History Main / TheLegionsOfHell

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

* In ''LightNovel/{{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.
* ''LightNovel/ThatTimeIGotReincarnatedAsASlime'':

-->-- ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', "The Beast with a Billion Backs"

* In ''Film/BlackAdam'', Sabbac summons an army name-dropped as this in the final act.

* In ''Comicbook/{{Lucifer}}'' a damned but repentent human soul, Christopher Rudd becomes the MessianicArchetype of Hell, and leads the demons and the damned together against the Lilim attempting to conquer the Silver City...and conquer it themselves as revenge for the injustice of allowing Hell to exist.

* 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/AnElderScrollsLegendBattlespire Battlespire]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]'', but has yet to actually succeed.

* 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", with the closest thing we see in the original trilogy being the Icon of Sin. ''VideoGame/Doom2016'' establishes that there have been multiple leaders of Hell over the eons (generally just the biggest, baddest demon around), but the ''original'' Dark Lord of Hell and his identity have only been explored in ''VideoGame/DoomEternal'''s DLC (in which he is briefly called "the Devil" but not "Satan", and ultimately turns out to be [[spoiler:Davoth, the ''original'' creator of the universe, who was betrayed by the Maykrs who stole his power and his name becaue they feared what he would become.]]).

* 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", with the closest thing we see in the original trilogy being the Icon of Sin. ''VideoGame/Doom2016'' establishes that there have been multiple leaders of Hell over the eons (generally just the biggest, baddest demon around), but the ''original'' Dark Lord of Hell and his identity have only been explored in ''VideoGame/DoomEternal'''s DLC (in which he is briefly called "the Devil" but not "Satan").

* VideoGame/AvencastRiseOfTheMage sees a daemon invasion into the WizardingSchool setting, followed by a counterassault on [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils Morgath's]] turf.

* In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', Hell is not among the villains. In one episode, the [[TheGrimReaper Soul Reapers]] defeat a fallen ghost who was also a serial killer during his life. A Soul Reaper cannot purify sins made by the living, so the Gate of Hell opens up and a demon reaches out and grabs the damned soul.
** Much better in the manga where the giant demon ''impales him on an equally giant sword.''
*** On the other hand, Hueco Mundo [[GratuitousSpanish ("Hollow World")]] is a poster child of this trope. The [[TheHeartless Hollows]] themselves were the early antagonists, and the series's BigBad eventually sets up shop there.
** In the latest film we meet the "Togabito" (defilers), who are the humanoid denizens of Hell.

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Sometimes {{Mooks}} of {{Satan}}, a SatanicArchetype, or a GodOfEvil (who -- depending on the setting and/or the author's worldview -- may or may not be the same person/thing), and residing in FireAndBrimstoneHell (or [[{{Hell}} the real deal]]). There may or may not be [[{{Heaven}} heavenly]] [[GoodCounterpart equivalents]], and either one can be treated in a CrystalDragonJesus manner. Heck, if they're in a {{Hentai}} work, they may even have tentacles.

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

* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' had the legions of hell bust loose at the end of season two. They fight them for the rest of the series, on and off, though not as much after defeating Satan at the end of Season Five, and less still in Seven, largely because they were so [[TheWorfEffect nerfed]] . OffscreenMomentOfAwesome when the angels (with Castiel apparently taking point, or at least the last survivor of those who took point) laid siege to Hell and cut their way in to rescue Dean, allowing him to get out of Hell without giving in to [[PowerCreepPowerSeep Power Creep]] much. (Dean actually took a hit to his power after Hell due to [=PTSD=], though in the BadFuture he was using his education there for JackBauerInterrogationTechnique.)

* The Kreegan infestation in ''VideoGame/MightAndMagic'' is (in-universe) commonly thought to be this (especially played up in VideoGame/HeroesOfMightAndMagic III). As it turns out, they are actually [[AlienInvasion alien invaders]] that sweep across the Galaxy as a [[PlanetLooters as a plague of locust]]... and happen to look like the common myths of devils and demons (or possibly have breeds that look like the actual devils and demons).

