Doom 3/Enemies
The following are enemies in the id Software first-person shooter computer and video games Doom 3 and its expansion pack Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil. Most of the enemies in the games are Demons from Hell.
Zombies
Zombies are UAC personnel that have become possessed and zombified by demons from Hell. They appear in these varieties:
- Zombie: A basic zombie, attacking with a variety of melee weapons, such as fists, flashlights, and wrenches. Most are average in build, though a few appear that are rather fat.
- Flaming Zombie: A perpetually aflame zombie that attacks with a slash.
- Chainsaw Zombie: As it's name implies, this zombie wields a chainsaw.
- Z-Secs: These are UAC security personnel that have become possessed. As they are former military troops, they are better armed and more tactical in their attacks than normal zombies. Common weapons include pistols, machine guns, and shotguns. A variety of pistol-wielding Z-Secs appear with a protective riot shield.
- Commando: A larger, beefier Zombie. Two varieties exist: One wields a chaingun, the other rushes and attacks with an extending tentacle.
Imp
Imps are the basic cannon-fodder that you will encounter. They are humanoid in appearance, with gray skin, ten small dark eyes, and bony scales on their upper arms. They attack either by launching fireballs that travel in an arching path, or by slashing at the player with elongated claws. They also have the ability to leap at the player from afar, causing damage. They can be seen to drop down from the ceiling from time to time, though they do not crawl on the ceiling or walls to any tactical advantage. In the Hell level of Doom 3, the Imps have orange skin and have a rocky frame.
Demon
The Demon (or Pinky Demon or Bull Demon) is a half-mechanical, lumbering beast that attacks with it's jaws. It stomps around on four legs, with the two rear legs mechanical in nature. It's top half is hunchbacked and muscular. It can rush the player at a very high speed, and it's attacks are quite damaging.
The designers have explained the unique face of the pinky demon by describing how it is born: a newborn Pinky's face is buried under thick folds of flesh, and the animal must consume itself to breathe and eat. It should be noted in some places in the Hell level of Doom 3, the organic half of this demon can be found hanging on meat hooks. Why they are there is unknown, but they could be used as a food source.
Also of note, in the Doom movie, a human character nicknamed "Pinky" with a mechanical lower body is transformed into a pinky demon. This is the only appearance this monster makes in the movie.
Maggot
The Maggot has a similar appearance to the Imp but it is slightly smaller and has more of a green skin tone. Instead of one head, it has two which both feature orange eyes. Its frame is monkey-like which makes it move on all fours. Its back has blade-like parts sticking out from these two large red fleshy areas. They are capable of crawling on walls and other surfaces, which the Imp does as well, supporting the idea of a possible relation.
Maggots lack the fire ball attack of the Imp and other hell demons but still feature melee attacks. They are relatively weak compared to some other demons but their speed and ferocity make up for that.
The designers commented that this demon was drawn in various forms before deciding on the form we see today. It was apparently inspired by a photo of a two headed frog. Despite the name, they do not resemble real maggots in the slightest.
Trite
The Trite is a spider-like demon that is composed of an inverted human head, with six legs sprouting from the base. They attack with leaping bites, and though they are quite weak individually, they tend to appear in large groups.'
Tick
The Tick resembles the Trite, though the head portion is smoother, and it's attack varies in the aspect that they explode on contact, making them suicide bombers, after a fashion.
Lost Soul
Lost Souls are flying human heads, propelled by mechanical jets placed in the rear of the head. Though their faces are obviously human, they have long fangs that are used in their method of attack. Tears can also be seen running from the eyes if the player gets close enough. In several cutscenes in Doom 3, flying ghost-like skulls fly about possessing humans. These skulls closely resemble the Lost Souls from the classic Doom games.
