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The Devil Is a Loser
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Some stories portray the devil as a weak and ineffectual (if unrelentingly evil) guy. He may be more worried about getting his Wood Elf character to level 70 or catching the latest episode of Avatar and the Airbending Fellowship of Vampire Slayers than punishing the damned or tempting mortals, or perhaps he's unattractive and lives in God's basement. Perhaps he gets outsmarted every time he tries to make a deal with a mortal. Maybe he's plagued by Parental Issues (being the original rebel and all). Naturally, he's no match at all for the forces of heaven. Jesus doesn't need to know kung fu to humiliate him and is in any case much cooler than him. His former fellows among the angels can give him wedgies at will. A Good Shepherd can talk him into submission. Heck, even a mortal guy with a cross could drive him back. Some works will use Evil Is Petty to show this. It's pretty hard to think the devil is cool when he spends most of his time writing rude words in the public toilet and prank-calling the church. It's most common in medieval and more traditional Christian portrayals to show him as a thug, dangerous but also easy to fool and really only waiting for someone stupid enough to sin. If he's intelligent, it's only something he puts on when it's convenient and discards at the first possibility, since his hatred for God extends to hatred for the wisdom He provides. The Inverted Trope to this, where Satan is a stylish, seductive badass, is a modern invention largely derived from Doctor Faustus. If the Devil's job sucks enough, then he may decide to leave it to someone else altogether; see To Hell with This Infernal Job. If the Devil sucks at his job enough, then someone else might take it from him; see Hell Has New Management. For other non-threatening spirits that personify death, see Don't Fear the Reaper and Death Is a Loser. Contrast Loser Deity for the heavenly counterpart. |
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Sunless Skies has the colony of Devils living at the Well of the Wolf. The place is so horrible they're actually relatively selfless and helpful simply because they're too worn down by living there to be evil anymore. It's implied that Chorister Bees use Devils as a chrysalis and these are the ones that the bees hatched from, which may contribute to their condition. Upon witnessing this, the Repentant Devil is visibly shaken to see what the Devils have been reduced to after the Exodus. | |
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In The Devil is a Part-Timer!, the Demon King and The Dragon flee the hero Emilia Justina by jumping through a portal to Earth. Upon arrival, the lack of ambient magic makes them lose their powers. Guess who ends up working at MgRonalds? Downplayed by the fact that he enjoys his job, takes his fall from power remarkably well, and is a charismatic Nice Guy. He's also not the biblical devil; Satan is a very common name among demons. There's also the fact that he was in a similar situation back in his world when we has younger. At the very bottom of the pecking order, Satan had his life saved by Emi's mother, an angel, and while recuperating, was tutored by her in various subjects. He proceeded to use his newfound knowledge to slowly rise through the ranks and eventually become the King of the Demons. Who's to say he can't the same on Earth? The guy is patient. |
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Loki, brother of The Mighty Thor, isn't technically the devil, but he's often treated as if he is, with Loki being depicted as the God of Evil for some time. In which case, Loki became a villain why he was incredibly petty, jealous and comparatively weak, so he decided to start pulling pranks with his magic that eventually escalates to lethal plots. A big part of Loki's Character Development during the 2010s was him coming to realise that so long as he tries to be this, he'll be a predictable loser who always gets defeated, so he masterminded a complex gambit that eventually leads to several reincarnations that transformed him into a new entity that's neither good nor evil. | |
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In Sluggy Freelance, Satan is the victim of cyber attacks by Riff, ends up doing the nasty with a cat while drunk, gets chewed out on a daytime talk show for not taking care of the resulting demonic kitten children, and is so terrified of scorpions that he runs away at the sight of them and drops and loses his god-slaying weapon. | |
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RainbowDoubleDash's Lunaverse: Tirek is, aside from Discord, the most terrifying and dangerous villain in the setting. His power at its height was equal to Celestia, and the mere thought of him potentially escaping his prison panics Luna enough that she decides it's a better option to obliterate the island he'd escape onto, even though the Element Bearers are on it, rather than risk him getting out. And he's been so utterly broken by what Luna did to him a thousand years ago, he's a broken shell of his former self, utterly afraid of leaving Tartarus. Not that he's got a problem with it. | |
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On an episode of X-Play about the time a World of Warcraft expansion came out, Morgan made a deal with the devil to have him level up her character. Unfortunately, the Devil sucks at WoW. | |
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Torak of The Belgariad and Azash of The Elenium. Both are incredibly powerful in physical/magical terms, but they're also crippled, handicapped by an inability to change, stupid, and totally unable to understand human emotions, which ultimately results in both their downfalls. | |
