| 1 | Characters found in ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss''. |
| 2 | |
| 3 | '''Beware of unmarked spoilers!''' |
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| 5 | |
| 6 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 7 | |
| 8 | !Hell |
| 9 | |
| 10 | [[index]] |
| 11 | * [[Characters/HelluvaBossImmediateMurderProfessionals Immediate Murder Professionals]][[note]][[OnlySaneEmployee Moxxie]], [[CuteandPsycho Millie]], [[SourSupporter Loona]][[/note]] |
| 12 | ** [[Characters/HelluvaBossBlitzo Blitzo]] |
| 13 | * [[Characters/HelluvaBossGoetiaRoyalty Goetia Royalty]][[note]][[SympatheticAdulterer Stolas]], [[AloofDarkHairedGirl Octavia]], [[RichBitch Stella]], [[ObnoxiousInLaws Andrealphus]], [[DoesntKnowTheirOwnChild Paimon]], Vassago[[/note]] |
| 14 | * [[Characters/HelluvaBossSevenDeadlySins Seven Deadly Sins]][[note]] {{Satan}}, [[NiceGirl Beelzebub]], [[{{Greed}} Mammon]], [[CockyRooster Asmodeus]], [[SeaSerpent Leviathan]], [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Belphegor]][[/note]] |
| 15 | * [[Characters/HelluvaBossOthers Others]][[note]] [[WomanScorned Mrs. Mayberry]], [[AbsentMindedProfessor Loopty Goopty]], [[HeKnowsTooMuch Drowned Counselor]], [[MirrorCharacter Barbie Wire]], [[RepulsiveRingmaster Cash Buckzo]], [[MissingMom Tilla]], [[WarIsGlorious Millie's Family]], [[TheDon Crimson]], [[MamaBear Moxxie's Mother]], [[SuccubiAndIncubi Verosika Mayday]], [[CharmPerson Verosika's Crew]], [[{{Bouncer}} Vortex]], [[NewJobAsThePlotDemands Wally]] [[ButtMonkey Wackford]], [[KnightOfCerebus Striker]], [[CasanovaWannabe Chaz]], [[TheStoic Alessio]], [[SuperiorTwinTeamwork The Glam Twins]], [[CausticCritic Arick "Burnie" Burnz]], [[CuteMute Oliver]][[/note]] |
| 16 | ** [[Characters/HelluvaBossFizzarolli Fizzarolli]] |
| 17 | [[/index]] |
| 18 | |
| 19 | !Earth |
| 20 | |
| 21 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 22 | * CrapsackWorld: Every location we've seen on Earth is a pretty terrible place, being populated by [[HumansAreBastards cruel]] and [[HumansAreMorons idiotic]] humans. Blitzo even says Los Angeles is like home. |
| 23 | * HumansAreBastards: Every time humans appear in the show, the majority of them are shown to be shallow, [[HumansAreMorons idiotic, easily-manipulated by demons]], and [[LackOfEmpathy lacking in empathy]]. Heaven is implied to be insanely strict with its requirements, but humans themselves are clearly doing no favors towards reducing the overpopulation crisis in Hell. |
| 24 | * HumansAreMorons: Humans are shown to be easily convinced of things, making them fall for I.M.P.'s disguises despite [[PaperThinDisguise those disguises not even concealing their unnaturally red skin]] and be easily manipulated by other demons like Verosika and Barbie. |
| 25 | * HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Our main characters and who they interact with are demons from Hell, but they all show sympathetic sides in some form or another. Not humans, who are near-universally shown to be superficial and cruel. |
| 26 | [[/folder]] |
| 27 | |
| 28 | [[folder:Eddie]] |
| 29 | !!Eddie |
| 30 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/eddie_the_brat.png]] |
| 31 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"[[WhamLine You guys are all fucking assholes]]."'']] |
| 32 | |
| 33 | ->'''Voiced by''': Creator/RichardStevenHorvitz (English), Harry Botinelly (French) |
| 34 | |
| 35 | An extremely mean kid that Moxxie accidentally shot on one of I.M.P's jobs. |
| 36 | ---- |
| 37 | * ActorAllusion: Richard Horvitz as a BrattyHalfPint who doesn't blink at the supernatural and never realizes when he’s crossing the line? [[WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy Hmm…]] |
| 38 | * AssholeVictim: He's a foul-mouthed brat who was one of I.M.P's targets. By the time he's finished being a little asshole to everyone in I.M.P, it comes as a relief when Blitzo and company are given the go-ahead to kill him. |
| 39 | * BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: He tells the main characters that he'd rather die than put up with them for another minute and gets his wish after they find out he really was their target. |
| 40 | * BrattyHalfPint: This kid has one [[{{Pun}} hell]] of a mouth on him, insulting everybody in I.M.P in ways that really get under their skin. It just makes them even more eager to kill him and mutilate his corpse after being given the go-ahead from their client. |
| 41 | * TheCameo: Has a brief appearance in [[https://youtube.com/watch?v=qhSrCBpMLsY Holidaze]], reacting to Jangle's ineffectual attempt at scaring him with a kick to the shins. |
| 42 | * ChildishToothGap: To further emphasize that he's a child, Eddie has a noticeable gap in his teeth. Other than one moment where he's inconsistently depicted with buckteeth instead, he's depicted with this throughout the pilot. |
| 43 | * DeathOfAChild: He is brutally murdered at the end of the pilot. |
| 44 | * DeathSeeker: He initially pretended to be paralyzed so I.M.P wouldn't kill him. Only to get so sick of listening to them all the time that he actually ''wants'' to die just so he doesn't have to listen to them. [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor Though he might not have been serious]] given his expression when Loona says he ''was'' their actual target. |
| 45 | * DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: He initially pretends to be paralyzed, but has enough of the imps' arguing and chews them all out, not caring if they kill him. |
| 46 | * DirtyKid: An implied version. During his [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech takedown]] of the I.M.P crew, Eddie mockingly calls Millie "a slut" and attempts to hurt Moxxie's pride by implying that he has a [[TeenyWeenie small penis]]. |
| 47 | * FromTheMouthsOfBabes: For a kid who doesn't appear to have started going through puberty yet, he's awfully foul-mouthed and aware of a lot of sexual subjects. |
| 48 | * HateSink: Once he actually gets to speak, he's made to be as annoying and despicable as a normal human child can be, insulting every one of the main characters in ways that seriously piss them off. All so that it would be VERY satisfying when I.M.P murder him and desecrate his corpse after learning he's their actual target. |
| 49 | * {{Jerkass}}: Eddie is a bratty, smart-mouthed little punk who is even worse than Loona in the jerk department. |
| 50 | * JerkassHasAPoint: Zigzagged. While [[HateSink he's meant to be absolutely intolerable]], he's technically not wrong [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech when he gives each member of I.M.P brutal reminders of how horrible they are as people]]. But, he also goes out of his way to level petty insults at them, such as calling Millie a slut and refusing to talk to Loona because she's a [[IncrediblyLamePun dog-person]]. |
| 51 | * KilledOffForReal: The pilot ends with him shot (again), brutally dismembered, stuffed into a bag piece by piece and ''given back to his mother''. |
| 52 | * KindheartedCatLover: An inversion. Eddie states that he's a "cat person" but is a despicable brat. |
| 53 | * LargeHam: Comes with being voiced by Creator/RichardHorvitz. |
| 54 | * LaserGuidedKarma: His tirade against the main characters bites him in the ass when it turns out he ''is'' the target after all, which naturally leads I.M.P to brutally murder and dismember him. Granted, they were probably going to kill him anyway once the word got out but he certainly didn't do himself any favors by being such a little asshole. Not that he wanted to be alive after having to put up with the crew for an unspecified period of time. |
| 55 | * NoodleIncident: What exactly did this kid do to warrant somebody in Hell putting a hit out on him? |
| 56 | * TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: He ends up giving a scathing one to just about everyone, except Loona for the reason being that he's a cat person and doesn't talk to dogs (though he says it in a way that's clearly meant to be offensive). This ends up backfiring as the crew [[HypocriticalHumor deems him an asshole]] and offs him the second they get the word that he was the intended target after all. |
| 57 | * StarterVillain: He is the first of I.M.P's targets that is shown to be more developed with the pilot ending after his death. However, the events of the pilot are no longer canon to the rest of the series. |
| 58 | * ThisIsGonnaSuck: Though it's [[FreezeFrameBonus blink and you'll miss it]], after hearing he was I.M.P's target after all, just before he gets shot he dons an expression that just says, "Well, shit". |
| 59 | * YouthfulFreckles: He has noticeable freckles that remind the audience that he's still a child. |
| 60 | [[/folder]] |
| 61 | |
| 62 | [[folder:Jarold Mayberry]] |
| 63 | !!Jarold Mayberry |
| 64 | ->'''Voiced by''': Creator/MaxwellAtoms (English) |
| 65 | |
| 66 | Mrs. Mayberry's husband, who she shot after she caught him cheating on her. |
| 67 | ---- |
| 68 | * AssholeVictim: Cheating on his wife before death certainly doesn't endear him to anyone, the fact that he knew that Martha had a husband and kids only shows that he didn't care about being a potential homewrecker either. |
| 69 | * DiedOnTheirBirthday: Mrs. Mayberry's students reminded her that it was her husband's birthday, so she decided to video call him for a surprise. She caught him banging his mistress, [[WomanScorned and...]] |
| 70 | * EveryoneHasStandards: Is horrified after his wife shot his mistress, citing Martha's children. |
| 71 | -->'''Jarold''': Oh, God, what have you done? She had a family!\ |
| 72 | '''Mrs. Mayberry''': ''We'' could have had a family! ''[sounds of offscreen violence]'' |
| 73 | * TheGhost: He never physically appears, but his voice can be heard over the video call. |
| 74 | * HappilyMarried: Subverted, Mrs. Mayberry certainly thought they were, but she forgot about his birthday, and Jarold cheated on her. |
| 75 | * KilledMidSentence: His last words are "No, no, no, no, wait--!" before getting shot by his wife. |
| 76 | * OhCrap: His reaction to his wife busting in unexpectedly and catching him in the middle of sex with his mistress. |
| 77 | -->'''Jarold''': Oh, shit! Sweetie, what are you doing here!? |
| 78 | * ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: He lets out a high-pitched scream when his wife assaults Martha with a gun and a chainsaw. |
| 79 | -->'''Mrs. Mayberry''': You scream like a ''bitch.'' |