* Red Spire Press's D20 game ''Dark Legacies'' has a far future Earth suffer both a dimensional migration of low-tech races and then an invasion by demons. If it weren't for a rising religious order with holy magic and alliances with some of these new races, the demons would have completely wiped out humanity. As it is, despite being thousands of years in the future, humans have been reduced to steam tech and crossbows as the height of technology.
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}'', the manitou[[note]]a Native American name; Native Americans are generally prominent in the setting[[/note]] are responsible for creating... well, technically every single ghoulie and monster in the setting. They also fuel the spells of Hucksters, are the ultimate cause behind the ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder of the Mad Scientist "class", and [[spoiler: are the secret source behind the [[AppliedPhlebotinum ghost rock]] that drives the CattlePunk of the setting]]. The manitou's efforts occasionally bite them on the ass; most prominently, while many corpses possessed by a manitou rise up as [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Walkin' Dead]], a rare few instead become the Harrowed, which are intelligent zombies, with the manitou constantly struggling with the original personality for control over the body, who can and often do use their supernatural powers to battle the manitou's purpose.
* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' has three main varieties. The LawfulEvil devils from the Nine Hells of Baator field ruthlessly-disciplined armies out to subjugate the universe, the ChaoticEvil demons spill out of the Abyss in screaming hordes that try to tear down all of creation, while the NeutralEvil daemons, or Yugoloths, fight for whoever makes the best offer. Fortunately for everyone else, these three groups have been engaged in a conflict called [[EvilVersusEvil the Blood War]] since time immemorial -- the demons' advantage of numbers is matched by the devils' superior strategy and tactics, and whenever one side gets an advantage, some third party (frequently the Yugoloths) takes steps to restore the balance of power.
** The devils are also the only group of evil outsiders organized enough to have proper legions, which include Merregons, literal "legion devils." Each [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils archduke]] of Hell maintains an army of devilish soldiers with its own distinct equipment and tactics, so the Iron Defenders of Dis are exceptional siege engineers, Baalzebul's Maladominaar are renowned shock troops, and so forth. The Nessian Guard, an elite force under the command of Asmodeus himself, is the only army that does not take part in the Blood War, since it's being held in reserve for an even greater conflict to come.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' has a really bizarre hell. It's ruled over by the [[EldritchAbomination Yozis]] (who, as the Primordials, created the world and ruled over it until the Exalted deposed them), and the [[SealedEvilInACan Can keeping them Sealed]] is the inside-out body of the mightiest of their number. Each Yozi has a large number of [[OurSoulsAreDifferent souls]], which are the immensely powerful Third Circle Demons. ''Those'' have souls which are the Second Circle Demons, and all of the above created the hordes of {{Mook}}s that are First Circle Demons.
** Exalted also has the Underworld, the inverted shadow of Creation created when the Exalted armies killed some of the Primordials. Killing beings who could not die caused so much chaos that the Exalted decided to seal the rest of the Primordials away instead of killing them, turning them into the Yozis. Because the Primordials were outside the limits of death and time, however, they didn't actually die but instead became creatures now known as the [[EldritchAbomination Neverborn]], intent on ending their existence by sending their own legions of the dead to take the rest of Creation down with them.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Infernum}}'' is a third-party setting that uses the 3.5 rules for TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons and, as the name suggests, this trope is all over it. In fact, the default assumption is that the party members ''are'' demons. It has heavy roots in Christian beliefs, mainly Dante's Inferno, but is twisted and changed into its own unique setting. For a start, the demons are the result of vile crossbreeding experiments conducted between rebellious angels and "spawn" (prototypes of earthly lifeforms) in an effort to breed warrior-slaves... only for the demons to decide they didn't like the idea of being cannon fodder and promptly devour every last one of their "fathers" that didn't run for their life clean out of reality. Many demons at least profess not to believe in Heaven, and almost none believe that it's anything like the humans think it is (the Fallen Angels can't comment, having forgotten everything down to the reason why they Fell in the first place). There's also vague hints of even stranger forces in the multiverse; Benandanti are humans "touched" by nature spirits, whose souls travel to Hell in the guise of werewolves to steal souls to restore the vitality of nature, while Brokenlanders are the ghostly remnants of Quilipoth, another universe so ancient there's nothing left but a single ringworld orbiting the last dying cinder of a star.
* Like the [=WoD=] example above, another TabletopGame, ''TabletopGame/InNomine'', gave players a chance to enact this trope as demons operating on Earth. Unlike the above example, however, it gave an equal chance to fight for the other side, too.
** Well, not so equal, because Angels have higher stats, and a military organization to support them. Demons have to work undercover and are more weak. The reason? All of this is a Game, and God is a cheater...

* Apophis Consortium's ''Obsidian: Age of Judgement'', has the forces of hell take over the world for centuries, reducing humans in North America to living in scattered communities or the sole fortified HiveCity while Europe has been completely subjugated. It's so bad, that humans don't know that there are places outside of their respective continents and while bionics and gun technology have improved to new heights, flight has become a lost technology.
* In the TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness RPG ''TabletopGame/DemonTheFallen'', demons that escaped from Hell are the player characters; the angels have long since vanished. Whether the demons are {{antihero}}es or [[TheAtoner atoners]] is up to the player. Their former allies have become the Earthbound, who have gone mad from indeterminate amounts of time being SealedEvilInACan.
** Similarly, the Spectres fulfill this role in ''TabletopGame/WraithTheOblivion'', with the Malfeans being the overlords waiting til they get to eat reality. The various servants of the Wyrm in ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'' might also count.
** The TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness has, as of ''Inferno'', introduced Hell into the setting. Hell plays host to a number of demons that are born of the first fleeting moments of human wickedness, who occasionally come to humans and offer them great power for a little price... For extra fun, ghosts and 'regular' spirits can be corrupted into demons too.
** The [=nWOD's=] ''TabletopGame/DemonTheDescent'' is a subversion - the [=PCs=] are fallen angels, but Hell is their ''goal'', not their home. Hell is a symbol to them, signifying freedom from their former master, the God-Machine, however they choose to go about it.

