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** Since Hell is explicitly stated to be only full of terrible things, the writers and animators can have a lot of fun with this. The tobacco of choice is an e-cigarette, all of the phones are flip phones, and sole amusement park in Hell is filled with only Tilt-A-Whirl rides.
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* VocalEvolution: Gloria has a much stronger New York accent in the pilot. Likewise, when Devil's daughter appears in episode 2 she has an accent much like Regina's. By her next speaking role, the accent is gone.
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* AmbiguousAge: Beans' age is never given, but he lumps himself in with "Gen Z" (born 1997-2015) and is probably in his early-to-mid-twenties.
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* AerithAndBob: Subverted. Even the demons tend to have regular names like "Gloria" and "Regina".
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* HornedHumanoid: Most natural-born demons and all the succubi. Devil sports a pair in his true demon form.
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* LetsGetDangerous / PreAsskickingOneLiner: Devil, when a group of conspiracy theorists push him too far in "TheAtheist".
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-->'''Devil''': Okay, time in! Time WAY in!
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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Beans' real name, Zachary Bean, is given once in the pilot and never mentioned again.
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* VocalDissonance: Devil's pet snake Eden--referred to as female by Devil, but her voice is deep and raspy.
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* VocalEvolution: Gloria has a much stronger New York accent in the pilot.
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* GoodBoss: Surprisingly, Devil himself has his moments. For example, when Beans accidentally lets evil cats attempt a coup, Devil recognizes that the blame lies not with the ignorant Beans (a brand new soul in Hell), but with McKinley (who knows the rules and should have told Beans), and punishes accordingly.
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* CouchGag: The road sign and movie theater marquee in the theme song change each episode.
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* JerkassGenie: Devil apparently likes to fill this role when summoned to Earth, stating that any request he grants comes with "monkey's paw" rules.
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* OutOfContextProblem: "The Freeze" sees Hell suddenly hit with a snowstorm for the first time ever. Gloria and her team have absolutely no preparation for it; some of her dumber underlings initially thinks all the white stuff is ''cocaine''.
-->'''Gloria:''' (''watching an underling attempt to snort yellow snow'') This is gonna be my favorite day ever. I can tell.
-->'''Gloria:''' (''watching an underling attempt to snort yellow snow'') This is gonna be my favorite day ever. I can tell.
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* OutOfContextProblem: OutsideContextProblem: "The Freeze" sees Hell suddenly hit with a snowstorm for the first time ever. Gloria and her team have absolutely no preparation for it; some of her dumber underlings initially thinks all the white stuff is ''cocaine''.
-->'''Gloria:''' (''watching an underling attempt to snort yellow snow'') [[SarcasmMode This is gonna be my favorite dayever. ever.]] I can tell.tell.
* RealityEnsues: In "The Freeze", all of the Devil's efforts to gentrify Hell turn out to have had an unexpected side-effect - the city has been preventing Hell's heat from circulating properly, and it's finally reached the point where Hell's temperature has dropped below the freezing point.
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* RealityEnsues: In "The Freeze", all of the Devil's efforts to gentrify Hell turn out to have had an unexpected side-effect - the city has been preventing Hell's heat from circulating properly, and it's finally reached the point where Hell's temperature has dropped below the freezing point.
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* FunnyMoments: In "The Date", Devil is so pleased by Beans' meet-cute that he starts sing-songing the words "Meet-Cute!" until a barista tells him his coffee comes to 92 dollars.
-->'''Devil''': For six cups?! [[BaitAndSwitchComment A bargain]]!...Nope, ya broke me, that's actually bullshit.
-->'''Devil''': For six cups?! [[BaitAndSwitchComment A bargain]]!...Nope, ya broke me, that's actually bullshit.
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* FunnyMoments: In "The Date", Devil is so pleased by Beans' meet-cute that he starts sing-songing the words "Meet-Cute!" until a barista tells him his coffee comes to 92 dollars.
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-->'''Devil''': For six cups?! [[BaitAndSwitchComment A bargain]]!...Nope, ya broke me, that's actually bullshit.
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* AssShove: In the opening of "The Freeze", Devil is briefly distracted from his duties by a pegging session with Regina. Unfortunately, this distraction happens to come just before Hell almost literally freezes over.
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** Coma mostly looks looks like an EndearinglyDorky humanoid girl, except for the fact that she has horns and her hair covers her whole face. [[spoiler:"The Freeze" reveals that her hair is actually the entirety of her being; her "body" is just an artifice she adopted in order to fit in better with the humanoid demons.]]
* GoodThingYouCanHeal: One of the upsides to life in Hell is that it's nearly impossible to destroy a soul, so while it's possible to feel pain and get injured in Hell, the injured person will eventually heal. Consequently, standard worker's compensation for on-the-job injuries is a free frozen yogurt and a blowjob.
