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[[File:NYC West Indian Day Parade 2 Shankbone 2009.jpg|thumb|A man dressed as the Devil at [[New York City]]'s [[West Indian Day Parade]].]]
The [[Devil]], ([[Satan]], [[Lucifer]], [[Beelzebub]], [[Mephistopheles]], [[Iblis]]) appears frequently as a character in [[literature]] and various other media, beginning in the 6th century when the Council of Constantinople officially recognized Satan as part of their belief system.<ref name="Wyamn">Wyman, Kelly J. (2004) "The Devil We Already Know: Medieval Representations of a Powerless Satan in Modern American Cinema," Journal of Religion & Film: Vol. 8: Iss. 3, Article 7.</ref> In [[Abrahamic religions]], the figure of the Devil, [[Satan]] personifies evil.<ref name="Kurtz">Kurtz, Lester R., 2007, ''Gods in the Global Village: The World's Religions in Sociological Perspective'', Pine Forge Press, {{ISBN|1-4129-2715-3}}, p. 153.</ref> In music, the Devil is referenced across both classical and popular music. Connecting the devil to certain music can be used to associate the music with immorality, either by critics or by the musicians themselves. In television and film, the Devil has a long history of being used and often appears as an extremely powerful, purely evil, antagonist. He also may appear working behind the scenes, in disguise, or in secrecy to influence a story in the forefront. In narrative works, the Devil is often associated with concepts such as the [[Antichrist]], [[Hell]] and the afterlife, and the [[apocalypse]]. Especially in media from the early 1900s, creators might have been compelled to portray the Devil with another name or in a non-classical fashion to skirt censorship laws that discouraged showing the Devil as a character. Occasionally the Devil appears not as an entity but rather is used as a name for something that is very sinister or malevolent in a narrative such that the characters feel it is the Devil.
A devil ([[lower case]]) is an "evil spirit, demon, fiend" (''OED'').
==Entertainment==
===Music===
====Classical music====
The Devil is featured as a character in many musical representations from the Middle Ages to modern times. [[Hildegard of Bingen]]'s 11th-century ''[[Ordo Virtutum]]'' features him, as do several baroque [[oratorio]]s by composers such as [[Carissimi]] and [[Alessandro Scarlatti]]. During the 19th century, [[Gounod]]'s ''[[Faust (Gounod)|Faust]]'', in which the Devil goes by the name [[Mephistopheles]], was a staple of opera houses around the world.
Highly virtuosic violin music was sometimes associated with the Devil. [[Tartini]]'s [[Devil's Trill Sonata|''Devil's Trill'' sonata]] and [[Paganini]]'s ''Devil's Laughter'' caprice are examples. The theme is taken up by [[Stravinsky]] in the "Devil's Dance" from ''[[The Soldier's Tale]]''.
Other pieces that refer to the Devil are Franz Liszt's "Mephisto Walzer" and Joseph Hellmsberger II's "Teufelstanz", as well as Haydn's lost opera "Der krumme Teufel".
"Archangel of Light" (another name for Lucifer) is a title song of the classical music band with the same name, by the [[composer]] Carlos David López Grether
====Popular music====
*[[Jazz]] was often called the Devil's music by its critics in the 1920s.<ref>{{cite web|title=Culture Shock: The TV Series & Beyond—The Devil's Music: 1920s Jazz|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/cultureshock/beyond/jazz.html|work=PBS|publisher=WGBH|access-date=6 August 2012|author=María Agui Carter|author2=Calvin A. Lindsay, Jr.}}</ref>
*[[The Rolling Stones]]' "[[Sympathy for the Devil]]" (1968) features Mick Jagger speaking as the Devil.
*"[[The Devil Went Down to Georgia]]" (1979) by the [[Charlie Daniels Band]] was the first modern popular song to feature a battle between the devil and a musician. The theme of battling the devil has been revisited several times in other songs.{{Which|date=September 2012}}
*[[Black metal]] is a subgenre of heavy metal that is commonly associated with the devil for its use of [[anti-Christian]] lyrics and symbols commonly associated with [[Satanism]], such as the [[pentagram]] and [[inverted cross]].
*"[[N.I.B.]]" by [[Black Sabbath]] is a song about "the Devil falling in love and totally changing becoming a good person." (Geezer Butler, 1992 documentary ''The Black Sabbath Story: Volume One'')  The song's chorus references Lucifer specifically: "..Look into my eyes, you will see who I am; My name is Lucifer, please take my hand."
*"Lucifer" is the name of a song by U.S. [[Rapping|rapper]] [[Jay-Z]] from his [[2003 in music|2003]] album, ''[[The Black Album (Jay-Z album)|The Black Album]]''.
*The [[Moonspell]] song "Dreamless (Lilith and Lucifer)" is about a romantic relationship between Lucifer and the demoness [[Lilith]].
*The Swedish [[death metal]] band [[Kaamos (Swedish band)|Kaamos]] has an album called ''[[Lucifer Rising (Kaamos album)|Lucifer Rising]]''.  There is also an [[Lucifer Rising (Candlemass album)|album of the same name]] by [[doom metal]] band [[Candlemass (band)|Candlemass]].
*The band [[Inkubus Sukkubus]] has a song entitled "Lucifer Rising".
*The final song on the [[Behemoth (band)|Behemoth]] album ''[[Evangelion (album)|Evangelion]]'' is called "Lucifer".
*Though not directly named, Lucifer is referenced in many of the [[horror punk]]/[[deathrock]] [[Supergroup (music)|supergroup]] [[Son of Sam (band)|Son of Sam]] songs, particularly 'Michael' on ''[[Songs from the Earth]]''.
*Korean boyband [[SHINee]] released a song in 2010 called "Lucifer".
*Composer [[Mort Garson]] used the pseudonym Lucifer for his 1971 ''Black Mass'' album.
*Lucifer<ref>{{cite web|title=Lucifer Discography|website=[[Discogs]] |url=http://www.discogs.com/artist/Lucifer}}</ref> and Lewis "Cypher"<ref>{{cite web|title=Lewis "Cypher" Discography| website=[[Discogs]] |url=http://www.discogs.com/artist/Lucifer?anv=Lewis+%22Cypher%22}}</ref> are pseudonyms used since 1993 by [[UFX#Dunk Rock .28Duncan Lewis Jowitt.29|Duncan Lewis Jowitt]] for solo releases, including the 10-minute orchestral "Symphony For The Devil"<ref>{{cite web|title=Symphony For The Devil Amazon|website=Amazon UK |url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Symphony-For-The-Devil/dp/B00ICRW5MO}}</ref> (2014).
*[[Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest|Cyprus]] entered the [[Eurovision Song Contest 2021]] with the song "[[El diablo (Elena Tsagrinou song)|El Diablo]]". The song's meaning was described as about "falling in love with someone as bad as the devil".<ref>{{Cite web|last=Adams|first=William Lee|date=25 November 2020|title=Cyprus: Elena Tsagrinou will sing 'El Diablo' at Eurovision 2021|url=https://wiwibloggs.com/2020/11/25/cyprus-elena-tsagrinou-will-sing-el-diablo-at-eurovision-2021/258906/|url-status=live|access-date=3 February 2021|website=[[Wiwibloggs]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201125075147/https://wiwibloggs.com/2020/11/25/cyprus-elena-tsagrinou-will-sing-el-diablo-at-eurovision-2021/258906/ |archive-date=2020-11-25 }}</ref>
===Film and television===
When Satan is depicted in movies and television, he is often associated with various symbols, whether as a [[motif (narrative)|motif]] or in his physical design or costume. These include horns, tails, and wings, which are often seen on the body of Satan in film and television. Satan is also associated with or may take the form of snakes, dragons, goats, or dogs. The color red is another common symbol, and may be incorporated by showing Satan with red skin, hair, or clothing.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Wyman |first1=Kelly J. |title=The Devil We Already Know: Medieval Representations of a Powerless Satan in Modern American CinemaPowerless Satan in Modern American Cinema |journal=Journal of Religion & Film |date=October 2004 |volume=8 |issue=3 |url=https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1678&context=jrf |access-date=4 July 2024}}</ref> Other signifiers include hooves, bird legs, and pitchforks. {{citation needed|date=July 2024}} When trying to blend in or deceive somebody, he is often represented as an ordinary human being, and sometimes only his voice is heard. Although in medieval art Satan appears in forms of various genders, stations, or ages, in cinema of the United States of America he is most often male.<ref name=Wyamn/>
====Film====
Satan as a personification of evil provides many narrative opportunities. Struggles with Satan have been used to symbolize human weaknesses and temptations, as in the films ''[[Bedazzled (1967 film)|Bedazzled]]'' (1967, remade 2000) and ''[[Oh, God! You Devil]]'' (1984). In horror and suspense films, Satan provides for a virtually all-powerful foe.
{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1"
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! Film
! Year
! Actor
! Character
! Description
! Ref.
|-
| ''[[Faust (1926 film)|Faust]]''
| 1926
| [[Emil Jannings]]
| Mephisto
| [[Faust]], an old alchemist sells his soul for his youth but gets it back after he sacrifices himself.
| <ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0016847/?ref_=nv_sr_4 |title = Faust| website=[[IMDb]] }}</ref>
|-
|-
| ''[[The Student of Prague (1926 film)|The Student of Prague]]''
| 1926
| [[Werner Krauss]]
| Scapinelli
| Balduin, a poor university student and fencer sells his soul to become more popular but ends up having to fight his doppelgänger to save it.
| <ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017438/?ref_=nv_sr_2 |title = The Man Who Cheated Life| website=[[IMDb]] }}</ref>
|-
| ''[[The Devil and Daniel Webster (film)|The Devil and Daniel Webster]]''
| 1941
| [[Walter Huston]]
| Mr. Scratch
| Jabez Stone, a poor farmer sells his soul for seven years of luck and prosperity but gets it back with the help of [[Daniel Webster]].
| <ref>{{cite AV media |people=[[William Dieterle|Dieterle, William]] (Director) |year=1941 |title=The Devil and Daniel Webster |medium=Motion picture |url=http://www.allmovie.com/movie/the-devil-and-daniel-webster-v13489 |access-date=26 February 2014}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[The Devil with Hitler]]''
| 1942
| [[Alan Mowbray]]
| Satan/"Gesatan"
| When Hell's Board of Directors plan to replace Satan with Adolf Hitler, Satan tries to save his job by becoming Hitler's new valet and convincing him to perform one good deed.
| <ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034651/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_2_tt_6_nm_1_q_The%2520Devil%2520with%2520Hitler |title = The Devil with Hitler| website=[[IMDb]] }}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Heaven Can Wait (1943 film)|Heaven Can Wait]]''
| 1943
| [[Laird Cregar]]
| His Excellency
| When kind playboy Henry Van Cleve dies and goes to Hell, he is not so sure whether he is evil enough to stay.
| <ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035979/?ref_=nv_sr_2 |title = Heaven Can Wait| website=[[IMDb]] }}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Angel on My Shoulder (film)|Angel on My Shoulder]]''
| 1946
| [[Claude Rains]]
| Nick
| He teams up with local small time gangster Eddie Kagle to get revenge on Smiley Williams while getting him to pose as Judge Frederick Parker, who is his double.
| <ref>{{cite AV media |people=[[Archie Mayo|Mayo, Archie]] (Director) |year=1946 |title=Angel on My Shoulder  |medium=Motion picture |url=http://www.allmovie.com/movie/angel-on-my-shoulder-v2373 |access-date=26 February 2014}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Alias Nick Beal]]''
| 1949
| [[Ray Milland]]
| Nick Beal
| A successful district attorney sells his soul to catch a mob boss and to run for governor but he gets it back with the help of his wife and local priest.
|| <ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041107/ | title=Alias Nick Beal| website=[[IMDb]]}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[The Story of Mankind (film)|The Story of Mankind]]''
| 1957
| [[Vincent Price]]
| Mr. Scratch
| He goes by the name of Mr. Scratch and opposes the Spirit of Man at a trial to determine the fate of mankind and the planet Earth in front of the High Judge when the potential of nuclear war with the [[Hydrogen Bomb|H-Bomb]] becomes a threat to Heaven, but is stopped.
