Video Games

Super Mario Bros.

Bowser even looks like what most people think the devil should look like. In these games he plays the villian that kidnaps princess Peach. Mario is sent to rescue her from the wicked devil.

Artwork

The devil is usually viewed as a horrible,ugly, mean creature that runs hell.

He generally plays a mean,red, horned creature in movies and other common media.

Miscellaneous

In the case of "The Darkness" comic book. The character himself is the devil and can change into the darkness, representing the devil, and does evil tasks for his mafia family.

Literature/film

In David Lynch's "Eraserhead" the mutant baby thats always crying is a devil figure. It is a symbol for David Lynch's experience during the beginning of his movie career. It's something that shows what can beat you down mentally.

Poetry

"Lake of Fire"

by James Courtney

the city

hastened to pull up

the rose petals of the fire

blooming with a hundred years

booming and popping

like a storm under water.

I came to look

for figures of ash,

and stared hard

at a musty comfort materialized

and displaced

at the slight glow cast buzzing into

the falling tears of an ancient virgin

at chance's cold stare

tumbling down through a red aura in the night sky

caught by newspaper hands

and abandoned into the memory of the television.

a hot lake of tears

couldn't melt the ice of history

clinging patchy at my heart

and couldn't drip inward

to calm a shaky mouth into sharing

the incompleteness of truth represented by my memories.

what was lost? what, after all, is ours to lose?

once all the fire hoses are wound back up

the devil himself

couldn't stop the smiles from showing again,

leaving you and me with the burden

of containing a living building creaking with old wood smell

and translating it

into a thick and healing yellow light.

we shall all know that

a home can never be destroyed as long as it exists first in the heart.

this is just like the night when the heavens will burn

and there will be nothing left to do

but reflect that awful shine defiantly back into the blackness

and sing.

Lyrics with a Devil Theme

"This Devil's Workday"

by Modest Mouse

All those people that you know.

All those people that you know.

All those people that you know,

floatin' in the river are logs.

I could buy myself a reason.

I could sell myself a job.

I could hang myself on treason.

All the folks I know are gone.

All the people that you know.

All the people that you know.

All the people that you know floatin' in the river are logs.

So I ate the wedding cake 'til the whole damn thing was gone.

And I'm gonna drown the ocean.

Now ain't none o' that so wrong?

All the people that you know.

All those people that you know.

All those people that you know floatin' in the river are gone.

Gonna take this sack of puppies.

Gonna set it out to freeze.

Gonna climb around on all fours 'til all the blood falls out my knees.

All the people that you know.

All the people that you know.

All those people that you know floatin' in the river are logs.

Well let's take this potted plant to the woods and set it free.

I'm gonna tell the owners just how nice that was of me.

I could buy myself a reason.

I could sell myself a job.

I could hang myself on treason.

Oh I am my own damn god. HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA