what is the demon's name in death note
Death Note (2006 film)


Death Note" marked on the cover, while returning home from his classes. The Death Note's instructions claim that if a person's name is written within while picturing that person's face, he or she will die. Light is initially skeptical of the Death Note's authenticity, but after experimenting with it on a convicted criminal, he realizes it is real. After experimenting with it on his second victim: an accquitted felon named Takuo Shibuimaru and meeting with the previous owner of the Death Note, a demonic Shinigami named
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Gello


names" (although what is meant by a "half name" is unclear): A different version of this story was given by Leo Allatius in the 17th century. Knowledge of a demon's name was required to control or compel it; a demon could act under an alias. Redundant naming is characteristic of magic charms, "stressing," as A.A. Barb noted in his classic essay "Antaura", "the well-known magic rule that the omission of a single one can give the demons a loophole through
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History of manga


's "Death Note", where protagonist Light Yagami receives a notebook from a Death God ("shinigami") that kills anyone whose name is written in it, and, in a "shōjo" manga example, Hakase Mizuki's "The Demon Ororon", whose protagonist abandons his demonic kingship of Hell to live and die on earth. Sometimes the protagonist himself is supernatural, like Kohta Hirano's "Hellsing", whose vampire hero Alucard battles reborn Nazis hellbent on conquering England, but the hero may also be (
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The Exorcist


priest is summoning the demons for him to exorcise in the first place. He also makes a note of "The Exorcist" film, noting that the vision it created of possession actually made things easier for possession demons by making it harder for humans to know what to expect from a possession. In the animated Horror-comedy show "Courage the Cowardly Dog", the episode "The Demon In The Mattress" is a direct spoof of the film, using several plot elements that was lifted straight from "The Exorcist"
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Demons (The X-Files)


's mind, noting that the entry allowed the audience to see Mulder's views of the world. He argued that "Mulder's desperate need to understand what happened to his sister […] drives him to expect betrayal, because at least with betrayal, the world makes some kind of sense." He did write, however, that he was "a little disappointed at how "Demons" doesn't really hold up in retrospect from a story perspective," but noted that "what does work here is great.
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Groosalugg


name is Cordelia, the same as Angel's dragon. Groo is one of the members of the Angel Investigations team rallied by Lorne to help Angel fight the Demon Lords, and he helps by breaking the chains on Angel's dragon. The Demon Lords are all destroyed. In issue fifteen, Illyria decides to end all reality in order to end emotional pain, starts with demolishing what is left of Los Angeles. The Groosalugg is killed while attempting to stop her. He has enough time to bemoan the nature of this death
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Act II: The Father of Death


a generation has been born, one which lives a life of leisure, never knowing the world their parents had lived in before Wily's robots; still, there are rumors of a red-eyed demon which patrols the dark streets of the city, one which will make you disappear for good if you are overheard speaking against Wily or his new world. A young man named Joe, tired with what the city has become, attempts to escape ("Breaking Out") and is hunted down by the demon, in
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Semum


. Todd Brown, writing for "Twitch Film", notes that this film, like the director's previous hit "Dabbe", "once again draws on Islamic mythology and demons as its inspiration," but that, "he had a better budget to work with this time and the cinematography is a good bit better while also indulging Turkey's traditional campy edge". "Cinematography and design work is dead solid and I do believe I detect notes of both "Death Note" and "Constantine" in the demon
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Thomas Raith


death'). A side effect noted throughout the series is that when White Court vampires do draw on their demon, their eyes start to glow and their skin will seem more pale. Overuse of their demon's abilities requires the demon to be fed, which can induce a ravenous hunger, during which the White Court vampire will lose all control. A White Court vampire that cannot feed their demon is scarcely much more than a human being. This 'demon within' is affirmed by two different soulgazes during the series
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Through the Looking Glass (Angel)


being controlled by the demon inside of him. He concludes that his friends saw what he really was and now he can never go back to them. The Groosalugg tells Cordelia that his human qualities make him unappealing to his people, so he battled with demons to end his existence, but after defeating them earned the name for bravery and strength. Lorne is brought before Cordelia for judgment and he is almost sentenced to death, but Cordelia pardons him and then kicks him out so she can be alone with her future mate.
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Demon (album)


, and "an album—"a concept album", no less—that even the average indie fan could warm up to", noting that it "does exactly what its title implies: it haunts". Emphasising the lengths of some of the album's tracks, Prog Magazine's Emma Johnston described "Demon" as "surely as defiantly prog as it’s possible to get today", while noting that the album's "queasy, chilly drama is offset with a sense of true beauty", with particular praise directed to
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Willem Dafoe


also played and voiced the character of Ryuk: a demonic death god from Japanese mythology in Netflix's "Death Note", the American adaptation of the Japanese supernatural-thriller manga of the same name. Also that year, he co-starred as Gerhard Hardman in a film adaptation of Agatha Christie's detective novel "Murder on the Orient Express", directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh; and played Atlantean scientist Nuidis Vulko in a deleted role in Zack Snyder's "Justice League". He later played Nuidis Vulko in
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Mello (Death Note)


her to strip naked to get rid of any tracking devices. However, Takada uses a hidden piece of Death Note paper to kill Mello, as Light had told her his name and what to do in such a situation. Mello's actions ultimately lead to Light's downfall; Teru Mikami uses the hidden real Death Note to try to kill Takada, which leads to Near learning that the notebook Mikami had been using prior is fake and swapping the real Death Note with his own fake for the final confrontation with Kira. In
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Fresh Blood (Supernatural)


