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Hell and Demons in general
- Alien Blood: The colour of blood varies from demon to demon.
- Demons who were sinners in life have a wide range of blood colours, like pink for Angel Dust.
- Imps and other natural demons are shown to have black blood in Helluva Boss.
- Always Chaotic Evil: Downplayed. Sinner demons don’t turn more evil once they end up in Hell, but due to the fact the overwhelming majority among them are there because they were terrible people in life, it's largely a self-reinforcing pit of misery, and even the demons who want to be redeemed note that they feel they're in too deep to be successfully redeemed (like Angel Dust). Hell only encourages their worst character traits as a result, with demonkind commonly regarding virtue as a weakness, leading to the demons that aren't evil or just straight-up jerks being counted down on one hand (Charlie, Vaggie, Mrs. Mayberry and Beelzebub). Also Deconstructed - the prologue implies that Heaven views them this way because they dared to go against God's plan, with the continuous oppression resulting in a case of Then Let Me Be Evil. This is made worse by the fact that, as revealed in “Welcome in Heaven”, the system determining whether a soul goes to Heaven or Hell is completely opaque to everyone, Heaven included, so without being able to actually know what qualifies a soul being able to enter Heaven is like winning a metaphorical lottery. Angels assume that whoever goes in Heaven or Hell must deserve it, regardless of their behavior in their past or afterlife.
- Animalistic Abomination: Many demons have animalistic features, based on their personalities and the nature of their sins. Among others, Angel Dust is a spider, Alastor is a deer, Sir Pentious is a snake, and Husk is a feathered winged cat.
- Asshole Victim: A group-wide example. While some demons avert or downplay this, the vast majority of sinners are in Hell because they legitimately deserve to be there. Things like rapists, murderers, gangsters, con artists, and various other types of horrible people are very common among Hell's population. As such, it is hard to feel bad for a lot of them when they routinely get wiped out by the Exorcists' purges or otherwise killed and harmed by one another.
- Blessed with Suck: Unlike natural born demons, sinners are for the most part immortal and can die without suffering any major consequences (the only way to permanently kill them is with Heaven-forged weapons). On the other hand, sinners can’t have children and can’t leave the Ring of Pride, meaning that whenever the extermination happens, they have no way to escape to the other Hell’s Rings, and are forced to hide and pray Exorcists won’t find them. Their immortal lives are also spent trapped in a perpetual cycle of violence and abuse at the hands of other Sinners, especially if they sold their souls to Overlords, becoming the latter’s source of power, which, according to Husk, is very common. And lastly, but not least, if they are “killed” without an angelic weapon, they simply remanifest in Hell after some time, although it’s said to be a very painful process.
- Card-Carrying Villain: The residents of Hell are almost all damned souls, sent to the Inferno for their actions in life, and they know it, some even taking pride in it. Many openly mock Charlie's hopes that they can become better people and ascend to Heaven, despite the potential consequences of not doing so. And then there’s Sir Pentious, who outright calls himself evil.
- The Chain of Harm: It's never discussed in the pilot episode, but it's essentially confirmed to be the core of Charlie's desire to redeem demonkind. If you somehow weren't a terrible person when sent to Hell, chances are you'll become one due to the toxic cesspit Hell lends itself to being. Charlie's parents genuinely loving her and raising her well, warts and all, are a major factor into her being an exception to the rule, on top of being a native-born demon. In fact, Charlie's desire to have the Hazbin Hotel succeed is her attempt to defy this trope and one other.
- Complete Immortality: Sinner demons, being human souls, can be temporarily injured and mutilated, but cannot be killed by ordinary means and will gradually regenerate from all harm, although it’s extremely painful for them. The only thing that's been shown to be able to actually kill a Sinner is angelic weaponry, which creates a black-market demand for scavenged remnants left over from yearly exterminations.
- Dead to Begin With: Since the show takes place in Hell, the vast majority of characters are deceased humans who have become demons.
- Deal with the Devil: Demons are able to enter magically binding contracts with one another, sealed with a handshake, where either party can sign away their possessions or services up to and including their very soul.
- Death Is Cheap: Sinners cannot die unless by angelic weapons, so killing them under normal circumstances is more of a minor inconvenience. At one point, Valentino dismembers Velvette's best model to which Velvette angrily points out that "the show can't wait for that unlucky bitch to pull herself back together". On the other hand, it’s said to be a painful experience.
- Demon of Human Origin: The majority of demons that appear in Hazbin Hotel are Sinners, human souls damned to Hell.
- Easy Road to Hell: Played with. On the one hand, small things like watching porn and being a screaming baby could land you in Hell. Helluva Boss shows that someone can be a good person their entire life and still go to Hell for committing a single crime. On the other hand, given the overwhelming majority of Hell's population are pretty terrible people, it's implied that it's less you committing the crimes so much as it being a catalyst of existing morality to begin with — and that trigger overwhelmingly defaults to people who were pretty shit in life, one way or another. People like Lyle Lipton shows that Heaven isn't against the idea of taking people who are unpleasant but did no direct wrong by their standards; it's rather the combination of being an asshole on top of actively acting on that assholery that leads to damnation. It's a major reason why the overwhelming majority of demonkind tend to be assholes; if they weren't people who were terrible, they've done something terrible in life to each other. "Welcome to Heaven" reveals that not even Heaven has any clue as to what gets a soul in or not when Adam lists a set of conditions when Charlie puts him on the spot, and Angel Dust fails to get in despite meeting every one of them.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Apparently. The poster for Jeffrey Dahmer's cooking show in the broadcasting room has a sticky note attached to it reading, "Who APPROVED this show?" as if even the denizens of Hell don't want much to do with Dahmer. Vivziepop explained that the sinners in Hell act basically like criminals locked in jail. Most of them still have some standards for morality, and will attack and kill people who have committed incredibly heinous crimes.
- Evil Is Sterile: Played With. According to a Q&A
, sinners who've died and become demons can't have children as an added part of their punishment. Demons who're naturally born in Hell like Charlie and Imps however can have children. - Evil Versus Evil: Hell is frequently engulfed by violent turf wars between territorial crime lords like Sir Pentious and Cherri Bomb, both of whom are villains in their own ways. Considering it's Hell and nearly everyone is a damned sinner, every violent conflict between demons is technically an example of evil vs. evil. These conflicts are apparently commonplace enough for Katie and Tom to report it on the news in the same tone as you would a traffic backup or troublesome weather.
- Fantastic Caste System: Hell has something of an unofficial caste system based on fear and power whose basic structure is detailed here.
- Lucifer is the king of Hell due to the immense power that being a Fallen Seraph gives him, followed closely by his wife Lilith.
- Charlie is below him as she is his heir.
- Below her are Seven Deadly Sins who each rule their own ring of Hell of which Lucifer is also Pride.
- Below them are the Goetic Demons like Stolas who appear to hold many aristocratic positions and own property in all of the Rings of Hell, placing them above the Overlords, whose influence is restricted to the Pride Ring.
- Beneath them are the Overlords, who are Sinner demons that manage to acquire great power and carved out their own territories in the Pride Ring with it.
- Beneath them are the ordinary Sinners, human souls damned to Hell.
- Under them are all the other natural Hellborn demons, specific species of which correspond to specific rings of Hell, such as the succubi, incubi of the Lust Ring. Unlike Sinners, who are all confined to Pride, Hellborn are permitted to freely move between the rings of Hell and intermingle.
- And at the bottom are the imps and hellhounds, a specific subset of Hellborn demons, who seem to lack the power of other demon types and are basically Hell's working class.
- Had to Come to Prison to Be a Crook: An afterlife example, with Hell being the prison in question. While there are many Sinners who are unrepentant jerks at best, or irredeemable monsters at worst, there’s also a “third category” made of damned souls who are actually more reasonable if treated with respect and kindness, and turns out to be good people who are forced to sin due to circumstances beyond their control, or to survive in a society where everything, from other demons to angels, is trying to destroy them. With The Reveal that the rules that judge whether a soul goes to Heaven or Hell are completely unknown even for the higher-up angels, with the latter not even trying to question them nor at least to check them out of fear of becoming fallen angels like Lucifer, there are the ugly implications that many “more innocent souls” that could potentially get eternal salvation are doomed to unjustifiably suffer, or to die permanently during the Exterminations for random reasons nobody even knows.
- Informed Species: Most demons are ostensibly Animalistic Abominations, but most such instances, especially among the major characters, simply resemble humans with demonic features, their Animal Motifs being almost indiscernible if you haven't been directly informed.
- Jerkass Has a Point: After Charlie sings about her plan to redeem sinners in the pilot to all of Hell, they all laugh at her for it since none of them believed she could actually get it to work with how she thought about going through with it. Sure enough, five months of doing her ideas for trying to redeem sinners does nothing at all, making Charlie realize that she needed to change her approach.
- Kryptonite Factor: Sinner Demons are extra resilient. They can be crushed, shot, and beat all the time and it doesn't kill them. The only way Sinners can really die is by being killed by Exorcists or angelic weapons like their spears. This has been harnessed by the demons themselves, who have created a black market out of scavenged angelic weaponry.
- Manchild: Having died as adults doesn't stop many of the sinner demons from acting immature, childish or silly. Angel died at 37 and still acts like a rebellious teenager, while Niffty died at 22 and both looks and acts like a little girl. Even Vox, an Overlord with his own media empire, throws what amounts to a massive temper tantrum when he hears Alastor has returned and draws a stick figure of him surrounded by juvenile insults like "smelly probably", "dumb hair", "gross hoof feet" and "triangle ass".
- Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: The main form of leadership in the Pride Ring are powerful sinner demons known as Overlords, who rank in the middle of Hell’s hierarchy. The Ars Goetia and the Seven Deadly Sins exceed them in strength, and above them are Lucifer and his family. They don't tend to involve themselves much with the politics of sinner demons, though.
- Obviously Evil: Most of the residents of Hell are visibly demonic, and most of them engage in — indeed, revel in — sinful evil behavior. Hell itself is full of gambling shacks, porn studios, and places that sell hard drugs. Sir Pentious even outright cackles about how evil he is.
- Older Than They Look: Many of the demons died decades or even centuries ago, but look as young as they were in life. Hellborn demons have longer lifespans than humans and also mature more slowly.
- One-Winged Angel: Many demons have shown the ability to turn into a more monstrous and powerful version of themselves; Angel Dust is able to sprout more arms in combat, and Katie Killjoy shapeshifts into a multi-armed, insectoid shape when she fights with Charlie. Both Charlie and Alastor also show their more monstrous shapes in brief glimpses.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: When sinners arrive in Hell, they make up their own Demon names. Rarely are they addressed by their original names.
- Our Demons Are Different: At its most basic, there are two types of demons: Sinners and Hellborn. Sinners are deceased humans who have turned into demons, and show the most variety in their individual appearances. Their demon-form is determined by their personality, the type of sin they committed and the way they died. Hellborn demons can be divided up into the native species of Hell's rings, aristocratic families, the Seven Deadly Sin demons, and at last, Lucifer's family.
- Scary Teeth: Most demons are drawn with mouths full of razor-sharp chompers, which make for great Slasher Smiles.
- Self-Inflicted Hell: There don't appear to be any torture chambers or direct punishments in this version of Hell. Instead, it's a place where you can indulge in all your vices (drinking, drugs, gambling, sex, violence, etc.) to your heart's content, the implication being that continuing to do this is what keeps you in Hell. There's also the matter of being constantly surrounded by terrible people in a place that encourages and rewards all their worst traits. It makes it extremely hard to be a decent person yourself if you don't want to be victimized or killed.
- Slasher Smile: Practically every demon is seen sporting this expression at one point or another. Even Charlie, the nicest person in Hell, flashes one in her more demonic form.
