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The demons in the ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'' series. The primary characters page for the series can be found [[Characters/{{Diablo}} here]].
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler:When she finds Rathma's corpse, she seems mournful. She gently crosses his arms in respect, and claims that while she would never know if he would have joined her or not in the new world she intends to create, she would have saved him a place all the same. As she leaves with his key, she promises that his death will not be in vain.]]
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* MoreThanMimdControl: All of them are capable of twisting mortals into their willing subordinates by influencing their thoughts with their vile natures subtly over time. Even the most valiant heroes or devoted angels can be subverted with enough effort.
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* MoreThanMimdControl: MoreThanMindControl: All of them are capable of twisting mortals into their willing subordinates by influencing their thoughts with their vile natures subtly over time. Even the most valiant heroes or devoted angels can be subverted with enough effort.
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* ActorAllusion: Hilariously, this isn't the first time Jessica Straus [[{{VideoGame/Darksiders}} has voiced a demon name Lilith.]]
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* ActorAllusion: Hilariously, this isn't the first time Jessica Straus [[{{VideoGame/Darksiders}} has voiced a demon name named Lilith.]]
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* MoreThanMimdControl: All of them are capable of twisting mortals into their willing subordinates by influencing their thoughts with their vile natures subtly over time. Even the most valiant heroes or devoted angels can be subverted with enough effort.
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->Voiced by: Milton James (English)[[note]]'''Other Languages''':Alexander Noskov (Russian)[[/note]]
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->Voiced by: Milton James Creator/MiltonJames (English)[[note]]'''Other Languages''':Alexander Noskov (Russian)[[/note]]
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* AntagonistTitle: Is the main antagonist of all three main games.
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* AntagonistTitle: Is the main antagonist of all the first three main games.
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* MadeOfEvil: They embody pieces of the evil cast off by Anu before time began.
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* ResurrectiveImmortality: Because they are aspects of the [[BigBad ultimate Evil]], the Prime Evils will always return after death. In the games, they do this by [[DemonicPossession possessing mortals]]; it's not clear how it worked before humans came around.
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* PiecesOfGod: They are sapient fragments of the original Prime Evil.
* ResurrectiveImmortality: Because they are aspects of the [[BigBad ultimate Evil]], thePrime Great Evils will always return after death. In the games, they do this by [[DemonicPossession possessing mortals]]; it's not clear how it worked before humans came around.
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* FateWorseThanDeath: His famous line isn't just empty bluster. He is just as fond of setting up horrible fates for his victims. Dying before he gets his claws on you isn't enough to let you escape his wrath. Just ask Leoric for confirmation of that.
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* FateWorseThanDeath: His famous line isn't just empty bluster. He is just as fond of setting up horrible fates for his victims.victims that last long beyond physical death. Dying before he gets his claws on you isn't enough to let you escape his wrath. Just ask Leoric for confirmation of that.
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* MadeOfEvil: They aren't just evil beings, but creatures comprised of the evil cast off by the original creator of the universe.
* PiecesOfGod: They are remnants of the original Prime Evil given independent form and sapience.
* ResurrectiveImmortality: Just like the Prime Evils, they will revive in new bodies after death.
* PiecesOfGod: They are remnants of the original Prime Evil given independent form and sapience.
* ResurrectiveImmortality: Just like the Prime Evils, they will revive in new bodies after death.
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* HatePlague: He can only inflame feelings of hatred and resentment in others. If exposed to his presence long enough, even the closest of friends could would be ready to tear each others' throats out.
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* HatePlague: He can only inflame feelings of hatred and resentment in others. If exposed to his presence long enough, even the closest of friends could would be ready to tear each others' throats out.
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* TheCorrupter: To the Rogues at the Monastery, transforming the living into her brainwashed, mad servants and the dead into her tools.
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* ChainmailBikini: Skimpier than that. Her's only covers her nipples and are attached to a chain.
* TheCorrupter: To the Rogues at the Monastery, transforming the living into her brainwashed, mad servants and the dead into her tools. This includes turning the Rogue of the first game into the demonic Blood Raven.
* CreepyTwins: With her brother Duriel.
* TheCorrupter: To the Rogues at the Monastery, transforming the living into her brainwashed, mad servants and the dead into her tools. This includes turning the Rogue of the first game into the demonic Blood Raven.
* CreepyTwins: With her brother Duriel.
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* {{Irony}}: For someone who's vulnerable to fire, Andariel sure love to decorate her lair with walls of fire.
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* FanDisservice: Her perpetual near-nudity is used to portray her as more disturbing than titillating.
* {{Irony}}: For someone who's vulnerable to fire, Andariel surelove loves to decorate her lair with walls of fire.
* {{Irony}}: For someone who's vulnerable to fire, Andariel sure
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* OvershadowedByAwesome: She's the weakest of all the Great Evils, but still powerful enough to be a ruler of one of the Hells.
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* FateWorseThanDeath: His famous line isn't just empty bluster. He is just as fond of setting up horrible fates for his targets. Dying beforehand doesn't make them exempt from Diablo. Just ask Leoric for confirmation of that.
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* FateWorseThanDeath: His famous line isn't just empty bluster. He is just as fond of setting up horrible fates for his targets. victims. Dying beforehand doesn't make them exempt from Diablo.before he gets his claws on you isn't enough to let you escape his wrath. Just ask Leoric for confirmation of that.
* HatePlague: He can only inflame feelings of hatred and resentment in others. If exposed to his presence long enough, even the closest of friends could would be ready to tear each others' throats out.
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* LeanAndMean: Both his design when possessing a host and the official arts of his true form portray him as leaner than his two brothers.
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* LeanAndMean: Both his design when possessing a host and the official arts of his true form portray him as leaner than his two brothers. His later art portrays his body as a hollowed out corpse with a few scraps of flesh still on it.
* {{Necromancer}}: His powers of hatred allow him to easily raise the corpses as minions.
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* MindRape: Andariel's schtick as the Maiden of Anguish.
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* SmugSnake: Not as much as Azmodan, but still has shades of it. Fittingly enough, his favorite minions are snake demons.
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* SmugSnake: Not as much as Azmodan, but still has shades of it. He's legitimately incredibly powerful, deceptive, and dangerous, but isn't half as much of any of those things as his Prime Evil brothers are. Fittingly enough, his favorite minions are snake demons.
* VillainousBreakdown: As Tyrael predicted, he threw a temper tantrum when the Nephalem unraveled his plans and decided to destroy the city through pure brute force instead.
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* BigBadWannabe: He is trying ''hard'' to be the BigBad, but he just lacks the competence for that. [[spoiler:Plus, Diablo out-gambits him]].
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* BigBadWannabe: He is trying ''hard'' to be the BigBad, but he just lacks the competence for that. [[spoiler:Plus, Diablo out-gambits him]].had him out-gambitted from the start and was just waiting for him to get himself killed]].
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* BadBoss: It's strongly implied he was leading the new cult solely to attract the Nephalems attention and viewed them as disposable otherwise. Not only killing them in his human guise as Daivin alongside the Nephalem, but also set it up so that the only way to go deeper into the Temple was by killing numerous cultists to have their blood open the way.
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* BadBoss: It's strongly implied he was leading the new cult solely to attract the Nephalems Nephalem's attention and viewed them as disposable otherwise. Not only killing them in his human guise as Daivin alongside the Nephalem, but also set it up so that the only way to go deeper into the Temple was by killing numerous cultists to have their blood open the way.
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* MotherOfAThousandYoung: Seeks to use her children to conquer all of creation.
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* MotherOfAThousandYoung: Seeks She is the literal and metaphorical mother of humanity and hopes to use her children to conquer all of creation.
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* SealedEvilInACan: She spent several thousand years trapped in the void between worlds. Twice.
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* AintTooProudToBeg: He grovels for the heroes to spare his life in exchange for a powerful item in the first ''Diablo''.
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* TheChessmaster: He's a genius, full stop. Diablo manipulates the entire kingdom of Tristram to secure a host body, twists his defeat to his advantage and then sets his own brothers up, along with his own revival, to become the Prime Evil. Even his elder brothers so-called "leaders" Mephisto and Baal end up as pawns in his game.
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* TheChessmaster: He's a genius, full stop. Diablo manipulates the entire kingdom of Tristram to secure a host body, twists his defeat to his advantage and then sets his own brothers up, along with his own revival, to become the Prime Evil. Even his elder brothers brothers, Mephisto and Baal, who were his so-called "leaders" Mephisto and Baal end up as pawns in his game.
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* BigRedDevil: His look has changed over the various games, but he mostly remains this.
* TheChessmaster: He's a genius, full stop. Diablo manipulates the entire kingdom of Tristram to secure a host body, twists his defeat to his advantage and then sets his own brothers up, along with his own revival, to become the Prime Evil.
* TheChessmaster: He's a genius, full stop. Diablo manipulates the entire kingdom of Tristram to secure a host body, twists his defeat to his advantage and then sets his own brothers up, along with his own revival, to become the Prime Evil.
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* BigRedDevil: His look has changed over the various games, but he mostly always remains this.
a hulking crimson monster in his natural form.
* TheChessmaster: He's a genius, full stop. Diablo manipulates the entire kingdom of Tristram to secure a host body, twists his defeat to his advantage and then sets his own brothers up, along with his own revival, to become the Prime Evil. Even his elder brothers so-called "leaders" Mephisto and Baal end up as pawns in his game.
* TheChessmaster: He's a genius, full stop. Diablo manipulates the entire kingdom of Tristram to secure a host body, twists his defeat to his advantage and then sets his own brothers up, along with his own revival, to become the Prime Evil. Even his elder brothers so-called "leaders" Mephisto and Baal end up as pawns in his game.
* FateWorseThanDeath: His famous line isn't just empty bluster. He is just as fond of setting up horrible fates for his targets. Dying beforehand doesn't make them exempt from Diablo. Just ask Leoric for confirmation of that.
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: His use of the Soulstones ends up leading to his defeat in II. [[spoiler: The same happens in III with the Black Soulstone, leaving all of the evils trapped in the one stone.]]
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: His use of the Soulstones ends up leading to his defeat in II. [[spoiler: The same happens in III with the Black Soulstone, leaving all of the evils trapped in the one stone. Unfortunately, the rogue Angel of Death shattered the stone and released the Great Evils again.]]
* LargeHam: Large Deviled HAM!
--> [[BadassBoast Not even DEATH can save you from me!]]
--> [[BadassBoast Not even DEATH can save you from me!]]
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--> [[BadassBoast Not even DEATH can save you from me!]]
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* PlayingWithFire: He possesses various spells most of which are fire-based.
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* PlayingWithFire: He possesses various spells spells, most of which are fire-based.
* SupernaturalFearInducer: As the Lord of Terror, he induces fear in all around him. All but the most strong-willed mortals and angels can be driven to madness just by being in his presence.
* ThroatLight: His eyes and maw glow as if a fire was constantly burning with him.
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* TheBrute: Baal's role in the triumvirate between Mephisto's EvilGenius and Diablo's savagely brilliant terrors. Baal is vicious, powerful and favors overwhelming physical power. The presence of succubi in his army notwithstanding, his personal demons tend to fit this mold as well.
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* TheBrute: Baal's role in the triumvirate between Mephisto's EvilGenius and Diablo's savagely brilliant terrors. As he is associated with an aspect that impacts the physical world rather than the mind, Baal is far less cerebral than his brothers. Baal is vicious, powerful and favors overwhelming physical power.power over manipulation. The presence of succubi in his army notwithstanding, his personal demons tend to fit this mold as well.
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* WalkingWasteland: Baal's unholy presence spreads destruction anywhere he goes. He seems to be able to consciously suppress this power when needed as he did when disguised as "Tyrael".
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* KillEmAll: Once the Black Soulstone is in the protagonists' hands, he floods Caldeum with [[DeathFromAbove fire]] and [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent snakes]] in retaliation. Leah suggests moving everyone into the sewers to minimize the casualties.
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* HornyDevil: It is mentioned in the story that the Succubi are her handmaidens, and she herself does have the look.
* SuccubiAndIncubi: It is mentioned in the story that the Succubi are her handmaidens, and she herself does have the look.
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* HornyDevil: Big time. She even uses Succubi as her minions (and calls them her daughters).
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* HornyDevil: Big time. She HotAsHell: A SeductiveSpider demon that even uses Succubi as her minions (and calls them her daughters).
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* AnAxeToGrind: More like a very large meat Cleaver to grind. The hero can use it as a two-handed weapon after defeating The Butcher.
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* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: "Diablo" and "Mephisto" are names used for {{Satan}} in our world. "Baal" is the title of an ancient Mesopotamian fertility god, but has a negative connotation in both [[TheBible the Old Testament]] and Abrahamic religions.
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* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: "Diablo" and "Mephisto" are names used for {{Satan}} in our world. "Baal" is the title of an ancient Mesopotamian fertility god, but has a negative connotation in both [[TheBible [[Literature/TheBible the Old Testament]] and Abrahamic religions.
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* AllYourPowersCombined: He fights with a mixture of all three Prime Evils' tricks, as well as having a design that resembles a fusion of them.
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* BodyHorror: He has a pair of "wings" made of a flayed ribcage.
* BodyHorror: He has a pair of "wings" made of a flayed ribcage.
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* UpToEleven: His difficulty in the first game became higher and higher. Though his difficulty is debatable in 3.
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The lower-ranking four lieutenants of the three Prime Evils, consisting in Andariel Maiden of Anguish, Duriel Lord of Pain, Belial Lord of Lies and Azmodan Lord of Sins. They started out as their lieutnants, but, after a EnemyCivilWar inside the Burning Hells, they overthrown the three and exiled them to Earth, leading to the events of the game. They come back in ''Diablo II'', where Andariel and Duriel joins forces with the Prime Evils again, then in ''Diablo III'', where Belial and Azmodan both come in an attempt to seize control after the Prime Evils' apparent death.
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The lower-ranking four lieutenants of the three Prime Evils, the Lesser Evils are the weaker four of the seven Great Evils, consisting in Andariel Maiden of Anguish, Duriel Lord of Pain, Belial Lord of Lies and Azmodan Lord of Sins. They started out as their lieutnants, but, after a EnemyCivilWar inside the Burning Hells, they overthrown the three and exiled them to Earth, leading to the events of the game. They come back in ''Diablo II'', where Andariel and Duriel joins forces with the Prime Evils again, then in ''Diablo III'', where Belial and Azmodan both come in an attempt to seize control after the Prime Evils' apparent death.
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* EvilIsPetty: He could have simply [[spoiler:entered the asylum, killed Marius, and claimed the soulstone. Instead he made Marius recount his traumatic past, politely asked for the stone and then revealed himself to salt the wound, allowing Marius to cross the DespairEventHorizon before finally putting the broken man out of his misery.]]
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* MasterOfIllusion: He used illusions to trick Marius twice, first appearing in his former form as Tal Rasha so that Marius would free him from the tomb, and then appearing as Tyrael so that Marius would give the soulstone to him. He also uses illusions when fighting the player.
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* PersonOfMassDestruction: Well, duh. He's the ''Lord of Destruction''.
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* PersonOfMassDestruction: Well, duh. He's He '''is''' the ''Lord of Destruction''.Destruction'', after all.
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The Lord of Sin. Azmodan is famous to be one of the greatest General in Hell, having won several battles against Angels by the past ([[InformedAbility not that we get to see any of his strategic prowess]]). In ''Diablo III'', he and Belial try to take over Sanctuary following the Prime Evils' apparent death. After learning the Black Soulstone's existance, he unleashes his legion in an attempt to get his hand on it, so he could absorb it and become the Prime Evil.
