Trivia / Helluva Boss

• Acting for Two:
  • Brandon Rogers voices both Blitzo and Eddie's doctor in the pilot, along with Loopty Goopty in “C.H.E.R.U.B”, who has multiple conversations with Blitzo.
  • Brock Baker voices Stolas, "Some Demon Guy" and a female nurse with a deep, manly voice in the pilot.
  • Erica Lindbeck voices both Loona and Millie in the pilot, but Millie was recast with Vivian Nixon starting with “Murder Family”.
  • Richard Steven Horvitz voices both Moxxie and Eddie (the kid from the pilot). He also plays the operator of a rigged shooting gallery in “Loo Loo Land”. He later voices Moxxie's father, Crimson, in "Exes and Oohs".
  • In “C.H.E.R.U.B”, Vivienne Medrano voices both Keenie of the titular group and Deerie, who directly speaks to all three of its members.
  • Don Darryl Rivera voices both Cletus and Wally Wackford.
  • James Monroe Iglehart voices both Vortex in “Spring Broken” and Asmodeus in “OZZIE’S”.
  • Jonathan Freeman voices both Paimon and Cash Buckzo, Stolas and Blitzo's respective fathers.
• Actor-Shared Background:
  • While her husband Stolas and daughter Octavia are voiced by fake Brits, Stella is the only member of the Goetia family to be voiced by an actual British actress in the form of Georgina Leahy.
  • In the Latin American Spanish dub, Blitzo's voice actor, Carlos Xavier Castro, is also the founder of Geecko Productions, the voice acting studio dubbing the show, just like Blitzo is also the founder of I.M.P.
• All-Star Cast: From several angles — the cast is made up of veteran voice actors (Richard Steven Horvitz, Erica Lindbeck, Cristina Valenzuela, Erica Luttrell, Edward Bosco), Broadway stars (Bryce Pinkham, Barrett Wilbert Weed, Alex Brightman, James Monroe Iglehart, Jonathan Freeman), various other well-known actors (Brandon Rogers, Mara Wilson, Jinkx Monsoon, Norman Reedus), and even pop stars (Kesha).
• Ascended Fanon:
  • Starting with Blitzo in “Loo Loo Land”, characters in the show have been referring to Moxxie and Millie as M&M, which is a popular ship name for them.
  • If you include the Loose Canon nature of the character Instagrams as fanon, then Blitzo's love of horses and collecting of Pony figures counts.
  • As of “The Circus”, Blitzo is credited as "Blitzø", which fans had adopted during the first season, to distinguish the "silent 'o'" pronunciation of his name from the original pronunciation his enemies use.
  • The fan song "Just Look My Way" by PARANOiD DJ is a song about Stolas pining for Blitzø. This song would eventually receive an official animated music video, sung by Stolas' voice actor and animated in the show's typical style.
• Blooper: The pilot has two very noticeable examples.
  • At 2:40, when Moxxie shoots the child, he uses a double-barreled gun. In the next second, he has a scoped rifle.
  • At 3:57, Loona's eyes have their colouration reversed, going from red sclera and white irises to white sclera and red irises.
  • A youtuber by the name of Schjiro had made videos compiling animation errors for all of the episodes released so far. Season 1 can be found here and Season 2 can be found here
    • A consistent animation error pointed out in the videos above is Blitzo's horns consistingly switches from being smooth curved to edged curved or vice versa.
    • Another consistent error is Loona's ears, whether it's one of them missing the bite scar or earring, or being on the wrong ear
• Celebrity Voice Actor:
  • Managed to snag Richard Steven Horvitz and Erica Lindbeck, two notable voice actors, as Moxxie and Loona respectively.
  • Popular drag queen Jinkx Monsoon has lended their voice to a few characters in the series, namely Martha and Apple.
  • “Murder Family” also features Mara Wilson as Mrs. Mayberry, the ex-teacher client.
  • “Loo Loo Land” introduces Octavia, played by Barrett Wilbert Weed (of Heathers and Mean Girls), and Robotic Fizzarolli, played by Alex Brightman doing his Beetlejuice voice.
  • “Spring Broken” brings in the high-profile and quite prolific voice actor Cristina Valenzuela to play Verosika, and Vortex is played by James Monroe Iglehart, most known for his Broadway roles as Genie in Aladdin and Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson in Hamilton.
