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Adam

"Hell is forever whether you like it or not!"

^{Click here to see him unmasked}
"I started everything on Earth! All of mankind came from these fucking nuts!"

Voiced by: Alex Brightman ^{Foreign VAs} Emmanuel Curtil (French), Yoji Ueda (Japanese)

The first man and the leader of the Exorcists responsible for the annual Exterminations.

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• 24-Hour Armor: Adam is never seen without his armor, to the point one would be forgiven believing it to be his actual appearance due to him even eating and drinking with it on. It's only in "The Show Must Go On" that his true face and appearance gets exposed due to taking a beating from Lucifer, shattering the mask and helmet all together.
• Abusive Precursors: He's the first man, which makes him the ancestor of every human, living or dead. Yet he leads the annual extermination of the damned souls of humans and regards them with complete disdain.
• Accidental Truth: When Adam tells Charlie the criteria for how a sinful soul could be redeemed, he mentions acting in a selfless manner, which is demonstrated in the case of Sir Pentious, who tried to save his friends, dying in the attempt and ascending as an angel.
• Accent Adaptation: An odd variation happens in the Latin American Spanish dub. Despite the dub being done in Chile and Adam's voice actor is also Chilean, as well as not being the only character who does this, he speaks with a notable, though not exaggerated, Mexican tone, possibly to highlight his unpleasant personality.^note In the Americas, Mexicans are stereotyped on using lots of profane language, as well as being quite rude and having a Might Makes Right mentality, something that befits Adam quite well.
• Actor Allusion: What is one of the things that Adam claims will get you into heaven? Sticking it to the man^note One of Alex Brightman's theater roles before becoming a Hellaverse mainstay was as Dewey Finn in School of Rock's stage version.
• Adaptational Badass: The original Adam was just the Original Man who fathered humanity. This Adam not only ascended to angelhood, but is on a power level that dwarfs just about everyone in the hotel's army against the exorcists, and it takes Lucifer himself showing up for him to face any challenge whatsoever.
• Adaptational Jerkass: The biblical Adam was said to be the benevolent father of humanity, with his act of eating the fruit of forbidden knowledge being based more on impulsiveness than malice. Here, he's as far removed from benevolent as you can get, being an Ax-Crazy Tautological Templar who slaughters Sinners without remorse, and even when off-the-job, he proves to be quite an unpleasant person to be around.
• Adaptational Villainy: This Adam is far from the benevolent father of humanity that his Biblical counterpart was, depicted here as a misogynistic douchebag who slaughters sinners for his own entertainment.
• Admiring the Abomination: Despite despising Hell and its denizens, he does admit to Charlie that he does dig its hardcore vibe and tunes.
• Alas, Poor Villain: Downplayed in that most of the people that witnessed his death were more shocked that Niffty was the one to land the finishing blow, but Adam's death is met by a screaming and crying Lute who's begging him to stay alive.
• Allegorical Character: Adam is most every negative stereotype of a Christian rolled into a single person:
  • He holds sexist views on women.
  • He believes that his status as a saved individual makes him intrinsically better than those not saved, to the point that he views their lives as having no worth.
  • He lives in sin by indulging in gluttony, fornication, and murder, but figures it's okay because he is saved (as in already in heaven, not a believer in Christ).
• Always a Bigger Fish: Despite his comedic nature, Adam is a genuine threat when pressed. In the season one finale, he's able to defeat and nearly kill Alastor, causing the Radio Demon to retreat. Adam then finds himself on the receiving end of the trope when Lucifer arrives at the battle and wipes the floor with him.
• Ambiguous Situation: 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. "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.
• And There Was Much Rejoicing: With the exception of his Psycho Supporter Lute, everyone is happy to see the back of him (especially when said back is covered in bloody stab wounds) once they get past the shock that it's actually possible for him to die. Vaggie in particular can't keep the grin off her face while Niffty perforates him.
• And Your Little Dog, Too!: In "Welcome to Heaven" after Charlie publicly calls him out as no better than the Sinners he despises, Adam promises that the first stop on his next Extermination will be the Hazbin Hotel. He makes good on his promise, and he would've killed everyone living in the Hotel if it weren't for Lucifer's timely intervention.
• Angelic Transformation: He's actually the same Adam from Adam and Eve. Charlie suddenly gets why Lilith ditched him when she makes the connection.
• Arc Villain: Adam is the primary villain of Season 1, representing an impending crackdown on Hell's population by Heaven after the death of an Exorcist, as well as being the direct obstacle between Charlie and achieving her dream of stopping the Exterminations. He is finally defeated and killed in the first season finale.
• "Ass" in Ambassador: In the first episode he acts as the Heaven's representative in the Embassy while Charlie represents Hell's interests. While Charlie tries to be polite and passionate, Adam spends most of his time being the biggest Jerkass to her as possible.
• Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: His body shape and choice of robes coincidentally resemble the Hellaverse's version of Mammon, the one Sin so far with absolutely no redeeming traits. It's a subtle hint that for all his claims otherwise, Adam is just as bad as the sinners he purges.
• Ax-Crazy: He loves participating in the exterminations, especially since he was behind them to begin with. He even confirms that he takes pleasure in slaughtering as many demons as he can.
• Bad Boss: When one of his Exorcists, Vaggie, spared a demon child during one of their Exterminations, Adam let Lute cut out her eye and rip off her wings before taking her halo and leaving her for dead. Furthermore, despite him pushing up the Exterminations because one Exterminator got killed, he's never showing any actual concern about his forces being killed by angelic weapons, instead writing it off as "weak" and never even referring to that angel by name. Despite this, he seems to have their loyalty at large for some reason.
• Beard of Evil: A variant. He's got an unshaven chin that appears to be an extremely poor attempt at a goatee, making him look even more like the slovenly Psychopathic Manchild he is.
• Berserk Button:
  • Despite shamelessly engaging in all sorts of depravities and murder, Adam seems to really see himself as a righteous soul; therefore, when Charlie and Emily point out that he's a sinner himself and that Heaven fails to follow its own rules, he loses his smug grin and starts seething with rage. Charlie acting so "high and mighty" is apparently what drives him to reveal Vaggie's secret past to Charlie, driving a wedge into their relationship.
  • He seems to really hate Lucifer, and reacts with pure, unbridled hatred toward the King of Hell. The fact that Lucifer married Adam's first wife and implies he seduced Eve is probably the reason for that.
• Beware the Silly Ones: He is an immature goofball, as well as a mass murderer who even Overlords are terrified of. He's far more powerful than his Exorcists to the point not even Alastor can afford to take one of his hits, and he even overpowers Charlie in her full demon form. It takes Lucifer himself stepping in to put an end to the threat he poses.
• Big Eater: When first seen he's snacking on a big plate of ribs, and when he's seen in "Welcome to Heaven" he's slurping on a drink.
• Black-and-White Morality: How he justifies his sadistic genocide of sinners in order to never feel guilty about it. As he makes clear to Charlie when he hijacks her song, to him, the sinners in Hell had their chance to be good people, and because they didn't take it, them being tortured and hunted down for sport once a year for all eternity is the fate they deserve, regardless of whether they regret their actions or are in Hell for entirely petty reasons. Tellingly, he's furious when Charlie points out that he's a rampant sinner and doesn't belong in Heaven.
  Adam: Just try to relax, babe, you're wasting your breath,
  Did I hear you imply that they don't deserve death?
  Are they winners? Are they sinners? 'Cause it's cut and dry,
  Fair is fair, an eye for an eye!
