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{{quote|''Woe to you, Oh Earth and Sea, for the Devil sends the beast with wrath, because he knows the time is short...Let him who hath understanding reckon the [[Trope Namer|number of the beast]], for it is a human number; its number is Six hundred threescore and six.''
|'''[[Book of Revelation]]''' 12:12, 13:18}}
You know what this is. Six hundred sixty six, the
Sometimes gets truncated to 66 or lengthened to 6666 if 666 is too high or too low a number, yet still evokes the [[Numerological Motif]].
The actual number, however, is a subject of debate among theologians and historians: many say the number is actually 616, as some of the older Latin copies of Revelation list it as that rather than 666; all the Greek ones list it as 666, and most probably the name it indicated had a different sum according to their numerological schemes in different alphabets. However, 666 is so much better known that if you try to go with 616 instead it will likely [[Viewers Are Geniuses|fly over the heads of most readers and viewers]]. Note that either way, it is the value six hundred and sixty six or six hundred and sixteen, not just three sixes in a row (I'm looking at you, June
Interestingly enough, another interpretation is 216, as some older translations define this enigmatic number as "6 by 6 by 6" or 6 cubed.
The "616" number given to the main [[Marvel]] universe (as opposed to the other alternate realities) was a bit of spite on a writer's part, using 616 as a way of [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]].
In
Compare with its Asian counterparts [[
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* The Book of Darkness in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's]]'' has 666 pages.
* In ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion|The End Of Evangelion]]'', Ritsuko uses program 666 to protect NERV from being hacked by SEELE.
** ''[[Rebuild of Evangelion|Rebuild]]'''s Mari Illustrious Makinami {{spoiler|hijacks Unit-2 in order to fight the last Angel in You Can (Not) Advance, she activates the Eva's Berserker mode with Code: 666, named, you guessed it, The Beast}}
** Ironically, the new version of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2N8woYX7io
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]!''
** In one Japanese episode of [[Yu-Gi-Oh! (anime)|the original anime]], we see [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Seven-Armed_Fiend an unnamed Monster Card] with 666 ATK and 666 DEF points. This card was owned by the merchant who gave Bakura's father the Millennium Ring, ultimately resulting in the Evil Spirit of the Ring possessing Bakura. The US version [[Bowdlerise]]d it to 1000/1000.<ref>In the real-life game, the Attack and Defense stats for nearly all cards are some multiple of 50, before modifiers. Except the two cards Castle of Dark Illusions, which is 920 ATK/1930 DEF, and Reaper of the Cards, with 1380 ATK/1920 DEF. There are three others that break the "multiples of 50" rule, King of Yamimakai (2000 ATK, 1530 DEF), Barox (1380 ATK, 1530 DEF), and Dark Chimera (1610 ATK, 1460 DEF). It probably was no coincidence that all of these monsters were used in one duel, one before the rules for the [[Real Life]] version of the game came out, implying that they may have been planning to break that standard increments pattern further.</ref>
** In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's]]'', Placido's D-Wheel is called "T-666". Again, this is changed in the dub, where it is called "Terrible Omen".
* In the Eighth Child arc of ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'', a prophecy stated that the [[Big Bad]] Vamdemonm, [[Not Quite Dead|who was thought to be killed moments ago]], will rise in [[Satan|his true form]] at the hour of the Beast. And that evening, at 6:06 PM and 6 seconds, his insanely powerful [[One-Winged Angel]] form arises. Surprisingly, this plot point survived completely intact in the dub.
** In the broader ''Digimon'' canon, the Seven Great Demon Lords possess a series of crests, the rings of which state of a "Level 666". No defined meaning is given to the statement, but given that no Digimon is classified by numerical power levels, odds are it's only there because for [[Rule of Symbolism]].
* There's an actual manga called ''[[
* The
* Mr. Satan and Videl from ''[[
** In the dub, his name is "Hercule". Probably more fitting, what with his reputation as the greatest fighter and all. I don't remember whether or not they kept the triple sixes.
* ''[[AMV Hell]] Championship Edition'' was released on June 6, 2006.
* The ''[[Gundam]]'' franchise has two [[Humongous Mecha]] with 666 in their model numbers, the ZGMF-X666S Legend Gundam from ''[[Gundam Seed Destiny]]'' and the NZ-666 Kshatriya from ''[[Gundam Unicorn]]''. With the Kshatriya it actually makes sense,<ref>It's a descendant of ''[[Gundam ZZ]]''{{'}}s NZ-000 Queen Mansa and ''[[Chars Counterattack]]''{{'}}s NZ-333 Alpha Azieru</ref>
* In the manga version of ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro
* In ''[[Berserk]]'', the Eclipse, which heralds the birth of a new member of the demonic Godhand, happens once every 216 years, or 6 x 6 x 6.
* In ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]'', there are six powerful Mist-rings known as the Hell Rings. New Varia member [[Deadpan Snarker|Fran]] owns the one with the number 666 on it.
* In the opening pages of the manga ''[[
* ''[[Highschool of the Dead]]'' mentions the USA's National State of Emergency Tactical Regulation 666D.
* The ''[[Litchi Hikari Club]]'''s [[Artificial Human]] Litchi runs on a series of commands issued by a clunky looking calculator. His activation code? "The Number Of The Beast".
* In ''[[Yaiba]]'' the [[Evil Weapon|Devil King Sword]] (Maoken in jap.) is kept in the room Six-Six-Six of Kaguya's moonbase. Probably it's called like that because of the sword inside it. It's also well guarded.
