Recap / Helluva Boss S1E6 "Truth Seekers"

Agent One: I'd like to see the suits at corporate call us losers now. That was pretty badass.
Agent Two: Super badass.

When I.M.P gets captured by a group of demon-hunting agents in the human world, things sure do happen — namely, Blitzo and Moxxie having a heart-to-heart after they're dosed with truth serum while Millie and Loona go on a Roaring Rampage of Rescue.

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Tropes for this episode include:

• Acquired Poison Immunity: Blitzo is stated to have recovered from his incapacitation sooner than Moxxie due to taking large amounts of tranquilizers in college and having his nipples clamped to a car battery.
• Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene: Preceding the biggest action sequence in the episode (and maybe the entire series) is a quiet moment where Blitzo and Moxxie have a heart-to-heart about the first day they worked together, as well as Blitzo admitting that he thinks Moxxie is a pretty good employee.
• Actually Pretty Funny: When Blitzo starts flirting with One to mess with him ("Daddy likey dummy"), Moxxie cracks up.
• Anger Born of Worry: After saving the members of I.M.P, Stolas first asks if everyone's okay (specifically Blitzo), then starts yelling at them for being so reckless.
• Angry Collar Grab: Millie yanks Loona (who's wearing a studded dog collar) by the collar while demanding she reopen the portal.
• Animation Bump: The reason this episode took longer to create compared to the rest of the series is due to an exceptionally higher animation budget that was used for both a Disney Acid Sequence and a Kill Bill-esque battle sequence where all four members of I.M.P just go full out nuts on a horde of mooks while the scene constantly pans and rotates around in an extra-fluid manner.
• Armor-Piercing Question: Blitzo receives two in a row from his subconscious during his hallucination.
  Hallucination Stolas: Are you afraid to love people, Blitzy?
  Hallucination Moxxie: I believe your subconscious is trying to tell you that you simply cannot fathom proper intimacy, yet also crave it as well. It's rather unfortunate, sir, considering it's often how you treat those who stand by you, such as myself. Are you worried I may have enough of it someday as well?
• Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: When the compound goes into lockdown to trap I.M.P, the lockdown includes multiple locked blast-proof doors, iron bars, a laser grid defense system, and a bathroom door with an "OCCUPIED" sign.
• Art Shift: Moxxie's hallucination is styled like a Disney film while Blitzo's hallucination is in the show's normal style but some of the people in it are in different animation types with Moxxie starting out as a simplistic stick figure, Striker as a grainy old west projection, and Robo-Fizz as a black-and-white Fleischer-esque cartoon.
• Ask a Stupid Question...: When Blitzo makes an innuendo about physical torture backfiring by turning them on, Agent One asks him what he means by that. Blitzo makes his point by taking the opportunity to make a pass at One over his stupidity being attractive.
• Awesome, but Impractical: The agents of D.H.O.R.K.S. seem to exclusively use melee weapons from the Edo-era of Japan purely because they look so badass. The problem is that Blitzo and Moxxie use firearms, resulting in them massacring the agents before they can even get to melee range. Even when the agents get close, Millie and Loona are much better fighters than them.
• Ax-Crazy: This episode really exemplifies Millie's crazy adoration of murder and mutilation, as she not only slaughters numerous agents wearing an exhilarating and enthusiastic expression, but she straight up uses an axe that is about as big as her for most of the slaughter.
• Back-to-Back Badasses: Blitzo and Moxxie stand back to back while the agents attack them. Moxxie covering his boss while Blitzo hands his gun expert new weapons the moment they run out without even looking.
• Bag of Holding: The backpack labeled "Blitzo's Emergen-C Bag" holds all of the weapons that I.M.P uses to fight against the human agents, despite being way too small to fit them all. At one point, Blitzo pulls a rocket launcher from the backpack that's bigger than the pack itself.
• Beware of Vicious Dog: Loona gets to fight for the first time in the series, and she's shown to be a rather savage fighter. She catches a kusarigama and chain between her teeth, decapitates agents with the kusarigama, whips them with the kusarigama's chain, and bites through human agents with her teeth. The whole time, Loona is snarling like a vicious hound.
• Beware the Silly Ones: If you didn't think the flamboyant, constantly-horny, somewhat bumbling Stolas was capable of being a figure of fear before, you absolutely will after his nightmarish Big Entrance to terrorise the surviving D.H.O.R.K.S agents in this episode.
