Fanfic / Only the Results

Nice kid like him, redemption will be no trouble at all! ^Credit Art by TheLastUnicornInOz

"Many things can damn a soul, be it willful malice or mere circumstance, everyone in Hell earned their spot in the afterlife. Moonchild is a gentle soul beset by monsters on all sides languishing in an afterlife not of his own making. One day, he meets the Princess of Hell and is sent down a road of self-discovery that could have lasting repercussions for the Infernal Plane."

Only the Results is a Fusion Fic of Hazbin Hotel, Helluva Boss and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure by WriteAnon, the third in a series that began with A Peaceful Afterlife and continued in Helluva Job.

The story follows Doppio after his death in Golden Wind, as he finds himself coping with being in Hell despite not having done much (directly) to merit being there. Between the "demands" of one of his bosses, the kind of vicious passengers he runs into on the commute between home and work, and the general fact that Hell is, well, Hell, Doppio - or, as he's known here, Moonchild - would really like a change in scenery.

Naturally, when he runs into Charlie, the proprietor of the Happy Hotel, Moonchild eagerly jumps at the chance for redemption, even though such a course could lead to tension with Stolas, who wouldn't necessarily be happy to lose his best secretary to the daughter of Lucifer.

However, between the fallout of a recent theft in the mortal plane caused by Stolas' favorite imps, and the rising presence of something dark and familiar in Moonchild's mind, all parties involved might soon have bigger problems to worry about...

Archive of Our Own link here.

Now has two sequel, Overdrive, starring Joseph Joestar trying to keep his spot in Heaven, and Get Out Alive, featuring Moonchild and Diavolo's new form working at Lady Belladonna's orphanage.

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Only the Results contains examples of:

• Abusive Parents: Lucifer apparently enjoyed murdering Charlie's pets during her childhood.
• Abhorrent Admirer:
  • Niffty puts some extremely unsubtle moves on Moonchild under the guise of therapy. She's later seen spying on him through the vents in Chapter 11. In Chapter 12, she watches Moonchild and Octavia sleep and the former mentions how she also watches him shower.
  • Like canon, Stolas is this towards Blitzo. He also appears to be so to Moonchild, who he wants to have a three way with, along with Blitzo.
  • Bizarrely, Diavolo shows shades of this towards Charlie, apparently because she's shown herself to be strong enough for him to respect.
• Accidental Hug: After receiving Valentino's tooth from Sallos, she's so happy, she hugs him. She apologizes and he admits he didn't see this coming.
• Actually Pretty Funny:
  • Alastor finds a sort of sardonic humor in the fact that one of his infamous deals backfired... on him.
  • Gallia finds herself stifling laughter at I.M.P trading barbs.
• Adaptational Abomination: While Diavolo and Doppio were left Ambiguously Human in Golden Wind; this story classifies them as Human-Demon Hybrid, the spawn of a Fallen Angel and a human. The descriptions given to Red Nightmare after this is revealed read more like those of a Humanoid Abomination then they do a demon.
• Adaptational Dumbass: Blitzo comes off as much dimmer then his canon self: the prime example being that he seemingly failed to consider that stealing the corpse of Jesus Christ could have gotten I.M.P in hot water with Lucifer.
• Adaptational Jerkass: Blitzo comes off as much more depraved then his canon counterpart, his treatment of Moonchild is outright sexually predatory, and he at one point displays zero guilt for being directly responsible for Octavia nearly getting executed to her face.
• Adaptational Villainy:
  • While Stella is show to be a total bitch in canon to the point where she hires a hitman to kill her husband Stolas, it's extremely doubtful she would ever sink as low as to rape a subordinate like this version does to Moonchild.
  • Retroactive example. At the time the story was first published, the source material had yet to provide much regarding Lucifer's personality beyond hinting towards a strained relationship with Charlie, with his proper debut in the 2024 Amazon Prime series ultimately showing him as a Bumbling Dad who holds no hope in Hell's denizens being able to redeem themselves. This version is a petty, moronic sociopath.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul:
  • Cherri Bomb and Sir Pentious are in a relationship now, implied to have evolved out of a master/servant dynamic after Pentious was slaved to her will in A Peaceful Afterlife. Turns out, the combination of Cherri's brashness and competence with Pentious' inventions allowed the two of them to achieve ganglord status, and the former genuinely appreciated the latter's contributions.
• Affably Evil:
  • Grand Duke Sallos is a member of the Goetia and a demon of the highest order who looks down on lesser demons like one would insects... and happens to adore his niece Octavia, sympathizes with Stolas' love life, doesn't judge him for sleeping with an imp, gets anime memes... and casually kills another demon for even suggesting that they kill Octavia to punish her father. Later on, when he has I.M.P at his mercy, he courteously treats them to tea and biscuits and amicably chats with them about his awful worklife, he even provides them with lavish food for their last meals.
  • Danger, fittingly, is a murderous political mastermind who kills without hesitation or remorse. He's also just about the only person who considers Blitzo a friend and is sincerely dedicated to improving the American political system. He extends every courtesy to Moxxie and Millie even when their first interactions with him are to try and kill him.
  • Red Nightmare comes off as quite jovial and high-spirited, albeit in an utterly psychotic fashion.
• Affectionate Nickname: Just about everyone calls Moonchild "Moonie", but special mention goes to the Goetia family's predilection for unassuming monikers for obscenely powerful demons, such as "Sally" (Sallos) "La-La" (Stolas) and "Via" (Octavia).
  • Sallos also adorably calls Octavia 'poppet'. It's so cutesy that it becomes a minor plot-point later in the story, when Sallos utters it without a hint of affection it's a major red flag to Octavia that he's after her.
• Age-Gap Romance: Moonchild, who was thirty-three when he died twenty years ago is dating Octavia, who is seventeen in demon years. When Pazzi lampshades this Moonchild tries to stammer out an explanation about how he's still mentally a teenager like he was on Earth, only for the old man to laugh and say he doesn't care. To be fair Moonchild still looks like he's in his late teens and really hasn't aged since he truly was as old as he looks.
  • Commented on by Diavolo, who expresses discomfort at the idea of courting a teenager... who is also a humanoid, demonic owl.
• Agony Beam: Gallia is capable of firing powerful blasts of demonic lightning that paralyze her targets with indescribable pain.
• All for Nothing: After all the measures that were taken to ensure Sallos wouldn't have to mark Octavia for death, come chapter 14, it's all rendered meaningless when Lucifer gets directly involved and all but orders Sallos to specifically target Octavia.
  "...All his plans, all his preparations, all for naught... for the first time in his long, long life, he felt truely damned."
• A Hell of a Time: When a hurt Octavia asks Moonchild why he wants to leave Hell, he points out that she isn't living in Hell — she's living in luxury in a palace. For that matter, Hell isn't even that bad for the sinners who deserve it the most; since they revel in the freedom from morals and law, nevermind those strong enough to become Overlords. Hell, ultimately, tends to be the worst for those like Moonchild, who are too weak to do anything but be abused by others.
• Always a Bigger Fish:
  • The story makes it clear that as powerful as an overlord is, the true nobility of hell is on a whole other level, Sallos is on another level above that himself, and even he has to give pause when Charlie stands in his way.
  • Not to mention that despite the seemingly broken nature of his powers, Alastor's at a disadvantage against Diavolo, who can erase snippets of time to get results that favor him.
  • As of Chapter 14, it's pretty clear that Lucifer is the biggest fish in Hell, hands-down.
• Ambiguously Bi: Octavia has shown attraction towards Moonchild and appeared to have a Crush Blush when Gallia complimented her outfit.
  • Moonchild himself ends up in a relationship with Octavia, but a few scenes imply he has a crush on Husk. He also briefly makes out with Angel at one point, but that might just be Angel.
• Ambiguous Situation: Red Nightmare seemingly develops another personality (called Solido) who undoes his slaughter of the Hotel staff and locks his the powers that let him kill them so easily away in Chapter 27. But as this comes directly after Moonchild and Diavolo's refusion by Sallos(which was supposed to render them fully whole), it's unclear what exactly 'Solido' is yet.
• And I Must Scream: Whenever Diavolo isn't in control, he's trapped in his endless loop of death, until Chapter 14.
• Animal Motif: Moonchild is analyzed by Charlie as being like a cuttlefish. He has minor shapeshifting and color-changing, tentacles, and she thinks his meek demeanor is hiding something, like a smaller male pretending to be a female.
• An Arm and a Leg: Diavolo's resurgence in Chapter 10 results in lots of people losing various body parts^note Thanks to King Crimson, they often don't notice until a few seconds later.
• Appropriated Appellation: Red Nightmare, Moonchild and Diavolo's fusion under Sallos' power, takes his name from what Frederick von Eldritch called Diavolo after his rampage at the Azathoth Casino.
• Arson, Murder, and Admiration: During the news report in Chapter 11, the owner of the Azathoth Casino has this to say about the unknown assailant (Diavolo) who tore apart his casino and shredded his clientele:
  Frederick von Eldritch: Hundreds were butchered and will be laid low for months, if not years, as they regenerate, and countless more were horrifically mutilated. The cleaning bill alone is estimated to be in the hundreds of thousands. To this nameless killer, this 'Red Nightmare', I have only this to say: I will look for you, I will find you, and I will... (Cue massive grin) ...Pay you handsomely to be the breakout star of my newest caged fighting arena!
• Asshole Victim:
  • Bastille, the aggressive drug dealer from A Peaceful Afterlife, and his thugs. They were ready to torture, rape, and dismember Husk, Angel, and Moonchild. Few tears are shed when Diavolo takes over and tears them apart and when Angel Dust kills him.
  • Red Nightmare's final scene in the story implies he's about to violently murder his old nanny Lady Belladona and usurp her criminal empire. Considering who Belladona is, it doesn't come across as particularly heinous.
• Attractive Bent-Gender: When dolled up by Angel, Moonchild is beautiful enough to fluster both Vaggie and Husk.
• A Threesome Is Hot:
  • A drunken Stolas calls up Blitzo and rants at length about how he wants to include Moonchild in a threesome with him and the imp. While Blitzo suspects he's trolling, he is, himself, open the idea. when he later tries to convince Moonchild into accepting the offer, the Sinner responds.. less positively.
  • In chapter 18, Moxxie and Millie admit they've talked about Blitzo's offer for a threeway and decide to do so at the end of the chapter.
• Ax-Crazy: Diavolo's suffering has shredded what little restraint or reasoning he had to start with, his default state without any sort of outside influence like Alastor's magic or Moonchild's constant self-repression to keep him sane is now a mute, feral lunatic.
• Babysitter from Hell: The nanny Priest Naso hired to take care of his adopted son was the former sergeant of his mother's prison, who was blamed for his unexplained birth and fired. She proceeded to abuse him in every way imaginable, including sexually, and refused to use his name, calling him "Diavolo". When she was discovered and arrested, she committed suicide and ended up in Hell, where she became the demon "Lady" Belladonna, and runs an orphanage that functions more like prison with various shops, its child occupants used as her gang and its teenagers, sickeningly, as prostitutes.
• Bad Boss: As Blitzo points out Lucifer isn't just punishing Stolas but Sallos as well. They know who took the Saint's Corpse, and they know who has it, but Sallos has thus far failed to retrieve it. Lucifer's response is to do something that will hurt his chief enforcer just as much as his intended victim.
• Badass Crew: Il Nove, formerly La Squadra, have essentially blitzed the powerstructure of Hell itself after the events of Helluva Job, firmly cementing themselves as big players in Pentagram City. This comes into play later, when Stolas deems them badass enough to protect Octavia from Sallos.
• Badass Pacifist: Charlie reminds us that, like from the first story, just because she doesn't like being violent, that she's not someone that can easily be messed with.
• Bastard Bastard: Zig-Zagged in regards to Diavolo. He remains as dangerous man as he was in life, but the reveal of his backstory strongly implies he's just severely mentally ill, not malevolent.
• Bait the Dog: Upon arriving in Hell in Chapter 15, Diavolo comes off as passive and frightened, seemingly capable of being redeemed. This lasts right up till he comes back to his senses, upon which he reveals not only has he been privy to Moonchild's life in Hell... he's disgusted with him for "debasing" himself. And since Moonchild's revealed his past to the Hotel cast, Diavolo plans to kill all of them, starting with Charlie.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: Niffty is very keen on bringing out Moonchild's darker side, being turned on by his brutality in this form. When the ultimate form of that darkness — Red Nightmare — appears, she is decidedly not turned on.
  Niffty: Oh, please no... Not like this...
• Benevolent Boss: Moonchild considers Stolas this, thanking Stolas for taking him off the streets when he first came to Hell. Downplayed later on, as he believes Stolas would get rid of him the second he stops being useful.
• Berserk Button:
  • Like canon, anyone investigating him is one for Diavolo. This includes asking Moonchild stuff, like how he became the Underboss of Passione.
  • As of Chapter 11, one of Charlie's is when her employees' actions endanger her clients. Alastor is very interested to discover this, musing that he might be able to escape the Deal with the Devil that Charlie suckered him into by invoking this button at some point in the future, and again when Sallos tries to break into the Hotel through a portal only to be met face to face with a Charlie angry enough to actually use her powers.
