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Charlie: "It was ruled by beings of pure light. Angels that worshiped Good and shielded all from Evil."

Welcome to Heaven (oh-oh)
Where the virtuous reside
Twenty-four-seven (oh-oh)
People are happy that they died
'Cause here, we got no worries, got no burglaries, no strife
It's the perfect afterlife!

— Saint Peter, "Welcome to Heaven"

Heaven and Angels In General

• Alien Blood: Angels (as seen with both Lucifer and the Exorcists) have golden blood.
• Always Lawful Good: Heavily Played With.
  • On the one hand, it's hard to deny that most of the people who wind up in Heaven are genuinely kind and decent people. This is also demonstrated by the overwhelming presence of many genuinely awful people going to Hell, and as Helluva Boss shows with Lyle Lipton, it's not opposed of genuinely unpleasant but otherwise non-malicious people going to Heaven, meaning that the bar to entry is low and mostly boils down to having your aggregate kindness outweigh your cruelty or bad influence on other people. Nowhere is this better shown than Emily, who firmly believes Sinners should be given a chance of redemption — and going by the fact almost nobody in Heaven knew about Exterminations, the public outrage once the news broke is a sign many, many people object to the system and are willing to cause a reform. While it's not perfect, the system seems to mostly work to include people who are genuinely pleasant on the whole.
  • On the other hand, it doesn't alter the fact that just because it mostly works as intended doesn't make the system's flaws any less broken; the fact people like Adam and Lute have gotten into Heaven is a sign that some really horrible people can join up... or more disturbingly, that they can turn into horrible people because there's no longer any punishment for being one. Even worse, nobody in Heaven actually knew how the system of salvation or damnation worked, it almost being akin to a lottery even discounting moral qualms. When Adam is put on the spot for three qualifications to ascend, and Angel Dust fails despite meeting all three of them, it just meant they assumed because they were Winners it meant that Sinners must deserve it. This puts a completely dark spin on Sera's extremism, and her horrified reaction to Sir Pentious's ascension meant that she was complicit in the genocide of billions of men, women and children solely due to her own cowardice.
  • In the end, most people who go to Heaven are good, but that doesn't make the system any less broken for who's failed by it, or worse, game it; it ties into the central message that anyone can change as a person... and that change may not always be good.
• Ambiguously Related: Naturally, demons and angels are two sides of a morally differentiating coin, but it's implied the only real difference is of the cosmetic and power level variety, as there are hellborn demons and heavenborn angels, and Winners and Sinners are both mortal souls, just passing onto a different afterlife. The fact that angelic weaponry can hurt Exorcist angels just as much as it does demons is perhaps the biggest indicator that the two races are more similar than anyone thinks.
• Ambiguous Situation:
  • Although Heaven itself is currently a cipher, the dissonance between the angels' Always Lawful Good reputations and the Jerkass way (some of) their on-screen ranks actually behave raises several unpleasant questions and possibilities. If cruelty, sadism, mass slaughter, wanton sexuality and general rudeness are all permissible by the highest-ranking members of a species that (reputedly) worships goodness itself, then What Is Evil?
  • There is also no mention of a God ruling them as of the end of the first season; they only serve higher angels as if they are the Gods, which can make things more ambiguous about the nature of the angels.
  • "Welcome to Heaven", while revealing some details, it adds the question of what criteria leads to a soul heading to Heaven versus to Hell, given that some souls in Hell seem to have ended up there for minor offenses. When Angel Dust fails to ascend after fulfilling Adam's list, it's revealed that, In-Universe, not even the elite of Heaven know why a soul goes to them, only when it does.
• Animal Motifs: They seem to resemble birds, and not just in the obvious fact that they have bird wings. The Exorcists have a feather-like pattern on their necks, Sera and Emily are avian in their true forms, and several angels in the courthouse look like birds. Even Lucifer post-fall has a bird motif in his hobby of making rubber ducks and the light show he gave to young Charlie in "More Than Anything" implies his true form is of a swan.
• Angelic Transformation: Adam's existence proves that humans who go to Heaven become angels, just like how humans who go to Hell become demons. In addition, human-borne angels are called "Winners", similar to how human-borne demons are called "Sinners". Although whether that is the official name for human angels or just something Adam made up during his song to spite Charlie is currently unknown.
• Balance Between Good and Evil: What they fear most is the cosmic force of Evil penetrating its way into their universe and tearing down everything they created and rule over. They are willing to go to great and immoral lengths by forming Hell, to contain its spread, after both Lilith and Eve defied them. By vanquishing millions to billions of souls, their solution to the problem (they refuse to admit exists) is as drastic as a surgeon amputating an entire arm over a small infection, rather than by humanely treating it.
• The Beautiful Elite: As Saint Peter sings, "And everyone is hot!" while surrounded by muscular, shirtless male angels and curvaceous, leggy female angels.
• Beast Man: In Helluva Boss when we see angelic beings, they are (mostly) essentially humanoid animals, and this isn't an outlier. Welcome to Heaven reveals that just like the Sinners, Winners take on animalistic or otherwise inhuman forms. The difference is that most appear less monstrous than their sinner counterparts. Natural-borne Angels are no different, seemingly being very bird-like in their true forms, with the Seraphim transforming into more humanoid forms. Adam, Lute, and the rest of the exorcists, however, look the most human, with them being silvery-skinned Winged Humanoids underneath their masks.
• Black Box: "Welcome to Heaven" reveals the angels don't know why a soul goes to Heaven, only that it does. The judgement behind salvation is a cosmic mystery.
• The Blind Leading the Blind: "Welcome to Heaven" reveals souls worthy of paradise get there without any leave from angels, hence the highest authorities of Heaven don't actually know what amounts to worthiness. Their values are from making assumptions based on using the damned as a yardstick.
• Blind Obedience: Heaven doesn't like it when their angels question the established system that determines where someone goes after death. For thousands of years, the angels have had no idea what determines if a soul goes to Heaven or Hell and have never questioned it. Sera warns Emily that if she does so, she could end up becoming a Fallen Angel like Lucifer.
• Complete Immortality: As far as anyone knows it's impossible to kill an angel, leaving Hell powerless to stop their exterminations. The discovery that this isn't in fact the case is what kicks off the main plot of season 1.
• Crapsaccharine World: Interestingly enough, Heaven can be seen as this to some extent. On one hand, Heaven does look as an idyllic place, where souls get eternal salvation and everyone thrives in a world with no worries, nor pain. The “crap” part comes from the fact that all the angels, except Sera and the Exorcists, are blissfully ignorant about the annual extermination of Sinners from Hell, with the implication that some of the damned souls might be an Earthborn Demon’s relative (like Angel Dust and Molly), and the entire system that judges wherever a soul goes to Heaven or Hell is obscure even for the higher-up angels, who don’t even bother themselves to understand it, nor to try to fix such flawed system, out of fear of each of them becoming a Fallen Angel like Lucifer. Not to mention, angels have no problem with banishing their own kind, either because they made a mistake (such as the Cherubs in Helluva Boss), or because they dared to go against their order after realizing that what they were doing was wrong (like Vaggie, when she was still an Exorcist, didn’t have the heart to kill a demon child during an extermination, and let them go, which drove Lute to gouge her eye out and tear off her wings, leaving her to die in Hell). This is even lampshaded by Charlie and Emily, as they both call Sera and Adam out for not following the same rules they keep preaching, making them de facto hypocrites.
• Everyone Has Standards: Angels may not have a high opinion of sinners, but even they have limits, such as Sera's disapproval of Adam's petty grudge against Charlie for daring to propose that sinners can be redeemed and pointing out the flaws in Heaven's system. After the extermination is revealed, they are also seen arguing about it, especially since it was kept secret from most of them. And when Adam openly gloats about targeting the Hazbin Hotel out of petty spite, the Angels, not just Sera, can be seen glaring at him in disapproval.
• Eye Motifs: Based on the biblically accurate descriptions of angels. Many of the angels have multiple eyes, including eyes on places like their wings, and eyes are also a reoccurring symbol on angels’ clothes and various structures in Heaven, like the gates where Saint Peter resides.
• Government Conspiracy: "Welcome to Heaven" reveals that outside of Heaven's elite and the Exorcists, no one in Heaven actually knows about the Exterminations.
• Head-in-the-Sand Management: Played with, as revealed in the episode "Welcome to Heaven" when Charlie meets with the Seraphim. The Exterminations are a way of Heaven being proactive towards purging evil from the universe, but it's in service to an unclear goal. The upper brass of Heaven seems to think that eliminating evil by purging sinners from Hell once a year will ensure Heaven's safety. But Heaven is playing a game without knowing all of the rules. They know that angels come up to Heaven and that demons go down to Hell, but they have no idea why any of it happens; they're just as unclear as the demons as to who is saved and who is damned. So, they just assume that everyone who goes to Heaven or Hell must deserve it and that carrying out the Exterminations is justified, even though this could be entirely wrong. Either way, those in the upper brass of Heaven have no interest in finding out and are content to just let things remain the way they are while pretending that they're fixing the problem. "The Show Must Go On" has Sir Pentious become an Ascended Demon by rising from Hell to Heaven, which delights Emily and shocks Sera, especially since Sir Pentious appeared right in front of the two Seraphim, which shows that what Charlie wants is possible, as a way of reaffirming that Heaven has no idea if what it's doing is even working.
• Hell of a Heaven: Played with. With the limited viewpoints into Heaven being the likes of Adam and Lute or Deerie, viewers might be led to expect that Heaven is either full of bloodthirsty psychopaths and/or joyless puritans, which would make it no better than Hell. Once it's actually seen for the first time in "Welcome to Heaven", it's revealed that Heaven really is a fairly idyllic place, and most of the people there do seem genuinely good. Overall while Heaven's certainly a good place to spend your afterlife, the entire system between Heaven and Hell still has some major flaws that need to be worked out. There are people like Adam who are inexplicably allowed in despite being just as bad if not worse than most Sinners. Not to mention the fact that the system of divine judgement itself is fundamentally broken because nobody actually knows what allows a soul into Heaven or Hell. Even the leaders of Heaven have no idea as to what is actually required for a soul to ascend, the only thing they do know is when a soul arrives.
• Holy Halo: Everyone in Heaven wears one — angels, winners, cherubs. Some higher ranking angels have slightly different ones, like Emily, who has points on her halo that make it look like a tiara.
• Hypocrite: For all their talk about their disgust for Hell and all its demons, they're willing to enable Adam's asshole behavior and are using the Exterminations as a culling to maintain their power. "Welcome to Heaven" makes it a little better by revealing the majority doesn't know about the Exterminations, but it doesn't explain why they're willing to allow Adam to be how he is. It's heavily implied that, from Heaven's perspective, the fact that anyone's even in Heaven self-evidently proves that they're automatically a good person, and in the same vein anyone going to Hell is proof enough that they're rotten to the core. This of course completely ignores the reality that "good" people can stop caring and turn cruel, and that "bad" people can clean up their act and become better people, which naturally is in total contradiction to what Charlie's Hotel stands for. The last scene of season 1, however, has Sir Pentious reincarnating in Heaven in front of the Seraphims, to Emily's euphoria and to Sera's horror, unquestionably proving this entire tautology to be complete bullshit.
• Light Is Not Good:
  • While the Exorcists all don black, Adam and Heaven in general are depicted with white and gold. Adam and Lute are no better than the demons, and while we have yet to see how Heaven is like, they don't leave a great impression thus far.
  • Episode 6 downplays this a bit. It's revealed that not all Angels are even aware of the Exterminations and that, if Emily is any indication, they would be absolutely horrified to learn about them. Even among the Angels that are aware of them, not all of them are as gleeful about them as Adam is. Sera, for example, sees the Exterminations as a Necessary Evil that must be carried out in order to maintain the balance of power between Heaven and Hell in the Angels' favor, and carries them out willingly, but reluctantly.
• Logical Weakness: As revealed by Carmilla in "Hello Rosie", Angels fight with reckless abandon against Sinners because they think the latter can't hurt them. Yet they can be hurt with their own weapons, and this knowledge on Hell's side (plus a small army's worth of black-market angelic weapons) leads to massive Exorcist casualties during the attack on the hotel.
• Meaningful Name: Adam calls the human souls that reach Heaven "Winners" as opposed to Hell's "Sinners". Since no one in creation knows how souls are selected for Heaven or Hell, ascending to Heaven is currently a matter of chance. No one earned their way into paradise, they won the metaphorical lottery.
• Mirroring Factions: Looking at how Heaven is depicted during "Welcome to Heaven," it is implied they're not too different from Hell. The place is shinier and cleaner, sure, but the denizens of Heaven often have a similar design feel as Hell, just with a halo and wings. And Heaven is not above-posing skimpily-clad, good-looking people on display either. It's like Heaven is the uptown area while Hell is the red-light district, but they're both still in the same city. Even Heaven's Eye Motifs parallel the red eyes seen frequently on inanimate objects in Hell. Additionally, several high-ranking angels resemble Goetias in their birdlike appearance. Heaven even has blatant analogs to Sinners, called Winners, and the sister show states cherubs are their equivalent to imps.
  • If there is a major difference, it’s in the Sinners’ and Winners’ behavior, Sinners may show a capacity for love and friendship, but they are just as willing to exploit, maim, abuse, and kill each other over benefits, failings, or fun, some even towards their friends and loved ones, while the Winners, excluding Exorcists, so far don’t.
• Never My Fault: They cannot handle the notion that their divine plans are just as fallible as they are, even when it's pointed out to them. They even seem content on Moving the Goalposts to change their beliefs so that they're always right.
• Order Is Not Good: The angels represent order to the demons' chaos, but in this pursuit, the Exorcists perform, with Sera's (reluctant) approval, the Exterminations. Additionally, the opening story states Lucifer and Lilith were cast to Hell because the angels couldn't stand humans being given free will. And "Welcome to Heaven" reveals the order they uphold is broken and unfair.
• Our Angels Are Different: There's a variety of Angels, though they have similar traits like wings and a halo. The Winners are human souls that look similar to the sinners and there are angels with heads that resemble the Ophanim (rings with eyes). Adam mentions fucking a "Virtue Chick", which are a type of angel from De Coelesti Hierarchia.
• Tautological Templar: Episode 6 shows that the Angels don't actually know how one earns access to Heaven or Hell, they just assume that whoever ends up in either deserves it, regardless of their actual behavior and are too afraid of potentially rocking the boat and being damned to look into it.
• Time Abyss: According to Charlie's storybook, the angels have expanded the universe, with Earth being one such creation, making them far older than the rest of creation.
• Unusual Halo: Winners have the standard golden ring, but we see more variety in the more notable angels. Additionally, at least with the Exorcists, the halos aren't rings of light, but tangible objects.
  • Adam and Lute have ring halos with a small sphere in the center and points at the top and bottom. Adam's is golden while Lute's is black.
  • Sera's is bluish-white and resembles an ornate crown with a standard ring on top.
  • Emily's is white and has points above a ring to resemble a tiara.
  • The Elders each have a distinctive halo, varying in complexity.

Leadership

The Elders of Heaven

Charlie: For they felt his way of thinking was dangerous to the order of their world.^note Lucifer is in the center, while the Elders surround him.

Enigmatic high-ranking angels responsible for banishing Lucifer to Hell.

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• Ambiguously Evil: It's unknown how much involvement they have with Adam's genocidal plot or if only Sera is keeping them Locked Out of the Loop. They also were the ones who trapped Lucifer in Hell for eternity because he accidentially disrupted their order making this a case of Good Is Not Nice at the most charitable. Lucifer also doesn't hesitate to think that they would hurt Charlie for dreaming.
• Ambiguous Situation: Their exact position in Heaven is hard to pin down. It’s implied they are Seraphim by the number of their wings and Charlie’s Opening Narration makes clear they have a good amount of power, with Lucifer’s Imagine Spot during “More Than Anything” having them as manifestation of Heaven and its refusal to listen to viewpoints different than their own. However, Sera (who was shown in the story accompanying Charlie’s narration as part of a separate group which has thrown Lucifer and Lilith to Hell and one who declared Exterminations) is referred to as High Seraphim and seems to be in charge of Heaven, with six figures personifying Elders nowhere to be seen. All this makes it hard to say if they are Sera’s subordinates, hands off superiors or co-rulers, or if Heaven underwent a regime change between Lucifer’s fall and the start of Exterminations.
• Council of Angels: They form this in Heaven, being the ones to call the shots. There doesn't appear to be a God, and these guys seem to be the ones in charge. In "More Than Anything", they're shown to have six wings, indicating they're seraphim, and thus at the top of Heaven's hierarchy.
• Evil Is Petty: The origin of Hell in the prologue paints the exile of Lucifer and Lilith as this — for daring to go against their plan for existence (by rejecting Adam in Lilith's case and giving Eve the Apple of Knowledge for both of them), they condemn them to a dark pit where they can only see the bad things their decision created, with the good forever being out of reach. Since the prologue comes from a book Charlie is reading, it's entirely possible there's at least some level of bias against Heaven, though how much, if any, isn't known yet, and in a conversation with his daughter about the past, Lucifer does seem sincere about how he wanted to help humans as well as wracked with guilt over his failure.
• Extra Eyes: "More Than Anything" gives us a better view of them, and it's shown one has a huge eye on their chest.
• The Ghost: They are only seen as silhouettes in Charlie's narration at the start of "Overture", and then during the song "More than Anything" in the episode "Dad Beat Dad".
• Ironic Hell: They were the ones who cast Lucifer into Hell, where only "bad" people would be, so he'd never see the good only the bad of a free willed humanity.
• Jerkass Has a Point: While the Elders come across as harsh and controlling, some of their concerns are proven to be legitimate when the introduction of free will allowed evil to infect the Earth, which led to the creation of Hell, the sinners, and the mess that followed. Even Lucifer himself seems to agree with the other angels that he messed up, as seeing nothing but the worst of humanity has made him into quite the cynic.

Sera

Sera

"Everyone looks to us, and we can't doubt ourselves or worry about the fates of demons when we have our own souls to protect."

Voiced by: Patina Miller^{Foreign VAs}Domitilla D'Amico (Italian)

The High Seraphim of Heaven whose duty is to ensure the protection of Heaven from all harm.

