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== In popular culture ==
The Antichrist is a central figure in many popular movies with [[occult]] themes, such as ''[[Rosemary's Baby]]'', and ''[[The Omen]]'' series. ''[[The Devil's Advocate]]'' has [[Al Pacino]] as [[Satan]] attempt to lure [[Keanu Reeves]]' character into joining him and fathering the Antichrist. In ''[[The Seventh Sign]]'', the idea of the Antichrist is tangentially referred to as a child conceived without a soul, whose birth will signal the end of all life. ''[[The Seventh Seal]]'' uses the spectre of death to refer obliquely to the prophesies of the End Times and the role of the Antichrist as the Grim Reaper. The Antichrist is a central figure in the ''[[Left Behind (series)|Left Behind]]'' series of books and movies; in this series the Antichrist figure is a European politician named [[Nicolae Carpathia]]. There is also an Antichrist-like character called [[Randall Flagg]] in several of [[Stephen King]]'s writings, most notably in "[[Eyes of the Dragon]]", ''[[The Stand]]'', and ''[[The Dark Tower (series)|The Dark Tower]]'' series (the latter of which has him serving the Crimson King, a being who may be King's variation of the Beast). In [[Terry Pratchett]] and [[Neil Gaiman]]'s comedy novel, ''[[Good Omens]]'', Sister Mary Loquatious of the Chattering Order of Saint Beryl misplaces the Antichrist, who ironically ends up averting the apocalypse as opposed to initiating it like he is supposed to. In an interesting twist on the genre, [[Cain]] becomes a [[false messiah]] and potential Antichrist in the form of [[Kane (C&C)|Kane a.k.a Jacob Caine]] in the ''[[Command & Conquer]]'' series. The satirical comedy series ''[[South Park]]'' has used the idea of the antichrist, who in his first appearance, clearly modeled after [[Damien Thorn]] of "The Omen" series, ends up drawing out [[Jesus Christ]] for a boxing match with [[Satan]], which takes place in South Park.In another episode, [[Woodland Critter Christmas (South Park)|Woodland Critter Cristmas]], Stan helps a group of cute animals to give birth to their savior, who turns out to be the anti-christ.
The [[Heavy metal music|heavy metal]] band [[Slayer]] released a song called The Anti-Christ. A sample of the Lyrics are as follows:
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