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Recent Examples of BeelzebubZoë survived two blasts and one mano a mano confrontation with Beelzebub!—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
10 Dec. 2025 Fraser was bedeviled by Elizabeth Hurley’s Beelzebub in Bedazzled (2000), earned career-best reviews for the Vietnam drama The Quiet American (2002), and landed a role in the Best Picture-winning Crash (2004).—
Andrew Walsh,
Entertainment Weekly,
9 Nov. 2025 Schmidt is said to be possessed by four entities that announce themselves as Beelzebub, betraying disciple Judas, Schmidt's abusive father Jacob and Mina (Jacob's lover and Schmidt's aunt).—
Bryan Alexander,
USA Today,
8 June 2025 The Zeros are sworn to Evil and to its incarnate commander, Beelzebub (Fabrice Luchini), who barks his orders from a Versailles-like castle in the sky above the village.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
11 Mar. 2025
Indeed, Aston Villa, who have frequently danced with the regulatory devil, have shuttered their North Stand for redevelopment and expansion this season, taking a hit to income now in exchange for bigger returns in the future.
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Chris Weatherspoon,
New York Times,
2 Aug. 2026
When Bob calls him a devil for shooting his own blood, Max doesn't flinch.