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• Affably Evil: Sera's a polite, composed angelic being who seems to feel some pity for the Sinners stuck in Hell and guilt over allowing Adam's Extermination. However, that doesn't mean she'll agree to Charlie's plan to allow redeemed Sinners to enter Heaven or call off the Exterminations, which she believes are necessary to keep Heaven safe.
• All for Nothing: The look of absolute horror on her face when Sir Pentious ascends to Heaven makes it clear that Sera is not blind about the implication. If Sir Pentious ascended, the billions that Sera had killed over the centuries in her I Did What I Had to Do mentality could have ascended as well, which blows several dozen holes in her Broken-System Dogmatist mentality. And that's not even considering the mass Exorcist casualties, including Adam, from the last failed Extermination.
• All in the Eyes: When Emily finds out and is aghast about the exterminations, Sera tells Emily that she had to do what was required. At the moment she says this however, the glowing flames from the orb behind Emily reflect in Sera's eyes and shadow the rest of her face, which combined with Sera's awkward attempt at a comforting smile makes Sera's appearance much more malevolent. The music for this moment also shifts to a much more suspicious tone.
• Ambiguously Related: It's unclear whether she is Emily's mother, older sister, romantic partner, or something else entirely^note They do look quite similar, but given that the forms angels appear in have little or nothing to do with genetics that isn't of much help here.
• Angelic Beauty: Sera is an angel and a gorgeous sight to behold.
• Anti-Villain: In stark contrast to Adam, who clearly takes a gleeful and sadistic enjoyment in the Exterminations, Sera is shown to be far more reluctant and remorseful about it, clearly knowing it's wrong but genuinely seeing no other way to ensure Hell can never threaten Heaven and its people.
• Big Good: Subverted. Her position at the top of the Angelic Hierarchy nominally makes her the biggest force of good in the setting but her allowing the Exterminations to go on and her unwillingness to accept any alternative, even when shown that Sinners can improve themselves shows that she is far less moral than she initially appears.
• Big Sister Instinct: She claims that she didn't tell Emily about the Exterminations specifically because she worries that she would go down the same road as Lucifer if she knew they were killing souls.
• Black-and-White Morality: All angels are good, all sinners are bad, and anyone who questions the system which puts people into Heaven or Hell is also bad. Or so Sera tries to justify to herself. Better that than risk destroying the system entirely, and/or having angels fall for trying to figure things out.
• Broken-System Dogmatist: Sera, at some level, understands that the system of Divine Judgement is flawed and that the Extermination plan is inherently unfair to the Sinners. But at the same time, Sera refuses to question it or stop the Exterminations. It doesn't matter if Sinners like Angel Dust can be redeemed or monsters like Adam were made angels; as far as Sera is concerned, whatever criteria is used to sort souls into Heaven or Hell is infallible and unchangeable, even if she doesn't know what those standards are. She fears any angels who question it will fall like Lucifer.
• Broken Pedestal: Several of the other hosts of Heaven are disgusted when they learn Sera permits the Exterminations. This includes Emily, who calls out Sera for treating her with kid gloves and pretending that everything was fine. Though, considering Emily was hanging out with her when Sir Pentious was redeemed, the pedestal might not have been completely broken.
• Celestial Paragons and Archangels: She's the highest ranked angel in the series so far, although she's hardly a paragon of virtue.
• The Chains of Commanding: Invoked by Sera to explain her various decisions involving Hell and the Exterminations, which she presents as necessary evils for the good of Heaven. Note that all of her explanations are ultimately quite weak, and transparent attempts to deny her own culpability while making it appear that she is taking responsibility — Sera is largely implying that any angel in her situation would have taken the same actions.
• Condescending Compassion:
  • It's clear from the moment Sera meets Charlie that, as polite as the High Seraphim acts, she views allowing Charlie into Heaven to argue her case to be charity on her part. In contrast to Emily greeting Charlie with sincere friendliness, Sera welcomes Charlie with a formal, "You are gifted to be here." It happens again at the end of the Welcome to Heaven song, where Emily implies she wishes Charlie could stay in Heaven forever, after which Sera immediately interjects that Charlie's stay is temporary before tacking on an apology of dubious sincerity for the circumstance. Privately she expresses pity towards Charlie, calling her plan to redeem Sinners "misguided" and only agreed to the meeting in the first place so as not to test Lucifer. It's clear she never planned to seriously consider Charlie's idea to let redeemed Sinners into Heaven, even before she resorted to Moving the Goalposts.
  • How Emily has come to view her relationship with Sera after it's revealed the latter kept the Annual Extermination a secret from her and other angels. Sera claims she did this to prevent Emily from questioning the system, lest she fall from grace like Lucifer, but Emily doesn't see it that way, as she now feels like a child that needs protecting.
• Cool Crown: Her halo's ornate and grandiose appearance makes it resemble a crown, reflecting her role as the apparent queen of Heaven. It's also where a few of her Extra Eyes are located, though they appear to be closed more often than not.
• Demiurge Archetype: With God having gone unmentioned up to this point, Sera seems to be the highest authority in Heaven as a Seraphim. She's also the one who's been allowing the yearly Extermination in Hell to continue out of the delusion that they might plot an uprising against Heaven and keeping the rest of her kind in the dark about it because she knows how upsetting it would be if they ever found out.
• Dirty Coward: She's willing to sell out all of Hell and keep most of Heaven in the dark about the Exterminations. She might feel bad about it, but Sera is still letting it happen. Even calling out Sera about what she's doing doesn't sway her mind that the Exterminations are a necessity, all while Heaven gets to sit back and do nothing. She's also scared that she might personally have to pay for her hypocrisy and cowardice, despite knowing the system is inherently broken and unfair.
• Disappointed in You: Sera has so far been the only one able to make Adam display anything close to resembling shame when she admonishes his needlessly cruel behavior. Whether this is because he holds her in high regard as a Parental Substitute or just because she's his boss, has yet to be clarified.
• Dramatically Missing the Point: Sera rationalizes her decisions of the exterminations out of fear that Sinners are Beyond Redemption and Always Chaotic Evil, who will threaten Heaven when given the chance. But because of her rejection to better understand Hell's citizens, passing divine judgement, and dismissing Angel Dust's Character Development regarding him improving as a person, it never occurred to Sera that the reason that sinners continue to indulge in their hostility because they are trapped in a toxic environment with jerkasses that encourage each other's worst actions. And since they appeared in Hell after they died, similar to what Heaven believes, they think that they're too far gone to be saved and might as well continue this destructive lifestyle anyway, causing them to become even worse people in the process. Angel was able to be better and avoid relapsing into his own habits because he was placed in the hotel's safe and supportive environment and was surrounded by friends who care and value him as a person, all of which made Angel break out of his self-destruction, self-loathing and decide put in a greater effort into redeeming himself. Yet despite seeing this evidence during the court case, Sera doesn't appear to take note of it.
• Early-Bird Cameo: In the storybook opening of "Overture" detailing the origins of Heaven and Hell, Sera's silhouette can be seen as one of the elders who disapproved of Lucifer's ideas and presided over the creation of Earth, and then ordering the Extermination when Hell's population flourished.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Whatever atrocities she orders, her love for the younger Seraphim, Emily, is genuine. She says the reason she didn't tell her about the annual Extermination is because she wanted to protect her from the anguish that comes with making difficult choices to keep Heaven safe. She also doesn't want Emily to question Heaven because she's worried Emily will wind up like Lucifer and be banished to Hell. Deconstructed, however, as Emily is horrified and disgusted by the revelation of her actions, had her faith shattered in the high seraphim and what Sara does to "protect" her is seen by the narrative and Emily herself as Condescending Compassion and self-serving hypocritical cowardice.
• Even Evil Has Standards: She orders the Exterminations, but she doesn't revel in them. When Adam mocks Charlie by saying he'll be targeting her hotel first during the Extermination, she chides him in front of the rest of the court, saying it "wasn't called for."
• Evil Counterpart: For the anti-heroic Carmilla Carmine. Both are powerful leaders in their respective stations with monochrome color palettes who have secretly killed members of the other's ranks, and both have a younger character they display maternal protectiveness towards. However, Carmilla directly killing an angel in defense of her daughters is portrayed as a courageous Act of True Love and her keeping it secret is to try and prevent a foolhardy uprising, while Sera permitting Adam to perform Exterminations and hiding the truth from Emily is portrayed as condescending hypocrisy to protect herself from being judged by the younger Seraphim for ordering actions that are underhanded and unjust.
• Exact Words: She's very deliberate with her choice of words during the hearing in Heaven, such as bolstering Adam's half-assed "rules to get into Heaven" by stating "He was the first human soul in Heaven" — meaning she never technically lied come The Reveal that nobody knows exactly what grants a human soul entry into Heaven. Similarly, she rules that the Heavenly court "finds no evidence that Sinners can be redeemed" during the trail. Not that they don't deserve to be redeemed, but that there's no evidence that it's physically possible.
• Extra Eyes: Sera has additional eyes that pop up in her halo, wings, and hair when agitated.
• Fantastic Racism: She may feel pity for the Sinners in Hell, but she still believes that they are unworthy of redemption or being given a second chance, bearing closely prejudiced views privileged groups have against minorities.
• Fatal Flaw: Cowardice. While Sera is arrogant about her standing as the High Seraphim, it's acting cowardly that is the source of most of her flaws. She refuses to reform or even question the arbitrary and unfair system that sorts souls into their afterlives because she's scared it could lead to getting kicked out of Heaven like Lucifer, and she allows Adam to cull the population of Hell because she's scared of an uprising. Even when shown proof that sinners can be redeemed, Sera refuses to change and only lightly chides Adam when he declares his intent to specifically target the Hazbin Hotel first just to spite Charlie. By demonstrating a Lack of Empathy and refusing to compromise, she ironically accelerated Heaven and Hell towards a bloody confrontation. And "The Show Must Go On" has Sir Pentious become an Ascended Demon, with the look on Sera's face making it clear that this blows a lot of holes in her argument. Were Sera more brave and forward-thinking, she could have discovered this much sooner, and a lot of pain across both Heaven and Hell could have been avoided.
• Foil: To Adam. While they are both high-ranking members of Heaven's society who are active participants in the Exterminations, and who both deny Charlie's assertions that Souls can change, they are also quite different in many ways. Adam is a gleeful Sadist who revels in the death and destruction of the Exterminations, while Sera views them as a grim necessity to maintain the balance of power between Heaven and Hell in Heaven's favor. Her dismissal of Charlie's efforts also comes across as more compassionate, as she is willing to acknowledge that Charlie is trying to do something good, even if she still views it as misguided and futile.
• A Form You Are Comfortable With: When first introduced, Sera is briefly seen to have a bird-like face with a third eye and numerous other eyes on her clothing. She then shifts her appearance into a humanoid one, removing the extra eyes and making her mouth appear more natural rather than beak-like.
• Gone Horribly Right: Can only react with a horrified confusion to Sir Pentious ascending to Heaven as an angel. While the sight made Emily squee with delight, Sera was not anticipating such a thing was possible, as it undermines her defense of the mess that is Divine Judgement.
• Good Cannot Comprehend Evil: Deconstructed. Sera states that all she wants is to protect Heaven and does not tolerate Adam's Jerkass behavior. But she still permitted his idea of exterminating Hell's sinners out of fear that they will rise up. The deconstruction comes from the fact that her cowardice prevents her from seeing sinners for what they are — flawed people, many of who, while mean, cruel, apathetic, and selfish, are simply souls who made bad decisions that they regret in their life, and believe that they are too broken and undeserving to be given another chance. In practice the sinners are too busy being miserable by hating each other and themselves to actually make a threat towards Heaven outside of self-defense, rendering Sera's greenlighting of the Extermination as Disproportionate Retribution as opposed to the necessary evil she claims. She's so content with seeing Hell as a place full of evil monsters that she never bothered to entertain the idea that there could be more to them than that. Over the course of the series, evidence keeps mounting which blows holes in her argument, meaning Sera has to keep changing what "counts" as protecting Heaven in order to not only justify what she's doing, but to ensure that she doesn't have to think about the potential consequences of her decisions, feel guilt, and admit that she might be wrong, refusing to reflect on this mindset and try to improve the flawed and unfair system, or being open to potential new ideas and alternative solutions to the problem, making her just as bad if not worse than the sinners she fears and despises. To summarize, Sera can't understand evil because she won't try to understand it.
• Greater-Scope Villain: Sera is a higher authority than Adam (in addition to being one of the Elders who created him) and the one who greenlit his proposal for the annual Extermination of Sinners, which she keeps secret from the rest of Heaven. However, she isn't directly involved and finds Adam's actions unsavory even if she ultimately approves of them.
• The High Queen: As a Seraphim, she is a ruler of Heaven and thus she does what she can to keep its residents safe even if it means allowing exterminations of sinners in Hell to prevent an uprising and keeping her peole in the dark.
• Hypocrite: As the highest-ranking angel in Heaven, Sera is supposed to espouse virtue and light. While she's more of an Anti-Villain than Adam, she still signs off on all his actions, including the massacre of helpless Sinners, even children. Saint Peter also sings about Heaven being populated by the best and brightest, but Sera refuses to even question how broken the system of divine judgment is out of fear of falling like Lucifer did. Emily is horrified when she learns about the Exterminations and asks if she was too naive to expect Sera, the leader of all angels, to heed the morals she's purveying.
• I Did What I Had to Do: She says allowing the Exterminations was a difficult decision, but one that had to be made for Heaven's safety. However, she tells Adam she never would have agreed to it if she'd known Lucifer and his daughter would get involved and stir up trouble.
• Improperly Paranoid: She allowed the Exterminations out of fear the sinners would rise up against Heaven. The majority of sinners are self-centered and largely apathetic, and as such would never be able to form an effective fighting force. Not to mention that the damned cannot leave Hell to wage war in the first place. Hellborn demons have legitimate ways of leaving Hell, such as Stolas' grimoire or Asmodean Crystals. But the Sinners can't even leave the Pride Ring, let alone lay siege to the pearly gates. Indeed, the only way Heaven can suffer any casualties at all is when the angels go down to Hell. Which is what happened when Adam targeted the Hazbin Hotel.
• Just the First Citizen: Sera's official title is simply the 'High Seraphim of Heaven'. With this authority, she can unilaterally and without any oversight sign off on the creation of a de facto standing army of Angels who commit a yearly genocide in Hell. Lucifer, in comparison, seems to hold less direct sway as the acknowledged 'King of Hell'.
• Large and in Charge: She's easily the tallest angel seen so far, even when floating, and she's fittingly the highest-ranking.
• Light Is Not Good: She's the apparent ruler of Heaven, a literal being of light who adopts a form that's predominantly colored white and silver. She's also the one who greenlit the Exterminations, making her responsible for millions of souls being wiped from existence on the pretext of "protecting Heaven".
• A Lizard Named "Liz": She’s the elder Seraphim and her name is Sera.
• Morality Chain: If you can believe it, to Adam. Her voicing her disapproval of his needless cruelty is one of the only times we ever see him showing anything resembling remorse. When left to his own devices and away from Sera's prying eyes, however, Adam gladly acts like an asshole without guilt or shame.
• Moving the Goalposts: During the court case to determine whether Sinners can be redeemed, Charlie asks Adam what it takes for a soul to get into Heaven, and he hastily comes up with three qualifications on the spot. Sera seems to agree that the qualifications he came up with are sufficient proof since Adam was the first man to get into Heaven. When Angel Dust fulfills all three of Adam's criteria without even knowing he's being watched by Heaven, Sera, unwilling to reevaluate cases after Divine Judgement has already been passed, still says it's insufficient to prove Sinners can be redeemed, meaning it in the sense that there's no evidence to suggest that it's physically possible for damned souls to ascend rather than whether they can personally improve.
• Never My Fault: When called on allowing the Exterminations and keeping them a secret, Sera seemingly takes responsibility, but in a manner that actually lets her present it as harm mitigation, making herself out to be the victim of forces beyond her control who is acting to get the best possible outcome. To make it worse, one of her rationalizations, that knowledge of the Exterminations would cause doubts in the system that might lead to angels falling is undermined in that very episode. The audience is shown an angel Vaggie, during her time as an exorcist falling in flashback, and it is not caused by some vague cosmic force — it is caused by other angels, namely Adam and Lute, actively stripping her of her rank after maiming her and leaving her to die for sparing a child sinner and beginning to doubt if what they're doing is right. Sera is in essence presenting a potential political purge that she would likely be directing as an impartial act of celestial judgement that would be out of her control.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: She allows the Exterminations out of fear of the demons rising up against Heaven, which is completely unnecessary, because Hell is so chaotic they can't rally together to fight back. Her ruling that the damned can't change in spite of seeing Angel Dust's character development is what prompts Charlie to do the previously unthinkable and what Sera was afraid of: rally demons against Heaven.
• Not Helping Your Case: When the exterminations get revealed to all of Heaven, she tries to convince Emily that it was necessary to ensure Heaven's safety... all while flames appear in her eyes and she has an unnerving grin when she tries to explain this. Emily is not reassured.
• Not So Above It All: She presents a graceful and regal demeanor that makes her infinitely more mature than Adam, but even she agrees with his childish insult when Charlie attempts to use Webster's Dictionary as the opening line of her court case to prove sinners can be redeemed.
  Charlie: Webster's Dictionary defines redemption as—
  Adam: Objection! Lame and unoriginal.
  Sera: Sustained. No further dictionary references please.
• Oh, Crap!: In "The Show Must Go On" her expression upon seeing Sir Pentious has become an Ascended Demon after his second death screams this, as a demon being sent to Heaven undermines everything she argued about Sinners being irredeemable.
• Parental Substitute:
  • She is Emily's mentor but she fulfills a motherly role to her, treating Emily as a daughter who she's overly protective of.
  • She also serves as one to Adam, who gives her a lot more respect than he does to anyone else. At the trial when he's coming up with the criteria to get into Heaven he sheepishly asks Sera if he's correct as if he's looking for her approval. Later Sera has to chide Adam for his callous comments like a disappointed parent and Adam actually apologizes. Given Adam was created from the dust of the Earth he didn't have any parents, making Sera the closest thing as one of the angels involved in his creation.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: She's prejudiced against Sinners and believes they're unworthy of redemption or being given a second chance, in a similar case to how plenty privileged groups often look down and judge minorities.
• Secretly Selfish: Implied. Her claim to keeping the exterminations a secret was to keep Heaven safe and didn't want to burden Emily with the unfortunate decision, but considering her desire to keep it a secret from everyone, her wording and everyone's horror clearly tells that she didn't want anyone to judge her for allowing genocide, and refusing to even consider Charlie's plan and Emily's objections due to her refusing to challenge Heaven's status quo even though no one knows the standards of getting into Heaven and refuses to understand them, suggests that as the head seraphim, she believes that she knows better than everyone, and thinks that she knows what's best for them to ensure their safety, when in truth its more like she's ensuring her own personal safety and prevent anyone from questioning her leadership and Heaven's authority.
• Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: She supports the Exterminations solely to protect Heaven from infernal insurrections by keeping Sinners in check. But thanks to the threat of being rendered Deader than Dead already hanging over their heads, especially with Adam moving up the deadline, this means that once it becomes clear that Exorcists can be killed, there's little reason for the Sinners not to rebel. In essence, by trying to avoid a confrontation with Hell, Sera ends up forcing one, and her cowardice has all but assured that the end result is going to be bad for everyone. In the first season finale, thanks to the secret of how to harm angels getting out in Hell and Adam's petty attack on the Hotel, not only are the ranks of the Exorcists decimated for comparatively few causalities, Adam himself dies due to going after Charlie and incentivizing Lucifer to intervene (though he actually dies to Niffty's hands after the Papa Wolf pummels him into the ground), and Lute loses an arm and is forced to call a retreat afterwards with Hell now capable of fighting back.
• Statuesque Stunner: She towers over most of the other characters, and is a gorgeous sight to behold.
• Sunk Cost Fallacy: Implied to be the reason why she lets the purges continue and reject Charlie's efforts. To say that there may be a way to redeem sinners would mean that she enabled countless innocent souls to be purged for thousands of years was for nothing and she can't accept that.
• Tranquil Fury: After Charlie and Vaggie are sent back to Hell, Adam is smug about winning to the point of bragging he'll come for the sinners staying at the Hazbin Hotel next in the upcoming Extermination. His smile goes away when he sees Sera furious about him revealing the truth about it to the previously-unaware angels, being met with a cold glare that gets him to finally shut up. She also calmly says that going for the Hotel first was "uncalled for" with her tone of voice making clear she is pissed with his cruelty and irresponsibility in handling the matter.
• Tsurime Eyes: Compared to Emily's Tareme Eyes Sera's eyes are more angular as is her overall design.
• The Unsmile: An unintended example that operates on Rule of Symbolism. While trying to justify the Exorcists to Emily as being Necessarily Evil, she gives what she apparently thinks is a reassuring smile... which is much too wide while her eyes reflect the flames of hell and also appear lifeless, upping the uncanniness. However much she tries to paint her actions as regrettable and for the greater good, Emily and the audience understand that she's just as much to blame for the purges as Adam.
• Unusual Eyebrows: She has giant, feather-like protrusions that extend from her eyes in addition to more normal-looking eyebrows.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Zig-Zagged: Sera insists that ordering the extermination of countless human souls — many of whom may be entirely innocent — was a necessary evil and "a hard decision" to protect Heaven from a demonic uprising. However she was willing to keep the exterminations a secret from the rest of Heaven and rejects even considering the idea to redeem sinners or trying to understand what determines souls to get into Heaven, to preserve Heaven's higher standing even if their system is unfair and broken. She may genuinely care about her people but she was still willing to allow genocide behind their backs, indicating that she didn't want Emily and the other angels to become disillusioned with her and Heaven, and the fact that Sinners never attacked Heaven before and couldn't due to being restricted to Hell's pride ring, implies that her decision was more likely to ease her fears and maintain a level of personal safety and emotional security of something she refuses to even try to understand.
• Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises: This happens to her in real time when Sir Pentious ends up in Heaven, as this invalidates everything Sera believed and said about demons being irredeemable.
• The Woman Behind the Man: Or much rather, behind the Exorcists in general, since she permits their Extermination conspiracy in the first place. Adam was just their leader and her closest (but most disloyal) acquaintance to her in Season 1, up until his demise.