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In The Simpsons, whether he's a loser or not is a case-by-case basis: He's certainly a loser in the "Treehouse of Horror IV" segment "The Devil and Homer Simpson", where his own Jury of the Damned rules against him after he's outwitted by Marge. In "Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens, and Gays", in which Springfield's single people try to change the law to make the town less family-friendly, Marge decides to lead a campaign to stop them. A tobacco company representative offers her a cheque. Once she takes it, the representative takes off his hat, revealing a pair of horns, assumes a more devil-like appearance in general and claims that she belongs to them. She quickly points out that she hasn't endorsed the cheque and the representative quickly resumes his human look, claiming that the horns are a "football injury". |
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Inverted in Holy Bibble. Although the real God is pretty awesome (and has a lot of personal similarities to Satan, actually), the God described in the Old Testament is actually a senile and useless minor demon created by Satan on a whim. | |
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The Devil is presented as a large and imposing figure in Cuphead (and he very much is), but at the very last portion of his boss fight, he starts crying like a baby, complete with stereotypical "waaaah, waaaah" sounds. That doesn't mean you've won, however. It just means that now you have to keep shooting him while dodging his tears. | |
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Inferno (Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle): By the time he reaches the center of Cocytus, having passed through every horror in the pit of Hell, Allen has little regard for the trapped form of Lucifer outside of briefly reflecting on how he cuts a much more pathetic figure than popular culture depicts. | |
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In an episode of Darkwing Duck, the Devil plays dirty, tricking Gosalyn into signing the pact that lets him claim Darkwing's soul. The problem? Morgana and her clan manage to beat him at his own game and find a loophole in it! | |
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Johannes Cabal: Satan is described as a "bored sadist" with the Faux Affably Evil nature of bad middle-management. Johannes successfully scams him in the first book, and, by the fifth, he's gotten fed up and quit the job entirely. | |
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"The Grave Mound:" Two brave and clever humans manage to prevent the none-too-bright Devil from collecting a soul and con him out of his gold in the process. | |
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In Paradise Lost, despite Satan's fancy rhetoric and impressive figure, he's just posturing as an epic hero and making self-defeating arguments and that he's simply too proud to ask for forgiveness and admit his mistakes in front of all his loyal followers. Even in the battle scene he gets clobbered unconscious the moment he takes the field. Its sequel, Paradise Regained, continues this, in part to fit into the idea of damnation as continually degrading him into weaker and less godly forms, and also because he was up trying to tempt Jesus and was obviously doomed to failure, unlike with Adam and Eve. | |
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The Divine Comedy: Satan is a towering, three-headed imbecile, trapped chest-deep in ice and forever crying and beating his wings in a vain attempt to escape, which only cools and hardens the tears into ice, trapping him. | |
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In the Rick and Morty episode "Something Ricked This Way Comes" (actually a parody of Needful Things), Summer gets a part-time job at the Needful Things thrift store, which seems to be a lot like it was in the book, until Rick immediately figures out that Mr. Needful is actually the Devil, and that the golden microscope he sells is cursed. Rick is able to use his mad science to figure out how to detect, analyze, and counteract curses, and he opens up his own store across the street where he removes curses, leaving the items with just their beneficial magic. For instance, an aftershave that makes a man irresistible to women, but also leaves him impotent? Rick pairs it with a cure for impotence. Rick makes a ton of money, and Mr. Needful is so humiliated that Summer has to talk him out of suicide. Even after he tricks Summer into helping him back on top, which was more opportunistic than calculated, he still gets humiliated in the end when a bulked up Rick and Summer beat the crap out of him on a national stage, making him cower at their feet in front of everyone. | |
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Phil, the Prince of Insufficient Light from Dilbert. He even has a giant spoon in place of the usual pitchfork, and claims to be from Heck. He's in charge of punishing small sins, like leaving the toilet seat up. He's a half-brother to the Pointy Haired Boss (and the Pointy Haired Boss was always their mom's favorite). | |
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Played with in Lucy, the Daughter of the Devil: Satan seems like a harmless yuppie right up until the point where he tries to murder you in your dreams with burrowing flesh-worms. | |
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The Animaniacs episode "Hot, Bothered, and Bedeviled" has Yakko, Wakko, and Dot tormenting Satan, who comes across as a complete chump even amongst the show's villains. Eventually, Satan banishes them from Hell because he just couldn't stand them. | |
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Rocko's Modern Life gives us Peaches, Dark Overlord of Heck...who gets bossed around by Heffer's late grandma and isn't actually the ruler of Heck. | |