| <ref>{{cite AV media |people=[[Irwin Allen|Allen, Irwin]] (Director) |year=1957 |title=The Story of Mankind |medium=Motion picture |url=http://www.allmovie.com/movie/the-story-of-mankind-v111856 |access-date=26 February 2014 }}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Up In Smoke (1957 film)|Up In Smoke]]''
| 1957
| [[Byron Foulger]]
| Mr. Bubb
| Sach Jones sells his soul to the Devil in order win a horserace but gets it back when his horse loses.
| <ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051143/ | title=Up in Smoke| website=[[IMDb]]}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Damn Yankees (film)|Damn Yankees]]''
| 1958
| [[Ray Walston]]
| Mr. Applegate
| "Mr. Applegate" bargains with a middle-aged baseball fan to give him youth and prowess in baseball in exchange for his soul, but he gets it back in the end.
| <ref>{{cite AV media |people=[[George Abbott|Abbott, George]] and [[Stanley Donen]] (Directors) |year=1958 |title=Damn Yankees |medium=Motion picture |url=http://www.allmovie.com/movie/damn-yankees-v12011 |access-date=26 February 2014 }}</ref>
|-
| ''[[The Devil's Messenger]]''
| 1961
| [[Lon Chaney Jr.]]
| Satan
| Although not actually referred to by name, Chaney's character is Satan in this anthology film edited together from three episodes of the TV series ''[[13 Demon Street]]'' with new wraparound scenes, set in Hell to link the chosen episodes, in which Satan sends out his chosen servant Satanya (Karen Kadler) on missions.
| <ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054807/?ref_=nv_sr_2/ |title = The Devil's Messenger| website=[[IMDb]] }}</ref>
|-
| ''[[The Greatest Story Ever Told]]''
| 1965
| [[Donald Pleasence]]
| The Dark Hermit
| Satan tries to tempt [[Jesus]] into worshiping him but fails.
| <ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059245/ | title=The Greatest Story Ever Told| website=[[IMDb]]}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Rosemary's Baby (film)|Rosemary's Baby]]''
| 1968
|
| The Devil
| Rosemary Woodhouse is raped by the Devil and gives birth to the Antichrist.
| <ref>{{cite AV media |people=[[Roman Polanski|Polanski, Roman]] (Director) |year=1968 |title=Rosemary's Baby |medium=Motion picture |url=http://www.allmovie.com/movie/rosemarys-baby-v42138 |access-date=26 February 2014 }}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Satan's Triangle]]''
| 1975
| [[Kim Novak]], [[Alejandro Rey]], [[Doug McClure]]
|
| A made-for-TV film in which at the film's climax it is revealed that the Devil assumes different guises and bodies to trap people who have strayed into the [[Bermuda Triangle]].
| <ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073662/?ref_=nv_sr_1/ |title = Satan's Triangle| website=[[IMDb]] }}</ref>
|-
| ''[[The Omen (franchise)]]''
| 1976
| Various
| [[Damien Thorn]]
| In which Satan's son [[Damien Thorn]] is the Antichrist.
| <ref>{{cite AV media |people=[[Richard Donner|Donner, Richard]] (Director) |year=1976 |title=The Omen |medium=Motion picture |url=http://www.allmovie.com/movie/the-omen-v36206 |access-date=26 February 2014 }}</ref>
|-
| ''[[The Devil and Max Devlin]]''
| 1981
| [[Bill Cosby]]
| Barney Satin
| In which Satan makes a Faustian pact with Max Devlin to deliver three innocent people to Hell in exchange for longer life.
| <ref>{{cite AV media |people=[[Steven Hilliard Stern]] (Director) |year=1981 |title=The Devil and Max Devlin |medium=Motion picture |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082263/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_5 |access-date=26 February 2014 }}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Legend (1985 film)|Legend]]''
|1985
| [[Tim Curry]]
| Darkness
| In which Satan is represented by the Lord of Darkness, who threatens to destroy all mankind and enter the Earth into an eternal Ice Age.
|
|-
| ''[[Crossroads (1986 film)|Crossroads]]''
| 1986
| [[Robert Judd (actor)|Robert Judd]]
| Scratch
| The Devil is portrayed as a [[trickster]] who takes souls in exchange for unparalleled musical prowess, a la [[Faust]].
| <ref>{{cite AV media |people=[[Walter Hill (director)|Hill, Walter]] (Director) |year=1986 |title=Crossroads |medium=Motion picture |url=http://www.allmovie.com/movie/crossroads-v11632 |access-date=26 February 2014 }}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Angel Heart]]''
| 1987
| [[Robert De Niro]]
| The Devil
| In which the character "Louis Cypher", a play on the name "Lucifer", is revealed to be the Devil at the end of the film.
| <ref>{{cite AV media |people=[[Alan Parker|Parker, Alan]] (Director) |year=1987 |title=Angel Heart |medium=Motion picture |url=http://www.allmovie.com/movie/angel-heart-v2360 |access-date=26 February 2014 }}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Prince of Darkness (film)|Prince of Darkness]]''
| 1987
|
| The Devil
| In which the Devil has stored his essence in a container and attempts to release his father - the Anti-God - into the world through a mirror, seen only in the end.
| <ref>{{cite AV media |people=[[John Carpenter|Carpenter, John]] (Director) |year=1987 |title=Prince of Darkness |medium=Motion picture }}</ref>
|-
|''[[The Witches of Eastwick (film)|The Witches of Eastwick]]''
|1987
|[[Jack Nicholson]]
|Daryl Van Horne
| Three women who are unaware of the power they possess, unknowingly summon what they consider to be the perfect man. He seduces all three of them and their lives dramatically improve. But, when they attempt to distance themselves, they see their worst fears materialize. The film does not directly refer to the man as the Devil, but it is strongly implied.
|
|-
|''[[The Last Temptation of Christ (film)|The Last Temptation of Christ]]''
|1988
|[[Leo Marks]] (voice)
|
| Satan shows [[Jesus]] a world in which he was never crucified but is defeated.
|
|-
|''[[The Phantom of the Opera (1989 film)|The Phantom of the Opera]]''
|1989
|John Ghavan
|Dwarf
| [[Erik (The Phantom of the Opera)|Erik Destler]] sells his soul so that the world would love his music. In return the Devil scars his face so that he can never be loved.
|
|-
| ''[[We Are Not Angels]]''
| 1992
| [[Srđan Todorović]]
| The Devil
| A comedy film in which the Devil fights the Angel (played by [[Uroš Đurić]]) for the soul of the Belgrade playboy ([[Nikola Kojo]]), who is unaware that he impregnated a high school student.
|
|-
| ''[[Needful Things (film)|Needful Things]]''
| 1993
| [[Max von Sydow]]
| Leland Gaunt
|Based on [[Stephen King]]'s [[Needful Things|novel of the same name]], the film depicts the character of "Leland Gaunt" as the Devil himself, who opens a new antiques store in [[Castle Rock (Stephen King)|Castle Rock]], [[Maine]] by the name of "Needful Things".
| <ref>{{cite web|last=Willman|first=Chris|title=Von Sydow: Maxing at the Extremes : Movies: Swedish actor is the first on record to play both God and Satan in major studio films. His latest role is the Adversary in 'Needful Things.'|date=27 August 1993|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-08-27-ca-28606-story.html|access-date=20 January 2015}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[The Prophecy]]''
| 1995
| [[Viggo Mortensen]]
| Lucifer
| Lucifer attempts to prevent Gabriel from triggering an angelic civil war that will create a new Hell to 'compete' with Lucifer's own.
| <ref>{{cite AV media |people=[[Gregory Widen|Widen, Gregory]] (Director) |year=1995 |title=The Prophecy |medium=Motion picture |url=http://www.allmovie.com/movie/the-prophecy-v134878 |access-date=26 February 2014 }}</ref>
|-
| ''[[The Devil's Advocate (1997 film)|The Devil's Advocate]]''
| 1997
| [[Al Pacino]]
| John Milton
| John Milton &mdash; a reference to ''Paradise Lost'' &mdash; who is ultimately revealed to be Satan in human form, manipulates his son ([[Keanu Reeves]]), a criminal attorney who is ignorant of his true parentage, to accept his demonic heritage. In one of the plot where Milton loses by deception, you can see his fall hinting at the "Ancient Legend". This means that Lucifer was an angel until he was expelled to hell.
| <ref>{{cite AV media |people=[[Taylor Hackford|Hackford, Taylor]] (Director) |year=1997 |title=The Devil's Advocate |medium=Motion picture |url=http://www.allmovie.com/movie/the-devils-advocate-v158823 |access-date=26 February 2014 }}</ref>
|-
| ''[[The Ninth Gate]]''
| 1999
|
|
| A trio of 17th century books feature engravings supposedly created by Lucifer; legend states that the nine correct engravings, when brought together, reveal an inscription that will summon the Devil.
| <ref>{{cite AV media |people=[[Roman Polanski|Polanski, Roman]] (Director) |year=1999 |title=The Ninth Gate |medium=Motion picture |url=http://www.allmovie.com/movie/the-ninth-gate-v180461 |access-date=26 February 2014 }}</ref>
|-
| ''[[End of Days (film)|End of Days]]''
| 1999
| [[Gabriel Byrne]]
| Satan
| Satan is the main villain, portrayed as a malignant, invisible force that takes [[Demonic possession|possession]] of a businessman in order to conceive the Antichrist before the turn of the millennium, only to find himself opposed by an atheist ex-cop–turned–private–security–guard when he attempts to capture and rape the young woman who was prophesied to become his bride.
| <ref>{{cite AV media |people=[[Peter Hyams|Hyams, Peter]] (Director) |year=1999 |title=End of Days |medium=Motion picture |url=http://www.allmovie.com/movie/end-of-days-v181132 |access-date=26 February 2014 }}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Little Nicky]]''
| 2000
| [[Harvey Keitel]]
| Lucifer
| Lucifer is the father of Satan and preparing to retire as ruler of Hell; he is presented as a sympathetic character more interested in maintaining balance than actually taking over the world.
| <ref>{{cite AV media |people=[[Steven Brill (scriptwriter)|Brill, Steven]] (Director) |year=2000 |title=Little Nicky |medium=Motion picture |url=http://www.allmovie.com/movie/little-nicky-v214075 |access-date=26 February 2014 }}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Bedazzled (2000 film)|Bedazzled]]''
| 2000
| [[Elizabeth Hurley]]
| The Devil
| Hopeless dweeb Elliot Richards is granted seven wishes by the Devil to snare Allison, the girl of his dreams, in exchange for his soul.
| <ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0230030/ | title = Bedazzled| website = [[IMDb]]}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[The Crow: Wicked Prayer]]''
| 2001
| [[David Boreanaz]]
| Satan
| Luc "Death" Crash (a Satanic cult leader), is possessed by Lucifer (here called Satan) and wishes to jumpstart the Apocalypse by impregnating Crash's fiancée Lola Byrne (who is also a part of the cult) with the [[Antichrist]], but is distracted by Jimmy Cuervo. The sun rises before Lola can be impregnated, and Jimmy impales Crash on a spike and slits his throat. Lucifer is sent back to Hell following his host's death.
| <ref>{{cite AV media |people=[[Lance Mungia|Mungia, Lance]] (Director) |year=2001 |title=The Crow: Wicked Prayer |medium=Motion picture |url=http://www.allmovie.com/movie/the-crow-wicked-prayer-v321970 |access-date=26 February 2014 }}</ref>
|-
| ''[[The Passion of the Christ]]''
| 2004
| [[Rosalinda Celentano]]
| Satan
| <ref>{{cite AV media |people=[[Mel Gibson|Gibson, Mel]] (Director) |year=2004 |title=The Passion of the Christ |medium=Motion picture |url=http://www.allmovie.com/movie/the-passion-of-the-christ-v290960 |access-date=26 February 2014 }}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Constantine (film)|Constantine]]''
| 2005
| [[Peter Stormare]]
|[[Lucifer (DC Comics)|Satan/Lucifer]]
| Lucifer makes an appearance after being summoned by [[John Constantine]] to prevent [[Mammon]] from entering the human world, stating that he prefers waiting for humanity to damn itself rather than Mammon's plan to condemn the world to Hell himself; he later removes the source of Constantine's [[lung cancer]] to give the redeemed Constantine another chance to prove that he belongs in Hell after Constantine sacrifices a chance to save his own life to ask Satan to release someone else from Hell.
| <ref>{{cite AV media |people=[[Francis Lawrence|Lawrence, Francis]] (Director) |year=2005 |title=Constantine |medium=Motion picture |url=http://www.allmovie.com/movie/constantine-v260384 |access-date=26 February 2014 }}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Ghost Rider (2007 film)|Ghost Rider]]''
| 2007
| [[Peter Fonda]]
| [[Mephisto (comics)|Mephistopheles]]
| Mephistopheles sets everything in the film into motion, making deals for souls. Desperate to get back one contract for 1,000 souls before his son [[Blackheart]] does, he calls in the marker he has on [[Ghost Rider (Johnny Blaze)|daredevil Johnny Blaze]] in exchange for curing his father's cancer, turning him into his [[bounty hunter]].
