History Characters / SupernaturalDemons

* [[spoiler:[[BigBadFriend Big Bad Girlfriend]]]] [=/=] [[spoiler:EvilAllAlong]]

* EvilCounterpart: To Anna. Both are benevolent supernatural beings who betrayed the rest of their kind. Both help the Winchesters. [[spoiler:Both sleep with one of the brothers]], an episode apart. Plus, [[spoiler:both turn evil and are killed off]].
* [[spoiler:EvilMentor: To Sam.]]

* [[spoiler:HeelFaceMole: Ruby stringed Sam along the whole time to groom him into breaking the final seal to free Lucifer. You gotta give the girl credit--she was evil, but she had ''balls'' to do what she did for ''two years'', which was A.) trick all of Hell into thinking she was a traitor, which meant that she had other demons constantly trying to either drag her ass back into Hell or just kill her, and B.) make her only allies a couple of distrustful hunters who were all too willing to kill her the second she stopped being helpful.]]

* {{Jerkass}}: Usually to Dean.

* SexyMentor: To Sam in Season 4.
** She seduces him in a flashback in "I Know What You Did Last Summer". It's implied that they sleep together again in "Lazarus Rising" and "When the Levee Breaks".

** Ironically, ''Meg'' started ripping off of ''Ruby'' late in Season 7.
* TedBaxter: "I am ''awesome''!"
** She was extremely pumped up at the time because [[spoiler:she finally freed her daddy from Hell]]. High fives? High fives, anyone? No?

* DemonLordsAndArchdevils: A very high-ranking demon, and the only one to answer directly to [[spoiler:[[{{Satan}} Lucifer]] himself]]. His existence alone kept other demons from targeting Sam.

[[folder: DEMONS IN SUPERNATURAL]]

[[folder: The Meg Masters Demon]]

!!The Meg Masters Demon (Nikki Lyn Aycox, [[spoiler: JaredPadalecki]], Rachel Miner)

* BlackEyesOfEvil

* TheNthDoctor

* [[spoiler:TheRenfield: To Lucifer.]]

[[folder: Azazel/YED/Yellow-Eyed-Demon]]
!!Azazel aka The Yellow-Eyed Demon (Fredric Lehne, various)

* DemonLordsAndArchdevils: A very high-ranking demon, and the only one to answer directly to [[spoiler:[[{{Satan}} Lucifer]] himself]]. His existence alone kept other demons from targeting Sam.

* FauxAffablyEvil

* ManipulativeBastard: And he enjoys it too.
* NoNameGiven: His name wasn't revealed until four episodes after his death.
* TheNthDoctor

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: He is only referred to as "The Yellow-Eyed Demon" or some variation during the two seasons he appears. We only discover his real name from a third party well after he has been killed.

* RedRightHand: His yellow eyes.

* SupernaturalGoldEyes: His trademark. Just the mention of "Yellow Eyes" or "yellow-eyed demon" around people makes them really scared.

* UhOhEyes

[[folder: Crossroads Demons]]

!!Crossroads Demons (Various)

* [[spoiler:BoomHeadshot: To her suprise, Sam shoots Dean's crossroads demon between the eyes with the Colt in "Bedtime Stories".]]
* CreepyChild: [[spoiler:Bela]]'s crossroad demon.
* DealWithTheDevil: Their job.
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: They seem to favor picking out the most attractive vessels to tempt their potential clients.
* HannibalLecture
* HellishPupils: Dean's crossroads demon has these.
* HotAsHell
* JerkassGenie: Possibly. An artist who made a deal for talent could only paint disturbing images that frightened off any buyers, [[spoiler:when Dean made his deal for Sam's life it's implied his little brother CameBackWrong]], and whether or not [[spoiler:Bela]] knew the [[SelfMadeOrphan consequences]] of her deal is unknown.
* [[spoiler:KillItWithFire: Bobby blow-torches the human remains of a crossroads demon he caught and interrogated, burning her to death.]]
* LittleBlackDress: The female crossroads demons. However, the one who makes Robert Johnson's deal was black and [[WomanInWhite wore a white dress]]. Maybe they just like contrasts?
* [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulative Bastards and Bitches]]
* TheMenInBlack: The male crossroads demons.
* RedEyesTakeWarning

!!Ruby (Katie Cassidy, Genevieve Cortese, Various)

* BlackEyesOfEvil

* ConsummateLiar: As early as her second episode. Not in her debut, though, seeing as how she only had one line to work with there.