| 80 | * TilMurderDoUsPart: His wife shot him dead after she caught him cheating on her with Martha. |
| 81 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: His wife goes to Hell after killing him (and herself) and his mistress gets killed by I.M.P., but we have no idea where ''he'' went after he died. Adultery is a pretty big sin, and it's very easy to be sent to hell in the Hellaverse... |
| 82 | [[/folder]] |
| 83 | |
| 84 | [[folder:Mrs. Mayberry's students]] |
| 85 | !!Mrs. Mayberry's students |
| 86 | [[quoteright:1000:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_20240519_161012_youtube.jpg]] |
| 87 | [[caption-width-right:1000:]] |
| 88 | ->'''Voiced by''': Unknown |
| 89 | |
| 90 | A classroom of young children being taught by Mrs. Mayberry. |
| 91 | ---- |
| 92 | * AmusingInjuries: As Mrs. Mayberry is about to leave the school to punish her husband for cheating, the girl in the pink dress tries to remind her, "Remember what you taught us? Think before you act." Mrs. Mayberry promptly grabs her by the throat and hurls her through the ceiling. |
| 93 | * DunceCap: One of the students who didn't do his homework is sent off the the corner sitting on a stool wearing a white cone hat. |
| 94 | * ChildrenAreInnocent: They believe that Martha is a hero, because that's what all the news and media outlets said. |
| 95 | * FaintInShock: Their collective reaction to watching Mrs. Mayberry shoot herself with a gun. |
| 96 | * HarmfulToMinors: They came into school expecting a normal day and ended up watching their teacher kill her adulterous husband and then herself on a live video call. |
| 97 | -->'''Mrs. Mayberry''': Oh, dear God. What have I done? In front of you all? ''[crying]'' I'm so sorry, my children. Don't forget to work on your times tables... ''[BANG]'' |
| 98 | * MadeOfIron: The girl who got hurled through the ceiling by Mrs. Mayberry doesn't seem to have suffered any lasting injuries from it. |
| 99 | * NoNameGiven: None of them have their names revealed. |
| 100 | * OddlySmallOrganization: There only seem to be six students in the class, presumably for ease of animation. Most public elementary school classrooms in the US have an average of 15-20 students. |
| 101 | * PinkMeansFeminine: One of the students is a young girl who wears a pink dress and bow. |
| 102 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: The unnamed DunceCap wearing kid in Mrs. Mayberry's class is a very minor character. However, it's thanks to him mentioning that it was Mr. Mayberry's birthday that lead to the series of events that happened in the first episode, from Mrs. Mayberry's MurderSuicide to her hiring I.M.P to kill Martha who had survived her wrath. |
| 103 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: A twofer. The boy in the dunce cap reminds Mrs. Mayberry that it's her husband's birthday, and the girl in the pink dress suggests that they video call him for a birthday surprise...while he's in the middle of screwing his mistress. |
| 104 | * YouthfulFreckles: One of the students is a boy with freckles and red hair. |
| 105 | [[/folder]] |
| 106 | |
| 107 | [[folder:Martha and her Family]] |
| 108 | !!Martha and her Family |
| 109 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/martharender2.png]] |
| 110 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"I know you're hurtin' little devil. I promise that I can make the pain go real quick. Just come let Mama Martha put a bullet in your pretty little skull!"'']] |
| 111 | |
| 112 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ralphie_63.jpg]] |
| 113 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"Whatever it is... The'’re gonna be tomorrow night's '''dinner'''!"'']] |
| 114 | |
| 115 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kids_8.jpg]] |
| 116 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"It's nice to have a new critter to play with."'']] |
| 117 | |
| 118 | ->'''Martha voiced by:''' Creator/JinkxMonsoon\ |
| 119 | '''Ralphie voiced by:''' Creator/MaxwellAtoms\ |
| 120 | '''Children voiced by:''' Juliana Sada and Dashiell [=McGaha=]-Schletter |
| 121 | |
| 122 | A woman who was considered a hero after she survived being shot by Mrs. Mayberry, alongside her loving family. The mother's actual personality is... far less morally upstanding in reality, and that's not even getting into their family pastimes. |
| 123 | ---- |
| 124 | [[AC:General Family Tropes]] |
| 125 | * AmbiguouslyHuman: While they can hold their own in fights against demons and seem to physically transform at some points, there's nothing to conclusively point to them being anything other than very evil, very tough humans. |
| 126 | * AssholeVictim: All of them are revealed to being psychopathic Satanic cannibals. Martha gets her comeuppance by having her eye shot out her skull, while Ralphie and the kids are ([[UncertainDoom supposedly]]) blown up by the police. |
| 127 | * AxCrazy: The whole family, once their true nature is revealed, are shown to utterly revel in murdering and eating people before using their corpses as decor, making their utter lack of sanity quite clear. |
| 128 | * BigScrewedUpFamily: They initially seem like a normal and wholesome family unit, but it turns out they're actually a bunch of mentally deranged monsters. |
| 129 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: They all put on the image of being a wholesome and normal country-side family, but not only is Martha a serial cheater against her husband, the family as a whole are psychotic murderous Satanic cannibals. |
| 130 | * CannibalClan: They secretly are a family of cannibals who like to kill people in order to eat them and use their leftover body parts as home decoration. |
| 131 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[PlayingWithATrope Ambiguous]] with Martha, as while she seems cordial with her husband, the fact she cheats on him muddies it a bit. Played straight with the others, as Ralphie seemed to mourn his wife's death and bought a universal remote for the kids, and the two children also mourned Martha's death and were thankful for the aforementioned present. |
| 132 | * TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether: They're a loving family that consider murder, cannibalism, and Satanic HumanSacrifice to be fun pastimes. |
| 133 | * FiveSecondForeshadowing: It's [[RewatchBonus blink-and-miss]], but there are early hints of the family's depravity before its full reveal, whether it's the pelvis-pattern wallpaper in the bedroom or the lamp made from a human spine and skin. |
| 134 | * GameFace: They start out wearing faces that make them look normal and somewhat cute, but shortly after the reveal of their evil, said faces gain [[RedEyesTakeWarning glowing red eyes]], mouths full of [[ScaryTeeth monstrously sharp teeth]], and a propensity for [[SlasherSmile smiling psychotically]]. |
| 135 | * HollywoodSatanism: Clearly worship Satan via HumanSacrifice, but are neither too knowledgeable of how Hell actually works nor too keen on going to Hell yet. |
| 136 | * HorrifyingTheHorror: I.M.P are literal demon assassins born and raised in Hell, but this family still has them running for their lives. |
| 137 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: Both Martha and the daughter notably have red irises, and all except [[EyesAlwaysShut Ralphie]] have them [[GlowingEyesOfDoom glow brightly]] after revealing their true nature. |
| 138 | * ScaryTeeth: They initially are shown with normal teeth, but after showing their true colors, they switch to having mouths filled with sharp fangs. |
| 139 | * SlasherSmile: After revealing their true selves, all of them frequently display incredibly psychotic smiles as they have fun hunting down the imps. |
| 140 | * StarterVillain: Due to the pilot no longer being canon, Martha and her family are the first major villains that I.M.P encounter in the series proper and show how a lot of their human targets actually deserve to be killed. |
| 141 | * UnholyMatrimony: Martha and Ralphie are a HappilyMarried couple, and both are vile, cannibalistic, Satan-worshiping murderers. |
| 142 | |
| 143 | [[AC:Martha]] |
| 144 | * BoomHeadshot: She ends up biting it by way of Moxxie shooting through the back of her skull, destroying her brain and popping out an eye. |
| 145 | * EvilLaugh: She lets out an extremely menacing cackle while chasing after Blitzo. She lets out another right before trying to blow Blitzo and Millie's brains out in order to send them back to Hell. |
| 146 | * EyeScream: Her eye pops out when Moxxie shoots her. |
| 147 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: When she makes her first appearance, one of her eyes is covered by bandages. This foreshadows [[EyeScream the way she gets killed]]. |
| 148 | * HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: {{Subverted}}. She has blonde hair and puts on a fake SouthernBelle persona, but underneath it all, she's an adulterous, AxCrazy psycho that raised her children up to be just as terrible as she is. |
| 149 | * HateSink: Fake NiceGirl persona aside, there's really nothing likable about her from what we've seen in the less than 13 minutes of screentime she had. Even her loving marriage to Ralphie is undermined by her cheating ways. |
| 150 | * HoneyTrap: It's implied that the main reason she sleeps with other men (except her husband) is to lure them to her family and turn them into their target. |
| 151 | * {{Hypocrite}}: She calls Mrs. Mayberry a "sick woman" when she is being interviewed, while being a crazy, cannibalistic Satanic worshiper in private. Then again, she was putting on the facade of a perfectly normal, good housewife in public, so it's understandable. |
| 152 | * IHaveAFamily: It's not her but Jarold who invokes this trope. When Mrs. Mayberry discovers Martha having sex with Jarold and shoots her, he yells "Oh, God! What have you done? She had a family!" Mrs. Mayberry responds "''We'' could have had a family!" before shooting him as well. |
| 153 | * ImpossibleHourglassFigure: Complete with large, bouncing breasts and HartmanHips. |
| 154 | * KarmicDeath: After ruining Mrs. Mayberry’s marriage and becoming a celebrity for surviving the resulting attempt on her life, she finally gets what’s coming to her when Mayberry hires I.M.P to exact her revenge from beyond the grave and finish the job. |
| 155 | * MsFanservice: She's quite attractive and is seen in revealing work-out gear at one point. She also ReallyGetsAround. |
