#helluva boss lore

It has occurred to me that not everyone watches Helluva Boss (which, you know, fair- it’s a different flavor of show than HH and it’s not for everyone). But because it was the show Vivzie made first while she tried to get Hazbin Hotel off the ground, it DID become the place to put lore into. So many people miss out on a lot of the Hellaverse lore we get from it!

Thus for those who don't want to watch, here is some of what I remember.

EDIT: There is a new, expanded and edited version of this post on AO3. Link provided HERE.

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- There are seven rings of Hell. From top to bottom it goes: Pride (ruled by Lucifer), Wrath (ruled by Satan), Gluttony (ruled by Beelzebub), Greed (ruled by Mammon), Lust (ruled by Asmodeus), Envy (ruled by Leviathan), and Sloth (ruled by Belphegor).

- Though Pride is solely his, Lucifer outranks all the other Sins and is King of all of Hell.

- Hell has a hierarchy. It goes Lucifer, Charlie and Lilith, the rest of the Seven Deadly Sins, Ars Goetia, Overlords, Normal Sinners, Other Hellborns like Succubi, and Imps and Hellhounds.

- Lucifer owns his own theme park in the Pride Ring called Lu Lu World, which is very popular! (In the HH Pilot you can see a portrait of Charlie and Vaggi in front of a Disney-esque castle, so maybe they went on a date there!) Mammon shamelessly rips it off with his own park Loo Loo Land in the Greed Ring (until certain imps burned it down).

- Mammon prints currency in Hell (and runs the banks). It depicts his face and the smallest bill we’ve seen is a 100. The currency is called "Souls," though I don't think it's made of ACTUAL souls. Knowing Mammon he just thought it was funny.

- Kitty, Valentino’s little robot attendant, is a modified Robo-Fizz, which are robots created by Asmodeus and sold by Mammon. (The Robo-Fizz line has since been discontinued since the imp jester they were based on, Fizzaroli, quit Mammon’s employ.)

- Asmodeus has a factory where he produces sex toys and other lustful accessories. He also runs a lustful restaurant/lounge/club in the Lust Ring called Ozzie’s.

- For roughly fifteen years Mammon has run a clown contest in the Greed Ring to see who will be his top performer and the face of his clownish brand (that he can fully exploit). Fizzaroli won the last ten years before he quit.

- Hellborn sometimes use exclamations such as “What the Heaven?!”

- Along those lines, Hellborns seem to make exclamations to the rulers of their birth sin (more on that in a bit). For example, imps will say “Satan fucking dammit,” or “Thank Satan.”

- Ars Goetia and the Sins sometimes use exclamations like “Oh my Lucifer!” or “What in Lucifer’s Hell?”

- Hellborn demons have black blood (this seems to be the case also for Hell animals, as we see with the rat blood Niffty covers herself in).

- Imps are immune to ordinary fire (though not green hellfire). Burns turn white on their red skin.

- Hellborn demons (except Ars Goetia) are largely mortal and can be permanently killed without the use of angelic steel. Ars Goetia are largely immortal but still can be harmed with angelic steel.

- Hell weapons (or perhaps Hell items in general) are naturally hot and will eventually burn the hands of humans if they pick them up.

- The Wrath Ring looks like a Wild West wasteland (with the occasional volcano that has a giant floating orb of lava above it) with mesas and deserts and mines, and has farms which supply food to the other six rings.

- The Greed Ring has cities such as Mint City, Notamafia Town, and Ransom. It has an ocean and is very industrial, smoggy, and polluted.

- It seems to be always raining in the Lust Ring. This may be because it’s situated between two rings with oceans. Greed has an ocean, and due to Leviathan’s aquatic appearance we can presume Envy also has an ocean.

- The Sloth Ring is filled with puffy clouds and has little floating islands with iridescent waterfalls streaming to the surface in its pink sky. It also has a city called Dreamsville.

- While the Pentagram/Pentagram City is the largest city in the Pride Ring, it’s not the only city. Helluva Boss takes place in Imp City in the Pride Ring, being located in Pride’s “Second Circle.” This leads me to believe the Pride Ring has “Nine Circles” that contain cities (going off a comment by Katie Killjoy in the pilot).

- Sinners are confined to the Pride Ring and cannot traverse to the other six rings (which makes sense given they are part of Lucifer’s Divine Punishment). According to Vivzie, if they try a barrier prevents them from leaving.

- Sinners cannot reproduce, Hellborn can. (We see Angel Dust tending to baby imps in “Speedrun to Redemption.”)

- Instead of "blessing" things for good luck or prosperity, demon royalty "curses" them. Ex: "l curse this harvest!"

- Each of the Seven Sins have their own apps!Lucifer: Lucimaster. Mammon: Moneymakerz Bank. Beelzebub: BeeEats. Satan: Satan Workouts. Asmodeus: Lustinder (parody of Tinder). Leviathan: EnVee (which looks like a parody of TikTok). Belphegor: Sleepy Pillz.

- Because of this we also know Voxtek has its own streaming service called Voxflix! And there are other apps like Sinstagram and a Hell Map app, and an app for restaurant called WackDonalds.

- Belphegor seems to run Hell's medical industry, as she controls pharmacies and the Sloth Ring has various hospitals (like St. An’s) and rehab clinics.

- Hellhounds can contract an illness called Hellbies, and must receive a yearly shot (though you can only make appointments for it five years from now apparently).

- We now know each of the Sins created a different Hellborn species in Hell. Lucifer created the Ars Goetia (which is why they look vaguely angelic and probably why they are the most powerful Hellborns beneath the Sins) while Satan created imps to be an obedient workforce (which is why we see them often as servants to the elite). Beelzebub likely created Hellhounds, Belphegor likely created the sheep/goat-like Baphomets, and Asmodeus likely created Succubi. There is no solid evidence to which kind Leviathan and Mammon created, though Mammon may have created loan shark demons and/or dinosaur demons (which we see in Greed), and Leviathan may have created Infestor demons and other aquatic demons (like Glitz and Glam).

- Heaven has Heaven-born angels called Cherubs, who live in Cherub Town- indicating Heaven has various towns and cities. Some cherubs run a service called CHERUB to bless people on Earth on behalf of their loved ones in Heaven. Though it may have shut down because the three founders got barred from Heaven after accidentally killing a human.

- Hell’s television network can pick up programming from Earth (like Ghostfuckers) and Heaven (like the CHERUB commercial). Though we now know this is because Vox pirates television from the other two realms.

- Succubi and fish-like Infestor demons are some of the only demons allowed legally to go into the mortal world. EDIT: The former do so using Asmodean Crystals to travel between realms to spread lust and sin, and (I assume, there’s no confirmation) siphon lustful energy from humans.

- Halloween is the one night a year spirits from the afterlife can freely travel to Earth, though the full extent of this is unknown.

- Beelzebub siphons the positive, indulgent energy of people who attend her parties to create honey-like Beelzejuice, which is a popular alcoholic drink in Hell (I actually think we can see a cursive sign for it next to Husk’s bar in Hazbin Hotel). Though if a mortal creature drinks it, they mutate into an Eldritch abomination.

- Some Hellborn demons can magically disguise themselves as humans. Ars Goetia, Succubi, Infestors, and Hellhounds are shown to be capable of this. However, this may be a spell that can be learned rather than an innate ability- it’s unclear. Barbie Wire appears to use an Asmodean crystal to disguise herself in Helluva Boss S2E5.

- Hellborn demons celebrate a holiday called Sinsmas, where they take part in activities to honor their birth sin. Imps get into fights to honor Wrath, Hellhounds feast to honor Gluttony, etc. They also sing carols and play board games and decorate trees with Mammon’s hat as a tree topper, so it’s basically like their Christmas (though many Hellborn don’t seem aware that humans/Sinners celebrate Christmas).

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Loona being or thinking that she is into Vortex makes so much sense from the queer woman perspective because that’s what girls are just supposed to do—be into the big strong man. The moment another man notices her, she decides to stay at the party... like BE SO DADAS 😭😭😭 Vortex was supposed to be your ardent love, your ONLY ONE.

Are you really THAT ARDENTLY in love with every man that so much as acknowledges your existence, or is it just that you never ended up having a loving parental figure of any kind, and now any man who looks decent and kinda looks at you sometimes is the love of your life—only to then DEFINITELY not fucking forget about them both and keep obsessing over Bee’s every word?

Then she’s once again overwhelmingly positive about her creepy boss she’s usually aggressive toward—just suddenly deciding they’re relatives out of nowhere—because of her desire for male attention. The fact that she’s so caring to intoxicated Blitz afterwards is a good illustration of her feeling like “this is the best male attention I’ll get.” She feels like Blitzo is the best, comparatively, to every other man she’s met—“he cares, unlike Vortex; he stayed, unlike the other man. I love him.”

Chaz is dead… or is he?

Helluva Boss Short 10 might actually be setting up future lore, and that chaotic funeral is packed with familiar faces, secrets, and one BIG twist about Chaz’s “twin.”

