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List of fictional Antichrists

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Antichrist characters have been the continuing subject of speculation and attraction, often explored in fiction and media, and the character has developed its own fictional mythology apart from biblical scripture. For example, the Book of Revelation does not say the Antichrist will be the son of Satan, but the idea was made popular in at least two movies, The Omen, and its sequels, with the evil child, Damien, who grows up with the destiny to rule and destroy the world, and Rosemary's Baby with her son, Adrian.

Portrayals

Antichrist characters portrayed in fiction and nonfiction include:

  • A nameless leader that assumes the reinstituted office of Roman Emperor, in The Tale of Anti-Christ by Vladimir Solovyov
  • Jake Gray in Devour
  • Jesse, a human/demon hybrid in the Supernatural episode "I Believe the Children Are Our Future", is confirmed as the Antichrist by the angel Castiel. Unlike most personifications of the Antichrist, Jesse is neutrally aligned, able to be deterred from his "destined" path when Sam tells him the whole truth about his origins and capabilities.
  • The talking ape Shift in C. S. Lewis' Narnia series
  • Stone Alexander (played by Michael York) in the films The Omega Code, and Megiddo: The Omega Code 2.
  • Nicolae Carpathia from the Christian book series Left Behind.
  • Brother Bartholomew from Salem Kirban's 1970 novel, 666.
  • Damian from the Flash game series Quickdraw.
  • Damien Thorn from The Omen series. This movie was influential in that, in many of the "Anti-Christian" movies that followed, it was naturally assumed that the Antichrist would be Satan's "begotten" son.
  • The animal Antichrist in the South Park episode "Woodland Critter Christmas", though at the end of this episode it is revealed that he was only part of a story made up by Cartman
  • The 'Damien' Antichrist from the South Park episode "Damien"
  • Adolf Hitler, in Robert Van Kampen's novel The Fourth Reich. Hitler's spirit is released from Hell and enters an embryo created from his cloned DNA. He's then born in Russia and grows up to become that country's dictator, eventually revealing his true identity to the world before the UN General Assembly. Van Kampen also stated that Hitler "best meets all requirements to be the Antichrist" in his former book, The Sign.
  • Randall Flagg from The Stand by Stephen King
  • Joey Atkins from Strange. He is the son of the demon Azal and is destined to take on his father's role.
  • 'Pepito' from Squee
  • Adrian, from the film Little Nicky.
  • The demon Agares, from The Day After Judgement by James Blish
  • Julian Felsenburgh in Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson
  • The European President in Father Elijah: An Apocalypse by Michael D. O'Brien
  • Adam Young from Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's novel Good Omens
  • Christina in the TV series Point Pleasant
  • Franco Macaluso from various Cloud Ten Pictures movies
  • The titular character (occasionally referred to as Adam Kadmon) of the Marilyn Manson album Antichrist Superstar
  • Santa Clause from Santa's Slay, he is the polar opposite to Jesus in that he is the son of Satan instead of God's son
  • Danny Wormwood from Chronicles of Wormwood
  • Christopher Goodman from the Christ Clone Trilogy by James BeauSeigneur
  • Lucy, from Lucy, the Daughter of the Devil
  • The Priest's assistant in "The Serpentine Offering" videoclip from the album In Sorte Diaboli by Dimmu Borgir
  • The United States President in Pat Robertson's book The End of the Age Took power by following the suicide of one president and arranging the murder of his immediate predecessor as well as the murder of the president's killer.
  • Iscarius Alchemy, a resurrected Judas Iscariot in Matthew Dickens' Shekinah Chronicles series, published by Destiny Image.
  • Azul Dante in the Prodigal Project book series written by Ken Abrham and Daniel Hart.
  • Baal in the novel Baal by Robert R. McCammon
  • Immanuel Bernstate in Jonathan R. Cash's novel The Age of the Antichrist.
  • Sir Richard Grant Morrison in the novel We All Fall Down by Brian Caldwell
  • Chaos, the King of the Old Ones, from Anthony Horowitz's supernatural novel series The Power of Five.
  • Adrian from the film Rosemary's Baby.
  • Slum King from Violence Jack, a demonic undead samurai created by Ryo Asuka/Satan to punish himself for the murder of Devilman. The Slum King serves as the ultimate antagonist for Violence Jack.
  • Johan Liebert from Naoki Urasawa's Monster
  • Set Abominae from the Something Wicked Saga
  • Woland from Mihail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita
  • Mason Wolfe in the novel The Last Fisherman by Randy England
  • In the Apocalypse Chronicles trilogy, Lucien St. Clair is raised from the dead and goes on to rule the world as the Antichrist under the name of Lucius Devoran, a name deliberately chosen for its Latin numerical value of 666.
  • Daniel Quinn in his book The Story of B
  • Emmanuel Lewis is described as the Antichrist in the 1996 Bloodhound Gang song "Fire Water Burn", and it is presumed he will keep the singer company in Hell, along with several dead celebrities.
  • Laura Goodman in the Undead series by MaryJanice Davidson
  • In Gore Vidal's 1954 dystopian novel Messiah a new death-worshipping religion sweeps the world, completely displacing and destroying Christianity. After their victory, the new religion's adherents declare their Prophet to have been the Antichrist, meaning that as praise.
  • Michael Langdon from American Horror Story; he is the result of Tate Langdon raping Vivien Harmon as a ghost, when she was still a human, and is therefore believed to be the antichrist.
  • The seventeenth-century painter Christoph Haizmann is depicted as Antichrist in the 2003 horror mocumentary Searching for Haizmann by Scott Gordon & Ron Meyer
  • Harry Potter in Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume III: Century. In this universe he is brought about by the Invisible College, a cult of magicians led by Oliver Haddo, as the moonchild destined to bring the apocalypse. All his exploits were in fact orchestrated by the College (Haddo acting as Lord Voldemort).
  • The Swedish band Ghost makes portrayals of the birth of the Antichrist and then the life of him following on their two full-length albums.
  • Malachi in the 2005 UK Hex TV series
  • Anung Un Rama, also known as Hellboy, is a popular comic book and motion picture protagonist who is also the son of the Devil. Despite being destined as an Antichrist figure, being given an oversized right hand of stone which is to act as the key to unleash great evil upon the world, Hellboy has foresworn this burden and instead fights to protect the world from evil and darkness.
  • Earl Grundy in Rapture-Palooza
  • Madison Dellamea as Amy Calder from The Messengers
  • Guy Fieri in Homestuck. In the alternate-reality Earth seen in the comic's sixth act, Fieri becomes known as the "third and final antichrist" after he joins the Supreme Court of the United States and assists the Insane Clown Posse, the Dual Presidents of the United States, in exterminating humanity for the alien Condesce.
  • Lucius Wagner in the "Lucius" videogame series.
  • In the episode "Something Ricked This Way Comes" (2014) of the science fiction comedy television series Rick and Morty a character "Summer" reports to her first job in an antique shop run by the Devil that sells items that fulfill a desire for the owner but come at a price making the item essentially worthless (the shop and the Devil's name, Mr. Needful, are both references and parodies of the Stephen King novel Needful Things). During the episode a protagonist "Rick" sets up a competitive counter-business across the street that removes the curses 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.
  • Angel Caine in the 1977 movie Holocaust 2000.

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