• BFG: Blitzo takes out an RPG that almost twice his height labeled “My Dick” that fires an equally large rocket called the “Pussy Destroyer”.
• BFS: Millie wields a giant two-handed battle ax that looks like a normal-sized two-handed weapon for Loona. So when Millie — who is only half that tall — is swinging around an ax that's bigger than she is, it's a testament to how she's the muscle of the team.
• Big Damn Heroes:
  • Millie and Loona work together to infiltrate the D.H.O.R.K.S. facility to rescue Blitzo and Moxxie, leaving dozens of bodies in their wake.
  • When Agents One and Two put the place on lockdown, it seems like they have the upper hand against I.M.P. Then Stolas arrives and save the demons by putting his powers to full use.
• Big Damn Kiss: Stolas and Blitzo share an intense kiss upon returning to Hell.
• Big Entrance: Stolas pulls out all the stops. Crackling screens, blood oozing from the walls, footprints with nothing making them, shadows with glowing eyes, undead agents scrawling summoning circles in blood, a possessed Agent Two pulling a Linda Blair and vomiting bloody feathers that coalesce into a hulking owl monster... It all works to make Stolas terrifying to the Agents.
• Bittersweet Ending: Stolas saves the group at the last minute and they return to Hell, and Blitzo gains some long overdue character development, telling Moxxie how proud he is to have him working for him. Unfortunately, I.M.P's massacre and Stolas's appearance were secretly recorded, meaning it may not be long before mankind is aware of Hell's existence.
• Bling-Bling-BANG!: Among the weapons Moxxie uses during the final battle is a pair of golden revolvers.
• Brick Joke: Back in "Spring Broken", when Moxxie shouted his admiration for Millie’s vicious takedown of a giant fish monster, Blitzo said "she totally pegs you, doesn't she?" to Moxxie. In this episode, when they’re exposed to a Truth Serum, Blitzo's first question is whether or not he was right about the pegging. The answer is "sometimes".
• Broken Masquerade: The human government has been monitoring the misadventures of I.M.P for some time now, and with their massacre of the D.H.O.R.K.S. agents and the Big Entrance Stolas made being recorded, it's implied that the existence of Hell may soon be common knowledge in the human world, or at least the government.
• By the Lights of Their Eyes: For demons only. Their eyes glow in a room dimly lit only by red emergency lighting, but human eyes in the same light don't glow unless possessed by a demon.
• Call-Back:
  • The second of Moxxie's coffee orders, as well as him mentioning that baristas always seem to misspell his name, is a callback to a photo posted on his Instagram account.
  • Loona wears her Human Disguise again.
  • Millie ends up getting Blinded by Rage after Moxxie is put in danger.
  • Among the images in Blitzo's mind are Stolas, Striker, Robo Fizz, and Verosika.
  • Blitzo takes advantage of the truth gas to confirm that yes, Millie does peg Moxxie.
  • Moxxie saying he thinks Blitzo's suit is tacky calls back at the pilot, when Blitzo asks if his outfit looks good.
  • Moxxie's trip referencing The Phantom of the Opera isn't that surprising when you remember that he's a fan of musical theatre, considers there to be nothing bad about opera, and that Phantom is his favorite musical.
  • When hallucination Moxxie starts to rant at Blitzo, you can slowly hear how Blitzo is tuning him out, like Episode 3 shows he often does to the real Moxxie.
  • Stolas says "he has ways" of knowing when I.M.P are in danger; while not elaborated upon, it was briefly noticeable back in Episode 1 that he was scrying on Blitzo through magical means while they were on the phone.
• The Cameo: Blitzo's hallucination provides cameos from Striker, Fizzarolli and Verosika, though they're voiced by Brandon Rogers due to the scene taking place in Blitzo's head.
• Cassandra Truth: Stolas is ready to forgive the whole incident with D.H.O.R.K.S. since most don't believe the words of the "demon-obsessed lunatics". That is, if it wasn't for the fact that Agent One and Two now have enough camera footage and bloodshed to convince the corporate that demons are real.
• Casual Danger Dialogue: During the fight, Blitzo asks Millie if she needs a gun, then some water. Millie takes the latter, with Blitzo squirting water from a water bottle into Millie's mouth while she performs a Neck Snap on an agent with her legs.