Chicago Tribune" found the concept of Gordon hunting down Sam to be "inspired", she noted that "'Fresh Blood' didn't do much for [her]". Recalling the demon Azazel's comments about the recently resurrected Sam in the episode "All Hell Breaks Loose, Part Two"—that what came back may not be "one hundred percent pure Sam"—Don Williams of BuddyTV questioned if something really is wrong with Sam. Williams added Gordon's death to his list of Sam's recent out-of-character actions,
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Demon Flowers


Four volumes of the story are published in English by Tokyopop. Demon Flowers is about a demon named Ushitora, a boy named Masato who is a half-breed offspring of a human and a god (or 'Kuruizaki no Hana'), and an orphan girl named Nao who all live together. Demons usually hunt down Kuruizaki no Hana to consume their flesh and gain their power, which is what Ushitora is doing at the start of the manga. An expert assassin, Ushitora is sent to kill a young girl Kuruizaki
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Ekur


dynastic times. Peter Jensen also associated the Ekur with the underworld in "Die Kosmologie der Babylonier", where he translated it as a settlement of demons. The location also appears in Ludlul bēl nēmeqi and other myths as a home of demons who go out into the land. It is noted by Wayne Horowitz that in none of the bilingual texts do the demons appear to be "going upwards" but "outwards", contrary to what would be expected if Ekur referred to later concepts such as Sheol, Hades and Hell
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Rustam Singh


And here again Singh comes up with a rather unusual view of life. According to him, what these observations show is that "what we know and revere as life cannot keep itself alive without causing death, which is the death of "jīvas". Life, as such, is a harbinger of death..." It "is not that benign entity which it is held forth as being." Rather, "it is the most demonic thing around" and is the cause of "an unimaginable number of deaths
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Legion in popular culture


Legion, the demons of Gadarenes, is the name given in two of three New Testament accounts of the exorcism connected with the Gadarene swine. As the only named demons in the New Testament the name "Legion" has received frequent use in popular culture. The Christian New Testament gospels of Matthew (8:28-34), Mark and Luke describe an incident in which Jesus meets a man, or in Matthew two men, possessed by demons who, in the Mark and Luke versions, when asked what their name is,
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Carl Ray


old. In a note to Ray by George Kenny after his death, he wrote "I wonder if those paintings you painted ever satisfied your demons that drove you to paint…Didn't you realize that fame only comes at the meeting of one of those demons – DEATH? ….Now we'll never know the extent of your greatness…" Carl Ray is best known for his work executed in the style of the Woodlands School (often referred to as "legend painting" style). Lacking sophisticated technique, but resplendent with
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Darksiders II


the Well of Souls. After traversing through the fortress in both the past and present, Death finally meets Samael who is not willing to just give Death the Key. After testing Death in a fierce battle, Samael gives Death the demon key, saying that no matter what happens, it should prove to be an interesting show. With both keys in hand, Death returns to the Tree of Life and has his penultimate meeting with the Crowfather, who reminds him of what's at stake: the fate of two races,
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The Demon Downcast


. His face was excitedly cheerful. “I begin,” he said. Vrubel suddenly sent a note to von Meck asking to send photos of the Caucasian mountains: “I won’t fall asleep until I get them!” Upon receiving photos of Elbrus and Kazbek soon afterward, that night behind the demon's back grew pearl-coloured peaks, “fanned with the eternal cold of death”. While Vrubel was considered sane in general, people around him noted his irritability. Despite the mainly negative responses of contemporary critics
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List of Kung Fu Panda characters


Po close to death, extracting the Hero's Chi and breaking the seal, thus releasing the demons. Po's Life Force and Chi are restored by the Peach Tree sapling that Shifu planted in the Kung Fu Panda first movie. Po managed to defeat the demons and reseal the remaining ones. Po then fights Ke-Pa and uses the Chi he has left to destroy the demon. NOTE: Because dragons are considered beneficent deities in oriental culture, it is made clear that Ke-Pa was not a true dragon,
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Unavowed


members and challenges Kalash to fight her in a battle to the death. The protagonist is forced to kill Kalash to defeat Galene. With the demon's name, Eli is able to determine that the protagonist had returned to the place of the first possession: the Under The Bricks theater (actor background), Sammy's Bar (barkeeper background) or the Eternox Nightclub (cop background). There the team finds a closed portal and notes written by the protagonist indicating three more sites to investigate on Wall Street, in Manhattan
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Greco-Roman mysteries


another". Much information on the Mysteries come from Marcus Terentius Varro. Justin Martyr in the 2nd century explicitly noted and identified them as "demonic imitations" of the true faith, and that "the devils, in imitation of what was said by Moses, asserted that Proserpine was the daughter of Jupiter, and instigated the people to set up an image of her under the name of Kore" ("First Apology"). Through the 1st to 4th century, Christianity stood in direct competition for adherents with the mystery
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Shadows of the Damned


's flesh, and keeping him away from the darkness that destroys the human flesh. As they travel, they witness numerous deaths of Paula by Fleming and other demons, all to toy with Garcia's senses. Another human demon hunter, who simply goes by the name "Colonel", temporarily aids Garcia, but then leaves to get revenge on the death of his loved one, only to be brutally killed later. Garcia also encounters an ally in Christopher, a half-human, half-demon that sells Garcia valuable
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List of demon lords in Dungeons & Dragons


This is a list of demon lords in the "Dungeons & Dragons" fantasy role-playing game. In the 2nd Edition, the demon lords were known as "Abyssal lords". Abraxas, known as the Unfathomable, is the demon lord of magic words, arcane secrets, and talismans, in the "Dungeons & Dragons" roleplaying game. Abraxas dwells on the 17th layer of the Abyss, known as "Death's Reward". Abraxas was one of many demon lords that were mentioned only by name in a
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Demon: The Fallen


to enter the Shadowlands, commune with and control ghosts, to sever the spirit from a body, and to create zombies. The Slayers usually join either the Ravener or Reconciler factions due to their affinity with death, their resentment of other Elohim, and their desire to return to Heaven. Factions are ideological groups of like-minded demons who share a similar outlook on humanity, God, and themselves. Unlike Houses, which are inherent, factions are open to any and all, although a demon's House can influence what
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Gen (Street Fighter)


"ultimate battle", in which both men were "prepared to give up the ghost", Gen resolves not to die until "the final battle between Life and Death", so he returns to what he calls "my own fight to the death". Gen appears in Akuma's character story in "Street Fighter V", locked in combat with the demonic martial artist. Gen observes Akuma's newfound power, and ponders as to whether or not he has become a "true demon god", before realizing
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Impressions (Angel novel)


other than the power trip he gets when defeating demons, and doesn't truly understand the reasons why Angel does what he does. The stone that David's client possesses is later revealed to be the burial stone of a race of demons whose nature causes them to disintegrate upon death caused them to start using the stones as a memorial, the stones 'recording' their feelings at the moment of death. The stone the client possesses contains the rage and hostility of an honoured warrior who recently died in battle; in their home
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Classification of demons


tempts one to commit, and includes the demons' adversaries (who suffered that temptation without falling). Note that many demons' names are exclusively French or unknown in other catalogs. St. John the Baptist and St. John the Evangelist are the two St. Johns to whom Michaelis refers. The other saints are cited only by their name without making clear, i.e., which Francis is mentioned (of Assisi?). The first hierarchy includes angels that were Seraphim, Cherubim and Thrones. The second hierarchy includes Powers, Dominions,
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Uriel (Supernatural)


"I Know What You Did Last Summer", the Winchesters and the demon Ruby attempt to protect the present-day version of Anna, who has fallen and been reborn as a human, from demons who plan to use her to find out the angels' secrets. Uriel and Castiel are ordered to kill Anna, partially to protect this information from falling into the demons' hands, but more importantly because her actions in falling constitute a serious crime in angelic society that is punishable by death. Uriel and Castiel track her
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Ophites


by Irenaeus. The names of the seven princes of the Hebdomad, as given by Origen, agree completely with the list of Irenaeus (). Origen also gives the names of the seven demons. Irenaeus only gives the name of their chief, but that one is enough to establish a more than accidental coincidence, since it is a name we should not have expected to find as the name of a demon, namely, Michael. The name Prunikos is also found in the report of Origen. Origen gives what must have
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Demons (The X-Files)


Mulder visits Goldstein, and convinces him to again treat him so he will remember what really happened. Mulder has further visions of the past. Scully and the police arrive soon after to arrest Goldstein but find Mulder gone. Scully finds him at the family's summer home in Rhode Island and is able to calm him down. While Mulder is cleared in the deaths of the Cassandras, what truly happened when he was a child remains a mystery. "Demons" was written by R. W. Goodwin, an executive producer and director
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Reception of Enoch in antiquity


astrology originated from demons, and that demons themselves are the supernatural issue of fallen angels adulterating with women. Commodianus (ca 240) accepts Enoch as Scripture and in his Instructions uses information unique to Enoch in order to establish doctrine on the origin of demons from angels adulterating with women and on the wicked arts they taught; thus he showed that heathen gods were actually those same demons. Origen (185 AD – 254 AD) in De Principiis names and quotes the book of Enoch as “holy Scripture” and notes that the
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Dora Davidsohn


country that suffered under German occupation, naming a street after a German anti-Fascist. I find that remarkable, courageous and gratifying, and it makes me all the more determined to do what is in my power to see to it that the demon of Fascism is given no chance [to return]." On 8 August 2009, which was the tenth anniversary of her death, a commemorative tablet was placed on the outside of the house at Dammweg 73 in Berlin-Treptow. The house was home to Dora Schaul
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Castiel (Supernatural)


kill the demons. Castiel manages to summon his power to kill demons and kills all of them, but doing so restores his memories. Castiel shows remorse for his previous actions and initially wants to leave, but Dean is able to convince him to help by giving him back his trench coat. Castiel finds Sam in time to save him from a demon torturing him to death with electro-shock therapy and tries to restore his mental wall, but can't as it's completely gone. Feeling sorry for what he had done
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List of demon lords in Dungeons & Dragons


(whether he lives or dies) depends on what happened in the adventure. Ahazu the Seizer is a demon lord that now functions as a vestige as a result of his self-imposed imprisonment in the Abyssal layer known as the "Wells of Darkness". Ahazu was one of many demon lords that were mentioned only by name in a list in the original "Monster Manual II" (1983). Ahrimanes, known as the Chief of the Cacodaemons, is the demon lord of exiles and wanderers, in the "
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Demon lord (Dungeons & Dragons)


l) indicates a loumara, and (d) indicates a lord that is presumed dead. Note that any demon lord who was mentioned by name only in the "Monster Manual II" (1983), on page 35, is noted as "*MM2". Paizo Publishing released "Book of the Damned, Vol. 2: Lords of Chaos" for the Pathfinder campaign setting in 2010. Written by "Fiendish Codex I" co-author James Jacobs, it took obvious inspiration from both "Armies of the
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List of Shiki chapters


The manga adaption of Fuyumi Ono's horror novel Shiki was drawn and written by Ryu Fujisaki, and serialized by Shueisha in "Jump Square". The story is about a small Japanese village named Sotoba, which is plagued by bizarre deaths caused by what seemed to be an epidemic. However, when Toshio Ozaki, the hospital dean, performs his own investigations, he discovers vampires, known as "Shiki" ("Corpse Demon" in English) living in their midst. The first chapter was released in December 2007,
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Orcus


through modern times. Indeed, much of what is known about the celebrations associated with Orcus come from medieval sources. From Orcus' association with death and the underworld, his name came to be used for demons and other underworld monsters, particularly in Italian where "orco" refers to a kind of monster found in fairy-tales that feeds on human flesh. The French word "ogre" (appearing first in Charles Perrault's fairy-tales) may have come from variant forms of this word, "orgo" or
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Ring of Fire (Buffy comic)


Ring of Fire is a trade paperback collecting comic stories based on the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" television series. In the aftermath of Jenny Calendar's death at the hands of Angelus, Giles' grief is mixed with fury. Buffy feels uneasy with her mentor's inability to cope with the death of Jenny. Meanwhile, the armor of a samurai demon is taken from a cargo ship. The demon had been named Kelgor, who in 1500 raised an army of the dead and caused havoc and death in Japan. Angelus
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Verin (Dungeons & Dragons)


In the "Dungeons & Dragons" fantasy roleplaying game, Verin is a demon lord. He is called the Voice of Graz'zt, and serves Graz'zt as an advisor and right-hand man. The name Verin itself comes from a demon of the same, first recorded in 1612 by Sebastien Michaelis, also spelled Verrine. The demon lord Verin has his origins in Gary Gygax's Gord novels. In "Sea of Death", "Come Endless Darkness", and "Dance of Demons", Graz'zt is served by a
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Udug


looks like, instead focusing more on its fearsome supernatural abilities. All the characteristics ascribed to the "evil udug" here are common features that are frequently attributed to all different kinds of ancient Mesopotamian demons: a dark shadow, absence of light surrounding it, poison, and a deafening voice. Other descriptions of the udug are not consistent with this one and often contradict it. Konstantopoulos notes that "the udug is defined by what it is not: the demon is nameless and formless, even in its early appearances."
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Demon Wind


young man named Cory, the grandson of Regina and George, and his girlfriend Elaine, along with a group of their friends, travel up to the farm, so that Cory can figure out what happened to his grandparents. They are attacked by a band of vicious demons. When the kids try to escape, a mysterious fog brings them back to the farm, protected by a shield that prevents the demons from entering the house. One by one, the kids become possessed by the demons, but manage to fight them
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Story of Evil


was released on May 9, 2010. The song shows a small snapshot of the princess and servant's lives as small children before they were separated, avoiding a hungry, mysterious "demon" in the twilight. Alexiel eventually realized that the demon would be always hungry no matter what and decides to share his snack with the demon. In return, the demon tells Alexiel a secret about the ocean, which he later shares with Riliane. The name of the song was purposefully changed from "Twilight" to "Twiright"
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List of fictional demons


This is a list of notable demons that appear in works of fiction, not limited to writing or to entertainment purposes. For example, some are from video games and some are from Dante's "Inferno". List of theological demons covers those from religion, theology, demonology, and mythology; the sacred and its study. Names of God, list of deities, and list of fictional deities cover God and gods in various ways. List of legendary creatures may also help explain what is not here. Some demons may
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List of Ace Attorney characters


attempts to stop it on his own, which ultimately leads to the death of Misty Fey. After Phoenix discovers the truth and defeats him in court, Godot finally admits his own failings and accepts him as Mia's successor. is the main antagonist of "Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations". She appears to be a sweet and innocent girl but with a sinister and demonic twist in her personality, similar to what the flower present in her name represents; instability. She is able to manipulate others to
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Kyra (Charmed)


this time, Kyra forces Leo to reveal his true identity as an Avatar to the sisters. While Piper Halliwell (Holly Marie Combs) helps her to prepare for her new life as a mortal, Kyra reveals her real name and abandons her title as "the Seer". Before the sisters can transform Kyra into a mortal, Zankou kills her because of her betrayal of the demonic world, and his fear of what she might tell the sisters. Her death is a turning point in the season as it pushes the sisters
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Warren Worthington III


, Archangel appears as a pheasant. He refuses to fly because he is scared of falling and failing, until /Hitomi and Beast/Aoi convince him. He is named Tenshi, meaning "Angel" in Japanese. In "What If Archangel Fell From Grace?", Archangel is still the Angel of Death and violently murders criminals. He fights Cyclops, Jean Grey, and Beast and flees after injuring Beast and Cyclops. Cameron Hodge and N'astirh, Master of Demons, hold Candy Southern captive, causing Archangel to exact vengeance
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Innistrad


living on. Eventually the black mana would coalesce in another dark corner of the plane, and another demon would appear. Avacyn soon noted that no matter how many times a demon was defeated, there would always be another one to take its place. All that its destruction would buy was temporary peace to the afflicted towns and villages. Thus, she took an oath, saying "What cannot be destroyed, must be bound". This oath is reflected in the symbol of the archangel herself, the Collar of Avacyn
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Wild Hunt


the sources, whether what is involved in the reports about the appearance of the Wild Hunt is merely a demonic "interpretation" of natural phenomenon, or whether we are dealing with a description of ritual processions of humans changed into demons." Historian Ronald Hutton noted that there was "a powerful and well-established international scholarly tradition" which argued that the Medieval Wild Hunt legends were an influence on the development of the Early Modern ideas of the Witches' Sabbath. Hutton nevertheless believed that this approach could be "fundamentally challenged
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Demon Cat