Emily

Emily

"How can I bring joy when I now know we are bringing misery to thousands of innocent people?"

Voiced by: Shoba Narayan^{Foreign VAs}Emanuela Ionica (Italian)

A young Seraphim whose duty is to bring joy and happiness to the denizens of Heaven.

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• Allegorical Character: In contrast to Adam, who's the distillation of a bad devout religious person, Emily is the distillation of a good one. She's polite towards other people, humble despite her high standing, and most important, compassionate even towards those who have sinned.
• Ambiguously Related: It's unknown if she and Sera are mother-daughter, sisters, some other relation, romantic partners, or just mentor and mentee.
• Angelic Beauty: Emily initially appears in a more alien form. Her preferred appearance when interacting with others is a beautiful young woman.
• Beware the Nice Ones: While she hasn't outright done anything outside of showing anger at Sera for her deception, the fact that she's a Seraphim makes her one of strongest people in the setting, as angels are inherently more powerful than demons, and the Seraphim stand above all other angels.
• Birds of a Feather: Almost immediately becomes inseparable from Charlie when they meet, due to their many similarities. They're both the daughters of powerful Seraphim that act as the highest authority of their respective realm, are perky, plucky, Wide-Eyed Idealist Princess Classic types who even have a similar vocal range and style when singing. She's also of the opinion that sinners deserve a chance to redeem, and becomes Charlie's biggest supporter on Heaven's side.
• Bread and Circuses: Her role in the Celestial Bureaucracy is keeping the people of Heaven happy and content so they don't think too heavily about the flaws in the system. This naturally becomes more difficult after her eyes are opened to the reality of the Exterminations.
• Break the Cutie: She's horrified Sera authorized the extermination of human souls, while hiding this fact from her and most other angels, all to prop up Heaven's standards and stability. Emily begins to challenge the elder Seraphim she's losing faith in, while Sera is determined Emily continues to enforce a regime of happiness in paradise, as she doesn't want the angel being cast out like Lucifer. Knowing the awful truth, it's clear Emily can no longer live in ignorance and pretend everything's fine.
• Calling the Old Woman Out: Emily makes it clear to Sera that whatever protectiveness the elder Seraphim feels towards her, it does not justify her lying to her and her self-righteous hypocrisy.
  To think that I admired you. Well, I don't need your condescension! I'm not a child to protect! Was talk of virtue just pretension? Was I too naive to expect you to heed the morals you're purveying?
• The Cutie: She's the most moral angel seen so far, her kindness and idealism matching Charlie’s own. Sera tries to enforce this when justifying not telling Emily about the Exterminations. Sera says as the elder it's her job to protect Heaven and as the younger Seraphim it's Emily's job to bring joy to their people.
• Extra Eyes: In addition to the two eyes you'd expect on her face, Emily hides a large eye on the center of her chest and another in her halo. They're normally imperceptible when closed, but tend to open when she's agitated.
• Eye Motifs: As a Seraphim, she is "full of eyes" as described in the biblical Book of Revelation. Most of the time, they are hidden but two more appear on her chest and halo after she confronts Sera about the Exterminations, symbolizing that her "eyes have been opened" to the injustices of the Celestial Bureaucracy.
• A Form You Are Comfortable With: Like Sera, when first introduced, Emily has a very simplistic human-like outline, a third eye on her head and another on her chest, and her wings appear to be growing out of her head. She then shifts into a more humanoid form lacking the extra eyes and her wings shift to her back.
• Gilded Cage: Once she knows the Awful Truth, she clearly feels her position as Seraphim can't grant her the power to help sinners.
• "Hell, Yes!" Moment: In sharp contrast to Sera, she's clearly overjoyed to see Pentious be reborn as a Winner, validating her beliefs completely.
• Innocent Blue Eyes: To show that she is a kind-hearted angel.
• Junior Counterpart: By the same token as being a Mirror Character to Charlie, Emily is shaping into a younger Lucifer. Both are idealistic Seraphim who wish to help humanity beyond what Heaven's authority have permitted: Emily to permit redeemed Sinners, Lucifer to give Eve and her descendants free will.
• Light Is Good: As a Seraphim by birth, she's a "being of light", and like Sera her colors are predominantly white and silver. Unlike Sera, Emily really is as good a person as her angelic appearance suggests, being horrified to learn about the Exterminations and vowing to help Charlie even after Sera rejects her idea to redeem Sinners.
• Little "No": Third type. During "You Didn't Know", Emily, dumbfounded after learning of the Exterminations, pleads with Sera to tell her she wasn't aware of them. Sera tells her with a saddened expression that she did, and that she hid them from her to protect her. A distraught Emily can only let out a little "no" in between Sera's explanations.
• Locked Out of the Loop: Like the majority of Heaven, Emily was unaware about the annual Exterminations in Hell until Adam accidentally lets the cat out of the bag.
• Mirror Character: Emily is this for Charlie. Both are Princess Classic in their respective worlds with friendly, optimistic, and idealistic personalities. She gets along well with Charlie as soon as they meet, she’s supportive of her dream to redeem sinners, and staunchly opposed to the exterminations when she learns of them. The two even sing a "The Reason You Suck" Speech in unison at Sera!
• Meaningful Name: Emily can mean "rival", and the last shots of episode 6 implied that she will become one to her mentor Sera and support Charlie in her efforts to prove that sinners can redeem themselves. It can also mean "eager", and Emily was the most eager out of all the Angels to hear Charlie's proposal.
• Mistaken for Flirting: When Emily excitedly grabs Charlie's hands during their tour of Heaven, Vaggie is decidedly unamused—assuming that Emily is making a move on her girlfriend.
• Nice Girl: By far and away the genuinely nicest character on the show along with Charlie. She's nothing but cheerful and kind to everyone, including demons and immediately comes to their defense when she finds out about the Exterminations.
• The Noseless: She distinctively lacks a nose, especially when contrasted to Sera.
• Not So Above It All: She's more friendly and supportive towards Charlie as opposed to the other angels, but even she was as shocked upon hearing Charlie swear in court. Regardless of the fact that Adam has been swearing the entire time and no one batted an eye.
• Princess Classic: Emily is a kind and thoughtful Seraphim, considered the highest rank of Angel, who actually embodies all of the virtues Heaven preaches. However, this changes as she rebels against the idea of extermination and willingly calls out Sera on her hypocritical nature, making her delve more into a rebellious princess.
• Rage Against the Heavens: When Emily learns that her mentor Sera approved of sending Adam and an army of angelic warriors into Hell to slaughter the Sinners every year, she's furious and joins Charlie in calling Sera and Adam out on their hypocrisy. Sera is horrified, as challenging Heaven's authority puts Emily at risk of being exiled like Lucifer was.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Shares a song alongside Charlie calling out the court of Heaven, namely by tearing into the oft-repeated notion that Sinners cannot be redeemed and their damnation is eternal. Because if redemption is impossible and people can't earn their way in even if they demonstrate the ability to change for the better, then everything Heaven supposedly stands for is completely hollow because paradise isn't a reward for the good and deserving. Especially if Angels like Adam and the exorcists demonstrate that they are capable of committing sin in return without consequences.
  Charlie & Emily: If Hell is forever, then Heaven must be a lie
  If angels can do whatever and remain in the sky
  The rules are shades of grey when you don't do as you say
  When you make the wretched suffer just to kill them again!
• Rebellious Princess: Once Emily finds out about the yearly exterminations her mentor Sera had a hand in, she quickly rebels against the idea of killing souls on the basis of a potential uprising and calls out the entire Angelic court out along with Charlie.
• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: She vows to help Charlie despite Heaven rejecting Charlie's plan, showing Emily really is that good. It doesn't help that Emily just found out she was lied to for a long time about the Exterminations, rendering the High Seraphim as a Broken Pedestal.
• Sheep in Sheep's Clothing: Considering that the main viewpoint into Heaven's mindset was Adam and Lute, viewers could easily be suspicious of Emily's Wide-Eyed Idealist personality matching Charlie's when Emily is introduced in the "Welcome to Heaven" episode. Vaggie certainly seems to be on her guard the whole time she's in Heaven, convinced that the thin veneer of kindness that everyone in Heaven is showing Charlie is all an act. However, while many of the hosts of Heaven are indeed bad people, Emily's not acting; she's a White Sheep among the hosts of Heaven who is genuinely as sweet and polite as she appears to be. Emily takes Charlie out to a petting zoo and to get ice cream with rainbow sprinkles before the trial, all just for the sake of being nice to Charlie. Emily even vows to help Charlie with her plan to redeem Sinners despite Heaven rejecting Charlie's plan, and even tells off Sera as a Broken Pedestal for engaging in the Exterminations and lying to her about it. All of this is done to show that Emily's kindness is completely sincere.
• So Proud of You: When Sir Pentious appears in Heaven in front of her and Sera, Emily's reaction is a big, joyous "I knew you could do it!" smile.
• Special Person, Normal Name: She has a pretty ordinary-sounding name for being a Seraphim of Heaven, as "Emily" is a relatively common girl's name in anglophone countries.
• Squee: Her reaction to seeing a redeemed Sir Pentious in Heaven.
• Tareme Eyes: Compared to Sera's Tsurime Eyes Emily's eyes are more rounded as is her overall design.
• Unusual Halo: Much like Sera’s halo being stylized as a crown to symbolize her authority as Queen of Heaven, Emily’s halo is stylized like a tiara to showcase her status as its princess.
• White Sheep: While Adam and Lute revel in the carnage of the Exterminations and Sera sees it as a necessary evil, Emily is the sole person in Heaven who seems genuinely horrified at killing souls. Other background angels are shown arguing about the idea of redeeming Sinners, implying Emily isn't totally alone, but she's the only named angel willing to actually back Charlie up and call out the flawed system for what it is.
• Wide-Eyed Idealist: Emily hits it off with Charlie immediately, being just as optimistic and idealistic as the Princess of Hell. When she sees proof that Sinners can be redeemed, she argues in favor of allowing them into Heaven, is horrified when she finds out about the Exterminations, and promises to help Charlie even after Sera denies Charlie’s redemption plan. And as both the audience and the Sinners find out, Emily's kindness is entirely sincere and on-the-level; she really is that nice.
• Vague Age: While she is presumably the same age as Charlie, and physically appears to be a young adult or older teenager, given that she's an angel her actual age is unknown aside from the fact she's younger than Sera.

The Exorcists

In General

Exorcists after an Extermination

^{Their appearance}

Angels that are annually sent from Heaven to kill a portion of Hell's population to curb Hell's overpopulation.

