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[[caption-width-right:356:[[{{Ubermensch}} He has no limits...]] [[BlueAndOrangeMorality He does not.]]]]
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** Jimmy is so bad at karate he estimates it'd take 350 years to learn a simple roundhouse kick. 350 years later, he hits [[spoiler: Hunter]] with a perfect roundhouse kick.
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In fact, dying just seems to put him in one strange situation after another, until he finally comes to the realization that he is a ''demon'' - a being who can possess others simply by dying near them. And it's not long before he finds himself chased by shady government agents who would like nothing more than to use his powers to further their own agenda.
With his sharp wits and lack of moral compass, Jimmy Yee has no limits... He does not. And there is nothing he cannot - ''will'' not - do to achieve his goals...
With his sharp wits and lack of moral compass, Jimmy Yee has no limits... He does not. And there is nothing he cannot - ''will'' not - do to achieve his goals...
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In fact, dying just seems to put him in one strange situation after another, until he finally comes to the realization that he is a ''demon'' - -- a being who can possess others simply by dying near them. And it's not long before he finds himself chased by shady government agents who would like nothing more than to use his powers to further their own agenda.
With his sharp wits and lack of moral compass, Jimmy Yee has no limits... He does not. And there is nothing he cannot- -- ''will'' not - -- do to achieve his goals...
With his sharp wits and lack of moral compass, Jimmy Yee has no limits... He does not. And there is nothing he cannot
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-> ''"I am a demon."''
''[[http://shigabooks.com/ Demon]]'' is a {{webcomic}} by Creator/JasonShiga, author of ''ComicStrip/{{Fleep}}''.
''[[http://shigabooks.com/ Demon]]'' is a {{webcomic}} by Creator/JasonShiga, author of ''ComicStrip/{{Fleep}}''.
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* WritersCannotDoMath: Usually averted, as Jason Shiga is actually very good at math, and math-based reasoning tends to play a crucial role in many of his works. But some of the dates mentioned in ''Demon'' don't add up. For instance, in volume 1, a woman born in 1985 is 23 years old, which makes the "current" year 2008. Not long after, Jimmy is stated to be 44, which means he was born in 1964. Later, his dad is said to have been born in 1951. While it's not impossible, it's highly doubtful that Jimmy's dad had him at age 13.
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* WritersCannotDoMath: Usually averted, as Jason Shiga is actually very good at math, and math-based reasoning tends to play a crucial role in many of his works. But some of the dates mentioned in ''Demon'' don't add up. For instance, in volume 1, a woman born in 1985 is 23 years old, which makes the "current" year 2008. Not long after, Jimmy is stated to be 44, which means he was born in 1964. Later, his dad is said to have been born in 1951. While it's not impossible, it's highly doubtful that Jimmy's dad had him at age 13.13.
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'''Warning: Slowly revealing information is a fundamental part of this comic. Anything below this might be considered a "spoiler".'''
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A backup of the comic can be found [[https://archive.org/details/demon_202106 here]]
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** The truck Jimmy jumps in front of in the first chapter is a [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} red, cabover freightliner with a grey trailer]].
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* AlternateHistory: ''Demon'' begins in the past relative to when it was published[[labelnote:*]]Volume 1 was published in 2014, and a character born in 1985 is 23 years old, which means that volume takes place in 2008.[[/labelnote]], but even at that point, a few details imply that the world of ''Demon'' isn't our own. A news station mentions a Disney movie called ''The Princess and the Pea'' hitting the box office recently. A character says that the 1978 documentary ''Scared Straight!'' was filmed at an "ADX supermax in Colorado" (most likely referring to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADX_Florence ADX Florence]]); in real life, it was filmed in Rahway State Prison (now [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Jersey_State_Prison East Jersey State Prison]]), in New Jersey. The most glaring detail, of course, is the existence of the OSS, which in real life was dissolved in 1945. (See GovernmentAgencyOfFiction below.)
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** [[spoiler: In chapter 17, Jimmy admits it's probably the third.]]
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** [[spoiler: In chapter 17, Jimmy admits it's probably the third.]]]]
* WritersCannotDoMath: Usually averted, as Jason Shiga is actually very good at math, and math-based reasoning tends to play a crucial role in many of his works. But some of the dates mentioned in ''Demon'' don't add up. For instance, in volume 1, a woman born in 1985 is 23 years old, which makes the "current" year 2008. Not long after, Jimmy is stated to be 44, which means he was born in 1964. Later, his dad is said to have been born in 1951. While it's not impossible, it's highly doubtful that Jimmy's dad had him at age 13.
* WritersCannotDoMath: Usually averted, as Jason Shiga is actually very good at math, and math-based reasoning tends to play a crucial role in many of his works. But some of the dates mentioned in ''Demon'' don't add up. For instance, in volume 1, a woman born in 1985 is 23 years old, which makes the "current" year 2008. Not long after, Jimmy is stated to be 44, which means he was born in 1964. Later, his dad is said to have been born in 1951. While it's not impossible, it's highly doubtful that Jimmy's dad had him at age 13.
