Hey guys, I’m Kat Jovey and Welcome to Top 10 Nerd!
There are a lot of ways that superheroes get their powers, radioactive something, exposure
to items from other planets, scratches or bites from magical creatures, magical items,
technology, just born that way etc. but today we’re going to look at the Top 10 Superheroes
Who Got Their Powers From Demons
10) Let’s start off at number 10 with Hellboy Now, technically we don’t REALLY know how
he was created, BUT he was summoned through a portal to Earth by a Nazi cult attempting
to tip the scales of during WWII in their favour.
And he was brought here from Hell sooooo we can assume.
Thankfully, their enemies found the red baby before they could get their hands on him and
taint him.
The Allies decide to call him “Hellboy” and then the Bureau for Paranormal Research
and Defense (BPRD) is born.
One Professor Trevor Bruttenholm spearheads the organization and takes Hellboy under his
wing like a son.
On account of being from Hell he has a few demonic advantages.
He has The Right Hand of Doom, his huge stone hand that is GREAT for smashing things.
He can lift over a ton, heals very quickly and is exceptionally hard to hurt.
9) Number 8 is Sebastian Faust
He’s the son of the evil magician Felix Faust who appeared in Justice League of America
in 1962.
He taught his son how to harness the power of demons.
Later on his father put his sons soul in a bargain with a demon named Nebiros (NebY-Ross).
Sebastian though it was a mystic rite then the demon tricked Felix and gave the power
to initiate magic to Sebastian instead.
From then on he’s able to tap into soul magic.
As you might imagine he ends up with a lot of powers!
He can project magical energy, energy shield, he has healing, morphing, teleporting between
shadows, tap into peoples souls to gain their powers or feed him “mana” for spell casting.
He can possess people, cast illusions, the list goes on.
8) At number 8 we have another that is the handy work of Nebiros (NebY-Ross).
His name is Blue Devil
He started out as a stuntman named Daniel Cassidy who worked for the movies and was
working on a movie called, you guessed it Blue Devil.
He had on an exoskeleton for that character and built-in pyrotechnic devices in it as
well.
A pretty fancy stuntman.
But then a real devil (the one who gave Faust his powers) is freed from a temple that was
close to his set, he gets hit by a demonic energy blast and it magically bonds him with
the suit.
He ends up with superhuman strength, durability, agility, healing (the suit basically repairs
him), enhanced hearing, infrared night vision and stronger senses and has trident that is
able to be summoned and controlled by the suit remotely and it even shoot fire.
7)At number 7 we have: Hellstorm: Son of Satan
The full name really does say it all but, Satan or “The Hell-Lord” decides he’s
wanted a child with a human for long enough!
He’s going to go get some of that human -lovin.
To gain more power.
You know.
As you do.
He goes to Massachusetts with a secret identity, marries a woman and has three kids.
One of them being Daimon.
The son of satan.
After his mother’s death he finds out his true birth.
(the pentagram on the chest wasn’t enough of an idea?).
He meets up with dad/Satna and Satan tries to get him to come serve him it hell.
However, once Satan sent Hellstorm back to Earth he decides he’s going to fight against
his father instead.
He tried fighting his dad right away, fails, HOWEVER happens to grab some things on the
way out.
Specifically, a satanic trident and a demon-horse-drawn chariot before returning to Earth.
He also discovers his Darksoul powers inherited from good old dad.
This gives him super human strength and the ability to project soulfire from his trident.
He can sense the presence of the supernatural and can cast spells to teleport between dimensions.
6) At number 6 we have John Constantine.
It might be a slight stretch of the title BUT hear me out.
He gets his powers from the supernatural and at one point John's body contained demon blood,
which is what allowed him to channel magic and cast spells without facing the cost of
it.
His origin story is a little all over the place.
He experimented with magic at a young age before he realized there was a price to use
it.
He did a spell to become a powerful magician which ends up killing his family.
He dabbled in magic off and on, he became a rock star and fell in love with a woman
named Veronica.
He loses her due to a spell gone wrong and then turns his focus to magic.
Constantine rarely uses magical spells unless he has to, especially in combat but he can
perform many different acts.
To name a few: Demon summoning, Dimensional Travel, Exorcisms, Necromancy, Energy projections
(like solar energy to use against vampires).
He can make illusions to trick people, protection circles, Teleportation, Telekinesis, Invisibility,
mind control etc etc etc.
It really depends on the writer what he can do.
My personal favourite tidbit is his Moonblade.
It’s one of his magical weapons.
It can change shape depending on the phase of the moon and when someone is killed by
it their spirit goes into it and Contantine can use them for his bidding.
5 At number 5 we have MAGIK
Now, MAGIK was born a Mutant already, Colossus is her brother.
However, she was kidnapped by Belasco, who was was an evil sorcerer who worked with the
Elder God to be granted immortality and immense mystical power, which is why he has this demonic
appearance.