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• Alien Blood: The dead Exorcist reveals that their blood is golden (possibly a reference to ichor from Classical Mythology).
• All There in the Script: What they're specifically called isn't brought up in the pilot. They, however, were identified as Exorcists in a livestream, and referred to as such in the show itself.
• Animal Motifs: In addition to the other angels' bird motif, the horns on their masks also resemble that of a ram or goat.
• Amazon Brigade: With the exception of Adam, all of the Exorcists are female, including Adam's second in command Lute. The Exorcists become a fully female organization following Adam's death in the Season One finale.
• Always a Bigger Fish: According to Vivzie, angels are more powerful than demons which is why the Exorcists are able to kill so many demons in a single day and send Hell's Overlords packing.
• Ambiguous Robots: In the original pilot, the LED screen faces, and silvery bodies implied that the Exorcists were at least partially robotic. Subverted in the actual series, where it's revealed that their LED faces are actually just masks that they wear when down in Hell as part of their Exorcist uniform.
• Ambiguously Human: It's currently unknown if the Exorcists are angels who originated as human souls or if they are angels that were naturally born in Heaven. The fact that Adam, the first Man, is the leader of the Exorcists, the fact that the annual Extermination was his idea in the first place, and the implication that he gives all of the Exorcists their names, seems to imply the former more than the latter. Vivziepop's statements on Vaggie originally being human also lends credence to the Exorcists being human angels. Although whether Vaggie's human origin is still the same even as an angel or if it was completely retconned is currently unknown.
• Ambiguously Related: It is not yet known if the Exorcists are related to each other. Carmilla refers to them as Vaggie's "sisters," but it's not clear if she means they are literally sisters or simply comrades-in-arms.
• Angelic Abomination: They are angels yet look demonic in appearance, even more so than a lot of the Hell residents. Part of it is their monochrome color scheme, and the rest being the mask they wear as part of their uniform, which gives them horns and sinister glowing grins. Out of the mask, they look "normal", like regular humans but with wings with black stripes, and a black halo that sets them apart from the rest of Heaven's citizens. The one possible exception is Adam, who retains the horns and LED face, though it's possible he just doesn't take off his uniform. The latter is confirmed to be true, as his mask is broken in the first season finale and he has a normal human face underneath.
• The Armies of Heaven: But Armies Are Evil since they're tasked not to fight enemies but to slaughter.
• Attack! Attack! Attack!: What their fighting style amounts to. They don't have any special powers beyond being invulnerable to the attacks of Sinners, so they rush forward to slaughter their targets without any concern for injury.
• Black-and-White Morality: Exorcists like Adam and Lute are of the belief that anyone that goes to Hell deserves to be there forever while anyone who goes to Heaven must be flawless because they made it there. "Welcome To Heaven" reveals that not even the leadership of Heaven know what the actual requirements are to get there, only when a soul arrives, and just use the sinners as speculation on what not to do. After they learn this, Charlie and Emily deliver a massive "The Reason You Suck" Speech against the people in charge of Heaven, because if redemption is impossible to earn even after death, while horrible people like Adam and Lute are never punished for their behavior once they ascend, then the promise of Heaven is a lie and the actual morality is shades of grey.
• Blood Knight: According to Vivzie, Exorcists are extremely bloodthirsty and love violence.
• Blood-Splattered Warrior: After completing their annual extermination, many of the Exorcists are stained by their victims' blood.
• Bodyguard Babes: Being a (presumably) all-female army of elite warriors who loyally serve their male boss, Adam, and also being attractive, human-like angels underneath their masks, they fit the criteria.
• Crippling Overspecialization: A complete lack of defense. The Exorcists are overwhelmingly strong and immune to physical harm from Sinners, so they don't bother defending themselves, wearing little armor and fighting in a way that exposes themselves without a thought, because they've grown used to nothing in Hell being able to stop them. As a result, they can be overwhelmed by a better fighter or worse, an enemy who is organized and prepared for an angelic assault. The angels are accustomed to demons hiding or running in fear, but the moment Charlie militarizes the Hazbin Hotel and gathers allies with an actual means to fight back, the angels suffer the consequences of their all offense, no strategy/defense way of fighting.
• Dark Is Evil: Angelic nature aside, all the Exorcists seen so far have intimidating and matte black designs, though they mostly appear in silhouette. Later, we meet Lute, the first Exorcist seen in detail, and she differs in design from other ranks of angels. Instead of a color scheme focused on bright colors, Lute has a notable, sinister greyscale color scheme, beside the unwashed blood stains on her clothes.
• Deal with the Devil: In exchange for Lucifer permitting the Exterminations, the Exorcists are only allowed to target Sinners and cannot kill hellborn demons.
• Divinely Appearing Demons: Inverted. They're Horned Humanoids with dark coloring and Slasher Smile faces, but they're angels.
• The Dreaded: As wielders of the only things that can truly kill Demons, Exorcists are some of the most feared sights in Hell. Even the Overlords hide when they come calling. However, this is due to the fact that the demons think there's no way to fight back. The latest purge, as seen at the end of the first episode, resulted in an angel's death, which neither Heaven nor Hell knew was possible. The fact that the Exorcists are Not So Invincible After All prompts Heaven to move up to the next extermination.
• Evil Malthusian: Subverted—one would think that they slaughter sinners every year because they're concerned about Hell's overpopulation crisis. But when Charlie tries to bring up the possibility of rehabilitating sinners, Adam shoots it down with extreme prejudice and quashes any suggestion that the Exorcists have good intentions in mind by revealing that they enjoy killing sinners, implying the exterminations are less about population control and more of an excuse for them to sadistically kill as many “bad people” as they want without consequences. Needless to say, Charlie has to find a way to stop Adam's evil agenda.
• Expressive Mask: Their digital-like faces are actually masks and they're capable are emoting with them.
• Fatal Flaw:
  • Overaggression. Since their battle tactics boil down to “Fly in and kill anything you see", as they’re used to exterminations being a one sided slaughter. So when the Hotel organizes a defense with weapons that can harm them, this bites them because they only know how to attack and have no idea how to defend themselves.
  • Complacency. The Exorcists leave tons of their own weaponery behind each Extermination, seemingly having no need to preserve ammunition and never suspecting that Sinners will be capable of using it against them. Inevitably a resident of Hell uses angelic steel against an Exorcist in desperation and discovers their weakness, and with so much abundant in Hell by that point due to their carelessness, Hazbin is able to make an effective defence against the Exorcists, killing a large amount of their army.
• For the Evulz: While they at least pay lip service to the idea that theirs is a righteous cause, Adam says one of the main reasons for carrying out exterminations is entertainment.
• Glass Cannon: A situational example. They're completely immune to all attacks from Sinners, and have the strength and speed to overwhelm most Sinners that might try to combat them. Against foes wielding angelic weaponry, however, they're about as durable as ordinary human beings despite their monstrous Super-Strength. Not only that, but they're so unfamiliar with facing enemies that can hurt them that they don't really bother with wearing armour and learning to dodge and parry attacks.
• Greater-Scope Villain:
  • While they are not directly involved with the Hazbin Hotel's operation, nor are they attempting to undermine the staff's mission, they are the reason behind Charlie's cause due to their annually slaughtering her people just to deal with Hell's overpopulation crisis. At least until "Welcome to Heaven" when Adam and Lute plan to target the Hotel first in the next upcoming extermination, and The Show Must Go On when they attempt to massacre all the Hotel's inhabitants before moving onto the rest of Hell.
  • The blessed weapons they leave behind have been incorporated into Hell's weapons technology, fueling a black market of demon-killing implements throughout the Rings of Hell, as seen in Helluva Boss.
• Gruesome Goat: They are vicious, bloodthirsty, demonic-looking angels who look goat or ram-like with their massive horns.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: The only thing that can kill angels are their own holy weapons. The Exorcists are so assured of their own invulnerability that they leave their spears sticking out of their kills on a semi-regular basis, enough that Carmilla Carmine has managed to collect enough discarded weaponry to create a black market of demon-killing weapons. Even Adam finds it "weak" when he realizes that's the big twist on how angels can be killed.
• Holier Than Thou: The Exorcists thus far seem to hold this view, and are incredibly arrogant and self-righteous.
• Holy Halo: The only real visual cue that these are angels rather than demons are the halos of light above their heads, though the black coloration also indicates these warriors are hardly "holy" in the moral sense.
• Horned Humanoid: Have goat-like horns on their head, though a later episode shows that these are just part of the masks they wear while on duty. Lute doesn't wear hers while in Heaven, having regular human features underneath.
• Inexplicably Identical Individuals: Downplayed. While they have distinct facial features underneath their masks and their identical outfits can be justified by the fact they're wearing uniforms, they mostly have the same exact body type, with slight variations in height and differently styled horns. No in-universe reason is given for this.
• Karmic Death: The Exorcists have a Holier Than Thou attitude against demons that is the base of the annual purge. They are killed by their own holy weapons, essentially dying from something holier than them.
• Light Is Not Good: Silvery Angelic beings that are sent to massacre people.
• Malevolent Masked Men: Their disturbing jester-like faces are actually Expressive Masks that they only wear during their Exterminations or whenever they need to visit Hell. Presumably, it's to hide their identities since only a select few in Heaven know about the Exterminations at all.
• Malicious Misnaming: Adam and his Exorcists deliberately mispronounce Vaggie's name by the old pronunciation of "va-jee" (as in vulgar slang for "vagina") Adam gave her instead of her preferred pronunciation with hard "g"'s due to them not respecting her defection to the cause of Charlie Morningstar and new post-Exorcist identity.
• Monster Clown: The smiling faces displayed on their monitor-like faces, in addition to their goat-like horns, make them appear like court jesters.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Gee, "Exorcists" in a place inhabited by demons sure sound like fun not-at-all dangerous pranksters!
• Nightmare Face: One of their faces is a smile with an X on the eye. It's just a mask they wear as part of their uniform.
• Nigh-Invulnerable: Exorcists are near impossible to harm by any means except the very angelic weaponry they carry, to the point that it was considered impossible to do so until Carmilla managed to kill one. This actually becomes a weakness for them, as they're so unaccustomed to anything being able to threaten them that they don't bother defending themselves and thus are vulnerable to a better fighter with the means to kill them. "The Show Must Go On" also demonstrates that Exorcists are vulnerable to their own Super-Strength, as shown when Lute is pinned under debris and tears off her own arm to escape.
• Not So Invincible After All: They're able to slaughter Hell's denizens unopposed due to being much more powerful than Demons, but one of the Exorcists was killed in the most recent purge, something that has explicitly never happened before. It's indicated later that demons didn't even know it was possible to kill an Exorcist before this death happened. But now that it's happened, Heaven intends to have another Extermination in six months instead of one year, all so the demons don't figure this out and can't rebel against them. This is on full display during the next Extermination, with Charlie's army using angelic weapons to kill a large number of the Exorcists.
• Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: Their purging of Hell seems understandable, given how demons border on Always Chaotic Evil, except that this is their fault in the first place due to creating Hell for very petty reasons, and that the Exterminations aren't so much population control as they are a way to maintain Heaven's power. "Welcome To Heaven" revealing they don't even know why someone goes to Heaven or Hell makes them even worse, because they've all this time just been assuming all demons are irredeemable.
• Our Angels Are Different: Silvery-winged beings with horns, notched halos, and still holographic faces that sometimes glitch.
• Population Control: Their purported purpose, is to kill denizens of Hell to deal with its Overpopulation Crisis.
• Punch-Clock Villain: Charlie initially assumes them to be this in her reprise of "Happy Day in Hell", suggesting that maybe they find having to fly down to Hell every year to be a chore and that she can help them too by opening up the Hotel and saving them the trouble. Unfortunately, this turns out to be untrue, and the Exorcists (or at least Adam and Lute) are just Sadists who do this because they enjoy it.
• Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: During the last Extermination, Carmilla and her daughters were cornered by a squad of five Exorcists, but when Carmilla fought back to give her girls time to flee, only one fell at her hands (well, feet anyway), cut down by a single blow. The other four presumably panicked at seeing a Sinner kill one of their number, something that had never happened before in thousands of years, and fled to report what had happened.
• Slasher Smile: They have grins on their holographic faces after they're done with their massacre.
• Smug Snake: As Carmilla points out, Exorcists are so confident in their superiority over demons that their fighting style is slopping and can be circumvented given training.
• Strong, but Unskilled: Downplayed in that they know how to fight, but due to being Nigh-Invulnerable compared to demons Exorcists have developed a habit simply not bothering to defend themselves in favor of unrelenting aggression, which makes them extremely vulnerable when for the first time since time immemorial they're faced with something that can actually harm them. This also extends to their tactics on the battlefield, which amount to little more than a Zerg Rush against the inhabitants of Hell.
• Super-Strength: They're capable of literally ripping demons limb from limb, which makes their Weapon of X-Slaying arsenal even more dangerous than it already is.
• A Taste of Defeat: After thousands of years of the Exorcists slaughtering sinners with no resistance, Carmilla accidentally kills one by kicking its head off with her angelic steel boot while protecting her daughters. Then at the next extermination, Charlie, her dad Lucifer, her team at the Hotel, and the cannibal army fight back with the Exorcists' own salvaged angelic weapons, kill many of them including their leader Adam, and drive them off for the first time ever.
• Tautological Templar: The Exorcists, at least, seem to think that the sinners in Hell are all depraved and irreversibly broken and thus are incapable of bettering themselves. As of Episode 1, all the (Exorcist) angel characters we're introduced to are all portrayed as murderous assholes, with the implications that the (semi-)annual purge in Hell is used in Heaven as entertainment. Really, the only difference between them and demons is that at one is more outgunned than the other.
• Too Dumb to Live: Oh sure, leave your angelic weapons behind in the battlefield after Extermination instead of making sure they're all accounted for. You know, the mass-produced Immortal Breakers you use to massacre demons every year? If it could kill immortals, there's good chance it can be used against you, and thanks to you leaving them behind, enough was scavenged to arm a small army.
• Weapon of X-Slaying: Their signature silver weapons are the only things in creation that can render any supernatural entity Deader than Dead, including high-ranking demons and their fellow angels. They don't appear to be more powerful than conventional weapons, per se, only capable of permanently hurting a broader spectrum of entities.
• We Have Become Complacent: After countless years slaughtering Sinners who are much weaker than them, they have become assured in their invulnerability, wearing effectively no armor and not bothering to defend themselves or counter when a Sinner does attack them. As a result, they're slaughtered in droves when facing someone that can hurt them.
• What Measure Is a Mook?: Partly justified by the fact that they were beaten down into a position where surrender was possible, as opposed to the rank-and-file Exorcists who were killed mid combat, but both of the Exorcist's leaders received offers of mercy that the other Exorcists didn't.
  • Vaggie has no problem killing them en masse but spares Lute after she's pinned down by a mass of rubble (although in a Cruel Mercy way).
  • Charlie makes a point to spare Adam, but doesn't ask her allies to do the same with the rest of the Exorcists.
• Winged Humanoid: They have bird-like wings on their backs. As "Welcome To Heaven" shows, angelic wings can be ripped off with enough force, but Hello Rosie reveals that they can regrow again.
• Would Hurt a Child: During extermination, they indiscriminately slaughter both adult and child Sinners. When Vaggie was still an Exorcist, she was mutilated and left for dead by her superiors because she refused to kill a demon child, and instead told them to run away.
• Zerg Rush: Their main tactic on the battlefield is just attacking in an endless wave, which works well enough when most demons are pants-shittingly terrified of their mere presence. It doesn't work so much when an angelic arms dealer like Carmilla dodges and parries an Exorcist attack in a fit of desperation, and especially not when a small army of cannibals armed with angelic weapons are aware of this weakness.

Adam

Adam

"Do you know who I am? I'm fucking Adam! I'm the Original Dick! All dicks descend from me!"

^{Click here to see him unmasked}
"I started everything on Earth! All of mankind came from these fucking nuts!"

Voiced by: Alex Brightman ^{Foreign VAs} Emmanuel Curtil (French), Gabriele Patriarca (Italian), Yoji Ueda (Japanese)

The first man and the leader of the Exorcists responsible for the annual Exterminations.