• Blasphemous Boast: During his Villainous Breakdown, he declares "I started everything on Earth, all of mankind came from these fucking nuts, you all should be worshiping me!"
• Brought to You by the Letter "S": He has a stylized A on his cloak. According to Viv in a tweet, his clothes with the A are meant "to be symbolic and uniform but also vaguely letterman jacket".
• Brutish Character, Brutish Weapon: He's a thuggish Psychopathic Manchild who uses a large one-handed battleaxe in combat rather than the more delicate swords and spears that his Exorcist minions prefer.
• The Bully: Adam can't go two minutes without hurting or humiliating someone else for his own amusement. Best seen with is Establishing Character Moment where he tricks Charlie with the hologram, laughs way too hard about how foolish she looks, then does the same trick again shortly after and proceeds to laugh even harder.
• Bullying the Dragon: Despite the arrangements that the Exorcisms couldn't target Hell-born demons, Adam targets the Hazbin Hotel out of spite, and wastes no time trying to kill Charlie when she challenges him. When this summons Lucifer he simply tries to kill them both, and is only spared from being beaten to death because Charlie insists Lucifer shows mercy. Even after that, Adam gets straight back up and furiously demands a rematch from Lucifer, who by this point just looks comically fed-up with Adam's goading.
• Celestial Paragons and Archangels: He's the top angel in charge of the Exorcists.
• Childish Villain, Mature Hero: He's contrasted as the Childish Villain to Charlie, Vaggie, Lucifer, and (in a villain-to-villain variant) Alastor.
  • Charlie, while somewhat naïve, has the genuine goal of redeeming Sinners so as to prevent the Exterminations from wiping out her people, and is willing to stand up for her beliefs despite what Heaven may say. Vaggie is in full support of her and often acts as a minder if she goes a little off the rails and is sympathetic to those around her even back when she used to be an Exorcist. Lucifer, in spite of his many quirks, is usually a friendly, reasonable, and polite fellow who once had altruistic intentions towards humanity, and tries to be a supportive father for his daughter in her times of need. Alastor meanwhile, is a sophisticated gentleman who knows how to keep a cool head even when under great pressure, and is willing to hold up his deals even if he doesn’t support the causes they're part of such as the one revolving around Charlie's goals.
  • Adam is an Ax-Crazy Psychopathic Manchild who's often swearing more than anyone, takes great joy in indulging in his own twisted desires such as the yearly Exterminations while not caring if people call him out on his actions, and throws tantrums whenever things don't go his way. Alastor even lampshades this during their battle with each other while Adam can only tell him to shut up instead of being able to make a clever comeback.
• Christian Rock: Adam heavily invokes this genre with him being an angel with an electric guitar, and he's confirmed to have a band that he uses to pick up women. He also calls Vaggie being exiled by the Exorcists as her "leaving the band" and sees Vaggie's partnership with Charlie as being a "duet". He also takes a shot at jazz music during his duel with Alastor, considering it to be "for pussies".
• Classic Villain: Pride and Lust, with a dash of Wrath in there as well. He arrogantly views himself as better than everyone due to being the first man, needlessly sexualizes women and gleefully slaughters human sinners every year. His design while in-costume looks more demonic even than the actual demons, but his true appearance under that is an ordinary human man, fitting for his status as the original template for all who would come after him and differentiating him from the more visually distinct protagonists. He contrasts with main protagonist Charlie in many ways, as Charlie is a kind soul who believes even the worst of humanity can change, while Adam is a cruel bastard who thinks sinners are lost causes and deserve to be slaughtered en masse. In the season finale, he has a dramatic final battle with not only Alastor, but also Charlie and Lucifer, and eventually finds himself killed by Niffty, a woman who acts as the Hotel's housekeeper.
• Creepy Shadowed Undereyes: The reveal of his unmasked face shows that he has thick, dark circles around his eyes, which appear to be a consequence of his hedonistic, dissolute lifestyle rather than a deliberate aesthetic choice like Lute's Excessive Evil Eyeshadow.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Niffty finishes his Villainous Breakdown by impaling him with an angelic dagger Back Stab, and then goes at him with it like he's a vegetable on a chopping board once he falls over, sending High-Pressure Blood all over the place. It's played entirely for Black Comedy, with nearly the entire cast, including some of Hell's most jaded, battle-hardened demons, reacting in shock and horror at how sudden and gruesome it is (except for Vaggie, who's absolutely delighted, and Vox, though equally shocked, is amused).
• Cuckold Horns: While all Exorcists have horns as part of their attire, Adam's take on a whole different meaning when one considers how Lucifer slept with his first wife, Lilith. And possibly Eve as well.
• The Cynic: Adam firmly believes humans can't be redeemed once they enter Hell (much like Alastor in the series pilot) as a result of having known what they're like for time immemorial, and he is much too arrogant to believe otherwise. However, unlike Lucifer or Alastor, who at least help in Charlie's dream and are implied to think it's simply rare/hard rather than impossible, Adam doesn't even entertain Charlie's idea and thinks redemption for sinners if 100% impossible. To the point that even when he sees how Angel Dust stood up to Valentino in "Welcome to Heaven", he still thinks all sinners deserve death and decides to go through with genociding all of Hell.
• Deathly Unmasking: Lucifer shatters his mask in their fight shortly before he has a Villainous Breakdown and gets offed by Niffty.
• Death by Irony: A egotistical self-righteous misogynistic angel dies by Niffty, a female sinner with the lowly role of a janitor.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype: In a sense, Adam is a deconstruction of the archetypal saved soul. Since he's apparently achieved eternal salvation in Heaven, he thinks he can spend his afterlife doing whatever he wants without ever reaping consequences from there: from continuing to treat the Virtue he dated less-than-respectfully and being an all-round jerk to conducting routine genocides for his own cruel entertainment.
• Didn't Think This Through: Targeting the Hazbin Hotel to massacre all the Sinners there probably sounded fun and fitting, but Adam utterly fails to consider that he's breaking the long established pact between Heaven and Hell by going after Charlie personally. This frees up Lucifer to intervene, someone leagues more powerful than Adam. This also concentrates all his forces into a single location, which managed to get fortified and armed in time, instead of targeting the rest of Hell that is still Locked Out of the Loop, leading to heavy casualties on his side including himself and the invasion ultimately repelled with a relatively small number of demon casualties.
• Died in Your Arms Tonight: A devastated Lute holds his body as he dies, with him giving her one last reassuring smile.
• Dirty Old Man: He doesn't look it due to the dead not aging, but Adam is the first man and was the ex-spouse of Charlie's mom, making him firmly not just an old man, but the oldest man of all time. He also can't stop being depraved towards women, including referring to Charlie as "Lilith's Little Hottie", which is a downright creepy way to describe your ex-wife's daughter, regardless of how old she is.
• Divinely Appearing Demons: Inverted. As with his Exorcist subordinates, he is a Horned Humanoid and even has fangs and claws, and in his case a rocker, but he's an officially sponsored angel. The Exorcists are wearing masks and appear human beneath them. Adam is also wearing a mask, but he doesn't bother taking it off when not on the job, unlike Lute.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: Adam's job is to go down and kill a bunch of people who are ostensibly in there for doing bad things, and takes a sadistic level of glee in doing so, without regard to the actual innocence or guilt of said people. In this regard, he is like a Rabid Cop who took the job so he could get to beat up criminals and uses an unnecessary amount of force to deal with anyone he thinks is one, using the excuse that they shouldn't have been doing those things if they didn't want to get arrested or beaten.