* One of the stories in ''TabletopGame/{{Rifts}}'' is the "Minion War", a war between two separate Legions of Hell: The Demon of Hades, and the Deevils of Dyval. It's beginning to spill over into other dimensions.
* One of the main factions in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' is Chaos, spewing forth from the Eye of Terror: a rift in spacetime that allows access to the [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace Warp]], a nightmare realm made of the emotions and thoughts of the entirety of sapient life in the galaxy.
** Chaos comes in four 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]]. You have scores of [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized traitor guardsmen]] and [[TheDogBitesBack mistreated Imperial citizens]] who are so fed up with the Imperium's bullshit that they willingly pledge their allegiance to the Ruinous Powers en masse. Finally you have [[TheCorruption the more subtle angle]]; cults disguised as innocuous organizations, daemonic possession of unidentified psykers, and the manipulation of GenreBlind individuals.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}} Fantasy'' also includes Chaos as a faction. While it does possess a lot of daemons made up of pure magic straight from the Realm of Chaos (ranging from human-level lesser daemons to OneManArmy greater daemons), the bulk of the Chaos army is [[TheCorruption tainted mortal warriors]] and twisted [[BeastMan Beastmen]], all sweeping down from the GrimUpNorth and corrupted forests. The Beastmen are [[BarbarianTribe savage Iron Age tribes]] of mutants that resemble [[FaunsAndSatyrs satyrs, fauns, and minotaurs]], and are considered the lowest CannonFodder of the Chaos ranks. The human followers of Chaos, collectively referred to as Northmen, mainly consist of two ethnic groups: Norscans (barbaric HornyVikings) and Kurgan ([[BornInTheSaddle Turkic/Iranic style steppe nomads]]); a third group, the vaguely Tungusic Hung, [[HufflepuffHouse mostly exist offscreen]]. The Northmen's ranks are complemented by mutated animals, fantastical beasts (such as giants and trolls), and the Chaos Warriors, who are anointed mortals (often chieftains or sub-chieftains of various tribes) who have been "blessed" for their service with increased size and strength (averaging around seven feet tall), a [[TwentyFourHourArmor suit of iron or steel plate that they can never remove]], [[TheNeedless lack of need for food or rest,]] and often various mutations. Less prominent than the humans but still quite important are the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Chaos Dwarfs,]] who are notably the only Chaos faction with industry. The [[OurElvesAreDifferent Dark Elves]] have also allied with Chaos where convenient, most notably during the Great War Against Chaos and in the Storm of Chaos.

* The 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]].

** Marvel has been largely inconsistent in its portrayal of hell (largely due, it seems, to an unwillingness to flatly confirm or deny the existence of God in the comics, quite unlike DC). The current Ghost Rider series had Satan himself (not Mephisto, Satannish or any other almost-Satan Marvel has used in the past). For the most part, Marvel seems to go with the idea that there are many different hells, with many different devils.

** Originally Johnny Blaze had made a deal with the same Satan that was the father of Daimon Hellstrom (Son of Satan, natch) and Satanna, who definitely was NOT Mephisto.

* The Legions of Hell 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'' the Legions of Hell you start getting ''really'' [[EldritchAbomination bad things]].

** Chaos comes in four 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]]. You have scores of [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized traitor guardsmen]] and [[TheDogBitesBack mistreated Imperial citizens]] who are so fed up with the Imperium's bullshit that they willingly pledge their allegiance to the Ruinous Powers en masse. 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.

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* 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. Overlaps with AlienInvasion due to the ScienceFantasy nature of the franchise.

* The demons of ''Manga/{{Devilman}}'', led by Satan himself. They also showed up in a {{Crossover}} movie with ''Anime/MazingerZ''.

Sometimes {{Mooks}} of {{Satan}}, a SatanicArchetype, or a GodOfEvil (who - depending on the setting and/or the author's worldview - may or may not be the same person/thing), and residing in FireAndBrimstoneHell (or [[{{Hell}} the real deal]]). There may or may not be [[{{Heaven}} heavenly]] [[GoodCounterpart equivalents]], and either one can be treated in a CrystalDragonJesus manner. Heck, if they're in a {{Hentai}} work, they may even have tentacles.

* The demons of ''Manga/{{Devilman}}'', led by Satan himself. They also showed up in a {{Crossover}} movie with ''Anime/MazingerZ''.

* The forces of Hell and Heaven seem more like rival sports teams than vicious enemies in ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'', but even so the demons can be nasty.'
* The Crimson Denizens in ''LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana''.
* In ''LightNovel/{{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.
* The Creator/DiC dub of ''Anime/SailorMoon'' lumped all of the show's villains and monsters from the first two seasons into a single evil force called the "Negaverse".
** In the original [[Manga/SailorMoon manga]], they were all forms of the GodOfEvil Chaos.