| 156 | * NotQuiteDead: She survived being shot by Mrs. Mayberry and got praise for it. It's the reason why I.M.P comes after her to kill her for real. |
| 157 | * ReallyGetsAround: Despite being HappilyMarried, she still has affairs with at least two other men. It's unknown whether or not Ralphie knows this, but since the entire family is complicit in murder and cannibalism, it probably isn't an issue. |
| 158 | * ScarsAreForever: Depending on how long ago Mrs. Mayberry tried to kill her, she never fully healed her injuries, since she still has her bandages from the hospital. |
| 159 | * SouthernBelle: She pretends to be one, but the fact that she sleeps with a married man in the beginning of the episode tips the viewer off immediately that she isn't a good person. The second half of the episode reveals that she's actually an AxCrazy psychopath and so are her husband and children. |
| 160 | * VillainWithGoodPublicity: She's viewed by the public as a hero for surviving getting shot by Mrs. Mayberry, even though she's an adulterer and (although the public doesn't know it) a deranged murderer, cannibal and Satan-worshipper. |
| 161 | |
| 162 | [[AC:Ralphie and the kids]] |
| 163 | * AmbiguousSituation: It's unclear if Ralphie is aware of Martha sleeping around or not. |
| 164 | * BadassNormal: In contrast to Martha who consistently has Blitzo on the run, Millie manages to lure Ralphie into an ambush and turn the tables on him. He's still able to out fight and knock her out. |
| 165 | * EnfantTerrible: The kids are just as invested in murder and cannibalism as their parents, and also like making people into "pets" that they "play with" by skinning and mounting them or turning them into "toys". |
| 166 | * EyesAlwaysShut: Whether in normal father mode or psycho mode, Ralphie never opens his eyes. |
| 167 | * HairColorDissonance: Ralphie's hair is brown, but looks more auburn in some shots. |
| 168 | * KnowWhenToFoldThem: As soon as Martha has been shot and the I.M.P has been reunited, Ralphie scrambles to get away and back to his kids. |
| 169 | * NoNameGiven: Unlike Martha and Ralphie, the kids are never named, with the credits simply listing their voice actors under "Children". |
| 170 | * ShoutOut: The son's design makes him look like he came out of ''Literature/CaptainUnderpants.'' |
| 171 | * UncertainDoom: While they seem to have died when their house blew up at the end of the episode, we never actually see their bodies. Furthermore, Moxxie straight-up told them he was going to call the police, meaning they might've fled their home before it exploded. |
| 172 | * UnmovingPlaid: The plaid pattern on Ralphie's shirt never changes no matter how he moves. |
| 173 | [[/folder]] |
| 174 | |
| 175 | [[folder:Lyle Lipton]] |
| 176 | !!Lyle Lipton |
| 177 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lyle_lipton.png]] |
| 178 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"I've never wanted to die more than I do now!"'']] |
| 179 | [[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see him when he was young]]\ |
| 180 | https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lyleyoung.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 181 | [[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see him as a demon]]\ |
| 182 | https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lyle_demon.png ''"You don't make millions in technological advances in robotics by ''not'' experimenting on the poor!"'']][[/labelnote]] |
| 183 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Michael James Ruocco |
| 184 | |
| 185 | The business partner of Loopty Goopty, who survived being accidentally turned old from a machine that killed his business partner. He becomes I.M.P's target as issued by Loopty. |
| 186 | ---- |
| 187 | * TheAntiNihilist: Though he was a DeathSeeker most of his debut episode, seeing I.M.P and C.H.E.R.U.B, literal angels and demons, in a gunfight over his life made him believe that his life must have meaning. Plus, he remembers he's [[Fiction500 still rich, so he can just "buy all the things"]]. He does also realize that he must cherish his life since everybody only gets one, but that's quickly subverted with the knowledge that the afterlife exists. |
| 188 | * AintTooProudToBeg: Lipton is not too happy with C.H.E.R.U.B's repeated attempts to convince him to keep on living and desperately pleads them to let him die. |
| 189 | * AlliterativeName: '''L'''yle '''L'''ipton. |
| 190 | %%* BigGuyLittleGuy: The little guy to Loopty's big guy. (zero context example) |
| 191 | * ChildHater: He's not too fond of teenagers either, though he's not above finding childlike joy touching. If only to acknowledge their innocence is yet to be trampled by people like him. For proof, look no further than Lipton's reaction to seeing many happy children eager to sit on a MallSanta's lap: |
| 192 | -->'''Lyle Lipton:''' "Why, look at all those sweet, disease-ridden vermin." |
| 193 | * DastardlyDapperDerby: When he arrives in Hell, he’s shown wearing a black bowler hat. |
| 194 | * DastardlyWhiplash: Like Loopty, he was an openly corrupt and unempathetic villain with a prominent nose and a bushy mustache. His demon form accentuates this by giving him upscale, old-fashioned clothes. |
| 195 | * DeathSeeker: When I.M.P arrives to kill him, they find him ready to [[DrivenToSuicide commit suicide]]. When C.H.E.R.U.B arrive to convince him to keep on living, I.M.P steps in to convince him to keep wanting to die. |
| 196 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: Quite horrified that the MallSanta is actually a colossal pervert who enjoys Film/{{Cuties}}. He is also horrified of the brutality he sees in nature, saying that it's so horrible that he can't look away. |
| 197 | * EvilOldFolks: Like Loopty, he's only physically old due to the RapidAging, and also like Loopty he's a completely unrepentant bastard whose only care in the world was how much money he could make and using it for his own selfish desires, to the point he becomes a DeathSeeker solely because his physical frailty prevents him from actually enjoying his money. |
| 198 | %%* FatAndSkinny: He is the "Fat" to Loopty's "Skinny". (zero context example) |
| 199 | * FatBastard: His RapidAging caused him to become bloated and fat, which does well to reflect how, even in spite of C.H.E.R.U.B's efforts to have him live and contribute to society, he was always a complete bastard who only cared about how he could profit from his work. This is reflected in his demon form by becoming a OneWheeledWonder, with around 75% of his body being taken up by a literal ball. |
| 200 | * FatBestFriend: To Loopty. In fact, he's so close to Loopty that the entire reason why the latter even ordered a hit on him was that so they could be together once more. |
| 201 | * FormerlyFit: Like his partner, his original appearance was well-built and muscular, though his aging went the opposite direction by making him fat and utterly bloated. |
| 202 | * {{Greed}}: Lyle sees money as life's greatest gift and the free stock market as his one true love. |
| 203 | * AHellOfATime: He ends up in Hell due to not having sought redemption before his death, or even having the time to do so, but it's clear that he's far from unhappy with it, since he gets to spend eternity with his best friend Loopty. |
| 204 | * HiddenDepths: Despite his greed and immorality, he's given thought about what being in love feels like. |
| 205 | * InventionalWisdom: For some reason, he and Loopty not only designed their [[FountainOfYouth de-aging chamber]] with a [[RapidAging reverse function]], but also didn't think to include a way to shut it down from the inside or testing on someone else like they normally would. |
| 206 | * IWasQuiteALooker: Like Loopty, he was a handsome young man before RapidAging made him fat, bald, and so {{gonk}}ish that lustful young couples flee the scene when Blitzo asks if any of them would even consider fucking the old man. His demon form is still very odd-looking, but far less ugly than his human appearance. |
| 207 | * {{Jerkass}}: He's only kind to [[VillainousFriendship Loopty]]. To others, he fits this trope to a T. |
| 208 | * KarmaHoudini: Zig-zagged heavily, as Lyle did reprehensible things in life, but gets to spend his afterlife with his best friend in Hell, where they can theoretically rebuild their fortunes, if they're not over-exploited, or murdered, by Hell's other denizens first. |
| 209 | * LaughablyEvil: All of the comedy in the episode begins to stem from him starting when I.M.P actually arrives to assassinate him, and all of the jokes revolve around his amusing interactions with C.H.E.R.U.B that make it clear he's unrepentantly greedy and selfish, such as giving a LittleNo when they suggest he give his money to the needy, and his distressed reactions to I.M.P showing him the negative sides of whatever C.H.E.R.U.B tries to show him to convince him to continue living, such as literally crying like a baby when he freaks out when Blitzo exposes a Mall Santa as a pedophile. |
| 210 | * LittleNo: Lipton's response to C.H.E.R.U.B's suggestions on what he can do if he remains alive, like sharing his money with the world to help people and feel "so fulfilled", is a quite defiant "No". |
| 211 | * LoveRedeems: Subverted. Though he admits that he's never been in love and hopes it feels quite nice, which C.H.E.R.U.B take as a possible reason to keep living, Blitzo very quickly shows that no person would '''ever''' fall in love with someone as old-looking as him, making him depressed again. |
| 212 | * MoneyFetish: His first scene is him looking at a stock photo of money and declaring it as his "one true love". |
| 213 | * TheNoseKnows: Somehow Lyle can detect the scent of teenagers within a few miles of him, despite otherwise being disabled from extremely advanced physical age. |
| 214 | * PetTheDog: He was honestly touched by the happiness of children seeing a mall Santa and thanked C.H.E.R.U.B for showing him it. And then it's ruined when the mall Santa is shown to be a pervert. |
| 215 | * PianoDrop: Dies from this due to I.M.P and C.H.E.R.U.B's fight, [[DeathByIrony right after he decides he doesn't want to kill himself after all]]. His demon form reflects this with his teeth looking like piano keys. |
| 216 | * ProfessorGuineaPig: He and Loopty tested their FountainOfYouth machine on themselves, only because they had no one else around. |
| 217 | * RapidAging: Just like his dead partner, Lyle was aged into an old man by their de-aging machine, though while his partner dies of a heart attack, he ends up barely surviving. However, he is so old and feeble that he actually wants death afterward anyway. |
