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The Demon King of the Confused World/Hunshi Mowang

Demon King from the Clouded Water Cave, took over the Water Curtain Cave while Sun Wukong was gone.

BFS: His giant Dao, which Sun Wukong inherits and later barters for the Magic Staff.
Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: He wears black gold. Of course he's a villain.
Hoist by His Own Petard: Sun Wukong bifurcates him with his own sword.
Let's Fight Like Gentlemen: Seeing that his opponent is unarmed, he decides to face him in a unarmed fight. However, as he starts losing, he decides to use his giant sword instead.
Monstrous Humanoid: He's a black-clad gigantic ogre of a man, but unlike other demons met later, it's not revealed if he was an animal turned monster like them or something similar.
Off with His Head!: Gets beheaded after being rushed and beaten by Sun Wukong's clones.
Sore Loser: Challenges Sun Wukong to a barehanded fight, claiming that it would be dishonorable to use his sword against a weaponless enemy. When it's clear that the Monkey is overpowering him, he changes his mind and goes for the kill with his sword.
Starter Villain: The very first serious villain fought by our hero.
Tyrant Takes the Helm: Sort of, he took over Sun Wukong's mountain while he was away, but he lives in his own domain and kidnaps the monkeys to use them as slaves.

General Three O'Clock, Mountain Lord Bear, and the Special Dweller/Yinjiangjun, Xiongshanjun, Techusi

Demons living in the Double Forked Ridge.

Bears Are Bad News: Mountain Lord Bear, Exactly What It Says on the Tin
Face–Heel Turn: Technically a Heel–Face Turn given the literary time frame. When the Special Dweller and General Three O'Clock appeared in a text set in the later Tang Dynasty, they were harmless.
The Cameo: The Special Dweller and General Three O'Clock first appeared in a Tang Dynasty text, where they entertained a poet.
Our Minotaurs Are Different: Special Dweller is a bull.
Panthera Awesome: General Three O'Clock is a tiger.
Starter Villain: The first demons Tripitaka meet.
Wake-Up Call Boss: Despite appearing early, they become a big danger to Xuanzang when they eat his human companions and almost eat him.

Black Wind Demon/Heifengguai

Bear Demon living on Black Wind Mountain.

Bears Are Bad News: His real form is that of a black-furred bear.
Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: Dressed mostly in black and dark-green. He's a Noble Demon though, and overall a decent guy.
Heel–Face Turn: Thanks to Guanyin, who puts a Restraining Bolt on him.
- He wants to join the pilgrims, but Guanyin makes him the guardian of her mountain. One theory is she wants to avoid conflict between him and Monkey since they are on equal power level and neither guys want to play second-fiddle to the other.
Impossibly Cool Clothes: Loves them, and even steals Tripitaka's cassock for this reason.
Kill It Through Its Stomach: The first victim of this trick when he swallows Sun Wukong transformed into a pill, but not the last. Though Guanyin asked Sun Wukong to spare him.
Noble Demon: The first thing he does in the novel upon witnessing a burning temple near his lair? Rush there to help the monks.
Shapeshifting: Has the same 72 transformation art as Sun Wukong.
Starter Villain: The first serious threat to our heroes.

White Robed Scholar and Master Lingxu/Baiyixiushi, Lingxuzi

Friends of the Black Wind Demon, they live in the same area.

Affably Evil: Despite being monsters, they both seem to be rather affable and civil. Master Lingxu even brings some long life pills to the Black Wind Monster as a gift.
Kill and Replace: After killing Lingxuzi, Sun Wukong takes his form to enter the Black Wind Cave.
Non-Action Guy: They aren't of any use in combat and die pretty soon when Sun Wukong can hit them.
Oh, Crap!: They have a moment of panic when the Monkey attacks them, killing the Scholar on the first blow.
Savage Wolves: Subverted with Lingxuzi: he's a wolf spirit, but shows none of the stereotypes associated with wolves.
Snakes Are Sinister: The White Robed Scholar is actually a white snake spirit in human form.

Great King Yellow Wind/Huangfeng Dawang

Wind-controlling Demon living in Yellow Wind Mountain.

Be Careful What You Wish For: He claims that he was Expecting Someone Taller to Sun Wukong, only for him to grow in size twice after being hit by the former's weapon.
Breath Weapon: How he channels the Divine Samadhi Wind.
Blow You Away: He mastered the use of the Divine Samadhi Wind, which allows him mastery over deadly squalls of wind that nearly blind Sun Wukong, forcing him to flee.
Large and in Charge: Like pretty much all the monsters after him, with some token exceptions.
Oh, Crap!: Is terrified when Sun Wukong throws the Dragon-Cane at him, his only weakness.
Starter Villain: In a way, he's the first demon to actually kidnap Tripitaka setting the base for most of the villains in the book.
Wicked Weasel: His true form is that of a large marten. In some adaptation his monster form is rather marten-like.

Vanguard Tiger/Hu Xiangfeng

Minion of Great King Yellow Wind.

Flayed Alive: He does this to himself to take humanoid form. He can even remove the skin and coat other objects in it, trick employed to get Sun Wukong and Zhu Bajie off him so that he could kidnap Tripitaka.
Monstrous Humanoid: Can take humanoid form, but not completely human, looking like an upstanding skinned tiger.
Panthera Awesome: Subverted, he's a tiger monster but a mere minion for a much stronger monster.
Sinister Scimitar: Fights with two bronze curved swords, not good enough to give the pilgrims any trouble though.
Transformation Trauma: Every time he goes from tiger to humanoid he has to tear off the skin from his chest.
Undignified Death: Tries to run away in panic, only to run in Zhu Bajie who opens nine holes in his body with a single strike of his rake.

Lady White Bones / Baigujing (White Bone Spirit)

A lady Demon residing in White Bones Cavern on White Tiger Mountain.

Adaptational Badass: In some retellings, she can fight against Wukong. In canon, she can't.
Breakout Villain: Due to being a demon with a Small Role, Big Impact, her story arc is one of the most well-known scenes of the novel in China and receives a lot of adaptations. In several she's promoted to Wukong's Archenemy.
Ethereal White Dress: The sinister version. White has conotations with "death" in certain areas of Asia, and she certainly fits as a malevolent ghost/demon.
Dem Bones: A sentient skeleton turned demon.
Faking the Dead: Creates illusions of corpses to leave behind.
Master of Illusion: Skilled in creating illusions of corpses, which she leaves behind as decoys.
Manipulative Bastard: Her main skill, and what she uses to separate Monkey from the group (posthumously, admittedly).
Rule of Three: Killed three times before being Killed Off for Real. The first time were fake corpses.
Small Role, Big Impact: Despite being a demon who was rather easy to kill once her illusions were broken, she forced Tripitaka to kick Monkey out of his little band. This then sets up the plot for the next demon encounter.
Squishy Wizard: All she could do was make illusions. Once those were broken, she died with one hit.

Yellow Robed Demon/Huangpaoguai

A monster dwelling in the Moon Waves Cave on Bowl Mountain, near the Baoxiang Kingdom.

