• The Even Angels Will Fall commercial for Lynx/Ax Excite.

• In Angel Sanctuary, Setsuna is a reincarnation of one of these, and his sister is a reincarnation of a water spirit she had a history with, making this also a case of Reincarnation Romance.
• Black Butler (2008): Fallen angels such as Ash/Angela want to purify humans from their sins. They think the only way to do this is to extensively modify a human's behavior and thinking, and/or to completely annihilate them and to start over; this is an act they say will bring about "Doomsday."
• Satsuki from Bloody Cross. Though, it's never really explained how or why he became a fallen angel.
• Cowboy Bebop: Invoked by Vicious in the aptly titled fifth episode "Ballad of Fallen Angels": "When angels are forced out of heaven, they have no choice but to become devils."
• Digimon: There are several Digimon that are based on angels and demons, and several of the demon Digimon are implied or outright stated to be fallen angel versions of the angel Digimon.
  • Devimon and LadyDevimon are two fallen angel demon Digimon that are the evil counterparts to Angemon and Angewomon, respectively. Devimon is said to be an Angemon who fell to the darkside and LadyDevimon is implied to also be a fallen Angewomon.
  • The Celestial Digimon are three Mega level angel Digimon who also have corrupted fallen angel forms. Seraphimon has ShadowSeraphimon, Ophanimon has Ophanimon Falldown Mode, and Cherbuimon (Good) has Cherubimon (Evil).
  • Raguelmon is a fallen version of Rasielmon that grew paranoid and hateful after seeing too many potential negative futures from her foresight. In this state, she is obsessed with hunting down and killing fellow angel Digimon she believes might fall to darkness. The longer this continues, the more bitter and nihilistic Raguelmon becomes until she eventually abandons what's left of her ideals and devolves completely into a savage, indiscriminate killer.
  • If Raguelmon and Ophanimon Falldown Mode Digivovle together, they produce Ordinemon. An angel Digimon of incredible power driven mad by the pain, anger, and sadness of both components. In a warped sense of kindness, Ordinemon feels duty-bound to eliminate all sorrow and pain from the world... by destroying it to put it out of its misery so it can start over from scratch.
  • The Seven Great Demon Lords are a group of powerful Digimon based on the demon rulers of Hell and the embodiments of the Seven Deadly Sins. Several of its members are stated to be fallen angels.
    • Lucemon is an angelic looking Digimon that is based on Lucifer that first starts as Lucemon (Rookie level), a regular angel with six wings, before digivolving into Lucemon Chaos Mode, a fallen angel with both angel and demon wings, and then digivolving again into Lucemon Shadowlord Mode, a demonic dragon that is said to be Lucemon's true form.
    • Both Daemon and Lilithmon are stated to be a Seraphimon and an Ophanimon respectively who fell even further after turning into ShadowSeraphimon and Ophanimon Falldown Mode.
  • Digimon Frontier:
    • The backstory states that an angel Digimon named Lucemon descended upon the Digital World and helped stop the war between the Human Digimon and the Beast Digimon in the ancient past for which he was made ruler of the Digital World as gratitude. However, he turned evil over time and quickly became a tyrant ruler until he was defeated and sealed away by the original ten Legendary Warriors. He returns as the Big Bad near the end of the season being revealed as the one who controlled the initial antagonist, Cherubimon, as well as his minions, the two Royal Knight Digimon, all three of whom were going around taking Fractal Code data in order to revive him. All three of his forms appear here as he starts in his Lucemon Rookie form before then digivolving into Lucemon Chaos Mode and then for the final battle he digivolves into his true form Lucemon Shadowlord Mode.
    • Prior to Lucemon's reveal in the latter half of the show, the main antagonist for most of the season is Cherubimon, one of the three Celestial Digimon that were charged with ruling over the Digital World by the original Legendary Warriors following Lucemon's defeat in the past. Over time, Cherubimon began to view his fellow Celestials as working against him as he was the only Beast Digimon compared to both Seraphimon and Ophanimon being Human Digimon, and both Seraphimon and Ophanimon would almost always agree with each other in passing laws that benefited Human Digimon while rarely agreeing with Cherbuimon's attempts at helping Beast Digimon. Cherubimon's negative emotions from this frustration made him an easy target for Lucemon, who corrupted him and transformed him into his fallen virus version Cherubimon (Evil). He then uses his newfound power and betrays his fellow Celestials, corrupts five of the Legendary Warrior spirits as minions, and then sends them to destroy parts of the Digital World by taking Fractal Code data. Ostensibly, the Fractal Code data is being taken so that Cherubimon can rule over the Digital World, but in reality, it was to help Lucemon's revival as Lucemon is revealed to have been controlling him the whole time.
    • In the fight against Takuya within Sakkakumon, Mercurymon uses Seraphimon's Fractal Code to transform himself into an evil copy of him as ShadowSeraphimon in order to fight Takuya's Fusion Spirit form Aldamon.
  • Digimon Fusion: In an exposition flashback depicting the Big Bad's rise to power, an Angewomon who joined his army is shown becoming increasingly corrupted until she becomes a LadyDevimon.
  • Digimon Next: The Murmukusmon is actually a fallen HolyAngemon.
