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9[[quoteright:350:[[ComicBook/WhosWho https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dccomics_demons.png]]]]
10[[caption-width-right:350:WelcomeToHell, we're going to enjoy your stay.]]
11
12-> ''"We are called demons precisely because we do bad things."''
13-->-- '''Tablet''', ''VideoGame/GraffitiKingdom''
14
15Demons. Devils. Fiends. They're all over the place in storyland, but no two authors portray them in exactly the same way.
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17Demons in western fiction tend, by default, to be of a vaguely Abrahamic nature, most often [[BigRedDevil red or black with horns, hooves, and maybe a tail]]. They're generally found torturing the souls of those that wind up in {{Hell}}, making [[DealWithTheDevil deals with mortals in order to claim their souls for the pit]], and are usually on the side of Evil, often opposing Angels.
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19Demonic names are quite a bit looser than those for Angels, though in the west, they often take inspiration from Hebrew, biblical or mythological sources, as well as the ''Literature/ArsGoetia''.
20
21The prospective demon has many options available for customization:
22
23* '''What ''are'' demons, exactly?'''
24** The most generic definition would be any evil or injurious spirit or supernatural being. [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Vampires]] and [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolves]] are often lumped in with this definition, as are TheFairFolk at their worst and even {{Dragons|AreDemonic}}. Yomi-dwelling {{Oni}}, Mazoku and {{Youkai}} from Japanese folklore, as well as some [[OurGeniesAreDifferent Djinn]] from Arabic/Islamic folklore, are also prime candidates.
25** Monsters or other beings native to {{Hell}} or some other [[TheUnderworld Underworld]], as opposed to the souls of the dead who wind up there.
26** {{Fallen Angel}}s (Christianity) or evil [[OurGeniesAreDifferent Jinn]] (Islam) that rebelled against {{Heaven}} and were cast down to {{Hell}}, or the creations of these same beings, created to help lead humanity astray and/or torment them.
27** The disembodied spirits of formerly-living {{Nephilim}} (meaning Fallen Ones or Marvelous Ones), [[HalfHumanHybrid Half-Human Hybrids]] of angels and humans.
28** The creations of a [[JerkassGods malevolent god]], if not an outright GodOfEvil.
29** {{Eldritch Abomination}}s that come from some other plane of existence entirely.
30
31* '''Are they physical or spiritual?''' Physical demons are quite common in any work that features TheLegionsOfHell invading the mortal realm, and make it quite easier for a prospective {{Demon Slay|ing}}er to either slay them or send them back to Hell or their native realm. It is also quite common in ParanormalRomance and in any work where people make a DealWithTheDevil. Spiritual demons, on the other hand, lend themselves more toward works of a supernatural or horror bent, engaging in DemonicPossession.
32
33* '''How does DemonicPossession work?''' If you decide to go the possession route, you also have to determine how this possession manifests:
34** Do they just take over the bodies of their hosts, or do they [[TransformationOfThePossessed make a few changes to said body along the way?]]
35** What kinds of creatures can be possessed? Humans are the most popular victims, but some demons can also possess other living creatures such as animals.
36** What makes a human or other creature vulnerable to possession, and how can someone be protected against this? Many demons, particularly those of an Abrahamic religious bent, may be able to [[SinInvitesPossession possess those who sin, or commit a particular sin related to the demon's aspect]].
37** Can possession be resisted given a sufficiently strong will, or is there NoSavingThrow? Lesser demons are more apt to be resistable, while greater demons may be able to take anyone over no matter how powerful they are.
38** Can a demon possess [[PossessingADeadBody dead creatures]] or inanimate objects, and if so, what happens to them?
39** Is a demon limited to just one body at a time, or can it possess more than one?
40** Can a demon stay in someone's body indefinitely, or is there a tendency to [[PossessionBurnout burn out the bodies they use?]]
41** Can a demon BodySurf or otherwise voluntarily leave the body of its host, or does something have to happen before they can leave?
42** Do possessed people have [[AlternateIdentityAmnesia no memory of what happened]] when the demon was in control, or [[AndIMustScream can they see and hear everything?]]
43** Can a demon be [[HollywoodExorcism exorcised]] from its host, or is death the only way to get the demon out? Is it possible to [[BeatTheCurseOutOfHim beat the curse out of them]], or will trying to do this just end up with the host hurt or worse?
44
45* '''What do they look like?'''
46** Pretty indistinguishable from Humans, except maybe PointyEars, [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation unnatural skin colors]], horns and a tail, and/or CuteLittleFangs.
47** [[DivinelyAppearingDemons Almost indistinguishable]] from [[OurAngelsAreDifferent angels]].
48** Kind of like [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]].
49** Human men [[ManOfWealthAndTaste dressed in expensive looking black suits]] with a goatee and/or thinly trimmed moustache.
50** [[HotAsHell Human women scantily clad]] [[HellBentForLeather in black leather]].
51** {{Big Red Devil}}s
52** {{Living Shadow}}s with GlowingEyesOfDoom.
53** {{Eldritch Abomination}}s
54** [[VoluntaryShapeshifting Anything they want!]]
55** Different in the case of different individuals.
56** Or they may not be able to take physical form on this world, preferring DemonicPossession.
57
58* '''[[DemonDevilDistinction What is the difference between demons and devils?]]'''
59** None; the two names are synonymous.
60** {{Satan}} is ''the'' Devil, demons are his minions.
61** Devils are charming while demons are plain ugly as sin (or vice versa).
62** [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons Demons are Chaotic Evil; devils are Lawful Evil]].
63** [[TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering Devils are tiny, like goblins or gremlins, whereas demons are big and muscly or overly elaborate and shocking in appearance]].
64** Demons are monstrous {{Eldritch Abomination}}s; devils are humanoid {{Fallen Angel}}s.
65** [[TabletopGame/{{Rifts}} No real difference, they just each have their own hellish planes of existence]].
66** [[Literature/MythAdventures Demons are interdimensional travellers, Devils (or rather, Deveels) are Cutthroat Merchants]].
67** [[Franchise/MarvelUniverse Devil is a title demons and other nasty things can earn if they are strong enough]].
68** Devils are immortal, demons can be killed.
69** Whatever the hell the author wants it to be, and he may as well drop daemons in there just for the Hell of it.
70
71* '''What are your demons' common powers?'''
72** [[VoluntaryShapeshifting Shapeshifting]]
73** [[DemonicPossession Possession]]
74** [[MoreThanMindControl Temptation]]
75** {{P|layingWithFire}}yrokinesis
76*** {{Hellfire}}
77** [[CastingAShadow Umbrakinesis]]
78** [[EmotionEater Feeding off negative emotions]]
79** [[SoulEating Eating people's souls]]
80** [[FightingAShadow Avatar Projection]]
81** Unlimited, since they can do or give you [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor anything you want]]... [[DealWithTheDevil in exchange for your soul]]
82** Or just plain [[RealityWarper screwing with reality]] as we know it (generally the way of {{Eldritch Abomination}}s)
83
84* '''What are your demons' common weaknesses?'''
85** [[SeekingSanctuary Cannot enter a Church]]
86** A cross or [[HolyBurnsEvil holy water]]
87** ThePowerOfLove (and or ThePowerOfFriendship)
88** [[WeakenedByTheLight Light]]
89** [[IKnowYourTrueName Uttering their true name]]
90** Faith
91** Scorn
92** ExactWords
93** Magical or holy weapons
94** Good old fashioned steel or firepower
95** Closing the portal from whence they came upon this world (through magical means or otherwise)
96*** Could be immortal and thus invulnerable when used in conjunction with this trope (or not)
97** [[HollywoodExorcism Exorcism]] by a priest or other holy individual
98** A pentagram, used to ward off or contain demons and evil spirits
99** An upside down incantation bowl (otherwise know as a devil trap)
100** [[WeaksauceWeakness A line of salt, chalk or other powdered substance]].
