Demon (disambiguation)

A demon is a malevolent supernatural being, evil spirit or fiend in religion, occultism, literature, fiction, mythology and folklore.

Demon, daemon or dæmon may also refer to:

Entertainment

Fictional entities and role-playing games

• Daemon (G.I. Joe)
• Dæmon (His Dark Materials)
• Daemon (Digimon)
• Demon (Dungeons & Dragons)
• Demon (Supernatural)
• Daemon, character in the TV series ReBoot
• Daemon Blackfyre, character in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire universe and its adaptations
• Daemon Targaryen, character in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire universe and its adaptations
• Demons (Shannara)
• Demon or dimension traveler, class of characters in the MythAdventures series
• Characters in the Artemis Fowl series
• Characters which appear in The Demonata by Darren Shan
• Azazel (Supernatural), fictional character also known as "The Demon"
• Etrigan the Demon
• Demons (Mayfair Games), a 1992 role-playing game supplement for demons in Advanced Dungeons & Dragons

Films

• The Demon (1918 film), an American silent comedy film
• The Demon (1926 film), an American silent Western film
• Demons, a 1971 Japanese film directed by Toshio Matsumoto
• Demon (1976 film) or God Told Me To, an American horror film
• The Demon (1978 film), a Japanese drama film
• The Demon (South African film), a slasher film
• Demons (1985 film), an Italian horror film
• Daemon (film), a 1985 British horror film
• Demon (2015 film), a Polish drama film
• Demons (2017 film), an American horror film
• Demon (2023 film), an Indian Tamil-language horror film

Publications

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

Music

Albums

• Demon (album), 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, album by Envelopes
• Demons, 2020 album by Nathan Cavaleri
• Daemon (album), 2019 album by Mayhem

Songs

• "Demon" (King Von song)
• "Demon" (Jay Park song)
• "Demons" (Doja Cat song)
• "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)
• "Demon8", by Mercenary on album First Breath
• "Demon", bonus track by Trivium on album Ember to Inferno
• "Demon", by KYPCK on album Cherno
• "Daemon", by Whitechapel on album This is Exile
• "Demons", by Avenged Sevenfold on album Diamonds in the Rough
• "Demons", by Fenech-Soler
• "Demons", by Mayday Parade on album Monsters in the Closet
• "Demons", by The Wanted on album Word of Mouth
• "Demons", by Blue Stahli on album The Devil
• "Demons", by Lil Wayne on album Tha Carter V
• "Demons", by Kim Petras on album Turn Off the Light
• "Demons", by Hayley Kiyoko on album I'm Too Sensitive for This Shit
• "Demons", by Alec Benjamin on album These Two Windows
• "Demons", by Drake on album Dark Lane Demo Tapes
• "Demons", by Gothminister on album Pandemonium
• "Demons", by Mutoid Man on album Mutants

Other uses in music

• Daemon (band), co-founded by Nicke Andersson of The Hellacopters
• Demon (band), English metal band formed in 1979
• Demons (band), Swedish punk band
• Demon Kakka, formerly known as Demon Kogure, Japanese musician
• Demon FM, community radio station in Leicestershire
• Demon Music Group, British record label
• Daemon Records, an independent record label

Books

• Daemon (novel), a 2009 novel by Daniel Suarez
• Demon (comics), a 2014–2016 comic series by Jason Shiga
• Demon (novel), a 1984 novel by John Varley
• Demon , a 2003 novel by Christopher Nicole
• Demon: A Memoir, a 2007 novel by Tosca Lee
• Demon and Other Tales , a 1996 collection by Joyce Carol Oates
• Demons (Dostoevsky novel), an 1872 novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Demons (Dillard novel), a 1986 Star Trek: The Original Series novel by J.M. Dillard
• Demons , a 1987 novel by Guy N. Smith
• Demons , a 1993 novel by Bill Pronzini
• Demons , a 2000 novella by John Shirley
• Demons! , a 1987 anthology edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois
• The Daemon, a 1977 novel by Peter Tuesday Hughes
• The Demon, a 1976 book by Eve Bunting
• The Demon (novel), a 1976 novel by Hubert Selby Jr.
• The Demon , a 2003–2004 two-part Star Trek novel by Loren L. Coleman and Randall L. Bills; the 35th and 36th installment in the Corps of Engineers series
• The Demons , reissue title of Demons' World, a 1964 novel by Kenneth Bulmer

Television

Programs

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

Episodes

• "Demon" (Star Trek: Voyager), 1998
• "Demons" (Star Trek: Enterprise), 2005
• "Demons" (Stargate SG-1)
• "Demons" (The X-Files)
• "eps1.3_da3m0ns.mp4", a 2015 episode of Mr. Robot
• "The Demon" (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 lesser deity or guiding spirit in ancient Greek religion and mythology

People

• Demon (musician) (born 1977), French electronic musician
• Blue Demon (1922–2000), a professional wrestler and actor
• Finn Bálor (born 1981), nicknamed “The Demon” in 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

Science

• 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
• Molecular demon, molecular arrangements that mimic Maxwell's demon
• Pines' demon, a certain type of collective excitation of electrons

Other

• Canfield (solitaire) or Demon, a solitaire/patience card game
• 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
• Dodge Demon, a name used for various automobiles made by Dodge

See also

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