Do demons get a bad rap?

[Willum]

So we all know all know the tale of how Satan, who will be defined as the Serpent or the Devil or Lucifer, or etc. for purposes of this OP, led 1/3 of the angels in heaven to the fall. This is also an assumption of the OP.

Satan, Lou Cypher, et &al., is often depicted in media as not evil, but a rebel against God, even a champion for freewill.
And who could blame him seeing the antics of this God? God drowns the world because he lets his angels breed, then doesn't have the good sense to start over with another garden...

When we look at these events, we, and certainly the media has often expressed sympathy for the Devil. Maybe he did simply want man to know the truth and is getting a bad rap.

But that is not what the OP is about.

This is about the demons or his fallen angels.

These folks are always depicted as deviant and chaotic and evil.
But isn't it more likely that they fall about some kind of spectrum?

Perhaps the best of demons, were they to chose again, would really have chosen not to rebel, and conversely, some angels would, given a choice, choose to rebel.

I know I would.

So, is it more likely that demons, if they actually existed, are not all as they are depicted in media, fathomless malevolent evil, but there are ambivalent, even good demons? Or losing the bias:

It is possible there are ambivalent, even good fallen angels?
Is there anything, other than logic, to support this view?

[marco]

The principle holds true that what comes from bad will ultimately be revealed as such.

This is an ad hoc principle. It's an ill wind that blows nobody any good. Christ's platitude that we'll know the good tree from its fruit is botanically nonsensical and in practice bad people sometimes produce good and good people sometimes produce bad.

Satan and the demons can do a pretty good imitation of "good", they can fool the godless and the ignorant, but they cannot and will not do do anything that that results in the long good because that would be against their nature.

They successfully fooled Adam and Eve whom God pronounced good, not godless and ignorant. I think you are fabricating details in an area you cannot possibly know much about.