* In the infamous [[Gainax Ending]] of ''[[Panty
* ''[[C the Money And Soul of Possibility]]'' is full of 666 references, to emphasize the [[Deal
* ''[[
* Around the beginning of the Fishman Island arc, ''[[
* In a ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' subbed episode called "I Want a Boyfriend: The Luxury Cruise", Umino mentions that the boats hold up to 666 passengers.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* [[Marvel Comics]]' main universe is Earth-616. The term was created around the time of Alan Moore's run on ''[[Captain Britain]]''. Moore's son-in-law said that Moore intentionally used a random number with no meaning, but artist Alan Davis said it was created by the previous writer David Thorpe, who intentionally used the Number of the Beast to indicate his feelings about superheroes.
** Earth-666 is the [[Fan Nickname]] for the ''Marvel Zombies'' reality.
* In ''[[The DCU]]'', there is a demonic [[Big Bad]] called Neron which, numerically, translates as 666.
* [[Green Lantern
* ''[[Kingdom Come]]'' has an Anti-Hero who's name is 666. Not only that but he has a huge "6" tattoo on his face and two more 6s on his chest. Alex Ross used Brian Azzarello as the model.
* The address of the title character in ''[[Johnny the Homicidal Maniac]]'' is 777. A man taking a survey points this out and jokingly asks if it's the number for Heaven. Johnny growls "Does this look like Heaven?" According to the comic, 777 is the "number of the moose".
* In the pre-''52'' DC multiverse, the Wildstorm 'verse had supervillains from an alternate dimension designated 666, where the bad guys won because the heroes never killed villains. They were shocked to meet the Authority, and dead shortly thereafter.
** Wildstorm also had a [[Crisis Crossover]] called "The Number Of The Beast", featuring a logo of three sixes arranged to have one-third turn symmetry.
* In ''[[Hellboy (
* This French comic ''[http://tinyurl.com/cgjthd 666]''. It has a sequel, ''[http://tinyurl.com/d3lssd 6666]'' (which is the year the story is set in).
* ''[[Walt Disney]]'s Comics and Stories'' issue #666 contains the first English printing of the story "Mickey's Inferno", an adaptation of ''[[Divine Comedy|Dante's Inferno]]''. This being Disney, they don't even mention the number when they talk about the story in the afterword.
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* Issue number 666 of ''[[Batman]]'' features a grim alternate universe where Batman's son Damien was in the cowl. Discount symbolism at its finest.
* In ''[[Judge Dredd]]'', iso-block 666 is used to contain the most dangerous criminals in Mega-City One.
* The [[X-Men]] snuck some of their members into a hostile installation once by pretending they were unconscious, their bodies marked with numbered tags. Dr. Hank McCoy is known as the Beast; one guess what number he put on ''his'' tag....
* In issue number 666 of ''[[Superman]]'', Superman dreams about killing all his enemies and taking over Hell. He is being manipulated by Rakkar, Krypton's answer to [[The Devil]].
* In ''[[Flesh]]'': "Texas", McGurk brands Gorehead three times with a symbol that looks like the number 6. This is enough for Pastor Sunday to declare that Gorehead is in fact Satan.
* One ''[[Ghost Rider]]'' arc (Vicious Cycle, if anyone's curious) had Johnny Blaze accidentally bring Lucifer with him when pulling a [[Like a Badass Out of Hell]] stunt, at which point Lucy fragmented and possessed a number of recently-dead people. If you can't guess how many from the page you're on, there is nothing we can do to help you.
* The first ''[[Silent Hill]]'' comic, ''Dying Inside'', mentioned and invoked this trope, when the main character declared a door code to be her own personal
* [[Batman]] villain [[Knight of Cerebus|Bane]] debuted in ''Detective Comics #666'', as the main antagonist of the "Knightfall" storyline.
== [[Fan Works]] ==
* ''[[My Immortal]]'' is filled with this number, largely because the [[Mary Sue]] protagonist is supposed to be a satanist, and yet [[Fridge Logic|Voldemort is referred to as Satan]].
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* One of the title characters from ''[[Lilo & Stitch (Disney film)|Lilo & Stitch]]'' was supposed to be assigned the number "666", but the [[Media Watchdog]] complained and it was changed to "626".
* The origin of the "modern" use of the Number of the Beast is probably ''[[The Omen]]''. They even released a remake of the film on June 6, 2006 nationwide. The original came out in the UK on June 6, '76... close enough.
* The Gregg Araki flick ''[[The Doom Generation]]'' is filled with references to this number. Among other things, every purchase made by the main characters comes to a total of $6.66, and the female lead had an SAT score of 666 in high school. By the way, [[Critical Research Failure|SAT scores end in 0]].
* Used in ''[[Route 666]]'', which involves an abandoned stretch of highway nicknamed such after the mysterious death of a prison chain gang.
** There was a real Route 666, which was a turnpike of Route 66. It's Route 491 now.
* In ''[[Escape From
* ''[[Star Wars]]'': "Order 66," which might double as a reference to [[WW 2]] Executive Order 9066, which interned Japanese civilians.
* The code for the suitcase in ''[[Pulp Fiction]]'' is 666.
* In ''[[The Ninth Gate]]'', guess what the keypad code to Satanic book collector Boris Balkan's private elevator is?