    • According to her father Charlie has always had a habit of being willing to get violent if someone tried to hurt those she cared about, as whenever Lucifer tried to kill her pets she'd respond by going full demon and leveling whole wings of the palace.
  • Grand Duke Sallos really hates it when his relatives petrify him, not that it does him any harm.
  • Do not threaten Octavia. Not in front of anybody that cares about her. Not her father, or her mother or her boyfriend and especially not Sallos. Sallos casually killed several Overlords without a second thought for enjoying her execution.
  • Lucifer does not like defiance from anyone. Let alone his right-hand man. Sallos sets him off by reminding him that he isn't the king of Hell, he's its main prisoner, then asks him if he's ever held his daughter with his real body's arms.
• Beware the Nice Ones:
  • Moonchild/Doppio applies, given his alternate personality. Though both Solido and Red Nightmare drop the the nice part.
  • Sallos, as intimidating and powerful as he is, is understanding and familial to Stolas and Octavia, even chummy... and he puts the hurt on Valentino when the latter threatens them. And he's willing to carry out the Decree on a loved one that isn't Octavia, even though he knows Stolas will be heartbroken. Not that he enjoys that.
  • Charlie might be a nascent Disney princess in the wrong setting, but she's still a demon and has her limits, as Husk finds out when she finds out that the former roped Moonchild into a scheme to scam the rich patrons of the Azathoth casino. In her anger, she actually transforms into her more monstrous state while chewing Husk out.
• Bigger Is Better in Bed: When Galia ends up turning Blitzo on by deflecting his bullets and beating the crap out of him, she takes a look down at what he's working with and is impressed by what she sees.
  • Moonchild is also implied on several occasions to qualify, mostly from Angel's observations.
  • Moxxie also qualifies. As Millie wryly points out, despite him being more of a thespain than a farmer, he's definitely more a 'grower than a shower'.
• Black Speech: Sallos's words used to separate Solido back into Moonchild and Diavolo isn't described as a spell, but something that reality had no choice but to obey.
  • Just about every time a higher-level demon cuts loose, their speech manifests various eldritch wingdings and artifacts.
• Bloodier and Gorier: As of Chapter 10, this fic qualifies. A Peaceful Afterlife got violent with its fight scenes, but Diavolo takes things to a whole new level of carnage.
• Blood from the Mouth: Charlie coughs out some of the red stuff following Diavolo punching her in the abdomen. Alastor gets this too, considering Diavolo punched his heart out.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality:
  • Much of chaos in Hell is regimented in a bizarre lawbook (to annoy anarchists) that seems framed entirely around victimizing the weak, with endless caveats including superior armament and style.
  • Decorum, as observed by the ruling class of Hell, seems to govern behavior and conduct, with no emphasis on morality good or bad. It's purpose is to simply avoid the aristocracy of Hell from fighting and causing untold destruction.
  • Red Nightmare has a weird outlook even by the standards of Hell. He's honestly surprised when Husk and Angel react to his violent murdering of all their friends with hate and disgust.
• Body Horror: Moonchilds transformation into Diavolo involves a lot of wet noises.
• Bodyguard Crush: It's painfully obvious that captain Gallia isn't just loyal to Sallos.
• Born Lucky: Dumb luck is pretty much the only reason I.M.P keeps succeeding to the extent they do.
• Brain Uploading: The reason that I.M.P are still slated for death despite the edict now specifically targeting Octavia. They've been inside the vault and thus know about its defenses, and Hell is interested in finding out what new measures humanity has come up with to resist their forces, and with the other demons who went there not a viable option despite knowing more, Blitzo's crew has been selected to have their memories extracted. Killing them isn't the main intention but the process is guaranteed fatal.
• Break Them by Talking: Diavolo delivers a brutal one to Octavia, in no uncertain terms explaining how she's not only a walking, talking reminder of his abuse at the hands of her mother, but will also likely get him killed by her uncle.
• Broken Pedestal: It's made clear by the final chapter that Octavia's relationship with her parents has all but completely disintegrated.
• Bruiser with a Soft Center: Thy name is Sallos, as he's both huge and powerful, but is revealed to love corny romance novels, rom-coms, his favorite movie is Titanic, and is fond of and white wines.
  • Moonchild, after his maturation, is described as being tall, fabulously well-built and no slouch in the strength department, but is still every inch the sweet, gentle soul he was before.
• Brown Note: Lucifer manifesting in Sallos' chambers is preceded by something happening. Whatever it was, the words necessary to describe it were either lost or are carefully guarded by the angels themselves.
• Bullying a Dragon:
  • Valentino knows full well that if Stolas wanted to, he could kill the overlord easily. However, he also knows that if he does so, it will cause his image to take a massive hit, so can freely irritate him with no consequence. Grand Duke Sallos, on the other hand... Then the two imply that the only reason Valentino wasn't turned to stone was because of Sallos arriving at the last second.
  • In Chapter 10, Bastille and his fellow thugs have very unpleasant plans for Angel, Husk, and Moonchild. The thing is, Moonchild's Superpowered Evil Side has other ideas...
  • In Chapter 16, the three thugs that harass Moonchild and Octavia in the living world had no idea how outclassed they were. Even when they revealed themselves as Stand Users, they had no hope of winning a fight against a member of the Ars Goetia, and the former underboss of the Passione.
• Burning Bag of Poop: While there has yet to be one on fire, Stolas receives a lot of packages full of feces.
• The Bus Came Back:
  • In Chapter 8, Poker Face/Daniel J. D'Arby returns at the end of the chapter to menace Husk.
  • In the next chapter, Bastille, the aggressive drug-pusher from A Peaceful Afterlife returns to threaten Angel and Moonchild.
• Call-Back:
  • Moonchild's meeting with Charlie plays out similar to when Yoshikage Kira met her, including kissing her hand and questioning Razz and Dazz being her musical accompaniment.
  • Cherri references when Poker Face enslaved Sir Pentious to her will back in chapter 4 of A Peaceful Afterlife.
• Calling the Old Man Out: In Chapter 13, an infuriated Octavia calls out Stolas for being the cause of her and Moonchild's suffering.
• Came Back Strong: While downplayed compared to his fellow Stand users, Moonchild can now look into the past as well as the future, with his window of viewing having expanded to 100 seconds. Unlike canon, he can change the results of his precognitive visions to an extent.
• Can't Hold His Liquor: Moonchild is completely intoxicated after drinking with Stolas. Though consider all Stolas appears to have is high-proof cognac it wouldn't be difficult to get drunk in the first place.
• Captain Obvious: When Lucifer orders Sallos to kill Octavia and the Grand Duke tells him that's cruel, Lucifer sarcastically welcomes him to Hell.
• Character Development: Moonchild starts out very meek and submissive. After the events of Chapter 10, he becomes subtly more assertive by gently-but-firmly telling Niffty that he isn't in the mood for her stalking him after the night he's had.
  • Compare and contrast Angel's behavior in the canon pilot with his guilt over the events of Chapter 10, and his willingness to comply with Charlie's firm request that he quit his nights on the town for the foreseeable future.
  • Husk, despite his deep-rooted cynicism, has steadily grown fonder of Moonchild.
• Chekhov's Gun: Angel suggests in chapter 11 that that Husk's budding friendship with Moonchild might be useful in preventing Diavolo from going on a rampage in the future. Come Chapter 27, Husk turns out to be the only member of the Hotel Red Nightmare can't bring himself to kill, leading him to suffer a Freak Out and unconsciously bring the rest of them back to life in his distress.
  • Blitzo takes a drug called Souls-2-Go in Chapter 13 to survive pissing off Diavolo, while at first it just seems to an addictive drug with a nifty side-effect. It eventually turns out be part of Trouble's master plan, as well as having some truly horrific ingredients.
• Combo Platter Powers: Red Nightmare is both a Human-Demon Hybrid and the wielder of a very powerful Stand. While the full range of abilities this unique nature grants them aren't fully clear by the epilogue, the most obvious is Super-Strength great enough to fatally wound Demon Royalty with one or two strikes.
• Chick Magnet: After Moonchild gains his other half muscular build all the demon girls can't help but appreciate his new look. With the exception of Vaggie, who being completely into women unlike her bisexual partner, bemoans the loss of the fish boy's feminine beauty.
• Clipped-Wing Angel: Completely literally. That's Lucifers real form. Not the over the top apple-themed dandy king of the damned, but an angel with torn-up wings floating in the abyss beneath it, still nursing the wounds of his fall into being not Hell's ruler, but it's main prisoner.
• Cloud Cuckoolander: Red Nightmare comes off like a total cloud-case, rarely dropping his affable facade, even when butchering people. The best example is when he's slowly wringing the life out of Razzle and Dazzle he casually asks them if a hypothetical third goat would be named 'Pizazz', blithely stating that he thinks it's a cute name after killing them.
• Coincidental Broadcast: In Chapter 11, Alastor pre-empts Husk's explanation of the events of Chapter 10 by turning on the news, which just so happens to be covering the incident in gruesome detail.
• Consummate Professional:
  • Captain Gallia, the Grand Duke's right-hand demon, is a non-royal who's powerful enough to intimidate royals and Overlords alike. She's courteous, polite, and even affectionate towards Octavia, but states she would not hesitate to kill her if ordered to do so^note though she immediately states that she'd regret it.
  • Grand Duke Sallos will uphold Decorum regardless of what he has to do, and who he has to hurt no matter his own feelings. If he hadn't managed to get Stolas to admit that he was genuinely in love with Blitzo, then he would have had to take Stolas' punishment out on Octavia.
• Combat Clairvoyance: In Chapter 13, Moonchild is able to effortlessly dodge and evade his former tormentors, presumably by using his powers.
• Contrived Coincidence: The nanny Priest Naso hired to look after pre-split Doppio and Diavolo just happened to be the former sergeant of his mother's prison wing, who was scapegoated for the Mystical Pregnancy and fired. She relished the chance for revenge.
• Cool Car: Blitzo bought a Mustang Mach one with the money he got from St. Anger.
• Cool Old Guy: Cacciatore Pazzi, a senior member of Passione, is an unfailingly polite, avuncular old man. He's also an experienced gangster and Stand User who is wholly unperturbed to see his (dead) old boss show up again as a demon from Hell, wryly noting that with the afterlife confirmed he'd best go to church more frequently.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: I.M.P is decked out with all the best weapons money can buy, all made out of the deadly-to-demons Seraphic Steel. They may as well be shooting spitballs at Captain Gallia.
• Curb-Stomp Cushion:
  • Despite the royal spanking they get, I.M.P take advantage of Captain Gallia's arrogant, playful Cherry Tapping and manage to score some decent hits. Unfortunately, all it does is annoy her.
  • Moonchild/Diavolo vs Grand Duke Sallos runs this way for much of the fight. Sallos puts up a good showing, but once Red Nightmare makes his debut, he's rendered completely helpless by the Sinner in a single move.
• Cuteness Proximity:
  • Moonchild is cute enough to momentarily stun Charlie of all people.
  • Upon arriving in Hell, Moonchild returned Stolas' wallet and, instead of petrifying him on the spot for "toadying", Stolas picks Moonchild up and takes him home.
• The Cutie: Physically, descriptions of Moonchild range from "cute" to "pretty", but it's his attitude and gentle soul that cement him as being this.
• Crash-Into Hello: Moonchild meets Charlie and Vaggie this way... with the "crash" happening to be the latter two accidentally hitting the former with their limo.
• Crazy-Prepared: Trouble was smart enough to send a double to meet with Stolas, just in case the demon prince tried to kill him. Which he did.
  • Speaking of doubles. Stolas was smart enough to hire Il Nove to protect Octavia until Lucifer's decree has expired.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Well as close to death as a demon can be without a Heaven weapon, but Diavolo's massacre with so horrifically violent even for Hell that channel 666 is doing none stop coverage of it of the result.
  • Sallos isn't just trying to kill Octavia out of duty. He's doing it because if he doesn't then Lucifer will send Morax. Who, unlike Sallos who plans to make it quick and painless, Morax will enjoy killing her in the most sadistic way possible.
  • Sallos is retroactively stripped of every defence, forced to bear the brunt of Lucifer's tantrum, and then has his wounds torn open and his head ripped off by Red Nightmare .
  • Chapter 27's events include Red Nightmare rampaging through the Happy Hotel, wherein he suprise-donuts Charlie, snaps Vaggie's head on backwards, crushes Razzle and Dazzle's necks, decapitates Alastor, squishes Niffty, and finally stabs Angel through the heart with his own knife.
• Cry Laughing: Red Nightmare breaks down into this after killing everyone but Husk. It's described as maniacal laughter that eventually deepens into sobs as he falls to his knees.
• Darker and Edgier: In contrast to Hazbin's Black Comedy and Jojo primarily being comedically weird (something well-represented in the previous two fics), Only the Results material comes off as much more depressing and disturbing at times. Following a very unstable protagonist and featuring a lot of Adaptational Villainy and Gorn. The best example is the final chapter. While Kira goes out in a Heroic Sacrifice and is given a second chance at redemption, Red Nightmare and Soldio end the story as essentially the same characters Diavolo and Doppio were in life: a borderline-feral gangster and a willfully oblivious good side mostly uncaring of his worse half's crimes.
