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When someone wrestles with a temptation, two miniature versions of the character’s self, an Angel and a Devil, sit on each shoulder and try to pull the character in different directions. The Devil will invariably be on the left (the conflicted character's left, or "sinister") shoulder. Alternatively, as in Full House ("The Devil Made Me Do It"), the Angel and the Devil may manifest as life-sized people on either side of the conflicted character rather than as miniatures on the character's shoulders. Expect a female character's Devil to dress all Stripperiffic, to invoke Hot as Hell, Sexy Villains, Chaste Heroes, and Sensible Heroes, Skimpy Villains. Thanks to how common this trope is, it's generally given some kind of parodic twist. If a character is particularly bad, it's common is to give that character two Devils (and vice versa for particularly good characters). Another is for the Devil to kill, injure or incapacitate the Angel, leaving only the devil as counsel (or vice versa). Occasionally, the two may end up agreeing, usually in the form of the Angel giving in to a violent choice, particularly if it's well deserved. Sometimes the Devil for a male character mentions that the angel wears a "dress." ("It's a robe.") It is far less common for the angel to tell the Devil to Please Put Some Clothes On. As the conversation among the three progresses, it may drift away from anything to do with good or evil and resemble a Seinfeldian Conversation involving Metaphorgotten or Sidetracked by the Analogy. That being said, it is Played for Drama occasionally. In this case, the trope is still likely to be played with, since it's very hard to write shoulder advisors seriously; the Good Angel and Bad Angels are likely two separate characters, a well-meaning friend and a Token Evil Teammate respectively trying to sway the protagonist to their side and arguing over the best action. If still part of the protagonist's mind, the Good Angel and Bad Angel are likely hallucinations or encountered in a Journey to the Center of the Mind, and usually something far more abstract than an angelic and devilish version of the character. The technical, if somewhat dated, term for this is the Psychomachia ("Battle of the Soul"); in its original version, this implied a full-scale war between all of an individual's personified virtues (such as Humility, Chastity, Patience, etc.) against his personified vices (Pride, Lust, Anger, etc.). To put in more or less psychological terms, what we have is a kind of Freudian Trio, with the Devil as the Id, the Angel as the Superego and the person whose shoulders they stand on as the Ego. Compare Floating Advice Reminder and Ghost in the Machine. When an external character takes it upon oneself to play the Bad Angel, that character is The Corrupter. When an external character takes it upon oneself to play the Good Angel, that character is The Conscience. Consider Right Way/Wrong Way Pair. Has nothing to do with Angel/Angelus from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel nor the Good Cop/Bad Cop routine. |
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Batman: The Telltale Series. From "The Enemy Within". | |
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Carcer, the villain of Night Watch Discworld is described as having a devil on each shoulder, working together and egging him on. | |
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The DC Thomson strip "Jimmy Jinx (And What He Thinks)" (originally in Buzz, then The Topper, then The Dandy). His angels were called Goodie and Baddie, and appeared in red-outlined thought bubbles. | |
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Randal's Monday: Randal gets one of these scenes at Mel's Pawn Shop on the first Monday. The good one is Matt, and the bad one is Marconi. When Matt understands that Marconi will impale him if Randal doesn't sell the ring, he quickly tells Randal to do it. | |
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In Noob, Gaea is shown to have an ignored/mistreated good angel. | |
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Beau Young Prince's "Let Go" from the soundtrack ''Spiderman Into The Spiderverse" includes the line "Got a devil on my left and a angel on my right." | |
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Trouble (Marvel Comics) sees a version of this with with what was, until the backlash forced it into Canon Discontinuity, a teenaged version of Peter Parker's future Aunt, May dealing with this when she finds out she's pregnant and is considering an abortion.note The reason for the backlash? The child, whom she decides against aborting, is really Peter himself, as the story attempted to retcon he was the product of an affair May and Richard had behind Ben and Mary's backs | |
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In Disney's version of Pinocchio, Jiminy Cricket is hired by the "Blue Fairy" to act as Pinocchio's conscience. Note that "Jiminy Cricket" has the same initials as "Jesus Christ". This was intentional, as at the time, it was the acceptable replacement term. Pinocchio's own stupidity... er, naivete... meant he didn't need a devil. In the original book, he killed the (originally unnamed) cricket with a hammer, and its ghost came back to haunt/annoy him. | |
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One of the Bart Simpson Butterfinger commercials has Bart's shoulder angel and shoulder devil argue over whether Bart should share his Butterfinger BB's or eat them all himself. The shoulder devil wins. | |
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Guardian Angels: Antoine Carco (Gérard Depardieu) has a good angel (also played by Depardieu) who always suggests him to do good actions for his redemption. Father Hervé Tarain (Christian Clavier) has... a bad angel (also played by Clavier) who always tempts him to sin/do nasty things. | |
