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** We get to see more demons as the series goes on. Some, such as Astaroth, Ualac & Helldad fall into the same horned humanoid mold as HB, while others seem to be a twisted combination ov various human & animal parts. One storyline in ''[[BPRD]]'' features a demoness whose true form has the head of a crow, the wings of a bat, tentacles & an udder with dozens of human-like breasts hanging off it.
** Part of this variation is because the different artistic styles of Mike Mignola and Guy Davis (the main artist of ''[[BPRD]]''). While Mignola's demons and various monsters tend to be based more directly on real life animals, Davis tends to have a more [[Body Horror]] feel to his work. In one of Davis's sketchbooks he even comments that he had to tone down some of the "tentacles and Lovecraftian bits" for one of his demons before the comic went to print.
* [[Marvel Comics]]' [[Anti-Hero]] Son of Satan is, [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|as the name implies]], the [[Half-Human Hybrid]] son of
** For that matter, the very nature of demons in the [[Marvel Universe]] seems to be a matter of some contention; fallen or degenerated [[Physical God]]s, leftover magical energy from the early days of life on Earth, holdovers from the Creation of the Universe... And of course, the fact that all of them lie their horns off all the time makes it no clearer.
** [[Iron Man]] claimed in one [[Avengers West Coast]] story that demons who claim to be "devils" (including Mephiso and Satannish) aren't devils in the religious sense, comparing them to [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien]]s of magical nature from another dimension. A later [[Doctor Strange]] story claims these devils are fragments of an [[Eldritch Abomination]] that was sundered into seperate demons.
* Demons in ''Necrophim'' are strange-looking humanoid beings who resent having to share [[Hell]] with the [[Fallen Angel|Necrophim]], and want the angels to finish what they started with Lucifer.
* Devils in [[Harvey Comics]] (ie: Hot Stuff) aren't really evil. Like ghosts, they love playing tricks, but don't mean to cause any lasting harm.
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