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Cacodemon

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* The name ''cacodemon'', which comes from the Greek ''κακοδαίμων'' (kakodaimon) usually meaning "evil spirit", a more precise name for what we generally know as ''demon'' (which ultimately comes from "god" or "spirit"), is in English a word that may be found in most comprehensive dictionaries.
* The monster's general visual design is similar to that of the {{wp|Beholder (Dungeons & Dragons)|Beholder}}, a similarly one-eyed classic {{wp|Dungeons & Dragons|Dungeons & Dragons}} monster (with eye stalks instead of horns). In addition, the Cacodemon was created from a cropping of a creature that appears on the cover of ''{{wp|Manual of the Planes#Advanced Dungeons & Dragons first edition|Manual of the Planes}}'', a Dungeons & Dragons expansion book. The creature itself is known as an {{wp|astral dreadnought}}, and was created by {{wp|Jeff Easley}} for that book.
* The earliest known [[Versions of Doom and Doom II|version]] of Doom to include cacodemon graphics is the 0.5 alpha, released on May 22, 1993, and the earliest known appearance of the monster as an in-game adversary is in the press release version of Doom, released on October 4, 1993.