Line #22 Film/OmenIIITheFinalConflict


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2	[[caption-width-right:300:Evil comes of age.]]
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4	The second sequel to ''Film/TheOmen'', released in 1981. Also known as simply ''The Final Conflict''.
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6	The Antichrist Damien Thorn (played by Creator/SamNeill) is now an adult who tries to use his position as an influential politician to bring about Armageddon, while preventing the SecondComing of Christ, the only one who can stop him.
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8	!!This film has examples of:
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10	* AccidentalMurder: Damien uses his powers to convince Brother Paulo and Brother Martin that Brother Matteus is him, and they promptly assassinate Matteus.
11	* AllForNothing: Damien assumes that Jesus will return as a baby again in a form of {{Reincarnation}}. This is completely wrong and all of his defenses against the rebirth are pointless.
12	* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:In contrast to the {{Downer Ending}}s of the previous films, it ends with [=DeCarlo=] and Jesus killing Damien for good. However, Peter is dead and many infants were murdered by Damien, to say nothing about the numerous lives he has taken in the previous films]].
13	* BuriedAlive: Brother Paulo and Brother Martin are left trapped in an area they fled into while trying to escape the Hellhound. It's unclear if they survived or not (the hole is covered up instead of being filled in) but Damien takes advantage of the moment to take their daggers and leaves them struggling to get out.
14	* CardCarryingVillain: Damien.
15	-->'''Damien''': Oh my Father, Lord of Silence, Supreme God of Desolation, though mankind reviles yet aches to embrace, strengthen my purpose to save the world from a second ordeal of Jesus Christ and his grubby mundane creed. Show man instead the raptures of Thy kingdom. Infuse in him the grandeur of melancholy, the divinity of loneliness, the purity of evil, the paradise of pain.
16	* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: Damien Thorn is this to his stepfather and uncle in the first two films. While brothers Robert and Richard were straightforward good guys, Damien Thorn is a VillainProtagonist. In terms of casting, while the previous leads were played by veteran Academy Award-winning screen legends Creator/GregoryPeck and Creator/WilliamHolden, Creator/SamNeill, Damien's actor, was a then-unknown when he was cast.
17	* TheCorruptor: Damien brainwashing Kate's son Peter into becoming his apostle. Kate is understandably horrified at how her son is being groomed by the son of the Devil.
18	* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Damien, before being appointed as ambassador.
19	* CorruptPolitician: Damien, after being appointed ambassador.
20	* CruelAndUnusualDeath: A lot actually, but two that stick out the most is the death of the one priest who is mauled by bloodhounds during a hunt and another priest who burns to death whilst trapped in melting plastic sheets. And what makes it worse is that the latter doesn't die quickly.
21	* DefiantToTheEnd: Damien's final words amount to this.
22	-->''Nazarene, you have won... nothing.''
23	* DramaticIrony: Damien is completely wrong about the Book of Revelation despite being the Antichrist.
24	* DrivenToSuicide: Damien's predecessor as ambassador is induced to commit suicide by a demonic {{hellhound}}.
25	* EyeScream: Getting smacked in the face with an iron isn't good for your eyes.
26	* FunnyBackgroundEvent: When Damien is walking in the park with Kate, his personal hellhound can be seen playing fetch with Peter in the foreground. It seems to be very possessive of the stick.
27	* GenreBlind: Neither Damien nor anyone aware of his plan had ever read the Bible all that much, otherwise they would had known that [[spoiler: Jesus would not return to the world in the body of an infant, but in his full divine form.]]
28	* HeelFaceDoorSlam: [[spoiler:Harvey Dean refuses to kill his own son for Damien's sake and flees. Damien responds by having Harvey's wife spellbound to kill the child and Harvey.]]
29	* IdiotBall: Damien [[spoiler:kills all the babies to make sure he gets the reborn child of Jesus. But Damien should be well aware the prophecy is Jesus will return as a divine adult because Damien reads the actual Bible and has one heck of a powerful backer who should know this as well]]. This information is certainly not obscure.
30	* InTheBack: [[spoiler:How Damien dies thanks to the remaining Dagger of Megiddo.]]
31	* InvincibleVillain: [[spoiler: [[DefiedTrope Actually no.]] While the Daggers of Megiddo were always established to be able to kill Damien, he has always managed to escape any assassination attempts. In this film, it would seem he's NotSoInvincibleAfterAll.]]