We break down every guest and what it all means.

Things I've learnt from my first watch of Ghostfuckers

1. The original babysitter mentioned for Loona, was not someone from IMP, and instead was an external source probably meaning that Blitz had friends at one point but messed up that relationship too

2. Blitz was a sex worker at one point, from the line "Millie, I spent too much of my time, energy and holes" (in reference to when they purchased the office). We know he was oblivious reference to Stolas, however previously in the flashback Millie also mentions how it assassination jobs were very easy to combine meaning that they're not paid a lot per job. And since they're not paid a lot per job and as Millie mentioned earlier "it's all about reputation" there is no way that Blitz could have afforded that office. So either he's talking abt Stolas and Stolas put money towards it in exchange for more sex, or Blitz did sex work on the side.

OR he could have been talking further past tense as in he may have needed a way to pay back his farther for the circus and for Fizz's hospital bills (considering this is all about the past) which is pretty fuck, an added to his insecurity over the relationship about Stolas

I would explain why you try to have so much sex with people because he's used to it

3. After running from Fizz, after the circus burnt down he did actually make it to where his mother was but wasn't able to save her either. Because twice in the episode does she burn away from there opposite side that he got the scar on meaning that he must have been facing his mother when she was burning away and there must have been some form of explosion or even larger fire. So he specifically got some of his scars from when he both left fizz and got to his mother. So the scars aren't all from the fireworks.

4. Millie left without the barn a plan, meaning either something must have happened within her family for her to leave or she simply was just a bad bitch. But either way Millie's dynamic with her family has definitely got rockier

5. Millie has self-esteem issues which maybe addressed in a later episode, because she doesn't see herself as anything but muscle and in the episode they did touch on that but it's clear when she said "are you done yet" to the 'ghost', that she acknowledges what she is and who she thinks she is but she just doesn't let it get under her skin until later

6. Millie and Moxxie met through Blitzo, meaning that Blitz got to see how their relationship developed and how he wasn't a part of it. So now we have some form of explanation of blitz's expectations when it comes to relationships because he watched the M&M go from strangers, to friends, to coworkers to lovers to married. And this would have further added to his insecurity regarding his relationship with Stolas, because he had a perfect example of what a relationship should be like and that's why he always says that him and Stolas were never in a relationship because his examples of relationship were M&M and (hells worst kept secret) Fizz and Ozzie.

7. Fish demons can possess people, that is one of them in demonic powers. And I'm going to assume because of the gender differences between imps that there are so gender differences between fish demons. And with that being said I believe female fish demons are the majority to have the ability to fly because they have bigger fins, and females are generally larger while the males can you use a swim faster and some have the demonic power to possess people.

This would fit with fish being from the envy ring and being able to possess people because if you envy someone you can just literally be that person by possessing them. And having bigger fins makes you the bigger person in the room making you more noticeable. Fish demons have a clear toxic trait ingrained into their physical body of needing to be the biggest and needing to be the best.

8. More than one prince or princess of a certain ring has the ability to Grant people the power to go to the human world, meaning that there's more than just an Asmodean Crystal getting people to the human world. This also means when Stolas, went to get one from Ozzie he went to specifically Ozzie because he was the most certain that he would be able to give him one because of his connections to fizz and because him and Stolas have actually met before that.

Meaning that Stolas didn't really meet any of the other Princes or princesses of Hell. So his family must have ties to something within the lust ring because why the hell would they meet otherwise?

9. Imp may shut down even if they get out of bankruptcy because their next hurdle is the Goetia, meaning that Ozzie and Bee are going to have to VOUCHHHHH for Stolas or there could actually be consequences the Blitz other than losing personal relationships. And this could also mean that if they get out of bankruptcy and Stolas loses but not as badly he could end up working for IMP, because throughout the entire show there has been a history of none of them being able to read, write or do math.

Stolas being the only person with a form of education would fit perfectly into this role while he recovers his royalty status.

10. Fizz probably doesn't know about the breakup because blitz has been in his office for a month and hasn't left meaning that blitz didn't tell Fizz. And that could mean one of two things. One, he's been ignoring Fizz. Or two Ozzie never mentioned that he had already given the crystal to Stolas, so it will be a shock when Fizz finds out that all of this has gone down and no one told him.

11. Blitz's closer to Millie then he is to Moxxie, despite Moxxie being his first employee. This is because physically Millie and blitz get along better, hence they are more alike. They both came from tight knit families that depended on them for income, they both with a problem children in their families (bc Millie supposedly runaway or left without too much consideration from her family), they both were taking advantage of by the upper class ( Blitzo more literally than Millie but still their), and they both had self-esteem issues.

