Demon (disambiguation)

A demon is a malevolent being in mythology or occultism.

Demon or daemon also may refer to:

In mythology

• Daemon (classical mythology), a good or benevolent nature spirit in classical Greek mythology
• Unclean spirit, agent of a demonic possession

In the arts

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), characters in Shannara fantasy novels
• Demons (Dostoyevsky novel), by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Dimension traveler or demon, 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 (novel series), a 2006 two-part novel by Daniel Suarez about a computer algorithm known as The Daemon
• Daemon Blackfyre, a fictional character in George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire Series

Comics

• List of Marvel Comics demons
• Etrigan the Demon, a DC comics character
• Demon, by Jason Shiga

Television

• Demons (TV series) a British TV series which aired 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), an episode of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: Enterprise
• "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 AKA "The Demon"
• Demon (Supernatural), fictional villains of series
• Daemon (Digimon), (evil character from Digimon
• Daemon, a character in the TV series ReBoot
• "eps1.3_da3m0ns.mp4", 2015 episode of Mr. Robot

Film

• Demon, a.k.a. God Told Me To (1976), American (horror)
• The Demon (1978 film), Japanese drama
• The Demon (1979 film), South African (slasher)
• Demon (2015 film), Polish
• Demons, a 1985 Italian (horror)
• Demons 2, a 1986 Italian (horror)
• Daemon (film), (1985) British (horror)
• Demonic (film), (2015) American (horror)

Music

Performers

• Demon (band), an English rock/metal group formed in 1979
• Demons (band), a punk rock/garage punk band from Sweden
• Demon (musician) (born 1977), French electronic artist

Albums

• Demons (Spiritual Beggars album), 2005
• Demons (Cowboy Junkies album), 2011
• Demon, an album by Envelopes
• Demonic (album), studio album by American heavy metal band Testament
• Demons (EP), by Candlelight Red

Songs

• "Demon" (song) (2011), by Jay Park
• "Demons" (Brian McFadden song)
• "Demons" (Fatboy Slim song)
• "Demons" (Guster song),
• "Demons" (Imagine Dragons song)
• "Demons" (James Morrison song)
• "Demons" (Sleigh Bells song)
• "Demons" (Super Furry Animals song)
• "Demons" (The National song)
• "Demons" (2009), by Tech N9ne & featuring Three 6 Mafia
• "Demons" (2008), by Avenged Sevenfold, on album Diamonds in the Rough
• "Demon" (2003), by Trivium, bonus track on album Ember to Inferno
• "Demons" (2011), by Fenech-Soler

In recreation

Games

• Demon (Dungeons & Dragons)
• Daemon (Dungeons & Dragons), or "Yugoloths", a race
• Daemon (Warhammer), a fictional race
• ZDaemon, a modern version of the game Doom
• Canfield (solitaire), a Solitaire game which in England is called Demon
• 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
• Assatur and other enemies found at "Worlds End" in the game of Magicka.

Roller coasters

• Screamin' Demon, a shuttle loop roller coaster at Kings Island in Mason, Ohio
• 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

Sports

• Cardiff Demons, a Welsh rugby league team
• Melbourne Football Club, an Australian Football League team
• UCC Demons, Irish basketball team

Professional wrestling

• Dale Torborg (born 1971), professional wrestler performing in WCW under the name The Demon
• Kane (wrestler) in WWF and WWE
• Finn Bálor in NXT and WWE

In science and technology

Thought experiments

• Demon (thought experiment), class of hypotheses
  • Maxwell's demon, conception by James Clerk Maxwell re statistics of Second Law of Thermodynamics
  • Laplace's demon (1814), articulation of causal or scientific determinism by Pierre-Simon Laplace

In computing

• 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
• Demon Internet, an Internet service provider now a subsidiary of Vodafone

Vehicles

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

Other uses

• Evil demon, a philosophical concept originating with René Descartes
• Demon (volcano)
• Demon butterflies, several species of the butterfly tribe Ancistroidini
• Demon, Togo
• Demon Creek, a stream in Alaska, United States
• Demon TV, a student-television station
• Demon FM, a community radio station based in Leicestershire

See also

• Daimon Station (Tokyo), a station on the Toei Subway in Minato, Tokyo, Japan
• Demone
• Algol, a star known colloquially as "the demon star"
• Devil (disambiguation)