YMMV / Hazbin Hotel

YMMV tropes for the Hazbin Hotel series

YMMV Tropes with Their Own Pages

• Alternative Character Interpretation
• Ensemble Dark Horse
• Epileptic Trees
• Fanon
• Friendly Fandoms
• Memes
• Shocking Moments

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YMMV for the series:

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• Abandon Shipping:
  • Prior to the release of the "ADDICT" music video, Angel Dust was shipped with Valentino fairly often. After the video came out and showed what their relationship was actually like, Angel Dust/Valentino shipping died out almost overnight. Today, the only fics you'll see seriously pairing the two are AUs where Valentino isn't an abusive scumbag, and even these are few and far between. This also seemed to apply to Valentino/Vox shipping, as Instagram has shown the former as abusive to the latter as he is to Angel Dust, but a few months before the show released Viv declared the Instagram pages non-canon. After "Masquerade", Valentino's love life is officially non-existent in the eyes of sections of the fandom.
  • When one of the crew members revealed that Alastor is ace/aromantic, fans who shipped him with others abandoned ship and decided to ship Charlie and Angel Dust (two of the most frequently shipped Alastor pairings) with others. That being said, there is still a third party who chooses to ignore Alastor being ace and still continue(s) to ship him with other people.
    • Prior to the show's release, Alastor x Angel Dust (Radiodust) was the most popular ship in the fandom. This was partly due to their previous voice actors', Edward Bosco and Michael Kovach, having so much chemistry during livestreams and the Hunicast podcast. After the show released, however, the ship began to wane in popularity not just because of Alastor's asexuality, but because Angel and Alastor barely interact and the very idea of the two of them getting together is promptly shot down in a joke in Episode 1. It quickly got replaced by Husk x Angel Dust (Huskerdust) after Episode 4, due to fans adoring their chemistry and bonding over trauma.
    • A fair amount of Alastor x Charlie shippers jumped ship after Episode 5, in which Alastor claimed Charlie was like a daughter to him. It's unclear if he meant it in earnest or if he was just trying to get a rise out of Lucifer, but plenty of fans weren't willing to take the risk, especially because either way, it definitely seems to be how Charlie views their relationship.
• Adorkable:
  • Sir Pentious may be a total Butt-Monkey, but his awkwardness, his lack of any social skills due to his many years as a distrustful supervillain, his willingness to give his all in everything despite his goofiness, and his tendency to cry during emotional moments make him delightfully endearing. This only gets amplified in "Welcome to Heaven" where he tries several times to hit on his Sitcom Arch-Nemesis Cherri Bomb and is so awkward about it it's almost a crime.
  • Charlie herself is a big ball of sunshine whose childlike enthusiasm for the hotel and general kindness and optimism despite living in literal Hell, while also occasionally stumbling because of her inability to fully understand the messed up mindsets of her patrons and coworkers, make her a joy to watch.
  • Lucifer of all people turns out to be a goofy Bumbling Dad who genuinely loves his daughter a lot, but just has trouble connecting with her because of his general awkwardness, best exemplified when he tries psych himself up before calling her and practice what he's gonna say only to accidentally let out a "Hey, bitch!". The fact that he invents things like backflipping rubber ducks that spew fire and that he is surprisingly short only add to it.
• Alternative Joke Interpretation:
  • At the end of "Overture," the brief glimpse shown of the new Hazbin Hotel commercial shows the entire staff, and Alastor is seen facing away from the camera. While it was established earlier that any attempt to film Alastor's face results in the camera breaking, it could also be interpreted as him being petty about being forced to participate in a medium he's made clear that he hates.
  • In "Masquerade", during the "Loser Baby" song, Husk is surrounded by a bunch of neon signs that say demeaning things about him, including "no-balls". This seems to mean "cowardly", but a lot of people think it means Alastor literally neutered Husk after taking his soul.
  • In "The Show Must Go On", everyone around Lucifer looks shocked when he tells Adam, "I am going to FUCK you!" (he meant "fuck you up"). Are they shocked at how wrong that sounds or are they shocked that Lucifer seemingly was going to literally fuck Adam (given Angel and Valentino's interest)?
• Aluminum Christmas Trees: Adam considering the Exterminations to be entertainment is considered a sign of his own personal sadism. But there really are Christian philosophers who have argued that one of the greatest rewards of Heaven will be to see God's justice done by watching the punishment of the sinners in Hell.
• Angel/Devil Shipping:
  • Charlie/Alastor is a bit of an unconventional case, since technically, they're both devils. However, Charlie is an extreme Anti Anti Christ and the contrast between the two characters still applies.
  • Emily/Lute. While both are angels in the literal sense, the former is a Nice Girl while the latter is a genocidal villain.
  • Cherri Bomb/Sir Pentious could definitely count, specially after the latter's ascension to Heaven, making him effectively an angel. Even so, Cherri's impulsive, chaotic and party animal behavior compliments Pentious' softer, kinder and adorably endearing nature.
• Awesome Ego: Adam is about as far from his Biblical counterpart as you can get, being a misogynistic, vulgar, sociopathic jerkass of an angel. However, his ego is so over-the-top and exaggerated that plenty of fans love him for it. It somewhat helps that he is genuinely powerful, just not as powerful as he thinks he is.
• Awesomeness Withdrawal: The Hazbin Hotel fandom has an extreme relationship with this due to the pilot being a Sleeper Hit. After almost five years of licensing and production since the pilot released on YouTube, the first season consisting of just eight 25-minute episodes may have just barely/not even sated one's lust for more Hazbin Hotel content before the fandom was immediately plunged back into waiting for the next season^note Though Vivienne Medrano has said the wait will be much shorter. And that's not even getting in to the members of the fandom who have been following the show's development since 2016, either.
• Catharsis Factor:
  • Charlie unleashing her inner rage at Valentino in "Masquerade" to protect Angel Dust will make you scream "HELL YEAH!"
  • "Welcome to Heaven" provides a small one, with Angel standing up to Val outside of work, for the sake of protecting Niffty from him. Though it gets him struck and a promise of worse treatment, it was pretty cathartic to see him rub some dirt in the moth demon's eye. Niffty ripping off his fur causing him discomfort is also gratifying.
  • While Adam's final moment with Lute is shown in a somewhat sympathetic light, everything leading up to that is nothing short of satisfying, with both Charlie and Lucifer pummeling him, Lucifer giving him a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown for threatening his family, and Niffty sneaking up and stabbing him 28 times.
  • At the end of season 1, Sir Pentious ascending to Heaven after seemingly dying, since it removes the one major thing Adam managed to do while also proving to all the naysayers, in-universe and out, that Charlie's plan could actually work. Even better since it negates Sir Pentious' death being a Senseless Sacrifice and gives a massive bone throw to the show's adorable Butt-Monkey.
• Character Perception Evolution: Adam was initially seen as good and the Sinners seen as evil during the pilot, so everyone initially assumed that Adam, head of the Exorcists, was an Anti-Villain alongside the rest of Heaven. Then the full series was released and everyone realized that Adam is a Tautological Templar, who justifies trying to keep Hell from rising up against Heaven with the ideal that Sinners can't be redeemed. Eventually, the audience realized what a despicable person he really is and would desire Hell to battle him over it, which they do, and win.
• Common Knowledge:
  • A common mistake is that Charlie is the daughter of Satan. She's actually related to Lucifer, and Satan is a completely different character.
  • Some fans believe that Alastor suddenly became weak when he was defeated by Adam in the season 1 finale. While Alastor is powerful, it's made very clear that angels are more powerful than demons, and Alastor only got as far as he did in the fight because Adam was Unskilled, but Strong.
  • A rather common misconception is that the Sinners ultimately deserve to be in Hell, owing to the biblical depictions of Hell being a place where those who have committed egregious sins are damned as punishment, not helped by most of the main casts manner of deaths being unknown.^note While Angel Dust and Alastor's manner of deaths were elaborated on in the past, drug overdose for the former and getting shot in the head by a deer hunter while burying his latest victim for the latter, both are considered Schrödinger's Canon due to being details revealed pre-official release, which are subject to change as Vaggie's backstory changing can attest. The series, however, makes a point to establish that this is not the case via its depiction of Adam, the first "Winner" who ascended to Heaven, yet is much more sinful than plenty of Sinners, while the sister show Helluva Boss goes on to suggest that Easy Road to Hell is in effect, making it a lot more questionable just how many of the Sinners actually deserve being in Hell.
• Continuity Lockout:
  • A more minor example, but many viewers have admitted to feeling a bit Lost in Medias Res when watching the series proper and being unaware of the series pilot, and to a lesser extent the music video "Addict". Unlike its sister show, Helluva Boss, the pilot of Hazbin Hotel is still considered canon, and serves to establish the series' goal as well as serve as the proper introduction to the characters, Alastor in particular. And while the pilot is readily available on YouTube, many solely watching the series via Amazon Prime have admitted to feeling lost about certain details that are only referenced about in the first episode. Cherri Bomb's relationship with Angel Dust and Sir Pentious in particular is affected by this, as the first half of the pilot establishes her initial history with the latter, and both the first half and "Addict" firmly establish her bond with Angel. Her debut in the series proper however only comes in the B-plot of "Welcome to Heaven", the sixth episode out of eight, and she only appears again afterwards in "The Show Must Go On", the eighth episode, and only in a supportive capacity. This causes those unaware of the pilot to feel her dynamics are severely underdeveloped, the budding romance between her and Sir Pentious in particular feeling like a case of Strangled by the Red String.
