| Deimos | |
|---|---|
| Deimos, as seen across the franchise | |
| Debut: | Madness Combat 5: Depredation |
| Appearances: | 19 · 14 (canon) · 2 (games) · 3 (non-canon) |
| Last appearance: | Madness Combat 12: Contravention |
| Role(s): | Protagonist |
| Kills: | Hundreds (Canon) · 46 (Non canon) |
| Deaths: | 3 · 1 (canon) · 2 (non-canon) |
| Status: | Alive |
| Allies: | Sanford, Hank J. Wimbleton, 2BDamned, FellowD9 (formerly) |
| Enemies: | A.A.H.W, Tricky, Auditor, Grunt, FellowD9 |
Gadget-brandishing and meathook-wielding extraction team duo, who work closely with Hank but whose loyalties are not fully known.
- MADNESS: Project Nexus Kickstarter
"The moment Deimos lit up that cigarette, he was doomed to die."
- Matt "Krinkels" Jolly, creator of the Madness series
Deimos is the tritagonist of the Madness Combat series who usually appears alongside Sanford. He has a bandaged head, wears a headset and visor, and has been seen wearing a vest with a white tank top underneath. His first chronological appearance in the series is in Madness Combat 5: Depredation. He appeared again in Madness Combat 5.5, 6.5, 7.5 & 9 as one of the protagonists. Deimos is also the main protagonist of the canonical 5-part spin-off series Dedmos Adventure. His most recent appearance is in Madness Combat 12: Contravention, where he is sent to save Sanford. He also made a cameo alongside Sanford during An Experiment.
Deimos carries Hank's body for most of Aggregation And is also the one who resurrects him. It is hinted that he, Hank, and Sanford are part of some Anti-A.A.H.W. or Anti-Auditor rebel organization, for he is seen talking through his headset to an as-yet-unidentified person. The fact that they belong to their organization would explain why they didn't properly assist Hank in fighting Tricky in Madness Depredation, as they might have been going for another objective. As we see in Madness Combat 5.5 they have other business to deal with than helping Hank, though no proper goal seems to appear in either this episode or its sequel, Madness Combat 6.5.
Personality[]
Compared to the likes of Hank and Sanford, Deimos seems to take his job less seriously, as illustrated when he flashes an agent a "Rock On" sign while killing him in Madness Combat 5.5 when he jokingly tries to scare Sanford by donning an A.T.P. mask and waving around a carbon knife in Madness Combat 9, when he dances before stealing the sunglasses of an agent which he then kills and later he dabs before brutally killing another agent again in DedmosRebuilt.fla when he taunts an agent by pointing at him after sticking a baton into his head in that same episode, and when he made and won a bet with Sanford in Incident: 100A. His carefree nature is especially shown in MADNESS: Project Nexus, where, for example, he asks Bandits to “move along and dance for another day”. When Sanford explains how the Bandits will eat their bodies if they are defeated, he says Sanford would be a ”big kielbasa” to them.
It is implied through text in POWERLESS.fla that Deimos is not very bright, as if he had taken the time to examine his surroundings and situation instead of rushing in, he would not have met his fate at the end of the short. In the next episode it's shown that he uses 8520 as his password, which on a standard numpad is input by swiping a line from top to bottom. Lastly, posters set about by 2BDamned chastise him for being impatient and impulsive. His personality, along with other traits discussed below, suggest Deimos is an ex-AAHW employee, potentially a former or aspiring Agent as he is shown to be fond of their shades.
His general attitude seems to be quite cocky and arrogant through MADNESS: PROJECT NEXUS and even somewhat sadistic, this is best demonstrated when during the start of S-3LF Eater DLC after cyber bandit's death Deimos nonchalantly tells that he wanted to kill him first. Despite this he can be merciful to a certain degree, for example when he does not kill the Sheriff despite getting attacked by him and continuously leaves Church and Jorge alive after having several boss fights with them in the row.
He also was genuinely disgusted and shocked when Hank betrayed Jebus and tried to end the world.
It is also implied in SACRIFICE.fla that Deimos is very flippant and disinterested. As he falls perpetually through Purgatory he simply acts annoyed and smokes a cigarette rather than demonstrate any fear.
He also seems to have a higher pain tolerance than Sanford, as shown in ANAMNESIS.fla, and SACRIFICE.fla, that his jaw, and many other parts of his face, are missing. However, while it seems that he is not in pain, Krinkels confirmed that "He felt pains of all varieties" while being in the purgatory dimension. Also shown in Madness Combat 5.5, Deimos survived being crushed by the Flying Party but was also shown to be in little, to no pain.