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|-
| ''[[Drive Angry]]''
| 2011
|
| Satan
| Satan only features as a behind-the-scenes figure in this film, dispatching the mysterious Accountant to stop John Milton after he escapes from Hell to save his baby granddaughter from being sacrificed by a ruthless cult. However, when he learns about the plan to sacrifice the baby, Satan has the Accountant give Milton the chance to stop the sacrifice, stating that Satan is more the warden of a very large prison rather than the personification of evil, and is actually against the sacrifice of innocents in his name.
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|-
| ''[[The Devil's Carnival]]''
| 2012
| [[Terrance Zdunich]]
| Lucifer
| Lucifer is the leader of a carnival occupied by demons portrayed as carnies, which three sinners must go through; God is depicted as the enemy of Lucifer.
| <ref>{{cite AV media |people=[[Darren Lynn Bousman|Bousman, Darren Lynn]] (Director) |year=2012 |title=The Devil's Carnival |medium=Motion picture |url=http://www.allmovie.com/movie/the-devils-carnival-v559819 |access-date=26 February 2014 }}</ref>
|-
| ''[[This Is the End]]''
| 2013
|
| Satan
| Satan is portrayed as an enormous seven-headed creature with magma-like skin.
|
|-
| ''Rosemary's Baby''
| 2014
|
| The Devil
| TV miniseries remake of ''[[Rosemary's Baby (film)|Rosemary's Baby]]''.
|
|-
| ''[[The Witch (2015 film)|The Witch]]''
| 2015
| Charlie (Goat)
Daniel Wahab Chaudhry
| Black Phillip / Satan
| Francesco Maria Guazzo illustrates a typical sabbath as "the attendants riding flying goats, trampling the cross, and being re-baptised in the name of the Devil while giving their clothes to him, kissing his behind, and dancing back to back forming a round".
In the final scene Thomasin wanders naked into the forest with Black Phillip, again incarnated as a goat, where she discovers a coven of witches dancing around a bonfire. The witches begin to levitate and a laughing Thomasin joins them above the trees.
====Television====
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! TV Show
! Year
! Actor
! Character
! Description
! Ref.
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| ''[[The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)|The Twilight Zone]]''
| 1959
| [[Thomas Gomez]]
| Cadwallader
| Hypochondriac Walter Bedecker makes a deal with Cadwallader to become both immortal and invulnerable, with a special clause added that should Bedecker becomes disenchanted with living he can call on Cadwallader to exercise the "escape clause". However, after being involved in several incidents that prove his immortality, Bedecker becomes involved in a situation with an outcome that he never expected.
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| ''[[The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)|The Twilight Zone]]''
| 1960
| [[Robin Hughes (actor)|Robin Hughes]]
| "[[The Howling Man]]"
| He is depicted as the prisoner of an obscure religious order who tricks a stranded visitor into releasing him from his cell. After he is freed, he supposedly goes on to cause World War II before the visitor hunts him down and recaptures him, intending to send him back to the monastery.
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| ''[[The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)|The Twilight Zone]]''
| 1961
| [[Vaughn Taylor (actor)|Vaughn Taylor]]
| Teague
| He poses as a [[warlock]] named Teague who tries to convince Sgt. Joseph Paradine into freezing the [[Union Army]] so that the [[Confederate States of America|Confederacy]] can win the [[American Civil War]]. However, after his death, Paradine burns the book and marches on to [[Gettysburg, Pennsylvania|Gettysburg]].
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| ''[[The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)|The Twilight Zone]]''
| 1961
| [[Burgess Meredith]]
| Mr. Smith
| When the local newspaper ''The Dansburg Courier'' is in danger of going bankrupt, editor Doug Winter is lent the money to pay the paper's debts by the mysterious "Mr. Smith", whom Winter then hires to help him run the newspaper, after which "Mr. Smith" prints several sensational stories, all of which come true even as the stories are being written.
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| ''[[The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)|The Twilight Zone]]''
| 1963
| [[Julie Newmar]]
| Miss Devlin
| A cold-hearted and ruthless businessman finds himself on the wrong floor (the 13th floor) of his office building and enters the offices of Devlin Travel, where the devilishly attractive Ms. Devlin offers him a deal whereby he can go back in time to his hometown of 1920 so he can start over and get the pleasure of building his empire up all over again. He accepts the deal, at the cost of his entire fortune, but things don't go as planned.
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| ''[[Battlestar Galactica (1978 TV series)|Battlestar Galactica]]''
| 1978
| [[Patrick Macnee]]
| Count Iblis
| In the 1978 sci-fi TV series ''Battlestar Galactica'', the two-part episode "[[War of the Gods (Battlestar Galactica)|War of the Gods]]" features a character very much like the Devil who is portrayed by Patrick Macnee. His name is [[Count Iblis]] — Iblis being the Islamic name of the Devil.
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| ''[[Fantasy Island]]''
| 1980–1981
| [[Roddy McDowall]]
| Mephistopheles
| Roddy McDowall appears twice as Mr. Roarke's supernatural nemesis Mephistopheles, who is determined to defeat Mr. Roarke and claim his soul, first in "The Devil and Mandy Bream" in which a woman has sold her own soul to the Devil to save her husband's life and then in "Devil and Mr. Roarke" in which Mephistopheles uses Mr. Roarke's assistant Julie to force Roarke into another confrontation.
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| ''[[Highway to Heaven]]''
| 1985
| [[Michael Berryman]]
| The Devil
| After Mark is involved in a car-bicycle collision that seriously injures a 5-year-old boy, a despondent Mark is tricked into selling his soul. Jonathan risks his own soul by recruiting a con artist to help Mark get over his self-pity and get past what happened, but the Devil and his own earthly cohort have plans of their own to acquire Jonathan's wings. The Devil makes a cameo appearance in the later Halloween episode "I Was a Middle-Aged Werewolf" in which he sells Mark a special sandwich.
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| ''[[Northern Exposure]]''
| 1991
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| The Devil
| ''[[Northern Exposure]]'' season 3 episode 5 "Jules et Joel" features an adult male Halloween trick-or-treater dressed as the Devil who demands [[Joel Fleishman]] give him a treat, which he refuses to do. The man sprays Joel with [[silly string]] and runs off, being chased by Joel who does not make it past his porch before running into a support and getting knocked out.
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| ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]''
| 1991
| Marta DuBois
| Ardra
| The ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' episode "[[Devil's Due (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|Devil's Due]]" includes a character pretending to be Satan with both the traditional image and the Klingon version. Throughout the episode, she appears in a default form of an attractive mischievous woman. She is eventually revealed to be a con artist attempting to exploit a planet's mythology to take control of it.
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| ''[[Touched by an Angel]]''
| 1994
| Various
| Satan
| ''[[Touched by an Angel]]'' has Satan occasionally appear in the guise of a human being. Each time, he manipulates people around him in an attempt to thwart the angels Monica, Tess and Andrew in their efforts to work for God. [[John Schneider (screen actor)|John Schneider]], Todd Rulapaugh and [[Mandy Patinkin]] each portrayed Satan in one episode, and [[David Ogden Stiers]] appeared as Satan in the two-episode series finale.
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| ''[[Stargate SG-1]]''
| 1997
| [[David Palffy]]
| ''[[Sokar (Stargate)|Sokar]]''
| ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' has an alien character, ''[[Sokar (Stargate)|Sokar]]'', who adopts the persona of Satan, possessing a great army with which he wants to take control of all other [[System Lords]], and ultimately of the galaxy itself. He creates his own Hell on Ne'tu, the satellite of his homeworld, where he sends his enemies for torture and punishment.
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| ''[[Brimstone (TV series)|Brimstone]]''
| 1998
| [[John Glover (actor)|John Glover]]
| Lucifer
| [[John Glover (actor)|John Glover]] portrayed the Fallen Angel Lucifer in the short-lived series ''[[Brimstone (TV series)|Brimstone]]''.
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| ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]''
| 1998
| [[Tom Kane]]
| HIM
| HIM is a powerful, flamboyant demon and a reoccurring antagonist in the series. He is strongly implied to be the series representation of the Devil. His name was originally going to be Devil, but Cartoon Network wouldn't allow it due to being a name featuring a religious word.
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| ''[[Jesus (1999 film)|Jesus]]''
| 1999
| [[Jeroen Krabbé]]<br />Manuela Ruggeri
| Satan
| The Devil tries to tempt [[Jesus]] but fails in two different forms.
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| ''[[Angels in the Infield]]''
| 2000
| [[Colin Fox (actor)|Colin Fox]]
| The Devil
| The Devil is the main antagonist of the film.
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| ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]''
| 2000
| Zeus Mendoza
| Lucifer
| ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]'' season 6 episode "Heart of Darkness" shows Lucifer as a fallen [[archangel]] after [[Xena]] causes him to commit all [[seven deadly sins]]. After his transformation into Satan, she promptly shoves him into a portal to Hell, taking the place of the former leader of Hell, Mephistopheles, whom Xena has killed.
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| ''[[The Collector (Canadian TV series)|The Collector]]''
| 2004–2006
| Various
| The Devil
| ''[[The Collector (Canadian TV series)|The Collector]]'' has the Devil as a major antagonist, portrayed by a different actor in each episode. To identify him (or her) to the viewer, his eyes appear to fill with fire at times.
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|''[[Reefer Madness (2005 film)|Reefer Madness]]''
| 2005
| [[John Mann (musician)|John Mann]]
| Satan
| The Devil is shown as a minor character in the film.
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| ''[[Doctor Who]]''
| 2006
|
| The Beast
| The two-part ''[[Doctor Who]]'' story "[[The Impossible Planet]]"/"[[The Satan Pit]]" features a version of the Devil called "the Beast", who claims to have served as a subconscious basis for devil-like entities in religions throughout the universe. This depiction places more emphasis on the Devil's monstrous appearance, depicting him as a gargantuan, red-skinned beast with horns and a skeletal face.
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| ''[[Fallen (TV miniseries)|Fallen]]''
| 2006
| [[Bryan Cranston]]
| Lucifer
| ''[[Fallen (TV miniseries)|Fallen]]'', the [[Freeform (TV channel)|ABC Family]] trilogy, shows Lucifer as a major character.
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| ''[[Reaper (TV series)|Reaper]]''
| 2007
| [[Ray Wise]]
| Satan
| ''[[Reaper (TV series)|Reaper]]'' portrays Satan (played by [[Ray Wise]]) as a smooth-talking gentleman, often with a jocular manner, making contact with Sam Oliver to inform Sam of his missions as Satan's bounty hunter due to a deal his parents made prior to his conception.
