Horny Devils - Television Tropes & Idioms

alt title(s): Horny Devil; Succubus; Incubus

O, father dear, I dreamed last night a man sat on me bed
And I fear, when I awoke I could not find my maidenhead.
- Fairport Convention, "Doctor of Physick"

Subtrope of Our Demons Are Different.

In myth and folklore, there is a group of demons who would stalk the night, searching for a victim, a victim that could very easily be you. And when they found you, they wouldn't eat you or tear you to shreds. Oh no, plenty of other monsters and demons have cornered the market on that. No, they would do something far more sinister. They would appear to you as a breathtakingly beautiful woman or handsome man.

And then they would have sex with you.

Not terrifying enough for you?

How about if sex was also their way of sucking out your lifeforce which would leave your body a dry husk, a literal shell of a man?

In a day when sexual lust was seen as something evil and to be ashamed of, the incubus and succubus were scary, sexy beasts. Incubus is the male variant, its name derived from the Latin in and cubo meaning "I lie on top." Succubus is the female variant, its name derived from the Latin sub and cubo meaning "I lie beneath." They are a popular type of demon to use in Speculative Fiction with each creator and author drawing from mythology and mixing it with their own flavor.

However, in order to be recognizable as incubi and succubi, they must follow a few baseline rules:
1. They have a supernatural sense of seduction.
2. They must feed through sexual contact.
3. They have to be incredibly attractive (or at least project that appearance to their victim).

Incubi and Succubi are almost always treated as a species or type of demon. Some stories actually make them a breed of vampire since they function similarly (vampires feed on blood for sustenance, incubi/succubi feed on sex for sustenance). But they are almost always evil. And you do not want to run in to them. No matter how hot they are and how lonely you are.

In some legends The Devil Himself changed shape to be both Incubus and Succubus. See, Old Scratch wants kids but can't produce human seed so he becomes a succubus, receives some sperm from a guy, turns into an incubus and passes it on to a woman. How this transmits satanic genes is a question not addressed as the theory was invented before Mendel's time, never mind Rosalind Franklin's.

The offspring of said demons and a human are either demonic infiltrators of humanity or basically mortals with mysterious powers. The legendary Merlin is sometimes said to be the offspring of an incubus and a nun. Incidentally, the above mythology went a long way to explaining away pregnant nuns in the Middle Ages without destroying their virtues. Better to be seen as the victim of demonic rape than a participant in consensual sex, one might suppose. (Admittedly, people took a VERY dim view of violating vows of celibacy back then.) Several cases of actual rape in politically tricky circumstances also appear to have been dealt with this way. Even more importantly, it explained why Merlin could use magic (which was satanic), but still be one of the good guys.

The modern viewpoint, with its much more lenient view of sexually liberated women, tend to feature a far greater number of subversions on the classic interpretation than straight examples: Most, especially in anime or Japanese games, tend to be a Chaotic Neutral or Chaotic Good Cute Monster Girl or Reluctant Monster, like Morrigan in the picture above.

Compare the literal Out With A Bang and the less direct Death By Sex. For when the Main Man himself takes on a more, er, feminine role, check out Hot As Hell. See also Naughty Tentacles, which often goes hand (er... tentacle) in... I probably shouldn't mention it out loud... with this trope.

Examples

Anime and Manga

Mayu from Goshuushou-sama Ninomiya-kun is the Cute Monster Girl type. Ironically, for a succubus, she has androphobia, which is a problem considering her inability to control her powers, particularly when stressed. The possibility of Shungo dying from Mayu involuntarily draining his life is used to keep him from going too far with her. Her incubus brother is pretty good-natured, too. Mind control (of the opposite sex) is included in the power set.
- Nearly all of the cast are in fact incubi/succubi. Confirmed are Mayu, her brother, Reika, Tasuku, Irori, and even Ryouko and Shungo although he does not need life energy.
Kurumu from Rosario To Vampire is also a Cute Monster Girl, but no androphobia. Before she joined Tsukune's Unwanted Harem and abandoned her evil ways, she was a Femme Fatale, actively seducing the school. Kurumu has the ability to create illusions and sprout wings and a tail, all of which come in handy on a few occasions.
- Her mother is a Hot Shounen Mom version of this.
The h-doujin (and presumably many more, it's an obvious theme) Some Freeloaders are Succubus features an incubus who lives off the "life energy" of his host. Given that it's an erotic story, you can probably guess how he does that.
The Hentai OVA Viper GTS stars three succubi and one incubus. They are Noble Demons, in contrast with the group of Knight Templar angels.
Len from the Tsukihime sequel Kagetsu Tohya is Really Seven Hundred Years Old... but she looks about twelve. True to her nature, she rapes the male protagonist during the first encounter. Then again, being on the Good side, she's always shown in a sympathetic light.
- This is something of an arguable example, though: Len is specifically a dream succubus, and seems to derive much of her sustenance through experiencing and/or manipulating the dreams of others. The sexual part of that first encounter was an example of Arcueid's rather extreme lack of social skills; she doesn't know humans that well, but she knows they like sex, so she sends Len to give Shiki a vivid sex dream. She's genuinely surprised when he's upset about it.
The Shikima from La Blue Girl and its sequels. While they don't kill you through sex (as far as I know) they do abduct humans to have lots and lots and lots of brutal sloppy sex with. And the main character is half-Shikima.
The protagonist of Tokyo Akazukin is an under-age-looking version of this.
In Berserk, Slan of the Godhand is a sadomasochist who has a crush on Guts because she's Too Kinky To Torture, and in one scene tortures him while in sexual positions and voicing her pleasure. Also, the Apostle killed by Guts at the very beginning of the manga has sex with men before turning into her Apostle form and eating them. Various other demons of the series, such as Wyald, have a disturbing penchant for raping women when they're not eating people.
One Piece has some fun with this when the skeletal pervert known as Brook ends up landing/crashing in the middle of a cult ceremony attempting to summon a demon to take revenge on their enemies. Hilarity Ensues...
My Balls. Yeah...
Horny Devils are a common theme of supernatural and horror themed Hentai such as Urotsukidouji and La Blue Girl.

Fan Fiction

Subverted in chapter 76 of Armageddon, where it's long since been discovered that succubi just operate using telepathy and pheromones... leaving them perfectly vulnerable once it's discovered and countermeasures such as air filtration against the pheromones are used. Instead of her getting her way, the succubus Lugasharmanaska is unpleasantly surprised when President George W. Bush (yes, that George W. Bush) actually uses the infamous "with us or against us" line on her, revealing that "we" knew all along about her attempts to play Earth against Hell and vice versa and only let her do so as long as it suited "them"... and before separately showing the queen of the succubi that he's as immune to her too. (Perhaps hilariously, this scene comes close to painting him as a Magnificent Bastard who'd pretended to be a dunce for quite some time. Then again, he's got quite the stacked deck in his favor.)
- Armageddon manages the rather impressive feat of making Clinton, Bush, and Obama into generally intelligent, sympathetic characters who tend to do the right thing. Not impressive because it's hard, just impressive because so few people would be willing to try.
The protagonists of The Return are a brood (and eventually three broods) of Friendly Neighbourhood Succubae.

Comic Books

French comic artist Francois Marcela Froideval has the hots for succubi (who doesn't?). They appear in many of his comic series, including 666, Les Chroniques de la Lune Noire (Black Moon Chronicles) and the aptly titled Succubus.
Gold Digger has the Rakshasa act this way partially by necessity. As Shapeshifting demons that drain magic energy, they have to physically exhaust their prey to feed (the process tickles, and wiggling prey can't be drained). This can be done through combat or... well, you know...
Satana is the Devil's daughter in Marvel Comics, and a succubus who feeds on human souls.
XXXenophile Presents had two installments of the erotic story of an incubus who is thoroughly benign, happily married to a human woman and went public as an intellectual author to present an alternative view of Hell and its occupants. As such, sex with him is completely harmless and as such he is continually pestered by the neighboring women in his suburb. Even though he often gives in and indulges them, his wife has no problem with it, considering he never neglects her desires either.
- In a different chapter, a demoness who is tied to a particular family attempts to interfere with a pair of newlyweds (one of whom is from the family in question), hoping to prevent them from ever consummating their marriage and siring an heir... but the demoness is 1. somewhat backward (she is rather surprised by the concepts of both birth control and sex before marriage) and 2. extremely pent-up (her entire existence is based around interrupting sex, so she's got years of "dirty thoughts" built up in her head). The couple invites her to join in the wedding night, and she quite happily agrees.
- Another one appears in "Demonstration of Affection" where she screws (both literally and metaphorically) with a human sorcerer stupid enough to send himself to hell in search of power, before returning him to Earth with his soul intact.
Possibly the villain Acid Angel from Hack Slash.
A stylized interpretation of leanan sídhe appears in both series of Matt Wagner's Mage epics as fey versions of blood-drinking vampires to which men (but not women) are defenseless.

Film

The Witches Of Eastwick: Daryl van Horne. Just your basic horny little devil.
In the film Conan The Barbarian, Conan has sex with a succubus. Although it could be said she was a witch or sorceress instead. In any case, she starts changing into something not human during the act, thoroughly spooking out Conan, who throws her into the fire. She somehow escapes, with a disembodied cackling, and Conan can only mutter "Crom..."
- Much of this film is a mishmash of scenes and characters from various Robert Howard stories (Thulsa Doom an antagonist in the Kull stories, Valaria being a character from "Red Nails" but returning from the dead like Belit from "Queen of the Black Coast"). This particular bit is from "Worms of the Earth", a Bran Mak Morn story in which the woman was the offspring of a woman raped by a "worm." She forces Bran to have sex with her in exchange for information.
The 2007 Beowulf portrays Grendel's mother as one of these. With high-heeled feet.
The film Grim Prairie Tales features a story about a man that meets a young pregnant woman on the lonely plains. They talk, get to know one another, and eventually curl up by the fire. The man is awakened in the night by the woman, no longer pregnant, achingly beautiful, and begging for sex. He goes to work, only to be sucked into her stomach through the vagina, making her pregnant once again as she begins to digest him.
The film Jennifer's Body has Megan Fox playing a demon-possessed cheerleader who seduces her male classmates, then eats them.
Beetlejuice features a whorehouse full of "horny devils" when the titular ghost remarks he's feeling a bit "anxious". They appear only briefly.
The Sex Files: A Dark XXXX Parody (a porn spoof of The X Files) has Lilith turning into a succubus. Or So I Heard.

Literature

In The Dresden Files, they are a type of vampire: the Black and Red Courts are the ones we're used to and a Jade Court has been hinted at, but the White Court feeds on lust through sex instead of the blood-drinking of the other Courts (and some feed on other emotions, such as fear.) Instead of suffering from the standard vampire Kryptonite Factor, The Power Of Love is their holy water, and they feel pain if they even touch someone who is in True Love™. They're all Even The Guys Want Him-level hot, of course. The Dresden Files being what it is, though, all aren't evil, and one, Thomas Raith, has recently become a main character.
- Though based on the end of Turn Coat, that status, or at least the nature of it, may change.
Parodied in the Discworld story ~~Faust~~ Eric, where we hear of a lonely old demonologist who wanted to conjure up a succubus but only ever managed a Neuralgia, "A demon what comes and has a headache at you," as the talking parrot puts it.
The Dark Tower features "demons" of both sexes, typically tied down to stone circles. With strong enough will, copulation can be a bargaining chip.
- It also portrays one of the rarer examples up above: The same demon takes Roland's seed in one book, and impregnates Susannah with it in another.
Mack the half-demon from Tales Of MU is widely speculated to have been fathered by an incubus (and by extension, to be half-succubus herself, though she feeds on virgin blood rather than sex).
The novel If I Pay Thee Not In Gold, has the seed passing type. In addition, the character is both succubus and incubus, but can only switch by having sex.
Though technically not a demon herself, recent novels of the Anita Blake series changed the titular character's power structure to this; originally only being a small-time witch and big-time Necromancer, her powers have stretched to unknown limits, she requires several bouts of sex each day to replenish her magic reserves and to unlock new powers, and it's almost impossible for you to resist her if she's determined to get it. Wall Banger material, at its finest. In a couple different ways, evidently.
The webfiction Kumiko The Demon Girl featured a demon who looks like the classical succubus as the Magical Girlfriend of the main character. Demons in this world feed by ripping out the souls of their target and consuming them (killing the subject in question) but Kumiko decides to allow Ken (the protagonist) the chance to at least not die a virgin and finds that sex is not only enjoyable, but allows her to consume his soul in smaller chunks.
Forgotten Realms series summon these surprisingly rarely.
- The Drizzt Do'Urden novels generally stay away from the more sensual fiends (see below). However, during Wulfgar's years-long imprisonment in the Abyss, he was raped several times by succubi, who would sometimes have children by him — which were then eaten alive by his captor while he was forced to watch. Now that is Chaotic Evil.
- Speaking of Drow, there is a disturbing subversion involving priestesses of Lolth, and powerful Glabrezu demons (that aren't humanoid and can't shapeshift) to show their devotion to the goddess. The result is a powerful half-fiend called a Draegloth, considered sacred to Lolthites and a sign of favor from the goddess. As if it wasn't already clear Lolth is batshit insane.
- In Starlight And Shadows trilogy one drow priestess met an incubus after being thrown into Abyss. He was too impatient and she has a snake whip, so Hilarity Ensues, leading to Crowning Moment Of Awesome.
- In War of the Spider Queen (and The Empyrean Odyssey) one of few likeable characters is Aliisza, Alu-fiend wizard who quickly seduced one of the drow. She didn't show any worse traits than being possessive without an intention to be faithful in turn.
Lamia the Velvet from the novel Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman is a classic succubus. She seems sweet, until she kisses the main character and he begins to turn into an icicle.
- While we're on the subject of Neil Gaiman, let's not forget what happened in American Gods.
  - As if anyone could ever forget that.
- Something like a succubus also appears in one of his short stories. A woman has sex with a male prostitute, who appears to have minor psychic abilities, and steals his powers and his memories.
In Poul Anderson's Operation Chaos, Our Hero goes on his honeymoon which is interrupted by an incubus/succubus pretending to be a brother/sister pair (only one demon). The Power Of Love triumphs in the end (and the fact that Our Hero is a werewolf).
Simon R. Green has used succubi in more than one series. In Hawk and Fisher, a succubus is bound in a magic circle, providing a source of power and pleasure for a powerful sorcerer. In Hex and the City (Nightside series), the succubus Pretty Poison provides backup for John Taylor on an investigation.
In The Case of the Toxic Spell Dump, succubi and incubi form picket-lines to protest Angel City's vice laws.
In the short story They Only Come in Dreams a man in the modern day is visited by a succubus. She tells him how her kind isn't doing so well nowadays thanks to there being less virgins, but they're learning to adapt. Despite her telling him that the act will do him no harm, and she'll just feed on the energy that the sex will release, the man is so uptight that he ends up refusing her. Shocked, she vanishes, but not before smiling and echoing how their kind has learned to adapt. He then tries to go back to sleep... only now there's an incubus in his bed. And the horrified way in which the final paragraph is written implies this one's not going to take no for an answer...
Sirens and other Daemon Lovers is an anthology of short stories based on this trope.
Ajulutsikael, a succubus, is one of the main characters of Mike Carey's Felix Castor books - something of a subversion insofar as she settles down with a nice girl early on in her attempts to go native among the mortals.
The Possessed in the Nights Dawn trilogy engage in a lot of sex once they've taken over a human body, though in this case it's because they've been deprived of sensation for so long.
The Jennifer Morgue by Charles Stross features Ramona Random, an agent of the Black Chamber with a succubus bound to her. As The Laundry Series is a mathematical take on the Cthulhu Mythos, however, this succubus is "merely" an extradimensional demonic intelligence bound to a person's soul (an unbound incubus is used in an earlier book to lure in a professor by posing as her ex). Ramona's got the bum end of the deal; the succubus eats the souls of whoever she sleeps with, and if she doesn't feed it, it eats hers.
One of The Witcher novels mentioned a blonde succubus, whom local ladies wanted dead, local gentlemen wanted alive (arguing that she visits only healthy people, no one's died, no problem), and neither Geralt nor local sorceress can't be seriously bothered about. She ceased her "visits" for a while apparently in awe of Geralt's reputation, though (or simply because of being too... "distracted" by a passing vampire).