* The demons of ''{{Manga/Berserk}}'' are quite powerful, diverse and horrific. Every one of them were once humans who got hold of a [[ArtifactOfDoom Behelit]] and sold their souls and sacrificed those closest to them to the demonic gods of the Godhand in exchange for being reborn as demons. The Godhand themselves are servants of [[spoiler:[[GodIsEvil the Idea of Evil]], a quite evil God that governs the Berserk universe and manipulates events so that behelits get passed down to those destined to use them so that more demons and members of the Godhand get created]]. Needless to say, ''{{Manga/Berserk}}'''s world is every bit a [[CrapsackWorld crappy place to live]].
** The worst part? [[spoiler:The Idea of Evil only exists because humanity subconsciously ''[[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve wants]]'' it to exist. Apparently having demons to blame for your suffering is preferable to accepting that your pain is [[NeverMyFault your fault]] or worse, [[InherentInTheSystem no one's fault at all]].]]
* No two Orphans from ''Anime/MyHime'' are alike, and their presence is made even more eerie once the characters (and the viewers) realize where (and who) they're coming from.

* The Youma Empire of ''Anime/{{Raideen}}''
* The Guze no Tomogara (Denizens of the Crimson Realm in the dub) and their Rinne servants from ''LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana''.
* ''Anime/RoninWarriors'' had Talpa's Dynasty Soldiers, a seemingly endless supply of FacelessGoons.

* The Lucifer Hawke/Lucifer Folk from ''Manga/SilentMobius''.
* The Invaders from ''VideoGame/GateKeepers'' and ''Anime/GateKeepers21''.
* The Arigami from ''Manga/BlueSeed''.
* Thoroughly subverted by ''Anime/BakuenCampusGuardress''.
* Even more thoroughly subverted by ''Manga/HyperPolice'', in which the invasion is long over and the demons are a normal part of the landscape (to the point where humans are a rare and protected species).

* In Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} story ''Comicbook/DemonSpawn'' the Innerverse -a PocketDimension spawned by Supergirl's dark side- is inhabited by legions of misshapen demons.

* In ''Comicbook/{{Lucifer}}'' a damned but repentent human soul, Christopher Rudd becomes the MessianicArchetype of Hell, and leads the demons and the damned together against the Lilim attempting to conquer the Silver City...and conquer it themselves as revenge for the injustice of allowing Hell to exist.
* In ''ComicBook/GodzillaInHell'', they have to contend with the King of the Monsters. However, they do have King Ghidorah on their side.
* ''{{ComicBook/Hellboy}}'' has the Legions awaiting for Hellboy to lead them to destroy the world. Unfortunately for them, Hellboy was RaisedByHumans and (repeatedly) tells them to piss off.
* Averted in ''{{ComicBook/Preacher}}'', where Hell appears in only one arc, and even then we only see a few devils complain of the cold (a man who felt such hatred that it froze Hell over, and ended up shooting the Devil over an insult). Heaven's armies get a lot more screentime, [[CurbstompBattle if equally dangerous.]]
* ''ComicBook/BlackMoonChronicles'': The demons of hell are summoned in battle by Haazheel Thorn [[spoiler:and sent by Lucifer to TakeOverTheWorld after {{God}} is out of the picture]].

* In the Creator/CliveBarker novella ''Literature/TheHellboundHeart'', the FilmOfTheBook ''Film/{{Hellraiser}}'' and an ExpandedUniverse [[Franchise/{{Hellraiser}} based on the latter]], the Legions of Hell are the Cenobites (a word originally meaning simply monks in monastic orders, as distinct from "eremites" or hermit monks). Hell is not a place for punishment of sins as such: souls are lured there simply by the temptation of solving puzzles.
** Barker would later publish ''Literature/TheScarletGospels'' which expands that the Cenobites as a part of The Order of the Gash are only a small part of multiple factions of Hell. This book relates in description to the incarnation in ''Film/{{Hellraiser}}'' but also limits how much it expands the mythology, leaving room for the possibilities of changes as far who makes up the Legions of Hell between the two books.
* In Creator/PoulAnderson's ''Literature/OperationChaos'', the characters end up storming Hell and facing down the legions to recover their daughter.
* In Creator/RobertAHeinlein's ''Literature/MagicInc'', the characters demand of the king of Hell, according to Hell's customs, that he let them inspect his legions looking for their enemy.

* Terry Brooks' ''Literature/TheWordAndTheVoid'' novels:
** The "feeders" ''almost'' fit the trope. Though they're dark and oozy and scary, they aren't very dangerous; they're more harbingers of evil than evil itself.
** There are actual demons in that series, the servants of a being called the Void, but there aren't really enough of them to call a "legion" (and they seem to have a hard time working with each other anyway). The highest number of demons ever seen together was ''four'', and that was an explicitly unusual case.
* ''Literature/ForestKingdom'': The demons that swarm out of the Darkwood in book 1 (''Blue Moon Rising''), [[spoiler: although without the Demon Prince's influence they're just random monsters. Book 4 (''Beyond the Blue Moon'') later subverts it when it's revealed the demons are actually humans transformed into murderous monsters.]]