The Demon Cat (also referred to as D.C.) is the name given to the ghost of a cat which is purported to haunt the government buildings of Washington, D.C. in the United States. The story of the Demon Cat dates back a few hundred years when cats were brought into the basement tunnels of the United States Capitol Building to kill rats and mice. Legend states that the Demon Cat is one of these cats who never left, even after its death. Its home is supposedly the basement crypt of the Capitol Building
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Constantine: City of Demons


girl named Astra and the deaths of two of their bandmates by the demon Nergal. Many years later, Chandler reunites with Constantine, now a seasoned exorcist, to help his daughter, Tricia, who is in a coma of an unknown cause. Constantine suspects a supernatural cause, more specifically a demon possession and consults Asa, the "Nightmare Nurse", who explains that this is no demon possession because while her physical body is still present and functioning, her soul is not there. Upon probing around to find out who
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Supernatural (season 3)


, the series makes use of visual, special, and make-up effects, as well as stuntwork. Visual effects is an in-house department, and is supervised by Ivan Hayden. The opening scene of "The Magnificent Seven" featured the most demons clouds of the first three seasons; Hayden noted that the army cloud consisted of hundreds of individual demons. The episode "Mystery Spot" heavily relied on visual effects for Dean's various death sequences by making use of a computer-generated 3D model of Ackles.
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Running with the Demon


is surprised to find that she no longer has magic of her own. She assaults him in futility with a shotgun, and he kills her. However, anticipating her death, Evelyn had left Nest a secret note telling her to trust in her magic and in Wraith. Finally, on July 4, Jared Scott is beaten by his mother's boyfriend and slips into a coma. The feeders, however, drive the boyfriend into a craze and he ends up accidentally killing himself. Pick is captured by the demon, and
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Orison (The X-Files)


episode "Irresistible". Carter noted that, "we had talked about possibly revisiting some old monster this season, and this seemed like the perfect opportunity." In his first appearance, Donnie Pfaster was portrayed as a "death fetishist", his nature was non-supernatural. However, in "Orison" it was decided to make Pfaster a true demon. Shiban explained "we decided late in the process to turn him into this totally demonic character, essentially evil as an entity." Spotnitz was very excited about
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Lady Demon


Lady Demon is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Chaos! Comics. Her first appearance was in "Lady Death: Between Heaven and Hell" #3. Lady Demon is Lady Death's much darker and evolved form. When Lady Death, tired of the endless battle, embraces the darkness within, a demonic persona evolved, and Lady Demon is born. This demonic incarnation cast Purgatori out to Earth and became Lucifer's consort. This did not last however, as Marion's spirit contacted Lady Demon and
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Demonic possession


practitioner will go to the local Buddhist healer for treatment. The healer will commonly take their pulse and urine while offering counsel - the aim being to divine the origins of the patient's suffering. In the case of possession they will also prescribe actions to appease the demon, like giving away food and clothing in its name. It is believed that the demon will depart to a different realm once this is done. According to Augustine Calmet, several obsessions and possessions noted in the New Testament were simple maladies or fantastic fallacies which
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Hollows (series)


be drawn directly from a ley line or through an animal familiar. The energy is either channeled using a focus object or what is referred to as "wild magic" in which the power is imprecisely directed by the magic user that drew on the line. Ley line magic can only alter perception and not physical form like earth magic. Demonic magic combines ley line magic and earth magic to create something very fast, very powerful, and everlasting. As its name implies, demonic magic is practiced almost entirely by demons. Demons
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Demon Hunter (film)


demon hunter Jake Greyman waits downstairs in case the exorcism does not end well. It's quickly seen that Jake has a dark personality and is more than human. He is solely focused on killing demons regardless of what he must do to accomplish his task. He is a half-demon working for the church. A young nun named Sarah assists in the investigation to find a connection between the possessed girls. Upon arriving at the office of a modeling agency Jake and Sarah find a corpse. While Jake searches through the desk
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Bobby Singer


way if it is absolutely necessary. For example, when Dean wants to detoxify Sam from his addiction to demon blood in "When the Levee Breaks," Bobby instead points out that Sam giving in to his demonic abilities could help him to prevent Lucifer's return, even though the amount of blood required to kill Lilith would "change [him] forever." Beaver noted, "Bobby is old enough that he's fairly clear-headed about what the priorities ought to be. Bobby's position is, more or
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I've Got You Under My Skin (Angel)


