History Main / AngelsDevilsAndSquid

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': The warlock class can have a pact with a Fiend, [[OurAngelsAreDifferent a Celestial]] or [[EldritchAbomination the Great Old Ones]].
** While the Outer Planes and their inhabitants reflect their alignments in predictable fashion, supplements in the Planescape setting frequently hinted at anomalies that predated and defied the familiar Good-Evil/Law-Chaos arrangement:

*** Deep in Baator (the Lawful Evil plane of tyrannical dominion) are slumbering creatures called "True Baatorians," whom the players never meet, but whose presence might be felt as they siphon the life energy of anything coming close. The devils that rule Baator are apparently terrified of these things reawakening.

* Literature/TheBible itself has Yahweh and his angels, demons (+ Satan on Revelation) and the Leviathan, which according to academics might have been originally intended to have existed before God. The angels themselves look pretty eldritch.

->On the front of the Octavo had been a representation of Bel-Shamharoth. He was not Evil, for even Evil has a certain vitality -- Bel-Shamharoth was the flip side of the coin of which Good and Evil are but one side.

*** At the highest layer of Elysium (the Neutral Good plane of peaceful rest) is a bleak, barren desert featuring the skeletons of mammoth creatures and ruins belonging to no known civilizations, bearing secret words that can destroy gods.

A lot of contemporary horror fiction uses a strange blend of Christian and [[CosmicHorrorStory Lovecraftian]] mythology. [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Angels]] are good, [[LightIsNotGood usually]], [[GoodIsNotNice but not necessarily nice]]; [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Devils]] are bad, [[DarkIsNotEvil usually]], and [[AffablyEvil still evil even when they are nice]]; {{Eldritch Abomination}}s from Beyond either A) just want to [[OmnicidalManiac destroy it all]], B) twist everything into something [[BlueAndOrangeMorality wholly alien]] that {{squick}}s out ''[[EvenEvilHasStandards both]]'' [[EveryoneHasStandards of the]] [[EnemyMine aforementioned]] [[EvilVersusOblivion parties]], or C) operate on BlueAndOrangeMorality.

* ''VideoGame/{{Metroid}}'' has gone into this trope sometimes: The angels are typically Samus, the [[TheFederation Galactic Federation]], and the [[BirdPeople Chozo]]/[[LightIsGood Luminoth]], the devils are typically the SpacePirates, and the squid are usually Metroids, Phazon, or something that only shows up in that particular game (the Ing, Gorea, the X-Parasites).

* In the HGame ''Lucy Got Problems,'' there exist Angels and Demons, and the Hollow, which is a CaptainErsatz of WebOriginal/{{Zalgo}}.

->On the front of the Octavo had been a representation of [[EldritchAbomination Bel-Shamharoth]]. He was not Evil, for even Evil has a certain vitality -- [[BlueAndOrangeMorality Bel-Shamharoth was the flip side of the coin of which Good and Evil are but one side.]]

** Dotted through Tolkien's creation are weird primordial creatures like Ungoliant, a colossal dark spider-entity of pure blight and destruction, or the Nameless Things at earth's roots mentioned by Gandalf during the trip through Moria. At least one actual squid (the Watcher in the Water) is confirmed.[[note]]Technically--except in the live-action movie, the Watcher never appears in full, and may well not be a singular entity, but its tentacles ''definitely'' evoke a cephalopod.[[/note]] The very existence of these beings invoke a lot of metaphysical questions about the setting that [[LeftHanging never really get addressed]]. After all, the creation myth for Ardadoesn't leave much room for Nameless Things.

** Dotted through Tolkien's creation are weird primordial creatures like Ungoliant, a colossal dark spider-entity of pure blight and destruction, or the Nameless Things at earth's roots mentioned by Gandalf during the trip through Moria. At least one actual squid (the Watcher in the Water) is confirmed.[[note]]Technically--except in the live-action movie, the Watcher never appears in full, and may well not be a singular entity, but its tentacles ''definitely'' evoke a cephalopod.[[/note]]

* VideoGame/FallenLondon has devils walking the street and squid-faced citizens known as the Rubbery Men, although oddly there don't appear to be any angels. The Church does have a large presence in the city though.[[spoiler:The Rubbery Men are just regular aliens. The actual Squid role is played by [[LightIsNotGood the stars themselves.]]]]

