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| “ | You used to be so proud of your title as the most wicked demon. But that girl reduced you to a boneless wimp. But after 3000 years... Who do we have to thank for your returning to your current state? Ah yes... It's because every time you've chosen death and come to Purgatory... I've eaten the emotions growing within you! I trust you'll satisfy my hunger and thirst this time as well. This is also for both of our futures. | „ |
| ~ The Demon King upon reuniting with Meliodas for the first time in 3000 years. |
| “ | Tremble in fear...!! And resign yourselves!! For the sin of defying the Demon King is the greatest sin of all!! | „ |
| ~ Demon King to the Sins. |
The Demon King (in Japanese: 魔神王, Majin-Ō) is the main antagonist of the anime and manga series The Seven Deadly Sins. He is the ruler of Purgatory who commands the Demon Clan and the creator of the Ten Commandments. He is also arch-nemesis and the father of Meliodas and Zeldris.
In Japanese, he was voiced by the late Shōzō Iizuka (who also voiced Baraggan Louisenbairn in Bleach) in the second and third season, voiced by Tesshō Genda (who also voiced Kurama in Naruto, Kratos in God of War, M. Bison in Street Fighter, VIRM in Darling In The FranXX, Younger Toguro in Yu Yu Harusho, Bojack in Dragon Ball Z: Bojack Unbound, Grunbeld Arcbeast in Berserk, Raoh, Mahari, Dog Master Galf and Dante in Fist of the North Star, Impostor Captain Tennille in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders, Cocktimus Prime in Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt, Moguro Fukuzou in The Laughing Salesman, Surtr in Fire Emblem Heroes, Xord in Xenoblade Chronicles, Largo the Black Lion in Tales of the Abyss, and Pierrot in Smile Pretty Cure!) in the fourth and last season, Kazuhiko Inoue (who also voiced Kars in Jojo´s Bizarre Adventure: Battle Tendency, Gotou in Parasyte, Toichiro Suzuki in Mob Psycho 100, Giff in Kamen Rider Revice and Goblin Lord in Goblin Slayer) when possessing Meliodas body and Yasuyuki Kase (who also voiced Funny Valentine in Jojo´s Bizarre Adventure, All Star Battle) while possessing Zeldris's body and Jason Marnocha (who voiced Keicho Nijimura in Jojo´s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable, Orochi in One Punch Man, Samurai Sword in Chainsaw Man and Megatron in the Transformers franchise) in the English dub.
Personality[]
The Demon King is a ruthless, tyrannical demon that has been in constant clash with the Supreme Deity for millions of years, due to their opposing natures. He is extremely devoted to the laws of his clan and despises anyone in his army that attempts to betray him, even his own sons.
Were anyone to ever oppose him, he would either grant them a punishment that would put them through endless torture or inflict genocide on many civilians. Due to this, he is feared by many, including his son, Zeldris, who follows every command his father gives him, regardless of whether it's something he's not on board with.
Due to his tremendous power and his status as both a king and a god, the Demon King has a large sense of pride and confidence in himself and looks down upon those that attempt to oppose him. Despite this, he does not hold back against his opponents. Instead, he is always willing to display his full power to its true extent to ensure his victory.
Meliodas himself realized his father's true personality when he was possessing his body. When the Demon King was created as a deity of darkness and destruction, he was "programmed" with a purpose: to oppose the light of the Supreme Deity
History[]
The Demon King was born from an ancient entity known as Chaos shortly following the world's creation as the personification of darkness. Using his power, he created the Demon Realm and the Demons in his image, and even sired two sons, Meliodas and Zeldris.
Due to the chaos and massive size of the Demon Realm at his rule, the Demon King at first considered giving half of his power to his servant, but that choice was out of option as it could threaten his reign. To avoid giving too much power to someone else, he divided that power into ten pieces and gave it to ten of the strongest Demons to form the elite group known as the Ten Commandments.
He fell into a bitter rivalry with his "sister", the Supreme Deity, and had the Demons constantly clash with her creation, the Goddesses and eventually had them wage war against them and the allied clans in the Holy War. However, he has worked with her despite their dislike of each other on two occasions: the first was to seal away their creator, Chaos, to allow them to rule over the world as "gods" and the other was to punish their children, Meliodas and Elizabeth, for their continued defiance to the laws of their clans.
Powers and Abilities[]
The Demon King, as the ruler of one of the two strongest clans, the Demons, is tied for the second strongest character in the series alongside the Supreme Deity, the ruler of the Goddesses; the only being who outclasses them is their creator, Chaos. His raw power is acknowledged by even Meliodas to be on a godly scale and far beyond Meliodas's own massive power. Even Zeldris armed by a portion of the King's own magic power acknowledges his power still pales compared to the full power of the Demon King, and even Meliodas armed by that power cannot reach the Demon King's level. Meliodas also notes it is impossible to achieve a level of power even close to his father's even with training alongside Zeldris and Estarossa and the only way to gain power equal to the King is if Meliodas is to absorb all the Commandments. The Demon King's power is also shown by how from having inherited a mere portion of his powers, Meliodas and Zeldris became the strongest of the Ten Commandments.