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In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, when Jim is telling Huck's dad's fortune, he says that there are two angels at his side: a good, white one at his right shoulder, and an evil, black one at his left. | |
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inFAMOUS 2 has the characters Kuo and Nix, who aren't angels, but a pair of Conduits who represent the good and evil sides in the game respectively, each encouraging Cole towards their way throughout the game, and even calling him out on going for the other side. Tellingly, Kuo has ice powers while Nix controls fire and oil. The subversion? The climax has them switch roles. | |
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Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course has the Nightmare optional boss, which invokes this trope. It takes the form of an angel and a demon above the shoulders of what appears to be a huge skeleton statue of the Devil himself, with the Angel having tiny horns and a friendly-looking demeanor and the Demon looking even more demonic than the Devil himself. | |
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Minnie The Minx from The Beano in one issue had a shoulder devil pop up, with a caption reading "Here's Min's bad side", with the devil encouraging Minnie to commit mischief, and then a shoulder angel pop up with a caption reading "Here's Min's good side". However, in the next frame the angel also encouraged Minnie to commit mischief, with a caption reading "Oh, forgot. Min doesn't have a good side!" | |
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Kronk's New Groove: As this film focuses on Kronk this time around, of course his Shoulder Angel and Devil make a return, this time advising him as he tries to impress his Papi. Tipo also gets his own set of Angel and Devil as he contemplates cheating to win a cheer competition. | |
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The Broadway musical Avenue Q features the characters being tempted by the Bad Idea Bears, a pair of Care Bear-like puppets that lean over their shoulders and suggest, well, bad ideas. It's like Good Angel Bad Angel, except that both angels are Bad Angels. | |
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The Suffering used a variation of this trope. When Torque is faced with a moral decision at some points, his wife Carmen acts as the shoulder angel and Torque's evil side acts as the shoulder devil. The sequel has Carmen act as the shoulder angel and Blackmore act as the shoulder devil. In both games, they do not actually appear at Torque's side at these points, but their voices can be heard. | |
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Zippy the Pinhead has The Kool-Aid Man and Speedy the Alka-Seltzer Mascot. Because. | |
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In the Napster Bad short "Metallica Millionaire", James Hetfield has just one of these, a devil in the shape of Lars Ulrich. | |
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The Voices has a cat and a dog filling these roles. No prizes for guessing which one is the "good angel" and which one is the "bad angel." | |
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Discussed in Crimson Tide, when Ramsey and Hunter argue over whether to launch, Ramsey insists they have valid clear orders and that they aren’t open to interpretation or little devils or angels on your shoulder. | |
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The turn-based RPG iOS game Devil's Attorney, which centers around an attorney with little respect to the law or reality, at one point shows a tiny version of the hero in a devil costume floating over his left shoulder. When he looks to his right, a second, identical devil appears. | |
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Banzi's Secret Diary: In episode 31, Banzi has a crisis relating to spending her allowance on a new backpack on sale, as she had promised herself not to spend more than 45 cents a day so as not to spend all her money at once. An angel appears to her right, telling her that she should save her money; a devil appears to her left, proposing she purchase it anyway since "smart consumers always buy at bargain prices". She purchases the bag and is promptly shocked the next day at school to find she only has a single coin on her. | |
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Garfield: The August 18, 1996 strip had Garfield debating whether to eat a donut. He is confronted by a shoulder angel and shoulder devil in the shape of donuts (respectively marked by a halo and a devil tail), the angel donut telling him not to eat the donut and the devil donut telling him to go right ahead. In the end, Garfield eats all three donuts. The Garfield book A Garfield Guide to Safe Downloading: Downloading Disaster! (from the Garfield's Guide to Digital Citizenship series) has Nermal laying in bed with a laptop, too sick to go to the movies. He contemplates that he can't go out to the movies with the guys and will have to wait till next weekend when everyone has already seen the film, a zombie cats movie. "Or... you could go online right now and download the movie," encourages a shoulder devil Odie, but a grandmotherly shoulder angel cat tells him "Oh no! Downloading a film before it's officially released sounds like stealing!" |
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In the Whateley Universe, Jade gives Ayla a literal pair of them as a prank... and thereby inspires other students to come up with their own more or less successful versions in turn. The whole thing escalates until the headmistress ends up banning them. | |
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Tinkered with in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. Jay is visited by a shoulder devil at first, then is visited by a second devil, who explains they ambushed the shoulder angel on their way over. Once they deliver their tirade, they disappear. Then said angel appears, robes messed up, a few strings on his harp broken, and complete with delirium-induced singing. As the angel leaves, he notes he's going to pay back the two sucker-punching devils. Jay's angel isn't completely pure, though — his parting words are "Don't pull your dick out 'till she asks, or until she's sleeping," accompanied by the same rock music as the devils. | |