* Played with in the 1999 film ''[[
** The Devil will then try to return on the last day of the year, for every year ending in 999 (999, 1999, 2999, etc).
* In ''[[A Clockwork Orange (
* In [[Bedazzled (2000 film)|the 2000 remake of ''Bedazzled''
* In ''[[Half Baked]]'', Tommy is scribbling over a calendar page of the big inmate who's been stalking him, at one point screaming "666, the mark of the beast!!!"
* In ''[[Reign of Fire]]'', a ruined sign on a road states that London is 66 miles away. Aside from other things scribbled onto the sign, a large 6 is scratched in above the 66.
* The directors of ''[[Devil]]'' were positively thrilled that their location, a real office building that hadn't opened yet, had the address number 333 (close enough).
* In ''[[Highlander|Highlander: Endgame]]'' the Watchers reveal that [[Big Bad]] Jacob Kell has decapitated a grand total of 661 immortals so far. Three guesses how many more people he'll have killed when it's all over.
* Officer Vickers has this tattooed on him in the ''[[
* The serial killer from ''[[Seed]]'' was captured after killing this many people.
* This is used as an address in ''[[Silent Night, Deadly Night
* In the beginning of ''[[Phantom of the Opera]]'' the
* ''[[Studio 666]]'', a horror movie with the [[Foo Fighters]] -- it's right there in the title.
== [[Literature]] ==
* Used in the [[Robert A. Heinlein]] novel ''[[The Number of the Beast]]''. One of the protagonists builds a device that makes it possible to move arbitrarily through a six-dimensional space-time to [[Another Dimension|multiple universes]]; the number of possible destination universes is (6^6)^6 (10,314,424,798,490,535,546,171,949,056), which when written sloppily one of the characters mistakes for the traditional 666. This prompts a discussion over whether biblical prophecy actually refers to the 6-dimensional space-time geometry and the bad guys they've already encountered. (The conclusion is that there are enough similarities to at least be cautious about it.)
* In ''[[
** Charles L. Grant (writing as Lionel Fenn) beat them to it in 1992 with a novel of that title.
** 668 Elm Street, Ankh-Morpork, is the address where [[Discworld]]'s all-undead Fresh Start Club holds its meetings.
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* In Book the Sixth of Lemony Snicket's ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]'', ''The Ersatz Elevator'', the address of the Baudelaires' new home is 667 Dark Avenue. In addition, it has sixty-six floors.
* The short story [http://www.ravenelectrick.com/ssraven/neighbors.html "Neighbors"] by Robert Borski discusses the number 666 from the points of view of nearby numbers.
* [[John Hodgman]]'s ''[[The Areas of My Expertise]]'' includes a list of (North American) phone numbers beginning with the prefix "666" including "a bunch of Satanists who got lucky" and "the author's home phone number".
* ''[[Nightmare Academy]]'', by Frank Peretti has a rather contrived situation near the end of the book in which a row of buildings is being demolished and one of the characters needs to stop it by putting in a code that corresponds to... some technical detail. Anyway, it ends up being 666 (or 666.0 if you want to be picky, and the computer did). Lampshaded by the kid stopping it when he figures it out.
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* In [[Robert Rankin]]'s ''Apocalypso'', every dimension is assigned a Greek letter and a number. Hell is Omega 666.
* In ''[[Harry Potter and
** Not really. The book Hermione reads that piece of info from is described to be a very old and worn book. Thus, he was six hundred and sixty six years old one year after the book was published, something of at least a century ago. Even in the movie the book is seen as an old piece of parchment.
* Conservative shock commentator Ann Coulter released a book called ''Godless'' on 6/6/06. She said it wasn't coincidence.
* Surprisingly averted in the ''[[Left Behind]]'' series. Nicolae Carpathia is the aforementioned Beast himself, but the obligatory references to 666 are all [[Fridge Brilliance|subtle]]: a fixation with the number 216, an assistant named [[Meaningful Name|Viv Ivins]], and the numerology of his full name. Nobody brings any of this up directly; they have other, less coincidental, ways of knowing he's the Antichrist.
* In Regina Doman's [[Fairytale Novels|''The Shadow of the Bear'']], the villain uses "666" as the keypad code for his apartment.
* Hell in ''[[
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* In ''[[Doctor Who]]'', the atmosphere readings of "The Impossible Planet"/"The Satan Pit" are 66.6, the gravitational field is "6^6 every 6 seconds", and the name of the base, "SB6" is seen gradually melting into "666". The two-part episode was episode was even aired over the week of 6 June 2006, or 6/6/06. Also, the Ood go to work to the sound of Ravel's Bolero, which Torvill And Dean famously skated to in the 1984 Winter Olympics—and received perfect 6s for artistic impression.
** As an extra metatextual touch, the official web site's Fear Forecasters gave "The Impossible Planet" a Fear Factor score of 3/6/6/6 -- on a scale that usually only goes up to 5. ("The Satan Pit" got straight 5s.)
** Another ''[[
** Also invoked in "Midnight": When Mrs Silvestri starts repeating what everybody says, the teenaged Jethro says "six six six" to get her to repeat it.
** The [[Arc Words|prevalence of 666]] in the Doctor Who universe has lead observant fans to come up with [[WMG|theories]] to explain it.
* In the ''[[Twilight Zone]]'' episode "Dealer's Choice", a group of gamblers find themselves playing poker against the Devil. Every hand the Devil receives includes three sixes. When one of the players ends up playing for his soul, he attempts to use this to his advantage by invoking dealer's choice and chosing Low Ball as the game.
