Mephistopheles in the arts and popular culture

Drama

• 1604 - Christopher Marlowe's The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
• 1802 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust, Part One
• 1832 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust, Part Two

  Opera

• 1816 - Ludwig Spohr's Faust
• 1846 - Hector Berlioz's "Légende dramatique" La Damnation de Faust
• 1859 - Charles Gounod's Faust
• 1868 - Arrigo Boito's opera Mefistofele

  Music

• Mephiskapheles is a New York City-based ska band founded in 1990, with a playfully Satanic theme after the fashion of heavy metal music. The band helped define, then transcended, the ska punk genre. Mephiskapheles' music has diverse stylistic influences including reggae, jazz and hardcore punk, and the band has made several national and international tours since 1995.
• Mephistopheles is mentioned in the song "If You Want A Receipt For That Popular Mystery" sung by Colonel Calverley in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta Patience, in the lyric 'Force of Mephisto pronouncing a ban'.
• Marilyn Manson has a song entitled "Mephistopheles of Los Angeles", from the 2015 album The Pale Emperor.
• The Police song "Wrapped Around Your Finger", from the album Synchronicity, mentions Mephistopheles in the third verse.
• The Radiohead song "Videotape" from In Rainbows mentions Mephistopheles.
• A lyric in the OneRepublic song "Love Runs Out" mentions "Got an angel on my shoulder, and Mephistopheles. However Ryan Tedder may be referring to Mr. Mistoffelees, from T.S. Eliot's poetry.
• The main character in the song "The Devil's Song" by Marcy Playground is Mephistopheles.
• The band Streetlight Manifesto mentions Mephistopheles in the song "Down, Down, Down to Mephisto's Café" and a demonic character presumed to be Mephistopheles is featured of the cover of the band's album 99 Songs of Revolution and is seen in the window of a café.
• The Strung Out album The Element of Sonic Defiance has a song named "Mephisto".
• Kamelot has written the albums Epica and The Black Halo, telling the tale of a deal that Mephistopheles offers to God. In fact, the second album in the story has a song titled "March of Mephisto".
• Trans-Siberian Orchestra has written the album Beethoven's Last Night, telling the tale of a deal Mephistopheles offers him. The album incorrectly presumed Mephistopheles and the devil are one and the same.
• Mephistopheles is a popular brass band 'contest' march composed by Shipley Douglas of technical complexity, dynamic and rhythmic detail, and melodic variety out of the rigid conventions and structural formulae of the military march. It poses a stiff challenge for any band having more in common with a light opera overture than a traditional road march and as such, is a favourite march chosen by many of the top bands.
• On his 2010 album Heartland, Owen Pallett included an original track entitled, "Tryst with Mephistopheles".
• U2 singer Bono created the alter ego Mr MacPhisto for the band's Zoo TV Tour in 1993
• The Sins of Memphisto is a track on John Prine's 1991 album The Missing Years. Memphisto is a blend word of Memphis and Mephisto
• Mephistopheles is the title of the eight track from the self-titled album by the American death metal band Deicide

  Film

• One of the antagonists in the 1945 Republic serial film Manhunt on Mystery Island is a resurrected pirate named Captain Mephisto.
• In the 1946 film Angel on My Shoulder, Claude Rains portrays Mephistopheles, who is nicknamed Nick.
• In the 1981 film Mephisto, which won an Oscar in 1982 for Best Foreign Film, actor Klaus Maria Brandauer plays a German stage actor whose abiding ambition is to play Mephistopheles on the stage-but in order to achieve it, he "sells his soul" to the Nazi regime and in effect becomes Faust in real life.
• The original theatrical white-hair theme comic villain character as M. was adaptation into on the film, Director Brian Yuzna in 2000, released it in American superhero horror film based on the comic book of the same name character by Tim Vigil and David Quinn. also he appears as in the film and portrayed by, Andrew Divoff, who is the major title character version of sinful mysterious villain.
• In the 1994 film Faust by director Jan Svankmejer, Mephisto is summoned to make Faust's contract with Lucifer.
• In the 2007 film Ghost Rider, Peter Fonda plays the demon Mephistopheles.

  Comics

• Mephisto is a character who acts as a possible version of the devil in the Marvel Universe. Among other feats, he is responsible for turning Johnny Blaze into the Ghost Rider, fathering Blackheart, and imprisoning the soul of Doctor Doom's mother, Cynthia von Doom. He is also responsible for erasing Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson's marriage from history in the storyline.
• Mephistopheles is a main character in Soul Cartel, a manhwa loosely based on the Faust legend.

  Literature

• In Goethe's Faust, Mephistopheles is the personified principle of negation, betting with God that he would succeed to make Faust turn away from God.
• In the 1939 poetry collection Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by British playwright T.S. Eliot, as well as in the adaptation of the collection into the musical Cats by Andrew Lloyd Webber, the all-black feline character with whimsical and benevolent magical powers, Mr. Mistoffelees, is named after Mephistopheles. Mr. Mistoffelees is also a main character in the 2019 film adaptation of Cats.
• In The Shepherd's Crown by Terry Pratchett, Mephistopheles is the name of a highly intelligent goat befriended by one of the characters. Mephistopheles is able to count to 20 and use the privy.
• In the fictional works of the Bengali author Narayan Gangopadhyay, a character named Tenida had the catchphrase "De la grande Mephistopheles! Yak yak!"
• In Dina and Daniel Nayeri's Another Faust series, Mephistopheles takes the form of a beautiful governess named Nicola Vileroy, taking children from their families, offering them deals that involve supernatural gifts and raising them to be highly influential members of society. It is implied that among her charges were Queen Elizabeth I and Harry S. Truman.
• In the Matthew Reilly novel, The Four Legendary Kingdoms, a character named "Mephisto", who is a human who has been completely tattooed red, with surgically implanted horns. The character and his ancestors are shown to be the cause of the "Mephistopheles" myth.
• In The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell, Emilio Sandoz is said to take on the personality of Mephistopheles in order to protect himself from his past experiences.