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Discworld: Although it doesn't actually appear in the form of an angel, Rincewind has an argument with his conscience in Sourcery. Carcer, the villain of Night Watch Discworld is described as having a devil on each shoulder, working together and egging him on. The Omnian priest The Quite Reverend Mightily-Praiseworthy-Are-They-Who-Exalteth-Om Oats has two voices in his head which he thinks of as the Good Oats and the Bad Oats. That is: one of them thinks of itself as the Good Oats who encourages living properly and devotion to Om and the other as the Bad Oats who gives him impious and improper thoughts; but the other one thinks it's the Good Oats who encourages being sensible and thinking logically, and the other one's the Bad Oats that just wants blind obedience to the church. In the end, he's able to get them to work together at last. The witch Agnes/Perdita Nitt has the same issue, although in this case it's between the kind, clear-headed Agnes and the sassy, dare-devil Perdita. |
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In World of Warcraft, there are two toys you can loot in Bastion and Revendreth that respectfully summon a val'kyr and a sinstone who will serve as your angel and devil, commenting on your actions and trying to encourage you to do good or bad. | |
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Guy Gardner in "I Can't Believe It's Not the Justice League" had a Good Angel and a Bad Angel appear at one point when he was facing an unconscious Power Girl (which is to say, facing a once-in-a-lifetime chance to cop a feel). | |
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Spitting Image: Neil Kinnock has Michael Foot as his angel and Jim Callaghan as his devil while he wrestles over whether or not to reappear on The Tube. He compromises by saying that he can't as he is rehearsing for Last of the Summer Wine, which pleases them both. | |
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OneRepublic's song "Love Runs Out", the singer mentions having "an angel on my shoulder and Mephistopheles". | |
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In one Retail strip, Marla is considering taking a sick day just because it's too nice to be indoors. Her good angel says that would be wrong, and her bad angel points out other employees do it all the time. Then her good angel says someone else would have to do her work, and that wouldn't be fair. The bad angel points out it would be Stuart, and the good angel concedes. | |
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Jacksepticeye: The thumbnail◊ for Jack's 2nd episode on Peace, Death! shows him contemplating with little demon and angel versions of himself standing on his shoulders. His demon seems gleeful, while his angel is seemingly panicking. | |
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Angela Napoli in Fabulous series has little floating emojis pop up as a Running Gag. For example, in Fabulous: Angela's Sweet Revenge, the yellow one with a halo would say that a marriage should be built on trust, while the red one with horns would sing a bar of "Suspicious Minds". As of Wedding Disaster, they are now represented as miniature versions of Angela herself. | |
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Phoebe and Her Unicorn: In this comic, a devil unicorn tries to convince Phoebe to secretly take a cookie, while an angel unicorn tells her not too. Then Marigold shows up and orders both to leave, revealing they're her cousins who love to mess with human children by sowing moral confusion. | |
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In the February 24th 2020 strip of Luann Tiffany's roommate Stef asks her if she want to come to the union with her, but Tiffany tells her she's behind on her college work, she then asks her Angel and Devil consciences what she should do, her angel conscience tells her to ignore Stef while her devil conscience who has a megaphone tells her to go with her. | |
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One PS238 storyline involved "cherubs" and "imps", representing Order and Chaos rather than Good and Evil, influencing people's behaviour, and resembling the Good Angel, Bad Angel to those who could see them. | |
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A rare deadly-serious example is Perelandra. The protagonist, Dr. Ransom, (reluctantly) acts as the "good angel" for the Lady of Perelandra (a next-generation Eve) while she is tempted to disobedience by a/the devil (the "bad angel") possessing the body of Ransom's former colleague. | |
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A Bec & Kawl strip from 2000 AD subverted this with a Pagan avatar showing up to present a third option when Beccy is finally given the chance to rule the world. | |
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The Stormlight Archive: Kaladin has a Good Angel in the form of Syl, a windspren who constantly pushes him to help others and do the right thing. His Bad Angel is something he calls "the Wretch," a part of him that is concerned with nothing but pure survival. It doesn't push him to explicit evil, but simple and pragmatic selfishness. This is still evil enough, though, because he and the slaves around him are in a very dangerous situation, and if he doesn't help them they will die. | |
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In National Lampoon's Animal House, Pinto brings Clorette up to Hoover's room, where they have a make out session. After Clorette strips down to her panties, she passes out drunk on Hoover's bed, whereupon Good Pinto (dressed as an angel) and Bad Pinto (dressed as a devil) appear on Pinto's shoulders and fight over whether Pinto is going to take advantage of the situation. (He doesn't.) | |
