History WesternAnimation / LittleDemon

''Little Demon'' is an adult animated series created by Darcy Fowler, Seth Kirschner, and Kieran Valla. The series stars Creator/AubreyPlaza, Lucy [=DeVito=], and Creator/DannyDeVito, all of whom also executive produce along with Creator/DanHarmon.

The series premiered on [[Creator/FXNetworks FXX]] on August 25, 2022.

* VerySpecialEpisode: The A Plot of "The Antichrist's Monster" focuses on Chrissy discovering that Bennigan is very [[WeightWoe self-conscious about his weight]] and regularly engages in purging behavior. Her attempts to help him, only make him feel worse about himself and he refuses to talk to her afterward. The episode closes out with a message for the National Eating Disorders Hotline.

The series focuses on a young girl named Chrissy (the younger [=DeVito=]), whose ordinary life is changed forever when her mother Laura (Plaza), reveals that her biological father just happens to be TheDevil (the senior [=DeVito=]). Now on top of the trials of puberty, Chrissy must deal with her awakening Antichrist powers and her parents waging a supernatural war for custody over her.

* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Lampshaded, when Laura hears the teacher who supposedly slept with Bennigan has returned to her job, she remarks that "this country doesn't care about lady pedos", though the teacher was actually innocent.

The series focuses on a young girl named Chrissy (the younger [=DeVito=]), whose ordinary life is changed forever when her mother Laura (Plaza), reveals that her biological father just happens to be TheDevil (the senior [=DeVito=]). Now on top of the trials of puberty, Chrissy must deal with her awakening Antichrist powers and her parents waging supernatural war for custody over her.

* ActorAllusion: [[Recap/LittleDemonS01E03EverybodysDyingForTheWeekend Episode 3]], which guest stars Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger, has a two-fer:

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:In the first season finale, Chrissy reconciles with her mother and Bennigan forgives her, but she has a strained relationship with her half-siblings for killing one of them by accident. Meanwhile, Bennigan is now working for the angels to keep an eye on Chrissy.]]

* DealWithTheDevil: Asmodeus made one with Satan. He gave him everything he had--his wife, his children, his services, all his land--in exchange for being at Satan's side during Maximus Dawnus. Satan, of course, double-crosses him and reveals that he killed his wife and kids [[ForTheEvulz just for the evulz.]] He's understandably pissed, and tries to pull a [[FaustianRebellion Faustian rebellion.]] [[ButtMonkey Which also doesn't go well]].

* FantasticallyIndifferent: Chrissy's status as the antichrist, the supernatural weirdness it creates and the bodies it leaves behind in its wake doesn't seem to ring that many alarms to the simple townsfolk around them. The only exception to this is the Vatican and the demon hunters they sent, and after the first episode the only hunter left is more concerned with getting revenge for Satan shooting his dick off than the end of the world.

* AHellOfATime: [[spoiler:Having been kicked out of Hell]], Satan keeps his power up by making deals for souls with mortals, keeping them all in his "soul hole." There, the souls live out their hearts desire as freedom without limits. The only problem is that "without limits" means that souls that want to kill people are allowed to kill other souls, letting the regenerate later to be killed again. Chrissy calls this out for the loaded deal that it is, even if she comes to see that it isn't the ''worst'' option to have.
* HeroAntagonist: In episode one, Chrissy is targeted by a group of demon hunting mercenaries hired by the Pope to stop Maximus Dawnus.

* PuppeteerParasite: The dancers at the "Realm of Realms" are controlled by some kind of parasites (likely created and/or deployed by the host, queen Inichoochiama, whose [[InsectoidAliens insectoid humanoid]] features resemble these parasites) and seem to be conscious and in torment while their bodies are being pupeteered.

** In the B plot of "[[Recap/LittleDemonS01E04PopularityOriginOfEvil Popularity: Origin of Evil]]", in order to make Bennigan popular, Satan starts a rumor about [[TeacherStudentRomance him sleeping with one of the female teachers at his school]]. The result? Not only does the plan backfire horribly, but the teacher ends up being wrongfully fired and arrested for alleged child molestation.

** Laura warns Chrissy that using her demon powers will eat away at her soul, until she is something akin to “a really successful [=CEO=].”
** Laura admits that while moving 14 times in 8 years was to protect Chrissy, the reason they left Vermont was because she “could not deal with those fucking hippies.”

* VerySpecialEpisode: The A Plot of "The Antichrist's Monster" focuses on Chrissy discovering that Bennigan is very [[WeightWoe self-conscious about his weight]] and regularly engages in purging behavior. Her attempts to help him, only make him feel worse about himself and he refuses to talk to her afterwards. The episode closes out with a message for the National Eating Disorders Hotline.

* WeWantOurJerkBack: In "Night of the Leeches", Laura realizes that Chrissy is embarrassed by her because of her aggressive behavior and tries to fix this by apply anger leeches to herself to drain away all of her constant rage. At first, Chrissy is glad to have a "normal" mom, but soon finds that "normal" Laura is too passive to care for her or protect her from demons.

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:In the first season finale, Chrissy reconciles with her mother and Bennigan forgives her, but she has a restrained relationship with her half-siblings for killing one of her half-siblings by accident. However, Bennigan is now working for the angels to keep an eye on Chrissy.]]