  • Some of the mechanics behind the setting of the series, such as what separates a "Sinner" from a "Hellborn", the "Seven Rings" and their inhabitants, etc., are details not directly explained in the show proper, rather they're either stated in Helluva Boss, or mentioned in comments by VivziePop and those also working on the show, the latter of which is considered Schrödinger's Canon, causing many viewers of only this series to express confusion as to the rules of the setting. One such example is what exactly determines why someone is damned to Hell. Many viewers have the reasonable assumption that being damned requires committing an egregious sin, and that the Sinners in turn deserve to be in Hell, but Helluva Boss's episode "Unhappy Campers" introduced a Sinner who was a teenage counselor in life who was murdered via drowning, and displayed no actual traits worthy of being damned to hell,^note While other counselors at the camp are shown to be uncaring dicks, it's uncertain if the same can be said for the client, and even that being enough to damn someone is questionable making his being in Hell an example of Easy Road to Hell, and in turn meant to highlight the seeming disparities in what determines a "Sinner" vs. a "Winner" that is brought up via Adam's presence in Heaven.
• Crack Pairing: Lucifer/Adam began getting some ironic shipping traction after a meme started circulating which spliced two different clips from Season 1 together to make it seem like Lucifer and Adam abandoned the fight at the Hotel to go have sex, even though the ship makes less than no sense in-universe due to them being mortal enemies and seemingly neither being attracted to men.
• Creepy Awesome:
  • Alastor, hoo boy. He may be an utterly sadistic Serial Killer who gives everyone the heebie jeebies, but the combination of his style, his iconic voice, and impressive powers make him both terrifying and awe inspiring to watch. Especially when he shows his real face.
  • Zestial is a towering, spider-like demon tinged with black and neon green. He speaks in a gentle, yet menacing voice, as well as with very archaic diction, due to apparently being one of the oldest sinners in the show, on top of a likely more powerful overlord than Alastor. He is certainly powerful and feared enough for people in the street to set themselves on fire just to escape him...waiting for the list of what makes him badass? You just read it!
• Creepy Cute: The characters are quite cute/good-looking despite being fearsome demons.
  • Special mention goes to Niffty, who is an adorable cyclops demon, the girliest girl in the main cast, a bundle of energy and also happens to be as Ax-Crazy and deranged as Alastor (hell, even he admits he has no idea what goes on in Niffty's twisted mind). One second she'll adorably play around with Husk's fur, the next she'll cheerfully tell you about the ways she tortures insects.
  • Angel Dust is a Sinner that resembles a spider, a commonly feared animal; he also happens to have sharp teeth, six arms and is not afraid to irk others with his humor. Despite that, fans easily look past all that to gush over his lithe, enticing physique and sympathetic side.
  • Sir Pentious, being a cobra-looking Sinner with sharp fangs and many Extra Eyes who tries so hard to be evil, has all the elements to be considered intimidating. But he quickly reveals himself to be an adorably awkward softie who often displays Puppy-Dog Eyes when he gets emotional, making him one of the most huggable characters in the show.
  • Not really Alastor himself, though some fans do find him cute, but moreso his Living Shadow. It may be off-putting and unsettling sight that follows Alastor around, acting creepily independent of him, but it makes several goofy and hilarious faces throughout that it just comes across as adorable.
• Crossover Ship:
  • Several 4channers have begun shipping Charlie with The Doom Slayer, with the general premise being that he gains a soft spot for her, due to her being the only good-natured demon in Hell, as well as that she's the only person that could stop him from doing more damage than the purges. As seen here◊. Probably counts as Crack Pairing as well.
  • Some also like to pair Charlie with Satina, though mostly in a Parental Substitute or surrogate sisters kind of way. The former can go hand in hand with the Charlie/Doom Slayer ship, with them being Satina's adopted parents.
  • Largely because the massive similarities in characteristics and design, Charlie/Star Butterfly is slowly gaining traction. Also Charlie/Tom Lucitor from the same series, largely because both are demon royalty, but have opposing personalities.
  • Unsurprisingly given their similarities, Alastor is often seen hanging out with Bill Cipher, Black Hat or the Butt Witch.
  • A platonic one is between Angel Dust and Mabel Pines, as well as their pet pigs, Waddles and Fat Nuggets.
    • In a non-platonic example, Angel Dust and Stanford Pines is also this, primarily due to their polar opposite personalities. As a result, Mabel often becomes a Morality Pet for Angel Dust by extension.
  • A more downplayed example that has decent popularity is 'Moxxiedust' (a ship between Moxxie of Helluva Boss and Angel Dust); while both series are set in the same universe they are under different production teams with Vivziepop herself saying the two series will never cross paths so the ship does technically count as a crossover.
• Cult Soundtrack: There are numerous fans who either don't like the show's plot itself or think it's alright but nothing special, but absolutely love the soundtrack and only watch the show for the high-quality Broadway-style musical numbers.
• Draco in Leather Pants:
  • Alastor is unquestionably a manipulative, villainous and malevolent force in the show, blatantly taking advantage of other characters' emotional vulnerabilities to get what he wants on top of obviously being a ruthless Overlord, cannibal and Serial Killer. Even his few moments of genuine wholesomeness are more Pet the Dog than anything else. Despite all of this, his more unsavory actions are often dismissed or swept under the rug by his fans purely because he's Laughably Evil and runs off of Evil Is Cool as a character, with some even arguing that deep down he's a soul as tormented and desperate for redemption as any other Hotel occupant even though he's consistently portrayed as a Card-Carrying Villain with absolutely zero desire to change his ways. And while "The Show Must Go On" implies that he actually is starting to come to care for Charlie and the crew, his breakdown in "Finale" has him acknowledging it and resolving to double down on his evil endgame, because he doesn't want care ruining his fearsome reputation.
  • Vox is often portrayed as the most sympathetic of the Vees due to his rivalry with Alastor. This ignores the fact that he's an abusive boss, brainwashes the masses, and has absolutely no problem with any of Valentino's vile acts. Some fans claim that he's just as much of a victim of Val as Angel Dust is, despite the fact they're shown to be perfectly happy together.
  • Rosie is depicted as a very lovely and maternal figure by the fandom for her giving Charlie helpful advice on how to forgive Vaggie, even though she is also a villainous Knowledge Broker who at the very least helps Alastor get away with some despicable stuff. Not to mention, she's still the leader of a town of cannibals. For some fans, they even say she's a better maternal figure to Charlie than Lilith, simply because she's been there for Charlie while the latter's been gone for seven years^note However, Charlie is at least a few hundred years old and so (at present) Lilith's implied to have generally been present for her daughter much longer than not..
  • There is plenty of fanart of Adam in a sympathetic light, dealing with a traumatic past or mental breakdowns due to the Biblical events he's been through as a human. This is in spite of his extreme arrogance, misogyny, and bloodlust, which, even then, is interpreted by some fans as a result of the aforementioned events that got him banished from Eden. His final moment, though preceded by the Black Comedy of Niffty stabbing him In the Back, is portrayed as a legitimately moving scene where he gives a wistful smile at a distraught Lute, further emboldening such views.
  • The Exorcists are shown to be nothing more than sadistic bloodthirsty monsters who enjoy the yearly Exterminations and have no qualms of exiling one of them if they show mercy ( best exemplified when Lute mutilating Vaggie after the latter spared a Sinner child). And while the idea is widely accepted in the fandom, there're some fanworks who depict them as a dysfunctional yet loving family. Some of them are even given sympathetic backstories, being victims of abuse/murder/theft/rape, who want to take revenge on the people who wronged them (who are presumably in Hell).
  • Believe it or not, even Valentino gets this from some, especially fans of the Vox/Valentino pairing, and his relationship with Vox is laser-focused on in some WAFF-y fan works about them. These therefore tend to completely ignore that Vox and Val have a toxic, mostly physical relationship and that Valentino is a heinous abuser and rapist whom no one, not even the other Vees, likes that much because he's also a Psychopathic Manchild.
• Dry Docked Ship: Vaggie and Lute are sometimes imagined as exes by fans.
• Everyone Is Satan in Hell: Being a show that takes place in Hell with the protagonist being the daughter of Lucifer, this backlash would inevitably happen. As soon as the first trailer appeared, several videos from conservative Christians accused the show of "glorifying Satanism" and presenting Satan/Lucifer as a good guy, in addition to mocking Christianity, in an animated series "clearly intended for viewing by young children."
• Evil Is Cool:
  • Alastor is a smooth, entertaining and extremely charismatic overlord who shows himself capable of almost casually destroying other demons. Naturally, he falls into this trope. He's so enjoyably evil that some fans straight up don't want him to be redeemed at all.
  • Adam is a stylish rock star with a massive ego and the power to match it, effortlessly one-shotting Alastor of all people. Many fans ended up loving him despite his very crass and politically incorrect nature.
• Fandom Heresy:
  • Never say you like Valentino (outside of a Love to Hate appreciation), never say you find any aspect of him attractive, and NEVER imply you ship him with Angel Dust in any way, shape, or form, unless you want to be impaled through the head with an angelic spear and then devoured by cannibals.
  • While most criticism of the show is taken in good stride, shitting on the songs is extremely ill-advised and a great way to have your screams forever preserved in a radio broadcast, as they're easily the most beloved and least contentious aspect of the show.
• Fandom Rivalry:
  • A bit with TOME, though it's more of a one-sided rivalry because TOME is so much less well-known. Some TOME fans are jealous of the immediate success of Hazbin Hotel, considering that TOME is more of a Cult Classic with only a small number of fans despite being a similar story-focused indie web series. Of course, there are also a lot of people who are fans of both, especially since the creators are friends and Chris Niosi was a colleague of and is a friend of Viv's. Funny enough, several voice actors from Hazbin Hotel (Faye Mata, Elsie Lovelock, Mick Lauer) ended up voicing various characters for the re-cast of Niosi's RPG adaption of TOME, with a great notion on Michael Kovach's friendship with fellow castmate Edward Bosco being an influence on him being Bosco's successor as the voice of Skeight for the game.
  • The Hazbin Hotel fandom has been feuding with the Five Nights at Freddy's fandom since late 2019, when members of a FNAF Discord server declared war on the Hazbin Hotel fanbase by mass-vandalizing and raiding the Hazbin Hotel wiki, which subsequently led to the wiki being widely discredited by even Hazbin's staff for its poor security and for being filled with "false information". Vivziepop later criticizing FNAF's creator, Scott Cawthon, for donating money to right-wing organizations and making fun of his doxxing incident only aggravated the animosity between the two fan bases.