Abduction Is Love: Abducted and raped the Princess of Baoxiang kingdom under the delusion that she loved him. Technically, the princess was supposed to be channeling his heavenly lover.
And Now You Must Marry Me: Forced Princess Hundred Flower to be his wife for twelve years. On the other hand he did treat her well and with respect.
Badass Bookworm: Not in the work proper, but he's a god of literature.
Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: Wears only yellow.
Distracted by the Sexy: Yu Long, with the rest of Tripitaka’s disciples either running away or out of commission, transforms into a gorgeous large-breasted woman and walks into the demon’s palace. Yu asks for the demon’s swords for a traditional sword dance, which the demon agrees to, excited to see this beautiful woman dance for his pleasure. Unfortunately, being drunk and distracted still wasn’t enough for victory, and Yu Long barely escapes.
Forced Transformation: After he went to the court of Baoxiang's king (under human disguise), he persuaded the king that Tripitaka was actually the monster responsible for the princess' kidnapping and turns him into a tiger with a spell. Later said spell is undone by Monkey.
Karma Houdini: After returning to heaven to escape from Wukong, he only got sentenced to be Lao Zi's errand boy for a little while. Of course if you overlook the death of his children by Pigsy's hand.
Master Swordsman: Takes on both Pigsy and Sandy at the same time with little help and later defeats the White Horse (who was wielding his own scimitar) with a chandelier.
Noble Demon: For a rapist and a kidnapper, he's extremely kind to his wife, agreeing to free Tripitaka when she asked politely, treating her as a queen and begging for her forgiveness after being rude to her, thinking that she was in cahoots with Sandy and Pigsy.
Oh, Crap!: Has one when he learns that Sun Wukong is after him.
Papa Wolf: Becomes furious when Pigsy and Sandy kills his infant children by throwing them to their deaths.
Reincarnation Romance: Invoked and then subverted. He reincarnated as a demon to be together with a minor goddess he fell in love with. Only his love got Laser-Guided Amnesia upon reincarnating as Princess Hundred Flower. He does not take it well.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When he hears that Sun Wukong himself is after him, he's ready to forfeit vengeance for his children as he's too afraid of him.
To Serve Man: Ate one of the Baoxiang court's serving maids when he got drunk.
Voluntary Shapeshifting: His true form is a wolf.

Gold Horned and Silver Horned Great Kings/Jinjiao Dawang, Yinjiao Dawang

Demon King Brothers living in the Lotus Flower Cave on Flat Peak Mountain.

Absurdly Sharp Blade: Averted: the Seven Star Sword is treated as such, but dents a little after hitting Monkey's head too many times.
Acid Pool: The Gourd and the Pot have the power to absorb people inside it and melt them.
Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: The younger one. It's practically his entire character. Gold Horn warned him repeatedly not to go after Wukong because of how strong he was. Silver Horn didn't listen and well...let's just say it did not end well for him.
BFS: Supposedly the Seven Star Sword, a massive sword with the Big Dipper contellation engraved on the flat of the blade. Sometimes they also employ huge sabers.
Brains and Brawn: Gold and Silver Horn respectively. Gold is the smarter one, a strategist that fights dirty, while Silver is a brilliant fighter, but impulsive.
Colony Drop: Silver Horn knows a spell that drops an entire, existing mountain on the back of the victim, squashing it. It still took three mountains to pin Sun Wukong to the ground. After he freed himself, the mountains returned to their place.
Combat Pragmatist: Gold Horn is not above using overpowered weapons to get an edge in a straight fight, and is more pragmatic than Silver. Even Silver shows this when he faces Pigsy, as he breaks a stalemate between them by calling forth his army to surround his foe, and thus he wins.
Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Yes, they're both vicious, man-eating tyrants but the first thing they do after capturing Tripitaka is to send an invitation letter for their elder mother so that she too can taste his flesh and become young and immortal.
Face–Heel Turn: They used to work for Taishang Laojun. They come back to him after being beaten by Sun Wukong.
Fashionable Asymmetry: In many popular depictions, the brothers sport a single horn each on one side of their heads (Gold Horn to the right and Silver Horn to the left).
Half-Human Hybrid: Their mother was a huli jing, and so is their uncle, Great King Hua Qi.
Hoist by His Own Petard: Monkey use their own Treasures against them.
Horned Humanoid: Implied, though they're not described in detail. Most depictions give them Ogre-like appearences and variable number/shape of horns.
I Am a Humanitarian: Not only they want to make a lavish banquet out of Tripitaka, they also plan to turn Pigsy into dried ham. Pigsy is less than amused.
I Know Your True Name: In order for the Crimson Gourd or the Jade Pot to work, the user must call the victim by name and the victim has to answer. As Sun Wukong found out the hard way, even nicknames will work. Furthermore, it's implied that a mere nod is enough of an answer for the tools.
I'm Melting!: What happened to them. Luckily, their true forms were spared.
Instant Knots: By giving the order "Bind!", the Golden Rope can tie itself around someone's neck, suffocating him. Not even sizeshifting into a bigger or smaller form is of any help.
Large and in Charge: They're both massive, and lead an army of smaller monsters.
Mundane Utility: Turns out that the five treasures that put even Sun Wukong in a pinch were just Lao Zi's tools of the trade. (The Pot is for holding water, the Gourd medicine, the Fan is used to kindle the fire, the Rope his is tool belt and the Seven Star Sword is his demon-repelling weapon).
Overshadowed by Awesome: In most of the fiction depicting/nodding them, the Gourd, the Fan and the Sword are probably the most famed treasures in that order. The Pot and Rope? Good luck finding someone who knows what they do.
Paper Fan of Doom: The Banana Leaf Fan.
Playing with Fire: The Fan has power over fire, enough to force Sun Wukong to retreat.
Possession Implies Mastery: Subverted when Sun Wukong takes the Golden Rope and use it against Silver Horn: the latter knows how to use the rope better than Monkey and turns the artifact against him.
Rank Scales with Asskicking: They're kings after all, and competent fighters.
Sibling Yin-Yang: The older brother Gold Horn is a careful strategist, while Silver Horn is more combative and easy to fool. In Japan, the two will often be portrayed as literal Oni.
Stock Shout-Out: Comes with being two of the most famous villains in the story, though not to the extent of Sun Wukong himself. For example, they appear as villains in both Dragon Ball (in a filler episode) and in Lupin III.
Wake-Up Call Boss: In the Oriental Legend arcade game, they are the first bosses and show that the bosses in this game will wreck a careless player. Also, in the book itself, they are the first villains to easily beat the whole team initially. Black Bear faced only Shazang and Wukong, and Yellow Robes Demon didn't face Wukong until his arc's end.
Weapons That Suck: The Gourd and the Pot. According to most tradition, you have to point it towards the victim, said his/her name and have him/her answer a question.
Younger Than They Look: Their real forms are two boys apprenticed to Taishang Laojun.

Nine Tailed Old Vixen/Juweihuli

Old mother of Gold Horn and Silver Horn, lives in the Suppressed Dragon Cave on Suppressed Dragon Mountain.

Asian Fox Spirit: She is a nine-tailed fox, but she's not particularly powerful or pretty, being an old crone in possession of a magic rope.
Evil Old Folks: Contrasting most cases of Hulijing, this vixen is quite old and out of shape.
Undignified Death: As soon as she peeks her head out of her palanquin to see what caused that noise, Wukong squashes her head flat with his cudgel.

Great King Hu'aqi/ Hu'aqi Dawang

Maternal uncle of Gold Horn and Silver Horn.