Live Action TV

Giles specifically mentioned that succubi and incubi should be drawn to the Hellmouth when he was explaining the Hellmouth in the first season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but oddly we never see any.
- Shortly after her introduction, Tara sneakily disrupted a "locate demons" spell Willow was casting, which led to months of online speculation that she might be a succubus. She wasn't though, she's a human.
  - She just thought she wasn't.
- They preying mantis lady in Teacher's Pet could be considered a sort of succubus.
- In a different manner of this trope, there was an episode about a house haunted by the ghosts of children whose sexual desires in life were repressed by a Christian fundamentalist, and are now being released after their deaths.
The alien in the Torchwood episode "Day One" has all the markings of a traditional succubus, though as it gets more desperate, it seems to trade seduction for violent rape.
Marleena in Reaper. She's one of the good demons, or at least one of the demons trying to be good.
One appears in Charmed and Prue changes into a man to lure her.
Though not actually a demon, the shapeshifting/illusionist salt vampire in an early Star Trek The Original Series episode uses seduction, appearing as someone's "ideal lover", as its most reliable trick.
In The Middle Man, fashion mogul Roxy Wasserman and her staff are all reformed succubi and incubi.
Professional Wrestling example - kinda. Around the late 90s/early turn of the century, Terri Runnels began referring to herself as a she-devil, and doing a taunt where she'd put her index fingers behind her head like devil horns. Cue Jerry Lawler calling her a "Horny Little She-Devil."
A Succubus appears in episode 5 of the third series of Sea of Souls, where she starts dating one of the team. She ends up pregnant with his baby. Even if it was ever going to brought up again, it's now an Aborted Arc.
- Er, poor choice of words, much?
- No, it was deliberate.
Not a succubus or incubus, but Barney, dressed a devil, used "I'm a horny devil!" as a pickup line in How I Met Your Mother during a Halloween Episode. (For the record, it didn't work.)
The X Files ("Avatar"). When a murdered prostitute is found in AD Skinner's bed, Mulder speculates a succubus may be involved, as she sometimes kills female rivals. However the exact nature of the supernatural woman who appears to be watching over Skinner is not established; the trope is future subverted in that she is portrayed as middle-aged, rather than a young beautiful seductress.
An incubus Latin Lover appears in one episode of Blood Ties.
An incubus shows up in one episode of the now-canceled live action adaptation of The Dresden Files. This incubus (a proper demon in the TV show's mythology) was using women to try and create a "son" for himself. The incubus can control women with a touch, similar to the Dungeons and Dragons version of the succubus. This particular incubus forces another private eye (played by Claudia Black!) to murder Harry (or at least try to murder Harry, who uses his magic to save himself).

Mythology

Lilith of ancient Mesopotamian/Jewish mythology, who went on to mother an entire race of demons and makes this Older Than Dirt.
- Lilith was the first woman in paradise but was cast out for refusing to allow Adam to be on top - interesting, considering the etymology of succubus.
Incubus (attacks females) and Succubus (attacks males) are male demons who shape shift to the form of the way the victim swings. You can use the words Succuba and Inccuba for their rarely used female equivalents!

