History Main / TheLegionsOfHell

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* [[VideoGame/DevilMayCry Dante]] foils demonic puppets, demonic sand creatures, demonic clowns, demonic businessmen, demonic cultists, etc.

* The Ing of ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime2Echoes'' are made reminiscent of this. They are just transdimensional beings though. They [[DemonicPossession possess]] creatures and even come from Dark Aether, a dimension that kills any "light creature" (anything that is not Ing) almost insantly.

* Demons swarmed out of the Darkwood in Creator/SimonRGreen's ''Literature/BlueMoonRising''. In ''Beyond the Blue Moon'', it turned out that [[spoiler: the demons were really humans transformed into murderous monsters, subverting this trope]].

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': After his fall Hades warps the denizens of Tartarus into an army of undead monsters and leads them against Paradise Island. As they are not living killing them doesn't break the Amazons' oath of never taking a life, but they prove nearly impossible to dispatch until Diana has a moment of inspiration and tries turning the Purple Healing Ray on them and discovers ReviveKillsZombie.

* The Lucifer Hawke/Lucifer Folk from ''Manga/SilentMoebius''.
* The Invaders from ''Manga/{{Gatekeepers}}'' and ''Gatekeepers 21''.

* In ''Light Novel/{{Slayers}}'' NEXT, Xellos is introduced. A Self proclaimed Trickster Priest with EyesAlwaysShut and apparent ally, he is actually more of a PhysicalGod and one step removed from being the single most powerful entity of darkness currently active in the world. While not quite mightiest of the mazoku (evil race), there is very little, short of the dark lords themselves, that ranks above him in power, and to date, every season he has appeared in ends with there being one less creature superior to him in power as result of his companions. The mere fact of his presence is enough to make the [[OurAngelsAreDifferent dragon race]] tremble in fear and do everything possible to avoid a direct confrontation.

* No two Orphans from ''Anime/MaiHime'' are alike, and their presence is made even more eerie once the characters (and the viewers) realize where (and who) they're coming from.

* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'': Negi's hometown was [[DoomedHometown doomed]] by one of those. Is not clear if they ''do'' come from Hell, but they are called demons anyway.

* The Demon Empire in ''FanFic/SonicXDarkChaos'' is this trope turned into a political state, complete with extremely advanced technology and slavery. And [[CrapsackWorld it's saying something about the 'verse]] that [[BlackAndGrayMorality they're considered the "nice" faction]].

* The ''Franchise/{{Doom}}'' series centers around invasions from Hell. While many many video games (eg ''VideoGame/{{Quake}}'', ''VideoGame/HalfLife'') are based around monsters pouring forth from another realm, ''Doom'' is one of the few to go the whole hog and use the Legions of The Damned itself as the main antagonistic force. That said, Satan himself is conspicuously absent outside of the occasional reference to an unnamed "Dark Lord"; the best you get is the [[SatanicArchetype Icon of Sin]], which is a towering Satyr-ish demon with reality-warping powers and extreme raw strength, and the Mother Demon in ''VideoGame/Doom64'', with its ability to resurrect and empower demons.

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* The Ing of ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime2'' are made reminiscent of this. They are just transdimensional beings though. They [[DemonicPossession possess]] creatures and even come from Dark Aether, a dimension that kills any "light creature" (anything that is not Ing) almost insantly.

* The ''Franchise/{{Doom}}'' series involve invasions from Hell. While many many video games (eg ''Quake'', ''Half-Life'') are based around monsters pouring forth from another realm, ''Doom'' is one of the few to go the whole hog and use the Legions of The Damned itself as the main antagonistic force (although Satan himself is conspicuously absent; the best you get is the [[SatanicArchetype Icon of Sin]], which is a towering Satyr-ish demon with reality-warping powers and extreme raw strength, and the Mother Demon in ''VideoGame/Doom64'', with the ability to resurrect and empower demons).
** Both the contemporary novelization and the later movie avoided this trope, by using aliens and genetic engineering respectively.

* The Guze no Tomogarra (Denizens of the Crimson Realm in the dub) and their Rinne servants from ''LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana''.

* The Burning Legion in the ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'' series, an army of demons whose goal is to unmake the universe. They scour all life from the planets they conquer, and the only beings they spare are those whom their leaders deem fit to be "recruited", corrupted and pressed into their crusade.

* The ''Franchise/{{Doom}}'' series involve invasions from Hell. While many many video games (eg ''Quake'', ''Half-Life'') are based around monsters pouring forth from another realm, ''Doom'' is one of the few to go the whole hog and use the Legions of The Damned itself as the main antagonistic force (although Satan himself is conspicuously absent; the best you get is the [[SatanicArchetype Icon of Sin]], which is a towering Satyr-ish demon with reality-warping powers and extreme raw strength, and the Mother Demon in ''Doom 64'', with the ability to resurrect and empower demons).

[[OurDemonsAreDifferent Demons]]. [[EldritchAbomination Abominations.]] [[OurMonstersAreWeird Monsters]]. {{Fallen Angel}}s. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Door-To-Door salesmen]]. There is a place where they go to, and a [[HomeOfMonsters place]] from which they spring. Simply calling it AnotherDimension doesn't do it justice.

* Creator/TerryPratchett's Literature/{{Discworld}} has its LegionsOfHell living in the Dungeon Dimensions. (Technically, the Dungeon Dimensions are a home for the {{Eldritch Abomination}}s, while the LegionsOfHell are more amiable and bureaucratic, and reside in various Hells produced by the human imagination.)
* ''Literature/GoodOmens'': when they arrive for Armageddon, it's noted that the commanders of the Heavenly hosts and the LegionsOfHell look remarkably similar, all part of the book's theme that neither side is all that different from the other.