  • It started growing one with Lackadaisy after the release of the latter's pilot, as both shows feature dark comedy and anthro characters. Many Lackadaisy fans started calling it superior to Hazbin and vice versa. An interesting example given how the two fandoms were 100% on friendly terms prior to the pilot. The bridge between the two fandoms became permanently burned after it was revealed that the creator of Lackadaisy rejected a $5,000 donation to the show's crowdfunding campaign from Vivziepop for no apparent reason. Some speculating that one of the lead animators, ZeBirdBrain, who made several passive aggressive posts towards Viv on twitter along with several insulting remarks made on Discord may have had something to do with the decision. Viv's decision to announce the rejection on Twitter, however, led to Lackadaisy fans criticizing her actions as petty and unprofessional and believe that she should have accepted the rejection or at least not made it public. Either way, it ensured that Lackadaisy and Hazbin Hotel would forever be at odds with one another.
  • It has a rivalry with another indie cartoon The Amazing Digital Circus as that show's pilot amassed massive attention in less than a week. Despite the friendship between Gooseworx and VivziePop as well as Goose composing the background music and designing some of the characters for Hazbin, the rivalry between their respective shows' fanbases began when the Digital Circus pilot diverted a lot of attention away from of promotional material of Hazbin's incoming Amazon Prime premiere, meaning a certain subsection of Hazbin viewers see Digital Circus as a threat to their show's success. Not helping is how the Digital Circus pilot also managed to beat the Hazbin Hotel pilot in terms of view count in the span of a few weeks.^note For reference, the Hazbin pilot was only coming close to cracking 100 million views after four years on YouTube. It's likely that TADC's more family-friendly approach was able to gain a bigger audience than Hazbin's older teen/adult audience.
  • The show's fanbase has a rivalry with another adult comedy that got released around the same time, Ted (2024). This is mostly because of LS Mark bringing up such a comparison in his video "The Ted TV Show Is SHOCKINGLY Good". Fans of Ted love to point out Hazbin's writing flaws and overreliance on swearing as humor. Hazbin fans meanwhile criticize Ted for being an unoriginal sitcom banking off nostalgia, unlike Hazbin which is a fresh and original Animated Musical several years in the making.
  • As more and more comparisons between the shows grew, so did a rivalry with Steven Universe begin burgeoning. SU fans are quick to accuse Hazbin of being a "Steven Universe speedrun" and lacking the slower moments and episodes more focused on characterization that fostered attachment to SU's characters in favor of a breakneck plot, whereas Hazbin fans are quick to retort that what Hazbin may lack in characterization it makes up for in establishing a tonal and moral consistency and having a clear sense of who is capable and deserving of being forgiven, something Steven Universe infamously began to lack in later seasons.
• Fandom-Specific Plot:
  • Overlord Husk AU: After "Masquerade" revealed that Husk was a former overlord, many people began to create AUs about him still being one, usually with him somehow getting Angel Dust's contract from Valentino.
  • Sinner Adam AU: Following the end of season one, a slew of fanfics were created about Adam being revealed to have become a sinner and trying to get back into Heaven via the hotel. Sometimes, Lute is thrown out of Heaven as well and ends up forced to join him at the hotel.
  • There are a number of fanfics that depict the Sins from Helluva Boss as acting as Charlie's honorary aunts and uncles, with even Mammon being depicted as genuinely loving and caring about her. If Charlie has a favorite out of them, it is almost always Asmodeus.
  • Vaggie Carmine AU: Following episodes 6 and 7, stories where Vaggie is Happily Adopted by Carmilla Carmine, often after the latter finds her after Lute maims her instead of Charlie, began to spring up, both due to fans adoring the mentor/student bond and Vaggie being Carmine's daughter being a popular theory about her origins.
  • Fallen Angel Emily AU: Stories with Emily becoming a Fallen Angel, whether by choice or by Sera exiling her for opposing the status quo, and joining up with the hotel crew are extremely common.
• Fanfic Fuel: Since there's a rather large and unceremonious five-month Time Skip between Episodes 4 and 5 of Season 1, that period of time is ripe for stories detailing the residents of the Hotel growing closer together as people and going on more mundane adventures before conclusively becoming Fire-Forged Friends in Episode 8.
• Fan Nickname:
  • Vox is frequently jokingly called "Pyrocynical", especially by Pyro's own fans, due to vaguely resembling the YouTuber's channel avatar (a humanoid with a TV for a head). Pyro himself pointed this out in his review of the first four episodes of Hazbin.
  • Velvette is sometimes called "Velveeta" and her sphere of influence declared to be cheese rather than social media and fashion.
  • Due to Frank's mangling of her name, Carmilla Carmine has been forever canonized as "Camaro Carfight".
  • Adam is frequently called "Gabriel Ultrakill" or just "Gabriel" due to being a fantastically arrogant high-ranking Knight Templar angel. He's also named "Dickmaster" by the fandom, because that's what he called himself in "Overture".
  • "Repentious" for Sir Pentious after ascending to Heaven in Episode 8.
• Fanon Discontinuity:
  • Alastor being asexual is often removed for shipping sakes. Even if it's not, him being aromantic often is (which the fact that's more Word of Saint Paul does not help).
  • It's been said several times that Sinners can't have children, but that is often discarded so people can create fankids.
• Fanwork-Only Fans: A unique variation, in that many fans were brought on board during the interim period from 2020 to 2024 in between the releases of the pilot and Season 1, when the fandom was almost entirely sustained by fanwork, speculation and theorycrafting. Since quite a bit of said fanwork has become Outdated by Canon and the main series tangibly exists, this trope no longer applies even if it is an important part of the fandom's history.
• Foe Yay Shipping:
  • Alastor's rivalry with Lucifer led to them becoming a popular pairing practically overnight.
  • Some people started shipping Carmilla and Velvette after they got a Quarreling Song.
  • Despite their canonical enmity, Adam and Lucifer also quickly joined the ranks of popular ships, based on the in-universe poorly-worded threat of Lucifer that he would "fuck" Adam.
• Genius Bonus: Annihilationism is a real branch of Christian theology which holds that condemned souls simply cease to exist, which makes the idea of the Exterminations actually Older Than Feudalism. Some proponents view this as the kinder option compared to eternal conscious torment with no hope of escape, especially since the latter does not really jive with the idea of God as loving and just.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff:
  • The show is very popular in Quebec (French Canada) for receiving a rare working-class Québécois French dub out of nowhere that is widely considered a Superlative Dubbing by French-Canadian viewers, much like The Simpsons and Rick and Morty but being a fantasy Animated Musical driven by younger creators rather than a mainstream network animated sitcom.
  • Judging from the sheer amount of fan videos and animatics on YouTube alone, the series has extremely taken off in Japan, likely due to another case of Superlative Dubbing which includes well-known Japanese voice actors capable of doing their own singing, a rarity in other foreign dubs. It even beat out Attack on Titan and Spy X Family in ratings.
• Harsher in Hindsight: The song "Hell's Greatest Dad" has Lucifer (jokingly) claim that normally someone needs to sacrifice a lamb to get his help but that Charlie gets the "family rate", accompanied by him having Razzle tied up as the "sacrifice". In "The Show Must Go On", Lucifer ends up arriving late, by which point Dazzle had been killed by Lute. Seems Charlie really did need to sacrifice a lamb before he could help, he just picked the wrong lamb.
• He's Just Hiding: Not even a day after the Season 1 finale's release, and many viewers were already doubting the idea Adam was dead for good. Especially after Sir Pentious, who was seemingly also killed that episode, ended up ascending to Heaven as a "Winner", causing many to think Adam might be brought back as a "Sinner", particularly since his body was left behind in Hell without indicating what was done with it, and would offer a potential challenge to Charlie's idea of redeeming Sinners while possibly letting Adam's characterization be fleshed out.
• Idiosyncratic Ship Naming:
  • The Alastor/Angel Dust ship is called RadioDust.
  • The Alastor/Lucifer ship is called RadioApple.
  • The Alastor/Husk ship is called RadioHusk.
  • The Angel Dust/Vaggie ship is called SpiderMoth.
  • The Angel Dust/Husk ship is also known as Catnip.
  • The Alastor/Charlie ship is called RadioBelle.
  • The Charlie/Vaggie ship is called RainbowMoth.
  • The Alastor/unnamed lamb demon from Alastor's comic ship is called RadioWool.
  • The Vox/Valentino ship is called StaticMoth.
  • The Alastor/Vox ship is called RadioStatic. The Starboarding variant of this is called RadioSilence.
  • The Cherri Bomb/Sir Pentious ship is called CherriSnake.
  • The Charlie/Vaggie/Emily ship is called Charlie's Angels.
  • The Adam/Lucifer ship is called AdamsApple or GuitarDuck.
  • The Adam/Lute ship is called GuitarSpear or GuardRock (a play on "hard rock").
  • The Adam/Alastor ship is called AngelicRadio.
  • The Alastor/Rosie ship is called RadioRose.
  • The Carmilla/Rosie ship is called BloomingGun.
  • The Charlie/Emily ship is called RoyalHalo.
  • The Vaggie/Lute ship is called FallenWings.
  • The Lucifer/Husk ship is called RoyalFlush (named after the Silva Hound fansong centering Husk)
• I Knew It!: Many fans correctly guessed that Vaggie was a Fallen Angel, which Episode 6 confirmed. The show itself even lampshades how obvious it was the next episode, with Carmilla pointing out that Vaggie's eyepatch and spear were blatant telltale signs that she was an angel.
• The Inverse Law of Fandom Levity: The show is an equal mix of nightmare-inducing imagery, bone-shaking drama, and risque Black Comedy and whimsical, lighthearted, and heartwarming moments. The fandom however is split into sides that entirely use one genre of the show . The first faction cranks the darkest aspects of the show up to eleven, turning it into a truly disturbing horror drama and/or fantasy political thriller, while the second faction downplays the horror and drama in favor of turning it into a wholesome Slice of Life story that's almost kid friendly.