, they learn that the mass-murdering Ethros demon does "not" pose the biggest threat to the Anderson family's well-being. Cordelia finally gets Angel to talk about Doyle's death when she suddenly has a vision. Angel and Wesley go to the envisioned house in the suburbs when a boy named Ryan from the house walks out onto the street. Angel saves him from an oncoming car, and he talks with the parents, Paige and Seth. Noticing that something is off but not sure what is going on
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Sarah Leah Whitson


expressing concern in "The Wall Street Journal" that Whitson had gone to Saudi Arabia not to study that country's abuse of women, its death penalty for homosexuality, or its lack of religious freedom, but "to raise money from wealthy Saudis by highlighting HRW's demonization of Israel." Bernstein accused HRW of seeking "to raise money from wealthy Saudis by highlighting HRW's demonization of Israel." Noting that Whitson had "found no time to criticize Saudi Arabia's abysmal human rights record," Bernstein argued that "
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Souls (series)


not dying once, but twice." Stephen Totilo of "Kotaku" called bloodstains the "best game death innovation" after playing a demo of "Demon's Souls", questioning 'what took so long for a breakthrough like this?'" "GamesRadar+" called bloodstains, in combination with "Demon Souls's" message system, "a graceful, elegant way of letting players guide each other without the need for words", and said that "rarely has the price of failure been balanced on such a precarious
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Death Note


first "Death Note" film composed and arranged by Kenji Kawai. It was released on June 17, 2006, by VAP. "Sound of Death Note the Last name" is the soundtrack from the second "Death Note" film, "Death Note the Last name". It was released on November 2, 2006. "Death Note Tribute" is a tribute album dedicated to the live action film "Death Note". Published by BMG Japan on June 21, 2006, Japan, it contains 15 tracks performed
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Dean Winchester


Metatron, Dean is fatally stabbed and once again dies. His body brought back to the bunker, Dean's reawakens a demon and leaves with Crowley. Enjoying his time as a demon and killing several of Abaddon's loyalists, Dean eventually kills an man called Lester Morris and uses his newfound demon powers to confirm what Crowley told him about Sam. Eventually confronting his brother, Dean is pulled into a fight by a soldier named Cole, allowing Sam to use holy water to imprison his brother. Using the demon cure process to
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Demon Internet


company to run on free operating systems and PC-based hardware. Many other key Demon people started out as developers – Giles Todd, Clive Feather, Richard Clayton. Armed with so many developers, many of whom made names for themselves within the developing industry, Stanford used the company's ability to contribute its developments to the Open Source community as a means of developing Demon's reputation beyond what its Internet service commanded. Demon's home-dialup focus was also its Achilles heel. The company had some exposure after sponsoring Fulham
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List of Death Note characters


of two evils", James asks him if what he did was really a good thing either, while elsewhere, L finds a hidden page of the Death Note and contemplates writing Light's name in it. Soichiro was envisioned as an "honest police officer with a strong sense of justice" that the reader "would have to feel sorry for everything he has to go through." Though Ohba did not want Soichiro to die, the writer felt that he had to because the character's continued existence would have interfered with
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Death Note original soundtracks


-dark artwork. Sound of Death Note is a soundtrack featuring music from the first "Death Note" film composed and arranged by Kenji Kawai. It was released on 17 June 2006 by VAP and is priced at ¥2500. It is also available if you have the Death Note DVD in the original Japanese version. Sound of Death Note the Last name is a soundtrack featuring music from the second "Death Note" film, "Death Note the Last name", composed and arranged by Kenji Kawai. It was released
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Book of Tobit


Nineveh, where he buries a man who has been murdered on the street. That night, he sleeps in the open and is blinded by bird droppings which fall into his eyes. The blindness caused by this injury strains his marriage and, ultimately, he prays for death. Meanwhile, in faraway Media, a young woman named Sarah has prayed for death in despair. The demon of lust, Asmodeus ("the worst of demons"), abducts and kills every man Sarah marries on their wedding night before the marriage
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Legend of the Sacred Stone


is a rather noted gentleman. At one time within the story, Yang-Zi attempts to flee with Ru-Bing in hopes of escaping the demon allies of Lord Jian. After Yang-Zi is severely wounded and near death, he had kept continuing to protect Ru-Bing for the sake of his brother. However, after he made a secure rout of escape for Ru-Bing, he would see his last against three specific demons, in which he had violently unleashed his powers amongst the melee. Yang-
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Death and the Dervish


Death and the Dervish ( is a novel by Meša Selimović, published in 1966. The novel was made into a 1974 feature-length film of the same name. Sheikh Nuruddin is a respected dervish in an Islamic monastery in eighteenth century Bosnia. He learns his brother Harun has been arrested by the Ottoman authorities but he struggles to determine exactly what happened and what he should do. He narrates the story as a kind of elaborate suicide note “from a need stronger than benefit or reason” and regularly misquotes (or misunderstands
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Bobak (Slavic demon)


Bobak is a demonic creature in Slavic mythology. There are several ways of portraying bobak in Slavic culture. Some people believed that it was a bogeyman of some unspecified features, sometimes taking the form of a white dog or a cat. In the south-eastern region of Łódź bobak was said to be the name of so-called "odmieniec" and it was considered to be a child replaced by a demoness boginka-mamuna What differentiated the demon from one's progeny were its taciturnity, nonmotility and the lack of appetite
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Exorcism of the Gerasene demoniac


too strong to be bound, even with chains for he would always break out of them; night and day among the tombs and in the hills he would cry out and cut himself with stones. Jesus approaches and calls the demon to come out of the man, who replies "What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you in the name of God never to torment me!" Jesus asks the demon for his name and is told "My name is Legion,
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Sun Wukong


ally with him. He forms a fraternity with the Bull Demon King (牛魔王), the Saurian Demon King (蛟魔王), the Single-horned Demon King (单角魔王), the Roc Demon King (鵬魔王), the Lion Spirit King (獅狔王), the Macaque Spirit King (獼猴王) and the Snub-nosed monkey Spirit King (禺狨王). Sun Wukong then defies Hell's attempt to collect his soul. Instead of reincarnating, he wipes his name out of the Book of Life and Death along with
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Damien Karras


