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Number of the Beast (trope)
"Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six." note 
— Revelation 13:18, The Bible (KJV)

You know what this is. Six hundred and sixty-six, the Number of the Beast, first mentioned in the Book of Revelation in The Bible, making this Older Than Feudalism. Sometimes used for that extra symbolism everyone loves, but it's usually used because it's a nifty keen way to show that something is eeeevil.

Oddly enough, the Beast of Revelation itself is rarely ever mentioned anymore. (In fact, there were two of them in the Book of Revelation, the Number describing the second.) The Number has totally eclipsed the being it represented.

Sometimes gets truncated to 66 or lengthened to 6666 (or even beyond) if 666 is too high or too low a number, yet still evokes the Numerological Motif. Or if you're dealing with Louis Cypher, 666 may be part of his address or phone number, in the vein of 555. Another common gag is for this to overlap with 6 Is 9, having someone ineptly render the Beast's number as 999.

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 or was slightly different in Latin and Greek. However, 666 is so much better known that if you try to go with 616 instead it will likely 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 (like June 6th 2006). In fact, back then it would have been written χξϛ/χιϛ (chi - xi - digamma / chi - iota - digamma)note  in Greek and the guy who wrote Revelation would totally not get the stuff about three sixes in a row.

Interestingly enough, another interpretation is 216, as some older translations define this enigmatic number as "6 by 6 by 6", or 63.

In Mandarin Chinese, 666 sounds like the phrase that roughly translates as "everything going smoothly", so the number is considered lucky in China, especially for commercial undertakings.Explanation However, 666 can sound like an Addled Addict's slang for meth, which is a banned drug in China, making this a (more negative) equivalent of 420, Blaze It.

If you're looking for the Signature Song of Iron Maiden which has the same name, see the album's page here.

Compare with its Asian counterparts, 108 and 4. Also, its European counterpart, 13. For the Robert A. Heinlein novel, see The Number of the Beast. Not to be confused with 555, which is about fake phone numbers, though as stated above, sometimes an evil-associated fake number can make them overlap. See also Mark of the Beast, when association with dark powers gives someone a physical marking.

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    Anime & Manga 
  • There's an actual manga called 666 Satan, which is about humans, angels, and demons hunting for magical artifacts and is loaded with Kaballahlistic imagery. For obvious reasons, it was released in America as O-Parts Hunter, though is otherwise still the same.
  • In A Certain Magical Index, Aleister Crowley is eventually revealed to have used the Code Name Beast666.
  • 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 the opening pages of the manga Biomega, we see the protagonist driving along an abandoned bridge... going 666 km/h, of course.
  • Blood Blockade Battlefront featured some genetically engineered monsters with a lifespan of 6 hours, 6 minutes, and 6 seconds.
  • [C] – Control is full of 666 references, to emphasize the Deal with the Devil theme.
  • The Daichis - Earth's Defense Family: Hayakawa's phone number is revealed to be "090666644" (with two digits after this not being clearly seen) in episode 13, which is a character who caused several problems with the family conflict especially with his affair with Seiko. He is a character that is quite diligent on finding out the true identities of the super heroes who defend earth which is the Daichi family whom Seiko is a part of. In the previous episode, Seiko unintentionally made it too unsubtle that she has kids because of the way she was behaving on the bridge.
  • DARLING in the FRANXX: Zorome's code number is 666, being the rudest member of the team.
  • DEAD ROCK:
  • Death Note: The rules for using the Death Note specify that the writer has forty seconds (0.66 minutes) to write a cause of death, and a further six minutes and forty seconds (6.66 minutes) to write additional details of the death.
  • Digimon:
    • In the Eighth Child arc of Digimon Adventure, a prophecy stated that the Big Bad Vamdemon (Myotismon in the dub), who was thought to be killed moments ago, will rise in 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, and was even played up in the promotion for that part of the show.
    • 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.
  • Dragon Ball: Mr. Satan and Videl often have the number 666 plastered on their vehicles. Nothing evil about them (although the former is a bit of a prick) — Toriyama was just throwing nods to the Theme Naming.
  • The Eminence in Shadow has Shadow Garden, whose members (except the oldest and strongest ones like Alpha and Beta) are called by a number corresponding to their arrival rank. When Rose had to join the organisation after killing her father, she got the number 666.
  • The Gundam franchise has two Humongous Mecha with 666 in their model numbers, the ZGMF-X666S Legend Gundam from Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny and the NZ-666 Kshatriya from Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn. With the Kshatriya it's arguably coincidental (its from a line of mobile suit whose model numbers repeat the same digit three times, like "NZ-333 α Azieru"), but for Legend there's really no excuse other than implying that the pilot is evil. Which is particularly odd since he clearly is not. He is, however, a clone of the very evil Big Bad of Mobile Suit Gundam SEED.
  • Hayate the Combat Butler had a completely unintentional example: in the first popularity poll, Isumi got 666 votes. The chapter revealing this joked about how bizarre it was for her, of all people, to get that number.
  • With the premise of High School D×D, this trope was inevitable. Called "Trihexa", it is considered to be the most powerful monster of the series that other mythologies, upon seeing it, claim that even they can't destroy it.
  • Highschool of the Dead mentions the USA's National State of Emergency Tactical Regulation 666D.
  • Little Witch Academia (2017): In episode 8, when Akko goes into Sucy's mind trying to find her original personality to wake her up (in so doing hopefully waking up the real-world Sucy, who has fallen into a deep sleep), that personality lives in room 666 of the "mushroom building" in which all her personalities live.
  • The Lychee Light Club's Artificial Human Lychee runs on a series of commands issued by a clunky looking calculator. His activation code? "The Number of the Beast".
  • The Book of Darkness in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's has 666 pages. The last Mistress of it, Hayate Yagami is also associated with the number 6, who has seraph wings and was born in June. Six years after the Book of Darkness Incident, she decides to found her own section to investigate the Relic incidents, four years later she achieves her goal by founding the Riot Force 6. Six years after the JS Incident, she founds another section, Special Duty Section 6. The Yagami family has six members, Hayate herself, the four Wolkenritter and Reinforce Eins/Zwei. They adopt later a seventh member, Agito; but this can be interpreted as Hayate having six children now.
  • In the manga version of Higurashi: When They Cry: Matsuribayashi-hen, Miyo Takano says God keeps showing her the "one" face on the dice, but she'll force all the dice to be 6 on their faces. There are a number of dice on screen for the "one" dice, but only 3 for the "six" dice. Considering the speech given an issue or two before, this was likely intentional.
  • The title super-suit in Moldiver only worked for 11 minutes, 6 seconds at a time.
  • Neon Genesis Evangelion:
    • The End of Evangelion:
      • Ritsuko uses program 666 to protect NERV from being hacked by SEELE.
      • There's also a parking lot bay number 666, however we only see the number of the bay next to it: 665. In the DVD Commentary they joke that it's the "Neighbour of the Beast".
    • Rebuild of Evangelion: Mari Illustrious Makinami hijacks Unit-2 in order to fight the last Angel in You Can (Not) Advance, and activates the Eva's Berserker mode with Code: 666, named, you guessed it, The Beast.
    • Ironically, the new version of The Beast has the vocals (rather, vocal, as it's only one word) of Hallelujah...which, given the use of Handel's Messiah Chorus in the original continuity, caused many fans to freak out.
  • Around the beginning of the Fishman Island arc, One Piece started a "Where are they now?" side story where chapter covers show what characters of varying importance are now doing after all the time that's passed. The chapters featuring characters from Impel Down, The Alcatraz where each floor is its own special brand of Hell, take place during the 660s, and the final cover for this group is chapter 666.
  • Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt:
    • In Season 1's infamous Gainax Ending, Panty is sliced up into exactly 666 pieces by Stocking in her Face–Heel Turn.
    • Kneesocks turns 666 years old in the ninth episode of NEW Panty & Stocking. In demon years, that's the equivalent of 16.
  • In Reborn! (2004), there are six powerful Mist-rings known as the Hell Rings. New Varia member Fran owns the one with the number 666 on it.
  • Sailor Moon: A cruise ship run by a Monster of the Week has a maximum passenger capacity of 666.
  • In YⱯIBA the 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 original Yu-Gi-Oh! episode "Evil Spirit of the Ring" (the first appearance of Dark Bakura in the anime) we see a card called Seven Armed Fiend in Bakura's Flashback where his father got the Millennium Ring from a merchant in Egypt (the Evil Spirit's previous host) with 666 ATK and 666 DEF points. The US version Bowdlerised it to 1000/1000.note 
  • In Zombie Land Saga, two reporters looking into the Idols search their website for information, and receiving a notice that they are the 666th one to visit the site.