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* HateSink: Jimmy is not a likable or sympathetic protagonist in any sense of the word. His goals are completely selfish and he has no qualms with burning through hundreds (if not thousands) of innocent lives if it means fulfilling them. [[HeroicComedicSociopath A lot of the comedy stems from his extreme callousness and indifference to the destruction his actions cause]].
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* DrivenToSuicide: Jimmy commits suicide rather than face life in prison after bungling a robbery [[spoiler: that was supposed to get him into the same prison as Heron Marsh so he could kill him in revenge for the death of his family]]. [[CaptainObvious It doesn't stick.]]
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* DrivenToSuicide: Jimmy commits suicide rather than face life in prison after bungling a robbery [[spoiler: that was supposed to get him into the same prison as Heron Marsh so he could kill him in revenge for the death of his family]]. [[CaptainObvious It doesn't stick.]]
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* WhamShot: [[spoiler: At the end of chapter 7, Jimmy discovers that his daughter, Sweetpea, is a demon, and has been living in Heron Marsh's body for several months.]]
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* WhamLine: [[spoiler: "I can't believe it! Another demon!!! After 217 years, it can finally end..." ''BLAM! FLUMP!'']]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: In volume 2, [[spoiler: the truck driver responsible for the accident that killed Jimmy's family survived the crash, but apparently received brain damage -- his reading level is mentioned to have been reduced to that of an eighth-grader. Turns out this is because Sweetpea took over his body.]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: In volume 2, [[spoiler: the truck driver responsible for the accident that killed Jimmy's family survived the crash, but apparently received brain damage -- his reading level is mentioned to have been reduced to that of an eighth-grader.third-grader. Turns out this is because Sweetpea took over his body.]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: In volume 2, [[spoiler: the truck driver responsible for the accident that killed Jimmy's family survived the crash, but apparently received brain damage -- his reading level is mentioned to have been reduced to that of an eighth-grader. Turns out this is because Sweetpea took over his body.]]
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* BrickJoke: Hunter has his agents look into Jimmy's childhood aspirations in case it gives them a lead -- if Jimmy dreamed of being an astronaut, for instance, they could stake out the homes of the crew scheduled for the next launch. But as far as they can tell, Jimmy never dreamed of being anything but an actuary. [[spoiler: Later, once the entire organization is wiped out and Jimmy is free to live as he pleases, he muses that he always wanted to be an astronaut.]]
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* StartsWithASuicide: Jimmy hangs himself on the very first page. The fact that it doesn't stick kick-starts the entire plot.
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* ModernStasis: Despite several time jumps, the only visible advances in technology are electric cars and extremely tall buildings.
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* OhCrap: Jimmy and Sweetpea have a downplayed version of this reaction [[spoiler:after they realize the full ramifications of demonizing the earth.]]
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* TheEndOrIsIt: [[spoiler: After thwarting Project Azazel by demonizing the world, Jimmy begins to theorize that there is another way to switch can bodies: being a good person for thirty three days. And now that everyone on earth is a demon, the ramifications of this are potentially even more catastrophic than Project Azazel.]]
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* CrazyPrepared: Pretty much OSS's hat, and by extension Hunter's. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, they have a Wile E. Coyote-like tendency to overlook glaring flaws in their clever defense mechanisms. An hour-long secure exit protocol seems like a clever idea until you have only minutes to escape thanks to a rogue demon with a hijacked fighter plane...]]
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* ExpendableAlternateUniverse: [[spoiler: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]. Sweetpea figures out how to make a possession across ''parallel universes,'' effectively abandoning her "home" universe in order to infiltrate Hunter's compound with the help of her own doppelganger.]]
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* ExpendableAlternateUniverse: [[spoiler: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]. Sweetpea figures out how to make a possession across ''parallel universes,'' effectively abandoning her "home" universe in order to infiltrate Hunter's compound with the help of her own doppelganger.]]
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* MacGyvering: Another Shiga standby, taken to its most horrible extremes when [[spoiler:Jimmy is in the body of a naked prison inmate in a bare cell.]]
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* MacGyvering: Another Shiga standby, taken to its most horrible extremes when [[spoiler:Jimmy [[spoiler: Jimmy is in the body of a naked prison inmate in a bare cell.]]
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* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Hard to say if it's the demonizing process, a sudden feeling of invincibility or just natural jerkassiness.
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* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Hard to say if it's the demonizing process, a sudden feeling of invincibility invincibility, or just natural jerkassiness.jerkassiness.
** [[spoiler: In chapter 17, Jimmy admits it's probably the third.]]
** [[spoiler: In chapter 17, Jimmy admits it's probably the third.]]