• Dark and Troubled Past: In Chapter 6, it's revealed It's revealed Diavolo and Doppio were created as the coping mechanism of a young boy who endured an abusive and pedophilic nanny before she was arrested and committed suicide. When his birth mother showed up and demanded cash, he snapped and kicked off his Blood Bath Villain Origin.
• Dating What Daddy Hates: Octavia almost quotes this trope word-for-word when contemplating the ramifications of dating Moonchild.
• Decadent Court: Defied. Lucifer knows with the kind of power the ruling class of Hell has in multiple senses of the word that any in-fighting between them could cause major destruction to his kingdom. So he sets up a form of law the upper echelons are expected to follow and employs lesser royal demons to act as peacekeepers to enforce it.
• Deadpan Snarker: Husk, natch, but Diavolo, surprisingly, once he's no longer trying to kill everyone he meets develops quite the dry, acerbic wit.
  Diavolo: (to Moonchild) Do you practice being an obtuse twit?
• Deal with the Devil: Charlie makes a deal with Alastor to ensure his cooperation in protecting the Hazbin Hotel and its clients. This being a deal with the Radio Demon, it turns out to be a surprise that Charlie is the Devil in this deal—Alastor can't kill Moonchild after he passes out from Diavolo's possession. On top of that, Charlie can summon him to her side whenever she wants, without his say-so.
• Death Wail: When the newly reconstituted Solido uses his incredible powers to try and revive "Octavia", he cradles her cold, lifeless body for a moment before breaking into a series of 'no's before completely losing it and roaring in pain and sorrow.
• Defiant to the End: Even when faced with Red Nightmare's terrifying strength, having just murdered everyone else in the Hotel, including Charlie and Alastor, Husk makes a spiteful Last Stand against Red and flatly refuses his offer to join him.
• Delayed Reaction: All over the place in Chapter 10, what with Diavolo abusing King Crimson to erase time to frightening effect. One noteworthy example:
  The nearest thug released Angel's leg and stepped back, turning to flee. "What the–"
  "–fuck," his head mumbled as it landed in the arms of Bixi, the decapitated body running mindlessly into the far wall, collapsing a moment later.
• Demoted to Dragon: Gallia is a mortal sinner and a former Overlord, who'd carved out her own slice of the city and ruled for centuries before Sallos noticed her soldier-like discipline and got her to join his forces as a captain. Not that she minds, as her position allows her to push around royals.
• Department of Redundancy Department: Husk asks if they can stop calling Moonchild's other self Diavolo since it's just Italian for 'Devil', and in Hell, it's like calling a guy 'Hugh Mann' while on Earth.
• Didn't See That Coming:
  • It's safe to say that the loser of the aforementioned Deal with the Devil was not expecting the contract to work against them in the way it has.
  • Also, it's equally safe to assume that Bastille and his thugs were not expecting the twinky pushover that Angel was flirting with to have a Superpowered Evil Side who won the Superpower Lottery.
  • As of Chapter 15, there is continued safety in assuming that Diavolo was not expecting that Moonchild/Doppio Took a Level in Badass.
  • Judging by his reaction, Sallos was not expecting Octavia to find sanctuary with his boss' daughter.
  • In chapter 27, it's a safe bet no one, not even the reader, saw Red Nightmare violently butchering his former friends coming.
  • In Chapter 26, Sallos sorely underestimates the scope of Red Nightmare's new powers, it proves a fatal mistake.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Red Nightmare decapitates Sallos after severely wounding him with his new ability.
• Didn't Think This Through: A hilarious example in Chapter 13, best summed up by the following conversation between Octavia and the tiny voice of reason in her subconscious:
  Inner Voice: Hey, 'Via.
  Octavia: Yes, 'Via?
  Inner Voice: Ever think that maybe taking the guy we're conflicted about being hot for and dressing him up like a sexy goth boy 'might be a bad idea?''
  Octavia: Oh, no...
  • Sallos points out that Lucifer's entire history has been him not thinking about the consequences of his actions thanks to his pride. He'd rather force him to carry out Stolas's punishment than prioritize finding the Saint's Corpse just to teach the other demons not to mess with him. Then by forcing Sallos to kill Octavia just to spite him he's simultaneously made Sallos angry enough to defy him and get rid of the only thing that he could threaten to force him back into compliance.
• Distracted by the Sexy:
  • Vaggie in chapter 8. Upon seeing Moonchild after Angel dressed him up like arm-candy, she just stared at him until Charlie snaps her out of it.
  • In Chapter 11, as Moonchild is explaining everything that happened prior to him gaining his new build, all Octavia can focus on is how hard his abs are now.
• The Devil Is a Loser: It's made pretty clear that this is the prevailing attitude most of the Inner Circle has on Lucifer. Despite his vast power, he's an excessively proud, vengeful, petty, self-defeating loser who got all his "friends" kicked out of paradise and forced to scrounge for its scraps stuck for eternity. It's so bad that even Sinners with a whit of experience in subterfuge can successfully play one of the most powerful beings in creation for a fool just by setting up a situation where his pride could be comprised.
• The Dog Bites Back: Moonchild, after twenty years of abuse and exploitation, after falling in love and having that love cruelly snatched away from him, willingly hands control to Diavolo and creates the powerful and malevolent super-demon Red Nightmare, and all but ensuring his tormenters are in for some major Karma Houdini Warranty.
• Dope Slap: After Frederick von Eldritch offers to pay handsomely for 'Red Nightmare' to fight in his arena, Angel (jokingly) suggests they take advantage. Husk fails to see the humour and delivers one of these. Vaggie joins in a second later.
• Downer Ending: The story ends on much more sour note then its predecessor. Trouble's plan is going swimmingly, Moonchild and Diavolo's attempt at a Split-Personality Merge produce Red Nightmare, I.M.P, Il Nove and Danger come out unscathed, and Sallos's death leads Octavia to disown her parents and become The Runaway.
• Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: Subverted. Every heroic character rightfully views Stella as vile once they learn that she forced herself on Moonchild. Angel in particular abandons his usual vitriol to tell Moonchild that there's no difference between what happened to either of them, and it's implied to be the primary reason why Octavia's view of her and Stolas devolves into Hates Their Parent by the final chapter.
• The Dragon: Sallos basically serves as this to Lucifer, so its no wonder everyone is so afraid of him.
• Dramatically Missing the Point: By chapter 12, Octavia's come to to the conclusion that - based on the events of A Peaceful Afterlife and Diavolo's rampage in chapter 10 - Charlie's rehab clinic is a scam for something less noble, and that Moonchild's "rehabiliation" could only get him in trouble.
• Drama-Preserving Handicap: Thriller getting knocked out means the group cannot just run away when escaping the Grand Duke's castle. St. Anger explicitly says they can only get out over the guards dead bodies.
  • Red Nightmare turns out to be powerful enough to kill Charlie with seemingly little effort. If it wasn't for his lingering feelings of affection for the Hotel staff reappearing at a fortunate time , it's likely he would have slaughtered all of them. He did in fact, do this; it was only Solido hijacking their powers that undid this.
• Dramatic Irony: Red Nightmare's primary motive for killing everyone at the Happy Hotel is to destroy any traces of his identity and the nature of his powers. Not only does he lose control of his powers because of this, but the Hotel staff thought Moonchild was already dead by the time he arrived.
• The Dreaded: Grand Duke Sallos is the primary peacekeeper of Hell and the reactions of Stolas and Charlie^note who, in this continuity effortlessly tears Exorcists apart with her bare hands to him sniffing around is a simple, John Wick-esque "Oh.".
  • When Moonchild, in full Red Nightmare mode, threatens a sinner for the location of Sallos's palace, the sinner calmly tells Moonchild to do whatever he wants to him. Grand Duke Sallos is so powerful, anything Moonchild could do would be a slap on the wrist compared to Sallos's retaliation. By this point, Diavolo has decimated a popular casino and literally torn scores of demons apart with his bare hands.
  • Red Nightmare steals this reputation after killing him. Not only having marked himself as an up-and-coming Overlord, but having left the Goetica clan utterly baffled as to who could have so easily slain one of their best warriors.
• Drowning My Sorrows: In chapter 8, Moonchild comes across Stolas in the process of getting supremely hammered due to the stress of knowing that Sallos is planning to kill a certain loved one of his as per the Decree.
• Dude Looks Like a Lady: Moonchild looks feminine enough on his own, but when given a makeover by Angle Dust, he looks pretty enough that Vaggie is attracted to him. This gets downplayed around chapter 10, as Moonchild reconnecting to Diavolo results in his body transforming into a much more masculine figure.
• Dude Magnet: Moonchild is just as attractive to men as he is to women, and not just because he can be mistaken for a she, as even Husk is a bit enamoured with him.
• Dude, Not Funny!: When Alastor pops in on a group support session and crassly jokes about Kira's death, the whole group goes silent. Charlie actually has to restrain Angel from attacking the Radio Demon.
  • Most of Blitzo's jokes produce this reaction.
• Eagleland: Even as a demon and having every reason to abandon them after all the years in the Vault, Funny Valentine — or, as he's known now, Danger — will do whatever it takes, and sink to any level, in order to defend his home country. Even from the forces of Heaven and Hell.
• Eating the Eye Candy: Vaggie can't help but stare at Moonchild when Angel dolls him up.
  • And later, once Moonchild has undergone a change into a larger, more masculine form, just about everyone else drools over the newly minted hunk.
• Embarrassing Nickname: The dreaded Grand Duke Sallos is known as "Uncle Sally" to his beloved niece. That being said, it's inadvisable for anyone else to call him that to his face.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Sallos is very protective of Octavia and threatening her is a big Berserk Button for him. The aide who suggests making her the target of the Decree gets kicked out of a moving limo; Valentino implying he'd want to pimp her out gets him humiliated, and Lucifer ordering her death makes him cry.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • Cherri Bomb might be willing to keep Sir Pentious as essentially an indentured servant, But it's clear their relationship is entirely consensual.
  • Angel might be a lascivious harlot of a gangster, but he'd never force himself on anyone. Upon realizing that he triggered Moonchild in Chapter 9 with a kiss, he's quick to apologize and take the time to reassure him that he won't do anything Moonchild doesn't want.
  • By Chapter 11, Husk is willing to leave without an argument when Charlie almost fires him after his actions put Moonchild in danger. Later on, he and Angel turn over the loot they picked up at the casino to Vaggie by way of apology.
  • Diavolo explicitly states he's disinterested in Octavia because of her age. Though the way he chooses to phrase his rejection could use some work.
  • It's subtly implied that even Red Nightmare has to restrain the urge to gut Lady Belladonna like a fish.
• Everything Is Trying to Kill You: Diavolo's still trapped by Gold Experience Requiem's power. By chapter 14, it turns out that this not only causes him to be stuck in a never-ending near-death loop where he's killed by random events, but the longer it takes to kill him, the more insane the fatal circumstances become until he dies and resets the loop. By the time Moonchild and Octavia come to rescue him, the world's turned so hard against Diavolo that he's practically living in a Final Destination film.
• Evil Brit: Grand Duke Sallos speaks with Received Pronunciation and is an incredibly powerful demon who, outside of his family, views other demons as vermin and kills without a second thought.
• Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor: Alastor, predictably, will not pass up a single opportunity to poke fun at other people's misery or misfortune, but even he pales in comparison to the utter petty diskishness of Lucifer who not only orders Octavia's death to punish Stolas and Sallos both, but when delivering her head to the former, leaves a note on the box that reads 'To: La-La From: Lucy Enclosed: How to get ahead in life'.
• Evil Orphanage Lady: Dear God Lady Belladonna. She runs her orphanage like mix between a gang, a prison and, disgustingly, a brothel. Though it's thankfully implied she's soon due for "retirement" at the hands of her first victim.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Stolas might need to be constantly bleeped when telling Blitzo what he wants to do to him in bed, but what the two of them do is entirely consensual. He's horrified when he learns what Stella was actually doing to Moonchild.
• Evil Is Petty: The main plot of the story is kicked off by Lucifer's Decree to punish Stolas, which is understandable given what he's allowed to happen. The real pettiness starts to show when he not only pulls his best man off the aformentioned (critically important) investigation, but selects a target close to both Stolas and Sallos in order to punish and demoralize them both. Sounds pretty basic for Lucifer, but this is all the while a Heavenly host is implied to be inbound to uproot Hell in search of the Saint's Corpse.
• Evil Uncle: Sallos is this to Octavia. Unlike most examples, he cares about his niece.
• Exact Words: Sallos was ordered to punish Stolas by killing a loved one. Initially, Stolas thought he meant Octavia, then he remembered his cousin and he had just talked about how what he has with Blitzo isn't just about sex...
  • Which Lucifer does not appreciate and has some fun with this trope on his own. Demanding that Sallos kills not just anybody that Stolas loves, but a 'beloved family member'. Which considering the strained relationship he has with his wife, means the order only applies to one single, goth princess.
  • Taken even further by Gallia, who upon seeing Sallos dead, immediately orders his head be delivered to Stolas, as to fulfill the Decree and protect Octavia as her doting uncle would have wanted. The Decree was satisfied, just not how anyone expected.
• Extraordinary World, Ordinary Problems: The setting is Hell and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure so just about anything could happen, but the genesis of the whole conflict, and implied to be the cause of much of the issues among Hell's Royals, is an unhappy marriage. Once Sallos comes to this realization, he vows to become Hell's first marriage counsellor.