• Cerebus Retcon: In "Spring Broken", when the rest of I.M.P learns of Blitzo's past relationship with pop star Verosika, their What Does She See in Him? comments are Played for Laughs. Here, we learn that Blitzo himself felt the same way; he apparently sabotaged the relationship between the two of them, driving Verosika away because of his insecurities.
• Conservation of Ninjutsu: Swarms of agents carrying Edo-period Japanese weapons? Nothing but a bunch of live targets to demonstrate how badass I.M.P can be. Two identified agents carrying guns? The crew is backed up against a wall, and only saved thanks to Stolas. Justified, since I.M.P was either better-armed or more skilled than the mooks, and once confronted by Agents One and Two, they had run out of weapons and the two of them were actually using their firearms.
• Contrived Coincidence: Agents One and Two are discussing what to do about I.M.P, only to see Blitzo and Moxxie literally right outside the window from where they are. Agent Two even lampshades how convenient it is.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Millie and Loona slaughter their way through D.H.O.R.K.S. headquarters, and it only becomes more of a bloodbath once they break Blitzo and Moxxie out. Until they run out of ammo... but then Stolas shows up, engages in some Demonic Possession, and terrifies the agents. In any case, the humans never had much chance against the demons.
• Death Glare: Stolas gives one to Agents One and Two, made all the more withering by his four eyes. It's almost as intimidating as his giant monster-bird form.
• Darker and Edgier: Quite possibly THE darkest episode in the series thus far, showing a lot of twisted acip trips, a violent one-sided massacre against the D.H.O.R.K.S. agents, and Stolas unleashing the most terrifying display of true demonic power in the entire franchise.
• Deconstructed Trope: This episode shows the consequences of using certain tropes straight.
  • Extra-Strength Masquerade: All the times I.M.P has gone to the human world undisguised finally catches up to them, as the D.H.O.R.K.S. have camera evidence of their past jobs.
  • Never Bring a Knife to a Gun Fight: The agents all use Edo-period Japanese weaponry because it's "badass". It's also Awesome, but Impractical. Even ignoring the fact that the demons are much better fighters, the demons all use guns to blast away the agents before they can even get into melee range, which is part of the reason that the fight is a Curb-Stomp Battle. Heck, the only two ranged weapons they have, surikens and a kusarigama, are both negated: The shurikens all miss, while the kusarigama is "fetched" by Loona the moment it's thrown. Fortunately for them, I.M.P do eventually run out of ammo, but then Stolas comes in.
• Demonic Possession: Agent Two is possessed by Stolas before the two main agents can hurt I.M.P, taking control of her body and causing her to spew black ooze-like feathers from her mouth. He also reanimates the corpses of a number of other slaughtered agents and uses their bodies to draw his summoning circle around her in their own blood.
• Disney Acid Sequence: The Truth-Serum-induced Mushroom Samba pulls out all the stops in both mind screwery and bizarre non-standard animation, whether it's the exaggeratedly fluid musical number for Moxxie or the deeply philosophical and introspective clusterfuck for Blitzo.
• Don't Call Me "Sir": After the Truth Serum gas wears off, and they have a chance of talking it out without its influence, Blitzo invokes this and tells Moxxie to start calling him by name.
  Moxxie: Thank you, sir.
  Blitzo: You know my name. Use it.
  Moxxie: Thanks, Blitz.
• Dual Wielding: Blitzo and Moxxie both brandish guns akimbo at multiple points during the final battle.
• Easily Forgiven: While Stolas is understandably livid about Blitzo and the others getting tangled up with the government, he gets over the whole mess pretty quickly, largely because Cassandra Truth is in effect and the agents won't be believed if they say anything about what happened (or so he thinks). It's probably helped by him angling for some more... carnal compensation from Blitzo who agrees with the request.
• Exact Words: When taunting Agents 1 and 2 with Blitzo, Moxxie points out that they never even directly told the agents what they actually were. When Agent 2 asks, Moxxie responds that he's a Virgo.
• Exorcist Head: Stolas twists Agent Two's head around when he's possessing her, complete with a Slasher Smile.
• Extra-Long Episode: This episode is 22 minutes long, the longest in the series. The next closest clocked in at just under seventeen minutes.
• Freeze-Frame Bonus:
  • In the frame of Agent Two hitting the "Truth Bomb" button, two other buttons are visible for releasing "HaHa Gas" and "Bitch Juice" along with two other buttons just out of frame, implying that D.H.O.R.K.S. have a large variety of Emotion Bomb gases.