Powers and Abilities[]
Deimos, like Sanford and Hank, is very skilled in combat, as his profession requires him to be. However, unlike the more melee-savvy Sanford, Deimos prefers to use firearms and even explosives where he can, though Sanford is still considered to be better at handling explosives. This skill was especially useful in their earlier involvement in the story, where Deimos had to protect an injured Sanford until he could recover. His skill in firearms is at a point where he can accurately fire dual-wielded G36 assault rifles or an MG-42 from the hip with ease, a task that would be very difficult for most. His skill in explosives often sees him equipped with such weapons as the M203, flashbangs, or time bombs. All-in-all, his proficiency with ranged weapons and explosives allowed him to maintain a higher kill count than Sanford up until his death. His fighting style typically involves him taking the lead and charging in, without very much strategy. Given that this style is very similar to the fighting styles utilized by AAHW units, Deimos's fighting style was likely learned from his time in the agency. Another flaw he may have gained from the agency is his occasionally slow reaction time, which allowed him to be blinded by a flashbang and "Sanford" to be shot by an ATP Soldat. He failed to react to an enhanced ATP engineer entering the room in time, which would ultimately prove fatal for him.
Deimos's most useful ability is his knowledge in the field of technology. From Madness Combat 7.5 onward, Deimos would be equipped with a headset, communications backpack, and PDA. The PDA was used to receive instructions for the team, and his headset and com-pack were utilized in Madness Aggregation to confirm with an unknown person that they had located Hank. With his former employment and experience in the AAHW, Deimos proves useful when it comes to accessing their technology, having been observed to input a code to unlock spike gates, using a terminal to get directions around a facility, and even being capable of using an Agent Magnification Chamber to revive and enhance Hank. Deimos is also often the driver of the two, driving their convertible, a truck, and even being capable of flying helicopters. Though not seen driving it, it is possible that he owned the sedan seen at the beginning of Madness Aggregation, given his angry reaction at its destruction; it's possible Sanford was driving so that Deimos could operate the tracking equipment. He also seems to possess somewhat incredible luck, escaping four near-death scenarios: being crushed by the Flying Party, nearly being crushed by another building, nearly being shot in the head by the engineer that shot Sanford, and accidentally dodging two potentially fatal shots from an A.T.P. soldat after being blinded by a flashbang.
Initially Deimos, like Sanford, contained no special powers. He, along with Sanford, were ordinary grunts who just handed Hank a weapon. However in the spin-off series Dedmos Adventure, which chronicles his experience in Purgatory, Deimos changes significantly in the final episode, DedmosRebuilt.fla. After having his body continually broken down for the prior four episodes, it is renewed with stone covering his jaw, chest, and hands. This enables him to deliver especially harder-hitting punches, capable of leaving severely deforming and often fatal marks on bodies bigger than his own. He also gains magic abilities, able to summon stone spikes from the ground, or even magnify people, as he might have done accidentally with FellowD9. His endurance has significantly boosted, as he can now get up and fight fine after being slammed into walls hard enough to leave a crater. His agility and perception were also increased, as he is seen dodging punches, blows, and chains, and delivering hard hits with extreme ease. He can throw around enemies larger than him, spin, bicycle, drop-kick, and even slam or stomp enemies hard enough to firmly embed them into walls or floors. With all of this, Deimos' overall abilities in hand-to-hand and melee combat put him up to a level comparable to, if not greater than Mag Hank. In Madness Combat 12: Contravention, these powers and abilities were shown to have transferred with Deimos when he was brought back to Nevada. Interestingly, it also suggests Deimos's new form has now stunted his ability to use technology, as he is, rather uncharacteristically, very clumsy with his PDA, cracking the screen by dropping it and accidentally taking a screenshot of his chat with 2BDamned while recovering it.
He also has the ability to produce a small spark / burning flame from one of his finger tips. While this was done simply due to there being no lighters in madness combat, it’s still a power he has, even if it has no practical use in the series, only being used to light his cigarettes.
In fact, he retains this ability even as Dedmos, as it shown in the Madness 12 when he drives to Sanford.
Appearances[]
Madness Combat 5: Depredation[]
In his first appearance, Deimos appeared at the end of the animation along with Sanford. He was driving a convertible while Sanford gave Hank a dragon sword to fight Tricky. He was then crushed by the Flying Party with his partner Sanford. In this episode, they both appear as unadorned Madness grunts.
This is one of two instances where Hank, Sanford, and Deimos appear alive in the same scene, the other being in the non-canon Incident: 100A.