Cherub
The Cherub is a small demon. Its lower half is an insect's abdomen and the back has insect-like wings. The upper half features two arms that end with clawed hands and the head is that of a human baby. Its eyes are pale and devoid of pupils. Whenever it flies around, it makes a buzzing noise and when it attacks, it emits a harsh screech. It can only do melee attacks, which are leaping at its enemies with a force that can knock them down and slashing with its claws. However, they are pushovers and very easy to kill. When they die, they sometimes make an infant-like cry. They are overall considered somewhat unsettling in appearance.
Usually when they are seen, the Mancubus is around too. Some suggest that Mancubi are the parents to the Cherub. Neither look anything alike although a possible metamorphosis theory can't be ruled out.
Cacodemon
Cacodemons are organic flying demons that are roughly sphere-like in appearance, resembling a large, inflated demonic head. They have several eyes and a large mouth filled with multiple rows of teeth. Though they do attack with these teeth at close range, their main method of attack are fireballs launched from their mouth.
Hell Knight
The Hell Knight is a gigantic humanoid that vaugly resemble the Shambler from Quake. Hell Knights are gray-skinned towering hulks that are of prodigious weight, causing loud thuds and minor ground-shaking as they walk. Their huge muscular frames lend them tremendous physical strength, able to send a man flying twenty or so feet away with a simple backhand-slap. An in-game exhibition of their spine indicates they have a massive skeleton as well. Many consider them to be an Imp on steroids.
Their heads are hunched forward, supported on their thick neck and trapezius muscles, with exposed mouths that permanently salivate. Lacking any visible eyes, ears or nose, they nonetheless excel as hunters. Their upper bodies are vaguely humanoid; the rib cage deepened to make way for the head, and bearing only four clawed extremities on their hands, opposable thumb included. Their leg structure is in the manner of a goat's hind legs, much like depictions of Satan or satyrs, although theirs terminate in feet with clawed toes, not hooves. Likewise with the rest of the frame, the musculature is large and prominent. When a Hell Knight is encountered in the Hell level, its skin is dark green, appears rocky and it has a pentagram on its head. They rank among the toughest of the non-boss enemies within the games.
Hell Knights attack in four ways. They can manifest balls of plasma which they throw, perform the aforementioned backhand-slap, a downward slashing motion with their claws or by a vicious bite. Their tremendous endurance allows them to survive even the most powerful weapons at least once, including the BFG 9000 unless charged up for a more powerful blast. The Hell Knight also appeared in the expansion pack, Resurrection of Evil. However, its place as the second strongest non-boss enemy was dethroned by the fearsome Bruiser.
In the book The Making of Doom 3, sound designer Ed Lima describes how he aimed for a "Jurassic Park/dinosaur kind of thing" for the Hell Knight's sound effects, which were created by a company called Danetracks.
Mancubus
The Mancubus is a gargantuan demon with an elephant-like head. It's head has what looks like a trunk extending from under the eyes and connecting to the chest. Around where the "trunk" begins are what appear to be small tusks. But if one uses the noclip cheat on the Mancubus and walks into it, suckers like those of an octopus can be seen, and so these "tusks" are more like tentacles. The suckers can also be seen in the FMV where the player first encounters the Mancubus, when the creature is ramming its way through a grate. The designers commented that the face was inspired along the lines of Cthulhu and a shock site image of a man who took off his lower jaw from a gun shot.
Their main method of attack are fireballs launched from twin mechanical arm-cannons They can also attack at close-range by slamming its cannons vertically. They also have the highest health of any non-boss enemy in the game.
Also of note is that almost every Mancubus in Doom 3 is accompanied by a small Cherub. Some speculated that these may be the offspring of the Mancubi but this is not confirmed.
Revenant
The Revenant is an animated humanoid with transparent flesh, making it look like a walking skeleton. It's eyes glow a blue-green color, and the creature emits a dinosaur-like screech when nearby. The Revenant attacks with homing missles launched from shoulder-mounted rocket launchers. As the game progresses, it is discovered the Revenant shoots its rockets by nerve reactions. It can also attack with a slash at close range. According to the developers, the Doom 3 Revenant was supposed to be closer in design to the original Doom II monster. The introduction of the transparent skin was originally only as a guide to compare the model with that of a normal human, but the modeller liked the change.
