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Demon Lord Dante
Dante Luther
Once a scientist living in Sodom when God attacked, Dante tried to fight god off using a combat plane of his own design only for God’s hellfire to transform him into a horrific demon.
- Antichrist: He’s the king of the devils and is the one who lead the demons in their first war against God.
- Dark Messiah
Ryo Utsugi
The main character, after being eaten by Dante, Ryo finds that his consciousness has taken over the Demon Lord and his followers now revere Ryo as their Messiah.
- Adaptational Villainy: He appears in Devilman Lady as an antagonist. He also appears in Devilman Grimoire as the main villain of the last arc.
- Anti Anti Christ: Tries to be this at first.
- Happily Adopted: In the anime.
- Hulking Out: In the anime he would be at risk of transforming uncontrollably when angered, a downplayed example in Neo, he’d form a pattern of bruises on his face when he became Lightning Ryo.
- Suicide by Cop: Attempts this during his first rampage as Dante, egging the national guard to kill him once he realized he’d become a monster.
Masaki Shinjou
The main character of Shin Mao Dante. Unlike Ryo, Masaki is contacted by Medusa directly to resurrect Dante.
Dante’s Friends and Followers
Medusa Gorgon/Saiko Kodai/Saori Medou
Dante’s girlfriend from before they became demons, shortly after Dante’s resurrection she tracks him down with the intention of restoring his memories.
- Action Girl
- Aloof Dark-Haired Girl
- Attempted Rape: Every version of the series introduces her by having her kill a group of men who try to ravish her.
- Gorgeous Gorgon: Her snake features are more pronounced in Neo and Devilman Grimoire.
- Hot Teacher: In the remake, she works as a teacher at Utsugi’s college.
- Louis Cypher: In Neo Mao Dante her human alias is Saori Medou (Medou Saori, Medusa).
- Ms. Fanservice
- Prehensile Hair
- Promoted to Love Interest: Inverted with Shin Mao Dante due to that manga being a boys love series.
- Reincarnation Romance: She was in a relationship with Dante before they became demons and she tends to try and get Ryo Utsugi to fall in love with her.
- Taken for Granite: Her primary method of attack.
Satanist High Priest/Beelzebub
The leader of the Satanists in the manga and the anime, in the anime he’s established as being the demon Beelzebub.
- Big Creepy-Crawlies: As his name implies his demon form is a giant fly.
- Jedi Mind Trick: Used one on the head of the mountaineers club in the anime.
- New Era Speech: Gives a brief one in every series he appears in.
- Louis Cypher: in the anime he uses both Veil and Zebub as aliases while infiltrating Christian organizations.
Satanist Cultist/Pico
An unnamed cultist in the original manga in the anime he was shown to be a demon, his demon form is a centaur with compound eyes and an elongated face.
- Mauve Shirt: he has the most characterization of all the minor demons in the anime.
- Spared by the Adaptation: in the original manga he dies when his helicopter is shot down during Dante’s rampage, in the anime he survived until the twelfth episode.
Gusion
One of the Demons working to resurrect Demon Lord Dante, his demon form is a large head with a catlike body.
- Eye Scream: Gets shot through his third eye by Shea.
- Ludicrous Gibs: What follows shortly after.
- My Brain Is Big: His most notable feature.
- Mythology Gag: He is modeled after Blemshat, a demon from the manga with three eyes and a large, bulbous head, who would also become the inspiration for the demon Gondroma in Devilman.
- Red Shirt: Doesn’t do much on his own besides being killed.
- Third Eye: It fires Eye Beams.
Carne
Another demon working to resurrect Dante, his demon form resembles a large horned goblin with a second face in his chest.
- Belly Mouth
- Mutual Kill: With Kuninpa.
- Sinister Scythe: His weapon of choice.
Ura
Yet another Demon working to resurrect Dante, her demon form resembles a harpy.
- Feather Flechettes: Her primary attack.
- Mauve Shirt: The only anime original demon in the cult with any characterization.
- Smurfette Principle: Only Demon in the cult to be female.
Samael
Still another Demon working to resurrect Dante, his demon form is a spiky slug like shell with three nested heads and two claws.
- Eaten Alive: How he describes his death.
- Ramming Always Works: Except when it doesn’t.
- Spike Shooter: His primary method of attack.
Satan
Only mentioned in the manga, Satan played a much bigger role in the anime and Neo Mao Dante.
- Adaptational Heroism: In Devilman they were the Big Bad and only A Lighter Shade of Black compared to God, in the Anime and Neo Mao Dante Satan is inarguably a heroic character.
- Adaptation Species Change: In Devilman Satan is an angel who sided with the demons against God in Mao Dante he is a human who was transformed into a demon while fighting God.
- Conjoined Twins: A retroactive example.
- The Ghost: In the original manga.
- Half-Identical Twins: With his sister Lucifer.
- Satan Is Good
Lucifer
- Mythology Gag: How she fused with her brother is similar to Satan’s origin in Demon Knight when the (male) angel Lucifer becomes fused with the human woman Yuria to create Satan.
God's Forces
God
A malevolent entity that came from space, after the people of earth refused to allow God to store his essence in their bodies and worship him, he destroyed their civilization, accidentally transforming the survivors into demons, and recreated the human race from anthropoid apes. Now the demons seek to reclaim their world from God, but he’s not going down without a fight.
- A God Am I: He literally named himself "God".
- Big Bad: The Main and most omnipresent villain of Demon Lord Dante.
- Decomposite Character: In New Demon Lord Dante, God is depicted as an entire race of aliens who have colonized the planet.
