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The Nephilim ("Fallen Ones" or "Marvelous Ones") are referred to exactly twice in The Bible, the quote above just after an incident with a fruit tree, and once in the Book of Numbers, where Israel's terrified scouts compare the Canaanites to them. In addition, there are a few other places that may be indirect references to them. What exactly they were has been a matter of some discussion through the ages, since Biblical canon has so little detail other than they were strong, had great height, and devoured people. However, various non-canonical texts such as the Epistle of Jude and Book of Enoch flesh them out more. The specifics vary depending on which scroll you're reading, but the general outline runs thusly: Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })After chasing Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden, God set the Grigori (Watchers) to keep tabs on mankind. But apparently, Horny Devils is an equal opportunity trope, because these angels quickly decided it was more fun watching womankind. Finally, a faction said "Screw This, I'm Outta Here!", headed down to earth, and made with the baby-making, producing powerful half-angels (they also began teaching humans the arts and sciences, in violation of God's decrees.) Although the above is the more common version of their origins, some texts refer to them as the descendants of Seth, Adam and Eve's third child. There are many other variations, too, such as them being Lucifer's rebellious angels. Like with trolls, these guys are hard to pin down. At any rate, they were huge and powerful, and quickly began dominating the earth, becoming rulers and unstoppable warriors. Unfortunately, they generally tended toward evil. According to the Book of Genesis, and reinforced in the Book of Jubilees, one of the purposes of The Great Flood was to wipe them out. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })Like many things in The Bible and other Judeo-Christian literature, the Nephilim are handy when you're plundering for symbolism. The lack of concrete detail lends them a certain mystique, and allows the name to be attached to almost anything, although they're commonly some sort of supernatural hybrid — often a mixture of angel and either human or demon. Sometimes they are also giants, sometimes not. See The Descendants of Cain for another group of Biblical descent. Compare Golem and Our Genies Are Different for other creatures in Abrahamic religions. See also Our Angels Are Different and Our Demons Are Different, for their possible "parents". May overlap with Divine Parentage if they are part angel. For the tabletop game, see Nephilim. |
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While the term is never used specifically, in High School DXD, Akeno is one (or was before becoming a re-incarnated devil). Her mother was human but her father Baraqiel is a fallen angel and a high ranking member (and later leader after Azazel is sealed in the battle with Trihexa) of an organisation of fallen angels named the Grigori, clearly using one of the possible definitions in the description. | |
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In the second season of Senki Zesshou Symphogear, Nephilim is the only known Relic which takes the form of a living creature rather than a Public Domain Artifact. Specifically it takes the form of a monster which eats other Relics to increase in size and power, with no apparent upper limit. According to a Keyword the plural term "Nephilim" is used because it consists of a group of "Nephil" Relics which devoured each other until only one remained. Dr. Ver later infuses himself with Nephilim cells to become a Human-Relic Hybrid, giving him a monstrous left arm which can fuse with Relics to absorb or control them. | |
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The anime Rage of Bahamut: Genesis has Amira. She is the daughter of a male demon and a female angel. | |
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In Holy Bibble, Nephilim are the offspring of the "gods." Most notably, this includes Gilgamesh and the Goddess of Wisdom. | |
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In Darksiders and its sequel, the race Four Horsemen come from is called the Nephilim. They are beings that are half-angel and half-demon. | |
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In Nephilim, a player character is one of the eponymous spirits that keeps reincarnating through countless lives. They aren't hybrids of human and angel, but the inspiration for supernatural creatures and the gods of mythology. They named themselves Nephilim because one of its meanings is "fallen ones" and this refers to their fall from a higher state of spiritual being in the distant past. | |
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In Demon: The Fallen, the Nephilim were offspring of humans and fallen angels who combined traits of both races and were seen as abominations for this. More importantly, they were born near the close of the "Time of Babel", when the Ten Watchers (wisest among the fallen) forcefully advanced humanity's scientific progress at Lucifer's command. While some Nephilim were good-natured, most desired power and thus killed the Watchers and usurped their place. Lucifer had the Nephilim slaughtered but humanity's chance at divinity was already ruined and the fallen were ultimately defeated by Archangel Michael's Host. Thus the Nephilim were directly responsible for both the fall of the proverbial "Tower of Babel" and for the imprisonment of the fallen in hell. | |
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Supernatural: One of these beings shows up in "Clip Show". Jane, the last known Nephilim to exist on Earth, looks no different that any other human, but does have great strength and endurance that she demonstrates by being able to easily hold her own against two angels. She can also make her eyes glow similarly to angels, although her glow is a more dim and grayish color as opposed to the bright white or bluish-white glow of regular angels. During the 12th season, Lucifer impregnated a human (Kelly Kline), by using the President of USA as his vessel. This nephilim poses a significantly higher threat as it is a spawn of a human and an archangel (they are much more stronger than regular angels). His birth causes a dimensional rift to open that is a gateway to another world where the Winchesters were never born. The nephilim has many feats under his belt even when he was in his mother's womb: He was able to empower Castiel in order to easily incinerate Dagon (a prince of Hell). He was able to save his mother when she slashed her throat open. He brought her back from the brink of death. |
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Sandman Slim has James "Sandman Slim" Stark- Angel father, Human mother. In one of his occasional chats with Lucifer, they decide the reason Stark has survived for so long, compared to the other known Nephilim, is that they are born warriors (or berserkers), and the time Stark spent in Hell's Arena allowed him to "release steam" and come to terms with it without having to think too hard about what to do with his life. | |
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There are two kinds of Nephilim in Halt Evil Doer!, because there are two kinds of Grigori. One set of Grigori are the classic Earth-based angels, and the Nephilim are their halfbreed children who have superpowers of different kinds, plus the ability to detect angels. The twist is that the Grigori were banished from Heaven, and the Nephilim are bred as footsoldiers in their war against their former comrades. (To avoid confusion, these Grigori were later renamed the Watchers.) The other Grigori are the Captain Ersatz Guardians of the Universe, and their Nephilim are a "failed genetic experiment"; basically a non-robotic Captain Ersatz of the Manhunters. |