It has also been stated by the modeller that the Revenant was once human but had Hell's technology implanted into it which distorted the skin and formed the demon.
Wraith
The Wraith is a hunched-over humanoid demon with long, sythe-like claws at the end of each arm. It's head is partially insect-like, with two mandibles over it's mouth. It possesses the ability to teleport quickly over distances, often doing so to sneak up on the player. It can be said that the Wraith shares certain similarities with the Imp and the Maggot, and is often considered to be related.
Arch-Vile
The Arch-Vile is a lean, pale humanoid demon with a bulbous head, long claws, and heart-like tumors on each hand. It has the ability to summon other demons from Hell to it's side for aid, as well as being able to attack by shooting a wave of flame along the ground towards the player.
Vagary
The Vagary is the first boss in Doom 3.
While the other demons appear to be male or maybe sexless, Vagary is a female. The upper half of the demon is the pale torso of a woman, featuring six spider-like eyes, bony arms, breasts with no nipples and a bald head. The bottom half is a black headless spider (the upper half should be presumed as the head) with a large transparent abdomen. Inside the abdomen appears to be a large human fetus. She is considered the queen of the small beings called the Trite and Tick and the fetus on her abdomen is likely what she uses to give birth to them, if she does at all. When she is first seen, her lair is a large room with web strewn everywhere. Along the ceiling, hanging human victims entangled in the web can be seen struggling to get free. Her minions, the small spider-like Trites, can be seen as well.
Her methods of attacking are quick claw slashes, shooting web, and telekinetically lifting small, spiky boulders (possibly a rigid egg sac, as they're seen in all lairs of Vagaries) and tossing them at her enemies. However, compared to the other bosses, she is a pushover. Later in the game, two more Vagaries are fought except they are red in color. They have the same attacks as the previous one.
The Vagary could have been a replacement for the Arachnotron and the Spider Mastermind enemies from the previous Doom games.
It also bear a peripheral resemblence to the spider goddess Lloth of Dungeons and Dragons fame, main deity of the Drow
The Guardian of Hell
The Guardian of Hell, or simply known as Guardian, is the second boss in Doom 3. It is seen exclusively when the player reaches the end of the Hell level. However, in the expansion pack Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil, the head of the Guardian is engraved on some stone tablets. This could mean that either the Guardian left Hell to assist in the invasion, some of Mars' civilization saw it in Hell, or it was simply aesthetically pleasing to the game's designers.
The Guardian looks vaguely like a Tyrannosaurus Rex (The designers commented that the Guardian was designed to imply that this was the form of demon Earth's dinosaurs would have feared and also the idea of a pre-human Hell. Because it is stated the demons once inhabited Earth, they may have caused the dinosaur's extinction.), but with larger and more muscular arms ending in large round fists that appear to contain cracks full of lava, muscular legs with hooves, a hunched upper body, a very long tail that ends with a ball with cracks full of lava in it, an armored back with traces of lava, and a head that has stereotypical demonic horns and a pentagram on it. It shares some similarity, and possibly a relation, to Doom 3's Pinky Demon. It is blind (due to age, according to the designers), and what remains of its eyes are shallow pits. It summons much smaller (and possibly cybernetic) creatures dubbed Seekers to "see" for it and locate its targets. Its refuge is a large area of Hell that is filled with large pillars of rock.
Its primary attacks consist of punching with its large fists and pounding the ground, which emits spheres of energy that damage its target. It has a weak point: if the Guardian's seekers are destroyed, a glowing orb of energy appears out of an opening in the Guardian's back. Severely damaging this orb will kill the Guardian. After killing the beast, the Soul Cube is released and its body does not dissolve (unlike some other demons).
