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Effective August 7, 2020, this became A24's first venture into animation^note.

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Acting for Two:
- Alex Brightman voices both Sir Pentious and Adam.
- Amir Talai voices both Alastor and Tom Trench.
- Blake Roman voices Angel Dust and the Egg Boiz.
- Kimiko Glenn voices Niffty and Susan.
- Most of the actors in the Japanese dub of the pilot and the proper series, most prominently:
  - Niffty and Cherri Bomb are both voiced by MALTA.
  - Sir Pentious and Travis are both voiced by Chihaya Hanai.
  - In the TV series, Sir Pentious and Adam are both voiced by Yoji Ueda, just like their original voice actor Alex Brightman.
  - Also in the TV series, Angel Dust and the Egg Boiz are both voiced by Jun'ya Hirano, as they are with Blake Roman in the original.
All-Star Cast: The cast includes several big names in Broadway (and some from film and television) such as Erika Henningsen as Charlie, Stephanie Beatriz as Vaggie, Blake Roman as Angel Dust, Amir Talai as Alastor, Keith David as Husk, Kimiko Glenn as Niffty, Alex Brightman as Sir Pentious and Adam, Christian Borle as Vox, Joel Perez as Valentino, and Lilli Cooper as Velvette.
Approval of God:
- A fan made an anime opening for the show. Vivienne Medrano herself gave it her seal of approval.
- Michael Kovach, Mick Lauer, and Edward Bosco congratulated their replacements Blake Roman, Keith David, and Amir Talai, respectively.
Ascended Fanon: A lot of fan work spawned from the fandom in the four years between the pilot and the series premiere, and the show proper references some of them:
- "ADDICT" started off as a fan-song by Silva Hound that just so happened to have Angel Dust's voice actor Michael Kovach singing it. Viv then animated a Music Video for it and its popularity skyrocketed.
- In "Radio Killed the Video Star", Vox storming into his command center at the onset of "Stayed Gone" references the opening of this fanmade Vox music video short by Jinz Neolight.
- The fandom-wide portrayal of Husk purring like a cat becomes canonized in the show's BDSM club scene in "Scrambled Eggs".
- Lucifer's canon reaction to being introduced to Vaggie and learning of Charlie's sexuality directly references this fan comic by @astrallyyyy, being a more flustered version of his reaction there with the same "Me too" line.
- Sir Pentious having a crush on Cherri Bomb is a nod to the somewhat common ship between the two. She even reciprocates the feeling in the Season 1 finale.
- Despite Vaggie being stated by Word of God to be a sinner, with a life on Earth, it was still speculated that she either was an angel or was otherwise cast out of Heaven. Adam later reveals that she is in fact, an angel and a former exorcist left to die in Hell.
Celebrity Voice Actor:
- In the Latin American Spanish dub, Charlie is voiced by Chilean Youtuber Karla "RinRin" Carrizo.
- In the Japanese dub, Husk is voiced by theater actor Takeshi Hirabayashi.
Content Leak:
- About a week before the show premiered, the first two episodes got leaked online and were spread on several video sharing platforms such as YouTube and TikTok.
- In April 2024, a portion of the script for a Season 2 episode was leaked by Emily's voice actress, Shoba Narayan, on her Instagram. She immediately deleted the post, but by that point it had already spread online.
Creator's Favorite: In a 2017 livestream, Vivienne Medrano states that Angel Dust and Alastor are her two favorite characters. In the 2024 promotional video "Clocktower Countdown to Premiere", one of the "Hella Fun Facts" states that Alastor and Lucifer are her favorites.
Cross-Dressing Voices: Katie Killjoy is voiced by Brandon Rogers. But this was averted in the pilot where she was voiced by Faye Mata.
Dear Negative Reader: Like with Helluva Boss, Vivienne Medrano has a tendency to respond to criticism when it gains traction. Whether it's for better or worse is up for debate:
- After the trailer was released, in response to criticism about the animation being downgraded from the pilot and/or Helluva Boss, Vivienne would defend the show. She disagreed with the criticism in general, denied that the show used rigs, and stated that they did what they could with limited time, budget, and an outsourced studio.
