Voices from the Sky
Despite his time as several different cops, he is most well known among losers on the internet for his time as the Hunter Vanguard in the Destiny franchise
Nathan Fillion
This lord of death and rebirth appears among the many demons and devils after Lucifer falls as one of many pagan gods portrayed as such in the titular Paradise Lost
Osiris
Adam Smith coined this term to describe individuals seeking their own self interest as a way to promote public good and economic prosperity in the market
The Invisible Hand
Kings
Project Wingman
"I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more " - Franz Kafka
The Castle
Having voiced Saint Germaine in Castlevania, The Speaker in Destiny, and Rattlesnake Jake in Rango, his most known role is likely the squid faced pirate lord, Davy Jones
Bill Nighy
The Angel of Tears, best known for his portrayal, with a slight name change, by Misha Collins
Cassiel, though I'll accept Castiel
Thomas Hobbes acclaims this as the ideal social contract for building strength and safety amidst a world of chaos by sacrificing freedoms to this
The Leviathan/The Sovereign
Lone Wolf
Halo Reach
Daily Double! Tell Jimbles to check his DMs with Obama
Invictus
Despite his roles as both Galvatron in Transformers: The Movie (1986) and Sentinel Prime in Transformers: Dark of the Moon, he's still best known for his time as the original face of Spock in Star Trek
Leonard Nimoy
Akin to his Pagan counterpart Hermes, this messenger of the lord was said to have brought the Quran to Muhammad and news of the births of both Christ and John the Baptist to the people
Gabriel
Plato identifies this embodiment of the Form of the Good as an ideal ruler, fighting not for personal ambition but instead for the state and the people
Philosopher Kings
The Killing Moon
Cyberpunk 2077
"We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown."
- T. S. Eliot
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Ignoring his time in both the MCU and as GRRM's stoutest villain, this actor is remembered with great disdain for proclaiming a magician from the moon, as well as his dull portrayal of Unicron's top guy, Scourge
Peter Dinklage
These words, famously uttered at the end of the first book of Paradise Lost by Satan as he takes his infernal throne, were at the time an enlightenment ideal of seeking freedom at all costs
Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven
A firm disbeliever in the artificial truths, like Law, Rights, Morality, and Religion, his pivotal work The Unique and Its Property is a common citation for the source of the anarchist school of thought Egoism
Max Stirner
All or Nothing
Fallout New Vegas
"Do not stand
By my grave, and weep,
I am not there,
I do not sleep"
- Clare Harner
Immortality (Do Not Stand By My Grave and Weep)
Best known for his authorial works, this rotund alcoholic is remembered by very few as the original voice of Unicron in Transformers: The Movie (1986)
H. G. Wells
At the end of his journey following Beatrice through the afterlife, Dante finds himself among these beings, closest to the divine, formerly headed by the fallen Lucifer
Seraphim
Though not originating from the work, Machiavelli's The Prince tells rulers to act akin to this archetype, coined for Richard Neville in the Wars of the Roses.
Kingmaker
Happily Ever After
Slay the Princess
"The paths of glory lead but to the grave" - Thomas Gray
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard