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The cyberdemon is a towering, hellish marriage of demon flesh and technology, with a gigantic muscular stature, a minotaur-like head with prominent black and gray horns, a gored humanoid torso filled with red wiring, a metallic prosthetic right leg, and a large rocket launcher mounted on its left arm. By far the most formidable enemy in classic Doom, and one of the most intimidating boss monsters in video game history, it is more than capable of taking out a healthy player in one hit from its arm-grafted weapon.

This monster first appears as a boss at the end of Doom level E2M8, and re-appears in the secret level E3M9. In the Ultimate Doom expansion, it makes additional appearances on E4M2, E4M6, and E4M7. The cyberdemon is featured on the retail box cover of Doom II, and it appears sparingly throughout the single-player game. It occurs on a large number of levels during multiplayer, however. The manual for the DOS version of Doom II describes the monster as such:

The original Doom instruction manual, on the other hand, does not mention or picture it at all, presumably to keep its climactic appearance in E2M8 a surprise. The Sony PlayStation and Doom (Super NES) manuals for Doom, both published by Williams Entertainment, do however make mention of the cyberdemon:

― Williams manuals

A cyberdemon will let out a loud, animalistic, bovine-like roar when it spots a player—loud enough to be heard no matter how far away it is from the player. It attacks by firing barrages of three rockets. It has 4000 hit points and does not receive splash damage from explosions, making it fairly difficult to kill. It is also the fastest moving monster in the original game (the lost soul's charge attack not withstanding), and second fastest in Doom II (after the arch-vile). When destroyed, the cyberdemon's body will instantly dissolve into voluminous reddish clouds of flesh, blood and gore, leaving only his blood-soaked hooves; as he explodes, he lets out a short roar that is abruptly interrupted by the sound of his body exploding.

The cyberdemon's rockets are the same as the player's rockets; however as all projectiles shot by monsters, they do not damage other monsters of the same type. Furthermore, the cyberdemon and the spiderdemon take only direct hit damage, and are immune to all blast damage. Therefore, a greater number of rockets is required to kill these bosses than might be expected, and they must be direct hits. This immunity to blast damage also precludes players from attaining cheap damage/kills by either of the following methods: tricking the cyberdemon into firing rockets while it stands against an obstacle such as a wall or pillar, or running point blank up against the cyberdemon while invulnerable through the use of cheats or artifacts.

The cyberdemon is given a higher probability of performing his attack than other monsters, causing him to launch volleys of rockets at a high frequency. In common with other monsters, although the cyberdemon is shown with his rocket launcher in his left hand, the rockets emerge from his middle. While the cyberdemon does not have a melee attack in the DOS and Doom 64 games, an apparently unintentional one does exist in the Super NES port: if the player is close enough to one in this version of the game, its attack consists of the rocket firing animation, but a scratching sound is heard with no rocket being fired.

Killing a cyberdemon is almost impossible without using a large amount of ammunition. The BFG9000 is the most effective weapon against a cyberdemon, although the plasma gun can work fairly well. Three to four direct BFG hits will usually kill a cyberdemon, and at point-blank range two well-placed shots are enough. If a BFG9000 is not available, the rocket launcher is also effective—but be prepared for a long fight, since around 45 well-placed hits with the rocket launcher are required to kill a cyberdemon. Killing a cyberdemon with other weapons is significantly more difficult: for example it takes around 400 bullets from a chaingun. It is extremely difficult to kill a cyberdemon with melee attacks and it takes roughly 400 chainsaw or non-berserk fist hits to do so, but given their extreme powers and low pain chances, it is strongly not recommended under most circumstances. Almost certainly because of the difficulty involved, the Xbox Live Arcade release of Doom II features an Achievement that requires the player to kill a cyberdemon with their bare hands, named "You Have Huge Guts", after an infamous phrase from the Doom comic.