| 218 | * RichGenius: He and Loopty built a technological empire together with their inventions which made them filthy rich. |
| 219 | * ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: He lets out a feminine-sounding scream shortly before he dies. |
| 220 | * ShoutOut: His personality and demon appearance are a combination of Bigweld from ''WesternAnimation/{{Robots}}'' (Rich near-trillionaire who focuses on the advancement of robotics and, after being sent to Hell, taking a OneWheeledWonder form where his entire lower body is a giant ball to move around with) and [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Dr. Eggman]] (his large nose, spiky mustache, and goggles after being sent to Hell, and general mad-scientist-who-makes-robots vibe). |
| 221 | * TeenHater: When the Cherubs bring Lyle Lipton to "Lover's Lookout" in their effort to convince him not to kill himself, he expresses distaste in teenagers upon arrival. |
| 222 | * VillainWithGoodPublicity: His and Loopty's inventions have apparently been so helpful to mankind that Heaven deemed him worthy of being saved. Of course, said inventions were created by experimenting on the poor and in at least one case explicitly created just to sell to trillionaires. |
| 223 | * VillainousFriendship: It's revealed that Loopty wanted him dead because he wanted to be with his best friend again. |
| 224 | * WouldHurtAChild: His immediate response to seeing C.H.E.R.U.B is exclaiming how he's now being haunted by the ghosts of "ugly orphan children", making it clear that the kind of poor people used in his and Loopty's robotic experiments had no age limits. |
| 225 | * YoungerThanTheyLook: His case of RapidAging had it worse than Loopty, as his FatBastard appearance makes him look even older than the NothingButSkinAndBones appearance Loopty had before his heart-attack, whereas pre-accident Lyle looks to have actually been slightly younger. Even as a spryer-looking demon, he still appears significantly older than he actually was chronologically when he died. |
| 226 | [[/folder]] |
| 227 | |
| 228 | [[folder:D.H.O.R.K.S]] |
| 229 | !!D.H.O.R.K.S |
| 230 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dhorks_1_n_2.png]] |
| 231 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"Why are we only using weapons from Japan's Edo period!?"\ |
| 232 | "Hey, the Edo Period was BADASS and you know it!"'' Agent Two (left) and Agent One (right)]] |
| 233 | ->'''Agent One voiced by:''' Michael Romeo Ruocco\ |
| 234 | '''Agent Two voiced by:''' Creator/EricaLuttrell |
| 235 | |
| 236 | A demon-obsessed government agency dedicated to demon hunting and uncovering the secrets of Hell. While consisting of a number of agents, only two of them, known simply as Agent One and Agent Two, are prominent. |
| 237 | ---- |
| 238 | * AwesomeButImpractical: Besides probably ''two pistols'', their agents exclusively use weapons from Japan's Edo Period [[InsaneTrollLogic because "the Edo Period was]] ''[[OccidentalOtaku Badass"]]''. This doesn't help them much against a group that is either more skilled in melee than they are or have a fuck load of guns. |
| 239 | * BigBrotherIsWatching: Big time users of this trope. The D.H.O.R.K.S organization have surveillance from all over the United States, including Opera houses, public beaches, forests, and even random horse farms. And naturally, inside their own headquarters for security purposes. |
| 240 | * CassandraTruth: They've been attempting to warn other government agencies about the whole "Hell exists and some of its denizens are murdering innocent people" thing, and unsurprisingly aren't taken very seriously. Though with recorded evidence of I.M.P, Agents One and Two are working to subvert this trope. |
| 241 | * ConspiracyTheorist: They're essentially an entire government agency dedicated to finding the truth about all things related to Hell. For this, however, they're seen as a bunch of kooks by everyone else in the living world. While most of the group is slaughtered during I.M.P's escape, the survivors manage to record enough evidence to imply an eventual subversion of this trope. |
| 242 | * CorruptedCharacterCopy: Agent One and Two are likely parodies of the [[Series/TheXFiles X-Files]] protagonists Agent Mulder and Agent Scully, being a male and female duo obsessed with exposing supernatural evidence to the world, while the difference is that Agent One and Two willing to do so via illegal and oppressive means. |
| 243 | * CreatureHunterOrganization: In their pursuit of uncovering the truth about things that may be related to Hell, they're also a government agency that hunts demons. |
| 244 | * CruelAndUnusualDeath: They get many during I.M.P's rampage, such as being bisected, diced in pieces, or [[GroinAttack accidentally shot in the dick]], but special mentions goes to Loona, who kills two of them by biting their heads and crushing them. |
| 245 | * DeliberatelyMonochrome: Every member of D.H.O.R.K.S is greyscaled with black sunglasses and likewise greyscaled weaponry, evoking the imagery of TheMenInBlack. |
| 246 | * EmbarrassingInitials: Their organization's acronym embarrassingly reads similarly to the word "dorks", a matter which highlights how much of a group of conspiracy nuts they are. |
| 247 | * EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Downplayed since he's a HeroAntagonist, but Agent One cries when he's reminded that his fat mom is dead and gets ''very'' defensive when Blitzo insults her. |
| 248 | * EvilHero: Their job is protect people from paranormal, but it's pretty clear that these guys [[BlackAndWhiteInsanity views all Hell-related things evil]]. But as the only Hell-related creatures they met were [[SerialKiller IMP]] and [[spoiler: Stolas]], it's [[JustifiedTrope justified]]. |
| 249 | * EyeGlasses: Whenever they have shades on, their shades usually emote to properly portray whatever expression they have. |
| 250 | * FunWithAcronyms: In a manner similar to I.M.P and C.H.E.R.U.B, their organization has an acronym for a name. What it exactly stands for isn't fully elaborated, though it is implied the first letter stands for "Demon" and the second is some variation of 'Hunter' or 'Hunting'. |
| 251 | * HeroAntagonist: They're a group of paranormal investigators specifically dedicated to seeking the truth about all things Hell. While their aim may be noble at least on paper, it puts them at odds with the likes of I.M.P. |
| 252 | * IdiotHero: Their idea of armaments for their security team are a bunch of weapons from the Edo Period against I.M.P, who have a multitude of firearms as well as explosives, and have Millie, who is far more skilled with melee weaponry than any of the agents are, and Loona, who is both extremely strong and fast and has a variety of natural weapons, such as her incredible bite strength and claws. Their excuse? They think the Edo Period was badass. They also forget to ask Blitzo and Moxxie any questions during their interrogation of them after they doused them with a gaseous truth serum and were much more concerned with watching them freak out. |
| 253 | * IncompetenceInc: They fight exclusively with weapons from Japan's Edo Period "[[InsaneTrollLogic because the Edo Period was badass]]" and the password to their facility is 1111. |
| 254 | * InsaneTrollLogic: Besides probably ''two pistols'', their agents exclusively use weapons from Japan's Edo Period because "the Edo Period was ''Badass''". |
| 255 | * {{Joisey}}: They both have noticeable Jersey accents. Agent One even uses "youse" a few times. |
| 256 | * LackOfEmpathy: Agent One and Two don't seem to be all too bothered by the wholesale slaughter of their colleagues. All that matters to them was that said slaughter was recorded evidence. |
| 257 | * MeaningfulName: Samurai and ninja weapons for the sake of looks over practicality? Extremely unprofessional attitudes? Lackluster security code procedures? What a bunch of...well...dorks. |
| 258 | * MissingMom: In response to a "yo momma is fat" insult from Blitzo, Agent Two mentions that Agent One's fat mom is dead. |
| 259 | * MookHorrorShow: D.H.O.R.K.S's first [[CurbStompBattle encounter]] with [[MurderInc I.M.P]] left them somewhat short-staffed. courtesy of getting shot, stabbed, strangled, slashed, bitten, clawed, blown apart, clobbered and suffering broken necks. Quite a bit of that as the result of [[TooDumbToLive deciding to take on people armed with guns using samurai weapons]]. |
| 260 | * {{Not So Harmless|Villain}} HeroAntagonist: While they generally come off as parodies of TheMenInBlack and aren't taken all that seriously in-universe, they're smarter than the demons give them credit for, managing to obtain incontrovertible proof of their claims. |
| 261 | * NervesOfSteel: For all their ''many'' faults, I.M.P doesn't intimidate them. the only thing that actually manages to rattle Agent One and Agent Two is [[spoiler: Stolas's BigEntrance]], and even that they recover from surprisingly quickly. |
| 262 | * NominalHero: They're implied to be trying to expose Hell's existence less to protect humanity and more so they can rub it in everyone's face they they were right. |
| 263 | * {{Revenge}}: Agent Two’s reaction to watching Blitzo and Moxxie (who had spent the last few hour aggressively making fun of them) despair and cry while under the effects of the truth serum is to say “This is going be a GOOD night” with a smile, which is shared by Agent One. |
| 264 | * RockBeatsLaser: Way, WAY averted. Their insistence on sticking to feudal Japanese weapons does them absolutely no favors and they get mowed down by the dozens. |
| 265 | * TheyCalledMeMad: Evidently, they weren't taken all that seriously by the other government departments due to their fixation on demons, which is why they're so obsessed with obtaining information on Hell. |
| 266 | * TooDumbToLive: The primary thing keeping them from being more sympathetic than [[VillainProtagonist I.M.P]] despite their nobler job is how impressively ''awful'' they are at demon-hunting. |
| 267 | * WeHaveWaysOfMakingYouTalk: When normal questioning fails, and they decide not to use [[ColdBloodedTorture torture]], they have access to some very interesting choices: “[=HaHa=] Gas”, “Bitch Juice” and “Truth Bomb”, the last one being an airborne truth serum that leaves the victim a drooling mess. Too bad that neither Agent One or Two has the smarts to actually ask questions when their targets are under the influence, instead preferring to munch on popcorn and enjoy the show. |