• Dragon with an Agenda: While head of the Exorcists, Adam is himself this to Sera, who authorized the group. Where Sera is motivated by overblown fears of Sinners threatening Heaven, Adam makes it obvious on numerous occasions he does this for the sadistic thrill that killing Sinners gives him. As the Exterminations are the result of Adam's own suggestion, it's clear that he's been using Sera's own insecurities to get what he wants.
• Dumb Muscle: He may be an authentic Person of Mass Destruction who's Nigh-Invulnerable to most forms of weaponry and magic, but he's also a fratbro meathead whose lack of impulse control, combat technique, and tactical nous give his enemies rather more of a chance against him and his minions than they otherwise might have. He can manage the occasional glimmer of low cunning, but not much more than that.
• Early-Bird Cameo: Adam and Lute technically appeared in the opening song of the Hazbin Hotel pilot in the shadow puppet portion with Charlie. Lute also has a clearer cameo during the song as she's essentially the lead Exorcist who appears in front of the others.
• Emasculated Cuckold: Lucifer seduced his first, and possibly his second wife, which Adam is more than pissed off by when Lucifer taunts him with this fact, as he backs up Charlie at the hotel battle. Adam's overly macho personality may even be an attempt to compensate for this.
• Entitled Bastard: During his Villainous Breakdown, he rants about how everyone should be worshipping him for being the Original Man, and calls the sinners "ungrateful" — in spite of the fact that he and his forces have been slaughtering them by the hundreds for centuries.
• Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Downplayed. Sera is the closest thing to a parent Adam interacts with, and he remains fairly respectful towards her. He desires her approval when making a list of what got him into Heaven and when she was disappointed in his cruel gloating he apologizes to her.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Among his only humanizing traits is that he genuinely does like and care for Lute, though their friendship does nothing to make him a better person as they only reinforce and encourage each other's depravity. Furthermore, while he often regards the female exterminators as beneath him, Adam seems to have a legitimate appreciation for his lieutenant; Lute is implied to be the only one who even comes close to being an equal peer in Adam’s eyes. The way he tenderly smiles at Lute as he dies even shows that he loves her, either romantically or platonically.
• Even Evil Has Standards: When Lute shows a rather concerning amount of bloodlust just before the next Extermination, a startled Adam looks rather disturbed and tells her to calm down.
  Adam: Would you just- ju- chill, Lute. Fuck.
• Everybody Hates Mathematics: Math is on his Long List of huge problems in the world.
• Evil Laugh: Initially, he just had an obnoxious laugh to reflect his Fratbro personality. However, he does start to let out maniacal laughter in “The Show Must Go On”.
• Evil Is Hammy: Adam is a loud, boisterous, incredibly profane angel with the personality of a douchey Jerk Jock/rockstar, and even lets out several Metal Screams at various points.
  Adam: SUCK MY HOLY LIGHT, FUCKERS, YEEEAH!
• Evil Is Petty:
  • Ends his villain song by telling Charlie that instead of in a year, the next extermination will take place in six months. It's heavily implied he does this just to spite Charlie because she dared to suggest the human souls in Hell might deserve a second chance. He is actually doing it because a demon managed to kill an Exorcist, but he doesn't want to tip Hell off that his plans are far more genocidal than usual this time.
  • Offers Charlie to shake his hand and then some ribs only to reveal they're holograms and Charlie can't have any just to be a dick.
  • When Charlie's attempt to appeal to Heaven's leadership reveals that even Heaven is ignorant as to what qualifies a soul to ascend, Adam reiterates that not only will the next extermination happen on schedule, he's specifically going to start at her hotel.
  • Reveals that Vaggie is an Angel purely because Charlie not only pointed out that he’s a rampant sinner but that Heaven fails to follow its own rules.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: In "The Show Must Go On", when attacking Charlie, Adam is surprised that she'd risk her immortal life to defend Sinners, clearly unable to understand why she would fight to defend the damned he finds joy in slaughtering, mocking her saying that they're her Found Family.
• Evil Versus Evil: He is an ax-crazy angel whose job it is to slaughter demons annually, and it's worth noting that in the Hazbin Hotel universe, it's easy for even good people to go to Hell for petty reasons. However, Hazbin Hotel has shown that a vast majority of demons in Hell are Always Chaotic Evil and even some of the nicer ones are capable of doing some truly horrible stuff.
• Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: Zigzagged. You can definitely tell from first impressions alone that something is definitely off about the Angel's first human creation. Responsible for killing many of his own descendants, he looks and acts like one of the many demons trapped in Hell. Played straight later on when his face is revealed to simply be an Expressive Mask, much like Lute's.
  • And then even further straight when his real face is shown. He's actually quite handsome underneath his mask.
• Face Death with Dignity: 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.
• Fallen Hero: Whether he's one of these or Evil All Along is a topic of significant in-universe discussion — nobody (including him) is exactly sure why someone as awful as him ended up in Heaven, especially since what he used to be like is hidden by The Fog of Ages, and it's one of the most important mysteries about if and how a soul might become redeemable (and what 'redemption' even means).
• Fatal Flaw: Arrogance. Being the Original Man and making it to Heaven gives him a massive ego, entitlement, and belief he can act and do whatever he want without consequence. This leads him to impulsively gloat about the Exterminations revealing there existence to Heaven which his superiors forbade him to causing problems and go after Lucifer's daughter Charlie, breaking the pact to spare hellborn, gets him brutally beaten and defeated by Lucifer who Adam failed to consider would powerful enough to stop him when provoked. Once the heroes decides he's beaten enough and Not Worth Killing, Adam's indignation lead him to go on a massive rant leaving him open to and Undignified Death that could have been avoided if his bruised ego hadn't distracted him or stopped him from fleeing given the chance.
• Faux Affably Evil: Adam acts like a casual, laid-back and even somewhat friendly Frat Bro, but this does nothing to hide the sadistic monster he is on the inside. He can't even keep the facade up for too long and immediately begins acting like a jerk within moments of meeting Charlie. This especially shines in his talk with Vaggie in Episode 6, where he reminisces about her ability to kill when she worked under him, calling her a "bad bitch" in a way that is clearly meant to be twistedly complimentary, before threatening to reveal her past to Charlie if she refuses to work for him again and help him shut down the Hotel.
  Adam: Oh, yeah. You know, that's totally cool. I guess I'll just tell Little Miss Butterflies-and-Rainbows that she's been fucking someone who's killed thousands of her people. I'm sure your relationship will be fiiiine. See you in court!
• Five-Second Foreshadowing: It's easy to miss, but Adam doesn't react when Lucifer taunts him about Lilith leaving him for the angel. This hints at the fact Adam made a deal with Lilith that allows her to stay in Heaven.
• Foil: To Alastor. They are both exceptionally powerful despite having once belonged to mortal souls, and the Token Evil Teammate of their respective groups (Compare Adam's sadism to Emily's idealism and Sera being a Well-Intentioned Extremist). However, Alastor is an Affably Evil — or at least Faux Affably Evil Southern Gentleman who doesn't even swear, save for the occasional Precision F-Strike, whereas Adam is a crass douche whose swear count outnumbers every other characters' swear count combined. This also comes down to their strengths, where Alastor hardly holds a candle to the more ancient demons, but is more cunning and a technically skilled fighter, while Adam is the leader of the Exorcists thanks to his sheer raw power, but is little more than a brute. Interestingly, this also extends to how they carry themselves in a fight, where Alastor is revealed to run at the first hint that he's on the backfoot, Adam (while perfectly content with punching down) is surprisingly willing to punch above his weight. They also share the trait of thinking Charlie's dream of redeeming sinners is ridiculous. However, while Alastor at least helps Charlie's dream, if only for amusement and it's even implied that he just thinks redemption is rare and not outright impossible, Adam rejects the idea entirely and doesn't even attempt to entertain redemption, because in his eyes all sinners deserve to be punished and eventually massacred.