• Face Death with Dignity: When offered the chance to run from their impending execution, Octavia refuses. Knowing full well if they do their life won't be worth living since they'll just be running and the people they care about will suffer for it.
• Face–Heel Turn: Moonchild, after thinking he's lost Octavia, decides that he's had enough of Hell and fuses with Diavolo to form the powerful and evil Red Nightmare.
• Faux Affably Evil: Sallos, while unmistakably the Grand Duke of Hell, is cordial, even friendly to those around him, but never lets his rank escape notice. Lucifer, on the other hand, is always smiling, quick to crack a joke, and rarely ever drops his pleasant mannerisms. When he does drop them however, he reminds everyone why he's the King of Hell when he orders the Decree to target Octavia to make Stolas suffer as much as possible, and his true nature is horrifying enough to put the figurative fear of God into someone like Sallos.
• Fearless Fool: Upon finding out just who threatened Loona, Blitzo's barely phased. It's implied that at least half of it is from not quite getting how far over in over his head he is; the other half has to do with his Papa Wolf button being hammered.
• Fighting from the Inside: At the climax of Chapter 10, Moonchild manages to wrest control back from Diavolo when the latter's about to kill Angel and Husk.
  • When Red Nightmare tries to kill all of Moonchild's friends, Solido won't let him and holds back Moonchild's side of their powers.
• Forceful Kiss:
  • Angel gives one to Moonchild... only to regret it when Moonchild didn't reciprocate.
  • Gallia gives one to Moxxie after defeating him.
  • Diavolo of all people, does this to Vaggie while pretending to be Moonchild in his effeminate form. His behavior afterwards implies he did it to mess with Charlie.
• Four Lines, All Waiting: The narrative switches between the plots for the Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss casts — between Charlie's efforts to redeem Doppio, and the fallout from the events of Helluva Job.
• Friendless Background: Moonchild, both in Hell and before, to the point where it's an indicator that there's something seriously wrong with his past.
• The Fog of Ages: Hell's Royalty is explicitly described as the very same Fallen Angels banished from Heaven, making them all eons old. Sallos and Stolas imply that intense weariness with their supernaturally long lives has made most of them miserable.
• Friendly Enemy: Sallos is defined by duty not sadism. Every cruel thing he does he does to maintain what little order their is in Hell and because Lucifer ordered him to do it. Outside of his duty Sallos is so well-mannered and friendly you'd hardly believe he was a demon.
  • He is perfectly polite to I.M.P while he has them imprisoned. Treating them to tea. Apologizing to them and explaining to them why they're being interrogated for the heist despite the ones who hired them being the better source for that information^note Il Nove have become Overlords in their own right, and have made big enough donations to Hell's ruling class they can be overlooked, while Blitzo and his employees are... just imps, commiserates about his and their position and Blitzo's relationship with Stolas, and offers them a few last meals before their death.
• From Bad to Worse: In the original future Moonchild witnessed, Stella would stomp into the office angry at Stolas. This becomes worse after he and Blitzo walk out of the office of the former after sex and Stella witnesses them and becomes enraged.
• Furry Reminder: When eating steak, Octavia leans back and swallows it whole. Octavia lampshades it.
  Octavia: What? I'm an owl, we don't really chew.
• Human Disguise: Moonchild and Octavia use these when they go to earth.
• Human Resources: As it turns out, the drug Souls-2-Go is made using refined demonic energy, and the archetypal light of the Saint's Corpse, focused into a beam to melt down thousands of souls, which are then purified and reshaped into flavoured pills.
• Gentle Giant: Despite his size, power, and the general aura of fear he instills in other demons, Grand Duke Sallos is a total sweetheart when it comes to Octavia. Doting on her like any good uncle, and going Papa Wolf on a demon that suggests using her to punish Stolas.
• Get Out!: According to Octavia's flashback in Chapter 12, Stella screamed this at her when she called her out on her treatment of Moonchild.
  • Later, in Chapter 13, Stolas drops a subdued-yet-stern version of this on Blitzo after the latter's well-meaning yet ill-phrased attempts to cheer him up after Octavia chewed him out.
• Godzilla Threshold: Part of the reason for Lucifer's decision to have Octavia marked for death stems from the fact that, well... Heaven itself is going to get directly involved if the Saint's Corpse isn't returned to Earth soon.
• Gorn: Diavolo's rampage through the Azathoth Casino is an unqualified bloodbath, with limbs and innards flying like confetti.
  • The later rampage of Red Nightmare in Chapter 27 is likewise violent, made all the worse by the victims of said rampage being members of the Happy Hotel.
• Graceful Loser: Subverted. Poker Face takes losing to Moonchild in several rounds of gambling with a grain of salt... but takes pains to leave Husk with a venomous warning about the return of HOLY DIVER.
• Gun Nut: Blitzo bought a ridiculous amount of guns and weaponry with the money he got from St. Anger. It's heavily implied that he enjoys looking at them very much.
• Grievous Harm with a Body: Diavolo is strong enough to throw bodies and body parts at bullet-speeds, with predictable results.
• Happiness in Slavery: Zig-zagged. Sir Pentious isn't wild about having to obey Cherri's orders without question thanks to the geas on his soul; but he nonetheless takes his job as her strategist seriously. Not to mention that their relationship is entirely consensual.
• Hate Sink:
  • Valentino is his usual scumbag self. He tries to blackmail Stolas into letting him have access to the latter's grimoire so he can access the mortal realm... for the purposes of abducting human virgins to sell as sex slaves. And then he suggests that Stolas give him Octavia as an alternative. Thankfully, Sallos will be having none of that.
  • Bastille's return is likewise portrayed so as to make him and his goons as unsympathetic as possible. He's even willing to keep Angel intact enough to bring him back to Valentino.
  • While Lucifer's a bit harder to pin down regarding his opinion of Charlie's mercy project, his decision to specifically mark Octavia for death is quite despicable.
  • "Lady" Belladonna takes all of a few sentences to establish herself as a pathetic creep.
• Heart Is an Awesome Power: Pazzi's stand "Bicycle" is a... well, bicycle, with the ability to allow him to ride across any surface as though it were flat, level road. That doesn't sound particularly impressive until you see it in action, where he can ride in any direction he wants, and anything in his way from hills, walls, to even buildings will all flatten themselves to the ground to give him a perfectly unobstructed ride to wherever he's going.
• Heel Realization: After being captured and tortured by Sallos' goons, and with every reason to think that they're about to die horribly, Blitzo breaks down, apologizing to Moxxie and Millie for getting them caught up in his shenanigans, and bitterly reflecting that everyone he ever knew would have been better off if '[his] mother had opted for a handy'. He gets over it when Moxxie and Millie, similarly hopeless, rope Blitzo in for a three-way.
  • Stolas and Stella, to their credit, are mortified at the harm their actions have caused, directly and indirectly.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Octavia cancels her claim to sanctuary and invites Sallos to the Happy Hotel, hoping to prevent Sallos from potentially killing Moonchild or his friends, and to stop him from destroying the Happy Hotel and Charlie's dream.
• Heroic Bastard: Moonchild worked tirelessly for two decades, and selflessly rushed to save Octavia from her impossibly powerful uncle.
• He Knows Too Much:
  • As in canon, Diavolo would happily murder anyone who knows his history, let alone his true identity — including his attempts to do so to Charlie and Alastor.
  • Sallos invokes this as part of the reason he's planning to kill not just Blitzo, but Moxxie and Millie as well. It's also why he's willing to spare Loona, since she doesn't know about the specifics of the theft of the Saint's Corpse.
    Sallos: I'd kill you too, if I thought you knew anything. Or if anyone important would care. But alas, blessed be the ignorant and ignominious.
• Hell-Bent for Leather: Angel invokes this trope word-for-word when commenting on Cherri's new look in Chapter 9. She's rocking a new leather jacket to go with her higher rank in the underworld.
  Cherri: My old look was fine, but I figured that now I'm a ganglord I gotta look the bad-bitch part, yeah?
• Hidden Depths: Niffty, of all people, is the one who figures out what Charlie intends to do for Moonchild, explaining it in clinical detail to the flabbergasted others.
  Niffty: What? I find Jung's work fascinating. It's all very tidy.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Diavolo ends up crushing himself when he takes out a bunch of support beams in the room while trying to kill Moonchild.
  • And again, in chapter 23, the events Diavolo knowingly set into motion wind up with Moonchild snapping at Octavia's death, biting off his face, and absorbing his essence to become whole.
  • Sallos tells Lucifer he's made a living out of this all because he puts his pride above all else. Michael is coming down to Hell with a heavenly host in tail because Lucifer forced his best peacekeeper to prioritize punishing Stolas over finding the Saint's Corpse, then assuring Sallos would turn against him and lose the only thing he could threaten to bring him back under compliance with.
• Holy Burns Evil: Nifty gets burned when she crosses herself after hearing what Il Nove stole.
• Hotter and Sexier: Moonchild's new body, as of Chapters 10 and 11. A smoother voice, a more sculpted jaw, an absolutely ripped bod... needless to say, everyone in the cast with an interest in masculinity is taking notice.
  • Hilariously, Vaggie is disappointed.
  Vaggie: (thinking to herself) No more femboy? I just can't have anything today, can I?
• Hunk: After flexing the mental fortitude to suppress his lesser half mid-rampage, Moonchild comes out of his monstrous form as an absolute bombshell. Much time is spent describing his fabulously muscular body and incredibly handsome face, to the approval of every straight-to-bi character in the fic, though not Moonchild himself.
• I'm Standing Right Here: When Octavia insults Diavolo after Moonchild withdraws him into his body, he points out to Octavia that he can still hear her.
• I Did What I Had to Do: By chapter 7, Sallos makes it clear to Stolas that while Octavia's off the hook, one of his other loved ones will have to die, as per the Decree. It's very clear that Sallos takes no joy in steeling himself for this task.
  "Sallos closed the door behind him, telling himself he couldn't hear his cousin sobbing in his shambles of an office [...] Stolas would not forgive him. It was his duty, he would see it through, for the good of his family and Hell itself."
  • By chapter 14, Sallos' determination hasn't changed. He will do his job, even if that means being forced to do something that even he himself finds horrible (like having to target Octavia — the one person Stolas cares about above everyone else), even if he has to do it through teary eyes.
• I Owe You My Life: La Squadra, now Il Nove, were hired and paid by Stolas to keep Octavia safe. Saving Blitzo and I.M.P was a freebie for saving their lives on a previous mission.
• "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: In chapter 10, Angel and Husk invoke this when trying to get through to a Diavolo-possessed Moonchild. Unfortunately for Diavolo, this ends up working, and Moonchild wrests control back.
• Immodest Orgasm: Niffty has this reaction to being choked and kissed by Diavolo.
• Impact Silhouette: A less cartoonish version, but Charlie does leave a Charlie-sized hole in the wall after getting Punched Across the Room.
• I Need a Freaking Drink:
  • After the hobby swap goes awry for the third time in Chapter 14, Charlie just sits down, kicks her feet up and addresses Husk by name. The latter tosses her his hip flask, which she drains in one gulp.
  • The news that Grand Duke Sallos' palace has partially exploded is so shocking that Katie Killjoy gives up trying to report it and snorts a very large line of cocaine before continuing. Her cohost Tom gratefully does the same when offered.
• Innocently Insensitive: Octavia is well-meaning, but acts hurt when Moonchild tells her he wants to find a way out of Hell. He gestures to her room and all but states she's royalty living in luxury and doesn't know real Hell.
• Insistent Terminology: You address Sallos as "your Excellency", not "My Lord".
• Intelligible Unintelligible: Razzle and Dazzle, with Charlie acting as their translator in one instance:
  Charlie: It turns out Moonchild's a little, uh...
  (After a few guesses from the others)
  Razzle & Dazzle: Baaaah!
  Charlie: ....Raz, Daz, Benito Mussolini lives on the south side, you've met him!
• Interclass Friendship: Moonchild might be her father's secretary, but Octavia considers him a good friend.
• Interrupted Intimacy: Charlie and Vaggie were getting rather steamy together in Chapter 11, before Niffty informed them of the return of Husk, Angel, and Moonchild.
• In Love with Your Carnage:
  • Niffty maintains an unhealthy fixation on Moonchild's alter-ego, going so far as to try and draw him out. She has yet to succeed.
  • Alastor admits to feeling a 'stir' when he contemplates Charlie's boundless potential for slaughter. The closest thing to visible arousal was when he started fanning himself when Charlie gets mad and taps into her power to threaten and beat back Sallos.
  • Non-romantic, but Frederick von Eldritch, the owner of the casino Diavolo rampaged through very enthusiastically attempts to hire him as the star attraction of his newest caged fighting arena, citing his 'splash zone' fighting style as a major draw.
• Irony: Actual Hell turns out to be less hellish than the fate that Giorno inflicted on Diavolo. Double-irony being that Hell is full-on nightmarish to a gentle soul like Moonchild.
• "It" Is Dehumanizing: When the narrative takes Sallos' perspective for a moment, we see he thinks of Valentino this way. Though it's more sympathetic then the usual example, considering it's Valentino.
