Overview

The term demon has a myriad of uses in fiction mainly due to its emotive traditional meaning. Demons are often characterized as devious and/or brutal beings deformed with horns and sometimes able to disguise their forms. They are exclusively on the side of evil and are tempters of people in order to obtain their souls or physical bodies to drag down to hell.

In some twists to the tradition characters such as Spawn is given demonic powers by a demon who then uses those powers to defy hell and his demonic master.