- Too Dumb to Live: The sinner demons in the pilot episode that try to slash Charlie with hatchets, in spite of knowing she's the daughter of Lucifer. They are incredibly lucky that Charlie doesn't like hurting others nor that Lucifer was around to see it.
- Undeathly Pallor: Many sinner demons have ashy grey skin, including Alastor, Mimzy, Carmilla, and the residents of Cannibal Town.
The Royal Family
The top echelon of Hell's caste system and its most powerful members. The Royal Family in general
- 0% Approval Rating: Played with.
- Despite being the top echelon of Hell's hierarchy, their titles and official position as royalty get very little actual respect from Sinners due to Sinners in general being mostly irreverent jerks at best and power-hungry maniacs at worst. If anything, the Overlords get far more respect from Sinners due to their greater presence in everyday life, providing many resources and entertainment like social media, the internet, TV, porn, and weaponry, while the Royal Family have a comparatively more "hands-off" approach when it comes to ruling Hell. However, while their titles in and of themselves don't inspire respect, the fact that the royal family are easily the strongest beings in Hell does, so demons will show deference to Lucifer and Lilith anyway out of fear.
- The exception to the above is Charlie, who's too nice to throw her weight around and thus gets disrespected without fear. Even then, while the vast majority of Sinners don't respect or fear her, savvy demons still recognize Charlie has a lot of latent power and that it's best not to wake the sleeping giant. Making it more of a case-to-case basis as to who will show deference to her.
- Rosie treats Charlie with the utmost respect and acknowledges to Alastor that "like her daddy, she is madly powerful", and that anyone who "stick[s] with her, [they'll] be on the winning side."
- Similarly, Vox realizes that any Overlord that works with Charlie now has a powerful ally, and treats the idea of Alastor making any kind of deal with her with a lot of concern and trepidation.
- Alastor similarly laughs at Charlie's naiveté and thinks her goal of redeeming sinners is ridiculous and believes they had their chance and wasted it. But even he's smart enough to keep his torment of her to simple teasing and trolling and not outright threats like he does with Husk in "Dad Beat Dad", as he very much knows Charlie could end him in a snap if she's truly angered.
- Even Valentino, whose initial reaction to Angel Dust moving into the Hotel was to go in guns blazing to get him back, realizes that he can't directly fight Charlie once he has a cooler frame of mind. He has to resort to abusing and gaslighting Angel Dust in private in order to get Charlie out of his studio after she accidentally starts a fire there.
- Carmilla Carmine is completely indifferent to Charlie's title, as demonstrated when Vaggie attempted to use Charlie's status to get Carmilla to aid the Hotel against Adam's attack. She only began to budge once Vaggie pointed out that this time, the Exorcists won't stop until they eventually reach and kill the rest of Hell. Even then, Carmilla only agreed to aid Charlie's defense efforts after Vaggie won her respect through a sparring match and only provided weapons, not manpower.
- There's also the fact that the Royal Family does seem to garner respect from the Goetia aristocracy and the other Seven Deadly Sins. Really, the only people in Hell that don't respect them are the Sinners and the Hellborn demons too low in the social hierarchy to ever interact with them.
- Everyone Loves Blondes: All three family members sport blonde hair and are considered very attractive in their own ways.
- Lucifer's charm and Pretty Boy looks got Lilith to fall in love with him. He even implies or jokes in the Season 1 finale that Eve considered him to be attractive. Mimzy and Niffty are instantly attracted to him too.
- Lilith is the first women ever created and is also one of the most beautiful women in the series with a voluptuous body and long feminine hair.
- Charlie is very cute and pretty. So much so that that Adam refers to her as "Lilith's little hottie". Valentino even creepily calls attention to her "pretty blond head".
- Powerful People Are Subs: Intentionally zig-zagged as according to
Vivienne Medrano, Lucifer and Lilith periodically swapped which of them was dominant to be truly equal. - Rank Scales with Asskicking: They are the highest members of Hell's caste system due to being its rulers and are also its' the most powerful beings. Showcased in the Season 1 finale where both Lucifer and Charlie are the only ones who are able to truly challenge Adam, the latter of whom managed to beat the already powerful Alastor.
Lucifer Morningstar
Lucifer Morningstar
"♪ My daughter wants to see me! ♪ Take that, depression!"
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"You don't take shit from other demons!"Click here to see his Full Demon form
"Don't forget, you're in my house, bitch!"Voiced by: Jeremy Jordan Foreign VAs
A demon in a stylish white and red suit, reminiscent of a circus ringmaster, Lucifer is the ruler of Hell and Charlie's father. He's also the leader of the Seven Deadly Sins, the powerful demons who each preside over their own ring of Hell. Lucifer's personal domain being the Pride Ring, the place where all sinners end up.
- Action Dad: In the Season 1 finale, he finally shows how powerful he really is by beating the ever-loving hell out of Adam for daring to hurt his precious daughter and even transforms into his One-Winged Angel form to beat him up again.
- Adaptational Heroism: In The Bible, Lucifer was a once good angel who rebelled against God and Heaven due to his arrogance and pride and after falling became a malevolent Manipulative Bastard who tempted Adam and Eve into eating the fruit of knowledge and then continued to tempt their descendants into performing evil deeds. Here, Lucifer's backstory frames him as a "rebellious dreamer" who simply wanted to share the gift of free will with humanity, only for it to go horribly awry, and whose views were shunned not because he was an arrogant traitor, but because Heaven's elders viewed any form of free will and independence as "wrong". Even after being banished from Heaven, he is not portrayed as a malicious Manipulative Bastard, but instead just a depressed ruler. To be perfectly fair, this could just be how Lucifer and/or Lilith tells the story, but it lines up with other things shown throughout the series, including Lucifer's own characterization as a Nice Guy Bumbling Dad.
- Affably Evil: He is the king of Hell and rules his subjects through fear and power, but once you get to know him, he’s a mostly polite, friendly, and dorky dad who loves his daughter and wants to do his best to win her approval. If the Yelp reviews he shows Charlie are legitimate, Lucifer also holds up his end of the bargain in every Deal with the Devil, the costs notwithstanding.
- All of the Other Reindeer: Even before he fell, Lucifer was considered a troublemaker by the Order of Heaven because his creative thinking that went against their rules for the holy place. In present, while Lucifer still has some pull in Heaven to help out Charlie, he's remembered as a cautionary tale among other angels not to disobey the strict guidelines of Heaven.
- All-Powerful Bystander: He's a fallen seraphim of a comparable rank to Sera and Emily and depending on how closely he hues to the biblical story, is the most powerful of all the angels. This makes him arguably the most powerful being in the series, who is more than a match for your average Exorcist or Adam. However, a combination of the deal he struck with Heaven to protect (relatively) innocent hellborn demons and his own crushing depression after millennia of being exposed only to the dark side of humanity means he's deeply unwilling to step in to interfere with Heaven's actions and actively discourages Charlie from even trying. He gets involved directly in the season one finale after Adam threatens Charlie, and he absolutely pummels him.
- Always a Bigger Fish: Lucifer, as a former seraphim angel, is the BIGGEST fish in Hell, overshadowing even the previously untouchable Alastor, who can only annoy Lucifer rather than bully him the way he can with most of Hell's denizens. When the two start trading barbs, Alastor drops his usual classy tone and opts for a "Fuck you" while Lucifer sneers at him, making him the only character so far to get the last word when talking to Alastor. Lucifer calls himself the "chef" while derisively referring to Alastor as a mere "busboy" to emphasize the gulf in power between them in "Hell's Greatest Dad". While still being a part of the Seven Deadly Sins as the sin of Pride, he outranks even them in terms of power. He finally gets to show off just how powerful he is compared to everyone else, Alastor included, when he arrives at the final battle of season one and curb stomps Adam.
- Angelic Beauty: Lucifer is the Fallen Angel, specifically a Seraphim, and is a Pretty Boy Chick Magnet. He also has a doll motif in his design to reflect his beauty.
- Animal Motifs: Alongside an apple motif, he has two animal motifs:
- Ducks, (and waterfowl in general) are some of Lucifer's main motifs. He makes rubber ducks as a hobby, a rubber duck acts as his caller ID on Charlie's phone and it's even implied his true form is swan-like (tying into the fact that when we first meet Sera and Emily they look more like birds). While it is a bit hard to notice due to his top hat, he sports a ducktail haircut. This also makes him an allusion to The Ugly Duckling, as someone who was cast out from his fellow angels for being different, though in Lucifer's case it's less about appearances and more about having revolutionary ideas with unforeseen consequences. He even turns into a bird at one point when fighting Adam.
- He also has snakes as a major motif, which makes sense considering the part he played in the Fall of Man. He is briefly shown in the form of a snake when he appears in the Storybook Opening and his hat has a snake coiling around an apple on it. The snake also resembles a worm, to represent the concept of a Worm in an Apple. During his battle against Adam, he briefly turns into a snake a couple of times.
- Ducks, (and waterfowl in general) are some of Lucifer's main motifs. He makes rubber ducks as a hobby, a rubber duck acts as his caller ID on Charlie's phone and it's even implied his true form is swan-like (tying into the fact that when we first meet Sera and Emily they look more like birds). While it is a bit hard to notice due to his top hat, he sports a ducktail haircut
- Aristocrats Are Evil: In a stream by Faustisse, they state that there is no public healthcare in Hell because Lucifer doesn't care about his subjects. It's revealed in the show that he used to care, but has since come to believe that Sinners deserve what they bring upon themselves.
- Asskicking Leads to Leadership: Lucifer is the most powerful being in all of hell (and the majority of heavenly creatures) and commands them through his power.
- Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: His coat flares out at the shoulders and the bottom, and has two red dots at the back. When seen from behind, it looks like an apple core.
- Badass Boast: Multiple times in "The Show Must Go On," when he shows up to fight Adam.
- His first one doesn't have quite the impact it was supposed to:Adam: Okay, seriously? How many of you freaks do I have to fight?!
Lucifer: Oh, I'm the only one that matters. See, you messed with my daughter, and now, I am going to FUCK you!
(everyone stops fighting, causing Stunned Silence for a few seconds) - His next one packs a bigger punch.Lucifer: (after sending Adam smashing into the ground from the air) YOU COME AT ME, AND MY DAUGHTER! DON'T FORGET— (punching him in the face with flaming fists) —YOU'RE IN MY HOUSE, BITCH!
- His first one doesn't have quite the impact it was supposed to:
- Badass in a Nice Suit: Lucifer is a total badass who wears a sharp white suit.
- Beware the Nice Ones: He's a kind, polite goofball, but he can afford to be as he's more powerful than almost anyone else in the cast, even the Overlords. Adam beats everyone who fights him no matter how powerful they are, but Lucifer is able to one-shot him with ease once he's done toying with him.
- Beware the Silly Ones: Lucifer slightly surpasses Charlie when it comes to his silliness and energy. Despite this, he is the literal King of Hell, so he has a lot of power, more so than Overlords such as Alastor and threatening Charlie is a very good way to get yourself erased. Unlike Charlie he has no problem fully unleashing his power and beating the tar out of people.
- Big Good: In the past, Lucifer attempted to be this and it ended poorly. With some cajoling from Charlie, however, he puts his full support behind the Hotel, becoming this again and being much more suitable in the role than Alastor, as he genuinely wants his daughter to succeed, despite himself. When the Extermination begins, it's him who ends it with a Big Damn Heroes moment by defeating Adam, and he aids the main cast in rebuilding the Hotel.
- Big Damn Heroes: In the season one finale Lucifer flies in and punches Adam in the face right as Adam is about to kill Charlie. Lucifer then delivers a Curb-Stomp Battle to him.
- Big Red Devil: Much less so than his daughter, fitting his Fallen Angel motif, but in his most monstrous form Lucifer displays both the tail and horns his daughter shares, with red as a secondary color—fitting for someone who's still the king of hell.