  • Digimon Adventure tri.: Raguelmon is the Ultimate form of Meicoomon that it manifests near the end of Confession to exact its rampage. When Taichi vanishes, Hikari's Nyaromon also Dark Evolves into Ophanimon: Falldown Mode, who quickly merges with Raguelmon into the Angelic Abomination Ordinemon.
  • Digimon Adventure: (2020): Seraphimon briefly became BlackSeraphimon while immersed in The Corruption, though it also weakened him to the point that he very quickly reverted to his non-fallen lower-level forms. Also, SkullKnightmon and DarkKnightmon are this more indirectly, being the corrupted form of Tailmon/Gatomon, who was Ophanimon in a previous life and remains a holy Digimon in the present.
• D.N.Angel has Krad. While Dark is mischievous and flirtatious, Krad is pure evil. He wants to destroy Dark and anyone who gets in his way, including innocent civilians.
• Dragon Ball Super: Zamasu, an apprentice Kai from Universe 10 and Supreme Kai in training, gradually develops Knight Templar tendencies and an utter loathing of mortal life to the point of becoming the closest thing the Dragon Ball series has had to the fallen angel archetype of Satan. He eventually falls completely, with one version of him killing his master to usurp his position and becoming Goku Black before setting out to wipe out all mortals in the multiverse (and all the Gods too so he could reign supreme) while teaming up with his Future Timeline counterpart. To add to the symbolism, their combined form Merged Zamasu has a Holy Halo and when that's destroyed, his imperfect immortality results in him hideously mutating into a demonic abomination.
• Played for Laughs with the main protagonist of Gabriel DropOut, who was originally a very kindhearted, well-mannered, and respectable angel, who wanted nothing more than to make as many people happy as possible... until she discovers Video Games a few minutes into the first episode/sometime later in the manga. Next time we see her, she has turned into a lazy, rude, slovenly burnout who even calls herself a fallen angel (or, a "faillen angel" because she was tempted by earthly delights, but not cast down to hell) and openly disregards her former values.
• Interspecies Reviewers has Crim, an angel who's stuck on Earth due to a damaged halo. Subverted in that he didn't actively rebel and is only fallen by accident (though he soon discovers the perks of no longer being Invisible to Normals). Later on we meet other angels who want to damage their halos and experience the pleasures of the flesh.
• In Love Live! Sunshine!!, Yoshiko Tsushima's alter ego is the self-proclaimed fallen angel "Yohane", who was cursed and banished from Heaven by God. Unfortunately for her, the series is a mundane Idol Genre show, and she really just has a very bad case of Chuunibyou.
• Mon Colle Knights: Reda and Zaha/Gabriolis. The plot always turns serious when they show up.
• Shirogane Karen from My Monster Secret claims to be one, having lost her Holy Halo several years prior. She tries to be evil, but fails hilariously as she's a really nice girl who wants to help everyone.
  • For that matter, her halo isn't completely lost: Principal Akane is using it as a lightbulb — in the student council room where Karen works every day.
• The titular Panty and Stocking of Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt are literally this, but can return to Heaven if they gather enough coins from killing demons. Stocking gets to go back to heaven in the penultimate episode, but returns in the last to help Panty defeat Corset; the final scene states she's not actually an angel but a demon. Then it's was revealed in the sequel that it was Corset trying to convince Stocking that she was a demon.
  • Appropriately, the end credits song for the show is called "Fallen Angel" and is about said angel longing for her home in heaven.
• Power of Hope ~PreCure Full Bloom~: The Big Bad of the anime, Bell, resembles an angel with black wings and curved horns. She was once the town's Guardian Angel, but after witnessing anthropogenic climate change render it uninhabitable, she became a violent misanthrope and created Shadows to punish humans for their greed. When her ultimate Shadow turns on her and tries to destroy buildings indiscriminately, Bell realizes the error of her ways and her wings turn a more traditionally angelic white.
• Lucifer and Gabriel of Saint Beast are fallen angels. While kind of evil, it's hard to say they were wrong to fall given who is in charge. Judas and Luca, though armed with nobler intentions, end up falling too.
• Sand Land: Muniel is an unorthodox example. A low-ranking angel, his dissatisfaction with his position and his Fantastic Racism towards demons led him to go down from Heaven on his own volition in order to kill Lucifer himself. It resulted Muniel being sent flying all the way to Forest Land with his wings being destroyed on impact. Unable to return to Heaven, he instead conspired to take over Forest Land in order to gain the power he needed to enact his genocidal crusade against demonkind. In the end, after his defeat Muniel is recalled to Heaven by the archangel to face judgement for his actions, with him being reassigned to his lowly position for an even longer period than before he left as a form of Cruel Mercy.
• Seven Mortal Sins starts with Lucifer being expelled from heaven for the sin of Pride (we eventually learn she refused a command to start The End of the World as We Know It). She challenges the seven demons of the Mortal Sins to become their new leader over the course of the series, sprouting demonic horns when the demons tear off her wings.