• Formerly Fit: Implied. While it's possible that Lucifer is just taunting him during their battle, Lucifer comments that Adam has "really let [himself] go," and the storybook opening featuring Adam's silhouette shows that he was lean with a somewhat Heroic Build. In the present, he wears a large and loose robe that conveniently hides his figure. The fact that he's gorging on a plate full of ribs on his first introduction and slurping from a cup of soda on the second doesn't help his case. Maybe Lucifer was right after all.
• Frat Bro: He speaks and acts like a stereotypical one.
• Girl on Girl Is Hot: He certainly thinks so, complimenting Vaggie for landing "Lilith's little hottie". While Lute calls their love "vile and blasphemous", Adam agrees, but also says it's, "Hot as fuck, though."
• Giver of Lame Names: To a frankly gross degree: Vaggie was given her name by Adam when she was still an Exterminator Angel, and he explicitly says that her skill at killing demons inspired him to name her after "the greatest thing ever." And in case that was too subtle, he pronounces her name with a soft "g."
• Glass Cannon: In the same situational way as the Exorcists he commands, only to an even greater extreme thanks to his phenomenal destructive power. Angelic weapons still affect him like conventional weapons would an ordinary human being, which is how he ends up stabbed to death by a tiny, psychotic housemaid armed with an angelic knife.
• A God Am I: He has such a massive ego that he genuinely believes that he deserves to be revered like a god by his descendants. This is best shown in his Villainous Breakdown:
  "You all should be worshipping me, you ungrateful, disgusting, fucking losers!"
• Go Out with a Smile: He spends his last moments giving Lute a reassuring smile before he dies.
• Gold and White Are Divine: His prominent color scheme is gold and white which is meant to be representative of Heaven. The motif however is a Light Is Not Good one.
• Gold-Colored Superiority: Unlike the Exorcists he commands, he has gold as part of his color scheme signifying him as their superior.
• Gone Horribly Right: He was the first human being sent to Heaven and is the one who created the humans that became Sinners in the first place. Both those circumstances cause everything in the show that Charlie has to deal with, as Adam revels in his supernatural privileges for so long that he becomes a huge Jerkass to everyone around him, and the humans he created being intelligent enough to turn to evil and being sent to Hell leads to an overpopulation problem that he thinks needs to be ruthlessly cleansed through the Exterminations without considering the option of redemption.
• Hand Blast: He can fire beams of holy light from his hands or from his guitar with enough power to cut a building in half.
• The Hedonist: When he's not engaging in exterminations, he's stuffing his face, or sleeping around.
• The Heavy: Sera, the High Seraphim, is his direct superior and enables his actions but she's hands off in the Exterminations herself, and other villains, the Vees, are largely divorced from Charlie's story. Adam is the villain most directly involved in the plot due to his active role in the Exterminations and his personal involvement in opposing the Hazbin Hotel. After helping ensure Charlie's plan to redeem Sinners fails, he promises that her hotel is the first place he'll be visiting during the Extermination.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: His downfall is ultimately of his doing, due to his pride. He sent routine exterminations to Hell, believing he was giving them righteous punishment, never thinking they'd fight back and never thinking he could be in the wrong. He then targets the hotel out of spite, breaking the pact Heaven has with Hell to not target Hellborn demons by going after Charlie and frees Lucifer to intervene. He later fights both the Princess of Hell and Lucifer himself, thinking he actually had a chance. At the end of episode 8, rather than accept Charlie's mercy he continues to lash out at her and the Hotel, making him an open target for Niffty.
• Hologram: When Charlie visits Heaven's embassy, Adam offers to shake her hand in greeting. When she tries, she passes through, and Adam reveals he's actually in Heaven using a hologram to communicate with Charlie in Hell. A couple times he interacts with her physically (first Finger Muzzling her when she tries to explain her project, then at the end of his musical number denying Charlie's proposal, his hand flickers as he takes her by the wrist and shoves her out the door), showing his hologram can become Hard Light, so letting her hand phase through his initially was just an additional dick move.
• Holy Halo: He has a classic golden halo with two additional points similar to the ones worn by his Exorcists, which is one of the visual cues that he's an angel. When he dies, the halo loses its shine, leaving only a metal ring, and Lute takes it with her to show Lilith that Adam has truly died and that their deal is now null and void.
• Holy Hand Grenade: He's able to fire blasts of holy light from his hands, even being able to concentrate it into a Kamehame Hadoken beam that is so powerful that it destroys the Hazbin Hotel.
• Horned Humanoid: He's an angel with demon-like horns. As episode 8 eventually reveals, though, the horns are just part of his mask.
• Hypocrite:
  • He criticizes sinners for sinning in their past lives, but is himself a big bucket of sin, being extraordinarily wrathful, misogynistic, vain, prideful, and foul-mouthed. Also he's mentioned to have had extra-marital sex.
  • In "Welcome to Heaven", Charlie questions Adam (the first "virtuous soul") on the criteria of being worthy of Heaven. He hastily comes up with three criteria: "act selfless, don't steal, stick it to the man." Adam himself is shown to be very selfish, entitled, and is himself "the man", both as the first man and leader of The Armies of Heaven who enacts yearly genocide. When Angel Dust is shown doing the very things on his list, he insists that it still doesn't make him worthy of ascension.
  • When Charlie and Emily point out how Adam is too despicable to still be in Heaven, Adam is visibly furious and latter tells Charlie to stop acting so "high and mighty". This is absolutely rich coming from the Master of "high and mighty" himself, who boasts he's "never made a mistake in his life" and constantly calls out the souls in Hell as sinful scum that deserve extermination for messing up at their one shot at life.
  • A minor one, but he dismisses Lucifer as "just a fucking clown or something", yet his mask looks like it has harlequin horns.
• Immortal Immaturity: Despite being the first human soul to ascend to an angel and being around for as long as creation, Adam hasn't grown up at all, maintaining the personality of a psychotic fratbro. Other than killing, all he cares about is eating, drinking, and sleeping around.
• Ink-Suit Actor: When he's unmasked, Adam bears a resemblance to his voice actor, Alex Brightman.
• In Love with Your Carnage: He greatly admires his exorcists for their efficiency at extermination, praising Lute for her body count in addition to Vaggie who he referred to as one of his top girls. Even years after they disgraced her, he still respects her abilities.
• Insane Troll Logic:
  • His song 'Hell is Forever' is sung to justify his exterminations of Sinners... which (as far as he knows) removes them from hell. Which was the reason he gave for doing them in the first place.
  • In his mind, as evidenced during his Villainous Breakdown, since he’s the progenitor of mankind, he expects that everyone, especially Sinners, should worship him, having the guts to call them “ungrateful”, even though he revels into killing his own damned descendants for, by his own admission, “entertainment”.
• Instrument of Murder: He has a golden guitar that he wields like a battle-axe.
• It's All About Me: He seems to hate allowing anyone else to be the center of attention, and his introduction is him telling an anecdote about a time he threw a tantrum because a groupie dared to hit on a member of his band other than him. The only remote exception to this is appears to be Lute, whom while Adam is still not above insulting her, seemingly possesses an understated (but still notable) regard towards his top enforcer. They both equally enjoy tearing into Charlie at her trial, with Adam gleefully singing along with Lute as she tears into Angel Dust.
