History Main / TheArmiesOfHeaven

* ''Literature/TheSalvationWar'': In the second book, Yahweh sends the Incomparable Legion of Light, formed by a mixture of afterlife humans and angels, against the Earth army who is invading Heaven. [[spoiler:It turns that it's no match against a [[NukeEm 1.2 megaton nuke]].]]

** In addition, the Einherjar are this to Odin. They are half of all warriors who die in battles, collected by the valkyries to [[WarriorHeaven Valhalla]] to feast. They also fight and kill each other, coming back to life each morning to feast and fight again and again, to prepare them for Ragnarok, the destruction of the world.

* ''Literature/ABatalhaDoApocalipse'': The Cherubs are the military caste of the Seven Heavens. They are specialized warriors, assassins, spies and hunters who participated in most of the angels conflits, like the Ethereal Wars, Lucifer's rebelion and the Civil War.

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* ''Literature/ThatTimeIGotReincarnatedAsASlime'': The angels are the personal armies of [[DragonsAreDivine Veldanava]] that fight to protect the world from interdimensional invasions. And then Veldanava [[GodIsDead died]] because of the world's mortal races and the angels continued that duty while also nursing a deep grudge against them, which manifested in descending every 500 years to launch attacks on advanced civilizations to uphold MedievalStasis. [[spoiler:They then descend into full-on OmnicidalManiac territory with the prompting of the {{Big Bad}}'s MindControl.]]
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* ''Literature/TheCrewOfTheCopperColoredCupids'': The angel Sneernobiel is described as "Lieutenant of the Second Division of the Heavenly Host".

* ''Literature/HighSchoolDxD'': While they don't exactly do much fighting, the angels do have a large military presence in the series.

* ''Literature/TheSalvationWar'': In the second book, Yahweh sends the Incomparable Legion of Light, formed by a mixture of afterlife humans and angels, against the Earth army who is invading Heaven. [[spoiler:It turns that it's no match against a [[NukeEm 1.2 megaton nuke]]]].

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* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': In "[[Recap/SouthParkS9E4BestFriendsForever Best Friends Forever]]", Kenny is enlisted by Heaven to command the angelic armies against an [[HellInvadesHeaven invasion from Hell]].
* ''WesternAnimation/Superbook2011'' features the armies of heaven in the first episode, led by ArchangelMichael, battling against [[{{Satan}} Lucifer]] and his army during [[FallenAngel his fall.]] The armies of heaven reappear in Revelation, when they fight Lucifer for the fate of Earth at the end of the world.

* ''LightNovel/ThatTimeIGotReincarnatedAsASlime'': The angels are the personal armies of [[DragonsAreDivine Veldanava]] that fight to protect the world from interdimensional invasions. And then Veldanava [[GodIsDead died]] because of the world's mortal races and the angels continued that duty while also nursing a deep grudge against them, which manifested in descending every 500 years to launch attacks on advanced civilizations to uphold MedievalStasis. [[spoiler:They then descend into full-on OmnicidalManiac territory with the prompting of the {{Big Bad}}'s MindControl.]]

* ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDxD'': While they don't exactly do much fighting, the angels do have a large military presence in the series.

->''The Lord thunders at the head of his army; his forces are beyond number, and mighty is the army that obeys his command...''

* ''ComicBook/GhostRider'': Sometimes enemies, sometimes allies. It's eventually revealed by RetCon that the "demon" Zarathos is actually a misguided member of them and that the spirits of vengeance he imitates when possessing John Blaze, which include the "true" Ghost Riders, are in fact non-military agents of heaven meant to work where heaven doesn't actually want it's interests to be obvious. Most of the conflict between angels, spirits of vengeance, Zarathos and the like stems from misunderstanding, except of course when the angels in question [[FallenAngel are just evil]].

** The natives of Fenris combine this with WarriorHeaven: Fenris is basically a SingleBiomePlanet of medieval Scandinavia, with Viking tribes fighting each other for dominance. The young men who fall during these battles are candidates for training and augmentation into SpaceMarines, battling and boozing across the stars in the GodEmperor's name: the [[Literature/SpaceWolf Space Wolves]].

* Myth/NorseMythology: The {{Valkyries}} are a divine AmazonBrigade serving either Odin or Freyja (depending on the source). They would serse as {{Psychopomp}}s who took the souls of fallen warriors to Fólkvangr.

* ''Film/TheMonkeyGoesWest'': The second film has an armmy of heavenly warriors arriving to arrest the Bull Demon and his wife, Princess Iron Fan.

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* ''WesternAnimation/Superbook2011'' features the armies of heaven in the first episode, lead by ArchangelMichael, battling against [[{{Satan}} Lucifer]] and his army during [[FallenAngel his fall.]] The armies of heaven reappear in Revelation, when they fight Lucifer for the fate of Earth at the end of the world.

* Literature/TheBible: Among the many titles of {{God}} is "Lord of Hosts", "host" here meaning the armies of heavenly angels.

* ''TabletopGame/InNomine''. All of the angels of Heaven oppose the demons of Hell in their own way, but the hosts of angels led by the Archangels Lawrence, Michael and David are the closest to being a heavenly army. Of the various types of angels, Malakites (regardless of which Archangel they serve) are most often involved in anti-demonic combat.