| 268 | * YouAreNumberSix: The two most prominent members of the organization are simply known as Agent One and Agent Two. |
| 269 | [[/folder]] |
| 270 | |
| 271 | [[folder:Counselor Jimmy]] |
| 272 | !!Counselor Jimmy |
| 273 | [[quoteright:613:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/counselor_jimmy.png]] |
| 274 | ->'''Voiced by''': Monica Franco |
| 275 | |
| 276 | A summer camp counselor who has been helping Barbie Wire sell drugs. |
| 277 | ---- |
| 278 | * AssholeVictim: He killed one of his fellow counselors [[HeKnowsTooMuch because he stumbled upon his and Barbie's drug operation]] and becomes IMP's target as a result. |
| 279 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: He comes off as meek and nerdy, but he not only murdered another counselor just because he found out about the drugs, but Barb's furious reaction makes it clear he did this on his own accord rather than on her orders (and didn't even tell her). |
| 280 | * DidntThinkThisThrough: Partially {{justified|Trope}} since he was panicking, but while trying to keep I.M.P. away from him as they're struggling with Barbie, Jimmy throws a kilo of heroin at them. All this does is briefly get them ''and'' Barbie high, and cause all three of them to focus their now erratic behavior on him, forcing him to back away in fright and putting him at the ''perfect'' spot for a stray rocket to blow his head up. |
| 281 | * FourEyesZeroSoul: Got glasses, and is a very bad person. |
| 282 | * HormoneAddledTeenager: He falls for Barbie's HoneyTrap routine even after she outright admits to him that it's extremely easy to manipulate him. |
| 283 | * OhCrap: He only has a split second to react when a rocket from [[AttractiveBentGender "Millerd's"]] show flies directly into his face. |
| 284 | * TeensAreMonsters: A very clear-cut example, Jimmy deals drugs, knowingly supplies a demon with loads of heroin, and, on his own initiative, murders someone he knows because they discovered the drug stash. |
| 285 | * YourHeadASplode: His demise was brought on by wayward rocket straight to the temple, which then conviniently blew up. |
| 286 | [[/folder]] |
| 287 | |
| 288 | !Heaven |
| 289 | |
| 290 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 291 | * AmbiguouslyEvil: |
| 292 | ** The one episode where they play a major role, "C.H.E.R.U.B.", has some pretty ominous implications regarding the angels. C.H.E.R.U.B. is implied to be saving people not because it's actually what they should do, but for the recognition, seeing as they were willing to try and save a slimy bastard like Lyle. Meanwhile, Deerie is willing to kick the trio out indefinitely for an accident, which was the death of the aforementioned Lyle, who wasn't just on death's door anyway, he was, as mentioned previously, a horrible and greedy man. This brings up the implication that maybe Hell's overpopulation crisis [[EasyRoadToHell isn't entirely justified by human failing alone]]. |
| 293 | ** A FreezeFrameBonus shows Collin has a FauxtivationalPoster advising people to "ditch your loser friends who you can't use," which is attributed to none other than God Himself. Since it's a brief visual gag, it's unknown if it actually has canonical implications about the Almighty's character, but if it does, [[GodIsEvil oh dear]]... |
| 294 | * FluffyCloudHeaven: Our glimpse into Heaven in C.H.E.R.U.B.'s commercial shows this take on Heaven has the traditional cloud aesthetic. |
| 295 | * HellOfAHeaven: {{Play|ingWithATrope}}ed with. Heaven itself is, for the most part, rather idyllic, people that ascended there being polite and decent. The problem stems from its ''staff''. Most of the known Angelic characters are shown to be a different kind of unpleasant: the members of C.H.E.R.U.B. are willing to protect anyone regardless of their sins if they're properly paid or even if their target ''wants'' to live anymore; the bureaucrats like Deerie are extremely condescending and willing to banish their own for even a single mistake; the Exorcists are shown to be sadistic pricks using the excuse of "stopping an uprising" to justify exterminating Sinners with impunity, with Adam in particular being a misogynistic asswipe who would gladly subject Hell to genocide if he could; and the entire reason for Hell's existence and Lucifer and Lilith's damnation to it being because they dared to go against Heaven's intended plan in favor of demonstrating free will and wanting to punish them by surrounding them with only the ''worst'' humanity has to offer. Sera, Emily, and [[spoiler:Vaggie]] are the only real exceptions, as Sera only authorizes the exterminations out of genuine fear that Hell will rise against Heaven and wanting to protect her people while disapproving of Adam and Lute's sadism, Emily disapproving of the exterminations and finding herself agreeing with Charlie after seeing how Angel Dust fits the criteria to be in Heaven yet isn't, and [[spoiler:Vaggie]] being made into a FallenAngel for sparing a demon child rather than just killing them like Lute wanted resulting in their being maimed and left for dead. |
| 296 | [[/folder]] |
| 297 | !!C.H.E.R.U.B. |
| 298 | |
| 299 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 300 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cherub_logo.jpg]] |
| 301 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"Well, luckily for you,\ |
| 302 | There's something we can do.\ |
| 303 | We can help keep them alive,\ |
| 304 | So you can watch them thrive!"'']] |
| 305 | |
| 306 | An organization run by Cherubs that serves as the opposite of I.M.P, in that it protects humans from dying. |
| 307 | ---- |
| 308 | * AccidentalMurder: Accidentally cause Lyle's death fighting I.M.P, which gets the angels kicked out of Heaven. |
| 309 | * AllForNothing: They attempt to get someone as horrible as Lyle Lipton into heaven with the implication that they are only doing it for their reputation since they don't even think that he is a good person to begin with. By the end of their debut episode, not only do they accidentally kill Lyle themselves after they break into a fight with I.M.P. right after he finally seems to have an epiphany that his life does have meaning, they are also banned from ever returning to Heaven as a result while Lyle still went to Hell. [[spoiler: "Welcome To Heaven" from "Hazbin Hotel" eventually reveals that [[BlackBox not even the Angel leadership of Heaven know what it takes to actually get into Heaven even when Sinners try to redeem themselves]], just when a new soul arrives there, implying that C.H.E.R.U.B.'s plan to redeem Lyle was never going to work to begin with.]] |
| 310 | * AnatomyAnomaly: Both Collin and Keenie are sheep-like cherubs who have human-like hands, Keenie's being completely human while Collin's are three-fingered hooves, making them stick out from Deerie and her cherub entourage, all of whom otherwise have even upper-torso limbs be based on their animal inspirations, such as hooves or insect fore-legs. |
| 311 | * AntiHero: Their job is to save people at the requests of their clients, and it's implied most of their charges are beneficial enough to both humanity and Heaven to be worth keeping alive, but they don't actually do the jobs for the goodness of it, barring [[TokenGoodTeammate Collin]], and don't actually care about the guilt or innocence of the humans they protect, overall mostly doing it for the fame and recognition. |
| 312 | * BarefootCartoonAnimal: The only one among them that wears shoes is Cletus due to his baby-like {{Putto}} design. Collin and Keenie have no form of footwear at all, which is justified since them having hooves makes shoes unnecessary. |
| 313 | * BarredFromTheAfterlife: C.H.E.R.U.B are thrown out of Heaven by higher-ranking angel Deerie, for accidentally killing Lyle, leaving the trio stranded on Earth. |
| 314 | * BestialityIsDepraved: Blitzo accuses Cletus (who looks like a human baby) of sleeping with Collin and Keenie (two anthropomorphic sheep) as part of his ScrewYouElves against the cherubs HolierThanThou attitude towards the imps. It's not clear if this is true, though Keenie gets ''very'' riled up by the accusation. |
| 315 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: The trio may be cute little angelic creatures who view all life as precious, but they are completely capable of, and willing to if necessary for, attacking anyone that gets in the way of their job. |
| 316 | * BeyondRedemption: When Deerie banishes them, she declares in no uncertain terms that there is absolutely no way they can redeem themselves to be allowed back into Heaven. |
| 317 | * DestructiveSaviour: The trio tries to save Lyle from suicide. After I.M.P's antics gets someone killed, they start a fight with I.M.P, which ends up killing far more people in collateral, ''including Lyle''. |
| 318 | * DudeWheresMyRespect: None of them even get a GrudgingThankYou from their [[BadBoss superior Deerie]] for all the human souls ''they have saved'' over eternity while being cast out. In Heaven's eyes - they're only [[BlackAndWhiteInsanity as good as their last mistake]]. |
| 319 | * TheFakeCutie: They have the appearances of looking like babies (Cletus being a {{Putto}} while Collin and Keenie are lambs), and for most of their debut display cutesy and childlike personalities. The very end of said debut reveals that this is deliberately invoked, as they utilize their cute looks and fake friendly personalities as a way to coerce evil and/or suicidal people into reforming and staying alive, and even that isn't done because it's right, instead being because their reputation hangs on saving people for their clients. |
| 320 | * FallenAngel: The trio are barred from Heaven after accidentally killing their charge while fighting I.M.P, demoting them to this. |
| 321 | * FantasticRacism: It doesn't take long for the cherubs to express their hatred of demons after their RageBreakingPoint. |
| 322 | -->'''Keenie:''' You are all such disgusting, loathsome beasts! Your kind is nothing but dirt that shitty dead people tread on! |
| 323 | * ForHappiness: The antithesis of I.M.P, being a non-profit organization that aims to keep their clients in Heaven, and mortals on Earth, happy. |
| 324 | * FunWithAcronyms: Fitting for the GoodCounterpart of I.M.P, they're a group of cherubs whose group name shortens to the acronym C.H.E.R.U.B, though the exact words that form said acronym have not yet been mentioned. |
