Doom II enemies if they were insects (with pictures):

[ginoskewer]

Imp: Red carpenter ant

Demon: Giant stag beetle / Lucanus elaphus

Cyberdemon: Emperor scorpion

Zombieman: Sword-tail cricket / Trigonidium cicindeloides

Shotgun guy: Large marsh grasshopper

Chaingunner: Little Barrier giant wētā

Cacodemon: Peacock butterfly
Pain elemental: Cecropia moth

Spider mastermind: Bornean neon blue leg tarantula

Mancubus: Goliath beetle / Goliathus goliatus (larvae)

Baron of Hell: Pseudoscorpion / Neobisium sylvaticum

Arachnotron: Dancing white lady spider
Lost soul: Fruit fly
Arch-vile: Devil's flower mantis

Revenant: Crowned stick insect

[jmac]

Spiders, scorpions, and pseudoscorpions are not insects.

[spineapple tea]

New contender for my favorite thread ever since the "Arachnotron Turns Into Ham When It Dies" by TheMagicMushroomMan.

Edited May 30, 2023 by spineapple tea

[Cinnamon]

8 minutes ago, jmac said:

Spiders, scorpions, and pseudoscorpions are not insects.

 

To 99% of us, they are. There's never been a moment in my life where being aware of a categorical distinction biologists use have served any purpose whatsoever.

 

Skeletons and zombies are not demons in my book, but who cares?

[ginoskewer]

6 minutes ago, jmac said:

Spiders, scorpions, and pseudoscorpions are not insects.

true true. i just used 'insect' because the majority of my picks aren't arachnids

[Wo0p]

... Great. Now we just need someone to turn them all into vile sprites... oh no, I gave them ideas. ABANDON SHIP!

[Doomkid]

I thought they got rid of most of the bugs by version 1.9 though

[Obsidian Plague]

contender for best thread for $500, alex

[Kyka]

Doomguy, upon surveying this new beastiary:

 

"Better put on my extra heavy duty boots."

[OliveTree]

i love this post, thank u for making it

[Kinetic]

best post ive seen in a while

[Meowgi]

Good post. Do mammals next.

[brendondle]

lost soul = mosquito

[roadworx]

i am a weevil

 

fear me.

Edited May 30, 2023 by roadworx

[DJVCardMaster]

quite synesthetic but fine I guess

[SkeletSpook]

Shouldn't zombieman and shotgun guy be switched? I feel the green of the grashopper fits more with zombieman's colour scheme

[noob_killer012345678]

Hollow knights hell

[IHave10Shells]

something's going to be shotgunned in my garden tonight.

Edited May 30, 2023 by IHave10Shells

[Wo0p]

41 minutes ago, IHave10Shells said:

something's going to be shotgunned in my garden tonight.

Redneck accent:

Hell yeah brother! Whoo-eee!

[Cinnamon]

4 hours ago, Doomkid said:

I thought they got rid of most of the bugs by version 1.9 though

 

Blockmap Bobby has (loud) opinions.

[Yousuf Anik]

4 hours ago, Kyka said:

Doomguy, upon surveying this new beastiary:

 

"Better put on my extra heavy duty boots."

Then he might also needs pesticides rather than guns to kill them :D

[Solmyr]

6 hours ago, jmac said:

Spiders, scorpions, and pseudoscorpions are not insects.

True, but they all share the same trait of being arthropods.

Edited May 30, 2023 by Solmyr

[calsaintski]

Your average bug spray would be the BFG to these demon bugs

[Bank]

flawless thread, nailed it

[HavoX]

9 hours ago, jmac said:

Spiders, scorpions, and pseudoscorpions are not insects.

"Funny, they squish like insects" --Garfield

[Biz!]

Mildly interesting thread.

[ginoskewer]

12 hours ago, SkeletSpook said:

Shouldn't zombieman and shotgun guy be switched? I feel the green of the grashopper fits more with zombieman's colour scheme

truth be told, there was another grasshopper that was more in line with the color scheme of the shotgun guy, Phymateus morbillosus, but since i'm envisioning an insect/arachnid based mod of doom, i wanted there to be variety in the palettes of the prospective enemies, and also felt that a red-colored grasshopper would look a bit too severe when taking in the roster as a whole. crickets and grasshoppers, to me, fit with the progression of the former human enemies difficulty-wise, with the weaker zombieman being the smaller cricket, and the comparatively stronger shotgun guy being the generally larger grasshopper.

[Kwisior]

Cool thread. Fish when?

[jmac]

A lot of this does make sense in a weird way. Why choose pseudoscorpion for the hell baron though? It's so tiny and harmless.

[ginoskewer]

31 minutes ago, jmac said:

A lot of this does make sense in a weird way. Why choose pseudoscorpion for the hell baron though? It's so tiny and harmless.

these choices were made because i'm currently brainstorming an idea for a mod, with a shrunk-down doomguy versus zombified, fungus-covered insects/arachnids, so real life size as well as other aspects would most likely be exaggerated, and the species chose is simply a base to work off of and not 1:1. pseudoscorpions were chosen because of how, at least in my mind, the baron of hell relates to the cyberdemon as a similar-looking, less-threatening version of it, much like the pseudoscorpion and actual scorpions. and aside from the arachnotron and spider mastermind being, obviously, both spiders (though the latter is also a tarantula), and the demon and mancubus being both beetles (though at different life stages), i wanted there to be a bit of a variety species-wise.