History Sandbox / HazbinHotelAdam

* AmbiguousSituation: He's a giant jerk yet managed to not only reach salvation but even become a ''high'' ranking angel, which brings up the question of how exactly the events in Eden actually played out. [[spoiler:"Welcome to Heaven" revealing the rules to get into Heaven are so completely arbitrary and enigmatic to the point not even the angels know how one gets in explains some, but this raises a dozen more questions.]]
* AmbiguouslyEvil: As mentioned in AmbiguousSituation, he's an unorthodox and highly plot-relevant example. In the present day, he's very definitely and completely evil, but also a powerful archangel (which is theoretically supposed to mean someone's a paragon of virtue). Nobody, including him, knows how this happened, and it would be a very important clue in the investigation to find out how (or even if) Heaven's mysterious eligibility rules work so Charlie can start consistently and reliably redeeming sinners. Was he originally a FallenHero who became corrupted after ascending, or was he EvilAllAlong? Either option has major implications for the setting's cosmology.

* TheCynic: Adam firmly believes humans can't be redeemed once they enter Hell (much like [[TokenEvilTeammate Alastor]] in the series pilot) as a result of having known what they're like for time immemorial, and he is much too arrogant to believe otherwise. However, unlike Lucifer or Alastor, who at least ''help'' in Charlie's dream and are implied to think it's simply rare/hard rather than impossible, Adam doesn't even entertain Charlie's idea and thinks redemption for sinners if 100% impossible. To the point that even when he sees how Angel Dust stood up to Valentino in "[[Recap/HazbinHotelS1E6WelcomeToHeaven Welcome to Heaven]]", he ''still'' thinks all sinners deserve death and decides to go through with genociding ''all'' of Hell.

* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: Zigzagged. You can definitely tell from first impressions alone that something is definitely off about the Angel's first human creation. Responsible for killing many of [[OffingTheOffspring his own descendants]], he looks and acts like one of the many demons trapped in Hell. Played straight later on when his face is revealed to simply be an ExpressiveMask, much like Lute's.
** And then even further straight when his real face is shown. He's actually quite handsome underneath his mask.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: [[spoiler:He doesn't live long enough to find out, but Adam vaporizing Sir Pentious when he tries to attack the angel ends with the sinner going to Heaven for his sacrifice, proving that it ''is'' possible for sinners to redeem themselves]].
-->'''Adam:''' [[TemptingFate That could have been ugly.]]

* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:Credit where its due, when he's stabbed to death by Nifty and while in Lute's arms, never once does he try to beg or plead for his life, just giving Lute an assuring smile before he dies.]]

* ActorAllusion: What is one of the things that Adam claims will get you into heaven? [[Theatre/SchoolOfRock Sticking it to the man.]]

--> '''Adam:''' SUCK MY HOLY LIGHTNING, FUCKERS, '''YEEEAH!'''

* {{Narcissist}}: To an insane degree that he makes Alastor and the Vees ''combined'' look humble. It fits with his knight templar personality and the way he justifies anything he does as being good or just simply for being the first man created.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: [[spoiler:Adam vaporizing Sir Pentious when he tries to attack the angel ends with the sinner going to Heaven for his sacrifice, proving that it ''is'' possible for sinners to redeem themselves]].

* VillainousBreakdown: After being defeated by Lucifer in "[[Recap/HazbinhotelS1E8TheShowMustGoOn The Show Must Go On]]", Adam starts ranting after [[BreakTheHaughty being humbled for maybe one of the first times in his life]] by the same guy that cucked him twice. [[spoiler:To add insult to injury, Adam dies an UndignifiedDeath moments later by being stabbed through the back by Niffty with a dagger. Niffty wasn't even going for Adam in particular; she was just so AxCrazy that he was just one more angel for her to stab.]]

[- [[Characters/HazbinHotelHell Hell]]: [[Characters/HazbinHotelTheHazbinHotel The Hazbin Hotel]] ([[Characters/HazbinHotelTheHazbinHotelStaff Staff]] [[[Characters/HazbinHotelCharlieMorningstar Charlie Morningstar]], [[Characters/HazbinHotelAlastor Alastor]]]) | [[Characters/HazbinHotelOverlordsOfHell Overlords of Hell]]\\

* DragonWithAnAgenda: While head of the Exorcists, Adam is himself this to Sera, who authorized the group. Where Sera is motivated by overblown fears of Sinners threatening Heaven, Adam makes it obvious on numerous occasions he does this for the sadistic thrill that killing Sinners gives him. As the Exterminations are the result of Adam's own suggestion, it's clear that he's been using Sera's own insecurities to get what he wants.