Because a cyberdemon has a low pain chance, it is difficult to prevent it from attacking. It is also important to be constantly aware of when it fires a rocket, as it will do so relentlessly. Circle-strafing can be used to avoid return fire while attacking. Because one rocket will often be enough to critically injure the player, it is imperative that all rockets are avoided. Because of splash damage, it is also important to stay away from the explosions. For example, it is advisable to avoid standing too close to a wall when fighting a cyberdemon, as splash damage can be sustained from rockets hitting the wall.

A skilled player can somewhat nullify the cyberdemon's low pain chance by straferunning towards it to get within point blank range, and then hitting it with the super shotgun. The monster will flinch roughly eighty percent of the time when hit by the full twenty-pellet blast, giving the player time to retreat, reload, and repeat the process. This can take the cyberdemon down in fewer than 25 shots, but is very risky, and only recommended in areas where the rocket launcher is impractical, or to conserve rocket and cell ammunition. This tactic is common amongst high-tier speedrunners.

The cyberdemon's immense size can sometimes be used as an advantage when attacking it. In some maps, the cyberdemon(s) are placed in a large courtyard or structure and the entrance is too small for them to pass through. This can help a novice player to escape if major injuries are sustained.

Due to its firepower and hitpoints which are by far the highest among demons, the cyberdemon easily dominates in monster infighting battles. Because of this, luring it into fighting another monster is a great way to save ammunition. However, it can occasionally get overwhelmed by either the spiderdemon (as often occurs in MAP20: Gotcha!) or a large group of very strong demons like the baron of Hell (see MAP08: Tricks and Traps).

• It is impossible to provoke infighting between two cyberdemons, as they are unaffected by the splash damage from each others' rockets. There is no map in Doom and Doom II where the player would encounter two or more cyberdemons at the same time, however, so this was probably never taken into consideration.
• The cyberdemon is portrayed with a prominent human-like nose in the Doom II title screen, based on art by Gerald Brom. However, in the sprites and the original sculpture by Adrian Carmack, the cyberdemon only has two simple nostrils.
• By default, all projectiles are spawned 32 map units above the center of the shooter (although this has been changed in Doom 64). The cyberdemon is the monster for which this behavior is most noticeable, as the rockets fired by the cyberdemon appear to spawn near the space between its legs.
• The cyberdemon's left (natural) leg audibly impacts upon the ground; no other monster has audible footsteps. The cyberdemon's other artificial leg also makes noise as it moves, the same sound made by the mechanical legs of the spiderdemon.
• Normally when a level is finished, for example by pressing a switch, the screen melt effect takes place instantly. However, if the level is meant to end after killing the cyberdemon or spiderdemon, an extra delay of 30 tics occurs, coded into the monsters' state sequences in order to afford the player a chance to look at the monster's corpse. Consequently, in the Doom II cast sequence, the corpses remain noticeably longer on the screen in comparison with the other characters.
• The cyberdemon, along with the demon, mancubus, and spiderdemon, is one of the few monsters whose dying sound clips includes noise other than the monsters' vocals; in this case, the cyberdemon's roar is accompanied by a loud explosion and is cut off by it near the end as its body completely disintegrates.
• The cyberdemon is depicted in the game as an ungulate: it stands on the very tips of its toes, which have fused to become hooves. Ungulates are distinguished from digitigrades, such as cats, dogs, and birds, which stand with their toes flat on the ground but their heels off the ground; and plantigrades, like humans and bears, which stand with their heels flat on the ground.
• In the Doom novels, in which monsters are generally not referred to by their in-game names, the cyberdemon's mechanical parts are said to be steam powered, leading the characters to call them "steam demons."
• The horned skull near the top of the door texture BIGDOOR7 resembles the cyberdemon's head. It is unclear if this is merely a decoration or the skull of an actual fallen cyberdemon.
• The Depths of Doom Trilogy's manual erroneously states the cyberdemon is only present in Doom II, due to it not being mentioned in the original game's manual.
• A weaker version of the cyberdemon with no horns is introduced as the tyrant in the Legacy of Rust expansion.

