No Right Answer: Best Devil Ever - with Jim Sterling!

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Blunderboy

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Jimothy Sterling said:
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So you show the best devil ever but don't mention him?
Fo' shame.

He was actually going to be my choice. I just couldn't think of much else to say about him other than "LOOK AT HIM HE'S AMAZING" though.
Which is a fair point.
Point that and 'DAT VOICE' there isn't much to say. But god damn.
 

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Casual Shinji said:
Nobody beats this Devil, man.


I'm serious, it's the best Satan I've ever seen on screen. Not some fist shaking angry man, just a mysterious stranger.
That was surreal! Never seen anything like it. Like a kid's show, but it wasn't.

Spot1990 said:
I'd like to put forth Crowley from Supernatural. I know he's not the devil per se, but Satan is defeated and he's the new king of hell. And he's an awesome awesome man.
OK now you've done it. There's some 160 episodes on Netflix. They're in my queue. I guess I'll have no life for a while.
 

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Bwahaha, that ending and the "unamused" expression from Jim, lol.

On that note, I also liked Tim Curry's "Darkness," if it hasn't already been mentioned.
 

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Gorfias said:
Casual Shinji said:
Nobody beats this Devil, man.


I'm serious, it's the best Satan I've ever seen on screen. Not some fist shaking angry man, just a mysterious stranger.
That was surreal! Never seen anything like it. Like a kid's show, but it wasn't.
That's 80's claymation for ya.

I remember first seeing this movie on daytime television, and then suddenly this scene pops up...
 

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I always thought Hades as a Devil stand in is the bland choice, considering that Hades was no such being or even similar in character or context in Greek Mythology.

Ah well, at least James Woods Hades was still great.
 

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Aw, come on, I know this movie kinda sucks, but it has the best devil ever. He arrives to Earth, and this is the first thing he does:

 

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Edward James Olmos in Zoot Suit. Doesn't do much himself, but is basically the narrator and framing device, but man does he ooze cool. You know, Edward James Olmos.
 

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"I can lay you our and fill your mouth with you mother's feces... or we can talk" - Yeah, Viggo is awesome


Christopher Walken as Gabriel is crazy awesome too. Movie good - watch it if you haven't.
 

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Casual Shinji said:
Nobody beats this Devil, man.


I'm serious, it's the best Satan I've ever seen on screen. Not some fist shaking angry man, just a mysterious stranger.
That is pretty damn amazing. Thanks for showing this.
 

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Hannibal942 said:
My Lucifer doubles as a night club pianist after he quit his job.

Damn, you beat me to it, so I'll just post some links and info about him.

While he had previously appeared in an issue of Neil Gaiman's Sandman, it was in Season of Mists [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sandman:_Season_of_Mists] that he became significant: Dream decides to go rescue someone he had previously condemned to hell, so he gears up for war, sets all his affairs in order and heads of to Hell, only to find the devil has quit, and has given Dream the key to Hell.

This Lucifer later got his own series [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer_(DC_Comics)] written by Mike Carey, about him trying to get out from under his father's (God) shadow and making his own way (and universe). It's an amazing series, and if you are a fan of comic books I highly recommend it. Actually, the series is so good that even if you aren't a fan of comic books I'd recommend it (it's one of the series I use to introduce people to comics).
 

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Pacino as the Devil made you forget about how dead pan Keanu Reeves is and just how bad that fake southern accent was in that movie....and he's a fucking Lawyer. It's perfect.
 

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My favorite Devil is probably Elizabeth Hurley in the Bedazzled remake, and yeah, it's for the obvious reason of it being Elizabeth Hurley.
 

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Ray Wise is disqualified from this because you don't want him to win and he says he won't win.
Otherwise he is the best one.
The devil isn't supposed to want to kill you or harm you physically, he is supposed to make you want to do bad things.

This particular version is one of the very few ones that seems to borrow his character from the Islamic version, Iblis.
He even redirects a plane going to the Vatican to Las Vegas and encourages people to gamble.
He is shown encouraging bad decisions much more than he is seen actually doing bad things.
He even says he loves/ed God and that he knows he will loose. Almost every other devil ignores that part of the character.
 

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Hannibal942 said:
My Lucifer doubles as a night club pianist after he quit his job.


This would have been my vote also. DC's Devil is cool, and makes it quite clear that he's doing an important job, and makes that point most eloquently when he pretty much says "I'm done with taking this crap, someone else can do it" and in the process winds up teaching the cosmos a lesson, especially given how lacking his replacements are.

Not to mention his payback on "The Sandman" for earlier embarrassment is kind of epic in it's simplicity when he pretty much drops the keys to hell on his lap and says "I'm leaving these here, and I know you'll feel responsible for this incredibly important piece of psychic real estate" before walking off, pretty much causing every other avatar of a fundamental concept of reality, god, and celestrial being, to show up on his door step to make a case for why he should give it to them, right when he's got all this other stuff on his plate to try and put his section of reality right (and plan his own demise, due to feeling he's become too human in his outlook, which a fundamental force of reality cannot be and still do it's job).

The thing is though that I don't think it would be easy to explain what makes this version so awesome in a short video. With "Hades" and the version from "The Prophecy" it's easily understandable, not quite as obscure, and involves simple visual and audio reference.
 

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Wow. Lots of portrayals considered the best. My personal favorite is played by Tom Waits: