Chris Devlin, you say?  Really.  Do you know Chris Devlin?  She is an angel.  On Monday, I blogged about angels, real angels, and I talked about Linda Rohrbough.  Who I am currently interviewing.  I could do a week of posts on Chris Devlin.  I would not be the writer I am today without her.  I wouldn’t be half the man I am today.  Not a quarter.  She is the literal wind beneath my wings. Yeah, I’m tearing up right now.  A little about Devlin.  She never sleeps.  She is kind to a fault.  She has lots of friends.  And she helps me.  Lord, does she help me.  Like today.  She is kicking off my Heavenly Friday blog post by blogging on angels.  One more thing about the Devil in Devlin.  She is kind of a media-T.V.-movie-Buffy-the-Vampire-Slayer-Battlestar-Galactica-all-things-Joss-Whedon junky.  And when I say junky, I mean hardcore.  And away we go.  Take it Devlin!

Devlin here. Aw, the things Aaron says. I’m getting all verklempt. Like, Buffy Season 3, prom episode verklempt. Quick, let’s talk about pop culture.

My friend Aaron has written an awesome book about the age-old war in heaven between angels and demons, The Never Prayer. Here are some more badass messengers of heaven and action heroes of hell. (I do more blogging about pop culture at chrisdevlinwrites.com.)

Hammiest Lucifer
Tie: Robert De Niro as Louis Cypher (geddit?) in Angel Heart and Al Pacino as the most demony ‘adversary’ of them all in The Devil’s Advocate.

Best Angel Name
Clarence Oddbody; It’s a Wonderful Life

Most Beautifully Filmed Angels
Wim Wender’s Wings of Desire

Hottest Angels
Cary Grant as Dudley; The Bishop’s Wife
Misha Collins as Castiel; Supernatural
Paul Bettany as Michael; Legion
David Boreanaz as Angel: Angel (Okay, he wasn’t really an angel, per se, though he was a demon. And he was certainly hot.)

Scariest Demon Ever
The one in Paranormal Activity
Respectable Second Place Scariest Demon Ever
Pazuzu; The Exorcist

Best Gabriel
Tie: Christopher Walken in The Prophecy and Tilda Swinton in Constantine
Walken is, of course, Walken and he does his thing with a wink and a vicious smile as he saunters through the mortal world, looking for an evil human soul. He even blows a trumpet as a glibly homicidal Gabriel. But Tilda Swinton holds her own as another fallen Gabriel in Constantine as she plays in some serious heavenly traffic. Bonus points for the androgynous-fabulous suits.

Most Intentionally Funny Demons
Evil Dead II

Most Unintentionally Funny Demon
Azazel; Fallen

Best Sid Vicious Leather-Cool Demon
Pinhead; Hellraiser

Hottest Homo-erotic Subtext
Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt; Interview With The Vampire

Demon We’d Most Like to Play Kitten Poker With
Clem: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Best Vision of Hell
The scorched-and-burned post-apocalyptic Mad Max movie on fire in Constantine.

Okay, who’d I miss? Who are your favorite demons, angels and those where you can’t tell the difference?