• The Fallen Angel captures the aftermath of Lucifer being stripped of his divinity by God and expulsed from Heaven. His wings are a gradient of white to black, signifying his turning into a fallen angel and the king of demons.

• 2000 AD:
  • The titular beings of Necrophim are former angels cast down into Hell. To make matters worse, Hell was already inhabited by demons, who are not happy about having to share their dimension with Heaven's outcasts.
  • Caballistics, Inc.: Ethan Kostabi, The Chessmaster of the series, is in fact an angel who fell down to Earth several thousand years ago and has since been living under different human identities.
• Crimson had Zophiel, who fell from grace after murdering an human (even though her victim had it coming), being deprived of her powers and immortality to atone for her deed. She is allowed to return to Heaven after pulling an Heroic Sacrifice by Taking the Bullet for someone else.
• The DCU:
  • Zauriel from Justice League of America is sort of a fallen angel. He lives on earth and has a mortal body, but left of his own volition and is decidedly not a villain. His original archenemy was the angel Asmodel, who after his plan to emulate Lucifer failed became a more conventional fallen angel, imprisoned in Hell. In one arc when the US military turned against superheroes soldiers were convinced to shoot at him when their commander claimed he was a fallen angel. Then they shot at Superman, and gave up.
  • Similarly, The Spectre is actually the fallen angel Aztar, who participated in Lucifer's rebellion and then repented. God realized that Aztar needed rehabilitating before he could be allowed to get rid of that "fallen" status. As a result, he's spent the entire time since the Fall acting as an agent of God's Vengeance, punishing those who escape justice at human hands, bound to a human soul that acts as a sort of combined moral compass and parole officer. He'll be allowed back into heaven when he's punished every unpunished-by-man sinner on Earth.
  • The Phantom Stranger is another, in one of his Multiple-Choice Past histories. Having sided with neither Heaven nor Hell, he was discarded by both after the great war.
  • First appearing the Legends mini-series, Brimstone is an artifical construct but believes himself to be the fallen angel of an avenging god, sent to rid the Earth of its false gods and graven idols.
• Dylan Dog once showed us Dust, an angel kicked out of heaven for unspecified reasons and sentenced to wander the world and commit evil and be hated for it, with the added bonus that, as an angel, he's unable to understand evil. He's since taken to committing evil on serial killers and monsters, thus ultimately doing good by making them suffer with imprisonment.
• Liandra, the protagonist of the comic book Fallen Angel is, as one would expect from the title, one of these. A former guardian angel, she was banished when went against God's rules of non-interference and slew the killer of one of her charges.
• In Preacher, being cast down is a punishment for treasonous acts in Heaven. The father of Genesis is cast down at the very start of the series, nearly taking out US Air Force jets (and is subsequently captured by the Grail). Later, two minor-character angels are dropped; they're later seen having opened a hotel in Vegas and not being very depressed about their fallen status.
• Transformers: The War Within: The Fallen, the Big Bad of War Within - The Dark Ages, is actually one of the original Transformers, charged with guarding Entropy and observing the end of the Universe. Along the line, he decided to ally with Unicron to achieve his apocalyptic goal, losing his true name when his betrayal was discovered. Ironically it was Megatronus Prime. One would have to wonder at the thought process behind Optimus and Megatron's father effectively choosing to name one of his sons after their version of Lucifer, and not expect it to bite him in the backside. However, there are some stories which say that Megatron actually chose the name himself.
• Vertigo Comics:
  • The Sandman (1989) features a Lucifer (referred to as Lucifer Morningstar as his full title) who wasn't so much "fallen" as he was "pushed". It is heavily implied, if not outright stated, that Lucifer's "fall" was a case of entrapment (in the legal sense) set up by God, because God needed to put one of his own in charge of Hell.
  • Later on, Lucifer, gives up being in charge of Hell, and it ultimately passes onto two other angels, by decree of God. When one of them hears this, he claims he will rebel, but then realizes he would then be going to hell anyway. Lucifer's story then leads into the events of the Lucifer comic, in which Lucifer makes his own Creation, and ultimately rejects even that, exiling himself from all reality to escape God's influence.
  • The First of the Fallen in Hellblazer is something of this sort: He was intended to be God's conscience (shoulder angel, if you will), and was cast from heaven when he came to believe God was insane and that his existence was meaningless. According to a somewhat convoluted Vertigo Canon — trying to keep continuity with The Sandman (1989) — he was the first being God cast from His sight, long before Lucifer's rebellion, but is much less powerful than Lucifer and thus not the lord of Hell until Lucifer quits. The First of the Fallen acts much more like a 'stereotypical' devil, with soul-bargains and so on, and antagonizes John Constantine on a regular basis. This leads to almost equal amounts of Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? from Constantine's side.

Crossovers

• Becoming more than what I am. (Life is Strange/Lucifer (2016)): Since travel between worlds has to be sanctioned to only a few angels after Lucifer's failed rebellion, Max's decision to go to Earth is a permanent one, her lilac wings dyed black in the process.
• Goddess Reborn Chronicle: Lucifer, who was once not the most favored angel but a part of God, the part that was the hope inherent in believing in God but grew so disgusted by his own laws that he began wishing for freedom, earning his fall and cementing him as the patron of the path of freedom and competition.
• Love's Sacrifices: While the Mesopotamian deities wouldn't be classified as angels, Inanna and Lamashtu technically serve as this to Hastur's Satanic Archetype. In mythology, both Inanna and Lamashtu are children of Anu, and are credited as the Queen of Heaven and Daughter of Heaven respectively. In Inanna's case, Hastur wooed and manipulated her into falling in love with her, invoking the images of Eve in Eden. Lamashtu on the other hand, willingly bent the knee to Hastur as an act of rebellion against her divine family.
• One helluva time with Iruma kun: Becoming increasingly disgusted by Heaven's overwhelming hypocrisy, Emily sneaks to Earth and kills Teien and Haichi so she can be banished to Hell and be with Iruma. This also serves as Laser-Guided Karma for Sera because it was her actions (and inactions) that made Emily willingly fall from Heaven and lose any trust in her sister.
• Undocumented Features: One entry in Derek Bacon's notoriously long series of advice and self-help books for people in specific and unusual situations is So You Fell From A Great Height: A Celestial Outcast's Survival Guide to the Mortal Planet.

Danganronpa:

• In Metamatronic's Monster AU, Izuru Kamukura is depicted as a fallen angel who possessed Hajime Hinata as a result of an experiment gone wrong by Hope's Peak Academy.

Dragon Ball

• Breaking God's Law: Vegeta and several other angels decide to rebel against Heaven and go to Earth for various purposes. Vegeta's sole purpose is to meet Goku and hopefully get Goku to fall in love with him. It's mentioned that many of the other angels had darker intentions.

Dungeons & Dragons

• Laserllama: The celestial-themed Vessel subclass is the Fallen, representing celestials that for some reason have been cast out from the upper planes and sealed within someone. Whether they seek to atone for their misdeeds, or plan acts of revenge against the heavens depends on the celestial in question.
• Vow of Nudity: In the Curse of Nudity spinoff, the angel Hiyeth was expelled from the Celestial Realm for unspecified reasons. When he lands in the Material Realm, he inadvertantly saves Spectra from a pack of jackals, then grants her warlock powers. We later learn that Hiyeth is evil when he repeatedly uses Spectra as an Unwitting Pawn in schemes that leave several people dead and he wants the Genasi Empire to conquer and enslave the world.