  • A "blink-and-you'll-miss-it" one: during Stolas' Big Entrance, he can briefly be seen on the first monitor to fly out - specifically, when it turns red and shortly before it gets yanked out from its position.
• Furry Reminder: Loona is unable to "see dick" when trying to read the grimoire under intense red light, thanks to her being colorblind. Canines in general are said to have a limited color spectrum to humans, not exclusively black and white. The grimoire itself being written in red isn’t helping.
• Glad-to-Be-Alive Sex: Stolas and Blitzo decide to have a night of fucking after coming back to Hell with all the trouble they went through to get back home.
• Groin Attack: Moxxie inflicts this on accident when Blitzo startles him, causing him to fumble with his shotgun until it ends up castrating an unlucky agent. Both Blitzo and Moxxie actually feel bad for the poor man leading to Blitzo putting him out of his misery.
• Hypocrisy Nod: Blitzo's own mind does this to him. During his Disney Acid Sequence, Blitzo is verbally assaulted by dreamscape versions of Moxxie, Striker, Fizzarolli, Verosika, and Stolas. At the end of this speech, the dreamscape version of Moxxie notes that Blitzo simultaneously Desperately Craves Affection, yet also pushes away anyone who even tries to get close to him. It's enough to make Blitzo hit a Rage Breaking Point, screaming at them to "stop fucking talking" to him.
• I Have My Ways: When asked how he knew to come to the rescue, Stolas cryptically replies that he has his ways.
• Inherently Funny Words: Stolas apparently finds the word "kooks" rather amusing.
• Insecurity Camera: Averted. While everyone but the two Agents are killed in the massacre, the building still has partially operational cameras that captured video footage of the I.M.P's rampage. Earlier in the episode, Loona also gets discovered very quickly thanks to said cameras.
• Katanas Are Just Better: Averted. Despite Agent Two's protestations that it's "badass", Edo-period weaponry is not more effective than modern firearms; the members of I.M.P tear right through the katana-wielding agents.
• Lampshade Hanging: In Moxxie's hallucination, Blitzo is voiced by a different actor for his singing voice. Moxxie asks him, "Why do you sound like that?"
• Logical Weakness: In order to open a hell portal, the spell must be read directly from the grimoire, which Loona can't do in the red emergency lighting of D.H.O.R.K.S. HQ under lockdown since her vision isn't the normal human range. Stolas, on the other hand, has evidently memorized the spell and can simply open the portal at will, no book required, both allowing him to follow Blitzo to the human world and bring everyone back.
• Major Injury Underreaction: During the climactic battle, agents of D.H.O.R.K.S. are being shot to bits by Blitzo and Moxxie, cut to pieces by Millie, ripped apart by Loona... and it doesn't elicit even a single scream from them. At some point, for example, we can see an agent lying on the floor with both his arms hacked off and acting as if he was bothered by mere inconvenience, rather than suffering from excruciating pain we'd expect him to feel. Even when an agent gets accidentally castrated by Moxxie, he doesn't even whimper. Given the absurd nature of the show, this was most likely intentional.
• The Men in Black: Played with. The agents of D.H.O.R.K.S. all dress this way, including with black suits and ties with dark sunglasses. However, they invert the typical purpose of such an organization; rather than attempting to maintain The Masquerade, D.H.O.R.K.S. is attempting to expose one.
• Mook Horror Show: Once I.M.P is back together the D.H.O.R.K.S. are helpless before their demonic firepower. And that's before Stolas shows up.
• Mushroom Samba: Both Blitzo and Moxxie undergo this thanks to Agent One and Agent Two pumping them full of drugs. Moxxie and Blitzo each undergo a Disney Acid Sequence as a result.
• Never Bring a Knife to a Gun Fight: The agents fight with Edo-period weaponry. The imps for the most part fight with modern weaponry, with the exception of Millie who is more powerful in melee than they are. The agents get utterly decimated.
• The Nose Knows: After returning to the alley where Blitzo and Moxxie got grabbed, Loona lowers her nose to the pavement, while wearing her human disguise, and follows their scent.
• Not Worth Killing: While Stolas is willing to scare Agent One and Agent Two into a shivering state, he leaves them alive as he thinks nobody would believe "demon-obsessed lunatics". This backfires as the duo were able to salvage video footage of both the I.M.P and Stolas.
