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Take a moment to appreciate your surroundings, for where we stand shall serve as your tomb for eternity. The hate for the gods that has boiled in my veins… you will taste all of it in the bite of my blade. The only question left is how long you will manage to remain standing before I take your life. Try to keep it interesting for me, would you? And when you do fall, know that your world and everything in it will be mine to dominate… mine to subjugate… mine to rule! When I finish with you, you can take solace in knowing your friends and kin will soon follow, as I wipe all who oppose me from the face of this world! …It won't be long now. At last, the almighty power I've sought for millennia… I will take the Triforce for my own… And the world shall be under my foot for eternity!
~ Demise before facing Link in battle.
Extraordinary… You stand as a paragon of your kind, human. You fight like no man or demon I have ever known. Though this is not the end. My hate… never perishes. It is born anew in a cycle with no end! I will rise again! Those like you… those who share the blood of the goddess and the spirit of the hero… they are eternally bound to this curse. An incarnation of my hatred shall ever follow your kind, dooming them to wander a blood-soaked sea of darkness for all time!
~ Demise cursing Link's soul as well as Zelda's and Hyrule itself to be forever tormented by evil out of spite.

Demon King Demise, also known as The Imprisoned in his weakened state, is the overarching antagonist of The Legend of Zelda franchise, serving as the overarching antagonist of The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword.

He is the primeval King of Evil and the source of all the monsters plaguing Hyrule and the reason humanity was forced out of the Surface. Seeking the power of the Triforce to rule the world as a hellish wasteland, upon being sealed by the Goddess Hylia, Demise sends Ghirahim. He is also the original incarnation of the franchise's main villain, Ganondorf, who is Demise's dying curse of hate and bloodshed against Hyrule and the source of all the evil that made it suffer.

As Demise his vocal effects are provided by Takashi Nagasako, while as the Imprisoned, they are done by Tsuguo Mogami.

What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]

  • He sent monsters and demons across Hyrule and had them slaughter everything they see in an attempt at getting the Triforce, leading to countless casualties.
  • His rampage was so bad, he has driven most of humanity to extinction, driving out all survivors from the surface and live on the clouds.
  • When the Goddess Hylia fights and seals him to ensure he doesn't wipe out the rest of humanity, Demise gravely injures her, forcing her to reincarnate as a mortal named Zelda.
  • He unleashes Ghirahim onto the world, having him commit all the actions that he does, for the sake of ensuring his seal is broken and he can be freed. When Ghirahim succeeds, he rewards his servitude by forcibly turning him back into his sword form.
  • After inviting Link for a final duel, he promises that upon killing him, he will finish what he started and wipe out the rest of humanity, starting with his friends and loved ones, and crush the world underfoot to make it his hellish domain to rule for eternity.
  • While he does respect Link's courage as a warrior, Demise still is very condescending to Link and makes frequent taunts on his mortality. This takes the worst when he curses Link and Zelda's soul to forever be tormented by the incarnation of his never-ending hate out of petty spite for Link managing to slay him, spending his final moments laughing as he does so, as he can't stand unambiguously losing and wants the final laugh.
  • He curses Link and Zelda's souls to forever be tormented by his reincarnation, Ganondorf, and doom them and all of Hyrule to "to wander a blood-soaked sea of darkness for all time" as Ganondorf, the series' primary antagonist, becomes the most persistent source of tragedy and bloodshed that Hyrule will face, with numerous other nasty villains such as Veran, Zant, Yuga and Astor arising as either Ganondorf's servants or pawns. Demise is unambiguously portrayed as the root cause of nearly all evil that persists in Hyrule and becomes the very embodiment of the franchise's demanding heinous standard.
  • While Demise is a demon, he is not made of evil as another demon named Batreaux in the same game is friendly, benevolent and harmless and just wants to be friends with humans, proving that demons in the Legend of Zelda universe are not inherently evil and therefore Demise has no moral agency issues.

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Veran | Zant | Demise | Ghirahim | Yuga | Astor | Ganondorf (Era of the Wilds)

Manga Adaptations
Ganondorf | Ganon | Onox | Bellum | Demise

Fanon
Ganondorf (The Hero of Time Fan Film) | Ganondorf (The Hero of Time Script Fic)

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Nintendo Pure Evils

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