32	* LousyLoversAreLosers: Damien is as handsome and charming as you might expect a devil to be, but once he actually gets Kate into bed, he (anally?) rapes her and leaves her covered with bites and scratch marks. Not because he wanted to hurt her per se, but because it seems he can't even do something as simple as successfully have sex without causing pain.
33	* MotiveRant: Damien gives one to a statue of Jesus on the Cross about how he is a weak charlatan who gives humanity false hope. The speech then goes into a MotiveRant about Damien avenging [[TheDevil his father's]] exile from {{Heaven}}.
34	* NearVillainVictory: [[spoiler: Unlike the previous films [[TheBadGuyWins where he wins]], Damien only comes ''close'' to winning this time]].
35	* NiceJobBreakingItHerod: Damien tries to prevent the second coming of Christ by killing all male British children born during the herald of his return. Not only is this pointless, since Jesus is reborn in his powerful adult form, but also the murderous strike convinces Kate of his real identity, which leads to her stabbing him with the only weapon that could kill him.
36	* ProphecyTwist: Damien attempts to stop the second coming of Christ by killing any male children born in the U.K. during the sign of his imminent return. This is to prevent "[[AntiChrist the beast's]]" defeat by "the lamb" as predicted in [[Literature/BookOfRevelation Revelation]] before he's even had a chance to face him. [[spoiler:Unfortunately for the forces of darkness, Jesus returns not as a mortal child but rather in his all-powerful divine form and proceeds to strike Damien down personally-[[GenreBlind which is what the Book of Revelation said would happen]].]]
37	* RetCon: The fashions, cars, et cetera make it quite clear ''Film/TheOmen1976'' was supposed to be set around the time of its release in the mid-70s. When ''Film/DamienOmenII'' came out two years later with Damien seven or so years older, it seemed like a case of TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture. But ''The Final Conflict'' is explicitly set in 1982 with a 32-year-old Damien, retroactively pushing the events of the original film back to the mid-1950s and ''Damien'' to the early 1960s, neither of which fits the evidence in the earlier films at all.
38	* RubeGoldbergHatesYourGuts: The original ambassador could have easily been induced to commit suicide by shooting himself or jumping from a window. Instead he rigs up an elaborate booby trap that will blast a gun into his face when someone opens the door.
39	* ScrewDestiny: Damien's motivation is to prevent his prophesied defeat at the hands of Jesus during the Second Coming.
40	* SecondComing: When [[TheAntichrist Damien Thorn]] realizes that the Second Coming is imminent and thus his arch-enemy will be reborn, he orders his cult to kill every baby boy born in U.K. on March 24th between midnight and 6 am.
41	* SmallRoleBigImpact: The man who buys the daggers at an auction in the opening montage--and after reading up on them and realizing their significance, mails them to De Carlo's monastery--has just a minute of screentime.
42	* StoppedNumberingSequels: Originally released as ''The Final Conflict'', without a number OR the franchise title! While modern home video releases have ''Omen III'' on the box, the original title card is still shown in the movie itself.
43	** Possibly because "Omen" is something of an ArtifactTitle at this point; the first movie had Jennings' photos that foreshadowed how several characters died, the second movie had Yigael's Wall that showed the faces of the Antichrist - Damien's face - in various stages of his life. There are no real omens in this movie.
44	* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: Father Spiletto, last seen in the first film alive, albeit severely burnt and disfigured, near catatonic, and mute, is mentioned to have passed away some time prior to the film.
45	* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: Damien's followers. As we see during his speech, they come from all walks of life: a pair of schoolboys, a priest, a nurse, boy scouts... you get the idea.
46	* UnwillingSuspension: Happens to the one of the monks, who is then wrapped in plastic and is [[ManOnFire caught on fire]].
47	* VillainBall: Damien seemed unstoppable and indestructible in the first two films, but here? [[spoiler:If he had simply taken twenty minutes or so to read Literature/TheBookOfRevelation, he might have seen the rather large flaw in his plan, which is why he's finally taken down.]]
48	* VillainProtagonist: Damien Thorn, due to his actor receiving top billing.
49	* WouldHurtAChild: Besides the slaughtering of infants that he commanded, [[spoiler:Damien uses Peter as a shield to protect himself from being stabbed.]]

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