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The Omen

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The Omen	comment	The Omen is a horror film series that started with a 1976 film. It is one of the many films that are viewed as partial inspirations for the Satanic Panic.The films in the series are: The Omen (1976) Damien: Omen II (1978) Omen III: The Final Conflict (1981) Omen IV: The Awakening (1991) The Omen (2006)The movie followed a cycle of 'demonic child' movies, such as Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist.After the first three films were novelized, two non-canon book sequels were written by Gordon McGill (Omen IV: Armageddon 2000 and Omen V: The Abomination) chronicling the exploits of Damien's son and his attempts to cause the end of the world through interfering with the international peace process. There were a number of copycat films such as the Italian-made Kirk Douglas movie Holocaust 2000. The death scenes and causes of them also allegedly inspired the Final Destination film franchise.In 2016, a TV series based on the films called Damien premiered on A&E.Also, although not related, the 2005 miniseries Revelations shares a writer with the original film and reuses a lot of its mythology, including the character Bugenhagen, the daggers, and the birth of the Antichrist.Not to be confused with American heavy metal band Omen.
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The Omen / int_17d55c6e	comment	Nuns Are Spooky: Like the one who tells Thorn that she can't give him any information about his child.
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The Omen / int_1fdaf8ff	type	Ominous Latin Chanting
The Omen / int_1fdaf8ff	comment	Ominous Latin Chanting: "Ave Satani".
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The Omen / int_22c41566	type	Trilogy Creep
The Omen / int_22c41566	comment	Trilogy Creep: The third movie ended with Damien finally killed by Christ, whose return implicitly means Judgement Day has begun and world forever changed. So what did the studio do? Make another one!
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The Omen / int_2439b588	type	As the Good Book Says...
The Omen / int_2439b588	comment	As the Good Book Says...: Based on Revelation, 13:18.
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The Omen / int_26c09c2b	type	The Antichrist
The Omen / int_26c09c2b	comment	The Antichrist: Damien. And in the fourth film, Alexander.
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The Omen / int_272abb98	type	Shoot the Shaggy Dog
The Omen / int_272abb98	comment	Shoot the Shaggy Dog: Only the third film doesn't end like this.
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The Omen / int_2764d432	type	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
The Omen / int_2764d432	comment	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Damien's many secret protectors are often seemingly nice individuals. Damien never does anything overtly evil in the first film directly and it's left ambiguous of how aware he is of what he is, but by the third act of the second film, he embraces his destiny.
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The Omen / int_27ab0123	type	Offing the Offspring
The Omen / int_27ab0123	comment	Offing the Offspring: The 'Bad Seed' variant. It doesn't work.
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The Omen / int_2f75473	type	Number of the Beast
The Omen / int_2f75473	comment	Number of the Beast: Sixes surround this kid's existence, in fact. He was born on June 6th at 6am.
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The Omen / int_44e2f510	type	Villain-Beating Artifact
The Omen / int_44e2f510	comment	Villain-Beating Artifact: As in the third film, the seven Daggers of Megiddo are emphasized as the only thing that can permanently kill Damien and his son in body and spirit, if all seven are stabbed into his body in the shape of a cross while on holy ground (a single dagger, as used in the third film, only killed his physical body). Damien's still-intact body is reduced to a skeleton after his corpse is dealt with in this manner at the end of book 4, and in the climax of book 5, Damien Jr. dies when a large crucifix, through which all seven daggers had been impaled, falls on top of him with the protruding daggers stabbing him in the right position.
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The Omen / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Omen / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Except the third movie, although even then, Damien does manage to cause a lot of pain and death before he's finally taken down.
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The Omen / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
The Omen / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: Damien Jr. was conceived through an act of sodomy, and initially mistaken for bowel cancer before being born through his mother's rectum.
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The Omen / int_51037bbc	comment	Belly Buttonless: The end of book 5 confirms that Damien Jr. had no navel. It's because he was conceived through an act of sodomy and grew within his mother's intestine rather than a proper womb.
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The Omen / int_60f567f1	comment	Lonely Piano Piece: Shows up here and there, particularly after Cathy's death.