Hellaverse

• Charlie's Angels (Kkat):
  • In "Songs", Sera is cast out for having committed the sin of sloth (her mismanagement of the Exterminations) and is sent to the Sloth Ring. One of the main arcs in Aftershocks involves her being declared co-ruler of Hell alongside Lucifer and her struggles in settling into her new reality.
  • Also in "Songs", Lute is left permanently in Hell for refusing to return to Heaven after her defeat in the previous chapter, also serving as an ironic fate for her part in casting Vaggie out on Adam's orders (Emily explains that only the Elders can kick angels out of Heaven, meaning that Adam ordering it was unconstitutional). She's formally declared a fallen angel soon after when the Elders learn of her plan to start a new Extermination.
• Emily Fallen Angel AU (Doraiwa_san): Emily has been cast into Hell, implicitly because Heaven's higher-ups above her didn't like her continuing to support the Hazbin Hotel's mission and oppose the status quo. The appearances of both Emily's humanoid form and her unearthly true form that were seen in the show have changed to look more infernal, reflecting her new residency in Hell, similarly to Lucifer. What we see of the actual fall makes clear that it was emotionally and physically traumatic for Emily — apparently, the angelic spears that appeared in "More Than Anything" when Lucifer was remembering his own exile into Hell were not just a metaphor. She relates to Vaggie and Lucifer because they know what she's going through, having been there themselves.
• Owl's Hell That Ends Well: Although many of today's Ars Goetia were born in Hell, the progenitor first-generation Ars Goetia —which Stolas and Marquis Phenex are among— are all fallen angels who were cast down to Hell, where their angelic grace melted away, as are the Seven Deadly Sins. They all slowly rose in power as Lucifer, his queen Lilith, and the other six Sins rebuilt Hell into the civilization it is today.
• Lies That Bind explains in detail exactly how Fallen Angels come to be: contrary to what many angels like Emily believe, Falling is not a punishment for disobedience akin to exile or execution; if it were, the Archangels would call it that. They're called Fallen because they literally fell, for lack of the ability to fly. An angel's powers, including their ability to fly, is powered by their faith in the purpose they were created to fulfill. If they ever lose faith in that purpose, they lose their ability to fly, and literally fall out of Heaven, eventually crashing into Hell because it's the only thing between them and the oblivion underneath it. When Emily falls, they're even shown to phase through the ground of Heaven as soon as their wings fail. Implicitly, the Archangels would welcome them back, but unless the Fallen regain the faith that lets them fly, they physically can't stay in Heaven, and even the Archangels don't have the power to keep them there.
• Loona Goetia: Marchosias is one per demonic lore, having joined Lucifer and his army in his attempt to overthrow Heaven. After her side lost, Marchosias was cursed and damned to Hell alongside the other Lucifer loyalists, and with few other options, joined the Ars Goetia as a Marchioness Demon.
• A Monster and a Saint: ZigZagged; Sera initially suffers what amounts to a nervous breakdown upon Sir Pentious' ascension and portals herself to Hell; aimlessly wandering Pentagram City heavily cloaked while providing healing and succor to any that need it ^note (she frequently points Sinners towards the Hazbin Hotel, but never dares willingly approach). She had more or less recovered by the time she was tracked down and informed she had been formally banished in absentia, but she regarded it as a formality ^note (as she had already sworn never to return to Heaven) if one that speaks well of Heaven's new leadership ^note (willingness to accept her back would have been a sign of how much corruption had spread beyond her).
• Precious Like Starlight: Lute was exiled from Heaven for trying to kill Vaggie for showing mercy to a demon child during the latest Extermination Day. Vaggie fought back, took off Lute's arm and broke one of her wings, and Adam removed her halo before leaving her for dead, seeing her as useless to him. She would have bled out and died had Charlie not find her.
• Pride, Envy, Wrath: Once Sera learns bout Lute's attack on the Hotel, she banishes her from Heaven. It's finalized when Emily removes Lute's halo, in the process taking away her angelic invulnerability and severing her connection to Heaven. Becoming a proper fallen angel appears to be a process rather than something that happens immediately, as Lute notes that Vaggie has claws and slightly sharper teeth, but isn't fully fallen yet. Carmilla Carmine also hints that there are more fallen angels in Hell than just Lucifer, Vaggie, and Lute.
• Uncle Adam incorporates the Watchers into the setting. Originally an order of seven angels handpicked by Adam and Heaven to guide early humanity, they soon grew ambitious and desired to rule over humanity instead, even siring multiple angelic Half-Human Hybrids (i.e. Nephilim) with various unnamed humans (with the obvious implication that many of them were non-consensual). Then, they planned on leading a rebellion against Heaven, but Abaddon betrayed them, causing his former comrades to be cast down to Hell. In the present time, they stay hidden in the shadows to slowly regain their power to topple Heaven.

Good Omens

• The Sacred and the Profane: Aziraphale is the one who fell rather than Crowley. As such, Aziraphale is now Zirah, and Crowley is now Caphriel. Zirah is still the jovial bookkeeper who is friends (read: lovers) with Caphriel and decides to avert Armageddon. He's also exceedingly ruthless in this goal ( killing the spare baby for starters) and is utterly nightmarish when doing evil, having completely lost his sanity from the Fall. In fact, he's stationed on Earth in this universe because even Hell was scared of him. When Hastur and Ligur try to threaten him, he casually terrifies them into fleeing, and the moment they stop, even for a split second, he catches up and does ''something'' to them.

Jimmy Two-Shoes

• Jimmy Two-Shoes the Movie: Misery Loves Company: Jimmy becomes one at the end voluntarily. After being invited to live in Joyville as an angel, he ultimately decides that he prefers living in Miseryville with his friends and thus chooses to cast himself out of Joyville.

My Little Pony:

• Pony POV Series:
  • Celestia and Luna's brother Morning Star — originally created to be the Anthropomorphic Personification of Perfection and Beauty, he instead came to represent Temptation and Evil, and after trying to overthrow the Elders, he was sealed away. He was released by the Draconequi to fight on their side during their war with the Alicorns (during which he played Evil Mentor to Discord); while his fate is never shown, Word of God is that he was killed during the war (though given the nature of the Alicorns, how "dead" he is is debatable) or imprisoned in Hell as part of the peace treaty. To futher this, it's revealed Fallen Alicorns are called Devils.
  • Discord's species, the Draconequi, are benevolent and work alongside the Alicorns, even though they're Good Is Not Nice. Discord fell, ate his own brother, and became an Evil Overlord. To drive the point home, it's revealed that Fallen Draconequi like Discord are known as Demons.
  • Eclipse's Nightmare Manacle, after she was redeemed, ultimately becomes one by using her chance to ascend to Alicorndom to instead escape to another universe. While not exactly evil, she still did something she knew was a very bad idea and would result in her fall.
• How I Lost My Mother: Cozy Glow, the daughter of Princess Celestia who was prophesied to cause the downfall of Equestria because of her Magic. Celestia seals away Cozy's Magic, along with erasing all memory and evidence of her connection with Celestia from the greater public on top of banishing her from Canterlot. Turns out that it was a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy and Cozy Glow suffered from being alone for so many years that she eventually became the very monster that Celestia was warned she might become.

Nasuverse

• Something Lost Something Found: Apep managed to win over Gilles de Rais to her cause by posing as a renegade angel kicked out of Heaven and horrifically mutated by God for the crime of speaking out against his cruel treatment of Jeanne d'Arc. Unlike Morgan, he fell for it hook line and sinker.