  Anime

• In the animated version of Shaman King, Faust VIII refers to his spirit, Eliza, as Mephisto E during the Shaman Fight, which is playing upon the Faustian legend he is associated with.
• In the Japanese anime Digimon Tamers, Mephistomon is the name of an Ultimate Level Digimon.
• In the show Blue Exorcist, Mephisto Pheles or Mephisto is the zany headmaster of True Cross Academy. While this version is obsessed with otaku culture, he carries several German elements in his spells as well as a fondness for making bets. The anime ending even has a short flashback and several other allusions to the original tale of Faust.
• In the Japanese anime/manga series Black Butler, the main character, Ciel Phantomhive, makes a Faustian contract with Mephistopheles, who takes on a human identity, Sebastian Michaelis, and lives as Ciel's butler to blend into Victorian England.
• In the show Suite Precure, the first villain is named Mephisto.
• in Puella Magi Madoka Magica, the character Kyubey is a direct reference to Mephistopheles with Homura taking the role of Faust and Madoka, Gretchen.

  Television

• In the show South Park, Dr. Mephesto is the name of a mad scientist who lives upon the hill outside of town.
• Ultraman Nexus features three Evil Ultras as the servants of the show's main antagonist, Dark Zagi. The three Dark Ultras are based around the story of Faustus; Dark Faust, who is defeated by Nexus fairly early into the show's run, Dark Mephisto, who survives his first encounter with Nexus and goes on to become his arch rival, and a stronger version of Mephisto named Mephisto Zwei. Mephisto Zwei eventually meets his end at the hands of Nexus and a reformed Mephisto, who manages to find the light and achieves peace before sacrificing himself to defeat his stronger counterpart.
• Mephistopheles appears in Hex, portrayed by Ronan Vibert. Mephistopheles serves as a guide to Malachi, but also uses psychological tactics by getting him to do what Mephistopheles wants him to.
• Mephistopheles also appears in The Librarians episode "And the Infernal Contract", portrayed by John DeLancie. He is shown as having formed a contract with the leading family of a small New Hampshire town, orchestrating accidents and epidemics throughout the town's history in ways that benefit them. He subsequently targets an old friend of Eve Baird's, persuading him to sign a new contract in return for his soul. However, Eve manages to nullify the deal by tricking Mephistopheles into giving up his immortality, stripping him of his powers.
• In episode 524 of Mystery Science Theater 3000, ' dog is referred to by Tom Servo as "Mephisto".
• Mephistopheles makes an appearance in episode "The Haunting of Amphipolis".
• In Battlestar Galactica, Mephistopheles is portrayed by Patrick Macnee and appears in the episodes "War of the Gods Part 1" and "Part 2". He is found alone on a planet near a crashed spaceship and is brought back to the fleet, calling himself Count Iblis. There he uses his supernatural powers to perform miracles and convinces the people to follow him. During this time, several pilots go missing and orbs of light appear around the Galactica and the fleet. Apollo returns to the planet along with Starbuck and Sheba where his true identity is discovered. Apollo is killed in the confrontation. Starbuck and Sheba, while returning his body to the fleet, they are intercepted by the Ship of Lights where Apollo is resurrected. All pilots are returned to the Galactica with their memories wiped. However, Apollo, Starbuck, and Sheba recite the course that will take them to Earth.

  Video games

• In the Diablo game series, Mephisto is the Lord of Hatred and is one of the Three Prime Evils of the game.
• In Demon's Souls, Mephistopheles is a female non-player character who tasks the player with assassinating other key NPCs in the game.
• In Fate/Grand Order, Mephistopheles is a Caster-class Servant and a minor antagonist in the London story chapter.
• In Sonic the Hedgehog , the main antagonist is a shadowy demon named Mephiles the Dark, who spends a large part of the game manipulating the heroes.
• In ', Mephistopheles is the main antagonist and the final boss.
• In ', Mephistopheles appears as the main antagonist and final boss in the Zombies mode.
• In ', a Digimon of the Growlmon species goes by the name Mephisto and possesses a hacker.
• In ', the main character makes a contract with Mephistopheles to save his beheaded sister.
• In Shining in the Darkness the main villain in the Japanese version of the game is called "Mephisto". In the English version, his name is changed to Dark Sol, presumably in an attempt to link the game to Shining Force II.
• In the Shin Megami Tensei games, Mephisto features mulyiple times as a minor antagonist, more specifically in and Last Bible. In, he features heavily in a DLC quest "A Trip to Hawaii", where he offers the protagonist Nanashi a contract where he and his friends can be taken to a tropical island forever, with Nanashi able to leave by saying "Stay, thou art so beautiful.", a slightly altered quote from Faust. If Nanashi stays on the island, he will be put into an endlessly repeating chain of events where the only way to leave is to say "Stay,thou art so beautiful.". When he does, Mephisto attacks the player in an attempt to gain his soul. If the player denies, Mephisto will be amused and attack anyway.

  Other games

• ' features a card called "Chains of Mephisopheles" in its ' expansion.