Asian Fox Spirit: He's a fox demon like his sister, but normally takes the appearence of a large man with a full Chinese armor and halbeard.
The Cavalry: Shows up with a large number of minions and ends up helping his nephew against the pilgrims.
Flat Character: He's just there to make the fight against Gold Horn more interesting near the end.
Killed Off for Real: After a heated battle he's slain by Zhu Bajie, leaving a mangled fox corpse behind.
This Was His True Form: Leaves behind a fox carcass after being killed.

The Red Boy AKA Honghaier/Kougaiji

Child of the Bull Demon King and Iron Fan Princess, lives in the Fire Cloud Cave near the Dry Pine Stream.

Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: Similar to Monkey in his first appearance. He mellows out after moving to Guanyin's island.
Blood Upgrade: He has to draw his own blood to activate the Samadhi Fire.
Bluff the Impostor: A rare case of a villain doing this to a hero, he realizes that something is wrong when his father (actually Sun Wukong in disguise) tells him that he became vegetarian and that he should free Tripitaka in the name of his friendship with Sun Wukong.
Breath Weapon: Can spit fire from his mouth and smoke from his eyes and nostrils.
Chekhov's Gun: The defeat of the Red Boy would later cause more trouble to Sun Wukong with both his uncle in the Women's Country and later with his parents.
Cute Bruiser: Has the form of an adorable young boy, but is a master of fire.
Enfant Terrible: A villain at first despite having the form of a child.
Expy: Some adaptations via both his fighting style, powers and weaponry make him akin to Nezha.
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: When he sits on Guanyin's throne it transforms into a bunch of swords, and then into halbeards.
Playing with Fire: His flames, the True Fire of Samadhi, are so powerful that water does nothing against them, and Sun Wukong was barely able to survive them.
Prefers Going Barefoot: He's barefoot at all times.
Restraining Bolt: Ends up with five of them when he's forced into a Heel–Face Turn.
Too Dumb to Live: Leaves the fight against Sun Wukong after spitting some fire against him without checking out his health status. Later when he sees Guanyin's empty Lotus throne he smugly sits on it acting as her. It goes as well as you could possibly imagine.
X on a Stick: As if his fire powers weren't enough, he has a spear tipped with flames.

Kid Croc/Tuolong

Half-Dragon monster from the Black Water River in the Measured Light Valley.

Black Sheep: All eight of his brothers have respectable jobs, and he's a flesh-eating demon.
Cain and Abel: With his elder cousin, the Crown Prince of the Western Sea.
Combat Pragmatist: When attacked by Sandy and Pigsy, who are not enough to defeat him, he repeals them and do not pursue them outside his mansion and out of the river where Sun Wukong is waiting in ambush.
Enfant Terrible: A juvenile delinquent of a Dragon Prince.
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: At first he doesn't even understand why his cousin Mo-ang is angry at him after he invited him and his family to the banquet with Tripitaka as the main course.
Fisher King: Under his mismanagement, the Blackwater River looks like either a cesspool or an indigo dye vat.
Making a Splash: Makes waterpools to suck in unsuspecting victims to his watery mansion.
Never Smile at a Crocodile: In the original Chinese, he's the "Tuò Long", Tuò being an old word for "big, water lizard". Most translations turn him into a crocodile or alligator (which, to be fair, fits the description of the Tuò nicely). In the novel, Sandy claims he looks like a giant turtle.
Non-Mammalian Hair: Described as having black, spiky hair despite being a reptile. Maybe is due to his Dragon blood.
Self-Disposing Villain: Sort of: even though he planned to kill and cook Tripitaka, he also meant to invite his family to the banquet, and they would have surely punished him for his actions.
The Unfought: In a way, he's not defeated by Sun Wukong, fights briefly Sandy and Pigsy and in the end he's subdued by his cousin and taken away by his cousin and imprisoned.
What Happened to the Mouse?: He's subdued by his brother's army and taken into custody. It's not revealed whether he was executed or if they give him another type of punishment. Defied by Sun Wukong in a later encounter with Mo-ang, who promises not to get involved with their family affairs while Kid Croc remains imprisoned.
Weapon Specialization: His weapon is a type of Chinese whip called "Biàn", which is a flexible, segmented club. His is made of bamboo and steel.

Three Fiends Of Chechi (Tiger Power Great Hermit, Stag Power Great Hermit, and Goat Power Great Hermit)

Three animal spirits turned Taoists who hold great power in the Chechi Kingdom.

Adaptational Badass: In some adaptations the three actually fight the pilgrims, while in the original book and the rest of the adaptations they die in contests.
Adaptation Species Change: Whilst Tiger Power is consistent throughout all the versions, the other two aren't. Stag Power has been portrayed as a deer or an elk — which, admittedly, are pretty close to the same thing. Goat Power, on the other hand, has also been an antelope and a ram!
Always Someone Better: Wukong is not only better at being indestructible, he's also better at cheating compared to them; especially when it comes to cheating back at them.
Animal Metaphor: The three of them are a tiger, a deer, and a goat respectively.
Animal Stereotypes: Tiger Power, the animal considered king of the beasts in Asian cultures, is clearly dominant over his two comrades.
Cheaters Never Prosper: Unlike Wukong, whose powers are genuine, the three of them used cheaper shortcuts for their powers and resorted to cheating in their challenges. Tiger Power and Stag Power don't have true regeneration, while Goat Power lacked proper resistance to heat and instead secretly used outside help in the form of an ice dragon. When Wukong snatches away Tiger Power's head, Stag Power's organs and removes Goat Power's ice dragon, the three are promptly killed.
Cruel and Unusual Death: All three of them, through means of their own making:
- Off with His Head!: Tiger Power attempts a beheading competition. Though the biased executioner kicks Wukong's head too far to be summoned back, Wukong simply regenerates one. Tiger Power's head is not kicked far, but Wukong carries it off in the form of a dog. Tiger Power can't regenerate, so...
- Gutted Like a Fish: Stag Power attempts a disembowelment competition, which both he and Wukong seem to pass. However, Stag Power took a shortcut while honing his powers, leading to him being unable to achieve true regeneration. The second Wukong turns one of his hairs into a hawk that snatches away Stag Power's internal organs, he's done for.
- Stewed Alive: Goat Power proposes a deep-fry competition... in which the competitors themselves are deep-fried. Though Wukong never learned how to survive an oil bath, he makes it out by virtue of his Nigh Invulnerablity, being made of rock, then augmented by Taishang Laojun's pills. Goat Power cheats, summoning an ice dragon. Wukong finds it out and calls up the Dragon Kings to retrieve it, leading to Goat Power's death.
Fatal Flaw: Pride, which causes them to make greater and more dangerous wagers, until they all end up dead.
Hoist by His Own Petard: First when they try to cheat during the challenges, which motivates Wukong to inflict painful retaliation. Then their bets with Wukong culminate with them proposing deadly challenges, intended to either kill or scare off the pilgrims. Wukong not only passes with flying colors, but arranges for all three demons to die in the course of performing their feats.
Humiliation Conga: Starts with Wukong, Bajie and Wujing tricking them into drinking urine by making them believe it was holy water granted to them by the heavens. They then try to humiliate the Buddhists by challenging the party to various feats of skill. Wukong rides roughshod over them, hindering Tiger Power's rain ceremony, stopping Stag Power's attempt to cheat during a meditation duel and knocking out Tiger Power in retaliation, and outright cheating during Goat Power's X-ray vision test, making them all look like idiots. Then, when they try more dangerous duels, they end up dead.
Sinister Minister: All three take the guise of Taoist Priests. They may or may not have actual Taoist powers depending on the adaptation.
Spared by the Adaptation: In Monkey, they are allowed to live after being defeated — mind you, their portrayal in that show also changes to make them open tyrants who are starving the populace to acquire wine, pearls and paper, which they consume to strengthen their magic.
Spell My Name With An S: Are they Great Hermits or Immortals? Are they called Animal Power or Animal Strength? It all depends on which version of the story you read.

