Devil in the arts and popular culture

In television and film, the Devil has a long history of being used and often appears as an extremely powerful, purely evil, antagonist.

Hildegard of Bingen's 11th-century Ordo Virtutum features him, as do several baroque oratorios by composers such as Carissimi and Alessandro Scarlatti.

[citation needed] Other pieces that refer to the Devil are Franz Liszt's "Mephisto Walzer" and Joseph Hellmsberger II's "Teufelstanz", as well as Haydn's lost opera "Der krumme Teufel".

[citation needed] When Satan is depicted in movies and television, he is often associated with various symbols, whether as a motif or in his physical design or costume.

Although in medieval art Satan appears in forms of various genders, stations, or ages, in cinema of the United States of America he is most often male.

Clavin, a Czech supplement for erectile dysfunction, achieved notoriety in the country for its television commercials, which feature a devil alongside scantily clad women.

[40][41] A viral 2020 Match.com ad created by Ryan Reynolds featured Satan matching with a woman named "2020", and the pair partaking in 2020 experiences such as toilet paper hoarding and dating in empty venues.

[citation needed] Among them are, in chronological order:[citation needed] In 1971, Gerald Mayo brought a civil rights action in the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania against Satan and his servants, who allegedly placed deliberate obstacles in Mayo's path.