- Blood Knight: He very clearly enjoys fighting, having the time of his life during his fight with Adam and flashing a truly horrific Slasher Smile while brutally beating him to a pulp. Considering that he's the literal King of Hell, this isn't really surprising.
- Blush Sticker: Charlie has inherited hers from her dad.
- Broken Ace: He is the King of Hell, the most powerful being in that world; and prior to his fall, he was a widely regarded Seraphim angel. He's also a brilliant inventor, successful businessman, and a handsome Chick Magnet. However, his once idealistic view of humanity was crushed when he was cast out of heaven and forced to see the dark side of the species he had once adored; he also has some major issues with how Heaven exiled him simply for not following their wishes. Then there's his "split" with his wife, Lilith, his estranged relationship with Charlie, and his battle with depression. When we finally meet him, he's withdrawn and keeping himself together through the creation of bizarre toy ducks.
- Broken Bird: If the Storybook Opening of "Overture" is to be believed, Lucifer was a Wide-Eyed Idealist like Charlie who was seen as an upstart by his elders. Him tempting Eve with the fruit of Forbidden Knowledge was framed as him giving her free will. It was being banished to Hell and being forced to only endure humanity at their worst (the sinners) that made him so cynical and contemptuous of his own subjects. It takes Charlie's own idealism to get him to give things a chance again.
- Broken Pedestal: To Charlie, at least for a few years. Part of why he and Charlie don't see eye-to-eye about the Hotel is because she's mostly informed of the 'how' and 'why' of his slump, but still trying to fix Heaven and Hell like it's not something Lucifer wasted his time on for millennia already. It's not as though he feels any resentment for her over such optimistic notions; far from it. He just feels that whoever she tries to help isn't worthy of her efforts and doesn't want her to get hurt when pointlessly offering charity to lowlives. His realization that, as his daughter, she has the strength he doesn't and can succeed where he failed is what makes him turn around and become her most loyal supporter.
- Bumbling Dad: Lucifer's first meeting with the Hotel's crew is very awkward, as he hasn't been following what Charlie is doing up until then and at first can't trust that they can keep her happy. Alastor needles Lucifer over the latter's failings as a parent in "Hell's Greatest Dad" while positioning himself as a better dad to Charlie solely to attack Lucifer's insecurities.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Lucifer is silly, hyperactive and kind of a goofball. He is also the most powerful being in Hell by a wide margin and its ruler. He's also a successful and competent businessman.
- Chick Magnet: Lilith, the first woman and Adam's first wife, left the latter to be with Lucifer. Niffty attempts to creepily flirt with him when they first meet, and Mimzy's first view of him covers him in sparkles like a shoujo manga. And it's implied in the season one finale that he may have seduced Eve, Adam's second wife.
- Classy Cane: He has a cane that's essentially a pike with an apple on top.
- Composite Character: His role as being a fallen angel who is Lilith's lover makes him one of Samael.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: After he appears in the season one finale, Lucifer makes a complete fool out of Adam, not taking the Original Man seriously at all as he runs circles around him while teasing him about cucking him twice. When he attempts to hit Charlie right in front of him, however, Lucifer stops playing around and absolutely pummels Adam senseless, leaving him a bloody pulp that would have been a smoking ash heap if Charlie didn't convinced him that Adam had enough.
- Cuteness Proximity: His first order of business after giving his daughter a hug is petting KeeKee and cooing over Razzle and Dazzle for how much "they haven't grown-up."
- Cynicism Catalyst: Being cast to Hell and stuck there, only ever able to see the evil of sin as a result of his push for free will has done a number on him.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Lucifer was once a respected Serpahim Angel but was often thought of as a troublemaker by the Order of Heaven because of his creative thinking. And when he gave Free Will to mankind, he accidentally unleashed the spread of Evil and the formation of Hell. He, along with Lilith, were cast out and sent to Hell as punishment. And forced to see the bad side of humanity caused Lucifer's love for the species to collapse.
- Deal with the Devil: As the literal Devil, Lucifer references the bargains he's made in the past in "Hell's Greatest Dad", where he offers Charlie his help "with a punch of a pentagram" while citing his apparently glowing reviews on Yelp as proof of his abilities. He's ironically on the receiving end after agreeing with heaven to allow yearly cullings of sinners with the caveat that hellborn demons are safe from attack.
- The Devil Is a Loser: He's the "Big Boss of Hell Himself" but is a depressive slump who coops himself up in his room making ducks with a wife who left him and an estranged relationship with his daughter he's very insecure about. Downplayed in that he still wields great power and influence despite this and isn't portrayed as pathetic so much as jaded and depressed.
- Did They or Didn't They?: While Lucifer definitely married Lilith, his comments in the season one finale seem to imply that he also seduced Eve at some point as well. It is possible he was just talking about the Forbidden Fruit. But then he makes porn music sounds and thrusts his hips, heavily implying it was sexual seduction. Naturally, Adam hates him.
- Divinely Appearing Demons: Even after falling from grace eons ago, Lucifer still looks just as angelic as he did before his fall. He has blonde hair with ivory skin, wears white clothing, and his wings are avian instead of chiropteran.
- Do Not Taunt Cthulhu: Though it's primarily with the help of his subjects, Lucifer being the bigger fish in comparison to Adam after Adam dared to attack his daughter is what leads to Adam eventually dying and Lute taking his place.
- The Dreaded: Downplayed. Lucifer is the Devil with a capital "D" and "the most hated being in all of creation" after being cast out of Heaven. Saint Peter panics and shouts "Oh, fuck!" when he learns that Charlie is Lucifer's daughter. However, the denizens of Hell don't seem to be particularly scared of him, with Alastor even trying to annoy Lucifer repeatedly. Adam also doesn't have a problem picking a fight with Lucifer if he has to, and though that confidence is misplaced as Lucifer thrashes him without even trying, Adam is left more insulted and furious by the beatdown than afraid and continues goading him. Seems justified as Lucifer looks like he has a rather high patience and threshold, he seems to be aware he could easily trounce most people in hell but most of the time he's uninterested in doing so, which is why demons have no problem being openly rude with the comments but still avoiding any real physical confrontation.
- The Evils of Free Will: By present day Lucifer has come to view what Sinners have done with the gift of free will that he gave them with bitter disappointment, feeling that they inevitably disappoint the faith and kindness placed in them.
- Expecting Someone Taller: Given his reputation as the most powerful and baddest demon in Hell, it's understandable that one would think he's a towering, larger-than-life figure. But Lucifer is actually quite short relative to many other demons — he's somewhere around 5'2, in a world where demons being 8'/244cm wouldn't be seen as unusual. He's even shorter than his daughter Charlie, something Alastor gleefully ribs him over when they finally meet face-to-face.Alastor: [while making a pinching motion with his fingers] You are much shorter in real life.
- Fallen Angel: Just like how his namesake in Christian tradition is commonly associated with, he's THE fallen angel. He gave humaity free will, which got him cast out of Heaven and down into Hell.
- Fantasy Counterpart Myth: Unusual in that while Lucifer is an established part of Christianity, his actual backstory resembles that of Prometheus slightly more. Notably, both the Book of Revelation and Paradise Lost depict Lucifer as The Starscream to God whose banishment stemmed from his Ambition driving him to attempt a coup of Heaven. Contrast with Hazbin's Lucifer who, like Prometheus, was imprisoned solely for the crime of secretly giving Forbidden Fruit to humanity out of sincere generosity. Unreliable Narration seems unlikely here; Lucifer has shown zero interest in power for its own sake with a plethora of Humble Goals; the exact opposite of the Multiversal Conqueror you'd expect.
- Fantasy-Forbidding Father: He does not approve of Charlie's attempts to change things in Hell, but only because he's afraid that she will inevitably be disappointed by the faith she has in Sinners, and if she attracts Heaven's attention, they'll crush her the way they did him. The end of "Dad Beat Dad" has him coming around and deciding to support Charlie in her dream of redeeming Sinners.
- Fascinating Eyebrow: During Adam's furious post-defeat Badass Boast about how everyone from Hell should worship him as they "came from these fucking NUTS!!", compared to everyone else's defiant Death Glare, Lucifer, who had already effortlessly beaten Adam to near death, just gives a bemused raised eyebrow at such visceral language.
- Foil:
- To Alastor.
- Both of them are extremely powerful demons of Hell with a vested interest in Charlie's Hazbin Hotel. They dress finely, command respect, and freely bully those who question them. Alastor is a fast-talking Narcissist and a Manipulative Bastard who positions himself as a reliable source of help for Charlie solely to get a kick of watching her and the Sinners she's helping fail. Lucifer is a Bumbling Dad and a Stepford Smiler who is depressed from having his dreams as a Wide-Eyed Idealist blow up in his face eons ago. Alastor calls himself a Parental Substitute for Charlie while caring nothing for her personally solely to get under Lucifer's skin. Meanwhile, Lucifer's love for Charlie is genuine despite not being the best parent to her. He's overflowing with affection for her and is constantly worried about her ideals being crushed like his were, resulting in his initial reluctance to support her.
- Alastor is strongly associated with red and black. His Nightmare Face when showing his full power turns him into an Eldritch Abomination with Combat Tentacles and antlers growing from his head. By contrast, Lucifer's name literally means "lightbringer" and he's associated with white and gold. He can boast about his unparalleled strength in Hell by unfurling his seraphic wings while maintaining a humanoid appearance. Alastor's powers also tend to darken his surroundings, while Lucifer's abilities bathe his surroundings in golden light.
- Lucifer is also this to Sera, as the former and current seraphim of Heaven who have great affection for their daughter/daughter-like figures but have different views of seeing and treating them, and contrasting responses to how their girls call them out for their actions. Lucifer was cast down to Hell for defying the natural order and giving mankind free will, suffering from depression after ruling over the worst of mankind for millennia. But while Lucifer was cast out for his mistakes, Sera knows that divine judgment is a broken and unfair system since no one knows what qualifies one for Heaven but maintains the status quo because she's too much of a moral coward to challenge it. Lucifer spent most of his life distant from his daughter due to his depression and initially attempts to dissuade Charlie from continuing the Hazbin Hotel out of fear of seeing her dreams get crushed like his were by Heaven, but after Charlie laments how he doesn't believe in her while others do, Lucifer was willing to swallow his pride and open up to his daughter about his failings and insecurities, allowing them to understand each other better, see them for who they are, and grow closer to the point where Lucifer begins to fully support her dream and trust her that she can handle herself. Meanwhile Sera appears to be very close with Emily, but has been keeping the exterminations a secret for millennia until Adam mouthed off and left Emily horrified that Sera allowed this, Sera claims that she wanted to keep Heaven safe and spare her the burden of making a difficult choice and was trying to keep Emily from questioning the system of divine judgment out of fear that she'll fall as Lucifer did, but all this did was drive Emily away in disgust and disillusionment by Sera's secrecy, hypocrisy and Lack of Empathy towards sinners, accusing Sera of talking down to her and treating her like a child all this time, thereby ruining their relationship because despite Emily's pleas and reasoning, Sera still wouldn't rectify her actions or fix the system due to her fear of Hell, Heaven's status quo changing, and Emily's judgement.
- Lucifer is also one to Sir Pentious. Both are Endearingly Dorky Sad Clowns who put up a bluster to hide their insecurities from years of failures, however while Sir Pentious is a Beneath Notice Butt-Monkey with the personal will that Lucifer lost, Lucifer is the Broken Ace at the very top of the chain in Hell with all the power and charisma that Pentious yearns for. Pentious is the first person Charlie genuinely wins over to her redemption plan, and has her instant sympathy and reverence even after initially duping her, Lucifer's depression meanwhile has leant to a long-term distant and turbulent relationship with Charlie that he was only recently managed to mend. Both effectively play into Charlie overcoming the Extermination, Lucifer by effortlessly winning, Pentious by pitifully failing. Charlie rebuilds the Hotel both from the support of Lucifer and in memory of Sir Pentious. Both are also thematically associated with snakes, but while Lucifer was an angel cast down from Heaven, Sir Pentious was the first sinner to ascend.
