[Blasphemous trope] Satan is hot

[u/no-Pachy-BADLAD]

Don't watch these at Sunday School

1) While a more sympathetic example than the below, Lucifer's tirle character still retains the CW bait (yes I know it's a Fox/Netflix show) crowd as he's busy solving crimes.

2) Mystery of the Kingdom of God was a 2021 Christian kids film that would've fallen into obscurity beyond fudnamentalist audiences if it wasn't for folks picking up on the Tumblr sexyman vibes of the film's devil.

3) The CEO of Hell Lucifer (or 'Lucy') is an intimidating persona also reflecting the creator's preference for women in business suits.

4) Le génie du mal ('The Spirit of Evil', sculpture on the right) was a sculpture by Guillame Geefs in 1848, meant to replace the sculpture on the left by his brother Joseph, criticised for its distracting beauty and 'unhealthy allure'. He didn't do a good job (or did a VERY good one) taking that into account.

[u/AltairLSAM]

Only after Paradise Lost was published.

[u/Beautiful-Cup4161 → u/AltairLSAM]

Is Paradise Lost the first example of a fanfiction so popular that it changed the canon?

Edit: true thank you commenters! I conflated Paradise Lost and Dante's Inferno in my head.

[u/Mr_Microchip → u/Beautiful-Cup4161]

Wouldn't Dantes Inferno count? When most people think of hell and it's punishments, they think of the 7 layers Dante created.

[u/DyingSunSeverian → u/Mr_Microchip]

It’s both of them. The Inferno gave us a dominant iconography of Hell and the notion that Satan is trapped very deep underground (encased in ice, not tormented by fire). That version of Lucifer doesn’t do much except gnaw on people like Judas for eternity.

Paradise Lost gave us the popular interpretation of Satan as a vaguely sympathetic fallen angel with an axe to grind against his creator, including the famous quote “better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.”