101** God
102
103* '''Miscellaneous'''
104** [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Are they naturally evil]]? [[AscendedDemon Can they turn good]]?
105** What are their motives?
106** Can [[DemonOfHumanOrigin humans become demons]]?
107** Can they truly be killed, or does killing them merely [[FightingAShadow send them back to Hell or their home dimension]]?
108** And what about all those half-demon/[[HalfHumanHybrid Half-Human Hybrids]]?
109
110There's no doubt about it. No matter what you choose, Your Demons Are Different.
111
112* If the source is Japanese, and the demons are ''really'' different, the reason may be simply that, in translation, the word "demon" is being substituted for [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youkai a completely different word]], ''{{youkai}}'', which really ''doesn't have'' a correlating concept in English. "Faerie creature" is probably closer when it comes to traditional function in folklore (in fact, on the occasions where "fae," etc. ''is'' translated into Japanese, the term will probably contain the same "''you''" as "''youkai''"), but "demon" sounds [[RuleOfCool more likely to kick ass]], despite faeries being [[TheFairFolk pretty damn scary]].
113** And even if they don't use youkai, Japan still has a lot of words that get translated as "demon", most of them having ''ma'' (魔), which means "demon", somewhere in them: ''Mazoku'', ''Mamono'', ''Majin'', ''Youma'', ''Akuma''...
114
115'''Specific Types:'''
116* BigRedDevil
117* DemonLordsAndArchdevils
118* DevilInDisguise
119* DragonsAreDemonic
120* FallenAngel
121* TheHeartless sometimes get classed as demons depending on the work.
122* {{Hell Hound}}s, {{Hellish Horse}}s, and other demonic beasts.
123* TheLegionsOfHell
124* OurImpsAreDifferent
125* SuccubiAndIncubi
126
127'''Individual Demons of Note:'''
128* {{Asmodeus}}
129* {{Baphomet}}
130* {{Beelzebub}}
131* {{Mammon}}
132* {{Mephistopheles}}
133* {{Satan}}
134
135Series which have protagonists up to DemonSlaying especially rely on this trope, as the various ways a demon can be different can often determine how a demon hunter actually operates.
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137!!Example Subpages:
138
139[[index]]
140* OurDemonsAreDifferent/AnimeAndManga
141* OurDemonsAreDifferent/{{Literature}}
142* OurDemonsAreDifferent/LiveActionTV
143* OurDemonsAreDifferent/TabletopGames
144* OurDemonsAreDifferent/VideoGames
145* OurDemonsAreDifferent/{{Webcomics}}
146[[/index]]
147
148!!Other Examples:
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150[[foldercontrol]]
151
152[[folder:Comic Books]]
153* ''ComicBook/BlackMoonChronicles'': Various types of demons are seen. Most of TheLegionsOfHell are [[BigRedDevil big, red, horned humanoids]], though Lucifer himself looks could almost be mistaken for human. The [[SuccubiAndIncubi succubi]] also originate in hell, and are [[ShapeshiftersDoItForAChange ambiguously sexual shapeshifters]]. All demons love human souls, which they [[SoulEating eat for lunch]]. The BigBad himself is a half-demon spawned by the Devil.
154* Demons of ''ComicBook/CleanRoom'' are depicted as vaguely humanoid invisible spirits with monstrous tentacles, teeth, etc. They routinely possess human bodies to inflict suffering on humans and can reshape the flesh of hosts in anatomically impossible ways. Some demons seem to have permanent physical bodies, but that may be long-term possession.
155* Demons in Franchise/TheDCU [[GratuitousIambicPentameter speak in rhymes]]. Well, the higher positions of middle management do; one's position in Hell is partly signified by how well one can speak. The lowest ranks can't form language, the Lords of Hell speak clearly and fluently, and ''ComicBook/Hitman1993'' featured one demon several ranks below ComicBook/{{Etrigan}} who could only say, "I am Baytor!" In the DCU Hell, a "lower" position is the better one. When Demons improve their standing in Hell, they fall even deeper into the pit. So a promotion is technically a ''bad'' thing. Neron was "promoted" to Rhymer after he screwed up big time. [[spoiler:And he got killed off. For now anyway]].
156* Divangelic from ''ComicBook/{{Empowered}}'' is a pair of ConjoinedTwins - her right half, Vanity, is a devil, but her left half, Charity, is an angel. The mind boggles...
157* Devils in Creator/HarveyComics (i.e.: ''ComicBook/HotStuffTheLittleDevil'') aren't really evil. Like ghosts, they love playing tricks, but don't mean to cause any lasting harm.
158* Mike Mignolia's ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'', equipped with fire-engine red skin, cloven hooves for feet, and a right hand [[SealedEvilInACan which can summon the Apocalypse]]. Oh, and immense horns on his head that need to be sanded down on a regular basis. [[ScrewDestiny In spite of his origins]], he's one of the [[DarkIsNotEvil good guys]].
159** We get to see more demons as the series goes on. Some, such as Astaroth, Ualac & Helldad fall into the same horned humanoid mold as HB, while others seem to be a twisted combination of various human & animal parts. One storyline in ''ComicBook/{{BPRD}}'' features a demoness whose true form has the head of a crow, the wings of a bat, tentacles & an udder with dozens of human-like breasts hanging off it.
160** Part of this variation is because the different artistic styles of Mike Mignola and Guy Davis (the main artist of ''ComicBook/{{BPRD}}''). While Mignola's demons and various monsters tend to be based more directly on real life animals, Davis tends to have a more BodyHorror feel to his work. In one of Davis' sketchbooks he even comments that he had to tone down some of the "tentacles and Lovecraftian bits" for one of his demons before the comic went to print.
161* In ''ComicBook/LadyDeath'' ''Chaos!'' continuity, demons were initially depicted as Judeo-Christian in nature, having originated in Hell and initially serving {{Satan}} before he was dethroned by the titular protagonist. In the ''Avatar'' reboot, they are given a whole new background as the inhuman denizens of a DarkWorld that isn't necessarily Hell. They come in many different shapes and sizes, so much so its rare to find a actual BigRedDevil among them and unlike in the original continuity (where they were all malevolent), these demons can be both good and bad.
162* Creator/MarvelComics' AntiHero Son of Satan is, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin as the name implies]], the HalfHumanHybrid son of a very powerful demon who ''claimed'' to be {{Satan}}. Of course, Marvel later backpedaled on the whole "real, honest-to-badness Biblical Satan" issue, and which of the many powerful Marvel demons it actually is has been {{Retcon}}ned several times. For that matter, the very nature of demons in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse seems to be a matter of some contention; fallen or degenerated {{Physical God}}s, leftover magical energy from the early days of life on Earth, holdovers from the Creation of the Universe… And of course, the fact that all of them lie their horns off all the time makes it no clearer. Their behavior also varies quite a bit. Some (ComicBook/{{Mephisto}}, namely) stick to standard "deals, contracts, and bargains" behavior and seem quite comfortable with that, others (Dormammu, Chthon) are active schemers who are very much a threat to existence, and still there are others (Nightmare) who can't be reasoned with, but don't exactly try and do anything crazy beyond general malevolence.
163* Demons in ''Necrophim'' are strange-looking humanoid beings who resent having to share {{Hell}} with the [[FallenAngel Necrophim]], and want the angels to finish what they started with Lucifer.
164* Demons in ''ComicBook/{{Promethea}}'' are beings native to the Immateria that embody mankind's flaws and evils. Because [[EldritchLocation the Immateria]] is essentially the afterlife, the collective unconscious, the omnipresence of god, the metaphysical form of the universe and the human soul all rolled into one, demons come in a variety of shapes, sizes and temperaments.
165** The smee is a LivingShadow sent by Solomon out to kill Sophie before she could manifest as the newest incarnation of Promethea. He fails, gets a thourough ass-kicking and is captured by the U.S. Government.