- To Alastor.
- A Form You Are Comfortable With: Similar to the other Seraphim, Lucifer's natural form is implied to be a swan-like creature, based on a hologram he shows a young Charlie. When we see him he strongly resembles Charlie just with much sharper teeth. Like his daughter, he has a true much more demonic form he keeps hidden and only brought out during his fight with Adam.
- Good Parents: Revealed in episode 5 that despite being a little distant, Lucifer deeply loves Charlie and supports her dreams and endeavors. He even has a musical number confirming he loves her more than anything. He also has the common sense to teach his daughter to never take shady deals with other demons.
- Good Wings, Evil Wings: He still has his six wings marking him as a former member of the Seraphim. Unlike the current Seraphim's blue wings, the underside of Lucifer's wings is a deep red as a Fallen Angel whose dreams sent him crashing down to Hell.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Part of the reason why he hates Alastor so much is because he is jealous that Charlie seemingly favors the Radio Demon over him, something the Radio Demon dangles over Lucifer's head.
- Hanlon's Razor: This Lucifer was not actively malevolent in his early years, and only earned his own banishment and caused the fall of humanity through a well-meaning attempt to make things better.
- Happily Married: Pictures in Lucifer's workroom show the family merrily embracing each other and laughing, showing they were all happy in the past. Subverted by the time of the actual show, however, as in episode 5 it's revealed that Lucifer and Lilith have "split" for some reason, and she has been mysteriously absent for seven years, later revealed to be in Heaven.
- Hate at First Sight: He absolutely detests Alastor after only knowing him for about twenty seconds, and the feeling is completely mutual.
- Hated by All: As Adam puts it, he's the most hated being in all creation. Heaven detests him till this day.
- Holy Halo: At the climax of his and Charlie's fight against Adam, the snake and apple on Lucifer's hat wind around the horns he grows in a parody of a halo.
- Holy Hand Grenade: Angels as powerful as Adam showcase the ability to shoot a Kamehame Hadoken powerful enough to level buildings. Lucifer is implied to be capable of the same and then some when he prepares to vaporize Adam for coming after him and Charlie, but Charlie stops Lucifer when it's clear that Adam is beaten already.
- Holy Is Not Safe: It's been mentioned on one of Viv's streams that angels are more powerful than demons and this still applies to him despite being fallen. This is the reason he became king of Hell in the first place.
- Hope Is Scary: Over the course of "Dad Beat Dad", Lucifer confides that he was once a Wide-Eyed Idealist like Charlie was, but trying and failing to redeem the Sinners of Hell for countless years gradually wore him down until he lost his ability to dream of a better tomorrow for them. He retreats into apathy toward Sinners to avoid feeling the crushing disappointment of his dreams falling apart. His attempts to get Charlie to abandon the Hazbin Hotel project are rooted in a misguided desire to save her from the same despair. But seeing how the apple doesn't fall far from the tree and her willingness to head straight to Heaven to argue her case inspires him to hope once again, pulling strings to secure her an audience with the Seraphim.
- Humans Are Bastards: He does not have a high opinion on humans, given that he and Lilith gave them free will only to be banished to Hell and end up surrounded by the very Sinners who used their newfound free will to make the worst possible choices. Millennia of seeing mankind at its worst has completely soured whatever faith he had in humanity and why he doesn't see the point of Charlie's redemption plan.Lucifer: Sinners are violent psychopaths hellbent on causing as much pain and destruction as they can. There's really no point in trying.
- I Control My Minions Through...: Fear. The people of Hell are mostly jerks who show no respect to any forms of authority, even the royal family. Any deference to Lucifer is born out of fear rather than respect. The lack of respect towards him is partly because he's spent most of his time in Hell being a depressed cynic who doesn't really like being around Sinners and therefore doesn't provide them with much nor really take that active a role in the Pride Ring. Compare that to the Overlords, who the Sinners respect a lot more due to them providing much of Pentagram City's services like electricity, social media, porn, and weaponry. In the Season 1 finale, however, Lucifer gains a lot more respect from Sinners after he helps in defeating Adam and the Exorcists' assault in the Hotel; effectively cancelling the Extermination. Helped by the fact that he's stated to have a more active role in defending his people.
- Ironic Hell: Quite literally. Charlie's recounting of the origins of Hell and Lucifer's damnation reveals that Lucifer only wanted to share free will with humanity out of a belief they could do great things with it, even if it went against the orders of Heaven's elders. When this decision also allowed evil to exist on Earth, along with a realm of darkness and sin, Heaven punished Lucifer by condemning him to the dark pit he had created, which would henceforth forever bar him from seeing the good in humanity caused by his choice, only able to witness the cruelty and wickedness henceforth. By the present time, it's evidently done a big enough number on Lucifer that he's "lost his will to dream", which also motivates Charlie to make the hotel succeed.
- Irony: Despite being the personification of pride, one of Lucifer's biggest foibles is his insecurity over being a proper parent to Charlie. He has a minor panic attack when she calls him out of the blue, hurts her feelings when he tells her that he doesn't think the Hazbin Hotel will succeed, and is crestfallen when Charlie sings about how she barely knows him. Alastor consistently gets under Lucifer's skin by prodding him for being a deadbeat dad.
- I Told You So: When Mimzy's actions drive a bunch of literal Loan Sharks to attack the hotel, he is quick (and more than a little smug) to tell Charlie that this just proves his point that sinners cannot be redeemed.
- Jaded Washout: Charlie describes him as being a dreamer with fantastical ideas for creation who lost his ability to dream after giving free will to mankind and being rewarded with banishment to Hell, where he'll spend eternity only seeing the results of humanity at its worst. It's also why he's initially so dismissive of his daughter's equally optimistic dream to redeem Sinners.
- Just Toying with Them: Lucifer toys with Adam throughout most of their fight, annoying him by transforming into various animals and taunting him about seducing his ex-wives. When Adam tries to pull an In the Back just after when Lucifer saved his daughter, a pissed-off Lucifer only needs to Bitch Slap backhanded him once to reduce Adam to a broken, exhausted shell on the ground, leaving him at Lucifer's and Charlie's mercy.
- Light Is Good: Zigzagged. Lucifer was well intentioned when he gave Eve the fruit of knowledge but it caused Evil to seep in the world. While he still far from evil himself, millennia of being around the worst of humanity has made him jaded and cynical. He still greatly loves Charlie and gives her support for her project and gets her an audience in heaven.
- Light Is Not Good: Also zigzagged. Lucifer is the literal Devil who became the king of Hell by force and makes thinly veiled death threats toward people who annoy or may fail him. He brags about the deals he's made in the past and isn't afraid to throw his angelic power around to get what he wants. But he fell purely because of the consequences of giving humanity free will, not realizing the evil that humans are capable of. He's also a Bumbling Dad who loves Charlie more than anything in existence and the closest thing the story has to a Big Good once she convinces him to aid her cause.
- Like Parent, Like Child: A whimsical dreamer who wanted to see the best in people and give them a chance to make the right choices, Lucifer is ultimately very like his daughter. It's actually why he's so protective of her as he originally tried to redeem sinners but multiple failures (not helped by the fact no one actually knows what gets people into heaven) caused him to lose both his faith and his dreams.
- Morphic Resonance: His shapeshifted forms retain his color scheme and accessories (hat and bowtie).
- Motifs: Like his daughter Charlie, he has a doll motif in his design. This can be seen in his red cheek markings, porcelain-white skin, and light purple eyelids that give the appearance of wearing eyeshadow. According to Vivienne Medrano, this is meant to reflect his Angelic Beauty.Vivienne Medrano: [Charlie's] supposed to be like a porcelain doll because, like, her and Lucifer … the way I based Lucifer was basically like on the… theology that Lucifer was like, one of the most gorgeous angels in Heaven,[…] that's why I made him really doll-like, that's why they've got, like, their cheeks the way they are.
- Me's a Crowd: In "Hell's Greatest Dad", multiple instances of Lucifer show up at the same time more than once.
- Mr. Alt Disney: In the Helluva Boss episode "Loo Loo Land", it is revealed that Lucifer owns a successful theme park named "Lu Lu World", Loo Loo Land being a Shoddy Knockoff of it.
- Mr. Imagination: He is repeatedly described as a "dreamer", and seems to have a pretty strong creative drive even long after his loftier ambitions have been shattered.
- Mr. Vice Guy: He's a surprisingly Nice Guy for the ruler of hell. It makes sense where Charlie gets a lot of her personality from. However, he's not a perfect dad by any means. Charlie had some Daddy Issues involving him for a reason. Their relationship does get better in episode 5 though.
- My Greatest Failure: The Fall of Man. It may have been an accident on his part born out of a sincere attempt to help the new kids on the block, but it was an immensely costly one that permanently scarred the world. There's a reason the former cosmically ambitious idealist has been a depressed, withdrawn wreck for so long.
- My Greatest Second Chance: Lucifer is disappointed that the free will given to humans was used for evil, and believes that Humans Are Bastards who refuse to redeem themselves due to how many of them end up in his domain of Hell. He outright tells Charlie that the free will given was misused by them, and there is no hope for them, continuing his claim by further undermining Charlie's goals. However, when Charlie makes the offer that she can redeem people, he changes his mind and decides to support her goal to redeem sinners with the titular hotel.
- Never My Fault: Lucifer despises the sinners of Hell and believes they're a lost cause, even though he was the one to give humans the free will to commit their misdeeds to start with. Granted, he does struggle with a lot of self-doubt and self-resentment, and Charlie is able to convince him he can help turn things around.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Lucifer giving humanity free will against the wishes of Heaven turned into a disaster. It led to evil infecting the Earth, the Fall of Man, creation of hell, and the overflowing of sinners. Even Lucifer admits it didn't work out the way he had hoped.
- Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: Downplayed heavily. Lucifer is the most powerful being in Hell, initially seemingly because as a Fallen Angel he can not only destroy demons permanently, he's seemingly invulnerable to all demonic attacks. This allows him to throw his weight around, keep the populace of the Pride ring under his thumb and keep the likes of the other Deadly Sins from rising up, and he's much stronger than even a powerful angel like Adam, who he effortlessly trounces in a fight. Later on, however, he's revealed to be a fallen Seraphim, the highest ranking and most powerful angels, putting him in the same class as fellow Seraphim Sera and Emily. The opening narration demonstrates that there are angels of a higher rank than he is, the Elders of Heaven, who were able to banish him and Lilith to Hell in the first place, so Lucifer is unlikely the sole most powerful in any afterlife.
- The Noseless: He noticeably doesn't have a defined nose shape, unlike his daughter Charlie and wife Lilith.
- No-Sell: Thanks to being a fallen angel, he's immune to harm from normal attacks - when Adam slams him into a wall, Lucifer's reaction is something akin to "Huh, okay" than any kind of expression of pain, and he's up and moving immediately. In fact, neither he nor his suit take any damage over the course of the "fight".
- One-Winged Angel: His demon form combines his six seraphim wings along with Charlie's horns, eyes and tail with Angelic eyes within his cloak and a ball of fire floating over his head.
- Open-Minded Parent: Played for Laughs. Lucifer is surprised that Charlie is dating a woman, which reveals to him she likes girls. But he's really excited because he likes girls too and that this gives the two a Commonality Connection.
- Papa Wolf:
- He gave Razzle and Dazzle to Charlie for her protection and when he sees them again, after cooing over how cute they still are, he asks if they've been protecting his daughter, then adds in a threatening voice, "You better be." He also taught Charlie that, "You don't take shit from other demons."