* DeadpanSnarker
* [[spoiler:DealWithTheDevil: [[WasOnceAMan How she got to be the way she is]].]]

* GoodIsNotNice: [[spoiler:Subverted: she's neither particularly nice nor good.]]

* [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulative Bitch]]: Self-admitted. It comes with the whole "being a demon" thing.

* TheNthDoctor

* [[spoiler:WasOnceAMan: Like all demons, she used to be human until centuries of torture in Hell irrevocably altered her. Unlike other demons, she seems to remember her humanity and wants to help Sam and Dean defeat Lilith.]]

!!Lilith (Various)

** LikeABadassOutOfHell

* TheDragon: To Lucifer. [[WordOfGod According to Kripke]], she ranks even higher than ''Azazel''.

* MonsterProgenitor: The first demon.
** [[spoiler:WasOnceAMan: Used to be a human being, until Lucifer stripped her of her humanity and turned her into a demon via torture as a middle finger to God.]]

* ProphetEyes

!!Alastair (Mark Ralston, Andrew Wheeler, Christopher Heyerdahl)

* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor
-->'''Dean:''' I thought you got deep-fried, extra-crispy.
-->'''Alastair:''' Nah, just the pediatrician I was riding. His wife's still looking for him. It's hilarious.
-->And then,
-->'''Alastair:''' I'm sorry. This is a very serious, very emotional situation for you. I shouldn't laugh, it's just that—I mean, are they serious? They sent ''you'' to torture ''me''?

* FauxAffablyEvil: And how!

* [[CelestialBureaucracy Infernal Bureaucracy]]

* TheNthDoctor

* ProphetEyes

!!Crowley (MarkSheppard, [[spoiler:LaurenTom]])

* DeadpanSnarker
* DealWithTheDevil: The big boss of these things. [[spoiler:As it turns out, he made one himself when he was human. [[BiggerIsBetterInBed For an extra three inches of cock]].]]

* FauxAffablyEvil: Yes, he's evil. But at least he's classy.
* FriendlyEnemy: Played with, especially at the end of Season 5. Ultimately he's still a demon who [[spoiler:crawled his way to the position of ''King Of Hell'' WITHOUT the angelic power someone like Lucifer had to back him up]], so the Winchesters know damn well not to trust him. But he's honest with them (most of the time) and he doesn't play the mind tricks that Lucifer or [[spoiler:Ruby]] did.

* ManipulativeBastard: He knows exactly how to get what he wants out of people. See how he wrung Pestilence's location out of a Lucifer loyalist by setting him up for a FateWorseThanDeath, and convinced [[spoiler:Castiel to make a DealWithTheDevil by playing with the angel's newly discovered emotions]].

* RedEyesTakeWarning

!The Meg Masters demon (Nikki Lyn Aycox, [[spoiler:JaredPadalecki]], Rachel Miner)

!Azazel aka The Yellow-Eyed Demon (Fredric Lehne, various)

!Crossroads Demons (various)

!Ruby (Katie Cassidy, Genevieve Cortese, various)

!Samhain (Don McManus)

!Lilith (various)

!Alastair (Mark Ralston, Andrew Wheeler, Christopher Heyerdahl)

!Crowley (MarkSheppard, [[spoiler:LaurenTom]])

* [[spoiler:YouAreInCommandNow: Following Lucifer's re-imprisonment in Hell, Crowley gets promoted/promotes himself to the new King of Hell.]]

* [[spoiler:GenderBender: She possesses Sam in "Born Under a Bad Sign" in retribution for the brothers exorcising her, and makes him kill other hunters.]]

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Since the demon's real name is never revealed, the characters (and fans) just call her Meg, after the girl we first see her possessing. It could have been revealed in "Caged Heat", but...
-->'''"Meg":''' ''[smugly]'' Crowley.
-->'''Crowley:''' ''[with fake enthusiasm]'' Whore!

* AntiHero: Her ideas for plans tend to go like [[spoiler:killing a virgin and cutting out her heart]] to save everyone else, and [[spoiler:getting Sam addicted to drinking her blood]] to kill [[BigBad Lilith]].

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Somewhat. At the end of Season 7, [[spoiler: she's apparently been whisked off to places unknown by some of Crowley's men.]] As of Episode 9 of Season 8, she's been mentioned in passing, but remains otherwise forgotten. WordofGod is that the writers know exactly where she is and what at happened to her. [[RealLifeWritesThePlot Scheduling conflicts with Rachel Miner]] probably have something to do with her absence.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: MIA as of Episode 9 of Season 8. Sam mentions it in passing, but she remains absent for the time being. WordofGod is that the writers know exactly where she is and what at happened to her. [[RealLifeWritesThePlot Scheduling conflicts with Rachel Miner]] probably have something to do with her absence.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: She befriends Sam in her first appearance before he knows she's a demon.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: When Dean throws one of Azazel's taunts back in his face by mocking the death of one of his sons and the exorcism of one of his daughters, Azazel begins to slowly and painfully torture Dean to death.