* TheLegionsOfHell feature prominently in ''Literature/TheRiftwarCycle'', particularly the ''Serpentwar'' and ''Demonwar'' subseries. Essentially, this setting has reality in metaphysical layers, with each layer being more dangerous than the one above it- any layers below yours can be considered hell (and yes, this means that the mortal world is considered part of hell by angels, who come from the upper levels). Demons come from the fourth and fifth layers of reality below the mortal world, and have repeatedly tried to conquer it in order to feed on the life force of its inhabitants. There's also the Dasati, from the layer immediately below ours, who aren't ''demons'' per se but as an AlwaysChaoticEvil ProudWarriorRace they're still plenty nasty and their reality ''is'' the first level of hell from a human perspective. On the levels ''below'' TheLegionsOfHell you start getting ''really'' [[EldritchAbomination bad things]].

* Members of TheLegionsOfHell feature in several ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' games. Most notably so in ''[[VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIIINocturne Nocturne]]'', in which the protagonist becomes half-demon, half-human that can survive [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt The Conception]] thanks to the involvement of [[LouisCypher an oddly creepy child and an old man in a wheelchair]]. [[spoiler:And in the game's 'worst'/awesomest ending, said protagonist becomes [[TheDragon the general of Lucifer's armies]] and leads said Legions to the final battle in the war against Heaven.]]

* TheLegionsOfHell show up as the {{Mooks}} of the fourth season of ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', with their boss [[{{Satan}} Trigon]] as BigBad and Slade as TheDragon. They try to bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt and come within a hairsbreadth of succeeding. [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids And yes, this is from a kids show that's normally a lighthearted action-comedy]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' and its sequels involve an invasion from Hell. While many many video games (eg ''Quake'', ''Half-Life'') are based around monsters pouring forth from another realm, ''Doom'' is one of the few to go the whole hog and use Hell itself (although Satan himself is conspicuously absent; the best you get is the "Icon of Sin" in ''Doom II'', which is a giant satyr head with an exposed brain that spawns other demons you have to shoot rockets down, and the "Mother Demon" in ''Doom 64'').

* ''WebOriginal/HowToHero'''s guide to [[https://howtohero.tumblr.com/post/166524041006/going-to-hell going to Hell]] talks about avoiding/fighting the legions of Hell.

* ''VideoGame/{{Freespace}}'' invokes this trope with the Shivans, the unholy intersection of StarfishAliens and OmnicidalManiac, by naming every class of their StandardSciFiFleet after demons and monsters from a wide range of mythologies. Being utterly alien, seemingly infinite in number, and apparently existing only to exterminate advanced civilization everywhere, the monikers fit.

** Chaos comes in three main flavors. You have your standard daemons, entities formed from the aforementioned thoughts and emotions of mortals who are usually aligned with one of the main four [[GodOfEvil Chaos]] [[EldritchAbomination Gods]]. You have legions of power armor-wearing SuperSoldiers, sometimes bearing some [[LovecraftianSuperpower nasty mutations]] and [[DealWithTheDevil "gifts"]] from the gods, each led by an immortal [[PhysicalGod Daemon Prince]]. Finally you have [[TheCorruption the more subtle angle]]; cults disguised as innocuous organizations, daemonic possession of unidentified psykers, and the manipulation of GenreBlind individuals. HilarityEnsues.

* ''VideoGame/{{Freespace}}'' invokes this trope with the Shivans, the unholy intersection of StarfishAliens and OmnicidalManiac, by naming every class and specimen of their StandardSciFiFleet after demons from a wide range of mythologies. Being utterly alien, seemingly infinite in number, and apparently existing only to exterminate advanced civilization everywhere, the monikers fit.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' has a bunch of varieties depending on what plane you're looking at. Hell has devils and asuras, Abaddon has daemons and divs, the Abyss has demons, qlippoth, and demodands, the Astral plane has sahkils, the Shadow Plane has kytons, the Material Plane has rakshasas and oni, and dorvae just sort of wander. All of them are different, though the differences become more hair-splittingly specific with some of them, and all of them are bad news for mortals.

* ''VideoGame/{{Freespace}}'' invokes this trope with the Shivans, the unholy intersection of StarfishAliens and OmnicidalManiac, by naming every class and specimen of their StandardSciFiFleet after demons from a wide range of mythologies. Being enigmatic, seemingly infinite in number, and existing only to utterly exterminate advanced civilization everywhere, the monikers fit.

* In ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' series, this applies to any [[OurGodsAreDifferent Daedric Prince]] who, for whatever reason, attempts to invade Mundus (the mortal realm) with their [[OurDemonsAreDifferent lesser Daedra]] servants. The purest example is Mehrunes Dagon, the Daedric Prince of [[DestroyerDeity Destruction]]. His legions include the Dremora (a ProudWarriorRace with a very [[RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver demonic aesthetic]] who serve him in a [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Lawful Evil]] way) as his {{Mooks}} (with the higher-ranking Dremora serving as EliteMooks and PraetorianGuard), [[TheGoomba Scamps]] as CannonFodder, [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs Clannfear]] as {{Attack Animal}}s, [[NeverSmileAtACrocodile Daedroths]] as {{Giant Mook}}s, and the massive Xivilai as his high end EliteMooks. Dagon has repeatedly attempted to [[TakeOverTheWorld take over Mundus]] in this fashion, most famously in ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]'', but has yet to actually succeed.

* The setting of ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'' is heavily implied to be {{Hell}}, and in the original pitch it officially was. The citizens are just one of the reasons why its obvious it's {{Hell}}, with all the monsters and demons.