- Shown again in "The Show Must Go On", when he shows up to help defend the Hotel from the Exorcists. He's content with simply toying with Adam until he tries to attack Charlie, at which point he beats Adam to a pulp, only stopping when Charlie says that Adam has had enough.
- Parental Neglect: Lucifer loves Charlie more than anything in creation, but he has been largely absent from her life between his depression and Lilith leaving him seven years ago. Lucifer is eager to reenter Charlie's life when she invites him to visit the Hazbin Hotel, but their phone call reveals that he hasn't been keeping tabs on her project and is completely unaware that she's entered a relationship with Vaggie. They finally reconnect while singing "More Than Anything", upon which Lucifer realizes that they have a lot in common, culminating in him agreeing to support the hotel and pulling strings to secure her an audience with the Seraphim.
- Parents as People: He genuinely loves his daughter and looks out for her safety, but Charlie has nonetheless ended up feeling pretty alienated from her parents.
- Person of Mass Destruction: Not outright shown, since he prefers invention and creation and we only see him fighting to defend and protect his kingdom and his subjects, but the power he regularly displays makes it clear that he could unleash near-unmatched devastation if he chose to. In particular, he delivers a humiliatingly one-sided No-Holds-Barred Beatdown to Adam, who's definitely a Person of Mass Destruction.
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: According to a post-episode six livestream, Lucifer is 5'2, making him short even by human standards- and in a world where demons frequently top ten feet tall, he's definitely on the small side, a fact Alastor needles him about. He's also the most powerful being in Hell by a huge margin. Shown to its fullest when he's up against Adam, a giant who overpowered Alastor without straining himself who Lucifer makes look like a joke before snapping and nearly vaporizing him.
- Playing with Fire: Like his daughter, he can create hellfire at will and his powers in his full demon form are largely centered around using flames to eradicate his enemies.
- The Power of Creation: Lucifer can create things seemingly out of nothing, poofing champagne fountains and caviar mountains into existence while trying to impress Charlie. In the Season One finale, he helps rebuild the Hazbin Hotel better than ever by instantly creating building materials and important structures using his magic.Lucifer: Remedial creation for me!
- Pretty Boy: According to Vivienne Medrano, she designed Lucifer to be a slender, good-looking man as a nod to how his Biblical counterpart was said to be one of the most beautiful of all angels.
- Pride:
- He's the very personification of it, being the leader of the Seven Deadly Sins and the sin of pride. Although he's still the sin of pride, so while he's the ruler of Hell, it's because he took it over by and rules by force and declared himself king, and while he loves his daughter, their relationship is strained and he thinks her drive to rehabilitate sinners is beneath her and offers next to no support. His debut episode delves a little deeper into his superiority complex. Having been forced to live with sinners ruining his idealistic vision of free will - combined with Heaven being prejudiced stiffs - for so long, Lucifer has grown tired of everyone else's faults and deemed himself, Charlie, and Lilith as the only people enlightened to the horrible nature of the beast. Meanwhile, he deems the denizens of Heaven as skullduggering cowards maintaining a broken status quo for half-arsed reasons, while seeing sinners as unwaveringly depraved ruiners of nice things. As a rule-breaking Angel whose principles are higher than those of sinners but more lax than those of other Angels, his biggest regret is that few people like him fall outside the jagged paradigms of Heaven and Hell, and he expresses it by living as though acting beyond their boundaries makes his family superior to everyone.Lucifer: Our people - Charlie - are AWFUL! They got gifted free will and look what they did with it; everything's terrible! [...] You build something nice, you let people in and offer them everything, and they just bring violence and chaos to your doorstep. It doesn't matter how well-intentioned you are; they're always going to disappoint you. [...] Sinners are violent psychopaths hellbent on causing as much pain and destruction as they can.
- Fitting for a personification of Pride, he seems to view anything that's a blow to pride as a grievous injury. His reasoning for not supporting Charlie's dream is because he doesn't want her dreams (IE, pride) to be crushed by heaven like he was. During his explanation, he imagines the angels pointing spears at him and then at Charlie, but given that there's no indication the angels ever physically threatened Lucifer with a violent death, the spears could be symbolic of how he sees crushing one's pride as on a similar level. When Charlie asks Lucifer to spare Adam, he gleefully mocks Adam about being shown mercy, which as Vaggie explained earlier is an utterly humiliating blow to one's pride.Lucifer: How's mercy taste, you little bitch?
- He's the very personification of it, being the leader of the Seven Deadly Sins and the sin of pride. Although he's still the sin of pride, so while he's the ruler of Hell, it's because he took it over by and rules by force and declared himself king, and while he loves his daughter, their relationship is strained and he thinks her drive to rehabilitate sinners is beneath her and offers next to no support. His debut episode delves a little deeper into his superiority complex. Having been forced to live with sinners ruining his idealistic vision of free will - combined with Heaven being prejudiced stiffs - for so long, Lucifer has grown tired of everyone else's faults and deemed himself, Charlie, and Lilith as the only people enlightened to the horrible nature of the beast. Meanwhile, he deems the denizens of Heaven as skullduggering cowards maintaining a broken status quo for half-arsed reasons, while seeing sinners as unwaveringly depraved ruiners of nice things. As a rule-breaking Angel whose principles are higher than those of sinners but more lax than those of other Angels, his biggest regret is that few people like him fall outside the jagged paradigms of Heaven and Hell, and he expresses it by living as though acting beyond their boundaries makes his family superior to everyone.
- Reality Warper: Like other high-ranking demons, Lucifer seems to be able to manipulate reality in Hell. He throws a suddenly miniaturized Alastor into a frying pan and flips him like an omelet, while offering champagne fountains and caviar mountains created from nothing to Charlie in "Hell's Greatest Dad". He also instantly creates a Pocket Dimension to fly Charlie around in while singing "More Than Anything".
- Red Baron: Implied. Sera refers to Charlie as the "Daughter of the Morning Star", suggesting that "The Morning Star" is an epithet he gained as an association with his first name which he then co-opted into his last name.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Zigzagged. Assuming you don't do anything to displease him, Lucifer is surprisingly affable and polite as well as a loving, if bumbling, dad to Charlie. On the other hand, he's the king of Hell and the Devil. When he's angry enough for the red completely overtakes his eyes, it's already too late to run.
- Repetitive Name: Both "Lucifer" and "Morningstar" are epithets for the planet Venus.
- Repulsive Ringmaster: Lucifer dresses in an attire that resembles a circus ringmaster and the very hotel that's been provided for Charlie's passion project has circus-themed decor alongside other motifs closely associated with Lucifer. When he shows up on screen and warps things around him, there's frequently a big-top motif. Additionally, there's a recurring circus theme that he and his fellow Seven Deadly Sins apparently share as masters of the rings of Hell. This is evidenced by certain elements seen associated with the demons Mammon, Asmodeus and Beelzebub in Helluva Boss. Subverted when we finally meet him as he's actually a well-meaning person who fell into cynicism and depression after millennia of failing to redeem sinners. This puts him in-line with most of the other Sins seen thus far who tend to be powerful but ultimately decent people (with one notable exception). In fact Charlie takes after him with her Wide-Eyed Idealist tendencies.
- Retractable Appendages: He has six wings, which he usually keeps hidden but will pull out when he wants to seem more impressive. During the battle against Adam, they come out in full force.
- The Runt at the End: He's an interesting example as it goes in two ways when compared to fellow members of the Seven Deadly Sins at least so far. Most of the fellow sins are noticeable bigger than other demons whereas Lucifer looks barely shorter than the average person, being even shorter than his own daughter. It also goes into another sense: most of the Seven Deadly Sins are implied to be native born demons from hell itself whereas Lucifer is a Fallen Angel from heaven who retains his holy powers. This second aspect actually works on his favor as angels are more powerful than demons and he was a particulary high ranked one which allowed him to easily take over the place.
- Satan: Aptly named Lucifer, he's the ruler of all of Hell. While there are Overlords and turf wars in Pentagram City, Lucifer is at the very top of the hierarchy as a fallen angel. On a side note, while he may be the Devil in the series, Lucifer isn't Satan, who is actually a completely different demon. According to Viv in a livestream and a Q&A, the series draws inspiration from a mixture of elements from multiple theologies and among them included is Lucifer, Satan, and Beelzebub being separate characters as opposed to being just the same demon per later religious interpretations and etc.
- Satan Is Good: Downplayed. In this version, Lucifer before his fall was an idealistic dreamer who wanted to better creation, and his "rebellion" in Heaven consisted solely of him giving Eve the Forbidden Fruit with well-intentions, which unwittingly led to the pre-existing force of evil finding its way to Earth. Cast into Hell for his reckless action, Lucifer was only exposed to the worst products of the free will that his actions had granted humanity, and though he initially tried to redeem the Sinners in his new realm, he failed and he gave up hope, letting Hell turn into the crapsack Wretched Hive that it is today not through active malice but through despair-induced inaction and withdrawal from subjects whom he'd lost all hope for. It doesn't take all that much effort for his daughter Charlie to rekindle his old idealism, letting him become the unquestioned Big Good of the show.
- Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: As he boasts in "Hell's Greatest Dad", one of the main reasons he's a more effective Big Good then Alastor is that he is the greatest authority in Hell and can effectively do whatever he wants within it.I'll rig the game for you because I'm the ref!
- Self-Duplication: While singing "Hell's Greatest Dad", he creates duplicates of himself to act as his own hype men while singing about how much better he'll be at supporting Charlie's dreams than Alastor.
- Sharp-Dressed Man: Various portraits with him have Lucifer dressed in a very dapper white suit.
- Shown Their Work:
- Lucifer has six wings, which would make him a seraph, the highest order of angel.
- His depression in his debut episode is very accurate to real life as well. He is shown to be forgetful (forgot about Charlie's hotel), prone to hyperfixation and seeking out immediate smaller pleasures (his rubber duck making), has difficulty reaching out to others despite desperately desiring interpersonal connection (not seeking out his daughter himself until she came calling for him despite missing her) and has a heightened rejection complex (his fear of being replaced by Alastor as Charlie's father figure).
- Lucifer has six wings, which would make him a seraph
- Sinister Silhouettes: After the Exorcists finish their year's duty, Lucifer can be briefly seen in an armchair, completely hidden in shadow apart from his Glowing Eyes of Doom surrounded by an inner circle of demons. You can recognize him by his top hat and apple-topped cane.
- Sitcom Archnemesis: He and Alastor. By their reactions, Alastor either disliked Lucifer immediately, or has a history; Lucifer barely noticed Alastor until he became immediately jealous over Alastor's influence over his daughter. They do not like one another as competing father figures for Charlie and both keep trying to subtly one up the other. In Alastor's case, he doesn't actually view himself as Charlie's father figure, but is willing to play it up to get under Lucifer's skin because he felt snubbed by Lucifer dismissing him.
- Slasher Smile: In one of the family portraits in the hotel, Lucifer can be seen with a smile as wide and sharp as the Radio Demon's. When we finally meet him, he's particularly prone to these, even after he's revealed to be a good person.
- Small Parent, Huge Child: He's below average in height and his daughter towers over him at 6 feet or over. Angel calls him "short king."
- Stepford Smiler: Underneath his goofy and utterly joyous personality is a depressed man who gave up on hope and redemption a long time ago.Lucifer: [sing-song] My daughter wants to see me! Take that, depression!
- Stopped Caring: He used to genuinely care about humanity and the souls in Hell, to the point of having tried a similar experiment as Charlie now is - but the combination of Heaven's apathy and the persistence of the sinners in Hell have gotten him to give up hope.