* EnemyMine: Makes a shaky alliance with the Winchesters in the sixth and seventh seasons.

-->'''"Meg":''' Crowley.
-->'''Crowley:''' Whore.

* TheCorrupter: Arranged for his psychic kids to be manipulated by demons their entire lives, so that by Season 2, they're ready for him to swoop in and start whispering in their ears. He succeeds in turning Ansem and [[spoiler:Ava and Jake]] evil, drove Scott to seek therapy, and tried his damnedest to corrupt Sam too. [[spoiler:Right before Azazel gets killed, he's thrilled to see Sam gun a pleading Jake down in cold blood.]]

-->'''Azazel to Dean:''' You destroyed my children. How would you feel if I killed your family? ''[smirks]'' Oh, that’s right, I forgot, I ''did''. Still, two wrongs don’t make a right.

* [[spoiler:[[OneHitKill One Shot Kill]]: Dean visits this upon him via the Colt. He really didn't see it coming. His plan keeps right on working, anyways.]]

* YouGotSpunk: One of the things he liked about Mary was that she kept fighting back against him.

* [[spoiler:BoomHeadshot: Much to her suprise, Sam shoots Dean's crossroads demon between the eyes with the Colt in "Bedtime Stories".]]

* ForTheEvulz: Lilith's idea of a vacation is to possess some poor kid, torment said kid's family until they're terrified of her and plotting to murder their own child just to escape her, and then start picking them off, one-by-one. She also spends forty-five minutes skinning [[spoiler:Nancy the secretary]] alive while she forces everyone else to sit tight and watch, after she learns that Sam and Dean are already gone. (This all took place off-screen, obviously.)

!Crowley (MarkSheppard)

--> ''Now if you'll excuse me, I have a little Hell to raise.''

* AffablyEvil: Yes, he's evil. But at least he is classy.
** FauxAffablyEvil: In Season 8.

* BeardOfEvil: Starts sporting one in Season 7.

* [[spoiler: BigBad: Seems to be shaping up to be the BigBad of season 8.]]

* CurbStompBattle: In "Caged Heat," even after Sam, Dean and Meg have him apparently right where they want him, he manages to completely overpower them so fast, it's almost ridiculous. Bonus points for the look of bored amusement in his face after this happens.

* DealWithTheDevil: The big boss of these things.
** [[spoiler:As it turns out, he made one himself when he was human. [[BiggerIsBetterInBed For an extra three inches of cock]].]]
* DiscOneFinalBoss: His few appearances in Season 6 suggest that he'll be the new BigBad, but [[spoiler:he's killed off halfway through the season by Castiel]].
** [[spoiler:But then in "Mommy Dearest," we find out that he [[FakingTheDead faked his death]], and really is the BigBad]].
*** [[spoiler:Aaaand then, in the last few minutes of the season, he gets ousted from the position by [[FaceHeelTurn Cas]][[AGodAmI tiel]].]]
* EmbarrassingFirstName: He wasn't always Crowley. In life, his name was [[spoiler:Fergus [=MacLeod=]]].

* EvenEvilHasStandards: He may twist the wording of a deal to his benefit, but he never breaks a deal, as he explains to a minor Crossroads Demon who had been killing "clients" ahead of schedule. Though this seems to be out of concern for future deals than actual standards.

* EvilBrit

** He's also this to Castiel, in that neither wants the Apocalypse to happen, both help the Winchesters, and both get cast out from their respective groups based on the previous two facts.
*** Both he and Castiel also try to introduced a new way of doing things to demons and angels, respectively, only to be met with opposition.
* EvilVersusEvil: He helps the Winchesters to try and [[spoiler:stop the Apocalypse]], but bear in mind that he's still a demon. That just means he's less evil than [[spoiler:{{Satan}} himself]].
** And in Season 6, we find that he and Eve, the Mother of All (non-demon) monsters, don't get along either.
** And in Season 7 he begrudgingly joins forces with Sam, Dean, Castiel and Meg (a known Lucifer supporter) against Dick and the rest of the Leviathans. Really, if there's a being more evil than him out there, there's a good chance he'll team up with the Winchesters (albeit, temporarily) to take them down.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: Subverted. [[spoiler:He's fully willing to face death, but Castiel doesn't want to kill him.]]
* [[spoiler:FakingTheDead: In Season 6, after Castiel "kills" him. Turns out they're actually working together and set the whole thing up.]]