In battle, the Demon King is easily one of the mightiest fighters in the series, rivaled only by the Supreme Deity, wielding not only a millennia worth of combat experience, and therefore, unparalleled combat prowess but also godly offensive and defensive powers to back said skill up. His might is shown by how during the Holy War, he single-handedly crushed the rebellion of the Vampires without sustaining even a scratch and did the same effortlessly to Meliodas, with his elder son even openly acknowledging he was utterly powerless before his father. He utterly defeated Wild countless times and decisively defeated Meliodas, Wild and Ban over 6,000 times. Even after they manage to turn his power against him, defeating him proved too much and only with Wild's full-powered sacrifice was it enough to stall the Demon King just enough for Meliodas and Ban to escape.
One of his most prominently terrifying combat traits is his incredulous magic power dubbed The Ruler, which focuses on magic inversion and allows him to completely invert any and all forms of magical attack no matter the nature to healing and strengthening. Even if one were to be able to use magical healing on him to weaken him, the King can simply change his magic power to be able to instead absorb and amplify the strength to make full recovery. The Demon King also wields other considerably formidable powers, such as summoning bolts of lightning and surges of hellfire with a simple hand movement as well as blasting powerful kinetic blast (the latter of which overloaded Wild enough to kill him.)
Being the colossal being as he is, his physical prowess is easily the greatest. He is easily strong enough to nearly crush Wild within his finger, effortlessly flick him aside with a single finger and his resilience can effortlessly withstand Wild's attacks without any scratch, only being minorly wounded when Wild super-charged himself and even that proved to be of no hinderance. Despite his size, he is tremendously fast as well and his skills in swordsmanship allows him to deliver strikes of phenomenally great speed and strength, able to cut cleanly through mountains and easily entirely pressure Meliodas and Ban, despite their far smaller size and great agility, even managing to cut off Ban's arm. With his sword skills alone, he easily repelled Meliodas's attacks and quickly defeated him.
The Demon King also wields unprecedented skill in curses and blessings, capable of crafting spells of immense durability and potency, such as the Immortality Curse he inflicted on Meliodas, which will allow him to revive no matter how many times or the method by which he dies. He even modified it to hold a fail-safe so as to be able to feed on Meliodas's emotions. The curse is strong enough that only someone as comparably powerful as the King has the ability to remove it. He also managed to convert half of his power into ten unique extremely powerful curses that he bestowed into the Ten Commandments, which is able to affect anyone except the King or the Deity as well as anyone blessed with immunity to the powers of the Demon Clan. As the Commandments are able to turn other species into Demons, the Demon King likely can also turn others into Demons himself. He is also able to bless others with immunity to the brainwashing powers of the Goddess Clan and knowledge of all the Demon Clan's secret techniques, doing so to Merlin, and grant others with a portion of his magic power, as he did with Zeldris. The Demon King can telepathically communicate with his son even when sealed and he is able to somehow mark creatures to be able to see through their eyes.
Although the Commandments detach from Zeldris's body, the Demon King's consciousness refuses to let his vessel go and tries to retrieve it. However, Ban snatch Zeldris away before the Commandments can possess him again.
Enraged, the Demon King rises and saying that they observe him, the Commandments separate and disperse in the surrounding area beginning to gets transformed intro an gigantic cthulhu-like monster created from the surrounding plant life, animals and environment of Britannia, the Demon King uses Death Zero to immobilize the Sins. He tells them to be slowly crushed out from existence as insects that have no chance against a mountain. Escanor and Ban try to fight back, but Merlin breaks the attacks in the process, as she fools him in the past.
To finish the battle, all the Sins combined Merlin in order to destroy the Demon King with a powerful blast. Later in Meliodas mind, the Demon King tells him that he will regret what he's done and that he must be aware of what he's incited by ending the cycle of darkness, which Meliodas already knew about, as he disappear into ashes.
However, even though he can be defeated, he himself cannot be truly destroyed through physical force alone no matter how great due to his status as a god. The only way for him to be truly destroyed is if an equivalent power clashes against him, which will cause his essence and the opposing power to cancel each other out, leaving nothing of him left behind to regenerate from.
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Trivia[]
- It was later revealed by the Lady of the Lake that the Demon King wasn't only the ruler of the Demon Realm and the Demons, but also the one who created them from his own dark power that he inherited from Chaos.
- The Demon King's exact age is unknown, but according to Wild, the Demon King has been around in Purgatory before Wild was born, who lived in Purgatory for over eight million years. It is later revealed that he has been trapped in Purgatory since the end of the Holy War over three-thousand years ago, which would make his age somewhere over 1,576,800,000 years old.
- The Commandments are half of his total power; so each member of the Ten Commandments has 5% of the Demon King's power. The creation of the Commandments themselves was to ensure he could have an equal rivaling his power. The Commandments themselves have a corrupting sentience on non-demons, as Estarossa became completely insane and lost his sense of self after taking on three.
External Links[]
- Demon King on the Pure Evil Wiki
- Demon King on the Nanatsu no Taizai Wiki.
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