- Strong and Skilled: As opposed to Charlie, who while powerful lacks fighting experience due to her temperament, Lucifer not only is more powerful then her, but also has amazing combat skills, best shown when he runs circles around Adam without even breaking a sweat, utilizing his shapeshifting to avoid Adam's attacks, and his angelic strength to pound him.
- Tempting Apple: Apples are presented as a very prominent motif for Lucifer and all things remotely associated with him. From his apparel to the very decor used in his daughter's hotel, apples are strongly featured. This along with the other pronounced motif of snakes is a clear reference to the biblical Forbidden Fruit, an appropriate symbol for the head honcho of Hell.
- That Came Out Wrong: He tends to mess up phrases when he tries to sound cool and impressive.
- When Charlie calls Lucifer on the phone, he stammers over what he's going to say for a moment before greeting her with "Heeeeeey, bitch!" which is awkward for everyone involved.
- In "The Show Must Go On", when Lucifer confronts Adam during the latest Extermination which starts at the Hazbin Hotel, Lucifer tells his opponent, "I am going to FUCK you!", which shocks everyone present into Stunned Silence until Charlie whispers to Lucifer that he should have said "fuck you up" instead.Lucifer: Wait, what did I say?
- Thinking Up Portals: He's able to open circular portals on a whim.
- Time Abyss: He makes a comment in the Season 1 finale that implies he's 10,000 years old, possibly even older.
- Took a Level in Idealism: After thousands of years of ruling over the worst humanity has to offer, Lucifer is not the idealistic dreamer he once was and believes trying to redeem sinners isn't worth it. But after seeing how hard Charlie and her friends fought to defend the hotel, and even after it's destroyed, he encourages her to rebuild and continue pursuing her dream of helping sinners, and throws support behind her 100%.Lucifer: You can do this, now I know it!
For your story has just begun!
You can't quit now, hell, you owe it
There's still damage to be undone
You've changed my mind, you've touched their hearts
Found the good in souls gone bad
The stage is wrecked, the crowd is gone
But by God, Charlie, the show, it must go on! - Top God: Lucifer is the the highest ranked entity on Hell's hierarchy, being its King and the leader of the Seven Deadly Sins, who are directly below Lucifer’s family in terms of power and could be considered god-like entities themselves. He's also able to fight with Adam without even losing composure.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Faustisse says that his favorite snack is caramel apples, which is fitting considering his motif.
- Troll: It's unclear if he seduced Eve as well, or if he just said it to get under Adam's skin.
- Unholy Matrimony: With Lilith, seeing as they literally rule Hell.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Giving Eve the fruit of knowledge allowed evil to corrupt Earth. He meant it as an opportunity for humans to experience true free will but didn't expect it to also bring up the darker side of choosing for yourself.
- Voice of the Legion: Lucifer's voice deepens and gains an uncanny reverb effect when he says Razzle and Dazzle had better be protecting Charlie. His voice gains the same effect when he hits his Rage Breaking Point from seeing Adam trying to hurt Charlie. After this, he screams at Lute to go home, before adding a sarcastic and smug "please" in his normal voice.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: Lucifer can freely shift his form into other creatures. He seems to prefer a snake, but can assume other forms like a bird, horse, or even an octopus.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: He genuinely had good intentions when giving humanity free will, but things backfired horribly.
- White and Red and Eerie All Over: Stands above all of Hell's horrors and is immaculately dressed in white and red clothes.
- Willfully Weak: Another thing that Charlie inherited from him. He's the King of Hell as well as an elder fallen angel with the immense power that comes with it that nobody else in Hell can match. He used this power to forcefully become the King Of Hell and commands fear and respect from his subjects. Despite this, throughout "Dad Beat Dad" he lets Alastor (who while powerful, is merely an Overlord who is far below him in the hierarchy) constantly mock and belittle him as well as compete with him in a musical number to get Charlie's affection. At any given time, he could have easily wiped Alastor's Slasher Smile off his face and permanently annihilated him in a blink of an eye but most likely chose not to because he sees how much Charlie appreciates him and doesn't want to hurt her feelings.
- Winged Humanoid: After falling, he kept the 6 wings which are the mark of the Seraphim although now with red undersides.
- The Wonka: Lucifer was a dreamer with fantastical ideas, and when he went to hell he turned it into a circus theme, while remaining in charge. In modern times he invents toys like a rubber duckie that functions as a flamethrower, but that seems to be, at least in part, due to the depression from Lilith being gone.
- World's Strongest Man:
- There is a good reason he is the king of Hell. He's not only much more powerful than even the likes of Alastor, he's able to make Adam (the strongest Exorcist) look like a joke. And that's before he loses his temper. When he goes full Papa Wolf in Episode 8, the only thing that saves Adam's life (momentarily, at least) is Charlie telling Lucifer that Adam was beaten and not a threat anymore.
- Episode 6 reveals that the Seraphim, the highest authorities in Heaven, are angels with six wings. Lucifer also has six wings, implying that he was at the very top of the hierarchy and comparable in authority to the current High Seraphim, Sera. Even as a fallen angel, Lucifer still holds enough sway with Heaven that they will agree to some of his requests, such as successfully bargaining for Hellborn Demons to be exempt from the Exterminations and granting Charlie an audience, even if the rulers of Heaven would rather not.
Lilith Morningstar
Lilith Morningstar
Portrait of Lilith
Lilith is the first woman, the wife of Lucifer, mother of Charlie, and Queen of Hell.
- Ambiguously Evil: In the season 1 finale, we learn that she's been in Heaven this whole time, thanks to a deal she apparently made with Adam, with the newly empowered Lute demanding that she do something about her daughter. What this means regarding her relationship with her family and with the angels is hard to say, though it definitely makes her seem like a shitty parent who was too busy enjoying a vacation to bother responding to her daughter's calls for emotional support.
- Chekhov M.I.A.: While Charlie is emotionally distant from both her parents, her seven-year absence from Charlie's life (especially when contrasted with her unsurprised reaction to Lucifer's phone call) suggests that this is more than just Parental Neglect and that she may truly be off the grid. Turns out she's more than off the grid, she's on another plane of reality altogether.
- Cool Shades: She wears a pair at the very end of the first season, when she is shown relaxing on a beach in Heaven.
- Deal with the Devil: The first Season Finale reveals that she's made some deal with Adam that allowed her into Heaven in spite of being a Sinner. As of this edit, it's unclear whether she or Adam was the "devil", however.
- Demon of Human Origin: She's actually the very first woman, in fact.
- Graceful Ladies Like Purple: She wears a purple gown in the family tapestry.
- Greater-Scope Paragon: Charlie, at least, views her as inspiration for both giving knowledge to humans and also believing in their potential, viewing the eponymous Hotel as a way to continue her legacy. The reveal that she's been hiding out in Heaven and working closely with Lute brings this trope into question.
- Hellish Pupils: Her pupils are vertical slits in her yellow eyes, befitting the Queen of Hell.
- Hope Bringer: According to Hell's backstory, when Lucifer gave up on dreaming, Lilith brought hope to Hell by empowering demonkind with her singing.
- Horned Humanoid: Lilith has a pair of massive pink horns reaching up then curving back behind her head. Later subverted, when it's revealed via portraits that they're actually a part of her crown.
- Long Hair Is Feminine: Her hair is so long that it reaches the ground, and she appears to be very feminine.
- Missing Mom: According to "Overture", Charlie hasn't seen her in seven years. The Stinger reveals that she's been hiding out in Heaven for unknown reasons.
- Parental Neglect: Charlie has tried more than once to call her for emotional support, evidently without her picking up once. It's later revealed that Lilith has been completely absent for seven years.
- Statuesque Stunner: She’s a demonic beauty who also happens to be much taller than most of her family, including her husband.
- Technicolor Eyes: In the pilot her eyes have white irises, while in the series her irises are violet.
- Unholy Matrimony: She and her husband are the Happily Married couple who rule Hell. Or were, at least. According to Charlie, Lilith and Lucifer split at some point before the story began.
- When You Coming Home, Dad?: It's implied Lilith is so busy, she doesn't have enough time to talk to her own daughter, which is leaving an emotional strain on Charlie. The first episode of the series reveals she's been gone for the past seven years. On top of that, the finale shows that rather than being busy with anything, Lilith was effectively enjoying a nice vacation up in heaven yet couldn't be bothered to respond to her daughter's calls for emotional support.
- Women Are Wiser: In one of Faustisee's streams, they state that Lilith is the "brains" of the couple and wears the pants in the relationship.
Charlie Morningstar
The daughter of Lucifer and Lilith and Princess of Hell. Charlie is an altruist demon of unparalleled kindness who's willing to offer Hell's lowest of the low a chance to change for the better by means of her Hotel. Regardless of how many damned souls ridicule her dream, she's determined to make a humane way of reducing the population a reality.
See the Hazbin Hotel's staff page for tropes relating to Charlie.
The Hazbin Hotel
Overlords
Sinners
666 News Anchors
In general
The dual hosts of 666 News, Pentagram City's premier TV news outlet.- Kent Brockman News: The amount of professionalism with which 666 News approaches its broadcasts leaves quite a lot to be desired. In almost every one, Katie finds a way to severely injure Tom and they both loudly inject their own crass opinions on the current topic into the broadcast.Katie: Looks like they're fighting tooth and nail for Hell's hotspots!
Tom: And I'd like to nail [Cherri Bomb's] hot spot, whoa-ho!
Katie: [chuckles] You are a limpdick jackass, Tom. [Pours an entire mug of hot coffee in his lap] Or should I say...no dick. We'll be right back, after the break! OH, SUCK IT UP, YOU LITTLE—! - Those Two Guys: Since they're a pair of news anchors, they've never been encountered separately and they're almost always there to deliver hilariously cruel commentary on the latest events in Hell.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Katie is a tempestuous, narcissistic Attention Whore while Tom is a more meek and reserved Chew Toy.
Katie Killjoy
"I'm too rich and too influential to give a flying fuck about what some tux-wearing demon princess wants to advertise."
Voiced in the pilot by: Faye Mata Foreign VAs
Voiced in the full series by: Brandon Rogers Foreign VAs
Voiced in the full series by: Brandon Rogers Foreign VAs
A pompous, callous newscaster who ridicules Charlie's goals and treats everyone like garbage, even her own co-anchor.
- Alliterative Name: Her first and last name both start with the letter "K".
- All Girls Want Bad Boys: She calls Adam a “fuckable bad boy” while covering his death on the news.
- Animal Motif: An insect of some sort as seen in her One-Winged Angel form. Judging by the buzzing noise that sometimes accompanies her speech, it may be cicadas.
- Berserk Button: Getting called a bitch is more than enough for her to throw hands-on live TV with Charlie. Going by how quickly Tom vacates the premises, it's not the first time that's happened either.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She tends to be more affable on-air. While she's still pretty mean on-camera, it's nothing that Hell hasn't seen before. Off-camera, she's a complete bitch.
- Blonde Republican Sex Kitten: She invokes that stereotype with her character design and brazen homophobia. She may have even been one in life.
- Bright Is Not Good: She has porcelain white skin, blonde hair, and pink clothes, and is one of the more odious characters.
- Bullying a Dragon: She clearly disrespects Charlie, refusing to shake her hand since "I don't touch the gays," and calling her idea stupid without even knowing what it is. All of this knowing full well that Charlie is the Princess of Hell and is much more powerful than her.
- Costume Evolution: Her outfit is given a slight redesign in the series, so she resembles Brandon Rogers' Bryce Tankthrust persona.
- Cultural Translation: In the Japanese dub of the pilot, her line about Sir Pentious and Cherri Bomb fighting "tooth and nail for that hotspot!" is changed to her using Cherri's name as part of a pun to call Tom a "cherry boy" (virgin).