Pokémon

• Pokémon Uranium: While not a literal example, the second stage of the Devimp line is named Fallengel in reference to this trope.

Supernatural

• In the Beginning: The archangel Lucifer and other angels who follow his objectives are cast out by God and take up residence in Hell. Incensed by God declaring humans are his favourite creations, Lucifer uses his authority in Heaven to preach rebellious and anti-human sermons to assemblies of other angels, and the assemblies' attendances get smaller until only the most swayed angels remain. When God directly tells Lucifer to cease his insubordination and disband his followers, Lucifer refuses, leading God to tell Lucifer to take his followers and leave Heaven within a day under pain of death. Lucifer afterwards leads his followers to possess vessels on Earth so they can spread corruption among living humans, and he leads them into an invasion of Hell, converting the monotonous holding cell for unworthy souls into a place of excruciating torture where dead humans are agonised and mutilated to transform into demons. Standard-level angels as a rule become less powerful after being cut off from Heaven because they’re designed to draw their power from Heaven itself through a destructible tether, and their power gradually fades away without it.

Touhou Project

• Imperfect Metamorphosis: Shinki and Sariel, rulers of their respective underworlds. Interestingly, Shinki's human appearance is a personal choice, one which Sariel did not share, leaving it as a gender-less energy being. Also, and more plot relevant, is their sibling Azrael, of whom EX!Rumia is an avatar of.

• Alias Nick Beal: Nick Beal, who is actually Satan, alludes to this when he tells Foster that anyone can be tempted and fall.
  Nick: I learned that when I fell. But that was a long time ago.
• In Bedazzled (1967), the Devil (or Lucifer as he was known then) explains he was once God's favorite angel and was booted out of Heaven when he wanted some of the same adoration God received. The two since had a running wager on who could claim ten billion souls first; if Lucifer won he could reclaim his old place. Lucifer does get the ten billion souls first, but God denies him the win due to a technicality.
• There's a fallen angel in City of Angels. He wasn't evil; he just wanted to experience human life. Then the protagonist falls... in love. And takes the plunge.
• The Skeksis and Mystics from The Dark Crystal are a very unusual example in that they're the split halves of angelic beings, the urSkeks. A group of urSkeks got kicked of their homeworld due to architectural plans and got stuck on Thra; longing to get back home, their ritual to purify themselves backfired and they got divided into dark and light halves. Both halves lost their divine luminescence and are prone to dying of old age, particularly the Skeksis who have their bodies severely warped and deformed.
• The Devil's Tomb is about a military squad sent to extract a scientist from an underground laboratory that's housing a seraph. Here the seraph is depicted as a Humanoid Abomination that causes hallucinations and turns people into unkillable extensions of its Hive Mind, and it's pissed off at God for not appreciating it.
• Dogma is about two fallen angels, Bartleby and Loki attempting to return to heaven. A deleted scene implies that much of the evil and corruption seen in the fallen angels who became demons stemmed not from inherent evil but that which was brought to Hell by damned humans. Twisted and corrupted by the self-imposed torture of the damned, the fallen angels became what humans expected them to be.
• Fallen has this as the source of its title, with a fallen angel/demon serial killer.
• The Australian film Gabriel (2007) follows the angel Gabriel going into purgatory to find out what's happened to his fellow angels. The villain Sammael is actually revealed to be the angel Michael, who killed the original Sammael and took over as him.
• He Never Died revolves around a fallen angel who spends his life playing bingo and trying not to eat people.
• Marvel Cinematic Universe: Loki becomes one in Thor when Odin expresses disappointment at his actions, and a heartbroken Loki releases his grip on Gungnir — he's a minor god who has fallen from grace and from the heavens (Asgard), and plunged into the abyss. His actor directly compared his experience in the year that follows to going through "the Seventh Circle of Hell." He returns in The Avengers to mess with the human race who are under protection of Odin and his son Thor. Humans are not the ones to judge him for his sins though — in Thor: The Dark World he is brought before Odin, and found guilty.
• The title characters in Time Bandits are low-ranking angels who went rogue in search of loot across space and time. Ironically, the villain (played by David Warner) is a Satanic Archetype, but he's not explicitly an example because the movie never specifies that he used to be an angel.
• In Wings of Desire, angels Damiel and Cassiel are tired of being angels rather than human and just listening to the thoughts of humans without being part of what they see ad when Damiel falls for a French trapezist he decide it's time to fall and live as a human.