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The Lord of Sin. Azmodan is famous to be one of the greatest General in Hell, having won several battles against Angels by the past ([[InformedAbility not that we get to see any of his strategic prowess]]). In ''Diablo III'', he and Belial try to take over Sanctuary following the Prime Evils' apparent death. After learning the Black Soulstone's existance, existence, he unleashes his legion in an attempt to get his hand on it, so he could absorb it and become the Prime Evil.
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A seven headed Dragon created when Anu cast off all evil from himself. Anu's and Tathamet's battle led to the creation of the universe, with Tathamet's dead body becoming the Burning Hells, and his seven heads becoming the seven Great Evils.
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!!Skarn, Lord of Damnation
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* AssimilationPlot: He hopes to use the Worldstone's shards to purge the people of Sanctuary of their angelic heritage, essentially turning all of humanity into full-blooded demons.
* AllYourPowersCombined: He fights with a mixture of all three Prime Evils' tricks, as well as having a design that resembles a fusion of them.
* BodyHorror: He has a pair of "wings" made of a flayed ribcage.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Being a demon, he can't fathom the idea that humanity is strong ''because'' of their balance of demonic and angelic origin, not in spite of it.
* DoppelgangerSpin: Can utilize illusory copies of himself to stall for time as he prepares stronger attacks.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Uses all four arms to slash at opponents, and cast a ray of hellfire.
* TheStarscream: He sees Diablo and the other Prime Evils as short-sighted, dangerous fools and took the first chance he got to try and unite Hell under his banner.
* MyDeathIsOnlyTheBeginning: An example where he's saying this as a genuine warning rather than a taunt. His death means that the Prime Evils' spirits will be allowed back into Hell.
* WeCanRuleTogether: He offers the player characters an ultimatum to accept their place at his side.
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!!Tathamet
A seven headed Dragon created when Anu cast off all evil from himself. Anu's and Tathamet's battle led to the creation of the universe, with Tathamet's dead body becoming the Burning Hells, and his seven heads becoming the seven Great Evils.
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* AllYourPowersCombined: He fights with a mixture of all three Prime Evils' tricks, as well as having a design that resembles a fusion of them.
* BodyHorror: He has a pair of "wings" made of a flayed ribcage.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Being a demon, he can't fathom the idea that humanity is strong ''because'' of their balance of demonic and angelic origin, not in spite of it.
* DoppelgangerSpin: Can utilize illusory copies of himself to stall for time as he prepares stronger attacks.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Uses all four arms to slash at opponents, and cast a ray of hellfire.
* TheStarscream: He sees Diablo and the other Prime Evils as short-sighted, dangerous fools and took the first chance he got to try and unite Hell under his banner.
* MyDeathIsOnlyTheBeginning: An example where he's saying this as a genuine warning rather than a taunt. His death means that the Prime Evils' spirits will be allowed back into Hell.
* WeCanRuleTogether: He offers the player characters an ultimatum to accept their place at his side.
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!!Tathamet
A seven headed Dragon created when Anu cast off all evil from himself. Anu's and Tathamet's battle led to the creation of the universe, with Tathamet's dead body becoming the Burning Hells, and his seven heads becoming the seven Great Evils.
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* FanDisservice: She doesn't wear much in the way of conventional clothing. See [[FatBastard Fat Bitch]] and {{Gonk}} to understand why this trope applies.
* [[FatBastard Fat Bitch]]: She's just as fat as Ghom, and just as unpleasant.
* [[FatBastard Fat Bitch]]: She's just as fat as Ghom, and just as unpleasant.
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* BatmanGambit: His plan to recover his soulstone hinged on Marius, its bearer, being [[DirtyCoward too cowardly]] to enter the Burning Hells to have the stone destroyed at the Hell Forge.
-->'''Baal''': You haven't failed, old man. You've done exactly as you were meant to do.
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* MoneyFetish: According to [[WordOfGod the lead writer, Brian Kindregan]], "Greed is obsessed with all things valuable" to the point that she "takes a bath in all her gold every three hours." [[WesternAnimation/DuckTales Scrooge McDuck himself]] would be proud!
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* MoneyFetish: According to [[WordOfGod the lead writer, Brian Kindregan]], "Greed is obsessed with all things valuable" to the point that she "takes a bath in all her gold every three hours." [[WesternAnimation/DuckTales [[Franchise/DuckTales Scrooge McDuck himself]] would be proud!
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* DepravedBisexual: No matter what gender your character is, she will display a disturbing, [[FoeYay twisted infatuation]] with him/her. She even creeps out ''[[TheCasanova Lyndon]]''!
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* DepravedBisexual: No matter what gender your character is, she will display a disturbing, [[FoeYay twisted infatuation]] infatuation with him/her. She even creeps out ''[[TheCasanova Lyndon]]''!
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* TheMentor: To Belial, according to Tyrael.
* PoisonousPerson: He's able to send a cloud of poisonous gas during the fight against him.
* ThePowerOfHate: His domain.
* PoisonousPerson: He's able to send a cloud of poisonous gas during the fight against him.
* ThePowerOfHate: His domain.
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* {{Mephistopheles}}: He's loosely based on the manipulative Faustian demon. Fittingly, he's described as the weakest of the Prime Evils, but also the most cunning and strategic.
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!The Prime Evils
[[folder:Prime Evils in General]]
The Prime Evils are the {{Big Bad}}s of the series and consist of Diablo, the Lord of Terror; Baal, the Lord of Destruction; and Mephisto, the Lord of Hatred. As the strongest of the seven Great Evils, the Prime Evils rule over the Burning Hells in unity. Before the events of the games, the three brothers had been exiled from the Burning Hells by the Lesser Evils and subsequently imprisoned within soulstones by Tyrael and the Horadrim. These soulstones were then hidden in certain locations in Sanctuary. However, unknown to their jailors, the Prime Evils had found a way to take control of the soulstones...
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'''Tropes applying to all of the Prime Evils'''
* AsLongAsThereIsEvil: It's implied that as long as evil still exists in the cosmos, the Prime Evils will always return in some way (even if they are killed, they seem to still exist as some kind of disembodied spirts until they can possess another mortal, and can't be destroyed permanently, only contained.)
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: When the demons rebelled against them, the Prime Evils killed about a third of them before being driven out.
* BigBadTriumvirate: They jointly rule the Burning Hells and seek to destroy the High Heavens and rule Sanctuary.
* TheChessmaster: They planned the event of the first two games right from the beginning.
* ChromaticArrangement: Their soulstones follow the RYB color model: red (Diablo), blue (Mephisto) and yellow (Baal). Their magic when they activate the Infernal Gate matches this.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: They have almost invaded heaven before but did not succeed because they bicker among themselves over who gets what upon victory.
* TheCorrupter: All of them got their way out by corrupting people around them, especially Diablo and Mephisto.
* DemonLordsAndArchdevils: They're the three most powerful demons, and three of the smartest, too.
* FireIceLightning: Diablo used fire, Baal uses ice, and Mephisto uses lightning.
* HornsOfVillainy: Despite varying widely in appearance, all three of them have horns.
* {{Large Ham}}s: Diablo pretty much speaks in [[NoIndoorVoice ALL CAPS]] and Mephisto comes off as rather grandiose the few times we see him. Baal is the only one not outright ChewingTheScenery, but he manages to pull off ColdHam instead via sarcasm and mockery.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: "Diablo" and "Mephisto" are names used for {{Satan}} in our world. "Baal" is the title of an ancient Mesopotamian fertility god, but has a negative connotation in both [[TheBible the Old Testament]] and Abrahamic religions.
* ResurrectiveImmortality: Because they are aspects of the [[BigBad ultimate Evil]], the Prime Evils will always return after death. In the games, they do this by [[DemonicPossession possessing mortals]]; it's not clear how it worked before humans came around.
* SealedEvilInACan: They were all trapped in soulstones, though Baal had to be trapped in a person as well due to his soulstone being damaged.
* WalkingWasteland: Wherever the Primes go, minor demons appear and the landscape becomes gradually corrupted.
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[[folder:Diablo, Lord of Terror]]
!!Diablo, Lord of Terror
->Voiced by: Bill Roper (''I'' and ''II''), Creator/JBBlanc (''III'') (English)[[note]]'''Other Languages''':Nadezhda Gorelova (''III'') (Russian)[[/note]]
[[quoteright:301:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Diablo_Portrait_4732.png]]
Of the three Prime Evils, Al'Diabalos is the youngest brother, however he is also the foremost and the strongest of the three in raw power. However, he should not be taken for a mere brute, for his power belies a most cunning mind. Of the three brothers, Diablo was the one captured last. His soulstone was buried at the bottom of a labyrinth deep beneath Tristram Cathedral. There he was imprisoned for nearly 200 years until the soulstone was found and shattered by Archbishop Lazarus, the closest advisor of the new king of Khanduras, Leoric. Diablo immediately tried to possess King Leoric, but though he failed, the king was left a maddened wreck until he was eventually slain. Having failed to possess King Leoric, Archbishop Lazarus offered up the king's youngest son, Prince Albrecht, as a host. A shattered piece of the soulstone was jammed into the young prince's head, allowing Diablo to take over.
He was eventually slain by the hero of the first game: [[KnightInShiningArmor Aidan]], a warrior of great prowess and King Leoric's eldest son. However, this would be far from the last heard of Diablo, for Aidan jammed the soulstone into his own head, believing his will strong enough to contain the Lord of Terror. Alas, he failed and Diablo took over his body and in the company of Marius, he set out east to free Baal and reunite with Mephisto, before he headed back into Hell to reclaim his dominion over it. The heroes of the second game managed to defeat him however and his soulstone was shattered, seemingly putting Diablo to rest forever. Except, it proved not to be the [[VideoGame/DiabloIII case]]...
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* AntagonistTitle: Is the main antagonist of all three main games.
* ArchEnemy: Primarily to Imperius, but being the BigBad, he's this to a whole lot more as well.
* AsLongAsThereIsEvil: Implied, especially in [[spoiler: Diablo III where he gains the power of all the other evils and becomes the Prime Evil]]. As long is evil still exists in the universe, he will find a way back.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:He is [[NiceJobBreakingItHero inadvertently resurrected by the player character]] at the conclusion of ''Reaper of Souls'']].
* BadassBoast:
** "Not even death can save you from me!"
** "Take one last look at your shining heaven, Imperius! For soon, nothing of it shall remain... but my laughter!"
* BigBad: For all three of the games, with the exception of Diablo II's and III's expansion packs.
* BigRedDevil: His look has changed over the various games, but he mostly remains this.
* TheChessmaster: He's a genius, full stop. Diablo manipulates the entire kingdom of Tristram to secure a host body, twists his defeat to his advantage and then sets his own brothers up, along with his own revival, to become the Prime Evil.
* TheCorrupter: More than almost any other save for big brother Mephisto. Diablo twists the minds of others to break them, being responsible for turning King Leoric into a crazed monster and his eldest son, Prince Aidan, into a soul-ravaged shell of his old self.
* CurbstompBattle: [[spoiler:After becoming the Prime Evil, Diablo battles Imperius one on one. Mighty as he may be as the Aspect of Valor, Imperius is no match for the sum total of all Seven Great Evils in one being, and he is swiftly defeated.]]
* DemonicPossession: Did this on the prince and later on the hero of the first game. [[spoiler: And then to [[TheWoobie Leah]] after her mom used the Black Soulstone on her.]]
* DiscOneFinalBoss: In ''II'' and ''III'', he was originally the FinalBoss until expansions demoted him to this. He still is the final boss if you don't have the expansion of the game you're playing, though.
* TheDreaded: He is not known as the "Lord of Terror" for nothing. Diablo is the most feared of the Prime Evils for his powers with terror.
* EvilSoundsDeep: As befitting of any powerful archdemon, Diablo does this in pretty much every game he's in.
* FinalBoss: Of the first game. In ''II'' and ''III'', expansion packs demote him to a DiscOneFinalBoss.
* GambitRoulette: An ''awful'' lot of things, over a very long time period, had to go right for his overall plan to come to fruition.
* GeniusBruiser: He is the tallest and the strongest of the Prime Evils. That doesn't prevent him from being a skilled MagnificentBastard with an EvilPlan since the beginning of the saga.
** As shown by a discarded Journal in Reaper of Souls he even figured out the purpose of the stolen Worldstone and begun making plans to corrupt the Nephalem as soon as possible.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: His use of the Soulstones ends up leading to his defeat in II. [[spoiler: The same happens in III with the Black Soulstone, leaving all of the evils trapped in the one stone.]]
* HornedHumanoid: The most traditionally "demonic" of the three Prime Evils.
* IAmLegion: Declares this in ''VideoGame/DiabloIII'' to break the will of the High Heavens for good, after absorbing all six other demon lords into himself.
* JokerImmunity: Diablo has been killed, imprisioned and banished multiple times with a few supposed to be "permanent," but he keeps returning. At the end of ''Lord of Destruction'' when his Soulstone is smashed, it's explicitly stated that he's completely destroyed and can never come back. Doesn't stop him from returning in III, at the end of which they don't even pretend that he's gone for good.
* ManipulativeBastard: Not on the scale of Belial, but he has his moments. [[spoiler:In Diablo III, he proceeds to do a massive MindRape on the playable characters and Tyrael while they ascend to him by sending Izual and demons impersonating the ghost of people they knew and met in order to break their confidence, each demons using an aspect of the Demon Lords (the Terror's demon impersonated Leah and mocked the playable character for helping Diablo become the Prime Evil; the Destruction's Demon impersonated Marius and tried to put Tyrael in guilt for abandoning him; Demon of Lies impersonated Haedrig's wife Mira and blamed the PC for her death; the demon of Anguish impersonated Maghda and blamed him/her for Belial's death; Demon of Sin impersonated Rumford and tried to convince him/her he/she was only motivated by greed and blood lust; and the list goes on).]]
* MultiarmedAndDangerous: Upon being resurrected [[spoiler: in Leah's body]] in III, he has four arms instead of two like in the previous games.
* LargeHam: Large Deviled HAM!
--> [[BadassBoast Not even DEATH can save you from me!]]
* OddNameOut: The other Prime Evils are named after demons, monsters, spirits and gods from various religions and mythologies. He's named after...the Spanish word for devil.
** Somewhat subverted, as his full name is Al'Diabalos, and Diablo is just his most common name in Sanctuary.
* PlayingWithFire: He possesses various spells most of which are fire-based.
* PrimalFear: His domain; because he is Lord of Terror, he fears nothing (aside from his own appearance as shown in the Sin War trilogy), which is why Deckard Cain considers him the most dangerous of the Seven Evils.
* {{Sadist}}: Diablo savors the pain and fear of others, delighting in turning their fears into reality.
* SatanicArchetype: Diablo, as befitting of his name, is Sanctuary's equivalent of Satan, though until the third game, he had to share this title with the other two Prime Evils, Baal and Mephisto. [[spoiler:And then in the third game, he becomes the ''Prime Evil'', all seven Evils combined in one being, making him the ultimate evil in Sanctuary]].
* ShockAndAwe: His infamous Red Lightning Hose is one Hell of an attack that can be considered by far his deadliest attack. It makes its appearance in ''Diablo II'' 's final battles [[spoiler:and then returns for the final phase of the final battle of ''Diablo III'']].
* SpikesOfVillainy: His demon form often features these.
* {{Teleportation}}: His new feature in ''VideoGame/DiabloIII'' which makes him even more difficult to defeat.
* UpToEleven: His difficulty in the first game became higher and higher. Though his difficulty is debatable in 3.