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• 24-Hour Armor: Adam is never seen without his armor, to the point one would be forgiven believing it to be his actual appearance due to him even eating and drinking with it on. It's only in "The Show Must Go On" that his true face and appearance gets exposed due to taking a beating from Lucifer, shattering the mask and helmet all together.
• Abusive Precursors: He's the first man, which makes him the ancestor of every human, living or dead. Yet he leads the annual extermination of the damned souls of humans and regards them with complete disdain.
• Accidental Truth: 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.
• Accent Adaptation: An odd variation happens in the Latin American Spanish dub. Despite the dub being done in Chile and Adam's voice actor is also Chilean, as well as not being the only character who does this, he speaks with a notable, though not exaggerated, Mexican tone, possibly to highlight his unpleasant personality.^note In the Americas, Mexicans are stereotyped on using lots of profane language, as well as being quite rude and having a Might Makes Right mentality, something that befits Adam quite well.
• Actor Allusion: What is one of the things that Adam claims will get you into heaven? Sticking it to the man^note One of Alex Brightman's theater roles before becoming a Hellaverse mainstay was as Dewey Finn in School of Rock's stage version.
• Adaptational Badass: The original Adam was just the Original Man who fathered humanity. This Adam not only ascended to angelhood, but is on a power level that dwarfs just about everyone in the hotel's army against the exorcists, and it takes Lucifer himself showing up for him to face any challenge whatsoever.
• Adaptational Jerkass: The biblical Adam was said to be the benevolent father of humanity, with his act of eating the fruit of forbidden knowledge being based more on impulsiveness than malice. Here, he's as far removed from benevolent as you can get, being an Ax-Crazy Tautological Templar who slaughters Sinners without remorse, and even when off-the-job, he proves to be quite an unpleasant person to be around.
• Adaptational Villainy: This Adam is far from the benevolent father of humanity that his Biblical counterpart was, depicted here as a misogynistic douchebag who slaughters sinners for his own entertainment.
• Admiring the Abomination: Despite despising Hell and its denizens, he does admit to Charlie that he does dig its hardcore vibe and tunes.
• Alas, Poor Villain: Downplayed in that most of the people that witnessed his death were more shocked that Niffty was the one to land the finishing blow, but Adam's death is met by a screaming and crying Lute who's begging him to stay alive.
• Allegorical Character: Adam is most every negative stereotype of a Christian rolled into a single person:
  • He holds sexist views on women.
  • He believes that his status as a saved individual makes him intrinsically better than those not saved, to the point that he views their lives as having no worth.
  • He lives in sin by indulging in gluttony, fornication, and murder, but figures it's okay because he is saved (as in already in heaven, not a believer in Christ).
• Always a Bigger Fish: Despite his comedic nature, Adam is a genuine threat when pressed. In the season one finale, he's able to defeat and nearly kill Alastor, causing the Radio Demon to retreat. Adam then finds himself on the receiving end of the trope when Lucifer arrives at the battle and wipes the floor with him.
• Ambiguous Situation: 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. "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.
• And There Was Much Rejoicing: With the exception of his Psycho Supporter Lute, everyone is happy to see the back of him (especially when said back is covered in bloody stab wounds) once they get past the shock that it's actually possible for him to die. Vaggie in particular can't keep the grin off her face while Niffty perforates him.
• And Your Little Dog, Too!: In "Welcome to Heaven" after Charlie publicly calls him out as no better than the Sinners he despises, Adam promises that the first stop on his next Extermination will be the Hazbin Hotel. He makes good on his promise, and he would've killed everyone living in the Hotel if it weren't for Lucifer's timely intervention.
• Angelic Transformation: He's actually the same Adam from Adam and Eve. Charlie suddenly gets why Lilith ditched him when she makes the connection.
• Arc Villain: Adam is the primary villain of Season 1, representing an impending crackdown on Hell's population by Heaven after the death of an Exorcist, as well as being the direct obstacle between Charlie and achieving her dream of stopping the Exterminations. He is finally defeated and killed in the first season finale.
• "Ass" in Ambassador: In the first episode he acts as the Heaven's representative in the Embassy while Charlie represents Hell's interests. While Charlie tries to be polite and passionate, Adam spends most of his time being the biggest Jerkass to her as possible.
• Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: His body shape and choice of robes coincidentally resemble the Hellaverse's version of Mammon, the one Sin so far with absolutely no redeeming traits. It's a subtle hint that for all his claims otherwise, Adam is just as bad as the sinners he purges.
• Ax-Crazy: 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.
• Bad Boss: When one of his Exorcists, Vaggie, spared a demon child during one of their Exterminations, Adam let Lute cut out her eye and rip off her wings before taking her halo and leaving her for dead. Furthermore, despite him pushing up the Exterminations because one Exterminator got killed, he's never showing any actual concern about his forces being killed by angelic weapons, instead writing it off as "weak" and never even referring to that angel by name. Despite this, he seems to have their loyalty at large for some reason.
• Beard of Evil: A variant. He's got an unshaven chin that appears to be an extremely poor attempt at a goatee, making him look even more like the slovenly Psychopathic Manchild he is.
• Berserk Button:
  • Despite shamelessly engaging in all sorts of depravities and murder, Adam seems to really see himself as a righteous soul; therefore, when Charlie and Emily point out that he's a sinner himself and that Heaven fails to follow its own rules, he loses his smug grin and starts seething with rage. Charlie acting so "high and mighty" is apparently what drives him to reveal Vaggie's secret past to Charlie, driving a wedge into their relationship.
  • He seems to really hate Lucifer, and reacts with pure, unbridled hatred toward the King of Hell. The fact that Lucifer married Adam's first wife and implies he seduced Eve is probably the reason for that.
• Beware the Silly Ones: He is an immature goofball, as well as a mass murderer who even Overlords are terrified of. He's far more powerful than his Exorcists to the point not even Alastor can afford to take one of his hits, and he even overpowers Charlie in her full demon form. It takes Lucifer himself stepping in to put an end to the threat he poses.
• Big Eater: When first seen he's snacking on a big plate of ribs, and when he's seen in "Welcome to Heaven" he's slurping on a drink.
• Black-and-White Morality: How he justifies his sadistic genocide of sinners in order to never feel guilty about it. As he makes clear to Charlie when he hijacks 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 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!
• Blasphemous Boast: During his Villainous Breakdown, he declares "I started everything on Earth, all of mankind came from these fucking nuts, you all should be worshiping me!"
• Brought to You by the Letter "S": He has a stylized A on his cloak. According to Viv in a tweet, his clothes with the A are meant "to be symbolic and uniform but also vaguely letterman jacket".
• Brutish Character, Brutish Weapon: He's a thuggish Psychopathic Manchild who uses a large one-handed battleaxe in combat rather than the more delicate swords and spears that his Exorcist minions prefer.
• The Bully: Adam can't go two minutes without hurting or humiliating someone else for his own amusement. Best seen with is Establishing Character Moment where he tricks Charlie with the hologram, laughs way too hard about how foolish she looks, then does the same trick again shortly after and proceeds to laugh even harder.
• Bullying the Dragon: Despite the arrangements that the Exorcisms couldn't target Hell-born demons, Adam targets the Hazbin Hotel out of spite, and wastes no time trying to kill Charlie when she challenges him. When this summons Lucifer he simply tries to kill them both, and is only spared from being beaten to death because Charlie insists Lucifer shows mercy. Even after that, Adam gets straight back up and furiously demands a rematch from Lucifer, who by this point just looks comically fed-up with Adam's goading.
• Celestial Paragons and Archangels: He's the top angel in charge of the Exorcists.
• Childish Villain, Mature Hero: He's contrasted as the Childish Villain to Charlie, Vaggie, Lucifer, and (in a villain-to-villain variant) Alastor.
  • Charlie, while somewhat naïve, has the genuine goal of redeeming Sinners so as to prevent the Exterminations from wiping out her people, and is willing to stand up for her beliefs despite what Heaven may say. Vaggie is in full support of her and often acts as a minder if she goes a little off the rails and is sympathetic to those around her even back when she used to be an Exorcist. Lucifer, in spite of his many quirks, is usually a friendly, reasonable, and polite fellow who once had altruistic intentions towards humanity, and tries to be a supportive father for his daughter in her times of need. Alastor meanwhile, is a sophisticated gentleman who knows how to keep a cool head even when under great pressure, and is willing to hold up his deals even if he doesn’t support the causes they're part of such as the one revolving around Charlie's goals.
  • Adam is an Ax-Crazy Psychopathic Manchild who's often swearing more than anyone, takes great joy in indulging in his own twisted desires such as the yearly Exterminations while not caring if people call him out on his actions, and throws tantrums whenever things don't go his way. Alastor even lampshades this during their battle with each other while Adam can only tell him to shut up instead of being able to make a clever comeback.
• Christian Rock: Adam heavily invokes this genre with him being an angel with an electric guitar, and he's confirmed to have a band that he uses to pick up women. He also calls Vaggie being exiled by the Exorcists as her "leaving the band" and sees Vaggie's partnership with Charlie as being a "duet". He also takes a shot at jazz music during his duel with Alastor, considering it to be "for pussies".
• Classic Villain: Pride and Lust, with a dash of Wrath in there as well. He arrogantly views himself as better than everyone due to being the first man, needlessly sexualizes women and gleefully slaughters human sinners every year. His design while in-costume looks more demonic even than the actual demons, but his true appearance under that is an ordinary human man, fitting for his status as the original template for all who would come after him and differentiating him from the more visually distinct protagonists. He contrasts with main protagonist Charlie in many ways, as Charlie is a kind soul who believes even the worst of humanity can change, while Adam is a cruel bastard who thinks sinners are lost causes and deserve to be slaughtered en masse. In the season finale, he has a dramatic final battle with not only Alastor, but also Charlie and Lucifer, and eventually finds himself killed by Niffty, a woman who acts as the Hotel's housekeeper.
• Creepy Shadowed Undereyes: The reveal of his unmasked face shows that he has thick, dark circles around his eyes, which appear to be a consequence of his hedonistic, dissolute lifestyle rather than a deliberate aesthetic choice like Lute's Excessive Evil Eyeshadow.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Niffty finishes his Villainous Breakdown by impaling him with an angelic dagger Back Stab, and then goes at him with it like he's a vegetable on a chopping board once he falls over, sending High-Pressure Blood all over the place. It's played entirely for Black Comedy, 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 absolutely delighted, and Vox, though equally shocked, is amused).
• Cuckold Horns: While all Exorcists have horns as part of their attire, Adam's take on a whole different meaning when one considers how Lucifer slept with his first wife, Lilith. And possibly Eve as well.
• The Cynic: Adam firmly believes humans can't be redeemed once they enter Hell (much like 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 "Welcome to Heaven", he still thinks all sinners deserve death and decides to go through with genociding all of Hell.
• Deathly Unmasking: Lucifer shatters his mask in their fight shortly before he has a Villainous Breakdown and gets offed by Niffty.
• Death by Irony: A egotistical self-righteous misogynistic angel dies by Niffty, a female sinner with the lowly role of a janitor.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype: In a sense, Adam is a deconstruction of the archetypal saved soul. Since he's apparently achieved eternal salvation in Heaven, he thinks he can spend his afterlife doing whatever he wants without ever reaping consequences from there: from continuing to treat the Virtue he dated less-than-respectfully and being an all-round jerk to conducting routine genocides for his own cruel entertainment.
• Didn't Think This Through: Targeting the Hazbin Hotel to massacre all the Sinners there probably sounded fun and fitting, but Adam utterly fails to consider that he's breaking the long established pact between Heaven and Hell by going after Charlie personally. This frees up Lucifer to intervene, someone leagues more powerful than Adam. This also concentrates all his forces into a single location, which managed to get fortified and armed in time, instead of targeting the rest of Hell that is still Locked Out of the Loop, leading to heavy casualties on his side including himself and the invasion ultimately repelled with a relatively small number of demon casualties.
• Died in Your Arms Tonight: A devastated Lute holds his body as he dies, with him giving her one last reassuring smile.
• Dirty Old Man: He doesn't look it due to the dead not aging, but Adam is the first man and was the ex-spouse of Charlie's mom, making him firmly not just an old man, but the oldest man of all time. He also can't stop being depraved towards women, including referring to Charlie as "Lilith's Little Hottie", which is a downright creepy way to describe your ex-wife's daughter, regardless of how old she is.
• Divinely Appearing Demons: Inverted. As with his Exorcist subordinates, he is a Horned Humanoid and even has fangs and claws, and in his case a rocker, but he's an officially sponsored angel. The Exorcists are wearing masks and appear human beneath them. Adam is also wearing a mask, but he doesn't bother taking it off when not on the job, unlike Lute.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: Adam's job is to go down and kill a bunch of people who are ostensibly in there for doing bad things, and takes a sadistic level of glee in doing so, without regard to the actual innocence or guilt of said people. In this regard, he is like a Rabid Cop who took the job so he could get to beat up criminals and uses an unnecessary amount of force to deal with anyone he thinks is one, using the excuse that they shouldn't have been doing those things if they didn't want to get arrested or beaten.
• Dragon with an Agenda: 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.
• Dumb Muscle: He may be an authentic Person of Mass Destruction who's Nigh-Invulnerable to most forms of weaponry and magic, but he's also a fratbro meathead whose lack of impulse control, combat technique, and tactical nous give his enemies rather more of a chance against him and his minions than they otherwise might have. He can manage the occasional glimmer of low cunning, but not much more than that.
• Early-Bird Cameo: Adam and Lute technically appeared in the opening song of the Hazbin Hotel pilot in the shadow puppet portion with Charlie. Lute also has a clearer cameo during the song as she's essentially the lead Exorcist who appears in front of the others.
• Emasculated Cuckold: Lucifer seduced his first, and possibly his second wife, which Adam is more than pissed off by when Lucifer taunts him with this fact, as he backs up Charlie at the hotel battle. Adam's overly macho personality may even be an attempt to compensate for this.
• Entitled Bastard: During his Villainous Breakdown, he rants about how everyone should be worshipping him for being the Original Man, and calls the sinners "ungrateful" — in spite of the fact that he and his forces have been slaughtering them by the hundreds for centuries.
• Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Downplayed. Sera is the closest thing to a parent Adam interacts with, and he remains fairly respectful towards her. He desires her approval when making a list of what got him into Heaven and when she was disappointed in his cruel gloating he apologizes to her.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Among his only humanizing traits is that he genuinely does like and care for Lute, though their friendship does nothing to make him a better person as they only reinforce and encourage each other's depravity. Furthermore, while he often regards the female exterminators as beneath him, Adam seems to have a legitimate appreciation for his lieutenant; Lute is implied to be the only one who even comes close to being an equal peer in Adam’s eyes. The way he tenderly smiles at Lute as he dies even shows that he loves her, either romantically or platonically.
• Even Evil Has Standards: When Lute shows a rather concerning amount of bloodlust just before the next Extermination, a startled Adam looks rather disturbed and tells her to calm down.
  Adam: Would you just- ju- chill, Lute. Fuck.
• Everybody Hates Mathematics: Math is on his Long List of huge problems in the world.
• Evil Laugh: Initially, he just had an obnoxious laugh to reflect his Fratbro personality. However, he does start to let out maniacal laughter in “The Show Must Go On”.
• Evil Is Hammy: Adam is a loud, boisterous, incredibly profane angel with the personality of a douchey Jerk Jock/rockstar, and even lets out several Metal Screams at various points.
  Adam: SUCK MY HOLY LIGHT, FUCKERS, YEEEAH!
• Evil Is Petty:
  • Ends his villain song by telling Charlie that instead of in a year, the next extermination will take place in six months. It's heavily implied he does this just to spite Charlie because she dared to suggest the human souls in Hell might deserve a second chance. He is actually doing it because a demon managed to kill an Exorcist, but he doesn't want to tip Hell off that his plans are far more genocidal than usual this time.
  • Offers Charlie to shake his hand and then some ribs only to reveal they're holograms and Charlie can't have any just to be a dick.
  • When Charlie's attempt to appeal to Heaven's leadership reveals that even Heaven is ignorant as to what qualifies a soul to ascend, Adam reiterates that not only will the next extermination happen on schedule, he's specifically going to start at her hotel.
  • Reveals that Vaggie is an Angel purely because Charlie not only pointed out that he’s a rampant sinner but that Heaven fails to follow its own rules.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: In "The Show Must Go On", when attacking Charlie, Adam is surprised that she'd risk her immortal life to defend Sinners, clearly unable to understand why she would fight to defend the damned he finds joy in slaughtering, mocking her saying that they're her Found Family.
• Evil Versus Evil: He is an ax-crazy angel whose job it is to slaughter demons annually, and it's worth noting that in the Hazbin Hotel universe, it's easy for even good people to go to Hell for petty reasons. However, Hazbin Hotel has shown that a vast majority of demons in Hell are Always Chaotic Evil and even some of the nicer ones are capable of doing some truly horrible stuff.
• Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: 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 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 Expressive Mask, much like Lute's.
  • And then even further straight when his real face is shown. He's actually quite handsome underneath his mask.
• Face Death with Dignity: Credit where it's 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.
• Fallen Hero: Whether he's one of these or Evil All Along 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 The Fog of Ages, and it's one of the most important mysteries about if and how a soul might become redeemable (and what 'redemption' even means).
• Fatal Flaw: Arrogance. Being the Original Man and making it to Heaven gives him a massive ego, entitlement, and belief he can act and do whatever he want without consequence. This leads him to impulsively gloat about the Exterminations revealing there existence to Heaven which his superiors forbade him to causing problems and go after Lucifer's daughter Charlie, breaking the pact to spare hellborn, gets him brutally beaten and defeated by Lucifer who Adam failed to consider would powerful enough to stop him when provoked. Once the heroes decides he's beaten enough and Not Worth Killing, Adam's indignation lead him to go on a massive rant leaving him open to and Undignified Death that could have been avoided if his bruised ego hadn't distracted him or stopped him from fleeing given the chance.