Great King Spiritual Touch/Lingkan Dawang

A water-dwelling Demon who dwells in the Heaven-reaching River.

Benevolent Boss: When an elderly carp lady gives him a plan to capture Tripitaka, he rewards her upon succeeding and treats her as an adoptive family member, promising to share Tripitaka's cooked meat with her.
Child Eater: He rules over the villagers living on the shores of his river and forces them to offer their childern to sate his hunger. This leads to Sun Wukong and Zhu Bajie to disguise themselves as kids to lure him in a trap.
Combat Pragmatist: He sneak attacks the heroes as they're walking on ice, kidnaps Tripitaka and, learning from his previous battle, keeps fighting underwater so that Sun Wukong cannot attack him.
Fat Bastard: Possibly due to his original form, he's often depicted as rather fat and massive in many depictions. He also eats children.
Fish People: A huge, humanoid ogre living in a underwater mansion, when Pigsy slash at his arm with his rake, several bronze-like scales drop on the floor, implying that he's covered in fish-like scales.
Human Sacrifice: He forced the villagers into sacrificing their children to him. This is the reason that pushes the heroes to stop him.
Humongous-Headed Hammer: Fights with a massive bronze hammer sculpted to resemble a flower blossom with nine petals. Turns out, it was an actual flower blossom from Guanyin's lake he turned into a weapon. In many depictions he actually Dual Wield them.
An Ice Person: Appears on surface shrouded in a veil of icy mist, and when provoked he can summon a blizzard cold enough to freeze over the gigantic river he lives in. This allows the heroes to pass, but also allows him to ambush them when they're vulnerable.
Killer Rabbit: Embarrassingly enough, he originally was a goldfish living in the pond of Guanyin's domain. Even his fearsome hammer is a flower he took from the pond and turned into a weapon. He is still one of the most vile enemies of Wukong.
Shrouded in Myth: He's shrouded in mist wherever he goes and tries to make sure that the villagers know little of him.

The One Horned Great King /Dujiaosi Dawang

A Demon King who resides in the Golden Pouch Cave on Golden Pouch Mountain.

Combat Pragmatist: He's not afraid of putting that Ring of his to use to turn the combat into his favor.
Horned Humanoid: Why do you think he's called the "One Horned Great King" for?.
Horse of a Different Color: His true form is that of Laozhi's mount.
Let's Fight Like Gentlemen: When Sun Wukong challenges him to a kung fu match he agrees and duel him bare-handed.
Master of Illusion: His palace appears to be an empty ruin in order to lure travelers inside.
Near-Villain Victory: One of Sun Wukong's most persistent enemies, and the one who came closer than anyone else to defeat him.
No-Sell: Thanks to his Vajra Ring, he can suck not only weapons, but also fire, water and nearly everything else used against him.
Oh, Crap!: He finally panics when Sun Wukong appears with his rightful owner, Laozi.
Our Minotaurs Are Different: His true form is that of a massive, one-horned blue buffalo.
Rhino Rampage: He's described as rhino-like and his Chinese name is "Great King One-Horned Rhino".
Rings of Death: He uses Laozhi's Vajra ring to suck in the weapons of his opponents, disarming them. He later removes said weapons and put them in his castle.
Unskilled, but Strong: In terms of skills, he is hardly a match for Wukong. However, his Vajra Ring is the most powerful artifact in the story because it can absorb all weapons and spells.

Hermit Ruyi/Ruyi Zhenxian

Brother of the Bull Demon King, resides in the Immortal-gathering Shrine on Yang-Destroying Mountain near the Country of Women.

Avenging the Villain: When he hears that Sun Wukong, the one who captured his nephew Red Boy, is there for an audience, he promptly turns hostile and does all he can to hinder him.
Combat Pragmatist: After a few blows, he realizes that he's no match for Monkey, so he opts for staying hidden and use his cane to trip his opponent whenever he tries to take the Water from the fountain.
Didn't See That Coming: His clever and annoying plan is foiled when Sun Wukong brings Sandy with him and proceeds to keep him busy in combat while Sandy takes the water.
Foreshadowing: He's a relative of the Red Boy and furious for what Sun Wukong did to him. The same thing happens later with Iron Fan Princess and Bull Demon King.
Hooks and Crooks: He wields a Staff of Authority tipped with a hook he uses to trip Sun Wukong when he tries to take the water he's guarding.
Humiliation Conga: Sun Wukong tricks him, steals the precious water from under his nose, defeats him, and proceeds to snap his staff in half rather than killing him.
MacGuffin Guardian: He lives on a mountain in the Country of Women and guards the magical spring from which the Abortion Water flows. Sun Wukong must fight him to get the water to cure Tripitaka and Pigsy, who got themselves pregnant by drinking the water of the river of Women.
Non-Malicious Monster: He lives like a hermit and normally doesn't hurt humans, he just sells pots of special water at a rather high price.
Our Minotaurs Are Different: He's the Bull Demon King's brother, but apparently he prefers to appear as a human. Depictions range from good-looking human hermit to full-blown minotaur.
Pun: Ruyi means "compliant" or "As-you-wish", but it's also the name of a type of scepter used by authority figures. He uses a scepter as his weapon.

The Scorpion Lady/Xiezijing

A female Demon who dwells in the Pipa Cave on Poisonous Foe Mountain near the Country of Women.

Affably Evil: Civil towards Tripitaka but much less so towards the three disciples.
Dark Action Girl: She's more than capable of fighting the three heroes on equal footing, and her ultimate attack with her stinger can take down Wukong instantly.
Dual Wielding: In some portraits, her single trident is changed to dual smaller bidents, resembling pincers.
Femme Fatale: Actively tries to force Tripitaka to sleep with her.
Poisonous Person: Her touch (technically the stinger), which she uses on Monkey and later Pigsy. The novel calls it the "Horse-Slaying Dart", while in some version she grows a scorpion tail to deliver the poison.
Scary Scorpions: She is a Scorpion demon. Unusually though, she only takes her arthropod form as she's forced to and defeated.
To Serve Man: Her dumplings are filled with human flesh.
The Vamp: Though her attempts to seduce Tripitaka fail, someone who wasn't 100% pure would have succumbed.

The Fake Sun Wukong/The Six-eared Macaque /Liuermihou

An evil clone of Sun Wukong, has taken over the Water Curtain Cave on Flower Fruit Mountain.