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Supernatural: Lucifer is a suave, sophisticated, and exceptionally dangerous being. He created the demons personally, can destroy the planet when at full power, and is one of five creatures that the Colt can't kill. But ultimately, none of that changes the fact that he's just a spoiled brat throwing a tantrum because his daddy wasn't paying enough attention to him. It doesn't help his case that he suffers from so much Villain Decay that he goes from being touted as the literal end of all things in season 4 before he is even introduced, to being just another villain of the series who it becomes nearly trivial to trap and/or kill. His power never really wanes, and even increases significantly at one point, but he's never again seen as an impossible force to overcome after his first defeat. Eventually, the common reaction of the Winchesters to Lucifer's resurgence can be paraphrased as: "Oh, that asshole's back again? Fine, how do we get rid of him this time?" | |
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Once faced with Tennyo and Generator in the story "Sit In" in the Whateley Universe, the demon lord (okay, brevet under-baron) Phesclangorenthal rapidly turns into this. | |
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In Hellsing Ultimate Abridged, Satan (who shows up in Episode 8 when Alucard ends up confronting God) is actually a soft-spoken and not particularly forceful guy who hesitantly asks God to ease up the requirements for going to Heaven and offers Him some avocado toast if He'll come by to visit sometime. Satan also asks Alucard to give him back the Hounds of Baskerville, but Alucard cuts him off by yelling that "They're mine now!" | |
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In Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie: Rebellion, Homura becomes a self-admitted demon who hates the world and (almost) everyone in it. But, for all her power, she isn't happy. Fundamentally, she is still the same alienated, self-hating pessimist we met in the first episode. Even her servants pelt her with tomatoes. | |
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In Brimstone Satan is shown to be not only an incompetent jailer (letting over a hundred damned souls escape Hell), but he's also incredibly petty and juvenile, unable to pass up an opportunity to tie someone's shoelaces together or loosen the cap on a salt shaker. | |
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Sinfest While the Devil IS a pretty badass dude, more than a few strips in the initial period of the comic feature him collecting mockery of God, taunts of Ezekiel and Ariel "the Wascally Angels", pity of Buddha and made aware that he's Lonely at the Top. The closest thing he had to a friend was his son Loony Fan L'il Evil, a Harmless Villain whose faith might as well have been Ho Yay. Then the comic shifted from a gag strip to an Author Tract, and the subsequent periods have made him into a much more serious villain who's ultimately behind whatever is bothering Tats at the moment. The Antichrist was so pathetic that he finally got a life only after accidentally mind-wiping himself by drinking from Lethe and so far no one (including Devil) wanted his old personality back. |
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The Devil Is a Loser | |
| The Devil Is a Loser / int_5c4365d7 | comment |
He was enslaved to Thanos during The Infinity Gauntlet saga. He was once humiliated by the Black Panther by being cut off from his power and the crap beat out of him. He was Out-Gambitted by Doctor Doom. Then in Thunderbolts he gets completely played and humiliated by the Leader Deadpool of all people. The Leader even taunts him when Mephisto threatens him, claiming that while Mephisto might be more evil than him, he's definitely smarter. | |
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The Devil Is a Loser | |
| The Devil Is a Loser / int_5c783167 | comment |
The Boston-area roots-rock band Adam Ezra Group did an Affectionate Parody of the original, "The Devil Came Up to Boston", which plays this trope up to eleven (not to mention practically every urban Hollywood New England trope). Instead of offering the local fiddle player a golden fiddle, the Devil offers to trade the fiddler's soul for a lottery card and a pack of cigarettes. The Devil ends up every bit as humiliated as in the original, "chuggin' vodka to soften up the loss". | |
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The Devil Is a Loser | |
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In later episodes of Vinny's Tomodachi Life streams, Satan ends up moving to Vineland Island. He quickly makes lots of friends, wears a basketball jersey among other ridiculous outfits, and lives in a brightly-colored apartment. Vinny freely admits that this is the least threatening version of Satan he's ever seen. | |
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The Devil Is a Loser | |
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The Ebon Dragon from Exalted is basically the Devil-figure of the setting; the master of betrayal, lies, and deceit, and the only one of the Yozis who operates on standard human morality...but see Word of God's explanation for exactly why his villainy is represented not by alternative interpretations of the Virtue system, but merely by having bad Virtue scores: | |
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| The Devil Is a Loser / int_630e1191 | type |
The Devil Is a Loser | |
| The Devil Is a Loser / int_630e1191 | comment |
The Brothers Karamazov: The devil takes the form of an emaciated, impoverished down-on-his-luck country gentleman. He also seems pretty resigned to be being blamed for all of mankind's ills. Not suave or sophisticated at all, but still capable of causing the occasional Heroic BSoD. He claims to take this form to mess with Ivan's sense of self-importance, but we all know that this just to help his own self-importance. | |