• Faux Affably Evil: Adam acts like a casual, laid-back and even somewhat friendly Frat Bro, but this does nothing to hide the sadistic monster he is on the inside. He can't even keep the facade up for too long and immediately begins acting like a jerk within moments of meeting Charlie. This especially shines in his talk with Vaggie in Episode 6, where he reminisces about her ability to kill when she worked under him, calling her a "bad bitch" in a way that is clearly meant to be twistedly complimentary, before threatening to reveal her past to Charlie if she refuses to work for him again and help him shut down the Hotel.
  Adam: Oh, yeah. You know, that's totally cool. I guess I'll just tell Little Miss Butterflies-and-Rainbows that she's been fucking someone who's killed thousands of her people. I'm sure your relationship will be fiiiine. See you in court!
• Five-Second Foreshadowing: It's easy to miss, but Adam doesn't react when Lucifer taunts him about Lilith leaving him for the angel. This hints at the fact Adam made a deal with Lilith that allows her to stay in Heaven.
• Foil: To Alastor. They are both exceptionally powerful despite having once belonged to mortal souls, and the Token Evil Teammate of their respective groups (Compare Adam's sadism to Emily's idealism and Sera being a Well-Intentioned Extremist). However, Alastor is an Affably Evil — or at least Faux Affably Evil Southern Gentleman who doesn't even swear, save for the occasional Precision F-Strike, whereas Adam is a crass douche whose swear count outnumbers every other characters' swear count combined. This also comes down to their strengths, where Alastor hardly holds a candle to the more ancient demons, but is more cunning and a technically skilled fighter, while Adam is the leader of the Exorcists thanks to his sheer raw power, but is little more than a brute. Interestingly, this also extends to how they carry themselves in a fight, where Alastor is revealed to run at the first hint that he's on the backfoot, Adam (while perfectly content with punching down) is surprisingly willing to punch above his weight. They also share the trait of thinking Charlie's dream of redeeming sinners is ridiculous. However, while Alastor at least helps Charlie's dream, if only for amusement and it's even implied that he just thinks redemption is rare and not outright impossible, Adam rejects the idea entirely and doesn't even attempt to entertain redemption, because in his eyes all sinners deserve to be punished and eventually massacred.
• Formerly Fit: Implied. While it's possible that Lucifer is just taunting him during their battle, Lucifer comments that Adam has "really let [himself] go," and the storybook opening featuring Adam's silhouette shows that he was lean with a somewhat Heroic Build. In the present, he wears a large and loose robe that conveniently hides his figure. The fact that he's gorging on a plate full of ribs on his first introduction and slurping from a cup of soda on the second doesn't help his case. Maybe Lucifer was right after all.
• Frat Bro: He speaks and acts like a stereotypical one.
• Girl on Girl Is Hot: He certainly thinks so, complimenting Vaggie for landing "Lilith's little hottie". While Lute calls their love "vile and blasphemous", Adam agrees, but also says it's, "Hot as fuck, though."
• Giver of Lame Names: To a frankly gross degree: Vaggie was given her name by Adam when she was still an Exterminator Angel, and he explicitly says that her skill at killing demons inspired him to name her after "the greatest thing ever." And in case that was too subtle, he pronounces her name with a soft "g."
• Glass Cannon: In the same situational way as the Exorcists he commands, only to an even greater extreme thanks to his phenomenal destructive power. Angelic weapons still affect him like conventional weapons would an ordinary human being, which is how he ends up stabbed to death by a tiny, psychotic housemaid armed with an angelic knife.
• A God Am I: He has such a massive ego that he genuinely believes that he deserves to be revered like a god by his descendants. This is best shown in his Villainous Breakdown:
  "You all should be worshipping me, you ungrateful, disgusting, fucking losers!"
• Go Out with a Smile: He spends his last moments giving Lute a reassuring smile before he dies.
• Gold and White Are Divine: His prominent color scheme is gold and white which is meant to be representative of Heaven. The motif however is a Light Is Not Good one.
• Gold-Colored Superiority: Unlike the Exorcists he commands, he has gold as part of his color scheme signifying him as their superior.
• Gone Horribly Right: He was the first human being sent to Heaven and is the one who created the humans that became Sinners in the first place. Both those circumstances cause everything in the show that Charlie has to deal with, as Adam revels in his supernatural privileges for so long that he becomes a huge Jerkass to everyone around him, and the humans he created being intelligent enough to turn to evil and being sent to Hell leads to an overpopulation problem that he thinks needs to be ruthlessly cleansed through the Exterminations without considering the option of redemption.
• Hand Blast: He can fire beams of holy light from his hands or from his guitar with enough power to cut a building in half.
• The Hedonist: When he's not engaging in exterminations, he's stuffing his face, or sleeping around.
• The Heavy: Sera, the High Seraphim, is his direct superior and enables his actions but she's hands off in the Exterminations herself, and other villains, the Vees, are largely divorced from Charlie's story. Adam is the villain most directly involved in the plot due to his active role in the Exterminations and his personal involvement in opposing the Hazbin Hotel. After helping ensure Charlie's plan to redeem Sinners fails, he promises that her hotel is the first place he'll be visiting during the Extermination.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: His downfall is ultimately of his doing, due to his pride. He sent routine exterminations to Hell, believing he was giving them righteous punishment, never thinking they'd fight back and never thinking he could be in the wrong. He then targets the hotel out of spite, breaking the pact Heaven has with Hell to not target Hellborn demons by going after Charlie and frees Lucifer to intervene. He later fights both the Princess of Hell and Lucifer himself, thinking he actually had a chance. At the end of episode 8, rather than accept Charlie's mercy he continues to lash out at her and the Hotel, making him an open target for Niffty.
• Hologram: When Charlie visits Heaven's embassy, Adam offers to shake her hand in greeting. When she tries, she passes through, and Adam reveals he's actually in Heaven using a hologram to communicate with Charlie in Hell. A couple times he interacts with her physically (first Finger Muzzling her when she tries to explain her project, then at the end of his musical number denying Charlie's proposal, his hand flickers as he takes her by the wrist and shoves her out the door), showing his hologram can become Hard Light, so letting her hand phase through his initially was just an additional dick move.
• Holy Halo: He has a classic golden halo with two additional points similar to the ones worn by his Exorcists, which is one of the visual cues that he's an angel. When he dies, the halo loses its shine, leaving only a metal ring, and Lute takes it with her to show Lilith that Adam has truly died and that their deal is now null and void.
• Holy Hand Grenade: He's able to fire blasts of holy light from his hands, even being able to concentrate it into a Kamehame Hadoken beam that is so powerful that it destroys the Hazbin Hotel.
• Horned Humanoid: He's an angel with demon-like horns. As episode 8 eventually reveals, though, the horns are just part of his mask.
• Hypocrite:
  • He criticizes sinners for sinning in their past lives, but is himself a big bucket of sin, being extraordinarily wrathful, misogynistic, vain, prideful, and foul-mouthed. Also he's mentioned to have had extra-marital sex.
  • In "Welcome to Heaven", Charlie questions Adam (the first "virtuous soul") on the criteria of being worthy of Heaven. He hastily comes up with three criteria: "act selfless, don't steal, stick it to the man." Adam himself is shown to be very selfish, entitled, and is himself "the man", both as the first man and leader of The Armies of Heaven who enacts yearly genocide. When Angel Dust is shown doing the very things on his list, he insists that it still doesn't make him worthy of ascension.
  • When Charlie and Emily point out how Adam is too despicable to still be in Heaven, Adam is visibly furious and latter tells Charlie to stop acting so "high and mighty". This is absolutely rich coming from the Master of "high and mighty" himself, who boasts he's "never made a mistake in his life" and constantly calls out the souls in Hell as sinful scum that deserve extermination for messing up at their one shot at life.
  • A minor one, but he dismisses Lucifer as "just a fucking clown or something", yet his mask looks like it has harlequin horns.
• Immortal Immaturity: Despite being the first human soul to ascend to an angel and being around for as long as creation, Adam hasn't grown up at all, maintaining the personality of a psychotic fratbro. Other than killing, all he cares about is eating, drinking, and sleeping around.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: Heavily implied. As high and mighty as Adam acts, the moment someone questions his supposed superiority, he's quick to get defensive and, going by how quickly Lucifer was able to get under his skin during their fight in "The Show Must Go On" simply by bringing up how Lucifer managed to outdo Adam twice when it came to impressing women and, after getting defeated, Adam starts demanding that everyone worship them while calling them losers.
• Ink-Suit Actor: When he's unmasked, Adam bears a resemblance to his voice actor, Alex Brightman.
• In Love with Your Carnage: He greatly admires his exorcists for their efficiency at extermination, praising Lute for her body count in addition to Vaggie who he referred to as one of his top girls. Even years after they disgraced her, he still respects her abilities.
• Insane Troll Logic:
  • His song 'Hell is Forever' is sung to justify his exterminations of Sinners... which (as far as he knows) removes them from hell. Which was the reason he gave for doing them in the first place.
  • In his mind, as evidenced during his Villainous Breakdown, since he’s the progenitor of mankind, he expects that everyone, especially Sinners, should worship him, having the guts to call them “ungrateful”, even though he revels into killing his own damned descendants for, by his own admission, “entertainment”.
• Instrument of Murder: He has a golden guitar that he wields like a battle-axe.
• It's All About Me: He seems to hate allowing anyone else to be the center of attention, and his introduction is him telling an anecdote about a time he threw a tantrum because a groupie dared to hit on a member of his band other than him. The only remote exception to this is appears to be Lute, whom while Adam is still not above insulting her, seemingly possesses an understated (but still notable) regard towards his top enforcer. They both equally enjoy tearing into Charlie at her trial, with Adam gleefully singing along with Lute as she tears into Angel Dust.
• It's Personal with the Dragon: In the grand scope of things, Adam reports to Sera, but he is the most immediate threat to Charlie and Hell itself, as the mastermind behind the Exterminations and the one far too gleeful to kill off Hell's denizens. He also reveals Vaggie's past as a Fallen Angel specifically to spite Charlie and he leads the Exorcists in battle when they start the next Extermination at the Hazbin Hotel.
• 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.
• Ironic Death: Adam has an ego the size of Jupiter and thinks of himself as the most important being in all of creation, because the entire human race descends from him. He gets killed by a lowly demon who doesn't seem to know who he is and doesn't care.
• Jabba Table Manners: His meeting with Charlie has him talking with his mouth full as he eats a plate of ribs. He's also shown messily stuffing his face with ribs in an Embarrassing Old Photo during the news coverage of his death.
• Jerkass: Adam is an asshole who demeans Charlie and her plans for redeeming sinners, cracks multiple jokes at her expense and constantly talks over her. To say nothing of his part in routinely leading the annual exterminations in Hell, which were all his idea from the beginning, and his admittance that he wants to keep them around just because he gets his vile jollies out of indiscriminately massacring sinners. Charlie sums him up when talking with Vaggie:
  Charlie: He [is] an asshole.
• Jerkass Has a Point:
  • Adam 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.
• Jerk Jock: He has the attitude of one and is explicitly confirmed to have had a letterman jacket as part of the inspiration for his design. Despite having a foul mouth even compared to the rest of the cast, his severest insult, thrown in the midst of his Villainous Breakdown when he's completely lost control of his temper, is "loser". One wonders if he's the one who came up with the idea of calling the souls in Heaven "Winners".
• Kamehame Hadoken: Enraged by Lucifer's taunting, Adam fires a massive beam of holy light that cuts the Hazbin Hotel in half and rips through the hill it was built on top of.
• Karma Houdini: A vile and repugnant misogynist, the only reason he was made into an archangel by his creators, was by lone virtue of never once disobeying them. Or at least, that's the assumption, considering no one, including him, actually knows what the criteria are. Charlie and Emily lampshade this during a song:
  Charlie and Emily: If Hell is forever then Heaven must be a lie, if angels can do whatever and still remain in the sky.
• Karma Houdini Warranty: "The Show Must Go On" has Adam finally pay for his sins where he's beaten to a pulp by Charlie and Lucifer then stabbed to death by Niffty, rendering him Deader than Dead.
• Karmic Death: A misogynist that genocided Sinners for centuries meeting his end at the hands of Niffty, a female Sinner who has a mindset of a woman whose place is taking care of the house, certainly fits the bill. Furthermore, he had been giving a full A God Am I speech about his importance and how lowly the sinners are, and Niffty kills him for no reason besides the fact that he was there.
• Kinslaying Is a Special Kind of Evil: He acknowledges that Sinners descend from him but exterminates their souls for entertainment.
• Large and in Charge: Adam is the leader of the Exorcists and is by far the largest. Lute, the second tallest, doesn't even reach his shoulder. Besides his height, his billowing robes give him a significantly wider silhouette than most Hellaverse characters.
• Laughably Evil: He's an Ax-Crazy psychopath but he has the personality of a sadistic, meathead fratbro who constantly cracks jokes, making him entertaining while still being utterly irredeemable.
• Law of Chromatic Superiority: Adam wears gold, white, and purple, contrasting his Exorcists who are monochromatic apart from having Supernatural Gold Eyes.
• Lecherous Stepparent: Downplayed. Adam was once married to Charlie's mother, Lilith, before the Queen of Hell met and fell for Lucifer; as such, Adam qualifies as Charlie's pseudo-stepfather. And while he doesn't do or attempt to do anything physical to the Princess of Hell, he does make some sexually inappropriate comments about her.
• Light 'em Up: Adam is capable of firing destructive beams of light from hands, which he calls his "holy light".
  "SUCK MY HOLY LIGHT FUCKERS! YEAHHHHH!"
• Light Is Not Good: Although he's draped in white and golden colors indicative of Heaven, he's not a good guy. He laughs in Charlie's face when she tells him her plan for a hotel that redeems sinners and follows that up by flat-out admitting that the yearly slaughter of Hell's citizens isn't just punishment but entertainment for him and the other exorcists.
• Loose Lips: Early on in "Welcome to Heaven", Adam is talking about the Exterminations in public despite it being a secret from Heaven at large. Then he spills the beans in general when he gets mad.
• Lousy Lovers Are Losers: If Lucifer's comments and gestures in the season one finale are accurate, Lilith and Eve both preferred Lucifer's efforts in bed far more than Adam's. Given his usual temperament, it's no surprise Adam would be a selfish and lousy lover.
• Monster Progenitor: He's the first man, the father of humanity, whose souls can ascend to Heaven to become angels or descend to Hell and become demons.
• Moral Myopia: He's been leading a crusade against every soul in Hell for thousands of years, killing billions in the interim. When a single Exorcist is successfully killed during the latest Extermination, he takes it as a personal slight and declares that he now plans on such a thorough genocide that no one in Hell is ever able to "pull a stunt like that again." And this is despite the fact that he had left a wounded Vaggie for dead in Hell simply for sparing a demon child, implicitly hoping that a demon would kill her.
• More Despicable Minion: He serves as this towards Sera, while she has authority over him Adam was the one who came up with the annual Exterminations in Hell. While Sera clearly feels guilt over the Exterminations, she allows them to happen because she believes Hell's overpopulation is a direct threat to Heaven. Adam merely views the Exterminations as "entertainment" and personally enjoys murdering sinners in Hell.
• Morph Weapon: That guitar of his does actually serve a practical purpose—he can transform it into a battleaxe, which serves as his primary weapon. He even manages to wound Alastor with it, shaking the previously invincible Radio Demon to his core.
• Motor Mouth: When Adam starts talking, he's usually incapable of restraining himself from rambling. Of course, this is justified by his huge ego, so obviously the only person he wants to hear from is himself.
• Narcissist: To an insane degree that he makes Alastor and the Vees combined look humble, as he honestly believes that his position in the afterlife makes him completely righteous in everything even when he's blatantly anything but righteous himself. 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.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: 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: That could have been ugly.
  • The deal they had with Lucifer was that any hellborn demons would be spared during the Exterminations, but Adam goes back on the deal when he targets Charlie and fully intends to kill her, thus allowing Lucifer to intervene in the final battle which leads to Adam's eventual downfall.
• Nigh-Invulnerable: As with his subordinate Exorcists, Adam is nearly impossible to hurt by any means other than angelic power and weaponry. His reaction when Charlie stabs him through the shoulder with her pitchfork helps to underscore how alien the sensation of being injured is to him.
  (Shocked) The fuck!? That hurts!
• Not in This for Your Revolution: A rare example where the leader himself doesn't care for the cause. Exterminations are done for the purpose of protecting Heaven from evil by mass-slaughtering Sinners before there can be enough of them to unite and pose a threat to Heaven. And while the Exorcists fully believe in the cause - whether it be the well-meaning Sera or purely fanatical Lute - Adam makes it very explicit he's only leading the Exterminations so he can vent out his anger, narcissism and god complex by slaughtering the people he deems to be "ungrateful" and "disgusting".
  And for those of us with divine ordainment...
  Extermination is ENTERTAINMENT!
• Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: He's the one in charge of the yearly Extermination in Hell, which, on paper, is meant to decrease Hell's overwhelming population of sinners and demons. This could be a somewhat noble goal, were it not for Adam making it blatantly clear that he and the other Exorcists find Exterminations entertaining, and discard any attempt to peacefully compromise with Hell, instead laughing at Charlie's idea of the Hazbin Hotel right out of the meeting room while smugly informing her that the Exorcists will be back in six months instead of the year they're supposed to take. "Welcome to Heaven" reveals that Adam was the one that came up with the idea of the Exterminations in the first place, with Sera being unhappy about it.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: Adam acts like, and more than likely genuinely is, a chauvinistic tool who seems to just do things just because he can, even moving up the next extermination due to a spur-of-the-moment way to insult Charlie. In reality, he had already made up his mind to change the extermination to an outright genocide, and opts to wait to strike rather than act impulsively like Lute suggests.
• Obviously Evil: Despite being an angel, he is far more monstrous and intimidating than most traditional likenesses of such celestial beings, he has demonic horns, eyes that lack pupils, and razor-sharp teeth. And his behavior alone is anything but holy.
• Odd Friendship. With Lute. Adam is selfish, bratty, deeply misogynistic, and lacks empathy for just about anyone or anything that isn't him. Somehow, he manages to get along with her so well that it's shown they have a deep connection to one another, either platonically or romantically is unclear.
• Offing the Offspring: All the Sinners, as former humans, are his and Eve's descendants, but he revels in slaughtering them.
• Oh, Crap!:
  • Lets out a "shit" when he accidentally blurts out the truth of the Exterminations in front of the entire Angelic court.
  • He manages to keep up his bravado even as Lucifer clearly has him completely outmatched, but when he tries to go in for a cheap shot only for Charlie (who he'd previously overpowered) to morph her hand into a demonic claw and stop him completely dead in his tracks he genuinely freaks out for a moment at the sudden turnaround.
    Wait, what the fuck!?