** ''GURPS Cabal'' has active, mostly malevolent but sometimes just slightly weird and grossly powerful demons, and occasional appearances by overwhelmingly powerful and enigmatic angels (who presumably represent the will of God, who's omnipotent, distant, and beyond human understanding). It also has pagan gods, but they just seem to be ethereal manifestations of belief, and ultraterrestrials, inhuman but only somewhat powerful beings from beyond the human world. But then there are the Qlippoth, "shells" or "husks", remnants of a past creation, who are as inhumanly horrible as any squid, and tend to manifest in forms evoking corruption and decay. The Cabal, who regard dealings with demons as tricky and dangerous but sometimes part of their toolkit, pagan gods as interesting, and ultraterrestrials as, sometimes, potential recruits, regard Qlippothic infestations as something to exterminate ''immediately,'' by any means necessary.

* ''Series/'ChillingAdventuresOfSabrina'' plays this straight from season 3 on with the introduction of the "Eldritch Terrors" to its angel and demon mix.

** [[GodOfEvil Chaos Gods]] and [[TheHeartless daemons]] are unambiguously the Devils, and sometimes also the Squid.
** The [[OurOrcsAreDifferent Ork]] Gods of [[WarGod Gork and Mork]] are Angels for the [[BloodKnight Greenskins]], but Devils to everybody else.

** The [[PhysicalGod C'Tan]] with how weird they were, could reasonably serve as Squid until the Necrons, their followers, [[RageAgainstTheHeavens killed or shattered them and sealed away the shards]]. The newly arrived [[BugWar Tyranids]] brought their HiveMind, savagely intelligent and ruthlessly Darwinian and driven only by unending hunger, serves as a new and different Squid.

* ''Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina''' plays this straight from season 3 on with the introduction of the "Eldritch Terrors" to its angel and demon mix.

* ''Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina''' plays this straight from season 3 on

* [[InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons Dragons!]] Although they possess [[OurDragonsAreDifferent many forms]], dragons have three particular subsets that fit the mold: DragonsAreDivine, DragonsAreDemonic, and DraconicAbomination.

* In ''VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising'', the player character, Pit, is the Angel, the Devils are [[spoiler:[[EveryoneHatesHades Hades]] and [[GaiasVengeance Viridi]]]], and the Squid are [[spoiler:[[StarfishAliens the Aurum]]]].

* The Bible itself has Yahweh and his angels, demons (+ Satan on Revelation) and the Leviathan, which according to academics might have been originally intended to have existed before God. The angels themselves look pretty eldritch.

* The world of ''Literature/SupervillainySaga'' by Creator/CTPhipps has a Jewish protagonist who deals with angels, demons, and Lovecraftian abominations called the Great Beasts. This fits with the fact it is a CapePunk AffectionateParody of the superherho genre.

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* The Wiki/SCPFoundation has many items that come from contradicting theologies (due to the website's motto that "[[NegativeContinuity there is no canon]]"), including biblical. Many also are based off religions that only exist on the site and have no ties to any mythology.

A lot of contemporary horror fiction uses a strange blend of [[LowestCosmicDenominator Christian]] and [[CosmicHorrorStory Lovecraftian]] mythology. [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Angels]] are good, [[LightIsNotGood usually]], [[GoodIsNotNice but not necessarily nice]]; [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Devils]] are bad, [[DarkIsNotEvil usually]], and [[AffablyEvil still evil even when they are nice]]; {{Eldritch Abomination}}s from Beyond either A) just want to [[OmnicidalManiac destroy it all]], B) twist everything into something [[BlueAndOrangeMorality wholly alien]] that {{squick}}s out ''[[EvenEvilHasStandards both]]'' [[EveryoneHasStandards of the]] [[EnemyMine aforementioned]] [[EvilVersusOblivion parties]], or C) operate on BlueAndOrangeMorality.

->On the front of the Octavo had been a representation of [[EldritchAbomination Bel-Shamharoth]]. He was not Evil, for even Evil has a certain vitality -- [[AngelsDevilsAndSquid Bel-Shamharoth was the flip side of the coin of which Good and Evil are but one side.]]