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 his own sort of 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.
• 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.
• Sam Winchester is one of the main characters of "Supernatural" and has been rumoured throughout the series to be the 'Antichrist': demons in Hell have dubbed him the 'boy-king' or the 'Antichrist', also characters such as Ruby and Gordon have called Sam the Antichrist.
• Stone Alexander (played by Michael York) in the films The Omega Code, and Megiddo: The Omega Code 2.
• Nicolae Carpathia from the popular Christian book series Left Behind.
• Brother Bartholomew from Salem Kirban's 1970 novel, 666.
• 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 from South Park (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.
• The Dragon, main character from the apocryphal prophetic book El Evangelio del León Negro (The Gospel of the Black Lion). He is a general who after Armageddon reunites the remains of the world's armies and seize the world. He is a direct human descendant of the fallen angels and is the responsible for restoring peace and order on Earth. Misanthropic and impious, his counterpart is The Prophet, who becomes also his best friend.
• Randall Flagg from The Stand by Stephen King.
• 'Pepito' from Squee.
• 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.
• Kane from the Command and Conquer series.
• 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 central character (occasionally referred to as Adam Kadmon) of the Marilyn Manson album Antichrist Superstar.
• 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.
• Johan Liebert, from the manga series Monster, is referred to as a murderer, the next Hitler, and at some point, even referred to as an anti-christ. In a facility, known as Kinderheim, he was referred to as a natural born leader and even as a child, gains many followers in ways similar to the Anti-christ.
• Sir Richard Grant Morrison in the novel We All Fall Down by Brian Caldwell
• Adrian from the film Rosemary's Baby.
• Ryo Asuka from Devilman. Although not an actual antagonist, his battle with Amon/Akira Fudo and the news report concerning his father's research on demons he used caused the population of Japan to go into a panic while his battle against his childhood friend Akira Fudo/Amon caused the destruction of Japan (and possibly the rest of the world).
• 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.
• 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 four book Apocalypse Chronicles Lucien St. Clair is raised from the dead and goes on to rule the world as the Antichrist under the name of Lucius Devoran
• Daniel Quinn in his book; The Story of B.
• The Antichrist parody of The Riddler in an American Dad! episode, "Rapture's Delight".
• Laura Goodman in the Undead series by MaryJanice Davidson
• In Gore Vidal's 1954 distopian novel "Messiah" a new death-worshiping 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.

See also

• Devil in fiction