• It's Short, So It Sucks!: A common criticism of the first season is that, as a result of being only 8 episodes set over the course of 6 months, the first season doesn't have much room to develop its characters, relationships, and storylines. Many point out that the show would have better benefitted from having a 10 or even 12 episode season, and would actually welcome filler episodes so as to further flesh out the dynamics between the characters and the various plot threads - in particular, the Overlords/Vees and the five month period skipped over are cited as areas that could use expansion, as the former are rendered advertised extras due to their lack of involvement in the greater plot, and the latter is seen as ripe for a period of character exploration like Angel Dust's struggles with redemption.
• Just Here for Godzilla:
  • Several viewers who either aren't fans of VivziePop's work or fell out of love with it, grew interest in following the show after the announcement of Alex Brightman, Stephanie Beatriz, and especially Keith David being part of the main cast.
  • Some fans of the show couldn't care less about the show's main plot of Charlie's plan of redeeming sinners and are just here to either watch the antics of the three Vees or the entertaining schemes and personality of Alastor.
  • Several viewers have admitted to watching the show purely for Alastor as they find every other character and plotline fairly predictable or at least easy to figure out, but find Alastor extremely engaging due to how enigmatic he is.
  • People who do not like the show's constant use of swearing and vulgar humor will watch it solely for Alastor precisely because he's one of the only characters in the main cast who doesn't swear. Or after episode 5, very rarely swears.
  • For Italian viewers, many watched the show just because Gabriele Patriarca was cast as Adam, as the mere concept of hearing the voice of Beast Boy saying the word "fuck" multiple times is already funny of its own.

L-Z

• Launcher of a Thousand Ships:
  • Alastor has been shipped with literally every character on the show and even those outside of it, which Viv notes with some amusement considering that he's canonically asexual.
  • Charlie has been shipped with a lot of the cast herself, including her canonical love interest Vaggie, Alastor, Emily, even Angel Dust.
• LGBT Fanbase: The majority of the main cast being LGBT in some way (Charlie and Vaggie being a same-sex couple^note The former being bisexual and the latter being a lesbian, Angel Dust being a gay crossdresser, Husk being pansexual, and Alastor being asexual) has attracted a good number of LGBT viewers. Two of the Three Vees, Vox and Valentino, are also confirmed to be bisexual and pansexual respectively.
• Love to Hate:
  • Adam is a vulgar, petty, misogynistic, arrogant, genocidal, self-righteous jerkass, and he's a genuine threat to the cast as the leader of the Exorcists who is also obstructing Charlie from convincing Heaven that Sinners can be redeemed; but he's such an overgrown, goofy child throughout it all (especially when he's off the clock) that it's nigh-impossible to completely hate him. Plus, he's a killer at singing. All of this makes him an utter riot to watch.
  • Lute is Adam's second in command who is just as genocidal and petty as him, if not moreso, with nearly every sentence coming out of her mouth oozing with venom when speaking with Charlie and Vaggie and was the one who mutilated Vaggie for sparing a child. However her Ham and Deadpan Duo makes both of them more entertaining, while her being mean and vicious adds to her appeal.
  • Vox is a cruel, exploitative Corrupt Corporate Executive who hypnotizes entire masses into buying his morally-questionable products, doesn't seem to care about his teammate and implicit boyfriend Valentino's sexual abuser habits, and he spitefully outright shrieks at Sir Pentious to kill himself in the second episode for failing so quickly at a task. But he has a suave and charming personality, with a very smooth voice courtesy of Christian Borle — an effect that's heightened by how he seems to be the minder to Val's impulses — and his exasperation at being forced to babysit his teammates when they're in a bad mood makes him come across as very human and relatable. It also helps that he has an intense obsessive rivalry with Alastor, but his insecure if stylish efforts to undermine the Radio Demon in their Quarreling Song and the final outcome of that make Vox's efforts to outdo Al come across as nothing but cute.
  • Velvette is a young, blunt, brash fashionista who dominates Hell's social media, and a bitch in multiple senses of the word. She's a brazen upstart relative to the non-Vee older Overlords who is deliberately as rude as she can be to all their faces, she's a Smug Snake who thinks she's hot shit due to the Vees' immediate success and who wants Hell to go to war with Heaven in a bull-headed manner, and she deliberately undermines Carmilla and insults Zestial to their faces to suit her own ends. But she's also more cunning than she seems, she has a stylish design, her pride and brazenness give her a certain appeal, and she absolutely slays in the "Respectless" duet. It also helps that Velvette, though not a Benevolent Boss by any means, isn't confirmed to be anywhere near as horrible to her employees as the other two Vees are to theirs^note Vox casually sends his lowest earners up to Valentino's apartment to be used as target practice, while Val uses his position as a porn director to prolifically abuse others sexually.
  • Even Valentino, who is easily the most detestable of the trio for his vicious exploitation and abuse of Angel Dust and his misogyny, is entertainingly goofy in his temper tantrums and self-absorption when he isn't in the same room as Angel — especially when Charlie at his set or Niffty at Consent are both causing him grief. Plus his accent is absolutely delicious to listen to when it becomes pronounced. Jessica Vosk even describes him as a "Hate to Love" character.
• Magnificent Bastard: Carmilla Carmine is an Overlord who specializes in selling weapons made of angelic steel. While defending her daughters from an angel attack, Carmilla manages to kill one of the angels, which was previously thought impossible. She decides to cover up her involvement to prevent a bloody war with Heaven, quickly shutting down a fellow Overlord who suspects her involvement. After the info leaks anyways and Heaven orders Hell slaughtered, the Princess of Hell sends her girlfriend Vaggie to acquire more data. Immediately figuring out that she's speaking to a Fallen Angel, Carmilla shows Vaggie the flaws in her fighting style, ultimately agreeing to supply weaponry for the final battle.
• Memetic Badass:
  • As a result of his charisma, enigmatic nature, and showing in the "Pilot" as The Dreaded to the point even Charlie and Vaggie were wary of him, many hype Alastor up as being one of the strongest beings in Hell, capable of even rivaling Lucifer himself. While he certainly is strong, he's only strong for his own weight class, the Sinners, and claims from Vivziepop to the contrary have regularly been ignored,^ExplanationVivziepop has gone on record as stating that Stolas from Helluva Boss is stronger than him, and the main series itself depicts him as not only weaker than Adam when he gets slightly serious, but someone Lucifer barely considers worth his time, which just fuels Alastor's Inferiority Superiority Complex which resulted in the disbelief towards Adam nearly killing Alastor and forcing him to flee for his life in "The Show Must Go On".
  • Sir Pentious became a "Rizz Master" after episode six, which is somewhat ironic because it didn't score him who he was trying to woo, but rather everybody else in the club (nonconsensually, though he's implied to have escaped before anything really bad happened). He then became an unironic "Chad" after the finale, where after his Heroic Sacrifice, he becomes the first Sinner to ascend to a Winner, proving demons can be redeemed. Thanks to the Running Gag in "Welcome to Heaven" where he chickens out of asking Cherri out by saying he'll be doing what he's doing for her with everybody else in the club, in fandom humor, he's somehow capable of doing anything with everybody.
  • Susan, for being one of only three characters who can make Alastor swear and fold his ears back (a sign in real deer that they're distressed), the other two being Lucifer (the most powerful being in Hell) and Adam (leader of the Exorcists). Many joke that she can survive and fight anything out of sheer crankiness and spite.
  • While Vox is quite powerful in the show itself, being a mass brainwasher with multiple surveillance cameras at his disposal, he comes across as quite immature, petty, and a little pathetic due to his one-sided rivalry with Alastor. The fandom meanwhile, loves to ironically claim him as a suave business man and "sex god" who can physically and/or verbally defeat characters in brutal ways.
• Memetic Loser: Following the proper release of the series and after many years of hype, Alastor became one of these. People imagined his powers to be uncontrollable and a dangerous threat, some even saying he was able to BEAT Lucifer, despite Vivziepop's statements saying he is no more powerful than Stolas. The series showcased Alastor's not so strong aspects, such as being an Attention Whore, only defeating mooks on screen or being bound by a deal to someone unknown. Things did not get better for Alastor during "The Show Must Go On", where his motivation to fight against Adam being to showcase his power to then lose against him and run away. Sir Pentious' sacrifice, motivated by love rather than ego, does not help Alastor look better. People have began to joke on how he is not as powerful as he appears and sometimes even compare him to Vox and Sir Pentious, who both have gained Memetic Badass statuses.
• Memetic Molester:
  • Due to an infamous incident where animator and beatboxer Verbalase paid 50 thousand dollars for a 2 minute animated music video where he gets pursued and sexually assaulted by Charlie, Charlie has become a deranged sexual predator and Depraved Bisexual out to fuck anything that moves. Usually combined with several characters from other media running away from her.
  • Alastor has become this after a parody of his final lines in "Stayed Gone" has him sing about how he will fuck you with his giant dick.
  • Saint Peter, due to his weirdly-orgasmic moans during "Welcome to Heaven," plus his line about how hot everyone is, leading to jokes about him being a huge Covert Pervert. Him being Ambiguously Bi means he's likely to memed as a Depraved Bisexual.
• Mexicans Love Speedy Gonzales:
  • Angel Dust may be the sassiest, girliest, most sex-crazy gay man in all of the Pentagram, but he has garnered countless gay and more broadly LGBT fans because he's confident, charismatic, supremely loyal to the few friends he has and a massive Jerkass Woobie, all of which helps to greatly flesh him out as a character beyond being a walking stereotype.
  • Not quite to the same extent as Angel and Vaggie, but Alastor has been accused by several viewers of being a harmful stereotype of aroace people by playing into the No Love for the Wicked trope, not helped by he's the only confirmed aroace character in the show. Despite this, many aroace viewers don't mind this and sometimes even embrace this evil manipulative cannibalistic torturer as great representation mainly because he's so entertaining. It certainly helps that whenever his asexuality is mentioned, it's not really demonized but is actually treated as one of his more genuinely endearing traits.
