History Film / TheOmen

* ''The First Omen'' (2024)

* BellyButtonless: The end of book 5 confirms that Damien Jr. had no navel. [[spoiler: It's because he was conceived through an act of sodomy and grew within his mother's intestine rather than a proper womb.]]

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The novels were written in the early 1980s, and set in the year 2000.

* TheAntichrist: Damien. And in the fourth film, [[spoiler:Alexander]].

* BirthmarkOfDestiny: Damien, of course, bears the MarkOfTheBeast (hidden conveniently beneath his hair).

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Except the third movie, although even then, Damien does manage to cause a ''lot'' of pain and death before he's finally taken down.]]

* EnfantTerrible: The plot of the first film. He's better behaved at the start of the second, until he learns of his call.

* NumberOfTheBeast: Sixes surround this kid's existence, in fact. He was born on June 6th at 6am.

* OffingTheOffspring: The 'Bad Seed' variant. [[spoiler:It doesn't work.]]

* SavedForTheSequel: The first two films heavily hint that Damien will grow up to become some important world leader, perhaps even world dictator, and be the head of a "revived Holy Roman Empire" after he "rises from the eternal sea" of politics. In the very least, he prophesied to "raise armies on either shore" and cause people to kill other until the human race is extinguished. And then Omen III the Final Conflict came out and Damien's seven year "reign" consists of simply being the head of Thorn industries for seven years, which while a major company, is not a "Holy Roman Empire" in any sense of the word. He doesn't even use his company's power to exert influence on starving nations as he could. He also never actually engages in much politicking other than calling in some favors from the President of the United States to be appointed to a position in his cabinet, and vaguely promises to run for the Senate in a few years (the Senate, not even the Presidency). Ultimately, Damien turned out to be somewhat a disappointment as far as [[EvilOverlord Evil Overlords]] go, having [[spoiler: been defeated by the Nazarene]] before he could do much of anything on a global scale.

* ShootTheShaggyDog: Only the third film doesn't end like this.

* HereWeGoAgain: ''Omen V - The Abomination'' ends with an investigator preparing to tell the whole story. He starts by writing the opening line of the first book.

* TechnologyMarchesOn: The novel is set in the year 2000, and at one point the character needs to look up a piece of information. He does so by requesting the use of a hotel's sole computer, which is a giant monstrosity that is wheeled into his room by the hotel staff. He asks the staff if the book he is looking for in the computer's database, to which the staff member assures him that the computer holds every book. Later, while using the computer, the character makes queries to the computer which then draws logical conclusions based on the questions he asks it, something which no computer in any era is able to do. Perhaps the author didn't realize that even in the future computers can only organize information, it's still up to people to draw conclusions from that data.

* VillainBeatingArtifact: As in the third film, the seven Daggers of Megiddo are emphasized as the only thing that can permanently kill Damien and his son in body and spirit, if all seven are stabbed into his body in the shape of a cross while on holy ground (a single dagger, as used in the third film only killed his physical body). [[spoiler: Damien's still-intact body is reduced to a skeleton after his corpse is dealt with in this manner at the end of book 4, and in the climax of book 5, Damien Jr. dies when a large crucifix, through which all seven daggers had been impaled, falls on top of him with the protruding daggers stabbing him in the right position.]]