* ''[[Reaper]]'': Sam's house number is 667. In one episode, he hits the snooze button on his alarm clock and the numbers turn red and read "6:66".
* One episode of ''[[The X-Files]]'' ("Orison") had Scully's alarm clock read 666 twice, warning her about the evil man after her. It proved to be surprisingly effective as a piece of mis-en-scene.
* An episode of ''[[
** Possibly a reference to Jesus's Crucifixion, which had Him die at 3:30 PM.
* An episode of ''[[QI]]'' had Stephen Fry asking the teams what the number of the beast was (Johnny Vaughan fell for the 666 trap). After Fry had revealed that 616 was the actual number, one of the panel concluded that 666 must be his fax number!
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** Luckily, {{spoiler|it was [[All Just a Dream]]!}}
* ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' visits a planet whose designation is P3X-666 in the two-part episode "Heroes". {{spoiler|Dr. Frasier dies there.}}
* In ''[[Point Pleasant]]'' the mark on the protagonist's eye is a series of three six-figures, overlapped and rotated in a particular pattern. It's probably a [[Shout
* ''[[Supernatural]]'': There was a rather reviled Season 1 episode called "Route 666", and then there were the 66 out of 600 possible seals that needed to be opened in order to {{spoiler|set Lucifer free from his prison}}.
* ''[[The Mighty Boosh]]'' episode ''Nanageddon'' features a demon going on a rampage at a bingo night. As she reveals herself, the bingo caller announces the number: ''"All the sixes - 666."''
* An episode of ''[[Frasier]]'' showed Frasier's old agent Bebe staying in a hotel room numbered 666.
* The third episode of ''[[
* ''[[The Glass House]]'' reported the discovery that 616 might actually be the number of the beast, and noted that, by international dialling, Canberra's former area code was + 61-6.
* One of the threats of the week for the [[Big Wolf
* One episode of ''[[Criminal Minds]]'' had a Satanist whose name was '''F'''loyd '''F'''eylin '''F'''errell. F is the sixth letter of the alphabet.
* An episode of ''[[That '70s Show]]'' had Laurie, Eric, Hyde and Kitty playing cards with their youth minister. Laurie ends up having three 6 cards(and this is after she tried to come on to him). The minister promptly gets up and leaves.
== [[Music]] ==
* "''Number Of The Beast''" by [[Iron Maiden]], which even begins with the above quote from Revelations.
* Slayer planned to release an album on 6.6.06, but due to problems they could only release a single. The album? ''Christ Illusion''. By amusing coincidence, 6.6.06 was also bassist/lead singer Tom Araya's 45th birthday.
** This was successfully done however by AFI who released their album "Decemberunderground" on 6.6.06
** Ditto for [[Lordi]], who released their [[Eurovision Song Contest]] winner ''Hard Rock Hallelujah'' as a single in the UK on 6.6.06.
** [[Metallica]] played a concert in Berlin on 6/6/06.
* "666" in metal in general is very common due to its satanic connotations. Bands that have made songs with the number include [[
** Danzig's album ''6:66 Satan's Child''.
* The death rap group Three 6 Mafia (aka Triple Six Mafia), once notorious for their Satanic lyrics and references to the occult. However the group has since stated that the name is just a reference the fact that their group started out with three members and ended up with six. That, and the fact that back when they were just starting out, they needed to put out something that would [[No Such Thing
* The album ''666'' by Aphrodite's Child.
* Alluded to by the Christian Post-hardcore band Underoath's DVD which has "777" in its title due to their religious beliefs.
** Electronica group System 7 also has two different albums both titled ''777''. (The first of these is titled ''System 7'' [[Market
* Parodied (somewhat) in the song "665: The Great Bean" by [http://www.theenid.com The Enid].
* Parodied by Green Jelly with their 1994 album ''333''.
* Death Metal band Deicide released the album "The Stench of Redemption" on June 6, 2006. (6/6/06)
* Blackened Thrash band Destroyer 666. They take it to extremes, portraying themselves as Australian anti-Christs.
* [[
* Heavy metal band [[Loudness]] has an instrumental titled "222" and (more recently) a song titled "#666".
* The German trance band 666.
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* The song "Six Sixty-Six" by Christian-folk singer Larry Norman, covered by his fan Frank Black, is a straightforward retelling of the prophecies about the Antichrist in Bible fanon.
* Murdoc Niccals, the fictional bass player of [[Gorillaz]], was born on June 6, 1966 (6/6/66) and is a Satanist.
** He also refers to [[Punny Name|"Number of the Beats"]] as a band name they had been considering.
* Steve Vai was born on June 6, 1960 (6/6/60) and has skills that could very well be described as not of this world.
* Slipknot's song "The Heretic Anthem" featured the chorus: "If you're 5-5-5 then I'm 6-6-6", though the lyrics feature no real Satanic overtones and the use of the number was really just for shock value.
** Since 555 is commonly used as the exchange for phone numbers in movies and television, the line could be interpreted to mean that if you're trying to fit in and be acceptable, he's trying to be edgy and unacceptable.
* [[Christian Rock]] group DeGarmo and Key's 1984 album "Communication" included a song titled Six, Six, Six. It gained attention [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Cdxl4INfw as one of the first CCM music videos] to appear on [[MTV]]. It also became infamous for MTV ordering an edit removing a scene where a man kicks a burning trash can down, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUVj47rpuoo briefly setting the man representing the Antichrist on fire].