Evil Counterpart: To the real Sun Wukong: both are one-of-a-kind monkeys with supernatural powers, but while the former tries to obtain salvation with genuine effort on his part, the latter is an impostor who copies his mission, friends and fighting style.
Evil Knockoff: He spends most of his time on page under the form of Sun Wukong, being able to copy even his abilities, weapon and weaknesses. He also turned some of his monkey minions into doppelgangers of the other pilgrims.
I Am a Humanitarian: When one of his subjects is killed by Sandy and revealed to be a monkey, he orders his minions to cook and serve the corpse for the others.
Kick the Dog: Tries to kill Tripitaka when the latter sees through his disguise and eats one of his own dead followers.
Kill and Replace: His plan is to do this to the pilgrims, go to the West in their place and take the reward for himself.
Mirror Boss: Being his perfect deadringer, his battle against Sun Wukong is fruitless, and no one seems to be able to tell them apart, except for a denizen of the Underworld and later on Buddha.
Oh, Crap!: He becomes afraid and tries to run away when Buddha successfully identifies him. With good reasons too, since Sun Wukong squashes him flat the second he takes his real form back.
Pun: Based on the old saying that "a secret is not safe between six ears".
Single Specimen Species: According to Buddha, there are four unique monkeys in the world, one of them being the Six-Eared Macacque, who can hear everything around miles of himself and shapeshift. When Sun Wukong is done with him, he's extinct for good.

Bull Demon King/Niu Mowang

A Demon King and former friend of Sun Wukong, currently resides with his mistress in Cloud-scraping Cave on Thunder-gathering Mountain.

Affably Evil: At first he's friendly towards Sun Wukong.
Breakout Villain: Easily the most memorable of Sun Wukong's adversaries, aside from his son. Not surprising, considering his One-Man Army status.
Carry a Big Stick: When he's not Dual Wielding the swords of his wife, he wields a massive club made of refined iron.
Face–Heel Turn: Used to be best pals with Sun Wukong and one of his six most loyal True Companions. Then he became an amoral Demon King while his buddy was sealed away.
Genius Bruiser: A powerful and brutal warrior, he can also be quite cunning when he wants.
I Have Many Names: Aside from his famous moniker Niumowang/Gyuumaoh, he's also known as the Pitiandasheng/Heitendaisei (Great Sage of the Balanced Heaven) and Daliwang/Dairikioh (King of Great Might).
Horse of a Different Color: Rides a massive, unidentified beast with scales of gold and eyes of crystal which can run underwater, and is later stolen by Sun Wukong.
The Juggernaut: Unlike other demons, who relied on various tricks and tools to even the playing field against the pilgrims, he's hard to take down because he is just that overwhelmingly strong and nigh unkillable. Hell, he wasn't even beaten by a contest of strength, but by Nezha's fire wheel, and then a mirror that disables his Voluntary Shapeshifting, returning him into his normal state.
Off with His Head!: Subverted; no matter how many heads Nezha severs, he always grows a new one. So Nezha simply sticks a fiery wheel onto his horn, scorching him into submission.
One-Man Army: It takes Monkey, Pigsy, the entirety of Heaven's military power and Eight Vajrapanis (Buddha's guardians) to subdue him. Even then, they had to ultimately rely on mystical trinkets to negate his powers.
One-Winged Angel: Turns into a giant white bull in order to crush Wukong and battle Nezha.
Our Minotaurs Are Different: Is a Bull Demon.
Roaring Rampage of Revenge: After finding out that Wukong transformed into him to steal the Fan from his wife, with whom he flirted too.
Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: With the Iron Fan Princess. He also cuckolds her with his mistress, the Jade-Faced Princess. Most notably when you look at the artistic depictions of him, which inevitably depicts him as a giant minotaur or at least a massive horned man with taurine facial traits, while his wife is always depicted as a beautiful lady.

Iron Fan Princess

A female Rakshasi and wife of the Bull Demon King. Resides in the Banana Cave on Jade Clouds Mountain.

Blow You Away: Her giant fan can summon storms capable of putting off giant fires and send Sun Wukong flying across the sky. Probably the Ur Example of all the wind-generating fans.
Dark Action Girl: She's a Rakshasa, so she is vicious in combat.
Dual Wielding: With swords.
God Guise: She's worshipped as a goddess by the local population, who offer her tributes.
Heel–Face Turn: After battling Sun Wukong in a fit of rage (understandable, given how he'd hurt her son), suffering at least one Villainous Breakdown, then seeing her husband defeated over a cause (her fan) that she no longer believed was worth it, Iron Fan Princess willingly gives up the fan and even taught Sun how to use it to permanently put out the mountain of fire that's currently blocking their journey. She doesn't ask for anything except that the fan be returned to her afterwards as she seeks to return to the peaceful path of cultivation. Sun is surprised to find she's telling the truth (and she even has a true human body already, unlike many of the demons encountered so far), so he forgives her and obliges her request after he's finished using the fan. The novel says that she did indeed resume her spiritual practice and would eventually succeed.
Mama Bear: Hates Sun Wukong for hurting her son, the Red Boy.
Monstrous Humanoid: Looks like a human noblewoman, but according to the novel, she's actually a Rakshasa.
Paper Fan of Doom: Her Banana Fan. She also has a fake one which makes flames higher. Unlike many late depictions though it's not a folding fan.
Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: With the Bull Demon King. She's described as being quite attractive and humanlike, while her husband is an ox-like ogre.
Villainous Breakdown: After getting all drunk and flirty around her "husband" and giving him the Fan, he reveals himself as Wukong. She isn't pleased.
Womb Level: In order to beat her, Sun Wukong turned into a fly, flew into her mouth and started punching her stomach from the inside.
Yandere: Hates her husband for having a lover.

Dragon King Wansheng/Wansheng Longwang

Lord of the Emerald Ripples Lake on Chaotic Rock Mountain, he's the father-in-law of the Nine Headed Monster.

Boom, Headshot!: When he emerges from the lake to direct his son-in-law in combat, Sun Wukong comes crashing down on his head, turning it into red and white paste scattered all over the water.
Non-Action Big Bad: He's the main cause of trouble for the local kingdom but he can't fight at all.
Jerkass: Stole the relic beads from the local Golden Ray Pagoda and caused a rain of blood which makes the king of Jisai believe the buddhist monks were responsible and cause the repression of buddhism in the kingdom.
The Man Behind the Man: He's responsible for the king of Jisai's anti-buddhist stance and the actions of his minions. Subverted with the Nine Headed Monster, they're more in equal level.

The Nine Headed Monster/Jiutochong

Son-in-law of Dragon King Wansheng and husband of Princess Wansheng, resides in Emeral Ripples Lake on Chaotic Rock Mountain.

Adaptation Expansion: In at least one TV series, his wife Princess Wansheng was supposed to be the bride of the Dragon Horse... but cheated on him with the Nine Headed Monster, causing all the mess he was involved with.
Body Horror: Even in his normal form, the guy sports nine mouths and eighteen eyes on a single head.
Death by Adaptation: In the 1986 TV show, it has him dying fighting Erlang, rather than running away.
The Dragon: To his father-in-law, the actual dragon king Wansheng.
Feathered Fiend: His monster form is implied to be bird-like.
I Am Not Left-Handed: Not only he has nine heads, but he also has a tenth head hidden in his chest and ready to pop up and grab his opponents when they least expect it. Zhu Bajie learns this at his own expenses.
Multiple Head Case: In his true form he has nine heads plus a tenth, usually hidden head sprouting from his chest. Later said head is severed by Erlang's guard dog. In some artistic depictions he already sports nine heads in his normal humanoid form (one in the usual position, two by each side of the main one and four heads each pointing at a different direction above them).
One-Winged Angel: Turns into a giant nine-headed bird monster whenever he fights Sun Wukong outside of his lake.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Upon being attacked by Erlang and his pack of hounds he decides to fly away, never to be seen again, leaving his ultimate fate ambiguous.