, forcing the demon to channel itself into him instead. Karras, briefly dominated by the demon, throws himself out the window of the MacNeils' residence, seeing it as his chance to purge the world of the evil being; tumbling down the stairs of M Street to his death. At the same time that Karras died, a criminal by the name of James Venamun (the infamous "Gemini Killer") was executed. The demon left the body of the dead Karras and placed Venamun's soul into Karras's body
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List of Garo characters


person is subjected to repeat the eight note process that sealed Higari in order to reverse it. Rekka is revealed as the ideal host of the first seven notes representing the dark aspects of the human mind, but the final note is the death scream of a Makai Priest. Though Jabi was the intended target, Magi's desperate desire for life forced her to murder Agi when they two are backed into a corner. Once revived, Higari consumes everything nearby, including Magi and her lover's corpse, to create a demonic body
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Northwestern State University


1963 until her sudden death in 2009. On November 8, 1922, by proclamation of President V. L. Roy and Coach H. Lee Prather, all athletic teams became known as the Demons. The name was decided upon by a contest open to all students with a grand prize of $10. A committee was appointed by the President to narrow down the names submitted by the student body. The final selection was decided by a vote of the students. The two most popular choices were Braves and Demons. Among other names submitted
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Melaka Fray


fall, only to be blamed by Erin for Harth's death. The two sisters parted ways, with Erin joining up with "the laws" (i.e. the police equivalent) while Melaka continued her life of crime. At the age of nineteen Melaka was a professional thief hired by a 'radie' (i.e. radiation caused mutant) named Gunther. Melaka also often looked after a fellow girl from Versi named Loo. Melaka was approached by a demon named Urkonn who told her that lurks were in fact ancient demons known as
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List of Hellblazer characters


whose name is Ronnie Cooper, was killed by an accident, and when threatened with death if he could not bring him back, John was forced to seal the demon inside of Ronnie. But over time, the seals wore away and John lost control of it. Still in the body of the boy, it hatched a plan to impregnate the now-senile Harry with a demon child to bring about a new Anti-Christ. Constantine and Chas managed to foil the demon's plans and banished it back to Hell,
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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (season 8)


demonic possession ("Go to Hell"), the death of a hermaphrodite ("The Case of the Cross-Dressing Carp"), the murder of a slasher actress ("The Chick Chop Flick Shop"), and a kidnapping that brings New York's top FBI agent to Las Vegas ("Who and What"). Meanwhile, Catherine finds herself affected by the death of a three-year old ("A Thousand Days on Earth"), and the death of a difficult TV star leads
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Inuyasha (character)


Izayoi, the two lived together; however, the circumstances of Inuyasha's youth and any details of how long his mother was alive for or what happened to her is never revealed, but he was shown to have had an isolated childhood, shunned by humans for his demon blood. After the death of his mother when he was a child, Inuyasha grew up isolated and alone, having to deal with demons' and humans' hatred toward him and hardship. Inuyasha met and fell in love with the priestess Kikyo, who
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Christian Peacemaker hostage crisis


the body was recovered. CPT claims that two independent sources who examined the body more closely also found no evidence of torture. A member of the group added that he believed claims of torture "further demonize the other side." The results of an independent autopsy have not been made public. Upon Fox's death the CPT released a statement of condolences, also asking that the world not "vilify or demonize others, no matter what they have done." They quoted Fox himself, saying, "We reject violence to
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Final Doom


main character, the nameless space marine (who was revealed to be the marine commander on the moon) has been away on a walk at that time and thus escapes death or zombification. After being attacked by an imp, he rushes back to the base where he sees the demonic spaceship still hovering above it and realizes what has happened. He then swears that he will avenge his slain troops and sets out to kill as many demons as possible. In the end, the marine defeats the Icon of Sin and the game
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Rozz Williams


Christian Death after the American shows in April 1985, citing loss of interest and a distaste for touring as reasons for his departure. Valor took the rest of the band to Italy as part of the European tour. Williams had asked Gitane Demone not to continue under the name Christian Death and Valor had agreed to change the name of the band to Sin and Sacrifice. Instead of following through with his commitment to this agreement, Valor Kand decided instead to keep the Christian Death name, first changing the name to "The Sin
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Death Note: The Musical


asks what she would say to Kira if she met him. He is left stunned by her response - she would tell him to stop, declaring that he should follow her brother's example, whilst Misa muses over how much she idolizes Kira ("We All Need a Hero"). Returning home, Light watches an Interpol broadcast in which L reveals himself and vows to capture Kira, causing Light to write his name in the Death Note. However, this turns out to be a trap; after the man dies
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Forever (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)


home of a man named Doc, Dawn and Spike receive an incantation, but learn that they need a Ghora demon's egg and a picture of Joyce. Doc advises Dawn that the results might not be what she wants and that if she wishes to undo the spell, she must tear up the image. Spike takes Dawn to a Ghora demon nest, where he plays interference with the three-headed demon while Dawn gets an egg, which she drops in her haste. During their second attempt, Spike is bitten by
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Dylan Keogh


noted that "things are going well for Dr Dylan Keogh". When Dylan's father was admitted to the ED, a "Daily Mirror" reporter noted that Dylan was "not happy" to Brian, as he "openly despises him!" Duncan Lindsay of the "Metro" observed, "Dylan is forced to face up to his demons as he is diagnosed with OCD – but it proves harder than he ever imagined." Following the release of the show's Summer 2016 trailer, Elaine Reilly of "What
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Demons (2017 film)


host the wedding of one of Colin’s old friends, what begins as a jovial reunion turns into something much more macabre, as the seemingly omnipresent ghost of Kayleigh’s sister Jewel compels Kayleigh to engage in bizarre, destructive behaviors that endanger the lives of both her friends and herself. Told in two timelines, past and present, the film slowly unravels the unsettling circumstances of Jewel’s death, while tracing Kayleigh’s struggle to understand why her sister haunts her. "Demons" was the first horror movie from Historia Films.
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Night of the Demon


