History Main / FallenAngel

** The idea of Satan himself as a fallen angel is popularized by Jesus, who proclaims to have seen him literally fall "like lightning from heaven" and later assures that eternal fire is ready for him as his rebel angels. This story appears further detailed in the Second Book of Enoch, written either before or around the time of Jesus, which casts Satan as an arrogant rebel and retcons the fall of Adam and Eve as one of his evil manipulations.

** [[UsefulNotes/{{Gnosticism}} Gnostic]] authors would take the trope UpToEleven, with some authors, especially from the Simonian school, stating that the entire world and the human bodies were created by fallen angels. Even after Gnosticism phased out the term angel in favor of [[OurArchonsAreDifferent Archons]], the idea of one or more divine entities who fell from grace remained the basis of many-if-not-most Gnostic branches. UsefulNotes/TheCathars, for instance, postulated that ''we'' were fallen angels, seduced by an evil god into inhabiting fleshly bodies.

* OlderThanFeudalism: UsefulNotes/{{Judaism}} and UsefulNotes/{{Christianity}} feature evil angels as either villains or ''the'' villain himself, {{Satan}}.

** The idea of Satan himself as a fallen angel is popularized by Jesus, who proclaims to have seen him literally fall "like lightning from heaven" and later assures that eternal fire is ready for him as his rebel angels. This story appears further developed in the Second Book of Enoch, written around the same time, which casts Satan as an arrogant rebel and retcons the fall of Adam and Eve as one of his evil manipulations.

** [[UsefulNotes/{{Gnosticism}} Gnostic]] authors would take the idea of fallen angels UpToEleven, with some of them, especially from the Simonian school, stating that the entire world and the human bodies were created by fallen angels.

* OlderThanFeudalism: ''Literature/TheBible'' is the UrExample. The book of Job states that not even the angels are perfect though we do not get to any fallen angels until {{Satan}} in the New Testament, unless you consider apocryphal ''Book of Enoch'', which offers several more along with one of the few pre New Testament examples of a fallen Satan.
* A common belief is that TheFairFolk are fallen angels, who didn't land into Hell.
* In UsefulNotes/{{Islam}}, this is considered impossible. Angels are said to have no free will whatsoever, so they can't fall. Instead, [[{{Satan}} Shaitan]] (a.k.a. Iblis) and his followers are considered fallen djinn.

* The titular Panty and Stocking of ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt''. [[spoiler:Stocking gets to go back to heaven in the penultimate episode, but returns in the last to help Panty defeat Corset; the final scene states she's not actually an angel but a ''demon''.]]

* ''Anime/DancewithDevils'' has [[spoiler: Shiki Natsumekaza]]

** Zariel, central character in the 5th Edition adventure ''TabletopGame/BaldursGateDescentIntoAvernus'', was an Archangel of Celestia sent to watch over the [[ForeverWar Blood War]]. But she grew frustrated with the Celestial Host for sitting by and only watching as demons preyed upon the Material Plane, and so gathered an army of mortals and marched on Avernus. Her army was quickly crushed, but Asmodeus took her unconscious body from the battlefield and promoted Zariel to Archduchess of the First Hell, placing her at the front lines of the Blood War on the very layer she invaded. She takes her new role seriously, but is rumored to be plotting for revenge against Asmodeus... [[DeadlyDecadentCourt not that this is unusual for Hellish politics.]]

** ''Anime/DigimonAdventure2020'': [[spoiler:Seraphimon briefly became [=BlackSeraphimon=] while immersed in TheCorruption, though it also weakened him to the point that he very quickly reverted to his non-fallen lower-level forms.]] Also, [[spoiler:[=SkullKnightmon=] and [=DarkKnightmon=]]] are this more indirectly, being the corrupted form of [[spoiler:Tailmon/Gatomon, who was Ophanimon in a previous life and remains a holy Digimon in the present]].

* ''The Devil's Tomb'' is about a military squad sent to extract a scientist from an underground laboratory that's housing a seraph. Here the seraph is depicted as a HumanoidAbomination that causes hallucinations and turns people into unkillable extensions of its HiveMind, [[spoiler: and it's pissed off at God for not appreciating it.]]

* In ''Film/{{Bedazzled|1967}}'' (1967), the Devil (or Lucifer as he was known then) explains he was once God's favorite angel and was booted out of Heaven when he wanted some of the same adoration God received. The two had since had a running wager on who could claim ten billion souls first; if Lucifer won he could reclaim his old place.
** Once Lucifer ''did'' get the ten billion souls first, but [[JerkassGod God denied him the win due to a technicality.]]

