Usually , moving-picture show and TV shows paint the Devil with rather all-encompassing stroke . He might be charming , but make no misunderstanding : He ’s invariably there to have pain , snatch someone , tincture housewives , challenge violinists and guitarists to melodious duel , etc . But every once in awhile … Satan can be a pretty awesome guy .
1) South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
Released in 1999 , South Park : big , Longer , & Uncut remains a standout example of how to make a film that both completely elevates and remains completely rightful to its ( gleefully crude ) source material . Satan , an occasional role on the TV show , enters the motion picture ’s news report when Kenny ’s inevitable end sends him to hell , where there ’s a world power battle afoot between Satan and his stark , manipulative fellow , Saddam Hussein . Satan gets a big , wholesale ballad about wanting to live a carefree sprightliness on Earth , and his yearning before long leads him to launch a design — tied to a prophecy necessitate Canadian martyrs / fart comedians Terrance and Phillip — to encroach upon the control surface . But on the verge of the Revelation , Kenny helps Satan see past his human relationship drama , Saddam gets toss away back into hell , and the world is saved — along with Kenny ’s soul , after he like for everything to go back the manner it was before the great US vs Canada battle royale . This portrayal of Satan is over - the - top and does n’t care about offending anyone , much like every other aspect of South Park . But true to the spirit of the show , it also sneak some actual warm - fuzzy palpate amid all the stereotypes ; Satan booting Saddam out of his life is hand - down one of the movie ’s aroused high spot .
2) Constantine
Peter Stormare ’s slithery take on Lucifer Morningstar is n’t a fashion plate you would ever desire to cling out with , but he does descend through in the clasp when the distorted half - angel Gabriel ( Tilda Swinton ) is about to unleash Lucifer ’s son and would - be usurper , Mammon , upon the human race . Then — much like South Park ’s Satan , and in a move that ’s somewhat unwashed in story involve the Devil—“Lou ” grants the previously damned John Constantine ( Keanu Reeves ) a indirect request , which the die tec selflessly uses to bring through another individual ’s soul … which means he himself is no longer damned . The Devil ’s none too pleased about lose his grip on Constantine , but he understands how the game is work and admit defeat , at least for now . As a leave motion , he rips the lung Crab right out of the chain - fume Constantine ’s body — so he ’ll stay alive longer and increase his chance of re - damnatory himself . As “ fuck you ” parting gesture go , it ’s actually middling magnanimous .
3) Lucifer
Based on the character that first appeared in Neil Gaiman ’s Sandman comics , the Fox television show is a fizzing blend of police adjective , occult arts drama , and pop music - polish wackiness . Central to this it’s - unearthly - but - somehow - it - works normal is the deed of conveyance character , portrayed by Tom Ellis as an amiable get laid - it - all whose specific talents ( peculiarly his powers of persuasion during interrogations ) set down him a gig attend to the LAPD ’s top homicide investigator . On the side , of course , he endure a nightclub and engages in plenty of debauch ; he also has to deal with some problems alone to his position as legendary supernatural being . Like , that time his wings got slip … or the time they of a sudden reappeared bond to his back after he ’d tailor them off . Also , his best friend is a ogre , his brother is an angel , and “ Dad ” is always watching his every move , which can be a pull . But while Lucifer has taken a few serious roundabout way in examining the Devil ’s desire to be more human , it ’s generally a blithesome show — and while its primary character does loose hellfire once and awhile , he ’s mostly committed to the pursuit of accept as much playfulness as possible .
4) Saturday Night Live
Sometimes , the intelligence is so harebrained that even Satan has something to say about it ; fortunately , Saturday Night Live ’s “ Weekend Update ” provided the perfect political program . garb in horns , a ness , and a gaudy red suit , the jovial Devil ( Jason Sudeikis ) periodically block by the section to provide exasperate opinion on the child molestation scandals at Penn State and within the Catholic Church , the Westboro Baptist Church , and other seasonable topics ( watch all of the skitshere ) . Though he ’s quick to announce how much he screw evil ( we have him to thank for the McRib as well as the internet , where high-risk decisions live evermore ) , he ’s very displeased with anyone he thinks is doing it all wrong — and he ’s all too activated to receive them into hell for some very special treatment . Except Osama bin Ladin , because experience that guy hanging around is the worst .
5) Devil
This Ten Little Indians rakehell ( from a write up by twist - lovin’ M. Night Shyalaman ) strands a group of strangers in a high - advance elevator , which would be scary enough , but then they start out die off in diversely horrible mode . finally , it ’s revealed that one among them is the Devil , come to hasten the solicitation of some very sinful mortal . Though the mass who get offed are n’t , like , mass murderers , they all have a history of violence , sleaze , lying , and just broadly speaking being lousy citizenry . And make no error , Devil is a horror moving-picture show , and you - know - who is plainly the villain . But while this version of Satan does cut down some throats , it ’s an act done with a specific determination in mind : move out only the irredeemably awesome from the surface of the Earth . The Devil ends up begrudgingly spare one elevator passenger , a humanity who caused an accident that pour down an innocent cleaning lady and her youngster , because he confesses and repents in the nick of time — an enactment that also get peace of creative thinker to yet another character , a copper who ’s been wondering who to charge for the death of his wife and boy five age prior . ( As an added incentive , the cop forgives the guy alternatively of outsmart him to a pulp . )
666) The Witch
This version of Satan — embodied throughout most of The Witch in the manakin of a ominous yet curiously charismatic goat named Black Phillip — also get death and mayhem . But he also give the motion picture ’s protagonist , long - suffering Puritan adolescent Thomasin ( Anya Taylor - Joy ) the happy ending that she ’d never dreamed would be potential . Throughout the flick , we ’ve seen firstborn child Thomasin doing the volume of the backbreaking chore on her kinfolk ’s farm , which is isolated in the midriff of nowhere . Then , she must put up with her bratty twin siblings , her leer crony , her unstable mother , and a likely future tense of being sell into bound servitude … until things take a turn for the even bad and she ’s incriminate of being a witch . It ’s a in truth miserable life . No wonder she beam with delight when the film ’s concluding act bring Satan into her aliveness — can you really pick her for marking her name in his book and take flight into the woods for a life story of butter , pretty clothes , trip the light fantastic toe nude by the fire , and generally living deliciously ? The alternative is obvious . Hail !
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