166** The host of demons Solomon summons to deal with Promethea look akin to the demonic illustrations from the ''Dictionnaire Infernal'', the various demons hodgepodges of human and animal characteristics, wielding weapons and crowns and other adornments. They are eventually defeated when Stacia (having taken over for Sophia as the Material World's protector while she is off in the Immateria) realizes that they are nothing but an aspect of herself, whereupon she eats them.
167** Asmodeus manifests within the underbelly of the Sephirot Guberah, appearing as a giant monstrous spider. When Sophie and Barbara realize that he is only a threat when they make him a threat, he turns into a fairly normal looking human man that allows them to continue their journey without a fight.
168* ComicBook/{{Raven}} of ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' is half-demon/half-human who must control her emotions lest her demonic side be set free. Her ArchnemesisDad Trigon the Terrible is a mighty [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils demon lord]] and BigRedDevil with ExtraEyes and stag horns.
169* The Darklanders in ''ComicBook/{{Reborn}}'' are somewhat demonic in nature; they were evil living beings that reincarnated in the afterlife. Their visage varies from person to person and its completely random: some may look completely humans, some are {{Uplifted Animal}}s and others look like hideous {{cyborg}}s. Their supreme leader, [[EvilOverlord Lord Golgotha]] straight-up looks like a demon with grey skin and horns.
170* The Hellspawn from the series ''ComicBook/{{Spawn}}'' are humans who made a deal with Malbolgia, the ruler of the eighth realm of Hell, to return to earth for either love or vengeance. Such people usually get sent back several years to a decade after their original death. They're infused with dark energy matter known as Necroplasm, which they have a limited supply of outside of Hell, and are bonded with a symbiotic armor that acts to protect its host. Hellspawn have inhuman strength, speed, movement and healing, and have the ability to use necro-magic (supernatural powers including teleportation, phasing, resurrecting the dead, necro-energy blasts, and much more). In addition, Hellspawn are able to "feed" off the evil energy of the world including people and "dark animals" (rats, bats, roaches, worms, insects, wolves, and snakes), and are also empathic beings able to sense the emotions of others whenever they choose. Finally, they can manipulate the elements and fly. A Hellspawn's time on earth is limited, and every time he uses his necro-magic, it brings the spawn closer to a second death and a return to Hell. The Hellspawn's job is to supply Hell with souls for its army by killing people with his energy, either innocent or evil. Because the main character, Al Simmons, is not really keen on leading the forces of Hell against Heaven, he primarily keeps his powers in check by [[SuperheroPackingHeat packing a lot of heat]].\
171\
172The true demons of the Spawn universe are even more powerful than the Hellspawn. Violator, the main demon that the main character deals with, is superhumanly strong and resilient and has various supernatural powers including [[{{Shapeshifting}} shape and size shifting]], {{healing|Factor}}, {{telepathy}}, [[DemonicPossession possession of others]], [[BreathWeapon the ability to breathe fire]], [[VillainTeleportation teleportation]], and {{necromanc|er}}y.
173[[/folder]]
174
175[[folder:Fairy Tales]]
176* "Literature/TheDevilWithTheThreeGoldenHairs": Although he is supposed to be explicitly Satan, the Devil behaves more like the kind of giant seen in tales like "Literature/HopOMyThumb" (living in a house, being looked after and bossed around by a female relative, having an appetite for humans...). Being called a snake is the only classic devil trait he has.
177[[/folder]]
178
179[[folder:Fan Works]]
180* ''Fanfic/AlwaysVisible'': Roughly speaking, there are no demons at all in the work, but one of Galbraith's nightmares describes a creature born from kleister, which is very similar in description to Pinky from Doom 3.
181* ''Fanfic/BetweenDreamsAndMemoriesUniverse'': Dreamons from the ''WebVideo/DreamSMP'' are elaborated on, and the concept behind them seems to deviate from canon: Dreamons can only be seen by their [[DemonicPossession Hosts]], fellow Dreamons, [[spoiler:and the few people they have a close bond with]], and while the Dreamon is dependent on their Host for survival, the Host is also able to survive the unsurvivable (e.g. [[spoiler:being shot in the heart]]) due to their connection with the Dreamon. [[spoiler:Dreamons can also become bound to a different Host through an elaborate ritual.]]
182* ''Website/ClubPenguinFanon'': [[http://fanon.clubpenguinwiki.info/wiki/Demon_Penguin Demon Penguins]] have a weakness to silver, are created through a cloning machine, and have their heads explode when they die. They can also be resurrected through cheese and have retractable horns. They are usually red, and carry pitchforks which allow them to teleport.
183* ''Fanfic/DemonSpawnsSeries'': In this series of ''WesternAnimation/GrojBand'' fanfics, the siblings Corey and Trina Riffin are half-demons. They can alter their appearances and have their own different ElementalPowers. However, they lose all of their demon powers for the day if they come in contact with holy water. They're also the children of Satan. While Trina takes after their father, Corey is more like their human mother Amethyst.
184* ''[[Fanfic/MiraculousLadybugSaltShots Devilous Duo]]'': Marinette Dupain-Cheng and Lila Rossi are revealed to be demons from Hell. Marinette is an unusual demon with a soft spot for humans, leading her to try living on Earth in the guise of a regular human and to make friends with the people in her class. Lila wants to get Marinette back into torturing and tempting people, so she also adopts a human guise and attempts to show Marinette how fickle and cruel humans are by telling a few lies and thus turning all of Marinette's friends against her. [[spoiler:Lila succeeds. The class abandons Marinette, who concludes that humans really are evil and deserve to be tempted into Hell and then tortured forever. The story ends with Marinette and Lila catching Alya, Marinette's former best friend who was spying on them, and gleefully preparing to torture her.]]
185* ''Fanfic/Earth27'': There are several different types of demons:
186** The Fallen were the losers of the angelic civil war, were ritualistically stripped of their grace by the Presence and the angelic loyalists, and were cursed to become demons.
187** Hellions, what many would call "true demons", are the original occupants of Hell. These demons are born through concentrated negative emotion compressing inside an essence cloud.
188** Cambions are children of demonic coupling with non-demonic partners (often humans). They are naturally powerful psychics and can be easily trained to become powerful sorcerers as well.
189** Lords of Chaos are beings of pure chaotic energy closely related to the hellions of Hell, and come in all shapes and sizes.
190** The Lilim are the descendants Lilith, Queen of Monsters. The Lilim are said to often be the most beautiful of demons (although some bear demonic markings which affect their overall beauty) and are consumed by lust, whether this be an unholy thirst for blood, a hunger for tender flesh, an ambition for power, or merely a carnal desire to procreate with mortals, the Lilim are among the most well-known demons.
191* ''WebAnimation/HoloChronicles'' is... a little complex about demons. There is the Demon Trait, which should technically define what a demon is, but it encompasses both western-style demons and {{Oni}}. The former are more magic-focused and originate in Fantasia (a classic medieval-ish fantasy world), the latter originate from the east in the realm of Makai and are some of the greatest physical powerhouses in the entire verse, to the point that there is a certain saying about them: "Always count on an oni to win a brawl".
192* ''Fanfic/LupineTree'' has Lumber Jack, a human soul[[note]]Which isn't native to Equestria[[/note]] fused with a timberwolf tree's soul. This fusion fits within Equestria's broad definition of a demon. Once Celestia learns of this, she orders him to be observed by the [[ThePaladin Paladin]] [[TheOrder Order.]]
193* ''Fanfic/TheNightUnfurls'': There is no specific "demon" race, but some beings are referred to as "demon".
194** The term "demons" is sometimes used to refer to any "barbaric" StandardFantasyRaces within TheHorde, like [[OurOrcsAreDifferent orcs]] (the word "orc" derives from an old word for "demon"), [[OurGoblinsAreDifferent goblins]], or {{mutants}} (which may overlap with the former two).
195** Kyril isn't a demon, but the guy is so inhumanly strong and fast that he is rumoured to be a demon wearing a man's skin. [[spoiler:He's actually a [[EldritchAbomination great one]], but no one knows this]].
