History WesternAnimation / HazbinHotel

[[caption-width-right:350:''"The road to Heaven is paved with Hellish intentions"'' [[note]]From left to right: Husk, Angel Dust, Alastor, Kee Kee, Adam, Charlie Morningstar, Sir Pentious, Vaggie, Niffty and Lucifer[[/note]]]]

* AerithAndBob: On one hand you have names like Angel Dust, Vaggie, and Crymini, and on the other you have names like Tom, Baxter, and Charlie.

* MurderIsTheBestSolution: The general mindset of the Exorcists is that they need to conduct Exterminations as a solution to Hell's overpopulation problem. This is what Charlie is trying to find an alternative to, as the Exorcists have no mercy and kill whoever they want, with Charlie instead offering redemption so that Sinners ''don't'' suffer a CruelAndUnusualDeath from the Exorcists.

* DrivingQuestion: Why did Lilith and Alastor disappear 7 years ago?

* LyricalDissonance: The song "ADDICT" is full of this, with a hint of SoundtrackDissonance as well. It sounds like a peppy and cheery song with some silly sex and violence going on, but listening and looking a little closer (doubly so for the video, which sugarcoats nothing) tells an incredibly depressing story about Angel and Cherri being "addicted" to their lifestyles, using sex, drugs, murder, and mayhem in an attempt to ignore their pain and sadness.

* TheAfterafterlife: {{Discussed|trope}} by Angel Dust during the limo ride back to the hotel as he ponders and deconstructs Vaggie's threats (being Angel Dust, this likely means nothing to him in the long run).

* MusicalWorldHypothesis: It’s implied that Lilith, and by extension Charlie, have the power to turn the world around them into a type 1. We see Charlie apparently have some reality warper powers during her song in the pilot that were picked up by the cameras. The StorybookOpening for the first official episode said Lilith empowered demon kind with her voice and passed on her legacy to her daughter.

* ThisIsGonnaSuck: In the Happy Day in Hell clip, Vaggie's reaction of Charlie singing her song in the streets of Hell scream this trope.

** In 'Masquerade' Husk essentially explains the power structure in Hell, and how easy it is to lose that power.

** In 'Dad Beat Dad', Husk expands on the above that [[spoiler:even Overlords in power are not exempt from aforementioned power structure.]]
--->'''Husk:''' ''(to Alastor)'' Big talk for someone [[spoiler:who's also on a leash.]]

* BondageIsBad: Played amazingly with. ''Helluva Boss'' season 2, and even more ''Hazbin Hotel'' season 1, use it to distinguish good and bad characters. Negative character occasionnaly use bondage techniques to kidnap or force the main characters into creepy situation - such as the ''Poison'' song who the clip is basically about Angel being gang raped to let Valentino shoot his porno and dominates him in a bad way. However, having a SafeSaneAndConsensual BDSM relationship is also used when two characters had developped a positive and trusty romantic relationship, emphasing the importance of trust in such activity - mainly the relation between Fizzaroli and Asmodeus in ''Helluva Boss''. Also played for laugh once, when Husk is enjoying the visit at the BDSM club as a bounding activity, but immedialtly steps out of it at the moment he sees Nifty DressedLikeADominatrix.
-->'''Angel Dust''' [inside a BDSM club] No stronger bonds than bondage! That's even their motto.
* BroadStrokes: The series of events from [[Recap/HazbinHotelS1E0ThatsEntertainment the pilot]] appear to be broadly canon in the show proper (Alastor becoming the Hotel's patron, Sir Pentious attacking the Hotel) but [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness some of the smaller details have been changed or rectified]], inluding most characters' designs being anywhere from slightly tweaked to completely overhauled.

-->'''Husk:''' [[spoiler:I was an Overlord once,]] you know.

-->'''Husk:''' ''(to Alastor)'' Big talk for someone [[spoiler:who's also on a leash.]]

-->'''Adam:''' ''(to Vaggie)'' Did you really think I wouldn't recognize [[spoiler:[[FallenAngel one of my best girls]] just because she's out of uniform?]]

* ColorWash: Hell is depicted as quite red, with some yellow, white, and black tints.

* BlackComedyRape: The culmination of Sir Pentious' botched attempts to hook up with Cherri Bomb involves him being dragged off to a sex room against his will.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: There are a few hints at [[spoiler:Vaggie being a FallenAngel]] before it's confirmed in "Welcome to Heaven", from [[spoiler:her clearly angelic spear (which could be justified as a leftover admittedly), her eyepatch which parallels the masks of the Exorcists, her alluding to a military background and calling demons "[Charlie's] people" in "Scrambled Eggs", and her reaction when Lucifer is talking about the negative side of Heaven in "Dead Beat Dad".]]

** Valentino's contract for Angel Dust's soul look like Ursula's contract from ''[[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 The Little Mermaid]]''.

* WorldOfJerkass: [[JustifiedTrope The show takes place in Hell]], so it's pretty hard to find a character who is a fundamentally decent person, to say the least. Turf wars occur between people fighting for territory, the news media includes people who are only superficially nice in front of the camera (and that's more like a MaskOfSanity than actually being nice), and Charlie's earnest attempt to redeem sinners gets vicious mockery from nearly everybody.

[[caption-width-right:350:''"Today is gonna be a [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] happy day in Hell!"'' [[note]]From left to right: Husk, Angel Dust, Alastor, Kee Kee, Adam, Charlie Morningstar, Sir Pentious, Vaggie, Niffty and Lucifer[[/note]]]]

* InherentInTheSystem: In "Welcome to Heaven", it's revealed that [[spoiler: the method by which a soul is judged is unknown to the angels running Heaven. People like Adam can wind up in Heaven despite being generally horrible people while a single mistake can land a soul in Hell even if they're decent. This fact is known to Heaven's leadership, but they refuse to question the system for fear of falling like Lucifer.]]

* InherentInTheSystem: In Welcome to Heaven, it's revealed that [[spoiler: the method in which someone is judged whether they go to Heaven or Hell is extremely vague, to the point that even the people running Heaven don't know what it takes to get in. Not only has this led to situations of clearly good people going to Hell and clearly awful people going to Heaven, but no one in Heaven wants to fix things for fear of falling like Lucifer.]]

* InherentInTheSystem: In Welcome to Heaven, it's revealed that [[spoiler: the method in which someone is judged whether they go to Heaven or Hell is extremely vague, to the point that even the people running Heaven don't know what it takes to get in. Not only has this led to situations of clearly good people going to Hell and clearly awful people going to Heaven, put no one in Heaven wants to fix things for fear of falling like Lucifer.]]

* InherentintheSystem: In Welcome to Heaven, it's revealed that [[spoiler: the method in which someone is judged whether they go to Heaven or Hell is extremely vague, to the point that even the people running Heaven don't know what it takes to get in. Not only has this led to situations of clearly good people going to Hell and clearly awful people going to Heaven, put no one in Heaven wants to fix things for fear of falling like Lucifer.]]

-->'''Angel Dust''' inside a BDSM club: "No stronger bonds than bondage! That's even their moto."

* BlackBox: [[spoiler:It's revealed that whatever system that exists for sorting souls into Heaven or Hell (if one even exists) is this. Not even the highest Angels actually know ''why'' souls go to one place or the other, and that they've been trying to figure it out by comparing the souls of those in Heaven to those in Hell.]]