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The Omen / int_60fa92ac	type	Names to Run Away from Really Fast
The Omen / int_60fa92ac	comment	Names to Run Away from Really Fast: This film series forever stained the name, Damien, which was originally associated with a saint.
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The Omen / int_6700b479	type	Hybrid Monster
The Omen / int_6700b479	comment	Hybrid Monster: Damien's real father is the Devil... and his mother was a jackal.
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The Omen / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Omen / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: The name "Damien" sounds like "demon", befitting the Antichrist.
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The Omen / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: In the first film, the famous "It's all for you!" scene where the nanny hangs herself. In the third film, an ambassador is spellbound to kill himself with a gun so Damien can take his place. In the fourth film, Karen York shoots herself as she's unable to kill the Antichrist.
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The Omen / int_6edc54d5	type	Here We Go Again!
The Omen / int_6edc54d5	comment	Here We Go Again!: Omen V — The Abomination ends with an investigator preparing to tell the whole story. He starts by writing the opening line of the first book.
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The Omen / int_707ee167	type	Secret Circle of Secrets
The Omen / int_707ee167	comment	Secret Circle of Secrets: Nearly every other person around Damien seems to be a member of a Satan-worshiping cult who are loyal to the death and do the dirty work of murdering those could threaten Damien when the accidents don't.
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The Omen / int_7bb844ec	type	Villain Decay
The Omen / int_7bb844ec	comment	Villain Decay: In universe. When Jesus Christ makes his second coming, Damien states that he feels that his powers are weakening day by day.
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The Omen / int_8c8bd091	type	Fetus Terrible
The Omen / int_8c8bd091	comment	Fetus Terrible: Damian Thorn Jr. was evil even before birth. The pregnancy caused his mother terrible suffering and she died giving rectal birth.
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The Omen / int_91672d3e	type	Children Are Innocent
The Omen / int_91672d3e	comment	Children Are Innocent: ...not.
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The Omen / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
The Omen / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: If Damien doesn't kill you for standing in his way, he'll kill you for this. Father Brennan warns Robert Thorn in the first film that this is his (Thorn's) fate once Damien is assured to inherit the Thorn family wealth.
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The Omen / int_9ad6a037	type	Mark of the Beast
The Omen / int_9ad6a037	comment	Mark of the Beast: Damien has a small birthmark on his scalp resembling three sixes.
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The Omen / int_9b06e314	type	Greater-Scope Villain
The Omen / int_9b06e314	comment	Greater-Scope Villain: Satan himself. He is never shown, but his influence grooms Damien to become the ultimate evil as well as dissuade anybody that knows too much. Inverted with Damien. While he showed promise, ultimately he seemed content to spend his seven years as merely being the head of Thorn Industries and being appointed Ambassador to Britain with some vague political aspirations which he never actually gets around to in the film series itself. About the worst things he does is ordering a massacre of 33 innocent children, brainwashing a single kid, and routinely beating up a statue of Jesus Christ to relieve stress. Hell, Jim Jones had far more people killed.
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The Omen / int_a1b0c1c2	type	Revealing Cover-Up
The Omen / int_a1b0c1c2	comment	Revealing Cover-Up: At times, the Satanic forces that try to protect Damien actually wind up helping to convince skeptics that he is, indeed, the Antichrist. Had all those mysterious deaths been a little less spectacular/creepy, Thorn and others might never have believed they were anything but accidents.
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The Omen / int_a2cbad1	type	Half-Human Hybrid
The Omen / int_a2cbad1	comment	Half-Human Hybrid: Subverted. Despite Damien looking like a human child, neither of his parents are human: his father is a Fallen Angel, and his mother was a jackal.
