The 60 & Other Demons
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Demonic Forces
George
George
Portrayed By: Marti Matulis (motion), Euan Morton (voice)
An Incubus-like demon who appears in Kristen's night terrors.
- Evil Brit: He speaks with an almost pleasant British accent.
- Imaginary Enemy: May be this to both Kristen and at least one of her daughters. He's only been seen in dreams and is a dead ringer for a character in a Show Within a Show horror web series. As of the end of the second season and into the third, he seems to be haunting Dr. Boggs as well.
- Laughably Evil: His pettiness and snarky personality lead to some funny moments, most notably him peeing on the floor after Kirsten says he isn't real.
- Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: It isn't determined whether he's truly a demon haunting people, or just the scary figure their minds come up with when they're experiencing nightmares or night terrors.
- Tom the Dark Lord: "George" is a mundane name for a Gothic-looking nightmare demon.
- Vocal Dissonance: For a horrific-looking demon, he sounds more like a British academic. The mismatch makes his actions very unsettling, even when he occasionally seems almost friendly.
The Goat Demon
The Goat Demon
Portrayed By: Marti Matulis (motion), Michael Cerveris (voice)
- Affably Evil: He might be a heart-eating demon, but he's polite, insightful and seems like a pretty good therapist. In his first scene, his behavior is almost indistinguishable from Dr. Boggs until he talks about devouring Kristen's heart, and even then, he does it in a hilariously casual way.
- Baphomet: In appearance.
- No Name Given: He's yet to be named on the show.
- Off with His Head!: Leland decapitates him and makes him into curry, which he serves to Sheryl, after the Goat Demon becomes too overbearing for his liking and threatens to report him to "the Manager".
- Vocal Dissonance: He's a towering demonic goat-man who talks about eating human hearts, but he has the smooth, pleasing and only subtly sinister voice of Michael Cerveris.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: He only made short and sporadic appearances before Leland kills him.
Abbey
Abbey
Portrayed By: Ciara Renée (voice), Ashley Edner (motion)
A Succubus-like demon who appears in Ben's night terrors.
- Flash Step: When Ben finally gains the ability to fight back against her, she demonstrates this ability, keeping out of range of his knife.
- Distaff Counterpart: She fulfills much the same role for Ben as George does for Kristen, being a demonic entity who may or may not be real. Personality-wise, she's more affable than George, proclaiming that she's on Ben's side.
- Imaginary Enemy: Possibly, since she's only been seen in Ben's dreams. Later he starts seeing her while awake.
- Implied Rape: Most of her visits to Ben are implied to involve some form of sexual assault.
- Laughably Evil: Much like George, she balances out horror and dark humor. Special note goes to her removing a retainer before going down on Ben.
- Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Unlike George, who merely inflicted horrifying injuries on Kristen, she sexually assaults Ben continuously while he is experiencing sleep paralysis.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When Ben learns Kristen's lucid-dreaming trick and is actually able to fight back, along with a mental image of David, she quickly high-tails it.
- Tom the Dark Lord: She's a terrifying succubus with a cheerleader's name.
Demon Kristen
Demon Kristen
Portrayed By: Katya Herbers (in disguise) and Marti Matulis (true form).
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A mosquito-like demon that appears to David in the guise of his colleague Kristen Bouchard, in order to seduce him.—-
- A Form You Are Comfortable With: She appears to David as Kristen, so that he can act out his sexual fantasies in his dreams without breaking his vows. Her real form is much more horrifying.
- Bed Trick: When Ben first sleeps with her, she pretends to be Kristen, who had just left the room. She's actually a malevolent demon of the same ilk as Abbey and George, just wearing a more pleasant disguise. Even after she is exposed, David is so pent up with sexual frustration that he ends up going along with it multiple times, and she keeps up the appearance.
- Imposter Forgot One Detail: Her abdomen lacks lacks Kristen's self-inflicted burn scars, which David saw just before the demon began impersonating her.
- Our Vampires Are Different: Of the psychic-vampire variety. Her true form appears as some sort of demonic mosquito in the eyes of Sister Andrea, and while David perceives himself as sleeping with it in Kristen's form, this is actually a demonically-induced dream, so that the demon can feed on his mind in the real-world.
- Red Right Hand: When appearing to David, apart from the lack of scars, the only indication she isn't Kristen in appearance is her Overly-Long Tongue, which is forked like a snake, and clearly not human.
The Manager
The Manager
Portrayed By: Uncredited
- A Form You Are Comfortable With: He appears as a human to most employees of the company, but is far from it.
- Aliens of London: He has a thick Brooklyn accent, which contrasts with his inhuman appearance.
- Celebrity Resemblance: His human form is described as resembling either Liam Neeson and Ted Danson.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: He heads a company that deliberately tries to destroy people's lives, takes bribes in the form of shortbread, and sexually harasses his employees.