* VillainousBreakdown: Suffers a big one when [[spoiler:you escape his Realm of Terror in III]].
* TheWorfEffect: He plays a strangely insignificant role in ''The Sin War'' trilogy compared to Mephisto's influence. Soon as he gets involved, Uldyssian defeats him by turning his own fear powers on himself, solely to demonstrate the strength of the Nephalem and removing Diablo from the plot.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Once he reached Mephisto, he broke away from the Dark Wanderer's body and left him to die, having no more uses for him. Strangely, however, in ''III'', he [[spoiler:actually spared Adria, after her services of bringing him back via Leah, and tells her to retreat until her services are needed again, implying that if the Nephalem did not kill her in Act V, Diablo might have other uses for her.]]
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[[folder:Baal, Lord of Destruction]]
!!Baal
->Voiced by: Milton James (English)[[note]]'''Other Languages''':Alexander Noskov (Russian)[[/note]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/baal_resurrected.png]]
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Tor'Baalos, the Lord of Destruction. Unlike his brothers, Baal's Soulstone was damaged when the Horadrim managed to capture him, leaving them unable to trap him the conventional way. As a result, a powerful Horadrim Mage named Tal'Rasha volunteered to complete the Broken Soulstone, using his own body as a container to keep the Lord of Destruction sealed. For additional precaution, he was willingly placed in a sealed tomb, and the Horadrim built several fake ones.
In ''Diablo II'', the first thing Diablo does (after taking over his host and leaving Tristram) is head for the city of Lut Gholein to look for the Tomb of Tal'Rasha and free his brother, at which he succeeds. Baal manages to escape after the defeat of his two brothers, and serves as the BigBad for the Expanson set, ''Lord of Destruction''.
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* AnIcePerson: He possesses various spells, most of which are cold-based--most notably, his Hoarfrost attack, which can push you a whole screen away.
* AxCrazy: Being the Lord of Destruction, he's the only of the three Prime Evils to rule of a physical concept rather then emotional. Deckard Cain describes him in his journal as the most unstable and aggressive of the three.
* TheBerserker: The most physically powerful [[spoiler: pre-Diablo turning into Tathamet]] and reckless of the Great Evils.
* BigBad: Takes over as the main villain in the expansion of Diablo II after your character has defeated his two brothers.
* TheBrute: Baal's role in the triumvirate between Mephisto's EvilGenius and Diablo's savagely brilliant terrors. Baal is vicious, powerful and favors overwhelming physical power. The presence of succubi in his army notwithstanding, his personal demons tend to fit this mold as well.
* CharacterDevelopment: A lot of people make disparaging remarks about Baal's intelligence, and he's seen as a rather dim monster who smashes first and asks questions later. After his experiences with Tal'Rasha, Baal shows a wickedly manipulative and intelligent side.
* CombatTentacles: His trademark.
* DeadpanSnarker: Baal has a wicked, dry sense of humor, playfully mocking Marius before delivering his 'reward.' In the opening of 'Lord of Destruction,' he snarkily informs a community leader his terms are 'rejected' after blowing him apart.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: It's slight, but as selfish as Baal is he seems to care for his brothers, stating in the trailer for ''Lord of Destruction'' that "my brothers shall not have died in vain!"
* EvilLaugh: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kC9WFvU9-4 Check it out here]].
* FauxAffablyEvil: Notice his attitude towards Marius and his "negotiation" with the Barbarian messenger. It's downright creepy.
* LargeHam: Not so much in [[spoiler:his cutscenes with Marius]], but he's always cackling maniacally when met in game.
* ManipulativeBastard: He's able to trick Marius ''twice'' into helping him.
* MesACrowd: He can create duplicates of himself during his boss fight. These duplicates have the same attacks as him, but way less HP, fortunately.
* {{Mummy}}: When in Tal'Rasha's body, he's a mummified husk of a creature.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: His corrupting the Worldstone forced Tyrael to destroy it, which in turn unlocked the Nephalem's full potential and led to the downfall of the Prime Evils.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: Well, duh. He's the ''Lord of Destruction''.
* SealedEvilInAPerson: Due to his Soulstone being damaged, the Horadrim had to use their member Tal'Rasha as a willing host to imprison Baal.
* ShootTheMessenger: After being defied by the barbarians, he messily disposes of the one he is negotiating in with, having determined that the terms were not acceptable.
* SpiderPeople: His lower body is very spidery, as are a number of his extra limbs.
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[[folder:Mephisto, Lord of Hatred]]
!!Mephisto
->Voiced by: Creator/PaulEiding (English)[[note]]'''Other Languages''':Maxim Pinsker (Russian)[[/note]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mephisto_d2_resurrected_6.png]]
Dul'Mephistos, the Lord of Hatred, and the eldest brother of the Prime Evils. He was the one who actually started the events of the series, since his corruption of the Zakarum church, from which Archbishop Lazarus was a member, meant the latter decided to go to Khanduras and free Diablo from his imprisonment, thus setting in motion the events of ''Diablo''.
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* ArtEvolution: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtnP7XRVQeo original cinematic]] to feature Mephisto had some rather poor lip-syncing with Creator/PaulEiding's dialogue. The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaODAlq06nM remade cinematic]] in ''Resurrected'' gets around this by having Mephisto's head be a bare skull that his voice is echoing from. Giving he's a supernatural entity, he wouldn't necessarily be dependent on the same body parts that mortals use to speak anyway.
* TheChessmaster: Mephisto's realm in the Burning Hells is a DecadentCourt of plotting and scheming where only the most skilled and ruthless survive. Mephisto is the smartest, effortlessly weaving together endless plots both against enemies within and without hell. Not even Diablo and Baal are immune from being pawns in Mephisto's schemes.
* CombatTentacles: He has two tentacles in addition to humanoid arms. They seem to be mainly for show however as his melee animation has him clawing you.
* EvilGenius: According to [[AllThereInTheManual information you get from both Deckard Cain and on the various sites]], he was the smartest of the Prime Evils. [[spoiler:Not that it prevented him from being OutGambitted by Diablo eventually.]]
* EvilGloating: During the fight he repeatedly brags about how YouAreTooLate and how "my brothers have escaped you". If you are lucky or time your attack just right, you can [[KilledMidSentence kill him before he gets the entire phrase out.]]
* EvilLaugh: He gives one after saying YouAreTooLate to the heroes.
* EvilMentor: Tyrael claims that he taught Belial how to scheme.
* EvilSoundsDeep: In ''Diablo II''. It's later revealed in the discarded journals in ''Reaper of Souls'' that it's a result of not having fully twisted his host into his true form. When in his actual true form he sounds like a demonic old man.
* GameplayAndStorySegregation: Despite being the oldest of the three he is actually the easiest in terms of game stats. This could be due to him [[WorfHadTheFlu still technically imprisoned when you fight him.]]
* ItsPersonal: He reserved a particular level of hate and wrath for the angel Inarius who was his daughter's lover.
* LargeHam: Oh, Mephisto loves his crazy speeches.
* TheLeader: He was the eldest of the Prime Evils and the closest thing they had to one.
* LeanAndMean: Both his design when possessing a host and the official arts of his true form portray him as leaner than his two brothers.
* LightIsNotGood: He becomes the de facto leader of the [[CorruptChurch Zakarum religion]].
* ManipulativeBastard: We are talking about the guy who taught Belial everything he knows.
* TheMentor: To Belial, according to Tyrael.
* PoisonousPerson: He's able to send a cloud of poisonous gas during the fight against him.
* ThePowerOfHate: His domain.
* ShockAndAwe: His powers in ''Diablo II'' are mostly lightning-based.
* SkullForAHead: His head resembles a macabre, horned skull.
* SurroundedByIdiots: His journal in ''Reaper of Souls'' indicate he felt this way toward his minions:
-->"Cursed am I to lead an army of the blind."
* WeakButSkilled: According to lore, Mephisto is the speculated to be weakest amongst the three. However he is a de facto leader and sort of a unifier due to his brilliant intelligence and strategic skills. Pretty much entire plan that lead to the plot in the first and second installment of the trilogy was organized by him. Mephisto's talent with corruption is also supreme and he's just as dangerous as a demon lord should be. Note that 'weakest of the Prime Evils' is still 'more than powerful enough to slaughter just about anything in existemce.'
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!The Lesser Evils
[[folder:The Lesser Evils in General]]
The lower-ranking four lieutenants of the three Prime Evils, consisting in Andariel Maiden of Anguish, Duriel Lord of Pain, Belial Lord of Lies and Azmodan Lord of Sins. They started out as their lieutnants, but, after a EnemyCivilWar inside the Burning Hells, they overthrown the three and exiled them to Earth, leading to the events of the game. They come back in ''Diablo II'', where Andariel and Duriel joins forces with the Prime Evils again, then in ''Diablo III'', where Belial and Azmodan both come in an attempt to seize control after the Prime Evils' apparent death.
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'''Tropes Applying to all Lesser Evils'''
* DemonLordsAndArchdevils: While inferior to the Prime Evils, they still are the next stronger beings in Hell.
* EnemyCivilWar: Their revolt against the Prime Evils mentioned in the backstory of Diablo. And not long after they were gone, Azmodan and Belial turned on another in an endless civil war of their own.
* TheStarscream: A collective one. Belial and Azmodan were the instigators, but the four turned on the Prime Evils to expel them from hell and usurp control of demonkind.
* UnwittingPawn: Their plan to take over Hell and kick out the Prime Evils was actually what ''they'' wanted.
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[[folder:Andariel, Maiden of Anguish]]
!!Andariel
->Voiced by: Creator/LaniMinella (English)
[[quoteright:255:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/andariel2_6321.jpg]]
The Maiden of Anguish, and [[SmurfettePrinciple the only one amongst the Seven Demonlords to be female]]. Though she took part in the rebellion against the Prime Evils, she eventually grew tired of the quarrels between her brothers, and ended up trying to reconcile with the Prime Evils. In ''Diablo II'', she sides with Diablo, taking over the Rogue Monastery and blocking the road to Orient so nobody will be able to follow him.
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* AttackItsWeakPoint: The only one of the Prime or Lesser evils to be given an implicit elemental weakness (Fire, for the record.)
* BewareMyStingerTail: She has four scorpion stings on her back, [[ArachnidAppearanceAndAttire arranged like spider legs]]. That must be where her poison comes from.
* TheCorrupter: To the Rogues at the Monastery, transforming the living into her brainwashed, mad servants and the dead into her tools.
* CuteMonsterGirl: Well, she still looks pretty monstrous, but compared to most male demons, she is at least somewhat human-looking.
* ChainmailBikini: Skimpier than that. Hers only cover her nipples and are attached to a chain.
* EvilRedhead: ''Deep'' red hair, as per her portrait.
* HornyDevil: It is mentioned in the story that the Succubi are her handmaidens, and she herself does have the look.
* {{Irony}}: For someone who's vulnerable to fire, Andariel sure love to decorate her lair with walls of fire.
* MindRape: Andariel's schtick as the Maiden of Anguish.
* PillarOfLight: A pillar of fire shoots up from her when she dies, reaching 5-10m up.
* PoisonousPerson: All of her ranged attacks are poison-based. She even has a poison breath attack.
* SmurfettePrinciple: The only one amongst the seven demon lords to be female.
* SpiderLimbs: Growing from her shoulders.
* StarterVillain: Andariel is the final boss of the first act in ''Diablo II'', and the first major political force of Hell destroyed.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Her "bra" such as it is, is basically just two pasties attached by a chain.
* WeaksauceWeakness: Fire. She dies ridiculously easily to any fire damage and the player gets tipped off about it beforehand by Deckard Cain, too.
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[[folder:Duriel, Lord of Pain]]
!!Duriel
[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/duriel_4219.jpg]]
The Lord of Pain, and Andariel's twin brother.
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* AllThereInTheManual: ''Diablo I's'' manual, to be precise. His origin and the fact he is a Demon Lord are only mentioned in the manual of ''Diablo I'', Cain's Journal in ''Diablo III'', and official sites. No mention of him is made in ''Diablo II'' where he is '''a boss'''.
* AnIcePerson: Loves to inflict the Frozen status on you, which slows down your movement and your attacks (which can be ''lethal'' in Diablo II). And his version doesn't give two shits about Cold Resistance, so any melee characters are in for serious aggravation.
* BaitAndSwitchBoss: Baal is played up to be the boss of Act II of ''Diablo II''. You face this guy instead.
-->"[[LampshadeHanging Looking for Baal?]]"
* BigCreepyCrawlies: Really, how else do you describe a demon that looks like him?
* TheBrute: The only one amongst the Seven Great Evils to not get any sort of CharacterDevelopment, EvilPlan or even part in the story; he only shows up as the guardian of Tal Rasha's tomb with no explanation inside the game, and the only reason he is so memorable is because of [[ThatOneBoss how incredibly hard he is to defeat]]. In fact, you don't even ''know'' he was one of the Lesser Evils if you didn't check on the internet, read the manual of ''Diablo I'', or read Cain's Journal in ''Diablo III''.
* CombatSadomasochist: Some of the lore surrounding Duriel suggests that if unable to find a victim to torture, he will wound himself to sate his own desire for pain.
* CreepyTwins: With Andariel.
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: You fight him in the second game, but all of the information about him is revealed only in the first and third games, so within the context of the second game, he qualifies as this.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: When backed up by his freezing aura and ludicrous speed, his frighteningly high attack power will make most players sad pandas indeed. It backfires satisfyingly however, when pitted against a Paladin with Thorns or a Necromancer with Iron Maiden, both which reflect physical damage. [[SubvertedTrope Keep in mind, however,]] that Duriel probably is strong enough to take down even those characters with those skills before the backfire can kill him.
* LightningBruiser: One of the main reasons he is remembered as ThatOneBoss amongst the fans. This guy is huge, inflicts massive damage (to the point he sometimes kills you with one hit) and is ''insanely'' fast.
* LovesTheSoundOfScreaming: According to one of the loading screens in ''III'', the screams of pain of other beings is a symphony to Duriel's ears.
* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: You know he is subjected to this trope when you can ''still'' see said teeth even on his considerably smaller avatar.
* NonElemental: While all of the other Demon Lords have a good arsenal of ranged attacks, Duriel only uses melee attacks. Not that he needs much else to kick your ass, though...
* ShoutOut: Duriel has a very [[VideoGame/StarCraft Zerg-like]] appearance, looking like a cross between the iconic Hydralisk[=/=]Lurker and an Ultralisk, with the former's basic shape and the latter's size and strength.
* SmashMook: Other bosses all have a spell or two. Duriel just runs (extra fast) and hits (extra hard). Well, he does have a cold aura which slows down the player character, but no active abilities.
* ToThePain: His shtick being physical pain to match with Andariel's mental anguish.
* ThatOneBoss[=/=]WakeUpCallBoss: He's a nasty surprise to the player, seeing as nearly everything leading up to him has been a breeze.
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[[folder:Belial, Lord of Lies]]
!!Belial
->Voiced by: Creator/JimWard, Sofia Pirri (as Emperor Hakan) (English)[[note]]'''Other Languages''':Victor Bakin, Tatyana Veselkina (as Emperor Hakan) (Russian)[[/note]]
[[quoteright:232:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Belial_Portrait54_654_6140.png]]
The Lord of Lies. A pupil of Mephisto, Belial is known to not feel comfortable on the battlefield, instead relying on tricks and lies to get to his ends. In ''Diablo III'', he and Azmodan attempts to seize control of Sanctuary, taking advantage on the Prime Evils' apparent deaths. Belial manages to take over the city of Caldeum, impersonating the young Emperor Hakan without anyone even noticing. He serves as the main villain in the second act, as well as TheManBehindTheMan to Maghda.