Madness Combat 5.5[]
Deimos as he appears in Madness Combat 5.5
Madness Combat 5.5 was Deimos' first chronological appearance as a protagonist. He and Sanford survived being crushed by the Flying Party but suffered wounds to their heads. While going through the building alongside Sanford, they encounter many 1337 agents, who he quickly overcomes with the help of Sanford. As they continue slaughtering agents, Sanford finds a second roll of bandages and wraps it around Deimos' head wound for him. After killing many 1337 agents, they enter a room where a crack appears, showing the red static sky. Suddenly, a red beam pours into the crack, grabbing dead agents and making their heads explode. The protagonists, confused by what they saw, rush into the next room, where they kill the agents stationed there.
When Tricky entered the room, he pointed at Deimos and Sanford and using superhuman speed, attacks them. Tricky managed to block Deimos' attacks and knock him through the wall. Outside, Sanford and Deimos continue slaying more agents. During their onslaught, Deimos, who was smoking while watching Sanford fight, was almost crushed when a building fell right behind him. They enter the building, but then a mysterious train comes right at Sanford and Deimos. Deimos fired at it with a FAMAS, but with no effect. However, the train did not hit the two as they stepped off the track.
Madness Combat 6.5[]
Deimos and Sanford once again appear as the protagonists and follows the event from the previous episode. This is the episode where Deimos acquires the outfit he has in Madness Combat 9 (except that he has fewer bandages and no headset). When Sanford gets shot by an A.T.P. engineer, Deimos kills him. Deimos then helps his partner to get on his feet and proceeds to cover a heavily injured Sanford, killing every A.A.H.W. personnel that engages them. After healing with bandages and a shot of adrenaline, Sanford finally joins in the fight. The duo enters the quartermaster's store, killing everyone. Sanford proceeds to loot the store and give Deimos a grenade launcher, another magazine for his PM-9, and a belt, which Deimos puts around his hip. As they go into the next room, the 1337 agents have been slightly upgraded by the Auditor and now possess crimson shades instead of black shades. Deimos easily kills some agents, but Sanford kills most of them with the Bren gun that he found. Before going forwards, Deimos decides to take his grenade launcher and shoots a grenade at an A.T.P. Engineer and two l33t agents, which annihilates them. After they enter the cafeteria and kill more agents, they proceed to take an elevator and go down a floor.
Deimos in Madness Combat 6.5 (with less bandages on his head).
After killing everyone in the A.T.P. program centre, they see a place called 'The Rift'. Suddenly, a group of A.A.H.W. agents arrives in a truck, but Deimos picks up his M203 and shoots a grenade at the truck, destroying all the agents inside. Deimos and Sanford get inside the Rift and see an unarmed grunt, but he surrenders and is spared, reading a book for the rest of the scene. Inside The Rift, Deimos starts searching for some new clothes. He first picks up an l33t suit, but Sanford tells with his hands that he doesn't like it. Deimos then picks up some grey teashade sunglasses, Sanford's signature glasses. He first wears them, but he then gives them to Sanford, who puts them on and keeps them. Following his partner's steps, he then wore the crimson shades that the l33t agents now have, but Sanford gives a thumbs down, implying that he dislikes them, much to Deimos' displeasure. Deimos finally picks up a shirt, jacket, and his signature visor, which he keeps for the entire series.
Then without warning, the door blows up and Deimos, along with Sanford, kills the intruding agents with his PM-9, which he then drops. The protagonists go left and climb up a ladder, arriving on the roof of the building. Deimos kills five l33t agents with a pistol and then they see a helicopter. They go inside it, Deimos being the pilot, and they escape by flying off to the sky.
Madness Combat 7.5[]
Deimos as seen in MC 7.5
In this animation, Deimos and Sanford infiltrate the facility where A.T.P. soldats are manufactured. He used suppressed weapons against the enemy until he acquires an MG-42. Due to the size of the next rooms, Deimos breaks stealth and fires the MG-42, alerting the entire facility which would haunt him later. They then arrive at a room with a spike gate, and Deimos puts in a code, which opens the spiked gates and clears the path. But suddenly, a flashbang thrown by an A.T.P. soldat (who was alerted when Deimos fired the MG-42) blinds Deimos, making him unable to fight. Purely by luck, he dodges two bullets that would have killed him. Sanford then proceeds to kill the two A.T.P. soldats that ambush them and they go to the next room, opening another spiked gate. After killing several rooms worth of enemies, Deimos and Sanford arrive in a terminal. With the help of Sanford, Deimos uses an SMG to kill all the agents that were guarding the computers. An engineer manages to activate the rest of the A.T.P. soldats before Deimos kills him, and the duo kills them all suprisingly easily. Afterward, he sees that the computers are ready to auto-repair themselves. Deimos plants a time bomb which says N0:PE and blows up the terminal with it. As the bombs explode, he receives a message informing them that Hank has been terminated.