• Moe:
  • Razzle and Dazzle, Charlie's tiny goat minions, are often said by fans to be the cutest characters in the show, and can you really blame them?
  • Charlie is basically pure sugar in the form of a cute demon girl.
  • Niffty, the small Genki Girl Neat Freak demon, is an incredibly adorable bundle of cuteness.
  • Angel Dust’s pet pig, Fat Nuggets, is also absolutely adorable. It doesn’t hurt that he’s first shown snuggling up to Angel and giving him some much-needed comfort after the events of “Addict.”
  • Mimzy is, by her own admission, adorable, being a short, plump flapper with a spunky attitude. Helps that Word of God states that she's a Corrupted Character Copy of Betty Boop, one of the originators of moe. Though her other qualities might not be quite as endearing to the audience.
  • Saint Peter is a literally Wide-Eyed Idealist Pretty Boy with the welcoming demeanor and angelic voice you'd expect the gatekeeper of Heaven to have.
  • The Seraphim Emily is shown to essentially be the Angels equivalent of Charlie, being extremely pure hearted and kind. The two of them being together ends up being absolutely adorable with their shared enthusiasm, and turns badass when she and Charlie join together in calling Heaven, more specifically Sera, out on how wrong Heaven is.
• Most Wonderful Sound:
  • When he's not being absolutely terrifying (and maybe even then), Alastor has a staticky radio-like voice that just sounds amazing to most who hear it.
    • Even his movements are punctuated with little pops, crackles, feedback screeches, and some occasional short tunes.
  • Keith David gets a chance to show his smooth singing voice when Husk performs "Loser, Baby".
  • Carmilla's spine-tingling singing voice during "Out for Love."
  • Emily's squeak when she sees Sir Pentious in heaven in the season 1 finale is adorable.
• Moral Event Horizon:
  • Lute crossed it when she brutally maimed and disfigured Vaggie by tearing her wings and left eye off and left her for dead, all because she caught her sparing a child sinner.
  • Adam crosses this with his assault on the hotel, which sees Dazzle, Sir Pentious, all but one of the Egg Bois, and many other denizens of Hell massacred (though Sir Pentious gets better). He's specifically treated as having crossed it In-Universe for Charlie when he effortlessly disintegrates Sir Pentious and the Egg Bois, causing her to stop holding back.
• No Yay: Valentino was already pretty despised as a character just from the tidbits we got of him from other sources leading up to the show, but "Masquerade" pretty much killed any and all desire to see him in a relationship with anyone, even the other Vees, due to it showing just how vile, manipulative, and abusive this sociopath really is. The only pairing anyone considers good for him is with the pointy end of an Exorcist blade. Making this even worse is that "The Show Must Go On", reveals that Vox and Valentino are officially boyfriends or at least in a physical relationship, which put a lot of fans off despite the episode showing that the two appear to at least be in a functional relationship, with many believing it's just a temporary thing, in an otherwise toxic relationship.
• One True Threesome: After Vaggie's reaction to seeing Emily grab Charlie's hands in "Welcome to Heaven", a large subset of fans decided to just ship all three of them together rather than enact Ship-to-Ship Combat. This polyamorous ship has, naturally, been dubbed Charlie's Angels.
• Periphery Demographic: If the comment sections of the pilot and Episode 1 are anything to go by, a disturbing amount of preteens and even children have confessed to watching the show.
• Portmanteau Couple Name:
  • The Charlie/Vaggie ship is known either as Chaggie or Varlie.
  • The Charlie/Alastor ship is referred to as either Charlastor or Chalastor.
  • The Angel Dust/Husk ship is called Huskerdust or Angelhusk.
  • The Valentino/Vox ship is called VoxVal or ValVox.
  • The Alastor/Vox ship is called VoxAl.
  • The Carmilla/Zestial ship is called Zestmilla or (less commonly) Zestilla.
  • The Emily/Lute ship is called Emilute.
  • Combining with Idiosyncratic Ship Naming, the Sir Pentious/Cherri Bomb ship is known as Cherrisnake.
  • The Lucifer/Lilith ship is called Lucilith.
  • The Velvet/Carmilla ship is called Velmilla.
  • The Charlie/Angel Dust ship is called CharlieDust.
  • The Vaggie/Alastor ship is called Vagastor or Vaggastor.
  • The Vox/Velvette ship is called VoxVel or VelVox.
  • The Angel Dust/Valentino ship is called ValAngel.
  • The Alastor/Valentino ship is called Valastor.
• Realism-Induced Horror:
  • One reason Valentino is widely considered one of the most despicable characters in the show is that he's an abusive pimp and porn director who exploits and assaults his employees. While demons and Hell are widespread fears in many cultures, they're often viewed as rather abstract, and there’s a myriad of different versions of them all over the world, and through time. On the other hand, people like Valentino absolutely do exist, and so the despicable things he does hit close to home for many viewers in a way the more overtly supernatural stuff doesn't. Even those who still like his character, acknowledge that part of the appeal is that he’s fictional and good for exploring dark topics with, but it’s horrifying to encounter actual people like him. It's telling that "Masquerade", the episode that entirely focuses on and even shows Valentino's horrific abuse of Angel, is considered to be the scariest episode in the entire show.
  • Heaven refusing Charlie's proposal of redeeming demons and choosing to focus on their own protection from sinners potentially uprising in "Welcome To Heaven" bares in mind to how societies in a higher standing refuse to assist downtrodden communities ridden out of fear, disgust, or general prejudice of its people. While genocide is a notorious crime which would never be allowed by any government, there are those with in a higher authority who dismiss those they see as beneath them, the citizens of the unfortunate society become even worse because there was no one to help them in their struggles, or steer them away from making bad decisions, resulting in the marginalized populace to commit immoral acts like crime to survive or indulge in self-destructive habits like drug addiction to subside their pain and misery, all while the higher ups sit on their asses, ignoring the problem and letting the dejected public continuously deteriorate until it becomes a problem too big to deal with, while the oppressed populace may take a stand due to being tired of their treatment, this likelihood will make the upper class beat them down even more to maintain their power. Additionally the fact the no one in heaven knows what allows a soul to ascend and refuse to look into it to maintain their higher status, and out of fear of becoming a Fallen Angel like Lucifer, parallels those in groups of politics or industry afraid to offer alternative ideas or speak out against ethically questionable political or corporate choices, so they wouldn't lose their position and risked the status that they've worked for, prioritizing themselves even if it means the suffering of others.
• Ron the Death Eater:
  • While Alastor mostly gets the Draco in Leather Pants treatment, the fandom can go the opposite direction too as some Fan Works portray Alastor as a Complete Monster who's worse than Adam or even Valentino. While Alastor is not a good guy in the slightest, these fans ignore Alastor's own twisted but resolute code of morals such as his hatred of rapists, his unwillingness to hurt children, him ultimately keeping his word to Charlie and protecting the Hotel however in self-interest it may be, and his genuine friendship with Rosie and Niffty.
  • While Sera did allow the exterminations to happen, it was more in the interests of protecting Heaven rather than wanting to further punish sinners, and her love for Emily appears to be sincere. In fanwork, she is frequently stripped of these qualities and portrayed as a tyrant willing to cross the Moral Event Horizon for the sake of maintaining order in Heaven (like murdering Sir Pentious to keep word from getting out that sinners can be redeemed) and an abusive mother/older sister figure who would banish Emily to Hell without hesitation for questioning her.
  • Fanfictions and fanarts depicting Adam in a more positive light will often portray Lucifer and Lilith (especially the latter) messing with his life for shits and giggles to justify his hatred towards them. Some fanworks specifically turn Lilith into an abusive gaslighter and the true cause of Adam turning into a jerkass, having manipulated and lied about the creation story in the "History of Hell" book to make herself look sympathetic. This is helped by the reveal in the Season 1 finale that shows Lilith in a far shadier light than previously thought, calling into question her telling of Hell's history.
• Rooting for the Empire: Some fans want Vox to defeat or at least humiliate Alastor as the latter isn't much better. Despite Vox also aiming to take over Hell, these fans would much rather see a greedy businessman ruling over hell than an unpredictable mass torturer.
• Salvaged Story:
  • In the years in between the pilot's debut and the show's release on Amazon Prime, a combination of rampant theorycrafting and Hellaverse companion show Helluva Boss caused a large degree of skepticism to emerge within the fanbase that Charlie's desire to reform demons was going to be a Broken Aesop of some kind, especially as Helluva Boss began showing more and more demons who were perfectly decent if slightly amoral people and depicting Hell as an ok place to live. The show proper dispels all such worries, as it firmly establishes that Charlie's goal is the salvation of her people first and their redemption is a means to an end born out of her naivete and lack of understanding of Heaven's prejudices. This makes the show remain internally consistent with Helluva Boss and its depiction of Hell, which fans had feared was beginning fall out of line with Hazbin's premise.
  • Similarly, the Helluva Boss episode "C.H.E.R.U.B" had long been the subject of controversy and Wild Mass Guessing within the Hellaverse fandom because what little it showed of Heaven portrayed it as being an uptight, draconian bureaucracy where the slightest mistake condemned a soul to damnation, leading to there being much discourse surrounding whether ascending to Heaven was even a worthwhile goal and whether Charlie was completely delusional in her aspirations and she should simply be fighting against them. "Welcome to Heaven" conclusively shows that Heaven is an ideally attainable afterlife which happens to be run by myopic Well Intentioned Extremists (and at least one Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist, Adam), and Charlie's primary conflict with Heaven is convincing them that Sinners are worthy of getting into it in the first place.
• Self-Fanservice:
  • The female cast, particularly Charlie, Vaggie and Lute, are drawn with larger bust and hips compared to their character models.
