* NightmareRetardant: The descriptions (and for some, images) of the Goetic demons sound ''much'' less scarier than what we'd normally expect for demons. [[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ipos.gif Ipos]] for example is a mishmash of... a goose, lion, and hare? Likewise, [[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stolas.jpg Stolas]] looks more like a cute creature design due to just being a crowned owl with long legs.
* ValuesDissonance:
** Four of the demons — Marchosias, Focalor, Amy/Avnas, and Phenex — [[AscendedDemon hope to be redeemed]], yet can't be for unspecified reasons, even being "deceived in that hope". While several of the others definitely could use the permanent timeout, quite a few are expressedly harmless and even "good" (though see below), which usually comes across as unfair to most modern readers, including Christians with a more redemptive form of Christianity, especially in regard to those four, as they are specifically said to hope for a chance to return to Heaven.
** The various conjuration litanies in the Ars Goetia basically deem a spirit "good" or "evil" not on what they specifically do, but merely whether or not they're obedient ("good" if they obey the summons with all due haste, "wicked" if not and there's reason to believe it's not because they're busy helping other conjurors). This extends to the aerial spirits from the Ars Theurgia Goetia, as well. If they're typically "loving and obedient", they're Good. If they're typically disobedient and/or deceitful, they're Evil.
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