- Corrupted Character Copy: The anime series presents him as one to the Saiyans of Dragon Ball fame. While the Saiyans enjoy combat, God is described in terms that imply that he is addicted to fighting, while the Saiyans have turned to a semi-constructive outlet for their bloodlust as freelance planet conquerors, God goes from planet to planet plunging them into millions of years conflict and leaving behind a dead husk in his wake, and while the Saiyans enjoy combat they don't actively seek it out at every turn, meanwhile God literally creates new enemies to fight.
- Disproportionate Retribution: The people of Sodom refused his unreasonable demands, so he destroyed their civilization, turned them into hideous monsters and erased them from the fossil record.Camel Head Avatar: You’ll come back to life and then be burned to death, over and over! That’s the price you pay for resisting God!
- Eldritch Abomination: Not to the same extent as in Devilman but Ryo could still feel God’s evil from a mental image.
- Energy Beings: He's not entirely pleased with this and came to Earth in the first place to use the inhabitants as his new vessels.
- Me's a Crowd: When he destroyed Sodom he split himself into several avatars with animal heads.
- Mind Hive: In New Demon Lord Dante God comes to Earth as a singular entity before splitting into several Gods.
- Third-Person Person: Occasionally says "God" instead of "I" or "Me".
- Villain Override: Uses this on Eve after Saori breaks free of his control.
Kosuke Utsugi
Ryo Utsugi's father and the leader of the organization that serves God.
- Adaptational Badass: In the original manga and anime he is a normal human, oblivious to the full nature of humanity to God, in Neo Mao Dante he is Archangel Uriel.
- Villainous Breakdown: In the anime he basically loses it after God reveals to him that his son is really the Demon Lord and that his daughter has been chosen as God’s ultimate weapon.
Zennon
One of Dante's closest friends from Sodom, Zennon betrayed his friend and joined God with the intention of ultimately using the powers God would grant him to save the demon race, but first Zennon has to kill Dante.
- Adaptation Name Change: His name is changed to Zannin in the Devilman anime from the 70s.
- Ascended Demon: In exchange for killing Dante, God promised that he would turn Zennon into a god himself.
- Canon Immigrant: He appears as a villain in the 70s anime adaptation of Devilman.
- Dirty Coward: In the anime, Zennon first agreed to serve God because he was afraid of being sent to hell, Beelzebub condemns him for it and Zennon himself deeply regrets it.
- Opportunistic Bastard: Subverted he wants the powers of a god because he thinks it’s the only way he can save the demon race.
Sosuke Oshiba
A friend of Ryo's since childhood, Sosuke Oshiba joined the a secret organization of religious demon slayers lead by Ryo’s father and has been very persistent in convincing Ryo to join him in their campaign against the demons, unaware that he is the king of the demons himself.
- Doesn't Like Guns: The first thing we see him do in the manga is slice a gun handed to him by a fellow demon slayer.
- Van Helsing Hate Crimes: Gleefully beats up any demon or suspected demon his friends in the kendo club drag before him.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Completely vanishes after the first half of Neo Mao Dante.
Adam and Eve
God's ultimate weapon, in the original manga they were only mentioned by Zennon as a danger for Dante to watch out for. In the anime the appeared as a Quetzalcoatl like monster with a man and woman placed in the forehead. In Neo Mao Dante they took the form of two giants formed from multiple human bodies fused together with a pilot logdged in the forehead.
- Powered Armor: Both of them sport this in the 2002 manga, during the final battle, giving them the appearance of Humongous Mecha.
Archangel Metatron
One of the Thirteen Archangels, he acts as a major antagonist of Neo Mao Dante.
- The Heavy: He is the most active antagonist of Neo Mao Dante.
The Four Demon Kings
General Tropes
A quartet of demons, feared as reapers, who made a deal with God.
- Canon Foreigner: They were created for the anime.
- The Dreaded: It just took a rumor of their coming to make one king abandon his country.
- Face–Heel Turn: Much like Zennon, they are demons who joined forces with God.
- False Flag Operation: They’re primary mission was to increase public fear of demons.
- Flat Character: With the exception of Lamia they don’t have much characterization beyond being evil.
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: They are definitely modeled after them, they even spend most of their screen time on horseback.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: God placed them behind the Door of Seals to await Dante’s return.
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: They do not get along with the members of the God’s Association.
Sakushi
Ostensibly the leader of the Demon Kings.
- Evil Overlord: Has the definite trappings of one.
- Hate Plague: Emits a fog from his mouth that can make people attack each other.
Shea
- Multi-Armed and Dangerous: He has eight arms in total.
- Walking Armory: He has a different weapon in each hand.
Kuninpa
- Epic Flail: His weapon of choice.
- Fat Bastard
- Snake Oil Salesman: He says the sunglasses he’s giving away reveal the demons living among us but that’s just an illusion he cast on the glasses.
Lamia
- Attack Reflector: An interesting variation, she generates mirrors that kill the person reflected in them when shattered.
- Conceive and Kill: Planned to have a child with Dante before she killed him.
- Darwinist Desire: Her apparent motivation behind having a kid with Dante.
- Kiss of Death: Her preferred method of killing people, particularly men she finds attractive.
- Mother of a Thousand Young: She breeds entire armies to help her invade countries.
- She Is the King
Ryo’s Family
Saori Utsugi/Aya Utsugi
Ryo’s little sister, she is often more willing to heed Ryo’s dreams after his disappearance than their parents, in the final battle God uses her as the main piece for Eve.
- Not Blood Siblings: In the anime.
- The Not-Love Interest: In Neo Mao Dante.
- Promoted to Love Interest: In the Anime.
