Samael - Popular Culture

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• In the first season episode, Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions of the American television series, Millennium, Samael is referred to in the quote, "By Uriel, and by Raziel, powers, principalities, thrones and dominions, I bind and command you: Stand! I, Sammael, bound by his will, command you: Depart!" Sammael is also the name of one of the main antagonists in the episode.
• Samael is the name of a Swiss black metal/industrial metal music group
• Samael is shown as a recurring recruitable character in the Megami Tensei video game series. The archangel is depicted in the game series in the form of a blood-red winged serpent. He is a member of the Vile Clan in the main series games, a member of the Dragon Clan in the Digital Devil Saga games and is a persona of the Death Arcana in the Persona games.
• In the anime TV series Macademi Wasshoi, Eitarou Sakuma is referred to as possibly being Samael, the angel of death.
• In the film Hellboy, one of the antagonists is Samael, "hound of resurrection", brought to life through mixing an exhalation of chaotic spirit with "the tears of a thousand angels repressing the spirit of Samael." His duality is expressed with the power to doubly reincarnate each time he is killed.
• In the film Gabriel, Samael is the main antagonist who leads the fallen against the arcs. The climax reveals that Samael is actually Michael, one of the archangels.
• In the Sandman books by Neil Gaiman, and the subsequent Lucifer spinoff series, Samael is the angelic name of Lucifer before his fall.
• In the 2008 film Farmhouse, Steven Weber plays Samael, a wine maker who's really a demon of torture.
• In the videogame Painkiller, the Archangel Samael acts as a guide for the protagonist Daniel.
• In the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Control", the detectives investigate a "vampire" who calls himself Samael.
• In the 2010 video game Darksiders, Samael is portrayed as a demon imprisoned eons ago for his insolence and threat to "The Dark Prince" of Hell. The game's protagonist, War, releases Samael and helps him to regain his full power by slaughtering The Destroyer's four "Chosen" and returning their hearts for Samael's consumption. In turn, Samael grants War powers of his own, and also gives him access to the Destroyer's spire.
• In Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time, Sammael is one of the Forsaken, powerful human Aes Sedai who turned to Shai'tan, an analogue of Satan, gaining godlike enhancement.
• In the video game Silent Hill Samael is the head deity of The Order and serves as the first and third games' final boss, as well as being referenced several times throughout the series (together with Metatron).
• In the trilogy Angelfire by Courtney Allison Moulton, the antagonist Sammael is a Fallen Angel imprisoned in Hell and is unleashed on Earth to eradicate the souls of humankind, including the human soul belonging to the antagonist Gabriel, who is bound in the mortal body of a teenage girl.
• Avery Brewing Company markets an English Barleywine-style beer called Samael's Ale.
• There is an Oceano song called "Samael the Destroyer".
• In the manga Ao no Exorcist, we find out in chapter 39 the character Mephisto Pheles is actually Samael, the King of Time.