Sabaoth
Sabaoth, or Sarge, is the third boss in Doom 3. Sabaoth is the demonified and mechanized form of Seargent Kelly. His torso, head, and arms are mounted on a tank-like base. What remains of his body has been horribly mangled and devastated, merging with the mechanical parts grafted onto him. He attacks with the BFG stolen from Seargent Campbell, as well as being able to run over the player.
Cyberdemon
The Cyberdemon is the final boss of Doom 3, and cannot be hurt with conventional firepower; instead, the player has to utilize the most powerful weapon in Doom 3, the Soul Cube, to kill it. The Cyberdemon can be also be killed without the Soulcube.Template:Fact
The Cyberdemon is the largest monster in the game, standing several meters over the player, and is a gruesome mixture of both demonic and cybernetic parts. His main attack is with the rocket launcher mounted on his right arm.
Many players complained about the fact that the Cyberdemon is no longer vulnerable to the other weapons, and thus, a mod was released just some weeks after the release of Doom 3 that made the new Cyberdemon vulnerable to conventional weapons again.
Resurrection of Evil Specific Monsters
Forgotton One
The Forgotten One's form is an echo to the original Lost Soul's shape in the previous Doom games, excluding its form in Doom 3. It has two demon horns, floats with a stream of flame behind it, and instead of eyes it has just empty sockets. Its only attack is flying towards its enemy and biting. The Doom 3 incarnation of the Lost Soul does not appear in the expansion pack so the Forgotten One could either just be the replacement for the Lost Soul or perhaps a relative.
Vulgar
The Vulgar resembles an Imp although there are some bodily differences. The Vuglar have only two eyes that have an orange glow. They are slightly shorter and have a monkey-like frame instead of human. Due to this, they move on all fours but will sometimes stand up on their hind legs when angered. Unlike the Imp, they support a long tail, their bellies have small insect-like limbs attached to them and their lower jaw is designed like an insect's mouth parts. But like the Imp, they feature a fire ball attack, but it's larger and aquamarine in color, like the Hell Knight's version. The other attacks consist of leaps and claw slashing. They have a mechanical-like growl that they emit in each attack and are capable of crawling on walls and other surfaces.
In an easter egg of sorts, you can see a Vulgar attack one of the human workers.
The Vulgar was originally going to appear in Doom 3 It was stated to be the Arch-Vile but was scrapped and its appearance was saved for the expansion pack.
Bruiser
The Bruiser has a large muscular body in the vein of a Hell Knight and identical mechanical features of a Mancubus, although both creatures' robotic parts look different. It is also slightly taller than the Hell Knight. Its feet feature robotic hooves, both arms are giant fire ball launchers and the head is a sight to behold. It has two demon horns on the far back of its head, facing outward and the front has two yellow eyes with no pupils. Above the eyes are two yellow rings. The mouth is actually a large TV-screen that connects to the head with a fleshy-tube. On the screen is a close up of a (presumed) angry human mouth, showing only gums and teeth. The TV-screen also displays an eyeball upon sighting an enemy. The mouth sometimes opens and closes as the beast moves. Its back has what appears to be a visible, robotic spine.
Seen early in Doom 3's development, the Bruiser's unique TV-Like mouth was intended to be another way of surprising the player. The player would walk up to what appeared to be a typical computer terminal, and the terminal would change and the Bruiser would reveal its entire self. This, however, does not happen in any point in the game.
The Bruiser attacks by rapidly firing its cannons which decimate an opponent very quickly. You might not even get close enough to it for it to engage in mêlée attacks. But if you do, it will throw itself at you, using its arms like clubs. The endurance is even higher than that of the Hell Knight. Two ways to bring it down quickly are to shoot the TV screen or use the artifact (which has been upgraded with the beserk strength). Two double-barreled shotgun blasts or one punch will kill it in that mode.
See also
External links
- Monsters category on the Doom Wiki