Tabletop Games

Andrealphus' demons in In Nomine Satanis and its English adaptation, In Nomine. Interestingly, Eli's angels in In Nomine can also power up by having sex. Also, all Impudites can suck out your soul from any friendly contact, including sex.
Dungeons And Dragons, as usual, has both and then some.
- Speaking of devils, the baatezu have their own versions of succubi. However, Erinyes (which look like, for lack of a better term, beautiful female emo angels) are more powerful and capable warriors than succubi, noted for their skill with bows. Erinyes also have an "upgrade", that being Brachinas, devils whose duty it is to use seduction to lure worshippers of good deities away from their faith, though they'll gladly "torment" anyone. Brachinas possess a contact poison that affects the mind; in game terms, it deals Wisdom damage, making a person more susceptible to seduction and a less powerful divine caster.
  - Typical succubi. But then, chaotic creatures differs, and the main strength of succubi isn't in personal combat anyway, so... The succubus Red Shroud built the Broken Reach fortress on the top layer of the Abyss and held it against the raids of everything up to and including a minor Abyssal lord. And kept her burg as one of few relatively safe places on the plane.
- Not being powerful in combat doesn't have to mean unimportant. In the Ravenloft setting, an incubus known as the Gentleman Caller is one of the setting's worst Big Bad villains, beguiling numerous female NP Cs over the years, and fathering enough half-fiend offspring upon high-ranking women to destabilize or corrupt more than one domain's political system.
- Alu-fiends (half-succubus) in Planescape have weakened abilities of their mothers and 1/5 are Chaotic Neutral or True Neutral (due to non-evil fathers), but still counts as "demonic" race (lesser tanar'ri), as opposed to tieflings.
- Fourth Edition has made succubi into devils — the new lore is that more human-looking fiends are all devils, and more monstrous-looking fiends are all demons. Further, without the Lawful Evil / Chaotic Evil distinction, there is no real need for both a succubus and an erinyes; there are none of the latter detailed in the first Monster Manual.
  - Another reason is that in 4th ed, angels are not automatically good. They have the same alignment as their gods, and don't look as human-like as they did in previous editions. It makes the concept of the Erinyes - who was a fallen angel - redundant when there's actual evil angels running (well floating, as they have no more legs) around.
- In the "3.5" edition of succubi and incubi are the same creature, and may change shape to suit themselves. They are tanar'ri demons, but as demons go aren't too terribly powerful in combat. They have a more powerful "variant", lillitus (the name obviously derived from Lilith). As demons, they are Always Chaotic Evil.
  - Fourth Edition also (awesomely) disregards the enforced heterosexuality that usually comes packaged with sex demons. The single "Succubus" entry simply states that it takes the form of an attractive male or female, and that's that.
  - That isn't a 4th ed thing. The 3.5 entry says that she can polymorph herself into a humanoid at will, but mandates neither gender nor species.
- Erinyes make a return in the second monster manual, but as tormentors, similar to their origins in Greek Myth.
The first edition of the Vampire: the Masquerade supplement entitled A World of Darkness (published 1992) includes a type of being called a Hengeyokai Cat that is based on Japanese legends, specifically the animal form of Youkai. These beings are born feline but can take any human form, and seduce humans for their Ki or life force.
Slaaneshi Daemonettes in Warhammer and Warhammer 40000. In third edition, they even played it up by redesigning the models (older versions were just plain creepy, with bald androgynous heads, one breast, bird-like legs and crab-like claws). There was such a negative reaction by the new "Animesque" look (noseless but feminine faces, clawed feet at the end of otherwise human legs, tentacles for hair, zero, one or both arms replaced with a chitinous blade, and 2, 4 or 6 breasts) that they were changed back for fourth edition.
Neomah from Exalted are nice enough not to take your soul... just a bit of your flesh, which they'll fuse with other people's flesh to make a Biological Mash Up baby. They also provide services other than sex - for instance, they can make babies for biologically incompatible couples.
Infernum, a game that uses the D20 system, both plays this trope straight and subverts it. Malcubi (the gender neutral plural term- Incubus is the male singular, Succubus the female single) resemble gorgeous human beings of the appropriate sex, were created as an alternative way to breed demons (the default is dissolving a living demon in an alchemical pit, known as a Spawning Pit, with its organs mutating into maggot-things that will mature into full demons after about 6 months) and quickly shifted to being prostitutes for the creators of the demon breeds. However, they have no innate ability to harm their lovers through physical contact (beyond their claws); their racial powers consist of preternatural charm, bat-like wings to let them fly, mind control, and entering the minds of dreamers. It's played straight, however, with the Chain of Lust collection of mutations. This set of four powers allows the demon to befuddle the minds of others, and culminates in the Succubus Kiss, which lets the demon drain energy from others with a touch. The Chain of Lust, however, is a Common mutation and can thus be taken by any of the nine breeds... which includes Artificers (dwarfish things with exoskeletons of steel), Beasts (which look like demonic Furries at best and Cosmic Horrors at worst) and Imps. There are also two Houses (essentially countries, in political terms) devoted to this trope; Astyanath are Cenobite-style worshippers of pain, while Riethii are more traditional hedonists.
Although not devils (or demons) by definition, the vampires from the Daeva clan, from Vampire The Requiem, are nicknamed Succubi/Incubi by others. It is not without reason since they are sexy vampires who use seduction (and supernatural powers that can make everyone fall in love with them) to lure their prey and suck his/her blood.

