History WebVideo / HellsBelles

* SideBet: The Belles bet on when the Catholic and Protestant [[spoiler: will give into their building sexual tension and kiss.]]

--> ''Ruggy'': Hey, Mom.

* PrankWarGoneTooFar: Bel and Sharkie's final prank against the Front Deathk misfires, resulting in the temporary disappearance of Death and Martha's dimension.

** A Catholic and a Protestant were supposed to be shut in a tiny room together with no exits so they could argue for eternity, but they actually argued so much in the Hellp Desk lobby that the Hellp Desk crew just let them stay there. [[spoiler: They eventually do get sent to said tiny room, where they discover in addition that ThereIsOnlyOneBed.]]

** Ruggy's mom was also emotionally abusive, but apparently genuinely thought she was helping her daughter out by telling her she was fat throughout her life and sending her to conversion camp. Because she's willing to admit she was wrong, she is treated more ... gently than the other two.

* CharacterDevelopment: Ruggy started out as a Karen type who refused to go to her punishment layer and instead laid down on the floor and wouldn't get up; the others subsequently started treating her like a throw rug (hence her nickname). After hearing and seeing how other people who come to the Hellp Desk act, she starts to soften up and become more reflective, eventually becoming a Hellp Desk trainee and deciding to use her Karen powers for good.

* DeathAmnesia: When a soul gets reincarnated, they cannot consciously remember anything that happened in their previous lives or their time in the afterlife. However, they recover those memories upon dying and returning to the afterlife.

** A soul from Paradise comes down to the Hellp Desk to ask if she can have a conjugal visit with her ex, who despite being a shitty person (hence why he's in Hell) "fucked like a demon". Lily says that's not allowed (it would be a reward for souls in Hell), but that the soul is interested she can have sex with a demon instead.

* PostKissCatatonia: Ruggy's delayed reaction to Angel holding her hand, after Ruggy backhanded a misogynistic soul hard enough to knock him out.

* AbusiveParents: Penny's mother only cares about appearances and lectures her daughter for taking the "coward's way out" (i.e. committing suicide) because it made ''her'' look bad. She also apparently covered for Penny's uncle sexually abusing her. Sharkie's foster mom views them with contempt, saying she's surprised that Sharkie actually followed directions and went to Hell like they were told to do, and apparently while Sharkie was in her care constantly told them their behavior was "unnatural". Both push work mom Lily's BerserkButton.

* CharacterDevelopment: Ruggy started out as a Karen type who refused to go to her punishment layer and instead laid down on the floor and wouldn't get up; the others subsequently started treating her like a throw rug (hence her nickname). After hearing how other people who come to the Hellp Desk act, she starts to soften up and become more reflective, eventually becoming a Hellp Desk trainee and deciding to use her Karen powers for good.

--> ''Sharkie'': If that was over my crib that would explain a lot act...

** Angel's BerserkButton generally revolves around people who hurt Ruggy while she was alive (such as her ex-husband and her mom).

* BerserkButton: generally Lily is content to just be a DeadpanSnarker to the terrible people who show up at the Hellp Desk, even to people who harmed her personally in life. However, she is rather different when she encounters the health insurance executive who denied her claim when she was dying of cancer, forcing her family to bury their daughter, where she becomes terrifyingly, coldly furious.

** [[spoiler: Ruggy's mom]], unlike other terrible people from the Hellp Desk staff's previous lives, actually takes [[spoiler: Ruggy's]] criticisms of her to heart, so much so that [[spoiler: she tries to send herself to level 9, despite Ruggy actually saying that she deserved level 2. Judy has to come and bring her back]]

* BerserkButton: generally Lily is content to just be a DeadpanSnarker to the terrible people who show up at the Hellp Desk, even to people who harmed her personally in life. However, she is rather different when she encounters the health insurance executive who denied her claim when she was dying of cancer, forcing her family to bury their daughter, where she becomes terrifyingly, coldly furious
** Similarly anyone who hurt either Penny or Sharkie in life is going to have a bad time if they end up talking to Lily at the desk

** Alice [[spoiler: aka Sharkie's birth mother]] is a kind and gentle person--until she learns that [[spoiler: Sharkie's abusive foster mom is also in Hell]]
** Angel's BerserkButton generally revolves around people who hurt Ruggy while she was alive (such as her ex-husband and her mom)

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Judy is ''terrifying'' when she gets pissed. When she encounters Bad Kevin (a Klan member who shot up her house with her husband and child inside) she has Derrick trap door him down to level nine after telling him to enjoy his time with Greg (aka one of the scariest demons in Hell) because when she gets off work "playtime will be over"
** Penny is often the most patient person to souls who come to the Hellp Desk, but also has clearly grown a spine under Lily's tutelage and will not take any guff from anyone

** Levels 3 on down are the actual punishment levels, with a soul's judgement depending on factors like performative vs legitimate regret, willful vs true ignorance, abuse, and trauma. No one has ever reincarnated from lower than Level 5

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: Everyone in the various otherworldly realms likes Sharky. ''Everyone''. When her [[spoiler: abusive foster mom]] shows up, it's revealed that there was a pre-existing plan for a bunch of otherworldly beings to come and kick her ass for hurting Sharky in life.

