[also posted here]

The Omen series has a notoriously random timeline. The first came out in 1976, when it appears to take place and Damien is about five years old. So far so good. The second movie, Damien: The Omen II, came out in 1978 where Damien is supposed to be twelve years old, but the movie appears to still be in 1978, not some future year. The third and final installment in the official trilogy, The Omen III: The Final Conflict, came out in 1981 and Damien is thirty-two. It is definitely supposed to take place at some point in the early 1980s, not only because it very much aesthetically looks like that is when it is, but because there is a reference during a scene where he is being interviewed to Damien doing something in adulthood in 1978, the year that the movie where he was twelve came out.

The novelizations of the books have the first one take place in the 1950s, which makes sense as someone who is thirty-two in 1981 would have been born in 1949. The straight-to-television sequel, The Omen IV: Awakening, came out in 1991. *potential spoilers for The Final Conflict* It is about a child presumably conceived between Damien and a character that he has sex with in The Final Conflict, though the character is not stated to be pregnant in that movie, and the daughter, Delia, is eight in the movie, but I have not seen it, so I cannot say exactly when it takes place or how it deals with the time jump. *spoilers over* There was also a remake of the first one that came out in 2006 and appears to take place in around 2006. The prequel that came out in 2024, The First Omen, takes place in 1971, which also makes sense for a child that would have been five in 1976.

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