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* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: He starts out as a relatively small being for a demon lord, but once he goes OneWingedAngel, he becomes gigantic. Possibly [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] though, given that the damages to the throne room is undone when he's defeated; add in his title as 'The Lord of Lies', and it's more than like that [[YourMindMakesItReal it's all just an illusion.]]
* BadBoss: He has absolutely ''zero'' faith in Maghda and constantly reminds her of that, and frequently threatens his minions with eternal torture if they fail him.
* BastardUnderstudy: Mephisto's former student, who learned all in evil and intellect from his wicked elder brother.
* BelievingTheirOwnLies: Some of the lore surrounding Belial suggests that his extreme arrogance stems from the fact that he's such a good liar, he has even convinced himself that he's the most powerful demon in existence.
* ColdBloodedTorture: He describes torturing "A Vizier's assistant", in one of his correspondences with his minions. Apparently he found the experience amusing, but was disappointed that the victim's mind broke too easily, and he could only babble mindlessly after the torture had ended.
* ConsummateLiar: His shtick as he himself is the embodiment of lies. [[spoiler: When you first meet him in Act II he's pretending to be the Child Emperor of the city you're in, stringing you along until the end when he reveals his true form.]]
* DeceptiveDisciple: According to Tyrael, he learned how to scheme from Mephisto. He later manipulated the other Lesser Evils into leading a coup against Mephisto and exiling him and the other two Prime Evils to Sanctuary (though given how events played out after the exile, it's possible this was Mephisto's intention all along...).
* DirtyCoward: How Azmodan sees him, since he despises his tendencies to hide behind disguises and tricks. The Barbarian is hinted to see him as this as well.
* EldritchLocation: Sends you down there after he gets his OneWingedAngel form.
* GeniusBruiser: A skilled manipulator and schemer, but also [[ThatOneBoss one of the most difficult bosses in the game]].
* HornedHumanoid: Some aspects of it appear in all of his forms. They're least pronounced when [[spoiler:he is disguising himself as Hakan.]]
* InformedAbility: His defining trait, being a ConsummateLiar. His identity is pretty obvious the first time you talk to him. Though unlike Azmodan, he at least does accomplish something with his manipulating skills (he is already controlling Caldeum by the time you arrive). On the other hand, while he may have ''taken over'' Caldeum, he's obviously not very good at keeping it under control; see VillainousBreakdown below.
* KillEmAll: Once the Black Soulstone is in the protagonists' hands, he floods Caldeum with [[DeathFromAbove fire]] and [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent snakes]] in retaliation. Leah suggests moving everyone into the sewers to minimize the casualties.
* ManipulativeBastard: Just like Diablo, there's a reason he's referred as the "Lord of Lies". He took control of all Caldeum through mere manipulation, without anyone in the town noticing.
* MorphicResonance: While possessing/impersonating [[spoiler:Emperor Hakan]] in the second act, he wears an oddly shaped and ornate hat which mimics the horns of his true form.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Had [[spoiler:"Hakan" not started to use ''magic'' to stay in contact with the party (magic is, in universe, only usable after ''years'' of training and study),]] Belial likely would have been able to keep the party fooled.
* TheManBehindTheMan: He was the one behind [[spoiler:Maghda and her Dark Coven in the first arc.]]
* OneWingedAngel: After his health drops below a certain threshold, he'll "cast off these petty illusions," and become a towering monster in a swirling green vortex of evil energy, becoming far more difficult.
* PaperThinDisguise: It's almost insulting how obvious it is that the creepy little ruler is Belial in ''Diablo 3.''
* RedOniBlueOni: The blue to Azmodan's red, preferring subtlety and manipulation and resorting to combat only after being exposed, in contrast to his brother's overt use of military aggression.
* SmugSnake: Not as much as Azmodan, but still has shades of it. Fittingly enough, his favorite minions are snake demons.
* TwoFaced: Reinforcing his ConsummateLiar motif, Belial literally speaks out of both sides of his mouth.
* UriahGambit: Uses this tactic against the [[PraetorianGuard Iron Wolves]], sending them on pointless and dangerous missions in the desert then replacing those who do not return with his demonic agents disguised as humans. He also uses Magdha as bait in a trap for the Nephalem to [[YouHaveFailedMe punish her for her failures]], not caring whether she lives or dies.
* VillainousBreakdown: If you take the messages he sends to his minions in account, he gradually suffers one; as you advance in the game and as Caldeum is starting to rebel, his notes become more angry, irritated and urging. This reaches the point where, when your character actually gets his hands on the Black Soulstone before him, he drops the act and attempts to destroy Caldeum as a whole. Tyrael forecasts it literally moments before Belial starts his purge.
-->'''Adria''': Can we really trust the child?\\
'''Tyrael''': We have no choice. But know this: if Belial gets desperate, he will unleash Hell upon Caldeum.
* VisualPun: He literally has two faces on his head.
* WakeUpCallBoss: While the Skeleton King and the Butcher could be defeated without much in the way of skill-switching, Belial is where you really have to start thinking about your moveset, and how it relates to fighting one strong opponent. Also, he has several attacks that force the player to stop attacking and move to avoid taking fatal damage.
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[[folder:Azmodan, Lord of Sin]]
!!Azmodan
->Voiced by: Creator/DavidSobolov (English)[[note]]'''Other Languages''':George Martirosyan (Russian)[[/note]]
[[quoteright:301:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Azmodan_Portrait_3079.png]]
The Lord of Sin. Azmodan is famous to be one of the greatest General in Hell, having won several battles against Angels by the past ([[InformedAbility not that we get to see any of his strategic prowess]]). In ''Diablo III'', he and Belial try to take over Sanctuary following the Prime Evils' apparent death. After learning the Black Soulstone's existance, he unleashes his legion in an attempt to get his hand on it, so he could absorb it and become the Prime Evil.
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* AdiposeRex: The enormously fat surviving ruler of Hell in Act III of ''Diablo III''.
* BadBoss: This guy does ''not'' tolerate failure and even threaten his minions with [[FateWorseThanDeath horrifying punishments]] if they fail him.
* BigBadWannabe: He is trying ''hard'' to be the BigBad, but he just lacks the competence for that. [[spoiler:Plus, Diablo out-gambits him]].
* FantasticRacism: Towards the Nephalem, describing them as "misbegotten" and their existence as "Creation's greatest sin".
* FatBastard: As a direct result of representing every sort of human evil, including gluttony and cruelty.
* FourStarBadass: The best general in Hell, according to the backstory. Observing how effectively the flying angels fought, he bred a race of flying demons to match their aerial mobility. During the siege of Bastion's Keep, he [[spoiler:manages to get Ghom into the Keep and has him set up shop in the larder, from where Ghom is able to ambush the keep's defenders from inside their own walls and fight the Nephalem in an area where Ghom holds the advantage]]. His only real mistake is in [[spoiler:explaining his plan to send his armies from Arreat Crater while taunting Diablo]] - an admittedly major mistake, since [[spoiler:Leah witnesses the taunting firsthand through her connection to Diablo and the Black Soulstone]], which allows the Nephalem and their allies to make it to Bastion's Keep in time to thwart Azmodan's plans.
* TheHedonist: He believes that all beings can only know their true selves when they indulge in sin to its most disgusting excesses. His weight suggests he eats a lot, and he is mentioned in the Book of Cain to be "close" to all his female lieutenants, with Cydaea being his favorite. He takes it to such extreme that ''[[TheCasanova Lyndon]]'' is shocked enough to consider giving up his depraved lifestyle just so Azmodan won't think he is encouraging him.
* IShallTauntYou: Has a bad habit of doing this to your character by using illusions to contact them and mock their effort to protect the dungeon. Unfortunately for him, those tauntings usually just end up making him look more pathetic, and he even ends up telling you his own plans in the process, thus helping you. And then there's the actual fight...
* InformedAbility: Like Belial, the one trait he's best known for -- being an "uncanny tactician" (they probably meant "canny"). He has a moment or two but doesn't demonstrate quite enough tactical acumen to live up to his reputation, especially given his penchant for monologuing at you about what he's up to.
** A bit downplayed if you look at what his forces do in the battle. Using airborne mooks to remove archers on high perches with ambush tactics, siege weapons in scattered locations to make catapult fire more difficult, and even using some demons as living siege towers. Really, if it were not for his pride and gloating, he may have done much better. Pride truly does come before the fall.
* {{Jerkass}}: Alongside his status as the Lord of Sin, Azmodan is a rather callous dick to just about anybody he interacts with, humans and his minions alike.
* LargeHam: Oh yes. Probably even more so than Diablo.
* LavaIsBoilingKoolAid: Prior to fighting the player, Azmodan is standing (bathing?) in a pool of lava. Oddly, Azmodan can not only be [[GameplayAndStorySegregation damaged by fire, he has no particular resistance to it at all]]. Maybe it really is just Kool-Aid? ''Reaper of Souls'' redoes the scene to have him standing on solid ground before the fight starts.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: A lot of his brillant strategies would have worked a lot better had he not been nice enough to ''warn'' you about them in his tauntings. Then again, he's the Lord of Sin; [[FridgeBrilliance Pride goeth before the fall, after all.]]
* RedOniBlueOni: The red to Belial's blue, relying on brute force and military aggression in contrast to his brother's subtlety and manipulation.
* SevenDeadlySins: He has seven lieutenants, each representing one of these. The only ones who make appearances are Ghom (gluttony), Cydaea (lust) and Vidian (envy). The Lord of Wrath is named Zaboul according to an item description, but he doesn't appear in-game.
* ShoutOut: Azmodan's existence was revealed back in the original ''Diablo'', but his form from the third game (an obese, horned fanged creature that's humanoid from the waist up and multipede down, and with flaming eyes and a ThroatLight) heavily resembled [[VideoGame/WarCraft Mannoroth]], another demonic lord.
* SmugSnake: Given how he is the embodiment of sin, including {{pride}}, he is utterly prone to boasting, more so than Belial. Unsurprisingly, he gets mounted on the nephalem's wall in the end.
* SpiderPeople: He walks about using six tarantula-like legs.
* TheStarscream: He is attempting to find and take the Black Soulstone so that he can embed it in his flesh and use the power of all Seven Great Evils combined so he can become the Prime Evil. [[spoiler:Diablo has the same goal in mind, only he is a lot more successful in this than Azmodan, thanks largely to his agent, Adria, being a ManipulativeBastard]].
** The irony is, Azmodan after Belial's death basically ''is'' the Prime Evil, minus the commensurate power boost; he's the only surviving Great Evil, and so would rule Hell by default if he just stayed there. The only reason [[spoiler: Diablo's]] plan works at all is because Azmodan succumbs to yet another one of the seven sins: Greed.
* TheStrategist: [[InformedAttribute Said to be]] one of the finest tacticians in Hell, honing his skills through centuries of constant battles with the angels.
* WeHaveReserves: The extent of his strategy against Bastion Keep. Whenever you deal with one of his heavy hitters like the ballistae or Ghom, he shows up and basically says "Well, that guy didn't matter, we'll still overrun the keep through sheer numbers."
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!Sin Lords
[[folder:Sin Lords in General]]
'''Tropes applying to multiple Sin Lords:'''
* CoDragons: Seven of them, to Azmodan, though only three of them appear in the game itself.
* SevenDeadlySins: Ghom is Gluttony, Cydaea is Lust, Vidian is Envy, and Zaboul is Wrath.
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[[folder:Ghom, Lord of Gluttony]]
!!Ghom, Lord of Gluttony
[[quoteright:308:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/GHOM_9999.jpg]]
One of Azmodan's lieutenants. Known for his insatiable, disgusting appetite and cannibalistic tendencies. In the game, Ghom is sent by Azmodan inside Bastion's Keep in order to attack it from the inside. He made the food reserve his hideout and started taking prisoners in order to consume them. He is eventually killed off by the Nephalem.
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* BigEater: Probably one of the rare examples to bring this trope to terrifying levels.
* ExtremeOmnivore: According to Deckard Cain, he once ate several angels while they were still wearing their armor and weapons.
* FatBastard: He isn't as fat as Azmodan, but he comes close, and is ''much'' more disgusting.
* {{Gasshole}}: The guy can't even speak without making fart noises, his gas cloud attack could possibly be a really disgusting fart, and when he dies, he lets a huge one rip.
* IAmAHumanitarian: Takes it to its worst possible extreme; he forces his prisoners to eat their comrades, and ''then'' eats them.
* PoisonousPerson: He produces massive amount of toxic vapor around him, which can easily kill you if you stand in it for too long.
* TooManyMouths: Four, to be precise. One on his head, one on each of his shoulders, and an enormous BellyMouth across his torso.
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[[folder:Cydaea, Maiden of Lust]]
!!Cydaea, Maiden of Lust
->Voiced by: Creator/ClaudiaBlack (English)[[note]]'''Other Languages''':Olga Pletneva (Russian)[[/note]]
[[quoteright:150:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/150px-Portrait_Mistress_of_Pain_5647.png]]
Azmodan's favorite lieutenant and former concubine, and the leader of the Succubi presumably after Andariel's death. You fight her as you penetrate into Azmodan's realm to destroy the Sin Hearts powering his invasion.
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* TheBaroness: Many of her quotes revolve around a desire to humiliate and break the will of the Nephalem.
* CombatSadomasochist: She screams in pleasure at some of your hits and seems to fantasize about what she is going to do to you.
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* DepravedBisexual: No matter what gender your character is, she will display a disturbing, [[FoeYay twisted infatuation]] with him/her. She even creeps out ''[[TheCasanova Lyndon]]''!
* HornyDevil: Big time. She even uses Succubi as her minions (and calls them her daughters).
* LovesTheSoundOfScreaming: She enjoys torturing the demons that are eternally imprisoned in the Towers of Sin, describing their screams as "such sweet music".
* SeductiveSpider: The representation of the sin of lust is a demon woman with the body of a spider, described as both beautiful and grotesque.
* SneakySpider: She has the body of a woman but the legs of a spider. Deckard Cain describes her as both beautiful and grotesque. As her title implies, she tempts mortals ([[DepravedBisexual no matter their gender or sexuality]]) into her web with her sweet voice before devouring them alive.
* SpiderPeople: Her lower half is ''very'' arachnid, to the point that she is far more likely to trigger your arachnophobia than the normal {{Giant Spider}}s you encounter in the game.
* VillainousBreakdown: Cydaea drops her playful demeanor hard near the end of your second battle.
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[[folder:Vidian, Lord of Envy]]
!!Vidian, Lord of Envy
One of Azmodan's lesser lieutenants, Vidian had a shining talent for sowing discord among the angels, but seldom obeyed the will of his master. After the fall of Azmodan and Diablo, Vidian took up residence in the Shrouded Moors, where he heads a cult that preys on adventurers and seeks to sacrifice the newly-emergent Nephalem. You fight him in the Temple of the Firstborn in Adventure Mode.
* BadBoss: It's strongly implied he was leading the new cult solely to attract the Nephalems attention and viewed them as disposable otherwise. Not only killing them in his human guise as Daivin alongside the Nephalem, but also set it up so that the only way to go deeper into the Temple was by killing numerous cultists to have their blood open the way.
* BrilliantButLazy: Vidian is capable of decimating entire armies through his ability to turn foes against one another, but he rarely took part in the Eternal Conflict unless the situation interested him.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: He doesn't understand why the Nephalem would serve a fallen angel like Tyrael when they could rule over the Hells with their power.