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| The Devil Is a Loser / int_671d5c19 | type |
The Devil Is a Loser | |
| The Devil Is a Loser / int_671d5c19 | comment |
The Powerpuff Girls (1998) makes this a Subverted Trope. Him may mince around in drag between launching invariably doomed Evil Plans, but he is far from harmless. An immortal Reality Warper, Him only loses because his schemes hinge on exploiting some character flaw, a Monster of the Week, or poorly-chosen combat conditions. He comes far closer to success than other villains, and one particular episode demonstrated exactly what would happen should the girls fail... | |
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| The Devil Is a Loser / int_679bcc34 | type |
The Devil Is a Loser | |
| The Devil Is a Loser / int_679bcc34 | comment |
Oddly, the alleged Satanic backwards messages in "Stairway to Heaven" really don't put Satan in all that great of a light, making him sound like an Emo Teen who just bullies people—"I live for Satan, the one whose little path would make me sad...there was a little toolshed where he made us suffer, sad Satan." Perhaps realizing that Satan planting sinister messages about how sad he is doesn't make sense, some versions of the rumor change "the one whose little path would make me sad" to "I wanna live it backwards like the Zep." | |
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| The Devil Is a Loser / int_69a51847 | type |
The Devil Is a Loser | |
| The Devil Is a Loser / int_69a51847 | comment |
The fallen angel Lucifer finally showed up in Ghost Rider after decades. Unlike other hell-lords like Mephisto and Satannish, he cannot leave Hell under his own power and had to trick Blaze into taking him with him. Despite claiming to be a master manipulator he is vulgar, crass and worse of all constantly tricked by Johnny Blaze, who both Blaze and Lucifer agree is something of an idiot, until finally being tricked into fighting Ghost Rider at half power, losing, and being sent back to Hell. | |
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The Devil Is a Loser | |
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Satan in Old Harry's Game is a rather whiny fellow who uses torture and corruption mainly as mechanisms to cope with his own self-hatred. | |
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The Devil Is a Loser | |
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In His Story: The Musical Satan is portrayed as more of an annoying little brother making a bet than the lord of all darkness tempting the savior to sin, with the only thing causing Jesus to raise his voice a little after all his pestering being an accusation of being a daddy's boy. | |
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| The Devil Is a Loser / int_77e22425 | type |
The Devil Is a Loser | |
| The Devil Is a Loser / int_77e22425 | comment |
In the Pinky and the Brain Halloween episode, the devil offers Brain the world in exchange for his soul. Brain refuses because he's angry about being called a failure, but later finds out that the gullible Pinky has been persuaded to sign in his place, in exchange for a "radish rose watchamahoozit." However, the devil is forced to release Pinky when it turns out that he doesn't even know what that is. | |
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The Devil Is a Loser | |
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In God, the Devil and Bob, The Devil is shown more as an incompetent and effeminate weirdo with creator issues than a powerful master of temptation. His evil schemes are often self-defeating but occasionally he proves he's a Not-So-Harmless Villain. | |
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The Devil Is a Loser / int_78b89075 | |
| The Devil Is a Loser / int_797da6b9 | type |
The Devil Is a Loser | |
| The Devil Is a Loser / int_797da6b9 | comment |
Played with in kill puppies for satan; the devil himself is legitimately evil and possibly dangerous, but his human minions are all pathetic, incompetent losers who think kicking puppies around is the evilest thing they can do. He also has to put up with demons unionizing on him and scoring an exclusive work contract, much to his chagrin. | |
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The Devil Is a Loser | |
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In Bonus Stage, Satan rambles on about nothing and makes people watch Time Squad, watch Shrek 2 or eat his mom's spaghetti. He also lets Joel, Phil and Elly out of hell. | |
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"The Devil & Me" by Clutch describes a down and out devil from alternating perspectives. Opening with: | |
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| The Devil Is a Loser / int_7fc78282 | type |
The Devil Is a Loser | |
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This is the premise of The Lord of the Rings Mary Sue Hunters story The Game of the Gods. In it, Morgoth attempts to derail the books by placing various self-inserts in it, but ends up getting them killed through a loose grasp of the lore, the cleverness of his opponents, and sheer lack of common sense. By the end of the story, he's become rather pitiable. | |
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The Devil Is a Loser | |
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"Ivan Turbincă": The Devil is easily defeated by Ivan and his magic pouch. When Ivan goes to hell, his constant partying exasperates the demons of hell. | |
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| The Devil Is a Loser / int_90f94684 | type |
The Devil Is a Loser | |
