History Main / HollywoodSatanism

However, thanks to Satan being a figure associated with evil and someone who directly opposes God in Abrahamic religions, there is a widespread misrepresentation of Satanism in popular culture. Satanism tends to be portrayed as a cult with strange and often violent rituals. Individual Satanists are often presented as criminals.

* Parodied in ''{{Metalocalypse}}'', when Murderface joins the Church of Satan and goes to Black Mass. They come across as rather timid, cowardly people that can't stand up for themselves. Then played straight in TheStinger, when the Church of Satan actually does summon a demon.

* The song "The Number of the Beast" by {{Iron Maiden}} tells of a man witnessing Satanic rituals that horrify him.

* AliceCooper is an interesting subversion: he's often been accused of being the [[HollywoodSatanism Hollywood Satanist]], and his stage shows may very well give the impression to some that he is... when he's actually a Christian.

** Informed Satanism?

* The entire plot of the B-movie ''DevilsPrey''.

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!!!Voiced by: Osama Bin Laden (Afghanistanese), The Great Khali (English), The Slender man (scarynese), George W Bush (Engrish, stupidnese), David Bowie (Sexinese)

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Teh (b)(a)(b)(a) cann0t bee st0pp3d!1!11!1!

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* I once jumped off a plane without a parachute and fell on mount everest and exploded, but did not flinch. I quickly regenerated and jumped off the mountain while wearing a pink dress doing ballet and I landed on my head. This time only my head exploded but I quickly replaced it with a rock and ran into the ocean and wrestled with sharks all night long. After causing the extinction of the sharks I had also had my arms bitten off but I replaced those with shark heads and declared war on the world. Every country with nuclear weapons dropped a atom bomb on me but I shrugged them all off and used my shark hands to do a forbidden technique and dropped the moon on the earth which caused it to be knocked off balance and crash into the sun which caused a super nova so big it created a blackhole so large which sucked the entire universe but my rock/head. Now all alone my rock/head floats in space but I did not flinch and went to sleep forever. The End.


'''Associated tropes:'''
* Attempted Rape: One time teh (b)(a)(b)(a) looked at it's reflection and thought it was sexy so it tore teh reflection out of teh mirror and attempted to raep it but instead it ate teh reflection because teh (b)(a)(b)(a) did not have lunch that day and was vely hungly
* TheBerserker: averted teh (b)(a)(b)(a) is never mad but can still berserk
* BADASS: U KNOW IT
* Disney Death: Teh (b)(a)(b)(a) threw Walt Disney off a cliff and to this day it is unknown if he is dead or alive
* FourIsDeath: and so is five,six,seven,eight,nine,ten,eleven..........
* HealingFactor: heals so fast that it r unpossible to woundify
* HighPressureBlood
* HolyHalo: has a holy parallelogram instead of a circle thingie
* LivingWeapon
* MeaningfulName: Teh (b)(a)(b)(a) has an meaningfilled name
* PoweredByAForsakenChild: Teh (b)(a)(b)(a) is powered on aborted fetuses.
* RestrainingBolt: there is a bolt in it's head that is preventing it from killing everything.
* SlasherSmile: Even when not smiling
* SuperPrototype: of humanity
* UnstoppableRage
* YourSizeMayVary: size varies from 0 to infinity.
* The End of the World as U Know It: What happen if u angur teh (b)(a)(b)(a)

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* In ''GoodOmens'', Crowley identifies two kinds of Satanist: [[PunchClockVillain ordinary people]] [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything who are Satanists because their parents were and don't usually think about religion except when they go to Black Mass]], and the ''other'' kind [[EvenEvilHasStandards who give demons (or Crowley, at least) the creeps.]]

* Parodied in ''{{Metalocalypse}}'', when Murderface joins the Church of Satan and goes to Black Mass. Then played straight in TheStinger, when the Church of Satan actually does summon a demon.

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* Almost any true crime show or LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek when needing a religiously-motivated criminal or killer, will pick one of these. Rarely if ever do they choose religiously motivated killers motivated by SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny inflicting their twisted sense of "justice" on the DisposableSexWorker, or people who kill abortion doctors or LGBTQI people out of motives drawn from Abrahamic religion or culture informed by it. UnfortunateImplications doesn't even begin to describe it.

* ''MyImmortal'' is probably the most confusing case of Hollywood Satanism that ever existed. The characters worship Satan (Satan, not Voldemort, whose nickname in high school was Satan), but we never really see them do anything beyond getting high and yelling at people. One implication is that they worship Satan by insulting preps and getting high on "crak".

* In ''{{Spawn}}'', a pair of "weekend Satanists" bump into Spawn and Clown and completely freak out, much to Clown's disgust.

* MarilynManson claims to be a Satanist, whether he actually is or not is definitely something on which YourMileageMayVary.

* AliceCooper is an interesting subversion: he's often been accused of being the HollywoodSatanist, and his stage shows may very well give the impression to some that he is... when he's actually a Christian.

* ''StarskyAndHutch'' episode "Satan's Witches": While on vacation, the title characters run into a town full of devil-worshipping Satanists (as if that weren't redundant).

* Murdoc Niccals of the {{Gorillaz}} is openly satanist, is never seen without the inverted cross on his neck and has apparently made a DealWithTheDevil.

Compare ReligionOfEvil, AlwaysChaoticEvil.

* ''MyImmortal'' is probably the most confusing case of Hollywood Satanism that ever existed. The characters worphip Satan (Satan, not Voldemort, whose nickname in high school was Satan), but we never really see them do anything beyond getting high and yelling at people. One implication is that they worship Satan by insulting preps and getting high on "crak".

{{Satan}}ism is a highly misunderstood religion. RealLife Satanism can be divided into two categories, one that doesn't believe in Satan and instead refers to Satan as a symbol for freedom to [[UsefulNotes/Hedonism follow your own desires]] and/or for [[RebelLeader fighting]] [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters against]] [[GodIsEvil tyranny]], and another that worships or reveres [[{{SatanIsGood}} Satan]] as a deity. It's a religion whose followers, generally speaking, are no more or less likely to be 'evil' than the followers of any other religion.

{{Satan}}ism is a highly misunderstood religion. Real life Satanism can be divided into two categories, one that doesn't believe in Satan and instead refers to Satan as a symbol for freedom to follow your own desires, and another that worships or reveres [[{{SatanIsGood}} Satan]] as a deity. It's a religion whose followers, generally speaking, are no more or less likely to be 'evil' than the followers of any other religion.

* The main villains in DriveAngry are this, oddly enough though [[spoiler: the actual minion of Satan in the movie isn't really shown t obe all that bad in this movie, and says that the devil does not approve of the cult.]]

* The entire plot of the B-movie ''TheDevil'sPrey''.