So you've been having trouble sleeping lately, and in response your doctor suggests that
you try out a sensory deprivation tank.
Meant to help calm and soothe people, these metal cylinders suspend the individual inside
in a tank full of warm water while blocking out all light and noise from the outside world.
As you feel yourself relaxing in your small cocoon of oblivion, your mind starts to wander.
At first you think about your life and the world around you as you often do when idly
daydreaming, but suddenly you feel your thoughts turn to somewhere... else.
In your mind's eye you see a new place- a world of shadows lit up by a deep midnight
bluish haze.
Suddenly you realize that you're not just daydreaming about this place, you're physically
there!
But wait, there's something else there with you just ahead.
A strange, humanoid creature that seems to be eating something.
Gasping in surprise, the creature spins around and you see its head open up like a flower
petal, and the horror of it sends your mind reeling back into our world!
Yet as you clamber out of your sensory deprivation chamber you look up and see a rift on the
wall before you, an interdimensional tear linking our world and this strange, alien
world full of monsters- and standing there in the rift is the creature you thought was
nothing more than a bad dream!
Hello and welcome to another episode of The Infographics Show's You Versus, today we're
pitting you up against the monster from the realm of nightmares, the Demogorgon.
So you awakened latent psychic powers and accidentally tore a hole in space time, dragging
through it an interdimensional horror hellbent on feasting on your flesh- how are you going
to get out of this jam?
As usual, we've got your back, but first to defeat your enemy, you must know him.
Or her.
Or it- we're really not up to date on our interdimensional monster biology.
The Demogorgon is a creature accidentally brought into our world after a series of government
experiments designed to tap into the psychic abilities of young children went horribly
wrong.
A native of the dimension known simply as The Upside-Down, we actually know very little
about the Demogorgon or its home plane of existence.
It's believed that the Demogorgon reproduces much in the same way as a Xenomorph, by implanting
larva into living hosts, but it's just as possible that the Demogrogon reproduces by
laying eggs, and merely brings back living prey to be consumed by its spawn.
What is known about the creature is that it is a fierce predator with an incredibly well
developed sense of smell.
Compared to a shark, its olfactory powers border on what we would consider supernatural,
able to detect spilled blood from miles away.
Perhaps its power originates in its ability to move between dimensions though, and its
senses operate in a fashion that is completely alien to us.
As mentioned, the Demogorgon does have the ability to move between dimensions, though
the act appears to require a huge amount of energy and may possibly temporarily weaken
it.
As visitors to The Upside-Down have noted, its home dimension and ours seem to slightly
overlap, almost like the way you can lay two sheets of paper on top of each other and see
part of the bottom sheet through the top sheet.
This means that general geographic features of our world are present as well in The Upside-Down,
and sounds also carry over from our dimension to the Demogorgon's dimension.
With its ability to seemingly travel between dimensions at will, it's unclear why the Demogorgon
never visited our world prior to 1983, as surely it would have been aware of our existence.
Perhaps the Demogorgon showed no interest until initial contact was made by accident,
or perhaps the Stranger Things writing staff overlooked an interdimensional portal-sized
plot hole in their scripts.
The demogorgon is not just a formidable predator with a keen sense of smell, it also has a
small talent for some low-level kinetics.
While you won't have to worry about dodging furniture being tossed at you from across
the room, you should be aware of its ability to manipulate small objects with its mind-
however luckily for you the demogorgon is definitely one of the least intelligent enemies
we've pitted you up against, preferring to use brute force to navigate obstacles.
Its hide is comparable to that of an elephant's, making it able to shrug off most small caliber
weapons fire with little effect.
The Demogorgon is also extremely physically resilient even when wounded, and if given
a chance will regenerate from even catastrophic amounts of damage in a very short time.
It's unknown if the Demogorgon possesses this ability naturally, or if perhaps there is
an unknown property about The Upside-Down that works to preserve and even regenerate
life.
Individuals trapped in The Upside-Down have been known to survive for up to a week with
no food and water, and thus it may be that the Demogorgon simply returns to The Upside-Down
where it heals at a greatly accelerated rate due to the ambient properties of the realm.
This is of course pure speculation, and it may simply possess incredible regenerative
properties- if it is indeed able to somehow store enough energy to tear a hole between
dimensions inside its body then it's not impossible to believe that it is also able to store enough
chemical energy to kickstart a biological regenerative process.