- When a short, out-of-context clip of Angel being raped during the Poison music number leaked a week before the premiere and its storyboard artist, Raphielle II, was accused of having a rape fetish, along with allegations of elements from his fan works being put into the show, there was backlash with alleged claims that the show was fetishizing a serious subject matter, especially among SA survivors. Vivienne made a series of tweets defending the artist, pointing out that the show was made by a team, and that the episode in question wasn't officially released yet. It got bad enough that the backlash extended to Threads, where she continued to defend herself and the artist. She said she would become less active on Twitter as a result.
Directed by Cast Member:
- In the Thai dub, Manassavin Malevong is both the ADR director and Angel Dust's voice actor.
- In the Italian dub, Oreste Baldini is both the dub director and the voice of Vox.
Dueling Dubs: The full series received a second, Canadian French dub^note on top of the European French one carried over from the pilot, along with the usual Latin American and European Spanish dubs (the pilot hadn't officially been dubbed into Spanish).
Fake Brit: American Broadway actress Lilli Cooper gives Velvette a heavy Cockney accent.
Fake Nationality: An odd variation of this happens in the Latin American Spanish dub. The show was dubbed in Chile, but for some reason all characters (with sole odd exception of Husk) speak with notable Mexican accents, up to including slang from that country. For an equivalent for English-speaking viewers, that would be similar if all the characters were voiced with actors from Scotland doing American accents.^note
God Never Said That: Due to most of the information coming from Word of God instead of the actual series (since there wasn't much to go off of outside of a pilot episode for over four years), it was difficult to distinguish between fanon and actual comments from Vivienne Medrano. For instance, Vivienne said in a livestream that Alastor dislikes dogs due to them being involved in his death, which fans interpreted as "Alastor was mauled to death by dogs" despite that not being what Medrano said.
He Also Did:
- Vivienne Medrano was previously known for her webcomic Zoophobia as well as an animated music video of Kesha's song "Die Young" featuring characters from said comic.
- Gooseworx, co-composer of the pilot and series' scores, previously made several well-known remixes of Undertale songs, original songs for Zoophobia, and would later release her own animated short Little Runmo before creating the explosively well-known The Amazing Digital Circus.
- Daria Cohen, one of the animators for Hazbin Hotel who's credited in particular for animating the scene in which Vaggie relates Alastor's backstory to Angel Dust, also made The Vampair.
Irony As They Are Cast:
- Angel Dust is gay and has a very prominent sexual personality, whereas his pilot voice actor, Michael Kovach, is asexual.
- Katie Killjoy is a homophobic Jerkass voiced by the openly gay Brandon Rogers.
- The media overlord Vox is played by Christian Borle, who is easily the most reserved of the cast.
Meaningful Release Date:
- Being a show which takes place in Hell, it makes sense that the pilot's release date on YouTube would be October 28, 2019, just three days before Halloween. It also happens to be Medrano's birthday.
- "Poison (Official Remix)" dropped on April 1, 2024. April 1 is Angel Dust's birthday.
Meme Role Reprise: For years after the pilot's release, Michael Kovach, Edward Bosco and Stamper (the pilot voice actors for Angel Dust, Alastor and Sir Pentious, respectively) frequently read out memes and other silly phrases their characters would never say in various locales of the internet, most prominently the Hunicast.
Kovach (as Angel Dust): Hey Alastor, your mom gay!
Missing Trailer Scene:
- In the Official Trailer, there's a scene taking place in Pentagram City where some Exorcists are shown after one pulls a spear out of an exterminated demon. In the pilot itself, no such scene happens and the Exorcists are only seen in the stylized first part of the opening song.
- There's a brief shot in the Official Trailer wherein the hotel blinks, suggesting it may be alive. This doesn't happen anywhere in the pilot when the hotel is seen in full.
- Certain scenes and backgrounds shown in the Official Trailer are different in the pilot. Scenes such as Angel and Vaggie entering the hotel and the background used for Husk's bar are some examples.
Non-Singing Voice:
- Charlie's pilot VA is Jill Harris, whereas her singing voice is done by Elsie Lovelock.
- In the pilot, Alastor has singer Gabriel C. Brown (better known as Black Gryph0n) providing his singing voice, while his speaking voice is done by Edward Bosco.
- In the "ADDICT" music video, Cherri's singing voice is provided by Chi-Chi instead of her pilot VA, Krystal LaPorte.
- Most of the foreign dubs have different actors for the singing voices, with the known exception of the Japanese one, possibly since Japanese voice actors are mostly required to know how to sing as well to act.
- The Italian dub mostly averts this, with the only exception being Carmilla, who is voiced by Antonella Baldini when speaking and Flavia Astolfi for the singing.
One of Us: Krystina Alabado the voice of Cherri Bomb in the show is a supporter of the Cherri Bomb/Sir Pentious ship and a big fan of Sir Pentious in general
The Other Darrin: The trailer shown at New York Comic Con revealed that the entire cast from the pilot has been replaced for the final series. While the reason for the recasting was speculated to be due to union issues, both Angel Dust and Alastor's pilot VAs have gone on the record that it was because Vivienne wanted a Broadway cast for the main show. Here is the current lineup:
- Charlie: Jill Harris and Elsie Lovelock (singing) → Erika Henningsen
- Vaggie: Monica Franco → Stephanie Beatriz
- Angel Dust: Michael Kovach → Blake Roman
- Alastor: Edward Bosco and Gabriel C. Brown (singing) → Amir Talai
- Husk: Mick Lauer → Keith David
- Niffty: Michelle Marie → Kimiko Glenn
- Sir Pentious: William Andrew Stamper → Alex Brightman
- Cherri Bomb: Krystal LaPorte → Krystina Alabado
- Katie Killjoy: Faye Mata → Brandon Rogers
- Tom Trench: Joshua Tomar → Amir Talai
- The Egg Bois: Jonathan Gran → Blake Roman
- The same goes for the Latin American Spanish dub, with the additional note that the dub was done in Chile, rather than in Mexico, unlike the pilot.
- Ditto in the Japanese dub, with the sole difference that, unlike the pilot, which used amateur voice actors, the one from the proper show use professional ones instead.
Permanent Placeholder: The name of the character Lute is supposed to be short for "lieutenant" and was supposed to just be a placeholder name, but the name grew on Vivienne Medrano, so she kept Lute as the character's name.
Playing Against Type: In the Japanese dub, the main forte of Eiji Hanawa (Lucifer) is mostly voicing stoic, middle-aged men, like Jiren, Jon Snow, Johnny Lawrence, Takeru Igarashi, among others. Voicing a hammy demon is pretty outside of his normal modus operandi.
Production Posse:
- The Latin American Spanish dub of the pilot episode was done by Geecko Productions, which is the same studio that did the Latin Spanish dub of Helluva Boss, and it also shares some of its voice actors and production staff, like Gerardo Alonso (Alastor), who dubbed Moxxie, and Karla Tovar, who did random voices in the show, and previously voiced Millie in Helluva Boss.
- Alex Brightman (Sir Pentious and Adam), Brandon Rogers (Katie Killjoy) and James Monroe Iglehart (Zestial) also plays Fizzarolli, Blitzo, Vortex and Asmodeus on Vivienne Medrano's other Hellaverse series, Helluva Boss.
Promoted Fanboy: The Brazilian Portuguese voice of Angel Dust, Luís Pimenta, originally provided his voice in an unofficial fandub of the pilot. This is his first time officially voicing the character.
Queer Character, Queer Actor:
- Queer actress Jill Harris voices the bisexual demon princess Charlie in the pilot. Likewise, her pilot singing voice, Elsie Lovelock, is pansexual.
- Asexual actor Michael Kovach voices the gay porn star Angel Dust in the pilot and "ADDICT" music video.
  - Angel Dust's European French voice, MyëVe, is a drag queen, just like Angel, and a trans woman.
- Openly bisexual actress Stephanie Beatriz voices Charlie's girlfriend Vaggie.
- Openly gay actor Joel Perez voices Valentino, the depraved pansexual Overlord.
Real-Life Relative: In the European Spanish dub, David Jenner voices Alastor, while his father Miguel Ángel Jenner voices Zestial.