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In Fire Emblem Engage, the Fell Dragon Sombron is the Big Bad of the game, responsible for countless atrocities over the years, from destroying entire cities to discarding his mates and children if they failed to meet his expectation. His motive turns out to be opening a portal to another world just so he can reconnect with the Emblem of Foundations, which had been his sole companion after being exiled from his homeworld, and when this is revealed, the other characters point out that this doesn't even come close to justifying his actions. | |
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The Devil Is a Loser | |
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There's a The Whitest Kids U' Know routine in which the Devil is depicted as an effeminate Southern guy who spends two minutes of screentime going on what Wikipedia calls "unprecedented rants against people who make assumptions of what the Devil is". | |
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| The Devil Is a Loser / int_930da9b4 | type |
The Devil Is a Loser | |
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Although the Devil wins in the short story Enoch Soames, the narrator characterizes him as a humorless, self-important prig, describing him variously as a Dastardly Whiplash type- attempting to seem cool and sinister but really looking like a melodrama villain as well as a "swell mobsman"- slang for a type of pickpocket/petty criminal that dressed in fashionable clothing to blend in. | |
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The Devil Is a Loser | |
| The Devil Is a Loser / int_95cb19dd | comment |
In One More Day he dissolved the marriage of Spider-Man and Mary Jane. He once faked defeat against the Hulk to get him to become overconfident and destroy his own life later. He generally tends to fare better against other villains where he is allowed to win by outsmarting and humiliating them such as Black Heart, Hela, and Loki. | |
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The Devil Is a Loser | |
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In the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode "Santa Claus" Crow sings "The Devil is a Wiener" to the tune of the soundtrack. | |
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A rare instance where this is not played for laughs is in Perelandra, where the Devil is perfectly capable of feats of supreme intelligence, strength, and many other virtues — which is precisely the trouble; he doesn't really like to use them, because they're good things. He's a petty, spiteful bastard who'll just as soon kill frogs or rip up chunks of turf for the pleasure of killing something as corrupt an entire world. | |
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The Elder Scrolls: Mehrunes Dagon (who isn't quite the devil, he's more a personified natural disaster, but close enough for horseshoes and hand grenades) occasionally gets this. His general role in history is to try to invade Mundus and get beaten back by some hero or other, and in an obscure text Haskill says that he's essentially Oblivion's go-to dupe, presumably because he's not that smart and his monomania about destruction means he's very predictable. One text in The Elder Scrolls Online is Eveli Sharp-Arrow's list of ideas for insulting nicknames to call Dagon. | |
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Neron, The DCU's version of the Devil, fits often: In Underworld Unleashed, Neron loses because Captain Marvel's soul is too pure. He then loses his throne in the Reign in Hell comics. Neron struck out in a way similar to the way Mephisto succeeded in One More Day below. After many of The Flash's old villains Came Back Wrong (Neron himself was responsible) Wally and his wife Linda made separate deals with Neron to set them right (since they were mindless killing machines far more evil and dangerous than they used to be). Except instead of their souls, Neron asked each to give up their love for the other. Both agreed, and they split. (Un)fortunately, holding their love 'polluted' Neron, and he became nice, something which was Hell to him. He asked them to take back the bargain, and both refused until Neron begged them to, at which point they forced him to not only release his hold on the villains and return their souls, but to also undo all the damage and return all the people they killed (which was into the millions at that point). Neron had no choice but to agree and swore to never mess with the Flash ever again. In another story, Neron offered Oracle her legs back; he didn't want her soul in return, he just wanted her to be his historian and write down his actions. Oracle actually considered it for a while, but eventually refused, saying it was selling her soul either way. He dropped the issue and just left. Satanus joins Neron as a loser by losing his throne to Blaze. |
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While "Sympathy for the Devil" is mostly about how Humans Are the Real Monsters, the fact that the title character is outright pleading for sympathy from humanity despite having no redeeming features of his own and trying to portray himself as 'a man of wealth and taste' doesn't exactly make him look good either. | |
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The Robot Devil from Futurama. The guy is outsmarted by Fry and in one episode is seen in jail. He's also whiny, Screams Like a Little Girl when you hit him with a fiddle, and lives in New Jersey. His only positive trait is that he's a good musician. Played with in "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings", which starts with the Robot Devil losing at his own game and being forced to give up his own hands to Fry, but then has him pull off an intricate Chain of Deals that ends with him getting his hands back and Fry humiliated in front of a crowd. Say what you will about him, the guy is pretty competent at manipulative bastardry. | |