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Used in an episode of Muppets Tonight, with Seymour and Pepe pretending to be Jason Alexander's good and bad conscience in order to convince him to do an act with Gonzo. And some other episodes. | |
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AstroLOLogy: In the short "To Do or Not to Do", while at the store, Libra has both halves of Gemini serving as his angel and devil when he seems to be contemplating taking money from the register while Sagittarius is sleeping at the counter. His devil wins out, but it turns out Libra really just wanted to take a nearby marker and draw on Sagittarius' face in her sleep. "Naughty or Nice" does a variant: as the show is a Mime and Music-Only Cartoon where the only speech is indistinct, Taurus, working as a Mall Santa, asks Capricorn and Gemini if they've been nice or naughty by conjuring angel and devil versions of them and having them pick one. |
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In The Legend of Kyrandia: Malcolm's Revenge, the titular Villain Protagonist has both an evil conscience named Gunther and a good one named Stewart. The latter is crushed under a rock during Malcolm's childhood as part of his Start of Darkness but returns in-game. Malcolm then asks the player to choose which one to stick with or to choose both since Malcolm himself doesn't care about morality, just wanting to Clear His Name so that he can finally go home and take a nap. | |
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Neopets: In the Advent Calendar comic for Dec 13, 2022, Celandra overhears about what she thinks is a surprise present for Fyora. As she contemplates whether to tell Fyora, tiny angel and devil versions of herself appear next to her head. | |
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This is the main drive of plot in Cabin in the Sky. When Little Joe is near death, his pious wife Petunia prays for another chance, alerting the attention of both heaven AND hell. The angels and demons then interact with the human characters from Petunia and Joe to The Vamp Georgia Brown, influencing their decisions without the humans actually knowing why their thoughts are being swayed. | |
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The third issue of the black-and-white 64-page run of Howard the Duck had an Angel Howard and a Devil Howard argue over whether Howard should save Christmas or ignore the danger and look out for himself. | |
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In Mass Effect, there are several instances when Commander Shepard must resolve a situation by choosing between a clearly good Paragon option or a clearly evil, or at least ruthlessly utilitarian, Renegade option. In some of these cases, Shepard's two squadmates will offer their opinions on which option Shepard should choose with one squadmate supporting the Paragon option and the other supporting the Renegade option. There is even a hierarchy in 1 to determine which character will support a given course - Kaidan will always support the Paragon option; Liara will support the Paragon option unless your other teammate is Kaidan; Tali will support the Paragon option unless your other teammate is either of the above; and so on down the line, until you get to Wrex, the most Renegade option available. | |
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The god game Black & White also has a Good and Evil Conscience (an old wise man and a wisecracking devil) to give the player advice and color commentary. | |
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One supplement for the Mystara setting included creatures called "blue imps" and "red imps", respectively resembling tiny angels or devils, which would covertly approach and pester young apprentice wizards, trying to persuade them to study either good or evil magics. Although such imps had an existence of their own, independent of the people they tried to influence, this trope clearly inspired the concept. | |
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Pitch (2009): The demon presses Gene to act on his dark desire for revenge, while the angel tries to convince him otherwise. | |
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In Finder, an A.I.'s angel and devil are represented by a one and a zero. | |
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In Chlorophylle, Minimum's good angel appears sometimes. Anthracite's too... but obviously he's not in good form. | |
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In The Annoying Orange episode "Cruel as a Cucumber," Orange wants to get Cucumber to like him. Angel Orange and Devil Orange both pop up to give him advice, but both of them just suggest ways to annoy Cucumber. Angel Orange's suggestions are nicer, though. | |
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When Valerie walks out on Roy midway through Journey of the Cartoon Man, angel and devil versions of Roy appear to debate whether or not he should go after her. | |
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Referenced in Paper Towns when Q is blackmailing a classmate into paying for the bikes his friends wrecked. | |
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At the end of The Spectrum Retreat, Cooper and the manager take the roles of the two angels, urging you to either leave the simulation, or wipe your memories and remain. It's up to you to judge which is the good and which is the bad, though. | |
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Secret Life SMP: On Day 7, Cleo, Skizz, and Etho's joint secret task revolves around this dynamic, with Skizz and Etho respectively acting as the "angel" and "devil" on Cleo's shoulders to convince her to do helpful or harmful things; the two can only win if Cleo listens to them more. Meanwhile, Cleo is told to alternate between the two's advice and keep the books balanced, and to pretend she's not in the know about the situation. | |