* "666 - The Enemy Within" by [[
* [[
* "Disconnected 666", a spooky audio collage by Cop Shoot Cop, has an excerpt from a prerecorded disconnection notice repeating the number 666 over a backdrop of busy signals.
* Mentioned in The Wicked End by [[Avenged Sevenfold]].
* ''(665) Hell Neighbour'' by Italian band Menace. It's about "[[Exactly What it Says on the Tin|livin' just a span from hell]]".
* "The Devil Went Down to Georgia", arriving via Route 666, according to [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9uk9IcoQ0w this YouTube video].
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* ''[[The Far Side]]'' got in on it with Satan glowering at a confused painter, and "999" over the cave leading to Hell.
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* There's a small and odd federation in Japan called 666. One notable character is President Ramu, a demonically-possessed wrestler with super strength for her size. Which is good, given that she'd fit under [[Cute Bruiser]]. Note she is NOT the least likely champion they've ever had....
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* In ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' according to most editions' Dungeon Master's Guide, one of the planes, the Abyss, has supposedly infinite layers, but "conventional wisdom" says the bottom layer is the 666th.
** ''[[Planescape]]'', however, subverts this, as the Guvners have, continuity-wise, catalogued at least 679 layers, and the project is still ongoing.
** Also, in the original ''[[Advanced Dungeons and Dragons]]'', Lolth (Demon Queen of Spiders and the [[God-Emperor|God-Empress]] of the drow) had 66 hit points. Seeing as she also had the ability to use ''heal'' on herself three times per day (meaning her hit points were, for all practical purposes, 198) this was clearly an intentional reference, especially since 666 hit points would be more than three times higher than that of Demogogon himself. Of course, the same edition gave [[Horny Devils|Glasya]] 69 hit points... [[Double Entendre|Very funny, Mr. Gygax.]]
* The secret Grey Knights chapter of [[Super Soldier|Space Marines]] in ''[[Warhammer
** Also before they join they have to go through the 666 Rites Of The Emperor, which can be described as 666 [[Mind Rape
** [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|And their favorite]] [[Sound Off]], the Canticle of Absolution, is [[Numerological Motif|sixhundredsixtysix words long]]
** It's implied somewhere that they chose this number [[Genre Savvy|specifically because of the bad connotations]]; the Grey Knights are such an elite force that they can handle whatever it means for them.
* Also in ''[[Warhammer
** As explained in the Daemon codex, due to way time flows in the Warp (that is, very erraticly) despite being created about 30 000 years in the future, Slaanesh has in a way always existed, and never existed. [[Mind Screw|Warp is confusing like that.]]
* In Sanguine Productions' ''Ironclaw'', the use of Black Magic can have dangerous side effects {{spoiler|when three sixes appear in any dice roll involving it. This includes skill rolls, resistance rolls, and difficulty rolls. Just to maximize this effect, the Difficulty Dice for Black Magic are, uncharacteristically, almost all d6s}}.
* ''[[
** This is reversed for demonic characters.
*** Basically, how it works storywise is three 1s mean God intervenes, and three 6s mean Lucifer does.
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* ''Hero System'' uses three six-sided dice for skill rolls and "to-hits". A roll of three sixes always fails, no matter how many bonuses the character has. (However, it's referred to as a roll of 18, or 6+6+6, not a roll of 666.)
** Inverted in older editions of [[Shadowrun]], in which rolling three consecutive sixes on the same die means you automatically beat a target number of 19, and possibly higher.
* ''[[
* Perhaps fittingly, the ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' card classified under Multiverse ID 666 [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=666 is a black spell that turns you into an undead planeswalker].
== [[Theatre]] ==
* The catalog number for the auctioning of the infamous chandelier in ''[[The Phantom of the Opera]]'' is 666.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* Beelzebub from ''[[Ragnarok Online]]'' has a starting HP of 6,666,666 HP. And he looks like a Steel Chon Chon. Changing to his true form gives him more HP.
* Beelzebub (human form) in ''[[Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne]]'' has 666 HP.
** Evil Land gives 666 damage to demi-humans at LV 6.
* In ''[[Castlevania
** Actually, the number shows up all over the place in the monster stats throughout the series. Dracula in particular.
* Magus, the leader of the Mystics in ''[[
** In addition, Bashers and Lashers, two minor enemies in the Ocean Palace, have 666 [[Hit Points]].
** Don't forget about the sword that always deals 666 damage! (667 occasionally)
* One of the Chemist's mixes in ''[[
* ''[[
* The Pain Doubler spell under Zamza's Evil Magic library deals 666 damage...which sucks quite a bit since the average damage in ''[[
* In ''[[Pikmin]] 2'', there's a [[Defanged Horrors|creepy doll's head]] that's worth 670 pokos; in the Japanese game, it's worth 666.
* ''[[
** The reference is even more direct. Look real close at "Nrvnqsr"
*** His name is also [[Spell My Name
* In the old ''[[Ultima II]]'' computer game, the Earth was located at coordinates (6,6,6) in the solar system.
* ''[[
* Instead of ''[[Doom (
** In the ''Ultimate Doom'', E1M1 has 666 sidedefs.
** Doom also uses UDP port 666.
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* In ''[[Devil May Cry]] 4'', Dante gets a weapon called Pandora, which is a demonic briefcase [[Swiss Army Weapon|that can transform into 666 evil forms]]...which all seem to be big guns.
** Big guns along with its original purpose of containing all the world's evil and still holding onto hope, as its debut cutscene seems to imply.