* HatePlague: Vidian is able to turn armies of angels against themselves and make even the most loyal soldiers question their superior's orders through his mastery of Envy. Fortunately for the angels, he was rarely deployed in the Eternal Conflict due to his dislike of following Azmodan's instructions.
* MeaningfulName: "Vidian" is derived from ''invidia'', the Latin word for "envy".
* PaperThinDisguise: {{Invoked}}. Vidian knew his human guise as Daivin would not fool the Nephalem. Despite this he is actually [[MasterOfDisguise able to pass off as a normal human in that form]].
* SignificantAnagram: When Vidian first appears in the Shrouded Moors, he's assumed the alias of "Daivin the Adventurer".
* ThePowerOfBlood: The evil cult that Vidian heads seems intent on harnessing the power of Nephalem blood to their own ends. He is personally interested in the Nephalem's blood overall.
* VillainTakesAnInterest: He becomes obsessed with the playable Nephalem upon realizing they were the ones who defeated the two strongest forces amongst the angels and demons. Vidian even believes the Nephalem could take over the Burning Hells and rule them as they wish.
* YouCouldHaveUsedYourPowersForEvil: He believes the Nephalem are powerful enough to subjugate all of Hell to their will and mocks them for choosing to be the lackey of a FallenAngel instead.
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[[folder:Zaboul, Lord of Wrath]]
* EvilWeapon: He forged the axe Burst of Wrath and slaughtered over 1000 demons during its creation.
* TheUnfought: Does not appear in the game itself, and the only mention of him is in the description of the above-mentioned axe, Burst of Wrath.
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!Other Demons
[[folder:The Butcher]]
!!The Butcher
A bloated and grotesque creature, The Butcher is a sadistic being that relished in the torture and pain of others. It hunts endlessly for fresh meat and was responsible for various massacres on the raids of Tristram Cathedral. In Diablo III, it is learned that there are multiple Butchers, one of whom engages the Nephalem at the end of Act I.
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* AnAxeToGrind: More like a very large meat Cleaver to grind. The hero can use it as a two-handed weapon after defeating The Butcher.
* BreakoutCharacter: He appeared only as an early boss, but the build up to him and his status as a scary WakeUpCallBoss led him to become almost as iconic as the titular Diablo.
* TheButcher: It's in his name.
* {{Catchphrase}}: ''Ah! Fresh meat.''
* TheDreaded: His name inspires dread both among the inhabitants of Tristram, and among newbie players of the first Diablo due to the ease in which he can kill you in that game.
* FatBastard: He has a big belly and he's a bloodthirsty and sadistic demon.
* FleshGolem: The description of the Butcher in ''III'' suggests that it was stitched together from the corpses of other demons.
* LightningBruiser: He can quickly rush the player characters despite his huge gut.
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* SerialKiller: Frequently preys on the people of Tristram and collects their mutilated corpses.
* WakeUpCallBoss: This guy is found in the ''second'' level of Tristram Cathedral, and low-level characters, particularly melee fighters, are ''not'' going to have a good time with him. Especially since for the unprepared, he can easily surprise them with his appearance in what was supposed to be an exploration.
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[[folder:Lilith]]
!!Lilith
->Voiced by: Creator/JessicaStraus (English)[[note]]'''Other Languages''':Creator/LaurenceBreheret (French), Ekaterina Afrikantova (Russian)[[/note]]
The daughter of Mephisto. Her affair with the Archangel Inarius would lead to the creation of Sanctuary and the Nephalem.
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* ActorAllusion: Hilariously, this isn't the first time Jessica Straus [[{{VideoGame/Darksiders}} has voiced a demon name Lilith.]]
* AscendedExtra: After three games staying mostly at the backstories, Lilith will become one of the main focuses of ''VideoGame/DiabloIV''.
* BloodMagic: In ''VideoGame/DiabloIV'', she is summoned back into Sanctuary through a ritual involving the blood of three men, one of which had to be willingly participating.
* DaddysLittleVillain: Used to be this to Mephisto before leaving with Inarius.
* InterspeciesRomance: With Inarius. Later with Uldyssian. Neither case is [[DestructiveRomance really healthy]].
* MotherOfAThousandYoung: Seeks to use her children to conquer all of creation.
* PragmaticVillainy: Her reason for joining with Inarius; She felt the Endless Conflict would never be able to end the way her father was pursuing it and was looking for another way to solve it.
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[[folder:Rakanoth, Lord of Despair]]
!!Rakanoth, Lord of Despair
He was once a lieutenant of Andariel, granted the title of Lord of Despair. He presided over the Plains of Despair, serving as a warden and keeper of prisoners, such as Izual. After Andariel's death in ''Diablo II'', Rakanoth shifted his allegiance to Diablo when the latter became the Prime Evil (thus becoming the new Lord of Anguish) and assaulted the High Heavens. During Diablo's assault, Rakanoth was summoned to imprison Auriel, the Archangel of Hope.
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* BadassInDistress: Imposes this on Auriel.
* HopeCrusher: This is Rakanoth's job during Diablo's invasion of Heaven, which he does by capturing Auriel. He succeeds in driving pretty much everyone in both Heaven and Sanctuary to despair before the Nephalem kills him and releases her.
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[[folder:Dirgest]]
!!Dirgest
An infamous demon lord personally responsible for the slaughter of millions. Long ago, he was subdued and sealed within a gem that came to be known as Dirgest's Gem. Covetous Shen has made it his mission to locate Dirgest's Gem before it falls into the wrong hands.
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* TheDreaded: Shen makes it clear that his release would be nothing short of catastrophic.
* SealedEvilInACan: [[spoiler:Not anymore, as of ''Reaper of Souls''.]]
* YouAreTooLate: [[spoiler:He has already escaped the Gem by the time Shen and the Nephalem find it.]]
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[[folder:Gharbad the Weak]]
!!Gharbad the Weak
A Goatman that will beg for mercy in ''Diablo I'', promising to make something special for the hero if his life is spared.
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* AnimalSpeciesAccent: His speech sounds similar to a goat's bleats.
* CameBackStrong: He reappears in ''Diablo III'' as Gharbad the Strong, Baleful Impaler.
* PaletteSwap: Like many unique monsters in ''Diablo'', he stands out from the other Goatmen by his color scheme, a rather bizarre mixture of cherry red and pale blue.
* YouNoTakeCandle: How he speaks: "Pleeease, no hurt, no kill. Keep alive and next time good bring to you."
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[[folder:Greed, Baroness of the Treasure Realm]]
!!Greed, Baroness of the Treasure Realm
The Demon Lord who rules the Treasure Goblins and is the de facto ruler of the Treasure Realm. Apparently ''not'' one of the Sin Lords, her existence is a mystery all on its own. She's the boss of the first major patch of ''Reaper of Souls''.
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* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: The de facto leader of the Treasure Goblins will face the Nephalem head-on when they come to plunder her treasure hoard.
* TheBaroness: It's in her title. Definitely of the Rosa Klebb variety.
* BlingOfWar: A preview image shows that she wears layered armlets and necklaces, along with a nice-looking cape, into her battle with the Nephalem.
* BonusBoss: Of a sort--the portal to her realm opens by chance, and it's essentially a BonusLevel where the Nephalem can earn plenty of riches, so...
* DeathByLookingUp: She can invoke this on the player by using a GroundPound to drop treasure chests on their heads. [[spoiler: It's also how she ultimately meets her end.]]
* DropTheHammer: A preview image shows her wielding a massive war mace in her boss battle.
* CrosshairAware: Her charge attack and chest-dropping attacks are telegraphed by "before-images" and target circles, respectively, showing where the player should try ''not'' to be in the next few seconds.
* FanDisservice: She doesn't wear much in the way of conventional clothing. See [[FatBastard Fat Bitch]] and {{Gonk}} to understand why this trope applies.
* [[FatBastard Fat Bitch]]: She's just as fat as Ghom, and just as unpleasant.
* {{Gonk}}: Unlike Cydaea, another female demon, Baroness Greed is thoroughly hideous.
* {{Greed}}: Obviously, considering her name.
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* JigglePhysics: After she charges the player or does a GroundPound, her prodigious girth wobbles noticeably. This is ''not'' played for Fanservice, for reasons detailed in FanDisservice above.
* MoneyFetish: According to [[WordOfGod the lead writer, Brian Kindregan]], "Greed is obsessed with all things valuable" to the point that she "takes a bath in all her gold every three hours." [[WesternAnimation/DuckTales Scrooge McDuck himself]] would be proud!
* MoneyMauling: One her attacks have her attempting to crush the heroes beneath treasure chests filled with loot.
* RammingAlwaysWorks: She can charge at intruders to her realm--up to three times in a row, in fact. Thankfully, this is telegraphed beforehand, giving the player time to dodge it.
* RichBitch: Being ruler of a treasure realm, it goes without saying that the Baroness is incredibly wealthy.
* SlouchOfVillainy: When the Nephalem finds her, she's lounging on a vast throne, apparently asleep. [[ShmuckBait Until you click on that chest she's using as a footstool...]]
* SwordBeam: Of a kind--she can slam her mace into the ground to create a long-ranged seismic shockwave.
* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: After she's defeated, you can click on the chest she's in to smash the lid into her. It does nothing other than spreading gore around.
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[[folder:Tathamet]]
!Tathamet
A seven headed Dragon created when Anu cast off all evil from himself. Anu's and Tathamet's battle led to the creation of the universe, with Tathamet's dead body becoming the Burning Hells, and his seven heads becoming the seven Great Evils.
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* BiblicalBadGuy: Not directly, but its description as a seven-headed demonic dragon draws clear parallels to the portrayal of Satan seen in ''Literature/TheBookOfRevelation''.
* DragonsAreDemonic: He is described as a 7-headed dragon and is the ultimate GodOfEvil in the Diablo series.
* EldritchAbomination: Is a dragon in-name only, resembling something far more cosmic. Befitting considering the strange nature of the other "dragon" in the setting.
* {{Expy}}: Is very clearly based on the ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' version of Tiamat (who has multiple heads, whereas in the original myths she only had one.)
* GreaterScopeVillain: His death created the Great Evils, and the Burning Hells but he has nothing to do with what the Great Evils do in the games.
* MadeOfEvil: He was all the evil Anu cast off himself.
* MutualKill: One of the earliest recorded events in history is a duel between Tathamet and Anu that ended in each of them slaying the other. Their corpses would eventually reform themselves into Heaven and Hell.
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!The Prime Evils
[[folder:Prime Evils in General]]
The Prime Evils are the {{Big Bad}}s of the series and consist of Diablo, the Lord of Terror; Baal, the Lord of Destruction; and Mephisto, the Lord of Hatred. As the strongest of the seven Great Evils, the Prime Evils rule over the Burning Hells in unity. Before the events of the games, the three brothers had been exiled from the Burning Hells by the Lesser Evils and subsequently imprisoned within soulstones by Tyrael and the Horadrim. These soulstones were then hidden in certain locations in Sanctuary. However, unknown to their jailors, the Prime Evils had found a way to take control of the soulstones...
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'''Tropes applying to all of the Prime Evils'''
* AsLongAsThereIsEvil: It's implied that as long as evil still exists in the cosmos, the Prime Evils will always return in some way (even if they are killed, they seem to still exist as some kind of disembodied spirts until they can possess another mortal, and can't be destroyed permanently, only contained.)
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: When the demons rebelled against them, the Prime Evils killed about a third of them before being driven out.
* BigBadTriumvirate: They jointly rule the Burning Hells and seek to destroy the High Heavens and rule Sanctuary.
* TheChessmaster: They planned the event of the first two games right from the beginning.
* ChromaticArrangement: Their soulstones follow the RYB color model: red (Diablo), blue (Mephisto) and yellow (Baal). Their magic when they activate the Infernal Gate matches this.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: They have almost invaded heaven before but did not succeed because they bicker among themselves over who gets what upon victory.
* TheCorrupter: All of them got their way out by corrupting people around them, especially Diablo and Mephisto.
* DemonLordsAndArchdevils: They're the three most powerful demons, and three of the smartest, too.
* FireIceLightning: Diablo used fire, Baal uses ice, and Mephisto uses lightning.
* HornsOfVillainy: Despite varying widely in appearance, all three of them have horns.
* {{Large Ham}}s: Diablo pretty much speaks in [[NoIndoorVoice ALL CAPS]] and Mephisto comes off as rather grandiose the few times we see him. Baal is the only one not outright ChewingTheScenery, but he manages to pull off ColdHam instead via sarcasm and mockery.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: "Diablo" and "Mephisto" are names used for {{Satan}} in our world. "Baal" is the title of an ancient Mesopotamian fertility god, but has a negative connotation in both [[TheBible the Old Testament]] and Abrahamic religions.
* ResurrectiveImmortality: Because they are aspects of the [[BigBad ultimate Evil]], the Prime Evils will always return after death. In the games, they do this by [[DemonicPossession possessing mortals]]; it's not clear how it worked before humans came around.
* SealedEvilInACan: They were all trapped in soulstones, though Baal had to be trapped in a person as well due to his soulstone being damaged.
* WalkingWasteland: Wherever the Primes go, minor demons appear and the landscape becomes gradually corrupted.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Diablo, Lord of Terror]]
!!Diablo, Lord of Terror
->Voiced by: Bill Roper (''I'' and ''II''), Creator/JBBlanc (''III'') (English)[[note]]'''Other Languages''':Nadezhda Gorelova (''III'') (Russian)[[/note]]
[[quoteright:301:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Diablo_Portrait_4732.png]]
Of the three Prime Evils, Al'Diabalos is the youngest brother, however he is also the foremost and the strongest of the three in raw power. However, he should not be taken for a mere brute, for his power belies a most cunning mind. Of the three brothers, Diablo was the one captured last. His soulstone was buried at the bottom of a labyrinth deep beneath Tristram Cathedral. There he was imprisoned for nearly 200 years until the soulstone was found and shattered by Archbishop Lazarus, the closest advisor of the new king of Khanduras, Leoric. Diablo immediately tried to possess King Leoric, but though he failed, the king was left a maddened wreck until he was eventually slain. Having failed to possess King Leoric, Archbishop Lazarus offered up the king's youngest son, Prince Albrecht, as a host. A shattered piece of the soulstone was jammed into the young prince's head, allowing Diablo to take over.
He was eventually slain by the hero of the first game: [[KnightInShiningArmor Aidan]], a warrior of great prowess and King Leoric's eldest son. However, this would be far from the last heard of Diablo, for Aidan jammed the soulstone into his own head, believing his will strong enough to contain the Lord of Terror. Alas, he failed and Diablo took over his body and in the company of Marius, he set out east to free Baal and reunite with Mephisto, before he headed back into Hell to reclaim his dominion over it. The heroes of the second game managed to defeat him however and his soulstone was shattered, seemingly putting Diablo to rest forever. Except, it proved not to be the [[VideoGame/DiabloIII case]]...
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* AntagonistTitle: Is the main antagonist of all three main games.
* ArchEnemy: Primarily to Imperius, but being the BigBad, he's this to a whole lot more as well.
* AsLongAsThereIsEvil: Implied, especially in [[spoiler: Diablo III where he gains the power of all the other evils and becomes the Prime Evil]]. As long is evil still exists in the universe, he will find a way back.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:He is [[NiceJobBreakingItHero inadvertently resurrected by the player character]] at the conclusion of ''Reaper of Souls'']].
* BadassBoast:
** "Not even death can save you from me!"
** "Take one last look at your shining heaven, Imperius! For soon, nothing of it shall remain... but my laughter!"
* BigBad: For all three of the games, with the exception of Diablo II's and III's expansion packs.