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** Happens to Beans in "The Freeze" [[spoiler: when Devil needs some virgin blood in a ritual.]].
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* OutOfContextProblem: "The Freeze" sees Hell suddenly hit with a snowstorm for the first time ever. Gloria and her team have absolutely no preparation for it; some of her dumber underlings initially thinks all the white stuff is ''cocaine''.
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-->'''Gloria:''' (''watching an underling attempt to snort yellow snow'') This is gonna be my favorite day ever. I can tell.
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* ShipTease: "The Date" and "The Freeze" both suggest that Beans and Coma might have feelings for each other.
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* OurDemonsAreDifferent: Besides the whole "gentrifying Hell" thing, Devil seems immune to at least a couple classic demon weaknesses. He exits a summoning pentacle without even thinking about it, and can touch and hold a holy Bible without it burning his flesh.
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** Happens to Beans in "The Freeze" [[spoiler: when Devil needs some virgin blood in a ritual.]].
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* HornedHairdo: Devil has an interesting variation--rather that his hair standing up in points, his hairline makes the shape of horns coming off of his forehead.
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* HornedHairdo: Devil has an interesting variation--rather that his hair standing up in points, [[https://www.geekgirlauthority.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/NUP_191067_0010.jpg his hairline hairline]] makes the shape of horns coming off of his forehead.forehead. His demon form subverts this, with actual horns in the same place.
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* HornedHairdo: Devil has an interesting variation--rather that his hair standing up in points, his hairline makes the shape of horns coming off of his forehead.
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** YMMV on this one, as she later admits the main reason she wants Devil back is because he has a meeting soon.
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* AnythingThatMoves: Gloria boasts that she has had sex with every type of creature in Hell. The end of "The Date" shows her going home with the Cthulhu-like monstrosity that Beans rejected earlier.
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** Coma mostly looks looks like an EndearinglyDorky humanoid girl, except for the fact that she has horns and her hair covers her whole face.
** Ziva, from "The Date", looks pretty much what you'd expect from a dentist's daughter, except that she has horns.
* DatingWhatDaddyHates: In "The Date", Beans' date with Ziva seems to be going well until they go back to Ziva's place, where Beans learns that Ziva's dad hates humans, and thus he suspects that Ziva's only dating him in order to piss the old man off.
** Coma mostly looks looks like an EndearinglyDorky humanoid girl, except for the fact that she has horns and her hair covers her whole face.
** Ziva, from "The Date", looks pretty much what you'd expect from a dentist's daughter, except that she has horns.
* DatingWhatDaddyHates: In "The Date", Beans' date with Ziva seems to be going well until they go back to Ziva's place, where Beans learns that Ziva's dad hates humans, and thus he suspects that Ziva's only dating him in order to piss the old man off.
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* YouNeedToGetLaid: In "The Date", The Devil orders Beans to find a girlfriend, as he is concerned that Beans isn't putting down roots in Hell. Beans' lack of a love life also raises practical concerns - he is still a virgin, and virgins are sought-after in Hell by demons.
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* BosssUnfavoriteEmployee: Downplayed. God was never overtly mean to Devil, but he (rather understandably) didn't value his contributions to Creation the same way He did his other angels. Devil doesn't seem to realize this and was told running Hell was a promotion.
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* BosssUnfavoriteEmployee: Downplayed. God was never overtly mean to Devil, but he He (rather understandably) didn't value his contributions to Creation the same way He did his other angels. Devil doesn't seem to realize this and was told running Hell was a promotion.
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* ArtifactOfDoom: "The Atheist" introduces The Contract, an old artifact from the early days of mankind that allows whoever owns it to summon the Devil and request a favor in exchange for their immortal soul. The Devil created it and distributed to humans as an insurance policy in case God didn't send enough people to Hell (the Devil badly overestimated God's tolerance for humans.) In the five millennia since, The Contract has become a nuisance for the Devil, as the only people who use it tend to have unreasonable requests, like the man who wanted the Devil to turn the whole world yellow or the atheist who demanded that the Devil prove that God doesn't exist. Worse, the Devil can't return to Hell until the summoner releases him, and prolonged absence from Hell causes the realm to fall apart.
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* ArtifactOfDoom: "The Atheist" introduces The Contract, an old artifact from the early days of mankind that allows whoever owns it to summon the Devil and request a favor in exchange for their immortal soul. The Devil created it and distributed it to humans as an insurance policy in case God didn't send enough people to Hell (the Devil badly overestimated God's tolerance for humans.humans' foibles.) In the five millennia since, The Contract has become a nuisance for the Devil, as the only people who use it tend to have unreasonable requests, like the man who wanted the Devil to turn the whole world yellow or the atheist who demanded that the Devil prove that God doesn't exist. Worse, the Devil can't return to Hell until the summoner releases him, and prolonged absence from Hell causes the realm to fall apart.
