Ramblings Of A Drunken Sailor

It’s SUBTEXTUAL, but what Beast does to Logan (mind control him to be nothing but a killer, removing his personhood) is explored similarly to SA experiences. Beast keeps Logan literally in the dark, only pulling him out to either eat or kill for him. Logan is made to believe that HE’S the bad one, and when he fucks up a mission because of how Beast programmed him, Beast blames him. This whole story involves victim-blaming, gaslighting, and Logan even literally cuts himself out of self-hatred because he believes he’s the problem.

That means Dipper and Mabel defeated an Interdimensional Multiversal Chaos God at age 12. How do they move on from that? It WILL forever be their greatest achievement and that’s depressing, peaking at 12. Ford and Stan’ll be fine, because they’re old men who had one last adventure. But Dipper and Mabel? If Bill Cipher DOESN’T RETURN, they’ll be cursed to a life of mediocrity that neither of them will truly be satisfied with.

Look, I know it was like a decade prior, and she obviously can’t absolutely belt it every song, but COME ON. Frozen gives her quite a few songs(Let it Go and Into the Unknown are the only ones that come to mind but I know she got at least three in Frozen Two) and SHE IS SLAYING IN EVERY ONE. But Wicked! Defying Gravity and No Good Deed are the only songs that she actually uses her talent for those high, long notes we see in Frozen. Is it a coincidence those are my favourite songs? No!

Superman was raised on the beliefs of the Kent Family. He’s the embodiment of Truth and Justice and a Better Tomorrow. Kara spent most of her life on Krypton, which was shown to be a Militaristic-Technocracy or something like that. She was IN MILITARY SCHOOL. If she wasn’t the daughter of one of his opposition, Kara WOULD HAVE PROBABLY JOINED ZOD.

If ANYONE is going to insist criminals be killed and turn into a Dictator, it is KARA ZOR-EL.

DC/Marvel, as always, but mainly Teen Titans.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

They’re clearly not exempt from the Extermination as they were targeted by Angels. So that means they’re Sinners, and had a mortal life.

This raises some questions.

Were they Carmella’s daughters in her life? So when Carmella died and went to Hell, and then years later presumably saw her daughters go to hell, she was sad because they sinned like her?

Or maybe she and her daughters both died around the same time? That’s why she’s so protective because she couldn’t protect them in life.

Or, they’re not even really related. Maybe they’re two children sinners who died and Carmella adopted them.

But, Lute, Adam’s Second in Command, takes over as leader of the Exterminators. She is… just a normal Angel. She poses no greater threat than any of the others, unless she goes through some boosts, she won’t be a danger. So she’s not gonna be the main villain or anything.

But first: Power Scaling.

The Average Human>The Average Sinner>The Average Hellborn(Imps, like Blitzø.)>The Average Exterminator>Charlie>Overlords(Vox, Alastor, Carmella)>Sins>Adam, Eve and Lilith>Seraphims(Sera and Lucifer)>God.

Sinners are Mortals who were condemned to Hell, as opposed to Hellborn like Charlie, who was born in Hell and therefore pardoned by Lucifer from the Exterminations. It can be assumed that Heaven has a similar distinction.

The Overlords, as seen in Episode Three of Hazbin Hotel at the meeting place, appear to be the eldest or most powerful Sinners. We know they’re Sinners and not Hellborn, as Carmella and her children are targeted by the Exterminators.

The Sins, as we see in Helluva Boss, appear to be extremely powerful, and are likely Hellborn, as as far as we know all of them are alive and none of them are on the Overlord Council.

Okay, so Hell has Seven Rings, each for a different Deadly Sin, but the shows almost entirely take place on the outermost ring, Pride, as Sinners are confined there.

Now, in classical Religious Texts, Lucifer is the Demon that represents Pride, so it is unknown whether his title as ‘Ruler of Hell’ is true, or simply called that as he rules the Pride Ring where everyone lives. I assume he rules all of it but lives in the Pride Ring.

Speaking of the Sins, in Helluva Boss, we meet several of the other Sins. We meet Gluttony, or ‘Queen Bee’; Greed, or ‘Mammon’; and Lust, or ‘Asmodeus/Oz’. Also Belphegor is mentioned by Bee.

In Classical Texts, we know the sins are:

Envy, represented by ‘Leviathan’

Pride, represented by Lucifer

Greed, represented by Mammon

Wrath, represented by ‘Satannas’ or Satan

Lust, represented by Asmodeus

Sloth, represented by Belphegor

And Gluttony, represented by Behemoth. This implies that Queen Bee’s full name is Behemoth.

We have yet to meet Belphegor, Leviathan or Satan, though Belphegor has been mentioned.

Theories:

We know the vague location of Lillith, Lucifer, Sera and Adam. But Eve is a mystery. I assume that either Eve is just a citizen of Heaven, as she didn’t want to join Adam in Exterminating, though Adam never mentions her. OR Eve was sent to Hell, which, as she is not on the Overlord Council - which, she would be, being that old - implies she was exterminated, likely by Adam himself.

Alastor is working for Lilith, as is already heavily theorised.

But why? Something happened seven years ago, in which both Alastor and Lilith disappeared.

Zestrial believed that Alastor had ‘fallen to Holy Arms’, which likely means that he believed he had been exterminated.

Lilith is apparently in Heaven, having made a deal with SOMEONE, that is being cashed in at the end of Season One.

Somehow Husk knows that someone owns Alastor’s soul.

Let’s say Alastor was almost killed by an Angel in an Extermination seven years ago. But how? He held his own against Adam for a while, he could definitely avoid being killed by the Average Angel. And the fact that Adam had never seen him before implies it wasn’t him who defeated Alastor. So we can rule that out.

Unless… Alastor’s always been power hungry. What if he took advantage of an Extermination to use the portals the Angels used to get to Hell to escape to Heaven. Perhaps Lilith made this same trip, and they were caught. But why would Lilith make that trip? According to what Charlie tells us at the beginning of Episode One, she enjoyed her time in Hell. For that, I have no answers for now. I’ll rewatch the show later. In my head, maybe Lilith was planning to get Charlie into Heaven?

But Alastor escaping to Heaven and being caught makes sense. Perhaps he was held prisoner? But why not kill him? Maybe someone already there, let’s say Lilith, saved his life in exchange for servitude, keeping him there for Seven Years until she saw that an Angel was killed in an Extermination, or saw that Charlie was starting the Hotel, and sent Alastor to protect her.

The Joker:

Okay, I get it. Goes against who he is to do good. But I think he might, if Batman died by his hands, he’d find it hilarious to go around dressed as him either doing crime or even doing good for a time.

Bane:

I don’t think he’d do it unless no one else would. I feel like this is like Kraven. Bane, after killing Batman, a foe he respected greatly, would don the mask and do things by his book purely out of respect for a time.

Professor Hugo Strange:

Since his inception it’s long been hinted that Strange wanted to replace Batman.

The Penguin:

This is a long shot. But if Penguin found out that Bruce Wayne was Batman, I feel like he’d finance a new Batman under his employ, as part of his obsession with being better than Wayne.

Killer Croc:

Thanos Rising by Jason Aaron - 8/10, I liked the backstory.

Amazing Spider-Man Presents: Black Cat - 6/10 Loved the buildup to Gauntlet and connections to Grim Hunt.

Journey Into Mystery (2011) issues #1-6 - 6/10 Kid Loki is awesome.