Demon

Type	Flying Enemy
Environment	The Underworld
AI Type	Bat AI
Damage	32/64›56/96›84 (contact); 4284126 (Demon Sickle)
Max Life	120/240›264/360›396
Defense	8
KB Resist	20%/28%/36%
Banner	Demon Banner
Immune to
Debuff	Darkness
Debuff tooltip	Decreased light vision
Chance	33%
Duration	153037.5 seconds
Coins	3 SCPre-Hardmode: 7 SC50 CCHardmode: 6 SC
Hurt
Killed
Demon Sickle
Idle

Not to be confused with the Hardmode enemy, the Red Devil.

For its

Old-gen console and

variant, see Arch Demon.

The Demon is a pre-Hardmode enemy found in The Underworld. It attacks by summoning volleys of four spinning purple blades that gradually accelerate toward the player, which are similar to those fired by the Demon Scythe that it has a chance to drop. These blades deal high damage and have a chance to inflict the Darkness debuff for 15 / 30 / 37.5 seconds and are stopped by any block, but cannot be destroyed with weapons.

Like other Underworld enemies, the Demon is immune to lava. A rarer variation of the Demon is the Voodoo Demon.

Trivia

In the real world, demons are supernatural beings prevalent historically in religion, occultism, literature, fiction, mythology, and folklore; as well as in media such as comics, video games, movies and television series.
Despite inflicting the Darkness debuff, Demons do not drop the Blindfold.

The Bestiary entry for the Demon: "Demons are the infantry of the underworld. Unlike their lesser brothers, they cast shadow magic rather than hell magic."

"Lesser brothers" likely refers to the Fire Imp enemy.

History

Desktop version

Desktop 1.4.0.1: Sprite updated. Old sprite was

Desktop 1.3.0.1: Added new sounds.

Desktop 1.2.0.3: Can now drop its own respective banner.

Desktop 1.0.6:
- Damage reduced from 50 to 32.
- Now repeatedly swoops at the player and flies away, rather than remaining close by, and does not fire while blocked.