• Oh, Crap!: Blitzo has a small panic attack when he realizes that the person Millie came with was Loona.
• The Oner: The Kill Bill-style fight sequence is a borderline example, as from start to finish it never does a hard-cut between characters, shifting camera focus as characters pass each other without any fight flow interruptions, but at several points there are hard camera-shifts to slightly different angles to cut down on unnecessary extra flowing transitions.
• One-Winged Angel: A glimpse of Stolas is shown in a much more intimidating form. A big black owlbear-like creature with his Goetic sigil between multiple pairs of eyes.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Loona points out that Blitzo used "a total of zero euphemisms, swears, or innuendos" when ordering her to close the portal. She implies that this is a sign of how serious the situation is, and she's not allowed to open it back up until she gets some sort of signal to do so. It doesn't stop Millie from demanding her to forgo this condition to save both her husband and their boss.
• Overcomplicated Menu Order: When Blitzo demands coffee, Moxxie makes very complicated coffee orders. It's enough to annoy the two human agents. Blitzo is suitably impressed at Moxxie getting under their skin.
  Blitzo: Wow, I was getting massive douche chills out of you there, Mox! Congrats!
• Pacifism Backfire: Stolas sparing the two agents at the end of the episode, him reasoning that they'll be dismissed as crazy, seems like it'll end up biting the gang in the ass later, as shown by the two agents having footage of everything that happened in D.H.O.R.K.S. facility, with all the proof that Hell exists.
• Parody Assistance: Moxxie's Disney-like hallucination was animated by Disney animator Rick Farmiloe.
• Partial Transformation: Before returning to her hellhound form, there's a brief moment in which Loona's canine ears pop out just before she jumps into the air, with the rest of the transformation happening offscreen.
• Pass the Popcorn: Agents One and Two break out the popcorn while watching Blitzo and Moxxie under the effects of truth gas.
• The Password Is Always "Swordfish": When Millie and Loona reach a locked door with a keypad, Millie notices that the only worn out button is '1', and asks Loona to 'try 1'. Loona hits 1 over and over until the door opens on the first attempt. Sure enough, the passcode is simply 11111.
• Phallic Weapon: Blitzo's rocket launcher is named "My Dick", with a rocket named "Pussy Destroyer".
  Blitzo: Ah, yeah! Gettin' hard holding this motherfucker!
• Pity the Kidnapper: Blitzo believes he and Moxxie will be able to get out this way, thinking that they can annoy Agents 1 and 2 until they get so frustrated that they screw up and let them go. Unfortunately, the Agents hear this and decide to gas them with Truth Serum in response.
• Pre-Asskicking One-Liner:
  • Blitzo gets two. Just before starting the fight against the Agents, Blitzo says to his crew "Okay, I've had one too many emotions for today. Guys, let's FUCK THESE FUCKERS UP!" Then, after preparing to take on some agents by himself, Blitzo loads up two guns and says "Now who wants some quality time with Daddy?"
  • Stolas punctuates his Big Entrance with a demonic echoing whisper: "Who dares threaten my impish little plaything?"
• Precision F-Strike: Stolas goes "How the fuck" at Blitzo for his team's recent recklessness, noticeably without his usual bleeps. Millie also gives one during her Angry Collar Grab moment above.
• Quaking with Fear: Agent One and Agent Two do this after Stolas makes his Big Entrance. After Stolas arrives, the two human agents hold onto each other, so terrified of Stolas that they can't even move.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Blitzo's subconscious mind gives him a scathing one...
  Hallucination Moxxie: Admit it, my dear boss, you don't know what you're doing half the time! And you depend on me and the missus to manage your foolish flights of fancy!
  Blitzo: I don't need you! I can do this shit on my own so easily!
  Hallucination Striker: But you don't wanna do things alone, Blitzo!
  Hallucination Fizzarolli: You tried the solo act, it didn't work out so well! Hahahaha!
  Hallucination Verosika: Yet you still shove away anyone who gets too close until they resent you for being a selfish, shitty, shit-fucker!
  Hallucination Stolas: Are you afraid to love people, Blitzy?
  Hallucination Moxxie: I believe your subconscious is trying to tell you that you simply cannot fathom proper intimacy, yet also crave it as well. It's rather unfortunate, sir, considering it's often how you treat those who stand by you, such as myself. Are you worried I may have enough of it someday as well?