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The Haunted World of El Superbeasto: Dr. Satan is not Satan himself but some nerdy guy styled after him. In other words, "the guy pretending to be the devil is a loser". | |
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Lewis also creates a loser devil in The Screwtape Letters. Screwtape is a grumpy old demon with No Sense of Humor, whose list of things he can't stand about Heaven includes God's disgusting, hedonistic love for His physical creations, not to mention His habit of playing music at all hours of the night. Screwtape can't actually hear the music, he just hates the fact it is being played. Silence is no improvement, as Screwtape prefers some good, loud, decently ugly noise. Meanwhile, he works a desk job as an undersecretary in Hell's middle management, on one occasion signing his name with a pretentious string of honorific letters. (Hell, of course, is a Vast Bureaucracy.) His nephew and apprentice Wormwood is even more of a loser, sent on a mission to tempt a mortal, but making mistake after mistake, getting his uncle in trouble, and eventually failing miserably. | |
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Saturday Night Live: One sketch features a musician making a Deal with the Devil only to discover that Satan is a phenomenally crappy songwriter. Another one features Patrick Stewart as an initially impressive Satan who then chokes on a grape and finds that he can't command any respect from his lackeys anymore. In another episode the Devil (played by Jon Lovitz) goes on The People's Court suing for a woman's soul. He loses. |
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Good Satan begins with Satan binging on junk food and reluctantly doing business on his couch. In Heaven, he is shunned by everyone and ignored. When Satan finds out that the Second Coming means redemption and admittance into Heaven, God deflates these hopes and tells him that that won't happen. | |
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Bedazzled (1967) contains possibly the most literal example ever, in which Satan loses a wager with God and is sent to a Villainous Breakdown. | |
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In the Bedazzled (2000) remake the Devil (a beautiful woman) grants wishes to a man in exchange for his soul, but each wish results in a humiliating failure. It turns out that the Devil is actually harmless, since God owns all people's souls; they can't be sold! She's just a practical joker. | |
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Satan from Puyo Puyo and Madou Monogatari is a pathetic Stalker with a Crush for protagonist Arle Nadja. His schemes are frequently ridiculous or pointless (such as increasing the power of the sun so he can get a tan and attract girls), and is always foiled by her and Carbuncle. | |
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On Good Eats this happens sometimes. Sometimes a Big Red Devil will appear and get his ass kicked by Alton (who at the time was a Christian in Real Lifenote A few years after the end of the series, Alton reevaluated his religious beliefs; although not giving up on Christianity entirely, he no longer identifies as a Christian.). Or, as in the Devil's Food Cake episode, he simply will not get to taste the cake. | |
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In Dead Duck, the devil is a teenager running Hell so he can appease his old man and running a day camp on the side under a costume to look more intimidating. His father? God | |
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The Cuphead Show!: For all his impressive theatrics and all the souls he's managing to funnel into the Underworld, the Devil is a complete Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain when it comes to Cuphead and Mugman. He's a complete fop who throws tantrums when he's outwitted and at one point is conned into painting Elder Kettle's fence for them. It comes to a head in Season 2 when he loses the rights to Cuphead's soul and has a trashy article written about him claiming his best days are behind him, which leads to him going out to spread misery to blow off some steam... which results in him losing his pitchfork to Cuphead. Just then he shows how genuinely effective and evil he can be by dragging Mugman off to Hell in retaliation — cue Downer Ending / Cliffhanger for Season 2! | |
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In an episode of Northern Exposure, the town is visited by Satan, who is a dumpy and unimpressive man more interested in small acts of betrayal than diabolical evil. He ultimately fails to corrupt the citizens of Cicely even slightly. | |
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Hell Inc: in Hell, Inc. B.L. Zebub is a classic red, horned demon who works in an organization based around the torture of damned souls and delights in tormenting anyone under him in the hierarchy. He is also trapped in middle management, breaks his work PC by visiting sketchy porn sites on a regular basis and is the frequent target of unflattering drawings and jokes by his employees. | |
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Lucifer Morningstar in Hazbin Hotel is the King of Hell and the embodiment of Pride, the most powerful and feared person in Hell. But he had once been a Wide-Eyed Idealist and his banishment to Hell, where all he could see is the cruelty and wickedness his gift of free will to humanity caused, left him broken, jaded, and depressed. He's separated from his wife Lilith, estranged from his daughter Charlie, and spends most of his time cooped up in his room making rubber duck toys. It's rather telling that Lucifer feels insecure and jealous towards the significantly powerful (yet still far beneath him) demon Alastor, especially as they compete for Charlie's approval. | |