    Comic Books 
  • The French graphic novel 666. It has a sequel, 6666 (which is the year the story is set in).
  • 9-11: Stan Lee's story for the anthology, "The Sleeping Giant", features a group of evil mice whose leader wears a shirt with the number 666 on it.
  • The DCU:
    • Batman:
      • Professor Pyg made his debut in Detective Comics #666.
      • Batman (Grant Morrison) #666 features a Bad Future where Batman's son Damien takes the cowl after the former's murder. Discount symbolism at its finest.
      • Batman: A Death in the Family had 666 at the end of one of the two 1-900 numbers to call regarding Jason Todd's fate. It was the number to call to vote for Robin's death.
      • Issue #6 of The Batman Adventures has Batman (really Batgirl in disguise) interrogate Eel O'Brian into giving away Firefly's hideout. The address Eel gives is Club Inferno, which is located on 666 Dixon Street.
    • Green Lantern: Green Lanterns were forbidden from going to the world, Ryut, where all life was obliterated by a Manhunter atrocity in the distant past. When Abin Sur crash-lands there, he uncovers the prophecy of the Blackest Night, and the Anti-Monitor is turned into the Black Power Battery there. Earth is sector 2814 — anyone wanna guess what sector Ryut is?
    • Kingdom Come: The comic has Anti-Hero whose 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.
    • Superman: In Superman (1987) #666, Superman dreams about killing all his enemies and taking over Hell.
    • Underworld Unleashed: The demonic Big Bad is called Neron which, numerically, translates as 666.
    • In War for Earth-3, one of the super-powered beings from across the multiverse under Amanda Waller's control is a fusion of Brainiac and the demon Etrigan known as Brainiac 666.
    • WildStorm:
      • 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.
  • Disney Mouse and Duck Comics: Walt Disney's Comics and Stories issue #666 contains the first English printing of the story "Mickey's Inferno", an adaptation of Dante's Inferno. This being Disney, they don't even mention the number when they talk about the story in the afterword.
  • Flesh: 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.
  • Ghost Rider: In the Ghost Rider 2006 story arc "Vicious Cycle", Johnny Blaze accidentally brings Lucifer with him when pulling an Escaped from Hell stunt, at which point Lucy fragments and possesses 666 recently-dead people.
  • Hellboy: In Hellboy: Wake the Devil, Karl Ruprect Kroenen plans to usher in the apocalypse with an army of 666 golems. When Herman von Klempt points out that this is far too few golems to conquer anything, Kroenen replies "The number is symbolic."
  • Johnny the Homicidal Maniac: The address of the title character 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".
  • Judge Dredd: Iso-block 666 is used to contain the most dangerous criminals in Mega-City One.
  • Marvel Universe:
    • The main Marvel 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 (as a deliberate contrast to The DCU, where the main universe is Earth-1, with the idea being that Marvel's "main" Earth is just one random universe out of many, no more or less important than the rest), 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.
    • Marvel also has Earth-666, in which everybody is some sort of horror movie monster.
    • In Chaos War: Chaos King, Thrann's journal in the prologue starts with 66.6.01, with the first entries being about the creation of the universe and Thrann's arrival in Zenn-La. Entry 66.6.06 turns it into an Apocalyptic Log.
      Mental Note 66.6.06: That was the beginning of all things. But now—
    • X-Men: In one issue, the X-Men snuck some of their members into a hostile installation 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.... And when one of the mooks commented on the number, Hank immediately jumped into action and knocked them out. That's right, one of the greatest geniuses in the Marvel Universe based his infiltration strategy around a joke.
  • The illegal fishermen's boat (which contains kidnapped children) in Malaysian comic series Profession (Chinese: 职业人气王) volume 106 chapter 2 is codenamed "ZAF-CT-666◊".
  • Silent Hill: The first comic, Dying Inside, mentioned and invoked this trope, when the main character declared a door code to be her own personal Number Of The Beast. She had issues.
  • Wanted (2003): Shithead is a shape-shifter said to be made of the feces of the 666 most evil people who ever lived.

    Comic Strips 
  • The Boondocks has a joke about Huey "proving" that Santa Claus is the Devil. Huey evidently went through several possible "proofs" before landing on the fact that the date of Santa's annual errand, December 24th, adds up to 36 when expressed numerically. 36 = 3 6's!
  • The Far Side: One strip shows Satan glowering at a confused painter, and "999" over the cave leading to Hell.
  • FoxTrot:
    • In a subtle example, while playing the game 'Duke Quakem', Jason, having just finished level 5, cheerily explains "Only 661 levels to go!" You do the math.
    • In a later strip, Jason engages in some photo editing to add a 666 birthmark to Paige's forehead, as well as red eyes.
    • Another strip had Andy review the family's answering machine message and find that Jason had claimed the extension for Paige was 666. Their church minister left a message about fire and brimstone when he heard that.
  • In Nemi, one of Nemi's friends tells her that if you remove all letters that are not Latin numerals in the inscription on the Pope's hat, they add up to 666, leading Nemi to ponder if the hat is there to hide the horns.

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    Films — Live-Action 
  • Annabelle: Mia's apartment is located on the sixth floor. When she gets trapped in the underground with the demon, she tries to push the elevator number to her floor three times.
  • Bad Times at the Battle Royale: Before the ping-pong match, Jason trash-talks Hatsuka by bragging that he won 666 rounds. As if it wasn't obvious Jason was the bad guy already.
  • Bedazzled (2000): The Devil gives Elliot a pager that he can use to end a wish at any time by punching in this number. In the wish where he becomes a Dumb Jock he has multiple notes with the number stuck to his locker and still needs three tries to get it right.
  • In The 'Burbs, Ray and Art go over to the Klopecks house and knock on their door. The first knock changes the address number on the Klopecks' wall plaque from 669 to 666. The second knock knocks over the plaque, unleashing a horde of bees.
  • The sixth Children of the Corn film shows that it means business by having 666 as its numbering instead of a roman number like the previous films.
  • In A Clockwork Orange Alex is seen with two of his former friends, now police officers, whose uniform numbers are 665 and 667. Since Alex is between them, that makes him 666.
  • 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).
  • Hell in The Devil's Carnival has 666 rules. All six-hunded sixty-six rules are policed, all six-hundred sixty-six rules you must heed. There are... consequences, otherwise.
  • 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, SAT scores end in 0.
  • Played with in the 1999 film End of Days. Apparently, people who saw the number of the beast in their dreams/visions didn't realize it was shown upside down, so the number of the beast was 999 instead of 666. The Devil will then try to return on the last day of the year, for every year ending in 999 (999, 1999, 2999, etc). except they used Roman Numerals back then.
  • In Escape from L.A., the code that unleashes the worldwide EMP is 666.
  • 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 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.
  • In Little Nicky, when the titular character gets hit head on by a garbage truck, not the first time he was hit by a moving vehicle, his two fanboys John and Pete get splattered with his blood, which forms a 666 pattern on Pete's shirt. It stays there for the rest of the film.
  • In The Ninth Gate, guess what the keypad code to Satanic book collector Boris Balkan's private elevator is?
  • The origin of the "modern" use of the Number of the Beast is probably The Omen (1976). 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.
  • In The Number 23, Walter Sparrow's Number Obsession with the "23 enigma," focused on 23 and variants thereof originates from the fact that 2 divided by 3 is .666...
  • In the beginning of The Phantom of the Opera (2004) the chandelier that the Phantom had dropped thus starting the fire that destroyed the theater is sold on an auction under listing number 666.
  • Unusually employed in Peacock King, a film inspired by Buddhist myths rather than Western ones. The dreaded Ashura, prior to her awakening, was said to have roamed the world 666 years ago before she's sealed.
  • In π, the number that drives the plot is 216 digits long.
  • Officer Vickers from Psycho Cop has the number 666 tattooed on the back of his hand. In the sequel, it is his badge number.
  • The code for the suitcase in Pulp Fiction is 666.
  • In Reign of Fire, a ruined sign on a road states that London (where The Dreaded male dragon resides) is 66 miles away. Aside from other things scribbled onto the sign, a large 6 is scratched in above the 66.
  • Used in Route 666, which involves an abandoned stretch of highway nicknamed such after the mysterious death of a prison chain gang.
  • The serial killer from Seed (2007) was captured after killing this many people.
  • This is used as an address in Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 and Inside (2007).
  • Simon of the Desert opens with someone commenting that the eponymous Christian mystic has been meditating on top of his pillar in the desert for "six years, six months, and six days." Sure enough, Satan shows up soon after to tempt Simon into coming down.
  • Star Wars:
    • "Order 66" in Revenge of the Sith, which might double as a reference to WWII's Executive Order 9066, which interned Japanese civilians.
    • Star Wars: The Clone Wars has an arc dedicated to covering up the coming order for the Clone Army, since one of the 501st Legion's soldiers, Tup, executes it a little too early at the Battle of Ringo Vinda and another Clone of the same legion, Fives, is trying to figure out what it really means. In addition, Order 66 is revealed to be caused by the inhibitor chips installed into every clone at birth.
  • Stay Tuned loves this trope; after all, it's about a satellite TV network run by Satan himself. Said network has 666 channels and airs stuff like Beverly Hills 90666.
  • The Dark Side of the Moon (1990): 665 ships are said to have been lost in The Bermuda Triangle. Guess who's responsible for these disappearances?
  • In THX 1138, LUH is consumed and reassigned as fetus 66691.
  • In You Might Be the Killer, the price of a sale Chuck rings up while speaking on the phone with Sam comes to $26.66. The director's commentary confirms that the number was chosen deliberately to evoke the Number of the Beast.

