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In the rare cases where the genders are inverted, the angel will be indeed more masculine than the usual standard but he will mostly be here to highlight that [[Good Is Not Nice]] and will often be [[The Stoic|cold and unemotional]]. The demoness, on the other hand, will mostly be a [[Slut]], at best a [[Manipulative Bitch]] if non-sexualized, but she will seldom be portrayed as ''physically'' dangerous as her male counterpart. And don't expect any [[Dating Catwoman|romance]] between them if they ever happen to be on "friendly" terms because [[My Girl Is Not a Slut]].
Naturally, this trope often carries the [[Unfortunate
Notice [[Evil Sounds Deep]].
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A subtrope of [[Our Angels Are Different]], [[Our Demons Are Different]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Wish]]'', the angels are specifically androgynous, but since Tokyopop decided that would be too hard to do in English, angels were all referred to with feminine pronouns and demons male ones, except for the demon catgirls. (And yes, the romance does indeed occur.)
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* In ''[[Violinist of Hameln]]'', Hamel is a demon, after their father's side, while Sizer is an angel, after their mother's side.
* Go Nagai's Devilman had naked, beautiful hermafrodite angels. Meanwhile, the demons (who absorb the bodies of their victims to "evolve" into stronger forms) look like Darwin on LSD.
* The front cover of the English translation of ''[[Pretty Face]]''.
* Inverted in ''[[My Balls]]'', the demons (including Satan) are [[Horny Devils]]. There are only two angels shown and both are male, [[Archangel Michael|Michael]] is an old man, and [[Archangel Gabriel|Gabriel]] is a [[Bishonen]].
** Actually there was a female angel shown in an omake chapter {{spoiler|and Satan becomes an angel again in the end.}}
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Angela and Gabrielle in ''[[Spawn]]''.
* Inverted in ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)]]'', where Genesis is the offspring of a male angel and a female demon.
** Arguably inverted again almost back again, as the angel proves to be a bit of an asshole and the demon seems a nicer entity.
* ''[[PS238]]'''s [[Captain Ersatz]] of Genesis, Malphast, has the same set of parents, taken even further. The two are [[Happily Married]] and [[Friendly Enemy|Friendly Enemies]] of each other. When other mortals come into contact with them, they are about equally manipulative (not to mention both are good sports about the certainty that their better half will undoubtedly manipulate them in the other direction).
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** And at one point, she appears as a masculine devil, possibly implying that gender is not a big part of what God or the Devil are.
* In the [[Made for TV Movie]] ''Child Of Darkness, Child Of Light'', the titular children turn out to be, respectively, a boy and a girl.
* In Peter Ustinov's "The Love of Four Colonels", they appear as "the Good Fairy" and "the Wicked Fairy"... but they were also the supernatural actors in the Garden of Eden.▼
== [[Literature]] ==
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* One of [[Tom Holt]]'s books has a female angel (who's frankly kind of a bitch) and Oscar the demon (who's a bit...off). {{spoiler|They get together in the end; this is why you should always ''listen'' to someone whose day job involves a bestselling [[Love Potion]].}}
* Inverted by [[Shakespeare]] in [[Good Angel, Bad Angel|Sonnet 114]]:
{{quote|''Two loves I have of comfort and despair,
''Which like two spirits do suggest me still:
''The better angel is a man right fair,
''The worser spirit a woman colour'd ill.
''To win me soon to hell, my female evil
''Tempteth my better angel from my side,
''And would corrupt my saint to be a devil,
''Wooing his purity with her foul pride... }}
== [[Live
* Inverted in the ''[[Tales from the Darkside]]'' episode ''"Let the Games Begin"''. A male angel and a female demon have a contest over a man's soul. They get together at the end of the episode.
* [[Averted]]/[[Inverted]] in ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'': Most of the angels we've seen have taken male humans as their hosts, and demons' hosts are more-or-less split 50/50. (We haven't seen the angels in their true form.)
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** The backstory of the plane of Innistrad prominently features the female archangel Avacyn versus the male demon Griselbrand.
* Subverted in ''[[Infernum]]'' where angels can be genderless or of either gender, while all demons except [[Horny Devils|Malcubi]] are genderless. Also, there is no artwork of female angels in any of the rulebooks, and many female demons (some of which are [[Fan Disservice]]—such as one 'she-demon' that is basically a four-breasted wolf-woman with tentacles instead of legs).
** Inverted by Riethii and Purity, a fallen angel and a [[Horny Devils|succubus]] who [[Unholy Matrimony|fell in what passes for love in Hell]] before {{spoiler|Purity [[You Have Failed Me...|killed Riethii for screwing up]].}}
* Averted in ''[[Demon: The Fallen]]'', where both sides were both genders. Granted, the demons ''started'' as angels. This is a Abrahamic world... to an extent.
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* In ''Auto da Barca do Inferno'' by Gil Vicente the demon is usually portrayed by a male actor and the angel by a female actor, even if neither are identified by sex in the original work. The most modern version can be seen as a subversion though, [[Light Is Not Good|as the angel is just as evil as the devil]].
* An amateur production of ''[[Doctor Faustus]]'' subverted this; the good angel was played by an old man, while the bad angel/demons were all played by young women.
▲* In Peter Ustinov's "The Love of Four Colonels", they appear as "the Good Fairy" and "the Wicked Fairy"... but they were also the supernatural actors in the Garden of Eden.
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* ''[[Diablo]]'' does this for the health and mana orbs. It doesn't apply to actual angels and demons.
** Inverted in the backstory- humans are the offspring of a male angel and female demon.
* The ''[[
* ''[[Heroes of Might and Magic]] V'' has female Angels and male Devils (though there are female demons). In previous games, they were both male.
** It's debatable whether angels are female or just [[Bishonen]] though.
* Necro and Undine, Dizzy's Wings from ''[[Guilty Gear]]''.
** And, because every ''[[Guilty Gear]]'' example needs a [[Spiritual Successor|follow-up]] example from ''[[
* Chaos and Cosmos (technically a god and goddess) from ''[[Final Fantasy Dissidia]]''.
* The two advisors in ''[[Afterlife]]''.
* Subverted in ''[[Painkiller|Painkiller: Overdose]]'' in that the main character Belial is the son of a female demon and a male angel.
* The recurring summons [[An Ice Person|Shiva]] and [[Playing with Fire|Ifrit]] in the ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' series.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Buwaro
* Inverted in [http://www.egscomics.com/sketchbook/?date=2002-08-11 this] ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' filler strip.
* Seraphim and Asmodeus in ''[[Megatokyo]]''.
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[[Category:Angelic Tropes]]
▲[[Category:Religion Tropes]]
[[Category:Characterization Tropes]]
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