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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Satan's list of the types of sinners who are continually arriving includes murderers, rapists, blackmailers, robbers, arsonists, and people who support Manchester United Football Club who aren't from Manchester.
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Satan's list of the types of sinners who are continually arriving includes murderers, rapists, blackmailers, robbers, arsonists, and people who support Manchester United Football Club who aren't from Manchester.Manchester (which is all of them).
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** The old chestnut about Manchester United supporters living everywhere except Manchester.
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** The notion of there being no concept of time in Hell, which was heavily referenced in the first couple of series, was later dropped, presumably because it didn't make sense when Satan could move freely between Hell and Earth anyway.
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* VillainHasAPoint: Whenever Satan and the professor have an argument (which is what drives most episodes in the first four series), Satan's cynical view of human nature is generally borne out.
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* VillainHasAPoint: Whenever Satan and the professor have an argument (which is what drives most episodes in the first four series), Satan's cynical view of human nature is generally borne out. out, though never so completely that the professor will concede.
** In series 6, Edith's friend, rival historian [[spoiler:and killer]] Rosemary, complains that Edith's habit of putting her awards in a box in the attic was an ostentatious way of rubbing her nose in it. When Satan brings up the subject of her awards in series 7, Edith all but admits that Rosemary was right.
** In series 6, Edith's friend, rival historian [[spoiler:and killer]] Rosemary, complains that Edith's habit of putting her awards in a box in the attic was an ostentatious way of rubbing her nose in it. When Satan brings up the subject of her awards in series 7, Edith all but admits that Rosemary was right.
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* FallenAngel: Satan, of course. Some of the other demons in Hell (including Gary and Scumspawn) are also fallen angels who supported his rebellion.
** And at the end of season 7, [[spoiler:Gabriel]].
** And at the end of season 7, [[spoiler:Gabriel]].
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* StoryArc: Season 2 has Satan's search for a new assistant, Season 5 concerns Satan's attempts to reduce the amount of sin in the world, and Season 6 has Edith's WhoDunnitToMe storyline.
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* StoryArc: Season 2 has Satan's search for a new assistant, Season 5 concerns Satan's attempts to reduce the amount of sin in the world, and world, Season 6 has Edith's WhoDunnitToMe storyline.storyline, and Season 7 has a story arc about a dog and a baby being sent to Hell.
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* PhraseCatcher: Anyone who accompanies Satan to the land of the living will invariably ask "Are you sure they can't see us?". Even The Professor keeps asking long past the point where he should be used to it.
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* StoryArc: Season 2 has Satan's search for a new assistant, Season 5 concerns Satan's attempts to reduce the amount of sin in the world, and Season 6 has Edith's WhoDunnitToMe storyline.
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** The Pope Enclosure, and Satan keeping all of the damned Pontiffs perpetually pregnant was referenced with regularity during the first two seasons.
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** The Pope Enclosure, and Satan keeping all of the damned Pontiffs perpetually pregnant was referenced with regularity during the first two seasons.seasons, and about OnceASeason thereafter.
** Whenever Satan takes one of the other characters to see the living world, being asked "are you sure they can't see us?" and Satan pointing out what would happen if they could.
** Any character protesting that they don't have to do something just because Satan tells them to, prompting the response "You ''really'' haven't got the hang of this place, have you?"
** Whenever Satan takes one of the other characters to see the living world, being asked "are you sure they can't see us?" and Satan pointing out what would happen if they could.
** Any character protesting that they don't have to do something just because Satan tells them to, prompting the response "You ''really'' haven't got the hang of this place, have you?"
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* PlotTriggeringDeath: The series is set up by Thomas and the Professor dying in a car crash. On a smaller scale, many single-episode subplots are also triggered by the deaths of guest characters in what could be considered an inversion of [[BodyOfTheWeek]]. Soul of the Week, if you will.
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* PlotTriggeringDeath: The series is set up by Thomas and the Professor dying in a car crash. On a smaller scale, many single-episode subplots are also triggered by the deaths of guest characters in what could be considered an inversion of [[BodyOfTheWeek]].BodyOfTheWeek. Soul of the Week, if you will.
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* VillainHasAPoint: Whenever Satan and the professor have an argument (which is what drives most episodes in the first four series), Satan's cynical view of human nature is generally borne out.
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* DoomsdayDevice: When Satan arranges for the Grand Unified Theory of physics to be published in the living world, the British government (and presumbly others) immediately start pumping money into research with the hope of using it to build a bomb capable of destroying the universe.
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* DealWithTheDevil: Satan briefly alludes to having signed TonyBlair up to such a deal.
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* DealWithTheDevil: Satan briefly alludes to having signed TonyBlair UsefulNotes/TonyBlair up to such a deal.