| 325 | * GoodCannotComprehendEvil: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. At first, it seems like their moral virtues are honestly basic and they're genuinely naive to the nuance of what potentially less-than-virtuous people like Lyle might view as "good". By the end of their debut, it's clear that they ''do'' understand that some people simply aren't good and don't see the same value in conventionally-pleasant things like they do. They just don't seem to care, either in denial about it or simply ignoring it because they're {{Punch Clock Hero}}es. |
| 326 | * GoodCounterpart: Just like I.M.P, they access the living world and interact with mortals. But unlike the imps, C.H.E.R.U.B seeks to protect humans. They even have their own jingle, much like I.M.P does. |
| 327 | * GoodIsDumb: While they aren't ''quite'' as innocent & naive as they seem, their approach to convincing people to keep living is still pretty shortsighted from what we see. They thought the best way to instill a desire for romance in a child-hating ''elderly'' man was to take him to a makeout spot for teenagers. |
| 328 | * GoryDiscretionShot: Their advertisement censors all violent deaths any unfortunate humans should suffer. |
| 329 | * GoshDarnItToHeck: Zigzagged. They start swearing once things progressively get worse, but as creatures of Heaven, using God in any sort of swear, explicit or otherwise, is completely unacceptable. |
| 330 | --> '''Collin:''' Oh my gosh oh my gosh oh my ''God''!\ |
| 331 | '''Keenie:''' ''(slapping Collin)'' [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan Get a hold of yourself, Collin!]] And do '''''not''''' use the Lord's name in vain! |
| 332 | * GuardianAngel: Being a human protection service, this is to be expected. Per requests made by people up in Heaven, they help the living from dying from unfortunate fates. Who they help however is based more on requests made by their clients and not necessarily on the morality of those they're requested to help, meaning those who they help out may not necessarily be innocent souls. |
| 333 | * GuiltByAssociationGag: It was Cletus specifically who caused Lyle's death by causing a piano to crush him, yet Collin and Keenie are also banished from Heaven. |
| 334 | * GuysSmashGirlsShoot: {{Gender Inverted|Trope}} as yet another parallel to I.M.P. While all three each have a SacredBowAndArrows, when fighting seriously the female Keenie gets into a physical brawl with Millie, while the male Cletus and Collin use their bows to shoot at Blitzo and Moxxie. |
| 335 | * HeroAntagonist: All they do is try to prevent people from dying from untimely fates. They don't even want money for it, simply doing it because it's right. But since I.M.P are the protagonists of the story, that lands them squarely in the antagonist category. |
| 336 | * HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: They see fit to save Lyle's life even though, as Moxxie points out, he's a greedy hypercapitalist who spends pretty much all his interactions disparaging orphans, the poor, and children. Not to mention he performed unethical experiments on humans. However Cletus admits later that he is a shitty person, they are just required to save people. |
| 337 | * {{Hypocrite}}: |
| 338 | ** They harshly criticize I.M.P for meddling with the lives of humans when that's exactly what they do, and have a HolierThanThou attitude about it to boot. Millie even points this out to them. |
| 339 | ** They have FantasticRacism towards demons, condemning them as lowly evil monsters, but they have no problem with saving humans like Lyle, who they are completely aware of being just as evil. |
| 340 | * InnocentBlueEyes: All three cherubs have bright blue eyes (though Keenie's are half-red), and all of them act incredibly sweet and naive in their efforts to convince Lyle to live. However, while Collin is a genuine example, Cletus and Keenie are invoking this for their TheFakeCutie image, as when they drop the act, Cletus' become IcyBlueEyes while Keenie's [[RedEyesTakeWarning have the red become more prominent as she shows her more violently angry true self]]. |
| 341 | * KickedOutOfHeaven: At the end of their debut episode, Deerie announces that the trio are permanently barred from returning to Heaven, due to accidentally killing a human. |
| 342 | * LawOfChromaticSuperiority: In addition to their PrimaryColorChampion status, the overall presence of the color red is used to denote the hierarchy of the group. |
| 343 | ** Cletus always wears outfits with heavy amounts of red, which signifies him as TheLeader. |
| 344 | ** While Keenie is mostly yellow, she has a decent amount of red present in both her eyes and outfits, signifying her being the NumberTwo for Cletus. |
| 345 | ** Collin has no red whatsoever in any of his outfits, always being various shades of blue, signifying how he's more of a minion to Cletus and Keenie, having no real say in anything C.H.E.R.U.B does. |
| 346 | * LetterMotif: All three of them have names that start with a "K" sound. |
| 347 | * LickedByTheDog: Invoked in their commercial. They help clients who got into Heaven save the life of someone they care about on earth. Even if said person on earth is complete garbage (like Lyle), the rationale is if someone with enough goodness to get into ''Heaven'' cares about them, then they ''must'' have good enough qualities to be worth saving. |
| 348 | -->'''Cletus:''' Welcome to Heaven! Guess you did something good to get here, and good people deserve to give loved ones ''special'' blessings! |
| 349 | * MoralGuardians: Rather than acknowledge I.M.P's [[BothSidesHaveAPoint counterarguments]] about the [[NatureIsNotNice rotten state of reality]], they instead go into denial, trying to prevent Lyle from witnessing anything violent or gruesome about the Earth when it inevitably [[CrapsackWorld starts turning crapsack]]. Even their commercials in Heaven [[GoryDiscretionShot censor violence]], which has bigger implications for what [[GildedCage paradise is really like]] for the series. |
| 350 | * NiceMeanAndInBetween: Collin is the nice one, being the TokenGoodTeammate who genuinely means good by the job, Keenie is the mean one, being a BitchInSheepsClothing who can barely hold back her contempt towards others, along with frequently abusing Collin, and Cletus is the one in-between, being a lot more professional and mindful than Keenie while hiding a personality much more self-serving and angry than Collin. |
| 351 | * NonGovernmentalOrganization: Their jingle says they don't ask for a fee for any of their services, implying that C.H.E.R.U.B is a non-profit organization that simply does the right thing by nature. |
| 352 | * NotSoAboveItAll: As HolierThanThou as they may act, even they are aware Lyle is a piece of shit and Cletus flat-out calls him that during his FreakOut. Keenie is also not shy about expressing her deep-seated FantasticRacism towards imps when provoked enough. There's also a hint of [[{{Hypocrite}} hypocrisy]] to their cause, since they view demons like I.M.P meddling with human affairs as wrong, when they themselves are ''also'' meddling in human affairs. |
| 353 | * OhCrap: When they off Lyle by accident, since it's as unthinkable as it is [[ThouShaltNotKill forbidden]] for Cherub angels to commit murder even indirectly. |
| 354 | * PrimaryColorChampion: To contrast the RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver of I.M.P, and to compliment their status as {{Hero Antagonist}}s, the C.H.E.R.U.B trio have a color scheme of primary colors, with Cletus being red, Collin being blue, and Keenie being yellow. Cletus is especially notable, as he has a decently even amount of yellow and blue in his color-scheme that compliments the red, fitting for the leader. |
| 355 | * PunchClockHero: Regarding Lyle, they know full well that he's a piece of human garbage, and that he only got people in Heaven asking for his health because his inventions helped people, but try to inspire him to live again because they were hired to do so. |
| 356 | * SacredBowAndArrows: Appropriately for angels, they fight with gilded crossbows that shoot holy-magic arrows. They also [[SpontaneousWeaponCreation can make said crossbows appear out of thin air]]. |
| 357 | * SmallStepsHero: While trying to convince Lyle not to kill himself, they simultaneously encourage him to repent and use his wealth and inventions to better mankind, like donate to orphanages and hospitals, and share his inventions to help the masses rather than just the already wealthy. This implies that while they are {{Punch Clock Hero}}es who save the lives of potentially awful people that don't deserve their kindness, they also use the opportunity to try to improve the human world one saved life at a time. |
| 358 | * SweetSheep: Collin and Keenie look and act like friendly sheep. While Collin fully plays this straight at all times, Keenie isn't as sweet when pushed too far, along with reacting negatively towards inappropriate or blasphemous commentary. |
| 359 | * ThinkingUpPortals: All Cherubs are shown to be able to travel between Earth and Heaven with ease. After the trio get [[FallenAngel cast out]] by Deerie they lose the ability to travel to the latter destination. |
| 360 | * TwoGuysAndAGirl: They consist of Cletus and Collin who're both male and Keenie who's female. |
| 361 | * UnskilledButStrong: A downplayed example with the members of C.H.E.R.U.B; they rely on their inherent powers of flight & the ability to conjure [[BottomlessMagazines infinite ammo holy arrow crossbows]] in their fight against [[WeakButSkilled I.M.P]], who lack powers they could use in a fight. If the shootout had been in a more open space with less for the imps [[CombatPragmatist to work with]], C.H.E.R.U.B would have had a significant advantage. |
| 362 | * UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: While overall pretty [[HolierThanThou self-righteous]] and [[GoodIsNotNice self-serving]] {{Punch Clock Hero}}es who save potentially awful humans just because their clients asked for it, they justify their [[MoralMyopia hypocritical]] meddling in human affairs by convincing the people they save to use their second chance at life to make the world a better place. |
| 363 | [[/folder]] |
| 364 | |
| 365 | [[folder:Cletus]] |
| 366 | !!Cletus |
| 367 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/renderedcanoncletus.png]][[caption-width-right:350:''"Welcome to Heaven! Guess you did '''something''' good to get here."'']] |