An Experiment[]
Deimos as seen in An Experiment
Deimos makes an appearance at the end of the short with Sanford, observing an A.A.H.W. Scientific facility with a telescope as it explodes from Scrapeface's shenanigans. He then says "Damn, that's crazy." in response to the explosion. The car driven by the Deimos is found in this experiment, which means this animation takes place after Madness Combat 7.5 and before Madness Combat 9: Aggregation.
Madness Combat 9: Aggregation[]
Deimos falls at the hands of an enhanced A.T.P engineer.
In terms of the animation release date, Deimos and Sanford make their first appearance as protagonists. They first appear in a car (later shown in An Experiment) when the agency attacks the car with a truck. Deimos wipes out all of the occupants in the truck, and it drives away. Another truck slams into the bullet-ridden car and destroys it, with the duo barely escaping by hopping onto the truck. Deimos hijacks the truck full of A.T.P. engineers in the beginning, as well as killing agents on motorcycles. Whilst driving the truck, Deimos recieves a notification that the primary improbability drive has been destroyed, and is startled by a massive explosion of the Auditor's hideout just a few miles right of him.
Almost immediately afterwards, the truck reaches its destination where Hank and Tricky's corpses are in Madness Combat 7: Consternation. Deimos carries Hank's corpse as per Doc's orders throughout the episode, keeping him mostly occupied and leaving much of the fighting to Sanford, though he did get some kills even with Hank's corpse in hand. At one point in this episode, Deimos picks up one of the dead A.T.P. engineer's masks and puts it on, grabbing one of their knives and waving it about as some sort of a joke. This is apparently supposed to scare Sanford, but he displays an annoyed expression and simply smacks Deimos on the head instead, knocking his mask off and then gesturing to Hank's body as Deimos then picks it up.
Suddenly, the duo spots two enhanced A.T.P engineers entering a room with them, and they both run away from them, with Deimos running into the room housing Agent Magnification Chamber, using Hank as a shield against bullets. When Deimos is activating the magnification chamber to revive Hank, one of the two engineers enters the room, and shoots Deimos several times, killing him. Later in the animation, the newly-revived Hank uses Deimos' ravaged dead body as a decoy to distract the enhanced engineers before blowing them up with a pipe bomb.
Deimos had been seen smoking earlier in the episode (and in Madness Combat 5.5 and Madness Combat 7.5), suggesting that he died because he was a smoker; it is a running gag in the Madness Combat series that characters who smoke usually die shortly thereafter, Deimos being the sole exception until this point. Krinkels himself said, "The moment Deimos lit up that cigarette, he was doomed to die."
Madness Combat 9.5[]
While technically not appearing in this animation, Deimos is heard tossing Hank into the magnification chamber. After a short while, gunshots from the enhanced A.T.P engineer that killed him can be heard in the background.
Madness Combat 10: Abrogation[]
Deimos' ravaged corpse.
His limp corpse from Madness Aggregation makes a brief appearance at the beginning of the episode but is then hidden behind the Auditor's rising platform once he begins to assemble his fortress.
Deimos' body is not seen when the Auditor sucks up bodies to heal and increase his size, suggesting that Doc has took his body at that point.
CHASE.fla[]
Deimos is pursued by A.T.P. soldats into a miniature world, where he kills them with a lever-action shotgun. He flips a gravity-altering lever to go into a hole in the world but misses and falls into the sky. His body appears to be covered in either scars or burns which evoke the fatal injuries he suffered in Madness Combat 9. This is also the first time he does not appear alongside Sanford in an animation.
SACRIFICE.fla[]
Deimos' appearance halfway through the short.
A continuation of CHASE.fla, Deimos is first seen falling through the sky and colliding with a floating island, then impaled by a chain and thrown into an office, the injuries he receives during this time taking his lower jaw off. He takes an Automag V and TAR-21 from combatants and fights his way out of The Bakery! and against more enemies outside. After killing the last one, a chain and a body resembling Hank in his Madness Combat 3 appearance fall to the ground in front of him. He touches the body out of curiosity, and is overwhelmed with static and reddened images from previous animations, and stumbles backward before being impaled by six chains.
ANAMNESIS.fla[]
The impact of the chains in the previous short forced him into an eerie room, and is dragged in by another chain, revealing his now disfigured appearance. Shortly after stabbing a 1337 agent with his own MP7, he looks into a window and waves to his partner Sanford, only to watch him be gunned down by a soldat. He tries to rush to him but the door to the next room refuses to open. He is dragged by a chain into the ceiling, then thrown back into the room through the floor. This has rewound time because when Deimos continues his run to Sanford, he can save him from being killed again. However, far from being thankful or displaying recognition, "Sanford" begins acting paranormal, before being embedded in the ground. The animation ends when a chain pulls Deimos underneath a falling ceiling and is crushed.