* ''Literature/TheBelgariad'' and ''Literature/TheMalloreon'' feature demons as a one-shot problem in the former, and a serious threat in the latter. The series makes a point of stating that even a [[{{Mook}} normal]] Demon can't be fought without sorcery, another Demon, or the aid of a God; one of the antagonists is able to usurp control of an entire country just by threatening to unleash his hordes of Demons. Naturally the two [[DemonLordsAndArchDevils Demon Lords]] who put in an appearance later are just shy of indestructible.
* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' delivers in its usual fantasy-kitchen-sink fashion. Demons, Fallen Angels, the Devil, and all other shades of Hell exist, alongside all of Heaven, and the Nevernever, with the Fae, who's BlueAndOrangeMorality isn't evil per se but is often fairly destructive.
** Earlier in the series, Demons had more of a presence in the story, temptations and all, but their place was usurped by the Fae. Lately, only the "Nickleheads" (Fallen Angels with mortal hosts) have made much of a presence for the Down-Below team.
** A big point of the series is that while Good and Evil are real, a lot more to life takes place in the grey, orange, and blue. Being a good person is about always working hard at doing the right thing and being clever about it, not necessarily fighting those Legions of Hell. That said, good, strong people also fight Evil. It's just one of the things they do.
** There's also the Outsiders, who are explicitly not associated with the Down Below, but tend towards AlwaysChaoticEvil, and have as their goal [[spoiler: the destruction of reality. They also have hordes, legions and legions of them, trying to break into reality constantly.]]
* The Legions of Hell 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'' the Legions of Hell you start getting ''really'' [[EldritchAbomination bad things]].
* ''Literature/WolfInShadow'' by Creator/DavidGemmell has the Hellborn. Even though they are humans, they are Satan-worshippers and explicitly model themselves after this trope.
* Literature/TheOtherworldSeries has the demonic armies of the Subterranean Realms.

* During ''[[Literature/HomecomingDrizzt Homecoming]]'', with the weakening of the Faerzress, the magical radiation barrier of the Underdark, all sorts of demons and demon lords start to pop up in the cave systems. The only way to get rid of them is killing them --and so banishing them from the material plane for a hundred years.
* Creator/IsaacAsimov's "Literature/GimmicksThree": Shapur says that hell has plenty of common damned souls, but their ratio of demon to damned is growing too high, so they're offering a discount DealWithTheDevil.
* Sarah Kuhn's ''Heroine'' trilogy had a complete disaster of an invasion from Hell. The spell the demons you used was botched, so almost all the invading demons were killed at its casting leading to [[MassSuperEmpoweringEvent their powers being absorbed by humans near the opening gate.]] Even without the miscasting, the invasion would have just been a nuisance - the demons barely knew a thing about humans so their army only included one demon with a major power, everyone else had [[BlessedWithSuck garbage minor abilities.]] Still a demon gate resulted and every so often a demonic animal comes to possess an inanimate object and annoy people.

* ''Series/{{Brimstone}}'' was about a damned soul who made a [[DealWithTheDevil deal with]] [[{{Satan}} The Devil]] to get out of Hell, if he recaptured a set of other damned souls who had escaped.

* In the TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness RPG ''TabletopGame/DemonTheFallen'', demons that escaped from Hell are the player characters; the angels have long since vanished. Whether the demons are {{antihero}}es or [[TheAtoner atoners]] is up to the player. Their former allies have become the Earthbound, who have gone mad from indeterminate amounts of time being SealedEvilInACan.
** Similarly, the Spectres fulfill this role in ''TabletopGame/WraithTheOblivion'', with the Malfeans being the overlords waiting til they get to eat reality. The various servants of the Wyrm in ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'' might also count.
** The TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness has, as of ''Inferno'', introduced Hell into the setting. Hell plays host to a number of demons that are born of the first fleeting moments of human wickedness, who occasionally come to humans and offer them great power for a little price... For extra fun, ghosts and 'regular' spirits can be corrupted into demons too.
** The [=nWOD's=] ''TabletopGame/DemonTheDescent'' is a subversion - the [=PCs=] are fallen angels, but Hell is their ''goal'', not their home. Hell is a symbol to them, signifying freedom from their former master, the God-Machine, however they choose to go about it.
* One of the main factions in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' is Chaos, spewing forth from the Eye of Terror: a rift in spacetime that allows access to the [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace Warp]], a nightmare realm made of the emotions and thoughts of the entirety of sapient life in the galaxy.
** Chaos comes in four 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]]. You have scores of [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized traitor guardsmen]] and [[TheDogBitesBack mistreated Imperial citizens]] who are so fed up with the Imperium's bullshit that they willingly pledge their allegiance to the Ruinous Powers en masse. 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.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}} Fantasy'' also includes Chaos as a faction. While it does possess a lot of daemons made up of pure magic straight from the Realm of Chaos (ranging from human-level lesser daemons to OneManArmy greater daemons), the bulk of the Chaos army is [[TheCorruption tainted mortal warriors]] and twisted [[BeastMan Beastmen]], all sweeping down from the GrimUpNorth and corrupted forests. The Beastmen are [[BarbarianTribe savage Iron Age tribes]] of mutants that resemble [[FaunsAndSatyrs satyrs, fauns, and minotaurs]], and are considered the lowest CannonFodder of the Chaos ranks. The human followers of Chaos, collectively referred to as Northmen, mainly consist of two ethnic groups: Norscans (barbaric HornyVikings) and Kurgan ([[BornInTheSaddle Turkic/Iranic style steppe nomads]]); a third group, the vaguely Tungusic Hung, [[HufflepuffHouse mostly exist offscreen]]. The Northmen's ranks are complemented by mutated animals, fantastical beasts (such as giants and trolls), and the Chaos Warriors, who are anointed mortals (often chieftains or sub-chieftains of various tribes) who have been "blessed" for their service with increased size and strength (averaging around seven feet tall), a [[TwentyFourHourArmor suit of iron or steel plate that they can never remove]], [[TheNeedless lack of need for food or rest,]] and often various mutations. Less prominent than the humans but still quite important are the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Chaos Dwarfs,]] who are notably the only Chaos faction with industry. The [[OurElvesAreDifferent Dark Elves]] have also allied with Chaos where convenient, most notably during the Great War Against Chaos and in the Storm of Chaos.
* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' has three main varieties. The LawfulEvil devils from the Nine Hells of Baator field ruthlessly-disciplined armies out to subjugate the universe, the ChaoticEvil demons spill out of the Abyss in screaming hordes that try to tear down all of creation, while the NeutralEvil daemons, or Yugoloths, fight for whoever makes the best offer. Fortunately for everyone else, these three groups have been engaged in a conflict called [[EvilVersusEvil the Blood War]] since time immemorial - the demons' advantage of numbers is matched by the devils' superior strategy and tactics, and whenever one side gets an advantage, some third party (frequently the Yugoloths) takes steps to restore the balance of power.

