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
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 (1979 film), a South African 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
Publications
- Demon (comics), a comic by Jason Shiga
- The Demon, a DC Comics series starring Etrigan the Demon
Music
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" (King Von song)
- "Demon" (Jay Park song), 2011
- "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)
- "Demon" (2003), by Trivium, bonus track on album Ember to Inferno
- "Demon" (2008), by KYPCK, on album Cherno
- "Daemon" (2008), by Whitechapel, on album This is Exile
- "Demons" (2008), by Avenged Sevenfold, on album Diamonds in the Rough
- "Demons" (2011), by Fenech-Soler
- "Demons" (2013), by The Wanted, on album Word of Mouth
- "Demons" (2018), by Lil Wayne, on album Tha Carter V
- "Demons" (2019), by Kim Petras, on the album Turn Off the Light
- "Demons" (2019), by Hayley Kiyoko, on album I'm Too Sensitive for This Shit
- "Demons" (2020) by Alec Benjamin, on album These Two Windows
- "Demons" (2020), by Drake, on album Dark Lane Demo Tapes
- "Demons" (2022), by Gothminister, on album Pandemonium
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 Kakka, formerly known as Demon Kogure, a Japanese musician
- 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), by Daniel Suarez
- Demon (comics), by Jason Shiga
- Demon (novel), by John Varley
- Demons (Dostoevsky novel), by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Demons (Dillard novel), a 1986 Star Trek: The Original Series novel written by J.M. Dillard
- The Demon (novel), by Hubert Selby, Jr.
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), 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 (1922–2000), 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
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 high-performance variant of the Dodge Dart and Dodge Challenger automobiles
See also
- Daimon (disambiguation)
- The Demons (disambiguation)
- Demon (comics)
- Demonic (disambiguation)
- Devil (disambiguation)
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