    • Iglehart returns in “OZZIE’S” to voice the vice of lust himself, Asmodeus.
  • “The Harvest Moon Festival” guest stars prolific Hollywood actor Norman Reedus, arguably the highest profile actor in the project yet.
  • “Truth Seekers” features Erica Luttrell, best known for her role as Sapphire from Steven Universe, as the voice of Agent Two.
  • “The Circus” features Jonathan Freeman, the voice of Jafar, as both Stolas and Blitzo's respective fathers.
  • "Queen Bee" features none other than Kesha herself as Queen Bee-lzebub.
• Colbert Bump:
  • While not exactly obscure, many casual fans became aware of Brandon Rogers and his work due to him being the co-developer of the series and the voice actor of Blitzo.
  • Overall interest in the Ars Goetia spiked thanks to Stolas. Even Stolas himself in particular was overshadowed by more famous demons like Baal and Belial to the extent that he is considered a run-of-the-mill demon lord not worth remembering beyond the name and rank until the series came into being.
• Content Leak:
  • Near the end of December 2022, storyboards of scenes from two future episodes were leaked onto 4chan well, well before they're supposed to air, revealing major spoilers for them. The leaker discovered that the normally password-protected portfolio of a storyboard artist had a security vulnerability on their site where slightly changing the end of the url granted them access without needing to know the password. The subsequent takedowns of the videos when they inevitably spread and the artist changing their bio on Twitter/X to refer to their employment on the show in past tense (indicating they were fired) had the side effect of confirming their authenticity.
  • A few days before the episode Oops was supposed to premiere, the entire animatic for it was leaked onto 4chan via as-of-now unknown means or reasons.
• Creator's Favorite: Vivienne immediately proclaimed Deerie the angel from "C.H.E.R.U.B." as her favorite character, talking about how much she enjoyed voicing her. In fact, she has had Deerie set as her profile picture on social media since the episode's premiere.
• Cross-Dressing Voices:
  • The pink-haired nurse in the pilot is voiced by Brock Baker.
  • Vivienne voices the male client who was drowned and Monica Franco voices Counselor Jimmy in episode "Unhappy Campers".
• Darkhorse Casting: In a cast made up primarily of highly-seasoned voice actors and stage actors, the lead role is played by Brandon Rogers, an internet comedian and the show's co-writer. Not only is he generally considered to be perfectly suited to the role, but he has a number of He Really Can Act moments in both Blitzo's funniest moments and his darkest. Note that when the pilot was first released, the situation was somewhat opposite and Rogers was more the expected casting; fellow internet comedian Brock Baker was in the cast at the time, so the presence of Richard Steven Horvitz and Erica Lindbeck was more along the lines of Stunt Casting, but once the show proper premiered and unveiled a truly prestigious cast, Rogers came out looking more like the underdog, winning great acclaim.
• Dear Negative Reader: Vivienne is pretty fond of responding whenever criticism of the show sprung up, though whether it's for better or worse is up for debate as it's lead to her gaining a reputation for having poor responses to criticism:
  • In March 2023, Vivienne wrote a Twitter thread addressing the rising number of criticisms regarding the use of Millie, as many accused her and the writers of failing to give the character any significant depth outside being Moxxie's wife. Medrano argued that fans were overlooking what characterization had already been given, and that the complaints stem from people wishing that Millie had Dark and Troubled Past like the rest of the cast. However, she did concede that the character hadn't gotten too much focus up to that point, and assured fans that she would in future episodes.
  • In July 2023, Vivienne wrote another Twitter thread to defend Beezlebub's design from those who critiqued it following the release of Episode 8.
  • In November 2023, she responded to the criticism of the show's excessive use of profanity and sex jokes after an edit of the The Amazing Digital Circus pilot called "If TADC was written by Vivziepop" featuring them as a Take That! gained traction on Twitter^note though it later came to light that the video was not intended as a direct attack on the show. She claims that she doesn't agree with the criticism and finds them funny, mentioning that she was influenced by Seth Rogen comedies and shows like South Park. The user who made the edit claimed that she blocked him as well.
