History Main / BiblicalBadGuy

'''Note:''' {{Satan}}, GodIsEvil, {{Cain}}, [[NephariousPharaoh The Pharaoh of the Exodus]] and the HorsemenOfTheApocalypse have their own tropes -- as do the {{Nephilim}}, who aren't ''always'' evil but often are. Because the Bible also features a few gods of other traditions as demons or even other names for Satan himself - figures like Dagon and Baal - this may overlap with MesopotamianMonstrosity.

* As of the ComicBook/New52 of DC Comics, [[spoiler:it has been revealed that ComicBook/ThePhantomStranger is Judas Iscariot.]] In this case he's actually repented since then, and has spent the past two thousand years helping people from the shadows as penance. It's not known if this is continued in Rebirth.

* On ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer,'' Kane is heavily implied to be *the* Biblical Cain, showing off the tomb of Abel in Renegade, and having a right hand man named Seth. The Brotherhood of Nod is named after the land Cain went to to build a city.

* The ''Website/SCPFoundation'' features an interesting take on this trope. [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-073 SCP-073]] "Cain" and [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-076 SCP-076-2]] "Able" are the biblical CainAndAbel, but their roles are inverted. Cain is a NiceGuy who voluntarily works with the Foundation as a biological backup drive. He still suffers from the Mark of Cain put upon him by god, [[WalkingWasteland causing plant material to crumble at his touch]] (doesn't work on animals) and his wounds to be [[AttackDeflector imparted on his attackers.]] Able, on the other hand, is an AxCrazy, immortal killing machine who seems utterly incapable of doing anything that doesn't involve violence. The Foundation tried to weaponize him once in the ill-fated Pandora's Box project, but wisely decided to scrap it. It's implied that 6000 years of bitterness made Able into a murderous monster, while Cain has gone through the same amount of CharacterDevelopment, mellowing out his harsher traits.

* Subverted with [[spoiler: Karin]] from ''Manga/UQHolder'', who is implied to be a {{Gender Flip}}ped Judas Iscariot but is one of the heroes.

* Adam is a ''ComicBook/GhostRider'' villain who felt bad about the whole original sin thing, and so plotted to use Ghost Rider's powers to burn sin out of the world.

* The ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'' features an interesting take on this trope. [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-073 SCP-073]] "Cain" and [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-076 SCP-076-2]] "Able" are the biblical CainAndAbel, but their roles are inverted. Cain is a NiceGuy who voluntarily works with the Foundation as a biological backup drive. He still suffers from the Mark of Cain put upon him by god, [[WalkingWasteland causing plant material to crumble at his touch]] (doesn't work on animals) and his wounds to be [[AttackDeflector imparted on his attackers.]] Able, on the other hand, is an AxCrazy, immortal killing machine who seems utterly incapable of doing anything that doesn't involve violence. The Foundation tried to weaponize him once in the ill-fated Pandora's Box project, but wisely decided to scrap it. It's implied that 6000 years of bitterness made Able into a murderous monster, while Cain has gone through the same amount of CharacterDevelopment, mellowing out his harsher traits.
** While it depends on the writer if they're a villain or not, there's an organization rivaling the Foundation known as the Serpent's Hand, which is based in an [[Wiki/TheWanderersLibrary interdimensional library containing every story]], which, according to the Serpent's Hand, was created and ruled by the Serpent of Eden. Note that the Library (and thus presumably the Serpent) considers the Hand to be superfluous, and only indulges them because they are no threat.

'''Note 2:''' Simply [[MeaningfulName sharing a name with any of these is symbolic]], but not enough for a character to qualify. They have to actually ''be'' the same person as the one in the Bible to be this trope. If the name is the only connection, see [[NamesToRunAwayFrom/BiblicalNames Names To Run Away From: Biblical Names]]. See also the NameOfCain and TheDescendantsOfCain. For an Abrahamic baddie who originated in Literature/TheTalmud instead of the Bible, see Myth/{{Lilith}}.

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* On ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer,'' Kane is heavily implied to be *the* Biblical Cain, showing off the tomb of Abel in Renegade, and having a right hand man named Seth. The Brotherhood of Nod is named after the land Cain went to to build a city.
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** Cain serves as the BigBad of Season 3 [[spoiler: in his current guise as Lieutenant Marcus Pierce]].
** Season introduces ArchangelMichael and gives him AdaptationalVillainy, presenting him as Lucifer's twin and a [[EvilIsPetty petty and spiteful being]] who despises the fact that everyone likes Lucifer more than him, to the point of trying to deliberately trying to ruin his life.

** While it depends on the writer if they're a villain or not, there's an organization rivaling the Foundation known as the Serpent's Hand, which is based in an [[Wiki/TheWanderersLibrary interdimensional library containing every story]], which, according to the Serpent's Hand, was created and ruled by the Serpent of Eden.

* The ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'' features and interesting take on this trope. [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-073 SCP-073]] "Cain" and [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-076 SCP-076-2]] "Able" are the biblical CainAndAbel, but their roles are inverted. Cain is a NiceGuy who voluntarily works with the Foundation as a biological backup drive. He still suffers from the Mark of Cain put upon him by god, causing biological material to crumble at his touch (doesn't work on ''living'' things) and his wounds to be [[AttackDeflector imparted on his attackers.]] Able, on the other hand, is an AxCrazy, immortal killing machine who seems utterly incapable of doing anything that doesn't involve violence. The Foundation tried to weaponize him once in the ill-fated Pandora's Box project, but wisely decided to scrap it. It's implied that 6000 years of bitterness made Able into a murderous monster, while Cain has gone through the same amount of CharacterDevelopment, mellowing out his harsher traits.

* On ''VideoGames/CommandAndConquer,'' Kane is heavily implied to be *the* Biblical Cain, showing off the tomb of Abel in Renegade, and having a right hand man named Seth. The Brotherhood of Nod is named after the land Cain went to to build a city.

'''Note:''' {{Satan}}, GodIsEvil, {{Cain}}, [[NephariousPharaoh The Pharaoh of the Exodus]] and the HorsemenOfTheApocalypse have their own tropes -- as do the {{Nephilim}}, who aren't ''always'' evil but often are.

* ''Series/Lucifer2016'': Cain serves as the BigBad of Season 3 [[spoiler: in his current guise as Lieutenant Marcus Pierce]].