  • Solido is shown to think of Diavolo this way when Moonchild attempts to absorb Diavolo by force, it's the first hint that his reformation was less stable then he thinks it was.
• It's All My Fault: Sallos says as much in Chapter 16. To clairify, Grand Duke Sallos is a demon whose services to mortals revolve around promoting peace and love between couples, he clearly saw the cracks in Stolas and Stella's relationship long before the affair but did nothing to help. Now that the whole situation has spiralled out of control and his niece's head is on the block, he bitterly blames himself for not intervening the moment Octavia was born, blaming himself for her miserable home-life as well.
• It's Okay If It's You:
  • Angel says so almost word-for-word, but referring to discussing his own experience with sexual assault with Moonchild, because Moonchild's been where he's been.
  • On a much more comedic note, Vaggie is heavily implied to have such feelings towards Moonchild.
• Jerkass to One: While Moonchild usually doesn't partake in badmouthing others, he has no problem being a jerk to Blitzo. The fact Blitzo's monthly meetings with Stolas is why Stella rapes him and the lack of guilt Blitzo shows towards Moonchild for causing it more then justifies his hatred of the imp.
• The Juggernaut:
  • Captain Gallia isn't playing around in chapter 24 and 25. She is utterly unstoppable, easily trouncing Il Nove and I.M.P, only really staggering when Octavia sends her attack back at her and when Danger splits her lip and drops a 10,000 ton oil tanker on her.
  • Red Nightmare is an unending source of carnage, downing Sallos in a single hit and butchering the hotel staff (which includes the likes of Alastor and Charlie in a few seconds.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: When Charlie decides to revoke "Guy's Night Out" due to the events of Chapter 10, Angel's willing to go along with it because of how close he, Moonchild, and Husk came to being torn apart... or worse.
• Killing Intent: Pretty much every time Diavolo shows up there's some description about how downright palpable his viciousness is. In Chapter 17, he implies that the reason he's so powerful is that his willingness to kill allows him to alter reality and be as strong as he needs to be.
• Lady of War: Stella was this a long time ago, even capable of taking down an entire army with just a stare. We see a brief resurgence of this side of her we she tries slowing down Sallos.
• Large and in Charge: Grand Duke Sallos is described as being 12' tall and, unlike the equally tall but willowy Stolas, is built like a brick outhouse. He's also powerful enough for Lucifer to entrust him with keeping the peace among Hell's Upper Crust.
• Laser-Guided Karma:
  • Valentino tries to blackmail Stolas into either giving him the grimoire or his daughter as payment for keeping his knowledge of Stolas' affair quiet. By the time Sallos is through with him, he's not only forced to keep this information to himself, he's also threatened with excruciating torture if he so much as thinks of Octavia again. Oh, and he has to leave by way of the garbage chute, as per Sallos' order... after the Grand Duke rips out one of his teeth.
  • In Chapter 10, Bastille ambushes Angel with the intent to mutilate him, then send him back to his abusive former boss, Valentino. By the end of the chapter, he's been mutilated by Diavolo, his thugs were torn to pieces, and Angel personally finishes him off by stabbing him in the chest with a blade of Seraphic Steel.
  • Stolas and Stella's selfishness and the fallout of their terrible coping mechanisms eventually destroys their relationship with Octavia, who chooses to run away rather then put up with them any longer.
• Like Father Like Daughter: Both Stolas and Octavia turn out to have issues sorting their priorities. It takes a more serious turn when she shows signs of having her father's Selective Obliviousness towards Moonchild's trauma when she makes moves to sleep with him. She's horrified at this.
  • On a more humourous note, she has her fathers penchant describing doing horrible things to Blitzo that has to be heavily censored. The key difference is that Stolas means it as a sex thing. Octavia means it as a violent thing.
• Logical Weakness: Epitaph turns out to be a perfect counter to King Crimson during Moonchild and Diavolo's fight in Chapter 15, as while Moonchild can't see into the erased time, he can still see when Diavolo exits it and attempts to attack.
• Lonely Rich Kid: Octavia, though mostly by choice since she considers much of her approved social circle to be vapid or cruel.
• Loophole Abuse: When Charlie makes her deal with Alastor, she stipulates he's not to harm any of her clients under any circumstances. More deviously, Alastor fails to notice her wording of the pact implies that he'd be part of her team, and thereby bound by the Happy Hotel's employee contract. This effectively makes Alastor her lackey. "You don't take shit from other demons", indeed.
  • By Chapter 11, Alastor considers messing with Angel as a means of getting fired by Charlie, thus ensuring the deal won't be valid any more since he wouldn't be part of the hotel staff.
  • And in Chapter 15, Alastor ends up exploiting this to stay out of the fight between Charlie and King Crimson by pointing out that Diavolo's technically a patient, so he's not allowed to hurt him. It's implied that he did this to try and force Charlie to tap into her full demonic power.
• The Loins Sleep Tonight: Due to the abuse he endured from Stella, Moonchild freezes up during Octavia's attempt at Their First Time. It's implied he was actually uncomfortable with her advances from the start, but didn't want to admit it.
• Lovable Coward: Moonchild is very skittish and prefers to hide using his powers should anyone try to hurt him.
• Lethal Chef: Moonchild somehow burnt cereal.
• Mama Bear: Charlie's definitely has a maternal vibe towards her patients, and should anything threaten them, she wastes no time reminding people just how scary the Princess of Hell can be.
  • Stella will do whatever is necessary to save Octavia without a moment's hesitation.
• Made of Iron: Downplayed, since it still breaks a few ribs and causes some colorful exhalation, but Charlie tanks a hit that would have impaled lesser demons (like Alastor). She even shrugs it off by saying she hadn't taken a hit like that since finishing school.
  • Later, in Chapter 15, she gets pummeled and choked by Diavolo and King Crimson, and ends up walking away from it with little more than a busted nose that she snaps back into place and the dry conclusion that she doesn't like him very much.
• Major Injury Underreaction:
  • Demons as a whole are this, to the point where being eaten is seen as an unpleasant but ultimately temporary inconvenience.
  • In Chapter 6, Alastor shrugs off Diavolo punching a hole through his chest and ripping his heart out, seeming more concerned about the state of his suit than "the ol' chump pump".
  • In Chapter 13, Blitzo's more annoyed than anything else by Moonchild accidentally punching a hole through his torso.
  • Red Nightmare laughs off pretty much everything thrown at him.
• Make an Example of Them: Why Lucifer gave the order for Sallos to kill Octavia. It's meant send a message to the entire Hell aristocracy that crossing him won't just get you a slap on the wrist. You screw up as much as Stolas has, and he is willing to hurt you in ways you can't even begin to comprehend.
• Mass "Oh, Crap!": Everyone in the Happy Hotel is hit with this when they find out the Saint's Corpse was stolen from Earth. It's at that point they all realize just how high the stakes are for all of them. They have a much bigger one when Red Nightmare comes a knocking.
• Megaton Punch: Courtesy of Diavolo, natch.
  • Charlie literally sends Sallos flying when she decked him. Hitting him hard enough that he went soaring through the air, created a sonic boom, dug a giant trench on landing and made a huge crater.
• The Mentally Disturbed: Moonchild has a rather unique case of Dissociative Identity Disorder, but is himself lucid, if a bit pathologically passive. Charlie, to her credit, acknowledges his mental illness as a something he needs help with and is overall very supportive.
• Mercy Kill: One of the reasons Sallos is so adamant on killing Octavia is that he'd at least try to make her death as quick and painless as possible, whereas Stolas’ enemies would enjoy making her suffer.
• Mid-Season Upgrade: As of Chapter 10, Moonchild's wrested control back from Diavolo, and found himself with a more muscular version of his usual body.
  • It happens again in chapter 26 when Sallos fuses Diavolo and Moonchild and they become Red Nightmare. Growing even bigger still and gaining access to an enhanced version of King Crimson's powers.
• Modest Royalty: After explaining that only archangels like Michael of Lucifer have the power needed to create something like the requiem and naming all of the still-holy archangels as her uncles, Angel says he sometimes forgets that Charlie is Satan's daughter.
• Mood Whiplash: The last part of chapter 5 starts with a humorous hobby exchange between the members of the Happy Hotel, with Niffty's embroidery rounding it out. It ends with Moonchild coming to some troubling self-realizations, and hallucinating the memory of him sewing his mother's mouth shut with a fishing line.
• Mook Horror Show: In chapter 10, we get to see what being on Diavolo's bad side is like from the perspective of a bunch of demons who were tormenting Angel, Husk, and Moonchild. It's suitably terrifying.
• Morality Chain: Angel theorizes that Moonchild's budding friendship with Husk is the only thing keeping Diavolo at bay. It also saves everyone in chapter 27 when Moonchild/Solido overrides Red Nightmare's powers to prevent his slaughter of them from sticking.
• Mugging the Monster: The trio of cannibals that harassed Moonchild in the first few chapters return in Chapter 13 to try again. This time, they're facing a partially-empowered Moonchild and Octavia, a member of the Goetia Family and demon princess. It does not go well for them to say the least.
• Mundane Utility: Moonchild uses his powers to see parts of an object's past and see one hundred seconds into the future while sorting mail for Stolas^note he gets a lot of mail-bombs or to warn him his angry wife is coming to his office. Later in Chapter 12, he uses his powers to speed up the process of learning magic tricks from Husk during another attempt at hobby swapping.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Angel's disgusted with himself when he realizes that he unwittingly pushed Moonchild's Trauma Button in Chapter 9.
  • Stolas has a breakdown as he realizes that all of the chaos that's happened in his life and the recent troubles in Hell are all because he gave Blitzo the grimoire. Now his daughter hates him, his reputation is in shambles, a powerful artifact is in the hands of terrible people, and Blitzo and his friends have been marked for death because the alternative was for his own daughter to be killed.
    Stolas: She's right. I've ruined everything...
• Mythology Gag:
  • In chapter 9, it is mentioned that Blitzo used his money to buy replacements for his office furniture in the event it caught on fire, like it did during the events of Murder Family.
  • In chapter 15, Blitzo references when Verosika Mayday rented the office next to theirs in Episode 3 of Helluva, when they did so for Spring Break. It is revealed that here, thanks to their increased wealth, Blitzo evicted them (I.M.P apparently owns the building).
  • In chapter 18, Blitzo mentions the cats costumes they wore in episode 4 of Helluva Boss.
• My Fist Forgives You: Blitzo invokes this trope in Chapter 13, urging Moonchild to hit him in order to let off some of the built-up steam from the former's previous bullying of the latter. Given that Moonchild's taken a level in badass by this point, the results aren't what either of them were expecting.
• Named by the Adaptation: The priest who adopted a young Diavolo goes unnamed in the manga, while here, he's given the name Alfonso Naso. This also has the effect of making Solido Naso not just an alias Diavolo used, but his actual name before his psyche split.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Grand Duke Sallos combines with with The Dreaded, as he's powerful enough to make even the Inner Circle pay attention when Lucifer wants to make a point.
  • Although just about everyone scoffs at Diavolo's choice of names, he more than earns the name and terrifies just about everyone he meets.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: A few examples so far:
  • Though they were Villain Protagonists, I.M.P's part in stealing the Saint's Corpse in Helluva Job has thrown the forces of Hell into disarray, and gotten Blitzo and M&M marked for death by Sallos. Not to mention that if he hadn't gotten Stolas to admit he genuinely loves Blitzo, Sallos would have had to make Octavia the target for punishment.
  • Husk and Angel's decision to take Moonchild to the Azathoth Casino to exploit his powers triggers a series of events that — while beyond their control — end up releasing Diavolo to go on a rampage. This not only gets Charlie royally ticked at both of them, but the massacre convinces Octavia that Charlie's got less than benign motives for her hotel.
  • The Hotel's well-meaning attempt to give Moonchild and Octavia some privacy just ends up giving Diavolo the chance to guilt-trip Octavia into turning herself in to Sallos, kicking off a set of Diaster Dominoes that lead Moonchild to pull a Face–Heel Turn.
• Nightmare Fetishist:
  • Niffty gets rather excited when told of how dangerous Diavolo is.
    Niffty: This Other Guy, is he handsome?
    Charlie: He looks like Moonie, but bigger and filled with pure hatred.
    Niffty: Ooh, that's a big yes!
  • And later:
    Niffty: (upon learning of Diavolo's habits) That's hot.
  • By Chapter 11, it seems that despite his usual lack of interest in such things, Alastor is intrigued by the potential carnage that Charlie could inflict if she was pushed too far.
  • In Chapter 13, Moonchild admits he finds the fact the smell of blood makes Octavia crave meat attractive.
  • Played for laughs in Chapter 15, as Diavolo's initial terror and paranoia is actually a turn-off for Niffty. She quickly gets excited again when Diavolo busts out King Crimson and punches out Charlie.
• Noble Demon: Literally. Sallos is part of Hell's nobility, and conducts himself with relative honor. He not only looks for a loophole in the Decree that'll mean not having to kill Octavia, but he decides to give Blitzo a warning (via warning Loona) that he's going to target him instead, giving him the chance to flee or prepare to fight.
  • Another literal case emerges in Chapter 12, when Danger ensures that the assassination that Moxxie and Millie were going to carry out ends up being the catalyst to pass through a bill to ensure better conditions for working-class Americans.