* Like the [=WoD=] example above, another TabletopGame, ''TabletopGame/InNomine'', gave players a chance to enact this trope as demons operating on Earth. Unlike the above example, however, it gave an equal chance to fight for the other side, too.
** Well, not so equal, because Angels have higher stats, and a military organization to support them. Demons have to work undercover and are more weak. The reason? All of this is a Game, and God is a cheater...

* One of the stories in ''TabletopGame/{{Rifts}}'' is the "Minion War", a war between two separate Legions of Hell: The Demon of Hades, and the Deevils of Dyval. It's beginning to spill over into other dimensions.

* In ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}'', the manitou[[note]]a Native American name; Native Americans are generally prominent in the setting[[/note]] are responsible for creating... well, technically every single ghoulie and monster in the setting. They also fuel the spells of Hucksters, are the ultimate cause behind the ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder of the Mad Scientist "class", and [[spoiler: are the secret source behind the [[AppliedPhlebotinum ghost rock]] that drives the CattlePunk of the setting]]. The manitou's efforts occasionally bite them on the ass; most prominently, while many corpses possessed by a manitou rise up as [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Walkin' Dead]], a rare few instead become the Harrowed, which are intelligent zombies, with the manitou constantly struggling with the original personality for control over the body, who can and often do use their supernatural powers to battle the manitou's purpose.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Iron Kingdoms}}'' has the Grymkin who are an army from the areas of Urcaen not controlled by any god and is considered as Hell in the Iron Kingdoms. They are led by the Defiers demigod-like beings that can warp reality to a limited extent and the souls of sinners turned to monsters that represent their sins from various legends as well as 'Nightmares' which are warbeasts created by them. They are not exactly evil as they come to punish the wicked and indirectly save the world from the Infernals but are described as a poison that will hopefully remove the parasites(Infernalists) before killing the patient(The world).
** The Infernals is also mentioned to be quite similar although they are yet to invade Caen in large numbers. They create contracts with Humans and give them various powers and abilities in return for souls. The souls are used to create demonic monsters to fight their wars in their own realm or collect souls marked for them. If a person's soul is sold to infernals then he cannot entire the afterlife as Gods hate the Infernals and have closed Urcaen completely to them and and souls with their mark.

* Red Spire Press's D20 game ''Dark Legacies'' has a far future Earth suffer both a dimensional migration of low-tech races and then an invasion by demons. If it weren't for a rising religious order with holy magic and alliances with some of these new races, the demons would have completely wiped out humanity. As it is, despite being thousands of years in the future, humans have been reduced to steam tech and crossbows as the height of technology.

* 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", with the closest thing we see in the original trilogy being the Icon of Sin. ''VideoGame/Doom2016'' establishes that there have been multiple leaders of Hell over the eons (generally just the biggest, baddest demon around), but the ''original'' Dark Lord of Hell and his identity have only been explored in ''VideoGame/DoomEternal'''s DLC (in which he is briefly called "the Devil" but not "Satan").

* 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. Overlaps with AlienInvasion due to the ScienceFantasy nature of the franchise.
* A important chunck of backstory for all ''VideoGame/OgreBattle'' games was once that the Underworld's armies of Demons, Ogres and other such nasties invaded Earth, who were aided by Heaven's armies in the titular "Ogre Battle". The Underworld lost, but parts of the legions can still be summoned by humans. They are often very important plot point, like in ''VideoGame/OgreBattleTheMarchOfTheBlackQueen'', where [[BigBad Rashidi]] contacts a General of said Legion, [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils Galf]] or in ''Videogame/OgreBattle64'' is a bunch of Ogres being summoned by [[spoiler: The Holy Lodis Empire]]. However, in battle, you can persuade some of them to join you!