Video Games

Dark Mistresses from Dungeon Keeper.
Morrigan and Lilith in Darkstalkers (shown in the picture above).
- It is notable that Morrigan is depicted as relatively benevolent succubus and Lilith as innocent and misguided. The souls of the men they feed on aren't destroyed but rather continue to exist as part of the succubus, living in endless pleasure and happiness for eternity. Because of this Morrigan explains in one of the comics by Udon that she enjoys taking men out of their short, toil-filled lives and giving them bliss. Albeit the physical aftermath is still ghastly as the man's physical body is left a desiccated corpse that inevitably horrifies whoever comes across it.
  - Course, Capcom doesn't take anything not in its games as canon. It is pointed out that Morrigan doesn't need to take souls, but any contact with her body fluids will kill lesser men.
  - While Morrigan doesn't need to take souls, she does need fluids produced with stimulation to survive, otherwise she'll literally die from boredom. This could take the form of battle or something else. Or taking it from people who are dreaming.
Castlevania uses them both as regular monsters in several games and as named bosses with flirty energy-draining attacks in Symphony of the Night, Lament of Innocence and the recent remake of Rondo of Blood. The last one is the hero's girlfriend if you fail to save her.
- The games with female protagonists are...interesting about it. In Portrait of Ruin, succubi-type monsters yell "You filthy cow!" when Charlotte gets in range (as opposed to declaring "I'll play with you!" to Jonathan). In Order of Ecclesia, on the other hand, they all call Shanoa "cute little kitty"...
- That is because Shanoa makes women gay...
- Laura will try to feed on either males or females in her "gown" form.
City Of Heroes features them as a minor enemy class under the Circle of Thorn. They're actually quite feared, due to their hard-to-block ability to confuse PC's into attacking each other... of course, considering that they mainly appear in City Of Villains (with its Character Class reliant on its minions - that all go berserk if the master is confused), some consider this to be more of a perk than a problem...
Diablo has an army of succubi in, well, Diablo, and his brother Baal's personal harem is unleashed in Lord of Destruction, the expansion to the sequel.
The Succubus and Incubus monsters from Lost Kingdoms II (and they even get a card combo when used together).
Nevan in Devil May Cry 3 is never outright referred to as such... but she's topless (her hair covers her breasts), she announces her attacks like she's propositioning you ("Are you enjoying yourself?"), and one of her attacks involves embracing Dante and sucking the life out of him - which heals her, too. If she isn't a succubus (albeit a lightning succubus that transforms into an electric guitar that shoots bats), your guess is as good as anyone's. Adding to this theory is that the conversation before and briefly after Dante defeats her resembles verbatim what you'd hear at a whorehouse.
- She could be a vampire, you know, what with the bats and all.
  - Morrigan and Lillith from Darkstalkers (see above) have bats too. They're Succubi. And since both games are made by Capcom, calling Nevan a Succubus is a pretty safe bet.
Xana from Dark Messiah of Might and Magic is never explicitly referred to as a succubus, but she's certainly a horny devil, both in the sense that she's a sexy naked demoness with horns (and a tail) and in the constant come-ons she makes to Sareth. Since she spends most of the game skinriding his body you don't get to see much of her lifestyle (such as how she feeds) but the (unabridged version of) the scene where she's initially fused to Sareth is undeniably sexual in tone.
Succubi are featured as a monster class in Disgaea.
- In the storyline, Etna and Hanako are both considered Succubi; however, Etna is treated as humanoid, while Hanako is considered a monster like generic Succubi.
- These are more or less carried over from La Pucelle. In fact, Priere, the protagonist of La Pucelle, has herself become a Horny Devil Bonus Boss. Scroll about a third of th way down this page to see the Succubus, and a little lower to see Demon Lord Prier.
- Some fan theories suggest that Raspberyl is also a succubi herself. Evidence for this claim include similar horn shapes, winigs of a similar color, and a tail.
The Succubi from War Craft.
- In World Of Warcraft, warlocks of 20th level or higher can learn how to summon a Succubus as a minion, using the hearts of pure men to entice her from her home plane. They also clearly enjoy being spanked.
  - They also feature the spell "Seduce," a channeled effect that completely incapacitates the succubus's target (and causes little hearts to float over his or her head) until the effect ends or the victim takes damage. Hostile NPC succubi often have the same ability. And yes, it works just as well on female characters as it does males.
  - To put a bit of a twist on it, succubi in the Warcraft universe are revealed in a tie-in novel to be something of an anomaly: Most demons aren't particularly horny. (One man'ari eredar, in particular, comes off as downright prudish.)
Nethack: Foocubi (the Nethack term for incubi/succubi of the opposite sex of the player, which is both a pun on the metasyntactic variable "foo" and a fairly obvious Double Entendre) can strip the player naked and ... you know. This intercourse gives the player a semi-randomly chosen benefit/penalty which may include a power boost, making "foocubus dancing" a popular sport.
- Your chances of a good result depend in part on your charisma. Which class starts with high charisma? Knights. The lawful paladin-type gets the best results from sleeping with a foocubus early in the game.
- Intelligence also plays a role in getting a good result, and since Wizards start with high Intelligence.... Then again, Charisma also affects your chances of not getting stripped in an unintended encounter. And of course, things are more complex than that.
In Heroes Of Might And Magic V, Succubi are ranged attackers for the Inferno faction. While they act the part, only their alternative promotion in the second expansion actually have the ability to seduce enemies.
The Elder Scrolls features the oddly named "Daedric Seducers." They were only found in Daggerfall, the second game, and the Gaiden Game Battlespire, but Oblivion's Expansion Pack introduced the Dark Seducers, Expys of the Daedric Seducers.
- Note that they never refer to themselves as Dark Seducers, according to the in-game information it's a name the people of the Shivering Isles made up for them based on their appearance - same with the Golden Saints, who act nothing like saints and more like arrogant Knight Templars. So, technically, they're not Horny Demons.
- It is also implied throughout various in-game books that Daedra are incapable, or simply uninterested, in sexual acts due to their inability to breed.
  - Wasn't there a rapist Daedra?
  - Molag Bal was called the King of Rape, but he was the daedric prince of domination and slavery, so the name could easily be figurative.
  - It is definitely not figurative. One of the books on Vivec's life all but states he was raped by Molag Bal, with much 'clashing of spears' and 'piercing of the second aperture'.
Both Persona 3 and Persona 4 have succubi and incubi as fuseable Persona, generally with charm and drain type spells. Interestingly, while the succubus appears as a generic sexy demon, the incubus is a small imp-like demon with a huge penis.
Many Touhou fans believe that Koakuma is a succubus. But since the oddly popular character has only been a "nameless" midboss in one game ...
The Dragon Age desire demon◊. Interestingly enough, most just want to know what's it like to be human.
Mass Effect has a sci-fi take on the trope with the Ardat Yaakshi. Some members of the asari have a genetic condition that kills anyone they have sex with. This also turns them into nymphomaniacs, so they set out across the galaxy as sexual serial killers. The one Ardat Yaakshi we meet in-game uses a combination of feminine wiles and psychic powers to seduce her victims, though it's unclear if that's the norm or if she was just that talented.
Fall-From-Grace, an NPC from Planescape: Torment, was a Lawful Neutral and chaste succubus priestess (and an agnostic priestess at that), who ran the Brothel For Slaking Intellectual Lusts [emphasis added]. Her cadre of "prostitutes", all very lovely in their own way (though some in a very...nonhuman fashion), can be called upon to stimulate their patrons' intellect, ranging from playing chess or debating the finer points of governmental policies to storytelling or verbally abusing you. Fall-From-Grace had been sold to devils (demons' mortal enemies, as they are Lawful Evil) by her mother as a slave, but won her freedom by winning a contest that required improvisation. PS:T uses AD&D Second Edition rules, but succubi were in the second edition, too, and just as Always Chaotic Evil.