    Literature 
  • In Robert Rankin's Apocalypso, every dimension is assigned a Greek letter and a number. Hell is Omega 666.
  • 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".
  • In Death By Gaslight by Michael Kurland, the members of the Hellfire Club carry tokens that read DCLXVI. Professor Moriarty helpfully reads from Revelation 13.
  • The maximum time a would-be Devil summoner should take, according to the Creepypasta The Devil Game, is 66 minutes and 6 seconds.
  • Discworld: In Reaper Man, 668 Elm Street, Ankh-Morpork, is the address where the all-undead Fresh Start Club holds its meetings. Basically, The Neighbour Of The Beast.
  • Conservative shock commentator Ann Coulter released a book called Godless on 6/6/06. She said it wasn't coincidence.
  • Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett:
    • Aziraphale is able to pick the Antichrist's phone number out of a list because it is "Tadfield six double-six". And they were going to name the sequel (which was never finished) 668: The Neighbour of the Beast. Charles L. Grant (writing as Lionel Fenn) beat them to it in 1992 with a novel of that title.
    • The address of Famine's club is 666, which he has advertised in a giant neon sign on the side of the building.
      It was just a number, of course. If you kept counting, you'd reach it eventually. But still, you had to smile.
  • in The Laundry Files the 666th RAF Strategic Bomber Squadron "The White Elephants" is a secret unit flying militarized Concordes equipped with nukes, designed to hit a certain site in Russia where the boundaries between dimensions are especially thin and something with too many angles and tentacles might manifest.
  • Surprisingly averted in the Left Behind series. Nicolae Carpathia is the aforementioned Beast himself, but the obligatory references to 666 are all subtle: a fixation with the number 216, an assistant named 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.
    • Likewise, when the Mark of the Beast finally shows up in the series, the coding for the marks are all the results of equations where different operations are plugged, between the sixes, such as 30 (6 x 6 - 6), 18 (6 + 6 + 6), 42 (6 x 6 + 6), etc.
  • Used in The Lord of Opium, where it's mentioned that eejits are marked with 666 after their brainwashing operation.
  • The short story "Neighbors" by Robert Borski discusses the number 666 from the points of view of nearby numbers.
  • 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.
    "Twelve times 55.5 is... Really?"
  • 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 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.)
  • Occultic;Nine: Aria receives a request with a red pentagram and "〒666 Isayuki Hashigami". Her shop does sell a curse for 666000, and she receives a whole scalp of hair needed for the ritual.
  • In The Order of Melkizedek, the entry point for the titular religious cult is in room 666 in a modern building in Manila's Quiapo district. It seems to have been hurriedly vacated by the cult by the time the main character Sid shows up to investigate however.
  • 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.
  • In Regina Doman's ''The Shadow of the Bear'', the villain uses "666" as the keypad code for his apartment.
  • In War and Peace, Pierre Bezukhov calculates the Hebrew number equivalent of Napoleon's full title (L'Empereur Napoléon) to be 666, shoehorns his own name to yield the same number (L'Russe Besuhof), and thinks that he's destined to kill Napoleon or at least for something great. In reality, the scheme he used yields 661 for Napoleon, not 666, rendering all his actions based on this observation bunk.

    Live-Action TV 
  • 666 Park Avenue where if you want to live at 999 Park Avenue, you have to sell your soul to the Devil.
  • One of the threats of the week for the Big Wolf on Campus team was a wrestler who would cause the apocalypse once he got to 666 victories.
  • Black Mirror: In "Demon 79", Gaap dials 666 to reach Hell's tech helpline.
  • Breaking Bad: In "Buyout", after stealing 1,000 gallons of methylamine from a train, Mike and Jesse are dealing approximately 666 of those gallons to Declan, with Mike believing that Walt is withholding the other 334. This is just one of several things in-universe alluding to Walt being the show's stand-in for Satan.
  • One episode of Criminal Minds has a Satanist whose name is Floyd Feylin Ferrell. F is the sixth letter of the alphabet.
  • The third episode of Crusade has a religious fanatic setting a time bomb at 666 seconds. Rather unlikely for a "God-fearing" nut to use the Number of the Beast.
  • CSI: NY: Discussed in the Halloween episode '"Boo" during Mac's 333 Stalker arc. He and Stella visit a voodoo shop to question the proprietor about a doll found buried with the Victim of the Week. The shop woman blinks slowly, showing Mac the numbers 666 painted on one eyelid and 333 on the other. He demands to know why. She tells him that while 666 is the Devil's number, some believe 333 to be the number of his son.
  • Doctor Who:
    • "The Impossible Planet"/"The Satan Pit": The atmospheric readings 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 even aired over the week of 6th 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 website'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.)
    • The coordinates for the Void — the Whoniverse equivalent to Hell — are all sixes, as seen in "Doomsday".
    • Also invoked in "Midnight": When Mrs. Silvestry starts repeating what everybody says, the teenage Jethro says "six six six" to get her to repeat it.
    • In "Mummy on the Orient Express", the Foretold kills its targets in 66 seconds, and each time a stopwatch appears on screen to count down the seconds remaining. Of course, the watch appears a total of six times.
    • The prevalence of 666 in the Doctor Who universe has led observant fans to come up with theories to explain it.
  • Eerie, Indiana:
    • Eerie's official population is 16,661 people. Like that comma actually does anything! 16,661 is also a prime number, and a palindrome — the smallest of what are known as Beastly Primes.
    • A blink-and-you'll-miss-it example in "The ATM with the Heart of Gold": when Simon types in his name as a PIN on the deranged ATM, the last three letters translate as 666 on the keypad.
  • An episode of Frasier showed Frasier's old agent Bebe staying in a hotel room numbered 666.
  • An episode of Friday the 13th: The Series did a more "realistic" twist on this by having some bad stuff happen at exactly 3:33 AM.
    • Possibly a reference to Jesus's Crucifixion, which had Him die at 3:30 PM.
  • The Glass House reported the discovery that 616 might actually be the number of the beast, and noted that, by international dialing, Canberra's former area code was + 61-6.
  • "The House That Dripped Chocolate", one of Good Eats's Halloween episodes, uses the 216 version. It's the number of layers in the pistachio Butterfin—you know what I mean.
  • On one episode of Guy's Grocery Games, in the second round, the three contestants chose how many items they could use for that round. Each chose the card for 6 items, which Guy lampshaded was this trope.
  • In the epilogue of Kamen Rider Revice, Orteca is apprehended by Weekend and sentenced to 666 years in prison for his crimes.
  • Lucifer (2016):
    • In the episode "Vegas With Some Radish", Chloe suggests that the code to Lucifer's safe is this. It's not.
    • According to the numerical designation given on Crisis on Infinite Earths, the show takes place on Earth-666 of The Multiverse.
  • 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."
  • 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-Out to the 666 mark on Damien's head in The Omen, which is three sixes with their tails in the center. The mark of Point Pleasant's heroine is a circle with three tails curving outward.
  • The Price Is Right: In the 1990s, an elderly gentleman is playing "Punch-A-Bunch", and after earning his punches, punches out four slots. Bob Baker takes out the slip behind the sixth hole, but just as he takes it out the man asks if he can get a redo since "six is the Devil's number." Bob simply looks at the slip, flashes a quick smirk, and rather than his usual routine of teasing The Reveal, says "Sir, would the Devil do THIS?" showing he'd won $10,000!
  • 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 the beast's fax number!
  • In the Quantum Leap episode "The Boogieman", Sam and Al visit a home with the house number 966. As Al crosses the threshhold, the top 6 becomes loose and spins around to reveal a 666 because Al has been supplanted by the devil, who has hijacked this leap. Luckily, it was All Just a Dream!
  • 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".
    • Played for pun later: The demon rebellion needs the Number of the Beast to summon the Devil...his cell phone number, specifically.
  • Lampshaded in Sleepy Hollow season 2 episode "Deliverance" — Ichabod Crane and Lt. Mills have found a safe in the local headquarters of the Hellfire Club.
    Mills: It's a three-digit passcode.
    Crane: A cult such as this would use a number of significance. I can decipher it. ...
    589 Wharton Street was the address of the London clubhouse. 1718, the year the club was founded... No.
    Mills: They're a fricking evil club... try 666.
    (safe opens)
    Crane: What a lack of imagination.
  • Stargate SG-1 visits a planet whose designation is P3X-666 in "Heroes, Part 2". Dr. Frasier dies there.
  • Supernatural: There is a rather reviled Season 1 episode titled "Route 666", and then there are the 66 out of 600 possible seals that need to be opened in order to set Lucifer free from his prison. When Dean wakes up in a post-Apocalypse Bad Future where Lucifer is winning, there's a movie theatre with NOW SHOWING: ROUTE 666 (an In-Universe fictional movie from the episode "Hollywood Babylon"). When Crowley (the King of Hell) rings up our heroes in "Clip Show", the number displayed is 666.
  • 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.
  • The Twilight Zone (1985):
    • In "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 choosing Low Ball as the game.
    • In "Take My Life... Please!", Billy Diamond is told by Max, his new agent in Hell, that he can get (almost) anything that he wants by dialing 666 on the phone in his hotel suite.
  • The X-Files: The episode "Orison" has Scully's alarm clock read 666 twice, warning her about the evil man after her. It's surprisingly effective as a piece of mis-en-scene.

