History YMMV / ParadiseLost

* EvilIsSexy: Lucifer is indeed the most beautiful of all the angels, and even as Satan possesses a great deal of charisma and a seductive, salacious tongue.

* FanonDiscontinuity: Many fans disregard the band's synthrock era. [[OldShame Nick Holmes and Greg Mackintosh]] seem to think so too.

* SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}: Following Adam's & Eve's celebratory sex after eating the fruit, Adam blames Eve for their current predicament, and they end up not speaking to each other for the rest of the day.

* HardToAdaptWork: The story can be this, due to either the surrealistic premise (The War on Heaven) and perhaps an AudienceAlienatingPremise (depicting Satan as the protagonist) for a (mostly) Christian audience. The [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation ambiguity]] of the whole thing also doesn't help.

* ValuesDissonance: "What?" you say. "Seventeenth century religious fiction features Values Dissonance? No way!" Milton's portrayal of Eve is [[StayInTheKitchen certainly a product of its time]], yet also FairForItsDay.

* DracoInLeatherPants: Satan's conflicted, stirring speeches and soliloquies are some of the best writing in the book, causing him to have a legion of fans. William Blake was probably the first to suggest that Milton was subconsciously on his side, and Satan has developed one of the most loyal {{Alternative Character Interpretation}}s in literature.

* CommonKnowledge: Not only among the general public but even among professional literary critics, ''Paradise Lost'' is predominantly known as the book where, "Satan is the good guy." For the general public, this may be the only thing they "know" about the work. While what Satan ''says'' is at times stirring and convincing, it's only possible to see him as a "hero" if one only listens to what he says and completely ignores what he actually ''does.''

* UnintentionallySympathetic: Satan depicts himself in the story with the tropes of a tragic hero, clearly intending to present himself in a sympathetic light in his fall from grace. Whether author ''John Milton'' intended this is up for debate. He obviously didn't expect some readers to see Satan as "the real hero" of the story. Despite it all, many readers take Satan's speeches at face value and see God as a capricious and arrogant tyrant, and view Satan as the hero for standing up for "equality" and "freedom."

* UnintentionallySympathetic: In casting Satan with the tropes of a tragic hero, John Milton clearly intended the character to be sympathetic in his fall from grace. However, Milton obviously didn't expect some readers to see Satan as "the real hero" of the story. In spite of all the text explaining Satan's errors, his NayTheist and [[CoolPeopleRebelAgainstAuthority rebellious]] statements just hit too close to some readers' beliefs to see him as anything but a hero.