History Characters / HazbinHotelHeaven

* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: While it's unknown what Adam's body count is, he's a LaughablyEvil goofball while Lute is calm and stoic while she states how many demons she killed and is covered in blood. She also suggests sending an army of angels to wipe out all sinners immediately in retaliation for [[spoiler:the death of a single Exorcist]], while Adam wants to wait. She's also the one who [[spoiler:mutilated Vaggie seemingly on her own accord]], and her stating she wants to rip her "cunt mouth out of her ass" [[EvenEvilHasStandards disturbs even Adam]]. [[spoiler:By the end of Season 1, this becomes more literal, as she manages to actually kill some of Charlie's forces, including Dazzle, while Adam fails to kill a single character of note, with even his one thought kill in Sir Pentious resulting in his ascension. Adam's death in turn results in her becoming the new leader of the Exorcists and deciding to go for the throat by conscripting Lilith into helping her.]]

* AmbiguousSituation: He's a giant jerk yet managed to not only reach salvation but even become a ''high'' ranking angel, which brings up the question of how exactly the events in Eden actually played out. [[spoiler:"Welcome to Heaven" revealing the rules to get into Heaven are so completely arbitrary and enigmatic to the point not even the angels know how one gets in explains some, but this raises a dozen more questions.]]

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

* AmbiguouslyEvil: As mentioned in AmbiguousSituation, he's an unorthodox and highly plot-relevant example. In the present day, he's very definitely and completely evil, but also a powerful archangel (which is theoretically supposed to mean someone's a paragon of virtue). Nobody, including him, knows how this happened, and it would be a very important clue in the investigation to find out how (or even if) Heaven's mysterious eligibility rules work so Charlie can start consistently and reliably redeeming sinners. Was he originally a FallenHero who became corrupted after ascending, or was he EvilAllAlong? Either option has major implications for the setting's cosmology.

* TheWomanBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:Or much rather, behind the Exorcists in general, since she permits their Extermination conspiracy in the first place. Adam was just their leader and her closest (but most disloyal) acquaintance to her in Season 1, up until his demise.]]

* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: Sera rationalizes her decisions of the exterminations out of fear that Sinners are BeyondRedemption and AlwaysChaoticEvil, who will threaten Heaven when given the chance, but because of her rejection to better understand Hell's citizens, divine judgement and dismissing Angel Dust's CharacterDevelopment regarding him improving as a person, it never occurred to her that the reason that sinners continue to indulge in their hostility because [[SelfInflictedHell they are trapped in a toxic environment with jerkasses that encourage each others worst actions]], and since they appeared in Hell after they died, similar to what [[TautologicalTemplar Heaven]] believes, [[IveComeTooFar they think that they're too far gone to be saved]] and might as well [[ThenLetMeBeEvil continue this destructive lifestyle anyway]], causing them [[HadToComeToPrisonToBeACrook to become worst people in the process]]. Angel was able to be better and avoid relapsing into his own habits because he was placed in the hotel's safe and supportive environment and was surrounded by [[TrueCompanions friends who care and value him as a person]], all of these factors made Angel [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre break out of his self-destruction, self-loathing and decide put in a greater effort into redeeming himself]]. Yet despite seeing this evidence during the court case, [[SelectiveObliviousness Sera doesn't appear to take note of it]].

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Where, where am I? Oh...Hello."'']]

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Where, where am I?"'']]

* HolierThanThou: When Charlie insinuates Heaven is mistaken in believing Sinners deserve annihilation, Lute claims "Angels don't make mistakes," and sides with her boss in boasting about Heaven's superiority over Hell. She's also visibly angered when Charlie implies that she and Adam are no better then the sinners they hate.
* HypercompetentSidekick: Downplayed as Adam is shown to be a dangerous and cunning antagonist on his own. Lute's own brand of cruelty is played much more seriously and she tries to reign in her boss from breaking heaven's rules. Tellingly, during their first meeting, Adam rambles on about a variety of irrelevent topics to Charlie whilst Lute cuts straight to the point and states that sinners are irredeemable. [[spoiler:In Heaven she warns Adam against fighting Vaggie in public because the annual Extermination is secret, something she constantly has to remind him about.]]