  Blitzo: STOP FUCKING TALKING, ALL OF YOU!
• Roaring Rampage of Rescue: Millie and Loona break into the headquarters of D.H.O.R.K.S. to save Blitzo and Moxxie. The two ladies slaughter their way through the guards before reaching the holding cell where the two men are being interrogated by the agents.
• Rule of Cool: Noted to be the reason D.H.O.R.K.S. use Edo-period weapons against I.M.P's guns and grenades.
• Saying Too Much: Hallucination Blitzo uses his song to trick Moxxie into talking about pegging again.
  Blitzo (hallucination): ♫ Why, Moxxie, why, ♫
  ♫ Have you held your true feelings inside? ♫
  Moxxie: ♫ I am scared of rejection ♫
  Blitzo (hallucination): ♫ Why, Moxxie, why, ♫
  ♫ Do you have Millie put it in your butt? ♫
  Moxxie: ♫ It gives me an erectio- ♫ Hey!
• Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Blitzo's side of the Mushroom Samba has everything Moxxie says be both extremely formal and exaggeratedly complicated, even telling Blitzo to pick up a dictionary to understand him better, as a display of how Blitzo views Moxxie as so smart and eloquent that it pisses him off due to feeling inadequate compared to the guy.
• Shout-Out:
  • Blitzo didn't like the musical that Moxxie wanted him to watch, which was about "ugly, horny cats".
  • The mask Blitzo wears in Moxxie's Disney Acid Sequence is similar to the one worn by the titular character in The Phantom of the Opera.
  • Blitzo's hallucination involves him in a trippy landscape being confronted with his flaws & insecurities by warped versions of people he's at odds with, much like what happens to Pink near the end of The Wall.
  • The fight sequence may as well have come right out of Kill Bill, as even Agent One questions why all the agents are exclusively using melee weapons from Edo-Period Japan.
  • The scene where Agent Two starts vomiting up bloody feathers while possessed by Stolas is very reminiscent of Linda Blair's possession in The Exorcist.
• Shown Their Work:
  • Project MKULTRA experimented with LSD and other hallucinogens as Truth Serums, they found that alcohol and cannabis were a bit more reliable but there's still precedent for the Mushroom Samba.
  • The symbol in the circle Stolas has the reanimated corpses draw to summon him is his symbol from the Ars Goetia rather than just a random sigil or stereotypical pentagram.
• Sickening "Crunch!": When Agent Two, possessed by Stolas, pulls off the Exorcist Head trick on Agent One, you can hear her neck bones grotesquely cracking as he tilts her head from side to side. Luckily for her, she's somehow fine once he emerges from her body.
• Something Else Also Rises: When Blitzo runs his hand along Stolas' face, while teasingly threatening to bring out the bear traps if he isn't quiet, Stolas' collar feathers puff up as he gives a short moan of pleasure.
• Sophisticated as Hell: Moxxie's Disney Acid Sequence is a dramatic musical with plenty of eloquent language, but also just as much vulgarity, such as outright starting with a baritone version of Blitzo exclaiming to Moxxie "It is no prank, bitch!"
• So Proud of You:
  • During their talk, Blitzo admits that Moxxie is a very good employee, and that Blitzo needs him. However, Blitzo then admits his well of compliments is "maxed out" and that's as nice as he's going to be.
  • After watching Loona rip the agents apart and blast the agents with a gun, Blitzo says he's proud of Loona and kisses her on the cheek.
• Spin Attack: Millie uses these multiple times with her axe, due to how much longer and larger it is than her. She does both a vertical one behind her back, and at least two horizontal ones with the axe held over her head. Both variations absolutely mulch the D.H.O.R.K.S. Agents that she uses them on. She does less extreme ones a few times as well, manuevering the axe without letting it slow down to make for an easier swing, or letting the motion of one swing carry her and the axe together for another strike without having to move her arms.
• Stylistic Suck: The Moxxie in Blitzo's Disney Acid Sequence is drawn in a childish scrawl with limited animation, indicating just how Blitzo views Moxxie in his head.
• Support Party Member: Blitzo, in his own way, acts as one during the big fight. While the rest of the crew is kicking ass and painting the room red, he's able to kick just as much ass, but spends a decent chunk of the fight supplying the rest of the crew with guns, ammunition, assistance, and water.
