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| “ | So, I was playin' this gig, and for some f*ckin' reason, this virtue chick was diggin' on the drummer, and it’s like, “Do you know who I am? I'm f*cking Adam! I'm the original dick! All dicks descend from me! You think you want drummer dick? No way, I'm the Dick-f*ckin'-master!” | „ |
| ~ Adam to Charlie about a conversation he had at one of his concerts. |
| “ | No! You don’t get to end this! I’m f*cking Adam! I’m the f*cking man, and you're just some f*cking clown or something! I started everything on Earth! All of mankind came from these f*cking nuts! You all should be worshipping me, you ungrateful... disgusting... f*cking... LOSERS! | „ |
| ~ Adam’s breakdown and last words before being fatally stabbed in the back by Niffty. |
Adam is the main antagonist of Season 1 of the adult animated musical comedy series Hazbin Hotel. He is Lucifer Morningstar's arch-nemesis.
The biblical First Man on Earth, created by the angels themselves, Adam ascended to Heaven following his death and become the Archangel in charge of its military, the Exorcists. Under Sera's permission, Adam runs the yearly Exterminations where he tries to kill as many Sinners as possible, simply for sadistic enjoyment and to avoid a potential rebellion.
He was voiced by Alex Brightman.
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Close to Being Pure Evil?[]
In General/Background[]
- When Adam and Lilith were created by the Angels as the first humans, they were meant to be equals. However, Adam attempted to control her, forcing her to submit, despite their intended equality. This led to her fleeing the Garden of Eden, where she met and fell in love with Lucifer. Together, they offered Eve—Adam's second wife—an apple from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. This act led to the creation of sin and Hell, a realm where souls are sent for their transgressions. Despite his indirect role in the creation of sin, Adam refuses to take responsibility, stubbornly insisting that he has never made a mistake.
- At some point after dying and ascending to Heaven, he convinced a reluctant Sera to enact an annual reduction of Hell's sinner population in the Pride Ring, using an army of Exorcist angels to prevent Hell from threatening Heaven's power. This left the Princess of Hell, Charlie Morningstar—daughter of Lucifer and Lilith—with so much trauma that she eventually created the Hazbin Hotel, aiming to redeem sinners and send them to Heaven in order to end the exterminations.
- His massacre became such a frequent and influential event in Hell that a clock tower was built to count down the days before the next cleanse. Since sinners can only be permanently killed by angelic weaponry, the remaining dark energy in their souls was left to wander into inanimate objects in their surroundings, accumulating by the millions.
- He's shown a complete lack of care for most of his soldiers, as evidenced when his right-hand, Lute, cut out Vaggie's left eye and ripped off her wings before leaving her to die in Hell as punishment for sparing a sinner child. Despite this, Adam showed zero empathy and allowed Lute to carry out the act, proving that he will disregard any fellow Exorcist the moment one ceases to be an asset to his genocidal cause. He also showed no care for the angel Carmilla Carmine killed, only becoming concerned because it meant the sinners could now fight back. Furthermore, when Exorcists were killed during the attack on the hotel, Adam expressed no concern for their deaths, but was rather annoyed upon realizing that their own weapons could kill them.
- Furthermore, the fact that Vaggie spared a sinful child suggests that even children are not safe from Adam's cruelty and genocide.
- His loyalty to Sera isn't genuine; he only follows her orders because she enables his genocide of sinners. He's easily frustrated with being told what to do by her, to the point of disrespect. He has no qualms about disobeying her orders to keep the Exterminations secret, simply to spite Charlie for challenging his views on virtue in court. He only defers to her authority out of fear, knowing she is more powerful than he is.
- He's extremely racist towards sinners, believing they are impossible to rehabilitate and don't deserve to live because of their sins. This is the reason he wants to commit genocide against all of them. What makes it worse is that all of them are his descendants.
- He's repeatedly shown to be a misogynist, having tried to make Lilith submit to him in life and claiming to have dated and had sex with various women in Heaven. In one incident, he became jealous and entitled when one of his dates initially showed preference for a drummer over him. Additionally, he made sure all the Exorcists were women in order to control them, a tactic he failed to use with Lilith during their time in the Garden of Eden.