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| ''[[Supernatural (U.S. TV series)|Supernatural]]''
| 2007–2020
| [[Mark Pellegrino]]<ref>{{cite web|title=IMDb|website=[[IMDb]] |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0671032/}}</ref> [[Jared Padalecki]]<ref>{{cite web|title=IMDb|website=[[IMDb]] |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0655585/}}</ref>
[[Misha Collins]]
| Lucifer
| Lucifer is stated to be the god of the demons in the season 3 episode "Sin City", later stories revealing that he created the first demon by corrupting a human soul as part of his rebellion against God. He is presented as less evil and more of a tragic villain, claiming that he was condemned to Hell because he defied God's commandment to love humanity over him and claiming that their actions since he fell have merely proven him correct in his disdain of them. The archangel Gabriel and Death both dispute this, saying that humans replaced Lucifer as God's favorite and describe his rebellion as nothing more than a temper tantrum of the former favorite child complaining that 'Daddy' (God) preferred 'the new baby' (humanity) more. He served as the main antagonist in the show's [[Supernatural season 5|fifth season]] after he was released from Hell, attempting to take protagonist [[Sam Winchester]] as his vessel so that he could battle his brother Michael and fulfil his role in the Apocalypse, but he was eventually returned to his cage. He is released again in the [[Supernatural season 11|eleventh season]] when he convinces the brothers that he is their best chance at defeating their new foe, Amara-essentially God's 'sister'-but after Amara departs, Lucifer revels in chaos and death until he is banished after taking the President as a vessel. Lucifer is eventually banished to a parallel universe following the birth of his Nephilim child, Jack Kline, and forms a back-and-forth 'alliance' with the Winchesters in the [[Supernatural season 13|13th season]] to oppose the Michael of that parallel world, until he is finally killed when [[Dean Winchester]] agrees to act as the vessel for the alternate Michael after Lucifer recharges himself with Jack's grace. In Season 15, Lucifer reappears after being resurrected by God, and attempts to trick the Winchester brothers into allowing him to assist with their battle against God. After revealing his true intentions were to steal God's death book, he engages in a brief fight against Sam, Dean, and the archangel Michael. He is then killed a second time by Michael with an archangel blade.
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| ''[[Torchwood]]''
| 2007
|
| [[Abaddon]]
| ''[[Torchwood]]'' episode "[[End of Days (Torchwood)|End of Days]]" features a gigantic demonic being named [[Abaddon]], called the "Son of the Great Beast" (a reference to the aforementioned ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episodes). Abaddon kills people by casting his shadow over them to absorb their life energy, which becomes his downfall when he absorbs the immortal [[Captain Jack Harkness]] and chokes to death on him.
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| ''[[Ashes to Ashes (British TV series)|Ashes to Ashes]]''
| 2008
| [[Daniel Mays]]
| [[Jim Keats]]
| The third series of ''[[Ashes to Ashes (British TV series)|Ashes to Ashes]]'' introduces the character [[Jim Keats]] (played by [[Daniel Mays]]), a Discipline and Complaints officer sent to audit the Fenchurch East police station. Fenchurch East is revealed as a [[Purgatory]] for police officers, with [[Gene Hunt]] essentially acting as an "archangel" saving souls and sending them to Heaven, and Keats as the Devil taking souls to Hell.
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| ''[[Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell]]''
| 2011
| [[Matt Servitto]]
| "Satan", a.k.a. Darren Farley
|Originally presented as the Satan, who rules all of Hell, in seasons 1–2, in season 3 it is revealed that he is a mortal by the name of Darren Farley, Senior Vice President of the 11th Circle of Hell, "Miscellaneous". Farley rose up the demon ranks to middle management, and that "Satan" is a title given by the real Satan to such subordinates.
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| ''[[Being Human (UK TV series)|Being Human]]''
| 2013
| [[Phil Davis (actor)|Phil Davis]]
|  Captain Hatch / the Devil
| The fifth season of BBC supernatural drama ''[[Being Human (UK TV series)|Being Human]]'' reveals that the Devil was trapped in a human form in 1918 as part of a plan to kill him—the devil having apparently triggered the [[World War I|First World War]] as part of a plan to provoke a vampire/werewolf conflict so that he could feed on the resulting energy—but the ritual was disrupted, and the Devil was bound but not completely weakened or killed. Surviving into the present day, the Devil attempts to manipulate [[Hal Yorke]] (the vampire who originally participated in the ritual to bind him) and [[Tom McNair]] (a werewolf who now shares a house with Hal) into conflict with each other so that he can feed on the energy they create. Although he eventually gains enough power to manifest his full powers, he is seemingly killed in the series finale when Hal, Tom and their ghost friend [[Alex Millar (Being Human)|Alex Millar]] perform the binding ritual once more, the Devil's death apparently restoring them to humanity (although other evidence hints that this may be another illusion).
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| ''[[Rick and Morty]]''
| 2014
| [[Alfred Molina]]
| Mr. Lucius Needful
| In the episode "[[Something Ricked This Way Comes]]", Summer reports to her first job as an assistant in an antique shop run by the Devil that sells cursed novelty items for free. (The shop and the Devil's name, Mr. Needful, are both references and parodies of the [[Stephen King]] novel ''[[Needful Things]]''). Rick sets up another business across the street that removes the [[curse]]s and runs the Devil out of business. The devil is so dismayed that he tries to kill himself, but Summer finds himself in the middle of his [[suicide]] attempt and revives him. They relaunch with a new dot-com company that becomes wildly successful. As it turns out, the Devil had no plans to include Summer in reaping the profits and has her hauled off by security. Betrayed by the Devil, she and Rick build muscle mass to get physical revenge.
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|''[[Salem (TV series)|Salem]]''
|2014–2017
|[[Oliver Bell]]
|[[Samael]]
|The Devil makes pacts with [[witches]] in exchange for diabolical power. The coven eventually brings the Devil to Earth by having him possess the body of a young boy.
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|-
| ''[[The Messengers (TV series)|The Messengers]]''
| 2015
| [[Diogo Morgado]]
| The Man
| ''[[The Messengers (TV series)|The Messengers]]'' shows the Devil as a major antagonist.
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| ''[[Lucifer (TV series)|Lucifer]]''
| 2016-
2021
| [[Tom Ellis (actor)|Tom Ellis]]
| |[[Lucifer (DC Comics)|Lucifer Morningstar]] / Samael
|[[God]]'s most powerful son and archangel, Samael, falls into [[Hell]] and becomes the Devil and the punisher of evil for all eternity after his rebellion against his Father. Now known as [[Lucifer (DC Comics)|Lucifer Morningstar]], he abdicates his role from the underworld and moves to [[Los Angeles]] as the owner of the nightclub Lux. His brother, Amenadiel, consistently pursues Lucifer to return to Hell and do his job, but he only shrugs it off and expresses that he does not want what their Father has "forced" him to do. Lucifer cuts off his angel wings to show his anger for God, however, he does not want to be completely removed of his angel identity despite being the Devil. One day, a celebrity and close friend was killed in front of him, forcing him to team up with the [[Los Angeles Police Department]], and later the official consultant and partner of Detective Chloe Decker.
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| ''[[The Vampire Diaries]]''
| 2016
| [[Wolé Parks]]
|Arcadius / Cade
|Cade is ruler of hell, also known as the Devil. In the series, he moves to Earth, specifically in Mystic Falls, to take souls of "the worst of the worst." Tasking 2 sister sirens to do the job of killing humans who have done extremely terrible things, Cade takes the souls of those who are assigned to do their jobs, making them completely unkillable. He threatens to destroy the entirety of Mystic Falls by releasing hell fire.
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| ''[[Hazbin Hotel]]''
| rowspan="2" | 2019
| rowspan="2" | [[Jeremy Jordan (actor, born 1984)|Jeremy Jordan]]
| rowspan="2" | Lucifer Morningstar
| rowspan="2" | Despite being the ruler of Hell, Lucifer doesn't seem to affect much of life in Hell, it being within the universe of the show being a place of punishment due to the self inflicted torture of its, mostly, twisted formerly human residents. He is also married to the Queen of Hell, named Lilith, and has a child named Charlotte, who, despite being the daughter of the Devil himself, aims to get people out of Hell and into Heaven via redemption, causing a brief conflict between them on their differing views until she managed to change his mind.
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| ''[[Helluva Boss]]''
|
|-
| ''[[The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (TV series)|The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina]]''
| 2019
| Luke Cook
| Lucifer Morningstar
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|
|-
| ''[[Good Omens (miniseries)|Good Omens]]''
| 2019
| Niall Greig Fulton<br />[[Benedict Cumberbatch]] (voice)
| Satan
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| ''[[The Sandman (TV series)|The Sandman]]''
| 2022
| [[Gwendoline Christie]]
| Lucifer Morningstar / Samael
|God's most powerful archangel, Samael, falls into Hell and becomes the Devil and the punisher of evil for all eternity after their rebellion against their Father. Taking the name of Lucifer Morningstar, they became Hell's ruler, eventually coming into conflict with [[Dream (character)|Dream/Morpheus]]. This incarnation is depicted as androgynous.
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|''[[Hazbin Hotel]]''
| 2024
| [[Jeremy Jordan (actor, born 1984)|Jeremy Jordan]]
| Lucifer Morningstar
| He is the main character Charlie Morningstar's father and makes his Debut in Episode Five "Dad Beat Dad"
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|}
====Animation====
The Devil has been a popular recurring character in many animated films, either theatrical shorts, animated TV series and/or in [[anime]]. When a character has to take a [[moral choice]] a tiny-sized angel and devil often appear on both sides of his shoulders, representing the two possible choices he can take: the "good" path or the "bad" one. Demon-like characters have been featured as an occasional character in several animated series, either under the name ''Satan'' or as ''the Devil''. When the [[Hays Code]] censorship was still in effect between the mid-1930s to the mid-1960s the Devil sometimes went nameless or received a different name referring to diabolical characters from other mythologies to avoid offending religious viewers. Examples of this practice are for instance [[Chernobog]] in ''[[Fantasia (1940 film)|Fantasia]]'' or the description of [[Hell]] as ''[[Hades]]'' in the ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' short ''[[Satan's Waitin']]'' (1954). Even though these demons and their environment were not specifically identified as Satan and Hell, viewers still would make the connection based on the visual representation. Another way to avoid connotations with Satan was to make the demonic character an anthropomorphic cartoon animal.