196** The remastered version introduces [[RatMen The Rat]], an entity that draws power from the souls of the survivors, the desperate, and the ambitious. He has [[DealWithTheDevil made deals with mortals]] before to gain such souls, and now he seeks to accompany Kyril as a means to [[YourSoulIsMine gain more souls]]. He compares himself with "[[OurGodsAreDifferent the Gods]]", but he is later revealed to be one of the many "lesser known entities" whose influence faded away due to the presence of Laurendau and Garan, the two prominent goddesses. On a humorous note, he seems to be a bit perturbed when someone calls him a demon.
197--->'''Claudia:''' Demon! You [[WhoDares dare]] make your presence known to [[GodEmperor the Goddess Reborn]]?\
198'''The Rat:''' '''Demon? Oh... you small-minded little things are so unimaginative.'''
199* ''Fanfic/OneThousandTearzOrDeth'': There's a patron demon of [[EmoTeen emoness]], a talking tree that sprouts legs when four emos stand in a forest.
200* ''Fanfic/OversaturatedWorld'': ''Group Precipitation'': "A Hell Trek, by [=FoME=]": About a demon girl HaremSeeker with SummonMagic, but there aren't any demons, only a godlike being that can turn into a more menacing form when needing to lay down the hurt and non-sentient beasts:
201--> The closest things to demons I’ve found are angst monsters and myself. I’m already taken and I don’t think the abominations of crystallized negative energy are your type.
202* ''Fanfic/ThePalaververse'': The term "demon[s]" has appeared at least twice, once when talking about [[https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/543715/part-3-of-the-palaververse-corva Corva]], from the narrator, and the other in ''Once Upon A Winter'': "The Mountainside": Unicorns at least, have a concept of demons, and if the other use is the same, then it's applied to beings that basically can't be harmed and are hostile to life or sanity.
203* ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'': [[spoiler:General-Admiral Makarov/the Shadow of Chernobull]] is commonly called an "Imagination Demon", although [[BigGood Mother Deer]] implies that it wasn't the case but "close enough". The Shining Armor crew also apparently had a run in with a "fear demon" somewhere in Zebrafrica, but this was a largely NoodleIncident. The creatures [[SealedEvilInACan sealed in Tartarus]] are quite demonic in nature, but are actually [[EldritchAbomination entities from a destroyed universe]]. It turns out that Demons in this universe are [[FallenAngel Fallen Draconequi]], making Discord one of them.
204* ''Fanfic/ReadTheFinePrintEvangelion'': Bwynvienne, the agent sent by the Infernal Administration, wears a pitch-black business suit and low-heeled shoes, and looks like a woman normal except for her literally flaming hair cascading down her shoulders like a cloak. She can appear and disappear silently at will and detect lies.
205* ''Fanfic/StoryShuffle'': Demons appear in both series:
206** ''Fanfic/StoryShuffle1'': In [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/216813/11/story-shuffle/in-the-details "In the Details"]], a title that references the phrase "the Devil's in the details", a group of cultists summons the demon Laplace out of Tartarus in order to ask it how to defeat Celestia. Laplace knows everything, but in seeking knowledge of the future it locks the events it sees into being and prevents free will from acting on them. As a result, it has functionally no agency in its own actions, and is known as the Puppet of Predestination and the Actor and the Stage as a result.
207** ''Fanfic/StoryShuffle2DoubleMasters'': In [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/469652/29/story-shuffle-2-double-masters/doom-inevitable "Doom Inevitable"]], the demon Zargothrax, a huge humanoid figure with batlike wings, horns and razor-sharp fangs, arriving in Equestria with the intent of bringing ruin to the world. However, the ominous sings and portents preceding his arrival mean that the ponies have plenty of time to prepare for his arrival.
208* ''Fanfic/ThousandShinji'':
209** [[spoiler:The Keeper of Secrets]] is a daemon of the ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' universe, created by one of the Chaos Gods and unable to survive out of its home dimension.
210** [[spoiler:The new Chaos Gods]] create new lesser daemons called Black Pharaohs, Valkyries and Reiglings. They're "fragments of their masters' wills, creatures sent out to do their bidding, mirrors of their thoughts and emotions." They're not nice but they're not necessarily evil.
211* ''Fanfic/TheMansionverse'': Demons are similar to ghosts, but were never alive in the first place, being purely ectoplasmic spirits. They take a wide variety of forms (and, indeed, are skilled shapeshifters), and are very magically powerful. Not all demons are evil, although a vast majority of them are (most of those live in [[{{Hell}} the Underworld]] and can be summoned).
212* There's an abundance of fic made by ''WebVideo/BuzzFeedUnsolved'' fans in which Shane is a demon. There are literally hundreds of takes on this concept. Most of the time he's explicitly not evil, just mischievous and more often than not, protective.
213* In the ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'' fic ''Fanfic/TurningRedSecretsOfThePanda'', Xióngmāo shāshǒu isn’t shown to have any corporeal form, and communicates by possessing various items (including the corrupted red panda spirits).
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217* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingAdventuresOfTheLivingCorpse'': These are normal beings who just happen to look like everything humans fear. While they're made of things like darkness and decay, they're not AlwaysChaoticEvil, with even their king being kind and helpful. They take many forms, such as a WingedHumanoid, a green imp, or a ball of red light.
218* In the Spanish dub of ''WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}}'', the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcVZdH5FJwE Pink Elephants]] are implied to be this. They are referred to in the lyrics as "''las ánimas del terror''" ("the spirits of fear") and speculated to be "''parientes de Satanás''" ("relatives of {{Satan}}").
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222* Though not stated as such in the film itself, the title monster of ''Film/TheBabadook'' is this sort of creature.
223* ''Film/{{Bedeviled}}'': These are humanoid creatures from Another Dimension that can interact with ours via digital signals. They can also create constructs from thin air.
224* ''Film/{{Belzebuth}}'': These are fallen angels who seek nothing short of the destruction of the Messiah. They can only interact with the human world by possessing people or objects, but possess complete control over such barring an exorcism. If they're sufficiently powerful, they can destroy the soul of their host, but any human who manages to overcome them is forever immune to demonic influence.
225* ''Film/BirdBox'': Charlie's theory in regards to the creatures' posits them as being demons or something like it, showing people their dead relatives or worst fears and causing irresistible suicidal urges as a result. While his theory on their origin is never confirmed, it is shown that the victims are drawn to visions of past regrets, such as the woman who tried to save Malorie on the street.
226* ''Film/BlackButler'': These appear human, but are completely immune to harm by Earthly objects, can throw a butter knife with the strength to make it cut through bone, and can move faster than the naked eye. They can be bound to contracts to serve humans, but are simply waiting until it's met to eat their souls.
227* ''Film/BloodyMallory'': There's two varieties: Common demons, a nearly AlwaysChaoticEvil group of humanoid beings, and super demons, {{fallen angel}}s who are immensely powerful and have enslaved the common demons.
228* ''Film/CiaranTheDemonHunter'': These are incorporeal beings who possess people to cause chaos. They resemble blue light and humans they've possessed have yellow eyes.
229* ''Film/DarkAngelTheAscent'': Demons look pretty similar to humans, but have horns and bat wings. They marry and reproduce, running Hell on God's behalf while piously worshiping Him (yet oddly enough still can't touch any holy objects without harm).
230* ''Film/DeadBeforeDawn'': These are dark spirits that can cause suicides and raise the dead.
231* ''Film/DeadBirds'': If demons is even the right term for them. They’re brought into our world by means of gruesome HumanSacrifice, and whoever is possessed receives a NightmareFace, with [[MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily a mouthful of sharp teeth]] and [[EyelessFace a lack of eyes]].
232* ''Film/DemonHunter2005'': These come in many levels, from fallen angels at the top to pathetic wretches made of the darkness on the bottom. They are humanoid, but can sometimes be red and have tails, horns and wings. They can possess people, which is only sometimes curable, and breed with humans.