| 368 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Don Darryl Rivera |
| 369 | |
| 370 | The baby-like cherub leader of C.H.E.R.U.B who's essentially Blitzo's parallel. |
| 371 | ---- |
| 372 | * {{Foil}}: Cletus and Blitzo are both the leaders of the group, and are the most vocal when it comes to frustration, but when faced with consequences, Blitzo would find a way around it, while Cletus reacts with tears. |
| 373 | * OcularGushers: At the end of C.H.E.R.U.B's debut episode, he cries heavily with these. |
| 374 | * TheOneWhoWearsShoes: As the only human-like member of the group, and the only human-like cherub shown in their debut episode, he's fittingly also the only one that wears footwear, in this case small and thin shoes that barely cover the heels. Works as a good parallel to Blitzo, who is also the only member of his group that wears shoes. |
| 375 | * {{Putto}}: Cletus looks like the winged babies Cherubim tend to be depicted as. |
| 376 | * RageBreakingPoint: Unlike Collin, who never breaks mentally since he has no rage to enflame, or Keenie, who is constantly on the brink of emotionally exploding out of hatred, Cletus does his best to remain professional despite growing annoyance towards I.M.P. He eventually reaches and surpasses his limit after one ruined Lyle reform attempt too far, dropping the niceness and bringing C.H.E.R.U.B to try killing the imps. |
| 377 | * TokenHuman: A slight variant. Him being a {{Putto}} means he has a human baby-like appearance, which makes him really stand out compared to the other Cherubs, especially Collin and Keenie, as all the rest have animal-like appearances. |
| 378 | * UnexplainedAccent: Cletus speaks with a slight Southern American accent, especially in his use of the word "Howdy!" |
| 379 | * WeWillMeetAgain: Threatens the battle with I.M.P (and by extension the war with Hell for people's souls) isn't over, but then is abruptly BarredFromTheAfterlife by Deerie. |
| 380 | [[/folder]] |
| 381 | |
| 382 | [[folder:Collin]] |
| 383 | !!Collin |
| 384 | [[quoteright:286:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/collin_2.png]] |
| 385 | [[caption-width-right:286:''"We're just trying to do our j-j-j-job!"'']] |
| 386 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Jayden Libran |
| 387 | |
| 388 | A blue/purple anthropomorphic sheep cherub in the employ of C.H.E.R.U.B who essentially serves as Moxxie's parallel. |
| 389 | ---- |
| 390 | * BigOlEyebrows: His are at least thrice as big as the other cherubs’ are. |
| 391 | * BigOMG: After he alongside Keenie witnesses Cletus inadvertently killing Lyle, due to Blitzo throwing his gun directly into his face. Collin understandably panics and begins frantically repeating "Oh my gosh" until he accidently uses "The lord's name in vain". Keenie responds to Collin screaming "Oh my god!" by slapping him a couple times. |
| 392 | * BlueIsHeroic: With the constant presence of RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver negating the very idea of RedIsHeroic, the fact Collin has his entire color scheme utilize various shades of blue is used to subtly signify right from his first scene that he's the nicest, most moral, most overall heroic character in the whole show. He also fits the specific trope connotations of being calmer and more down-to-earth than his red-colored companions, who are more aggressive and commanding. Ironically, he takes his calmness ''too far'', as he's extremely weak willed and allows his teammates to trod over him with barely any complaints. |
| 393 | * ButtMonkey: Naturally, being Moxxie's counterpart, he suffers the most physical and verbal abuse of the three cherubs. Unlike Moxxie, he doesn't really try to fight back against it. |
| 394 | * ExtremeDoormat: He's incredibly wimpy and rather lacking in a spine, never making any serious attempts to stand up for himself when either the story or Keenie beats him down, simply taking it and waiting for it to stop. It's a good contrast to Moxxie, who while normally somewhat submissive, refuses to take his abuse without either a fight or at least some complaints. |
| 395 | * {{Foil}}: Collin and Moxxie are both {{Token Good Teammate}}s and {{Butt Monkey}}s who often get the short end of the stick in life due to their morality, but Moxxie is at least able to find middle ground with the rest of I.M.P, along with being able to stand up for himself against most things, whereas Collin is so lacking a spine that he just takes all the abuse the story piles on him for his desire to truly do good. |
| 396 | * GoodIsNotSoft: As the TokenGoodTeammate, he's the only one in C.H.E.R.U.B that is shown to be completely sincere in his protective efforts, with his NiceGuy personality being genuine, but said niceness doesn't keep him from being just as willing to kill murderously evil demons when he's left no other options. |
| 397 | * HiddenDepths: |
| 398 | ** Judging by his taste in [[FauxtivationalPoster demotivational posters]] he has a [[GodIsEvil low opinion]] of his boss and creator, {{God}}. |
| 399 | ** While he's also a PunchClockHero about saving Lyle, Collin doesn't allow any thoughts of FantasticRacism or HolierThanThou exhibited in his co-workers to distract him. |
| 400 | ** He looks on with a [[WhatTheHellHero sad worried face]] when Cletus describes Lyle as a "shitty old man". |
| 401 | * LongPants: Due to his general color scheme, it's a bit confusing what is going on with Collin's lower body while wearing his first outfit. Either he wears pants with four buttons that seamlessly blend with his leg fur, or he's a HalfDressedCartoonAnimal with four prominent nipples. The fact the buttons/nipples vanish while wearing his opera-watching outfit does nothing to lessen the confusion, since the potential pants STILL perfectly blend with his fur. |
| 402 | * LoveRedeems: [[InvokedTrope Collins believes in it, at least.]] When Lyle admits he had never been in love and wonders about it, Collins encourages him that it's never too late to find love. Of course, I.M.P shoots that hope down by pointing out no one would be sexually attracted to Lyle as he is now. |
| 403 | * OnlySaneEmployee: While he may be just as much of a PunchClockHero as Cletus and Keenie in regards to not caring how innocent his charges are, his complete lack of FantasticRacism and other vices means he is the only one who does the job for the sake of goodness instead of personal gain. Unfortunately for him, and as yet another parallel to Moxxie, him being the only sane one among them paints a target on his back as a magnet for abuse by both the story and his less sane colleagues, and him being an ExtremeDoormat means he's unable to do anything to counter said abuse. |
| 404 | * SheepInSheepsClothing: [[StealthPun A literal example]]. [[PunchClockHero Unlike his colleagues]], whose sweet nature is only a facade, Collin's completely genuine about that, sincerely trying to help people for the sake of goodness, and [[OnlySaneEmployee gets very unsettled]] when it comes [[{{Jerkass}} the insulting antics]] of Cletus and Keenie, with him truly wanting to give chances at redemption to every being no matter how evil they are. |
| 405 | * SpeechImpediment: Collin has a noticeable stutter that sounds similar to the [[AnimalSpeciesAccent baa-ing of a sheep]], which becomes more prominent when he gets emotional. |
| 406 | * StealthPun: Collin acts as a good and nice person '''BECAUSE''' he's '''ACTUALLY''' a good and nice person ([[PunchClockHero unlike his colleagues]]). In other words, he's a literal SheepInSheepsClothing. |
| 407 | * SweetSheep: Collin is notably the friendliest and sweetest of the C.H.E.R.U.B trio ([[ShrinkingViolet and the meekest of the group]]) as well as the entire series. Compared to Keenie, he's the only member who's genuinely trying to do his job out of passion, never raising his voice or threatening anybody, whether it's Blitzo's team or his own. He's also the only character in ''Helluva Boss'' that never uses profanity and has a clean vocabulary, [[BewareTheQuietOnes for now at least]]. The closest he gets to outright swearing is when he panickingly yells [[BigOMG "Oh my god!"]] out of fear (much to the dismay of Keenie) and stuttering out "You guys are so utterly c-c-cruel!" after witnessing I.M.P drive away the lustful teenagers by pointing out Lyle’s current appearance. |
| 408 | * ThousandYardStare: Collin gets these on occasion. |
| 409 | ** A downplayed example is when Blitzo claims Cletus has sex with him and Keenie. The question of it either because of InnocentMeansNaive being in play or [[BrainBleach he's picturing it in his mind]] is unanswered. |
| 410 | ** A more serious one is when Collin sees just how nasty and brutal nature can be. |
| 411 | * TokenGoodTeammate: As yet another parallel to Moxxie, while C.H.E.R.U.B as a whole is at the very worst a group of GoodIsNotNice {{Punch Clock Hero}}es that still do their job for the sake of good, Collin is the only one among them that completely lacks any of the negative qualities Cletus and Keenie have, such as devolving into frequent swearing when pushed or exhibiting FantasticRacism. The worst ''he'' gets is simply joining the other two in trying to kill some genuinely evil demons for ruining their life-saving efforts. |
| 412 | * YouthfulFreckles: He has three light ones on each cheek like his {{foil}} Moxxie, fitting for having a childlike sense of innocence and idealism, including a genuine belief in the potential good of humanity. |
| 413 | [[/folder]] |
| 414 | |
| 415 | [[folder:Keenie]] |
| 416 | !!Keenie |
| 417 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/keenie_2.png]] |
| 418 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"That is so inappropriate!"'']] |
| 419 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/VivienneMedrano |
| 420 | |
| 421 | A yellow anthropomorphic sheep cherub in the employ of C.H.E.R.U.B who essentially serves as Millie's parallel. |
| 422 | ---- |
| 423 | * AllThereInTheScript: Unlike the other two members of C.H.E.R.U.B, Keenie's name is never given in the episode. It can be found in the credits instead. |
| 424 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: [[StealthPun A near-literal example.]] She puts on the persona of being a SweetSheep for her clients, but unlike genuine example Collin, her sweetness is just a facade she uses to coerce her targets into living and reforming, as in reality she's a GoodIsNotNice {{Jerkass}} who, even before their RageBreakingPoint, is struggling to hold back her utter contempt and hatred towards both I.M.P and Lyle himself. |