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Left Behind has the devil so incompetent that he becomes sympathetic solely because of how badly he gets beaten. He tries to turn things around, but he was destined to lose at God's hand anyway. | |
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Pony Island: Lucifer sucks at basic coding, game design, and is obsessed with ponies. You have to do most of the programming for him. All of the souls doomed in purgatory are forced to play his game, which could possibly be seen as a punishment in of itself. | |
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Doctor Who: In "The Satan Pit", when the Doctor confronts the Beast in his prison, he finds a towering red-horned monstrosity that roars at him and shoots fire. Then he realizes that the Beast is just that, a simple beast, with its spirit and sentience gone elsewhere. The physical body of the Beast suddenly becomes a lot less scary. | |
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Jimmy Two-Shoes: Lucius is technically only the great-great-great-great grandson of the original devil, who is feared by everyone including his descendants. Lucius himself is largely a Smug Snake Harmless Villain who is incapable of running things without Heloise. He's also a massively Large Ham, because he is voiced by Seán Cullen. | |
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In Afterparty, Satan tries to present himself as a badass king who can get whatever he wants, whenever he wants. It quickly becomes obvious that he's actually just a pathetic wannabe Fratbro who's stuck in a dead-end job he hates, suffers from crippling alcoholism, and has made a complete mess of his social life. Imagine if John Blutarsky grew up to became King of Hell and you've got a pretty good idea of what he's like. | |
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The song "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" by The Charlie Daniels Band portrays Satan as "way behind" on his quota for souls. In desperation, he makes a bet with Johnny, a local Georgia fiddle player, to a fiddling contest. Though Satan is portrayed as a pretty badass dude, he's no match for a good ole Georgia boy and gets beaten handily. Johnny freely gloats and insults the devil throughout the song and ultimately snags his shiny golden fiddle. It's speculated that the Devil's true goal was making Johnny fall to the sin of pride, and indeed Johnny acknowledges that he knows what he's doing is a sin, so whether he was truly prideful or just confident in his abilities is up for debate. A sequel balled: "The Devil Comes Back to Georgia" also made by the Charlie Daniels band tells of how ten years after the Fiddle Duel, the Devil challenges Fiddle Player Johnny, now a family man and father, to a rematch. Seething from his defeat years before, the Devil tells Johnny that his pride will be his downfall and takes the Golden Fiddle away as Johnny is tuning it, though the Fiddle player still has his old fiddle in his woodshed. After getting warmed up on his old fiddle due to having not been playing since the birth of his son, Johnny and the Devil duel once again. It's not clear at the end, but from the sound of things, Johnny kicked the Devil's ass... again. The Boston-area roots-rock band Adam Ezra Group did an Affectionate Parody of the original, "The Devil Came Up to Boston", which plays this trope up to eleven (not to mention practically every urban Hollywood New England trope). Instead of offering the local fiddle player a golden fiddle, the Devil offers to trade the fiddler's soul for a lottery card and a pack of cigarettes. The Devil ends up every bit as humiliated as in the original, "chuggin' vodka to soften up the loss". |
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Zigzagged in Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny. Old Scratch wins the rock off here against the two protagonists (and his performance here is wicked awesome, hammed up by Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl, who portrays him) but he’s Out-Gambitted in the end and banished back to Hell by the duo anyway. | |
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In Jasper in Deadland, Satan is portrayed as little more than a redneck factory overseer watching the punishments of Tartarus, and is quickly dispatched once the lines are stopped up. | |
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"The Number of the Beast" by Iron Maiden was perceived by some to out the band as Satan worshipers... the song itself plays out like a horror movie (it was inspired by Damien: Omen II). However, the "Run to the Hills" single artwork has Eddie, Maiden's zombie mascot, in a fight with the devil. The Number of the Beast album shows the aftermath, Eddie holding the Devil's decapitated head. Maiden rightfully pointed out that they were not encouraging worshiping the Devil as he was the LOSER in the battle. | |
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Lucifer in the eponymous comic Lucifer has an Alternate Character Interpretation as a complete tool who really has no point other than to be spiteful to his old man. For all his accomplishments, cunning, and power he is a slave to his pride which allows him to be manipulated by God, trapped in Hell for eons because he could not admit to himself God tricked him into voluntarily taking ownership, and finally exiles himself from everyone and everything including the few who care about him (and vice-versa) because he cannot stand to be dependent on anyone and resents God for creating him in the first place because he is dependent on God for even existing. Even worse is that by the middle of the series he is fully aware that God designed him that way, he was always meant to be the rebellious one in order to keep the rest of the angels on their toes. Even then he is one of the only two archangels powerful enough to take God's throne when he vacates it (the other, Michael, doesn't take it largely because he doesn't feel worthy himself) but turns it down as he sees it as another form of trap to keep him from having true freedom. |
