At 48 I've watched very, very many movies and television programs. Perhaps because I am male and wired for these things most of them have included varying levels of suspense, danger, action, and yes, murder/killing. I probably do not want to know how deeply these programs have informed my own world view and proclivities for lust, anger, rage, or revenge.
Many have featured usually a villain, but sometimes a "hero" who, when faced with their unavoidable death, have declared with inspiring heat some variation of " If I'm going, then I'm taking as many with me before I go!". This, as far as I can tell, is a dramatization of the old saying "Misery loves company".
"And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as God, knowing good and evil."
The Satan, the Accuser, the Adversary, the Devil...appears from scripture to have been the first of God's creation to desire self over God, and to have rebelled against Him in his disobedience.
In the perfect beauty of the Garden, understanding fully choice and consequence, he possesses all he needs to lead God's highest creation, who also has free will, formed in some regard in God's own image, into the depths of his own misery.
No wonder the most excoriating judgements in the New Testament are reserved for those who knowingly set before others the traps they themselves have fallen into.
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