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

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

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

* EvilMalthusian: Subverted--one would think that they slaughter sinners every year because they're concerned about Hell's overpopulation crisis. But when Charlie tries to bring up the possibility of rehabilitating sinners, Adam shoots it down with extreme prejudice ''and'' quashes any suggestion that the Exorcists have good intentions in mind by revealing that they ''enjoy'' killing sinners, implying the exterminations are less about population control and [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist more of an excuse for them to sadistically kill as many "bad people" as theyt want without consequences]]. Needless to say, Charlie has to find a way to stop Adam's evil agenda.

* GoodCannotComprehendEvil: Deconstructed. Sera states that all she wants is to protect Heaven and does not tolerate Adam's {{Jerkass}} behavior. But she still permitted his idea of exterminating Hell's sinners out of fear that they will rise up. The deconstruction comes from the fact that her [[DirtyCoward cowardice]] prevents her from seeing sinners for what they are -- [[HumansAreFlawed flawed people]], many of who, while mean, cruel, apathetic, and selfish, [[NotAlwaysEvil are simply souls who made bad decisions that they regret in their life]], and believe that [[IveComeTooFar they are too broken and undeserving to be given another chance]]. In practice the sinners are too busy [[SelfInflictedHell being miserable by hating each other and themselves]] to actually make a threat towards Heaven outside of self-defense, rendering Sera's greenlighting of the Extermination as DisproportionateRetribution as opposed to NecessarilyEvil. She's so content with seeing [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Hell as a place full of evil monsters]] that she never bothered to entertain the idea that [[HiddenDepths there could be more to them than that]]. Over the course of the series, evidence keeps mounting which blows holes in her argument, meaning Sera has to [[MovingTheGoalposts keep changing what "counts" as protecting Heaven]] in order to not only justify what she's doing, [[NeverMyFault but to ensure that she doesn't have to think about the potential consequences of her decisions and admit that she might be wrong]], [[BrokenSystemDogmatist refusing to reflect on this mindset and try to improve the flawed and unfair system]], [[TautologicalTemplar or being open to potential new ideas and alternative solutions to the problem]], making her [[HeWhoFightsMonsters just as bad if not worse than the sinners she fears and despises]]. To summarize, Sera can't understand evil because she won't ''try'' to understand it.

* SecretlySelfish: Implied. Her claim to keeping the exterminations a secret was to keep Heaven safe and didn't want to burden Emily with the unfortunate decision, but considering her desire to keep it a secret from everyone, her wording and everyone's horror clearly tells that [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist she didn't want anyone to judge her for allowing genocide]], and refusing to even consider Charlie's plan and Emily's objections due to her [[BrokenSystemDogmatist refusing to challenge Heaven's status quo]] even though [[TheBlindLeadingTheBlind no one knows the standards of getting into Heaven and refuses to understand them]], suggests that as [[TheHighQueen the high seraphim]], she believes that she knows better than everyone, and thinks that she knows what's best for them to ensure their safety, when in truth its more like [[DirtyCoward ensuring her own safety]] and [[BrokenPedestal others faith in her]].

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: [[spoiler:Adam vaporizing Sir Pentious when he tries to attack the angel ends with the sinner going to Heaven for his sacrifice, proving that it ''is'' possible for sinners to redeem themselves]].

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

* ArchEnemy: To Vaggie. Of the Hazbin Hotel residents, it is Vaggie that Lute has the most hatred and disgust for. Lute was the one responsible for [[spoiler:mutilating and abandoning Vaggie when the latter spared a demon child during an Extermination]]. And during the battle at the Hotel, Lute specifically targets and tries to kill Vaggie.

* BerserkButton: Like Adam, Lute is shown to be seething when Charlie calls Adam a sinner and the people of Heaven hypocrites. In general, questioning or undermining her genocidal life's work will cause her to fly all the way off the handle in a way that even her boss won't. [[ArchEnemy Vaggie]] is also one due to their history.

[[caption-width-right:1000: ''"Hell is forever whether you like it or not!"'']]