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* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': In "[[/Recap/SouthParkS9E4BestFriendsForever Best Friends Forever]]", Kenny is enlisted by Heaven to command the angelic armies against an [[HellInvadesHeaven invasion from Hell]].

* The Heavenly Host shows up in ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}'', mostly at the end where they're slaughtered to an angel by the Saint of Killers. The story begins when one of the seraphim has sex with a succubus, birthing Genesis and starting the whole story.
* Sometimes enemies, sometimes allies of ''Comicbook/GhostRider''. It was eventually revealed by RetCon that the "demon" Zarathos was actually a misguided member of them and that the spirits of vengeance he imitates when possessing John Blaze, which include the "true" Ghost Riders, are in fact non military agents of heaven meant to work where heaven doesn't actually want it's interests to be obvious. Most of the conflict between angels, spirits of vengeance, Zarathos and the like stems from misunderstanding, except of course when the angels in question [[FallenAngel are just evil]].

* ''Literature/FightingFantasy'': The gamebook ''Literature/BattlebladeWarrior'' has its GoldenEnding concluding with the player summoning an army of divine warriors from heaven and decimating an army of evil LizardFolk.

* The existence of the Heavenly Host has been foreshadowed in ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' by Queen Mab, but they are yet to make a canon appearance. ArchangelMichael (who is also yet to be introduced) is said to be their FrontlineGeneral.
* Jesus with His army of saints emerging from heaven in the Literature/LeftBehind book ''Glorious Appearing''.
* While they don't exactly do much fighting, the angels in ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDxD'' do have a large military presence in the series.
* ''Literature/TheCrewOfTheCopperColoredCupids'': the angel Sneernobiel is described as "Lieutenant of the Second Division of the Heavenly Host".

* In ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', the Host of Heaven is organized like a military. The angelic foot soldiers on Earth are divided into garrisons, of which Castiel commanded one for a while before he was demoted and replaced by Uriel. Their boss Zachariah seems to be in charge of several garrisons and answers to Michael, Heaven's commander-in-chief. [[HaveYouSeenMyGod God has been missing for millennia]].

* In the backstory of ''TabletopGame/DemonTheFallen'', Lucifer's rebellious angels have battled the angelic armies loyal to God and led by ArchangelMichael, but the latter seem to have disappeared from the world while the Fallen were locked up in the Abyss.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'':

* The ''VideoGame/StarcraftII'' map "War in Heaven" pits, well, Heaven against Hell, using Terran and Protoss units as heavenly soldiers and Zerg for demons: Marines are warrior angels, Sandalphon is a colossus, Jesus is a battlecruiser...
* In the ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'' series ''all'' angels are warriors, and they spend all of their time either fighting demons or planning to fight demons. As well, they all seem to be identical except for the five special snowflakes on the [[CouncilOfAngels Angiris Council]] and their lieutenants. At least, this is how it was, until the creation of Sanctuary threw a wrench in the Eternal Conflict, leaving the angels to mostly mope about the Heavens in trepidation.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Darksiders}}'' a small sub-faction of Angels, known as the Hellguard, appear as antagonists to the protagonist, [[HorsemenOfTheApocalypse War]].
* In ''VideoGame/DarksidersII'', they appear once again, this time as ([[TeethClenchedTeamwork not all too willing]]) allies to Death.
* ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'' has the angels of Paradiso as the main enemies she faces.
* ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' has the champion Kayle, an angelic being from "a land far away" who fights using the power of the sun. She also has a sister, Morgana, who uses the power of the moon against the warriors of the sun.
* [[GodOfGood Palutena]] in the ''VideoGame/KidIcarus'' games has an [[RedShirtArmy army]] of Centurions, but they are so weak that she almost never sends them on the battlefield as [[AFatherToHisMen she doesn't want them to be hurt]], privileging her elite soldier Pit (the protagonist of the games).
* ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'': The high level spell ''Celestial Host'' summons different celestial beings to smite all onscreen foes with their angelic might. It's one of the most powerful spells in the game, but also one of the most difficult to find. And even if you do the right thing to receive it, you've still got to massively LevelGrind to get a spellcaster high enough level to cast it.
* In ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Brawl'', the Centurions are called by Pit during his Final Smash (with Palutena shining in the background).
* The ''{{VideoGame/Doom}}'' mod ''VideoGame/AngelicWaifus'' has Doomguy facing off against the angelic host. The angelic host is composed of an endless number of cute, adorable angel girls that want nothing more than to wipe you off the face of the earth.

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* In the second book of ''Literature/TheSalvationWar'', Yahweh sends the Incomparable Legion of Light, formed by a mixture of afterlife humans and angels against, the Earth army who is invading Heaven [[spoiler: it turns it's no match against a [[NukeEm 1.2 megaton nuke]]]].
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* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', Kenny is enlisted by Heaven to command the angelic armies against an [[HellInvadesHeaven invasion from Hell]].

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* ''Literature/FightingFantasy'': The gamebook ''Literature/BattlebladeWarrior'' has its GoldenEnding concluding with the player summoning an army of divine warriors from heaven and decimating an army of evil LizardFolk.