• It's Personal with the Dragon: In the grand scope of things, Adam reports to Sera, but he is the most immediate threat to Charlie and Hell itself, as the mastermind behind the Exterminations and the one far too gleeful to kill off Hell's denizens. He also reveals Vaggie's past as a Fallen Angel specifically to spite Charlie and he leads the Exorcists in battle when they start the next Extermination at the Hazbin Hotel.
• Irony: Adam leading the extermination of sinners in Hell is ironic, since, according to Christianity, Adam (along with Eve) was one of the very first Sinners.
• Ironic Death: Adam has an ego the size of Jupiter and thinks of himself as the most important being in all of creation, because the entire human race descends from him. He gets killed by a lowly demon who doesn't seem to know who he is and doesn't care.
• Jabba Table Manners: His meeting with Charlie has him talking with his mouth full as he eats a plate of ribs. He's also shown messily stuffing his face with ribs in an Embarrassing Old Photo during the news coverage of his death.
• Jerkass: Adam is an asshole who demeans Charlie and her plans for redeeming sinners, cracks multiple jokes at her expense and constantly talks over her. To say nothing of his part in routinely leading the annual exterminations in Hell, which were all his idea from the beginning, and his admittance that he wants to keep them around just because he gets his vile jollies out of indiscriminately massacring sinners. Charlie sums him up when talking with Vaggie:
  Charlie: He [is] an asshole.
• Jerkass Has a Point:
  • Adam has a fair point that there aren't "hard days" in Heaven by virtue of it being, well, Heaven.
  • When Charlie opens the hearing with a "Webster's Dictionary defines..." statement, he quickly calls her out on how unoriginal it is, to which Sera agrees.
• Jerk Jock: He has the attitude of one and is explicitly confirmed to have had a letterman jacket as part of the inspiration for his design. Despite having a foul mouth even compared to the rest of the cast, his severest insult, thrown in the midst of his Villainous Breakdown when he's completely lost control of his temper, is "loser". One wonders if he's the one who came up with the idea of calling the souls in Heaven "Winners".
• Kamehame Hadoken: Enraged by Lucifer's taunting, Adam fires a massive beam of holy light that cuts the Hazbin Hotel in half and rips through the hill it was built on top of.
• Karma Houdini: A vile and repugnant misogynist, the only reason he was made into an archangel by his creators, was by lone virtue of never once disobeying them. Or at least, that's the assumption, considering no one, including him, actually knows what the criteria are. Charlie and Emily lampshade this during a song:
  Charlie and Emily: If Hell is forever then Heaven must be a lie, if angels can do whatever and still remain in the sky.
• Karma Houdini Warranty: "The Show Must Go On" has Adam finally pay for his sins where he's beaten to a pulp by Charlie and Lucifer then stabbed to death by Niffty, rendering him Deader than Dead.
• Karmic Death: A misogynist that genocided Sinners for centuries meeting his end at the hands of Niffty, a female Sinner who has a mindset of a woman whose place is taking care of the house, certainly fits the bill. Furthermore, he had been giving a full A God Am I speech about his importance and how lowly the sinners are, and Niffty kills him for no reason besides the fact that he was there.
• Kinslaying Is a Special Kind of Evil: He acknowledges that Sinners descend from him but exterminates their souls for entertainment.
• Large and in Charge: Adam is the leader of the Exorcists and is by far the largest. Lute, the second tallest, doesn't even reach his shoulder. Besides his height, his billowing robes give him a significantly wider silhouette than most Hellaverse characters.
• Laughably Evil: He's an Ax-Crazy psychopath but he has the personality of a sadistic, meathead fratbro who constantly cracks jokes, making him entertaining while still being utterly irredeemable.
• Law of Chromatic Superiority: Adam wears gold, white, and purple, contrasting his Exorcists who are monochromatic apart from having Supernatural Gold Eyes.
• Lecherous Stepparent: Downplayed. Adam was once married to Charlie's mother, Lilith, before the Queen of Hell met and fell for Lucifer; as such, Adam qualifies as Charlie's pseudo-stepfather. And while he doesn't do or attempt to do anything physical to the Princess of Hell, he does make some sexually inappropriate comments about her.
• Light 'em Up: Adam is capable of firing destructive beams of light from hands, which he calls his "holy light".
  "SUCK MY HOLY LIGHT FUCKERS! YEAHHHHH!"
• Light Is Not Good: Although he's draped in white and golden colors indicative of Heaven, he's not a good guy. He laughs in Charlie's face when she tells him her plan for a hotel that redeems sinners and follows that up by flat-out admitting that the yearly slaughter of Hell's citizens isn't just punishment but entertainment for him and the other exorcists.
• Loose Lips: Early on in "Welcome to Heaven", Adam is talking about the Exterminations in public despite it being a secret from Heaven at large. Then he spills the beans in general when he gets mad.
• Lousy Lovers Are Losers: If Lucifer's comments and gestures in the season one finale are accurate, Lilith and Eve both preferred Lucifer's efforts in bed far more than Adam's. Given his usual temperament, it's no surprise Adam would be a selfish and lousy lover.
• Monster Progenitor: He's the first man, the father of humanity, whose souls can ascend to Heaven to become angels or descend to Hell and become demons.
• Moral Myopia: He's been leading a crusade against every soul in Hell for thousands of years, killing billions in the interim. When a single Exorcist is successfully killed during the latest Extermination, he takes it as a personal slight and declares that he now plans on such a thorough genocide that no one in Hell is ever able to "pull a stunt like that again." And this is despite the fact that he had left a wounded Vaggie for dead in Hell simply for sparing a demon child, implicitly hoping that a demon would kill her.
• More Despicable Minion: He serves as this towards Sera, while she has authority over him Adam was the one who came up with the annual Exterminations in Hell. While Sera clearly feels guilt over the Exterminations, she allows them to happen because she believes Hell's overpopulation is a direct threat to Heaven. Adam merely views the Exterminations as "entertainment" and personally enjoys murdering sinners in Hell.
• Morph Weapon: That guitar of his does actually serve a practical purpose—he can transform it into a battleaxe, which serves as his primary weapon. He even manages to wound Alastor with it, shaking the previously invincible Radio Demon to his core.
• Motor Mouth: When Adam starts talking, he's usually incapable of restraining himself from rambling. Of course, this is justified by his huge ego, so obviously the only person he wants to hear from is himself.
• Narcissist: To an insane degree that he makes Alastor and the Vees combined look humble, as he honestly believes that his position in the afterlife makes him completely righteous in everything even when he's blatantly anything but righteous himself. It fits with his knight templar personality and the way he justifies anything he does as being good or just simply for being the first man created.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: 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: That could have been ugly.
  • The deal they had with Lucifer was that any hellborn demons would be spared during the Exterminations, but Adam goes back on the deal when he targets Charlie and fully intends to kill her, thus allowing Lucifer to intervene in the final battle which leads to Adam's eventual downfall.
• Nigh-Invulnerable: As with his subordinate Exorcists, Adam is nearly impossible to hurt by any means other than angelic power and weaponry. His reaction when Charlie stabs him through the shoulder with her pitchfork helps to underscore how alien the sensation of being injured is to him.
  (Shocked) The fuck!? That hurts!
• Not in This for Your Revolution: A rare example where the leader himself doesn't care for the cause. Exterminations are done for the purpose of protecting Heaven from evil by mass-slaughtering Sinners before there can be enough of them to unite and pose a threat to Heaven. And while the Exorcists fully believe in the cause - whether it be the well-meaning Sera or purely fanatical Lute - Adam makes it very explicit he's only leading the Exterminations so he can vent out his anger, narcissism and god complex by slaughtering the people he deems to be "ungrateful" and "disgusting".