• Not So Above It All:
  • Octavia, as it turns out, has a certain "Old School Demon"^note In her own words appetite for raw, bloody meat. She tries not to indulge it too often.
  • St. Anger and Blackbird (Risotto and Ghiaccio) easily the most severe and professional of Il Nove, playfully bicker with one another over what to name their super-move.
    St. Anger: 'Revolution Ice-9'?
    Blackbird: Yes. You see, it's a reference to Ice-9, a fictional isotope of ice that–
    St. Anger: I know what it is. We're not calling it that.
    Blackbird: Well, I'm open to suggestions!
• Nothing Personal: Red Nightmare says as much to Charlie when he punches a hole in her chest.
• Nouveau Riche: Referred to as 'vulgarians' by Hell's upper crust, this seems to be the general opinion of Overlords to the Inner Circle.
• Not Helping Your Case: When an outraged Charlie demands answers for what happened during their outing to the Azathoth Casino, Husk and Angel's attempts at mollifying her leave something to be desired.
  Husk: Hey, Chuck, c'mon! Calm down! No one got hurt! (Cue news footage of a demon being pummeled) ...No one got killed?
  Angel: One guy got killed.
  Husk: Right, just one guy!
  Angel: By me! Not Moonie! I killed 'im wit' my knife!
  Husk: We are not helpin' our case here...
• No Guy Wants to Be Chased: Moonchild makes it clear he doesn't like the attention that his new body is getting him, especially from Niffty.
• No-Sell:
  • When Stolas petrified his cousin, it lasts all of a few seconds before Sallos breaks free.
  • In Chapter 15, it turns out that King Crimson's power is useless against Epitaph, as Moonchild breaks through the time-erasure to punch Diavolo when the latter tries it.
  • In Chapter 16 Moonchild unleashes a rush of punches onto Sallos' undefended face. Sallos is more irritated at the interruption than the attack.
• Not So Similar: Both Stolas and Stella started very unstable "relationships" with demons of lower social standing to cope with their failing marriage, but while Stella intimidates a clearly unwilling Moonchild into something he doesn't want. Stolas cheated out of a genuine desire for a supportive, loving relationship. The difference is best shown during Moonchild's visit to Stolas in Chapter 8: despite being both drunk and clearly more then a bit enamoured with his secretary,the thought of forcing himself on Moonchild never seems to cross Stolas's mind.
• Not So Stoic: Loona generally acts like a disinterested moody teenager who switches between bored and mad. When she comes face to face with Sallos, she's reduced to cowering and crying uncontrollably from a mix of being terrified for her life and being told that he was going to kill her adopted father and everyone else she cares about.
• Never My Fault: Downplayed, but Moonchild has some difficulty grasping that he's damned for his own actions, not because of his link to Diavolo. It's even implied at some points that Moonchild's refusal to admit he and Diavolo are the same person is why their attempts at a Split-Personality Merge keep failing.
• Obliviously Evil: When Moonchild casually mentions he was the second in command to the biggest mafia in Italy, he still doesn't see that as a reason he was sent to Hell since he never committed any of the crimes himself. He has to be told he was still the one handing down orders in a criminal organization.
  • Later averted as of Chapter 12, where gaining access to Diavolo's memories helps him reach the conclusion that yes, he does belong in Hell...which only increases his resolve to try and redeem himself.
  • It turns out that Stolas assumed that Moonchild and Stella were in a consensual relationship similar to he and Blitzo's arrangement, and is horrified to realise what he was actually allowing to happen to his secretary.
• Off with His Head!: The fake Octavia is decapitated by Sallos. Sallos does the same to Lucifer as he quits, then he stomps his head to goo. Though since Lucifer's body is really nothing more than a puppet the real him acts through, it's more symbolic than lethal. He himself ends suffering this fate after making the mistake of underestimating Red Nightmare.
• Orphanage of Fear: Lady Belladonna's orphanage is very clearly a horrible, exploitative place for its occupants.
• One Last Job: Sallos is sick of his duty. It doesn't prevent any of the nobility from doing anything and all he's doing is being forced to hurt the new people he cares about. Being forced to hunt and kill his beloved niece is the last straw, and once Octavia is taken care of he plans to step down from his position to take up marriage counseling since he's spotted a pattern of most of the problems he's has to deal with in Hell were the end result of bad relationships among to aristocracy. True to form, he dies before he gets the chance to quit.
• Only Friend: Octavia considers Moonchild to be her only friend in Hell, and it's made her rather protective of him.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
  • When Charlie blows up upon finding out what happened in Chapter 10 — and follows up by flatly threatening to fire Husk — the latter realizes just how badly he screwed up.
  • Loona calls Blitzo "dad" when she is terrified that Grand Duke Sallos will kill him. She later does it again and even publicly hugs him when they reunite after Blitzo, Moxxie and Millie are saved from their execution.
  • When Grand Duke Sallos's palace partially explodes, Katie Killjoy and Tom Trench are so stunned and scared that Katie, who had brawled the Devil's daughter, stumbles through the report at first before resorting to a very large line of cocaine to continue. Tom worriedly points out that the mere act of reporting on this event wrong could get them a Fate Worse than Death. Katie ends the report sharing her cocaine with a still shocked Tom.
• Oh, Crap!:
  • Loona, in Chapter 10, when she bothers to look up from her phone and realizes that the person she's been absently rude to while on social media is Sallos. Thankfully(?), Sallos settles for giving her a warning... and letting her know he plans on murdering her employers.
  • Charlie has one when she realizes that the girl that snuck into Moonchild's room is Octavia Goetia.
  • Husk and Angel Dust react this way when they realize they've been teasing Octavia, the daughter of Stolas and niece of Sallos.
  • While Sallos usually gives this reaction to others, he has one himself when Lucifer gives a personal visit.
    • He does it again when chasing Octavia through a portal... into the Happy hotel, and comes face to face with one of the only three people in Hell that outstrip him in rank 'and' power.
    • He gets it again in Chapter 16 when trying to capture Octavia, who asks Charlie for sanctuary. Charlie, being who she is, obliges and sends the Grand Duke packing by way of a full strength punch.
      Sallos: (seeing Charlie transform) Shit.
  • Sallos hits this one final time when he realises what Red Nightmare's new ability is.
  • Needless to say, Moxxie hits this hard when I.M.P find out Sallos has put a bounty on their heads.
  • Lucifer drops his grin for once when he realizes Sallos's anger at him overrides all his fear of his boss.
  • In Chapter 27, Alastor drops all his usual shenanigans and throws himself into a Heroic Sacrifice to give the other members of the Happy Hotel time to flee once Red Nightmare shows up.
• Papa Wolf:
  • Stolas does not appreciate anyone having less-than-noble intentions towards his daughter, Octavia. He would have petrified Valentino if Sallos hadn't stepped in, and was willing to fight Sallos when he thought the latter would make her the target of the Decree.
  • Sallos himself qualifies — though he's technically her uncle, he makes it clear to Valentino that if the latter even thinks about Octavia again, it will be to his regret. He later overlooks Stolas turning him to stone because he knew that Stolas thought he was going to hurt Octavia.
  • Blitzo doesn't know who made Loona cry^note Sallos telling her he's going to kill her father and friends. Which she fails to tell him over the phone. All he knows is they made her cry, and thus are a dead man. Later, finding out who did it doesn't discourage him in the slightest, despite the power gap.
• Paper Tiger: For all his strength and intimidation, it is implied Lucifer can't do much without Sallos, as when Sallos quits angrily, he tries to get Sallos to talk things through.
• Paranormal Gambling Advantage: By Chapter 8, Husk and Angel get the idea to bring Moonchild to one of the major demonic casinos in order to use his Stand's power to predict the winning hands.
• Parental Sexuality Squick: Angel compares Cherri and Sir Pentious' Relationship Upgrade to this, citing it as why seeing the two together freaks him out.
• Parental Substitute: While we don't know about Loona's parents, Sallos' remarks to her in Chapter 10 suggest that Blitzo is this to her.
• Pass the Popcorn: In Chapter 15, Alastor breaks out a bag of popcorn to watch King Crimson throw down with Charlie. It's implied he's at ease because he believes that Charlie isn't actually in any danger.
  • Il Nove later bring out their own popcorn (White Cheddar flavored, no less) when watching all of I.M.P manifesting their Stands after discovering a Stand Arrow in the loot they got from Sallos' vault.
• Physical God: Lucifer is the end-all be-all force in Hell, and isn't afraid to show it
  • Charlie is a close runner up, as now that she's tied her cart to the Happy/Hazbin Hotel, there is much in Hell or anywhere else that could chase her from her dream.
  • Red Nightmare in his prime is unstoppable, unkillable, and can bend causality over a barrel until he finds a timeline the benefits him.
• Psychopathic Manchild: In addition to all the canon examples, this version of Lucifer is incredibly childish: He pulls Sallos (one of his best and most loyal servants) away his incredibly important mission tracking down the Saint's Corpse and forces him to find and murder Stolas's daughter for the sake of soothing his bruised ego, and when Sallos hits his Rage Breaking Point and quits, he essentially throws a tantrum in response.
• Person of Mass Destruction: Hell's nobility. It's the entire reason the law of decorum exists. Every last member of the fallen or born in Hell elite is more powerful than any Overlord and fights between them risk actually destroying Hell.
  • A fight between Stella and Sallos lasted seconds^note which considering both combatants were able to move at superhuman speed meant that she was able to hold her own against him a lot longer than most others would but it resulted in the entire vacation palace being utterly destroyed.
  • Charlie, the sweetest little cinnamon roll in Hell...was able to punch Sallos in the face hard enough that he took off like a supersonic missile and made a crater when he landed.
  • As both the wielder of an incredibly powerful Stand and the child of one of the Seven Deadly Sins, Red Nightmare also stands on this level.
• Pet the Dog:
  • Stolas makes it clear he values Moonchild incredibly, considering him a godsend and a jewel in Hell.
  • Despite his intent to kill Blitzo as punishment to Stolas for letting Trouble make use of his grimoire via I.M.P, Sallos decides that doesn't mean killing his adopted daughter, Loona, too. Of course, this might also be Pragmatic Villainy, since Loona doesn't know anything about her boss' last mission, and thus doesn't know any compromising information.
  • When Charlie lays down the law in Chapter 11, Angel's more upset about Husk's punishment than his own. He even tries to take full responsibility for the events in question.
  • In Chapter 12, Danger takes the time to warn Moxxie and Millie that they're needed in Hell, and that there are dangerous forces after them. He also not only completes the assassination they were carrying out, but does so in such a way that ensures that a senator's death reinforces a bill that will ensure better conditions for working-class Americans.
  • Sallos didn't kill Stella during her fight. Just knocked her out. He truly doesn't want to cause his family any more pain than he has to.
  • When Octavia starts making more blatant advances and all but voicing her intent to have sex with Moonchild, Angel Dust and warns her to stop coming on too strong with him and reminding him of his bad experiences with sex.
  • In Chapter 27, Alastor decides that he's not going to add some crass jokes when it becomes clear that things have spiraled out of control.
• Playboy Bunny: As of Chapter 10, we learn that Charlie dressed up as one for Vaggie's birthday. Husk took a picture and uses it as his phone's caller I.D. for her.
• Portable Hole: Sir Pentious' Matter Phase Inducer allows him and others to walk through solid matter like it wasn't there, and comes in handy when fleeing a rampaging Diavolo. Though only as a delaying measure, as Diavolo's obscene strength allows him to walk through walls himself and one of the perks of his special powers is intangibility.
• Poor Communication Kills: Octavia doesn't know why Moonchild is suddenly gambling, or buffer, or ripping apart demons with his bare hands. All she knows is that he wasn't doing this before he came to the hotel, and nobody will tell her why. So at the end of Chapter 11, she leaves with him before Charlie can explain.
  • While there's no way the involved parties could have known, if Octavia had known Moonchild was coming to rescue her, or if Stolas had told her that he'd hired Il Nove to fake her death, or if Moonchild had known this when he tried to revive the fake Octavia, a lot of grief could have been avoided.
• Pride: As the living embodiment of the sin of pride everything Lucifer does or does not do is to protect his enormous ego. His actions can be easily predicted based on what doing something would do to his pride. Il Nove bet on this while protecting Octavia. If he was to take any further action against Stolas after his daughter's execution, that would be him admitting that he'd been successfully duped, and as the most prideful being in existence he would never do that.
• Psycho Electro: Captain Gallia can shoot lightning from her hands and is very enthusiastic about tormenting others with it.
• Psychic Link: Diavolo isn't dead, however as souls are indestructible and can't be totally severed he's still connected in some way to Doppio, which is what allowed him to surface when Moonchild was placed under hypnotism.
• Punctuated Pounding: In chapter 15 Diavolo does this to Moonchild, smashing his face into a bloody mess. It gets turned around on him when he presses Moonchild's Berserk Button and the demon kicks his ass in a similar fashion.
• Rags to Riches: Thanks to the money they got from St. Anger, I.M.P is the most well-funded imp-based business in Hell — to the point that they could retire, if they didn't love their work so much.