{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1"
|-
! Film / TV episode
! Year
! Animation director/ studio
! Description
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| ''[[Hell's Bells (1929 film)|Hell's Bells]]''
| 1929
| [[Walt Disney Company]]
| In this cartoon a demon named Hades gathers all devils to Hell for a wild party. His three-headed dog named [[Cerberus]] (a character from Greek mythology) also appears.
|-
| ''[[Red Hot Mamma]]''
| 1934
| [[Fleischer Studios]]
| In this ''[[Betty Boop]]'' cartoon Betty enters the underworld where she sings "Hell's Bells' for Satan and his minions and makes Hell literally freeze over.
|-
| ''[[Pluto's Judgement Day]]''
| 1935
| [[Walt Disney Company]]
| [[Pluto (Disney)|Pluto]] is sent off to a Hell-like place where cats put him on trial and torture him for all the crimes he ever committed against cats. One cat wears a red robe and leads the proceedings, heavily implying that he is the Devil himself. At the end of the cartoon it turns out to have all been a dream.
|-
| ''[[Sunday Go to Meetin' Time]]''
| 1936
| [[Warner Bros. cartoons]]
| In this ''[[Merrie Melodies]]'' cartoon a black man, Nicodemus, dreams that he is sent off to Hell for stealing chickens. Once again Hell and the Devil are described as the "Hades Court of Justice".
|-
| ''[[Donald's Better Self]]''
| 1938
| [[Walt Disney Company]]
| [[Donald Duck]] is guided by his good and evil conscience on his way to school. Both characters are represented as an angel and a demon who share a physical resemblance to him. At first Donald listens to the demon, but in the end the angel triumphs again.
|-
| ''[[Fantasia (1940 film)|Fantasia]]''
| 1940
| [[Walt Disney Company]]
| In the segment ''[[Night on Bald Mountain]]'' set to the eponymous orchestral piece by [[Modest Mussorgsky]] a character intended to be Satan (and indeed introduced as Satan in the introduction to the segment by [[Deems Taylor]]) gathers all demons together for a [[Black Mass]]. To avoid offending Christian viewers the character was later officially named after [[Chernobog]], from Slavic mythology.
|-
| ''[[Donald's Decision]]''
| 1942
| [[Walt Disney Company]]
| In this World War Two propaganda cartoon [[Donald Duck]] is guided by his good and evil conscience in his choice of buying [[war bond]]s. The cartoon re-uses footage in some scenes from the 1938 short ''[[Donald's Better Self]]''.
|-
| ''[[Stop That Tank!]]''
| 1942
| [[Walt Disney Company]]
| In this World War II [[Training film|instructional film]], as the Canadian gun hit [[Adolf Hitler]]'s tank as Hitler tumbles straight down to hell all the way to the Satan.
|-
| ''[[Heavenly Puss]]''
| 1949
| [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio]]
| In this ''[[Tom & Jerry]]'' short Tom will be sent to Hell if he does not manage to make Jerry sign a certificate of forgiveness. The Devil in this cartoon is depicted as [[Spike and Tyke (characters)|Spike the Bulldog]]. In the end everything turns out to have been a dream.
|-
| ''[[Satan's Waitin']]''
| 1954
| [[Warner Bros. Cartoons]]
| In this Tweety and Sylvester cartoon a Satanic bulldog, hoping to acquire the cat's nine lives, goads [[Sylvester (Looney Tunes)|Sylvester the Cat]] into chasing his prey, [[Tweety]], into a number of violent situations.
|-
| ''[[The Hole Idea]]''
| 1955
| [[Warner Bros. Cartoons]]
| In this ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' cartoon, Calvin Q. Calculus, a scientist with a nagging wife, invents [[portable hole]]s. At the end of the cartoon he throws her into one of them, causing her to end up in Hell. [[Satan]] then throws her back and replies: "Isn't it bad enough down here without ''her''?"
|-
| ''[[Devil's Feud Cake]]''
| 1963
| [[Warner Bros. Cartoons]]
| A [[Bugs Bunny]] and [[Yosemite Sam]] short in which Yosemite is sent off to Hell. There Satan gives Sam several opportunities to bring Bugs to Hell, in exchange for Sam's own soul.
|-
| ''[[The Adventures of Mark Twain (1985 film)|The Adventures of Mark Twain]]''
| 1985
| [[Will Vinton]]
| One segment of the film, based on [[Mark Twain]]'s short story "[[The Mysterious Stranger]]", has the protagonists meet an angel who introduces themself as Satan. They have the children create a miniature kingdom with people from clay, which they then bring to life and eventually destroys again in an attempt to show the children the meaninglessness of life. Freightened, the children leave and Satan is not shown again. Interestingly, Satan is voiced by both a male and a female voice actor simultaneously.
|-
| ''[[Bart Gets Hit by a Car]]''
| 1991
| ''[[The Simpsons]]''
| At the start of the episode Bart falls into a coma and dreams he has died. As he goes up on the Heavenly escalator he spits over the side, despite being told not to do so and as a result is sent off to Hell. There he is greeted by the Devil who eventually sends him back to Earth after a quick computer check which learns him that Bart has entered Hell too early in his life. This version of the Devil depicts him in the traditional way, as a goat-like character with a pitchfork. He would return in brief cameos in the episodes ''[[Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment]]'' (1991) and ''[[Rosebud (The Simpsons)|Rosebud]]'' (1993).
|-
| ''[[Treehouse of Horror IV]]''
| 1993
| ''[[The Simpsons]]''
| In the first segment, ''The Devil and Homer Simpson'', Homer sells his soul for a donut to the Devil, who is revealed to be his Christian neighbour [[Ned Flanders]], since "it's always the one you least suspect."
|-
| The Devil
| 1993
| ''[[The Nightmare Before Christmas]]''
| The Devil is one of the residents of Halloween Town, unlike other demons, this version was depicted as a hero.
|-
| The Red Guy
| 1997–1999
| ''[[Cow and Chicken]]''
| The Red Guy is the recurring antagonist in the series. He is a red demon who often tries to trick the main protagonists.
|-
| [[Satan (South Park)|Satan]]
| 1998
| ''[[South Park]]''
| Satan is a recurring character in the series and made his first appearance in the episode ''[[Damien (South Park)|Damien]]''. Several episodes and the 1999 film adaptation, ''[[South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut]]'' (1999), depict him as a sensitive and emotionally vulnerable person.
|-
| The [[List of recurring Futurama characters|Robot Devil]]
| 1999
| ''[[Futurama]]''
| In the episode ''[[Hell Is Other Robots]]'' (1999) it turns out there is a Robot Hell in New Jersey, where the Robot Devil resides. He would become a recurring character in several other episodes, playing major roles in the episodes ''[[The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings]]'' (2003) and ''[[Ghost in the Machines]]'' (2011).
|-
| The Devil
| 1999
| ''[[The God & Devil Show]]''
| The Devil was a recurring character in this [[Adobe Flash]] Internet cartoon series and was depicted as a promiscuous woman.
|-
| The Devil
| 2000
| ''[[God, the Devil and Bob]]''
| An animated sitcom which was prematurely cancelled after offending too many religious viewers. In the series God (depicted as a hippie) and the Devil make a bet over whether Earth is worth saving. The Devil is depicted as being jealous of God and often feels that He does not respect him enough. The Devil also has a small sidekick-demon named Smeck.
|-
| ''[[Treehouse of Horror XI]]''
| 2000
| ''[[The Simpsons]]''
| In the first segment, ''G-G-Ghost D-D-Dad'', Homer ends up in Hell where he is tortured by a muscular devil.
|-
|''[[Metalocalypse]]''
|2006
|[[Williams Street]]
| The episode "Dethreligion" has William Murderface joins the [[Church of Satan]] after nearly dying in a [[drunk driving]] crash. During a mass, one of the priests tries to summon Lucifer, along with [[Belial]], [[Beelzebub]], and [[Mephistophiles]], by shouting out their names in an obnoxious, loud tone. He later appears along with the other three demon lords (with only his arm visible) to murder the church members and its inhabitants.
|-
| ''[[Treehouse of Horror XXV]]''
| 2014
| ''[[The Simpsons]]''
| In the first segment, ''School Is Hell'', Bart spents school in literal Hell, where the Devil also resides.
|-
| Lucifer Magne, Satan, and Beazlebub
|2019
| ''[[Hazbin Hotel]]'' and ''[[Helluva Boss]]''
| Lucifer appears as the king of Hell and the husband of Lilith as well as the father of Charlie. Satan and Beezlebub appear as separate entities.
|-
| ''[[Legend of the Three Caballeros]]'' (ep. 2 & 10)
|2021
| [[Disney Digital Network]]
| The same demon duck from ''Donald's Better Self'' appear as Donald's bad side while the [[minotaur]] chase the Three Caballeros. He also appeared as the leader of the [[underworld]] that he was angry at Felldrake and Baron Von Sheldgoose that they let three "souls": the Three Caballeros (Donald Duck, [[José Carioca]], and [[Panchito Pistoles|Panchito Gonzalez]]) to escape from his underworld. So he fired them and kicked out of the underworld back to the Earth for being bad employees.
|-
|  ''[[Little Demon (TV series)|Little Demon]]''
|2022
| [[Atomic Cartoons]]
| Satan is one of the shows main characters.
|}
====Anime and manga====
* ''[[The Devil Is a Part-Timer!]]'' (はたらく魔王さま!, ''Hataraku Maō-sama!''); the main protagonist of anime and manga series is Satan Jacob ("Sadao Maou"). Lucifer also appears in the series as a separate character.
* ''[[Black Clover]]'' (ブラッククローバー, Burakku Kurōbā); Devils are an ancient race of magical and malevolent beings that dwell in the Underworld and serve as major antagonists of the series. As they originate from the Underworld, their mana are sinister in nature, giving rise to demonic magic attributes that are superior to their ordinary counterparts. Most devils are animalistic and monstrous in appearance and behavior, though higher ranking devils are more humanoid and intelligent.
**Supreme Devils/Highest-ranking Devils of the Tree of Qliphoth are based on and share the names of demons and devils in real world mythology.
***The Supreme Devil of the first layer of the Underworld are the twins Lilith and Nahamah/Naamah, who are wielders of Demon Ice Magic and Demon Fire Magic respectively.
***The Supreme Devil of the second layer of the Underworld is Adrammelech, who has supposedly betrayed the King of Devils by stealing his heart.
***In the lowest layer resides the three rulers of the Underworld: Beelzebub, the devil of Spatial Magic, Astaroth, the devil of Time Magic, and finally, the King of Devils, Lucifero, the devil of Gravity Magic.
* ''[[Blue Exorcist]]'' Lucifer is one of the Eight Demon Kings and also the strongest among all of them in the story. He is also the leader of the group 'Illuminati', which researches immortality to find a way to create a strong host for Lucifer to possess.
* ''[[Demon Lord Dante]]'' (魔王ダンテ, Maō Dante), Demon Lord Satan helps Dante in his battle against God and his angels.
* ''[[Devilman]]'', Satan, an angel who formerly served God, defects to the side of the demons and leads a war against his old master, but loses. As part of a plan to resume the war in the future, he has his memories suppressed and his army frozen in ice. After having his memories suppressed, he assumes the identity of a young man named Ryo Asuka, who leads Akira Fudo on the route to becoming a Devilman.
* ''[[Digimon]]'', known as Lucemon and one of the franchise's Seven Great Demon Lords, is based upon Lucifer; this character's backstory is similar to Lucifer's fall from grace. Digimon possesses numerous forms of increasing power, including his Chaos/Falldown Mode, Shadow Lord/Satan mode, and Larva Mode.
* ''[[High School DxD]]'' Devils are a supernatural species of demons spawn from Lilith, the wife of the Devil King Lucifer. The Devils were ruled by their kings Lucifer, Beelzebub, Leviathan and Asmodeus. Desiring world domination, the Devil Kings led the devils to fought in Armageddon against God, Angels and Fallen Angels which lead to their deaths, countless devils also died to the point they became an endangered species.
**Lucifer is one of the four original Devil Kings who ruled the Devils and died in Armageddon against God, Angels and Fallen Angels. His cambion great-grandson Vali Lucifer is the archrival of the protagonist Issei Hyodou. His son Rizevim Livian Lucifer whom he sired with Adam's ex-wife, Lilith became one of the main antagonists of the series, who sought to invade another world by reviving the Beast of Revelation using the Devil technology Lucifer had left behind, causing immense chaos to the world greater than what his father the original Lucifer had originally planned for world domination.
**Beelzebub is one of the four original Devil Kings who ruled the Devils and died in Armageddon against God, Angels and Fallen Angels. His son, Bidleid Bashalun Beelzebub who inherited his father's arrogance also desired world domination, had tried to restart Armageddon but was killed by Sirzechs Gremory in the Devil Civil War. Another of Beelzebub's descendants, Shalba became one of the main antagonists as he also desired world domination by joining the supernatural terrorist organization the Khaos Bridgade. After being defeated by Issei, Shalba went insane as he sought to destroyed the Underworld and all Devils for denying him as their true ruler.
* ''[[Beelzebub (manga)]]''; The Devil King's child is watched over by the Tatsumi Oga until he is old enough to rule Hell.
*[[Mobile Fighter G Gundam]] The word, "Devil" was used on the Devil Gundam, which the name is changed to "Dark Gundam" in the English Dub, due to Sunrise's fears about Christian-related/Bible references, since the God Gundam was changed into "Burning Gundam".