  • Angel Dust is a not-so-masculine male example. While the resident Mr. Fanservice in the show, he is very lithe and thin to the point that Valentino describes him as a "slippery twink". Lots of fanartists tend to enhance both his hips and chest fluff to give him more of an Impossible Hourglass Figure than he really has.
  • Adam is a downplayed example, for his robe giving the illusion of him having a chubby figure (plus, him being a Big Eater) but we don't know what's under there, so the fans take liberties and tend to give him a slender and sometimes even athletic figure. Even when he's drawn with the robe on, his figure is still slender, highlighted by the robe being loose. And then, there're some fanartists who take a completely different direction and portray him as a Big Beautiful Man.
  • In a similar case to Adam, Husk is also frequently redesigned as a Big Beautiful Man, bearing a stylish beard and outfit and all-around managing to carry himself rather well for a man of his age.
• She Really Can Act: Erika Henningsen really brings Charlie Morningstar to life with her range from providing her never ending idealism to her singing. "You Didn’t Know" really has Erika provide Charlie's anger in her singing, while "Finale" had her provide varying range from her Heroic BSoD in the beginning to happiness after the characters cheer her up.
• Ship Mates:
  • Charlastor (Charlie/Alastor) shippers tend to get along well with Angel Dust/Vaggie shippers.
  • To some extent, some Charlie/Vaggie shippers like to ship Angel Dust with Alastor or Husk.
• Ships That Pass in the Night:
  • Emily/Lute gained some fans during season 1, though they have no one-on-one interaction during the season.
  • Carmilla/Rosie gained some fans after they were both featured heavily in "Hello Rosie!", though they never meet during the episode.
  • Vaggie/Velvette has shown a lot of traction despite there being zero interaction (In fact, Velvette is the only Vee with no grudge against anyone in the hotel), but much of the art around the ship is Played for Comedy to show Charlie as a Clingy Jealous Girl.
  • A platonic example: While Emily and Adam don't directly interact aside from Emily showing horror and fury at the exterminations, Adam is sometimes portrayed as a doting babysitter, big brother figure or Cool Uncle toward her.
  • Alastor/Valentino has fans, though the characters don't interact.
• Signature Song:
  • Prior to the show's release, the fanmade turned official song "ADDICT" was the most popular song in the show's fandom, gaining more than a 100 million views, thanks to its exploration of abuse in the porn industry, unhealthy coping, and for just being insanely catchy.
  • "Loser, Baby" has gained its status as the most acclaimed song in the first season's already praised soundtrack, with many fans falling in love with Keith David and Blake Roman's voices. It's simultaneously vulgar, funny, and heartwarming, which to many fans means the song perfectly encapsulates everything that makes Hazbin Hotel so enjoyable to watch. Its popularity is evident in the numerous covers and parodies it's received online. Due to its high applicability and relatable message, it is often seen by victims of abuse or just people feeling down/sad in general as a very uplifting tune that's helped them regain solace in even the darkest of times. Even people who do not like the show or the rest of the soundtrack generally enjoy or appreciate this song.
• Squick:
  • In the first episode, Charlie walks by a group of cannibals in the process of eating someone, and their blood gets in her eye.
  • One of Val's messages to Angel mentions a donkey show.
  • How does Valentino introduce himself to Charlie? By grossly licking and slobbering all over her arm and inviting her to shoot porn for him. Charlie, Nice Girl that she is, fails to hide her disgust at this.
    Charlie: Ooooh, FUCK NO.
  • Lute forcefully tearing her arm off to get unstuck from a mountain of rubble. While there is a Monochromatic Impact Shot, we still see blood spewing from the wound.
  • Niffty stabbing Adam In the Back repeatedly until she is practically soaked in the angel's gore.
• Starboarding: Alastor/Vox is frequently shipped as a one-sided infatuation on Vox's part.
• Tainted by the Preview: The announcement that several of the pilot's original voice actors (Angel Dust, Niffty, Cherri, Sir Pentious, Egg Bois, and the singing voices for Charlie and Alastor) were let go. The official answer was that they were not members of the Screen Actors Guild, and the series was now a union production, but it was nevertheless not met kindly by fans, especially those of Angel Dust. Two years later, Angel Dust and Alastor's VAs would confirm that Vivienne wanted a Broadway cast and she grabbed the opportunity when the show got picked up, but the latter insisted that there was no hard feelings.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: Many fans did not like the replacement of the pilot's voice actors with bigger names in the industry as they felt it disrespectful to the original crew who helped make the show iconic. Once the show finally released, some gladly embraced several replacements such as Erika Henningsen as Charlie and Kimiko Glenn as Niffty, but others such as Blake Roman as Angel Dust, Amir Talai as Alastor, Brandon Rogers as Katie Killjoy, and Keith David as Husk remain divisive, as several fans think they don't fit the characters.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Despite the fact that Lucifer promises to be in Charlie's life more in "Dad Beat Dad", Charlie doesn't think to ask for his help in "Hello, Rosie", and he only shows up for the battle for the Hotel when things start to look bleak.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
  • Despite "Welcome to Heaven" having Emily promise to try and help Charlie and the Hotel after Adam threatens to target it first for the next Extermination, as well as having a talk with Sera suggesting she could be at risk of falling if she doesn't adhere to the status quo, Emily plays no role in the season 1 finale, only getting The Cameo when Sir Pentious suddenly ascends to Heaven after his Heroic Sacrifice.
  • "Stayed Gone" seemed to be setting up the rivalry between Vox and Alastor as a major plot point that would play out through the rest of the season, only for them to not interact again aside from Vox providing running commentary on Alastor's duel with Adam. This was seemingly done to let Alastor feud with Lucifer and Adam instead, neither of whom have personal stakes with Alastor like Vox does. At the end of the season however when the Vees believe that Alastor goes missing again, they try to take advantage of the Evil Power Vacuum, implying that their rivalry will have more prominence in the second season.
  • In Episode 3 Velvette proposes to the overlords to Rage Against the Heavens. While it's initially seen as a bad idea, the following episodes show the higher-ups of Heaven in even less sympathetic light than before. For extra irony, the main reasoning of the Extermination is to suppress a potential rebellion, which sounds like it's indeed about to happen, which could lead to a total war of Hell vs Heaven. In the end, with limited support from Carmilla Carmine and Rosie, it's still the Exorcists vs the Hotel, and no other overlord, Velvette included, show any interest in participating in the conflict, the Vees, Vox mostly, settling for watching and commentating.
• Trans Audience Interpretation: Emily's "I go by whatever" comment in her introduction, though in context was her referring to potential nicknames, has led some to interpret her as nonbinary or genderfluid, as the phrase could also be applied to one's pronouns. The fact that she's an angel (which are frequently portrayed as being Otherworldly and Sexually Ambiguous) certainly helps.
• Unpopular Popular Character:
  • Charlie. To most characters in-universe, they don't take her too fondly. To the fans, however, she's just downright precious. Though the 50K incident with Verbalase has also made her popularity take on a more questionable tone.
  • Alastor is The Dreaded within the show, but is well-liked despite (or perhaps because of) it.
  • Adam is a self-important, misogynist, genocidal, immature jerkass who's not liked by any of the main cast for both his personality and his role in the genocide, and even in Heaven he's considered to be a Black Sheep. However he's very popular with fans due to how hilarious, hammy, and utterly oblivious to his flaws he is and many of them were actually saddened when he got killed by Niffty in the season one finale.
  • If we take Adam's comment into consideration, Lucifer is "the most hated being in all of creation", yet he's pretty beloved by the fanbase for his dorky and endearing personality and having a sweet relationship with his daughter and even manages to rival Alastor in terms of popularity.
• Viewer Name Confusion:
  • Many mistakenly believe Husk's name is Husker. This is somewhat understandable, as his actual name does not appear in the pilot. Though it is clear that he does not like being called Husker, which appears to simply be Alastor's nickname for him. His Portmanteau Couple Name with Angel Dust is "HuskerDust".
  • "Niffty" is very frequently spelled as "Nifty".
  • Carmilla's first name is often misspelled without the "r", as "Camilla".
  • Cherri Bomb's first name is very often misconstrued as "Cherry", "Cherrie" or even "Chérie".
  • Sera's name frequently gets misspelled as "Sarah" or "Sara." Understandable, as those are more common names. Meanwhile, the term "Seraph" meaning a high-ranking angel, and is what Sera is referring to, is lesser known.
  • During "Finale", Alastor mockingly states "Great Alastor, altruist, died for his friends" after his near-death experience at the hands of Adam. However, due to the fact he is having a Villainous Breakdown in the song, some viewers have assume that "Altruist" is Alastor's last name rather than a title, either because of him having an Alliterative Name, the idea that he would have a Given Name Reveal during his breakdown, or the idea that a former Serial Killer only helping the hotel due to him being forced to would have a last name like "Altruist".
• Viewer Pronunciation Confusion: "Alastor" is a name which is normally pronounced how it's spelled ("A-la-store"), yet every character in the show (including Alastor himself) pronounces it as "Aleister". The only person who pronounces "Alastor" as it's usually pronounced is Sir Pentious in the pilot, leading to a lot of confusion from viewers on what exactly Alastor's name is meant to be pronounced like, and it often gets spelled wrong when people have only heard rather than read it.
• Viewer Species Confusion:
  • The size of Alastor's ears compared to his antlers has led some people to assume he's a fox demon instead of a deer. It doesn't help that a black and red color scheme is somewhat attributed to foxes, not to mention he fits the personality of one.
  • On a lesser note, there's a small party who have assumed Angel Dust was a sort of insect over a spider. Justified, as he usually is shown with only three pairs of limbs in his animated appearances, but does have another retractable set of arms.^note Word of God states this was so he would be easier to animate.
  • Husk can sometimes be mistaken for a hound, but is actually a cat.
• Vocal Minority: With the numerous posts on Twitter / X trashing the show, to the many videos critiquing the show (whether fairly or unfairly), to the show becoming a general punching bag of adult cartoons on the internet, you'd swear that this show was mostly a despised cartoon with only a small fanbase of unironic fans. In truth, Hazbin is very well-liked amongst most general audiences if the vast positive comments on Prime Video are to believed and is critically acclaimed in spite of its flaws.