- Curse Cut Short: As Tom whimpers in pain after Katie dumped her coffee on his crotch, she tells him on air to, "suck it up, you little bi-!" but is cut off by the commercial break.
- Deliberate Values Dissonance: Her official bio mentions she died in 1992, a time where homosexuality was much less accepted than it would be in the 21st century. This explains Katie's open homophobia but doesn't paint her any less of a Politically Incorrect Villain.
- Demoted to Extra: In the pilot, Katie is a pretty important character, as the host of the news show where Charlie is pitching her idea for the hotel. In Season 1 of the series, she only has two minor appearances, neither of which are particularly significant to the plot: one to announce that the extermination has been moved forward six months, and the other to announce that Charlie and her team have successfully fought off the Exorcists, causing the extermination to be cancelled.
- Didn't Think This Through: Katie underestimates Charlie when Katie turned into her final demon form during the fistfight scene. She most likely didn’t expect Charlie to fight back.
- Even Evil Has Standards: When her co-anchor Tom makes a crude remark about Cherri Bomb while they're reporting on Hell's latest turf war, she chirps, "Hee hee, you are a limpdick jackass, Tom! Or should I say..." and pours her boiling-hot coffee in his lap, finishing her response with, "no dick?", showing that she's repulsed at Tom for being a creep.
- Evil Is Hammy: She is proven to be massively passionate in the way speaks and moves, usually expressed through thinly-masked contempt and Body Horror.
- Expy: An official source stated that she was based on Gail Hailstorm from Scary Movie, a newswoman deliberately made to be a Hate Sink for the protagonists to abuse.
- Extreme Omnivore: She eats and swallows a literal tooth and nail.
- Hartman Hips: She has a very thin midriff and large hips.
- Hate Sink: She's a self-important, rude, snotty, abusive, homophobic diva made to be as loathsome as possible so that the audience can root for Charlie. While she does have a sense of hamminess due to her movements and voice acting, none of these comedic moments serve to make her any less hateable, as she still comes off as unlikable and isn't quite the fun type of jerk that Adam or even Lute is.
- Hypocrite:
- She has no problem demeaning other characters whether that'd be her fellow co-host or even the Princess of Hell. Yet, she can't handle the fact that someone calls her a "bitch".
- She calls Charlie a failure, but in her previous life, she was an unsuccessful newscaster.
- Hypocritical Humor: One of the first interactions Katie has with Charlie is refusing to shake the princess' hand with the reason that she doesn't touch the gays because she has standards. Katie however then proceeds to tap on Charlie's chest and then her nose with her finger in a condescending manner as she explains the real reason why the news station gave Charlie the chance to be interviewed.
- Immoral Journalist: She's a snobby, self-absorbed news anchor, who treats her co-host like crap and belittles Charlie every chance she takes.
- It's All About Me: Only cares about her image and the hottest stories.
- Jerkass: She's an incredibly snobbish and arrogant woman who only cares about her image and the latest buzz, and actively puts down Charlie for her goal of making Hell a better place. She also appears to regularly assault her co-newscaster, Tom, and tells him to suck it up after pouring piping hot coffee on his lap.
- Jerkass Has a Point: While she is a terrible person, Katie did bring up a good point when she said nobody in Hell would care about being a good person for its own sake, and that Charlie has no evidence that redemption for Sinners is even possible, so why would anyone bother?
- Kinetic Clicking: Whenever she moves, loud cracking noises can be heard, as if all of her joints are popping with every motion.
- Lady Swearsalot: She along with Husk drop quite a bit more swear bombs than the other characters.
- Literal Metaphor: Her swallowing a tooth and nail was done in tandem to making a comment about how Cherri and Sir Pentious were fighting "tooth and nail" for new territory after the recent extermination.
- Losing Your Head: Upon rushing back to her seat when Charlie's interview goes live, Katie's neck just randomly snaps in half from the momentum and her head flops to the side at a right angle while still partially attached to the rest of her body. The whole thing is completely treated as nothing by Katie.
- Meaningful Name: Katie Killjoy is so appropriately named as she's a massive bitch to practically everyone. She's just generally nasty and makes everyone miserable from putting down Charlie to regularly assaulting her co-newscaster.
- Moral Myopia: She casually insults and humiliates Charlie on live TV, but when Charlie calls her a bitch, she attacks her and goes full-on One-Winged Angel.
- Neck Snap: Her neck has a habit of violently snapping into an almost horizontal position when torque is applied to it (complete with Sickening "Crunch!"), with her showing no ill effects due to being a Sinner.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: Her first name and her hair indicate she's partly based on Katie Couric.
- Not Bad: In the Season One finale, she congratulates Charlie and the Hazbin Hotel for "not being totally fuckin' useless for once".
- Oh, Crap!: Downplayed but in "Overture", her eye twitches when she announces that the next extermination has been moved forward by six months.Katie: It means we're all royally FUCKED!
- Pet the Dog: Downplayed, but she does thank Charlie on the news for successfully fending off the Extermination in the Season 1 finale, even if she does word it as an insult.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: In addition to being just an overall jerkass, Katie is an outright homophobe as she refuses to shake Charlie's hand.Katie: You can put that away. I don't touch the gays. I have standards.
- Retractable Appendages: She has four retractable insectoid limbs.
- Rich Bitch: Katie is a massive jerkass that doesn't care about anyone else on the grounds that she's a successful newscaster. This is exemplified when she explains to Charlie that she's "too rich and too influential to give a flying fuck about what some tux-wearing demon princess wants to advertise", despite Charlie literally being Lucifer's daughter.
- Ship Tease: Implied with Tom Trench, albeit in a Dom/Sub way.
- Sickening "Crunch!": The crackling of bones breaking can be heard just about every time Katie moves.
- Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!: Her name is Katie Killjoy for a reason.Katie Killjoy: What in the nine circles makes you think a single denizen of Hell would give two shits about becoming a better person?! You have no proof that this little experiment even works! You want people to be good, just because?!
- Small Name, Big Ego: She's egotistical enough to believe that her status as a rich and influential newscaster puts her above having to listen to anything that Charlie, who is the princess of Hell, has to say.
- Stupid Evil:
- Flat out threatens to kill Charlie and even gets into a fistfight with her, despite her being Lucifer's daughter.
- Demonstrated again during said fistfight. Despite Katie going One-Winged Angel, Charlie easily holds her own without tapping into her full power, but not once does Katie consider backing down.
- Too Dumb to Live: Katie is very damn lucky Lucifer isn't aware of her threatening and fighting Charlie. Considering what he did to Adam, he would've killed her.
- Twitchy Eye: Her right eye twitches while she reports the news that the next extermination will be in six months time rather than a whole year.
- Visual Pun: When Charlie's interview goes live, Katie's neck breaks from the momentum of her quickly rushing back to her seat. In other words, she rushed back at "breakneck" speed.
- Vocal Evolution: In the pilot, she has a feminine voice. The series gives her a goofy masculine voice that sounds nearly identical to the one Brandon Rogers uses for his Bryce Tankthrust character.
- Vocal Dissonance: Not so much in the pilot, but in the series proper, she's voiced by Brandon Rogers, giving her a very male-sounding voice.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: When Charlie calls Katie a bitch, the newscaster in anger grows out four insect arms as well as an extra pair of eyes. Overlaps with One-Winged Angel.
Tom Trench
"And I'd sure like to nail her hotspot!"
Voiced in the pilot by: Joshua Tomar Foreign VAs
Voiced in the full series by: Amir Talai Foreign VAs
Voiced in the full series by: Amir Talai Foreign VAs
Katie Killjoy's co-newscaster.
- 24-Hour Armor: Tom is never seen without his gas mask on. It might be his actual face.
- Aerith and Bob: As the creators lampshade, the inhabitants of Hell usually have very exotic names, and then there's Tom.
- Alliterative Name: His first and last name both start with the letter "T".
- Ambiguously Bi: He makes a sexual comment about wanting to nail Cherri Bomb. Later, when Charlie mentions Angel Dust's name during the interview, Tom immediately recognizes that she's talking about the porn star. To this, Katie comments by saying, "You fucking would, Tom." and Tom quickly looks away in embarrassment.
- Butt-Monkey: His first official appearance in actual material from the show has his co-anchor dumping boiling hot coffee on his crotch, and it's implied this isn't the first time it's happened. Not to mention that he somehow catches on fire once the interview devolves into an all-out brawl.WHY WON'T ANYONE HELP MEEEEE!?!?!
- Cool Mask: A gas mask. It's most likely his actual face since his hair is attached to it and the designs of the other demons; Vivziepop's comments lend credence to this idea.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Shows disapproval of Katie shamelessly gloating and insulting Charlie.
- Expressive Mask: His mask's lenses change to reflect his eyes and the nozzles move when he talks.
- Groin Attack: Katie pours piping hot coffee over his lap, and the pained "Not again" he lets out implies that she’s done it before.
- Kent Brockman News: One half of this with his esteemed co-anchor Katie.
- Lovable Sex Maniac: "Lovable" could be debated, but he's definitely the less unpleasant between him and Katie, doesn't hesitate to crack a sexual joke about nailing Cherri Bomb's "hotspot" and looks proud of the joke afterward, and immediately recognizes Angel Dust when Charlie namedrops him, from Angel Dust being a porn star.
- Meaningful Name: His last name Trench complements the fact that he's depicted with a gas mask, since World War I was infamous for its use of trench and chemical warfare.
- Properly Paranoid: Tom always wears his gas mask, and although he does not have to worry about inhaling toxic fumes, he does get injured in the scuffle between his co-host and Charlie.
Travis
Travis
"Thanks for the fun time, hot stuff."
Voiced in the pilot by: Don Darryl Rivera Foreign VAs
Voiced in the full series by: Don Darryl Rivera
Voiced in the full series by: Don Darryl Rivera
A demon obsessed with Angel Dust who directs his films with Valentino.
- All Men Are Perverts: Most of his appearances involve him drooling over Angel Dust. In the premiere, he's also seen excitedly watching a bukkake show.
- All There in the Manual: He isn't named in the pilot, however, his actual name was first revealed in a tweet.
- Always a Bigger Fish: Though he's technically Angel's boss, he defers to Valentino while filming, awkwardly shaking his head when Valentino asks if he thinks people care about dialogue.
- Ambiguously Bi: Angel briefly asks him to tell "the missus" that he said hi, meaning that he's married to a woman, but so far he's only shown any actual attraction to men.
- Badass Longcoat: His first full-body appearance in "Spring Broken" shows him wearing what looks like a long peacoat made of black feathers, similar to the ones on his body.
- Butt-Monkey: He crashes his car offscreen in the pilot and gets kicked in the face by Angel during the "ADDICT" music video.
- The Cameo:
- In the "ADDICT" music video, he appears for a few seconds in the crowd watching Angel Dust's show, and promptly gets kicked in the face.
- In Helluva Boss, he makes a very brief appearance in "Spring Broken" as one of the many demons that hire I.M.P to off someone.
- Expressive Ears: His ear tufts droop when Angel calls him a "sack of poorly-packaged horseshit".
- Feathered Fiend: He has a vaguely avian design, with feathers and a beak-like mouth.
- Hidden Depths: In "Spring Broken", he appears in a crowd of demons hiring I.M.P. for assassination missions, implying he has a grudge against someone on Earth. This could also suggest he didn't die that long ago.
- Mix-and-Match Critters: His design is mostly birdlike, but he also looks a bit like a sloth, due to his facial features and the claws on his wings.
- Ominous Owl: He's a demon with a bird-like design, and his facial disks and ear tufts call to mind an owl specifically.
- Only One Name: If he has a last name, we don't know what it is.
- Recurring Extra: He appears in the pilot, the "ADDICT" music video, an episode of Helluva Boss, and the Hazbin Hotel premiere before his role as Valentino's director is confirmed in "Masquerade".