* BigRedDevil: His look has changed over the various games, but he mostly remains this.
* TheChessmaster: He's a genius, full stop. Diablo manipulates the entire kingdom of Tristram to secure a host body, twists his defeat to his advantage and then sets his own brothers up, along with his own revival, to become the Prime Evil.
* TheCorrupter: More than almost any other save for big brother Mephisto. Diablo twists the minds of others to break them, being responsible for turning King Leoric into a crazed monster and his eldest son, Prince Aidan, into a soul-ravaged shell of his old self.
* CurbstompBattle: [[spoiler:After becoming the Prime Evil, Diablo battles Imperius one on one. Mighty as he may be as the Aspect of Valor, Imperius is no match for the sum total of all Seven Great Evils in one being, and he is swiftly defeated.]]
* DemonicPossession: Did this on the prince and later on the hero of the first game. [[spoiler: And then to [[TheWoobie Leah]] after her mom used the Black Soulstone on her.]]
* DiscOneFinalBoss: In ''II'' and ''III'', he was originally the FinalBoss until expansions demoted him to this. He still is the final boss if you don't have the expansion of the game you're playing, though.
* TheDreaded: He is not known as the "Lord of Terror" for nothing. Diablo is the most feared of the Prime Evils for his powers with terror.
* EvilSoundsDeep: As befitting of any powerful archdemon, Diablo does this in pretty much every game he's in.
* FinalBoss: Of the first game. In ''II'' and ''III'', expansion packs demote him to a DiscOneFinalBoss.
* GambitRoulette: An ''awful'' lot of things, over a very long time period, had to go right for his overall plan to come to fruition.
* GeniusBruiser: He is the tallest and the strongest of the Prime Evils. That doesn't prevent him from being a skilled MagnificentBastard with an EvilPlan since the beginning of the saga.
** As shown by a discarded Journal in Reaper of Souls he even figured out the purpose of the stolen Worldstone and begun making plans to corrupt the Nephalem as soon as possible.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: His use of the Soulstones ends up leading to his defeat in II. [[spoiler: The same happens in III with the Black Soulstone, leaving all of the evils trapped in the one stone.]]
* HornedHumanoid: The most traditionally "demonic" of the three Prime Evils.
* IAmLegion: Declares this in ''VideoGame/DiabloIII'' to break the will of the High Heavens for good, after absorbing all six other demon lords into himself.
* JokerImmunity: Diablo has been killed, imprisioned and banished multiple times with a few supposed to be "permanent," but he keeps returning. At the end of ''Lord of Destruction'' when his Soulstone is smashed, it's explicitly stated that he's completely destroyed and can never come back. Doesn't stop him from returning in III, at the end of which they don't even pretend that he's gone for good.
* ManipulativeBastard: Not on the scale of Belial, but he has his moments. [[spoiler:In Diablo III, he proceeds to do a massive MindRape on the playable characters and Tyrael while they ascend to him by sending Izual and demons impersonating the ghost of people they knew and met in order to break their confidence, each demons using an aspect of the Demon Lords (the Terror's demon impersonated Leah and mocked the playable character for helping Diablo become the Prime Evil; the Destruction's Demon impersonated Marius and tried to put Tyrael in guilt for abandoning him; Demon of Lies impersonated Haedrig's wife Mira and blamed the PC for her death; the demon of Anguish impersonated Maghda and blamed him/her for Belial's death; Demon of Sin impersonated Rumford and tried to convince him/her he/she was only motivated by greed and blood lust; and the list goes on).]]
* MultiarmedAndDangerous: Upon being resurrected [[spoiler: in Leah's body]] in III, he has four arms instead of two like in the previous games.
* LargeHam: Large Deviled HAM!
--> [[BadassBoast Not even DEATH can save you from me!]]
* OddNameOut: The other Prime Evils are named after demons, monsters, spirits and gods from various religions and mythologies. He's named after...the Spanish word for devil.
** Somewhat subverted, as his full name is Al'Diabalos, and Diablo is just his most common name in Sanctuary.
* PlayingWithFire: He possesses various spells most of which are fire-based.
* PrimalFear: His domain; because he is Lord of Terror, he fears nothing (aside from his own appearance as shown in the Sin War trilogy), which is why Deckard Cain considers him the most dangerous of the Seven Evils.
* {{Sadist}}: Diablo savors the pain and fear of others, delighting in turning their fears into reality.
* SatanicArchetype: Diablo, as befitting of his name, is Sanctuary's equivalent of Satan, though until the third game, he had to share this title with the other two Prime Evils, Baal and Mephisto. [[spoiler:And then in the third game, he becomes the ''Prime Evil'', all seven Evils combined in one being, making him the ultimate evil in Sanctuary]].
* ShockAndAwe: His infamous Red Lightning Hose is one Hell of an attack that can be considered by far his deadliest attack. It makes its appearance in ''Diablo II'' 's final battles [[spoiler:and then returns for the final phase of the final battle of ''Diablo III'']].
* SpikesOfVillainy: His demon form often features these.
* {{Teleportation}}: His new feature in ''VideoGame/DiabloIII'' which makes him even more difficult to defeat.
* UpToEleven: His difficulty in the first game became higher and higher. Though his difficulty is debatable in 3.
* VillainousBreakdown: Suffers a big one when [[spoiler:you escape his Realm of Terror in III]].
* TheWorfEffect: He plays a strangely insignificant role in ''The Sin War'' trilogy compared to Mephisto's influence. Soon as he gets involved, Uldyssian defeats him by turning his own fear powers on himself, solely to demonstrate the strength of the Nephalem and removing Diablo from the plot.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Once he reached Mephisto, he broke away from the Dark Wanderer's body and left him to die, having no more uses for him. Strangely, however, in ''III'', he [[spoiler:actually spared Adria, after her services of bringing him back via Leah, and tells her to retreat until her services are needed again, implying that if the Nephalem did not kill her in Act V, Diablo might have other uses for her.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Baal, Lord of Destruction]]
!!Baal
->Voiced by: Milton James (English)[[note]]'''Other Languages''':Alexander Noskov (Russian)[[/note]]
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Tor'Baalos, the Lord of Destruction. Unlike his brothers, Baal's Soulstone was damaged when the Horadrim managed to capture him, leaving them unable to trap him the conventional way. As a result, a powerful Horadrim Mage named Tal'Rasha volunteered to complete the Broken Soulstone, using his own body as a container to keep the Lord of Destruction sealed. For additional precaution, he was willingly placed in a sealed tomb, and the Horadrim built several fake ones.
In ''Diablo II'', the first thing Diablo does (after taking over his host and leaving Tristram) is head for the city of Lut Gholein to look for the Tomb of Tal'Rasha and free his brother, at which he succeeds. Baal manages to escape after the defeat of his two brothers, and serves as the BigBad for the Expanson set, ''Lord of Destruction''.
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* AnIcePerson: He possesses various spells, most of which are cold-based--most notably, his Hoarfrost attack, which can push you a whole screen away.
* AxCrazy: Being the Lord of Destruction, he's the only of the three Prime Evils to rule of a physical concept rather then emotional. Deckard Cain describes him in his journal as the most unstable and aggressive of the three.
* TheBerserker: The most physically powerful [[spoiler: pre-Diablo turning into Tathamet]] and reckless of the Great Evils.
* BigBad: Takes over as the main villain in the expansion of Diablo II after your character has defeated his two brothers.
* TheBrute: Baal's role in the triumvirate between Mephisto's EvilGenius and Diablo's savagely brilliant terrors. Baal is vicious, powerful and favors overwhelming physical power. The presence of succubi in his army notwithstanding, his personal demons tend to fit this mold as well.
* CharacterDevelopment: A lot of people make disparaging remarks about Baal's intelligence, and he's seen as a rather dim monster who smashes first and asks questions later. After his experiences with Tal'Rasha, Baal shows a wickedly manipulative and intelligent side.
* CombatTentacles: His trademark.
* DeadpanSnarker: Baal has a wicked, dry sense of humor, playfully mocking Marius before delivering his 'reward.' In the opening of 'Lord of Destruction,' he snarkily informs a community leader his terms are 'rejected' after blowing him apart.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: It's slight, but as selfish as Baal is he seems to care for his brothers, stating in the trailer for ''Lord of Destruction'' that "my brothers shall not have died in vain!"
* EvilLaugh: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kC9WFvU9-4 Check it out here]].
* FauxAffablyEvil: Notice his attitude towards Marius and his "negotiation" with the Barbarian messenger. It's downright creepy.
* LargeHam: Not so much in [[spoiler:his cutscenes with Marius]], but he's always cackling maniacally when met in game.
* ManipulativeBastard: He's able to trick Marius ''twice'' into helping him.
* MesACrowd: He can create duplicates of himself during his boss fight. These duplicates have the same attacks as him, but way less HP, fortunately.
* {{Mummy}}: When in Tal'Rasha's body, he's a mummified husk of a creature.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: His corrupting the Worldstone forced Tyrael to destroy it, which in turn unlocked the Nephalem's full potential and led to the downfall of the Prime Evils.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: Well, duh. He's the ''Lord of Destruction''.
* SealedEvilInAPerson: Due to his Soulstone being damaged, the Horadrim had to use their member Tal'Rasha as a willing host to imprison Baal.
* ShootTheMessenger: After being defied by the barbarians, he messily disposes of the one he is negotiating in with, having determined that the terms were not acceptable.
* SpiderPeople: His lower body is very spidery, as are a number of his extra limbs.
%% StaffOfAuthority
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Mephisto, Lord of Hatred]]
!!Mephisto
->Voiced by: Creator/PaulEiding (English)[[note]]'''Other Languages''':Maxim Pinsker (Russian)[[/note]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mephisto_d2_resurrected_6.png]]
Dul'Mephistos, the Lord of Hatred, and the eldest brother of the Prime Evils. He was the one who actually started the events of the series, since his corruption of the Zakarum church, from which Archbishop Lazarus was a member, meant the latter decided to go to Khanduras and free Diablo from his imprisonment, thus setting in motion the events of ''Diablo''.
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* ArtEvolution: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtnP7XRVQeo original cinematic]] to feature Mephisto had some rather poor lip-syncing with Creator/PaulEiding's dialogue. The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaODAlq06nM remade cinematic]] in ''Resurrected'' gets around this by having Mephisto's head be a bare skull that his voice is echoing from. Giving he's a supernatural entity, he wouldn't necessarily be dependent on the same body parts that mortals use to speak anyway.
* TheChessmaster: Mephisto's realm in the Burning Hells is a DecadentCourt of plotting and scheming where only the most skilled and ruthless survive. Mephisto is the smartest, effortlessly weaving together endless plots both against enemies within and without hell. Not even Diablo and Baal are immune from being pawns in Mephisto's schemes.
* CombatTentacles: He has two tentacles in addition to humanoid arms. They seem to be mainly for show however as his melee animation has him clawing you.
* EvilGenius: According to [[AllThereInTheManual information you get from both Deckard Cain and on the various sites]], he was the smartest of the Prime Evils. [[spoiler:Not that it prevented him from being OutGambitted by Diablo eventually.]]
* EvilGloating: During the fight he repeatedly brags about how YouAreTooLate and how "my brothers have escaped you". If you are lucky or time your attack just right, you can [[KilledMidSentence kill him before he gets the entire phrase out.]]
* EvilLaugh: He gives one after saying YouAreTooLate to the heroes.
* EvilMentor: Tyrael claims that he taught Belial how to scheme.
* EvilSoundsDeep: In ''Diablo II''. It's later revealed in the discarded journals in ''Reaper of Souls'' that it's a result of not having fully twisted his host into his true form. When in his actual true form he sounds like a demonic old man.
* GameplayAndStorySegregation: Despite being the oldest of the three he is actually the easiest in terms of game stats. This could be due to him [[WorfHadTheFlu still technically imprisoned when you fight him.]]
* ItsPersonal: He reserved a particular level of hate and wrath for the angel Inarius who was his daughter's lover.
* LargeHam: Oh, Mephisto loves his crazy speeches.
* TheLeader: He was the eldest of the Prime Evils and the closest thing they had to one.
* LeanAndMean: Both his design when possessing a host and the official arts of his true form portray him as leaner than his two brothers.
* LightIsNotGood: He becomes the de facto leader of the [[CorruptChurch Zakarum religion]].
* ManipulativeBastard: We are talking about the guy who taught Belial everything he knows.
* TheMentor: To Belial, according to Tyrael.
* PoisonousPerson: He's able to send a cloud of poisonous gas during the fight against him.
* ThePowerOfHate: His domain.
* ShockAndAwe: His powers in ''Diablo II'' are mostly lightning-based.
* SkullForAHead: His head resembles a macabre, horned skull.
* SurroundedByIdiots: His journal in ''Reaper of Souls'' indicate he felt this way toward his minions:
-->"Cursed am I to lead an army of the blind."
* WeakButSkilled: According to lore, Mephisto is the speculated to be weakest amongst the three. However he is a de facto leader and sort of a unifier due to his brilliant intelligence and strategic skills. Pretty much entire plan that lead to the plot in the first and second installment of the trilogy was organized by him. Mephisto's talent with corruption is also supreme and he's just as dangerous as a demon lord should be. Note that 'weakest of the Prime Evils' is still 'more than powerful enough to slaughter just about anything in existemce.'
[[/folder]]
!The Lesser Evils
[[folder:The Lesser Evils in General]]
The lower-ranking four lieutenants of the three Prime Evils, consisting in Andariel Maiden of Anguish, Duriel Lord of Pain, Belial Lord of Lies and Azmodan Lord of Sins. They started out as their lieutnants, but, after a EnemyCivilWar inside the Burning Hells, they overthrown the three and exiled them to Earth, leading to the events of the game. They come back in ''Diablo II'', where Andariel and Duriel joins forces with the Prime Evils again, then in ''Diablo III'', where Belial and Azmodan both come in an attempt to seize control after the Prime Evils' apparent death.
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'''Tropes Applying to all Lesser Evils'''
* DemonLordsAndArchdevils: While inferior to the Prime Evils, they still are the next stronger beings in Hell.
* EnemyCivilWar: Their revolt against the Prime Evils mentioned in the backstory of Diablo. And not long after they were gone, Azmodan and Belial turned on another in an endless civil war of their own.
* TheStarscream: A collective one. Belial and Azmodan were the instigators, but the four turned on the Prime Evils to expel them from hell and usurp control of demonkind.
* UnwittingPawn: Their plan to take over Hell and kick out the Prime Evils was actually what ''they'' wanted.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Andariel, Maiden of Anguish]]
!!Andariel
->Voiced by: Creator/LaniMinella (English)
[[quoteright:255:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/andariel2_6321.jpg]]
The Maiden of Anguish, and [[SmurfettePrinciple the only one amongst the Seven Demonlords to be female]]. Though she took part in the rebellion against the Prime Evils, she eventually grew tired of the quarrels between her brothers, and ended up trying to reconcile with the Prime Evils. In ''Diablo II'', she sides with Diablo, taking over the Rogue Monastery and blocking the road to Orient so nobody will be able to follow him.
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* AttackItsWeakPoint: The only one of the Prime or Lesser evils to be given an implicit elemental weakness (Fire, for the record.)
* BewareMyStingerTail: She has four scorpion stings on her back, [[ArachnidAppearanceAndAttire arranged like spider legs]]. That must be where her poison comes from.
* TheCorrupter: To the Rogues at the Monastery, transforming the living into her brainwashed, mad servants and the dead into her tools.
