YMMV / Omen III: The Final Conflict

• Alternative Character Interpretation: There's a small debate over what Damien truly meant at the end of the movie ("Nazarene, you have won nothing"): Did he mean that as a pitiful "No, You" to the Messiah after finally being defeated or was it an implied threat that he still wins despite being killed. There's no middle ground over what the final line could mean.
• Anti-Climax Boss: The Antichrist is weakened after his girlfriend stabs him in the back with one of the Daggers of Megiddo, then Christ appears and strikes the now-mortal Damien down without so much as a word. He of course remains Defiant to the End.
• Catharsis Factor: After getting away with his crimes in the last two films, it sure is satisfying to see Damien die in an unglorified yet fitting way by his girlfriend stabbing him before Jesus Christ strikes the bastard down.
• Complete Monster: We are introduced to a grown-up Damien Thorn, and we also discover that he became the Ambassador of Great Britain. He decrees that every baby boy born on March 24, 1982, be executed when he realized that the Second Coming of Christ was imminent. Among other atrocities, Damien coldly brainwashes Barbara into killing her husband and son with a clothes iron. Any redeeming traits that he may have had in the other films quickly dissipate once he gets romantically involved with—and later rapes—a female journalist. Always the charismatic figure, Damien manipulates his girlfriend's young son into discipleship, only to remorselessly use him as a Human Shield when De Carlo attempts to kill him. Demonic, malicious, and blasphemous, Damien craved to fling the Earth into eternal damnation.
• Contested Sequel: In contrast to Damien: Omen II, which is more generally agreed to be So Okay, It's Average, this sequel is much more polarizing, with some considering it the best Omen film after the original, and others considering it far inferior to either of the two previous entries.
• Foe Yay Shipping: Between Damien and a statue of Jesus Christ. It's one thing to be concerned about the guy prophesized to kill you, it's another thing to have a room dedicated to housing a statue of said guy which you can gloat at and rub your hands over, a room you would prefer to sleep in after having unpleasant-looking sex with a woman.
• Harsher in Hindsight: In this 1981 film, The Antichrist becomes a politician who ultimately orchestrates the murder of multiple infants. Then in 2017, a widespread conspiracy theory emerged accusing left-wing politicians of being Satanists involved in child sacrifice...
• He's Just Hiding: Many fans think Brother Paulo and Brother Martin are doomed to an And I Must Scream death after Damian traps them under a grate, but others think they might have made it out alive since they aren't killed onscreen.
• Ho Yay: Peter really comes across as having a Precocious Crush on Damien with the way he looks at him, particularly when he smears blood on the boy's face after the hunt.
• Narm: Damien caressing the Jesus statue.
• One-Scene Wonder: The man who buys the daggers at an auction and gives them to the church after reading about their significance is considered to be one of the more interesting and memorable characters of the movie, despite only being on screen for a minute and having no dialogue.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: The other six priests with the daggers, given how five of them were wiped out in two attacks. At the least, it might have been nice to see one last long enough to fill the Sidekick role for De Carlo.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Kate is a non-believer who becomes one very late in the movie. She is a sophisticated and powerful young woman with quite a character arc, but the latter parts of her arc are given quite short shrift.
• Values Dissonance: It's very easy to read homoerotic subtext into Damien's relationship with Peter, and even Jesus. And even when he has sex with Kate, he turns her over midway through to rape her anally, then goes to sleep on the floor in the room with his Jesus statue. At the time this movie was made, it was very common to "Queer Code" villains so that the audience would find them that much more odd and disturbing.

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