Azazel (DC Comics)
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| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | The Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes |
| Created by | Neil Gaiman |
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| Full name | Azazel |
| Team affiliations | Hell's ruling triumvirate |
Azazel is a demon in Neil Gaiman's Sandman comics.
Azazel is first seen in Preludes and Nocturnes. He is part of the triumvirate (along with Beelzebub and Lucifer Morningstar) that rules Hell.
Azazel returns in the graphic novel Season of Mists. After Lucifer Morningstar abdicated Hell, he left the key to the gates of hell to Morpheus. Azazel is one of the supernatural beings who petitions Dream for the key, and the right to rule Hell. Azazel offers to return to Dream his ex-lover Nada (Dream had condemned her to hell after she refused to be his queen) in exchange for the key.
Dream is tempted by the offer, but refuses after receiving instructions from a higher order (implicity, God) to give the key to the angels Remiel and Duma so they may rule Hell. Azazel then threatens to consume Nada, forcing Dream to enter Azazel in order to save her. The overconfident Azazel forgets that he is in Dream's realm, and is easily defeated by Morpheus. Morpheus imprisons Azazel in a small bottle.
The bottle (and Azazel) are seen briefly in The Kindly Ones, inside a box full of other objects collected by Dream.
