# Who's your favorite Antichrist?  (In book or film.)

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**Created:** [January 2, 2005, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-antichrist-in-book-or-film/282732 "2005-01-02T20:18:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2005, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-antichrist-in-book-or-film/282732/21 "2005-01-03T17:19:09Z")

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> [@BrainGlutton](#):
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> **Adrian Woodhouse:** Introduced at the very end of Ira Levin’s 1967 novel _Rosemary’s Baby_ and of Roman Polanski’s 1968 film of the same title. In the book, he has horns and a tail. In the movie, his only unusual physical feature is his glowing slit-pupilled eyes. These eyes seem to have turned normal by the time of the 1976 made-for-TV movie _Look What’s Happened to Rosemary’s Baby_ (generally loathed, and as Levin was not directly involved in the project he might claim it was non-canonical.) Levin wrote a sequel, _Son of Rosemary_ (Onyx Books 1998) which I haven’t read, but I read a review – Adrian becomes a kind of religious leader. How his character development is presented (and whether he still has those funny eyes), I don’t know.

IIRC he could control the look of his eyes for a limited time so that they looked normal. The book was very bad.

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**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2005, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-antichrist-in-book-or-film/282732/22 "2005-01-03T17:20:49Z")

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Oh, and to nitpick:

> [@BrainGlutton](#):
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> In the movie, his only unusual physical feature is his glowing slit-pupilled eyes.

We never see the child in the movie so we don’t know if there are any other unusual physical features.

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2005, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-antichrist-in-book-or-film/282732/23 "2005-01-03T17:57:39Z")

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> [@rfgdxm](#):
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> Might not John have been told by God the number of the Beast, without John knowing what numeral system it would be in?

Of course, but since part of the atmosphere of _The Omen_ is created by Biblical scholarship and rummaging around in old texts, I think it might have made a slightly better movie if Damien’s birthmark had been in the shape of the Greek (digamma kappa kappa) or Roman (DCLXVI) numerals for “666”. More authentic, you know?

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