* ''VideoGame/{{Painkiller}}'' is about the legions of Hell invading another world, although it's another afterlife instead of a physical world. Purgatory, to be specific.
* In ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights: Hordes of the Underdark'', Mephistopheles forms his army from the souls of betrayers sent to his realm after death

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyII'' outright stated at the beginning that the [[TheEmperor Emperor]] of Palamecia summons these to launch his campaign for [[TakeOverTheWorld world conquest]].
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' has the denizens of the Void, a dimension that is home to all manner of monstrous creatures and [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]]. Also hailing from the Void are the Ascians, humanoid-appearing beings who have dark plans for the realm of Eorzea. [[spoiler:The trope is later played with when the "Void" is revealed to be one of the thirteen alternate realities of the world of Hydaelyn, albeit one where the powers of darkness grew too strong and resulted in the world's ruin.]]
* Members of the Legions of Hell 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.]]
* In [[VideoGame/DevilMayCry Devil May Cry]], Dante foils demonic puppets, demonic sand creatures, demonic clowns, demonic businessmen, demonic cultists, etc.

* The Darkspawn of ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' are a kind of [[OurOrcsAreDifferent plague Orcs]]. The Chantry's version of the Darkspawn taint's origin makes the Darkspawn seem demonic - they were overambitious mages who tried to physically break into DreamLand and find the mysterious Golden City at its heart, which the Chantry believes to be the home of the setting's God. It spat them back out as twisted monsters who started a centuries-long cycle of pain. The sequel's ''Legacy'' DLC reveals there's some truth to this, although the City may have been "corrupt" before they got there.
** The game does feature actual demons as well, which are evil spirits from the Fade that possess the living or dead bodies of human beings, usually a mage due to their ability to go to the Fade in the first place, and feed upon the psychic energies of living beings. There are [[SortingAlgorithmOfEvil five known ranks of demons]]; Rage, Hunger, Sloth, Desire and Pride, in order both of strength and intelligence of the complexity of the emotion they are feeding on. Destroying the host only sends the demon [[FightingAShadow back to whence it came unharmed]], and though some demons are able to manifest in the physical world alone, killing them seems to have the same effect. Their hosts usually mutate when possessed into a HumanoidAbomination of varying degrees of BodyHorror. Demons are rarer than Darkspawn, but are broadly smarter, stronger and more dangerous. In a twist on this there are actually good or neutral spirits with little or no interest in mortals, one of which possesses a corpse totally by accident in the expansion. According to him the idea that demons destroyed in the real world return to the fade is false, and he never does find a way to get home.
* In ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'', [[spoiler:this is the "Hidden Fun Stuff" that you come across if you [[DugTooDeep dig too deep]].]]
** [[spoiler:You have discovered an eerie cavern. The air above the dark stone floor is alive with vortices of purple light and dark, boiling clouds. Seemingly bottomless glowing pits mark the surface.]]
** [[spoiler:Horrifying screams come from the darkness below!]]
*** When this happens, it is usually the end of your fortress. Of course, this being ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'', you could just [[spoiler:massacre said legion and ''[[http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=65024.0 build a fucking colony in their house.]]'']]
* The [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Legions of the Damned]] are one of the playable factions in the ''VideoGame/{{Disciples}}'' turn-based strategy series. Their leader, Bethrezen, is given a somewhat sympathetic backstory, but the Legion's {{Mooks}} are unquestionably the nastiest faction in the game.
* The Bydo in ''VideoGame/RType'' are arguably this, even though they were created ''by'' humanity. Thing is, they were locked into ''a pocket dimension'' (read: the future Hell) after they proved to have GoneHorriblyRight, and they were able to use it as a staging ground to attack humanity several centuries into the past. Now consider that there isn't all that much reason--at least, nothing mentioned in-game--to believe they would have restricted themselves to just the ''recent'' past...
* In ''VideoGame/{{Bujingai}}'', the earth is overrun with demons of various kind. It's implied that their mooks (seen as golem-like warriors with seals and swords) were once humans turned into monsters by a strange radiation.

* ''VideoGame/AncientDomainsOfMystery'' has the Forces of Chaos, an endless amount of [[EldritchAbomination reality-defying horrific beings]] from another dimension. They are invading the world of Ancardia, the setting of the game. They have TheCorruption on their side, turning normal people and animals into more of them (after some BodyHorror).
* The primary enemies in ''VideoGame/KidIcarus'' and ''VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising'' are the Underworld Army, a diverse assortment of monsters who serve Medusa [[spoiler:and Hades]].
* VideoGame/AvencastRiseOfTheMage sees a daemon invasion into the WizardingSchool setting, followed by a counterassault on [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils Morgath's]] turf.

* ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'' has a mess of rather varied demons roaming throughout Lordran, although they are fairly new to the scene, having only come about when the Age Of Fire started to decline and the Witch Of Izalith tried to recreate the First Flame. Her old base of Lost Izalith has since become a textbook FireAndBrimstoneHell, and her seven daughters have either died, gone mad or turned into similarly demonic, [[VolcanicVeins lava infused]] SpiderPeople.
** Interestingly, by [[VideoGame/DarkSoulsII the sequel]] that race of demons seems to have died out eventually after Izalith's death. The few demons that appear there were [[WasOnceAMan humans that succumbed to their vices]], and are by no means a legion.
** ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsIII'' confirms that the Chaos Demons of Izalith did indeed perish, since the Flame of Chaos that birthed them is down to its very last embers. You meet (and kill) a tiny handful of ancient, decrepit survivors, and it's implied that with their deaths the demons are truly extinct.
* ''VideoGame/QuestForGloryIII'' features an attempted invasion of demons that the hero must thwart. They are led by a [[TheDragon Demon Wizard]] who itself serves a [[DimensionLord Demon Lord]] that, if it manages to enter the world, immediately destroys it through its mere presence.