| 425 | * ClothingAppendage: The wool on her legs resembles a pair of bloomers. |
| 426 | * {{Foil}}: To Millie. Millie is AffablyEvil and only throws insults when she absolutely needs to, Keenie is a BitchInSheepsClothing that makes no real effort to hide her FantasticRacism. Also, while Millie [[MasculineGirlFeminineBoy clearly wears the trousers]] with Moxxie, she's still shown to be very caring toward him, whereas Keenie is repeatedly shown to abuse and mistreat meek Collin. |
| 427 | * GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: She yells as much almost word-for-word at Collin when he starts freaking out after they've accidentally killed a human whilst slapping him. |
| 428 | * GoodIsNotNice: She's sincere about wanting to save humans on Earth, but shows some unpleasant traits, especially when pushed too far. |
| 429 | * HartmanHips: Has some noticeably wide and round hips. |
| 430 | * {{Jerkass}}: By far the biggest jerk of the trio, being easily angered and provoked to violence. In the advertisement intro she shoves Collin to a pack of ravenous animals, and later slaps him for saying "Oh my God" during his FreakOut. |
| 431 | * JerkassHasAPoint: Happens a couple times in her debut episode, one more justified than the other. |
| 432 | ** The ''only'' reason her calling Lyle a “shitty old man” isn’t a perfectly accurate description of the guy is because he’s aged [[RapidAging physically]], not [[YoungerThanTheyLook chronologically]]. |
| 433 | ** [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] with her assessment of I.M.P. She thinks that [[FantasticRacism being demons means they’re some of the most loathsome beings in all creation]]. While she’s clearly wrong, with every member of I.M.P. has their own positive traits and sympathetic qualities, that doesn’t mean they’re the good guys, either. |
| 434 | * MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: Keenie is the only girl in C.H.E.R.U.B, and is shown to have ''far'' more rage and violent FantasticRacism under her sweet demeanor than her two male coworkers. |
| 435 | * NonMammalMammaries: They're only noticeable in certain side-shots due to being quite small and her wearing poofy outfits, but as pointed out by Millie (who is [[ACupAngst flat-chested and somewhat envious]]), Keenie has a pair of human-like breasts placed on her upper torso, despite being a sheep cherub. Though since sheep are mammals it would probably be more accurate to call them non-''ovine'' mammaries… |
| 436 | * PintSizedPowerhouse: While it might have just been a LiteralMetaphor display of "heavy-lifting", if the C.H.E.R.U.B commercial is to be taken at face value, Keenie has enough strength in her body to lift up rocks more than twice her size and weight. Such potential strength would be handy as the melee specialist of the group, providing another parallel to Millie, who is also a PintSizedPowerhouse. |
| 437 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: Unlike Cletus and Collin, her InnocentBlueEyes are half-red, subtly hinting at how she's much more violently aggressive than the boys. The red becomes more prominent when she breaks character, and after she drops the BitchInSheepsClothing facade to let loose her true {{Jerkass}} personality, her eyes turn near-completely red. |
| 438 | * SleepingWithTheBoss: While Blitzo's BestialityIsDepraved insult is directed at both Keenie and Collin, Keenie getting flustered and enraged at the insinuation implies that it might actually be true between her and Cletus. |
| 439 | [[/folder]] |
| 440 | |
| 441 | !!Others |
| 442 | |
| 443 | [[folder:Deerie]] |
| 444 | !!Deerie |
| 445 | [[quoteright:272:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/deerie_2.png]] |
| 446 | [[caption-width-right:272:''"Yeah, um, sorry... Yeah... no."'']] |
| 447 | -> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/VivienneMedrano |
| 448 | |
| 449 | An anthropomorphic deer cherub that appears near the end of C.H.E.R.U.B's debut episode to ban them from heaven. |
| 450 | ----- |
| 451 | * AllCrimesAreEqual: The fact that Lyle was a horrible person bound for Hell, with not much longer to live, and his death was accidental ''are all irrelevant'' to the Cherubs in general. She won't tolerate or forgive any Angel [[ThouShaltNotKill killing humans]]. |
| 452 | * BadBoss: She throws her subordinates out of Heaven over an accident with no way of returning. |
| 453 | * BarefootCartoonAnimal: Just like Collin and Keenie, Deerie and her angelic entourage are animal-like cherubs that don't wear any form of footwear, which is especially notable since she herself is otherwise near-fully clothed. |
| 454 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: Her cutesy appearance, MinnesotaNice voice, and choice of words provides a thin veneer of only kicking out C.H.E.R.U.B through obligation from Heaven, but her overall attitude strongly implies that she's actually very amused by and gets a major kick out of seeing the trio banned. |
| 455 | * BlackAndWhiteInsanity: She has C.H.E.R.U.B kicked out of Heaven, without any way of coming back, because of what happened to Lyle. While C.H.E.R.U.B are ''technically'' guilty of offing Lyle, it was an accident caused largely by I.M.P. Not to mention Lyle wasn't exactly the most pleasant human being in the first place, and was himself on the brink of death. |
| 456 | * {{Expy}}: Of Bill Lumbergh, a character from ''Film/OfficeSpace'', gender-reversed and changed into anthropomorphic deer. Very similar speech mannerisms and clothes. Becomes obvious while she is reading from the rule book and telling C.H.E.R.U.B their sentence, because she is wearing glasses. |
| 457 | * FauxAffablyEvil: Oh boy. Her kind demeanor masks a merciless taskmaster who will banish her followers for a mistake. |
| 458 | * GodAndSatanAreBothJerks: While she isn't God, she is an [[BadBoss angel of a higher ranking]] than C.H.E.R.U.B and has the ability to ban them from Heaven. She is also a massive jerk, albeit in a very passive-aggressive way. |
| 459 | * HateSink: An unlikable {{Jerkass}} with no good traits who is completely apathetic about the cherubs being banished. |
| 460 | * IronicName: Her name, Deerie, sounds like the affectionate term "dearie", which is normally used to describe somebody a person finds nice and lovable. What little has been shown of her so far points to her being anything ''but'' "nice and lovable". |
| 461 | * {{Jerkass}}: Can't get any more assholish than to kick the C.H.E.R.U.B trio out of Heaven without giving them a chance to explain themselves and telling them in no uncertain terms that they will ''never'' be allowed back in Heaven again, all in as smug and condescending a tone as possible and while insincerely apologizing about the circumstances. |
| 462 | * JerkassHasAPoint: Well, she ''is'' right that C.H.E.R.U.B royally messed up by accidentally killing the person they were supposed to save, so it's not like their exile is ''completely'' unwarranted. |
| 463 | * KickTheDog: Is utterly unsympathetic to C.H.E.R.U.B being kicked out of Heaven, and rubs the news (and her feet) in their faces. |
| 464 | * LackOfEmpathy: She seems completely apathetic to the trio's plight, expelling them from Heaven while filing her hooves. If she is [[TranquilFury actually pissed off]] they [[YouHaveFailedMe failed her]] and has to report their failures to their clients, she's doing [[SugaryMalice a remarkably good job]] of hiding it. |
| 465 | * LightIsNotGood: Deerie may represent Heaven, and she has a sugary exterior, but [[SugaryMalice it's only skin-deep]]. She kicks the three cherubs out of Heaven and gives them no way back, all because of an accident. |
| 466 | * ALizardNamedLiz: She's a deer cherub named Deerie. |
| 467 | * AMillionIsAStatistic: Even though C.H.E.R.U.B picking a fight with I.M.P resulted in several opera audience members getting killed in the crossfire, Deerie only mentions the death of a single human (Lyle) as the reason they're BarredFromTheAfterlife. In other words: Deerie was fine with the random slaughter so long as the angels weren't technically the cause of their deaths. |
| 468 | * MinnesotaNice: She has as thick of a Minnesotan accent as humanly possible, complete with an exaggerated and drawn-out version of that dialect's little-known VerbalTic of saying "yeah, no" instead of simply "no", but any niceness she shows is just [[SugaryMalice thinly-veiled malice]] and passive-aggressive sanctimony. |
| 469 | * NoSympathy: She casts out C.H.E.R.U.B from Heaven for accidentally killing Lyle, giving the trio no means whatsoever of redemption or forgiveness. |
| 470 | * PureIsNotGood: Her obsession with moral purity means she ends up expelling three well meaning cherubs over an accident. |
| 471 | * SarcasmMode: She makes a very sarcastic apology to C.H.E.R.U.B when telling them they won't get back into Heaven. |
| 472 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: She only gets a small amount of screentime during a scene near the very end of her debut episode, but said scene provides strong implications that [[GodAndSatanAreBothJerks Heaven isn't much better than Hell in this universe]], which has [[InherentInTheSystem major potential ramifications]] for not just this series, but also the very plot of ''Hazbin Hotel''. |
| 473 | * SoftSpokenSadist: Kicking C.H.E.R.U.B out of Heaven, albeit for an accident, is somewhat understandable. But ''smiling'' while telling them there is no way to come back is, eh... |
| 474 | * SugaryMalice: Deerie oozes this, booting C.H.E.R.U.B out of Heaven while sounding cheerful about it. Comes as no surprise as the [[YouHaveFailedMe trio just killed a human]] their clients in Heaven explicitly asked them to protect. |
| 475 | * SummonMagic: She pulls a notepad and a pair of glasses from thin air while explaining to Cletus that the cherubs are now banned from Heaven. |
| 476 | * ThouShaltNotKill: She and her entourage are big, uncompromising sticklers for the rules, and killing humans is a big no-no that apparently deserves permanent banning from Heaven regardless of context or reasons. |
| 477 | * VerbalTic: She tends to punctuate her sentences with drawn out "yeahs", repeating this tic in combination with {{little no}}s and a RapidFireNo while telling C.H.E.R.U.B they can't reenter Heaven. |
| 478 | [[/folder]] |
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