    Music 
  • The German trance band 666.
  • 666, a Concept Album thematically centered on the book of Revelation, was the only New Sound Album Aphrodite's Child ever released (in the two years between the completion of the album and its release, the band broke up).
  • Proto-heavy metal band Atomic Rooster were seriously into magick and gematria. Their best-known track Devil's Answer carries a coded suggestion that 666 is not the number to look out for. Apparently 357 is the badass number. Aleister Crowley and others also thought so.
  • On a similar note, albums from first-wave black/viking metal band Bathory are catalogued with the prefix of 666- before assigning the number of the album in their chronology.
  • The late Harlem rapper Big L mentions in the song "Devil's Son" that these numbers are on his scalp if one looks closely.
  • The album cover for Black Sabbath's Sabbath Bloody Sabbath sports a demon with 666 engraved on its body.
    • In a weird coincidence, the studio version of Sabbath's self titled song has a running time of 6:16.
  • The Cardigans: At the end of "My Favorite Game" music video, the DJ mentions a State Patrol warning "on a high-speed out-of-control vehicle on Route 666".
  • "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.
  • The Cowsills: "The Prophecy of Daniel and John the Divine," a song about the Whore of Babylon, has backing vocals chanting "Six! Six! Six!"
  • The LP cover of Deep Purple's The Book Of Taliesyn lists the running time of "Exposition/We Can Work It Out" as 6:66.
  • Christian Rock group DeGarmo and Key's 1984 album "Communication" included a song titled Six, Six, Six. It gained attention 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, briefly setting the man representing the Antichrist on fire.
  • Blackened Thrash band Destroyer 666. They take it to extremes, portraying themselves as Australian anti-Christs.
  • The Dingees' album Rebel Soul Sound System has a fake (and unreadable) bar code with the UPC "06660 06660".
  • Parodied (somewhat) in the song "665: The Great Bean" by The Enid.
  • Genesis' song "Supper's Ready" has the line "Six six six is no longer alone". Since the segment it's from is a musical adaptation of Revelation, this probably isn't terribly surprising.
  • Ghost's song "Death Knell" both uses this straight and plays with it. The first chorus starts with "Six-six-six / Invoke the king of hell", while the second chorus starts with "Sex, sex, sex / Receive the beast of evil", referring to the song's theme of the conception of the Antichrist.
  • Murdoc Niccals, the fictional bass player of Gorillaz, was born on June 6, 1966 (6/6/66) and is a devout Satanist. He also refers to "Number of the Beats" as a potential band name for what would become Gorillaz.
  • Parodied by Green Jelly with their 1994 album 333.
  • "666 - The Enemy Within" by HammerFall.
  • "Your Sweet Six Six Six by Finnish love metal band HIM.
  • "Number of the Beast" by Iron Maiden, which even begins with the above quote from Revelation. The songwriter, bassist Steve Harris, has also worn a◊ Fun T-Shirt reading "666 The Number of the Beast, 664 The Bloke Next Door".
  • The song "Magik 666" by Jad Wio.
  • Played with by J.B.O. in the song "Sex Sex Sex"note , a faux-satanic Take That! against Moral Guardians who treat sexuality as a worse offense than violence and murder.
  • Lingua Ignota's Caligula is exactly sixty-six minutes and six seconds long, down to the millisecond. As the final track on the album is entitled "I Am the Beast" and the album is named after one of the Roman emperors for whom the Number of the Beast itself may actually be a code (see below), this is very likely not a coincidence.
  • Heavy metal band Loudness has an instrumental titled "222" and (more recently) a song titled "#666".
  • 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.
  • Pato Fu has a song called "Capetão 66.6 FM" ("Capetão" being Portuguese for "Big Devil").
  • The Pixies reference this in "Monkey Gone to Heaven" from Doolittle, with the lines "man is five", "the devil is six", and "god is seven."
  • In an unusual example for a religious group, the Christian Rock band Red released their debut album, End of Silence, on 6/6/06.
  • The first disc of Doom Metal band Reverend Bizarre's final album, So Long Suckers, is sixty-six minutes and six seconds long. According to Word of God, this is not coincidence.
  • Sabaton has the joke song "A Secret" from their The Art of War album where a voice says "executing protocol six hundred sixty-six."
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Soundgarden's songs "665" and "667", which are parodies of other metal bands' Satanic imagery.
  • Electronica group System 7 has two different albums both titled 777. (The first of these is titled System 7 except for in the United States, because of Apple's System 7 operating system.)
  • 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 draw attention to themselves.
  • tool has some fun with the concept on Salival, as the Hidden Track "Maynard's Dick" comes in at the 7:06 mark on "L.A.M.C", or 6:66.
  • Alluded to by the Christian Post-hardcore band Underoath's DVD which has "777" in its title due to their religious beliefs.
  • For the 666th episode of his long-running radio show A State of Trance, Armin Van Buuren dedicated the episode to the darker and eviler side of trance music (primarily psychedelic and tech trance).
  • 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.
  • John Zorn signed and numbered 666 copies of the album "The Satyr's Play/Cerberus" (2011) and produced 66 copies of a limited edition book version which were individualised and hand bound in black goat skin.

    Mythology & Religion 
  • The Trope Namer comes from the Book of Revelation 13:18 from The Bible (KJV): "Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is six hundred threescore and six." The man being referred to is theorised to be Emperor Nero, because according to gematria (an ancient Jewish practice of assigning numerical values to letters), the values of נרו קסר (Nro Qsr, the Hebrew transcription of Nero Caesar) add up to 616. In Greek (the lingua franca of the eastern part of the Roman Empire), Nero's name becomes Neron, giving us נרון קסר (Nron Qsr) in Hebrew, whose gematrial values add up to 666.
  • Another example from the Bible occurs in 1 Kings 10:14 (KJV): "Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold.", making this Older Than Dirt, though this is just a coincidence
  • British occultist Aleister Crowley styled himself "the Beast 666." By most accounts, this was less to do with belief in a literal Satan and more with annoying the Christian establishment of the day. He considered it a solar number, and once when he was questioned in court about his moniker, he snarked:
    "It means merely sunlight. You may call me Little Sunshine."