Tree Immortals

A group of arboreal Demons who gather in the Tree Immortal Temple in Bramble Ridge.

Alas, Poor Villain: Even though they wanted to force him to get married without his consent (knowing very well that it'll make him lose his Yang), Tripitaka still tries to beg Sun Wukong to spare them, and is saddened when Pigsy, after turning into a boar, proceeds to unroot them to death.
- Spared by the Adaptation: In the 1986 TV adaptation Monkey spares them instead after some threats, not that he would let them off so easily in the first place.
And Now You Must Marry Me: A curious example: after a civil and poetic discussion, they introduce the Apricot Fairy to Tripitaka and pretty much go from commenting how well they look together to try to force the monk to marry the lady, mixing the trope with Honey Trap and Arranged Marriage.
Affably Evil: Aside from their plot of having Tripitaka renounce to his journey and kidnapping him, these immortals are quite affable, polite and well-spoken.
Evil Old Folks: Downplayed; they look like affable and nice old immortals who adore poetry, but they still plan to force Tripitaka to marry the Apricot Fairy.
Punny Name: Aside from the Naked Servant and the Apricot Fairy, the four men have names which are hidden puns or euphemisms referring to their real identity as tree demons.
When Trees Attack: They are actually tree spirits taking human form to kidnap Tripitaka and force him into marriage. Namely, we have a maple tree, a pine, a juniper, a cypress, bamboo and apricot. They're surprisingly civil.
Wicked Cultured: They're well-behaved and well-spoken and love talking in charades and poetry. Tripitaka actually enjoys their company.

Great King Yellow Brows/Huangmei Dawang

A Demon King who dwells in the Little Western Heaven Little Thunderclap Monastery.

Big Ol' Eyebrows: It's right there in his name, and is often depicted with humongously long eyebrows going down past his shoulders.
Carry a Big Stick: When he became a monster he transformed his sounding stone in a Wolf Teeth Club (usually depicted as a vicious-looking spiked club).
Composite Character: He shares several elements with the Gold Horn/Silver Horn brothers (a former helper of a Heavenly being, causing ruckus with magical tools, trapping Sun Wukong to keep him away from his friends and using a people-sucking device) and Black Wind Monster (a powerful fighter who's defeated when tricked into swallowing Sun Wukong).
Evil Old Folks: He looks aged and is even known as "Old Monster Yellow Brow" (Huangmeilaoguai)
God Guise: He pretends to be the Western Heaven Buddha and his lair is built to be a copy of the Thunderclap Monastery (except for the actual name being "Little Thunderclap Monastery").
Monstrous Humanoid: One of the very few monsters who's not a beast, rather a massive ogre of a man.
No-Nonsense Nemesis: He makes use of his tools to take Sun Wukong out of the picture and capture the others.
Trademark Favourite Food: He can't say no to watermelons, which allows Maitreya and Sun Wukong (disguised as a farmer and a watermelon) to trick him.
Weapons That Suck: The Humanity Bag forcibly sucks people inside and can store whole armies. The people removed from the bag are so exhausted they can't fight back.
Younger Than He Looks: Resemble an old ogre, but he's actually the young assistant of the Pusa Maitreya, who wanted to take a break from his job.

Red Python Spirit/Chimangjing

A feral snake Demon infesting a village near the Rotten Kaki Pathway on the Seven Cut Mountain.

Adaptation Expansion: In the 2000 sequel to the 1986 adaptation, the Python is actually a female demoness who can take human form.
By the Lights of Their Eyes: In his first appearance, the beast is shrouded by fog and only his gigantic, lanter-like eyes can be seen, which actually gives Zhu Bajie a case of Bring Me My Brown Pants.
Family-Unfriendly Death: Tries to eat Sun Wukong, who extends the Compliant Cudgel inside the stomach with deadly results.
Kaiju: While most of the other monsters are humanoid and masters of magic and martial arts, this one is just a humongous, hungry animal who can transform into a vaguely humanoid form.
Overly-Long Tongue: Which he uses as a spear to fight.
Shrouded in Myth: By night, he takes a huge form shrouded in red mist, and his tongue turns in a pair of lances.
Snakes Are Sinister: A monstrous snake demon of gigantic size who's a mindless and ruthless predator.

Sai Taisui

A Demon King who kidnap the queen of Zhuzhi kingdom and lives on Qilin Mountain.

And Now You Must Marry Me: Abducts and tries to marry the queen of the Zhuzi kingdom. Too bad she has a wedding dress that grows poisonous thorns as soon as he gets close.
Canis Major: His real form is that of a massive wolf-like dog with golden fur.
Dogged Nice Guy: Showers the queen with favors in an attempt to gain her love. Doesn't stop him from taking his frustrations on the slave girls.
Elemental Powers: His three bells: the first bell will summon forth flames, the second one will create smoke and the third one a stream of irritating sand. The latter two elements are especially effective against Sun Wukong's sensitive eyes.
Hoist by His Own Petard: Has his bells stolen and used against him.
Sex Is Violence: Because he is unable to satisfy himself with the queen, he instead spends his energy on slave girls, who he rapes to death
The Pig-Pen: Invoked, Sun Wukong turns into a flock of huge fleas, lices and bugs on his body to make him scratch himself until he removes the three bells from under his clothes. He's actually embarassed to see how dirty he appears to be.
Villainous Crush: Has a huge crush on the queen he kidnapped.

The Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord and the Spiderling Spirits/Bayan Mojun, Zhizhujing

A Demon disguised as a taoist priest who lives in the Yellow Flower Shrine on the Tangled Silk Ridge, while his seven adoptive sisters dwell on the same ridge in the Tangled Silk Cave.