* In ''[[Bayonetta]]'', there's Route 666, a dangerous place where the heroine can be flattened by oncoming traffic (suffering a One-Hit Kill) if she's unlucky enough to end up on the wrong side while fighting enemies.
* ''[[Max Payne (series)|Max Payne]]'' had a level where the access code for a different part of a lab was 665, which Max snarkingly comments as the "neighbor of the beast". In the sequel, the code to access the suites in Max's apartment is 667, and the "neighbor of the beast" line is echoed.
** Both mentions are based on a recurring joke in the developers' native country of Finland. Of course, with street numbers the neighbor would be 668, but apartments need not be numbered the same way.
* ''[[
* In ''[[
* The original ''[[Quake (
* The demon morph [[Super Mode]] from ''[[Painkiller]]'' is activated by Daniel's absorption of 66 souls. At least, without a powerup that reduces the number to 50.
* In ''[[Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice]]'', Mao calculates that it will take exactly 666 Nether hours (after Mao hijacks his "Hero" title) until [[Heroic Wannabe]] Almaz becomes a full-fledged demon.
** And Maritsu Evil Academy has 666 bathrooms.
* In ''[[Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories]]'', Marluxia's final form has a sleight that is activated by using three six cards (looking like 666 when it shows up on the screen). This forces Sora to have to break all his cards or else instant death.
* 666 is the phone number for Hell in ''[[Sam and Max]]'''s second [[Season Finale]].
* The page image is from ''[[Lemmings]]''. It's not even close to being a [[Scrappy Level|level from hell]],
** Several ports of the game replace "All the 6s" with a completely new
* Galm Team from ''[[Ace Combat]] Zero'' is the Ustio 6th Air Division, 66th Squadron. By the way, "Galm" is a mistranslation of "Garmr", a hellish wolf in [[Norse Mythology]] that kills Tyr during the Ragnarök. And the Galm 1's callsign is "[[Louis Cypher|Cipher]]", in case you still didn't catch any symbolism.
** The final mission of ''Shattered Skies'', appropriately a [[Scrappy Level]] with tunnel-flying, has Mobius One start at 6666 feet.
* ''[[Diablo (
* Rubedo from ''[[
* In ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', [[That One Boss|Hogger]] has 666 health.
** Also in that game, a regular level 11 NPC (same level as Hogger) can be known to have 222 health. Guess how much health [[Rule of Three|three of them]] could have.
** There are 666's in many places in the game, barely disguised. For instance, there is a statue of a serpent in Zangarmarsh with 666 in it's scales. However, it was far more common during The Burning Crusade and Wrath of the Lich King expansions than it is now. In fact, there was a warlock spell that did 666 base damage, but that has since been changed. There were also icons for warlock and demon spells with stylized 666's in them, these have all been removed.
* ''[[
* In the [[Woolseyism|English version]] of ''[[Snatcher]]'', the date of "[[After the End|the Catastrophe]]" was moved from June
* ''[[Eternal Darkness]]'' places great significance on 3:33 times on both digital and analog clocks.
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Digimon World Dawn
** Slightly more subtle, in ''[[Digimon World DS]]'' a requirement for the character is 99990 EXP, which, if viewed upside-down, reads 06666.
* In ''[[Luminous Arc 3]]'', the first stage of the final boss will have 666 HP. {{spoiler|However, the final boss is an [[God Is Evil|evil god....]]}}
* In ''[[Endless Ocean]]: Blue World'', of all places, the Pandora's Box salvage item with net the player 9,666 pelagos (the in-game currency). Notably, the only treasure to not have a multiple of ten (or a multiple of ten minus one) for its price.
* ''[[
* [[The Very Definitely Final Dungeon]] in ''[[
* Several inferno units in ''[[Heroes of Might and Magic]] V'' utilize this: Nightmares and Hell Stallions have 66 HP, Pit lords and Pit spawns cost 1666 gold, Devils, Arch Devils and Arch Demons all have a maximal damage of 66, and cost 2666 gold (devils) or 3666 gold (the other two). Additionally, Devils have 166 HP (and Arch Devils have 199, turn that upside down).
* Although unintentional, Giratina from ''[[Pokémon]]'' is depicted with six legs, six neck spikes, and six wing spikes in Altered forme, and six wings, six leg spikes, and six tail spikes in Origin forme.
* In chapter 5 of ''[[
* In ''[[Might and Magic|Might & Magic III]]'' a Major Devil is a monster with 666 hit points. Also, when slain, the loot it drops consists of 6,666 gold and 66 gems.
* In the [[LaserDisc]] arcade game ''[[Time Gal]]'', the heroine is [[Time Police| a time traveling solider]] pursuing a criminal throughout history; one of the stages is AD 666, where she finds herself in a [[Creepy Cemetery]] facing a giant skeletal [[Yokai]] monster.
* In ''[[Baldur's Gate 3]]'', Raphael, the cambion son of Mephistopheles, has 666 hit points, regardless of the difficulty the game is set at.
* In ''[[Helltaker]]'', [[Frankenstein's Monster| Subject 67]] (the [[Big Bad]] of the ''Examtaker'' DLC) is so named because he is the 66th subject in [[Evil Genius| Azazel's]] sixth experiment group.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[Casey and Andy]]'' ended with strip #666. Appropriate, given that one of the main characters is Satan <s>him</s>herself.
* ''[[Questionable Content]]'''s 666th strip featured a non-canon "[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=666 spontaneous metal interlude]". Jeph Jacques had ''quite'' some fun drawing it (the strip is even titled "I've Been Waiting Three Years For This Strip).