(Maurice Denham) begs his rival, Dr. Julian Karswell (Niall MacGinnis), to rescind the curse he inflicted on Harrington; in return, Harrington will cease his investigation into Karswell's Satanic cult. After learning that a parchment he gave Harrington has been destroyed, Karswell ushers him out and promises to do what he can. As Harrington arrives home, he perceives a gigantic demon materializing in the trees. Harrington tries to escape in his car but crashes into powerlines. The authorities declare electrocution as the cause of death.
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The Death of the Hired Man


"The Death of the Hired Man" is a poem by Robert Frost. Although it was first published in 1914 with other Frost poetry in the "North of Boston" collection, critic Harold Bloom notes that the poem was written in 1905 or 1906. "The Death of the Hired Man" is a long poem primarily concerning a conversation, over a short time period in a single evening, between a farmer (Warren) and his wife (Mary) about what to do with an ex-employee named Silas,
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Devil May Cry 3 (manga)


. He managed to escape its grasp after his demonic powers began to awaken. Once Dante defeats the demon in question, the Mad Hatter toys with Dante, and tries to convince Dante give the sealed demon a name. Dante, however, sees through the Mad Hatter's attempts to do so, inquiring as to just what will happen if he does; the Mad Hatter refuses to answer. However, before this can go any further, Vergil arrives and almost instantly releases the third of the four seals; Vergil broke the
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Dark Messiah of Might and Magic


" and would use the relics of the Seventh Dragon to shatter the Demons prison forever. 969 years after Sar-Elam's death, after the young king Nicolai Griffin was killed by a demon renegade, the demon sovereign, Kha-Beleth impregnated Nicolai's former-fiancee, Isabel Greyhound, and before she could have been saved, she gave birth to the Dark Messiah. 20 years later, Sareth's story begins. The protagonist of "Dark Messiah" is a young man named Sareth, who is under the tutelage
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The Great God Pan


the death of Helen Vaughan in Machen's novella and Lucy's death in "Dracula". Tibbetts also notes that Machen's portrayal of Helen Vaughan as demonic and hyper-sexual may have influenced a similar character, The Woman of Songs, in Richard Marsh's "The Beetle" (1897). "The Great God Pan" was highly influential on the circle of writers around H. P. Lovecraft. The structure of Machen's story influenced the structure of Lovecraft's "The Call of Cthulhu" (1928). "
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Meg Masters


the demon was possessing. Aycox also found the character sarcastic, "sharp-tongued, witty, [and] smart", as well as determined to get what she wants. Likewise, series creator Eric Kripke noted that she can "really twist the knife psychologically." The word "fiery" summed up the character for actress Rachel Miner, who noted the "devilish enjoyment" that the "obviously very evil" Meg gets from playing cat-and-mouse games with the Winchesters. In her opinion, Meg
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Death Note 2: The Last Name


Takada using a fragment of a Death Note hidden inside his watch. Earlier, Light had written a fake rule into the Death Note stating that, once a person writes a name, he must keep writing names every thirteen days or perish. The police, believing this rule to be real, consider Light and Misa as being completely exonerated, as they were in custody for much longer than thirteen days. Light asks Misa to uncover the buried Death Note to kill L. Misa, having forgotten L's name, resumes Kira's
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Fangxiangshi


Many writers have noted the remarkable phonetic similarities among the names for the ritual "fangxiangshi" and the "fangliang", "wangliang", and "wangxiang" demons he exorcised; and some scholars such as Chen Mengjia, Kobayashi Taichirō, and William Boltz have theorized that the "fangxiangshi" exorcist was a personification of these demons, and was "in effect exorcising himself" (Boltz 1979: 423). In this understanding, the devouring exorcist and devoured creatures were ultimately identical. Boltz (1979: 431) suggests
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Clint Lowery


announced that he would be happy to have Clint join Dark New Day for any shows in the near future during time off. In September 2008 Lowery wrote and recorded a 6-song EP while off the road with Sevendust for a week. He played every instrument on the CD, which was produced by Corey Lowery at Exocet Studios which the name of the project is title Hello Demons Meet Skeletons. According to Lowery's personal website, Hello Demons Meet Skeletons was a phrase used to described what happened to a life when all the demons
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Death Note 2: The Last Name


wrote his own name into the Death Note, scheduling his death a month in advance. As a result, he became immune to further writings in the Death Note. When Watari died, L pretended to die. Furthermore, the Death Note which Light attempted to use to kill his father was fake. Light, being cornered, pleads with Ryuk to kill the people surrounding him, but Ryuk decides to kill Light instead. He reveals to Light that any human who owns a Death Note is banned from Heaven and Hell,
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Tokyo Majin


that they escaped themselves. To fight these 'Reborn Dead' and to prevent more deaths, mysterious transfer student, Tatsuma Hiyuu, and delinquent student, Kyouichi Houraiji, stay up every night to fight and solve what's causing this. Along with the rest of their group, who all have supernatural powers, they soon realize that a greater threat, which involves even more powerful demons, is near. The first season, Tokyo Majin Gakuen Kenpuchō: Tō (東京魔人學園剣風帖 龖?, lit., "Tokyo Demon Academy Sword
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