• Descended Creator: Vivienne herself voices both Keenie, one of the angelic sheep in C.H.E.R.U.B, and Deerie, the deer angel who tells the three cherubs they can't go back to Heaven.
• Exiled from Continuity: Word of God has confirmed there will not be much crossover between this and Hazbin Hotel outside of small subtle cameos^note such as Loona watching Charlie's song on her computer in the pilot, Travis's brief background appearance in “Spring Broken”, or Valentino owning a Robo-Fizz in Hazbin Hotel due to the latter being picked up by a network in the form of A24, and the former being a simple YouTube series, which means we probably won't be seeing a Charlie vs. Blitzo confrontation.
• Fake Brit: American Bryce Pinkham and Barrett Wilbert Weed voice the British-accented Stolas and Octavia. Averted with Stolas' young voice actor, Leander Lewis, who was born in the United Kingdom, but moved to the United States.
• He Also Did: Several animators who worked on Helluva Boss also worked on Villainous and ThunderCats Roar.
• In Memoriam:
  • “C.H.E.R.U.B” is dedicated to the memory of Adriana Margarita Rodriguez Hernandez, the late mother of one of the cleanup artists.
  • “OZZIE’S” is dedicated to Steve Dorian (aka Lemony Fresh), a cleanup artist who passed away on September 6th 2021.
• Irony as She Is Cast: One of Mara Wilson's best-known child roles was for Matilda, which featured a blonde, kind-hearted teacher who protected the main character from the violent Miss Trunchbull. Wilson here plays a demon who used to be a blonde, kind-hearted teacher... until she totally snapped and committed murder-suicide in front of her students. She even threw a kid who resembled Matilda in a Miss Trunchbull-esque way.
• Meaningful Release Date:
  • The first proper episode of the series aired on October 31, 2020, fitting for a story about demons terrifying humans in the land of the living to get its true start both on the day of Halloween and the day before Dia de Los Muertos.
  • "OZZIE’S" aired on October 31, 2021, on the one year anniversary of “Murder Family”, the first episode of the series proper. Fitting for both the same reason as the former, and because part of the episode is about Moxxie and Millie's first year anniversary.
• Missing Episode: After “OZZIE’S” aired, nearly eight months passed before it was announced that Episode 8 of Season 1 would not air and that they would skip straight to airing Season 2. Their explanation was that due to forces "literally out of [their] control" they would not be able to air Episode 8, and that Episode 8 wasn't very plot-critical and was more of a visual spectacle intended to cap off season 1. They mentioned that episode 8 will be repackaged as a special and it was finally released on June 24, 2023.
• No Dub for You: Unlike Hazbin Hotel, the series has no Japanese dub, through it did had an European French one, plus semi-official dubs in both Latin American and European Spanish, and a Czech one. However, it was announced that a official Japanese dub, plus an official Latin American Spanish one are right now in works.
• Non-Singing Voice:
  • Anytime Blitzo (voiced by Brandon Rogers) has to sing, Michael Romeo Ruocco has to be brought in for the job, as Rogers presumably can't sing.
  • While Kesha provides Queen Bee-lzebub's speaking voice, her singing voice is provided by Rochelle Diamante due to legal issues with Kesha's record label.
• The Other Darrin:
  • For the original English version.
    • Millie was voiced by Erica Lindbeck in the pilot. For the rest of the series, she's voiced by Vivian Nixon (daughter of famed choreographer/dancer Debbie Allen). Jenny Bingham was supposed to replace Lindbeck but was herself replaced by Nixon for reasons unknown.
    • Stolas was voiced by Brock Baker in the pilot. For the rest of the series, he's voiced by Bryce Pinkham.
    • Striker is voiced by Norman Reedus in "The Harvest Moon Festival" and Edward Bosco in "Western Energy" and "Oops" due to scheduling conflicts.
  • For the French dub:
    • Loona was voiced by Jeanne Tymen in the pilot. For the series, she's voiced by Ninon Moreau.
    • Stolas was voiced by Joris Georges in the pilot. For the series, he's voiced by Laurent Blanpain.
• The Other Marty: Vivian Nixon was originally cast as Keenie, but eventually ended up in the role of Millie. To prevent Millie and Keenie sounding the same, Keenie's voice was redone by Vivienne Medrano herself. It's also likely that Nixon was this to Jenny Bingham, who was originally announced as Millie only for Nixon to be announced at the last minute.