All Webbed Up: The Spider Ladies do this to Tripitaka, Pigsy and later to the whole mansion they're in in order to keep Sun Wukong at bay. In the last case, Sun Wukong used his clones and his staff turned into a fork-like tool to unravel the web.
Avenging the Villain: After their defeat the Spidering Spirits go to their "brother" and tell him that they've been assaulted by his guests. Unusually, the Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord decides to check out if his guests are really guilty before he can take action against them.
Battle Strip: The Spider Ladies and the Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord all need to remove their clothes to access their powers; the former to shoot webbing from their navels, and the latter to reveal his Extra Eyes.
Big Creepy-Crawlies: Both the seven spirits and their "brother" are these. They also have some "adoptive sons" in the form of various bugs and insects that they spared from their webs.
Cool Sword: The Hundred-Eyes Demon Lord wields one against Sun Wukong.
Creepy Centipedes: The Hundred-Eyes Demon Lord's true form is a large centipede. Ironically, the spirit who defeated him is really a large hen, and in Chinese folklore hen and roosters are the natural predators of centipedes.
Extra Eyes: The demon lord had a hundred eyes situated on the sides of his body, and can fire hot beams of Hard Light from them.
Giant Spider: The Seven sisters' true forms, though they're about the size of a large basket. Still giant enough.
Gone Swimming, Clothes Stolen: How Monkey defeats the sisters the first time. Apparently, even if they're man-eating demons they're still susceptible to human ideas decency.
I Have Many Names: The Demon Lord is also known as the "Many Eyed Monster"/Duomuguai and the "Great Hermit Tangled Silk" /Pansi Daxiang.
Light Is Not Good: The Hundred-Eyes Demon Lord looks like a kind old Taoist and his powers are light-based but is not a saint.
Magical Eye: A hundred of them, which emit scorching rays of light.
Master Poisoner: Hey, it's a centipede demon, what did you expect? He also nearly kills the heroes sans Sun Wukong, who's the only one to spot the poison in his cup.
Noble Demon: The Hundred-Eyes Demon Lord is incredibly polite with his guests, and tries to kill them only after finding out that they attacked his adoptive sisters earlier. A widow though accuses him of poisoning her husband out of spite.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: The sisters are energetic, violent and more prone to direct tactics, hence the red. Their brother is much calmer, polite and prefers traps and clever tactics, hence the blue.
To Serve Man: The Spiders Sisters are among the few female demons who want to eat Tripitaka, not bed him.
Villainous Valor: Even if they are spider-women with a taste for human flesh, they're still too shy to go around naked unless forced too and even cover themselves as they walk past Tripitaka. Their brother is probably the nicest of the demons encountered by our heroes.
You Have Failed Me: When the spiders are captured by Monkey, the Hundred-Eyes Demon Lord says that he's fed up with them, thus causing Wukong to be pissed off at the Demon Lord's decision and the spiders then die at Wukong's staff and anger.

The Three Kings of Lion Camel Cave/ Qingmao Shiwang, Huangya Xiangwang, Dapeng Jinchiniao

A trio of powerful Demon Kings infesting the Lion Camel Ridge. The former two dwell in the Lion Camel Cave, the other rules over a nearby city.

Animal Motifs: Lion, Elephant and Peng (a mythological giant bird, which is this case doubles as a Garuda).
Adaptational Wimp: Very much so in the 1998 Hong Kong TVB Adaptation. Their goals, motivations, and the general plot were completely altered. In the original novel, they are crafty villains seeking to eat Tang Sanzang, which Sun Wukong can't defeat by himself. In the 1998 Hong Kong TVB Adaptation, they are a comedic trio of cowardly incompetent jerkasses who merely seek power and wealth and are barely a match for Pigsy. In the arcade "Oriental Legend", Lion and Elephant avert this, but Peng becomes the weakest of the group, with low health, and goes down first. In the novel he is actually the strongest of the three.
Cruel Elephant: The White Elephant is a man-eating monster whose trunk can make people faint by sucking out their soul.
Early-Bird Cameo: The Lion actually shows up earlier as the impostor king of Wuji
Feathered Fiend: The Thousand Ri Travelling Peng is a villainous bird demon.
Heel–Face Turn: After getting stormed by the armies of the Heavens.
Hoist by His Own Petard: The Lion tries to swallow Wukong, who then wreaks havoc in his innards and shatters his teeth with his staff as the Lion attempts to bite him to death expecting Wukong to exit out. Later the Elephant tries to seize him with his trunk, but he's defeated when Wukong uses his own trunk to beat him up.
"Just So" Story: Used to explain the iconography of Garuda flying above Buddha's head. When Buddha showed up to retrieve him, the Peng fought back, so Buddha paralyzed him and placed him on his head.
Lightning Bruiser: The Peng can fly so fast he can catch up with Sun Wukong's cloud leap in just two wingbeats.
Oh, Crap!: They panic when they first hear that Sun Wukong may have infiltrated their lair, and speculates that he could have turned into a fly. Cue Sun Wukong summoning a whole swarm of flies just to enjoy their even more panicked reaction.
Panthera Awesome: The Azure Lion.
Rank Scales with Asskicking: More kings, though the former two rule a giant cavern, while the Peng has taken over an entire city.
Rebellious Spirit: The Peng seemed to have it made. Son of the Phoenix, brother of Mahamayuri, adopted uncle of Buddha himself. Yet he runs off to become a demon because Paradise is boring.
Sibling Yin-Yang: Peng/Garuda and his older sibling, Mahamayuri. One is the foster mother of Buddha, the other a flesh-eating demon who left Paradise because he couldn't stand Buddhist vegetarianism
Sinister Scimitar: The Lion wields one, which is supposedly an Absurdly Sharp Blade.
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: All three are pets of Buddhist deities. The Peng, in particular, is the adopted uncle of Buddha, and he uses this to do whatever he wants.
Swallowed Whole: The Lion's jaws are so big he could eat alive a whole army of celestial soldiers. He tries this on Sun Wukong, but backfires as the Wukong threatens to kill him from the inside and live in his stomach.
Terrible Trio: Unlike other demons, these three guys work together against their foe Wukong and come close to victory.
To Serve Man: The Peng devoured all the citizens of the Lion-Camel Kingdom, and then set himself up as king, recruiting demons to be his subjects.
Vocal Dissonance: The second demon looks like an elephantine brute but has the voice of a maiden.

The Spirits of Biqiu Kingdom

An old deer spirit and his young vixen protegé who live in Biqiu Kingdom.

Asian Fox Spirit: The White-Faced Vixen is, as the name suggested, a white-faced Hulijing.
Cane Fu: The White Deer Spirit is adept at fighting with his dragon cane, though not enough to worry Sun Wukong.
Evil Chancellor: The White Deer introduced the White-Faced Fox as a concubine for the king, leading to bad government as the king grew ill losing Yang and followed his advisor's evil plots to find a cure.
Evil Old Folks: The White Deer spirit look like a venerable wise man, but he's willing to ruin a kingdom and have 1111 children sacrificed for his plans.
Fille Fatale: The White-faced Vixen takes the form of a beautiful sixteen-years old maiden, but her job is to enthrall the King and absorb his Yang through copulation, which lead to the King's illness.
Horse of a Different Color: The White Deer is actually the steed of the Old Man of the South Pole.
Human Resources: The White Deer promises to heal the king by making a potion obtained from the crushed hearts of 1111 children. The King is so under the charme of his concubine that he's wiling to let him harvest the hearts.
The Marvelous Deer: Subverted, while he originally was one, as a monster the White Deer is a remorseless, cruel old man.
Race Lift: The French and Italian translations turn the Vixen spirit in a Civet. Also Misplaced Wildlife, as it's not a Chinese animal.
Would Hurt a Child: Would have 1111 children kidnapped and gutted for their hearts to make a fake medicine.

Lady Earth Flow/Diyong Fulen

A lady Demon who infests the Black Pine Forest. She has a hidden underground domain, the Bottomless Cave inside the hollow Fire Cloud Mountain.

