Demon (disambiguation)

A demon is a malevolent supernatural being in religion, occultism, mythology, folklore, and fiction.

Demon, daemon or dæmon may also refer to:

Entertainment

Fictional entities

• Daemon (G.I. Joe), a character in the G.I. Joe universe
• Dæmon (His Dark Materials), the term for a manifestation of a person's soul in Philip Pullman's trilogy
• Daemon (Digimon) (evil character from Digimon)
• Demon (Dungeons & Dragons), the most widespread race of fiends
• Demon (Supernatural), a fictional villains of series
• Daemon, a character in the TV series ReBoot
• Daemon Blackfyre, a character in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series
• Demons (Shannara), characters in Shannara fantasy novels
• Demon or Dimension traveler, a class of characters in the MythAdventures series
• Characters in the Artemis Fowl series
• Characters which appear in The Demonata, by Darren Shan
• Azazel (Supernatural), a character AKA "The Demon"
• Etrigan the Demon, a DC comics character
• List of Marvel Comics demons

Films

• The Demon (1918 film), a silent American comedy film
• Demons, aka Pandemonium (修羅 Shura), a 1971 Japanese samurai horror film
• Demon, also known as God Told Me To, a 1976 American horror film
• The Demon (1978 film), a Japanese drama film
• The Demon (1979 film), a South African slasher film
• Demons (1985 film), an Italian horror film
• Daemon (film), a 1985 British horror film
• Demons 2, a 1986 Italian horror film
• Demon (2015 film), a Polish drama film
• Demons (2017 film), an American horror film

Publications

• Demon (comics), a comic by Jason Shiga
• The Demon, a DC Comics series starring Etrigan the Demon

Albums

• Demon (album), a 2014 album by Gazpacho
• Demons (Candlelight Red EP), 2012
• Demons (Cowboy Junkies album), 2011
• Demons (From Her Eyes EP), 2014
• Demons (Get Scared album), 2015
• Demons (Spiritual Beggars album), 2005
• Demon, an album by Envelopes
• Demons, a 2020 album by Nathan Cavaleri
• Daemon (Mayhem album), a 2019 album by Mayhem

Songs

• "Demon" (song) (2011), by Jay Park
• "Demons" (Fatboy Slim song)
• "Demons" (Guster song)
• "Demons" (Imagine Dragons song)
• "Demons" (Brian McFadden song)
• "Demons" (James Morrison song)
• "Demons" (The National song)
• "Demons" (Sleigh Bells song)
• "Demons" (Super Furry Animals song)
• "Demons" (2008), by Avenged Sevenfold, on album Diamonds in the Rough
• "Demons" (2020), by Drake, on album Dark Lane Demo Tapes
• "Demons" (2011), by Fenech-Soler
• "Demons" (stylized as "<demons>") (2019), by Kim Petras, on the album Turn Off the Light
• "Demons" (2018), by Lil Wayne, on album Tha Carter V
• "Demon" (2003), by Trivium, bonus track on album Ember to Inferno

Other uses in music

• Daemon (band), co-founded by Nicke Andersson of The Hellacopters
• Demon (band), an English metal band formed in 1979
• Demons (band), a punk band from Sweden
• Demon FM, a community radio station in Leicestershire
• Demon Music Group, a British record label
• Daemon Records (2010), an independent record label

Books

• Daemon (novel series), a 2006 two-part novel by Daniel Suarez
• Demon (comics), a comic by Jason Shiga
• Demon (novel), by John Varley
• Demons (Dostoevsky novel), by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Demons (Star Trek novel), a 1986 Star Trek: The Original Series novel
• The Demon (novel), by Hubert Selby, Jr.

Programs

• Demons (TV series), a British TV series which aired in 2009
• The Dæmons, a 1971 Doctor Who serial

Episodes

• Demon (Star Trek: Voyager), a 1998 episode of Star Trek: Voyager
• "Demons" (Star Trek: Enterprise), a 2005 episode of Star Trek: Enterprise
• "Demons" (Stargate SG-1)
• Demons (The X-Files), a 1997 episode of The X-Files television
• "eps1.3_da3m0ns.mp4", a 2015 episode of Mr. Robot
• The Demon (Arrow), an episode of Arrow
• "The Demon" (Yu-Gi-Oh! GX)

Computing

• Daemon (computing), a background process
• Daemon Tools, a disk image emulator
• Daemontools, a collection of free tools for managing Unix services
• Demon Internet, an Internet service provider
• BSD Daemon, a mascot for the BSD operating system

Religion, philosophy and mythology

Religion

• Unclean spirit, an agent of a demonic possession

Philosophy

• Demon (thought experiment), a class of hypotheses
  • Laplace's demon (1814), articulation of causal or scientific determinism by Pierre-Simon Laplace
  • Maxwell's demon, a concept by James Clerk Maxwell concerning the statistics of Second Law of Thermodynamics
  • Evil demon, a philosophical concept originating with René Descartes
  • Darwinian Demon, a hypothetical organism resulting from absence of biological constraints on evolution

Mythology

• Daemon (classical mythology), a good or benevolent nature spirit in classical Greek mythology

People

• Demon (musician) (born 1977), French electronic musician
• Blue Demon (born 1922), a professional wrestler and actor
• Finn Bálor (born 1981), in NXT and WWE
• Kane (wrestler) (born 1967), wrestler for WWE and WWF
• Alex de Minaur (born 1999), Australian tennis player nicknamed "Demon"
• Dale Torborg (born 1971), professional wrestler performing in WCW under the name "The Demon"
• Gene Simmons (born 1948), vocalist and bassist for the rock band Kiss, whose stage persona is "the Demon"

Places

• Demon (volcano), Iturup Island, Kuril Islands, Russia
• Demon, Togo
• Demon Creek, a stream in Alaska
• Algol, a star known colloquially as "the demon star"

Sports

Basketball

• DePaul Blue Demons men's basketball, Chicago, Illinois
• Wake Forest Demon Deacons men's basketball, North Carolina
• Northwestern State Demons basketball, Natchitoches, Louisiana
• Northwestern State Lady Demons basketball, Natchitoches, Louisiana
• UCC Demons, Irish basketball team

Football and rugby

• Cardiff Demons, a Welsh rugby league team
• Casey Demons, an Australian rules football team
• Melbourne Football Club, an Australian rules football team nicknamed the Demons
• Northwestern State Demons football, Natchitoches, Louisiana
• Perth Football Club, an Australian rules football team nicknamed the Demons

Other

• Dæmonen, a roller coaster at Tivoli Gardens
• Demon (roller coaster), at Six Flags Great America and California's Great America
• Screamin' Demon, a shuttle loop roller coaster at Kings Island in Ohio
• "Demon" (poem), by Mikhail Lermontov
• The Demon (opera), by Anton Rubinstein
• Demon (UAV), an aircraft built by BAE Systems
• McDonnell F3H Demon, a United States Navy fighter aircraft
• Hawker Demon, a Royal Air Force biplane
• Demons (board game), a 1979 fantasy game
• Demon bat, common name for the Beelzebub's tube-nosed bat
• Demon butterflies, several species of the butterfly tribe Ancistroidini
• Demon owl, common name for the barn owl
• Dodge Demon, a variant of the Dodge Dart and Dodge Challenger automobiles

See also

• Daimon (disambiguation)
• The Demons (disambiguation)
• Demon (comics)
• Demonic (disambiguation)
• Devil (disambiguation)