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* ArtifactOfDoom: "The Atheist" introduces The Contract, an old artifact from the early days of mankind that allows whoever owns it to summon the Devil and request a favor in exchange for their immortal soul. The Devil created it and distributed to humans as an insurance policy in case God didn't send enough people to Hell (the Devil badly overestimated God's tolerance for humans.) In the five millennia since, The Contract has become a nuisance for the Devil, as the only people who use it tend to have unreasonable requests, like the man who wanted the Devil to turn the whole world yellow or the atheist who demanded that the Devil prove that God doesn't exist. Worse, the Devil can't return to Hell until the summoner releases him, and prolonged absence from Hell causes the realm to fall apart.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes / BewareTheSillyOnes: Despite Devil's nice and quirky personality, anyone who betrays him (or significantly annoy and inconvenience him) will suffer for it, at least long enough to regret it.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes / BewareTheSillyOnes: BewareTheNiceOnes[=/=]BewareTheSillyOnes: Despite Devil's nice and quirky personality, anyone who betrays him (or significantly annoy and inconvenience him) will suffer for it, at least long enough to regret it.
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* FisherKing: According to Coma, if the Devil is away from Hell for too long, the realm falls apart.
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* BigRedDevil: Devil's original/true form. Tall and muscular, horns, wings, and red all over. Interestingly enough, this is also what God's ''other'' angels look like, only in different colors.
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* OurAngelsAreDifferent: God's angels look more like Devil's true form, each one in a different color.
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* BarredFromTheAfterlife: Gwyneth Paltrow was rejected from both Heaven ''and'' Hell, much to God's amusement. It's not known what, if anything, will happen to her.
** Downplayed for laughs in "The Atheist". The episode title character's friends show up to the gates of Hell, only to be told Hell was closed for repairs and to wait until they're done.
* BewareTheNiceOnes / BewareTheSillyOnes: Despite Devil's nice and quirky personality, anyone who betrays him (or significantly annoy and inconvenience him) will suffer for it, at least long enough to regret it.
* BosssUnfavoriteEmployee: Downplayed. God was never overtly mean to Devil, but he (rather understandably) didn't value his contributions to Creation the same way He did his other angels. Devil doesn't seem to realize this and was told running Hell was a promotion.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Devil is quirky and has a bit of a short attention span, but he's able to keep Hell running as smoothly as a former plane of torment can be expected to run.
** Downplayed for laughs in "The Atheist". The episode title character's friends show up to the gates of Hell, only to be told Hell was closed for repairs and to wait until they're done.
* BewareTheNiceOnes / BewareTheSillyOnes: Despite Devil's nice and quirky personality, anyone who betrays him (or significantly annoy and inconvenience him) will suffer for it, at least long enough to regret it.
* BosssUnfavoriteEmployee: Downplayed. God was never overtly mean to Devil, but he (rather understandably) didn't value his contributions to Creation the same way He did his other angels. Devil doesn't seem to realize this and was told running Hell was a promotion.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Devil is quirky and has a bit of a short attention span, but he's able to keep Hell running as smoothly as a former plane of torment can be expected to run.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: After hearing that social media influencers often ''are'' more trusted than the average President of the United States, Devils' response was to sit down on the floor in despair and quietly mutter, "Oh my god...".
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* AHellOfATime: Devil's ultimate goal. It's... a work in progress, but modern-day Hell is still much more pleasant than the old days.
* InsaneTrollLogic: An atheist summons Devil... ''in order to have Devil prove God doesn't exist''! The Devil rightfully points out that his very existence by default proves God exists and gets increasingly frustrated the atheist wasn't accepting any of Devil's answers because it contradicted what the atheist wanted to hear.
* InsaneTrollLogic: An atheist summons Devil... ''in order to have Devil prove God doesn't exist''! The Devil rightfully points out that his very existence by default proves God exists and gets increasingly frustrated the atheist wasn't accepting any of Devil's answers because it contradicted what the atheist wanted to hear.
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Seeking to revamp Hell and improve its image, the Devil hires recently-deceased social-media manager Beans as part of an effort to rebrand the realm as a hot new place to live.
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Seeking to revamp Hell and improve its image, the Devil hires recently-deceased social-media manager Beans Zachary Bean as part of an effort to rebrand the realm as a hot new place to live.
* SmallNameBigEgo: President [=McKinley=] still fervently believes that one day, people will remember all the things he accomplished as the 25th President of the United States of America.
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* UnholyMatrimony: The Devil was a wife, a succubus named Regina. Their marriage has some friction in it, as Regina is an old-school demoness who refuses to give up on tormenting mortals.