• Original Man: Yes, he is that Adam, the Adam. He even calls himself "the original dick" and "the dick all other dicks descend from" ("dick" in this context meaning male genitalia, not euphemism for "jerk" even though that fits far better). Charlie speculates that this is why her father didn't want to meet with him.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: His entire job can count as this. While it's been shown that people can go to Hell in this universe for petty reasons and are not deserving of being down there and certain demons do display redeeming qualities, the vast majority of demons shown fall under Always Chaotic Evil and are fundamentally horrible people okay with murder, rape, and various other high sins and crimes. As such, Adam's routine extermination of demons seems less horrible overall. However, it's made clear that the Exterminations are less about punishing evil and more about preserving Heaven's authority and he shows clear sadism in doing so, something he flat out admits.
• Pet the Dog: For all his misogyny, he seems to hold at least a little respect for Sera, enough so to listen when she tells him that he went too far by rubbing his intention to target the Hotel first in Charlie's face and even seems a tiny bit ashamed in the face of her disapproval. Granted, this might be more due to her being above him in Heaven's pecking order.
• Person of Mass Destruction: His divine power allows him to crack open a skyscraper-sized force-field with a single punch, rapid-fire energy blasts with the power of a heavy artillery battery, and even vaporize Sir Pentious and his entire airship so effortlessly that it looks like they just blink out of reality. It's very good news for our heroes that he's Unskilled, but Strong enough for them to dodge most of his attacks, and that Lucifer, their own Person of Mass Destruction, is on his way to take him down.
• Politically Incorrect Villain:
  • 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.
    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!?"
  • His attitude towards sinners is also straight-up genocidal.
  • Adam agrees with Lute when she calls Charlie and Vaggie's relationship "vile and blasphemous", while also considering it "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 (though it could count either way, as condemning an Interspecies Romance on principle is hardly enlightened either).
• Pyrrhic Victory:
  • While Sera ends up ruling in his favor, and he gets to torment Charlie by revealing that Vaggie is a former Exorcist and promising to start the next extermination at the hotel, he had also revealed the existence of the exterminations themselves to the entire courtroom, along with how cruel and spiteful he can be (to Sera's open disapproval). He also fails to create lasting conflict between Vaggie and Charlie.
  • He manages to destroy the hotel and kill several demons, but at the cost of his own life and several of his exorcists. He also failed to kill Charlie and the hotel staff, who were able to rebuild and improve the hotel and when he killed Sir Pentious, it ended up letting him ascend to heaven proving that Charlie's plan does indeed work.
• Psychopathic Manchild: He's the Original Man, thousands of years old, and the head of the Exorcists... and he behaves like an obnoxious college frat-boy. A bloodthirsty, sociopathic obnoxious college frat-boy, who, when he isn't playing childish pranks with his hologram and being casually misogynistic; enjoys routinely committing genocide with his pals, didn't think twice about one of his own soldiers being mutilated and left for dead just because she refused to murder a child and tries to massacre Charlie's hotel first out of petty spite. Sera also treats him like a petulant child, chiding him for acting out of bounds.
• Purple Is Powerful: Wears an outfit with a lot more purple on it then his usual robe when he and his Exorcists attack the hotel, where he demonstrates a lot of strong, if unrefined, power.
• Rank Scales with Asskicking: He's The Leader of the Exorcists and is their most powerful member, having access to Holy Hand Grenade powers that the others don't have. During the final battle of Season 1, he's able to beat powerhouses like Alastor and Charlie without much issue, with only Lucifer himself being able to defeat him.
• Real Men Eat Meat: Adam is seen devouring an entire plate of ribs and has a sexist Frat Bro personality.
• Rock Me, Asmodeus!: Inverted. Adam is a rock and roll angel, albeit one with a much more demonic appearance than most of the other angels.
• Rotten Rock & Roll: His introductory dialogue establishes that he's the guitarist and frontman for an angelic rock band when not performing Exterminations, his Villain Song is hard rock as opposed to the other songs which are more Broadway-style, and he even owns an electric guitar. He’s also accompanied by electric guitars whenever he appears, and does rocker screams when leading an Extermination in the season one finale.
• Sadist: He and his Exorcists don't just perform exterminations in an effort to keep Haven in control and scare Hell off from fighting back, they like slaughtering sinners, as he makes clear to Charlie during his song:
  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!
• Satanic Archetype: Ironically fits this better than Lucifer himself. While he's an angel, a common description of the Satan's in the Bible is not that of a Fallen Angel but as a heavenly prosecutor who punishes the wicked, which Adam wholeheartedly embraces. He also has similarities with the Luciferian interpretation of the devil with his Pride being so large he thought he should be worshipped. His large horns also give him a Big Red Devil look.
• Seven Deadly Sins: Ironically, as an angel, he's guilty of committing them:
  • Lust:
    • He thinks that being the "original dick" gives him the right to sleep with any woman he wants and shows lechery aimed at his ex-wife's daughter, sleezily refering to her as "Lilith's little hottie" and commenting that he finds her relationship with Vaggie "hot as fuck". He's first introduced bragging about having sex with a Virtue and insisting that Charlie call him "Dickmaster".
    • He demonstrates notable bloodlust as well, outright admitting that he actively enjoys killing demons and seeing them die. Referring to an act of genocide as entertainment that he clearly gets his rocks off committing.
    • He also demonstrates a lust for power and recognition, wanting to be worshipped for his status as the Original Man and progenitor of humanity.
  • Pride: He believes that as an angel and the first human to be allowed into Heaven ever, he's entitled to everything and everyone that interests him and that the rest are beneath him. Right before Niffty kills him mid-Villainous Breakdown, he outright says that he should be worshipped because he's the Original Man.
  • Vanity: He's dressed extremely flamboyantly for an angel and has the golden wings to prove it, whereas most of the other angels have more muted affluence and have white wings.
  • Wrath: He's quick to anger when he feels he's been denied the respect he feels entitled to and murderously petty and vindictive. Declaring that he would explicitly target Charlie's Hotel and loved ones because she dared to call him out before the Court of Heaven.
  • Gluttony: He is introduced chowing down on a large plate of ribs (which he teasingly offers to share with Charlie before revealing that he's a hologram just to be a jerk), and the photo 666 News uses after his death has him similarly stuffing his face with them, showing that it was a habit of his.
  • Sloth: The only time he does something other than brag about himself or put someone else down is when he's leading the Extermination against the hotel in the last episode, and even then, he hardly does anything.
  • Envy: He has not gotten over how Lucifer seduced his first (and maybe second) wife, wearing a helmet that makes it look like he has horns and a more demonic face as well as putting up a "macho man" persona in a feeble attempt to impersonate the fallen angel.
• Screw the Rules, I Make Them!:
  • When he tells Charlie that Heaven has decided to move up the next extermination, he shows her a golden scroll that just says "Fuck you I do what I want!!". Though the end of the episode reveals he does actually have a legitimate reason to move up the extermination beyond just being a dick.
  • This ends up his own undoing, the negotiation made with Lucifer is that his army can't target Charlie or other Hell-born demons. Adam very quickly tries to kill Charlie when she tries to physically intervene with his attack on the Hotel, and when this summons Lucifer in turn, he wastes little time trying to waste them both, earning an Extreme Mêlée Revenge.
• Shipper on Deck: Downplayed. Adam offers a genuine congrats to Vaggie's romance with Charlie, or as he calls the latter, "Lilith's little hottie". However, aside from momentary decency on his part, his "support" of the couple comes from how "hot as fuck" their relationship is, while also agreeing with Lute's statement of their love being "vile and blasphemous". Plus, Adam's twisted and minor support of the couple doesn't derail him from attempting to blackmail Vaggie into working for him to undermine Charlie's goal.
• Ship Tease: With Lute in a manner of shared viciousness. However, since Adam dies it stops.
• Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!: Adam laughs at Charlie's idea for redeeming sinners to enter Heaven, while he is still in the same room as her.
  Adam: Fuckin' Hell is forever,
  And it's meant to suck a lot,
  So give up your dumb endeavor,
  'Cause you don't have a shot!
• A Sinister Clue: Based on how he plays the guitar, he's left-handed, and he's one of the major villains of season one.
• Sir Swears-a-Lot: In a universe already full of potty mouths, Adam has quite the filthy mouth and manages to stand out by having the biggest swear per minute count in the entire show; every sentence from him comes with at least one obscenity (he even manages to say "cunt" uncensored multiple times, which not even Mammon can get away with due to YouTube being stricter concerning swearing than Prime Video). And this is despite him being an angel.
  • In the Italian dub, Adam some-fuckin'-how manages to be even more foul-mouthed, with "Cazzo" ^note Italian for both "Dick" and "Fuck!", among other profanity basically being his Character Tic, sometimes even to the point of redundancy. This is best shown when he ends his battle with Alastor and cries "Cancellerò quel compiaciuto ghigno del cazzo dalla tua faccia da cazzo! La radio ormai è morta, cazzo!" ^note "I will erase that smug fucking grin from your fucking face! Radio is fucking dead now!".
• Smug Snake: Says that he’s never made a mistake in his life, which both in-universe and in the Bible is not true.^note After Eve’s creation, she has a somewhat lengthy conversation with the devil, during which he spars with her, tempting her and ultimately causing her to fall. During this time, where was Adam? One would think he wasn't there because the text does not record him saying anything, but in fact Adam was right there the whole time. One would expect Adam to say something to help his wife's argument, but he said nothing and St. Paul goes so far to say that he was not even deceived when he joined her in eating the apple. He is guilty of inaction and thinking he is beyond a rule written by God. And that's just the Bible's version of him: assuming things happened approximately the same way in the Hazbin Hotel 'verse as it did in The Bible, Adam is even more responsible for this mistake than he was in the source material, since in Hazbin Hotel's version of the story, he got Eve specifically because he wanted a wife who did what he wanted, thus making him responsible for what she does!
• The Sociopath: He shows no empathy for others or remorse for his unholy behavior but can put up a front of a laid-back and casual demeanor which barely hides his wicked nature, loves engaging in violence and describes the exterminations as "entertainment", is a Narcissist that likes to be the center of attention, demands worship for fathering humanity, has poor impulse control, 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.
• Sore Loser: After getting his butt kicked by Lucifer, Adam can only rage at the residents of the Hotel, throwing what amounts to a childish tantrum while they silently stare at him in disgust.
• Spikes of Villainy: It's very subtle, but Adam has tiny golden spikes lining the coat of his collar that are absent from the other inhabitants of Heaven, marking him as a particularly dangerous angel. He trades his coat for a similar one with far more prominent spikes during the Extermination, showing that he's no longer playing around.
• Spontaneous Weapon Creation: Adam is able to manifest his guitar/axe out of holy light at will.
• Starter Villain: Adam is the first primary threat from Heaven that Charlie and her Hotel have to contend with, but he is by no means the last, as his position as leader of the Exorcists is taken up by his right-hand-woman Lute after his death.
• Stealth Pun: His favorite food is ribs. Trying to get back what he lost when Eve was made, perhaps?
• Stupid Evil: He brags about the exterminations in court and attacks a hotel owned by Lucifer's daughter without expecting any consequences.
• Supernatural Gold Eyes: He's the first man and became a powerful angel, which is marked by his golden eyes.
• Sword Beam: He can fire a crescent blast of holy light from his guitar, which he uses to overwhelm Alastor after he kept dodging more precise attacks.
• Tautological Templar: Played for Horror — Adam's entire claim on righteousness hinges on the Sinners being Beyond Redemption and the denizens of heaven being Always Lawful Good... an argument that falls apart due to Adam himself behaving at least as badly as the worst Hate Sinks in hell. From what we've seen, Adam has actively bragged about pressuring a groupie into sex, has proven himself a Bad Boss to Exorcists who dare to show mercy, and makes no bones about his purges being motivated by amusement rather than out of a desire to defend Heaven. The fact that a monster like him isn't a Fallen Angel is the first of many hints that something is VERY wrong with Heaven's assumptions about divine justice.
• They Look Just Like Everyone Else!: He's a genocidal Knight Templar with a scary demonic looking exorcist mask, but underneath it he looks like a perfectly ordinary, handsome man.
• Time Abyss: He's the first man and the progenitor of the entire human race.
• Tom the Dark Lord: A powerful and genocidal angel with the name "Adam". Although justified, as he is in fact the biblical first human known as Adam.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Is eating ribs in "Overture", which he mentions as one of his favorite foods.
• Troll: Twice he baits Charlie into trying to touch him, only to reveal it's a hologram. What makes this worse is that at the end of "Hell Is Forever", he grabs her hand and shoves her, meaning he could have switched it to hard-light, but didn't to be an ass.
• A Tragedy of Impulsiveness: Adam knew that the yearly extermination was a secret mission that only the Exorcists and Sera were permitted to know of. And as soon as things don't go his way in the court case, Adam just cannot help but run his mouth in a spiteful attempt to hurt Charlie, publicly acknowledging the Exterminations. This immediately makes Emily sour to Sera, since Emily is every bit the kind soul that an angel is supposed to be. And to make matters worse, Adam promises to go directly to the Hazbin Hotel to wipe out Charlie's entire group, which gave the hotel ample time to prepare a defense that ended up with a far heavier loss on Heaven's side, as well as the death of Adam himself. Essentially, Adam's uncontrollable urge to be a spiteful Jerkass got him killed because he just couldn't stop running his mouth.
• Uncleanliness Is Next to Ungodliness: He appears to be as lax about his personal hygiene and grooming as he is about his morality. He often shows up scarfing down junk food with Jabba Table Manners at inappropriate times, and the reveal of his face shows that, while handsome otherwise, he has thick, dark circles around his eyes and a rather pathetic, scraggly goatee. As one of the top angels of Heaven (where, to quote St. Peter, "everyone is hot"), it really makes him stand out.
• Undignified Death: For a millennia-old immortal and powerful Exorcist, Adam's end is nothing short of pathetic. After getting pummeled to a bloody pulp by Lucifer and only being spared at Charlie's behest, Adam dies, not in battle, but by being stabbed In the Back multiple times by Niffty in the middle of his Villainous Breakdown. About his only consolidation is the fact he got to see Lute is genuinely heartbroken over his death before he completely expires.
• Ungrateful Bastard: Charlie spares his life when she stops her father before he can deliver the killing blow, yet Adam has a Villainous Breakdown about how he won't let Charlie win this battle and how everyone should worship him simply because he's the first man. If not for Niffty, he clearly would have continued his genocidal ways despite Charlie showing him mercy.
• Unskilled, but Strong: Downplayed. Adam, by virtue of being the leader of the Exorcists and the oldest mortal soul in creation, is extraordinarily powerful but uses little technique in battle beyond brute forcing his opposition. Alastor, a comparatively far weaker opponent, gives him trouble for a time simply by virtue of being able to dodge his attacks and counterattack. However, Alastor still gets crippled with just one successful strike after Adam uses a Sword Beam to break Alastor's cane, demonstrating that Adam is capable of thinking strategically if the situation calls for it.
• Unsportsmanlike Gloating: In "Welcome to Heaven", even after Adam wins the court case determining Sinners cannot be redeemed and allowed into Heaven, he gloats to Charlie that during the next Extermination he'll be targeting the Hazbin Hotel first, then laughs at the looks on their faces. Even Sera tells him such sadism was uncalled for.
• Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey: Inverted. He's a Laughably Evil meathead compared to his Dragon Lute, a cold No-Nonsense Nemesis and Straight Man.
• Villain Has a Point: 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.
• Villain Reveals the Secret: He's the one who ultimately reveals to the audience, and later Charlie, that Vaggie used to be an Exorcist under his command.
• Villain Song: "Hell is Forever", in which Adam firmly denies Charlie's dream of redeeming damned souls, insisting that they are Beyond Redemption, deserve to suffer and be permanently killed, and caps it all of by telling Charlie that the next Extermination will happen six months ahead of schedule.
• Villainous Breakdown: After being defeated by Lucifer in "The Show Must Go On", Adam starts ranting after being humbled for maybe one of the first times in his life by the same guy that cucked him twice. To add insult to injury, Adam dies an Undignified Death 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 Ax-Crazy that he was just one more angel for her to stab.
  Adam: No!...you don't get to end this! I'm fucking ADAM! I'm THE FUCKING MAN and you're just some fucking clown or somethin'! I started EVERYTHING on Earth! All of mankind came from THESE FUCKING NUTS! You all should be worshipping me! You ungrateful, DISGUSTING, FUCKING LOSERS!
• Villain's Dying Grace: After being brutally beaten into the ground by Lucifer (and then stabbed repeatedly by Niffty) he is then cradled by Lute while she tearfully begs him to stay alive. In contrast to his extremely loud sore-loser ranting moments prior, he sincerely smiles at Lute before succumbing to his wounds.
• Villainous Face Hold: He grabs Charlie's face during his and Lute's reprise of "Hell is forever" during the song "You didn't know".
• Villainous Friendship: Virtually his only redeeming quality is his relationship with Lute, his trusted lieutenant in the Exorcists and best friend. He fist-bumps her when she tells him how many sinners she killed, she plays along with his villain song and the two are seen hanging out off duty in Heaven. Though Adam isn't above insulting her, he seems to imply a surprising amount of respect towards Lute; (insofar as Adam is capable of displaying legitimate respect towards someone besides himself) For all of his glaring flaws, their friendship is genuine, best displayed in "The Show Must Go On" where Lute is devastated by his death and Adam's last act is to smile at her reassuringly before he dies.
• Villainous Valor: While Adam is content to pick on people weaker than himself, his reaction to Lucifer joining the battle is to hit him with a flying tackle; showing that he's not afraid to punch above his weight. And even before that, when Charlie gives him the first real injury he's had in untold centuries, he only has a single moment of shock before grinning and returning to the fray. Even when he's practically at death's door and fully aware of how outmatched he is, he makes no attempt to plead for his life and continues antagonizing his enemies. For all his faults, cowardice isn't one of them.
• Weight Woe: He's visibly insulted when Lucifer taunts him for "letting himself go"^note Although he may have referred to his skills, rather than his weight and tries to fire back by reminding him that he's the most hated being in all creation.
• Winged Humanoid: He has golden angelic wings.
• Would Hurt a Child: Children are not spared during his Exterminations, in fact, he let Lute mutilate one of his top lieutenants for sparing a crying demon child, then left her for dead in Hell.
• You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: When he realizes that the Sinners are able to kill the Exorcists using their own weapons, he calls it "weak".
• Younger Than They Look: He's the Original Man, so that also makes him the oldest man, but when his face was revealed in the eighth episode, he looked like a regular middle-aged man.
• Your Mom: 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 deader than [Alastor's] mother!" ^note "¡Porqué la radio está más muerta que tu madre!"