• Out of Order: Episode 8 ended up airing after the fourth episode of the second season due to issues behind the scenes.
• Playing Against Type:
  • Richard Steven Horvitz is known for portraying over-the-top buffoons like Zim and Billy. Here, his character Moxxie is the Straight Man.
    • While Moxxie does share traits of Horvitz’ other characters, Crimson does not. Crimson is an Abusive Dad and Politically Incorrect Villain and it’s all Played for Drama.
  • Parry Gripp is primarily known for composing seriously catchy children's music and novelty songs. The songs he composed for the pilot, the "I.M.P. Jingle" and "Oh Millie" are, while just as cheerful and upbeat as his usual work in melody, a commercial jingle for an assassin business and a love song about an assassin's killing skills respectively.
  • Erica Lindbeck, who is usually known for voicing energetic, snarky, and/or nice girls, voices the foul-mouthed and aloof Loona. Even more notable since Millie, who fits perfectly under her normal typecast, was re-casted with Vivian Nixon.
  • Cristina Valenzuela voices Verosika Mayday, who's a foul-mouthed succubus Alpha Bitch, a far cry from the Nice Girls or Broken Birds she normally plays.
  • Jonathan Freeman voices Stolas's father Paimon in his usual way — a richly-voiced Evil Brit — but plays against type as Blitzo's father, a wheezy-voiced hick.
• Pop-Culture Urban Legends: Loona has no lines in "Exes and Oohs", "Unhappy Campers", and "Western Energy". A few fans found Loona's silence in these episodes odd, espeically in "Western Energy" since that episode had a subplot about Blitzo taking Loona to the vet. Once it came to light that Loona's voice actress Erica Lindbeck was dealing with her boyfriend Billy Kametz's death around the time the episodes were produced, it was speculated that the episodes were rewritten to remove Loona's dialogue so that Lindbeck would have the proper time to grieve Kametz's passing. However, both series creator Vivienne Medrano and Lindbeck herself would later state that the episodes were produced as originally intended; Loona having no dialogue in these episodes was planned long before Kametz died, and the timing happened to be an unfortunate coincidence.
• Production Posse:
  • The series features many actors from the Aladdin Broadway musical, including Don Darryl Rivera (Iago) as Wally Wackford and Cletus, James Monroe Iglehart (the Genie) as Vortex and Asmodeus, and Jonathan Freeman (who voiced Jafar in the original animated film and reprised his role in the show) as Paimon and Cash Buckzo.
  • Likewise, Brandon Rogers brings in longtime acting collaborator Georgina Leahy to provide the voice of Stella, as well as writing collaborator Adam Neylan to write several episodes of Season 2.
• Promoted Fanboy: YouTube animator, voice actress, and singer KittenSneeze was a fan of the show before getting hired as a rough animator at Spindlehorse.
• Queer Character, Queer Actor:
  • Pansexual imp Blitzo's voice actor Brandon Rogers is gay.
  • Trans woman demon Sallie Mae is played by trans woman voice actress Morgana Ignis.
  • One of Verosika's posse:
    • Kiki is bisexual, like her actress Erica Lindbeck.
    • Vivienne Medrano confirmed that Coco is relationship with Apple, who was voiced by non-binary actor Jinx Monsoon.
• Role-Ending Misdemeanor: In the interim between the pilot and “Murder Family”, Brock Baker ended up getting into a scandal involving accusations of sexual misconduct. Before it was discovered whether the allegations were true, he willingly backed out of the show and was recast with Bryce Pinkham.
• Rule 34 – Creator Reactions: On December 20, 2022, Morgana Ignis was made aware of an NSFW animation of Sallie May. She immediately responded by both replying to the original tweet and saving the animation.
• Screwed by the Lawyers: According to the official Helluva Boss Twitter, Episode 8 took so long to come out due to legal problems. When the episode was finally released, it turned out to be due to hiring Kesha to voice a character while co-writing the "Cotton Candy" song, which caused problems with Kesha's record label.
