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• In Kaori Yuki's manga Angel Sanctuary, Asmodeus is the Demon of Lust and one of the Seven Satans encountered in Hell. He plays an important role in the development of the story.
• In Dungeons & Dragons, Asmodeus is the ruler of Nessus, the ninth layer of Baator (Hell), and the most powerful of the archdevils.
• In NetHack, Asmodeus is the strongest demon prince who guards the upper underworld levels of Gehennom.
• In Brian Jacques' novel Redwall, Asmodeus is one of the main antagonists. He is a gigantic adder who stole the sword of Martin the Warrior around a century before the main story. Asmodeus is feared amongst almost every creature in the story, even rats and ferrets, who say Asmodeus is the name of the Devil himself. The adder Asmodeus has a hypnotic stare which is his main weapon of choice. He also has immense strength, displayed in his crushing coils. He is eventually defeated by the very same sword he stole from Redwall when Matthias saves the sword and challenges Asmodeus.
• Named Sydonai, he is the final boss in the computer game Hellgate: London. He looks similar to Cthulhu.
• Asmodeus is the demon summoned by the Devil tarot card in Atlus' Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen, and as Asmodee, is one of the Gods represented by the Elemental Pedra of Bane in Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber.
• In "Voices in the Dark", the first installment of Babylon 5: The Lost Tales, a man named Simon Burke was possessed by a demon who claimed to be Asmodeus, acting as a part of God's strategy to bring mankind back to the Church.
• Though he is not revealed until the last pages, he is the principal antagonist of the novel Asmodejev šal (Asmodej's shawl) by the prominent Croatian author Ivan Aralica.
• In Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time, Asmodean is one of the Forsaken.
• In the PS2 game Shadow Hearts: Covenant, Asmodeus appears as one of the main enemies. His crest gives the user magic abilities. Asmodeus is revealed to have let Grigori Rasputin make a pact with him in order to obtain his dark power. After Rasputin is confronted, Asmodeus appears in the form of a pale mass of bloated flesh in the shape of a butterfly, with six arms and an old man's head with long black hair on the end of a long fat neck.
• In the anime and light novel series Shakugan no Shana, Sidonay is the name of a Bal Masque member. He is shown to be able to change his form into that of a large sea monster and a flighted creature, as well as change his limbs into different forms. He is extremely protective of Hecate.
• In Equinox, Asmodeus is the controller of various demons and spirits.
• In the Australian movie Gabriel, he is one of the demons fighting against archangels sent to Earth. He owns a brothel and expresses an interest in plastic surgery. He is shown to be extremely vain: he is enraged when Gabriel shoots him in the face with a shotgun, hideously disfiguring him.
• Asmodeus is the villain in the 1979 comic-fantasy novel And the Devil Will Drag You Under by Jack L. Chalker.
• In Megatokyo, Asmodeus is the name of Piro's anti-conscience.
• In the film Born, the reincarnation of Asmodeus is the central theme.
• In the game Angels Online, Asmode transforms into his powerful demon form, Asmodeus, and must be defeated.
• Asmodai appears as a female with three heads in the anime Rental Magica as the most powerful of the 72 demons that Adelisia Lenn Mathers summons with her Solomon Magic and has control over.
• Asmodeus makes an appearance in the novel Sepulchre by Kate Mosse.
• Ashmodai / Asmodeus makes a significant appearance in the novel Lady of the Lamp by Caiseal Mór
• Claws of Asmodai is a book by Uzzi Ornan. It deals with religious-secular relations in Israel, from a point of view critical of what Ornan considers "religious coercion."
• In the RPG In Nomine, Asmodeus is the Demon Prince of the Game, tasked with leading Hell's secret police.
• In Umineko no Naku Koro ni, Asmodeus is one of the Seven Stakes of Purgatory, seven demon sisters who serve to the Golden Witch.
• In the 1999 Sierra computer game Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned, Asmodeus is summoned by the villain to fight the protagonist in the game's final challenge.
• In the Examu Inc. Vs. fighting game Daemon Bride, the character Asmodeus often accompanies his playable partner, Kureha Yamisaka, in battle. He is depicted as a snake with demon wings and can transform into a scythe, Kureha's weapon of choice.
• In Warhammer 40,000 the Dark Angels have a special character known as Asmodai. He is the chief Interrogator-Chaplain of the chapter.
• In the Yu-Gi-Oh Trading Card Game, there is a Monster Card named Darklord Asmodeus.
• In the Korean MMORPG, Aion: The Tower of Eternity, the demonic faction is known as the "Asmodian" race. Similarly, their homeland is called "Asmodae."
• In the novel "Rogue Male", by Geoffrey Household, the protagonist [played by Peter O'Toole in the film adaptation], is befriended by a stray cat whilst hiding underground from the authorities, after attempting to assassinate Adolf Hitler in the 1930s. He calls the cat Asmodaeus, but Asmodaeus is shot, and killed, by his Nazi pursuer 'Major Quive-Smith'. By using the cats corpse to fashion a small 'ballista', the hero succeeeds in killing the Major, and escaping his lair.
• In Robert A. Heinlein's novel Job: A Comedy of Justice, Alex and Margrethe are granted their request to spend eternity together operating a small town diner and soda-fountain which they purchased from "Mr. & Mrs. A.S. Modeus".
• Japanese producer Akuno-P referenced Asmodeus in his Vocaloid song "Dance with Asmodeus", or "The Madness of Duke Venomania", depicting a duke who, through a deal with the devil, enchants all women who see him and brings them into his harem.
• The founder and lead guitarist of heavy metal band Melechesh uses the stage name Ashmedi, which is the Semitic version of the name from whence "Asmodeus" (which is Greek) was derived.
• The demon Azmodan, the Lord of Sin, is one of the Lesser Evils from the Diablo series of games, most notably appearing as a major boss in Diablo III.
• Asmodeus is a chief villain in the Felix Castor novels by Mike Carey. The books, which follow the actions of an exorcist who works in London, play host to a number of infernal characters.
• The demon Asmodeus appears as an ongoing villain in the horror fiction eBook series The Weird Adventures of Daniel Rumanos.
• In the Future Card Buddyfight Card Game, there is a Monster Card named Demon Lord, Asmodai.
• Asmodeus is a historical figure in the High School DxD series, one of the four original rulers of the Underworld, with at least two other figures bearing their name: one being their descendant, the other having taken their position in the hierarchy of the Underworld. There is also a clan Asmodai in the seventy-two clans (based on the 72 demons of Solomon,) hinting that Asmodeus and Asmodai are treated as two separate entities.
• In the novel Raven's Gate, the first novel of the Power of Five series written by Anthony Horowitz, a witch named Jayne Deverell owns an immortal cat named Asmodeus.
• In Battle Spirits TCG, there is a Spirit Card called The SevenShogun Asmodius.

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