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The Omen / int_a353507	type	Saved for the Sequel
The Omen / int_a353507	comment	Saved for the Sequel: The first two films heavily hint that Damien will grow up to become some important world leader, perhaps even world dictator, and be the head of a "revived Holy Roman Empire" after he "rises from the eternal sea" of politics. In the very least, he prophesied to "raise armies on either shore" and cause people to kill other until the human race is extinguished. And then Omen III the Final Conflict came out and Damien's seven year "reign" consists of simply being the head of Thorn industries for seven years, which while a major company, is not a "Holy Roman Empire" in any sense of the word. He doesn't even use his company's power to exert influence on starving nations as he could. He also never actually engages in much politicking other than calling in some favors from the President of the United States to be appointed to a position in his cabinet, and vaguely promises to run for the Senate in a few years (the Senate, not even the Presidency). Ultimately, Damien turned out to be somewhat a disappointment as far as Evil Overlords go, having been defeated by the Nazarene before he could do much of anything on a global scale.
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The Omen / int_a6123b72	type	Enfant Terrible
The Omen / int_a6123b72	comment	Enfant Terrible: The plot of the first film. He's better behaved at the start of the second, until he learns of his call. Well outside of throwing a temper tantrum when he comes near a church, and knocking his mother off the stairs (which may or may not have been an accident) it's debatable on this in the first film. Delia in the fourth film is a much straighter example.
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The Omen / int_a8c7bf13	type	Sickbed Slaying
The Omen / int_a8c7bf13	comment	Sickbed Slaying: Katherine Thorn in the first film and its remake. The way it's done is different in the remake, though.
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The Omen / int_a9c40434	type	Birthmark of Destiny
The Omen / int_a9c40434	comment	Birthmark of Destiny: Damien, of course, bears the Mark of the Beast (hidden conveniently beneath his hair).
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The Omen / int_b1619b3c	type	Omnicidal Maniac
The Omen / int_b1619b3c	comment	Omnicidal Maniac: Unlike his father who intended to rule the Earth, Damian Jr. just wants to see it burn.
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The Omen / int_c5fe6c81	type	Strong Family Resemblance
The Omen / int_c5fe6c81	comment	Strong Family Resemblance: Damian Thorn Jr. looks just like a younger version of his father. Not surprising, as Junior is heavily implied to be Damian's reincarnation. He's kept in hiding for this reason.
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The Omen / int_cccb4fd1	type	Death by Pragmatism
The Omen / int_cccb4fd1	comment	Death by Pragmatism: Invoked by Satan and his followers. The moment anyone becomes aware of what Damien is, or comes close to revealing it unwittingly or not, they're as good as dead.
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The Omen / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
The Omen / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: The build up to the deaths throughout the original trilogy were pretty intense, the deaths themselves were terrible ways to go for the most part but almost a relief when they come. The remake has elements of this too. It could be argued that this teaser for the remake is infinitely more terrifying than the movie itself.
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The Omen / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: Anyone who brings up something being odd about Damien is usually dismissed, regardless of how rational they are. Then there's the people who flat out call him evil, his mother among them, and all are viewed as crazy. Though subverted in that certain secret Satan worshipers are deliberately being dismissive.
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The Omen / int_d29a6629	comment	Death by Childbirth: Damien Thorn Jr.'s mother Kate Reynolds, who dies after her son is born.
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The Omen / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
The Omen / int_da53340	comment	Religious Horror: It's a given since the Antichrist is the main antagonist.
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The Omen / int_df237522	type	Hellhound
The Omen / int_df237522	comment	Hellhound: Damien is guarded by a squadron of Rottweilers.
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The Omen / int_eb6ea560	comment	Convenient Photograph: Played for Horror in Keith's photographs of Father Brennan, where he notices the spike going through his body and inspires him to figure out the photograph clue. The more obvious "convenient" example occurs when Keith happens to catch himself in the mirror of one of his photographs, which shows him with his head severed.
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The Omen / int_eefce6c6	type	Rube Goldberg Hates Your Guts
The Omen / int_eefce6c6	comment	Rube Goldberg Hates Your Guts: And they go off with not so much as a hitch since they are planned by The Devil.
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The Omen / int_f32d85ab	comment	20 Minutes into the Future: The novels were written in the early 1980s, and set in the year 2000.
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The Omen / int_f3d5d15f	comment	Creepy Child: Well, he's quite adorable for the son of Satan but he still does things that creep out other characters and of course the audience. This trait is ramped up considerably in the 2006 version.
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