*In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters]],'' Zorc Necrophades the Dark One/Yami Bakura, was resurrected by combining the Millennium Items back together, which even resembles a demon of Hell, (in the English dub, he is the creator and ruler of the inter-dimensional Shadow Realm) and it had a Dragon Head on its crotch.
*In the manga of ''[[The Betrayal Knows My Name]]'', Lucifer was/is the ancient demon king and the most feared and strongest of the duras whose tremendous demonic powers and strength was secretly coveted by the ancestors of the Giou Clan who desired to control it but failed. The anime "concludes"  before the discovery of Lucifer.
*In [[Soul Cartel]], Lucifer was the former Archangel that fell and became the very first Fallen Angel. When Lucifer was slayed by [[Michael (archangel)|Michael]], he split into 4 parts ( [[Mephistopheles]], [[Beelzebub]], [[Mastema]], and [[Astaroth]] ), creating the 4 Archdevils. Further in the series Mephistopheles the first archdevil summoned Lucifer's alter ego [[Asmodeus]] to fight an enemy.<ref>{{Cite web|title=소울카르텔|url=https://comic.naver.com/webtoon/list?titleId=423384&weekday=thu|access-date=2021-09-15|website=comic.naver.com|language=ko}}</ref>
*In [[Beyblade Burst]], 4 characters use devil-themed beys; Silas Karlisie, in the [[Beyblade Burst Evolution|second]] and [[Beyblade Burst Surge|fifth]] seasons (Satan/Satomb); Delta Zakuro, in the [[Beyblade Burst Rise|fourth]] season (Diabolos/Devolos); Lain Valhalla, the main antagonist of the [[Beyblade Burst Surge|fifth]] season (Lucifer/Lucius) and Bel Daizora, the main protagonist of the [[Beyblade Burst QuadDrive|sixth and final]] season (Belial/Belfyre).
* In [[Record of Ragnarok]] Beelzebub is an eighth round fighter, he is the representative of the gods team. Satan and Beelzebub are different characters, but they both share the same body (in this case, Beelzebub's). Lucifer, Samael and Azazel are figures from Beelzebub's past.
====Advertising====
* Clavin, a [[Czech Republic|Czech]] supplement for [[erectile dysfunction]], achieved notoriety in the country for its television commercials, which feature a devil alongside scantily clad women. The commercials caused controversy in 2014 after viewers complained about them airing during [[Ice Hockey World Championships]] games.<ref name="i621">{{cite web | last=Válková | first=Hana | title=U hokeje už nebude reklama na přípravek na podporu erekce | website=iDNES.cz | date=2014-05-21 | url=https://www.idnes.cz/zpravy/domaci/pripravek-na-erekci-u-prenosu-z-hokeje-skoncil.A140521_134231_domaci_hv | language=cs | access-date=2024-07-21}}</ref> Because of this, the [[Czech parliament]] banned commercials for adult products from airing before 10pm.<ref name="y499">{{cite web | last=Kopecký | first=Josef | title=Mužem hned, ale až po 22. hodině. Poslanci vykázali "nechutnou" reklamu | website=iDNES.cz | date=2016-03-23 | url=https://www.idnes.cz/zpravy/domaci/muzem-hned-az-po-22-hodine-poslanci-vykazali-nechutnou-reklamu.A160323_132329_domaci_kop | language=cs | access-date=2024-07-21}}</ref><ref name="s415">{{cite web | title=‚Mužem hned‘ poslanci posouvají. Reklama na viagru poběží po 22. hodině | website=Lidovky.cz | date=2016-03-24 | url=https://www.lidovky.cz/video/muzem-hned-poslanci-posouvaji-reklama-na-viagru-pobezi-po-22-hodine.A160323_191405_ln-video_ELE | language=cs | access-date=2024-07-21}}</ref>
* A [[viral video|viral]] 2020 [[Match.com]] ad created by [[Ryan Reynolds]] featured Satan matching with a woman named "2020", and the pair partaking in 2020 experiences such as [[toilet paper]] hoarding and dating in empty venues.<ref name="f683">{{cite web | last=Lundstrom | first=Kathryn | title=How Satan Fell for 2020, the Year From Hell | website=Adweek | date=2020-12-03 | url=https://www.adweek.com/commerce/satan-2020-love-match-second-ad-maximum-effort/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210104174604/https://www.adweek.com/commerce/satan-2020-love-match-second-ad-maximum-effort/ | archive-date=2021-01-04 | url-status=live | access-date=2024-07-21}}</ref><ref name="b609">{{cite web | last=Mastrangelo | first=Dominick | title=Match.com dating ad pairing Satan with 2020 goes viral | website=The Hill | date=2020-12-03 | url=https://thehill.com/homenews/528631-match-dating-ad-pairing-satan-with-2020-goes-viral/ | access-date=2024-07-21}}</ref>
===Radio===
The [[BBC Radio 4]] comedy show ''[[Old Harry's Game]]'' features [[Andy Hamilton]] in the leading role as Satan; in the first episode of Series Six, Satan states that he has gone by many names over the centuries including Beelzebub, Mephistopheles, Old Nick, Old Harry and [[Simon Cowell]] (one of his Satanic guises).
[[David Suchet]] played Satan in a radio adaptation of the play ''The Devil's Passion'' by Justin Butcher, broadcast on 3 December 2017.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09h3nf1 |title = BBC Radio 3 - Drama on 3, the Devil's Passion}}</ref>
Trevor Spencer voices Lucifer in the [[BBV Productions]] series Hellscape (created as well by Trevor Spencer) which is part of the extended [[Faction Paradox]] & [[Doctor Who]] universe.
===Literature===
Many writers have incorporated the character of Satan into their works. Among them are, in chronological order:
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*[[Dante Alighieri]]'s ''[[The Divine Comedy#Inferno|Inferno]]'' (1321)
*[[Christopher Marlowe]]'s ''[[Faust|Doctor Faustus]]'' (1604)
*[[Joost van den Vondel]]'s ''Lucifer'' (1654)
*[[John Milton]]'s ''[[Paradise Lost]]'' (1667)
*[[Alain-René Lesage]]'s ''The Devil on Two Sticks'' (1707)<ref name="bs">Brian Stableford,
''The A to Z of Fantasy Literature'', Scarecrow Press,Plymouth. 2005. {{ISBN|0-8108-6829-6}} (109-110)</ref>
*[[Jacques Cazotte]]'s ''[[The Devil in Love (novel)|The Devil in Love]] (Le Diable amoureux)'' (1772)<ref name="bs" />
*[[William Thomas Beckford|William Beckford]]'s ''[[Vathek]]''<ref>[[Les Daniels]] (1975).
''Living in Fear: A History of Horror in the Mass Media''. Da Capo Press, (P. 17). {{ISBN|0306801930}} .</ref>
*[[William Blake]]'s ''[[The Marriage of Heaven and Hell]]'' (1790–1793)
*[[Matthew Lewis (writer)|Matthew Lewis]] ''[[The Monk]]'' (1796)
*The [[Brothers Grimm]]'s ''[[The Smith and the Devil]]'' (1812)<ref name=Grimm>{{cite book |others= Andrea Dezsö, illustrator |title=The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm: The Complete First Edition |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qr3BAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA248 |access-date=February 2, 2016 |orig-year=1812 |year=2014 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0691160597 |page=248}}</ref>
*[[Johann Wolfgang Goethe]]'s ''[[Goethe's Faust|Faust]]'' (Part 1, 1808; Part 2, 1832)
*[[James Hogg]]'s ''[[The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner]]'' (1824)
*[[Alexander Pushkin]]'s ''A scene from Faust'' (1830)
*[[Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton|Edward Bulwer-Lytton's]] ''Asmodeus At Large'' (1833)<ref name="bs" />
*[[Nathaniel Hawthorne]]'s ''[[Young Goodman Brown]]'' (1835)
*[[Mikhail Lermontov]]'s ''The Devil'' (1842)
*[[Nathaniel Hawthorne]]'s ''[[The Scarlet Letter]]'' (1850)
*[[Charles Baudelaire]]'s ''[[Litanies of Satan]]'' (1857)
*[[Imre Madách]]'s ''[[The Tragedy of Man]]'' (1862)
*[[Jules Michelet]]'s  ''[[Satanism and Witchcraft]]'' (1862)
*[[Giosuè Carducci]]'s ''[[Hymn to Satan]]'' (1865)
*[[Henrik Ibsen]]'s ''[[Peer Gynt]]'' (1867)
*[[Gustave Flaubert]]'s ''[[The Temptation of Saint Anthony (Flaubert)|The Temptation of Saint Anthony]]'' (1874)
*[[Fyodor Dostoyevsky]]'s ''[[The Brothers Karamazov]]'' (1880)
*[[Robert Louis Stevenson]]'s ''[[Markheim]]'' (1885)
*[[Leo Tolstoy]]'s  ''[[How Much Land Does a Man Need?]]'' (1886)
*[[Mark Twain]]'s ''A Pen Warmed Up in Hell'' (1889)
*[[Joris-Karl Huysmans]]'s ''[[Là-bas (novel)|Là-bas]]'' (1891)
*[[Marie Corelli]]'s  ''[[The Sorrows of Satan]]'' (1896)
*[[Robert Williams Buchanan|Robert Buchanan]]'s  ''[[The Devil's Case]]'' (1896)
*[[George Bernard Shaw]]'s ''[[The Devil's Disciple (play)|The Devil's Disciple]]'' (1901)
*[[George Bernard Shaw]]'s ''[[Man and Superman]]'' (1903)
*[[Ferenc Molnár]]'s ''The Devil'' (play) (1907)<ref name="bs" />
*[[Mark Twain]]'s ''[[Letters from the Earth]]'' (1909)
*[[Aleister Crowley]]'s ''[[The Equinox|Hymn to Satan]]'' (1913)
*[[Anatole France]]'s ''[[The Revolt of the Angels]]'' (1914)
*[[Mark Twain]]'s ''[[The Mysterious Stranger]]'' (1916)
*[[James Branch Cabell]]'s ''[[Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice]]'' (1919)<ref name="ds">[[Darrell Schweitzer]], "The Devil" in [[S. T. Joshi]], ed., ''Icons of Horror and the Supernatural: an Encyclopedia of our Worst Nightmares'' (Greenwood, 2007),  (p. 161-186) {{ISBN|0313337810}}</ref>
*[[Aleister Crowley]]'s ''[[Hymn to Lucifer]]'' (1919)
*[[Aleister Crowley]]'s ''[[Liber Samekh]]''
*[[E. Hoffmann Price]]'s ''The Stranger From Kurdistan'' (1925)<ref name="ds" />
*[[Sylvia Townsend Warner]]'s ''[[Lolly Willowes]]'' (1926)
*[[Frederic Arnold Kummer]]'s ''Ladies in Hades'' (1928)<ref name="ds" />
*[[Carl Heinrich]]'s ''Orphan of Eternity'' (1929)<ref name="bs" />
*[[Theodora Du Bois]]' ''The Devil's Spoon'' (1930)<ref>Eric Leif Davin.
