’re actually made of.
08
What would actually make survival worth it? Staying alive is one thing. Having a reason to is another.
Your Fate Has Been Calculated You’d Survive In…
Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.
The Resistance, Zion
The Matrix
You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You’re a systems thinker who can’t help but notice the seams in things.
You’re drawn to understanding how the system works before figuring out how to break it.
You’d find the Resistance, or it would find you — your instinct for spotting constructed realities is the machines’ worst nightmare.
You function best when you have access to information and the freedom to act on it.
The Matrix built an airtight prison. You’d be the one probing the walls for the door.
The Wasteland
Mad Max
The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That’s you.
You don’t need comfort, community, or a cause larger than the next horizon.
You need a vehicle, a clear threat, and enough fuel to outrun it — and you’re good at all three.
You are unsentimental enough to survive that world, and decent enough — just barely — to be something more than another raider.
In the wasteland, that distinction is everything.
Los Angeles, 2049
Blade Runner
You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.
You read people accurately, keep your circle small, and ask the questions others prefer not to answer.
In a city where humanity is a legal designation rather than a feeling, you hold onto something that keeps you functional.
You’re not a hero. But you’re not lost, either.
In Blade Runner’s world, that distinction is everything.
Arrakis
Dune
Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.
Patience, discipline, and political awareness are your core strengths — and on Arrakis, they’re survival tools.
You understand that the long game matters more than any single victory.
Others come to Dune and are consumed by it. You’d learn its logic and earn its respect.
In time, you wouldn’t just survive Arrakis — you’d begin to reshape it.
A Galaxy Far, Far Away
Star Wars
The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn’t have it any other way.
You find meaning in being part of something larger than yourself — a cause, a crew, a rebellion.
You’d gravitate toward the Rebellion, or the fringes, or whatever pocket of the galaxy still believes the Empire’s grip can be broken.
You fight — not because you have to, but because standing aside isn’t something you’re capable of.
In Star Wars, that willingness is what makes all the difference.
‘Devil May Cry’ Season 2 Will Take Big Swings Under Adi Shankar
Studio Mir is once again providing the animation, and their work is on full display in the teaser, between the tense clashes between Dante and Vergil and large-scale battles against otherworldly beasts wreaking havoc on Earth. Though Shankar’s Devil May Cry takes place in a separate universe from the game franchise, Season 2 is already showing more elements lifted directly from Capcom’s work and a greater focus on that relationship between the half-demon siblings. The showrunner teased some bigger swings, too, after a first run that ended with the U.S. military literally invading Hell. Speaking to Collider for our Exclusive Spring Preview series back in February, he promised that his series wouldn’t rely on familiarity but lean into unpredictability, with its newfound focus on rivalry, family, and the little twists that can send two very similar, once-tight-knit forces down very different paths.
“I’m allergic to formula. I dislike when successful shows turn into comfort food. Devil May Cry won’t be TV that loops. My mission for Season 2 was to capture the feeling of a 2000s film franchise entry where the audience can’t predict the next turn.”
Devil May Cry returns for Season 2 on May 12. Check out the new trailer in the player above.