- He acts condescending and rude toward Charlie for this reason and even named Vaggie after a vagina during her time as an Exorcist, claiming it was "the best thing ever"—a remark she finds demeaning.
- This may explain his disloyalty toward Sera, as he wants to boss around and control women, but he doesn't like it when she tells him what to do.
- While he does have many comedic moments, they don’t detract from his actions or villainy, as his crimes are still played for horror, and he's treated as a serious threat by the narrative. Many of these moments highlight his sadistic, misogynistic behavior and his immaturity, showing he's unfit for the power he wields—such as when he brags about being "the Dickmaster" or takes perverse pleasure in Charlie and Vaggie's relationship.
- While most angels seen in the series are either good (like Emily) or simply flawed (like Sera), Adam and his Exorcist army stand out for their sadistic, selfish, and racist behavior. Adam, in particular, is a hedonist who places his own pleasure and amusement above everything else. He has no noble cause for his genocidal campaign and kills sinners purely for sadistic entertainment—something he openly admits in the song "Hell is Forever." Additionally, he repeatedly exhibits characteristics of the sinners he kills, despite insisting that he is a paragon of virtue. This hypocrisy reveals him to be a delusional figure who tarnishes both Heaven and angels' reputations.
- While his death at Niffty's hands is portrayed in a somewhat sympathetic and comedic manner, the focus shifts more to Lute's grief than to the death itself, making it clear that he ultimately deserved to die for all the sinners he slaughtered.
- It's also karmic, considering Adam was boasting about how superior he was to the demons just before, only to be killed by one in a rather pathetic manner.
- He's widely regarded as the most heinous villain in the Hellaverse, with the highest body count of any villain and responsibility for many events in the series both directly and indirectly. Even after his death, his actions continue to haunt and influence the series and its characters.
- Additionally, he harbors personal animosity toward Charlie, as demonstrated by his killing of Sir Pentious—someone close to her—right in front of her.
Season 1[]
- When Carmilla Carmine killed one of his Exorcists in defense of her daughters, he decided to shorten the deadline for the next Extermination to six months instead of a year and make the next Extermination a global genocide of each and every demon in Hell.
- Even though he rejected Lute's proposal to begin the next cleanse immediately, it's only because he doesn't want to tip off the killer of the Exorcist that they know about one of his soldiers being killed as the real reason for the shortened deadline, making this pragmatic.
- When Charlie told him about the Hazbin Hotel, he sang "Hell is Forever" to mock her belief that sinners could ever redeem themselves and ascend to Heaven before revealing his intention to move up the deadline for the next Extermination to taunt her further.
- Furthermore, in the song he states, "The rules are black and white", showing how delusional Adam is, refusing to acknowledge the morally grey nature of his actions and believing himself worthy of being in Heaven despite his nature.
- Upon recognizing Vaggie with Charlie during their visit to Heaven, he moved to confront them and was only stopped by Lute warning him against making a scene in public.
- After talking to Sera, he confronted Vaggie in private and tried to blackmail her into working for him again and helping him sabotage Charlie's case at the court hearing, threatening to reveal her status as a former Exorcist to her and ruin their relationship.
- While he doesn't find Charlie and Vaggie's relationship to be "vile and blasphemous" like Lute - regardless of if she meant that in a racist or homophobic way - it's purely because he finds it "hot as f**k" due to both being women, which is just another way of showing his misogyny and overall bigotry.
- Even when Charlie managed to show proof to the court that sinners in Hell can be redeemed with Angel Dust defending Nifty from Valentino, he and Lute continued to dismiss her claims while asserting that no one in Hell deserves to be in Heaven. While taunting her, Adam carelessly revealed the exterminations to Emily and the court, horrifying them. While accidental, Adam showed no remorse and shrugged it off as not a big deal with Lute supporting him.
- This would then lead to Emily turning on Sera after she is forced to reveal her role in allowing the exterminations, which devastated Sera and increased her fear of Emily falling like Lucifer. Adam doesn’t show any remorse for this either.
- After revealing the Exterminations to Emily and being promptly called out for his hypocrisy by her and Charlie, he spitefully exposed Vaggie's past to her just so he could break Charlie's spirits, leaving her emotionally devastated and heartbroken.