POWERLESS.fla[]
Deimos' appearance post-impalement.
The ceiling that crushed Deimos in the previous short rises, letting Deimos get dragged through the floor into a newly opened void. He is then seen falling, grabbing onto a lever and pulling it down, and landing on a platform below. A tentacle resembling Mag Hank's arm impales Deimos and forces him through an outline portion of a wall, dropping him on a plateau, where he is approached by an L22-wielding A.T.P. engineer, who is abruptly embedded into a wall. After getting up, he sees another engineer wielding a QBZ-95 and kills them with the L22. Their appearance changes to resemble Deimos with an A.T.P. mask. Deimos tries to advance, but the tentacle digs into the ground and pulls him back. He kills another engineer and is then embedded into another wall.
DedmosRebuilt.fla[]
Deimos before his rock infusion.
Deimos gets teleported into a small room that is floating. He pulls out an M-5.1 and enters a password. Suddenly the floor opens and Deimos is flung outside, getting hit with a chain as rocks fly into him, then teleported into a very large room. A rock suddenly teleports in the middle of it, with a chain going through the rock. Deimos jumps out of it, now having rock infused all over his body, covering his chest and jaw, perhaps healing his wounds. A grunt enters the room and then magnifies, appearing to be double the size of Deimos. Several more enter, but Deimos, now with super strength from his rock infusion, dashed the grunts apart easily. Chains had repeatedly tried to attack him and drag him futher into Purgatory, but Deimos manages to dodge all of them and continue fighting his way out of The Other Place.
Deimos then jumps through the gap in the middle of aroom and lands in a cave-like place. A normal-sized grunt climbs into the area and promptly takes out a mysterious device to temporarily incapacitate Deimos to have a chat with "2BDamned," via computers. The grunt, named FellowD9 in the chatlog, says that he got Deimos and he was compliant. 2BDamned responds with "Neat," before FellowD9 asks him to check his sector. Deimos regains consciousness and proceeds to mercilessly beat FellowD9. A chain goes through the area and Deimos dodges it by jumping onto it. He then teleports into a new room, killing an agent in the process. He then kills two full rooms of grunts, agents, and engineers. A chain goes through the room but Deimos successfully dodges it again, going into the far left door. As he enters, a strange button emerges from the floor and smashes into Deimos. He gets pulled back into Nevada by 2BDamned. As they "greet", some more magnified agent and a magnified A.T.P. Soldat appear, and the episode ends with 2BDamned saying "God damn it Deimos". It is assumed that all the agents are neutralized, as both Deimos and 2BDamned is shown as alive in Madness Combat 12: Contravention.
Madness Combat 12: Contravention[]
In this animation, Deimos makes his reappearance in his DedmosRebuilt.FLA design, first seen when driving inside a car with 2BDamned contacting him in his PDA. Deimos then lights a cigarette with his iconic "fire thumb" then swiping 2BDamned's message aside, making his way to Sanford's body in a road path of Nevada. Near the end of the animation, Deimos finally arrives at Sanford's current location, gets out of his vehicle, then bringing his PDA out only to drop it accidentally, shattering the screen in the process when 2BDamned contacted him to anchor Sanford. Deimos then opens a chest, dedicating to store a lever inside, picking it up then slamming it onto the stone and pulls it up. Deimos can be seen holding Sanford's hand after he was revived.
Non-Canon appearances[]
Incident: 100A[]
Deimos appears in Incident: 100A along with Sanford, with an extraction mission to get a civilian out of an A.A.H.W facility. While Sanford holds out a paper cutout of Deimos to distract an agent, the real Deimos sneaks behind and eliminates the agent. Sanford then gives Deimos money for the plan succeeding. After killing two rooms worth of enemies, they proceed to the room where the civilian is held. Sanford has to hold the civilian, so Deimos kills all other enemies by himself, and hijacks a truck which the duo and the civilian uses to drive to Hank. After they meet Hank, he decided that the civilian is the "wrong guy", and the duo drives away, leaving the civilian alone.
Incident: 1000A[]
Deimos appears in Incident: 1000A with a very minor role. After Tricky kills Hank, Sanford and Deimos arrive with Deimos piloting a helicopter while Sanford shoots at Tricky with an M-249. After killing Sanford, he kills Deimos with an AR-15. With no one to pilot the helicopter, it plummets down with Deimos' corpse inside and crushes an l33t agent in the process.