Referenced by...: In the Joey Valence & Brae song "RN", there is the lyric "Now you a has-been, you be out of order". The creators confirmed on their TikTok that it was a reference to Hazbin Hotel.
Renewed Before Premiere: A second season had already been greenlit before the show aired in 2024.
Role Reprise:
- Don Darryl Rivera, being something of a lucky charm for Vivziepop's productions, voiced Travis in the pilot and, though not the only VA from the pilot to return in some capacity ^note is the only one so far to reprise a role, providing Travis's single line in the fourth episode.
- Unlike most other dubs, the European French dub uses a decent percentage of the Amateur Cast from the pilot, the real series' French cast featuring reprisals from Maëva Trioux (Angel Dust), Mathilde Carmes (Niffty), Arno Capostagno (Sir Pentious), Gabriel Bonnaud (Egg Boiz), and Akim Belkheir (Tom Trench), plus a Remake Cameo from Lucy Studer (pilot Vaggie, now playing Katie Killjoy). The Canadian French dub, as is typical, uses a brand-new cast.
- In the Brazilian Portuguese dub, Luís Pimenta reprises his role as Angel Dust, having first voiced him in a fandub of the pilot.
Romance on the Set: Ashley Nichols (lead clean-up artist) and Michael Kovach (the voice of Angel Dust) first met while working on the show together. They are currently in a relationship, and co-hosts of the HuniCast.
Schedule Slip: Season 1 was originally set to premiere in Summer 2023. But due to the SAG-AFTRA strike, it was pushed back to January 2024.
Sleeper Hit: The pilot and "ADDICT" alone brought Hazbin Hotel a fanbase on par with shows that had multiple seasons, despite being four years before the series proper was released. The "Addict" music video alone was able to get over 165 million views in over four years after being released, while the pilot managed to reach 100 million views five years after being released, with the actual show helping it reach that number.
Serendipity Writes the Plot: Angel Dust's third set of arms can be retracted so that he appears to only have two sets of arms simply because it's easier to animate.
Spoiled by the Merchandise: Before the series aired its first season, trading cards were made for the series that spoiled the introduction of characters like Sera and Emily, as well as the fact that The Hazbin Hotel would be destroyed and later rebuilt as a grander version of itself.
Staff-Created Fan Work: Upon learning they were being replaced for the full series, several of the pilot's voice actors^Specifically got together to create a song reprising their roles one last time. Intended to symbolically pass the torch to the new cast, "THANK YOU AND GOODNIGHT" was only released to the public after the first season premiered in early 2024.
Those Two Actors:
- Daphne Rubin-Vega (Carmilla) and Stephanie Beatriz (Vaggie) previously featured as lesbian couple Daniela and Carla in the musical film In the Heights, so Hazbin is not the first production where they have sung together.
- In the Japanese dub, Risa Shimizu (Charlie), Eiji Hanawa (Lucifer) and Yoji Ueda (Sir Pentious and Adam) previously worked together in the dub of Game of Thrones as Daenarys Targaryen (plus Rickon Stark), Jon Snow and Petyr Baelish respectively.
Throw It In!:
- Charlie and Vaggie were originally not a couple, but many of the storyboard artists interpreted them as such when reading the script. Medrano rolled with it because she liked how the script presented a same-sex relationship in a completely unassuming way; by the time the pilot episode was released, the two of them were made into a couple, which carried over into the show proper.
- Tom Trench's screaming "Why won't anyone help me?!" was ad-libbing by his voice actor, and added to the final script.
- In "Scrambled Eggs", after Vaggie throws Sir Pentious and Angel into the battlefield and you can hear them screaming in the background, everything they're screaming is ad-libbed by their voice actors, including Angel's line "I blame you for this, you crazy bitch!".
Uncredited Role: Despite having a speaking role, Zeezi's voice actor isn't credited.
Unspecified Role Credit: Only the main cast and guest stars are named in the end credits, leaving the voices of certain characters like the Egg Bois and Tom Trench unknown until Sam Haft revealed them on his Twitter.
