History Characters / HazbinHotelHeaven

* AmbiguousSituation: He's a giant jerk yet managed to not only reach salvation but even become a ''high'' ranking angel, which brings up the question of how exactly the events in Eden actually played out. [[spoiler:"Welcome to Heaven" revealing the rules to get into Heaven are so completely arbitrary and enigmatic to the point not even the angels know how one gets in explains some, but this raises a dozen more questions.]] The one with the biggest implications for the story and world is if he was [[FallenHero originally a good guy]] who after eons of resting on his laurels developed a massive ego and sense of entitlement to his spot in Heaven, or if he was always a huge dick who was granted entrance to Heaven either by virtue of nepotism or whatever [[BlueAndOrangeMorality mysterious arbitration]] causes people to go there. Given he predates human civilization, there's also the possiblity that Values Dissonance allowed him to get in before the criteria got more discerning.

* AngelicBeauty: Emily initially appears in a more alien form. Her preferred appearance when interacting with others is a beautiful young woman.

* TautologicalTemplar: The Exorcists, at least, seem to think that the sinners in Hell are all depraved and irreversibly broken and thus are incapable of bettering themselves. As of Episode 1, all the (Exorcist) angel characters we're introduced to are all portrayed as murderous assholes, with the implications that the (semi-)annual purge in Hell is used in Heaven as ''entertainment''. Really, the only difference between them and demons is that at one is more outgunned than the other.

* AdaptationalVillainy: This Adam is ''far'' from the benevolent father of humanity that his Biblical counterpart was, depicted here as a misogynistic douchebag who slaughters sinners for his own entertainment.
* AdmiringTheAbomination: Despite despising Hell and its denizens, he does admit to Charlie that he does dig its hardcore vibe and tunes.

* AlwaysABiggerFish: Despite his comedic nature, Adam is a genuine threat when pressed. In the season one finale, [[spoiler:he's able to defeat and nearly kill Alastor, causing the Radio Demon to retreat. Adam then finds himself on the receiving end of the trope when Lucifer arrives at the battle and wipes the floor with him.]]
* AmbiguousSituation: He's a giant jerk yet managed to not only reach salvation but even become a ''high'' ranking angel, which brings up the question of how exactly the events in Eden actually played out. [[spoiler:"Welcome to Heaven" revealing the rules to get into Heaven are so completely arbitrary and enigmatic to the point not even the angels know how one gets in explains some, but this raises a dozen more questions.]] The one with the biggest implications for the story and world is if he was [[FallenHero originally a good guy]] who after eons of resting on his laurels developed a massive ego and sense of entitlement to his spot in Heaven, or if he was always a huge dick who was granted entrance to Heaven either by virtue of nepotism or whatever [[BlueAndOrangeMorality mysterious arbitration]] causes people to go there.

* AngelicTransformation: He's actually the same Adam from Adam and Eve. Charlie suddenly gets why Lilith ditched him when she makes the connection.

* BadBoss: When one of his Exorcists, [[spoiler:Vaggie]], spared a demon child during one of their Exterminations, Adam let Lute [[spoiler:cut out her eye and rip off her wings before taking her halo and leaving her for dead. Furthermore, despite him pushing up the Exterminations because one Exterminator got killed, he's never showing any actual concern about his forces being killed by angelic weapons, instead writing it off as "weak" and never even referring to that angel by name. Despite this, he seems to have their loyalty at large for some reason]].

* ClassicVillain: '''Pride''' and '''Lust''', with a dash of '''Wrath''' in there as well. He arrogantly views himself as better than everyone due to being the first man, needlessly sexualizes women and gleefully slaughters human sinners every year. His design while in-costume looks more demonic even than the actual demons, but his true appearance under that is an ordinary human man, fitting for his status as the original template for all who would come after him and differentiating him from the more visually distinct protagonists. He contrasts with main protagonist Charlie in many ways, as Charlie is a kind soul who believes even the worst of humanity can change, while Adam is a cruel bastard who thinks sinners are lost causes and deserve to be slaughtered ''en masse''. In the season finale, he has a dramatic final battle with not only Alastor, but also Charlie and Lucifer, and eventually [[spoiler:finds himself killed by Niffty, a woman who acts as the Hotel's housekeeper]].

* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: In a sense, Adam is a deconstruction of the archetypal saved soul. Since he's apparently achieved eternal salvation in Heaven, he thinks he can spend his afterlife doing whatever he wants without ever reaping consequences from there: from continuing to treat the Virtue he dated less-than-respectfully and being an all-round jerk to conducting routine ''genocides'' for his own cruel entertainment.

* DirtyOldMan: He doesn't look it due to the dead not aging, but Adam is the first man and was the ex-spouse of Charlie's mom, making him firmly not just an old man, but the ''[[OriginalMan oldest]]'' [[OriginalMan man of all time]]. He also can't stop being depraved towards women, including referring to Charlie as "Lilith's Little Hottie", which is a downright ''creepy'' way to describe your ex-wife's daughter, regardless of how old she is.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Adam's job is to go down and violently punish a bunch of people who are ostensibly in there for doing bad things, and takes a sadistic level of glee in doing so, without regard to the actual innocence or guilt of said people. In this regard, he is like a RabidCop who took the job so he could get to beat up criminals and uses an unnecessary amount of force to deal with anyone he thinks is one, using the excuse that they shouldn't have been doing those things if they didn't want to get arrested or beaten.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: When Lute shows a rather concerning amount of bloodlust just before the next Extermination, a startled Adam looks rather disturbed and tells her to calm down.

* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: Zigzagged. You can definitely tell from first impressions alone that something is definitely off about the Angel's first human creation. Responsible for killing many of [[OffingTheOffspring his own descendants]], he looks and acts like one of the many demons trapped in Hell. Played straight later on when his face is revealed to simply be an ExpressiveMask, much like Lute's. And then even further straight when his real face is shown. He's actually quite handsome underneath his mask.

* {{Foil}}: To Alastor. They are both exceptionally powerful despite having once belonged to mortal souls, and the TokenEvilTeammate of their respective groups (Compare Adam's [[{{Sadist}} sadism]] to Emily's [[WideEyedIdealist idealism]] and Sera being a WellIntentionedExtremist). However, Alastor is an AffablyEvil -- or at least FauxAffablyEvil SouthernGentleman who doesn't even swear, save for the occasional PrecisionFStrike, whereas Adam is a crass [[EvilIsPetty douche]] whose [[SirSwearsALot swear count outnumbers every other characters' swear count combined]]. This also comes down to their strengths, where [[WeakButSkilled Alastor hardly holds a candle to the more ancient demons, but is more cunning and a technically skilled fighter]], while [[StrongButUnskilled Adam is the leader of the Exorcists thanks to his sheer raw power, but is little more than a brute]]. Interestingly, this also extends to ''how'' they carry themselves in a fight, where Alastor is revealed to [[DirtyCoward run at the first hint that he's on the backfoot]], Adam ([[TheBully while perfectly content with punching down]]) is [[VillainousValor surprisingly willing to punch above his weight]]. They also share the trait of thinking Charlie's dream of redeeming sinners [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids is ridiculous]]. However, while Alastor at least helps Charlie's dream, if only for amusement and it's even implied that he just thinks redemption is ''rare'' and not outright impossible, Adam rejects the idea entirely and doesn't even attempt to entertain redemption, because in his eyes ''all'' sinners deserve to be punished and eventually massacred.

* FratBro: He speaks and acts like a stereotypical one.

* HornedHumanoid: He's an angel with demon-like horns. [[spoiler:As episode 8 eventually reveals, though, the horns are just part of his mask]].

* PayEvilUntoEvil: His entire job can count as this. While it's been shown that people can go to Hell in this universe for petty reasons and are not deserving of being down there and certain demons do display redeeming qualities, the vast majority of demons shown fall under AlwaysChaoticEvil and are fundamentally horrible people okay with murder, rape, and various other high sins and crimes. As such, Adam's routine extermination of demons seems less horrible overall. ''However'', it's made clear that the Exterminations are less about punishing evil and more about preserving Heaven's authority and he shows clear sadism in doing so, something he flat out admits.

* PsychopathicManchild: He's the OriginalMan, thousands of years old, and the head of the Exorcists... and he behaves like an obnoxious college frat-boy. A ''bloodthirsty, sociopathic'' obnoxious college frat-boy, who, when he isn't playing childish pranks with his hologram and being casually misogynistic; enjoys routinely committing genocide with his pals, [[spoiler:didn't think twice about one of his own soldiers being mutilated and left for dead just because she refused to murder a child and tries to massacre Charlie's hotel first out of petty spite]]. Sera also treats him like a petulant child, chiding him for acting out of bounds.
* PurpleIsPowerful: Wears an outfit with a lot more purple on it then his usual robe when [[spoiler: he and his Exorcists attack the hotel, where he demonstrates a lot of strong, if unrefined, power.]]