ROMP.FLA[]
Deimos appears alongside Sanford as the main protagonist in ROMP.FLA. After infiltrating a building, the pair easily dispatch two rooms full of agents, engineers, and soldats. Their progress is hindered by the mustached star, which creates a hole in the ground for Deimos and Sanford to fall into. The pair are then greeted by mustached characters on the new ground, which invites them into a building. Inside, the duo is told of betrayal, which leads to the mustache characters closing in on the two. Deimos and Sanford easily kill two rooms full of the characters, but in the third room, the mustached star summons six zombified mustached characters which end up impaling Deimos and Sanford with signs, killing them.
Game appearances[]
Deimos is one of the main protagonists in MADNESS: Project Nexus, usually accompanied by Sanford. He specializes in hacking and quick (although weak) unarmed combat. He is voiced by Hans Van Harken. He collaborates with Sanford and Hank to destroy Project Nexus. Being a technician, he is able to hack through walls or security systems to get through anything. He is also a smoker. Deimos is an agile and athletic person. He is weaker than Sanford and Hank, however he can sprint faster and is able to evade attacks better. His loadout consists of a rifle, pistol, and flashbangs. He prefers to use firearms, and is very skilled at it.
He is friends with Sanford, and so they work alongside each other as a duo. He appears in Madness Combat 5 as his first appearance in the series as a regular Grunt.
Madness: Project Nexus (Classic)[]
At one point before the side story, Sanford and Deimos are incarcerated, relying on Hank to release them. He and Sanford are the only two playable characters for the rest of the Episode 1 Story Mode levels until the final one, in which Hank returns. He and Sanford are also purchasable squadmates in Arena Mode.
His starter weapons in story mode is an MP7 with laser sight, suppressor and a scope attached along with a Beretta 92 with laser sight and suppressor attached.
MADNESS: Project Nexus[]
Deimos is introduced alongside Hank and Sanford during The Escape. He is seen sitting on the passenger's seat on the truck when Hank is engaged by the AAHW, and then later gets severely wounded during the truck's crash. He and Sanford, who is healing him, stay back and don't show up until later when the Mag Bandit smashes through the Industrial Sector's gate, allowing Deimos and the rest to go into the Industrial Sector.
Appearance[]
Deimos has 3 different outfits he can unlock throughout Story Mode. Each outfit gives him a different amount of bonus corpus blocks. His main outfit is a coat atop a white undershirt, sneakers, and on his head a visor and headphones. The coat has belts that hold a radio backpack he wears on his back.
His first alternative outfit has him wearing an apparel closer to what he wears in the animated series, having bandages on his body and a different, simpler coat and average shoes.
Personality[]
Deimos is a light hearted and a not very serious person. He likes to joke around, sometimes monologuing about it, but still takes the mission seriously when he has to. He tends to go on a tangent about things and not taking things seriously, although at times he can get upset, such as when he and Sanford re-encounter Church and Jorge for the 2nd time within the Mining Sector. This is more clearly shown in the end, where everything is a disaster, yet he doesn't take it seriously and jokes around. He is also easily startled, as shown in The Last Leg, where he gets scared over a robot collapsing.
Much like Sanford, throughout Story Mode Deimos becomes skeptical about the plan of destroying Project Nexus, preferring to side with Dr. Christoff's plan of rebooting the project to save the world.
Abilities[]
Thanks to his hacker vocation, he can hack terminals and computers to open doors and other things that require him to do this in story mode. He uses these abilities to hack onto The Sheriff's security systems in the Industrial Sector and to bypass a security checkpoint in the Science Tower when tagging alongside Christoff.
Deimos is also faster compared to Sanford, having quicker punches and kicks, although his attacks are weaker than Sanford's.
Deaths[]
Canonical[]
- Madness Combat 9: Aggregation: Shot multiple times by a possessed A.T.P. Engineer with a QBZ-95. Body further mutilated by Hank J. Wimbleton when he used his body as a meat shield.
Non-Canonical[]
- Incident: 1000A: Shot multiple times by Tricky with an AR-15.
- ROMP.FLA: Stabbed in the chest by a zombified mustached character with a sign, before getting his face ripped off.
Named Kills[]
Bold indicates enemy status to Deimos. Italics indicate allies to Deimos. Underlined ones are major characters.
Canon[]
DedmosRebuilt.fla[]
- FellowD9 - Face smashed in by Deimos, then impaled with a rock.