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Bachelor Party has a scene that plays with this trope, although there is no shoulder angel/devil. Rick is tempted to sleep with his smoking hot ex, whose face morphs into that of various other characters encouraging him to screw her/stay true to his fiancée. | |
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Johnny the Homicidal Maniac takes this to a strange place, as there are three major voices talking to him, that comprise about half the supporting cast. These are Psychodoughboy, voice of depression and self-destruction, Mr. Fuck, voice of violence and destruction, and Nail Bunny, voice of reason (or something approximating it). This seems more a metaphor for horrible, horrible, manic depression as much as anything else, although it just keeps getting weirder. And then there's Reverend Meat, voice of emotion, whom Johnny and Nailbunny are opposed to. | |
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Batman '66 Meets Wonder Woman '77 has a retired Bruce Wayne (who hung up the cowl out of shame for resorting to killing the Joker after the villain's discovery of the Batcave caused Alfred to have a fatal heart attack) ponder on whether he should get out of retirement or stay retired, with a vision of Alfred informing Bruce that he shouldn't keep punishing himself for what happened and a vision of the Joker taunting that Bruce lost all credibility when he took his life. | |
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Played for laughs in My Name is Bruce. Bruce gets these when thinking about returning to Gold Lick. | |
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In Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel, a pair of these show up. The devil is a hetero girl with a skirt. | |
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Red vs. Blue: The AIs play with this trope — there's (usually) only one of them to an individual, but they appear floating over the person's shoulder and exist to help and give advice. If you have a good one, great — you don't have to worry about its evil counterpart undermining its efforts. Unfortunately, that same lack of symmetry means that if you get stuck with an evil one, you're pretty much hosed. Season 10 gives us an instance of "Bad Angel, Worse Angel" when Gamma and Sigma team up to dupe Carolina into choosing to have two AI implanted into her. |
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4 Angies: In episode 8, a shoulder devil and angel appear to convince Kalamare to cheat on a test by copying from Nina's work, and to do the opposite, respectively. Eventually Kalamare gets so fed up with the shoulder devil as she and the shoulder angel give her conflicting advice throughout the episode that she grabs her and throws her out of the way, onto the branch of a tree. | |
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CollegeHumor: One skit has a two-minute video where a guy named Chris prepares to masturbate after his roommate leaves. He begins to take off his shorts when his shoulder devil encourages him to jack off naked. When he starts taking his shirt off, his shoulder angel encourages him to keep his pants on in case his roommate returns earlier than anticipated. The conversation goes on until they hear a car pull up. The shoulder angel begs Chris to wait until later, but the shoulder devil gives a heart-warming speech about how there's not going to be a later. Chris and the angel strip naked. And then the roommate walks in. Parodied in this sketch, where the devil, the angel, and several other characters are trying to convince an Unlucky Everydude to put his tax refund or paycheck towards something else instead of his student loans, and to just default on those. Although they all have different reasons. |
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Played with in episode 4 of Helluva Boss when the demonic I.M.P. crew are hired to kill a Mad Scientist who's already been Driven to Suicide, and spend the episode trying to convince him to go through with it while a group of cherubs try to talk him out of it. | |
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Hitman (1993) had a clever instance in the 15th issue where a drunken Tiegel tried to initiate sex with Tommy and Tommy's Good and Bad angel said the exact same words, but in a different tone that even comes across in print. His good side using guilt-inducing sarcasm and his bad side is encouragingly sincere: | |
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Tintin has these appear to Snowy and Haddock on different occasions (most often prompted by the presence of whiskey). | |
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The Emperor's New Groove features two amusing sequences where Kronk, Yzma's loveable-lug henchman, has to deal with the bickering of his Shoulder Angel and Shoulder Devil. The first sequence shows that Kronk's angels are just as dumb as he is when determining how to get rid of Kuzco: instead of refuting Shoulder Angel's arguments, Shoulder Devil makes snide comments about the Angel's wardrobe, and then says "look what I can do!" while doing a one-handed headstand. He decides to cast them away before making his own choice. And the second one has Kronk having to explain to his angel self what's going on because Angel!Kronk was busy having his hair done. As they converse, as so often is done to imply an internal monologue, Kronk's shown speaking aloud and apparently to himself, utterly bewildering the other characters. The angel never gets to offer any advice, as Yzma launches into her "The Reason You Suck" Speech, climaxing with her insulting his cooking, prompting Kronk's Devil into a Heel–Face Turn, because Even Evil Has Standards: In the series, all characters had little versions of themselves on their shoulders and even they have their quirks. For example, Guaca has his shoulder devil arguing that Kuzco rules...and his shoulder angel unhesitatingly agrees. And Malina is a Nice Girl because her shoulder angel tied up the shoulder devil. Thus, she has only angelic advice. Kronk's New Groove: As this film focuses on Kronk this time around, of course his Shoulder Angel and Devil make a return, this time advising him as he tries to impress his Papi. Tipo also gets his own set of Angel and Devil as he contemplates cheating to win a cheer competition. |
