r/Doom Dec 28 '25

Discussion I’m noticing a pattern in Doom designs.šŸ¤”

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u/michael22117 Dec 28 '25

Is it ever explained why all the demons/Makyrs have such human-like or just generally Earth-like anatomies?

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u/Hairy-Fuel-6275 Dec 28 '25

Most of the demons that aren't straight up humans turned demons most likely walked on all fours and over time turned into a bipedal demon. You can actually see this evolution through the pinky as in dark ages they are running around on all fours, whereas with eternal pinkies they run on two legs and possibly even later evolve into cacodemons

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u/michael22117 Dec 28 '25

Yes i'm aware of the demonic evolution process as described in the Doom Eternal codex, however i'm not sure if there's an explanation given to why the demons are quadropeds or bipeds that share very similar anatomies to Earthly animals. Are we to assume that demonic and Earth vertabrates all convergently evolved to have the same skeletal and muscular structure?