Lute

Lute

"Sinful FILTH like you has no place in Heaven!"

^{Click here to see her unmasked} "Your highness, forgive me, but what are the hellspawn doing here?"

Voiced by: Jessica Vosk ^{Foreign VAs} Kelly Marot (French), Valentina Favazza (Italian)

An exorcist who serves as Adam's lieutenant.

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• Allegorical Character: Just like Adam, she incorporates some of the worst stereotypes of Christians:
  • She's completely apathetic towards the prevailing sexism, despite being a woman.
  • She has a total disdain for gays and sex workers (the two groups most commonly attacked by the church) and believes that their mere existence is enough to damn them forever.
  • She believes that her status as a saved individual makes her intrinsically better than those not saved, to the point that she views their lives as having no worth.
• Arch-Enemy: To Vaggie. Of the Hazbin Hotel residents, it is Vaggie that Lute has the most hatred and disgust for. Lute was the one responsible for mutilating and abandoning Vaggie when the latter spared a demon child during an Extermination. And during the battle at the Hotel, Lute specifically targets and tries to kill Vaggie; and during their battle, Lute arrogantly states she always knew Vaggie was "weak", further implying the two had a personal, mutual hatred towards each other before Vaggie's fall.
• An Arm and a Leg: After she gets buried under rubble by Vaggie with her arm stuck, she tugs so hard that she tears her arm clean off.
• Ax-Crazy: She's a fanatical General Ripper who will resort to extreme violence with disturbing speed to ensure every demon she sees is dead. She can exercise self-control, but it's clear that she really doesn't want to. When Adam is about to launch the extermination and announces that he's putting a bounty on Vaggie's head Lute starts graphically describing killing her, threatening to "rip her cunt-mouth out her ass", to the point Adam has to tell her to tone it down.
• The Baroness: She's basically what you'd expect when you picture the words 'evil, murderous angelic warrior' — a ruthless and darkly beautiful Lady of War Dark Action Girl with a sadistic streak that's more of a sadistic three-lane highway.
• Berserk Button:
  • Like Adam, Lute is shown to be seething when Charlie calls Adam a sinner and the people of Heaven hypocrites. In general, questioning or undermining her genocidal life's work will cause her to fly all the way off the handle in a way that even her boss won't.
  • Vaggie is one due to their history, with Lute going the extra mile to emotionally hurt the former or even kill her.
• Black-and-White Insanity: Though it's not entirely obvious at first, by "Show Must Go On", it's become apparent that Lute actually takes Adam's Black-and-White Morality to a whole other level. One that can freak even Adam out when she gets too into her bloodlust, her sheer zealotry even motivating her to rip her own arm off in order to continue fighting.
• Blood Knight: She couldn't care less about Sera's reasons for authorizing the Extermination or Heaven's threatened stability. Destroying human souls and tallying up the numbers is all that truly matters to her.
• Boyish Short Hair: Underneath her helmet, Lute has short hair cut in a neat, practical style.
• Bullying the Dragon: In their first meeting with Charlie, Lute dispenses even the Faux Affably Evil attitude Adam has, and spits pure contempt for the Princess of Hell, straight up telling her that Lucifer's contract protecting Hellborns is the only reason she wouldn't have slayed Charlie long ago like every other sinner on her kill count.
• The Comically Serious: Lute is essentially Adam's straightwoman, with humour being derived from how she stays composed in the face of Adam's bullshit. This goes out the window whenever Vaggie is involved, causing Lute to be so vicious she can even freak-out Adam.
• Create Your Own Hero: During an extermination, she mutilated Vaggie for sparing a demon child, ripped her wings and eye out, and left her for dead in Hell. The fallen exorcist did not die but was found and had her injuries mended by Charlie. Vaggie would then start a relationship with the princess, support her in her dreams of building the Hazbin Hotel for sinner rehabilitation, and fight by her side in the Hotel's defense when Adam and Lute came down to destroy it.
• Dark Is Evil: She's a black-colored angel with horns and responsible for rendering hundreds of human souls Deader than Dead. She also scoffs at the concept of redemption and is needlessly cruel to Charlie during Charlie's meeting with her and Adam. Since she's an angel working for Heaven, she's technically also a case of Light Is Not Good.
• The Determinator: A villainous example. She has absolutely no problem ripping her own arm off as long as it gives her a chance to get back at and kill Vaggie.
• The Dragon: Adam's loyal assistant in Exterminations, antagonizing the heroes, and in whatever the First Man requires.
• Dragon Ascendant: After Adam dies at the end of season one Lute becomes the new head of the Exorcists.
• Early Installment Character-Design Difference: Lute makes an unnamed cameo appearance in the pilot as the (presumed) commander of the Exorcists, though she has a white halo instead of a black one and is dual-wielding swords.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Among her only humanizing traits is that she genuinely does like and care for Adam, beyond the professional boss and underling relationship they have. This does nothing to make her a better person though, if anything it worsens her behavior as their friendship actively encourages the worst of each other's toxic behavior. She is also very distraught by Adam's death, desperately pleading for her mortally wounded boss to not die after he gets stabbed by Niffty.
• Evil Counterpart: To Vaggie. Both are serious, emotionally guarded but at times comical Exorcist Angels, who are noted to be one of the more skilled Exorcists in the Army. They are also the loyal second-in-command to someone of higher authority and power (Vaggie to Charlie, Lute to Adam) acting as the more competent and serious counterpart to their respective partners. However, Vaggie changed her initial views on Sinners, befriending and protecting the ones at the Hotel she's helping to redeem and falling in love with the Princess of Hell. In contrast, Lute has nothing but pure hatred and prejudice towards all Sinners, believing they are Beyond Redemption. Also, Vaggie can admit her mistakes, is capable of mercy, and while loyal to Charlie, she's not blind to the latter's fault and will voice her disagreements in a healthy manner; Lute, on the other hand, never admits her own failures, sees mercy (especially towards Sinners) as weakness, and actually encourages Adam's negative and toxic behavior.
• Evil Makes You Ugly: At first, Lute's armor is seen with bloodstains, suggesting she isn't interested in washing the blood off her clothes. However, she is seen cleaned up in the episode "Welcome to Heaven" until the musical number "You Didn't Know", where the blood on her armor reappears as she launches into a hateful verse and dons her Exorcist mask — suggesting the stains are more than they appear. Although under the mask she's surprisingly easy on the eyes.
• Excessive Evil Eyeshadow: She has thick but neatly-applied eye makeup under her mask, giving her an appropriately sinister-but-elegant appearance for The Baroness.
• Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: When Lute is shown without her mask, it's revealed she's quite the beauty as a literal angel. However, her self-righteous, bloodthirsty, genocidal attitude towards the denizens of Hell make her more demonic in nature than the literal demons she loves killing.
• Fatal Flaw: Bloodlust. Lute being so eager to kill as many Sinners as possible means she inadvertenly sets the events of the series into motion, and Lute's desire to shed as much blood as she can even shocks Adam into telling Lute to tone it down. If she hadn't mutilated Vaggie and left her for dead for sparing a Sinner child, Charlie would have had a much harder time getting her hotel started in the first place, and they likely never would have found out how to defeat the Exorcists. Her own bloodlust also ends up with Lute getting a decent chunk of her exorcists killed in "The Show Must Go On" which forces Lute to tear off her own arm to escape being trapped under a pile of rubble. She then also has to flee when it's clear that the Sinners have won the fight.
• The Fundamentalist: From Lute's perspective, Heaven (and everyone in it) is good and Hell (and everyone in it) is bad, therefore everything angels do to sinners is justified, and that is an immutable law that will never change. Some of her actions have a heavily religious overtone to them, most notably calling Vaggie "sinful filth" for sparing a child sinner.
• General Ripper: Whereas Adam is a simple hedonistic sociopath who mostly just massacres sinners for fun, she's defined by her deep and sincere hatred for the residents of Hell. When she's forced to talk to demons like Charlie, it's clear that she can barely restrain herself from going for their throats, and seeing one of her Exorcists spare a child during an Extermination causes her to immediately fly into an Unstoppable Rage that ends with Vaggie horribly mutilated and left for dead.
• Greyscale of Evil: She's completely black and white, and very evil.
• Handicapped Badass: Even with deliberately ripping her left arm off, Lute still manages to be a physical threat.
• Holier Than Thou: When Charlie insinuates Heaven is mistaken in believing Sinners deserve annihilation, Lute claims "Angels don't make mistakes," and sides with her boss in boasting about Heaven's superiority over Hell. She’s also visibly angered when Charlie implies that she and Adam are no better than the sinners they hate.
• Hypercompetent Sidekick: Downplayed as Adam is shown to be a dangerous and cunning antagonist on his own. Lute's own brand of cruelty is played much more seriously and she tries to reign in her boss from breaking heaven's rules. Tellingly, during their first meeting, Adam rambles on about a variety of irrelevant topics to Charlie whilst Lute cuts straight to the point and states that sinners are irredeemable. In Heaven she warns Adam against fighting Vaggie in public because the annual Extermination is secret, something she constantly has to remind him about.
• Hypocrite:
  • She claims that "Angels don't make mistakes", and yet they ascended the walking embodiment of chauvinism (Adam) as the first "Winner", simply because Lilith rightfully set her own boundaries and didn't want to blindly obey a dickhead.
  • She also mutilated Vaggie and left her for dead in Hell because she spared a demon child, which would technically count as a mistake in her eyes.
  • She calls Charlie's argument that sinners can learn to be better "petty", despite her own petty action of mocking Charlie during their first meeting, not to mention the above fact.
• It's Personal with the Dragon: Lute manages to be even more personal to the main characters than Adam since she was the one who mutilated Vaggie for sparing a child completely of her own volition, and later kills Dazzle. She also said some really mean things about Angel Dust during the trial.
• Jerkass: Lute is cold, contemptuous and self-righteous, believing wholeheartedly in the infallibility of angels and the wickedness of demons. While Adam constantly spots juvenile and vulgar insults towards his victims like a psychotic fratbro, Lute normally remains silent only to let out far more personal and vitriolic insults that reveal the full extent of the seething hatred she harbors towards everyone she perceives as sinful.
• Karma Houdini Warranty: She's been participating and enjoying the exterminations for potentially millenia, and three years ago mutilated Vaggie for sparing a child sinner. At the end of season 1 she's trapped under rubble and removes her own arm, and loses her commander and closest friend.
• Kick the Dog: Pretty much all of her actions easily fit into this trope, but three things (one to each of the main characters) stand out in particular:
  • She gives Charlie an extremely cruel "The Reason You Suck" Speech, and ends it by telling Charlie point-blank that she and her family have no real importance to anyone in Heaven.
  • It is also revealed that she brutally slashed Vaggie's eye out, ripped her wings off and left her to bleed to death in Hell, thus rendering Vaggie a Fallen Angel and even claiming "filth like [her] has no place in Heaven", all because she spared a demon child during her days as an Exorcist.
  • During Charlie's time in Heaven's court, Lute also humiliates and mocks Angel Dust in front of all of Heaven by calling him a crack-whore, and that he "blew his shot [for redemption] like the cocks in his mouth", despite the fact that he clearly demonstrated the potential to change for the better.
• Knight Templar: She has a zealous hatred for sinners, and believes their execution is just and righteous.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Downplayed. She was the one who attacked Vaggie and crippled her before leaving her for dead in Hell in the past. During their showdown in the Season 1 finale, Vaggie returns the favor by beating her and intending to let her live as a Cruel Mercy, but then Lute cripples herself in sheer fury and determination to keep fighting.
• A Lizard Named "Liz": Her name is Lute, and she's Adam's chief Lieutenant. Averted after "The Show Must Go On", when she becomes a Dragon Ascendant.
• Mad Eye: Invoked. Her unique Exorcist mask gives her one wide, round eye and one narrow, slitted one, which combines with the standard Slasher Smile to make her look even more intimidatingly deranged than her subordinates. Meanwhile, she herself tends to be The Stoic, with her real face showing little evidence of the bottomless rage that appears to fuel her.
• Meaningful Name: The name "Lute" is meaningful in more ways than one, not only is allude to her role as the "lieutenant", but it's also the name of an ancient string instrument.
• Mook Lieutenant: She's Adam's top lieutenant in the Exorcists.
• Moral Myopia:
  • Lute is completely unsympathetic to the mass slaughter of sinners and considers it justified. But when the Heaven drone discovers the body of a decapitated Exorcist in Hell, Lute is furious and demands the angels return to Hell right this instant to kill everyone there in retaliation. Even more egregious since "Scrambled Eggs" reveals the Exorcist was killed by Carmilla to protect her daughters, making this a kill in self-defense and thus about a hundred times more justifiable than the frequent exterminations.
  • "Welcome to Heaven" reveals Lute has a firm With Us or Against Us mentality, as she isn’t above killing Exorcists who sympathize or show mercy during Exterminations either, as shown by what she did to Vaggie for sparing a demon child. And this despite her aforementioned murderous rage at a demon managing to kill an Exorcist when she implicitly hoped that some Sinner would finish Vaggie off if she survived her wounds.
• More Deadly Than the Male: While it's unknown what Adam's body count is, he's a Laughably Evil goofball while Lute is calm and stoic while she states how many demons she killed and is covered in blood. She also suggests sending an army of angels to wipe out all sinners immediately in retaliation for the death of a single Exorcist, while Adam wants to wait. She's also the one who mutilated Vaggie seemingly on her own accord, and her stating she wants to rip her "cunt mouth out of her ass" disturbs even Adam. By the end of Season 1, this becomes more literal, as she manages to actually kill some of Charlie's forces, including Dazzle, while Adam fails to kill a single character of note, with even his one thought kill in Sir Pentious resulting in his ascension. Adam's death in turn results in her becoming the new leader of the Exorcists and deciding to go for the throat by conscripting Lilith into helping her.
• More Despicable Minion: Exaggerated. She manages to be this to the already despicable Adam. While both are sadistic butchers and generally unpleasant, Adam at the least is Laughably Evil, a Psychopathic Manchild and capable of being Faux Affably Evil in terms of personality, and his death is rather pitiful. Lute by comparison has few comedic traits, is unquestionably blood thirsty to the point even Adam is telling her to chill, is the one responsible for mutilating Vaggie when she was still an Exorcist, and is so zealous and unhinged she's willing to rip her own arm off to escape being trapped before pouncing on Vaggie like a wild animal. While she earns some pity from her reaction to Adam's death, it's made clear that this has just emboldened her into wanting to see the Hazbin Hotel, more specifically Charlie, dead at her feet.
• Narcissist: She's a self-righteous jackass who (besides Adam) believes herself to be too good for other people.
• Not So Above It All:
  • Even though Lute is more well-put together than her boss Adam in just about every way, that doesn't mean she's above the standard angel Holier Than Thou attitude or Adam's bullying and pettiness toward Hell and everyone in it. She dismisses redemption right out the gate and callously talks down to Charlie, then gleefully jams along to Adam's Villain Song after.
  • In "The Show Must Go On" she's even more vulgar and amped up than Adam when hyping up the Exorcists before the Extermination, to the point where her boss has to tell her to tone it down.
• Not So Stoic:
  • During Charlie's hearing with Sera, when she gets riled up enough her stoicism cracks and she starts engaging in the swearing and vulgarity more typical of her boss.
    What are we even talking about?!
    Some CRACKWHORE who fucked up already?!
    He blew his shot like the cocks in his mouth!
    This discussion is senseless and petty!
  • In the final episode of Season 1, when Vaggie defeats and spares her, Lute flies into a berserk rage and rips off her own arm to continue the fight.
  • When Adam dies, she completely drops her stoic demeanor, letting out a devastating scream.
• Number Two: To Adam. She's the only angel who's frequently by his side and seems to have a leading role among the Exorcists.
• Odd Friendship. With Adam. He is selfish, bratty, deeply misogynistic, and lacks empathy for just about anyone or anything that isn't himself. Somehow, he manages to get along with her so well that it's shown they have a deep connection to one another, either platonically or romantically is unclear.
• Only a Flesh Wound: In "The Show Must Go On", despite tearing off her own trapped arm , Lute isn't incapacitated by the pain or possible blood loss, and arguably does even better fighting Vaggie than when she still had it. While it's true she's running on sheer determination, rage, and bloodlust to make up for it, she's still moving about without any real difficulties when all of that fades into horror and sadness at Adam's death.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: While Lute is not as blatantly bigoted as her openly misogynistic boss and it's implied that even she is not too amused when Adam calls her demeaning names, she still manages to have her own form of intolerance.
  • On top of her evangelistic "scorched Earth" policy when it comes to demons, she also regards Charlie and Vaggie's relationship as "vile and blasphemous", though whether it's because they're both women or because she's an angel dating Lucifer's daughter (a demon) specifically isn't made clear. In either case, she'd be discriminating against Charlie and Vaggie's relationship based on gender or species, making her a Politically Incorrect Villain either way.
  • Her attitude towards Angel Dust during the trial also has shades of this, writing him off as a "crackwhore" and making a petty dig about the "cocks in his mouth", which is at best a horrible attitude towards drug addicts and sex workers (made even worse by the fact Angel's largely been forced into sex work by Valentino), but also reeks of homophobia.
• Punny Name: "Lute", being Adam's lieutenant.
• Rank Scales with Asskicking: She's the highest-ranking of Adam's Exorcists and their top fighter. Given his simple, brutal approach to warfare, this is probably because Asskicking Leads to Leadership, but we don't know for certain.
• Say My Name: She screams Adam's name in anguish as she's yelling at him to stay with her while he's dying.
• Ship Tease: With Adam, albeit in a mutually corrupt and violent fashion.
• Shipping Torpedo: Unlike Adam's genuine Pet the Dog, albeit still twisted, congrats to Vaggie romancing Charlie, Lute is the opposite. She disgustingly refers to the couple's love as "vile and blasphemous", and takes gleeful pleasure any moment she can cause said couple emotional turmoil.
• The Sociopath: She's unempathetic towards the suffering of those she goes after, immensely violent, a self-righteous narcissist, and a sadist.
• Supernatural Golden Eyes: Of a different variant than Adam's. Lute has golden irises, the color of Angelic blood, which stand out in her otherwise monochromatic color scheme.
• Toxic Friend Influence: Considering that she's as bloodthirsty, cruel and sadistic as Adam, she mostly supports some of his worst traits, instead of calling him out.
• Uniformity Exception: She looks identical to the average exorcist for the most part but has a circle with an X over it instead of an X for her right eye and a black halo instead of white to distinguish her from the others.
• Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey: Inverted with her boss Adam. He's a Laughably Evil meathead while she's a cold No-Nonsense Nemesis and Straight Man.
• Villainous Friendship: Despite having polar opposite demeanors, she and Adam seem to get along really well, with him vocally praising her kill counts (with a congratulatory fist bump) and her gleefully playing along with his Villain Song (which also involves a fist bump). When Adam dies, she starts freaking out, shedding tears and cradling his body.
• White Hair, Black Heart: Outside of her mask her hair is white, just like Vaggie's, and she's a dangerous cruel Angel. Her white hair even provides a contrast with her black halo.
• With Us or Against Us: Her reaction to seeing Vaggie sparing a demon child during an Extermination was to call her fellow-Exorcist a disgrace, cut out her eye, rip off her wings and leave her for dead in Hell.
• Would Hurt a Child: The reason Lute mutilated her fellow Exorcist Vaggie and left her for dead in Hell is because her comrade refused to murder a demon child.
• You Are Too Late: At the end of season 1, she orders Lilith to return to Hell to stop Charlie's plans. However, it's already been revealed that due to Sir Pentious managing to ascend to Heaven, Charlie has, unbeknownst to her, already succeeded.

The Fallen One (Spoilers Unmarked)

The Dead Exorcist

"If these holy rollers can be killed, the game has changed."

Voiced by: None

An Exorcist who made the mistake of targeting Carmilla’s daughters during the most recent Extermination and got her head kicked off by the Overlord’s angelic steel boot. Her death spurs Adam into moving the date of the next Extermination six months forward, but also serves as proof that it’s possible for a demon to kill an angel.

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• Accidental Murder: Carmilla wasn’t even trying to kill her, and was just trying to Hold the Line to buy her daughters time to get to safety. She was as shocked as anyone else when her boot separated the angel’s head from the rest of her body.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: When she encounters a demon who actually dares to fight back against her, she dies in seconds.
• Deader than Dead: It's unknown whether Exorcists are a type of "Winner" Angel formed from a human soul, who would share the Sinner's trait of regenerating from almost any harm, but even if they are, death by Angelic weaponry results in permanent death.
• Dead Guy on Display: Velvette throws her decapitated head onto the conference table of the Overlords during a meeting, as evidence that angels can be killed and to propose the idea of waging war against Heaven.
• Karmic Death: She underestimated the strength of Carmilla's love for her daughters, and died when the Overlord went against her to protect them.
• No Name Given: Her name is never mentioned, not even by Adam and Lute who were her superiors and are moving up the next extermination because of her death.
• Not So Invincible After All: For thousands of years, Hell never fought back against the exterminations because they believed the Exorcists were unkillable. This angel is the first to die during an extermination, ever.
• Off with His Head!: Carmilla kicked her head off with the toe of her angelic steel boot.
• Oh, Crap!: Her mask changes from a Slasher Smile to a worried frown when she sees Carmilla flying at her, pointy-toed boot first, aimed at her neck. It’s the last expression she ever makes.
• Plot-Triggering Death: This decapitated exorcist is the reason why Adam moved up the extermination, causing the biggest problem for our heroes.
• Posthumous Character: She is never seen alive, aside from flashbacks.
• Silent Antagonist: She does not say a single word during her short fight with Carmilla.
• Small Role, Big Impact: We know almost nothing about this particular Exorcist, but it’s because of her death during an Extermination that Adam decides to move up the next one, making Charlie more desperate to make her plan of redeeming sinners work in time. Her cause of death also gives Hell two important bits of knowledge: that angels can be killed, and that angelic steel is needed to kill them.
• Walking Spoiler: It's impossible to talk about this character without revealing a lot about the plot, the setting, and how it ties into the overall narrative. The fact that she's killed means that other angels can also be killed, which means Hell can fight back.
• Wham Shot: In "Overture", we are led to believe that Adam is moving up the date of the next extermination simply because he hates demons and is being a Jerkass...until a golden drone drops down a tractor beam to pick up this Exorcist's headless corpse.
  Lute: We found the body, sir. They've never managed to kill one of us before. We should just go down there now and destroy them!
  Adam: No, no. We can't risk them catching on. But don't worry—when we come back, there won't be a demon left alive to pull a stunt like this again!
• What Measure Is a Mook?: Although Adam uses this angel’s death as an excuse to move up the next Extermination, he doesn't seem to have cared much for her personally, as he never expresses anything close to grief over her death or even mentions her name. Even her Exorcist sisters don’t appear to notice her absence or be particularly interested in avenging her.
• Winged Humanoid: Like all Exorcists, she had a pair of feathered angel wings.

The Abandoned One (Unmarked Spoilers!)

Vaggie

A once ruthless and formidable Exorcist angel and one of Adam's top members. She was mutilated and cast out of Heaven by Lute and Adam after sparing a demon child.

For tropes about Vaggie, see her folder here

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Heaven's residents (aka Winners)

Molly

Angel Dust's sister and a resident of Heaven.

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• All There in the Manual: There's no indication within the show itself beyond aesthetic similarities in their design that Molly is Angel's sister since she only appears in cameo and doesn't directly speak with Charlie.
• Barefoot Cartoon Animal: She doesn't seem to be wearing any footwear on her four feet, leaving her claws exposed.
• Beauty Equals Goodness: She is apart of St. Peter's "Everyone in Heaven is Hot" lineup.
• Cute Monster Girl: Like her brother, her design resembles a humanoid spider, but she's fluffy and adorable with big expressive eyes.
• Early-Bird Cameo: Her only appearances in Season 1 are in a handful of ensemble shots in "Welcome to Heaven".
• Family Theme Naming: Molly and angel dust are both nicknames for street drugs.
• Good Counterpart: While her design is very similar to Angel's (an arachnid motif with a color palette consisting primarily of shades of pink), she overall looks softer and cuter.
• Meaningful Name: "Molly" is a slang term for the drug ecstasy, which is fitting for a character whose brother is nicknamed "Angel Dust", itself a slang term for PCP.
• Ms. Fanservice: Downplayed, but she is apart of the hot Heaven citizens lineup in "Welcome to Heaven" and the twin sister of the equally attractive porn star Angel Dust. Not to mention her dress shows off her really nice spider legs.
• Spider People: Just like her brother, she's part spider, but unlike Angel Dust, she has extra legs while still having a humanoid frame.
• Tamer and Chaster: In Viv's old art, Molly had a Cleavage Window. In the show proper, she covers everything up.

The Newcomer (Unmarked Spoilers!)

Sir Pentious

"Where, where am I?"

A former sinner demon who took the form of a snake, this brilliant but bumbling Victorian inventor managed to ascend into Heaven after a Heroic Sacrifice.

For tropes about Pentious, see his folder here.

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Other

Saint Peter

Saint Peter

Welcome to Heaven!

Voiced by: Darren Criss ^{Foreign VAs}Alex Polidori (Italian)

The gatekeeper of Heaven.

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• Adaptation Dye-Job: He is often depicted in art and other media as being a brunette whenever he's shown in his younger years. Here, Peter has blonde hair.
• Age Lift: Most art and media depictions of Saint Peter show him as an old man, whereas this series portrays him as being significantly younger.
• Ambiguously Bi: During "Welcome to Heaven", Peter says that "Everyone is hot" in heaven, while being surrounded by gorgeous women and hunks. Whether this is a sign of him being attracted to both guys and gals or simply appreciating their beauty isn't made clear but his near-orgasmic sounding delivery of the line implies the former. The fact that his characterization is a bit on the Camp side does not help.
• Nice Guy: Politely greets new arrivals and tries to maintain his manners when he realizes the devil's daughter is in front of him. It goes with the territory, given that Peter is not only a Winner who has been granted acceptance into heaven due to living a virtuous life as a human.
• The Noseless: He's one of the most human-looking of the angels in the show, but notably lacks a nose.
• Precision F-Strike: When Charlie reveals she's Lucifer's daughter, Peter lets out an "Oh, fuck!"
• Race Lift: Maybe. On one hand, he's a middle-eastern man in the Bible yet appears to be Caucasian here, but on the other, he lacks both a nose and the other human-like 'Winner' angels are depicted in various colors, so it may be a case of Amazing Technicolor Population.
• Tired After the Song: Peter is seen breathing heavily at the closing of "Welcome to Heaven", even whilst posing with Emily and the other Winners.

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