233* ''Film/DemonHunter2016'': These are gray, sharp-toothed humanoids who used to be human until BlackMagic made them into what they are today. They have SuperStrength and arm-blades, and can shapeshift to blend in with humanity. They can only be killed by decapitation and burial on holy ground, but will come back the second their head is removed from the grave.
234* ''Film/TheDemonologist'': These are green-skinned {{horned humanoid|s}} who can manifest as a black smoke to possess humans. While they are in human vessels, they can keep them young by bathing in blood. Their blood can grant AgeWithoutYouth.
235* ''Film/DieYouZombieBastards'': These are small, wrinkled monstrosities that love to torment people with food products.
236* ''Film/DontKillIt'': These are incorporeal beings that only exist to destroy humans' lives. They can only interact with the world via possessing people, which traps the souls in utter agony, but each one has its own way of doing so. Their form when not possessing people resembles an orange, glowing orb.
237* ''Film/DustDevil'': While the term "demon" is never used, the Dust Devils certainly seem demonic. They’re vicious wind spirits of human origin that have to reside in human bodies, but wish to escape into the spirit realm through use of black magic.
238* ''Franchise/EvilDead'': The Kandarian Demon borders on SentientCosmicForce of evil. It doesn't have a physical form of its own [[spoiler: (until Ash gives it one at the end of the second movie, to better kill it)]], appearing as a disembodied ImpendingDoomPOV. It can, however, inhabit numerous dead bodies at once, turning them into horrific [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Deadites]].
239* ''Film/FleshForTheBeast'': These are incorporeal succubi who have their souls bound to human bodies via HumanSacrifice.
240* [[spoiler:Ferriman]] in ''Film/GhostShip'' is a wicked former human who became a servant of Hell because of his sins. He collects souls for his infernal masters, calling himself a "salvager". He doesn't make deals, and instead tries to tempt people into committing crimes out of the sin of {{Greed}} to damn their own souls, which he can then take "home" when he fills his quotum. He can shapeshift, recover from gunshot wounds, [[spoiler:and mark ghosts to become his servants in death]].
241* ''Film/{{Hellbinders}}'': These are beings who don't belong in the realm of the living, and have to possess something that does to enter. They resemble balls of light when not possessing somebody, and hop bodies as soon as their host is killed.
242* ''Film/JackO'': These are pumpkin-headed beings who act as automatons for powerful sorcerers.
243* ''Film/JennifersBody'': These possess non-virgins sacrificed in Satanic rituals, and give their hosts superhuman abilities in exchange for feeding roughly once a month. If that feeding isn't met, they fade away and cause their hosts to wither. They can be killed via a blade to the heart, and those who survive their bites can inherit their abilities.
244* ''Film/LegendOfTheRedReaper'': These are white-skinned humanoids with ridged eyebrows and long hair. Their blood grants immortality at the cost of addiction, they can breed with humans, and they can only be killed by decapitation.
245* ''Film/LittleEvil'': These are giant, flaming, skeletal monsters who are trapped in hell and can only escape via sacrificing half-demon children.
246* ''Film/{{Nekrotronic}}'': These are evil spirits summoned by BloodMagic, eat souls and have recently figured out how to travel through the Internet. Their true forms resemble glowing green humanoids or black smoke clouds, but they can only interact with the material world by fatally possessing a human.
247* ''Film/NeverCryWerewolf'': In this film, demons are HellHounds who can take on the forms of regular dogs. They are also weak to silver just like werewolves.
248* The Dream Demons in ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet''. They are ancient and serpentine in appearance, and hold lordship over all nightmares. They find the most evil human imaginable, who they will grant the power to [[RealityWarper turn dreams into reality]]. They chose Freddy Krueger, and made him immortal too.
249* ''Film/ParanormalActivity'':
250** Toby, the central demon that serves as the BigBad of the series, is an invisible being who mostly acts like a poltergeist. It starts out doing harmless things at first, such as moving objects here and there or flipping the switch on and off, but devolves into more malevolent acts. Although it can act on its own, it seems that the demon becomes more powerful by possessing people. In the second film, it is revealed that the demon began to haunt Katie and Kristi because their family [[DealWithTheDevil made a deal with it to gain wealth in exchange for sacrificing their firstborn son's soul]].
251** The BigBad of ''Next of Kin'' is {{Asmodeus}}. Like Toby, it is an invisible being who can possess humans. Unlike Toby, who exists in this world because it was summoned, Asmodeus deliberately targets humans [[ForTheEvulz because it wants to]]. It once inflicted a terrible calamity to a Norwegian village, which only stopped when someone managed to trap it in the body of a woman. Since then, it has been passed through the female descendants of said woman.
252* ''Film/SatansSlave'': These are humanoid beings capable of BlackMagic, who go after those whose faith in UsefulNotes/{{Islam}} lapses to torment, kill and enslave them. Their bodies can be destroyed by prayer, which sets them on fire, but they can return to Earth in new forms.
253* ''Film/TheSeventhCurse'': These are vicious creatures that eat human flesh and only speak in growls. They're blue, skeletal and have pure white eyes int heir base form, but have a super form that resembles a [[Film/{{Alien}} Xenomorph]] with bat wings.
254* ''Film/TheSlaughter'': These are terrifying Humanoid Abominations from prehistoric times, who have magical powers and can control the dead.
255* ''Film/Stitches2001'': These are manipulative fiends who wear perfect disguises made of human skin and trap souls in horrible fates via deals.
256* ''Film/TalesOfHalloween'': These are HornedHumanoid monsters who can take more human forms and love murder. However, despite that descriptor, they aren't AlwaysChaoticEvil. Some are vigilantes who bring KarmicDeath on the wicked.
257* ''Film/TruthOrDare2018'': Demons can possess places and even ideas here.
258* ''Film/{{Wither}}'': The Vættr/Wither is an earth spirit living underground. She does not actually attack people, rather she steals their souls by looking into their eyes and taking over them.
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262* ''Manhua/RetiredHeroes'': Demons are small pieces of primordial chaos that have intruded on the world. However, while most people treat them as AlwaysChaoticEvil, the primordial chaos is such a small part of them that it's barely noticeable. They mostly act like a ProudWarriorRace and keep to themselves until a Demon King takes over who has designs on the human world.
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266* ''Music/ClamaviDeProfundis'': Demons are typically depicted as ancient, powerful and unspeakably evil beings, often found deep underground.
267%%* ''Music/{{Gorillaz}}'': The Boogieman (Sun Moon Stars). Looks like [[http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100719152903/kong/images/e/e5/BoogiemanHill.jpg this]].%%ZCE
268%%* ''Music/{{KISS}}'': Gene Simmons wears face paint, spits fake blood and real fire, plays the bass, sings and rolls out his long tongue.%%And is he a demon?
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272* While described as water monsters in cryptozoological circles and pop culture, the term "[[YowiesAndBunyipsAndDropBearsOhMy Bunyip]]" is traditionally taken to mean "dark spirit" in [[Myth/AboriginalAustralianMyths Gamilaraay culture and adjacent cultures like the Wiradjuri]] (this may in part explain why accounts of these things are so over the place; if it's a generic dark spirit, everything goes). Notably they are etymologically connected to "Bunjil", the TopGod of the Kulin Nation and ancestor of the people of the [[NobleBirdOfPrey eagle]] moeity, giving some FallenAngel vibes.
273* ''Literature/TheBible'': In the Old Testament, demons like Beelzebub, Lord of the Flies, were the gods of other tribes in the near East. Beelzebub was a corrupted form of Ba'alzebul, or translated from Phoenician, "Lord of the Temple". Zebub means "flies" in Hebrew, so it was a kind of a TakeThat to old Baal. Didn't help that at least one Baal (there were a bunch of them; not surprising since the word just means "lord" in most of the languages of the region) had a habit of divination by watching flies (hey, the Romans did it with birds...).