    Pinball 

    Professional Wrestling 
  • 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....
  • Back in WCW as the original nWo Wolfpac, Kliq members Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, and Sean Waltman sometimes all wore shirts with number-6 pool balls on them at once. Though they had the excuse that Waltman was called Syxx at the time and for more than just that reason at that…
  • In a 1998 promo, "Stone Cold" Steve Austin declares that if he's going to face The Undertaker and Kane in a triple threat match for his WWF title at Breakdown, Austin 3:16 won't show up, but Austin 666 will instead.
  • The total weight of all members of AEW's Team Taz (Ricky Starks, Powerhouse Hobbs and Hook) add up to 666 pounds.
  • Gunther's time as WWE Intercontinental Champion, the longest in history, ended on six hundred sixty six days. He spent most of it as a dominant Wrestling Monster. Chillingly, Gunther was defeated by Sami Zayn to begin his fourth reign.

    Tabletop Games 
  • Dungeons & Dragons:
    • Ed Greenwood sometimes used the number 666 (or variations thereof) when creating Forgotten Realms spells for the 1st and 2nd editions.
    • According to most editions' Dungeon Master's Guide, the Abyss, the home of the demons, has supposedly infinite layers, but "conventional wisdom" says the bottom layer is the 666th. The demon goddess Lolth, in particular, has her home on the 66th layer.
  • Hunter: The Vigil features the Lucifuge, a secret order made up of people who have inherited the powers of Hell from demonic parents. The head of the organization (also known as the Lucifuge) has spent centuries keeping track of them, and knows exactly how many are on Earth at any one time. Take a guess.
  • In Nomine has players take sides in a war between the demons of Hell and the angels of Heaven. The game system uses d666 (three six-siders for all rolls). Bad things happen to angelic characters whose players roll all sixes, while good things happen if you roll all ones (the Trinity). This is reversed for demonic characters.
  • Ironclaw: The use of Black Magic can have dangerous side effects. Namely, 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.
  • Magic: The Gathering:
  • Pathfinder: The Bottle of the Bound is a legendary artifact in the form of a metal bottle in which an army of six hundred and sixty-six fiends is magically trapped.
  • In Poker, a three-of-a-kind made of sixes is colloquially known as "The Beast", though this invokes the erroneous "three sixes in a row" version.
  • Rolemaster: A roll of 66 indicates a very unexpected result.
  • Warhammer 40,000:
  • Yu-Gi-Oh!: The holy scriptures of Dogmatika have 666 commandments. Each new member has a Stigmata carved on their body somewhere. Dogmatika Maximus eventually reveals that once there were 666 members, he could enact a ritual to corrupt them into the Despia.