* ApatheticClerk: the people who work the Hellp Desk tend to be former customer service people who are volunteering there because they enjoy pulling this trope on people who complain about being in Hell.
** Derrick/Dante the demon intern takes this up to 11 by trapdooring every soul that comes to the Hellp Desk down to Level Nine while unsupervised (which, as the others point out was bad as not everyone deserves Level Nine and there are also souls who are lost or confused, visitors from other realms, and other miscellaneous people like the soul from the Summerlands who was coming by to yell at Derrick for haunting her house while she was alive--which does not improve her mood when she finally gets back up to the Hellp Desk).
* TheAtoner: a couple of souls have shown up and been assigned level one or two, only to insist that they must deserve a lower level or ask to be sent to a lower level. Generally, these are people who did bad things in their life and then tried to atone, but who were not yet ready to forgive themselves in life. [[spoiler: One of them is Sharky's biological mom, who had Sharky taken away from her as a baby because she had succumbed to drug addiction]].
** This is Ruggie's character arc, trying to atone by using her "Karen powers for good" to shut down annoying Karens and others.
** [[spoiler: Ruggie's mom]], unlike other terrible people from the Hellp Desk staff's previous lives, actually takes [[spoiler: Ruggie's]] criticisms of her to heart, so much so that [[spoiler: she tries to send herself to level 9, despite Ruggie actually saying that she deserved level 2. Judy has to come and bring her back]]

* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: The official art of the series confirms Sharkie and Judy as blonde, Ruggie and Penny as brunette, and Lily as a redhead.

* CharacterDevelopment: Ruggie started out as a Karen type who refused to go to her punishment layer and instead laid down on the floor and wouldn't get up; the others subsequently started treating her like a throw rug (hence her nickname). After hearing how other people who come to the Hellp Desk act, she starts to soften up and become more reflective, eventually becoming a Hellp Desk trainee and deciding to use her Karen powers for good.

* FireAndBrimstoneHell: Played straight for the people who deserve to be there. Subverted for those who work there, or are just visiting from heaven. In fact, being able to take out your justifiable anger on damned souls is portrayed as one of the perks of heaven
** It's also revealed that levels 1 and 2 are not that hellish, being essentially therapy for those who either couldn't forgive or love themselves in life (level 1), or those who need to be confronted with harsh truths about themselves (level 2)
** with levels 3 through 5 the souls are being punished, but there is an expectation that a soul will eventually be allowed to reincarnate (although the farther you go down the harder it is to achieve that goal)
* FluffyCloudHeaven: Averted. Each human (except Ruggie, who's technically still supposed to be in Hell) gets their own custom paradise:

* HornyDevils: Bel, Greg, and Angel. Demons in general are apparently very sexually open, although also very into consent

** A male pro-life activist is forcibly impregnated by a bunch of Omegaverse people. It's stated this is a fairly common punishment for male pro-life people
** A Catholic and a Protestant were supposed to be shut in a tiny room together with no exits so they could argue for eternity, but they actually argued so much in the Hellp Desk lobby that the Hellp Desk crew just let them stay there. [[spoiler: They eventually do get sent to said tiny room, where they discover in addition that ThereIsOnlyOneBed]]

* MamaBear: Lily is this to Sharky and Penny, her "work daughters"
** [[spoiler: Sharky's biological mom breaks into her foster mom's pocket dimension personal hell to have a "conversation" with her when she learns she's in Hell]]

* OneSteveLimit: Judy initially went down to Hell because she heard her name called and assumed that her loving her trans son had damned her, which she was OK with. Turns out it was a different Judy (who, when she shows up a few episodes later, demonstrates that she does deserve to be in Hell)
** Dante the intern does a double take when a soul curious about the structure of Hell asks if it's like Dante (as in Dante Alligheri) described it

* ReformedButRejected: Ruggie eventually gets a soul who she had screamed at and verbally abused when the soul had been a 17 year old service worker. Ruggie gives a heartfelt apology but the soul refuses to accept it (Sharkie points out that the soul had tended to use other people's bad treatment of her as an excuse to act poorly, so this was perhaps not unexpected)
* {{Reincarnation}}: Exists and discussed in universe as an option for souls in paradise (Lily has reincarnated three times) and for souls that were sent to hell to learn the error of their ways, they get a second chance on Earth once they've learned their lesson. Upon death, the soul regains the memories of their prior time in the afterlife. [[spoiler: Alice (Sharkie's biological mom) decides to reincarnate, and Ruggy plans to reincarnate when she's ready as Alice's daughter]]
* RunningGag: Everyone comments on how the trapdoor button is a bit underwhelming and how it should really be a lever. [[spoiler: Just before doing his work-study with Hephaestus, Dante comes back and installs a lever, to everyone's glee]]

* TooKinkyToTorture: the Hellp Desk gets a person who's totally fine being in Hell, leading to much confusion. Turns out to be this trope.

* UnsatisfiableCustomer: the Hellp Desk gets mostly these, generally people who think they should be in Paradise and want to talk to the management about it. Given that the Hellp Desk is staffed by people who used to work in customer service, they take great glee in ignoring and/or calling out their bullshit.

** Ruggy's mom was also emotionally abusive, but apparently genuinely thought she was helping her daughter out by telling her she was fat throughout her life and sending her to conversion camp. Because she's willing to admit she was wrong, she is treated more...gently than the other two

* DeadpanSnarker: comes with the territory of working the Hellp Desk

* DeityOfHumanOrigin: After doing some investigating, [[spoiler: Lily]] discovers that she and [[spoiler: Penny, and presumably Sharkie as well]] technically became this after deciding to formally forgo their chance to reincarnate. They have no worshipers and no special powers, but giving up their reincarnations apparently meant they are now literally more than human