274* Myth/GreekMythology: "Daemon" referred to spirits in a general sense, without inherent moral connotations. Malevolent spirits were referred to as kakodaimons. Many of them were personifications of things that were bad or unpleasant, such as disease, famine, murder, rage, war, broken pottery, etcetera. They seemed to largely issue from Tartarus and many were either children of Nyx and Erebus, goddess of Night and god of darkness respectively, or were the sons and daughters of Eris, goddess of discord. While they were often seen as enemies of the gods (for example, Apollo would often kill/drive away plague demons with his arrows), they would also sometimes be contracted out by the gods when exacting divine punishment on a mortal or mortals for their crimes. Ares is also often described with kakodaimons of war as servants, either riding out to battle with them or having them guard his fortress-palace in Thrace. The benevolent counterparts of kakodaimons were referred to as agathodaemons or eudaemons.
275* Myth/JapaneseMythology: What are colloqiually referred to as "demons", usually but not always called "悪魔 (Akuma)", are a hodgepodge of folklore yokai, Buddhist ashuras and the occasional malignant kami, which is pretty different from the Christian interpretation of them as fallen angels.
276* Buddhism has the maras. The term "mara" can refer to three things, three psychological phenomenons, ''the'' Mara (as a particular very powerful semi-deva) and the race of demons ruled by Mara itself. The ten hell realms are also often portrayed as ruled by sadistic maras who torture the denizens, however should be notice that as everything in Buddhism, the maras are also living beings who eventually die and be reborn in something else.
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280* ''Podcast/HeroClub'': Silas and Sidecar, the brothers Soup. They are called demons from the underworld in the season ''It Never Sleeps'', and are shown reassembling their bodies after being brutally "killed". They and their names also appear in other seasons of wildly different times and places like the Wild West, Montana circa 1910, in a space ship in 2219, and even as birds in ''Here There Be Monsters''. They usually keep their personalities as two vaudeville performers trying to put on an improv performance called "the act", likely under the influence of drugs. Each time they appear, their last name is spelled differently, from Soup, Sciouxp, Sooulp, Zoop, to Swoop (with a silent W).
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284* Wrestling/{{Batista}} was billed in OVW as [[RedBaron "The Demon of the Deep"]] Leviathan. He was {{summon|ingRitual}}ed from somewhere underwater by the Disciples of Synn and was BaldOfEvil with CuteLittleFangs.
285* Wrestling/TheUndertaker, "The Demon of Death Valley". One would be remiss to mention the Undertaker without also bringing up his brother Wrestling/{{Kane}}, a.k.a. The Devil's Favorite Demon ([[RedBaron among other nicknames]])
286* Wrestling/FinnBalor is a curious case, since his WWE "Demon King" persona is inspired by two unrelated figures from Myth/CelticMythology: folk hero Fionn [=MacCumhail=], and [[DeadlyGaze Balor, King of the Fomorians]] (the Irish equivalent of the [[Myth/NorseMythology jötnar]])
287* Wrestling/{{Rosemary}}, the demon-possessed version of the former Courtney Rush.
288* Wrestling/{{CHIKARA}} had Obariyon and Kodama of The Batiri. They were billed from Bled Island, UsefulNotes/{{Slovenia}}, wore green-and-black facepaint, teamed with a masked [[OurGoblinsAreDifferent goblin]] named Kobald, and, until Deucalion destroyed Kobald at the return show ''You Only Live Twice'' on May 25, 2014, never spoke on camera. When Wrestling/UltraMantisBlack brought Kobald, in the storyline, BackFromTheDead, he noticed Obariyon and Kodama talking and asked when did they start talking, and they said, "A lot's changed."
289** Gavin Loudspeaker [[HammyHerald announced]] Toshie Uematsu as "the dark demon of [=Joshi=]" over all three nights of ''CHIKARA [=JoshiMania=]'' and, on Night III, she teamed with The Batiri in an eight-person mixed-tag match, even wearing Obariyon and Kodama-styled face paint.
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293* In ''VisualNovel/TheSecondReproduction'', the demons are a powerful race with pointy ears and magical powers. All of them also have red eyes and really long lifespans.
294* ''VisualNovel/{{Shuffle}}'' has a demon race, and a god race. It basically means they're capable of magic, and they have long ears. Demons have longer ears than gods.
295* ''VisualNovel/TrappedWithJester'': Jester is the Demon of Betrayal and Nightmares. Besides the red eyes and sharp teeth, he appears as a conventional jester, but has powers to bring people back to life and restore their memories.
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299* [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXWnW9POrqPuDav-K_rWh0g Burakku Channel]] features the titular Burakku, a demon [=YouTuber=]. He mostly resembles a high-school-boy in a black and red Gyakuran uniform, with yellow-tinted skin, pointy ears, beady eyes, [[PerpetualSmiler a constant grin]] and bangs swept over the left side of his face. There is a red "play" button where his left eye would be on the bangs which mysteriously functions just like a normal eye. He also has the ability to levitate, sprout leathery orange and black wings from his back and summon paperwork contracts for people to sign at a moment's notice, as well as having a special smartphone that appears to be magic and is friends with a small being with a camera for a head named "Camera-chan". [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking He, however, still eats, sleeps, bathes and "relieves himself" like any other human]].
300* ''WebAnimation/{{Hellaverse}}'': In this setting, there is a rigid demon hierarchy: at the bottom are [[OurImpsAreDifferent Imps]] and {{Hellhound}}s, Hellborn demons that serve as Hell's lower class. One step up are other Hellborn demons, whom can take all sorts of shapes and appearances and hold a variety of occupations throughout the Seven Rings. Above them are Sinners, humans that underwent demonic apotheosis upon their deaths, their new forms a reflection of their past life somehow. Sinners are among the most common denizens of Hell, because of all the people who die and find themselves there. Ruling over them are the Overlords, a combination of Hellborn and Sinner demons who have eked out a dominion for themselves and have increased their influence and power as a result, gaining new magical abilities and acting as Hell's aristocracy. The 1% of Hell is dominated by the Goetia family, a unique brood of avian demons with special duties and delegations assigned to them, as [[GeniusBonus outlined in the]] ''Literature/ArsGoetia''. Above them are seven [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils demons who each rule over a Ring of Hell]] and represent a [[SevenDeadlySins Deadly Sin]], such as {{Asmodeus}}, Mammon and Belphegor. Finally, the Apex of Hell is ruled by the royal family, consisting of Lucifer [[MeaningfulName Morningstar]][[note]]who is ''not'' {{Satan}}, but a separate entity. Satan himself has yet to make any appearance in either show[[/note]], his wife Myth/{{Lilith}}, and their daughter Charlotte, the protagonist of ''WesternAnimation/HazbinHotel''.
301* The demons of ''WebAnimation/HellsBelles'' certainly look the part, particularly the horns, but are actually good. After all, their purpose is to punish evil people. They're big on consent (they *were* the first ones to say "no" to G-d), and they are all himbos.
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305* ''Literature/TheAntithesis'': Demons only differ from angels by their phenotypes of black wings and dark hair. They live in the same world, but exist on lower layers of a planet that encapsulates Heaven and Hell, called "The Atrium". They do not possess the evil characteristics of the Judeo-Christian religion, but are actually a population of humanoid-looking beings, and their society contains moralistic values, political hierarchies (the highest being Lucifer, their leader/Military Commander/President, the second highest being the Archdemons) that formulate their Parliament, known as the "Obsidian Court". They are characterized with eccentric personalities, and their culture is embellished in art, literature, and theater.
306* ''Blog/CodexInversus'': The Devils are the inhabitants of the Holy Infernal Empire and one of the dominant species in the setting; in appearance, they resemble horned, red-skinned humans. In ancient times, they oversaw the Hells and administered cosmic justice. In the wake of the Collapse and the end of immortality, they formed a theocratic nation founded on the principles of meritocracy and a form of social survival of the fittest, and are known for their byzantine bureaucracies and regulations and for their passion for opera, blood sports, and extremely spicy food. Demons and Dæmons are splinter groups that tried to seize power, failed, and were exiled.