• Charmed (1998):
  • Guardian Angels are whitelighters there to guide good witches and other future whitelighters, and they are ruled by the Elders. While Good Is Not Nice, they are ultimately good. Season 6 introduces an Elder called Gideon, who was The Mentor to Leo, but becomes the season's antagonist once he learns that baby Wyatt is destined to become a tyrant when he grows old enough. While a Well-Intentioned Extremist, he kills two innocent people who try to stop him from essentially murdering a baby.
  • Given that Wyatt is half-whitelighter, thanks to Leo's genes, his evil future self would be an example too. He also stands out in that he retains his whitelighter powers even when evil. But since the past is changed, he never grows up to be this, and instead becomes a force of good.
  • And since Paige is half-whitelighter, any time she turns evil, she is technically this. In fact, in her first episode, the Source of All Evil tries to get her to join evil by convincing her that she should kill a man she believes is abusing his son. She nearly does, but the others are able to save her.
• Doctor Who: In "Voyage of the Damned", the starship Titanic contains robotic Hosts in the form of golden angels in white robes who are supposed to help passengers. When they are activated by the villain to kill the survivors onboard the ship, they remove their haloes to use as weapons, with the posts that remain looking like devil horns.
• Crowley and his fellow demons in Good Omens (2019), though Crowley says he didn't fall, he "sauntered vaguely downwards". Crowley brings up two other exonerating points for himself: one, back then (before the Creation of Earth), all that it took to "fall" was simply to ask questions, and two, he hung out with the wrong people.
• Hannibal: Dr. Hannibal Lecter isn't a literal example (probably), but the concept of the Fallen Angel is the primary influence on how the show's version of this character is presented.
  Bryan Fuller: Mads Mikkelsen, the actor who plays Dr. Lecter, talked about the character not so much as 'Hannibal Lecter the cannibal psychiatrist', but as Satan – this fallen angel who's enamoured with mankind and had an affinity for who we are as people, but was definitely not among us – he was other. I thought that was a really cool, interesting approach, because I love science fiction and horror and – not that we'd ever do anything deliberately to suggest this – but having it subtextually play as him being Lucifer felt like a really interesting kink to the series. It was slightly different than anything that's been done before and it also gives it a slightly more epic quality if you watch the show through the prism of, 'This is Satan at work, tempting someone with the apple of their psyche'.
• The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: Much like the Balrog, Sauron is a Maia who was corrupted by Morgoth. Unlike the Balrog, he has apparently maintained a human size.
• Lucifer (2016):
  • The titular character, even lampshading this to all of LA driving a vintage car with number plate FALL1N1 (i.e. Fallen One). When he decided to move to Earth and open a nightclub he cut his wings off so he couldn't return to Hell and actually destroys them in the first season after one of his brother Amenadiel's attempts to manipulate him into returning. Though they mysteriously return in the 2nd season finale.
  • Amenadiel himself starts falling in Season 2 as a result of the many sins he committed attempting to bring Lucifer back to Hell, his wings actually rotting off and his other powers fading. Though he regains the wings in the penultimate episode of Season 3 to bring Charlotte to Heaven.
• The Monsters (1988) episode "Hostile Takeover" featured a Fallen Angel who called himself "Obeah" and looked more like a conventional demon than an angel after falling into Hell.
  Obeah (disguised as the janitor): I had a pretty bad fall. Maybe you've read about it... in The Bible? That's what they call it. A Fall. I'd say I was pushed!
• In Penny Dreadful, both Satan and Dracula are fallen angels, cast out of Heaven after rebelling as a team. As punishment, the former was consigned to a disembodied spirit form in Hell and the latter, to a feral vampiric one on Earth. Although originally this made Satan the more powerful of the two, declining mortal fear of the Devil in post-medieval times has weakened Satan, while Dracula's millennia of worldly experience have made him stronger. By the show's Victorian-era setting, the unnatural abilities they can bring to bear in the mortal world are evenly matched.
• In Supernatural, fallen angels are angels who have been cut off from Heaven; the resulting affect on angels varies depending on how high said angels are on the celestial hierarchy. Their reason may range from simple AWOL to full-on rebellion, but all of them inevitably land themselves a spot on Heaven's Most Wanted List, so each individual fallen angel come up with ways to evade the armies of Heaven.
  • For the average angelic foot-soldiers, being cut off from Heaven will restrict some of their abilities (Healing Hands, Resurrection etc.) and leave them with a limited amount of angelic energy. Deplete said energy will effectively turn them human.
    • Anna, knowing this, cuts her angelic energy—Grace—out when she left Heaven. Reborn as an almost-human, it is nearly impossible for the Heavenly Host to find her among the billions of people on Earth.
    • Castiel is probably the more traditional fallen angel, slowly losing his powers throughout season 5.
    • Balthazar's defection might eventually run into this problem as well, so he keeps himself charged with human souls.
  • For seraphs, even after severing ties with Heaven, they still keeps all of their abilities. And though they can be exhaust when over-using their power, their angelic energy can be self-replenished with rest.
    • Castiel in late-season 7 and season 8 is a fallen seraph. He is clearly weaken by his time in Purgatory probably due to over-taxing himself in Monster Land, but soon self-recharged after his release.
  • For archangels, being cut off will have absolutely no effect on them. They will keep all their abilities and complete with an unlimited self-sustained power source to boot. This because they predate both Heaven and the rest of the cosmos.
    • Lucifer, of course, is a fallen archangel. The demons of this setting are all derived from human souls; if Lucifer took any other angels with him when he left, they go unmentioned and are apparently dead now. If any demons are former angels, they are most likely all drained of their angelic powers long ago, became human, then damned in Hell due to not being high enough on the angelic food chain.
    • Gabriel. The reason he can skip out of Heaven and keep all his abilities is because he is an archangel.
  • At the end of season 8, Castiel loses his grace and all of the angels fall. The others have only lost their wings, so they retained some of their power, but Castiel is pretty much a human. Obviously, this did not apply to Lucifer and Michael since they were trapped in the Cage, and when they were both released years later they could still fly.
• Super Sentai:
  • Mahou Sentai Magiranger has Raigel / Meemy, a former "Heavenly Saint" who switched sides during the war with Infershia.
  • In Tensou Sentai Goseiger, Buredoran/Brajira turns out to be a former Gosei Angel who wants to reboot the world.
• Tidelands (Netflix): Grigori Stolin believes that sirens are this, and wants to contact them so he can speak with his dead daughter again, saying they're the closest he'll get to God.

• Within Temptation: The song "Angels" seems to be about this and has the lines, "Fallen angel/ tell me why/ what is the reason/ the thorn in your eye"
  • Headbutt from the Son of God, obviously.
• "Fallen Angels" by Black Veil Brides is about this (duh), but uses the fallen angels less as an evil figure and more as a symbol for misfits and outcasts.
• Fallen Angel by the Blue Öyster Cult on the LP Cultösaurus Erectus:
  Gonna rise up from Hell! I am a fallen angel!
• Billie Eilish's video for "all the good girls go to hell" starts off with her growing feathery wings (a scene that segues from her earlier video, "bury a friend"), before falling all the way down from the heavens into a tar pit. In addition, after some time her tar-coated wings catch fire and turn into devil wings.
• Nautilus Pompilius: A fallen angel is described in the song "Like a fallen angel", sympathetic.
• The song 'Fallen Angel' by Norwegian singer-songwriter TIX, which was also Norway's entry for the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest. It's about unrequited love for a woman he considers an angel, while he himself is a fallen angel who could 'never ever reach up to heaven'.