Affably Evil: Again, she's absolutely kind towards Tripitaka.
Adaptational Badass: In the book, she loses to Wukong in every fight and runs away, and is only a threat because she can hide. In the arcade game Oriental Legend, a retelling, she is a very physically powerful boss with spells that can cover a large part of the screen and is also huge.
Dark Action Girl: Fully capable of fighting the heroes, even if for a short while.
Damsel in Distress: Pretends to be one to lure Tripitaka. It's lampshaded by Sun Wukong who almost persuades Tripitaka to leave her, but, you know, Tripitaka/Sanzang is that guillible...
Dual Wielding: With swords, whenever she gets into battle.
Hot as Hell: Seduces monks to have sex with them and drain their essence. At one point she assaults Wukong disguised as a monk.
Our Vampires Are Different: She does seduce monks to feed on them, can shapeshift and is physically powerful. Also, see below.
Race Lift: In Serafino Balduzzi's Italian translation she becomes a bat demon instead, reinforcing the vampire image.
Villainesses Want Heroes: She wants to marry Tripitaka. Unlike the Scorpion Lady, she doesn't try to force herself on him though.

King of the Southern Mountains/Nanshan Dawang

A Demon King who dwells inside the Linked Ring Cave on Bent Peak, in Mist-hidden Mount.

Carry a Big Stick: Use a massive iron pestle as his weapon of choice. Pigsy sarcastically asks him if he uses it for his laundry as well.
Combat Pragmatist: Being no match for the pilgrims, he tries to trick them into believing that their master is dead and uses decoys to accomplish this.
Dirty Coward: Not very powerful, he's routed by Pigsy in combat. He also kindaps Tripitake by disguising three of his elites as him and distracting the disciples, afraid to fight them openly, while he is cruel against regular humans.
Evil Sorcerer: He's introduced practicing Taoist magic, and later uses his powers to transform some of his underlings into deadringers of himself.
Fake Kill Scare: Shows the party what is supposed to be Tripitaka's severed head. But is really a carved root the first time and a completely different guy the next time.
Panthera Awesome: A leopard demon. Subverted in that he's not very powerful, as Pigsy only needs a little encouragement to force him to run away.
Super Smoke: He's introduced summoning a massive amount of mist from his mouth with a taoist spell.

Yellow Lion and the Sage of Nine Spirits/Huangshijing, Jiuling Yuansheng

A clan of lion Demons living near the kingdom of Yuhua. Yellow Lion lives in the Tiger Mouth Cavern on Leopard Head Mountain, the Sage has his home in the Nine Curved Hollows Cave, on Bamboo Link Mountain.

The Don: Sage of the Nine Spirits has several grandchildren, at least one of whom has his own cave.
Evil Old Folks: Old enough to be a grandfather, but still able to fight Wukong in giant form.
Fatal Flaw: Greed for the Yellow Lion, which motivates him to steal the main party's weapons
Fluffy the Terrible: The true name of Sage of the Nine Spirits more or less translates to "Baby Sage".
Kaiju: Sage of the Nine Spirits is probably the demon who most resembles this trope, seeing as how he regularly turns himself into a giant form to fight.
Multiple Head Case: The Sage of Nine Spirits prefers the form of a giant, nine-headed Lion, able to bite and carry away several people at once.
Noble Demon: Yellow Lion prefers to do honest business with humans, rather than terrorize them. He still takes people's possessions without asking first and lies to his Grandpa to have his revenge.
Panthera Awesome: Yellow lion is a lion demon, as is his "Grandfather" the Sage of Nine Spirits and the various demons under their command.
Theme Naming: After Lions: Yellow Lion and two brothers are directly named after the lion, two of them are named after lion-like mythological creatures and the last two are named after epithets associated to lions.
Weapon Specialization: Yellow Lion has a shiny spade as his. The Sage fights unarmed, while his followers wield various weapons, including an iron gorse branch, a triangular cane, an axe, a spear, and a stiff club.
Wolf Pack Boss: Sage of the Nine Spirits brings along a large number of grandchildren to fight alongside him. Subverted when he leaves the battle half-way through after kidnapping Tripitaka, Pigsy and the royal family, leaving his family and underling to Sun Wukong and Sandy.
Wrong Genre Savvy: The Yellow Lion steals the groups' weapons and erroneously thinks that Zhu Bajie's rake is the best weapon of the three. Bajie himself is amused when he sees that he placed the rake in a place of honor.

The Rhino Kings/Pishan Dawang (King of Cold Protection), Pishu Dawang (King of Fire Protection), Pichen Dawang (King of Dust Protection)

A trio of Demon Kings disguised as Buddhas who dwell in the Mysterious Flower Cave on Green Dragon Mountain.

Eaten Alive: The first Rhino king is eaten by one of the heavenly wood star spirits sent to capture them. For some strange reason, it was a deer spirit who went overboard.
Final Boss: Because they are a Wolfpack Boss, they technically serve as the final main threat/MotW that the pilgrims encounter. In comparison, the actual final boss (see below) is barely a threat to Monkey.
Fire, Water, Wind: A subverted variant with ice in lieu of water. The three kings each possess one of those abilities, hence their titles:
- The King of Cold Protection.
- The King of Dust Protection.
- The King of Fire Protection.
Fur and Loathing: The first brother wears a hat made of fur.
God Guise: They pretend to be Buddhas in order to drink the oil of the local temple's lanterns.
Genius Bruiser: They seem to be good tacticians, as they can force Sun Wukong to retreat, implying that not even his clones can be of help.
Our Minotaurs Are Different: Despite their true nature they look a lot like oxen demons, and have many bull demons working for them. In fact, Sun Wukong learns that they're actually rhinos only when he goes to get help by the heavens.
Rhino Rampage: They're rhino demons. To the point that Pigsy decides to kill the surviving brothers so that he can sell their horns as aphrodisiac medicine.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When they hear that four of the Twenty-Eight Mansions are coming they make a run for it in the ocean, but are captured and defeated.
Spared by the Adaptation: The sequel of the 1986 TV series spares all three of the kings instead of one of them being ironically eaten by a deer spirit.
Super Swimming Skills: Downplayed, but thanks to their horns they can "split the waters" and thus move much better underwater than on land.
Terrible Trio: Another group of three demons working together.
Trademark Favorite Food: Lantern oil. They also want to fry Tripitaka in it.
Wolfpack Boss: Because they fight together and with lots of well-trained underlings, they're too hard for Wukong to defeat, even with his cloning spell.

Princess of India AKA The Moon Rabbit Spirit /Yutujing

A moon spirit who has taken the identity of the Princess of India, she has a lair on Brush Tip Mountain.

Disproportionate Retribution: The reason she came to earth was to get revenge on the Princess, who was the reincarnation of a celestial serving maid who had once slapped the rabbit. This lead to kidnapping her and stealing her mortal identity.
Femme Fatale: Wanted to marry Sanzang and steal his energy.
Final Boss: The proper final threat before Sanzang and the group manage to obtain the scriptures. However, she's not the last of 81 ordeals, as the final ordeal is the Great White Turtle dumping the group into the River of Heaven on the return trip. Also, she's nowhere near as menacing as the Rhino Kings.
"Get Back Here!" Boss: A non-video game example, as she spends most of the battle running away from Sun Wukong.
Kicking Ass in All Her Finery: Defied. When Wukong sees through her disguise and is about to attack her, she takes off her princess clothes and jewelry. This leads to her fighting him stark naked.
Moon Rabbit: Exactly What It Says on the Tin. The Jade Rabbit gone rogue.
Improbable Weapon User: Her medicine mortar.

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