• Watched It for the Representation:
  • Many survivors of sexual assault have expressed fondness for Angel's personal arc with Valentino and the gravitas and respect that it treats the subject with.
  • There are numerous Asexual Hazbin viewers who have promoted Alastor as an "ace icon" even if he's an inherently villainous character, due to his asexuality being an always-present but not explicitly addressed part of his character which also doesn't fall into any of the negative tropes surrounding aromantic/asexual characters being villains.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?:
  • For anyone accustomed to the attitudes of Animation Age Ghetto, this show is a nice, but still surprising subversion. If you saw this show offhandedly with cute animal-like characters with fantastic designs, fluid animation, and musical numbers (some of the songs are even composed by Parry Gripp, who is known for his kid-friendly music), it can be very surprising to watch those same characters suddenly drop profane words from left to right, crack sex jokes, discuss and perform horrifying acts (including rape), and do drugs.
  • On a matter related to this trope, many of Vivziepop's Hazbin Hotel related videos were initially just posted up as is and were thus more easily of being mistaken for something child-friendly. However when the COPPA issue with YouTube broke out and there came rules that apparently classified any and all animation as content aimed at children, Viv relabeled a number of her past Hazbin videos with "NOT FOR KIDS" especially those that had actual adult content and didn't already have a prior disclaimer of some sort which warned that the show is meant for an older audience. There are still a number of Hazbin videos on Viv's YouTube channel that don't have any warning though but the majority of them are just speed draws that are innocent enough.
  • When its premiere on Amazon was announced, there were several complaints from conservative Christians who were under the belief that an "obviously Satanist cartoon that mocked Christianity, with swear words to the fucking max" was intended for children.
  • There was a time when the show was beginning to be picked up by YouTube content farms aimed primarily at very young children and infants, but it never quite caught on to the degree that something like The Amazing Digital Circus did with said content farms, likely due to the Hazbin characters' more complicated designs and personalities whom are harder to for children to fully parse.
• The Woobie: It'd be easier to pick the characters that don't count as this:
  • Charlie is the Princess of Hell, Lucifer and Lilith’s daughter, and yet she is one of the sweetest characters in the show. She genuinely believes in redemption and hates the annual extermination of sinners, so much so that she built an hotel so damned souls could be ascended to Heaven, only for her dream being seen as joke both in Hell and in Heaven, and she’s not taken seriously because of her kindness. By the end of the first season, she also blames herself for everything that has gone wrong, despite many of those events — Heaven moving up the extermination, Sera ruling against the hotel, and the deaths of Sir Pentious and Dazzle in the finale — actually having little to do with her actions. The most she can be blamed for is being ignorant of the gravity of the situation, which has been purposely hidden.
  • Vaggie, Charlie’s girlfriend, while has a more grounded prospective, and gets easily annoyed by people who are jerks to her, is driven by the desire to support Charlie’s dream no matter what. Then it’s revealed that she happens to be a Fallen Angel, more specifically a former Exorcist, who was horribly mutilated and banished from Heaven, because she couldn’t bring herself to kill a demon child during an annual extermination and let them go, before Charlie (who mistakenly thought she was a sinner) found her on the verge of death and rescued her shortly after. This act of kindness causes her to fall in love with her, but she never told her the truth, both because of her guilt of being the same thing that slaughtered thousands of her people and her fear of being rejected by her girlfriend.
  • In this version, Lucifer (The Devil himself), Charlie’s father, has a more sympathetic backstory. In the past, he was a Seraphim who was a rebellious dreamer and wanted to share free will with all the creations, only to be shunned by the Elders for his idea being too radical. And when he gave the Fruit of Knowledge (and free will with it) to Eve, he accidentally unleashed evil in the world, creating a pit that would become Hell, and causing humanity to abuse their power to make their own decisions. For this he was banished to Hell, and was forced to see the worst of humanity, unable to see the good in it, as punishment, which took a toll in Lucifer, and became jaded and cynical. And while he genuinely loves his estranged daughter, he doesn’t know how to support her dream out of fear of her hopes being crushed by Heaven.
  • While more of a Jerkass Woobie in the pilot, the series has shown Angel Dust in a far more unambiguously sympathetic light: It's now abundantly clear most of his behavior is his way of coping from the abuse he suffers at the hands of Valentino. He even lets others roofie him with the hope that it may lead to him finally being discarded.
  • Sir Pentious is firstly introduced as a typical Saturday-morning cartoon villain, but it quickly becomes obvious that he is just a lonely dork who desperately wants to be recognized and loved, (at first using destructive weapons and deception), and after Charlie forgives him (twice), unlike Angel Dust, he becomes really invested in his path of redemption right from the start. This comes to a head in “The Show Must Go On” where he is killed by Adam in an Heroic Sacrifice, only to be ascended to Heaven as the first redeemed Sinner in history.
• Woolseyism:
  • German dub:
    • Since a literal translation of "Overlord" is a bit too connected with military/office rank (and would also probably carry some unsavory connotations), "Overlord" is translated instead as "Höllenbaron", meaning "Baron of Hell". This doesn't quite line up with what Overlords actually are (they aren't "Barons" in the sense that they're vassals to a monarch) but does a better job of conveying how they're warlords who have eked out empires for themselves in Hell.
    • In "Radio Killed the Video Star", "Devil's Dandruff" is translated as "Fiendischen Schneechen" ("Fiendish Snow") due to "dandruff" as a euphemism for Crack not making sense.
    • Rosie's quip toward Alastor that he's an "ace in the hole" is changed to her simply remarking that she knows that Charlie is with him because they're there to consult her (she literally says "I know I'm behind this").
  • The Canadian French dub has this, crossed with Lucky Translation. Québécois French uses religious swear words known as "sacres" (such as "tabarnak") and it's uncommon for works to be dubbed into the dialect,^note rather than the more "neutral" Standard French or some variety of European French so given the premise of Hazbin Hotel and the Sir Swears-a-Lot nature of the characters, the characters use a lot of sacres which ends up being very fitting for the show's religious themes and setting.

YMMV for pre-release material (pilot, Addict, Q&A's, etc.):

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• Alas, Poor Scrappy: While he's more of a Base-Breaking Character, even those who hated Angel Dust for being a Jerkass that came off as a homophobic stereotype felt lots of sympathy for him when "ADDICT" revealed that he's in an abusive relationship with his pimp, Valentino.
• Base-Breaking Character: Angel Dust. Some love him for his Smug Snake attitude and his hilarious lines, but others see him as a crass reprisal of common homophobic stereotypes. Though this has lessened after the release of the "ADDICT" music video which fleshed out his situation and why he acts as he does.
• Delusion Conclusion: Some fans theorize that the whole series is actually a drug-induced hallucination or dream by Angel Dust, who's still alive in 1940s New York City, and his attempts at redemption are a reflection of his desire to leave his criminal lifestyle behind.
• Do Not Do This Cool Thing: Hell is almost exactly like Earth, has all the sex, drugs and booze you could want, you'll get a cool demon body with awesome powers, you're restored to perfect health, you'll get to see your loved ones again if they end up in Hell but most of all, there's no sign of any kind of eternal punishment. Aside from the yearly extermination, there doesn't seem to be much reason why people should avoid going there, much less be redeemed.
• Draco in Leather Pants:
  • Alastor and Angel Dust each have a legion of swooning fangirls (and fanboys) who greatly enjoy portraying them in more positive or sympathetic lights, especially if the end result is increased romantic/sexual appeal. While the characters do both have enjoyable aspects to their personalities, they're both still extremely amoral criminals, being a serial killer and a drug-addicted mobster respectively. The final point seems to be, in a meta sense, a straight case of sex appeal: voice actors Edward Bosco^note Alastor and Michael Kovach^note Angel Dust greatly enjoy playing up Angel's sex appeal and Alastor's creepiness^note which often shoots the moon and loops back around to sexy, something Bosco has acknowledged and actively invokes as a loophole to Vivzie's desire to not hypersexualize Alastor during live streams with one of the HH animators, and seem perfectly aware of how many of the fangirls are attracted to their voices. In response to this, much of Alastor's fandom portrayal deliberately frames his Nightmare Fuel as erotic, in spite of the fact that, in addition to his amorality, he's also completely asexual, and therefore nothing he does is intended to be framed that way. This YouTube comment reacting to this fact sums up the entire situation:
    "Alastor is asexual"
    "Fangirl: That sign can't stop me because I can't read!"
  • However, the "Addict" music video reveals that Angel Dust might not be as happy as he comes off as... and the prequel comic does show that Alastor may not be all that bad since he doesn’t show himself to be violent or a jerkass like the overlords, he spends most of his time just doing things like causing chaos but pretty much it and though he kills and eats a butcher demon, it’s only to protect a female sheep demon from him. The video had the added effect of Draco-fying Cherri herself, promoting her from unstable, foul-mouthed pyromaniac who was Angel's Toxic Friend Influence, to a caring, loyal and genuine friend to Angel, and possibly the only real friend he has, even if her method of showing it just happens to involve indulging her destructive tendencies, earning her even more fangirls and fanboys than she already had.
• Fandom-Specific Plot:
  • The fandom has almost unanimously agreed that once the rest of the hotel group learns about what's going on between Angel Dust and Valentino, they almost instantly jump to his rescue and Angel begins to really see them as his friends.
  • In a similar vein, Vox is gonna get fed up with Valentino’s abuse at some point, and finally give him his comeuppance. He might even come around to Charlie and the hotel crew afterwards.
  • A common crossover plot involves a morally grey character from the other half of the crossover dying, arriving in Hell, and moving into the hotel.
  • It's fairly common to see fanworks set in a Role Swap AU where it's Alastor who founds the hotel, prompting Charlie to take an interest in it for her own purposes. Less commonly, the hotel may be Vaggie's idea.