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Many of the plots of the first four series involve Satan having lengthy philosophical discussions with the Professor, played by James Grout, a WideEyedIdealist and FlatEarthAtheist. Satan would often try to persuade the Professor that HumansAreBastards, while the Professor would take the opposite view. Satan's chief minion was originally ReliableTraitor Gary, replaced by [[BumblingSidekick cringing lackey]] Scumspawn. Other characters included Thomas, a man with no redeeming qualities (and the driver of the car that killed both himself and the Professor), and numerous historical figures who had somehow ended up in Hell (including foul-mouthed Jane Austen, hypocritical Thomas Jefferson and meretricious Will Shakespeare).
In season five, Satan left Hell, subverting his usual role by visiting world leaders and trying to persuade them to get people to live more virtuous lives in order to ease the over-crowding in Hell. At the end of each episode he would return to Hell in order to sort out the messes his subordinates had made in his absence.
In season five, Satan left Hell, subverting his usual role by visiting world leaders and trying to persuade them to get people to live more virtuous lives in order to ease the over-crowding in Hell. At the end of each episode he would return to Hell in order to sort out the messes his subordinates had made in his absence.
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Many of the plots of the first four series involve Satan having lengthy philosophical discussions with the Professor, played by James Grout, a WideEyedIdealist and FlatEarthAtheist. Satan would often try to persuade the Professor that HumansAreBastards, while the Professor would [[HumansAreGood take the opposite view.view]]. Satan's chief minion was originally ReliableTraitor Gary, replaced by [[BumblingSidekick cringing lackey]] Scumspawn. Other characters included Thomas, a man with no redeeming qualities (and the driver of the car that killed both himself and the Professor), and numerous historical figures who had somehow ended up in Hell (including foul-mouthed Jane Austen, hypocritical Thomas Jefferson and meretricious Will Shakespeare).
In season five, Satan left Hell,subverting inverting his usual role by visiting world leaders and trying to persuade them to get people to live more virtuous lives in order to ease the over-crowding in Hell. At the end of each episode he would return to Hell in order to sort out the messes his subordinates had made in his absence.
In season five, Satan left Hell,
*HellHasNewManagement: Roland Kingworthy attempts this in season 5. He starts by bringing the demons onto his side with his effortless charm. Satan talks his army out of attacking, and Roland immediately claims he was attempting to expose the treacherous demons. Satan doesn't believe a word of it, and has an abyss he's been saving specially...
-->'''Satan''': ''I never trust anyone who puts that much effort into his effortless charm.''
-->'''Satan''': ''I never trust anyone who puts that much effort into his effortless charm.''
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* HollywoodAtheist, subverted: The Professor is undoubtedly the kindest and most idealistic character in the series.
** PlayedForLaughs: The Buddha is in Hell, because he didn't believe in God. Nietzsche is in Hell, too.
* HornyDevils: Averted as all the devils have no genitalia so they can't.
** Maybe in later series, but in Season One Thomas offers to take over the tedious task of ravishing Marilyn Monroe from Gary.
*** This may be more to the fact Satan, as well as being able to shape-shift, can change the form of his demons and the damned as their CoolAndUnusualPunishment requires it
** PlayedForLaughs: The Buddha is in Hell, because he didn't believe in God. Nietzsche is in Hell, too.
* HornyDevils: Averted as all the devils have no genitalia so they can't.
** Maybe in later series, but in Season One Thomas offers to take over the tedious task of ravishing Marilyn Monroe from Gary.
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* HollywoodAtheist, subverted: HollywoodAtheist,
** Downplayed; The Professor is doesn't believe in the existence of God but is undoubtedly the kindest and most idealistic character in the series.
**PlayedForLaughs: The Buddha ''The Buddha'' is in Hell, because he didn't believe in God. Nietzsche is in Hell, too.
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* ListOfTransgressions: In episode one, when Thomas arrives in Hell, Satan can't find his list -- only finding the various things he did for charity and when he's about to let Thomas go he finds the list. And it's very long.
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* ListOfTransgressions: In episode one, when Thomas arrives in Hell, Satan can't find his list -- only finding the various things he did for charity and when he's about to let Thomas go he finds the list. And it's It's very long.
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* TakeThat: A lot of insults are hurled at Robert Maxwell, RichardNixon, and Jeffrey Archer.
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* TakeThat: A lot of insults are hurled at Robert Maxwell, RichardNixon, UsefulNotes/RichardNixon, and Jeffrey Archer.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: The Professor is very forgiving and tolerant, but when Thomas inadvertently drives his assistant to suicide and then blames her for being too passive, the Prof. lectures him on the link between action and consequence.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: BewareTheNiceOnes:
** The Professor is very forgiving and tolerant, but when Thomas inadvertently drives his assistant to suicide and then blames her for being too passive, the Prof. lectures him on the link between action and consequence.
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** One of Satan's defining character traits is his refusal to believe that humans can ''be'' good, and several episodes revolve around him trying to prove otherwise in some way.