307* ''[[http://becomingabetterwriter.wordpress.com/becoming-a-better-writer/demonic-symphony/ Demonic Symphony]]'': The demons are the embodiments of emotional energy projected on the world. In theory, this means that there should be demons for other strong emotions such as love, but this isn't really touched on in the book.
308* ''WebAnimation/{{Dreamscape}}'':
309** Keela was a DemonOfHumanOrigin who made a DealWithTheDevil to become one.
310** Kaila is a demon from the Unworld as well. Unlike Keela, she was always a demon. And also unlike [[DarkIsNotEvil Keela]], she is evil.
311** Vladmare is a demon swordsman [[SoulJar who IS the sword]].
312* ''WebVideo/DreamSMP'':
313** [=BadBoyHalo=] is a Demon, whose Demonic blood grants him [[NighInvulnerability semi-immortality]], as his life force is tied to Skeppy (who serves as his SoulJar) and he only loses a canon life when Skeppy does. He is also incredibly tall, standing at 9 feet and 6 inches (289.56cm) -- [[GameplayAndStorySegregation not that you'd be able to tell by looking at his character in-game]].
314** Dreamons are a ''completely'' different type of entity from Demons. They are able to [[DemonicPossession take on Hosts]] to do their bidding, but have [[WeaksauceWeakness a variety of weaknesses]], which the Dreamon Hunters [[ExploitedTrope use]] for exorcisms and preventing detection by them. Transmuted Dreamons are a rare variation where the Host and the Dreamon constantly and rapidly shift between each other.
315* ''WebAnimation/DSBTInsaniT'': Psycho Man calls himself a 'demon lord' and a 'master of the forces of darkness'.
316* ''Roleplay/FireEmblemOnForums'':
317** ''Roleplay/FireEmblemOnForumsWonderfulBlessing'': In addition to the nebulously-defined demons emerging from Hellrealm, a good portion of the races are designated as Demon Races, not created by the Goddesses, such as goblins, beastkin and gargoyles. Otherwise, they are portrayed as no different from other races.
318** ''Roleplay/FireEmblemOnForumsDemonSoulSaga'': There are three types of demons in the setting:
319*** Inner Demons, mental entities that lay dormant in a person's psyche until awoken with the use of an Akuma Seed. These feed on negative emotions such as stress to get stronger, until they get strong enough to engage their hosts in a DealWithTheDevil.
320*** Akuma, monsters that are the results of Inner Demons overcoming their hosts in the DealWithTheDevil. They create their own PocketDimension called Domains and are obsessed with the wish that drove them to make the deal. They are also {{Mook Maker}}s, creating lesser creatures called Onibi that are hostile to anything that isn't their Akuma. They can only be defeated by a Kaijin.
321*** Kaijin, superpowered individuals that are the result of the host overcoming their Inner Demon. They have complete control over their abilities, transforming between their demonic and human forms at will, and are tougher than a normal human even untransformed.
322* ''Blog/HowToHero'' recommends setting traps with peanut butter if you're looking to catch a demon.
323* In the online novel ''Literature/JohnDiesAtTheEnd'', the demons turn out to be [[spoiler:extradimensional [[OrganicTechnology genetically engineered bioweapons]] created by an insane organic supercomputer from an AlternateHistory]]. Somehow, they are still affected by crosses, prayers and the Bible.
324* Blog/{{Limyaael|sFantasyRants}} has a checklist of what to consider when creating [[http://limyaael.livejournal.com/304066.html demons.]]
325* WordOfGod says that the ''Website/{{Mortasheen}}'' equivalent to demons are the Devilbirds, birds that have been psychically charged with certain emotions and must [[EmotionEater eat said emotions for sustenance]], tending to do it in the most horrifying ways possible.
326* ''WebAnimation/ObjectDestruction'' has a blob for a demon (also, HolyWater easily just ''rids'' of said demon).
327* In ''Literature/{{Pact}}'', demons are AlwaysChaoticEvil beings of entropy. Each one appears to be a unique entity, and they are divided into seven choirs based on their abilities. The most powerful of these choirs, the Choir of Dark, are straight-up {{Eldritch Abomination}}s that simply ''erase'' things, sometimes [[RetGone even from memory]].
328* In ''Literature/TheQuestportChronicles'', many of the demons are said to be [[VoluntaryShapeshifting demon transformers]] who can take on any appearance they wish.
329* The Grimm from ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' are monstrous LivingShadow creatures who are stated to have no souls and are attracted to the negative emotions of humans. They seek to kill any humans they come across, not for food or territory, but simply because they can. They are described as personifications of destruction, originally created by [[spoiler:the God of Darkness to rival his brother's creation of living creatures. How exactly they are born is as yet unknown, except that they seem to emerge from black, tar-like "pools of destruction" located in the place the God of Darkness used to inhabit before he and his brother left Remnant millenia ago]].
330* Literature/TheSalvationWar has several different variants of demon. They are fallen angels, distorted by [[{{Hell}} their environment]]. They invade 21th century Earth as part of the apocalypse. [[CurbStompBattle It doesn't work]]. That said, even the angels and, by extension, [[spoiler:God/Yahweh and his brother, Satan]] are more akin to {{Sufficiently Advanced Alien}}s, with all their magic explained through various levels of EM field telepathy and generating of massive bursts of electricity, not to mention "body not built for flying" able to do so through internal sacs of gas that give enough buoyancy for their wings to lift... But tend to catch on fire or ''explode'' when damaged too much.
331* On the online Spec Evo project A Scientific Fantasy, demons are a family of giant lemurs.
332* In [[http://sooniwillrule.blogspot.com/ Soon, I Will Rule The World!]] this trope is invoked [[http://sooniwillrule.blogspot.com/2010/10/actual-god-damn-scoop-on-demons.html here]] and parodied [[http://sooniwillrule.blogspot.com/2011/07/no-sympathy-for-devil.html here]] involving our world's demons taken from the ''Literature/ArsGoetia''.
333* In ''Literature/TalesOfMU'' demons need to feed from humans to survive, and they have a craving for human flesh well beyond said need... and most of the rest is hearsay. They do have a strong association with fire, and have been shown to possess humans and tempt them. The story also has another class of creatures called "yokai" who in {{Fanon}} sometimes fall prey to the translation problem mention above.
334* ''WebVideo/UnwantedHouseguest'': The Shadow Demon [[spoiler: becomes an EvilDoppelganger of the Houseguest.]]
335* In ''Literature/VoidDomain'', demons are eternal beings from Hell, also known as the Void. On a surface glance, the Void is anything but. Domains provide anything a demon could ever want. It creates the opposite problem. There's nothing to work for. Nothing to live for. And yet, dying leads to something much worse. [[spoiler: A demon's death sends them to a place that lives up to the name until they can claw their way back to their domain.]]
336* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': There are several types of AngelsDevilsAndSquid, and the extent to which Infernal demons (of which both Christian and Buddhist forms appears) and [[LovecraftLite Mythos Beings]] differ isn't entirely clear; there is some indication that they all started out the same, but over time some became more adapted to this universe and began to take forms and behaviors similar to the native inhabitants. Even being 'evil' isn't universal; Mythos Beings are shown as either being AboveGoodAndEvil and/or having a BlueAndOrangeMorality which has nothing in common with human morality - indeed, some demons (e.g., Carmilla, Thulia, and to a lesser degree, Gothmog) are notably nicer people than many of the mortals in the series, and even Nyarlathotep is shown as more put-upon than malevolent.
337** The one place they do get specific is in the difference between 'demons' and 'devils': a demon is from a Hell, and their form on Earth is only a [[FightingAShadow projection into our universe]]; a devil is a spiritual predator from ''this'' reality, and exists wholly in the here and now. In practical terms, this means you can banish a demon, but you can't kill it (on Earth, at least), whereas you can't banish a devil (it has nowhere else to go) but you ''can'' destroy it permanently.