• Fan Nickname:
  • Charlie's father is referred to by fans as "Apple Daddy" due to his prominent apple motif. Even after his name was revealed as Lucifer, he's still affectionately referred as such.
  • After a comment by Angel in the "A Cautionary Tale" preview clip wherein he states that "he looks like a strawberry pimp!", some fans have taken to calling Alastor that.
  • A lot of YouTube commenters like to call the Egg Bois the "Deviled Eggs".
  • Due to them never being named on-screen, the Exorcists are usually called Exterminators, due to their role in the yearly Extermination. Not helping the fact is the name was only revealed in a Q&A livestream.
  • "Gay Spider" for Angel Dust, due to being, well, an anthropomorphic gay spider.
• Fanfic Fuel: The characters' Instagram accounts have provided some of this.
• Foe Yay Shipping:
  • Much has been made by amused fans of the fact that Katie Killjoy not only gets all up in Charlie's face while talking to her but follows up her "I don't touch the gays" remark by jabbing Charlie three times in the boobs.
  • Alastor actually slaps Vaggie on the ass during his song. The fact that he's asexual and she's lesbian (and the fact that his entire character revolves around doing things just to screw with people) has done approximately nothing to stop the fandom from jumping on this single interaction.
  • Although Angel Dust and Vaggie are both gay, that hasn't stop some fans from interpreting their frenemy dynamic as something more. Them having originally been a couple during development back before Hazbin became its own thing separate from Zoophobia may also have something to do with it for some.
  • Angel and Sir Pentious’ back and forth during their battle also wears into this territory. It’s certainly gotten a few people into shipping them.
  • After the release of the ‘A Day in the Afterlife’ comic, many people picked up on the rivalry between Alastor and Vox and began shipping them together as well. It helped that it was canonically stated by one of the people working on the comic that Vox desperately wants to gain Alastor’s attention.
• Genius Bonus: Alastor produces several accurately drawn symbols◊ of deities in Haitian Vodou. One of these, Kalfu, is usually envisioned as a demon or a young man dressed in red - just like Alastor himself. (This accuracy has drawn some criticism, however, since Haitian Vodou is a closed practice.)
• Genre Popularizer: The unexpected and overwhelming success of the pilot on YouTube proved that indie animation could find smashing success overnight and almost directly lead to a new wave of independently-produced animation debutting on the platform to similarly impressive and nigh-instantaneous results, including (but by no means limited to) Lackadaisy, Murder Drones, Port by the Sea and Ramshackle as well as fellow Hellaverse show Helluva Boss.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff:
  • Hazbin Hotel is popular in Japanese art twitter circles, based off of the tweets that Vivziepop herself has re-tweeted.
  • It is also very popular in Latin America, the fans have not only made a fandub of the pilot, they have also made several covers of Addict and even rap battles between Charlie and Blitzo.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • Angel Dust shows how "beloved" he is by everyone in Hell by saying that he has the creepy fan letters to prove it, taking out one such example. In January 2021, his Character Blog is among the ones that were archived and retired due to the influx of NSFW art being sent to it.
  • Husk being called over in the middle of his poker game by Alastor to serve as The Bartender takes on a much darker tone when the series reveals that it is not a random request between acquaintances but an order between master and servant.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • The Friendly Fandoms between this series and Doom feels rather serendipitous knowing that Alastor's pilot voice actor, Edward Bosco, would go on to voice The Marauder in Doom Eternal.
  • The concept of a comedic work set in Hell and featuring female demons in sharp suits becomes this with the release of Helltaker.
  • This wouldn't be the last time Elsie Lovelock (Charlie's pilot singing voice) and Michael Kovach (Angel's pilot voice) starred in another web animated series that runs heavily on Black Comedy set in a bleak, yet cartoonish world. Both shows' premises even have robotic assassins sent by a higher power to purge a group!
    • On that note, this will not be the last time Michael Kovach voices an animal-based gangster.
  • A Freeze-Frame Bonus gag in the 666 News station features an advertisement for a cannibal cooking show in Hell hosted by infamous Serial Killer Jeffrey Dahmer — in 2022 Netflix would release a "true crime" drama series about Dahmer (to no small amount of controversy), drawing several comparisons to the joke.
  • One of the soundtrack titles for the pilot, "Sir Pentious Fucking Dies," became a meme among some fans due to its blunt dismissiveness. It got funnier when the main series was released, since not only does Pentious survive facing off with Alastor and end up checking into the hotel, but when he does die in the season finale, his Heroic Sacrifice makes him the first damned soul ever to get redeemed and sent to Heaven. The best part? The scene uses the exact same piece.

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• Jerkass Woobie:
  • The "Addict" music video confirms Angel Dust is one of these. While he is a jerk and the only reason he is staying at the hotel is that he wanted free room and board, he is also revealed to be in an abusive relationship with Valentino, and his drug habit and behavior is hinted to be an attempt to make his pain stop.
  • Vox may be one of the big bads and a stalker towards Alastor, but he is also in a very abusive relationship with Valentino.
• Jerks Are Worse Than Villains:
  • Alastor was a serial killer in life who became a demon overlord in hell. He seems to only help Charlie's rehabilitation program because he finds it funny. He's quite popular among the fans, thanks to his Evil Is Cool factor, his radio-like voice, and his design. One character that few people would admit liking is Katie Killjoy, a jerkass reporter who mocks Charlie on screen, makes homophobic remarks to her ("I don't touch the gays") and generally comes off as the most unpleasant character in the show.
  • Valentino is considered to be one of most hated characters in the show because he is openly a rapist and an abuser, while the misogynistic Adam's ongoing genocide is more abstract.
• Love to Hate:
  • Katie Killjoy, a perfect representation of a smarmy and manipulative newscaster, with many being disappointed that her and Charlie's fight, as well as a potential ass-whopping, happened off-screen.
  • While villains like Alastor and Sir Pentious are too fun and campy to qualify, Valentino is just an all around shitbag and many can't wait for him to finally get what he deserves (though it could be argued that he already has, given the setting).
• Mexicans Love Speedy Gonzales:
  • Angel Dust is frequently criticized for being heavily reminiscent of negative gay stereotypes, being portrayed as sleazy, overtly sexual, exaggeratedly flouncing, perverted, egotistical, and rude. Some fans think these traits lend to a more nuanced, unsanitized representation of queerness, and more so with the Hidden Depths revealed in the "Addict" music video. With what was especially revealed in "Addict", Angel Dust's character especially resonated with sex workers and the like, particularly those who went through similar experiences as him. He's seen as someone whose trauma they can relate to rather than a mocking stereotype.
  • Vaggie— who is of Salvadoran descent— draws many comparisons to the "angry Latina" stereotype, yet she remains well-liked among Latino and Salvadoran fans alike. It helps that whenever she actually is angry, it's entirely justified.
• Misaimed Hatedom: Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Katie Killjoy has a line in her Establishing Character Moment where she refuses to shake Charlie's hand, saying "I don't touch the gays". This has been misinterpreted as "proof" that the show is homophobic. Not only are several protagonists LGBT, but right after Katie says this, Charlie says "how's that working out for you?" while looking at a sign reading "HELL" over her head. The line was meant to bash homophobia, not be homophobic. The fact that she is voiced by an openly gay man in the series proper was presumably done to make the joke more obvious.
• No Yay:
  • After supplementary material shed light on Valentino's treatment towards Angel, more and more fans have turned against shipping them together.
    • Valentino/Vox is also starting to get this treatment as well, since Valentino is shown subjecting Vox to physical and verbal abuse on their Instagram pages, often punching Vox in the face and shattering his screen for petty reasons like getting him the wrong drink.
  • Some people dislike Angel Dust/Husk because their interactions are pretty much Angel constantly flirting with a clearly not interested and uncomfortable Husk.
• Offending the Creator's Own:
  • Vaggie received accusations of being a stereotypical angry Latina, even though Vivienne is of Salvadoran descent.
  • The pilot also received various accusations of homophobia primarily due to Katie's "I don't touch the gays" comment and Angel Dust being a sex obsessed overly flamboyant jerk. This despite Vivienne also being bisexual.
• Older Than They Think:
  • The idea of the departed souls who were damned to Hell still having the potential to find redemption and ascend to Heaven anyway was explored in a 1945 short story called The Great Divorce, by C. S. Lewis. One notable difference between the two is that, Lewis being a devout Christian, one of the novel's aesops is that anyone who makes it to heaven (by any route) is by that very fact a Karma Houdini (since every last one of us has sinned), and in fact a key part of the process of ascending to Heaven in that story is realizing and accepting that it's simply impossible to earn Heaven on your own merits, and that one needs the help of Jesus to get there.
  • The idea that damned souls and demons will eventually find salvation was originally proposed by the Christian theologian Origen during the 3rd century. Origen had allegedly taught an extreme form of apokatastasis, which held that all beings, including even Satan himself, would eventually attain salvation. The show runs with this idea.
  • Fans may be surprised to find that the song "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" was an vaudeville song that was written over a hundred years before Hazbin.
  • The basic premise of a cheerful blond-haired optimist trying to make Hell a better place was more or less also used by the Canadian animated series Jimmy Two-Shoes almost a decade prior, albeit with a more kid-friendly twist that made the setting Hell with the serial numbers filed off.
• Portmanteau Couple Name: The Sir Pentious/Arackniss ship is called Pentniss.
• Ships That Pass in the Night: Despite Arackniss (Angel Dust's older brother) not even appearing on the show yet, many fans have taken to shipping him with Sir Pentious due to their similar color schemes.
• Viewer Gender Confusion: Before being put to fully-voiced animation, Angel Dust was - and on occasion, still is - mistaken for a girl by some viewers at first glance, thanks to his design. This is lampshaded by Niffty in her introduction, who assumes that everyone else in the room is a woman despite Angel being there.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not Political?: This article states that Hazbin Hotel is a criticism, although involuntary, of classical liberals and how they do not understand the working class who they ostensibly want to help.

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