* ''[[
* In ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' [[Satan]] is the father of a litter of incredibly evil, violent kittens (nicknamed The Evil). There are 18 of them, because 18 is equal to 6+
* ''[[
** Had two extra strips not been added to commemorate the deaths of D's co-creators, OotS #666 would have featured a scene of three fiends revealing their diabolical intentions to a fourth.
* In ''[[Blip]]'', strip #666 features the very ominous arrival of [https://web.archive.org/web/20100908090558/http://blipcomic.com/666/ some kind of demon-baby].
* The author of ''[[Sequential Art (webcomic)|Sequential Art]]'' would like to point out that he's much too mature and classy to include some arbitary and random occult references in his [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=666 666-th strip].
* ''[[Ansem Retort]]'' Season 7 [
* Causes a customer to freak out in ''[[Mike: Bookseller]]''.
* In ''[[Sinfest]]'', [
== [[Web Original]] ==
* Both used and subverted in the ''[[SCP Foundation]]''. [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-616 SCP-616] is a hellish door with a strong [[Brown Note]] effect and vaguely specified "bad things" happening when it opens, but [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-666 SCP-666] seems slightly more benign. Zigzagged with [https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6666 SPC-6666], the prison of the Demon Hector; the Foundation believes this being is an ancient primordial [[God of Evil]] who desires [[The End of the World as We Know It]], but it and its fellow members of the House of Apollyon are benevolent entities opposing a far greater evil.
* In v4 ''[[Open Blue]]'', the date of the foundation of the [[The Federation|Axifloan Coalition]] is June 6, 1666. In v5, that day is when Princess Elizabeth of Avelia is assassinated, prompting the three largest members of the Coalition to secede and declare war on one another. Most people in-universe consider it the day the Coalition ended (even though it still exists if weakened).
* 666 causes [[Nightmare Fuel]]-y things to happen to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iFXyLah2oQ YouTube].
** What the Hell this video is stupiTHAT'S OKAY I DIDN'T WANT TO SLEEP TONIGHT ANYWAY
* In [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR1_epbmI2g The Number 24], a trailer spoofing ''[[The Number 23]]'', one of the professor's random associations is: "Two plus four is six. What's the number between two and four? Three. Three sixes, ''the sign of the devil!''"
*
* The
* ''[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe|Global Guardians]]'' villain 666 is [[Super Strength|super-strong]] and [[Nigh Invulnerable]], and puts on a good game of being a "demonic force for evil", but the truth is he's just a thug in a costume who uses some special effects to put the "demon" angle across to the rubes.
* Beneath his Grimm mask, Adam Taurus from ''[[RWBY]]'' has a massive brand reading "SDC" (for the Schnee Dust Company) across his face and blinding one eye. Given that he's inspired by the Beast from ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]'', it's probably no coincidence that the brand is just distorted enough that from some angles it looks like "666" instead.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In the ''[[Futurama]]'' episode "The Honking", Bender sees the binary number 0101100101 written on the wall and is unfazed, calling it "gibberish" (it's 357 with an unnecessary leading zero). Then he sees it in a mirror and realises it's 1010011010, which is 666.
* Parodied in ''[[Courage the Cowardly Dog]]'', when the characters book a room at Hotel Katz, they are given room number 666½.
* In ''[[
* An episode of ''[[
** Furthermore in the episode "Hef in a Handbasket", the number to apply for Peaches' game show is "555 and THEN A BUNCH OF SIXES," the show is broadcast on channel 66, and Heffer needs to score 666 points to "win."
* Treehouse of Horror part of ''[[The Simpsons (
** For the curious, the [
* In the [[
** It was probably chosen not for symbolism, but because it has a lot of "s" sounds for Daffy to lisp.
* In the first episode of ''[[
** The comic strip had a similar joke about Santa Claus. Huey evidently went through several possible "proofs" before landing on the fact that the date of Santa's annual errand, December
* ''[[
** In episode 9 of season 2, some of the protagonists are trapped in the Shushu world. They are forced to invoke the Rush, the favorite pastime of the Shushu, in order to avoid immediate execution. The Rush pits them against [[Zerg Rush|666 pyralshus]] until they fall. And to make ''sure'' they fall, Rushu also sends his [[The Dragon|Dragon]] Anathar into the fray.
* The ''[[
* In ''[[Hazbin Hotel]]'', Charlie's interview is aired on Channel 666.
** In the sister-series ''[[Helluva Boss]]'', Loona's name on her instagram account is moonlight_howling_666.
== [[Real Life]] ==
* Scholars contend that the number in the Revelation was a code for Nero. When treated as Hebrew numbers, the letters of "Nero Caesar" add up to 616, and "Neron Kesar", the Greek version of his name, to 666.
** The scholarly theory is that Revelation is written as "prophetic allegory"
** One theory relies on the assumption that 666 is purely symbolic, not some code: basically, the number 6 is supposed to represent man ("a human number"), because man was made on the 6th day. Also, the fact that there are ''three'' 6s is meant to stand for [[Satan]], the Beast of the Sea, and the Beast of the Earth being an evil mockery of the Holy Trinity. This theory is total hogwash; as noted above, the number would have been written in [
* It was a joke in Real Life during [[Ronald Reagan]]'s presidency because "Ronald Wilson Reagan" is 6 letters, 6 letters, 6 letters. (Furthermore, Ronald Reagan had his house, 666 St. Cloud Road, renumbered 668, from superstition.)
