Demon

"Demons" are pre-Transformer Cybertronians from the Marvel portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

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Known to its modern population as Demons, and later Primordials after their true nature became better understood, Cybertron's original inhabitants were sealed away underground by Primus. Except for the occasional escape, they have remained sealed away by Primus's power ever since, known to the surface only in legends. According to those legends, the Demons are "the flipside of the Matrix's good creatures".

Demons are very large creatures (towering above Transformers) that can absorb energy without harm, up to direct weapons fire. At least one has demonstrated the ability to breathe fire. They "feed" on Transformers by absorbing their lifeforce, eventually killing them. If a demon absorbs too much energy, it will explode.

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Fiction

Marvel The Transformers comics

Events from the UK-only comic stories are in italics.

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Two of the Demons escaped from their prison following an incident between Tailgate and the Mutants. Demons! They then proceeded to kill three Decepticons that beset the Autobot Seawatch, causing Seawatch's mind to shut down in terror. Underworld! Later some Autobots and Decepticons, who were both in search of answers about their fallen colleagues, are also attacked by the Demons. They are saved by when the Demons are destroyed by Emirate Xaaron, who consulted ancient Cybertronian lore to find their weaknesses following a clue from a revived Seawatch. Dawn of Darkness

After Primus's death, another group of the Demons escaped, lurking in the shadows of Cybertron's surface after the giant battle against Unicron. As observed by Hi-Q, one of the Demons grabbed Runabout by the leg, dragged him underground, and messily devoured him. On the Edge of Extinction! Hi-Q fled until he encountered the Dinobots, whose considerable power was still not enough to defeat the Demons. They were finally beaten back by Grimlock, who had just completed his metamorphosis to an Action Master. The Demons fled from his new power, repulsed by his "light". Still Life!

Classics

Classics continues from the Marvel US series, and does not include the UK stories or any subsequently published stories.

When the Mini-Cons were created to clean up Cybertron, one of their jobs was to exterminate the Demons and Mutants. The Demons didn't go down without a fight, however, and Hacksaw would later express relief that no more Mini-Cons had to die by their hands. The New World

Regeneration One

Regeneration One continues from the Marvel US series, and does not include the UK stories or any subsequently published stories.

The Autobots' sent a team to find the chamber of Primus... which found the Demons instead. By the time Hot Rod reached the excavation site, the Demons had already porked on half of Lightspeed's team. When they saw him, they bowed in awe at their "CREEE-AAY-TORRR!", before deciding they'd rather disembowel him instead. Hot Rod fled for his life, barely staying ahead of the Demon horde. Natural Selection, Part Two Natural Selection, Part Three Discovering the Sword of Primus and the Covenant of Primus, Hot Rod initially took the latter, seeking answers. He discovered that the Demons were, in fact, Primus's first creations, and that when they turned on each other after developing free will, Primus had attempted to wipe the slate clean. Natural Selection, Part Four Taking up the Sword, Hot Rod announced that the will of Primus decreed that he was to use the sword to exterminate all of the remaining Demons so that the next step in the evolution of the Transformer race could begin. However, he declared that Primus's will was not his will, and he would not further the grievous wrong their creator committed, on which their race was built. Taking the Covenant of Primus as well, Hot Rod exited the chamber and, vowing to return, headed back to the surface, the Demons all parting before him, genuflecting in fear of the light of Primus's artifacts. Natural Selection, Part Five

Notes

• The appearance of the Demons differs wildly depending on the artist.
• The Demons' origin resembles that of the Trans-Organics in some ways. Both races were built as precursors to the Transformers, but locked away by their creators.
• It was unclear in the stories if the Demons were the original inhabitants of the world Primus fashioned into Cybertron, or an attempt by Primus to create life that predated the Transformers. However, writer Simon Furman later clarified in an interview that he envisioned them as being botched creations of Primus. He would go on to establish that they were indeed the first children of Primus in "Natural Selection, Part Four".

External links

• Interview where Furman reveals the nature of the demons