This does mean that the Demogorgon is going to need to feed immediately after regenerating
huge amounts of physical damage, which is going to make it even more dangerous- so what
we're saying is that if you start a fight against a Demogorgon, you'd best finish it.
A super olfactory sense, an incredibly resilient body, and the ability to regenerate, this
is already a formidable foe- yet as our friend Billy Mays would say, but wait, there's more.
The Demogorgon doesn't just have the ability to move between dimensions, it seems to be
able to do so even while hunting, making it an ambush master.
This means it can literally jump out at you from out of nowhere, so you're going to have
to keep your head on a swivel.
Luckily though the Demogorgon does display the same predatory instincts as many of Earth's
hunters, and prefers to ambush prey that is unaware- so stay out of dimly lit corners
and you should be fine.
Also like many ambush hunters, the Demogorgon seems hesitant to charge straight at prey
that is aware of its presence- this is similar to many sharks which will not attempt to tackle
prey unless they can ambush it.
So, how are you going to defeat this thing?
First things first, choose your battlefield- or in this case, design it.
As mentioned the Demogorgon isn't particularly intelligent, and seems to operate on little
more than predatory instinct.
It's super smell sense gives it a huge advantage, except we're going to use it against it.
You're going to want to pick a nice, well-lit location such as a school gymnasium to make
your stand in.
The overhead lighting and large open space will discourage the Demogorgon from trying
to use its ability to travel between dimensions and ambush you, something it only seems to
want to do when it is sure it'll be able to get the drop on unwary prey.
Next, get some full body length mirrors- a lot of them.
We're talking at least two to three dozen.
You're going to be setting these up around the room in groups of threes, so that they
lean against each other and cover each other's non-reflective backsides.
Along the edges of each mirror you're going to rub some of your own blood, and with so
many mirrors that's going to take a bit of bleeding on your behalf.
But hey, no pain no gain, or in this case, no pain, you get eaten by an interdimensional
monster.
Luckily for you though the Demogorgon's sense of smell is so acute, that just a small amount
of blood will be enough.
As we mentioned, the Demogorgon is not particularly intelligent, and it's thought that its sense
of smell is its primary sense, with weak eyesight.
The perpetual twilight nature of its home realm in The Upside-Down is also a strong
indication that this beast may have evolved to rely less on sight and more on its other
senses to navigate the darkness, no different than many cave-dwelling species.
The goal of your mirrors is going to be to throw your reflections across the room, thereby
confusing its already weak sense of sight and confusing its sense of smell with all
the blood you've spread around.
Not being particularly intelligent, the Demogorgon should throw itself at the nearest reflection,
working its way to the real you by process of elimination.
Your mirror trap has bought you some time, but just how do you down a creature that can
take a full 30 round magazine from an M-16 and keep on coming?
When it comes to tackling supernatural, demonic, alien, or interdimensional threats, we here
at The Infographics Show have one adage: problem-solving through superior firepower, and when bad things
go bump in the night, we have just the tool to bump this particular baddy right back.
An experimental version of the famous Barrett .50 caliber anti-material rifle, the Barrett
XM109 was developed at the request of the US Military, which saw a need for its marksmen
to defeat ever more formidable armored vehicles.
In response the Barrett company pulled out all the stops in the development of the XM109,
which was specifically made to chamber the XM1049 25mm high explosive round.
Capable of penetrating several inches of composite armor, the XM109 can stop a lightly armored
vehicle such as an infantry fighting vehicle out to a range of 1.2 miles (2km).
At a range of just a few hundred feet though, the XM109's 25mm explosive round will penetrate
the Demogorgon's tough hide and then trigger the dual explosive, turning your interdimensional
attacker into nothing more than a rapidly evaporating mist.
You better make that first shot count though, as you won't get many more.
One of the main drawbacks of the XM109 and the reason it wasn't approved for military
use was the massive recoil produced by the rifle, with operators sustaining shoulder
injuries after just a few shots.
So whatever you do, don't miss.
But also because the moment you get that first shot off, the Demogorgon- and everything in
a half-mile radius- is going to know exactly where you are... and once that happens, well,
the best we can do is recommend some nice funeral arrangements.
How would you defeat The Demogorgon?
Is there such a thing as too much firepower when fighting interdimensional monsters?
Let us know in the comments!
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