    Theatre 

    Video Games 
  • In 7th Dragon, the total number of Dragons that live at the start of the game add up to 666.
  • Ace Combat:
    • Galm Team from The Belkan War 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 call sign is "Cipher", in case you still didn't catch any symbolism.
    • The final mission of Shattered Skies, appropriately a That One Level with tunnel-flying, has Mobius One start at 6666 feet.
  • Action Taimanin: Yasuna Ashigaya's supporter skill is called Harima Paper Sorcery, which deals 666% damage to surrounding enemies and deal another damage of the same calculation at a 50% chance once fully upgraded. This could be a reference to the term "Devil's luck", which refers to being Born Lucky. Yasuna, on the other hand, being a pathological gambler and is always in constant debt due to one many losses, is actually Born Unlucky.
  • In chapter 5 of Alice: Madness Returns, a wall in the Dolltown Cellarnote  has 666 affixed to it.
  • ANNO: Mutationem: Pyrofist, an opponent at Harbor Town's arena, has 666 appear on his armor when he's charging up to generate a fire blast.
  • Asheron's Call featured an event boss, Bael'zharon, who when inspected, was level 666. There is also the White Rabbit, who has 666 in every stat (and instant-kills you when you inspect it.)
  • In Baldur's Gate III, the cambion Raphael has a total of 666 hit points, making him one of the most difficult bosses to kill in the game.
  • 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.
  • Bendy and the Ink Machine features a poster for a Bendy cartoon episode, "Bendy in Train Trouble." The train number is 666.
  • The Binding of Isaac: Benefitting the religion theme, the number 666 pops up often:
    • An item called the Mark resembles three sixes arranged in a pattern together, and puts these sixes on Isaac's head should he pick it up. By default, it is sold in a Devil Deal.
    • The item Libra grants six keys, six coins, and six bombs when picked up.
    • Killing Mega Satan awards the player with 6,666 points in the game's scoring system.
    • Powerful superboss and the strongest enemy in Afterbirth Hush has 6,666 HP. The Siren in Repentance has 666 HP.
    • Donating 666 coins to the Greed Machine in Afterbirth unlocks a trinket, specifically Store Key.
    • The Shade item becomes absorbed in to Isaac after dealing exactly 666 damage as of Repentance.
    • There is no item with internal ID 666. The game deliberately skips over this, going from 665 to 667.
  • In BioShock Infinite, one of the upgrades for the Devil's Kiss Vigor costs six-hundred-and-sixty-six dollars.
  • BlazBlue has Ragna, Nu-13 and Hazama give the line "Restriction 666 released" when activating their Azure Grimoires.
  • Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night: Todd is a man who picked up a cursed pair of scissors, transforming him into a Killer Barber demon. To break the curse, he has to give out 666 unique haircuts to people. And they have to be good ones. He can't just snip off random bits of hair and call it a new hairstyle, or else the scissors will murder the person in the barber's chair. In-game, he exists as a way to customize Miriam's appearance. Sadly, you can't free him from his curse since there are nowhere near 666 unlockable hairstyles in the game.
  • Brawl− buffed Ganondorf's Warlock Punch to There Is No Kill Like Overkill levels — from 32% damage and 102 units of knockback to 666% damage and 80,000 units of knockback (eight times the force of Jigglypuff's shield jump). As a nod to this, the fans who choose not to call this move the Minus Warlock Punch instead call it the Satan Punch.
  • Castlevania:
  • Chrono Trigger:
    • Magus, the leader of the Fiends, has 6666 Hit Points and 666 Magic Points as a boss.
    • Warriorsnote  and Daltonitesnote , two regular enemies in the Ocean Palace and the Blackbird respectively, have 666 Hit Points.
  • Cookie Clicker:
    • The Portal upgrade is a thinly-veiled reference to opening a Hellgate, and originally costs 1,666,666 cookies to purchase. It produces 6,666 cookies originally, and its upgrades cost 16,666,660, 166,666,600, and 1,666,666,000
    • When you reach the end-stages of the grandmapocalypse, you can eventually form a covenant with the Elder Gods, at a price of 6,666,666,666,666 cookies.
  • DanceDanceRevolution:
    • "The Legend of MAX" is mostly set to 333 BPM. Midway through, it briefly doubles its speed to 666 BPM, right before the slowdown.
    • The Single Expert and Double Challenge charts for "Nageki no Ki" both have 666 combos.
  • DANCERUSH: To unlock the song "A Legend Is Born" before it was made available by default, players had to score a total of 666 points (across multiple songs as you can only get up to 100 per song), as well getting less than 6 Bads on any one song and getting a max combo of at least 66 on "Don't Be Afraid".
  • The Darkside Detective:
    • "Disorient Express" involves spectral goings-on at the 66-6 St subway station. Lampshaded by McQueen as an appropriate place for spooky nonsense to happen.
    • In "A Fumble in the Dark", McQueen's home computer is running V 6.66 of its operating system.
  • In Dark Souls I, Manus, the wretched abomination spawned from the corpse that used to be the Original Man, has 6,666 health exactly.
  • Devil May Cry:
    • In the HD Collection and Nintendo Switch versions of Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening, you earn the "Blood, Sweat, and Tears" achievement for passing the 666th floor of the Bloody Palace mode.
    • In Devil May Cry 4, Dante gets a weapon called Pandora, which is a demonic briefcase that can transform into 666 evil forms, which all seem to be 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).
    • DmC: Devil May Cry:
      • As Dante wakes up in his trailer during the prologue cutscene, he drinks a bottle of whiskey labeled with the number 666 and three demonic heads below it.
      • In a blink-and-you-miss-it moment of Mission 16, notice the constantly-changing floor number when Dante is inside the elevator. The number 666 is briefly shown just before it "properly" displays the number 157.
  • The Devil's Calculator is an Edutainment Puzzle Game that revolves around obtaining the number 666 by applying unusual functions.
  • The title antagonist of the first Diablo has 1,666 HP.
  • In Digimon World Dawn and Dusk, the Digivolution requirements for VenomMyotismon are level 66 with 6666 Beast experience (the game puts it, BST 6666). This is also a shout out to the anime.
    • Slightly more subtle, in Digimon World DS a requirement for the character is 99990 EXP, which, if viewed upside-down, reads 06666.
  • 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.
  • Dispatch: Malevola's profile lists her height as 6'6.6
  • Doom:
    • Instead of Doom version 1.6 to coincide with the release of its sequel Doom II, the producers went with version 1.666.
    • In The Ultimate Doom, E1M1 has 666 sidedefs.
    • Doom also uses UDP port 666.
    • Sector tags 666 and 667 are used for actions that require certain monsters to be killed instead of crossing a specific linedef.
    • In Doom³, there are lockers scattered around that contains items. One of them, however, contains an Imp. The locker's number goes without saying.
    • During the E3 presentation of the Doom (2016) game, Bethesda's representative joked that they internally refer to the IdTech 6 engine the game runs under as IdTech 666. In a super-obscure Easter Egg, viewing the music from the Cyberdemon Boss Battle through a spectrogram reveals a repeating pattern of 666s and pentagrams.
    • Doom Eternal:
      • "It's a Magic Number" is an achievement you get after you kill 666 demons.
      • In an apartment, the temperature of the room is set at 66.6 degrees.
      • The UAC Spokeswoman at one point states, "In case of an emergency, dial 6 three times on your phone."
      • In the Downloadable Content, The Ancient Gods: Part Two, the last Story Breadcrumb picked up before facing the Final Boss is prefaced "ARC DATA LOG 666".
  • The titular town in DUSK has a population of x6x66.
  • Elohim Eternal: Exodus: One of the Simru slaves is branded with the number 666. Despite that ominous number, he's a victim of slavery rather than an antagonist. Instead, the number represents the cruelty of the Misru empire for branding him, as well as the cruelty of the Demiurge duo for commanding the Misru to create a slave system.
  • Elona has three Superboss dungeons, each of which has a displayed difficulty level of 666. It's just a metaphor, as their actual difficulty is somewhere around 80.
  • 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.
  • Eternal Darkness places great significance on 3:33 times on both digital and analog clocks.
  • Exponential Idle: You get the Devil's Advocate achievement for gaining ee666 dollars.
  • Out of the seven Beasts that terrorize humanity in Fate/Grand Order, Beast VI is specifically designed based on the Beast of Revelation/The Whore of Babylon, with one of its variant, Beast VI/S, being essentially an Evil Twin of the playable Nero Claudius.
  • Final Fantasy:
    • One of the Chemist's mixes in Final Fantasy V is a "Dark Potion" which deals 666 damage.
    • In Final Fantasy VII, sometimes in the Cosmo Area of the World Map you encounter enemies called Skeeskee. Individually they each give 222 experience and gil; they are most commonly encountered in groups of three, so whenever you defeat a trio of Skeeskee, you get 666 experience and 666 gil.
    • In order to obtain the Doomtrain Guardian Force in Final Fantasy VIII, the player must have 6 pieces each of Steel Pipes, Marlboro Tentacles and Remedy+.
    • The recurring Tonberry enemies have this number, along with four and nine, as part of their Numerological Motif. Given that the Tonberries have achieved an outright memetic status as a meta status The Dreaded with an average encounter against one of them typically eating through your revival items faster than most bosses can chew through your healing potions, these specific numbers make perfect sense.
  • In Five Nights at Freddy's, Foxy's height is 4.666 feet.
  • Ganbare Goemon: The final Impact boss in Goemon's Great Adventure, Devil Death God, has 6,666 HP.
  • In the Helltaker DLC Examtaker, you play as one of Loremaster's subjects, a demon numbered Subject 666, which Loremaster is excited about as she believes the number to mean great power. However, Lucifer informs Loremaster that 666 had already died, and your character is actually Subject 667. Loremaster quickly becomes less enthusiastic in 667 succeeding.
  • 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).
  • Hobo 6: Hell takes place in Hell, and its main menu fittingly features two more 6s alongside the one in the title to form a "666".
  • The end of the train level in The House of the Dead: OVERKILL shows that the train's locomotive has the number 666 on it.
  • Two of Piccolo's supers in Hyper Dragon Ball Z note  inflict 666 hits on the opponent. Piccolo is a hero, but the game pays homage to his origins as a villainous demon.
  • Idle Mine Remix: Hellstone Lv. 666 has 666.00 T HP, 3.66 T Defense, and gives 16.66 Qt $ when mined.
  • Judge Dredd: Dredd vs. Death: Judge Death's prisoner ID number in the load-up screen happens to be 101-100111-666. His associates have the same first nine digits (which add up to 6 as well), followed by 667, 668, and 669.
  • In Killer7, Emir Parkreiner's locker is #666. Looking in locker #616 leads the player to Mask's final mask.
  • In Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories, Marluxia's final form has a sleight that is activated by using three 6 cards, which forces Sora to break six cards within six seconds or face instant death.
  • Kingdom of Loathing spoofs this with the 668 scroll, allowing you to summon the neighbor of the beast.
  • Kingdom Rush's villain Vez'Nan (who made a Deal with the Devil) has this as his number motif. On Normal mode, his first form has 6666 health (which is very low for a boss), and his attack in that form deals at least 666 damage to your soldiers and heroes (which is pretty much overkill).
