#helluva asmodeus

[drama-glob]

It's seriously a terrible situation for everyone that got spoiled thinking they were just fan-animatics or even seeing a thumbnail/title that revealed major spoilers, to say nothing of what Viv and her team are going through. >:( You just know Ozzie would avidly hate people that hack and/or leak other's work. >:(

I honestly don't blame Blitz here for making that turn. ;)

Good help is hard to find, especially in the field of villainy. ;)

[nightowl1556]

[vvenuspng]

lovies

[venus vs. color: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)..]

first palette suggested by @yer-a-legend ♡

[viktheviking1]

Just a reminder that all fire burns green in greed except for the Lord of Lust himself, Asmodeus. Meaning, Ozzie lit Fizz's cigarette before his last performance in Two Minute Notice.

It's the little details that get me in this show.

[badp1l0t]

The lil creatures love carrying each other 🌺

[bibluebutterfly]

I literally just realized that the enclosed space indicates that they’re in a closet

These two mfs literally snuck off just to cuddle 😭😂

[tumbleweedmemethemes]

Helluva Boss Mammon’s Magnificent Musical Mid-Season Special (Ft Fizzarolli) storyboards

[hideawayfairy]

*Ozzie hearing that the contract was gonna give Crimson all of his factory assets*

Ozzie: *Mildly Annoyed*

*Ozzie hearing that Crimson was gonna use Fizz as a wall decoration*

Ozzie: *Actually angered and ready to kill*

[tranquil-slaughterhouse]

[smithereeeen]

Something something about little imps being protected by their feral boyfriends ✨

[drama-glob]

To think all those happy moments with Ozzie outweighed so significantly in Fizz's mind that all the suffering he endured for 15 years (a huge chunk of which was unnecessary had he quit Mammon sooner ;_; ) that it was enough to say his life had been pretty great. It's still just so unbelievably sad though that poor Fizz thought he had to put up with this:

all so he could keep this. ;_; <3<3<3

[klaudia96art]

a compliment for @juulcheesecake redesigned by me I hope you like it couldn't resist this fantastic challenge 😉💕#juul30kdtiys

[anthurak]

As someone who was very curious as to how Mammon was going to be presented in Helluva Boss, you can probably imagine I was looking through the new episode very closely.

And while I may have been off the mark with my theory that Mammon would follow the trend of Asmodeus and Beelzebub and NOT actually be antagonistic, I nonetheless think it is VERY interesting how Vivzie and the team handled and presented him.

Specifically, in just how PETTY Mammon is shown to be in this episode.

Like really think about what you might generally expect from a character like Mammon just from a basic background description: He is one of the seven rulers of Hell, lord of the seven rings and embodiment of GREED. Likely a fallen angel who helped to create hell as it exists today, is matched in power only by his five fellow Sins, and is functionally only truly outranked by Lucifer himself.

And yet, Mammon’s characterization in this episode presents him as this petty, selfish, manipulative asshole interested in little more than money and attention. He acts more like a shitty, full-of-himself asshole celebrity than a demon lord. Just look at how he manipulates Fizzerolli, not through lording power and authority over him but through emotional coercion like an abusive parent, ex-, or boss, which is precisely WHAT he is presented as. fi

What makes this even more interesting is that despite Mammon being characterized as Fizz’s petty, manipulative boss, we nonetheless see him display all the POWER and experience we’d expect from one of the seven rulers of Hell. Asmodeus mentions earlier in the episode that he’s known Mammon ‘since the START of Hell’, confirming they were both involved in its creation, and when the two square off at the end, it’s clear that Mammon is very much Ozzie’s EQUAL in power, and that everyone else present is pretty much an insect in comparison.

This is what I think makes the inclusion of that one creepy, obsessive fan of Fizzerolli’s in this episode so significant; he serves as a point of comparison to Mammon.

For all the power and authority that he might wield, Mammon is characterized as being no different/better than a creepy, manipulative, entitled and obsessive stalker.

I think this might be the true common ‘thru-line’ connecting all of the seven sins through Helluva Boss and possibly even Hazbin Hotel: That despite essentially being ‘God-Emperors’ of Hell and outclassed in power likely only by the most powerful angels of Heaven itself, the seven sins are characterized in a very grounded, down-to-earth and for lack of a better term, ‘human’ way.

All the times we’ve seen them, Ozzie, Bee and Mam haven’t presented themselves as these all-powerful beings lording themselves over their subjects like we might expect or even what we’ve seen of the Goetic nobility. They don’t present themselves as ‘royalty’ but rather more like celebrity performers, which is certainly in keeping with Vivzie’s comments about how Hell is meant to represent a circus.

It really gives this fascinating dichotomy to the Sins as characters, where they’re presented as these big wacky celebrities with big, over-the-top personas which in turn hide very grounded, down-to-earth people underneath. While at the same time still being these monstrously powerful and ancient beings whose dominion over Hell is entirely uncontested.

It also gives them a nice contrast with the Goetic Nobility and the Sinner Overlords. Like those two groups actually do act and present themselves like demonic ‘royalty’ who lord themselves over those considered ‘beneath’ them, while in reality they’re at best the ‘middle-managers’, and instead it’s these wacky characters who are the TRUE masters of Hell.

It may even continue into what we might see in Hazbin Hotel, what with Charlie being this bubbly, happy-go-lucky Disney-esque princess who also may very well have power outclassing literally EVERYONE else in the show apart from her parents.

Overall, I loved this episode and I think we may now have a good idea what we might expect from the other Sins, and possibly even Lucifer himself in Hazbin Hotel.

[imp-imp-im-a-simp]

Asmodeus: WE GOTTA GO. NOW.

Stolas: Chill. I know Blitz good enough to feel pity for the kidnappers.

[nervousninja-art]

Some Stolitz bc I love these idiots 💕✨

[bibluebutterfly]

Something about Fizz’s body being absolutely destroyed by fire, his limbs damaged beyond repair; and yet here he is holding a giant flaming monster like he’s the most precious thing in the world.