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Biblically, the Book of Job has God and Satan standing, at least metaphorically, on each side of the mortal Job as Satan tries to get Job to renounce God by removing everything he cherishes in life. | |
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Magic: The Gathering has the card Auntie Blyte, Bad Influence, a tiny Devil Advisor who tries to convince her planeswalker controller (the player) to deal damage to themselves, growing stronger in the process. She is naturally affiliated with red mana, the color of impulse and blind aggression, and plenty of cards in that color are more than happy to oblige. | |
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Motu Patlu: In "Motu Banega Don", Motu is thinking of ways to become a Don like John, and a devil resembling him appears and gives him the idea to rob Furfuri Nagar's bank. An angel resembling Patlu then appears and objects to the Motu devil's idea, but Motu tries to rob the bank anyway. Later in the same episode, the Motu devil and the Patlu angel reappear when Motu is given the idea to smuggle gold that is being shipped nearby. | |
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Living Books: In Arthur's Computer Adventure, Arthur wants to play the Deep Dark Sea computer game on Jane's computer, but Jane had told him not to touch her computer until after she gets back from the office. On Page 3, if you click on Arthur, his shoulder devil tells him to play while Jane is away, as there's no way she can know, and he wants to be able to find The Thing (a giant treasure chest) so he can win a lot of money. Arthur's shoulder angel then advises Arthur not to listen to his shoulder devil and to listen to Jane instead. Later, on Page 7, after Arthur accidentally breaks Jane's computer, if you click on Arthur, his shoulder angel tells Arthur that he should have listened to Jane. His shoulder devil then tells him to blame his accident on D.W. or Pal. Arthur then tells his shoulder devil that he's not going to listen to him again, since he got him into his mess. | |
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Scary Gary: The Evil Conscience "- that usually sits on your shoulder." visits Gary at one point, except he is life-sized and dressed up in a suit and tie because he figured it would be more convincing, and wants to expand his business model. When Gary asks where the angel is, the Evil Conscience claims he didn’t share his vision, so he just ate him. | |
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The Simpsons: A comic features Bart suffering from a moral dilemma, complete with good and bad angels; the good angel knocks out the bad angel by throwing its halo like Captain America's shield, at which point Bart remarks, "It figures that my conscience would suffer from mood swings." One of the earlier comics has Bart visited by good and bad angels, until he tells the good angel to get lost, and flicks it away. |
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The Secret World begins with an encounter with these: after first being chosen by one of Gaia's Bees, you have a dream about meeting two members of the Host - one a Grigori, the other a Nephilim: the Grigori wants you to choose for yourself and avoid being corrupted by the voices that whisper in your sleep, while the Nephilim wants you to "make the right choices" and follow the will of the voices. They crop up again in the finale after you decide on what to Dreaming Prison. | |
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A brief scene in the second Simon the Sorcerer game features this trope. Simon being Simon opts to side with the bad angel. | |
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In the If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device short featuring Sly Marbo, tiny demonic and angelic versions of Sly appear when he's confronted with a Sadistic Choice. Their advice? "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!" | |
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When hololive English Vtubers Ceres Fauna and Ouro Kronii collaborated for an ASMR stream, the end result was something like this, with them whispering competing advice into the listener's earphones, something they noted. Who was the "good" and who was the "bad" angel depended on which was funniest at the moment. | |
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In Safe Havens, in her youth Samantha was so nice that she had two angels and no devil. One of them eventually turned into a devil as Samantha grew up and became more aware of moral ambiguity and the duality of man. | |
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During Knightquest Jean-Paul Valley had them in the form of Saint Dumas and his father, the previous Azrael. Unfortunately, this was due to his Heroic Safe Mode kicking into overdrive with no sign of the off button anywhere. | |
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Once in German comic Rudi, they're fighting whether he should take up smoking again or not. (His buddy Freddy started it again, we see, because his five or so shoulder devils mashed up his shoulder angel.) | |
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In the series, all characters had little versions of themselves on their shoulders and even they have their quirks. For example, Guaca has his shoulder devil arguing that Kuzco rules...and his shoulder angel unhesitatingly agrees. And Malina is a Nice Girl because her shoulder angel tied up the shoulder devil. Thus, she has only angelic advice. | |