* CuteMonsterGirl: Well, she still looks pretty monstrous, but compared to most male demons, she is at least somewhat human-looking.
* ChainmailBikini: Skimpier than that. Hers only cover her nipples and are attached to a chain.
* EvilRedhead: ''Deep'' red hair, as per her portrait.
* HornyDevil: It is mentioned in the story that the Succubi are her handmaidens, and she herself does have the look.
* {{Irony}}: For someone who's vulnerable to fire, Andariel sure love to decorate her lair with walls of fire.
* MindRape: Andariel's schtick as the Maiden of Anguish.
* PillarOfLight: A pillar of fire shoots up from her when she dies, reaching 5-10m up.
* PoisonousPerson: All of her ranged attacks are poison-based. She even has a poison breath attack.
* SmurfettePrinciple: The only one amongst the seven demon lords to be female.
* SpiderLimbs: Growing from her shoulders.
* StarterVillain: Andariel is the final boss of the first act in ''Diablo II'', and the first major political force of Hell destroyed.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Her "bra" such as it is, is basically just two pasties attached by a chain.
* WeaksauceWeakness: Fire. She dies ridiculously easily to any fire damage and the player gets tipped off about it beforehand by Deckard Cain, too.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Duriel, Lord of Pain]]
!!Duriel
[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/duriel_4219.jpg]]
The Lord of Pain, and Andariel's twin brother.
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* AllThereInTheManual: ''Diablo I's'' manual, to be precise. His origin and the fact he is a Demon Lord are only mentioned in the manual of ''Diablo I'', Cain's Journal in ''Diablo III'', and official sites. No mention of him is made in ''Diablo II'' where he is '''a boss'''.
* AnIcePerson: Loves to inflict the Frozen status on you, which slows down your movement and your attacks (which can be ''lethal'' in Diablo II). And his version doesn't give two shits about Cold Resistance, so any melee characters are in for serious aggravation.
* BaitAndSwitchBoss: Baal is played up to be the boss of Act II of ''Diablo II''. You face this guy instead.
-->"[[LampshadeHanging Looking for Baal?]]"
* BigCreepyCrawlies: Really, how else do you describe a demon that looks like him?
* TheBrute: The only one amongst the Seven Great Evils to not get any sort of CharacterDevelopment, EvilPlan or even part in the story; he only shows up as the guardian of Tal Rasha's tomb with no explanation inside the game, and the only reason he is so memorable is because of [[ThatOneBoss how incredibly hard he is to defeat]]. In fact, you don't even ''know'' he was one of the Lesser Evils if you didn't check on the internet, read the manual of ''Diablo I'', or read Cain's Journal in ''Diablo III''.
* CombatSadomasochist: Some of the lore surrounding Duriel suggests that if unable to find a victim to torture, he will wound himself to sate his own desire for pain.
* CreepyTwins: With Andariel.
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: You fight him in the second game, but all of the information about him is revealed only in the first and third games, so within the context of the second game, he qualifies as this.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: When backed up by his freezing aura and ludicrous speed, his frighteningly high attack power will make most players sad pandas indeed. It backfires satisfyingly however, when pitted against a Paladin with Thorns or a Necromancer with Iron Maiden, both which reflect physical damage. [[SubvertedTrope Keep in mind, however,]] that Duriel probably is strong enough to take down even those characters with those skills before the backfire can kill him.
* LightningBruiser: One of the main reasons he is remembered as ThatOneBoss amongst the fans. This guy is huge, inflicts massive damage (to the point he sometimes kills you with one hit) and is ''insanely'' fast.
* LovesTheSoundOfScreaming: According to one of the loading screens in ''III'', the screams of pain of other beings is a symphony to Duriel's ears.
* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: You know he is subjected to this trope when you can ''still'' see said teeth even on his considerably smaller avatar.
* NonElemental: While all of the other Demon Lords have a good arsenal of ranged attacks, Duriel only uses melee attacks. Not that he needs much else to kick your ass, though...
* ShoutOut: Duriel has a very [[VideoGame/StarCraft Zerg-like]] appearance, looking like a cross between the iconic Hydralisk[=/=]Lurker and an Ultralisk, with the former's basic shape and the latter's size and strength.
* SmashMook: Other bosses all have a spell or two. Duriel just runs (extra fast) and hits (extra hard). Well, he does have a cold aura which slows down the player character, but no active abilities.
* ToThePain: His shtick being physical pain to match with Andariel's mental anguish.
* ThatOneBoss[=/=]WakeUpCallBoss: He's a nasty surprise to the player, seeing as nearly everything leading up to him has been a breeze.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Belial, Lord of Lies]]
!!Belial
->Voiced by: Creator/JimWard, Sofia Pirri (as Emperor Hakan) (English)[[note]]'''Other Languages''':Victor Bakin, Tatyana Veselkina (as Emperor Hakan) (Russian)[[/note]]
[[quoteright:232:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Belial_Portrait54_654_6140.png]]
The Lord of Lies. A pupil of Mephisto, Belial is known to not feel comfortable on the battlefield, instead relying on tricks and lies to get to his ends. In ''Diablo III'', he and Azmodan attempts to seize control of Sanctuary, taking advantage on the Prime Evils' apparent deaths. Belial manages to take over the city of Caldeum, impersonating the young Emperor Hakan without anyone even noticing. He serves as the main villain in the second act, as well as TheManBehindTheMan to Maghda.
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* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: He starts out as a relatively small being for a demon lord, but once he goes OneWingedAngel, he becomes gigantic. Possibly [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] though, given that the damages to the throne room is undone when he's defeated; add in his title as 'The Lord of Lies', and it's more than like that [[YourMindMakesItReal it's all just an illusion.]]
* BadBoss: He has absolutely ''zero'' faith in Maghda and constantly reminds her of that, and frequently threatens his minions with eternal torture if they fail him.
* BastardUnderstudy: Mephisto's former student, who learned all in evil and intellect from his wicked elder brother.
* BelievingTheirOwnLies: Some of the lore surrounding Belial suggests that his extreme arrogance stems from the fact that he's such a good liar, he has even convinced himself that he's the most powerful demon in existence.
* ColdBloodedTorture: He describes torturing "A Vizier's assistant", in one of his correspondences with his minions. Apparently he found the experience amusing, but was disappointed that the victim's mind broke too easily, and he could only babble mindlessly after the torture had ended.
* ConsummateLiar: His shtick as he himself is the embodiment of lies. [[spoiler: When you first meet him in Act II he's pretending to be the Child Emperor of the city you're in, stringing you along until the end when he reveals his true form.]]
* DeceptiveDisciple: According to Tyrael, he learned how to scheme from Mephisto. He later manipulated the other Lesser Evils into leading a coup against Mephisto and exiling him and the other two Prime Evils to Sanctuary (though given how events played out after the exile, it's possible this was Mephisto's intention all along...).
* DirtyCoward: How Azmodan sees him, since he despises his tendencies to hide behind disguises and tricks. The Barbarian is hinted to see him as this as well.
* EldritchLocation: Sends you down there after he gets his OneWingedAngel form.
* GeniusBruiser: A skilled manipulator and schemer, but also [[ThatOneBoss one of the most difficult bosses in the game]].
* HornedHumanoid: Some aspects of it appear in all of his forms. They're least pronounced when [[spoiler:he is disguising himself as Hakan.]]
* InformedAbility: His defining trait, being a ConsummateLiar. His identity is pretty obvious the first time you talk to him. Though unlike Azmodan, he at least does accomplish something with his manipulating skills (he is already controlling Caldeum by the time you arrive). On the other hand, while he may have ''taken over'' Caldeum, he's obviously not very good at keeping it under control; see VillainousBreakdown below.
* KillEmAll: Once the Black Soulstone is in the protagonists' hands, he floods Caldeum with [[DeathFromAbove fire]] and [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent snakes]] in retaliation. Leah suggests moving everyone into the sewers to minimize the casualties.
* ManipulativeBastard: Just like Diablo, there's a reason he's referred as the "Lord of Lies". He took control of all Caldeum through mere manipulation, without anyone in the town noticing.
* MorphicResonance: While possessing/impersonating [[spoiler:Emperor Hakan]] in the second act, he wears an oddly shaped and ornate hat which mimics the horns of his true form.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Had [[spoiler:"Hakan" not started to use ''magic'' to stay in contact with the party (magic is, in universe, only usable after ''years'' of training and study),]] Belial likely would have been able to keep the party fooled.
* TheManBehindTheMan: He was the one behind [[spoiler:Maghda and her Dark Coven in the first arc.]]
* OneWingedAngel: After his health drops below a certain threshold, he'll "cast off these petty illusions," and become a towering monster in a swirling green vortex of evil energy, becoming far more difficult.
* PaperThinDisguise: It's almost insulting how obvious it is that the creepy little ruler is Belial in ''Diablo 3.''
* RedOniBlueOni: The blue to Azmodan's red, preferring subtlety and manipulation and resorting to combat only after being exposed, in contrast to his brother's overt use of military aggression.
* SmugSnake: Not as much as Azmodan, but still has shades of it. Fittingly enough, his favorite minions are snake demons.
* TwoFaced: Reinforcing his ConsummateLiar motif, Belial literally speaks out of both sides of his mouth.
* UriahGambit: Uses this tactic against the [[PraetorianGuard Iron Wolves]], sending them on pointless and dangerous missions in the desert then replacing those who do not return with his demonic agents disguised as humans. He also uses Magdha as bait in a trap for the Nephalem to [[YouHaveFailedMe punish her for her failures]], not caring whether she lives or dies.
* VillainousBreakdown: If you take the messages he sends to his minions in account, he gradually suffers one; as you advance in the game and as Caldeum is starting to rebel, his notes become more angry, irritated and urging. This reaches the point where, when your character actually gets his hands on the Black Soulstone before him, he drops the act and attempts to destroy Caldeum as a whole. Tyrael forecasts it literally moments before Belial starts his purge.
-->'''Adria''': Can we really trust the child?\\
'''Tyrael''': We have no choice. But know this: if Belial gets desperate, he will unleash Hell upon Caldeum.
* VisualPun: He literally has two faces on his head.
* WakeUpCallBoss: While the Skeleton King and the Butcher could be defeated without much in the way of skill-switching, Belial is where you really have to start thinking about your moveset, and how it relates to fighting one strong opponent. Also, he has several attacks that force the player to stop attacking and move to avoid taking fatal damage.
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[[folder:Azmodan, Lord of Sin]]
!!Azmodan
->Voiced by: Creator/DavidSobolov (English)[[note]]'''Other Languages''':George Martirosyan (Russian)[[/note]]
[[quoteright:301:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Azmodan_Portrait_3079.png]]
The Lord of Sin. Azmodan is famous to be one of the greatest General in Hell, having won several battles against Angels by the past ([[InformedAbility not that we get to see any of his strategic prowess]]). In ''Diablo III'', he and Belial try to take over Sanctuary following the Prime Evils' apparent death. After learning the Black Soulstone's existance, he unleashes his legion in an attempt to get his hand on it, so he could absorb it and become the Prime Evil.
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* AdiposeRex: The enormously fat surviving ruler of Hell in Act III of ''Diablo III''.
* BadBoss: This guy does ''not'' tolerate failure and even threaten his minions with [[FateWorseThanDeath horrifying punishments]] if they fail him.
* BigBadWannabe: He is trying ''hard'' to be the BigBad, but he just lacks the competence for that. [[spoiler:Plus, Diablo out-gambits him]].
* FantasticRacism: Towards the Nephalem, describing them as "misbegotten" and their existence as "Creation's greatest sin".
* FatBastard: As a direct result of representing every sort of human evil, including gluttony and cruelty.
* FourStarBadass: The best general in Hell, according to the backstory. Observing how effectively the flying angels fought, he bred a race of flying demons to match their aerial mobility. During the siege of Bastion's Keep, he [[spoiler:manages to get Ghom into the Keep and has him set up shop in the larder, from where Ghom is able to ambush the keep's defenders from inside their own walls and fight the Nephalem in an area where Ghom holds the advantage]]. His only real mistake is in [[spoiler:explaining his plan to send his armies from Arreat Crater while taunting Diablo]] - an admittedly major mistake, since [[spoiler:Leah witnesses the taunting firsthand through her connection to Diablo and the Black Soulstone]], which allows the Nephalem and their allies to make it to Bastion's Keep in time to thwart Azmodan's plans.
* TheHedonist: He believes that all beings can only know their true selves when they indulge in sin to its most disgusting excesses. His weight suggests he eats a lot, and he is mentioned in the Book of Cain to be "close" to all his female lieutenants, with Cydaea being his favorite. He takes it to such extreme that ''[[TheCasanova Lyndon]]'' is shocked enough to consider giving up his depraved lifestyle just so Azmodan won't think he is encouraging him.
* IShallTauntYou: Has a bad habit of doing this to your character by using illusions to contact them and mock their effort to protect the dungeon. Unfortunately for him, those tauntings usually just end up making him look more pathetic, and he even ends up telling you his own plans in the process, thus helping you. And then there's the actual fight...
* InformedAbility: Like Belial, the one trait he's best known for -- being an "uncanny tactician" (they probably meant "canny"). He has a moment or two but doesn't demonstrate quite enough tactical acumen to live up to his reputation, especially given his penchant for monologuing at you about what he's up to.
** A bit downplayed if you look at what his forces do in the battle. Using airborne mooks to remove archers on high perches with ambush tactics, siege weapons in scattered locations to make catapult fire more difficult, and even using some demons as living siege towers. Really, if it were not for his pride and gloating, he may have done much better. Pride truly does come before the fall.
* {{Jerkass}}: Alongside his status as the Lord of Sin, Azmodan is a rather callous dick to just about anybody he interacts with, humans and his minions alike.
* LargeHam: Oh yes. Probably even more so than Diablo.
* LavaIsBoilingKoolAid: Prior to fighting the player, Azmodan is standing (bathing?) in a pool of lava. Oddly, Azmodan can not only be [[GameplayAndStorySegregation damaged by fire, he has no particular resistance to it at all]]. Maybe it really is just Kool-Aid? ''Reaper of Souls'' redoes the scene to have him standing on solid ground before the fight starts.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: A lot of his brillant strategies would have worked a lot better had he not been nice enough to ''warn'' you about them in his tauntings. Then again, he's the Lord of Sin; [[FridgeBrilliance Pride goeth before the fall, after all.]]
* RedOniBlueOni: The red to Belial's blue, relying on brute force and military aggression in contrast to his brother's subtlety and manipulation.
* SevenDeadlySins: He has seven lieutenants, each representing one of these. The only ones who make appearances are Ghom (gluttony), Cydaea (lust) and Vidian (envy). The Lord of Wrath is named Zaboul according to an item description, but he doesn't appear in-game.
* ShoutOut: Azmodan's existence was revealed back in the original ''Diablo'', but his form from the third game (an obese, horned fanged creature that's humanoid from the waist up and multipede down, and with flaming eyes and a ThroatLight) heavily resembled [[VideoGame/WarCraft Mannoroth]], another demonic lord.
* SmugSnake: Given how he is the embodiment of sin, including {{pride}}, he is utterly prone to boasting, more so than Belial. Unsurprisingly, he gets mounted on the nephalem's wall in the end.
* SpiderPeople: He walks about using six tarantula-like legs.
* TheStarscream: He is attempting to find and take the Black Soulstone so that he can embed it in his flesh and use the power of all Seven Great Evils combined so he can become the Prime Evil. [[spoiler:Diablo has the same goal in mind, only he is a lot more successful in this than Azmodan, thanks largely to his agent, Adria, being a ManipulativeBastard]].