- After Sera ruled in his favor, he gloated to Charlie and Vaggie about his intention to attack the Hazbin Hotel first on Extermination Day before sadistically sending them back to Hell through a portal, with Sera being disgusted by Adam's cruelty and condemning him for it, forcing him to reluctantly apologize while giving her a dirty look.
- To make this even worse, because of his threat to destroy the Hotel and him revealing Vaggie's past, Charlie was left heartbroken and emotionally devastated to such a degree that Alastor was able to prey on her desperation to manipulate her into making a deal to reveal his knowledge of Carmilla's killing of an Exorcist in exchange for an unspecified favor that could have disastrous consequences for the heroes in the future.
- He attacked the Hazbin Hotel with his Exorcist army, which led to the deaths of dozens of sinners from the Cannibal Colony, Dazzle, Sir Pentious, all but one of the Egg Boiz and even his own army, which he showed no care for.
- He fought and severely injured Alastor with his battle axe, who was forced to retreat as a result of his injuries, with Season 1's closing song showing that he was deeply traumatized by this experience and is now more desperate than ever to find a way out of the deal enslaving him so he can never feel powerless again. While Alastor himself is a bad person, he did not deserve to nearly die at the hands of Adam given he was willing to help Charlie redeem sinners and told Niffty that he grew attached to the residents of the hotel.
- When Sir Pentious tried to attack him with his airship, he casually incinerated the ship with a holy blast in front of everyone, killing Pentious and all the Egg Boiz in it while sarcastically joking that things "could've been ugly" if Pentious managed to hit him, while Charlie and her friends watched in horror.
- Although it would later be revealed that sacrificing himself to save the Hotel from Adam allowed Sir Pentious to be reborn in Heaven as the first officially redeemed sinner, the rest of the Hotel crew are completely unaware of this and emotionally devastated by his death, and not to mention this wasn't even Adam's intention.
- He tried to kill Charlie while mocking her for caring about sinners despite having agreed to spare Hellborn demons in his deal with Lucifer.
- After being attacked by Lucifer, he mocks him for his accidental creation of sin and tries to kill him in a rage after being taunted over losing both of his wives to him.
- In his efforts to kill Lucifer and Charlie, he destroyed the hotel with his holy blast, which almost sent Charlie into completely giving up on her dream before Lucifer lifted her spirits and her friends helped in rebuilding it with Lucifer's powers.
- Even after being defeated and shown mercy by Lucifer and Charlie, Adam refused to accept defeat or show any remorse for his actions and mocked his enemies as lesser than him because, excluding Lucifer, Charlie and maybe Vaggie, they all descend from him as the first man and insists that they should be worshiping him for his role in humanity's creation.
What Prevents Him from Being Pure Evil?[]
- He had a genuine friendship with his right-hand woman, Lute, as they are constantly shown together throughout all of Season 1, and while that could've been chalked up to them just having a shared love of killing sinners, this is completely thrown out the window when he gives her a genuine, comforting smile as she cries over his death, proving that he did truly care for her unlike just about everyone else. While he can definitely be rude to her, this is not a subversion as it only happens when he's irritated for some outside reason, and a demeaning nickname like "Danger Tits" seems to have been a genuine compliment from Adam's side: the smile he gives Lute in his final moments came right after a villainous breakdown, showing that his care for her ultimately outweighed his hatred of anyone else, as well as having no pragmatic reason for this as he was literally dying.
Trivia[]
- Some fans theorized that the reason for Adam’s behavior stems from not actually eating the fruit and thus being incapable of understanding good and evil. If this turns out to be true, he would also have moral agency issues. While it is true that the Bible states Adam did eat the apple, it is unknown if this aspect of the story is true in the Hellaverse's version of the events. For what it's worth, Charlie stated that Eve eating the apple gave all of humanity free will, which Adam should have. He was also shown to understand morality in "Hell is Forever", albeit a naïve and incredibly black-and-white view of it, so this might not affect his morality as much as some might think.
- He and Rolando are the Hellaverse's only Near Pure Evils so far.
- Adam's also the one to come from Hazbin Hotel specifically.
External Links[]
- Adam on the Villains Wiki
- Adam on the Hazbin Hotel Wiki
- Adam on the Entertainingly Detestable Wiki
- Adam on the Shonen Villains Wiki