• Throw It In!: According to the Hazbin Hotel pilot cast live panel, Robo Fizz stealing lyrics from Charlie was apparently added in by the composer. Viv ended up approving after seeing how well it fit with the character.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Blitzo and Moxxie were originally intended to be supporting characters in Hazbin Hotel, but Viv was worried that with all the other side characters, there wouldn't be much room for them. Thus, Helluva Boss.
  • Artist Jane Walker confirmed that a lion character was planned to be a Good Counterpart version of I.M.P's Loona, working for C.H.E.R.U.B, but was later scrapped.
  • Concept art of Cletus has been tweeted showing that he was at one point considered to go around naked with his genitals obscured by a fig leaf.
  • The original concept art for the ending scene of The Harvest Moon Festival where Stella is on the phone with Striker has her sitting at one end of the dinner table by herself while Stolas and Octavia sit on the other end and chat happily, symbolizing the distance between her and the rest of her family. In the final product, they all sit at the same end of the table.
  • Cash Buckzo's reference sheet refers to him as "Goatzo", though judging from the artist's comment this may have been a working name that was never intended to be canon.
• Why Fandom Can't Have Nice Things:
  • Like the Hazbin cast, several characters had their own Instagram accounts, where official artwork was uploaded and presented as actual posts the characters had made. This included Octavia, Stolas' teenage daughter. Unfortunately, Octavia is a favorite of many fans, and the account was quickly bombarded with porn featuring her (and on the squickier side, occasionally featuring her and her father). The manager of the account finally got sick of it around January 2021 and archived the account, even breaking character in both Octavia and Stolas' accounts to explain that they were incredibly uncomfortable with how the fandom was behaving.
  • When it was announced that Episode 8 of season 1 was being skipped over and repackaged as a special due to legal issues, Vivienne announced that she was going to take a step back from online activities to take care of her mental health. On top of being busy with two shows, she and her team got harassed online for delaying the episode, despite saying multiple times that the delay was out of their control and that they were working on Season 2 in the meantime.
  • As of "Oops", the showrunners have begun releasing official music videos of the songs in a given episode on the Vivziepop channel due to widespread freebooting of every episodes' songs across the platform, diverting views away from the original creators.
• Word of Gay:
  • While the series already provides strong implications that at bare minimum count for Ambiguously Bi, the creators confirmed in a tweet about sexual orientations that Moxxie is indeed bisexual, even if the bisexuality is heavily downplayed and lacking in any clear mention about it, outside his Celebrity Crush on Michael Crawford, which even then could count as Stupid Sexy Flanders for a big opera fan. "Exes and Oohs" would later make this more explicit by revealing he was in a past relationship with a male shark-demon named Chaz.
  • A tweet by a crew member of the show confirms that two of the girls in Verosika's entourage (Coco and Apple) are a couple.
• Word of God:
  • On the show's twitter, it's revealed that all the sinners are trapped in the ring of Pride. Meanwhile, the natives like imps and hellhounds can freely travel between the rings.
  • In the pilot cast live panel, it's stated that there will be more Ars Goetia featured in both shows.
  • While speculated by the fandom before, Viv confirmed that Season 1 will comprise of 8 episodes as of the 4th episode's release. Unfortunately, this would be disproven following the release of “OZZIE’S”, when it was confirmed that due to being Screwed by the Lawyers, episode 8 would be turned into a special.
  • Season 2 will comprise of 12 episodes.
• Word of Saint Paul: After a heated debate regarding Stolas' genitals was revived and trended on Twitter a week before the premiere of "The Circus", the storyboard lead of Helluva Boss and storyboard artist for Hazbin Hotel tweeted out (with Viv's permission) that Stolas indeed has a cloaca. Six hours later, the show's Twitter mentioned that they saw Stolas trending for "reasons."
• Writer Conflicts with Canon: On November 18, 2023, Viv tweeted out that the pilot is non-canon to the rest of the series. This comes after previous episodes indicated that the pilot did happen with some details changing, such as Blitzo asking if they got "that insurance thing" in C.H.E.R.U.B, him crashing into Stella's tea party and apologizing for sleeping with Stolas in The Circus, and, most notably, a shot of the imps getting thrown out the hospital with Eddie in Truth Seekers when the D.H.O.R.K.S were monitoring footage of I.M.P's previous missions.

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