  • Kittens Game: As an Easter Egg, having exactly 666 of any resource causes it to flash red.
  • The "All the 6s" level from Lemmings. Ironically in an inversion, It's not even close to being a level from hell, though — actually more of a Breather Level.
    • Several ports of the game replace "All the 6s" with a completely new level — whether because of the Number Of The Beast reference or just because it's the ultimate Breather Level is difficult to say.
  • In The Logomancer, Nikolai's Regret has 6666 willpower points.
  • In Lollipop Chainsaw, Killabilly is said to be 666 years old.
  • In Luminous Arc 3, the first stage of the final boss will have 666 HP. However, the final boss is an evil god....
  • In Mario Strikers Charged, Bowser has 66 as his jersey number, while Bowser Jr. has the jersey number 6.
  • Max Payne had a level where the access code for a different part of a lab was 665, which Max sarcastically comments as the "neighbor of the beast". In the sequel, Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, 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.
  • Maze Mice has a weapon called the Devil's Deal that does 36 (6x6) damage to all enemies when the timer includes the digit 6, or every 6 seconds if the number is in the minutes spot.
  • One of the dozens of planets in Meteos is the Planet Heck Jeljel which can be unlocked as playable by launching 666 Fire, Soil and Zoo meteos and 3 Dark meteos.
  • The very dreaded, grim-reaperesque Terror Fiends in Miitopia have exacly 666 HP. And we do mean dreaded — Fiends in general like to One-Hit Kill your party.
  • Characters who make a Deal with the Devil in Nexus Clash get its benefits for 666 minutes...and its most serious downsides for another 666 minutes, during which the devil in question (usually another Player Character) can claim their soul if they die for any reason.
  • Parodied in Monster Hunter (PC), one of the stages is called "668: Neighbor of the Beast".
  • Level 666 in Nibblers contains the symbol for sulfur created with lava rocks and rosehips, and asks the player to defeat 6 Mud Lizards, clear 6 mud tiles, and collect 66 rosehips.
  • 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.
    • The 666 Ammo card, obviously. However, the number on the card is written in Roman numerals (DCLXVI), which shows that the devs knew the value is important, not three sixes.
  • Open Sorcery: The date the "blue", a.k.a "affected by the final foe" version of the Cherry Orchard Rest Home is Oct. 666 20XX, but it's actually Nov. 1 2014.
  • Pikmin 2: There's a creepy doll's head that's worth 670 pokos; in the Japanese version, it's worth 666.
  • Pokémon: Giratina, Sinnoh myth's Satanic Archetype, has six armored plates below its head, six spikes on its wings, and six legs in Altered Forme, evoking this trope.
  • In Pony Island, the number 666 shows up all over the place. Of note are several loading sequences where the percentages reach 666% before 100%.
  • The Very Definitely Final Dungeon in Purple has a prominent 666 on its entrance which you can freely break. The game in general uses Satan motif shamelessly.
  • The original Quake features a power-up called the Pentagram of Protection, which puts a red 666 on your armor counter, although that's just for symbolic and aesthetic purposes — your health will not go down while this power-up is active, and anything that tries to spawn at your position will be reverse telefragged. Note that your armor will still take damage if you have any on.
  • 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.
  • Appears in Realm Grinder, in particular with anything that involves the Demon faction, such as a Challenge reward of more mana from 6.66% of the most expensive building's amount.
    • The Diabolical Evil Trophy is unlocked after 666 hours of time spent playing Evil.
  • Ridge Racer:
    • The Assoluto Squaldon, the Rage Racer equivalent to the 13th Racing/Crinale cars in other games, can be purchased for 6,666,666 eg.
    • One of the alternate liveries for the Soldat Crinale in Ridge Racer 6 has the racing number 666.
  • RuneScape's Vampire Monarch Lowerniel Drakan has a combat level of 666. He's also one of the most evil characters in the game and responsible for turning Hallowvale into its current state as a blood farm.
  • In SaGa Frontier, the Pain Doubler spell under Zamza's Evil Magic library deals 666 damage... which sucks quite a bit since the average damage in the game is four digits. Of course, when used on the player, it can be a death sentence, since max HP tops out at 999.
  • In the Saints Row series, Stilwater's "The Krunch" and Steelport's "The Blood" are both hard rock and metal radio stations that broadcast at 106.66 FM. note 
  • 666 is the phone number for Hell in Sam & Max's second Season Finale.
  • Secret of Mana has the Dark Lich, who has 6,666 HP.
  • 666 appears hilariously often in SEUM: Speedrunners From Hell; from the maximum completion, to a secret level between 66 and 67, in the name of some achievements etc.
  • In SEVEN's CODE, the song "Kimi to Mita Yume" has 666 notes in its Simple-Master and Chaos-Master charts as is befitting of a group of seven idols who are also representatives of the Seven Deadly Sins.
  • Shin Megami Tensei:
    • Beelzebub (human form) in Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne has 666 HP.
    • Evil Land gives 666 damage to demi-humans at LV 6.
    • Satan's Shin Megami Tensei II design has 6 arms, 6 wings, and 6 breasts.
    • In a display of grand irony, one of the DLC bosses in Shin Megami Tensei IV is Archangel Michael, who, despite who he obviously works for, has an attack that inflicts a fixed 666 HP of damage.
    • In Shin Megami Tensei V, you get 666,666 macca for completing the Return of the True Demon sidequest, which caps off with a fight against the Demi-Fiend. In Vengeance, you get 6,666,666 for completing The Nemesis Battles (which ends with the boss fights against Samael and then Satan) in the Elite Virtual Trainer gauntlet.
  • Sigil (2019): The game takes place in Mars' Hell, the location where Doomguy was dragged back to by the Icon of Sin in an attempt to hold him back while the demonic forces invade Earth. The game's name has letter G in the logo written as a circular pattern of three sixes, referencing the game's theme and premise.
  • Simplest RPG: If there's a creature related to devils, chances are its stats will be based on these numbers. For example, Hellhound has 666666 HP and 66666 ATK, and Angry Demon has 166666666 HP and 66666666 ATK.
  • Getting a combo of 6 hits in Skullgirls is "Naughty", 66 is "Devilish", 616 is "Infernal", and 666 is "Diabolical".
  • In the English version of Snatcher, the date of "the Catastrophe" was moved from June 6th, 1991 (6/6/1991) to June 6th, 1996 (6/6/1996).
  • SNK vs. Capcom: SVC Chaos has an overall cast of 33 characters, with 663 pre-battle dialogues for each of them... okay, not each, because Athena and Red Arremer have no dialogues between each other or their clones whatsoever. If they would be, though, it would result in a straight 666. May be excuseable. Or maybe not.
  • In the Sonic Dreams Collection minigame "My Roommate Sonic," your cell phone only has the bottom six buttons on it, and the top row is nothing but 6's.
  • In Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) we have the Big Bad Solaris, a sun god whose initial form upon being fused together features six stones on his back, six wings, and six horn pieces on his head. Note that this is a character whose raw power and cunning mind were separated into a beast and a false prophet named after the Muslim devil and a pun on Mephistopheles respectively.
  • In Space Pirates and Zombies, the ship known as the Brute (one of the strongest ships available from the Bounty Hunter faction) has 666 base health.
  • In Splatoon 2's Rhythm Game mode Squid Beatz 2, the chart "Splattack! (Octo)" on Hard mode has the highest note count in the game, at exactly 666. That alone should give you an idea of what kind of hell you’ll put your digits through should you attempt it.
  • The True Final Boss of Stacklands has 666 HP, fitting for the Demon Lord.
  • Team Fortress 2 has the Ghost Town Halloween Event, which is an extremely challenging version of Mann Vs Machine, reskined as zombies.
    "How many zombies? How does 666 sound, fear friends? Because it sounds like a candy-ass pile of crap to us! 666 is where we STARTED. But where we ended was MORE THAN EIGHT HUNDRED! That said, we're still calling it "Wave 666", because we asked Glenn Danzig and he said that sounded way more badass than "Wave More Than Eight Hundred"."
    — Promotional description for Wave 666
    • The amount of enemies is actually 911 robots and 9 tanks, and additional Spies and Snipers which continuously spawn for as long as you play.
    • The description for the Spooky Shoes claims their size is 666. Outside of Hell, that's 5 1/2 in men's, resulting in "the agonizing terror of tiny man feet".
  • Touhou Project pokes fun at it a few times. In Imperishable Night's Extra Stage, the requirement for obtaining the last Extend you can gain from point items is 666 point items, the next being an impossible 9999 requirement. More fittingly, an adequately trained player will often run into Keine in her beast form with the number on screen◊. Clearing the Extra Stage also gives you a Clear score of 66600000.
    • Also in Subterranean Animism, Parsee mocks Marisa and Alice's RPG trope discussion by claiming that her bridge is "Floor 666 of the Underground Skyscraper". In Double Spoiler, getting pictures of the shapeshifting hellcat Rin Kaenbyou in cat form gets you a bonus of 666 points.
  • Tower Defense X: The Calamity's Arc Number: It has 6,666,666 HP on Wave 80, appears for the second time on Wave 166 and it's HP values on other waves also contains consecutive 6s at some point. It's summons generally have repeating 6s for their max HP as well.
  • Treasure Hunter Man 1:
    Grandma: Keep away from the cellar! It's evil!! 666!!
  • Tsukihime features a villain called Nrvnqsr Chaos who controls 666 animal familiars. He was given this designation by the Holy Church due to the theory that 666 refers to Emperor Nero (see Mythology & Religion).
  • In the old Ultima II computer game, the Earth was located at coordinates (6,6,6) in the solar system.
  • Undertale: W. D. Gaster, the previous Royal Scientist, suffered an accident that left him diegetically Ret-Gone, or something (likely as a meta-commentary on cut and Dummied Out content in video games). One of the few traces of his existence are unused stats that can only be found through datamining, which reveal that he had 666666 HP, 6666 ATK, and 6666 DEF.
  • In Vagrant Story, the Final Boss's One-Winged Angel form has 666 HP and 666 MP.
  • Weird and Unfortunate Things Are Happening: The Superboss of the Developer's Room that fights alone, drops 66666 EXP and 3 Prism Pellets.
  • The Wonderful 101: Mirror Boss and recurring threat Prince Vorkken's Danger Quotient is listed as 666%note . Most of his other stats are filled with 6s as well. Not only does this fit with his group's status as a powerful Evil Counterpart to the Wonderful Ones, it follows the pattern of bosses having Danger Quotients whose first digit matches the operation they're fought in — Vorkken's final battle is the boss fight of Operation 006.
  • World of Warcraft:
    • At one point, Hogger had 666 health.
    • There is a statue of a serpent in Zangarmarsh with 666 in its 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.
  • World of Warships included the Fletcher-class destroyer USS Black for this reason, as she had the hull number DD-666.
  • WRATH: Aeon of Ruin's frame rate is capped at 666 FPS.
  • Wuthering Waves: Galbrena's Resonance Evaluation Report◊ file designated her record as "X666", fitting for someone who's called a "Devil Hunter" in the Japanese dub, and described as a "Devil" during her pre-release drip marketing.
  • Xenoblade Chronicles 1: The first time you hit for 666 damage you get an achievement, Unlucky Sixes.
  • Xenogears: Graf has 6666 HP, the highest HP total for a human boss in the game.
  • Rubedo from Xenosaga is URTV #666.