Weapons Used[]
Madness Combat 5.5[]
Kills: 2
Kills: 1
Kills: 1
Kills: 1
Kills: 19
Kills: 2
Kills: 9 (2 kills offscreen)
Kills: 2
Kills: 4
Kills: 6
Madness Combat 6.5[]
Kills: 3
Kills: 8
Kills: 4
Kills: 4
Kills: 5
Kills: 6
Kills: 21
Kills: 6
Kills: 4
Madness Combat 7.5[]
Kills: 5
Kills: 1
Kills: 15
Kills: 10
Kills: 9
Kills: 0
Kills: 1
Madness Combat 9: Aggregation[]
CHASE.fla[]
Kills: 3
SACRIFICE.fla[]
ANAMNESIS.fla[]
Kills: 5
Kills: 0
POWERLESS.fla[]
Kills: 2
Kills: 1
DedmosRebuilt.fla[]
Kills: 1
Kills: 3
Kills: 1
Kills: 2
Kills: 3 (1 kill unconfirmed)
Kills: 11
Incident: 100A[]
ROMP.FLA[]
Kills: 12
Kills: 6
Kills[]
Characters[]
| Episode |
Purgatory Deimos |
Fellow09 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0 | |
| DedmosRebuilt.fla | 0 | 1 |
Units[]
| Episode | Total | Grunts | Agents | A.T.P. Engineers | A.T.P. Soldats | Half-Mag Grunt | Half-Mag Agent | Half-Mag A.T.P. Engineer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Madness Combat 5.5 | 47 | 0 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Madness Combat 6.5 | 61 | 0 | 55 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Madness Combat 7.5 | 41 | 0 | 34 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Madness Combat 9: Aggregation | 22 | 0 | 12 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| CHASE.fla | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| SACRIFICE.fla | 11 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| ANAMNESIS.fla | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| POWERLESS.fla | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DedmosRebuilt.fla | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 3 |
Non-Canon Kills[]
| Episode | Total | Agents | Paintball mask agents | A.T.P. Engineers | A.T.P. Soldats | Mustached characters
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Incident: 100A | 28 | 20 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0
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| ROMP.FLA | 18 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9
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Units[]
| Episode | Total | Grunts | Agents | A.T.P. Engineers | A.T.P. Soldats | Half-Mag Grunt | Half-Mag Agent | Half-Mag A.T.P. Engineer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Madness Combat 5.5 | 47 | 0 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Madness Combat 6.5 | 61 | 0 | 55 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Madness Combat 7.5 | 41 | 0 | 34 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Madness Combat 9: Aggregation | 22 | 0 | 12 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| CHASE.fla | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| SACRIFICE.fla | 11 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| ANAMNESIS.fla | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| POWERLESS.fla | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DedmosRebuilt.fla | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 3 |
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Trivia[]
- In Greek mythology, Deimos was the personification of terror
- In Greek mythology, Deimos was also the brother of Phobos, the personification of fear. However, there's no connection between the two characters in Madness Combat.
- Deimos translates to "Dread" in English
- Deimos wearing Engineer's mask in Madness 9 possibly foreshadows his death from Engineer's hands in this episode.
- POWERLESS.fla even does an accent on it.
- In Madness Combat 5.5 and Madness Combat 6.5, he has less bandages than Sanford, but seems to gain more in Madness Combat 7.5 and Madness Combat 9: Aggregation.
- Before his death in Madness Combat 9: Aggregation and subsequent adventure in Purgatory, Deimos was the only main character to have received very few wounds. He had only experienced a small wound to the back of his head after being crushed by the Flying Party. However, in Madness Combat 7.5 and onward, Deimos is seen with more and smaller bandages on his head for unknown reasons. It is possible that some kind of accident happened between the events ending at Madness Combat 6.5 and the beginning of Madness Combat 7.5. Krinkels has said that he may reveal these events in another animation. It is also very possible this was at first to make it look better but Krinkels might decide to make this have another reason.
- It is heavily implied that Deimos was a former member of the A.A.H.W.
- In Madness Combat 6.5 and 9, he tries on some A.A.H.W. clothing, being a l33t outfit and a A.T.P. mask respectively.
- In Madness Combat 10: Abrogation, his wanted poster lists one of his crimes as "betraying the cause", and another poster directly calls him a traitor. The second poster also reads "Can not reformat", in contrast to Sanford's poster reading "Will not reformat".
- In Madness Combat 7.5, he is seen keying in a code to activate the spike gate. As this gate was in an A.A.H.W. facility, it supports the theory that he was a former member; additionally, it also shows that the A.A.H.W. never bothered to (or couldn't) remove his password from the system.
- His rank in A.A.H.W. was most likely a l33t agent, given that his blood is shown to be red.
- Despite this in MC5.5 and MC5 his appearance is that of an ordinary grunt, it is unknown why this is, but could also Deimos discarded his older clothes.