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341* In ''WesternAnimation/Castlevania2017'', they serve as [[{{Dracula}} Dracula's]] {{mooks}} in Season 1 and are occasionally referred to as "goblins". They are savage, winged beasts with dark humanoid bodies and wolf-like faces with some of them having {{extra eyes}} like [[MookLieutenant Blue Eyes]].
342* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Disenchantment}}'', are small, black, one-eyed creatures from {{Hell}} in the form of {{living shadow}}s. By their nature, demons desire to [[AlwaysChaoticEvil spread evil and chaos wherever they go]]; however they are '''not''' pure evil, as Luci (one of the main protagonists of the show) is shown to be capable of feeling genuine love and empathy for his friends, even if [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold he prefers to hide it under a meaner exterior]].
343* In ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', Bill Cipher is referred to as a demon. He doesn't look very scary, he's just a flat triangle with an eye in the middle, but he has the power to enter people's dreams and can cause a lot of damage. He can also possess a person's body if they agree to it ([[DealWithTheDevil willingly or otherwise]]). [[GreaterScopeVillain He's more dangerous than he first seems, however]]: [[spoiler: Bill's ultimate goal is to escape the Nightmare Realm into the mortal world. When he manages this in the GrandFinale, he gains RealityWarper powers and turns Gravity Falls into his personal WorldOfChaos]].
344* The titular Devil in WesternAnimation/DevilMayCare. In addition to being a caring (if misguided) ruler of a gentrified Hell, Devil seems to be immune to classic demon weaknesses like summoning circles. He even picks up and reads a Bible with no ill effect, and thinks of God not as an enemy, but as a distant pal who won't return his phone calls.
345* A number of demon and demon-like characters appear in ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983'' and its sister series ''WesternAnimation/SheRaPrincessOfPower'', but the most prominent one was probably Hordak's little sidekick Imp. Another one that shows up repeatedly is Slaughty, who resembles as red baboon with huge [[GoodWingsEvilWings bat wings]]. He's most notable for an episode where, after a bit of deal making, he tries to deliver He-Man himself to his master, the fiery Spirit of Evil. Backfires spectacularly when it turns out GoodHurtsEvil and He-Man is IncorruptiblePurePureness. It should be noted that Slaughty is actually old enough to have been active on Eternia during the time humans and dragons were friends, prior to the founding of Greyskull.
346* Demons make up the majority of the primary rogues gallery in ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'', primarily inspired by those found in Chinese mythology. The second season featured a family of [[EvilSorcerer Demon Sorcerers]] as its BigBadDuumvirate, with one of them, Shendu, being the overall BigBad of the show. The fourth season featured Japanese {{Oni}} as its villains.
347* ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'' is set in a version of {{Hell}} called Miseryville, so almost everyone on the show is some kind of demon. For the most part, they seem to have no special powers and are human in all but appearance -- which can be pretty much any form imaginable.
348* In the Rankin-Bass version of ''WesternAnimation/TheLifeAndAdventuresOfSantaClaus'', we have the Wind Demons. We only see one (the Commander), but he looks like a cross between a bat and a mosquito, tends to cause bursts of wind before he speaks, and while not malicious, is the most vocal detractor toward Claus being made immortal.
349* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLifeAndTimesOfJuniperLee'', quite a few supernatural beings are referred to as "demons". Not all of them are evil; in fact, many are quite decent folks.
350* The demonic creatures from ''WesternAnimation/NeighborsFromHell'' are basically as neurotic as the humans of [[CrapsackWorld the show's setting]].
351* Demons in ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' are beings native to the Boiling Isles, having originally arisen from [[GiantCorpseWorld the Titan's]] corpse as it decayed. Most creatures in the show that are not witches or humans are demons. Some seem to be members of specific species, while others are apparently unique, or at least appear wildly different from their parents. Hooty also explains that they are divided into three categories, the so-called three B's:
352** Bug demons are somewhat insectoid, though what passes as insectoid on the Boiling Isles is somewhat loose; Hooty counts as a worm, despite appearing as an owl. The true signifier of a bug demon is that they communicate with each other through dance, though some, like Hooty, can also speak. In addition to Hooty, fairies are in this category.
353** Bipedal demons are essentially witches in all but looks. They walk on two legs and have an internal bile sack that allows them to perform magic like witches. Unlike witches, they are distinctly non-human, and some may have natural abilities in addition to magic. Warden Wrath and Selene the oracle track student are both in this category.
354** Bestial demons are demons that are neither insectoid nor humanoid, generally resembling wild beasts. These are the monsters you typically encounter in the wild, and most are non-sapient, though exceptions do exist. Slitherbeasts, selkiedomus and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking giraffes]] are in this category.
355** King is eventually revealed to not really belong in any of the categories: he can't communicate through dance, he can't cast spells, and his blood test for bestial demonhood came back negative, and he has a [[SuperScream sonic scream]] that no known species has. It's implied that he belongs to an unknown species, or could be completely unique. [[spoiler:He turns out to be an infant [[OurTitansAreDifferent Titan]]]].
356* The demons in "WesternAnimation/PlutosJudgementDay" are all portrayed as a jury of sinister-looking black cats.
357* Demons also appear in ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'' and its sequel series ''WesternAnimation/ExtremeGhostbusters''. In the first they are intelligent beings akin to the Judeo-Christian stereotype, and in one episode the Ghostbusters went to hell (which is shown to be [[CelestialBureaucracy like an office]]) after a demon hires them to deal with a humiliating wish he has to grant; the disappearing of every chicken on Earth. In ''Extreme'' demons are more violent and unruly.
358* ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' features a wide variety of demons in its universe: first and foremost, the main villain Aku is an unearthly and unholy being spawned from [[EldritchAbomination primordial darkness]], resembles a cross between a {{oni}} and [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Nyarlatothep]] and [[EvilOverlord he has ruled over Earth for thousands of years since ancient times]]. Besides him, we have lesser demons spawned from the Pit of Hate such as [[TheMinionMaster Demongo]] and Aku's non-robotic foot-soldiers; the Celtic Demons who are revealed to be actually robots and finally, the Minions of Set, a trio of divine Egyptian demons that are pretty much invulnerable to any weapon including the hero's sword which was ForgedByTheGods. It takes an actual Egyptian god being summoned in order to destroy them permanently.
359* Demons appear in several episodes of ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'', with the most prominent being Tom Lucitor, their prince and Star's ex-boyfriend. They have their own kingdom in Mewni's Underworld and come in a variety of appearances, but typically seem to lean towards DarkIsNotEvil. Magic High Commission members Hekapoo and Lekmet also resemble demons, but have no connection with Tom and his kind, being incredibly powerful magical entities, though the latter is described as an "angel goat demon".
360* TheLegionsOfHell in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans''' fourth season are mainly composed of floating, mute fire-creatures. A similar but [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever scaled-up version]] with legs was summoned three seasons prior. But [[{{Satan}} Trigon]] is even bigger, has blood-red skin instead of solid flame, antlers, and four eyes -- basically VideoGame/{{Diablo}} with mutton chops instead of a tail. [[spoiler: Raven, his half-demon spawn, has grey skin, purple eyes and indigo hair.]]
361* In ''WesternAnimation/UglyAmericans'', demons are not AlwaysChaoticEvil but never good-aligned (though they have some rather sinister practices by our standards), resemble the usual red (or pink for females) humanoids with horns, and also have BizarreAlienBiology like giving birth through the top of their skulls and lactating fire when in heat.
362* On ''WesternAnimation/{{Wishfart}}'', demons are the chief inhabitants of TheUnderworld (which is ruled by [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep a demon known only as The King of the Underworld]]) asides from the spirits of the dead. All of them appear pretty much as variations on the classic HornedHumanoid, but otherwise vary in colour, size, and additional traits.
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