** [[VillainousGlutton Gluttony]]: He is introduced chowing down on a large plate of ribs (which he teasingly offers to share with Charlie before revealing that he's a hologram just to be a jerk), and the photo 666 News uses [[spoiler:after his death]] has him similarly stuffing his face with them, showing that it was a habit of his.

* YoungerThanTheyLook: He's the OriginalMan, so that also makes him the oldest man, but when his face was revealed in the eighth episode, he looked like a regular middle-aged man.

** On the one hand, it's hard to deny that most of the people who wind up in Heaven are genuinely kind and decent people. This is also [[ShowDontTell demonstrated]] by the overwhelming presence of many genuinely awful people going to Hell, and as ''Helluva Boss'' shows with Lyle Lipton, it's not opposed of genuinely unpleasant but otherwise non-malicious people going to Heaven, meaning that the bar to entry is low and mostly boils down to having your aggregate kindness outweigh your cruelty or bad influence on other people. Nowhere is this better shown than Emily, who firmly believes Sinners should be given a chance of redemption -- and going by the fact [[spoiler:almost ''nobody'' in Heaven knew about Exterminations, the public outrage once the news broke is a sign many, ''many'' people object to the system and are willing to cause a reform]]. While it's not perfect, the system seems to mostly work to include people who are genuinely pleasant on the whole.
** On the ''other'' hand, it doesn't alter the fact that just because it mostly works as intended doesn't make the system's flaws any less broken; the fact people like [[SociopathicSoldier Adam]] and [[DarkActionGirl Lute]] have gotten into Heaven is a sign that some ''really'' horrible people can join up... or more disturbingly, that they can turn into horrible people because there's no longer any punishment for being one. Even worse, [[spoiler:nobody in Heaven actually ''knew'' how the system of salvation or damnation worked, it almost being akin to a lottery even discounting moral qualms. When Adam is put on the spot for three qualifications to ascend, and Angel Dust fails despite meeting all three of them, it just meant [[TautologicalTemplar they]] ''[[TautologicalTemplar assumed]]'' [[TautologicalTemplar because they were Winners it meant that Sinners must deserve it]]. This puts a completely dark spin on Sera's extremism, and her horrified reaction to Sir Pentious's ascension meant that she was complicit in the genocide of billions of men, women and children solely due to her own cowardice]].

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Adam's job is to go down and kill a bunch of people who are ostensibly in there for doing bad things, and takes a sadistic level of glee in doing so, without regard to the actual innocence or guilt of said people. In this regard, he is like a RabidCop who took the job so he could get to beat up criminals and uses an unnecessary amount of force to deal with anyone he thinks is one, using the excuse that they shouldn't have been doing those things if they didn't want to get arrested or beaten.

* StrongButUnskilled: Downplayed in that they know how to fight, but due to being NighInvulnerable compared to demons Exorcists have developed a habit simply not bothering to defend themselves in favor of unrelenting aggression, which makes them extremely vulnerable when for the first time since time immemorial they're faced with something that can actually harm them. This also extends to their tactics on the battlefield, which amount to little more than a ZergRush against the inhabitants of Hell.

* HandicappedBadass: [[spoiler:Even with deliberately ripping her left arm off, Lute still manages to be a physical threat]].

* ActorAllusion: What is one of the things that Adam claims will get you into heaven? [[Theatre/SchoolOfRock Sticking it to the man]][[note]]One of Creator/AlexBrightman's theater roles before becoming a Franchise/{{Hellaverse}} mainstay was as Dewey Finn in ''School of Rock'''s stage version[[/note]].

* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: Zigzagged. You can definitely tell from first impressions alone that something is definitely off about the Angel's first human creation. Responsible for killing many of [[OffingTheOffspring his own descendants]], he looks and acts like one of the many demons trapped in Hell. Played straight later on when his face is revealed to simply be an ExpressiveMask, much like Lute's.
** And then even further straight when his real face is shown. He's actually quite handsome underneath his mask.

