Satan (SMT IV Apocalypse)

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“	I am Satan, the ancient angel... The arbiter.	„
	~ Satan introducing himself

Satan, known as The Devil, is one of the Major Antagonists in Shin Megami Tensei IV Apocalypse. He is a powerful angel created by merging Lucifer and Merkabah.

Ensemble Dark Horse
Full Name	Satan
Alias	The Devil The Judge The Arbiter
Origin	Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse
Powers/Skills	Powerful psychic and magic attacks
Family	YHVH (Creator)
Allies	Nanashi (Massacre Route) The Nahobino Flynn (Should Nanashi reject Dagda's options) Dagda (Should Nanashi accept Dagda's options)
Enemies	YHVH Nanashi (Formerly) The Nahobino (Formerly)
Goals	Judge and punish all sinners under YHVH's rule to create a world of order (failed in Neutral and Chaos Route, succeeded in Law Route). Maintain the Monotheist War under the identity of Merkabah and Lucifer (formerly, failed). Kil YHVH (succeeded).
Why Do People Love The Character?	Is a cool composite depiction of Satan in the bible, for having 7 heads. Unlike any Satan depictions, He is a Pragmatic Noble Demon who serves the creator but will also replace the old creator if he finds the creator unfit with the role. He also depicted as a benevolent character, ironically being The Devil. He is created by merging Lucifer (Chaos) and Merkabah (Law) in fusion. The design of Satan in SMT IV Apocalypse is so popular that he returns in SMT V Vengeance.
Type of Ensemble Dark Horse	Honorable Devil

In English Dub, he is voiced by David Forseth (In SMT IV Apocalypse) & Keith Silverstein (In SMT V Vengeance). While in Japanese Dub, he is voiced by Isamu Yusen.

What Makes Him an Ensemble Dark Horse?

• Like any usual satan depictions, he is depicted with seven heads, in which three being draconic heads, two pair of wings, impaled palms, complete with a red and black color scheme, combining any depictions of The Devil from The Bible.
• Unlike any other depictions of Satan, This Satan is more benevolent more than Merkabah and Lucifer, who both were seperate entities of Law and Chaos respectively. Not to mention, Satan embrace neutrality, fulfilling his role as The Judge. He saw YHVH unfit for the position as The Creator because of being a God with Abusive Authority, AKA Archetypal Maltheism. Regardless, he will Nanashi defeating YHVH, and died after fulfilling his goal regardless of the routes.
  • Satan also have a noble demon ethics, as he would serve the creator and will overthrow his creator to replace the predecessor with the successor should the former creator, like YHVH abuse His authority because minor inconveniences.
  • The idea of benevolent Satan dethrone evil God later inspires the team to create Satanael being the God's rebellious Angel, or an Ultimate Trickster to defeat Yaldabaoth in Persona 5 as Joker's Ultimate Persona in the vanilla game.
• The Shin Megami Tensei IV Apocalypse design of Satan won many hearts of fans because of The Devil's awesome look. He returns in SMT V Vengeance as a Superboss.
• His signature attack, Megiddo Ark, is a slight to behold, especially in Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance.

Trivia

• In SMT V Vengeance, Satan's English VA, Keith Silverstein also voiced Odin since SMT V (Canon of Creation).