- Satellite Character: To Angel Dust.
- Toothy Bird: He has a bird-like design, but a mouth full of sharp teeth like every other demon in Hell.
- Wicked Heart Symbol: He has a heart-shaped facial disc, similar to Stolas, and a heart-shaped pupil in one of his eyes.
- Wingding Eyes: His left eye has a heart-shaped pupil.
Odette and Clara
Odette and Clara
Odette (left) and Clara (right)
Carmilla Carmine's daughters who assist their mother in her arms-dealing business.- All There in the Script: Their names are revealed in the closed captions during the episode which properly introduces them.
- Ambiguous Situation: They’re Carmilla’s daughters but whether they were a family while alive and reunited in Hell or were adopted by her in the afterlife is unclear.
- Bare Midriffs Are Feminine: Clara dresses a bit more revealingly compared to Odette.
- Early-Bird Cameo: Odette, her design practically unchanged, briefly appears in the pilot alongside another female demon, which may have been an early design for Clara.
- Family Eye Resemblance: One sign that they're Carmilla's daughters is that their eyes are very similar to hers.
- Horned Humanoid: Both girls sport a pair of black horns, as opposed to their mother whose hair is merely styled to look like horns.
- Labcoat of Science and Medicine: Odette wears one as part of her weapons manufacturing occupation.
- Nerd Glasses: Odette wears a big red pair of glasses.
- Straight to the Pointe: Like their mother, both Clara and Odette are always shown to be in an en pointe position.
- Theme Naming: Keeping with their mother's ballerina motif, the two share their names with the main characters from famous ballets, Swan Lake and The Nutcracker.
Mimzy
Mimzy
"It's me! Yes it's me! I know you were all waiting for me!"
Voiced by: Sarah StilesForeign VAs
An old friend of Alastor's when he was alive. Takes refuge in the Hotel when she's being pursued by loan sharks.
- '20s Bob Haircut: Mimzy has this as someone from the 20s.
- Actor Allusion: This isn't the first time Sarah Stiles has played an energetic character with a maroon color scheme who acts as a more twisted sendup of Betty Boop and participates in an electro-swing musical number.
- Acrofatic: Mimzy is overweight (and is practically the only character on the show who isn't a noodle person), but she's also known to be a talented dancer, even busting out some moves of her own at the end of the "Hell's Greatest Dad" musical number.
- Animal Motifs: According to Vivienne Medrano, Mimzy was designed to vaguely resemble a chicken, hence her plumpness, small, beaklike nose, and the prominent red feathers in her headband. This is likely meant to emphasize her status as a Dirty Coward, as well as a gossipy hen.
- Beyond Redemption: Alastor thinks this of her, telling her she's welcome to try out the Hotel if she ever wants to change, but noting that she likely won't take the offer since it's "not her style". He's proven right when Mimzy rejects the offer and leaves with a huff and then insulting Alastor's decision to choose the Hotel over his best friend.
- Big Beautiful Woman: She's short, plump and, by her own admission, adorable.
- Birds of a Feather: Given that both of them are Genki Girls who fawn over Alastor, it's no surprise that she gets along well with Niffty.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She plays herself up as sweet and personable, but at the end of the episode, she's proven to be a selfish coward.
- Corrupted Character Copy: According to an official statement, she's meant to be "a trashy Betty Boop". Like Betty Boop, Mimzy is a short, adorable, spunky flapper with a cutesy voice and excellent dancing skills. However, whereas Betty Boop is a genuinely altruistic Nice Girl, Mimzy is a self-centered, materialistic Jerk with a Heart of Jerk who uses her friend Alastor's status as The Dreaded as a shield to get herself out of trouble.
- Dirty Coward: Tends to run to Alastor whenever she gets in trouble, expecting him to clean up her messes for her. Alastor doesn't mind at first, but when her actions end up endangering the Hotel and its residents, he puts his foot down and calmly but coldly demands that she leave.
- Drives Like Crazy: She's on the run from some loan sharks because she stole a car and ran over one of their girlfriends with it, but claims "that bitch had it comin'."
- Exotic Eye Designs: Mimsy is Pie-Eyed with red irises and black sclerae.
- Fat Bitch: Mimzy's a noticeably overweight demon who's very bitchy and is even believed to be Beyond Redemption. Though compared to other Hellaverse Fat Bastards like Adam and Mammon, she's more just annoying and peppy than outright villainous and vile.
- The Flapper: She's designed to look like one of these and was alive around the same time Alastor was, albeit the stereotypical kind.
- Genki Girl: She's perky, energetic and LOUD.
- Jerkass: A more mild example than most of the show's Jerkasses, but she's shown to be egotistical and materialistic, and part of the reason she's being pursued by the loan sharks is because she ran over one of their girlfriends with a car, trying to deflect on that last part by arguing that "that bitch had it comin'". She also has a habit of using Alastor to bail her out whenever she's in trouble, and "Dad Beat Dad" shows that she doesn't care if others get caught in the crossfire.
- Karma Houdini: She got in trouble with several mobsters after borrowing 50 grand from them, stealing their car and then running over one of their girlfriends. When the mobsters hunt her down she just hides in the hotel and lets Alastor takes care of her problem for her. The most karma she faces is Alastor cutting ties with her for using him even though it brought trouble to the hotel he's invested in. Considering what Alastor usually does to people for fun, let alone for insulting him, she got off very easy.
- Large Ham: She's introduced interrupting Alastor and Lucifer's song with a bombastic musical number of her own.
- Monster Fangirl: She fawns over Alastor, especially his bloodthirstiness.
- Ms. Exposition: She explains Alastor's backstory to Angel and Pentious.
- Pie-Eyed: As a nod to her being from the 1920s, Mimzy has red oval pupils with a triangular chunk taken out of them.
- Proud Beauty: When everyone gawks at her after she appears unannounced, she teasingly asks if it's "because she's adorable" while striking a flirty pose.
- Redemption Rejection: Alastor effectively states that he expects this of her when he states she is welcome to stay at the hotel if she is willing to try and redeem herself. Sure enough, Mimzy refuses the offer and leaves in a huff.
- Small Name, Big Ego: Her Establishing Character Moment is interrupting Alastor and Lucifer's Quarreling Song by gleefully announcing "IT'S MEEEEEEE!" and singing as if everyone was waiting for her to arrive. This is promptly met by Lucifer asking who she is.
- Undeathly Pallor: Her skin is a pale, sickly grey.
- Villainous Friendship: She, Alastor, and Niffty are friends. She also sees herself as a friend to Husk, but he doesn't like her at all. Alastor also seems to cut off the friendship when Mimzy's actions end up putting the Hotel in danger.
Cannibal Town
A community of cannibals who style themselves after 1940s Americana.
- Affably Evil: With the exception of Susan, most of them are rather kind and polite despite their enjoyment of eating flesh. Charlie even notes that, in comparison to the rest of the Pride Ring, they seem nicer and are willing to help her with defending Hazbin Hotel, being the first Sinners that actually respond positively to Charlie singing about her Hotel, though it's the prospect of getting to experience eating angel flesh that gives them the final push into supporting her.
- Black Eyes of Evil: Their main feature that distinquishes them from other Demons are their pitch black eyes.
- Cannibal Clan: An entire town of cannibals.
- Creepy Child: There are a surprising number of cannibal children in the town, who have the same black eyes as their parents. They get big smiles when Alastor mentions getting the chance to try angel flesh if they join up to help fight the Exorcists.
- Curb Stomp Cushion: The Exorcists slaughter most of them after Alastor's protective barrier is brought down by Adam, but it's made clear that they managed to put much more of a fight than the sinners in previous Exterminations that came before them thanks to being armed with Carmilla's angelic weapons. By the time the Exorcists are forced to retreat, the battlefield is shown to be filled with the corpses of cannibal sinner and Exorcist alike.
- Evil Is One Big, Happy Family: Rosie tells Charlie that the denizens of Cannibal Town are a very close-knit community, so she needs to convince all of them to join her cause.
- Food as Bribe: Getting to snack on angel flesh is the primary reason they agree to help Charlie fight the Exorcist army.Cannibals: ♪ We'll follow your lead! We're eager to feed!
We'll sharpen our teeth for the heavenly feast!
From this moment on, you can count on us
To be resolute and ravenous
Our appetites are whet, and we're set to seize the day
So I say, "Oh, hey, come join the flesh buffet!" ♪ - High-Class Fan: Many of the women in Cannibal Town carry hand fans with them, fitting with the high-class aesthetics the cannibals have.
- I'm a Humanitarian: They stick together due to their shared love of human flesh, and it is the promise of getting to eat Angelic meat that rallies the cannibals to help the Hazbin Hotel in their defence against Adam and the Exorcists.
- Inexplicably Identical Individuals: Downplayed — while they don't look exactly identical, they all have the same grey skin and black eyes in common, while most other Sinners have appearances unique to them.
- Redshirt Army: They choose to join the fight against the Exorcists in the season 1 finale, with many of them getting slaughtered en masse.
Susan
Susan
Voiced by: Kimiko Glenn
The hardest cannibal to impress in all of Cannibal Town.
- Evil Old Folks: She's old and a member of the cannibal town, and is overall a rude and unpleasant person as opposed to the more Affably Evil members of the town.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: Courtesy of being rude, overbearing and curmudgeonly; even Alastor and Rosie view her as an "ornery old bitch". Yet, she's one of the cannibals and they stick together.
- Fur and Loathing: She wears a fox skin with one eye crossed out draped over her shoulders, adding cruelty to animals to the list of reasons not to like her.
- The Heckler: The reason Susan is so tough to convince, unlike the rest of the Cannibals, is that she's a crotchety old woman who enjoys making fun of and slinging insults at people as they try to speak.
- One Scene, Two Monologues: She talks over Charlie the entire time she's trying to give her speech.
- Pet the Dog: In her last scene in season one, she nods approvingly in response to Charlie's song, showing that Charlie has won her favor.
- Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!: Is visibly older than the rest of the town, and is very unpleasant, to the point where Alastor calls her a bitch and Charlie gives her the middle finger, something they normally never do.
- Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: Alastor is a top tier Troll when he wants to, as evidenced in his hijacking of Vox's audience. But even he finds Susan a pain to deal with.
- Uncertain Doom: It's currently unknown if she was one of the many cannibals who died in the fight against the Exorcists.
Other Pride Ring Residents
Kitty
Kitty
A female Robo-Fizz who acts as an assistant to Valentino.
- Distaff Counterpart: She’s a female version of the usually male Robo-Fizzes.
- Lawyer-Friendly Cameo: Despite being created by the same person, the real Fizzarolli is not currently permitted to appear in the show for various legal reasons. As such, Kitty is designed (presumably customized in-universe) to look as distinct from him as possible, right down to being female and having a different name.
- Perpetual Smiler: Always seen with a smile on her face like every other Robo-Fizz. The only exception thus far is a Freeze-Frame Bonus where Valentino flicks some cigarette ashes in her face, at which point she flinches with a grimace.
- Pink Means Feminine: Unlike regular Robo-Fizzes whose designs incorporate heavy amounts of green and black, Kitty is pink and white.
- Robot Maid: Acts as one to Valentino, often doing things like fetching him and the other Vees drinks.
- Satellite Character: There’s not much characterization given to her other than being Valentino's personal assistant.
- Sexbot: If she's anything like the regular Robo-Fizzes, whose functions include being able to be used as such.
- Uniformity Exception: A lot of Fizz-Bots look exactly the same, but Kitty has a red outfit and appears to be female. This is likely meant to coincide with the whole Lawyer-Friendly Cameo thing.
- The Voiceless: All of her onscreen appearances have her completely silent save for some mechanical whirring.
- Wicked Heart Symbol: She has a heart symbol on her forehead as well as on both of her thighs.