* BigNo: Let's one when she sees [[spoiler: Adam in a moribund state]].

* DarkIsEvil: She's a black-colored angel with horns and responsible for rendering hundreds of human souls DeaderThanDead. She also scoffs at the concept of redemption and is needlessly cruel to Charlie during Charlie's meeting with her and Adam. Historically, black halos were definitely a thing and didn't have any particular moral condemnation attached, but it's probably not a coincidence that the most hateful and wrathful angel also has the dark halo. Since she's an angel working for Heaven, she's technically also a case of LightIsNotGood.

* DarkIsEvil: She's a black-colored angel with horns and responsible for rendering hundreds of human souls DeaderThanDead. She also scoffs at the concept of redemption and is needlessly cruel to Charlie during Charlie's meeting with her and Adam. Since she's an angel working for Heaven, she's technically also a case of LightIsNotGood.

* AllegoricalCharacter: Just like Adam, she incorporates some of the worst stereotypes of Christians:

* KavorkaMan: Considering how he's a FatSlob and an outwardly creepy, womanizing asshole who makes no attempts to hide his douchebaggery, the fact that Adam has ''any'' pull with chicks is a miracle in and of itself[[note]]Granted, the only evidence that he actually does [[UnreliableExpositor comes from Adam himself]][[/note]].

* GoodCannotComprehendEvil: Deconstructed. Sera states that all she wants is to protect Heaven and does not tolerate Adam's {{Jerkass}} behavior. But she still permitted his idea of exterminating Hell's sinners out of fear that they will rise up. The deconstruction comes from the fact that her [[DirtyCoward cowardice]] prevents her from seeing sinners for what they are -- [[HumansAreFlawed flawed people]], many of who, while mean, cruel, apathetic, and selfish, [[NotAlwaysEvil are simply souls who made bad decisions that they regret in their life]], and believe that [[IveComeTooFar they are too broken and undeserving to be given another chance]]. In practice the sinners are too busy [[SelfInflictedHell being miserable by hating each other and themselves]] to actually make a threat towards Heaven outside of self-defense, rendering Sera's greenlighting of the Extermination as DisproportionateRetribution as opposed to the necessary evil she claims. She's so content with seeing [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Hell as a place full of evil monsters]] that she never bothered to entertain the idea that [[HiddenDepths there could be more to them than that]]. Over the course of the series, evidence keeps mounting which blows holes in her argument, meaning Sera has to [[MovingTheGoalposts keep changing what "counts" as protecting Heaven]] in order to not only justify what she's doing, [[NeverMyFault but to ensure that she doesn't have to think about the potential consequences of her decisions, feel guilt, and admit that she might be wrong]], [[BrokenSystemDogmatist refusing to reflect on this mindset and try to improve the flawed and unfair system]], [[TheoryTunnelVision or being open to potential new ideas and alternative solutions to the problem]], making her [[HeWhoFightsMonsters just as bad if not worse than the sinners she fears and despises]]. To summarize, Sera can't understand evil because she won't ''try'' to understand it.

** Lute is completely unsympathetic to the mass slaughter of sinners and considers it justified. [[spoiler:But when the Heaven drone discovers the body of a decapitated Exorcist in Hell, Lute is furious and demands the angels return to Hell right this instant to kill everyone there in retaliation. Even more egregious since "Scrambled Eggs" reveals the Exorcist was killed by Carmilla to protect her daughters, making this a kill in self-defense and thus about a hundred times more justifiable than the frequent exterminations.]]

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: She's prejudiced against Sinners and believes they're unworthy of redemption or being given a second chance, in a similar case to how [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything plenty privileged groups often look down and judge minorities.]]

* TheCynic: Adam firmly believes humans can't be redeemed once they enter Hell (much like [[TokenEvilTeammate Alastor]] in the series pilot) as a result of having known what they're like for time immemorial, and he is much too arrogant to believe otherwise. However, unlike Lucifer or Alastor, who at least ''help'' in Charlie's dream and are implied to think it's simply rare/hard rather than impossible, Adam doesn't even entertain Charlie's idea and thinks redemption for sinners if 100% impossible. To the point that even when he sees how Angel Dust stood up to Valentino in "[[Recap/HazbinHotelS1E6WelcomeToHeaven Welcome to Heaven]]", he ''still'' thinks all sinners deserve death and decides to go through with genociding ''all'' of Hell.