I think that's all a lot more interesting than burping fire, but what do I know? In case you were curious, The Astral Dreadnought is a monster that lives on the astral plane and eats people's astral projections, which become trapped in a plane of reality that exists only within the Astral Dreadnought, so it actually kind of works as a mobile jail for psychic travelers.
It's not like Doom was obscure enough for this to slip under any major publisher's radar, either, but get away with it they did nobody remembers what an Astral Dreadnought is, but everyone thinks of the Cacodemon as a world famous icon of gaming culture. How the heck did they get away with this, anyway? This technically means that the Cacodemon was designed by artist Jeff Easley, but I'm pretty sure he never got any Doom money. Granted, the most "creative" demon in Doom actually wasn't original at all besides the similarities to a Beholder, its design is literally just another Dungeons and Dragons monster, the Astral Dradnought, cropped down to its face. That's okay, though sometimes it's the little things in life that really make you smile. It's a big round devil head and it can fly. And instead of various eye-beams, a Cacodemon spits purple fireballs, or "plasma" as they call it, and well.that's it, really. Like the Beholders from Dungeons and Dragons, a Cacodemon is just a huge, balloon-like sphere of meat with a big, toothy maw a single eye in the center, though instead of a Beholder's many eye-stalks, a Cacodemon has an array of horns and spines. Yes, Cacodemons! Probably the most iconic creatures in the Doom franchise, though admittedly that's not a very tight competition most of Doom is populated by rather conventional looking demons and devils when compared to these big, bloated cyclops heads. While I haven't personally kept up close with this series over the years, I played quite a bit of Doom, Doom II and Doom 64 back in the 90's, and who doesn't love a good Cacodemon? If you didn't know already, a new Doom landed this year, around the same time Animal Crossing also stopped in to give everybody something to do through the end of the world.
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