Webcomics

Sabine in Order Of The Stick. Subverted in that she has a healthy relationship with a human man. (As healthy as things can be in this case, and looking over the fact that they're both evil. And. Well. It's kept healthy by human sacrifices.) It's not monogamous, of course, which is lampshaded in typically hilarious fashion here.
Sabine: Nale, sugar, I'm literally an evil incarnation of illicit sex, do I seem like I would get hung up on who you sleep with?
- More accurately, she doesn't assume it is monogamous. Nale... seemed to be a little shocked that Sabine regularly screws other people.
- Doesn't stop him from trying to cheat though.
- Though, "cheat" in this case means try to kill a hated foe without her.
Most of the female demons in the webcomic Krakow have jobs as succubi. In a subversion of the typical morality of succubi, most of them aren't that evil, and Case (human) and Kia (succubus) have a happy relationship and recently got married.
There's two incubi and one succubus among the main cast of DMFA. Furry ones. Not to mention a rather prolific race of Cubi, with their own Elaborate University High. This comic being PG, the Cubi (mainly) feed on emotions instead.
- Though they have a reputation for devouring souls if they want too, why the protagonist isn't exactly happy about discovering his heritage (plus his clan has an affinity for pain and his mother is widely considered to have been a Complete Monster).
Return to Eden has this, only it's viewed as a curse on the demon that they have to feed that way.
Pibgorn features Drusilla the succubus as a major character.
Succubus Justice is the story of 'failed' succubi sent to a reform school in hell.
Discordia from Drowtales subverts this mostly by being Ugly Cute.
The two Succubi in Sinfest. They're even in the Devil's personal care, and are probably very fond of each other.
- Partially subverted by Fuchsia, the red succubus, who has a schoolgirl crush on Bookworm Criminy.
In Lovefeast, there is an "Ero" class of Shinigami trained to harness incubus- or succubus-like powers to use against demons or aid in taking the souls of the dying. They are still unlike actual incubi/succubi in that the demons cause more widespread harm to souls.
Incubus Tales is all about an incubus and his companions who run an otherworldly pleasure shop.
Subverted in Locus: The Succubus in question does sleep with the guy, but it turns out she's being mind-controlled.
Cloe of Eerie Cuties is a 14yo succubus with freckles and glasses who thought she was a failure. After a... ahem... growth spurt, she finds herself much more popular with the guys.
- It should be noted that many fans on the forums kinda liked her better before the growth spurt.
Subverted in Witchprickers with Kitty Scratch, an overweight succubus more interested in food than sex.

Western Animation

A succubus seduces Chef in South Park.
- Just so long as the Loch Ness Monster didn't get tree fiddy.
Callie from the upcoming Comedy Central series Ugly Americans