12. The timeline for IMP is, Blitzo then Loona, then Moxxie, then Millie. Making it so that Blitz was much younger when he adopted Loona then other people expected him to be.

13. Fish demons can cause hallucinations/ they can become stronger and use different forms of magic that Imps cannot. Showing the little divide between Imps and the rest of the Demons because Imps do not have demonic powers while other demons do. So hybrids may get some traits from both sides but do not get magical powers. Meaning that Striker is more flexible and physically stronger because he's a hybrid but does not possess this same or similar abilities that his other half possesses.

So briefly hybrids cannot get demonic powers from that other half that we've seen.

14. Blitz is setting up his first boundary in a friendship/relationship by no longer wanting to have sex with Millie or Moxxie, meaning that he is learning something from having time away from Stolas, his character is developing and he's developing as a person. This could also have effects in the future as he may now struggle to activate the Crystal without any active "lust" going on.

So when they get pushed through the portal by Aldruphous, Blitz may be limited in his ability to teleport them away because as seen from the penguin short you need lust to activate the Crystal, and since he's stepping away from sexual relationships, he won't be about to activate it as easily.

Fun facts from the Too Many Games Helluva Boss fan Q&A panel today:

-Unlike Blitz, Brandon hates horses. Blitz’s love of horses started as a joke between Vivzie and Sam (while watching Spirit) that they told the animators and over time it slowly became part of his character

-In season two we will get to see Loona and Octavia interact!

-There is a voice actor they got to voice a new character in season two that they were VERY excited to cast for that specific character but didn’t give any more details

-Richard got choked up when singing House of Asmodeus during the ending when Moxxie sings “I’ll never take you for granted. I’ll always give you my best. And if you can offer the same thing we’ll handle the rest. Cause I love you”

-LORE: the imps of hell were made by Satan (who rules the Wrath Ring) and the ruler/deadly sin of each ring has a corresponding hellborn species

If you missed it:

They already have recorded second season.

STOLAS WILL LIVE TO SEE SECOND SEASON.

Blitzø and Stolas are going to try figuring out their relationship. This first came up subtly, as Brandon Rogers (Blitzø's voice actor) pointed out that Stolas looks a lot like his real life boyfriend, and that they started dating in a similar way as the characters.

Bryce Pinkham (Stolas) went on saying how he loved Octavia and Stolas' dynamic in second season, since we'll see them bonding as daughter and father, and that he's happy for Stolas and Blitz.

The Cherubs are gonna strike again, and we'll get to see what they've been up to.

SALLY MAE IS GONNA HAVE A LOT MORE OF SCREEN TIME. lov her.

THEN YOU IS WRONG

We learnt that angelic protection/protection against demons IS purchasable in the human world implying alot of things. 1 being that a cherrub could bless an item to protect you if you've done a good deed but aren't dying OR angels can bless things and give them out, like how Versokia did with her concerts, just more ethical.

We learnt what attributes could/would be included in a sinner design and look when they get to hell, and he the way they died, what they were wearing, the obsession, personality and personal objects may affect their appearance. Giving hints to other sinner and what they could have been doing/what they looked like or their personality when they were alive.

Like Husk being the stereotype of a cat. And Niffy only having 1 eye, being a reference to how she lived, how she died or what she was like (maybe she was a on-track person in life. Never really compromising too largely or simply being a metaphor for not looking into situations more and being too naive or in this case blind to the truth)

Another thing we learnt is that Blitzo is VERY EASY to find, making the theory of the people he's killed coming back to kill him more believe and possible, as the girl from the short said that she saw his build-board. So he's definitely not hidding.

And finally, the fanfictions the girl wrote could either be foreshadowing of season 2's ending (I'd recommend Sarcastic Chorus video on it) OR it could yet again be a jab at people who look too deeply into things. Like what I'm doing now.

Being a hint that not everything should be taken seriously, and that people get so engrossed in their fanfic and theories that they actually believe it to be cannon, even when stated otherwise. Making their own interpretation only to be disappointed and made about it.

Like with the amazing digital circus and Jax thing. He was never going to be a "hot", appealing, false antagonist and re script was written for him WAY before his release so they didn't really change his character. The expectation of Jax being the main love interest got to people and many were disappointed when he came out to be EXACTLY WHAT THEY SAID HE WOULD BE LIKE

So maybe a similar situation idk