* A [[Conspiracy Theories|totally serious chain email]] in the late '90s claimed that [[Bill Gates]] was the Antichrist and that the Internet (which... [[Insane Troll Logic|he owned?]]) was his Mark, by adding up the ASCII for "Bill Gates" (66 + 73 + 76 + 71 + 65 + 84 + 69 + 83) and [[Ass Pull|adding 3 as in William Gates ''III'']]. It went on to say this method also worked for "Windows 95", and that "WWW" represented the Number because of its resemblance to "VI VI VI".
* Speculation ran rampant the week before the 6th of June, 2006, over speculation that Armageddon would occur on 6/6/6. [[Captain Obvious|It didn't.]] Maybe it was the fact that the date was actually 6/6/'''0'''6, or that if the theory held water then the [[Fridge Logic|world should have already undergone divine judgement two thousand years
* [[Image Board|B3TA]] had a helpful announcement in 2005: "Satanists! This is the last week to conceive if you want you child born on 6/6/06!"
* Comedian/Nerd/Metalhead Brian Posehn stands 6'7, but he likes to refer to himself as 6'6.6 or "the height of the beast."
* The A666 runs from Pendlebury to Langho in [[Oop North|north-west England]] and there are many local jokes about its number. Often in conjunction with its high accident rate.
** US Route 666, from Gallup, NM to Monticello, UT was re-numbered US 491 in 2003, but retains the "Devil's Highway" nickname.
* Another highways example. On northbound Interstate 29 just north of North Sioux City, South Dakota, there was a sign that used to read "Elk Point 6 / Sioux Falls 66." At some point in the mid-00s, the sign was changed to read "Elk Point 7 / Sioux Falls 66." Either the small town of Elk Point moved a mile to the north, or people got uncomfortable about the 666 associations and asked to have the sign changed.
* There's another theory that this was just a way to express "a large number" in
* The P.O. Box address for This Is
* SF and computing journalist [[Dave Langford]] once wrote a computer program that could prove that ''any'' name [http://www.ansible.co.uk/writing/ft107.html adds up to 666]. You just have to assign numbers to the letters correctly (and there are hundreds, if not thousands, of ways to do that), then manipulate the numbers the right way (and there are more hundreds, if not thousands, of ways to do ''that'').
* A problem for Intel; back in the
** Not that it's still avoiding the trope, but Intel could get away with it by fudging with the numbers. The increment suggests the clock speed was divided by 3 somewhere. 2/3 is 0.6666... Which at any given point you decide to chop off how many 6's you want, you could round up the last one to 7.
* A church was "lucky" enough to get 666 as part of its phone number. They quickly changed it. On the other hand, the University of San Francisco, a Catholic medical college, had 666 as one of its proprietary prefixes throughout the '90s, mostly for dormitory rooms.
** Telephone exchange 666 (or, as a named exchange, [[Telephone Exchange Names|MOhawk 6]]) is in use in many North American area codes. Conversely, area code +1 666 will not be issued. (If it existed it would overlay Canada's rarely-used +1 600 non-geographic code, but only 622 633 644 655 677 688 are reserved in this manner. 666 is conspicuous by its absence. Not even Satan wants to brave a Canadian winter; it's warmer and more comfortable in [[Hell]].)
** A drop-in centre [https://web.archive.org/web/20150326030842/http://nightlightcanada.com/nightlight-kingston Nightlight Canada] (with a Christian cross as the 't' in 'nightlight') had a main street address of "666 Princess St." They kept this 666 address, instead of disguising it as "664A Princess" the way a long list of prior storefront occupants (including a short-lived Labour Ready franchise) had done.
* Here's one for the oddity department: Yahoo! Sports lists athletes and assigns them an ID number in the URL. For hockey, guess who gets 666? [http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/players/666 Miroslav Satan] (though it's pronounced Shuh-tan, and spelled Šatan in Slovak).
**
*** If you plug in athlete number 616, you get Richard Smehlik, a player for the [http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/players/616 New Jersey Devils]. I seriously think that Yahoo! employees are just fucking with us.
* The UN leaves seat number 666 free at meetings.
* [[The ABC]]'s Canberra radio station is numbered 666. Being that the ABC is government-funded, [[Epileptic Trees]] ensued.
* Interestingly, if the number is actually 616 and not 666, several places have been afraid of the wrong number all along. Examples include: The USA, who changed highway 666 to highway 491 ion 2003, the UN, who always leave seat 666 free at any meetings, and most especially the Moscow transport department, who changed the 666 bus route to... 616
* The first [[Apple Macintosh|Apple]] computer ([[Exactly What It Says
* Up until 1999 there was a bus # 666 in Moscow. At the request of the local Christian folk it was changed...[[Hilarious in Hindsight|into]] [[Did Not Do the Research|616]]. I kid you not.
* Toronto motorist Daniel D'Aloisio *had* vanity licence plate 'VI6SIX'... for 15 years. The Ontario government [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLIBfF-N68I took it away from him] as VI (Roman numeral 6), 6, six yields 666, the number of the beast.
* [[UNIX|POSIX]] file modes being represented by 3 bytes (owner-group-others) and 6 being 2nd and 3rd bits set, there is (per one of [http://www.nancybuttons.com/ Nancy Buttons]) "rw-rw-rw: The file protection of the beast" <ref>actually it should be "rw-rw-rw-", of course. or "-rw-rw-rw-"</ref>.
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