• Rank Scales with Asskicking: Grand Duke Sallos is a ranking member of Hell's aristocracy and is powerful enough to kowtow even those few that outrank him in the name of maintaining Decorum. Lucifer, being the ruler of Hell is understandably someone that even Sallos is afraid of.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech:
  • Octavia absolutely tears into her father for being the root cause of the whole mess, and the kicker is he knows she's right. If he hadn't given Blitzo the grimoire in the first place, the imp's life would never have been in danger from Sallos, to begin with.
  • Moonchild drops a heroic version of this on Diavolo in Chapter 15:
    Moonchild: Weak, am I? That’s what you’ve always believed, what I always believed. But who spent their life shut away from the world? Who abandoned his humanity to wall himself off, to cower in the corner, wrapped up in a blanket?! All this time I looked up to you, sought your strength, but all I could feel ever was fear and pain! Because that’s all you are, fear and pain and misery!
  • Sallos tears into Lucifer in chapter 26. Laying into the king of Hell that for all his power all he ever does is fail because his overinflated pride keeps making him sabotage himself.
  • Once again, Octavia lets her dad and mom have it once she realizes that Sallos died as a result of the fallout from her supposed execution.
  • Sallos, after losing the one thing that Lucifer could threaten him with to make him obey him, absolutely tears into the king of Hell for being so prideful and petty as to risk the wrath of heaven simply by prioritizing sating his ego over a potential slaughter. Then asking him if he's ever actually held his daughter with his real arms
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Or green, in this case. When Diavolo starts to slip through, Moonchild's eyes flash or turn green. This happening tends to be a very bad thing.
  • And when Charlie gets mad, her eyes go red... and the power she generates in her fury is enough to surprise even Alastor.
• Redemption Rejection: Alas, not every sinner who passes through the doors of the Hazbin Hotel's going to be interested in what Charlie's selling. Namely, Diavolo, who manipulates Octavia into turning herself into Sallos and leads Moonchild to (what he thinks) is her corpse. Pushing him to fuse with Diavolo and become Red Nightmare for a shot at revenge.
• Relationship Upgrade: Cherri Bomb and Sir Pentious. Later, the same happens for Moonchild and Octavia.
• Royally Screwed Up: The Goetia Family and the other ruling bodies of Hell, unsurprisingly. To the point where it's actually more dangerous for offenders to not face official punishment for transgressions, if only because it leaves them open to extrajudicial reprisals from their peers and family members.
• Retconjuration: Once Diavolo tricks Sallos into merging Moonchild and him into a single personality, King Crimson's time-erasing ability grows in strength and precision until it becomes capable of inflicting this on any chosen period of time, as well as targeting specific objects and even physical forces. Without his Drama-Preserving Handicap, it's implied the amount of beings in Hell that pose the slightest chance of stopping him can be counted on one hand.
• Royalty Superpower: As implied with Charlie in the first story, and as implied with Stolas compared to Alastor in canon, the nobility of Hell are far more powerful than even the overlords.
  • Valentino is feared throughout Hell but knows full well Stolas could kill him with a look as he taunts him.
  • Octavia easily dispatches a mugger with comical ease even when she has a knife (he believes is) made of metal that can permanently kill demons pressed up against her throat.
  • Grand Duke Sallos's job is to keep the nobles of Hell in line and is more than capable of doing it, but even he cowers in the presence of Lucifer's true form.
  • Charlie was able to take a blow from Diavolo with minimal harm that when the same force was exerted against Alastor it caused his heart to be ripped out. Also, like her father, when she actually starts exerting her real demonic power, Sallos immediately drops any pretense that he's the biggest dog in the room.
  • In addition to his Stand, Red Nightmare's immense strength is implied to stem from being the bastard child of one of the Seven Deadly Sins, who are only surpassed by Lucifer and Charlie in demonic power.
• Serious Business: Niffty takes Husk's threat to pour some wine on Moonchild's bed if she doesn't stop trying to jump him this way.
  Niffty: No! That's Egyptian cotton, you goddamned barbarian!
• Sex for Services: Like canon, Blitzo meets Stolas once a month for a night of fornication, in trade for letting them keep his grimoire. He lets Blitzo keep the thing after he realizes that the deal has cost him his daughter, his most trusted servant/friend, and soon to be the life of the imp he loves.
• Sex Slave: Valentino intended to blackmail Stolas into letting him use his grimoire to abduct human virgins to sell as sex slaves.
• Sharing a Body: When Trouble (Enrico Pucci) uses his powers to pop out a person's soul in disc form to knock out Moonchild, he and later Stolas are surprised when four discs are ejected. A normal person would normally only have a single disc while a Stand User would have two discs for their soul and their Stand. Moonchild having four discs tells the two demons that the secretary has two souls and two Stands naturally.
  • Seemingly averted as of Chapter 14, with Moonchild rescuing Diavolo from the Requiem.
• Shaped Like Itself: Red Nightmare's first minion is an imp named Kabby, he drives a taxi and is, pedicctably, a cabbie. Even Red himself comments on this, but offers a way out of this life.
• She's Not My Girlfriend: Moonchild tells Niffty this after she mistakes Octavia for his girlfriend.
• Ship Sinking: Diavolo^note Who doesn't like that Moonchild is dating an eight-foot-tall owl monster over Charlie, let alone a teenager even if he is still mentally one himself tries to invoke this after Moonchild and Octavia's failed attempt at sex, telling her that she reminds him too much of her mother for him to ever truly return her feelings. He then scares her into leaving him by telling her everyone is about to die for her.
• Ship Tease:
  • Moonchild has subtle vibes with Octavia, who was attracted to him at one point, but for now they remain friends. The teasing amplifies around Chapter 11, as Octavia finds herself distracted by Moonchild's new body. As of the end of Chapter 13, Octavia and Moonchild are officially an item.
  • Moonchild also gets a surprising amount of it with Husk. He's very flustered when Moonchild puts on some makeup and after reconnecting to Diavolo nets him a Heroic Build, and Moonchild is oddly cuddly with him at at a few points.
• Shipper on Deck: Niffty ships Octavia and Moonchild together (despite stalking the latter), and Charlie appears to do the same.
  Niffty: I'm picturing it. Lookit me go. I think I ship it.
  • And later:
  Niffty: FishBird? HootGlub? Ooh! LunarOwl!
  • Later on in the chapter, Angel and Husk get in on the act, playfully teasing Moonchild about his closeness with Octavia. Octavia herself describes the two with this trope.
  • Moonchild later starts teasing Diavolo that he has a crush on Charlie.
• Shout-Out: Among others, Diavolo's rampage in chapter 10 includes an encounter with a dragon demon who snarls "Dracarys" before trying to incinerate him.
  • In chapter 20, Octavia performs Dead Girl Walking, with some changed lyrics to fit her situation.
  • In Chapter 26, when Lucifer comes to ask why Sallos quits, he repeats Hades' line to Meg when she tried quitting word for word.
    Lucifer: Oh, Sally, Sally, Sally... My dear, sweet, deluded little minion. Aren't we forgetting just one teensy-weensy, but ever-so-crucial tiny, little detail? I̝̲̙̘̘̺̦͈̩̾̌ͦͫ̒͌͡ ͔͗̅ͬ̐̉̊̈ͯ͜ ̫̙̥̩͓̤̾̾ͭͨ̐̌̋ͨ ̸̣͔͆̈́̓̂̐͛ͦͧ̕O̞ͩ̆̓͒̄ͨͭ ̸̨̣͚̖͕̫̱̗͙̿ͦ̾̅ͯ̊ͪ͂͢W͌̈ͯͬͨ̆́͟͏̠̼̥͈͕͉̺͙̰ ̭͔̻̋̑͌ͤͬͩͦͤ̀Ñ̺͙͎̭ͤ͐͋͞ ́̓҉̼̺̻̭͔͜͢ ̨̹̭͚̬̭̿ͪͦ̉ ̝̀͠Y̧͍̱͕ͬ͡ ͩͩ͏͓̜ͅO͛͌̃̏̀̇́ͪ͏̹̜̲̻̺̀ ̥̬̙͓̯́ͪͭ̉̄͐͒ͧ͂Ȗ̩̣̗̞͍̒̓̈́͆͌͞!̸̸̸̸͖̹̟͖̹̟͖̹̟͖̹̟̋͂̈́ͯ͋̒ͤ̓̋͂̈́ͯ͋̒ͤ̓̋͂̈́ͯ͋̒ͤ̓̋͂̈́ͯ͋̒ͤ̓
  • After splitting Solido back into Moonchild and Diavolo, Sallos quotes Unicron twice.
• "Shut Up" Kiss: When Moonchild goes on a rant questioning his identity, Octavia kisses him to make him stop talking.
• Side Bet: Niffty had apparently made a bet with Angel Dust and Husk about Moonchild and Octavia being a couple. After they kiss, she won.
• Silk Hiding Steel: There is no such thing as a weak member of Hell's nobility. Stella might be an upper-crust snob who hates more that her husband is cheating on her with a commoner than the fact he's cheating on her at all, but she is also a long-retired warrior whose powers and skills are still sharp. At least enough to hold Sallos at bay for several seconds while they both move at incredible speed.
• Slap-Slap-Kiss: As of Chapter 9, and confirmed in 10, Cherri Bomb and Sir Pentious have this sort of dynamic now. She's got him under her heel, but appreciates his contributions to her rise to power. The "kiss" part of the equation is strong enough that they're in a consensual relationship.
• Sleep Cute: When she realizes Moonchild isn't ready for a physical relationship, Octavia is content to just cuddle with Moonchild, though she notes she's not a very good big spoon.
• Sleeping with the Boss: Angel Dust believes that Moonchild is sleeping with Stolas. Since Stolas wants to have a three way with himself, Moonchild and Blitzo, he isn't far off the mark.
• Small Name, Big Ego: Blitzo's accidental success and the unearned respect he now has from Il Nove due to Helluva Job seems to have swelled his head quite a bit. He at one point swears revenge on Sallos for scaring Loona, only for Gallia to show up and steamroll all of I.M.P with laughable ease. Though now that I.M.P has gained Stands, time will tell if they eventually manage to live up to their hype.
• Smoking Hot Sex: Blitzo lights one after his threesome with Millie and Moxxie.
• Spit Take: Angel Dust does this when Moonchild says he was the underboss to Passione.
• Split-Personality Merge: Subverted. Moonchild attempts to absorb Diavolo by force after finding Octavia's severed head, but the resulting mind turns out to be heavily divided and it takes little effort on Sallos's part to force them apart again. Sallos's attempt to merge them with his angelic powers fairs little better: instead producing Red Nightmare, who lapses into Diavolo's obsession with destroying his past and tries to slaughter the Hotel; before splitting again into Red Nightmare and Solido. The latter able to restrict Red's control of his new powers, but either helpless or uncaring about stopping him from doing anything else.
• Statuesque Stunner: Octavia is considered to be very attractive for a demon owl, extremely beautiful in her human form, and was described as being at least eight feet tall.
• Sssssnake Talk: Like canon, Sir Pentious tends to draw and hiss out his sibilants when speaking. It makes sense, since he's a snake.
• Superpowered Evil Side: Unsurprisingly, Diavolo is this to Moonchild, and he's strong enough to injure Charlie^note Who, in this continuity, is exactly as powerful as one imagines the daughter of the most powerful Archangel and the First Succubus would be with a single punch. He's also able to rip out Alastor's heart with another punch. Later, Diavolo goes on a rampage through one of Hell's major casinos, with no one being able to stop him.
  • Even later in the story, when Moonchild himself is no pushover in the strength department, a lucid Diavolo is able to develop their shared powers with terrifying speed, and is somehow capable of summoning greater levels of strength than Moonchild.
• So Beautiful, It's a Curse: Moonchild's looks repeatedly get gross, disturbing attention from the eviler members of the cast, like Blitzo.
• Super-Empowering: The Stand Arrows, as always. Red Nightmare uses one to give Kabby a Stand in exchange for working under him, and an almost slapstick-routine-like moment has all of I.M.P, including Loona, obtaining Stands of their own by accidentally getting stabbed by the arrow in the epilogue.
  • Blitzo's Stand is a robotic cowboy with a stopwatch on its chest, named Mustang Sally.
  • Moxxie's Stand is a pair of floating Sock and Buskin Masks named Masquerade.
  • Millie's Stand is thorny whips with blades at the ends, which she can command mentally, named The Hurt.
  • Loona's Stand is an ornately-carved door named Bauhaus.
• Sympathy for the Devil:
  • After hearing about his time trapped in the Requiem, even the sinners feel bad for the former mob boss being trapped in a never-ending death loop for nearly two decades.
  • Sallos might be trying to kill Octavia, but he's being forced to do so by Lucifer who knows he cares for her like she was his own daughter. In truth despite his dedication to his duty, it's killing him just as much to be forced to carry it out.
• Tear Off Your Face: The culmination of the "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight comes when Moonchild regains control of his body, tearing off Diavolo's more monstrous face to reveal his own underneath.
• Tears of Blood: Sallos sheds some of these when he no longer has a way out of killing Octavia.
• Tempting Fate: Charlie asks what's the worst that could happen during Angel's and Husk's guys' night: cue a drunk Moonchild showing up and puking in a plant.
• Token Good Teammate: Moonchild (Vinegar Doppio) is a very pure soul without Diavolo's influence. Stolas mentions St. Peter making a mistake sending him to hell.
