Talk:Mephistopheles

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Mephistopheles is also a character in the popular PC game: Diablo 2 and in the Expansion pack (Lord of Destruction).  He is portrayed as the brother of Diablo, and of Baal (who also make appearances in the game).  All three your hero must face and defeat in order to continue the main quest (of defeating Diablo).  His name was shortened to "Mephisto" in the actualy game.  Whether or not this has any relevance to your page is up for you to decide.  Either way, there are many references to religous mythology, in particular Christian mythology, found within the game.  While this could have been Blizzard (the producing company of the game) simply using the names of these demons and angels to better portray the good and evil elements of the game and the struggle between, I do still believe it to be a good "mention" (if you will).  
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-John Alexander
:The thing is the name Mephistopheles has been used countless times in popular culture. He's been in songs, metal bands, television shows, comic characters, videogame characters and so forth. Normally I'm against any sort of cultural references in articles, but at least with characters like Jason Voorhees or Freddy Krueger, if they appear its more of a direct reference to their character. With Mephistopheles, nine times out of ten, the connection is in name only. If there's a disambiguation page I would say you can add him there but I don't think its relevant to the main Mephistopheles article.--CyberGhostface 18:01, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  *more references* 

message: i just jumped over here from Faust and they are both covering a lot of similar ground. they need to be merged with a  template over here. JoeSmack Talk 21:46, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The article could be expanded, but considering how iconic the character of Mephistopheles is, I would strongly disagree with the idea of a merge. It shouldn't be too hard to find external information about the character.--CyberGhostface (talk) 22:51, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I also disagree. Merging information is for articles with different names that cover the same topic or subject. This doesn't qualify. Gamer Junkie T / C 03:40, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  merge with [[Faust]] 

message: I only have heard a vary vague description of the story of Faust and know only the most simple basics. In fact, I didn't realize that Mephistopheles was the name of the devil/demon in the story. The only character I knew that had the name was one of the Marvel character's, Ghost Rider, enemies. Since it is more or less an extension of the character from the Faust story, should that not be included here? I understand that there is a page entitled Mephisto, but since the characters are essentially the same (they both are demons/devils, they both have the same name, they both make shady deals to collect souls, etc) at least a description of the similarities/consistencies should be included maybe? I am not a wiki editor by any means, but I could even see some sort of merge possibly since the subject could easily be viewed as the same entity/character.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.207.153.165 (talk) 04:38, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: There are probably ten thousand characters based on Mephistopheles in the popular culture. If we were to list all of them, the page would get clogged to the brim. There's already an article at Mephisto (comics) that discusses your character.--CyberGhostface (talk) 13:32, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ghost Rider's Enemy 

message: Is he really classified as a Goetic demon? I don't believe he's mentioned in the Goetia, especially if he was intended to be fictional.--24.255.171.220 (talk) 21:35, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Goetic

message: Mephisto: "Ich bin der Geist der stets verneint" ... any poetic English translation for that?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.59.205.66 (talk) 16:19, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Famost quote of Ghoethe's Faust 

message: according to DUDEN Band 6, Aussprachewörterbuch; Mannheim [etc.] 1990; Mephistopheles has a long /o:/ in Standard German. 
Wathiik (talk) 15:06, 23 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Duden: long /o:/ 

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