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| Devil May Cry Season 2 Reveals Arius’ Dark Origin, Reincarnation Powers and Real Connection to Argosax. (Credits: Netflix) |
By the time Arius Von Enhrenberg fully reveals his plan in season 2 of Devil May Cry, it becomes painfully obvious that the smug tech billionaire routine was never the real story. Beneath the expensive suits, corporate speeches and “I definitely own too many private helicopters” energy, Arius turns out to be one of the franchise’s most unsettling villains yet. And no, despite what some fans first assumed, he is not a Makain demon hiding in human form. He is fully sapien. Unfortunately for literally everyone around him, he is also a centuries-old sorcerer serving a chaos god with world-ending ambitions.
At first, Arius appears to share the same goals as Vice President Baines. Both men position themselves as defenders of humanity against Makai and the rule of Mundus, presenting their mission as some grand act of liberation. It sounds noble for about five minutes before the cracks begin showing.
The moment Arius starts speaking a little too calmly about resurrecting ancient chaos entities, viewers collectively realised this man probably was not attending normal corporate leadership seminars.
Devil May Cry Season 2 gradually reveals that Arius has already collected all four Arcana artifacts long before confronting Vergil. Rather than using the Arcana Chalice to destroy Mundus, he plans to revive Argosax, the ancient God of Chaos defeated long ago.
That revelation instantly shifts him from “dangerous businessman” into “absolutely not invited to the group chat anymore” territory.
The series traces Arius’ origins back to Renaissance-era Italy, likely sometime during the 1350s. Long before becoming the polished CEO of Uroboros, he was simply a young boy trapped in an abusive household.
His father, bitter and violent, constantly took out his anger on his son while rejecting Arius’ intelligence and creativity. The show does not romanticise this period either. It presents his childhood as brutal, isolating and emotionally crushing, laying the groundwork for the warped worldview he develops later.
Eventually, Arius snaps and kills his father, ending years of torment. But rather than finding peace afterward, he grows increasingly disconnected from humanity.
His inventive ideas are mocked by society, his intellect is dismissed, and his resentment festers quietly for years. Then comes the moment that changes everything: his discovery of the Arcana Bastone.
Once Arius comes into contact with the artifact, Argosax enters his consciousness and offers him purpose through chaos itself.
To Arius, the idea of a world governed by unpredictability and destruction somehow feels more honest than the cruelty and hypocrisy he experienced as a human. Which, to be fair, is still an incredibly dramatic reaction. Most people pick up unhealthy hobbies after a rough childhood. Arius decided to resurrect an ancient god.
Importantly, Devil May Cry season 2 confirms that Arius remains fully sapien throughout the story. He is not secretly Makain, nor is he part demon biologically. His powers come entirely from Argosax, who grants him magical abilities in exchange for loyalty.
That makes Arius one of the rare humans capable of wielding sorcery at an elite level, placing him in the same unusual category as figures like Professor Lucan. His connection to Makai exists purely through his bond with Argosax rather than bloodline or species.
The bigger twist arrives when the anime explains Arius’ apparent immortality. Technically, he is not immortal at all. Instead, Argosax grants him perpetual reincarnation.
Every time Arius dies while pursuing the mission to resurrect the chaos god, he is reborn into a new human body with all his memories intact. So while he keeps returning, each death is still painfully real. Season 2 quietly turns that into one of the most tragic aspects of his character.
By the events of season 2, Arius has already lived through 28 separate lifetimes across roughly 672 years. That means every failure, every violent death and every psychological scar remained with him across centuries.
Suddenly, his exhausted expression during certain scenes makes a lot more sense. Imagine having nearly seven centuries of unresolved issues and still choosing to run a tech company on top of that.
Things become even more chaotic once Arius successfully resurrects Argosax and offers his own body as a vessel. For a brief period, he essentially achieves godlike immortality as part of the Argosax hybrid form.
However, the resurrection process remains unstable because Argosax still requires time and human energy to fully restore himself. That temporary weakness gives Dante and Vergil the opening they need to destroy the hybrid before Argosax can reach full power.
In the end, Arius finally dies after centuries of reincarnation, and season 2 strongly suggests this death is permanent. No resurrection hints.
No secret backup vessel. No suspicious glowing artifact sitting in the corner waiting for season 3. Just silence. For a villain who spent centuries refusing to stay dead, the finality of his ending feels strangely fitting.
Some viewers praised the anime for transforming him into one of the franchise’s most psychologically layered antagonists, especially compared to his earlier game incarnation.
Others admitted they were completely blindsided by how tragic parts of his backstory became. Meanwhile, a large portion of the fandom spent several days joking that Arius basically survived 28 lifetimes purely powered by spite and unresolved trauma.
There were also debates about whether the anime made him too sympathetic. Some fans appreciated the complexity, arguing that his pain explains his obsession with chaos without excusing his actions. Others felt the series came dangerously close to making an apocalypse-loving villain look emotionally relatable.
Either way, the conversation around Arius became one of the biggest talking points of the season, which honestly says a lot considering this is still a series where half the cast solves problems with oversized swords.
For now, Arius’ story appears finished, but fans are already theorising about whether traces of Argosax could still remain somewhere inside Makai.
Because in Devil May Cry, absolutely nobody trusts a villain to stay gone forever. And after watching Arius return for nearly seven centuries straight, can viewers really be blamed for being suspicious?