Demon (disambiguation)

A demon is a malevolent being in mythology or occultism.

Demon or daemon may also refer to:

• Daemon (classical mythology), a good or benevolent nature spirit in classical Greek mythology
• Unclean spirit, the agent of a demonic possession
• Demon (thought experiment), an entity in a type of thought experiment
  • Maxwell's demon
  • Laplace's demon
• Demon (volcano)
• Demon butterflies, several species of the butterfly tribe Ancistroidini
• Demon, Togo

Computers

• Daemon (computing), a background process
• Daemon Tools, a disk image emulator
• daemontools, a collection of free tools for managing Unix services
• BSD Daemon, mascot for the BSD operating system

Literature

• Demon (novel), by John Varley
• "Demon" (poem), by Mikhail Lermontov
• Demons (Star Trek novel), a 1986 Star Trek: The Original Series novel
• The Demon (novel), by Hubert Selby, Jr.
• Demons (Shannara), a common name for many different creatures in the Shannara series of epic fantasy novels
• Demons (novel), by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• "Dimension traveler," a class of characters in the MythAdventures series
• A family of characters in the Artemis Fowl series
• The Demons which appear in The Demonata, by Darren Shan
• Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America, a 2011 book by political commentator Ann Coulter
• Dæmon (His Dark Materials), the term for a manifestation of a person's soul in the Philip Pullman trilogy His Dark Materials
• Daemon (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe
• Daemon (technothriller series), a 2006 two-part novel by Daniel Suarez about a computer algorithm known as The Daemon

Comics

• Demons in the Marvel Universe, several Marvel characters
• Etrigan the Demon, a DC comics character

Television

• Demons (TV series) a British TV series which began airing in 2009
• "Demon" (Star Trek: Voyager), a 1998 episode of Star Trek: Voyager
• "Demons" (The X-Files), a 1997 episode of The X-Files television series
• "Demons" (Star Trek: Enterprise), the title of a Star Trek: Enterprise television episode from season four
• "Demons" (Stargate SG-1)
• The Dæmons, a 1971 Doctor Who serial
• "The Demon" (Yu-Gi-Oh! GX)
• Demon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), several fictional supernatural species
• Azazel (Supernatural), a fictional character often referred to as "The Demon"
• Demon (Supernatural), the fictional villains of the series
• Daemon (Digimon), an evil character from Digimon
• Daemon, a character in the TV series ReBoot

Film

• Dèmoni, a 1985 Italian horror film
• The Demon (1978 film), a Japanese drama
• The Demon (1979 Film), an South African slasher movie starring Cameron Mitchell and Jennifer Holmes* God Told Me To, a 1976 American horror film also called Demon
• Daemon (film), a 1985 British horror film
• The Golden Compass A film of the first book of the trilogy of "His Dark Materials" by Philip Pullman

Music

• Demon (band), an English rock/metal group formed in 1979
• Demons (band), a punk rock/garage punk band from Sweden
• Demons (Spiritual Beggars album), 2005
• Demons (Cowboy Junkies album), 2011
• Demon, an album by Envelopes
• "Demon" (song), a song by Jay Park, 2011
• "Demons" (Brian McFadden song)
• "Demons" (Fatboy Slim song), 2001
• "Demons" (Guster song)
• "Demons" (Imagine Dragons song), 2013
• "Demons" (Sleigh Bells song), 2012
• "Demons" (Super Furry Animals song), 1997
• "Demons", a song by Avenged Sevenfold on the album Diamonds in the Rough
• "Demons", a single by Fenech-Soler
• "The Demon", the on-stage persona of Gene Simmons of KISS
• The Demon (opera) by Anton Rubinstein
• Demonic (album), studio album by American heavy metal band Testament
• Daemon Records, an independent record label started up in 1990

Vehicles

• Hawker Demon, a Royal Air Force biplane
• F3H Demon, a United States Navy fighter aircraft
• Dodge Demon, a variant of the Dodge Dart automobile
• Demon (UAV), an aircraft built by BAE Systems

Roller coasters

• Screamin' Demon (Kings Island)
• Demon (roller coaster), a 1976 multi-looping roller coaster at Six Flags Great America and California's Great America
• Dæmonen, a roller coaster at Tivoli Gardens
• Zoomerang (Alabama Adventure), a roller coaster formerly called the Demon
• The Demon (Wonderland Sydney), a Vekoma Boomerang roller coaster at Wonderland Sydney in New South Wales, Australia

Companies

• Demon Internet, an Internet service provider now a subsidiary of Cable & Wireless

Sports

• Dale Torborg (born 1971), professional wrestler performing in WCW under the name The Demon
• Melbourne Football Club, an Australian Football League team
• Cardiff Demons, a Welsh rugby league team

Games

• Daemon (Dungeons & Dragons), the original name for creatures now called "Yugoloths" in Dungeons & Dragons
• Daemon (Warhammer), a fictional race of spirits born out of the destructive power called Chaos
• ZDaemon, a modern version of the game Doom
• Canfield (solitaire), a Solitaire game which in England is called Demon
• Demon (Dungeons & Dragons)
• SPARTANs as referred to as Demons by the Covenant in the Halo video game series
• Demon (video game), a 1982 monochrome vector arcade game from Rock-Ola
• The Shadow Queen,an acient 1,000 year old deamon serving as the final boss as Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

See also

• Daimon Station (Tokyo)
• Daimon
• Demone
• Algol, a star known colloquially as "the demon star"