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— Secretary, Speed Bump There's a Mr. B. Al. Zebub here to see you, sir. He says he's a big fan of your work.

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Just like how the trope Alucard deals with people named (or naming themselves) after Dracula, this is about people with a name similar to the devil. Maybe the literal Devil has taken a personal interest, or maybe it's just a high-level demon or an Agent of General Badness, whatever the local badness happens to be called. In any case, it's powerful, it's bad, and it's one of the Names to Run Away from Really Fast!

Be very wary of guys named "Lou", "Luke", "Lukas", or "Lucius", particularly if their last name is Siffer or Cypher or something like that. Remember to keep an ear open for Milton (author of Paradise Lost) and Morgenstern. (German for "morning star"; but be careful with this one, "morning star" is also a title for Jesus.note I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star. (Rev. 22:16)) Also take a careful look at the ones named "Nick", "Scratch", "Deuce", "Thorn" or some variant thereon. In certain cases, don't trust women named "Lucy" or "Georgia". You should also be on the lookout for anyone with a two-syllable name starting with "S" and ending with "N." Apparently the Devil's not very good at choosing aliases, despite having a huge variety to pick from. Or maybe it just shows his opinion of the hero's intelligence level. Or, it could just be ego.

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Bonus points if his address or phone number is prefixed 666.

Common in Deal with the Devil stories. See also Sdrawkcab Name and Alucard. Related to Most Definitely Not a Villain. If God Is Evil, Louis Cypher may be a Steven Ulysses Perhero.

This is often a reveal trope, so spoilers ahoy!

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Anime and Manga

Comic Books

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Comic Strips

Peanuts: An older and subtler example than many, Charlie Brown's football wielding nemesis was Lucy van Pelt — Lucy-Fur, implying she was a literal devil with a blue dress on. Which says odd things about Linus being her brother.

Fan Works

Film

Literature

Live Action TV

Music

A common theme in many traditional folk ballads.

The Polish stoner rock band Corruption has a song titled "Lucy Fair".

The first song of the album Smite And Ignite, a tie-in for the video game League of Legends, is entitled 'Lightbringer', with the vocalist proclaiming this as his title in the chorus. On the face of it, like most of the songs on the album, this is simply an allusion to one of in-game items... but guess how 'Lightbringer' would be rendered in Latin? This is made even more obvious if you know who the vocalist is, since he's been somewhat typecast as this in another band...

There's a German screamo band that goes by the name of Louis Cyphre.

In "El día del final", a Les Luthiers play, the antichrist is born from Satan as a woman called Lucía Fernández. Luci-Fernández.

Don McLean's American Pie features such a character, identified by the narrator as "Jack Flash," in the song's climactic penultimate verse, his appearance heralding the final transition from the turbulent but hopeful '60s to the ultra-cynical '70s. Many have speculated that this character is a metaphor for Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones, owing to the Stones' songs "Jumping Jack Flash" and "Sympathy for the Devil;" McLean disliked the Stones' Darker and Edgier brand of rock and at the close of the '60s they had became infamous after a man was stabbed to death during their performance at the infamous Altamont Free Concert (though contrary to popular belief the song they were playing at the time was not "Sympathy for the Devil").

The Narrator of Regina Spektor's "Pavlov's Daughter", Lucille, can be interpreted as this.

For U2's ZooTV tour in the 90's, Bono introduced the character of Mr MacPhisto .

Pinball

The "Luci" Premium Edition of the AC/DC pinball table is named after Horny Devil girl Luci, who is heavily implied to be Satan.

Professional Wrestling

Radio

Frequently used in Old Harry's Game, although not as a twist since we know which character's Satan. There's sometimes a twist when the detail of who he's disguised as gets held back, instead. In more recent episodes, he goes by the name 'Mr. Harrison' when disguised as a human, presumably a reference to 'Old Harry'.



Stand-Up Comedy

In one of his routines, Mitch Hedberg briefly joked about a doctor who did nothing but suck the blood from his neck. Mitch: "Don't go see Dr. Acula."

Tabletop Games

Theatre

Damn Yankees has Mr. Applegate. Considering what caused Adam and Eve to be kicked out of Eden...

Nick Shadow from the opera The Rake's Progress.

Video Games

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