• Take That!: Under truth serum, Blitzo reveals that he hated a musical Moxxie recommended to him that featured "ugly, horny cats". It's unknown if this is talking about the stage production or the 2019 movie for its poor effects and uncomfortable eroticism. Or both. invoked this post from Blitzo's Instagram account provides some clarification though.
• Tastes Like Purple: Shortly after getting hit with a tranquilizer dart, Moxxie sniffs the air and woozily states he "smells" colors.
• Team Dad: Innuendos and Combat Sadomasochist tendencies aside, Blitzo acts this way in the fight by keeping his employees topped up on ammo and weapons, checking in on them, and even keeping them hydrated like a doting father.
• That Poor Cat: The stock yowling cat noise is heard when Agent One and Agent Two peek outside their window to see Blitzo making a ruckus trying to put a body in the garbage.
• Theatre Phantom: Blitzo manifests as one in Moxxie's hallucination, complete with an extravagant cape, a white mask that covers half of his face and playing a Sophisticated as Hell song on the pipe-organ.
• Thinking Up Portals: Stolas doesn't need the portal book to take the group back to I.M.P headquarters, he simply waves his hands to open a portal back. It's unclear if his Big Entrance via a summoning circle drawn by the corpses of the slain agents and the possessed Agent Two was entirely necessary, or if he was just trying to be intimidating.
• This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!: Hallucination Blitzo frequently calls Moxxie "Bitch" and "Bitch-boy" during the latter's Truth Serum-induced trip.
• Torture Is Ineffective: Discussed. Moxxie says that the agents of D.H.O.R.K.S. physically torturing them wouldn't do anything; not only would the demons just tell the agents what they thought they wanted to hear in an attempt to make the torture stop, but the agents would have no way of knowing if the demons are even telling the truth. Blitzo also brings up the potential for them being Too Kinky to Torture, rendering said torture even more ineffective. The agents get around this by using a Truth Serum gas that will force them to talk.
• Truth Serum: A truth-telling gas causes Moxxie and Blitzo to tell the truth to the point of Brutal Honesty. This includes Blitzo telling Moxxie that he has bad taste in music, and Moxxie saying that Blitzo's outfit is tacky. An apparent overdose sends their minds on an extensive hallucination trip where they're confronted by their issues, particularly regarding their relationships. Essentially, past telling the truth to others it forces them to tell the truth to themselves.
• Villain of the Week: The D.H.O.R.K.S. However, similar to the C.H.E.R.U.B.S. in episode 4, it's only by a technicality because their goals are well-meaning enough, at least on paper. Regardless, they are firmly at odds with I.M.P.
• Wham Episode: A human government (or a corporation, judging by Agent One's mention of sending something to "Corporate") has been tracking I.M.P for some time now, and at the end hasve footage of them and Stolas.
• Wham Shot: The ending shows that Agent One and Agent Two captured the members of I.M.P from multiple angles with their security cameras, implying that the masquerade for the demons may soon be broken.
• Who Dares?: Stolas introduces himself to the humans with this line.
• With Catlike Tread: In the beginning of the mission, Blitzo tells the rest of I.M.P to be quiet. After that, he slams a dumpster's door closed and falls into garbage bags, creating a lot of noise.
• Xanatos Gambit: In a subverted example, Agents One and Two simply wanted to capture and interrogate Blitzo and Moxxie for information about Hell, and why they are killing humans, to pass along to their superiors. They barely counted on getting recorded evidence of their existence. This leads to a win-win for them, albiet a costly one.
• Yiddish as a Second Language: Moxxie's drug-fueled rant towards Blitzo includes the lines "Oy gevalt, of course Blitz this would be your fault!"
• Your Mom:
  • Blitzo fires back at Agent One during the torture interrogation. Agent Two just makes it worse.
    Blitzo: Heyyyy, aren't we going to get our phone call, bitch?
    Agent One: Well that entirely depends. Who are you gonna call, hmmm?
    Blitzo: Your fat mom, thanking her for a FAT TIME!
    Agent Two: Nice try, demon. His fat mom IS DEAD!
    [Agent One holds back his tears]
  • When it cuts back to them after some Millie & Loona badassery, Blitzo apparently spent almost the entire time insulting Agent One's dead mother, with him leaving the room in tears.

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