He brings her to limbo where he turns part of her soul into a blood stone and one of
his servants constantly beats her.
But his spells give her considerable magic powers like her teleportation disks.
Over her lifetime she ends up with access to both black and white magic.
She magically used her life force and eldritch energy to make her Soulsword which can disrupt
magical spells.
She also has mystical armour which appears around her called Eldritch armor that adds
horns, a tail and hooves to her appearance too.
She has an impenetrable psionic shield that telepaths can’t get through and many other
powers seen over the years.
4 At number 4 we have Hellcat
Patricia or Patsy Walker has a normal-ish upbringing but later in life meets The Beast
who is now a member of the Avengers and agrees to help her become a superhero.
During a ridealong mission that shes on they come across the Cat Suit worn by Tigra.
She puts on the costume and assumes the identity of Hell Cat.
Now I know you’re thinking...what does this have to do with demons?
Well, enter back number 7.
Hellstorm: Son of Satan.
They end up meeting and getting married.
Eventually though, she is driven mad and commits suicide but then her soul is stuck in Hell.
There she has to go through a ton of gladiatorial-like combat scenarios and she also learns to develop
her psychic powers.
Hellstrom eventually tricks Hawkeye into returning her spirit to Earth.
She gets to keep all her demonic powers she learned while there.
She has natural athletic abilities already but develops others through training with
different characters like Moondragaon who gives her martial arts training and enhances
her psionic potential (allowing her to use telekinesis abilities and resist mental control).
She gains magical resistance, enhanced strength, speed, agility, endurance, and reflexes as
well as summoning her costume at will and welding retractable claws and grappling hooks
on her wrists.
3 At number 3 we have Blade For this one we’re calling Vampires demons,
which I don’t really think is a stretch.
As you may already know, Blades mother was bitten while in labor with Blade.
She’s bitten by Deacon Frost and died during the labour.
During this some vampire enzymes were passed on to Blade but not all of them.
Since then he has sworn to avenge her by becoming a vampire hunter.
Because he wasn't turned into a vampire he has a lot of their powers without all the
drawbacks.
He can "smell" supernatural creatures, has a much longer lifespan than your average human
and is immune to normal vampire bites.
And just like many of the heroes in this list, he has superhuman speed, agility, strength,
stamina and healing.
2) At number 2 we have one you can’t argue.
It’s Ghost Rider
I know, shiver, that movie….was...not….god...i mean...nick cage….I'm gonna stop there.
So, Ghost Rider, Started out at Johnny Blaze, at least the first one.
Blaze was a stunt motorcyclist and had to sell his soul to a devil named Mephisto to
save his surged father from dying on cancer.
Sadly he ends up dying anyways doing a wild stunt involving jumping over 22 cars on a
motorcycle.
Later on Blaze becomes a Ghost Rider and start exhibiting things like sensing evil is around,
his skin turns into hellfire (which gives us the amazing effect of his head become a
flaming skull.
He rides around on a fiery motorcycle that can travel faster than any conventional vehicle
and can defy usually physics by riding up a vertical surface, jumping across great distances
and even driving across water.
He also wields blasts of hellfire that is a supernatural flame that burns the soul of
a person and can also be used to burn their physical body as well.
He is virtually indestructible, has superhuman strength and notoriously hard to injure, as
bullets and knives usually pass through them without causing pain.
Knives have even been seen to just melt when they go through him.
Different versions can do different things like have hellfire breath, the ability to
produce chains from either his throat or chest, and the ability to travel between incorporeal
realms.
A pretty stacked demonic character.
1) Finally at number 1 we have Spawn I have to say this is the one that jumped
into my mind first.
I still think about that old movie.
I wonder if they are ever going to make a remake.
Ahh 1997, what a year to be alive.
He started life out as Albert Simmons with a salesman as a father and a devil worshipper
as a mother.
He goes through life and becomes a highly capable assassin for a U.S. Security Group.
He gets decades of hand to hand combat and martial arts training in a ton of disciplines.
He is also a great marksman and swordsman.
Bu then, he gets backstabbed and murdered and ends up in hell where he makes a deal
with a demon to see his wife one more time.
However, it means he has to become an undead “hellspawn”.
When he gets back to earth he is missing a lot of his memory, is badly disfigured and
now has magical powers but also get strapped with a monitor, the Clown, AKA Violator.
He has different powers over the series but here are a few: He has superhuman strength,
durability and speed.
It’s also worth noting his living symbiotic costume.
While wearing it it’s bonded to his central nervous system and is protected even while
unconscious by this shroud, chains, spikes and skulls.
And there you have it, the top 10 superheros who got their powers from demons (or demon
type characters) Let me know who I missed and who your favourite demon powers superhero
is in the comments down below.
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