History Main / NumberOfTheBeast

* In ''{{War and Peace}}'', Pierre Bezukhov calculates the Hebrew number equivalent of Napoleon's full title (''L'Empereur Napoléon'') to be 666, shoehorns his own name to yield the same number (''L'Russe Besuhof''), and thinks that he's destined to kill Napoleon or at least for something great. In reality, the scheme he used yields 661 for Napoleon, not 666, rendering all his actions based on this observation bunk. For a bit of {{Painting the Fourth Wall}}, the last page of the chapter dedicated to this calculating the Number of the Beast is page 666.

** As explained in the Daemon codex, due to way time flows in the Warp (that is, very erraticly) despite being created about 30 000 years in the future, Slaanesh has in a way always existed, and never existed. [[MindFuck Warp is confusing like that.]]

** Had two strips not been added to commemorate the deaths of D&D's co-creators, OotS #666 would have featured a scene of three fiends revealing their diabolical intentions to a fourth.

* Speculation ran rampant the week before the 6th of June, 2006, over speculation that Armageddon would occur on 6/6/6. [[YouShouldKnowThisAlready It didn't.]] Maybe it was the fact that the date was actually 6/6/'''0'''6, or that if the theory held water then the [[FridgeLogic world should have already undergone divine judgement two thousand years ago]].

* In ''{{Escape from LA}}'', the code that unleashes the worldwide EMP is 666.

* John Hodgman's ''{{The Areas of My Expertise}}'' includes a list of (North American) phone numbers beginning with the prefix "666" including "a bunch of Satanists who got lucky" and "the author's home phone number".

** Bill Gates: 66 + 73 + 76 + 71 + 65 + 84 + 69 + 83 = 663. Add 3 as in William Gates ''III'' and you get 666. For the record, this also works with Windows 95.
*** Also, an easier method can be used for the internet: "World Wide Web" - "WWW" - "V/ V/ V/" - "VI VI VI" - "666"
*** Except the internet and the "World Wide Web" are two distinct items: the WWW is an application that runs on the internet. Like Email, or VOIP, or networked games like Doom.

* There's another theory that this was just a way to express "a large number" in roman numerals -- either DCLXVI or DCXVI, one each of several Roman numerals. Of course, this doesn't lend itself to numerologists, conspiracy theorists, evangelists or other lunatics.
** [[ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne Hey, don't group us lunatics to the rest of those maniacs!]]

Interestingly, in [[ChineseLanguage Chinese]], 666 sounds like the phrase that roughly translates as "things are going fine" and the number is thus considered lucky in China. Multiple sixes are similarly lucky to Arabic speakers, as six, "ellah", is similar to God, "allah".

* Galm Team from ''AceCombat Zero'' is the Ustio 6th Air Division, 66th Squadron. By the way, "Galm" is a mistranslation of "Garmr", a hellish wolf in NorseMythology that kills Tyr during the Ragnarök. The final mission of ''Shattered Skies'', appropriately a ScrappyLevel with tunnel-flying, has Mobius One start at 6666 feet.

* An episode of ''{{QI}}'' had Stephen Fry asking the teams what the number of the beast was (Alan Davies did of course fall for the 666 trap). After Fry had revealed that 616 was the actual number, one of the panel concluded that 666 must be his fax number!

* In the Eighth Child arc of ''DigimonAdventure,'' prophecy has it that the BigBad is destined to arrive at "the hour of the beast." The good guys defeat him before then... [[NotQuiteDead oh, wait, they don't.]] And that evening, at 6:06 PM and 6 seconds, his insanely powerful OneWingedAngel form arises. Somewhat surprisingly kept in the dub.

* In ''GundamSEEDDestiny'', Rey Za Burrel's Gundam is the ZGMF-X'''666'''S Legend. However, whether he is [[CharacterDerailment evil or not]] [[YourMileageMayVary depends on who you ask or your own opinion]].

* A church was "lucky" enough to get 666 as part of its phone number. They quickly changed it.

** Also invoked in "Midnight": When Mrs Silvestri starts repeating what everybody says, the teenaged Jethro says "six six six" to get her to repeat it. SoYeah.

* In the opening pages of the manga ''{{Biomega}}'', we see the protagonist driving along an abandoned bridge... going 666 km/h, of course.

** And it doubles as a reference to [[WW2 Executive Order 9066]][[hottip:*: Basically [[MoralDissonance all Japanese people (even citizens) are potential traitors, round them all up and put them in camps where they can't harm Americans]] ]]. It's awfully convenient that way.

* Played with in the 1999 film ''End of Days''. Apparently, people who saw the number of the beast in their dreams/visions didn't realize it was shown upside down, so the number of the beast was 999 instead of 666. Whack a '1' in front of it, and you've got 1999. Convincing!

* In the first ''HarryPotter'' book, Nicholas Flamel dies willingly at Six Hundred and Sixty Five Years old, which was intentionally spelled out to hide the reference.

* The ''[[TheMightyBoosh Mighty Boosh]]'' episode ''Nanageddon'' features a demon going on a rampage at a bingo night. As she reveals herself, the bingo caller announces the number: ''"All the sixes - 666."''

* In ''{{Castlevania}}: Symphony of the Night'', Death is level 66, the vampire Olrox and the Succubus have 666 HP, and the Malachi (which [[{{Macekre}} was ''supposed'']] to be called [[HPLovecraft Cthulhu]]) and the Fire Demon gives 666 experience points.

* The Pain Doubler spell under Zamza's Evil Magic library deals 666 damage... which sucks quite a bit since the average damage in ''SagaFrontier'' is four digits.

** In the ''Ultimate Doom'', [=E1M1=] has 666 sidedefs

* In ''DevilMayCry 4'', Dante gets a weapon called Pandora, which is a demonic briefcase [[SwissArmyWeapon that can transform into 666 evil forms]]... which all seem to be big guns.

* In ''{{Disgaea}} 3'', Mao calculates that it will take exactly 666 Nether hours (after Mao hijacks his "Hero" title) until HeroicWannabe Almaz becomes a full-fledged demon.

* In ''KingdomHearts: Re: Chain of Memories'', Marluxia's final form has a sleight that is activated by using three six cards (looking like 666 when it shows up on the screen). This forces Sora to have to break all his cards or else instant death.

* In ''LuminousArc3'', the first stage of the final boss will have 666 HP. [[spoiler: However, the final boss is an [[GodIsEvil evil god....]]]]

->''Woe to you, Oh Earth and Sea, for the Devil sends the\\
beast with wrath, because he knows the time is short...\\
Let him who hath understanding reckon the number of the\\
beast, for it is a human number; its number is Six hundred \\
threescore and six.''