  Stolas: Splendid work as always! You are a God-send! I bless the day that silly old St. Peter had a stroke and sent you here by mistake!
• Time Abyss: Sallos is initially described as a very old, very powerful member of the Goetia Family and reminisces with Stolas about how they used to dream and aspire long ago, seeking that thrill in 'lesser beings'.
• Took a Level in Badass:
  • Through a combination of their skills, Cherri and Pentious have become ganglords.
  • I.M.P has become a more successful business thanks to receiving clients from Il Nove. Thanks to Gabriel's powers, they are also far better armed than in canon.
  • As of Chapter 10, Moonchild does the one thing he was never able to do in canon: wrest back control from Diavolo. This carries over subtly to Chapter 11, where he sheds his Extreme Doormat status enough to ask that Niffty stop stalking him.
  • In Chapter 13, Moonchild casually thrashes the three muggers that were trying to eat him in the first few chapters.
  • And in Chapter 15, he takes down Diavolo.
  • In Chapter 18, it is revealed that Il Nove has used the money they got from Enya to become Overlords.
• To the Pain: When he walks in on Valentino implying that he'd accept Octavia as payment for keeping Stolas' affair quiet, Sallos decides to give Valentino a... friendly warning:
  Sallos: (to Valentino) An order: I want you to use that wonderful, hideous imagination of yours to devise the most outlandish torture you can. I want you to write it down. I want you to mail it to me. Because if you so much as think of my niece again, I should like to do something worse. I expect that letter by the end of the week.
• Too Dumb to Live: When Blitzo pulls out a Stand Arrow everyone's reaction is a massive Oh, Crap!. Blitzo's response? Eat it. Naturally, he gets stabbed. It's only good fortune that saves him.
• The Tooth Hurts: While giving Valentino a satisfyingly emasculating dressing-down, Sallos off-handedly rips out his signature gold tooth, planning to gift it to his favorite employee for her necklace.
• Torso with a View: When an irritated Moonchild takes Blitzo up on a free punch, he does this by accident.
• Trauma Button:
  • Phones ringing remind Moonchild of Diavolo.
  • Forceful sexual come-ons also trigger Moonchild, due to the prolonged sexual abuse he's suffered from Stella.
• Tsundere: Sallos calls Blitzo this in regards to his relationship with Stolas.
• Troubled Fetal Position: After Octavia's scathing rebuke of him in Chapter 13, Stolas can only curl up on the floor and break down in guilty tears as the truth of his daughter's words sinks in.
• Ultimate Job Security:
  • Moonchild notes he probably can't stay at the hotel because Stolas favors him. Vaggie agrees when Moonchild reveals he is still alive despite having sex with Stella.
  • Husk almost gets fired by Charlie for his part in the events of Chapter 10. Thankfully, Angel's able to point out that Husk's become something of a Morality Chain that can rein in Diavolo, so Charlie decided to keep him on.
• Unequal Pairing: Captain Gallia is a former overlord who is completely enamored by her boss, the demon Prince Sallos.
• Ungrateful Bastard: Moonchild considers Blitzo this, towards Stolas letting him and the rest of I.M.P keep the Grimoire they use for their business.
  • As of Chapter 15, Diavolo decides to repay the patience and mercy that's been offered up to this point by trying to slaughter the Hazbin Hotel's staff, sneering at Moonchild's bonds with them. It turns out to be a fatal mistake.
• Unstoppable Rage: Diavolo, when fully unleashed, tries to kill everyone and everything in sight and generally succeeds. He's described as swimming through a crowd at one point.
• Verbal Backspace: When Moonchild catches Octavia hooting at him, she claims she said hot, which she quickly realized that that wasn't any better.
• Vetinari Job Security: It is implied Lucifer needs Sallos to act as his enforcer, as rather than any threats or coercion, when Sallos angrily quits Lucifer seriously asks him to talk it out with him.
• Villainous Breakdown: While less a 'villain' and more an 'antagonist', Sallos is certaily in an impaired state after being forced to execute Octavia as part of Lucifer's Decree. Enough so that he snaps and decapitates Lucifer after one snide remark too many.
  • Lucifer himself gets one while trying to persuade (read: threaten) Sallos back into working for him. All it does is hammer home how much he's screwed himself over with his pettiness.
• Villainous Gold Tooth: Valentino had a gold tooth...until Sallos overheard him trying to blackmail Stolas into handing over a grimoire to use for abducting human virgins to sell as sex slaves, or alternatively, his daughter. Sallos promptly ripped out said tooth as part of the ensuing punishment.
• Villainous Rescue: La Squadra, now the Overlord group Il Nove, appear last-second to rescue both Octavia and I.M.P, the former because her father hired them to, the latter because they owed the imps a life debt.
  • Danger (Funny Valentine) appear last-second in the next chapter to rescue the all above from Captain Gallia because he owed Blitzo.
• Villain Takes an Interest: As of Chapter 11, Alastor is intrigued by the dark side that Charlie brings out when she's furious.
• Villain Respect:
  • Captain Gallia and the Ducal forces seem to hold I.M.P in high regard.
  • Diavolo seems to think highly of Charlie after failing to kill her twice.
  • In chapter 22, Diavolo is downright starstruck at how effectively Sallos instills fear in the population, wishing to meet him and exchange notes.
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: Well, wife in Millie's case. She attempted to attack Danger when she thought he was attacking Moxxie.
  • Octavia's response when Blitzo makes one too many predatory comments about Moonchild is... succinct:
    Octavia: Listen you foul, disgusting creature. You will not look at me, you will not speak to me, you will not so much as make a sound within earshot, and if I so much as catch you thinking about Moonchild again, I will reach down your throat and (BEEP) your (BEEP) deep inside your (BEEP) and dig my talons into your (BEEP) with (BEEP) and twist off your (BEEP) shove it down your (BEEP) up your (BEEP) sideways (BEEP)(BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP) out of your nose and (BEEP) until you can't so much as scream! Do you understand!?
• Voice of the Legion: A demon will usually slip into this when accessing their true power. Like Sallos, Lucifer or Charlie .
• Weaponized Teleportation: Octavia, using an old grimoire, opens a portal under a mugger, causing him to fall from several kilometers above onto his fleeing associate.
  • Danger, obviously, is a master of this, using his powers to distract Gallia and drop a full-size oil tanker on her head.
• Willfully Weak: When attacked by muggers, Octavia allows one of the thugs to take her captive for a laugh, only to effortlessly free herself and maul her attacker when Moonchild asks her to.
• The Worf Effect: Red Nightmare defeats the previously untouchable Sallos in a single hit using his new ability.
• Worf Had the Flu: While Charlie gets manhandled by King Crimson in Chapter 15, it's implied that had the fight not been interrupted and she'd had the chance to tap down into her full power, Diavolo would have been wiped out before Moonchild could have a crack at him.
  • A case where both fighters suffer this occurs in Chapter 27. Red Nightmare deals an unsuspecting Charlie a fatal blow and kills her before she has the chance to tap into her full power, and the Hotel is later only able to intimidate him into fleeing because he's in the middle of a guilt-induced Psychosomatic Superpower Outage.
  • Most of Moonchild's success containing Diavolo turns out to be the result of his madness impeding his critical thinking ability. Once Moonchild makes the horrible mistake of restoring his cogency, it takes Diavolo all of a few hours to coerce Moonchild into a fusion where he near fully predominates.
• Wham Episode: Chapter 26 has been built up for several chapters now, but it ends on a note no-one was expecting.
• Wham Line:
  • When a hypnotized Moonchild tells Charlie what his first memory is, made worse by his calm, emotionless tone.
    Moonchild: I was sewing my mother's mouth shut with a fishing hook. I then buried her alive under the foundation of that house.
  • A much bigger one comes from Chapter 9, when Poker Face leaves Husk with a warning:
    Poker Face: This isn't over, Husk. You and me, we have unfinished business. But for now, live it up, enjoy yourself, because sooner or later it's all gonna come crashing down. For you, for the Princess, for everyone in this God-forsaken pit. HOLY DIVER lives.
  • As of Chapter 14, there's a little change to the Decree for Stolas' punishment:
    "To all it may concern. Your King Lucifer Mange, the Morningstar, He With Might Above All Under God, has decreed that for his negligence and transgressions, Prince Stolas Goetia will be subjected to unofficial punitive actions. The death of a beloved family member has been suggested and repercussions will be minimized. This decree expires upon the execution of aforementioned punitive action."
  • When Octavia explains what the requiem is, Charlie says the only ones she knows with that level of power are arch-angels. Which includes her own father.
  • In Chapter 15, Diavolo's intentions become clear with the following:
    Diavolo: You'll protect me, Doppio?! You can’t even protect yourself!
  • In Chapter 26, Red Nightmare implies that Diavolo/Doppio were always part-demon.
    Red Nightmare: Perhaps my heritage isn't as humble as you assumed, Uncle Sally. What was it you said? I don't even know what I am? Well, I'm starting to think, perhaps, my nanny was right about me all along.
• Wham Shot: At the end of Chapter 8, Husk finds an old friend waiting for him at Azathoth's casino... none other than Poker Face.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Following the events of Chapter 10, Charlie gives Husk hell for dragging Moonchild and Angel into a scheme to scam the Azathoth casino. If not for some quick thinking by Angel, Husk would have lost his job.
  • Later, in chapter 12, Octavia gives Charlie a chewing out for endangering her friend by working with Alastor.
  • Then in chapter 13, Octavia herself is on the end of one from Moonchild after she drags him away from the Hotel without hearing his side of the story. Then she drops one on her dad for his screw-ups.
• What's Up, King Dude?: The imprisoned I.M.P speaks to Sallos with far less formality than he's allowed any other demon to address him without at least a harsh reminder. When Galia is about to strike them for their impudence Sallos waves off her concern, noting that their relationship with Stolas has all but ruined their ability to speak to royalty with any measure of proper procedure.
• When He Smiles: Moonchild generally fakes his smiles, but when he unleashes a genuine grin, the air around him practically glows.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Moonchild, ultimately, once he willingly fuses with Diavolo and becomes the powerful and evil Red Nightmare. The result is a wrathful demon of immense power who seeks vengeance not only on his tormentors, but all of Hell itself.
• World of Jerkass: The setting is Hazbin Hotel Hell, so Jerkass is the default attitude. A special mention goes to Valentino, who cruelly blackmails Stolas with the objective of kidnapping human virgins to sell to rich demons. However, the crown of biggest asshole in all of Hell itself goes to Lucifer, who vindictively specifies that Sallos kill Octavia to punish not only Stolas, but Sallos himself for his failure to retrieve the Saint's Corpse. Veers into Stupid Evil since he's not only taking Sallos off the Corpse case for a unnecessary Decree, but he's also deliberately alienating his best agent before he's secured said Corpse. Also, he admitted to periodically murdering Charlie's pets, persumably for a fun.
• Workaholic: Moonchild hasn't asked for a single day off in the 20 years he has worked for Stolas.
• Wretched Hive: Played With. True for Hell and everybody in it...unless you're part of the ruling class. Then you are bound to a code of conduct that's the closest thing to the law in all the circles knows as "Decorum" to keep Hell from collapsing. Since demons of that level are almost all more powerful than even overlords, a feud between ruling families of Hell could actually destroy entire circles and render countless souls Deader than Dead. When Decorum is breached^note like, say, when a powerful artifact owned by a member of the Ars Goetia is used to steal the Saint's Corpse and bring it to Hell, they send out peacekeepers: Royal demons powerful enough to make the others play nice.
• Wrong Context Magic: Alastor states early on that "the nature of souls has it that one soul is immutable and singular; a soul can be stomped, smashed, fractured, and bent, but no-one, not even Lucifer Himself can rend a soul asunder." Stand-Users repeatedly show themselves to be capable of breaking this rule: Trouble is able to split them apart with little difficulty using his DISCs, and Red Nightmare later proves capable of altering his own soul to such an extent that a Magically-Binding Contract can't recognise him and Moonchild/Diavolo as the same person.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Much of Moonchild's character development consists of several characters telling him this and him developing the gumption to put it into practice.
  • Red Nightmare almost says as much to Kabby when giving him his Stand.
• You Cannot Grasp the True Form: Lucifer's body. Or rather the image of Lucifer we see in promo art and hanging in the halls of the hotel isn't the real Lucifer; it's the puppet body he uses to interact with his subjects. According to the narrative, Lucifer's true form exists within the Abyss that Hell hangs over, and is so utterly terrifying that Sallos is reduced to terrified silence, much like how Loona and Valentino acted in his own presence.
• You Can't Go Home Again: After Moonchild gets his closure in the living world, he is told, on behalf of Giorno, to never return to Earth again. Moonchild accepts this, seeing no reason to come back.
  • Octavia, enraged at her parents for allowing the chaos to begin in the first place and disappointed in Charlie for breaking her promise to protect Moonchild, abandons Hell entirely and starts a new life on Earth.
• You Need to Get Laid: Jokingly(?) brought up as a suggestion when the Hotel staff are thinking of a way to help Moonchild become more self-assertive so he can fight off Diavolo's influence in the future.
  Charlie: Well, I mean...if that's what it takes...
• Your Soul Is Mine!: The confrontation in Chapter 15 ends with Moonchild claiming Diavolo's soul, becoming whole.

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