• Older Than Feudalism: Abrahamic religions, especially but not limited to Judaism and Christianity, often feature evil angels as either villains or the villain himself, Satan.
  • Fallen angels apparently debut in the Book of Enoch, a Second Temple religious text that was still accepted and popular as late as Jesus' time, as well as its derivates. In this tradition, probably inspired by the Mesopotamian story of the Apkallu, a cadre of angels named Watchers are tempted by the beauty of human women and descend to Earth to copulate with them, becoming corrupted and engendering monsters (the Nephilim) which God has to clean up with the Deluge.
  • The idea of Satan himself as a fallen angel, rather than a regular angel entasked with seducing sinners, is popularized by Jesus himself, who proclaims to have seen him literally fall "like lightning from heaven" (Luke 10:18) and later assures that eternal fire is ready for him and his rebel angels (Matthew 25:41). This story appears further detailed in the Second Book of Enoch, a work of unidentified dating that either influenced Jesus or was influenced by him, which casts "Satanail" as an arrogant rebel and retcons the fall of Adam and Eve as one of his evil manipulations.
  • Posterior texts give the role of Satan to Samael, also typically listed as a seducer of sinners in God's service, who is now portrayed as having Gone Horribly Right in his functions due to his envy towards Adam and Eve. After Samael engineers their fall by planting the tree (and sometimes after fathering Cain), God curses him and kicks him out. The influence of this tradition made Samael the fallen angel by default in Kabbalah, which even paired him up with Lilith as an Unholy Matrimony.
  • Some Gnostic authors, especially from the Simonian school, state that the entire world and the human bodies were created by fallen angels. Even after Gnosticism phased out the term angel in favor of Archon, the idea of one or more divine entities who fell from grace remained the basis of many-if-not-most Gnostic branches. The Cathars, for instance, postulated that we are fallen angels, seduced by an evil god into inhabiting fleshly bodies.
  • In Islam, there is much debate among scholars on whether Iblis (their name for Satan) and his followers are fallen angels or evil jinn. Doesn't help that he has been described as both an angel AND a jinn in The Qur'an. Many people believe in the latter background of Iblis being a jinn thinking angels are infallible, therefore they have no free will and cannot rebel. (Though doctrine never flat-out states if they have free will or not either)
  • In the European Middle Ages, a common belief was that The Fair Folk are fallen angels. One version of the story states that when the rebel angels were thrown out of Heaven, those that landed in Hell became demons and those who landed on Earth became the Fair Ones. Another versions describes them as having been those angels who remained neutral during the War in Heaven, resulting in them being welcome in neither Heaven (because they'd been no more loyal than the active rebels) nor Hell (because they hadn't helped the rebels fight), forcing them to stay on Earth.

• In the Mexican Universal Wrestling Association (UWA), Los Misionares de la Muerte were a trio of fallen angels sent to Earth to eliminate El Santo.
• When she first started in the wrestling business in Florida in the early 1980's, Nancy Sullivan Benoit (aka Woman) was Fallen Angel, a member of Kevin Sullivan's devil worshiping cult.
• Lucy Furr's gimmick was getting kicked out of "The Erotic Heavens" and deciding to prey on Earth's hoes (and steal the souls of wrestlers). Opposed by sweet Heaven Sent and Jerkass Angel Williams from "The Canadian Heavens". Ironically, Lucy turned face after being sent to "The Eight Circle Of Hell".

• In the first season of Old Harry's Game Satan was prone to reflecting wistfully on his time as an angel, much to the irritation of his lieutenant, Gary.
  Satan: Do you remember my wings, Gary?
  Gary: Not really, no.

• In Cross Road, Amduscias says that he is one. He says that devils were once angels, beloved by God, but they were thrown out of Heaven for a minor offense. They envy humans, who have God's love despite their flaws, but at the same time, devils want to protect humans — to show God that they can do a better job at it than he can. And Amduscias says all of this in what might be his BSoD Song, denying his own grief at the impending death of his contracted human, Niccolo Paganini.

• Makuta Teridax of BIONICLE was first presented as an equal evil brother of Mata Nui, striking him down to take over the world. Later the Makuta were revealed to be a brotherhood of demigod-like peacekeepers and bio-engineers created by Mata Nui to watch over the world and populate it with animals, but because of their fearsome shadow powers and unknowable dealings, the universe didn't admire them like the publicly celebrated Toa heroes, which made them jealous. Teridax figured out a way to put Mata Nui into a coma, forcing much of his Brotherhood to join him and killing those that didn't, thinking he would be a much better ruler than Mata Nui, who didn't pay much attention to his people. Former Makuta leader Miserix managed to survive and stayed on the side of good despite being just as ruthless and malicious as Teridax, as he knew it was better not to rebel, which he was proven right about in the long run.

• Anghel in Hatoful Boyfriend insists he is the reincarnation of one and is summoned by the protagonist wishing for the 'Mad Love of a fallen angel'. However, he is considered the 'class eccentric' and has a normal name as well, which he refuses to answer to—it seems to cause him pain. It turns out that he emits hallucinogenic pheromones which he lacks immunity to himself, making him truly believe he's a fallen angel.
• Obey Me! – One Master to Rule Them All! has the Player Character move into a dorm with seven demon brothers, all of whom were angels who fell after joining the rebellion of Lucifer, the eldest brother.
• Noel in "Repurpose" is a Fallen Powers Angel, but unlike other examples, is a staunch protector of humanity in Limbo, and pushes them to get to Paradise.
• In Tears to Tiara there's a council of twelve angels and one 'failure' who got cast out of the heavens. However, the angels are kind of dicks apart from one, the one who raised Arawn and whose memory inspired him to rebel. The fallen angel can't really be considered bad but he's frequently considered very dark. He actually still does possess holy powers, but he can't channel them properly without hurting himself though if he was at full strength this might not have been the case.

• ANJAIL!: Mikhail is an archangel punished with imprisonment, as well as his wings, memories, and the bottom half of his face being taken away. Thanks to that, he doesn't even know what he did wrong.

