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** God is perhaps a more straight example, as Satan finds out over the course of the epic: all of his scheming went [[All According to Plan|according to plan]] for God, proving that as the omniscient creator of the universe, God simply is more magnificent and more of a bastard.
* [[Misaimed Fandom]]: [[Satan]] has one of the most loyal.
* [[Moment of Awesome (Sugar Wiki)|Moment of Awesome]]: Gabriel facing down Satan in the garden, Michael cutting Satan's legs off, the angels responding to the rebels' war machine by ''dropping a mountain on it'', Abdiel's "[[Shut UP, Hannibal]]" speech in Book 5, and finally, the Son smiting all of Satan's forces single-handedly, causing the demons to throw ''themselves'' into Hell.
* [[Motive Decay]]: [[Satan]] opens with a lot of stirring rhetoric, but by the later books he's mostly just trying to piss off [[God]] in any way he can, no matter who he has to hurt to do so.
** Interestingly, this may have been [[Justified Trope|intentional]], as part of the story's philosophy is that evil degrades the sinner--as he sins Satan is becoming less of a person, and thus less developed.
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* [[Tear Jerker]]: The [[Bittersweet Ending]].
* [[Values Dissonance]]: "What?" you say. "Seventeenth century religious fiction features Values Dissonance? No way!"
** Milton's portrayal of Eve is [[Stay in
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