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The Mortal Instruments, while keeping the angelic origin, has the Nephilim as essentially enhanced humans descended from angels who slay demons and look beautiful doing it. This book series also has the fairies. They are the common descendants of angels and demons. However, it is explicitly emphasized that they are not nephilim. |
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In Elsword, the Dark Nephilim is a monstrous figure worshipped by the Dark Elves. Their leader, Chloe, summons it on your party to ambush you. Advancing Boss of Doom ensues. | |
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The Devil's Advocate: In the climax Milton not only reveals that he's actually the Devil, but that he's been traveling the Earth to impregnate human women against their will. Kevin and Christabella are his half-human offspring. | |
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One episode of The X-Files featured the Nephilim in the form of several grotesquely deformed young women. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons In the 3rd-party sourcebook Anger of Angels, Nephilim are presented as a monster. They are the evil offspring of the Grigori (a type of angel) and mortals. In the 3rd-party sourcebook Aasimar & Tiefing: A Guidebook to the Planetouched, half-celestials and half-fiends are given the names Nephilim and Cambion, respectively. |
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Nephilim in Anima: Beyond Fantasy are humans whose souls actually belong to a member of another race who died in the past and reincarnated as humans, sharing some of the traits of their former selves and even remembering more or less of their former lives. | |
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Georgina Kincaid has Nephilim as major characters. This version follows mostly the origin from the Bible, though they are portrayed as human-looking and not particularly tall. They are powerful and capable of killing supernatural creatures, but always weaker than both demons and angels, and they don't stand a chance against either of the two unless they have superior number. While some of them are evil, and many resent demons and angels for banishing them, the large majority just want to be left alone, and live hidden amongst mortals. The main reason Nephilim are called 'giants' is because of their supernatural origin. In ancient times, average height was a LOT less than it is today with modern nutrition, so any supernatural hybrid would be taller than average (in Mead's setting, it's extremely unlikely a higher immortal would suffer from malnutrition). In addition, Roman is described as being very tall. To Georgina's default 5' 2'' form, he is much, much taller. |
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In Magic: The Gathering, Nephilim are a creature type in the Guildpact set, huge Eldritch Abominations created by the gods basically just to make mortals crap their pants. Due to the extreme resource requirements to play them, they don't see much use. | |
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Noah portrays the Nephilim as fallen angels in the form of rock monsters that aid the heroes hoping for redemption. | |
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Eegah! attempts to call the title character one of these... by quoting a non-existent bible verse as proof. Nonetheless, the basic idea of The Bible having giants seems to mean that they meant the character was a Nephilim. | |
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In The Fallen, Aaron Corbet discovers that he is one. Moreover, he, and others like him, are being hunted by warrior angels known as the Powers, who believe that the Nephilim are an abomination that must be cleansed form the world. As a Nephilim, Aaron has some of the abilities of the angels, including wings, being able to speak any language (even animal languages), and emitting fire blasts (which also includes manifesting flaming swords). He also learns that he's not an ordinary Nephilim, but the prophesied Redeemer, a Nephilim with the ability to redeem Fallen Angels (those, who wish to return to Heaven, at least). He's also Lucifer's son. | |
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In Dm C Devil May Cry, Nephilim refers to demon-angel hybrids who can harness both infernal and celestial power, sometimes also called "the third race". They aren't giants, but they are very powerful. Basically the opposite of Hybrid Overkill Avoidance. Dante and Vergil, twin brothers, are the only two alive because the demon king Mundus wiped them out, fearing they'd overthrow him. | |
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Nephilims are the main antagonists in the British supernatural drama Hex. | |
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In Many Waters, a time-travel novel which mostly takes place in the times leading up to Noah's flood, the Nephilim appear as Fallen Angels who each have a counterpart in the Seraphim who also walk the earth at the time. | |
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In Dominions, the nation of Hinnom was initially the gluttonous Nephilim giants ruling over the Avvim the Grigori had fathered them with, before they left in search of purpose, leaving the nation in the hands of their own children by the Avvim, the Rephaim. | |
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In El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron, the traditional idea of Nephilim as children of the Watchers and humans is given a unique spin, appropriate for El Shaddai. These Nephilim are squishy and adorable creatures that look nothing like humans, and are just so cute...until they start devouring each other in a despair-induced bid for death. Leading to the last Nephilim standing becoming a gigantic, apocalyptic Fire Nephilim. | |
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In In Nomine the Grigori were the angels closest to humanity, so close that they could interbreed with mortals. All of their children have greater capacity for magic than normal humans, but some, called Nephilim, are monstrously deformed in body and/or mind. For the creation of the Nephilim, the Grigori were banished from Heaven. | |
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In Exile and its Updated Re-release Avernum, the Nephilim are Cat Folk. | |
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In Diablo III, "Nephalem" are the powerful descendants of angels and demons, with humans being their Nerfed descendants after a Power Limiter was put in place. The destruction of same at the end of the second game allowed new Nephalem to be born, of which your character is one. | |
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In Buffy the Vampire Slayer you can see the half-demon Whistler. His father was a kind of angel, and his mother was a demon. | |
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The Assassin's Creed games use the term to refer to the Precursors a few times. | |
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The Prophecy 3: The Ascent: Danyael Jr. is a human/angel Nephilim hybrid, conceived in the previous film as part of a prophecy to create the one destined to end the War in Heaven. | |
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