- Deimos lights his cigarettes with a small flame on his thumb, which can be seen in several episodes. This is a nod to when Krinkels didn't incorporate lighters into the series; even after he implemented lighters, he kept Deimos' "flaming thumb" as a running gag.
- At the beginning of Madness 5.5, one grunt is seen doing the same thing.
- In one artwork, Deimos is shown alongside the Auditor, Hank, and Jesus, with all of them showing their special ability. The Auditor and Deimos can create flames, while Jesus and Hank can create lightning.
- Deimos seems to like the M203. In Madness Combat 6.5, he acquired one at the halfway mark and used it for the rest of the animation. In Incident: 100A, he acquired an AR-15 with an M203 attachment and also used it for the rest of that animation.
- Deimos has never interacted with Jesus in either canon or non-canon animations.
- However, he does interact with him several times across MADNESS: PROJECT NEXUS.
- During one of his animation Twitch streams, Krinkels confirmed that Deimos does not vape.
- Krinkels said that out of Hank, Sanford, and Deimos, Hank would be the tallest, while Deimos would be the shortest.
- When he was asked if Deimos felt pain while in hell, Krinkels said: "He felt pains of all varieties."
- If Deimos were to be thrown by Hank, he'd go through a wall.
- Krinkels has confirmed that Deimos is alive after purgatory. But only ostensibly, since "How alive can a rock even BE, right?".
- Krinkels has stated that the stone that has attached to Deimos is integrated into his body, and thus breaking it would harm him.
- Krinkels has said that if every major Madness Combat character were to get into a foot race without their powers, Deimos would probably be the winner.
- In MADNESS: Project Nexus, Hank and Dr. Christoff have higher combined Endurance and Dexterity, meaning that their sprint speed (via the Athletics subattribute) is greater than that of Deimos. Deimos is still faster than Sanford, at least, and Christoff may be enhanced by his possession of the halo.
- Krinkels (like most people) thought Deimos was gone for good when he made Madness 9. As said here.
- Krinkels has stated Deimos and Sanford have no last names.
- In Dedmos Adventures, the layout seems to be coming from Deimos' memory of the past, stated in a Krinkels Q&A
- The reason why there was a bakery in SACRIFICE.fla was because he was remembering it, according to Krinkels.
- Everyone was big in DedmosRebuilt.fla because Deimos felt that he was short, also stated by Krinkels.
- It is believed that the reason Deimos died was because he smoked. Every other canon character who smoked died shortly thereafter. Krinkels himself said, "The moment Deimos lit up that cigarette, he was doomed to die."
- In the Madness Combat 20th Anniversary stream, Krinkles stated Deimos was the youngest out of the main cast.
- The in-universe reason Deimos's body was covered in rocks was "...because his very s3lf was being re-absorbed. There's a lot of him missing and doc did what he could."
- Deimos' backpack contains communication/interface equipment and snacks.
- Deimos had seen multiple design changes throughout the game's development
- Prior to beta 1.13 Deimos didn't have his unique head texture.
- Before beta 1.13 Deimos had hand grenades, while sanford had flashbangs. This is now reversed.
- Unlike in Madness Combat cartoons, Deimos in M:PN doesn't smoke even once. Instead, he seems to be obsessed with fast food, mainly Burger Gil's trademark burgers, and commenting on how he imagines Sanford as a kielbasa sausage.
| Main characters |
Hank · Sanford · Deimos · 2BDamned | |
| A.A.H.W. units |
Grunt (Rich · Scrapeface) · Elite bodyguard · Agent · A.T.P. Engineer · A.T.P. Soldat | |
| Other characters |
Civilian (Boombox man · Dancing man · Marshmallow ride owner · Hot dog vendor) · Demon · FellowD9 · Higher Powers · Saucy · Dancing man (Leisurely Ragtime) · The Sun · Mustached character · Mustached star · Cybercriminals | |
| Project Nexus characters | Main characters | Dr. Christoff · Dr. Hofnarr Phobos |
| Nexus units | G03LM · Mag Agent: N Scientist · Riot guard · Abomination · Sleepwalker patient · Mag Agent: Gestalt | |
| Arena Combat characters | Subject 1v02P 6 Krinkels · Cheshyre · The-Swain · Luis | |
| Game Modes | Story Mode · Arena Combat Mode · Zombie Arena Mode |
| Story Mode Characters |
Hank · Sanford · Deimos |
| Arena Combat Characters |
Subject 1v02P 6 |
| Nexus Units |
Grunt · Agent · Agent Mk1 · Agent Mk0 · G03LM · Mag Agent: N |
| Interactive | Lockers · Obstacle · Spike gate · Terminal |
| Other | Project Nexus · Science Tower · Weapons · Armor · Player stats · Squadmates · Gear Shop |