  And for those of us with divine ordainment...
  Extermination is ENTERTAINMENT!
• Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: He's the one in charge of the yearly Extermination in Hell, which, on paper, is meant to decrease Hell's overwhelming population of sinners and demons. This could be a somewhat noble goal, were it not for Adam making it blatantly clear that he and the other Exorcists find Exterminations entertaining, and discard any attempt to peacefully compromise with Hell, instead laughing at Charlie's idea of the Hazbin Hotel right out of the meeting room while smugly informing her that the Exorcists will be back in six months instead of the year they're supposed to take. "Welcome to Heaven" reveals that Adam was the one that came up with the idea of the Exterminations in the first place, with Sera being unhappy about it.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: Adam acts like, and more than likely genuinely is, a chauvinistic tool who seems to just do things just because he can, even moving up the next extermination due to a spur-of-the-moment way to insult Charlie. In reality, he had already made up his mind to change the extermination to an outright genocide, and opts to wait to strike rather than act impulsively like Lute suggests.
• Obviously Evil: Despite being an angel, he is far more monstrous and intimidating than most traditional likenesses of such celestial beings, he has demonic horns, eyes that lack pupils, and razor-sharp teeth. And his behavior alone is anything but holy.
• Odd Friendship. With Lute. Adam is selfish, bratty, deeply misogynistic, and lacks empathy for just about anyone or anything that isn't him. Somehow, he manages to get along with her so well that it's shown they have a deep connection to one another, either platonically or romantically is unclear.
• Offing the Offspring: All the Sinners, as former humans, are his and Eve's descendants, but he revels in slaughtering them.
• Oh, Crap!:
  • Lets out a "shit" when he accidentally blurts out the truth of the Exterminations in front of the entire Angelic court.
  • He manages to keep up his bravado even as Lucifer clearly has him completely outmatched, but when he tries to go in for a cheap shot only for Charlie (who he'd previously overpowered) to morph her hand into a demonic claw and stop him completely dead in his tracks he genuinely freaks out for a moment at the sudden turnaround.
    Wait, what the fuck!?
• Original Man: Yes, he is that Adam, the Adam. He even calls himself "the original dick" and "the dick all other dicks descend from" ("dick" in this context meaning male genitalia, not euphemism for "jerk" even though that fits far better). Charlie speculates that this is why her father didn't want to meet with him.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: His entire job can count as this. While it's been shown that people can go to Hell in this universe for petty reasons and are not deserving of being down there and certain demons do display redeeming qualities, the vast majority of demons shown fall under Always Chaotic Evil and are fundamentally horrible people okay with murder, rape, and various other high sins and crimes. As such, Adam's routine extermination of demons seems less horrible overall. However, it's made clear that the Exterminations are less about punishing evil and more about preserving Heaven's authority and he shows clear sadism in doing so, something he flat out admits.
• Pet the Dog: For all his misogyny, he seems to hold at least a little respect for Sera, enough so to listen when she tells him that he went too far by rubbing his intention to target the Hotel first in Charlie's face and even seems a tiny bit ashamed in the face of her disapproval. Granted, this might be more due to her being above him in Heaven's pecking order.
• Person of Mass Destruction: His divine power allows him to crack open a skyscraper-sized force-field with a single punch, rapid-fire energy blasts with the power of a heavy artillery battery, and even vaporize Sir Pentious and his entire airship so effortlessly that it looks like they just blink out of reality. It's very good news for our heroes that he's Unskilled, but Strong enough for them to dodge most of his attacks, and that Lucifer, their own Person of Mass Destruction, is on his way to take him down.
• Politically Incorrect Villain:
  • He was implied to have been misogynistic towards Lilith as in Jewish folklore, demanding she submit to him. He acts like an obnoxious, chauvinistic, slovenly frat boy in the modern day, particularly when recollecting a time, he was upset a woman wanted to have sex with someone else (his band's drummer) besides the "original dick" (they ended up fucking anyways). He seems to treat his female exorcists with some respect, though it's probably only because they willingly follow his orders as well as how genuinely competent they are at the jobs he assigns them, but even then, he casually calls Lute "Danger Tits" to her face, and her non-reaction indicates this is pretty common.
    Adam: Y'know when you take her out for the fifth time and she still expects you to pay the check but you're like [mockingly] "Hey, I thought you wanted equality!?"
  • His attitude towards sinners is also straight-up genocidal.
  • Adam agrees with Lute when she calls Charlie and Vaggie's relationship "vile and blasphemous", while also considering it "hot as fuck". However, it's not clear if they disapprove of their relationship because it's an angel and demon or that they're both women (though it could count either way, as condemning an Interspecies Romance on principle is hardly enlightened either).
• Pyrrhic Victory:
  • While Sera ends up ruling in his favor, and he gets to torment Charlie by revealing that Vaggie is a former Exorcist and promising to start the next extermination at the hotel, he had also revealed the existence of the exterminations themselves to the entire courtroom, along with how cruel and spiteful he can be (to Sera's open disapproval). He also fails to create lasting conflict between Vaggie and Charlie.
  • He manages to destroy the hotel and kill several demons, but at the cost of his own life and several of his exorcists. He also failed to kill Charlie and the hotel staff, who were able to rebuild and improve the hotel and when he killed Sir Pentious, it ended up letting him ascend to heaven proving that Charlie's plan does indeed work.
• Psychopathic Manchild: He's the Original Man, thousands of years old, and the head of the Exorcists... and he behaves like an obnoxious college frat-boy. A bloodthirsty, sociopathic obnoxious college frat-boy, who, when he isn't playing childish pranks with his hologram and being casually misogynistic; enjoys routinely committing genocide with his pals, didn't think twice about one of his own soldiers being mutilated and left for dead just because she refused to murder a child and tries to massacre Charlie's hotel first out of petty spite. Sera also treats him like a petulant child, chiding him for acting out of bounds.
• Purple Is Powerful: Wears an outfit with a lot more purple on it then his usual robe when he and his Exorcists attack the hotel, where he demonstrates a lot of strong, if unrefined, power.
• Rank Scales with Asskicking: He's The Leader of the Exorcists and is their most powerful member, having access to Holy Hand Grenade powers that the others don't have. During the final battle of Season 1, he's able to beat powerhouses like Alastor and Charlie without much issue, with only Lucifer himself being able to defeat him.
• Real Men Eat Meat: Adam is seen devouring an entire plate of ribs and has a sexist Frat Bro personality.
• Rock Me, Asmodeus!: Inverted. Adam is a rock and roll angel, albeit one with a much more demonic appearance than most of the other angels.
• Rotten Rock & Roll: His introductory dialogue establishes that he's the guitarist and frontman for an angelic rock band when not performing Exterminations, his Villain Song is hard rock as opposed to the other songs which are more Broadway-style, and he even owns an electric guitar. He’s also accompanied by electric guitars whenever he appears, and does rocker screams when leading an Extermination in the season one finale.
• Sadist: He and his Exorcists don't just perform exterminations in an effort to keep Haven in control and scare Hell off from fighting back, they like slaughtering sinners, as he makes clear to Charlie during his song:
  Adam: When all's said and done (said and done),
  There's the question of fun,
  And for those of us with divine ordainment,
  Extermination is entertainment!
• Satanic Archetype: Ironically fits this better than Lucifer himself. While he's an angel, a common description of the Satan's in the Bible is not that of a Fallen Angel but as a heavenly prosecutor who punishes the wicked, which Adam wholeheartedly embraces. He also has similarities with the Luciferian interpretation of the devil with his Pride being so large he thought he should be worshipped. His large horns also give him a Big Red Devil look.
