Devils
Several demonic entities dwell in extra-dimensional realms referred to as Hell, using humans as pawns and subjects; some have claimed to be Satan.
Their origins are shrouded in mystery - a few are fallen angels or gods who fell out of favor with their pantheon, whereas some are the descendants of degenerate Elder Gods and others were shaped by the subconscious desires of their earliest worshippers.
This category also includes messengers and servants who work for these “Rulers of Hell”; "lesser demons" that share the same origins as their masters, but are usually less powerful (although still superior to most mortals).
Members include:
- Allatou
- Asmodeus and his servant Saturnine
- Azazel
- Baphomet
- Blackheart
- Cloot, a demonic adversary of the Hulk and a disguise of Satannish
- Dagoth
- Damballah
- Haazareth Three
- Daimon Hellstrom
- Hoss
- Ikthalon - The embodiment of man's tendency to resist change, and thus represents frozen stagnation.
- Inanna, "demoness of inspiration and madness"
- Kazann
- Legion
- Ludi
- Lucifer
- Marduk Kurios
- Mephisto
- Ningal
- Satana
- Satannish
- Sligguth
- Thog
- Zahgurim, "armorer to Satan"
- Zarathos
Read more about this topic: Demons In The Marvel Universe
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“Divinity of hell!
When devils will the blackest sins put on,
They do suggest at first with heavenly shows,
As I do now.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)
“Right as the humour of melancholy
Causeth full many a man in sleep to cry
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Or elles blacke devils will them take.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)