* GenreSavvy: When [[spoiler:Castiel]] tells him not to worry about the Winchesters, he's almost outraged and spits out a list of super-powered heavyweights that said the same thing about them, all of whom are either dead or locked away at the Winchesters' hands. All by two human boys who "shouldn't have been any trouble for them."
-->'''Crowley''': Am I the only game piece on the board who '''''doesn't underestimate those denim-wrapped nightmares'''''?!

* LaughablyEvil: Subverted in Season 8. He is still funny. But has turned NASTY.
* [[spoiler:LongLostRelative]]: [[spoiler:His son Gavin. Father and son both hate each other. Crowley suggests that Bobby torture Gavin's ghost, and Gavin rats Crowley out, thus allowing Bobby to get his soul back.]]
* ManipulativeBastard:[[spoiler:In the Season 7 finale, due to his manipulations, Dick Roman is killed and Castiel pays for betraying him as he ends up in Purgatory along with Dean.]]

* MeaningfulName: Crowley being either Aleister the occultist, or AJ (formerly Crawly) of ''Literature/GoodOmens''.

* PlayingBothSides: Does this to the Winchesters and the Leviathans in the Season 7 finale.
* PragmaticVillainy: Is nice to the heroes when he needs them and when they're against him, he's vicious to them.

* SmugSnake: In Season 8.
* SuddenlyShouting: He does this a lot.
* TortureTechnician: Interrogates his prisoners personally, and seems to enjoy it too.
** Indulging in it even more in Season 8.
* VetinariJobSecurity: Is starting to move into this position since becoming King Of Hell. Neither the good guys nor most of his fellow demons want the chaos that would result from removing him.

* Badass: His response to finding out Sam is immune to his powers and can exercise him is to try charge straight at him.
* CombatProtagonist: Waits for his victim to be in a narrow hallway before he unleashes his death ray. Had it been anyone but Sam it would have worked.
* TheDreaded: An entire holiday was created to appease him. Also the angels were willing to destroy an entire town to prevent his summoning.

* MoralityChain: Sam is hers. Occasionally (very occasionally), Dean also steps in to wag his finger at Ruby when her suggestions get a little too amoral for the boys' tastes.

* [[spoiler:TheMole: Ruby stringed Sam along the whole time to groom him into breaking the final seal to free Lucifer. You gotta give the girl credit--she was evil, but she had ''balls'' to do what she did for ''two years'', which was A.) trick all of Hell into thinking she was a traitor, which meant that she had other demons constantly trying to either drag her ass back into Hell or just kill her, and B.) make her only allies a couple of distrustful hunters who were all too willing to kill her the second she stopped being helpful.]]

* CreepyChild: [[spoiler:Bel
a]]'s crossroad demon.

* TheDreaded: It's really saying something when Ruby--who has already her terror of angels plain, and with good reason--tells Sam she's more worried about [[FateWorseThanDeath what Alastair would do to her and the Winchesters if he caught them.]]

* EyesOfGold: His trademark. Just the mention of "Yellow Eyes" or "yellow-eyed demon" around people makes them really scared.

* CreepyChild: [[spoiler:Bela]]'s crossroad demon.

** She proves herself to be on Sam's side once and for all in the fourth season finale, when she helps him off the BigBad, [[spoiler:[[DarkIsEvil thus tricking him into starting the Apocalypse, which was her goal all along]].]]

-->'''Sam:''' ''(realizing)'' Ruby?

* TookALevelInKindness: Ruby comes off as nicer (read: less bitchy) in Season 4.