• Seven Deadly Sins: Ironically, as an angel, he's guilty of committing them:
  • Lust:
    • He thinks that being the "original dick" gives him the right to sleep with any woman he wants and shows lechery aimed at his ex-wife's daughter, sleezily refering to her as "Lilith's little hottie" and commenting that he finds her relationship with Vaggie "hot as fuck". He's first introduced bragging about having sex with a Virtue and insisting that Charlie call him "Dickmaster".
    • He demonstrates notable bloodlust as well, outright admitting that he actively enjoys killing demons and seeing them die. Referring to an act of genocide as entertainment that he clearly gets his rocks off committing.
    • He also demonstrates a lust for power and recognition, wanting to be worshipped for his status as the Original Man and progenitor of humanity.
  • Pride: He believes that as an angel and the first human to be allowed into Heaven ever, he's entitled to everything and everyone that interests him and that the rest are beneath him. Right before Niffty kills him mid-Villainous Breakdown, he outright says that he should be worshipped because he's the Original Man.
  • Vanity: He's dressed extremely flamboyantly for an angel and has the golden wings to prove it, whereas most of the other angels have more muted affluence and have white wings.
  • Wrath: He's quick to anger when he feels he's been denied the respect he feels entitled to and murderously petty and vindictive. Declaring that he would explicitly target Charlie's Hotel and loved ones because she dared to call him out before the Court of Heaven.
  • Gluttony: He is introduced chowing down on a large plate of ribs (which he teasingly offers to share with Charlie before revealing that he's a hologram just to be a jerk), and the photo 666 News uses after his death has him similarly stuffing his face with them, showing that it was a habit of his.
  • Sloth: The only time he does something other than brag about himself or put someone else down is when he's leading the Extermination against the hotel in the last episode, and even then, he hardly does anything.
  • Envy: He has not gotten over how Lucifer seduced his first (and maybe second) wife, wearing a helmet that makes it look like he has horns and a more demonic face as well as putting up a "macho man" persona in a feeble attempt to impersonate the fallen angel.
• Screw the Rules, I Make Them!:
  • When he tells Charlie that Heaven has decided to move up the next extermination, he shows her a golden scroll that just says "Fuck you I do what I want!!". Though the end of the episode reveals he does actually have a legitimate reason to move up the extermination beyond just being a dick.
  • This ends up his own undoing, the negotiation made with Lucifer is that his army can't target Charlie or other Hell-born demons. Adam very quickly tries to kill Charlie when she tries to physically intervene with his attack on the Hotel, and when this summons Lucifer in turn, he wastes little time trying to waste them both, earning an Extreme Mêlée Revenge.
• Shipper on Deck: Downplayed. Adam offers a genuine congrats to Vaggie's romance with Charlie, or as he calls the latter, "Lilith's little hottie". However, aside from momentary decency on his part, his "support" of the couple comes from how "hot as fuck" their relationship is, while also agreeing with Lute's statement of their love being "vile and blasphemous". Plus, Adam's twisted and minor support of the couple doesn't derail him from attempting to blackmail Vaggie into working for him to undermine Charlie's goal.
• Ship Tease: With Lute in a manner of shared viciousness. However, since Adam dies it stops.
• Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!: Adam laughs at Charlie's idea for redeeming sinners to enter Heaven, while he is still in the same room as her.
  Adam: Fuckin' Hell is forever,
  And it's meant to suck a lot,
  So give up your dumb endeavor,
  'Cause you don't have a shot!
• A Sinister Clue: Based on how he plays the guitar, he's left-handed, and he's one of the major villains of season one.
• Sir Swears-a-Lot: In a universe already full of potty mouths, Adam has quite the filthy mouth and manages to stand out by having the biggest swear per minute count in the entire show; every sentence from him comes with at least one obscenity (he even manages to say "cunt" uncensored multiple times, which not even Mammon can get away with due to YouTube being stricter concerning swearing than Prime Video). And this is despite him being an angel.
  • In the Italian dub, Adam some-fuckin'-how manages to be even more foul-mouthed, with "Cazzo" ^note Italian for both "Dick" and "Fuck!", among other profanity basically being his Character Tic, sometimes even to the point of redundancy. This is best shown when he ends his battle with Alastor and cries "Cancellerò quel compiaciuto ghigno del cazzo dalla tua faccia da cazzo! La radio ormai è morta, cazzo!" ^note "I will erase that smug fucking grin from your fucking face! Radio is fucking dead now!".
• Smug Snake: Says that he’s never made a mistake in his life, which both in-universe and in the Bible is not true.^note After Eve’s creation, she has a somewhat lengthy conversation with the devil, during which he spars with her, tempting her and ultimately causing her to fall. During this time, where was Adam? One would think he wasn't there because the text does not record him saying anything, but in fact Adam was right there the whole time. One would expect Adam to say something to help his wife's argument, but he said nothing and St. Paul goes so far to say that he was not even deceived when he joined her in eating the apple. He is guilty of inaction and thinking he is beyond a rule written by God. And that's just the Bible's version of him: assuming things happened approximately the same way in the Hazbin Hotel 'verse as it did in The Bible, Adam is even more responsible for this mistake than he was in the source material, since in Hazbin Hotel's version of the story, he got Eve specifically because he wanted a wife who did what he wanted, thus making him responsible for what she does!
• The Sociopath: He shows no empathy for others or remorse for his unholy behavior but can put up a front of a laid-back and casual demeanor which barely hides his wicked nature, loves engaging in violence and describes the exterminations as "entertainment", is a Narcissist that likes to be the center of attention, demands worship for fathering humanity, has poor impulse control, gets pissed when things don't go his way, and has a disregard for the rules and authority since he constantly acts sinful in contrast to the angel he is supposed to be and acts out of line, especially when it comes to dealing with Heaven and Hell's higher ups such as Sera and Lucifer.
• Sore Loser: After getting his butt kicked by Lucifer, Adam can only rage at the residents of the Hotel, throwing what amounts to a childish tantrum while they silently stare at him in disgust.
• Spikes of Villainy: It's very subtle, but Adam has tiny golden spikes lining the coat of his collar that are absent from the other inhabitants of Heaven, marking him as a particularly dangerous angel. He trades his coat for a similar one with far more prominent spikes during the Extermination, showing that he's no longer playing around.
• Spontaneous Weapon Creation: Adam is able to manifest his guitar/axe out of holy light at will.
• Starter Villain: Adam is the first primary threat from Heaven that Charlie and her Hotel have to contend with, but he is by no means the last, as his position as leader of the Exorcists is taken up by his right-hand-woman Lute after his death.
• Stealth Pun: His favorite food is ribs. Trying to get back what he lost when Eve was made, perhaps?
• Stupid Evil: He brags about the exterminations in court and attacks a hotel owned by Lucifer's daughter without expecting any consequences.
• Supernatural Gold Eyes: He's the first man and became a powerful angel, which is marked by his golden eyes.
• Sword Beam: He can fire a crescent blast of holy light from his guitar, which he uses to overwhelm Alastor after he kept dodging more precise attacks.
• Tautological Templar: Played for Horror — Adam's entire claim on righteousness hinges on the Sinners being Beyond Redemption and the denizens of heaven being Always Lawful Good... an argument that falls apart due to Adam himself behaving at least as badly as the worst Hate Sinks in hell. From what we've seen, Adam has actively bragged about pressuring a groupie into sex, has proven himself a Bad Boss to Exorcists who dare to show mercy, and makes no bones about his purges being motivated by amusement rather than out of a desire to defend Heaven. The fact that a monster like him isn't a Fallen Angel is the first of many hints that something is VERY wrong with Heaven's assumptions about divine justice.
