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The subject of this article appeared in Call of Duty: Black Ops III.

"I am humanity's salvation, a savior giving purpose to a lost species that deserves far less. I. Am. Deimos."
— Deimos in Demon Within

Deimos[1] is a character in Call of Duty: Black Ops III. He is the Demigod of dread and terror, and main antagonist of the Nightmares game mode.

History[]

Deimos was accidentally summoned alongside his sister Dolos from Malum by the Corvus project. He merged Nova 6 and Element 115 To create Virus 61-15 and began his plan to turn all of humanity into an undead army to finally kill Dolos. He then waited 10 years and in 2070 possessed the bodies of John Taylor, Sarah Hall, Peter Maretti and Sebastian Diaz to use as his hosts and puppets. He left Singapore and used Diaz to open the Quarantine zones across the world.

After unleashing the dead, he plotted to reopen the gateway back to Malum and finally destroy Dolos. He observed Sebastian Kruger rebuild Project Corvus at Coalescence HQ in Zurich and possessed both the Player and Hendricks.

In the five years following the release of the Quarantine zones, Deimos had taken over nearly all of earth, with only a few hundred million humans left. Deimos inhabiting Taylor and his remaining team, hid in the Aquifers outside Cairo, until the Player arrived and discovered Taylor. After killing Maretti, who had given up intel, the Player went on the hunt for Deimos. Deimos tried very hard to take control of the Player but was never fully able to, which he found both curious and infuriating.

As the Player pursued Deimos, he tried on numerous occasions to have her killed but ended up failing every time. Eventually, after a battle with the Player, Taylor pulled out his own D.N.I. to stop being controlled by Deimos. Taylor then told the Player to trust Kane as he bled out on the roof before being shot in the head by Hendricks who was controlled by Deimos as well.

Using Hendricks as his vehicle, Deimos went to Coalescence, causing carnage across the entire city, unleashing a horde of Zombies and robots and drones to attack anything living. The Player and Kane follow Deimos eventually reaching Coalescence HQ. Deimos then proceeds to trap Kane inside a room filled with 61-15, with the dose being large enough to kill her instead of turning her into the undead.

The Player finally confronts Deimos inside Hendricks body, holding Kruger at gunpoint. Eventually the two shot each other at the same time and both bled out and died. But Deimos saved the Player's mind and manipulated her to relive her memories in order to open the gateway to Malum.

Pretending to be Dr. Yousef Salim, Deimos guided the Player through their memories, reliving everything that had led up to the moment before her death, with the intention to change it so that the gateway would be opened. Deimos also added false memories in order to manipulate the Player, as well as rearranging some of her memories to make her more malleable. Deimos facade worked, until the Player started to remember things correctly and began questioning "Salim". Eventually Deimos gave up on his facade as the Player had already come so far in the memories and had no choice but to continue.

When coming to the final memory Deimos made the Player change the memory so that instead of both her and Hendricks shooting each other, she would shoot first and the sacrifice herself to open the portal. Dolos told the Player to do as Deimos said and told her that it would be alright.

After the Player commits suicide and opens the portal, Deimos, Dolos and the Player are all sucked into Malum. Deimos is shocked and furious at being back in Malum as it was not the plan, he accuses the Player for making this happen, but she has no idea what happened either. Deimos goes to find Kruger to get answers but gets nothing from him, so he decides that in time the answers will become clear, before leaving the Player to die.

Deimos is shocked to see the Player still alive, after all the times he had tried to kill her and failed at every turn, he then demands to know how she can talk in Malum and why he was unable to control her like all the others, Dolos then reveals herself to her brother and says that she was the reason she survived and why Deimos could not control her. Deimos is mortified and enraged at Dolos, saying that humanity was his to rule and his to destroy, to which Dolos replies that humanity will destroy themselves in time, and it didn't need their help for that. Deimos leaves in a fit of rage.

As the Player and Dolos hunt down Deimos's hearts, Deimos sends all his undead after them whilst yelling threats and demanding to know how Dolos could have known about his plan. Dolos reveals that it was actually her plan and she had manipulated Deimos from the very beginning, even hiding herself from him when they arrived on earth. Dolos taunts Deimos saying that he was never particularly good at anything, stating that he was built to kneel not rule, using the human expression; "Always a bridesmaid, Never a bride".

As Deimos's hearts are burnt, he demands to know what Dolos plan is, if she is planning on killing their father; the King of Malum, and then the other gods in Malum, to which Dolos just laughs as says she'll just have to kill all of them before telling him to run while he still can.

Deimos desperately tries to hold on after his final heart is burnt and yells that they are not finished, but Dolos says that he is already weakening and after the Player destroys his soul he will truly be dead. The Player mockingly remarks at Deimos's situation by saying "What choice do you have? This is the world you made for yourself!". Deimos yells that will not and cannot be undone.

Somehow the Player, along with Dolos and Deimos as well as many of the other gods of Malum are pulled back to Earth. Deimos demands to know why the Player just won't die before trying to kill her himself. However an illusion of Taylor created by Dolos fends off Deimos as the Player finally destroys Deimos soul. Deimos screams in refusal and anguish, stating that he is the demigod of dread and terror as he is finally wiped from existence.

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