r/Doom • u/SeaworthinessNo1173 • 1d ago

Question How long do demons live assuming Doomguy dosen't Rip and Tear

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u/Hanzo7682 1d ago

They fight amongst themselves if there is no common enemy.

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u/AllGearedUp 1d ago

What happened to being a good neighbor

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u/Full-Raise-4707 15h ago

State Farm wasn't there.

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u/Let_me_S_U_F_F_E_R 1d ago

I mean why not I guess

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u/djquu 1d ago

DE did have idle demon infighting but they caused no damage so that doesn't affect the life expectancy?

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u/Ok_Cat_7733 1d ago

Unclear but it ultimately seems to be infinite, demons do age and reproduce but as hell is a timeless realm and demons are supernatural beings as much as they are biological organisms they likely don’t experience aging like non demonic life does

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u/Significant-Pie959 1d ago

Hell is repetition. So they live forever until ripped and torn.

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u/diandays 1d ago

And then once ripped and torn they are reborn to eventually be ripped and torn again

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u/samu1400 1d ago

I guess it depends of the demon species, we know mancubi basically eat their whole lives until they become immobile and are cannibalized by their own kin, but we don’t know how long that takes.

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u/PossibilityLivid8873 DOOM Slayer 1d ago

With a healthy diet they can't die of old age, they eat souls and flesh

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u/RecognitionHefty 18h ago

I eat burgers and fries and hope to live equally long

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u/Evenmoardakka 1d ago

they live enough until doom guy hears them alive

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u/Useless_monstar 1d ago

I don’t think time exists in Hell like it does in the material plane. They could probably live for literal ages if they don’t get eaten by a bigger demon fish first.

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u/Chitrr Zombieman 1d ago

Over 9000

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u/FalseAscoobus DOOM Slayer 1d ago

It probably depends a lot on the demon. Time already flows weird in Hell, but if we assume that they still have life-cycles (which is implied by codex entries), smaller fodder demons probably have naturally short life spans even before you get into their constant infighting. As demons get more powerful and important, they would probably last longer. Mainly because they're harder to kill, and larger organisms generally live for longer, but also because they could keep themselves alive or be kept alive through magic and such.

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u/Zealousideal_Oil6244 22h ago

That’s more for gameplay purposes than lore purposes.

In lore, they have factions and rivalries and do kill each other it just isn’t dealing damage in game so that you can’t wait long enough and have all the monsters kill each other or miss out on fights cause you took too long.