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* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: In "The Sisters", Regina and her sister Jezebeth get wasted on Leviathan's spinal fluid and go off to make havoc on Earth, culminating in Regina trying to seduce Vladimir Putin in order to convince him to launch a nuclear missile.
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* GroinAttack: In the first episode, the Devil is temporarily incapacitated after his BDSM-minded mistress takes a stiletto to his crotch.
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* GroinAttack: In the first episode, the Devil is temporarily incapacitated after his BDSM-minded mistress wife takes a stiletto to his crotch.crotch during a BSDM session.
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* TooKinkyToTorture: In "The Sisters", Regina tries to take out her frustrations on a willing submissive, but is annoyed that he gets off on the pain.
* UnholyMatrimony: The Devil was a wife, a succubus named Regina. Their marriage has some friction in it, as Regina is an old-school demoness who refuses to give up on tormenting mortals.
* UnholyMatrimony: The Devil was a wife, a succubus named Regina. Their marriage has some friction in it, as Regina is an old-school demoness who refuses to give up on tormenting mortals.
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* SatanIsGood: Shockingly, yes. Devil is genuinely a nice and affable person. In fact, the only reason ''why'' Hell was a FireAndBrimstoneHell for so long was he didn't realize that humans ''didn't'' enjoy burning in lava until he started to pay more attention to them and their wants and needs. Now he wants Hell to be at least somewhat enjoyable. That said, GoodIsNotSoft also applies, so anyone who intentionally messes with him will be reminded why he's in charge.
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* JerkassGod: God is depicted as a vain, immature jerk who created Hell as a dumping ground for anything that might slightly inconvenience Him. He banished the Devil there not because of some rebellion, but because the Devil annoyed Him. And he didn't even have the decency to explain to the Devil ''why'' he got banished; the Devil still believes that he was promoted as a reward because God loved his contributions to Australia.
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* ReassignedToAntarctica: "The Shipment" reveals the secret origins of Hell - God created Hell as a dumping ground for everything and everyone who annoyed Him, and then tricked the Devil into running the place because He got tired of the Devil's creative suggestions.
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* TakeThat: "The Shipment" features Hell getting a shipment of all the latest things to get rejected from Heaven, and thus takes potshots at ''Film/StarWarsTheRiseOfSkywalker'', shake-weights, fidget spinners, and Creator/GwynethPaltrow.
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* CityOfTheDamned: Hell was originally [[FireAndBrimstoneHell the stereotypical lava-pit of eternal suffering]] before the Devil had it "gentrified".
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* TheStarscream: President [=McKinley=] wants to take over Hell and return it to the bad old days of fire and brimstone.
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* TheStarscream: President [=McKinley=] wants to take over Hell and return it to the bad old days of fire and brimstone.brimstone.
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* FireAndBrimstoneHell: Hell used to be this, but the Devil found it a pain in the ass having to organize the torture and imprisonment of millions of people, so instead Hell has become gentrified.
* FireAndBrimstoneHell: Hell used to be this, but the Devil found it a pain in the ass having to organize the torture and imprisonment of millions of people, so instead Hell has become gentrified.
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''Devil May Care'' is an animated series airing on Creator/{{Syfy}}, starring Creator/AlanTudyk, Creator/PamelaAdlon and Creator/StephanieBeatriz.
Seeking to revamp Hell and improve its image, the Devil hires recently-deceased social-media manager Beans as part of an effort to rebrand the realm as a hot new place to live.
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* CatsAreMean: The series claims that cats are the one truly evil creature in Hell. In the first episode alone, under the leadership of Adolf Kitler, they attempt to overthrow the Devil himself.
* DontCallMePaul: Regina hates being called "Reggie".
* GroinAttack: In the first episode, the Devil is temporarily incapacitated after his BDSM-minded mistress takes a stiletto to his crotch.
* ServileSnarker: Gloria, the Devil's right-hand woman, regularly snarks about her boss.
* TheStarscream: President [=McKinley=] wants to take over Hell and return it to the bad old days of fire and brimstone.
Seeking to revamp Hell and improve its image, the Devil hires recently-deceased social-media manager Beans as part of an effort to rebrand the realm as a hot new place to live.
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* CatsAreMean: The series claims that cats are the one truly evil creature in Hell. In the first episode alone, under the leadership of Adolf Kitler, they attempt to overthrow the Devil himself.
* DontCallMePaul: Regina hates being called "Reggie".
* GroinAttack: In the first episode, the Devil is temporarily incapacitated after his BDSM-minded mistress takes a stiletto to his crotch.
* ServileSnarker: Gloria, the Devil's right-hand woman, regularly snarks about her boss.
* TheStarscream: President [=McKinley=] wants to take over Hell and return it to the bad old days of fire and brimstone.