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In the IWADs the cyberdemon is first encountered on these maps per skill level:

The IWADs contain the following numbers of cyberdemons per skill level:

Of the maps covered on the Doom Wiki, the following have the highest numbers of cyberdemons in single-player:

This data was last verified on March 13, 2024.

The cyberdemon in Doom 64 has undergone some changes. Aesthetically, it has darker colored skin, is much wider, and its rockets leave smoke trails. Gameplay-wise, the cyberdemon moves much slower, with its movement speed reduced from 187 u/s down to 120 u/s, and its rockets are faster, with their movement speed being buffed from 700 u/s up to 900 u/s. Additionally, its rockets now have a firing offset that has them emerge from the launcher itself instead of from the middle of the monster. Due to the cyberdemon's massive height, this results in the rockets being fired in a downward angle towards the player when on levelled height, making splash damage a greater threat as the rockets can hit the ground and explode near the player, meaning the 64 cyberdemon does not need the aid of walls for its splash damage to be a factor. While the Doom 64 cyberdemon has a similar death sequence animation compared to its DOS counterpart, consisting of a full-body explosion, it is more elaborate in Doom 64, involving its form stricken with several separate explosions before the body essentially evaporates in a haze of fiery blood, replete with a shot of its skeletal frame vanishing into the clouds.

The 3D sculpted model for an unused cyberdemon

Cyberdemons are relatively rare throughout the game, only appearing as the final obstacle in a couple late levels and in the secret "fun" maps that can only be accessed by the Features menu. Notably, unlike the original Doom 1 and 2, 64 is willing to throw multiple cyberdemons at the player at once, with MAP17: Watch Your Step featuring a dual cyberdemon battle at the end on the Watch Me Die difficulty, while MAP24: No Escape contains three cyberdemons on Watch Me Die, including having to fight the last two simultaneously also.

A special variety of cyberdemon appears on the game's introductory title sequence map. This particular cyberdemon is coded to only ever fire rockets toward the position of the cinematic moving camera and will not infight with other monsters, nor will it react to the player if the game is hacked to allow visiting MAP33. It can be killed, but since it has no death frames it will simply disappear.

Doom 64's initial cover art draft, which also features the unused cyberdemon

While it went unused in the final game, one of the sculpted models for the 64 enemies featured a different variant of the cyberdemon, where both of its legs are replaced with cybernetic parts, has a metal plate over its stomach, and has rocket launchers on each of its hands. This different variant of the cyberdemon also appeared on the initial draft for Doom 64's cover art. If this was meant to be the 64 cyberdemon's original appearance or if it was meant to be an upgraded form of the cyberdemon to appear alongside the original is unknown.

In Doom RPG, the cyberdemon was created by evil mastermind Kronos by combining human technology with demon flesh.

The cyberdemon appears again in Doom II RPG. In this game, both of the cyberdemon's legs are cybernetic, due to limitations of the animation system requiring that the leg layer of the monster sprite be symmetrical in order for the walking cycle to display correctly.

The cyberdemon was originally known as the Harbinger of Doom. During World War II, he was summoned at Castle Wolfenstein by the Axis army. B.J. Blazkowicz was able to defeat it with the Spear of Destiny, destroying its right leg and left arm. The Harbinger of Doom vowed that it would have a rematch with Blazkowicz's descendent in the future. The rematch happened in Doom II RPG.

• The cyberdemon in Doom RPG.

• The cyberdemon is attacked using the Soul Cube in Doom II RPG.

• The Harbinger is banished using the Spear of Destiny in the iOS version of Wolfenstein RPG.

• In a PC World article, the cyberdemon was voted as #16 of the top 47 "The Most Diabolical Video-Game Villains of All Time".^[1]

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• Adrian Carmack's cyberdemon sketch (archived 🏛)

• This article incorporates text from the open-content Wikipedia online encyclopedia article Doom monsters.

1. ↑ GamePro staff (2 April 2008). "The 47 Most Diabolical Video-Game Villains of All Time." PC World. Retrieved 13 September 2016.

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