History Creator / AleisterCrowley

* Often appears in the works of Creator/AlanMoore and Creator/GrantMorrison - notably ''ComicBook/{{Promethea}}'', ''ComicBook/FromHell'' and ''ComicBook/ArkhamAsylumASeriousHouseOnSeriousEarth''. ‘’ComicBook/VForVendetta’’ has repeated allusions to Crowley and Thelema, all of which were dropped from the film version. Moore used a fictitious counterpart to Crowley (in the form of Oliver Haddo) to serve as the central antagonist for the plot of ''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen Volume III: Century''. Haddo originated in W. Somerset Maugham's ''The Magician'', with Maugham basing Haddo upon Crowley; fittingly, Crowley later criticized the book using Haddo's name as a pseudonym.

* He's one of the playable characters in ''VideoGame/CuriousExpedition'', playing up the whole "mystic cult leader" angle UpToEleven.

* Often appears in the works of Creator/AlanMoore and Creator/GrantMorrison - notably ''ComicBook/{{Promethea}}'', ''ComicBook/FromHell'' and ''ComicBook/ArkhamAsylumASeriousHouseOnSeriousEarth''. Moore used a fictitious counterpart to Crowley (in the form of Oliver Haddo) to serve as the central antagonist for the plot of ''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen Volume III: Century''. Haddo originated in W. Somerset Maugham's ''The Magician'', with Maugham basing Haddo upon Crowley; fittingly, Crowley later criticized the book using Haddo's name as a pseudonym.

* In Films/StayTuned, one of the demon executives is named Crowley. He is betrayed by his superior, and ends up siding with the humans.

* He is one of the most important and powerful characters in ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'', where he's the [[OverarchingVillain series antagonist]] and ManBehindTheMan to all of Academy City, and is the number one heretic among the Magic Side. Aiwass is also his mentor.

* [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ghost_impera_12x12_album_art.jpg The cover artwork]] for Music/{{Ghost}}'s album ''Impera'' features a partially-built effigy of Papa Emeritus IV imitating Crowley's pose in the page pic. Additionally, "Call Me Little Sunshine" refers to Crowley's remark about the Number of the Beast meaning "sunlight".

* The occultist Roderick Burgess from ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' is clearly based on Crowley, however an offhand line from Burgess [[ExpyCoexistence seems to establish that Crowley is a hated and more successful rival to Burgess]].

* [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ghost_impera_12x12_album_art.jpg The cover artwork]] for Music/{{Ghost}}'s album ''Impera'' features a partially-built effigy of Papa Emeritus IV imitating Crowley's pose in the page pic.

* [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ghost_impera_12x12_album_art.jpg The cover artwork]] for Music/{{Ghost}}'s album ''Impera'' features a partially-built effigy of Papa Emeritus IV imitating Crowley's pose in the page pic.

* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY: The Thelemites themselves seem uncertain whether it is "THEL-um-ite" or "Thel-EE-Mite".

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* ''Magazine/ForteanTimes'' devotes a lot of column inches to the life of Crowley and the ripples he is still leaving in the world, seventy-two years (in 2021) after his passing. Some readers LampShade this by referring, affectionately, to the Crowleyan Times.

* {{Jerkass}}: He aroused the wrath of moral guardians and is arguably responsible for a lot of the dysfunction in Western Society today.

* Jerkass: He aroused the wrath of moral guardians and is arguably responsible for a lot of the dysfunction in Western Society today.

* He's mentioned in "Out of Control" by ''Music/Edguy'', which is sung from the perspective of a follower of his.

* The Invoked from ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'' are a fusion-based archetype based around Aleister the Invoker, who appears to be a member[[note]]Crowley, Origin of Prophecy[[/note]] of the Prophecy archetype.

Furthermore, Thelema does not draw the ordinary distinction [[AGodAmI between an individual and God]]: [[AGodIsYou "Every man and every woman is a star"]]. Therefore, love (when done under will) is the assimilation of experience in accordance with the intrinsically divine nature of an individual; the act of progressively becoming one with one's own divine star. In conclusion, while the man did like to portray himself as a [[DepravedBisexual libertine]] and an [[AnythingThatMoves "anything that moves"]] type (see also the note about [[SexMagic sex magic]] below), the most famous quote of his work is ''not'' indicative of that and represents him at his most sober and philosophical. [[MindScrew Probably]].[[/note]]

* He is one of the most important and powerful characters in ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'', where he's the ManBehindTheMan to all of Academy City, and is the number one heretic among the Magic Side. Aiwass is also his mentor.

* BrotherhoodOfFunnyHats: He OWNED this trope.

* SexMagic: He was one of the main real-world promotors of the idea in Western occultism.

* TheAntichrist: His Alter-Ego didn't see the "Beast 666" as the harbinger of Hell on Earth, but simply as the prophet of the new aeon, the old order of UsefulNotes/{{Christianity}} having served its purpose.

* FunWithAcronyms: Sort of. The magic(k)al organization Crowley founded (as opposed to taking over) was the A.A. (not to be confused with a certain other organization with twelve steps). What "A.A." stands for is a closely guarded secret (although there is a popular rumor that it means Astrum Argentum, and Creator/RobertAntonWilson has suggested that it stands for nothing (so anyone claiming to know the secret is exposed as an impostor)).

* Doesn't appear but is briefly mentioned in ''VisualNovel/DiesIrae, Interview with Kaziklu Bey'' as one of only three known true magicians still alive in the world at the time the story takes place in 1944.