• The Angel with Black Wings: Bis Sis committed a sin that turned her wings black and banned her from the heaven as a result.
• Beyond the End: The story is about End, a fallen angel that was cast down from Heaven without explanation and is trying to get back to Heaven to learn what he did wrong. Along the way he meets a fellow fallen angel, Cain, who fell after killing an entire squad of angels and Lucifer himself.
• Dark Carnival: It's not terribly relevant to the comic's main story (although it will probably come up in other comics) but this is apparently what caused the main conflict. The two primary deities of the setting made a deity embodying fire that went through most of the beats of this trope and became the Greater-Scope Villain.
• Dead Gods: As per the Book of Enoch, the two hundred angels assigned to watch over man became tempted by sin and, persuaded by their leader Semyaza, Fell and took physical forms so that they could take mortal women as lovers. These Watchers, despite being prodigious shapeshifters whose true nature isn’t visible to mortals, usually take the shape of tall, slender, pale humanoids with slit, serpentine eyes and bright-red lip. They also have some vampiric predispositions, such as drinking human blood and shunning the light of day, though they do not require either to survive.
• Demonseed Redux!: The backstory notes that the first demons were angels who wanted to breed with humans by force. The Big Bad Galadriel is literally one of The Fallen, thought it's not explained why full demons answer to him.
• Homestuck: Lord English, the main villain, is a Cherub, a being that would normally play an important role in stabilizing universes either protectively or destructively and in guiding or driving them towards completing the cycle of Sburb. However, he's become monstrous, twisted, evil and indiscriminately destructive, and is often referred to as a demon.
• Jack has Lucifer of course, as well as some others such as "Mr. Aecas" who works with Vanity to steal mortals and harvest their energy in an attempt to make her beautiful again. Skye Blue Deer is one who asked God for forgiveness and was put in charge of Purgatory as a means of earning his way back to Heaven.
• Petal Knights in Kill Six Billion Demons have given up following the Law and live as violent hedonists. Though it hasn't been explored, there's no way they can be in the good graces of the Council of Angels. (The Holy Thorn Knights, on the other hand, are just as nasty, but since it's Knight Templar kind of nastiness, and the mainstream angels are not actually good, they retain their position in the official hierarchy.)
• Misfile: Technically Rumisiel is a fallen angel, or at least a semi-fallen one since he has been banished from heaven on a temporary, with a distinct prospect of it becoming permanent, basis. He's rather eager to clock up some karma points to get back in though.
• Oriel in Nixvir turns out to be one. The reason she was expelled from the company of the rest of the angels is because she was selfish and materialistic. Unlike Lucifer, though, she recognises where she went wrong and wishes to atone for what she did by being kind and compassionate to everyone.
• The Non-Adventures of Wonderella: Penumbra's biological father Penume is one of these. He got kicked out of heaven for teaching mankind how to read and write.
  Penumbra: I fail to see anything evil in teaching humans to write.
  Wonderella: Well, you don't read online comments. I kinda see the logic here.
• Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal pokes fun at this, claiming that Hell is actually a pretty nice place because angels, fallen or otherwise, aren't very good at torturing people.
• In Sluggy Freelance: "Meanwhile in the Dimension of Pain", fallen angels turn into demons. As in, angels who fall over. They apparently get a demonic appearance with no angelic traits. It can be used by angels to temporarily turn into demons for the purpose of fooling demons, but in the climax of the angelic invader story arc, that invading angel instantly succumbs to the dark side after falling, apparently because just Being Evil Feels Good even if you haven't done anything yet.

• First Stage Production:
  • Amae Ten from the JP branch was a far more benign example than most; she was a NEET who never left her room, so she was kicked out of Heaven until she completed her training to be a full-fledged angel.
  • Ashkariel from the EN branch, on the other hand, is a far more classic example, as he was cast down to Hell by the gods for trying to usurp them.
• Monster Girl Encyclopedia: This is what happens when angels get corrupted by succubi. At first it just twists their logic, thinking that sex is proper reward for good deed. They still think that they're doing holy work, rewarding good-doers with pleasure using their body. Eventually, however, they will realize their own desire and fully transform into dark angels.

• All Dogs Go to Heaven
  • Charlie technically spends all of the first movie as one, as he'd been let into Heaven and used his watch to return to life with the warning he'd never return, but he manages to earn his way back in.
  • Carface becomes this in two, having been let into Heaven via the same loophole as Charlie in the first movie but selling out to the demon Red. This becomes a plot point when Red needs an angel to find Gabriel's horn, as Carface no longer qualifies.
    Carface: But I'm an angel!
    Red: Not anymore! You work for me now!
  • Implied with Belladonna from The Series. She's Anabelle's (an angel) cousin and responds to Anabelle's pleads with Charlie to 'think of Heaven' with 'Heaven? Been there, done that', implying she was once an angel. Incidentally, most of her plans involve manipulating Charlie to become this trope.
• Angel Wars:
  • Unsurprisingly given the setting, these serve as antagonists. In particular, Morg is an angel who fell some time after Satan did.
  • Some fallen angels are more or less neutral in the heaven-versus-hell conflict, but they can be pretty pathetic, such as a Blind Seer who needed Michael's help to escape an island.
• Courtney is one from Dead End: Paranormal Park. She and the other fallen angels are didn't do anything bad—they just happened to have the bad luck of their halo breaking so they were sentenced to labor for all eternity, 'with a lunch break every 500 years'.
• Invoked for metaphorical purposes in Gargoyles. In medieval Scotland, Goliath's love went by the pet name he gave her- Angel of the Night, or just Angel for short. Fast forward a thousand years, and "Angel" has become the Big Bad, now calling herself Demona. Later, Goliath and Demona's daughter is introduced, and the fact that she's named Angela only reinforces the symbolism.
• Hazbin Hotel
  • The opening explains that Lucifer used to be an angel (more specifically, a seraphim) who was banished to hell as punishment for giving the fruit of knowledge (and free will with it) to Eve and thereby accidentally leading to the creation of hell, where he is now forced only to experience the worst of mankind for all eternity.
  • It is later revealed that Vaggie also used to be an exorcist angel who was crippled and cast out by Adam and Lute when she couldn't bring herself to exterminate a child.
• Princess Luna of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic was one of a pair of Physical Goddesses who ruled Equestria and were responsible for the rising and setting of the sun and moon one thousand years ago. When Luna perceived the fear and ingratitude with which her subjects looked upon the nights she worked so hard to create, her envy got the better of her and she refused her older sister's requests for her to lower the moon and end the night, having been twisted by dark magic into the vengeful "Nightmare Moon," forcing Princess Celestia to seal her away in the moon for the next thousand years. Mercifully (considering that eternal night would have meant the extinction of all life in Equestria), the actions of the main characters in the series premiere upon Nightmare Moon's return strip her of her dark powers and evil personality, and upon expressing her regret, Luna is promptly forgiven.