** Thomas believes that anyone who uses a position of power to help others is only doing it for PR. He has claimed that UsefulNotes/MahatmaGandhi arranged his own assassination so Creator/DavidAttenborough would make a movie about him and that UsefulNotes/NelsonMandela's whole life work was just done in the hopes of meeting Music/TheSpiceGirls. Both times, [[EvenEvilHasStandards even Satan is a little stunned]].
** Thomas also considers "Maybe you shouldn't [kill your grandmother" to be a "strange thing" to tell someone. PlayedForLaughs.
** One of Satan's defining character traits is his refusal to believe that humans can ''be'' good, and several episodes revolve around him trying to prove otherwise in some way.
** Thomas believes that anyone who uses a position of power to help others is only doing it for PR. He has claimed that UsefulNotes/MahatmaGandhi arranged his own assassination so Creator/DavidAttenborough would make a movie about him and that UsefulNotes/NelsonMandela's whole life work was just done in the hopes of meeting Music/TheSpiceGirls. Both times, [[EvenEvilHasStandards even Satan is a little stunned]].
** Thomas also considers "Maybe you shouldn't [kill your grandmother" to be a "strange thing" to tell someone. PlayedForLaughs.
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* GoodCannotComprehendEvil: One episode has Satan and the Professor embarking on a JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind to see why Thomas is the way he is. At one point, the Professor comes across a hidden-away memory which is marked with tons of warnings not to open it, which shows Thomas as a child being bullied by his classmates. The Professor assumes that this is a FreudianExcuse that Thomas locked away because it was painful for him to remember, but when he tries to offer Thomas consolation, [[spoiler:Thomas accidentally reveals that the memory was actually of an unspecified crime (presumably involving killing the bullies) and he had hidden it away to avoid accidentally incriminating himself]].
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** Thomas is initially fearful and reverent in God's presence... until he finds out that [[spoiler:God's real name is Nigel]], at which point he begins laughing in God's face.
** The Professor periodically attempts to assess Satan's psychology. Most of what he comes up with is not very flattering.
** Thomas is initially fearful and reverent in God's presence... until he finds out that [[spoiler:God's real name is Nigel]], at which point he begins laughing in God's face.
** The Professor periodically attempts to assess Satan's psychology. Most of what he comes up with is not very flattering.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: In-universe. Most notably {{Jane Austen}}, who's a violent, cockney-accented thug and Will Shakespeare, portrayed as a dopey Brummie who only wrote the jokes in his plays, the real author being his mate Trevor.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: In-universe. Most notably {{Jane Austen}}, Creator/JaneAusten, who's a violent, cockney-accented thug and Will Shakespeare, portrayed as a dopey Brummie who only wrote the jokes in his plays, the real author being his mate Trevor.
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* AxCrazy: {{Jane Austen}}.Creator/JaneAusten.
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* DracoInLeatherPants: InUniverse. Thomas considers Judas Iscariot to be TheHero of the Bible. He also views ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'' as a sad story about an entrepreneur going insane.
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* MoralityPet: Almost every good deed Thomas does in the series is to help Scumspawn.
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** Another episode has Satan put Thomas in The Pit of Demons Who Are Too Violent Even For Hell.
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** In one episode, Satan claims that not directly killing people is one of his two morals. There used to be three, but he got cynical. We never find out what the other is.
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** "Murderers" has the character of Mordecai, author of The Book of Leviticus, The Book of Deuteronomy, and The Book of Happy Gardening Tips.
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* TakeThat: A lot of insults are hurled at Robert Maxwell and RichardNixon.
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** UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler has a different excuse for the Holocaust each time he appears.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: The Professor is very forgiving and tolerant, but when Thomas inadvertently drives his assistant to suicide and then blames her for being too passive, the Prof. lectures him on the link between action and consequence.
-->'''The Professor''': See, this ''(punches Thomas in the face)'' is an action, and your nosebleed is a consequence. ''(punches him again)'' Action, consequence. See?
** He also admits to having fantasized about killing Dicky Freestone, a former colleague who stole the credit for his research.
** Even Buddha acknowledges the joy of torturing Richard Nixon.
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** Saddam Hussein once refused to buy weapons off Thomas because he thought Thomas was too dodgy.
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** When The Prof first appeared in Season One, he was named Professor Richard Whittingham. In Season Two his name has become Professor Richard Hope.
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** When The Prof first appeared in Season One, he was named Professor Richard Whittingham. In Season Two his name has become Professor Richard Hope. Whittingham.
* RonTheDeathEater: InUniverse. Thomas considers Judas Iscariot to be TheHero of the Bible.
* RonTheDeathEater: InUniverse. Thomas considers Judas Iscariot to be TheHero of the Bible.
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* {{Understatement}}: "I'm in Hell, which is a setback."
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* DealWithTheDevil: Satan briefly alludes to having signed TonyBlair up to such a deal.