* The primary villains of ''VideoGame/NexusClash'' are demons from the hellish plane of Stygia. Since every Demon in Nexus games is a PlayerCharacter, there is a twist in that Stygia isn't all that popular a place to set up in the eyes of the MetaGame. This means that with a couple of exceptions, most Legions tend to steer clear of their actual Hell plane in favor of fighting for a HellOnEarth scenario.
* The monsters of ''VideoGame/GloryOfHeraclesIII'' come out of the Underworld through giant holes that form in the world.
* ''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. As such, their planet-killing flagship in the first game is classified as the ''Lucifer'', and the even bigger and badder juggernaut-class warship in the second is designated the ''Sathanas''. Being utterly alien, seemingly infinite in number, and apparently existing only to exterminate advanced civilization everywhere, the monikers fit.

* The Dimension of Pain from ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' fits this trope to a T, complete with being the launching pad for a [[DemonicInvaders demonic invasion]] of [[AnotherDimension another, more peaceful dimension]]. Little is seen of the actual ''Hell'', however, and even then it only appears in the [[BSideComics B Side Comic]].
* Demons are trying to open a gateway into the world in ''Webcomic/PlanesOfEldlor''. Seeing as they are described as having an army at the ready, they are probably not looking to enter peacefully.

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

* Ghosts, demons and dark gods in ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'' (and ''WesternAnimation/ExtremeGhostbusters'') come from various places, sometimes other dimensions. The Ghostbusters [[SealedEvilInACan capture them and put them into their "Containment Unit."]] Over the years, the Containment Unit's inner environment has become a type of Hell due to its growing number of inhabitants. Having to journey into the Containment Unit and battle old foes now teamed together, or the threat of the Containment Unit being broken open and bringing about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, are common plots.

* The Dark Spirits of Book 2 in ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' are portrayed as such, with BigBad Vaatu as their master and Unalaq as TheDragon. Like in ''Teen Titans'' they also help their master bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt and bring humans under Dark Spirit rule.
* Miseryville 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 it's obvious it's Hell, with all the monsters and demons. However, the people of Miseryville are generally a pretty decent lot (they just have crappy lives) and basically like ordinary humans in all but appearance.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}: The Beast With a Billion Backs'', Bender recruits an Army of the Damned from the Robot Devil to take over Earth. After every living being in the universe decides to move in with [[FluffyCloudHeaven Yivo]] instead, he leads the army in a {{pirate}}-themed [[RageAgainstTheHeavens attack on Yivo Shklerself]].

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}} Fantasy'' also includes Chaos as a faction. While it does possess a lot of daemons made up of pure magic straight from the Realm of Chaos (ranging from human-level lesser daemons to OneManArmy greater daemons), the bulk of the Chaos army is [[TheCorruption tainted mortal warriors]] and twisted [[BeastMan Beastmen]], all sweeping down from the GrimUpNorth and corrupted forests. The Beastmen are [[BarbarianTribe savage Iron Age tribes]] of mutants that resemble [[FaunsAndSatyrs satyrs, fauns, and minotaurs]], and are considered the lowest CannonFodder of the Chaos ranks. The human followers of Chaos, collectively referred to as Northmen, mainly consist of two ethnic groups: Norscans (barbaric HornyVikings) and Kurgan ([[BornInTheSaddle Turkic/Iranic style steppe nomads]]; a third group, the Hung, [[HufflepuffHouse mostly exist offscreen]]. Their ranks are complemented by mutated animals, fantastical beasts (such as giants and trolls), and the Chaos Warriors, who are anointed mortals (often chieftains or sub-chieftains of various tribes) who have been "blessed" for their service with increased size and strength (averaging around seven feet tall), a [[24HourArmor suit of iron or steel plate that they can never remove]], [[TheNeedless lack of need for food or rest,]] and often various mutations. Less prominent than the humans but still quite important are the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Chaos Dwarfs,]] who are notably the only Chaos faction with industry. The [[OurElvesAreDifferent Dark Elves]] have also allied with Chaos where convenient, most notably during the Great War Against Chaos and in the Storm of Chaos.

** The older ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}} Fantasy Battle'' game also includes Chaos as a faction, with the same lineup of evil gods. In addition to DemonicInvaders, the Chaos army also includes [[TheCorruption tainted mortal warriors]] and twisted beastmen, all sweeping down from the GrimUpNorth and corrupted forests.

* The dead villains from ''Manga/DragonBall'' and ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' were shown in hell from time to time. Due to censorship issues at the time, any time in the dub the word "HELL" was on a uniform or on the wall, it was edited to "HFIL" or "Home For Infinite Losers." This is the subject of amusement and/or eyerolling among fans.