* FatalFlaw:
** {{Pride}}. As the OriginalMan, Adam has a huge ego that makes him think he's infallible and can get away with being an abusive {{Jerkass}} as long as he has his powers to aid him in battle. He also thinks that being ''the'' Adam means that he gets a pass for acting that way, which of course, it doesn't. The end result is he creates an enemy out of Hell's sinners, and especially Charlie, eventually leading them to fight him in battle and [[spoiler:get [[CurbStompBattle brutally beaten up]] by [[TheDevil Lucifer himself]] because he thought he could get away with treating everyone like crap. The unfortunate truth for him is he couldn't, and he ends up dying a KarmicDeath in the end while in the middle of frantically boasting about himself. He would have survived if he retreated after Lucifer and Charlie spared him, but he just had to have the last word, so his pride got him killed.]]
** Wrath. He chooses to move the next extermination to six months later instead of a year, solely because someone had succeeded in killing of his exorcists. When Charlie sets up a hearing to try and countermand the exterminations, he reacts to her pointing out that he is no better than any sinner by [[spoiler:revealing that Vaggie is a former Exorcist]] and telling her that he will start the next extermination at the hotel, just to spite her. [[spoiler:This ends up being his undoing; not only is he beaten to a pulp when Lucifer steps in to defend his daughter, but he is ultimately killed by Niffty, a staff member of the very hotel he chose to attack first.]]

* {{Irony}}: Adam leading the extermination of sinners in Hell is ironic, since, according to Christianity, Adam (along with Eve) was one of the very first Sinners.

** He was implied to have been misogynistic towards Lilith as in Jewish folklore, demanding she submit to him. He acts like an obnoxious, chauvinistic, slovenly frat boy in the modern day, particularly when recollecting a time, he was upset a woman wanted to have sex with someone else (his band's drummer) besides the "original dick" (they ended up fucking anyways). He seems to treat his female exorcists with ''some'' respect, though it's probably only because they willingly follow his orders as well as how genuinely competent, they are at the jobs he assigns them, but even then, he casually calls Lute "Danger Tits" to her face, and her non-reaction indicates this is pretty common.

* VillainHasAPoint: He shoots down Charlie's attempts to get him to endorse the Hazbin Hotel and any talks of redemption because, as he points out, Hell is supposed to be a punishment for those who could've led better lives and as we see, an overwhelming majority of demons are not interested in bettering themselves (not even their one guest, Angel Dust, at first anyway). But this does not mean he's in the RIGHT, as Adam is clearly using this as an excuse for his blatant sadism and some sinners are shown to be sent to Hell for minor and petty reasons. Even putting his sadism aside, his reasoning fails to consider any nuance and how some sinners are far more morally complex than he thinks.

* YourMom: [[spoiler: When he ends his fight with Alastor, the version of Adam in the Latin American dub not only taunts Alastor with radio being dead, like he does in all the other dubs, but adds that radio "is deadder than [Alastor's] mother!" [[note]]"¡Porqué la radio está más muerta que tu madre!"[[/note]]]]

* AccidentalTruth: When Adam tells Charlie the criteria for how a sinful soul could be redeemed, he mentions acting in a selfless manner, which is demonstrated in the case of Sir Pentious, who tried to save his friends, dying in the attempt and ascending as an angel.

[- [[Characters/HazbinHotelHell Hell]]: [[Characters/HazbinHotelTheHazbinHotel The Hazbin Hotel]] ([[Characters/HazbinHotelTheHazbinHotelStaff Staff]] [[[Characters/HazbinHotelAlastor Alastor]]]) | [[Characters/HazbinHotelOverlordsOfHell Overlords of Hell]]\\

* LargeAndInCharge: Adam is the leader of the Exorcists and is by far the largest. Lute, the second tallest, doesn't even reach his shoulder.

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* AbusiveParents: A variation. He's the first man, meaning that every human alive is his direct descendant. Yet he leads the annual extermination of the damned souls of humans and regards them with complete disdain.

* AxCrazy: ''NO SHIT.'' He loves participating in the exterminations, especially since he was behind them to begin with. He even confirms that he takes pleasure in slaughtering as many demons as he can.

* BlackAndWhiteInsanity: As he makes clear to Charlie when he hi-jacks her song, to him, the sinners in Hell had their chance to be good people, and because they didn't take it, them being tortured and hunted down for sport once a year for all eternity is the fate they deserve. Regardless of whether or not they regret their actions or are in Hell for entirely petty reasons. Tellingly, he's furious when Charlie points out that he's a rampant sinner and doesn't belong in Heaven.
-->'''Adam:''' ''Just try to relax, babe, you're wasting your breath,''\\
''Did I hear you imply that they'' '''don't''' ''deserve death?''\\
''Are they winners? Are they sinners? 'Cause it's cut and dry,''\\
''Fair is fair, an eye for an eye!''