** The irony is, Azmodan after Belial's death basically ''is'' the Prime Evil, minus the commensurate power boost; he's the only surviving Great Evil, and so would rule Hell by default if he just stayed there. The only reason [[spoiler: Diablo's]] plan works at all is because Azmodan succumbs to yet another one of the seven sins: Greed.
* TheStrategist: [[InformedAttribute Said to be]] one of the finest tacticians in Hell, honing his skills through centuries of constant battles with the angels.
* WeHaveReserves: The extent of his strategy against Bastion Keep. Whenever you deal with one of his heavy hitters like the ballistae or Ghom, he shows up and basically says "Well, that guy didn't matter, we'll still overrun the keep through sheer numbers."
[[/folder]]
!Sin Lords
[[folder:Sin Lords in General]]
'''Tropes applying to multiple Sin Lords:'''
* CoDragons: Seven of them, to Azmodan, though only three of them appear in the game itself.
* SevenDeadlySins: Ghom is Gluttony, Cydaea is Lust, Vidian is Envy, and Zaboul is Wrath.
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[[folder:Ghom, Lord of Gluttony]]
!!Ghom, Lord of Gluttony
[[quoteright:308:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/GHOM_9999.jpg]]
One of Azmodan's lieutenants. Known for his insatiable, disgusting appetite and cannibalistic tendencies. In the game, Ghom is sent by Azmodan inside Bastion's Keep in order to attack it from the inside. He made the food reserve his hideout and started taking prisoners in order to consume them. He is eventually killed off by the Nephalem.
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* BigEater: Probably one of the rare examples to bring this trope to terrifying levels.
* ExtremeOmnivore: According to Deckard Cain, he once ate several angels while they were still wearing their armor and weapons.
* FatBastard: He isn't as fat as Azmodan, but he comes close, and is ''much'' more disgusting.
* {{Gasshole}}: The guy can't even speak without making fart noises, his gas cloud attack could possibly be a really disgusting fart, and when he dies, he lets a huge one rip.
* IAmAHumanitarian: Takes it to its worst possible extreme; he forces his prisoners to eat their comrades, and ''then'' eats them.
* PoisonousPerson: He produces massive amount of toxic vapor around him, which can easily kill you if you stand in it for too long.
* TooManyMouths: Four, to be precise. One on his head, one on each of his shoulders, and an enormous BellyMouth across his torso.
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[[folder:Cydaea, Maiden of Lust]]
!!Cydaea, Maiden of Lust
->Voiced by: Creator/ClaudiaBlack (English)[[note]]'''Other Languages''':Olga Pletneva (Russian)[[/note]]
[[quoteright:150:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/150px-Portrait_Mistress_of_Pain_5647.png]]
Azmodan's favorite lieutenant and former concubine, and the leader of the Succubi presumably after Andariel's death. You fight her as you penetrate into Azmodan's realm to destroy the Sin Hearts powering his invasion.
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* TheBaroness: Many of her quotes revolve around a desire to humiliate and break the will of the Nephalem.
* CombatSadomasochist: She screams in pleasure at some of your hits and seems to fantasize about what she is going to do to you.
%% DarkActionGirl
* DepravedBisexual: No matter what gender your character is, she will display a disturbing, [[FoeYay twisted infatuation]] with him/her. She even creeps out ''[[TheCasanova Lyndon]]''!
* HornyDevil: Big time. She even uses Succubi as her minions (and calls them her daughters).
* LovesTheSoundOfScreaming: She enjoys torturing the demons that are eternally imprisoned in the Towers of Sin, describing their screams as "such sweet music".
* SeductiveSpider: The representation of the sin of lust is a demon woman with the body of a spider, described as both beautiful and grotesque.
* SneakySpider: She has the body of a woman but the legs of a spider. Deckard Cain describes her as both beautiful and grotesque. As her title implies, she tempts mortals ([[DepravedBisexual no matter their gender or sexuality]]) into her web with her sweet voice before devouring them alive.
* SpiderPeople: Her lower half is ''very'' arachnid, to the point that she is far more likely to trigger your arachnophobia than the normal {{Giant Spider}}s you encounter in the game.
* VillainousBreakdown: Cydaea drops her playful demeanor hard near the end of your second battle.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Vidian, Lord of Envy]]
!!Vidian, Lord of Envy
One of Azmodan's lesser lieutenants, Vidian had a shining talent for sowing discord among the angels, but seldom obeyed the will of his master. After the fall of Azmodan and Diablo, Vidian took up residence in the Shrouded Moors, where he heads a cult that preys on adventurers and seeks to sacrifice the newly-emergent Nephalem. You fight him in the Temple of the Firstborn in Adventure Mode.
* BadBoss: It's strongly implied he was leading the new cult solely to attract the Nephalems attention and viewed them as disposable otherwise. Not only killing them in his human guise as Daivin alongside the Nephalem, but also set it up so that the only way to go deeper into the Temple was by killing numerous cultists to have their blood open the way.
* BrilliantButLazy: Vidian is capable of decimating entire armies through his ability to turn foes against one another, but he rarely took part in the Eternal Conflict unless the situation interested him.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: He doesn't understand why the Nephalem would serve a fallen angel like Tyrael when they could rule over the Hells with their power.
* HatePlague: Vidian is able to turn armies of angels against themselves and make even the most loyal soldiers question their superior's orders through his mastery of Envy. Fortunately for the angels, he was rarely deployed in the Eternal Conflict due to his dislike of following Azmodan's instructions.
* MeaningfulName: "Vidian" is derived from ''invidia'', the Latin word for "envy".
* PaperThinDisguise: {{Invoked}}. Vidian knew his human guise as Daivin would not fool the Nephalem. Despite this he is actually [[MasterOfDisguise able to pass off as a normal human in that form]].
* SignificantAnagram: When Vidian first appears in the Shrouded Moors, he's assumed the alias of "Daivin the Adventurer".
* ThePowerOfBlood: The evil cult that Vidian heads seems intent on harnessing the power of Nephalem blood to their own ends. He is personally interested in the Nephalem's blood overall.
* VillainTakesAnInterest: He becomes obsessed with the playable Nephalem upon realizing they were the ones who defeated the two strongest forces amongst the angels and demons. Vidian even believes the Nephalem could take over the Burning Hells and rule them as they wish.
* YouCouldHaveUsedYourPowersForEvil: He believes the Nephalem are powerful enough to subjugate all of Hell to their will and mocks them for choosing to be the lackey of a FallenAngel instead.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Zaboul, Lord of Wrath]]
* EvilWeapon: He forged the axe Burst of Wrath and slaughtered over 1000 demons during its creation.
* TheUnfought: Does not appear in the game itself, and the only mention of him is in the description of the above-mentioned axe, Burst of Wrath.
[[/folder]]
!Other Demons
[[folder:The Butcher]]
!!The Butcher
A bloated and grotesque creature, The Butcher is a sadistic being that relished in the torture and pain of others. It hunts endlessly for fresh meat and was responsible for various massacres on the raids of Tristram Cathedral. In Diablo III, it is learned that there are multiple Butchers, one of whom engages the Nephalem at the end of Act I.
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* AnAxeToGrind: More like a very large meat Cleaver to grind. The hero can use it as a two-handed weapon after defeating The Butcher.
* BreakoutCharacter: He appeared only as an early boss, but the build up to him and his status as a scary WakeUpCallBoss led him to become almost as iconic as the titular Diablo.
* TheButcher: It's in his name.
* {{Catchphrase}}: ''Ah! Fresh meat.''
* TheDreaded: His name inspires dread both among the inhabitants of Tristram, and among newbie players of the first Diablo due to the ease in which he can kill you in that game.
* FatBastard: He has a big belly and he's a bloodthirsty and sadistic demon.
* FleshGolem: The description of the Butcher in ''III'' suggests that it was stitched together from the corpses of other demons.
* LightningBruiser: He can quickly rush the player characters despite his huge gut.
%%* SpellMyNamewithAThe
* SerialKiller: Frequently preys on the people of Tristram and collects their mutilated corpses.
* WakeUpCallBoss: This guy is found in the ''second'' level of Tristram Cathedral, and low-level characters, particularly melee fighters, are ''not'' going to have a good time with him. Especially since for the unprepared, he can easily surprise them with his appearance in what was supposed to be an exploration.
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[[folder:Lilith]]
!!Lilith
->Voiced by: Creator/JessicaStraus (English)[[note]]'''Other Languages''':Creator/LaurenceBreheret (French), Ekaterina Afrikantova (Russian)[[/note]]
The daughter of Mephisto. Her affair with the Archangel Inarius would lead to the creation of Sanctuary and the Nephalem.
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* ActorAllusion: Hilariously, this isn't the first time Jessica Straus [[{{VideoGame/Darksiders}} has voiced a demon name Lilith.]]
* AscendedExtra: After three games staying mostly at the backstories, Lilith will become one of the main focuses of ''VideoGame/DiabloIV''.
* BloodMagic: In ''VideoGame/DiabloIV'', she is summoned back into Sanctuary through a ritual involving the blood of three men, one of which had to be willingly participating.
* DaddysLittleVillain: Used to be this to Mephisto before leaving with Inarius.
* InterspeciesRomance: With Inarius. Later with Uldyssian. Neither case is [[DestructiveRomance really healthy]].
* MotherOfAThousandYoung: Seeks to use her children to conquer all of creation.
* PragmaticVillainy: Her reason for joining with Inarius; She felt the Endless Conflict would never be able to end the way her father was pursuing it and was looking for another way to solve it.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Rakanoth, Lord of Despair]]
!!Rakanoth, Lord of Despair
He was once a lieutenant of Andariel, granted the title of Lord of Despair. He presided over the Plains of Despair, serving as a warden and keeper of prisoners, such as Izual. After Andariel's death in ''Diablo II'', Rakanoth shifted his allegiance to Diablo when the latter became the Prime Evil (thus becoming the new Lord of Anguish) and assaulted the High Heavens. During Diablo's assault, Rakanoth was summoned to imprison Auriel, the Archangel of Hope.
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* BadassInDistress: Imposes this on Auriel.
* HopeCrusher: This is Rakanoth's job during Diablo's invasion of Heaven, which he does by capturing Auriel. He succeeds in driving pretty much everyone in both Heaven and Sanctuary to despair before the Nephalem kills him and releases her.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Dirgest]]
!!Dirgest
An infamous demon lord personally responsible for the slaughter of millions. Long ago, he was subdued and sealed within a gem that came to be known as Dirgest's Gem. Covetous Shen has made it his mission to locate Dirgest's Gem before it falls into the wrong hands.
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* TheDreaded: Shen makes it clear that his release would be nothing short of catastrophic.
* SealedEvilInACan: [[spoiler:Not anymore, as of ''Reaper of Souls''.]]
* YouAreTooLate: [[spoiler:He has already escaped the Gem by the time Shen and the Nephalem find it.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Gharbad the Weak]]
!!Gharbad the Weak
A Goatman that will beg for mercy in ''Diablo I'', promising to make something special for the hero if his life is spared.
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* AnimalSpeciesAccent: His speech sounds similar to a goat's bleats.
* CameBackStrong: He reappears in ''Diablo III'' as Gharbad the Strong, Baleful Impaler.
* PaletteSwap: Like many unique monsters in ''Diablo'', he stands out from the other Goatmen by his color scheme, a rather bizarre mixture of cherry red and pale blue.
* YouNoTakeCandle: How he speaks: "Pleeease, no hurt, no kill. Keep alive and next time good bring to you."
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Greed, Baroness of the Treasure Realm]]
!!Greed, Baroness of the Treasure Realm
The Demon Lord who rules the Treasure Goblins and is the de facto ruler of the Treasure Realm. Apparently ''not'' one of the Sin Lords, her existence is a mystery all on its own. She's the boss of the first major patch of ''Reaper of Souls''.
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* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: The de facto leader of the Treasure Goblins will face the Nephalem head-on when they come to plunder her treasure hoard.
* TheBaroness: It's in her title. Definitely of the Rosa Klebb variety.
* BlingOfWar: A preview image shows that she wears layered armlets and necklaces, along with a nice-looking cape, into her battle with the Nephalem.
* BonusBoss: Of a sort--the portal to her realm opens by chance, and it's essentially a BonusLevel where the Nephalem can earn plenty of riches, so...
* DeathByLookingUp: She can invoke this on the player by using a GroundPound to drop treasure chests on their heads. [[spoiler: It's also how she ultimately meets her end.]]
* DropTheHammer: A preview image shows her wielding a massive war mace in her boss battle.
* CrosshairAware: Her charge attack and chest-dropping attacks are telegraphed by "before-images" and target circles, respectively, showing where the player should try ''not'' to be in the next few seconds.
* FanDisservice: She doesn't wear much in the way of conventional clothing. See [[FatBastard Fat Bitch]] and {{Gonk}} to understand why this trope applies.
* [[FatBastard Fat Bitch]]: She's just as fat as Ghom, and just as unpleasant.
* {{Gonk}}: Unlike Cydaea, another female demon, Baroness Greed is thoroughly hideous.
* {{Greed}}: Obviously, considering her name.
%% * TheHedonist
* JigglePhysics: After she charges the player or does a GroundPound, her prodigious girth wobbles noticeably. This is ''not'' played for Fanservice, for reasons detailed in FanDisservice above.
* MoneyFetish: According to [[WordOfGod the lead writer, Brian Kindregan]], "Greed is obsessed with all things valuable" to the point that she "takes a bath in all her gold every three hours." [[WesternAnimation/DuckTales Scrooge McDuck himself]] would be proud!
* MoneyMauling: One her attacks have her attempting to crush the heroes beneath treasure chests filled with loot.
* RammingAlwaysWorks: She can charge at intruders to her realm--up to three times in a row, in fact. Thankfully, this is telegraphed beforehand, giving the player time to dodge it.
* RichBitch: Being ruler of a treasure realm, it goes without saying that the Baroness is incredibly wealthy.
* SlouchOfVillainy: When the Nephalem finds her, she's lounging on a vast throne, apparently asleep. [[ShmuckBait Until you click on that chest she's using as a footstool...]]
* SwordBeam: Of a kind--she can slam her mace into the ground to create a long-ranged seismic shockwave.
* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: After she's defeated, you can click on the chest she's in to smash the lid into her. It does nothing other than spreading gore around.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Tathamet]]
!Tathamet
A seven headed Dragon created when Anu cast off all evil from himself. Anu's and Tathamet's battle led to the creation of the universe, with Tathamet's dead body becoming the Burning Hells, and his seven heads becoming the seven Great Evils.
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* BiblicalBadGuy: Not directly, but its description as a seven-headed demonic dragon draws clear parallels to the portrayal of Satan seen in ''Literature/TheBookOfRevelation''.
* DragonsAreDemonic: He is described as a 7-headed dragon and is the ultimate GodOfEvil in the Diablo series.
* EldritchAbomination: Is a dragon in-name only, resembling something far more cosmic. Befitting considering the strange nature of the other "dragon" in the setting.
* {{Expy}}: Is very clearly based on the ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' version of Tiamat (who has multiple heads, whereas in the original myths she only had one.)
* GreaterScopeVillain: His death created the Great Evils, and the Burning Hells but he has nothing to do with what the Great Evils do in the games.
* MadeOfEvil: He was all the evil Anu cast off himself.
* MutualKill: One of the earliest recorded events in history is a duel between Tathamet and Anu that ended in each of them slaying the other. Their corpses would eventually reform themselves into Heaven and Hell.
[[/folder]]