• They Look Just Like Everyone Else!: He's a genocidal Knight Templar with a scary demonic looking exorcist mask, but underneath it he looks like a perfectly ordinary, handsome man.
• Time Abyss: He's the first man and the progenitor of the entire human race.
• Tom the Dark Lord: A powerful and genocidal angel with the name "Adam". Although justified, as he is in fact the biblical first human known as Adam.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Is eating ribs in "Overture", which he mentions as one of his favorite foods.
• Troll: Twice he baits Charlie into trying to touch him, only to reveal it's a hologram. What makes this worse is that at the end of "Hell Is Forever", he grabs her hand and shoves her, meaning he could have switched it to hard-light, but didn't to be an ass.
• A Tragedy of Impulsiveness: Adam knew that the yearly extermination was a secret mission that only the Exorcists and Sera were permitted to know of. And as soon as things don't go his way in the court case, Adam just cannot help but run his mouth in a spiteful attempt to hurt Charlie, publicly acknowledging the Exterminations. This immediately makes Emily sour to Sera, since Emily is every bit the kind soul that an angel is supposed to be. And to make matters worse, Adam promises to go directly to the Hazbin Hotel to wipe out Charlie's entire group, which gave the hotel ample time to prepare a defense that ended up with a far heavier loss on Heaven's side, as well as the death of Adam himself. Essentially, Adam's uncontrollable urge to be a spiteful Jerkass got him killed because he just couldn't stop running his mouth.
• Uncleanliness Is Next to Ungodliness: He appears to be as lax about his personal hygiene and grooming as he is about his morality. He often shows up scarfing down junk food with Jabba Table Manners at inappropriate times, and the reveal of his face shows that, while handsome otherwise, he has thick, dark circles around his eyes and a rather pathetic, scraggly goatee. As one of the top angels of Heaven (where, to quote St. Peter, "everyone is hot"), it really makes him stand out.
• Undignified Death: For a millennia-old immortal and powerful Exorcist, Adam's end is nothing short of pathetic. After getting pummeled to a bloody pulp by Lucifer and only being spared at Charlie's behest, Adam dies, not in battle, but by being stabbed In the Back multiple times by Niffty in the middle of his Villainous Breakdown. About his only consolidation is the fact he got to see Lute is genuinely heartbroken over his death before he completely expires.
• Ungrateful Bastard: Charlie spares his life when she stops her father before he can deliver the killing blow, yet Adam has a Villainous Breakdown about how he won't let Charlie win this battle and how everyone should worship him simply because he's the first man. If not for Niffty, he clearly would have continued his genocidal ways despite Charlie showing him mercy.
• Unskilled, but Strong: Downplayed. Adam, by virtue of being the leader of the Exorcists and the oldest mortal soul in creation, is extraordinarily powerful but uses little technique in battle beyond brute forcing his opposition. Alastor, a comparatively far weaker opponent, gives him trouble for a time simply by virtue of being able to dodge his attacks and counterattack. However, Alastor still gets crippled with just one successful strike after Adam uses a Sword Beam to break Alastor's cane, demonstrating that Adam is capable of thinking strategically if the situation calls for it.
• Unsportsmanlike Gloating: In "Welcome to Heaven", even after Adam wins the court case determining Sinners cannot be redeemed and allowed into Heaven, he gloats to Charlie that during the next Extermination he'll be targeting the Hazbin Hotel first, then laughs at the looks on their faces. Even Sera tells him such sadism was uncalled for.
• Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey: Inverted. He's a Laughably Evil meathead compared to his Dragon Lute, a cold No-Nonsense Nemesis and Straight Man.
• Villain Has a Point: He shoots down Charlie's attempts to get him to endorse the Hazbin Hotel and any talks of redemption because, as he points out, Hell is supposed to be a punishment for those who could've led better lives and as we see, an overwhelming majority of demons are not interested in bettering themselves (not even their one guest, Angel Dust, at first anyway). But this does not mean he's in the RIGHT, as Adam is clearly using this as an excuse for his blatant sadism and some sinners are shown to be sent to Hell for minor and petty reasons. Even putting his sadism aside, his reasoning fails to consider any nuance and how some sinners are far more morally complex than he thinks.
• Villain Reveals the Secret: He's the one who ultimately reveals to the audience, and later Charlie, that Vaggie used to be an Exorcist under his command.
• Villain Song: "Hell is Forever", in which Adam firmly denies Charlie's dream of redeeming damned souls, insisting that they are Beyond Redemption, deserve to suffer and be permanently killed, and caps it all of by telling Charlie that the next Extermination will happen six months ahead of schedule.
• Villainous Breakdown: After being defeated by Lucifer in "The Show Must Go On", Adam starts ranting after being humbled for maybe one of the first times in his life by the same guy that cucked him twice. To add insult to injury, Adam dies an Undignified Death 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 Ax-Crazy that he was just one more angel for her to stab.
  Adam: No!...you don't get to end this! I'm fucking ADAM! I'm THE FUCKING MAN and you're just some fucking clown or somethin'! I started EVERYTHING on Earth! All of mankind came from THESE FUCKING NUTS! You all should be worshipping me! You ungrateful, DISGUSTING, FUCKING LOSERS!
• Villain's Dying Grace: After being brutally beaten into the ground by Lucifer (and then stabbed repeatedly by Niffty) he is then cradled by Lute while she tearfully begs him to stay alive. In contrast to his extremely loud sore-loser ranting moments prior, he sincerely smiles at Lute before succumbing to his wounds.
• Villainous Face Hold: He grabs Charlie's face during his and Lute's reprise of "Hell is forever" during the song "You didn't know".
• Villainous Friendship: Virtually his only redeeming quality is his relationship with Lute, his trusted lieutenant in the Exorcists and best friend. He fist-bumps her when she tells him how many sinners she killed, she plays along with his villain song and the two are seen hanging out off duty in Heaven. Though Adam isn't above insulting her, he seems to imply a surprising amount of respect towards Lute; (insofar as Adam is capable of displaying legitimate respect towards someone besides himself) For all of his glaring flaws, their friendship is genuine, best displayed in "The Show Must Go On" where Lute is devastated by his death and Adam's last act is to smile at her reassuringly before he dies.
• Villainous Valor: While Adam is content to pick on people weaker than himself, his reaction to Lucifer joining the battle is to hit him with a flying tackle; showing that he's not afraid to punch above his weight. And even before that, when Charlie gives him the first real injury he's had in untold centuries, he only has a single moment of shock before grinning and returning to the fray. Even when he's practically at death's door and fully aware of how outmatched he is, he makes no attempt to plead for his life and continues antagonizing his enemies. For all his faults, cowardice isn't one of them.
• Winged Humanoid: He has golden angelic wings.
• Would Hurt a Child: Children are not spared during his Exterminations, in fact, he let Lute mutilate one of his top lieutenants for sparing a crying demon child, then left her for dead in Hell.
• You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: When he realizes that the Sinners are able to kill the Exorcists using their own weapons, he calls it "weak".
• Younger Than They Look: He's the Original Man, so that also makes him the oldest man, but when his face was revealed in the eighth episode, he looked like a regular middle-aged man.
• Your Mom: When he ends his fight with Alastor, the version of Adam in the Latin American dub not only taunts Alastor with radio being dead, like he does in all the other dubs, but adds that radio "is deader than [Alastor's] mother!" ^note "¡Porqué la radio está más muerta que tu madre!"

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