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* [[Anti Christ]]: Not. There is no mention of the Antichrist. There are the First Beast and the Second Beast, but no Antichrist.
** Most reasons they are associated with this book anyway is due to prior Biblical passages referring to a man of perdition who will deceive the nations who matches up with the description of the Beast as mentioned in Revelation. Earlier Old and New Testament Books discussing this are often compared to the contents of Revelation and hence those earlier books are viewed as connected by way of doing a [[Call Forward]].
* [[Call Back]]: Many of the symbols have been already used by other prophets, especially Daniel.
* [[Demon Lords and Archdevils]]: Quite a lot of these.
* [[Distant Finale]]
* [[Drugs Are Bad]]: While near universally translated as "sorceries" and "sorcerers", some will point to the original Greek words of "pharmakōn" and "pharmakois" as indication their mention refers to drug users (especially of hallucinogenics) rather than spellcasters.
* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]: Mankind's going to go through some crap before they can live [[Happily Ever After]].
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: Both on the forces of good ''and'' evil.
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* [[Extra Eyes]]: Lots of the spiritual beings have more than the usual number of eyes, including four creatures who are completely covered in them.
* [[Gainax Ending]]
* [[Harsher in Hindsight]]: The book features a toxic meteorite named Wormwood, and as conspiracy nuts never tire of reminding us, [[Nuke'Em|Chernobyl]]
* [[Heaven]]: Where much of the action takes place, obviously.
* [[Horsemen of the Apocalypse]]
** [[Anti Christ]]: The first horseman, possibly.
** [[The Archer]]: The first horseman has a bow.
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** [[Breakout Character|Breakout Characters]]: They show up in [[Works]] enough to get their own page.
** [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]]: White (plague), Red (war), Black (famine) and Pale (death).
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* [[Religious Horror]]: The [[Ur Example]] of a ''lot'' of creepy religious tropes--[[Satan]] figures prominently, among other nasty demonic beings, and lots of people die.
* [[Rule of Seven]]: All over the place. The book begins with letters to seven churches, then we see seven stars, seven seals, seven trumpets, seven plagues, a beast with seven heads...
* [[Second Coming]]: [[Jesus Christ|Jesus]] comes back at the end to settle things once and for all.
* [[Take That]]: Interpreters often tend to identify the villains of the story with their own preferred religious or political targets. For instance, during the Protestant Reformation the "whore of Babylon" was often identified with the [[Christianity Is Catholic|Catholic church]]. Then during the [[Cold War]], the various Beasts were widely interpreted as Soviet states. And so on, and so on...
** One popular secularist interpretation of the book is that it was originally written as a political satire about the Roman Empire.
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