Voiced Differently in the Dub:
- It's less a change to the voice itself and more one to the post-production processing of said voice, but in the original English track, Alastor's voice is given audible crackling akin to old American radios from the 1920s and 30s, befitting for somebody known as the Radio Demon who died in 1933. The Japanese dub drops this vocal effect for the character, as Japanese radios from that time were less likely to have that level of audio distortion due to being built to different standards, meaning the joke wouldn't have translated quite as well.
- In the German dub, rather than having his singing voice be a tenor that matches his speaking voice, Angel Dust has a separate singing voice which is not only much deeper than his normal voice but is also notably done by a woman.
Why Fandom Can't Have Nice Things: The noted reasoning behind the closure of various Character Blogs is due to said blogs being flooded with various NSFW and/or Rule 34 fanart through DMs.
Word of Dante: The infamous "Journey to the Light" wiki, dedicated to a nonexistent fan fiction, is responsible for several concepts being treated as fact within the fandom due to the wiki often showing up on search engines. The most prominent of these is the idea of Vox having a body pillow of Alastor, which many fans treat as canon.
Word of Gay:
- Vivienne has confirmed that Alastor is asexual.
- Faustisse has confirmed that Husk is pansexual.
- HAZBIN HOTEL COMIC have confirmed that Valentino is pansexual.
- Vivziepop stated that Sir Pentious is bisexual in the stream.
- Cherri Bomb is confirmed to be bisexual in a deleted tweet.
- Angel Dust's client Travis is confirmed to be bisexual.
- One of the directors confirmed that Vox is bisexual in a tweet.
Word of God: Many if not all, of the livestreams hosted provide much background and contextual information on the setting and characters courtesy of Vivienne along with the other staff members. Missing them might lead to Continuity Lockout.
- Like the show's creator Vivienne, Vaggie's ethnicity is Salvadoran as first revealed in a stream and reconfirmed in a tweet.
- According to a livestream, Alastor hates dogs because they played a role in his death. Back when he was an actual demonic deer (as opposed to a sinner that became a deer demon upon descending into hell), he was actually afraid of dogs. With the change, Viv declared he wasn't afraid of dogs anymore and merely disliked them.
- According to the Pilot cast Live Panel, Heaven is going to have a more ethereal aesthetic with the more highly ranked angels having something of an alien motif as to reference to how strange and monstrous angels are described in the Bible. She also mentions that heaven (and by that extension hell) will be represented by different mythologies instead of only the Christian religion. She doesn't want her characters to be directly connected to the Bible, with some exceptions like Lilith and Lucifer.
- In the Pilot cast Live Panel, Viv admits that Alastor is an "edgy, DeviantArt oc" that she made in high school, which makes him her oldest character created.
- According to the Pilot Cast Panel, we will see more Ars Goetia in both Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss.
- On Husk:
  - Word of God has it that he can speak Italian, Russian, German, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, and Vietnamese.
  - Word of God confirmed that Husk grew up in a casino, which may have had something to do with his gambling addiction.
  - Official sources state that Husk is good with children.
  - Official sources state he's in his sixties or seventies. ^note
  - Official sources have stated that Husk likes magic shows, can speak multiple languages fluently and is good with children.
- In an interview with Vivienne Medrano that released a few days following the season one finale, she confirmed that season two would focus more on the Vees than season one did and that Vox and Alastor's past would be revealed in that season.
- Before the series was picked up by A24, Vivienne already had the ideas and plot for the episodes "Overture" and "Masquerade" planned out.
- In an Interview with Amanda Lee it was confirmed by Vivienne Medrano that season 2 will feature Sir Pentious' backstory and what actually got him into Hell.
Working Title: People Like Us.
Write What You Know: According to Vivienne, Angel Dust and Valentino's destructive relationship is based on a previous toxic relationship she experienced. It's also implied that Angel's successful yet miserable life is a metaphor for how her fame became a double-edged sword, as she's now famous but also a target for many toxic, creepy fans.
You Sound Familiar:
- Sir Pentious and Katie Killjoy are voiced by Alex Brightman and Brandon Rogers respectively, who also appear as Fizzarolli and Blitzo on Helluva Boss.
- Mick Lauer, who voiced Husk in the pilot, voices the Trenchcoat Demon in the series.
- James Monroe Iglehart, who voices Zestial, voiced the Lizard Demon next to Zeezi in the pilot.

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