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Niffty finishes his VillainousBreakdown by impaling him with an angelic dagger BackStab, and then goes at him with it like he's a vegetable on a chopping board once he falls over, sending HighPressureBlood all over the place. It's played entirely for BlackComedy, with nearly the entire cast, including some of Hell's most jaded, battle-hardened demons, reacting in shock and horror at how sudden and gruesome it is (except for Vaggie, who's [[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing absolutely delighted]]).]]

* EntitledBastard: During his VillainousBreakdown, he rants about how everyone should be worshipping him for being the OriginalMan, and calls the sinners "ungrateful" - in spite of the fact that he and his forces have been slaughtering them by the hundreds for centuries.

* FallenHero: Whether he's one of these or EvilAllAlong is a topic of significant in-universe discussion - nobody (including him) is exactly sure why someone as awful as him ended up in Heaven, especially since what he used to be like is hidden by TheFogOfAges, and it's one of the most important mysteries about if and how a soul might become redeemable (and what 'redemption' even means).

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--> '''Adam:''' Y'know when you take her out for the ''fifth'' time and she ''still'' expects you to pay the check but you're like ''[mockingly]'' "Hey, I thought you wanted equality!?"

** Adam agrees with Lute when she calls Charlie and Vaggie's relationship "vile and blasphemous", while also considering it "[[GirlOnGirlIsHot hot as fuck]]". However, it's not clear if they disapprove of their relationship because it's an angel and demon or that they're both women.

-->'''Adam:''' ''When all's said and done (said and done),''\\
''There's the question of fun,''\\
''And for those of us with divine ordainment,''\\
''Extermination is entertainment!''

-->'''Adam:''' ''Fuckin' Hell's forever,''\\
''And it's meant to suck a lot,''\\
''So give up your dumb endeavor,''\\
''Cause you don't have a shot!''

* TheSociopath: Yeah, most definitely. He has [[LackOfEmpathy no empathy for others or remorse for his unholy behavior,]] [[FauxAffablyEvil can put up a front of a laid-back and casual demeanor which barely hides his wicked nature,]] [[AxCrazy loves engaging in violence since he is way to gleeful partaking in the exterminations,]] is a ''HUGE'' {{Narcissist}} [[ItsAllAboutMe that has a grandiose sense of self-worth as he likes to be the center of attention that is basically worshipped,]] [[StupidEvil has poor impulse control seeing as he accidentally blurts about the exterminations in court and attacks the hotel without thinking of the potential consequences,]] [[HairTriggerTemper gets pissed when things don't go his way,]] and has a disregard for the rules and authority since he constantly acts sinful in contrast to the angel he is supposed to be and acts out of line, especially when it comes to dealing with Heaven and Hell's higher ups such as Sera and Lucifer.

* StupidEvil: Sure Adam, it was a great idea to brag about the exterminations in court and attack the hotel which Lucifer's daughter owns. [[SarcasmMode That'll certainly work out.]]

* TautologicalTemplar: PlayedForHorror - Adam's entire claim on righteousness hinges on the Sinners being BeyondRedemption and the denizens of heaven being AlwaysLawfulGood... an argument that falls apart due to Adam himself behaving ''at least as badly'' as the worst {{Hate Sink}}s in hell. From what we've seen, Adam has actively bragged about pressuring a groupie into sex, has proven himself a BadBoss to Exorcists who [[WouldntHurtAChild dare to show mercy]], and makes ''no'' bones about his purges being [[BloodKnight motivated by amusement]] rather than out of a desire to defend Heaven. [[spoiler: The fact that a monster like him ''isn't'' a FallenAngel [[SpottingTheThread is the first of many hints that something is VERY wrong with Heaven's assumptions about divine justice]].]]

* VillainHasAPoint:
** He shoots down Charlie's attempts to get him to endorse the Hazbin Hotel and any talks of redemption because, as he points out, Hell is supposed to be a punishment for those who could've led better lives and as we see, an overwhelming majority of demons are not interested in bettering themselves (not even their one guest, Angel Dust). But this does not mean he's in the RIGHT, as Adam is clearly using this as an excuse for his blatant sadism and some sinners are shown to be sent to Hell for minor and petty reasons.
** He also has a fair point that there aren't "hard days" in Heaven by virtue of it being, well, Heaven.
** When Charlie opens the hearing with a "Webster's Dictionary defines..." statement, he quickly calls her out on how unoriginal it is, to which Sera agrees.

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[[quoteright:1000:[[labelnote:Click here to see him unmasked]] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2024_02_03_at_115202_am.jpg ''"I started everything on Earth! All of mankind came from these fucking nuts!"''[[/labelnote]]]]