* WomanInBlack

!Alastair (Mark Ralston, Christopher Heyerdahl)

* PsychoForHire: Cares more about torturing and killing than the Apocalypse. Noticably nastier than other demons.
* ProphetEye
* ThemeNaming: Alastair and Crowley.
* TortureTechnician

!Samhain (Don McManus)

* AllHallowsEve: Samhain is the inspiration for it in Supernatural.
* {{Badass}}: One of the few demons who actually fights one of the Winchesters in hand to hand combat. If it weren't for Sam abilities, he would have won.
* CombatPragmatist: Waited till the hunter coming after him was in a narrow hallway before he used his demon ray so there was no room to escape. Fortunately the hunter happened to be Sam.
* {{Determinator}}: Lilith fled when she realized her demon ray didn't work on Sam. Samhain charged him. When Samhain found out Sam had a knife that could hurt him, he simply knocked it out of his hands and continued to pound him. When he realized Sam could exercise him, he simply charged him again.
* TheQuietOne: Most demons are quite chatty. After saying a few lines when he is first summoned, he doesn't say another word for the rest of the series.
* SummonMagic: Can summon monsters including zombies and ghosts.
* UngratefulBastard: Kills the witch who summoned him and calls her a whore.
* WeaksauceWeakness: Has horrible vision, which is why masks can fool him. However, unlike most demons, he is immune to iron.

!The Meg Masters demon (Nikki Lyn Aycox, [[spoiler: JaredPadalecki]], Rachel Miner)

* AwesomeMcCoolName: Meg Masters

* DeadLittleSister: To be accurate, her first host body had one.
* TheDragon: For Azazel.
* DyingAsYourself: Meg gets thrown out a several story high window but the demon possessing her keeps her alive. Episodes later, Dean and Sam exorcise the demon from her body and the real Meg thanks them right before dying from the injuries.

* ShipTease: With Castiel no less. They even make out in an episode. And Cas develops a kind of fondness for her.

* TheChooserOfTheOne: He chose a variety of possible candidates before narrowing it down to the one who would [[spoiler: release Lucifer and become his vessel]].

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: His "children". He tortures and nearly kills Dean for killing one and exorcising the other.

* EyesOfGold: His trademark. Just the mention of "Yellow Eyes" or "Yellow-eyed demon" around people makes them really scared.

* ManipulativeBastard
* [[spoiler:MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: He doesn't get to say it, but boy, is it true.]]
** [[spoiler:Not really, his death certainly was not part of his plan. His plan had just been set into motion to the point that his death, didn't stop it]].

--->''"On the bright side, I'll be there with you. That little fallen angel on your shoulder."''

* {{Badass}}
* [[spoiler:BecomingTheMask: According to Eric Kripke and her Season 4 actress, Ruby really did come to care about Sam. Whether she genuinely loved him or just loved the idea of him - a person destined to free and host her god, Lucifer - is up for debate. She knew that Sam would hate her once he found out what she was using him for but she ''did'' hope he'd come around to her way of looking at things eventually.]]

* ConsummateLiar

* GoodIsNotNice: [[spoiler: [[AffablyEvil Inverted]]]]

* HeroicSacrifice: Comes close to going through with it in "Jus in Bello". When she finds out that the Winchesters don't have the kill-anything Colt anymore, she suggests doing a spell that'll take out every demon in the area, including herself, to end their attack. Our Heroes figure out another way, of course. [[spoiler:Not that it saves the people in the police station from Lilith...]]

* {{Jerkass}}: Though most of her bitchiness is aimed at Dean. He usually starts it.

* [[spoiler:TheMole: The end of the fourth season finale has Ruby explaining to a shocked and horrified Sam how she had been stringing him along the whole time to groom him into breaking the final seal to free Lucifer - [[NiceJobBreakingItHero which he just did]]. You gotta give the girl credit - she was evil but she had ''balls'' to do what she did for ''two years'', which was A.) trick all of Hell into thinking she was a traitor, which meant that she had other demons constantly trying to either drag her ass back into Hell or just kill her, and B.) make her only allies a couple of distrustful hunters who were all too willing to kill her the second she stopped being helpful.]]

** They sleep together in "I Know What You Did Last Summer" (and likely after that, too).

** ... and you tell me what her favorite food is.
* TheVamp

* CreepyChild

* [[spoiler:DieLaughing: She grins and laughs as Sam is slowly and painfully killing her, probably because she think it's funny that he's turned himself into a monster to stop the Apocalypse and is doing ''just that''.]]
--->'''Castiel:''' ''(to Dean, in another episode)'' [[EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor Lilith has a certain sense of humor.]]

* EnfanteTerrible: When possessing little girls.

* WomanInBlack: In "The Monster at the End of This Book".
* WomanInWhite: In "Lucifer Rising".

* NobleDemon: Till Season 7. In Season 8, he has become MUCH more bloodthirsty. Killing innocent people out of whims, kidnapping children

** FauxAffablyEvil: In Season 8.

** Completely averted in Season 8.

** Indulging in it even more in Season 8.

* LaughablyEvil

* NobleDemon

* TortureTechnician: Interrogates his prisoners personally, and seems to enjoy it too.