''Partners in Wonder: Women and the Birth of Science Fiction, 1926-1965''. Lexington Books. {{ISBN|978-0-7391-1267-0}}. (p. 380)</ref>
*[[Sherard Vines]]' ''Return, Belphegor!'' (1932)<ref name="bs" />
*[[William Gerhardie]]'s ''Memoirs of Satan'' (1932, reprint edition by Faber and Faber, 2011. {{ISBN|978-0-5712-4719-6}})<ref name="bs" />
*[[John Collier (fiction writer)|John Collier]]'s ''The Devil and All'' (1934)<ref name="ds" />
* "Murray Constantine's" ([[Katharine Burdekin]]) ''The Devil, Poor Devil!'' (1934)<ref name="bs" />
*[[Stephen Vincent Benét]]'s ''[[The Devil and Daniel Webster (short story)|The Devil and Daniel Webster]]'' (1937)
*[[C. S. Lewis]]'s ''[[The Screwtape Letters]]'' (1942)
*[[Alfred Bester]]'s ''Hell is Forever'' (1942)<ref>[[E. F. Bleiler]],
''The Guide to Supernatural Fiction'', Kent State University Press, 1983,  {{Listed Invalid ISBN|0-87338-228-9}}  (p.38).</ref>
*[[Lord Dunsany]]'s ''A Deal With the Devil'' (1946)<ref name="ds" />
*[[Thomas Mann]]'s ''[[Doctor Faustus (Thomas Mann novel)|Doktor Faustus]]'' (1947)
*[[James Branch Cabell]]'s ''The Devil's Own Dear Son'' (1949)<ref name="ds" />
*[[David H. Keller]]'s ''The Devil and the Doctor'' (1949)<ref name="ds" />
*[[George Gurdjieff|George Ivanovich Gurdjieff]]'s ''An Objectively Impartial Criticism of the Life of Man or Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson: volume one of the All and Everything trilogy'' (1950)
*[[Robert Nathan]]'s ''The Innocent Eve'' 1951<ref name="bs" />
*[[William Golding]]'s ''[[Lord of the Flies]]'' (1954)
*[[Douglass Wallop]]'s ''[[The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant]]'' (1954) -- source of the musical and film ''[[Damn Yankees]]''
*[[Alfred Noyes]]' ''[[The Devil Takes a Holiday]]'' (1955)
*[[Basil Davenport]], ''Deals With the Devil'' (anthology) (1958)
*[[Robert Bloch]]'s ''[[That Hell-Bound Train]]'' (1959)
*[[Arthur Calder-Marshall]]'s ''The Fair to Middling'' (1959)<ref name="bs" />
*[[Muriel Spark]]'s ''[[The Ballad of Peckham Rye]]'' (1960)
*[[Mikhail Bulgakov]]'s ''[[The Master and Margarita]]'' (1966)
*[[William Peter Blatty]]'s ''[[The Exorcist (novel)|The Exorcist]]'' (1971)
*[[Harlan Ellison]]'s ''[[The Deathbird]]'' (1974)
*[[Natalie Babbitt]]'s ''The Devil's Storybook'' (1974)<ref name="bs" />
*[[J.R.R. Tolkien]]'s ''[[The Silmarillion]]'' (1977)
*[[Michael Moorcock]]'s ''[[The War Hound and the World's Pain]]'' (1981)
*[[Jeremy Leven]]'s ''Satan'' (1982)<ref name="bs" />
*[[Margit Sandemo]]'s ''[[The Legend of the Ice People]]'' series (1982–1989)
*[[Piers Anthony]]'s ''[[Incarnations of Immortality]]'' series (1983–1990)
*[[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''[[Job: A Comedy of Justice]]'' (1984)
*[[Cormac McCarthy]]'s ''[[Blood Meridian]]'' (1985)
*''Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy #8: Devils'', an anthology of 18 fantasy short stories [[Editing|edited]] by [[Isaac Asimov]], Martin H. Greenburg, and Charles Waugh (1987)
*[[Robert R. McCammon]]'s ''[[Swan Song (McCammon novel)|Swan Song]]'' (1987)
*[[Neil Gaiman]] and [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[Good Omens]]'' (1990)
*[[Stephen King]]'s "[[The Man in the Black Suit]]" (1994)
*[[Philip Pullman]]'s ''[[His Dark Materials]]'' (1995)
*[[Tim LaHaye]] and [[Jerry B. Jenkins]]'s ''[[Left Behind (series)|Left Behind]]'' series (1995–2007)
*[[Anne Rice]]'s ''[[Memnoch the Devil]]'' (1996)
*[[Michael Swanwick]]'s ''Jack Faust'' (1997)<ref name="ds" />
*Andrew W. Marlowe's ''[[The End of Days]]'' (1999)
*[[Steven Brust]]'s ''[[To Reign in Hell|To Reign in Hell: A Novel]]'' (2000)
*[[Eoin Colfer]]'s ''[[The Wish List (novel)|The Wish List]]'' (2000)
*Jeri Smith-Ready's ''Requiem for the Devil'' (2001)
*[[David Weber]] and [[John Ringo]]'s ''[[Empire of Man]]'' (2001–2005)
*John A. De Vito's ''The Devil's Apocrypha'' (2002)
*[[Sherrilyn Kenyon]]'s [[Dark-Hunter Series|''Dark-Hunter'']] series (2002–present)
*[[Anne Bishop]]'s ''The Black Jewels'' (2003)
*[[Glen Duncan]]'s ''[[I, Lucifer (2003 novel)|I, Lucifer]]'' (2003)
*[[Catherine Webb]]'s ''Waywalkers'' (2003)<ref name="bs" />
*[[Thomas E. Sniegoski]]'s ''[[The Fallen (series)|The Fallen]]'' (2003–2004)
*[[Bryan Davis (author)|Bryan Davis]]'s ''Dragons In Our Midst'' (2004–2005)
*[[Bryan Davis (author)|Bryan Davis]]'s ''Oracles of Fire'' (2006–2009)
*[[Melissa De La Cruz]]'s ''[[Blue Bloods (novel series)|Blue Bloods]]'' series (2006–2013)
*[[James Robertson (novelist)|James Robertson]]'s ''[[The Testament of Gideon Mack]]'' (2006)
*Sean Vincent Lehosit's ''[[Lucifer and Lacious]]'' (2007)
*[[Jeff Rovin]]'s ''[[Conversations with the Devil]]'' (2007)
*Robert Seger's ''The Father of All Lies'' (2009)
*[[Lauren Kate]]'s ''Fallen'' series (2009–2012)
*[[Richard Kadrey]]'s ''[[Sandman Slim]]'' series (2009–2021)
*[[Joe Hill (writer)|Joe Hill]]'s ''[[Horns (novel)|Horns]]'' (2010)
*Aiden Truss's ''Gape'' (2013)
*Kat Daemon's ''[[Taming Darkness]]'' (2014)
*[[Clive Barker]]'s ''[[The Scarlet Gospels]]'' (2015)
*[[Tony Vilgotsky]]'s ''Shepherd of the Dead'' (2018)
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====Comics====
In [[DC Comics|DC]] and [[Vertigo comics]], the Devil is represented by [[Lucifer (DC Comics)|Lucifer "Samael" Morningstar]], the Fallen Angel, former ruler of [[Hell (DC Comics)|Hell]], and leader of the Unholy Trinity - although other figures, such as [[Neron (DC Comics)|Neron]] and the [[First of the Fallen]], sometimes portray the devil. It is the same Lucifer Morningstar from the Netflix series ''[[Lucifer (TV series)|Lucifer]]''. In ''[[Underworld Unleashed]]'', Neron gives enhanced powers to numerous supervillains. [[Darkseid]] is also associated with the Devil in the forms of [[Lucifer]], [[Hades]], the Greek God of the underworld, and the [[Hindu]] goddess [[Kali]].
In some [[Marvel Comics]] publications, a "Lucifer" has been mentioned as being a Hell-lord with the same "fallen from Heaven" backstory. In the ''[[Ghost Rider]]'' series, Johnny Blaze faces a demon who claims to be Lucifer. In other Marvel plotlines, several high-level demons, such as [[Mephisto (comics)|Mephisto]], [[Azazel (comics)|Azazel]], Marduk Kurios, and [[Satannish]], have claimed to be the biblical Satan. In Marvel Comics, the Norse trickster-god [[Loki (Marvel Comics)|Loki]] is shown as the main adversary of his adopted brother [[Thor (comics)|Thor]] and a common enemy of both Earth and [[Asgard (comics)|Asgard]]. Although Loki has conjured up somewhat demonic magic, he is not a demon, but a misshapen [[Jötunn|frost giant]]. Among the characters related to Norse mythology, the fire giant [[Surtur (comics)|Surtur]] is more reminiscent of a demon. The Egyptian demon-god [[Seth (Marvel Comics)|Seth]] and the Japanese demon-god [[Amatsu-Mikaboshi (Marvel Comics)|Amatsu-Mikaboshi]] have Satan-like roles in Marvel Comics.
Satan is a main character in the manga ''[[Devilman]]'' by [[Go Nagai]].
Jio Freed, the main character from the manga, ''[[O-Parts Hunter]]'', contains Satan,<ref name="Chapter1">{{cite book |last=Kishimoto|first=Seishi|title=666 Satan, Volume 1 |year=2001 |publisher=[[Square Enix]]|chapter=Chapter 1 |isbn=4-7575-0597-3}}</ref> the most powerful demon in the series.
In the [[manga]] series ''[[Bastard‼: Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy]]'' by [[Kazushi Hagiwara]], Satan appears as a large monster that has destroyed the [[Milky Way Galaxy]] by flying across it. Satan also helps Dark Schneider by telling him that he is a major part of the end times{{Clarify|date=September 2012|reason=end-of-time, maybe?}} prophecy, who will lead demons and mankind to war against God and his army.
In the [[Image Comics]] comic book series ''[[Spawn (comics)|Spawn]]'', Satan is depicted as the twin brother of God. Both God and Satan are depicted as having squandered their powers as creator gods in endless fighting and were punished for it by the Mother of Creation. In the resurrection one shot and the later issues, God was now more benevolent and less hostile while Satan was still the Supreme ruler  of Hell and the third primary antagonist of the series the first being Malebolgia and the second being Mammon.
The title character of ''[[Johnny the Homicidal Maniac]]'' is sent to Hell and has an extensive conversation with Señor Diablo (Spanish for Mr. Devil). In the spinoff series ''[[Squee!]]'', the Devil is married to a [[Christians|Christian]] woman and has a son, Pepito the Antichrist, who befriends the unwilling Squee. Squee is invited to Satan's house for dinner, where Satan and Pepito both try to get Squee to join them, but he refuses and leaves after finishing dinner.
Satan is the main character in [[Normal Bob Smith]]'s satirical ''Satan's Salvation''.
In the manga series ''[[Blue Exorcist]]'' by [[Kazue Kato]], the main character, Rin Okumura, is Satan's son and emits blue flames, a sign of Satan. His twin, Yukio, is also a son of Satan, but does not bear the flames.
Lucifer appears in the ''[[Saint Seiya]]'' anime and manga series.
===Video games===
*Satan also appears as the main antagonist in Night Schools side-scrolling adventure video game ''[[Afterparty (video game)|Afterparty]]'', he is referred to by the names Lucifer, "Luc", Satan and Morning Star and is portrayed as a more laid-back, party enjoying entity.
*Lucifer is portrayed as a game developer in the 2016 [[metafictional]] video game ''[[Pony Island]]'', who has been trapping players' souls inside the game.
*The Dark Prince (known as Satan in Japan) is a green-haired demon that serves as the comical [[villain]] in the ''[[Puyo Puyo]]'' series.
*Satan is the main antagonist and final boss in ''[[Castlevania: Lords of Shadow]]''. He appears as a long-haired, nearly naked man.
*Satan returns as the main antagonist in the sequel ''[[Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2]]''.
*Satan is the name of one of the Seven Sisters of Purgatory in the series ''[[Umineko: When They Cry]]''.
*In the ''[[Megami Tensei]]'' series, Lucifer, Satan, and Beelzebub appear as separate entities.
**Lucifer first appeared in 1987's ''[[Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei]]'' as the game's final boss. He appears throughout the series as a Chaos-aligned character. He also has a human avatar named Louis Cyphre that takes the form of either a child, a young man, an elderly man, or, in Louisa Ferre's case, a woman. He is shown as an enemy of Satan and [[Yahweh|YHVH]]. He also appears in the ''[[Devil Survivor]]'' spin-off, as one of the most powerful monsters in the game. In ''[[Shin Megami Tensei IV]]'', Lucifer is the final boss of the Law and Neutral paths, opposing [[Merkabah mysticism|Merkabah]].