- Crazy Consumption: He vomits acid on his food to dissolve it, before wolfing it down, like a fly would.
- Dirty Old Man: His voice and mannerisms give off this vibe.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: His demand that Sheryl scratch his back is treated like sexual extortion, as is his reaction when she goes through with it. The fact that he slaps her ass at the end of it just solidifies it.
- Evil Smells Bad: He smells positively vile, and Sheryl nearly wretches when she first meets him. To top that off, he farts a lot.
- Extra Eyes: He has five of them in total. Sheryl actually tests if other people see him the way she does by asking them how many eyes he has.
- Fat Bastard: He's a fat hairy naked demon who eats a lot.
- Gass Hole: He farts frequently, which only adds to his general stench.
- No Name Given: If he has a name, it isn't shared. He's simply known by his title.
- Uncanny Valley: He appears much more human-looking than the other demons, except for his head and feet. This means he mostly looks like a hairy naked fat man, and the effect is quite unsettling.
- Villains Out Shopping: He is introduced running on an elliptical machine. He even makes a point that he was trying to get 20 minutes a day.
The Sixty
Leland
Dr. Leland Townsend
Portrayed By: Michael Emerson
A rival forensic psychologist to Kristen, and someone whom David has long recognized as an enemy. He's also a serial killer who serves the demonic houses.
- Actually Pretty Funny: He's usually pretty amused when Kristen or David does something he doesn't expect, laughing hysterically when David punches him in the gut for calling Julia a "whiny little bitch" and looking almost gleeful when Kristen uses a deepfake of his voice in court after he scrambled the real portion of her recording with his voice on it irreparably, calling it "one of his tools."
- Ambiguously Human: At first, it's unclear whether he's merely a psychotic human, or a demon taking human form, especially with his status as The Corrupter. Gradually it becomes clear that he is a flesh and blood human, just with demonic connections. He later sets himself up for an exorcism, and although he hams up most of the sessions, there was at least one time when the exorcism did affect him enough to call Cheryl for help.
- Ascetic Aesthetic: The show's production designer has explained that the heroes tend to live in warm and messy environments while the villains spend their time in sterile looking places. Leland's office is a prime example, as is his mansion.
- Butt-Monkey: Despite the glee he often sports when committing his petty acts of evil, life is just not very kind to Leland. His schemes often fail, he tends to get beat up on a regular basis, and virtually every major character he interacts with will put him through a Humiliation Conga at least once. Considering how unabashedly horrible he is, there's a certain
Catharsis Factor in his butt monkey status. - Con Man: His charming persona, which he uses to seduce both organizations and people, is nothing but an act. He would be classified as just a charmer, but he's able to get people to do many things against their better judgement, or outright ignore reality in favor of what he is saying. There seems to be some sort of supernatural component to this, as his ability to convince people of things seems to go slightly beyond what should be possible.
- The Corrupter: He actively tries to get people to do evil, which he successfully did with wannabe serial killer Orson LaRoux and tried to do with a young defendant Kristen recommended not be tried as an adult, as well as a young Hollywood Homely budding incel.
- Electromagnetic Ghosts: In keeping with the association between new technology and demonic influences that the show tends to use, it seems that any technology that isn't his tends to have... issues with Leland. He's able to distort one side of a conversation that Kristen has with him so completely that even Ben can't dig out his actual voice, gets Kristen's phone to glitch out and completely brick just by walking up behind her when she boots it up, and, assuming that Lexis' nightmare in the season one finale was less an accurate synopsis and more of a metaphorical vision (the demon that appears to her is the same one that he uses as a therapist), was likely the one who got LeRoux access to the Bouchards' house, and would've had to somehow disable Kristen's brand new security system to do it.
- Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor: Oh god yes. Not counting all the things he does when he doesn't feel like he needs to hide his true nature, his attempt at acting like a normal person in his efforts to seduce Sheryl starts with him making a joke about a suicidal man that he knew with a case of hiccups so bad he had a heart attack (her date has had a case of hiccups throughout the date so bad he couldn't even carry on a conversation), and then quips that he just got stood up because his intended date got into a horrific car accident.
- Evil Is Petty: Leland isn't just a bad dude, he's an absolute dick. He orders heavy weights to his home just for the joy of watching the underpaid, overworked delivery people struggle.
- Faustian Rebellion: If you believe that Leland did legitimately sell his soul to a demon, and that said demon is indeed the goat-headed, Baphomet-esque figure that acts as his therapist, then his murder and subsequent consumption of said demon in an effort to grab for more power could very well qualify.
- Faux Affably Evil: He puts on a mask of benevolence whenever he needs to fool someone but has no such interest when speaking to Kristen or David, to whom he shows his true colors as a taunting sadist.
- Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Stylish glasses are a big part of his look.
- For the Evulz: For the most part; he initially doesn't seem to have any goal other than corrupting people and making the world worse for the sheer joy of it. However, there does seem to be a grander plan at work, which he is an integral but not necessarily leading part of.
- Imaginary Enemy: He sometimes appears in places he shouldn't and couldn't be to torment David, who in turn treats these instances as harmful hallucinations he needs to block out. Leland is yet to bring them up, so they don't seem to be real.
- Laughably Evil: Leland is easily the most amusing character, and it's because of his evil rather than in spite of it. As someone who only cares about tormenting others, he's able to fire off zingers, spin nasty little speeches and generally act like a sadistic imp, all of which makes him a lot of fun.
- Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: A few types:
- The extent of his abilities tends to be vague and dependent on the plot; he appears to torment David in visions, but whether this is a matter of astral projection or David hallucinating is unclear. Ben witnesses his smile stretch in an inhuman manner, but this was via a webcam and may have been doctored or a hallucination on Ben's part.
- His con-man abilities don't completely make sense without some sort of demonic factor.
- Not So Above It All: Claims while on a call with Sheryl while playing a strip card game that his boxers have Jedi knights printed on them, which considering how highly he places himself among normal people, is pretty funny.
- Psycho Psychologist: Leland Townsend is a forensic psychologist in league with actual demons. As such, he uses his knowledge to push unstable people into committing murder, and label innocent ones with falsified diagnoses which destroy their lives.
- Refuge in Audacity: Oh boy, does he run on this. The vast majority of his most horrific, cruel, and outright vulgar actions towards Kristen and David take place right out in public, operating under the (usually correct) assumption that most regular people out on the street aren't going to assume that they actually just saw an unintimidating, soft-spoken gentleman tell a woman to her face that he's completely willing to murder her four young children.
- And if you believe that his visits to David are real, and not just a symptom of his visions or hallucinations, this also almost certainly applies here as well.
- Sadist: Leland is openly sadistic, taking immense pleasure in the suffering (or even just discomfort) of others.
- Serial Killer: In the first season he is one by proxy, actively helping LeRoux plan the murder of Kristen's family. Come season 2 he has progressed to this in full, having Sheryl seduce men so that he can murder them.
- Smug Snake: Much as he acts like he's all-seeing and all-powerful, he's repeatedly proven to be far more fallible and insecure than he lets on. It's also implied over the course of Season 2 that he's merely a cog in a much larger operation.
- Snarky Villain, Earnest Hero: His dynamic with David, whose sense of humor is pretty gentle in contrast to Leland's barbed taunts.
- Suspicious Spending: His Big Fancy House doesn't jive with his job as a psychologist, and there is no indication he inherited any money from his family.
- The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: Possibly in connection to his apparent ability to disrupt other people's technology, whenever he drops the facade and legitimately begins to threaten someone, the camera begins to ignore everyone else and zoom in solely on him, to the point that it feels less like he's talking to someone else and more like he's talking to you.
- They Look Just Like Everyone Else!: With his glasses and tweed, he looks like any typical cultured academic, as opposed to a crazed psychopath with demonic backing.
- Villainous Breakdown: Smug as he is, Leland is much more fragile than he projects and can be prone to losing his shit when his plans swerve off the expected course.
- After Sebastian actually shoots himself before he can hurt anyone else, Leland throws an enormous office-trashing tantrum out of exhausted frustration.
- He goes through another one briefly after taking Kristen's verbal browbeating.
- After holy water (really ammonia) actually burns him, he freaks out and runs away crying.
- When his exorcism becomes far too real for his liking, he's later seen at home shivering in a corner despite there being no audience to benefit.
- After Kristen's girls humiliate, dox, and frame him as a pedophile preying on children in an online game, he throws yet another tantrum.
- Villain with Good Publicity: His public-facing persona is that of a professional, compassionate forensic psychiatrist.
Tragoren
Edward Tragoren
Portrayed By: Tim Matheson
A wealthy "influencer" and prominent member of the Sixty.
- Affably Evil: He's an open sadist, true, but he's also cheerful and charming.
- Man of Wealth and Taste: Edward is immensely wealthy, cultured, well-dressed and evil down to the ground.
Adam
Adam Gardner
Portrayed By: Graham Rowat
One of the 59 people who Leland says that he trusts, and one who's used his official position in ICE to further Leland's agenda.
- Meaningful Name: Since Leland depends on people being fallible and corruptible, it makes sense his confederate would be an Adam associated with gardens.
- A Real Man Is a Killer: Tasked with training Sebastian in arms use, he assures the young man that you get better by killing people.
- Terse Talker: He's silent in his first appearance and still not very talkative in his second.
