Metatron (His Dark Materials)

Metatron is the Regent of Heaven and the true antagonist of the His Dark Materials trilogy. He is stated to have been the Biblical character Enoch, who is the line between Adam and Noah (son of Jared, son of Mahahaleh, son of Kenan, son of Enosh, son of Seth). He is the regent of the first angel and the false God, The Authority.

Enoch was transfigured into an angel after his sixty-five year life on earth, and after the rebellion of the "fallen angels" he took the regency of the throne of the Authority, the Clouded Mountain, in order to implant the monotheistic religions across the multiverse and so affirming his power and rule. However, he became more powerful than his master. To keep his power, he betrayed and trapped the Authority in the crystal box to stay alive, but trapped and out of the way. He seeks to supplant God, destroy Lord Asriel and his army, and kill Lyra Belacqua. He shares the belief of many that Lyra is the second Eve, who is destined to fall into temptation like the first.

Metatron holds the true power and cruelty responsible for the Magisterium's (Church) oppression and he is leading the final battle against Lord Asriel and Xaphania and their rebels. In the end, he is killed by Lord Asriel and Maisa Coulter, who are Lyra's parents, as they all fall into the Abyss between the universes, which was opened by a bomb that the Magisterium uses to try to kill Lyra, to ensure that he can never threaten her again.

Personality
Though he became an angel, he still has his impure human feelings, and so became greedy for God's rule. He grew bitter, oppressive, and malicious in turning the Magisterium into a theocratic and dogmatic governing power in Lyra's World, in a universe parallel to ours, teaches them that tolerance and free inquiry are heresy and sins, inspiring them into a corrupt desire for purity, and motivate them into spreading Christianity as the ultimate authority, showing that arrogance and ignorance are his most prominent traits.

Like a human, Metatron is susceptible to lies, thus could easily be tricked, while all angels know the truth.

He is also very lustful, and it is revealed that as Enoch, he had many wives because he loved their flesh, even understanding why the Watchers were so satyrical towards human women. But out of all his choices on his lust objects, he submits dangerously to Marisa Coulter's beauty, which she manipulates as part of a plan to destroy him by promising him herself as a prize for his victory over Lord Asriel, but conspires with Asriel to destroy the villainous angel.

Despite these flaws and sins, Metatron is a being whose profound intellect has had thousands of years to deepen and strengthen itself, and whose knowledge extended over a million universes. But still he becomes blinded by his two obsessions: to destroy Lyra before the second Fall and to possess Marisa Coulter as his goddess. This would all be his downfall.

Appearance
Metatron is described as a being made of light, man-shaped, man-sized. He is exactly a man in early middle age, tall, powerful, and commanding. The force of his eyes and the ferocity of his gaze seem frightful to stare at. His voice can deliver judgment so great it would shake people profoundly. Like angels, he has mighty wings.