***In ''[[Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Children|Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Children Light & Dark Versions]]'', there exists a parody of Lucifer named LuciFroz (also known as Lucifrost and Lucifer Frost). LuciFroz is a [[Jack Frost (Atlus)|Jack Frost]] demon that impersonated Lucifer to gain power. Afterwards, he tried to join Lucifer's ranks but was unsuccessful due to Lucifer's absence from Hell.
***The ''[[Shin Megami Tensei: Persona|Persona]]'' video game series depicts three separate versions of Lucifer. The seraphim version of Lucifer is known as Helel while the demonic version is known as Lucifer. A third variation of Lucifer appears in ''[[Persona 5]]'' under the name Satanael, the form of Lucifer before his fall from Heaven. This variation differs from Helel.
**Satan first appeared in 1990's ''[[Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei II]]'' as one of the game's final bosses. Often a law aligned character, Satan serves YHVH as the accuser. Serving an important role in ''[[Shin Megami Tensei II]]'', Satan is tasked to bring judgement to those not worthy of the Millennium Kingdom. ''[[Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse]]'' based Satan off his appearance in the Book of Revelation while older entries used the Hebrew Bible's interpretation of Ha-Satan for his design.
***Satan frequently appears in the ''Persona'' video game series as a high-ranking member of the [[Judgement (Tarot card)|Judgement]] arcana.
*The ''[[Ghosts 'n Goblins]]'' series have a recurring motif thorough the series in which main characters in each game uses a name given to the biblical [[Satan]], although they are all different characters. In ''[[Ghouls 'n Ghosts]]'', the character is named Lucifer. The character was renamed [[Loki]] in the international versions of the [[Sega Genesis]] port and Rushifell (a misromanization of Lucifer) in ''[[Gargoyle's Quest]]''.
*In ''[[El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron]]'', Lucifer (referred to as Lucifel) assists [[Enoch (El Shaddai)|Enoch]] in his battle against the fallen angels. Lucifel is portrayed as a wisecracking trickster like character who shares a comical, friendly relationship with God.
*In ''[[Dante's Inferno (video game)|Dante's Inferno]]'', Lucifer appears as a shadowy spirit at the start before [[Dante Allighieri]] faces him in his [[Dante's Satan|physical form]], only to be revealed as a shell-like imprisonment that holds the real Lucifer: a malformed angel with his wings ripped off, having been banished from Paradise after his failed rebellion against the Creator. It is revealed that he needs Dante to free him so he can have his revenge on God, but ultimately fails, and is sealed back into his icy prison by the holy power of Dante's cross, combined with every single soul that Dante absolved in Hell.
*''[[Devil May Cry 4]]'' features a demonic weapon known as Lucifer that Dante obtains after he kills Berial. The weapon is depicted as a skull holding a rose in its mouth. The weapon is capable of firing infinite explosive mini-swords.
*In ''[[Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock]]'', Lucifer (under the alias of Lou) is shown as a manager for the player's band. It is later revealed that the band inadvertently sold their souls to him.
*In ''[[Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams]]'', the character Roberto Frois uses gauntlets featuring the names of several archangels of Abrahamic myth with the Lucifer Gauntlets being his strongest darkness based weapon.
*In ''[[Mega Man X8]]'', the character Lumine is based on Lucifer, and includes a final attack called Paradise Lost.
*He makes an appearance as the King of Dem in the video game series ''[[DemiKids]]''.
*Lucifer appears in the ''[[Painkiller (video game)|Painkiller]]'' video game series, where he is shown as a classical red demon.
*Lucifer appears in ''[[Rage of Bahamut]]'' as both an [[Archangel]], called a Seraph, and a [[Fallen Angel]]. His Fallen Angel form is the most prominent portrayal of him. Satan also makes an appearance as a separate entity.
*Lucifer and Satan appear in ''[[Granblue Fantasy]]'' as separate entities, but they are connected as Lucifer holds the seal that keeps Satan (renamed “Black Beast”) from terrorizing the world.
*Lucifer also appears as a secret boss in ''[[Final Fantasy II]]'' in the palace of Arubboth.
*The devil is the final boss in ''[[Tekken 2]]''. In the following games of [[Tekken]], the character of [[Jin Kazama]] has an alter ego and alternative playable character [[Devil Jin]], who is an inheritor of his father [[Kazuya Mishima|Kazuya]]'s [[Devil Gene]]. In the game series, the "Devil" is described as a curse, rather than a single evil entity.
*Lucifer, or alternatively, "Doom Bringer", is a playable character in ''[[Defense of the Ancients]]''.
*In ''[[Monster Retsuden Oreca Battle]]'', there is a card called Fallen Angel Lucifer, as well as her false form Lucif.
*Satan appears in the roguelike game ''[[The Binding of Isaac (video game)|The Binding Of Isaac]]'', and its remake, ''[[The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth|The Binding Of Isaac: Rebirth]]''. In the game, you can, if you don't take damage in a level, deal with him, sacrificing some of your health in exchange for items. He can also be fought as a boss in the game, not only in his regular form, but also as Mega Satan.
*Satan, referred to as "The Devil" appears as the main antagonist in the game ''[[Cuphead]]'', and as the final boss, as well as the owner of the Inkwell Hell casino. Unlike other depictions, he has no wings, and is depicted as a large, imposing, furry demon, with horns, and a trident.
*In the game ''[[Genshin Impact]]'', one of the element ruling Archons' name is Beelzebul (variant of Beelzebub). She is also the God of Eternity.
*Satan appears in ''[[Broforce]]'' as the main antagonist. In the game's story, Satan is the boss of the [[terrorists]] trying to take over the United States, and appears at the end of most levels, though he can be easily defeated in a single blow. When the [[Xenomorph (Alien)|Xenomorphs]] attack America and infect the country, Satan and the terrorists put their plans for world domination on hold until they're defeated, where Satan becomes more powerful, with an undead army of terrorists and is then the final boss when he unlocks his true potential. However, he's defeated and Rambro eventually pees on his grave after the visit to the [[White House]]. There are two Trophies regarding killing Satan two different ways with The Brode and Brommando.
*Lucifer appears in the game ''[[Helltaker]]'' as the CEO of Hell, and Beelzebub, a separate entity, appears as a minor character who was banished to the Abyss.
*In [[Hades (video game)|''Hades'']] by [[Supergiant Games]], the fourth and final aspect for the Adamant Rail is the Aspect of Lucifer.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://screenrant.com/unlock-adamant-rail-hades/ |title=How to Unlock The Adamant Rail in Hades |last=MacGregor |first=India |date=27 Sep 2020 |website=Screen Rant |access-date=10 Jul 2021}}</ref>
*In the [[visual novel]] game, ''[[Obey Me!]]'', Lucifer and Satan appear as two separate brothers.
**Satan is the 4th oldest and physically the youngest among the seven demon brothers as the Avatar of Wrath. He is the only brother who wasn't originally an angel. Satan also has a surprising affinity with cats.
*''Void Stranger'' depicts several archdemons with abbreviated names as Void Lords. One of these characters is Cif, which is a nickname for Lucifer.
*In the visual novel game ''[[A3!]]'', Lucifer, Satan, and Beelzebub appear as characters in one of the game's original plays, "Stray Devil Blues".
===Role-playing games===
*Lucifer appears in the [[White Wolf Publishing|White Wolf]] [[role-playing game]] ''[[Demon: The Fallen]]'' and less extensively in ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade]]''. In it, he rebelled against God to save humans from Oblivion by enlightening them.
*Satan appears in the [[Steve Jackson Games|SJ Games]] [[role-playing game]] ''[[GURPS Casey and Andy]]''. In it, she (in the form of [[Frances Cleveland]]) attempts to seduce her older self's early-2000s boyfriend after he travels back in time to the 1800s to meet her when she had taken the form of Cleveland, both unaware of the other's relationship to one another in different times, bringing her to the present, while her 1800s-era husband, [[Grover Cleveland]], follows in pursuit with a [[Time travel|time machine]] of his own, reclaiming the position of [[President of the United States]] in the present.
==''The Devil's Dictionary''==
[[Ambrose Bierce]]'s ''[[The Devil's Dictionary]]'' gives a [[Satire|satirical]] view of Satan as "one of the Creator's lamentable mistakes". When expelled from Heaven, he asks that mankind be allowed to make its own laws, and the request is granted.
==Legal matters==
In 1971, Gerald Mayo brought [[United States ex rel. Gerald Mayo v. Satan and His Staff|a civil rights action]] in the [[United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania]] against Satan and his servants, who allegedly placed deliberate obstacles in Mayo's path. In its written opinion, the Court did not deny Satan's existence, but asserted that it was unlikely that Satan was ever present in the Western District of Pennsylvania, stating, "We question whether plaintiff may obtain personal jurisdiction over the defendant in this judicial district."
In a jocular reference to ''[[The Devil and Daniel Webster]]'', the court implied that Satan might live in [[New Hampshire]], stating, "While the official reports disclose no case where this defendant has appeared as defendant there is an unofficial account of a trial in New Hampshire where this defendant filed an action of mortgage foreclosure as plaintiff." This appears to be the only published legal case in the U.S. concerning Satan, thus the present U.S. official position seems to be that Satan may exist and, if so, might be found in New Hampshire.<ref>http://kevinunderhill.typepad.com/Documents/Mayo_v_Satan.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}</ref> Approximately a hundred million Americans believe in the devil.<ref name="f326">{{cite book | last=Heymann | first=T. | title=The Unofficial U.S. Census | publisher=Fawcett Columbine | year=1991 | isbn=978-0-449-90622-4 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sCxvvTIOulAC&pg=PA130 | access-date=2024-11-20 | page=130}}</ref>
In Sweden, at least four people have had their application to use the name Lucifer rejected, either to change their legal name or to name their child, because the [[Swedish Tax Agency]] considered the name to be "strongly associated with the Devil or Satan and therefore capable of causing offence".<ref>{{cite news|language=sv|url=https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/vasternorrland/fyra-personer-stoppas-fran-att-heta-lucifer|date=2020-07-09|access-date=2020-07-09|website=[[SVT Nyheter]]|title=Kevin från Sundsvall nekas namnet Lucifer|author1=Amanda Gustafsson|author2=Sophia Vestrin}}</ref> Names that, among other things, can cause offence, cannot be chosen according to [[naming law in Sweden]].
==See also==
* [[wikisource:I Am The Beast etc. v. Michigan State Police|I Am The Beast etc. v. Michigan State Police]]
* [[List of fictional Antichrists]]
* [[List of fictional demons]]
* [[Trigon (comics)|Trigon]]
* [[Satan (disambiguation)]]
* [[Works based on Faust]]
* [[Deal with the Devil]]
* [[Genies in popular culture]]
==References==
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== Further reading ==
*''The Comics Go to Hell: A Visual History of the Devil in Comics'' (by Fredrik Stromberg, 360 pages, [[Fantagraphics Books]], 2005, {{ISBN|1-56097-616-0}})
*''The Lure of the Dark Side: Satan & Western Demonology in Popular Culture'' (by [[Eric S. Christianson]] and [[Christopher Patridge]], 256 pages, [[Equinox Publishing (London)|Equinox Publishing]] Ltd, SW11, 2008, {{ISBN|1-84553-310-0}})
* ''The Satanic Screen: An Illustrated Guide to the Devil in Cinema'' (by Nikolas Schreck, 256 pages, Creation Books, 2001, {{ISBN|1-84068-043-1}})
== External links ==
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*[https://www.imdb.com/character/ch0121748/?ref_=tt_cl_t6 Lucifer character] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170921033646/http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0121748/?ref_=tt_cl_t6 |date=2017-09-21 }} at [[IMDb]]
*[http://www.sfweekly.com/1998-06-17/news/thirty-two-years-of-satan-in-popular-culture/ Thirty-two years of Satan in popular culture] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930215905/http://www.sfweekly.com/1998-06-17/news/thirty-two-years-of-satan-in-popular-culture/ |date=2007-09-30 }}, ''SF Weekly''.
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