* Yoshiko Tsushima's alter ego is the self-proclaimed fallen angel "Yohane". Unfortunately for her, ''Anime/LoveLiveSunshine'' is a very normal SliceOfLife school idol show, and she just has a very bad case of {{Chuunibyou}}.

** Zariel, central character in the 5th Edition adventure ''Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus'', was an Archangel of Celestia sent to watch over the [[ForeverWar Blood War]]. But she grew frustrated with the Celestial Host for sitting by and only watching as demons preyed upon the Material Plane, and so gathered an army of mortals and marched on Avernus. Her army was quickly crushed, but Asmodeus took her unconscious body from the battlefield and promoted Zariel to Archduchess of the First Hell, placing her at the front lines of the Blood War on the very layer she invaded. She takes her new role seriously, but is rumored to be plotting for revenge against Asmodeus... [[DeadlyDecadentCourt not that this is unusual for Hellish politics.]]

** At the end of season 8, Castiel loses his grace and ''all'' of the angels fall. The others have only lost their wings, so they retained some of their power, but Castiel is pretty much a human.

-->"[[ShutUpHannibal I choose what once, a coward did not.]]"

* The Fallen from ''[[VideoGame/DevilMayCry Devil May Cry 3]]''.
* Dracula from ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsOfShadow''. [[spoiler: Initially, Gabriel's angelic status was just an elaborate MagicEnhancement of sorts, bestowed upon him by God, but the blessing remained even after his fall.]]

* If an angel acts against the Literature/RoTeO equivalent of {{God}} then they become a FallenAngel. The main difference between a fallen angel and a normal one is the poinsettia-red wings (with the exception of Azrael who has black wings).

* ''Series/{{Hannibal}}'': Dr. Hannibal Lecter isn't a literal example ([[MagicRealism probably]]), but the concept of the FallenAngel is the primary influence on how the show's version of this character is presented.

* In the {{Disney/Frozen}} fanfic Fanfic/SorryAboutTheMess [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10019839/1]], this is true nature of both [[spoiler: Grand Pabbie]] and [[spoiler: The Mirror]], although they both had very different reasons for why it happened

** For [[CelestialParagonsAndArchangels archangels]], being cut off will have absolutely ''no effect'' on them. They will keep all their abilities and complete with an unlimited self-sustained power source to boot. This is later revealed to be because they predate both Heaven and the rest of the cosmos.

** For [[CelestialParagonsAndArchangels archangels]], being cut off will have absolutely ''no effect'' on them. They will keep all their abilities and complete with an unlimited self-sustained power source to boot.

* In ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'', Fallen Angels are one of the main supernatural factions, along with Angels and Demons. The major ones include Azazel, leader of the Fallen Angels and TheMentor to [[TheHero Issei]], Akeno Himejima, Rias's [[NumberTwo vice]] and [[BalancedHarem one of Issei's numerous love interests]] (although she's technically half-Demon, half-Fallen Angel), Reynare, who kickstarted the story by [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence killing Issei]], and Kokabiel, the BigBad of Volume 3.

** In the ''TabletopGame/NentirVale'' setting, which is also the generic setting for the 4th edition of the game, this trope is used twice over:
*** Devils in the World Axis cosmology ultimately descend from fallen angels. Note that there is a clear distinction drawn between ''fallen'' angels and ''evil'' angels in this cosmology: Evil angels are simply that; angels who are evil, and thus favor serving the resident [[GodOfEvil Gods of Evil]]. Fallen angels, by comparison, have actively rejected the gods and turned against them as a whole, despite the fact that angels in this cosmology exist to serve the gods[[note]]'''ALL''' of the gods, which is why angels are considered [[LightIsNotGood Unaligned]] rather than Good[[/note]]. Devils are descended from an alliance of angels who chose to follow the archangel Asmodeus when he betrayed his former godly master and murdered him, and were warped into their present state by that god's dying curse. There are fallen angels who aren't devils, but they're noted as extremely rare.

->''"And war broke out in heaven: [[ArchangelMichael Michael]] and his angels battled with [[TheDevil the dragon]], and the dragon and its angels battled but it did not prevail, neither was a place found for them any longer in heaven. So down the great dragon was hurled, the original serpent, the one called Devil and {{Satan}}, who is misleading the entire inhabited earth; he was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him."''