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Soriz of Granblue Fantasy comically has them for being a Dirty Old Man. They pop up during his SSR training, the good one urging him to continue his training to find his own philosophy, and the bad one trying to make him give up and go back to fooling around. They eventually start arguing so loudly that Soriz ends up beating the crap out of them, giving him the final push he needed. | |
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Harley Quinn: The first volume has Harley occasionally converse with a shoulder angel resembling her original self Dr. Harleen Quinzel and a shoulder devil resembling the Joker. In an issue of the fourth volume, Harley's friend Kevin is debating with himself whether to rescue minor villain Lockwood from a fire or leave him to die. His shoulder angel and devil are both sexy versions of Harley. Who then end up ignoring him and having a Cat Fight. |
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Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End gives Jack Sparrow two smaller Jacks that appear to come out of his hair. Instead of the traditional good and evil, the dilemma is between rum and immortality without rum, at least until they point out to him that having rum once every ten years for eternity is still more rum than having it every day of a normal lifetime. He also has less traditional hallucinations that are his size and identical to him, as well as one that is part of Davy Jones' ship.Hilariously spoofed in a Russian fandub. Two mini-Jacks introduce themselves as Jack's conscience and egoism. Then they start giving him advice: | |
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Team Fortress 2: The Pyro has these with two small Pyro dolls dressed as an angel and devil as a Misc. Item: The Cremator's Conscience; they are in a chest pocket. Description: "'Burn him with fire!' 'No, burn him with fire, then hit him with an axe!'" | |
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In AdventureQuest Worlds, a thinly-veiled parody of Good Angel Bad Angel is represented by the "invisible" twins called Xing and Xang. Xing dresses like a complete Emo Teen and Xang dresses like a stereotypical angel. Their job is to "guide" the heroes, but they don't listen to advice in the cutscene — at least until Evil Overlord Drakath switches Xang with her Chaotic Evil twin in the Mirror Realm. | |
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Although it doesn't actually appear in the form of an angel, Rincewind has an argument with his conscience in Sourcery. | |
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In Afterlife (1996), an Angel and Devil appear on screen to give the player advice and to taunt each other. As with all religious elements in the game, it's parodied; the Angel is The Ditz, and the Devil is erudite and appears to be dressed in a business suit. However, both give good advice. | |
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In a Pearls Before Swine Sunday strip, we see all four main characters (Rat, Pig, Goat and Zebra) go through this...except Rat, who has two shoulder devils. Another Sunday strip has Zebra talking with one of the crocodiles, and explaining that he'd never be able to go through with eating Zebra because his conscience wouldn't let him. When the croc asks, "What is dis conshuss?" his Good Angel appears... and the croc pops it in his mouth and eats it. The dailies also show tiny angels and devils fighting for Rat's soul. The angels give up without a fight. Comes up in another Sunday strip, and again featuring Rat. The devil is a fiery Lady in Red, and the angel...is some fat guy in his undies. |
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In Tank Girl, Satan offers the eponymous heroine beer in exchange for a powerful artifact: God's Housecoat. Her shoulder angel argues that the Devil is a rotten bastard, while her shoulder devil tells her to take the beer. She takes the beer, but uses God's Housecoat to cause its next wearer to put all of his energy into charitable causes. When we next see the Devil, he is participating in a televised run for charity to raise money for a children's hospital. | |
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Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: In episode 361, Paddi gives the bib he wears around his neck to Jodie. Later, a shoulder angel and devil appear when he is eating donuts and remembers that he gave the bib to Jodie, so now he doesn't have anything to use as a napkin; the shoulder angel tries to get Paddi to forget about the bib while the shoulder devil tries to get him to steal it back from Jodie. Paddi goes with the latter option, much to the surprise of the shoulder angel. | |
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Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" features the protagonist's soul caught in a tug-of-war situation: | |
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In the Robotzi episode "Sugstanță'', Mo gets both an angel Mo and a devil Mo when he plans to drink the toxic substances prepared by F.O.C.A. However, their personalities are almost the same. Angel Mo at first says they seem very toxic, while Devil Mo wants Mo to drink them and the angel agrees. | |
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In League of Legends, Tristana's Little Demon skin changes her recall animation to one where she has Little Devil Teemo as her devil whispering into her ear and a similar-looking Teemo in a halo and white robe as her angel. She grabs the latter, throws him into the air, catches him in her cannon, and shoots him offscreen in a spray of feathers. | |
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Played with in The Infernal Devices having Jem and Will be Tessa's angels. It doesn't hurt that they're both part angel. | |