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Gabriel Dropout has Satanichia who is a petty Harmless Villain who fails spectacularly at being evil. Her ideas of heinous acts include recycling a bottle with the cap still on, not refilling the toilet paper dispenser, and deliberately not doing her homework. | |
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On South Park, Satan may look scary, but he's not. He used to be scary, but then got into an abusive, codependent relationship with Saddam Hussein and hasn't recovered since. At times, his demeanor borders on self-sabotaging, making him more of a woobie. Then he had enough and killed Saddam. But Saddam came back because he's already dead. Amusingly, God Himself called him out on this: |
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Hellblazer: The First of The Fallen will NEVER succeed against John Constantine. It gets so bad that Constantine claims at one point if he is sent to Hell he can easily take over and the First is reduced to taunting Constantine from a distance with other demons being far more effective than him in hurting Constantine. | |
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In Ugly Americans, the demon Twayne Boneraper makes a deal with a politician that he'll become mayor in exchange for his soul. Unfortunately said politician is utterly unelectable and boasts openly about having made a deal with the devil. He ends up dying accidentally, putting Twayne up before the demonic court for being a failure as a demon, as the only soul he's managed to ensnare recently is that of a large, ill-tempered cat. | |
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In Underworld Unleashed, Neron loses because Captain Marvel's soul is too pure. He then loses his throne in the Reign in Hell comics. | |
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Millennium (1996) has the four demons at the coffee shop in "Somehow, Satan Got Behind Me", revealing that for all their fearsome rep in the show, demons are... kind of pathetic. Even Frank ends up feeling sorry for one of them. | |
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In Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Caleb, right-hand man to the First Evil, refers to Satan as a "little man" (at least, compared to his boss). | |
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The devil appears in "The Stones Are Hatching" as a blot of pure darkness who comes to take the soul of Alexia's teacher in a flashback. However, he quickly turns out to be just as stupid as his folkloric counterpart when he is easily convinced by the teacher into going after his students instead, and then cannot even tell the difference between Alexia and her shadow, taking that instead. | |
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The Antichrist was so pathetic that he finally got a life only after accidentally mind-wiping himself by drinking from Lethe and so far no one (including Devil) wanted his old personality back. | |
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Chichikov from Dead Souls definitely invokes this with the whole "buying people's 'souls'" thing and he's a lot like the "devil as small time bureaucrat / loser" portrayal in other works. In fact, both Chichikov and Scratch store their souls in a box - the only difference is that Chichikov's are metaphorical. | |
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The Devil from Dinosaur Comics spends all his time talking to T-Rex about video games and internet slang, and he drinks grape juice from concentrate. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Infernoids are something of a meta-example, an archetype of Fiends that look like mechanical devils, named after Biblical demons. While powerful, all of them are NOMIS, who must be summoned by first banishing other Infernoids from your Graveyard, making this a weak archetype (or at least a very hard one to master) when they are used alone. Enforcing the Trope even more, while the most powerful one is Level 11, the one named after Satan is Level 1, with zero ATK and DEF, unable to be used offensively and not much use by itself. The Burning Abyss Fiends are a group that can cut it by themselves; so long as they have help from the two members of their group who are not Fiends, which are based on Dante and Virgil. Without them, the Graveyard activation requirements of their effects is difficult at best. |
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In the Brazilian movie O Auto da Compadecida, the Devil appears as an Amoral Attorney trying to damn the main characters after their deaths. While he is depicted as a very sinister figure whom everyone else is scared shitless of, The Hero makes fun of him all the time because he stinks of sulphur. The Devil also avoids looking at Jesus (who serves as the trial's judge) because his power is too holy for him to withstand and attempts to take his form in a pathetic attempt to emulate him. This trait is more pronounced in the original play, where he dresses himself in all white to pass himself as God. | |
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In the True Cheater ending of Catherine, Catherine's father, the demon Nergal, appears when Vincent proposes to his daughter to try to intercede. He's completely harmless, gets kicked in the nads by his daughter for interrupting, seems more concerned with playing video games, and ultimately gets overthrown by Vincent when he turns into an Incubus and takes over Hell. The ending's last shot shows him being used as a couch on which Vincent and Catherine are making out. | |
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