- "Okay. When Lyla said an army, I thought she meant an army."
- "She did. It's just that we've never faced one like this before."
- —Mia Smoak and Oliver Queen[src]
The shadow demons are the Anti-Monitor's footsoldiers, comprising a large army serving at his beck and call who operated during the Anti-Monitor Crisis. In the original timeline, they worked alongside Reverse-Flash.
History[]
Original timeline[]
The Central City Citizen 2049 article.
In the year 2024, sometime after the Crisis, some witnesses claimed that they saw Reverse-Flash leading an army of "shadow demons".[1]
Current timeline[]
Anti-Monitor Crisis[]
Due to the changes in the timeline that occurred when Team Flash destroyed Cicada's dagger in 2019, the crisis happened in the year 2019. The Anti-Monitor tasked them to disable and/or destroy the quantum tower since it slowed the antimatter that should have destroyed Earth-38. A team of heroes fought the shadow demons, but as the heroes were extracted from the battle by the Monitor, Oliver Queen/Green Arrow made the ultimate sacrifice by disabling the former with a metaphysical arrow; and fighting the shadow demons to his last breath. The city, Earth and universe was overwhelmed anyway, and Oliver sustained fatal injuries from fighting the demons.[2]
Shadow demons on Earth-D.
When Outkast arrived on Earth-D, he summoned an army of shadow demons to fight the Justice Alliance and other heroes while their Earth was destroyed by antimatter. They later attacked Oa of Earth-12.[3]
During the battle at the dawn of time, the Anti-Monitor began to unleash his army of shadow demons against the Paragons. The creatures disappeared after Anti-Monitor was apparently defeated.[4]
The heroes face against shadow demons.
After the rebirth of the universe, aspects of Earth-1, 38, and TUD5 were merged into Earth-Prime. The Anti-Monitor resurfaced and sent the shadow demons to attack the Paragons again. After the definitive defeat of the Anti-Monitor, they were defeated.[5]
Powers and abilities[]
Powers[]
Weaknesses[]
- Lack of corporeal form: The bodies of these creatures are made of shadows and when anything touches them they dissipate. This means an individual shadow demon is extremely weak, forcing them to rely on numbers to overwhelm enemies.[2]
Appearances[]
The Flash[]
Season 5[]
- "Nora" (name seen)
Supergirl[]
Season 5[]
Arrow[]
Season 8[]
DC's Legends of Tomorrow[]
Season 5[]
Comics[]
Crisis on Infinite Earths Giant[]
Gallery[]
Concept artwork[]
Trivia[]
- Shadow demons behave similarly to the Time Wraiths in terms of how they move, look, and sound.
- How they differ is that while the wraiths are actually protecting reality and time, the shadow demons are assisting their master in the destruction of the multiverse.
Behind the scenes[]
- In the DC comics, the Shadow Demons are a race of silent killers enslaved by the Anti-Monitor, who have a pretty dark origin. They're essentially the warped essences of Weaponers, a race of aliens from the planet Qward.