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The Powerpuff Girls story "Amoeba Prime" (issue #49) had the Amoeba Boys congealed into a monster amoeba invading an amusement park. Blossom is disguised as a ride barker with Bubbles as an angel (what else?) and Buttercup as a devil trying to sway the Amoeba(s) from riding the rides. | |
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Giant Days: Dark Esther's good and bad angels show up for a page in issue 14 of the ongoing series. Unusually for the trope, they're Esther's own size. Being Esther's good and bad angels, they're a couple of rather fetching, slightly snarky goths. | |
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Astra Superstars: Invoked in that two sub-boss characters are named "My Devil" and "My Angel" who represent each character's darker and better qualities respectively. To quote the other wiki: "Depending on what is said, the player can encounter the Devil (based on bad judgment of character) or the Angel (based on good judgement of character) to fight before the final boss, though the Angel requires the player to judge their opponent well and not have any hiccups, or else the Devil will inevitably show up, should just one choice be bad." | |
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In the Pucca short "The Usual Ching", when Ching is corrupted by the evil in Doga's sock that was mistakenly put in her laundry, she manifests a devil and an angel, the former of which promptly disintegrates the latter with a blast from her pitchfork. | |
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The Homestar Runner cartoon "The Baloneyman" uses Strong Bad's good and bad angels together as a (neutral) personification of his brain, which he tries to "fool" into feeling refreshed by rubbing a baloney sandwich shaped like a popsicle on his head: It's probably worth mentioning that Angel Strong Bad is noticeably shorter than Devil Strong Bad. |
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Tekken: In the second game, there are two characters named Devil and Angel, which symbolize Kazuya Mishima's conflicted desire to use the Mishima Zaibatsu to take over the world. In the Arcade Mode, Devil is faced by all characters except Devil himself as the final opponent (implying that he is real, being Kazuya's Superpowered Evil Side), while Angel is only faced by Devil as the final opponent (implying that she is imaginary, representing Kazuya's last attempt to fight off his darker side). By later games, it's clear that Angel has lost the fight, as Kazuya is now firmly evil. | |
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Crazy Candies: In the first episode, during the race, Marshyo sees a candy struggling to make it out of a chocolate lake. A devil version of him appears and tells him not to save her, since she'll have a higher chance of winning if he does. Then an angel version of him appears and tells him to save the candy since she's a friend of his. The devil and angel butt heads with their differing choices for a few seconds before Marshyo decides to save the candy. | |
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One episode gives Janeway these. Befitting his interpretation of her as an insane tyrant, no angel appears. Instead she has a devil, whose advice she dismisses as "religious crap"; an atom, who can only offer suggestions about the behavior of atoms like combining to form a molecule or splitting to release energy; a cowboy, who is terrified and just wants to get out of there (i.e. away from Voyager); and a spider, who always recommends eating people. Initially, she goes with shoulder cowboy and decides to leave, though she later listens to the devil, when he steals the cowboy's hat and pretends to be him. | |
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The Muppets: Animal's Good Angel and Bad Angel succinctly debate whether or not he should play the drums again (with Bad Angel for — it's connected to his taking Anger Management classes) during the big number during the Muppet Telethon: | |
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Catherine uses this method to display the hero Vincent's mental morality as the game progresses, and whether he chooses Catherine or Katherine by the end of the game. At certain points in the game, we hear Vincent's thoughts on the current situation, and they change by having either an angelic cherub or a demonic cherub egg him into their way. Unlike most cases, they don't represent good/evil, but rather order/chaos. | |
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In Deadpool's Team-Up with Machine Man, Deadpool experiences this with the angel being represented by his current partner (Machine Man) and the devil is being represented by the Puppet Master, who they were currently fighting. True to his character (as well as Machine Man's partially) Deadpool pictured the angel as a drunk spouting off boring robot logic which quickly devolved to binary code speak. Not to mention this cover. |
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Happy Heroes: In Season 3 episode 18, Smart S. tries to withdraw money from an ATM machine to buy a super-alloy screw. A shoulder angel and devil resembling him appear, with the devil trying to persuade him to withdraw the money and the angel trying to persuade him not to since he can only withdraw money several times and this is his only remaining chance to do so. This being the very vain Smart S., the devil reminding him that he won't be able to buy his special shampoo without the money and enamoring the angel with the thought of this shampoo is enough to make him withdraw the money anyway. | |
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Nickelback's song "Animals", makes reference to this. | |
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A comic features Bart suffering from a moral dilemma, complete with good and bad angels; the good angel knocks out the bad angel by throwing its halo like Captain America's shield, at which point Bart remarks, "It figures that my conscience would suffer from mood swings." | |
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