    Web Animation 
  • The Halloween episode of Bowser's Kingdom was titled episode 666.
  • In I, Pet Goat II, the titular "pet goat" has a 666 bar code on its forehead.
  • Episode 4 of Retarded Animal Babies has a remote control that you can use on a TV. Pressing 666 shows an animation of Satan eating children from a bowl. Pressing 999 shows the same thing, but upside-down.

    Webcomics 

    Web Originals 
  • AMV Hell Championship Edition was released on June 6, 2006.
  • Channel 10 - Manila:
    • At one point during "Metrocom PSA, September 1988", the phone number to call with information about Ana Orosa Bulingan is replaced with "666-666", as Ana's picture disappears.
    • "Dance-o-Rama PHILSACOR Promo September 1988" is a promo for the "Maligaya T-666" TV model by the titular company, which is implied to be haunted by demons judging by the Nightmare Faces shown.
  • Both used and subverted in the SCP Foundation. SCP-616 is a hellish door with a strong Brown Note effect and vaguely specified "bad things" happening when it opens, but SCP-666 seems slightly more benign. There's also SCP-666½-J, called the Roaring Flames of Hell, but it's just a dinner entrée that sets off apocalypses (yes, multiple) in one's intestines.
    • The number 666 doesn't even need to be in the SCP's number. For instance, SCP-3288 ("The Aristocrats") is a species of The Morlocks dwelling in the underground of Central Europe. Each member has sixty teeth, arranged into six rows, and each tooth is six times larger than a normal human's.
  • In v4 Open Blue, the date of the foundation of the Axifloan Coalition is June 6th, 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).
  • In 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!"
  • RedLetterMedia: In Mr. Plinkett's review of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, when he got to talk about Order 66, he pretended to be George Lucas and decided that the Kill E'm All code phrase should be "an evil-sounding number". At first he considered "666" but rejected it because he thought it was "too obvious."
  • In his review of "Like a G6" by the Far East Movement, Todd in the Shadows wonders about the line ending "like Three Six." They're talking about Three 6 Mafia, but because of a random scary voice in the bridge (and because Todd just hates the song), he ends the video with a screaming Satanic Panic rant set to "Carmina Burana". (And then Iron Maiden's "The Number of the Beast" plays over the end card.)
    Bad pop music! All this bad pop music! I knew it! It's the work of the devil! Corrupting our minds! Destroying the world! He's coming! Coming for you and your SOULS!!! Repent! Swear on the good book (holds up the Johnny Cash autobiography) and you may yet be saved!!! Repent now or perish in the fourth circle of Hell... where "Like a G6" plays for eternity. (makes the Sign of the Cross) May God have mercy on us all.
  • The footage from Mario Party TV adds a Staggered Zoom and Scare Chord whenever it appears someone is about to roll three sixes.
  • Several Not Always Right stories show customers buying extra things upon checkout if their total is $6.66. "Well, I guess that's the Lord's way of telling us to get dessert!"
  • Numbers of the Beast (the gag list can't ever be conclusive, feel free to add).
  • Numberphile: The video, "666".
  • In The Stinger for Winter of '83, the distorted lineup copies the 6pm marker and applies it to the rest of the schedule.

    Western Animation 
  • American Dad!: When Stan is worried that his adopted grandson Nemo is the anti-christ, he checks him for the mark. He ends up finding a 66 but is relieved to find the next number 2, then he sees a he has a +4 after that. Cue Scare Chord.
  • Aqua Teen Hunger Force:
    • In "The Cloning", the channel number that the cursed TV is playing is channel six-sixty-six.
    • Another episode features a Satanic sandwich called "The Broodwich" which, among other horrifying ingredients, is "layered with six-hundred and sixty-six separate meats from an animal which has maggots for blood!"
  • In the first episode of The Boondocks, Huey tries to convince the guests at Ed Wuncler's garden party that Ronald Reagan is the Devil by pointing out that Ronald, Wilson, and Reagan each have six letters in them — therefore, 666. However, this just makes him look "adorable" to the guests.
  • Amanda from Bunsen Is a Beast subverts this every now and then, such as when she claims that her makeovers for her class photo cost her $667.
  • Parodied in Courage the Cowardly Dog when the characters (Except for the titular dog, who is forced to sleep outside because of the No Dogs Allowed Rule) book a room at Hotel Katz, they are given room number 666½.
  • Dr. Zitbag's Transylvania Pet Shop:
    • "Grime Doesn't Pay" has Officer Deadbeat entrusted with keeping a criminal named Fingers Malone, first referred to as Prisoner 666, locked up.
    • In "Kangaroo Caught", Dr. Zitbag finds that he has the winning lottery ticket, Number 666. Unfortunately, it isn't a cash prize.
  • 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 flipped in a mirror (1010011010) and screams in horror. It's never explained, but 1010011010 is 666 in binary.
  • In Gargoyles, The Illuminati is divided into thirty-six ranks. The leader is the only One, there are two Twos, three Threes, et cetera. Guess how many members that equals in total.
  • The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy: In "Wishbones", Grim says that his robe has gone through "665 washings, and it still stinks of the ages!"
  • Hotel Transylvania: The Series: In "Buggin Out", Mavis delivers room service to a room only to realize that the card was upside down, as it was actually supposed to be delivered to room 999 (for a second you can actually see 666 on the card). In another episode, Mavis' uncle mentions room 665B.
  • Looney Tunes: In ''A Pest in the House" the hotel guest's room number is 666. It was apparently chosen because the guest is "in Hades" with Daffy taking care of him according to the commentary.
  • Metalocalypse: During the first season, the Tribunal sends an assassin known as "Agent 216" to spy on Dethklok, though General Crozier secretly orders him to assassinate the band. Ironically, in the end he's thwarted by Klokateer Number 216, who fights him after their identical number is called during a raffle (mistakenly assuming that the assassin is trying to impersonate him) and trips him into Murderface's diamond-encrusted codpiece, killing him instantly. Assassin 216's death ultimately sets off a series of events that lead to the death of Cardinal Ravenwood in the season finale, marking the beginning of the countdown for the Metalocalypse.
  • Mona the Vampire: In "Miss Gotto's Haunted House", the titular house is stated to be located on 666 Charon Drive.
  • Rocko's Modern Life:
    • One episode ends with the character Peaches playing with a paddle ball. He says, "664, 665" and then he misses and has to start all over.
    • Furthermore, in "Heff in a Handbasket", the number to apply for Peaches' game show Triple 6 is "555 and THEN A BUNCH OF SIXES", the show is broadcast on channel 66, and Heffer needs to score 666 points to "win".
  • The Simpsons:
    • The "Treehouse of Horror III" segment "Dial 'Z' For Zombie" has Lisa and Bart going through the occult section of a library. Dewey Decimal System designation? 666. (For the curious, the actual designation would be 130 or 133. 666 is assigned to "ceramic and allied technologies".)
    • In the opening of "Treehouse of Horror VIII", a cheerful Fox Censor tells the viewers that the episode is rated TV-G, only for the ratings box to sprout an arm holding a knife and stab him, and turn to TV-PG. The stabbing continued, going to TV-14, TV-MA, TV-21, and finally, TV-666. (Those last two aren't real ratings, of course. The actual rating for the episode was TV-PG.)
    • "Treehouse of Horror XXX" is the 666th episode of the series, and opens with a parody of The Omen.
  • The South Park episode "Damien" manages to sneak in a couple of visual references. At the very start of the episode, a group of number magnets on the wall have three red sixes next to each other, and the chalkboard has a sum that adds up to 666.
  • Subverted in Star vs. the Forces of Evil: the Blood Moon Ball, which is celebrated in the underworld, takes place once every 667 years. Also, Marco's Dragon-Motorcycle has "667" on its number plate. According to the creators, they wanted both cases to be played straight, but Disney wouldn't allow it.
  • Teen Titans (2003): "Birthmark" gives us a subtle example. It is Raven's Dangerous 16th Birthday, where she is concerned about the prophecy concerning her demonic father, and we open with her laying on her bed staring at a clock, saying, "6 P.M. Just six more hours and it will all be over. Six more hours." She probably didn't notice that she said the number 6 thrice.
  • In the T.U.F.F. Puppy episode "T.U.F.F. Choices", the Indecision Ray that Snaptrap buys from the Chameleon is shown to have the price of $666.66.
  • Wakfu:
    • In the flashback showing the backstory of the Ugly Princesses from "The Ugly Pagent", there is such a long line of princes wanting to woo them that they use a "Take a Number" device. Then comes the god Osamodas, who picks number 666 before laying a curse on the disrespectful princesses.
    • In "The World of Rushu", 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 666 pyralshus until they fall. And to make sure they fall, Rushu also sends his Dragon Anathar into the fray.
  • What It's Like Being Alone: In "Fire the Reverend", Satan's son Jeffrey has a buckle shaped like the number 666.

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