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| “ | So, I was playin' this gig, and for some fuckin' reason, this virtue chick was diggin' on the drummer, and it’s like, do you know who I am? I'm fucking Adam! I'm the original dick! All dicks descend from me! You think you want drummer dick? No. Way. I'm the dick-fuckin'-master! So, anyway, then we fucked, and it was awesome. What'd you do this weekend? | „ |
| ~ Adam to Charlie about a conversation he had at one of his concerts. |
| “ | No... You don’t get to end this... I’m fucking Adam! I’m the fucking man and you're just some fucking clown or something! I started everything on Earth! All OF MANKIND CAME FROM THESE FUCKING NUTS! You all should be worshipping me! You ungrateful, disgusting, FUCKING LOSERS- GAH! | „ |
| ~ Adam’s breakdown and last words before being fatally stabbed in the back by Niffty. |
Adam is a major antagonist in the adult animated musical dark comedy series Hazbin Hotel, serving as the main antagonist of Season 1 and the overarching antagonist of Season 2.
The biblical First Man on Earth, created by the angels themselves, Adam ascended to Heaven following his death and become an Archangel in charge of his own Paramilitary force, 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[]
- Despite him and Lilith being created by the Angels as the first humans and were meant to be equals, Adam attempted to control Lilith and force her to submit to him despite their intended equality, which led to her fleeing the Garden of Eden. She then met and fell in love with Lucifer, and together, they offered Eve, Adam's second wife, an apple from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. This act led to the creation of sin and Hell, a realm where souls are sent for their transgressions in life. Despite his indirect role in the creation of sin, Adam refused to take responsibility, stubbornly insisting that he has never made a mistake in his existence.
- The backstory would also reinforce the fact that Adam was always a narcissistic jerk even before the main series happened, therefore meaning he is not tragic in any way whatsoever.
- Even if he was still good person in life (hence how he got into the Heaven), he would eventually get so spoiled, he would lose all good qualities he had.
- Additionally, Adam never loved his own son, Abel, for being weak and soft. This is backed up by the fact that Adam never mentioned Abel when he was alive. Abel himself even confirms this once Lute insults him for being unloved. This is shown to have left Abel with insecurities, as in "Curtain Call" he regrets not being "the braver son" between Adam's children and wondering what Adam would've done in his position.
- The backstory would also reinforce the fact that Adam was always a narcissistic jerk even before the main series happened, therefore meaning he is not tragic in any way whatsoever.
- 7 years before the events of the show, he convinced a reluctant Sera to secretly allow him to enact an annual extermination of Hell's sinner population in the Pride Ring, using an army of Exorcist angels to brutally slaughter thousands of sinners in while lying that it was 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, with not even sinner children being spared from his wrath.
- It is also shown through images from Vox that the exorcists actually didn't kill sinners immediately with quick deaths; some of them took joy in torturing them, lining them up to cut their heads off, with many of them defenseless and crying out of fear of getting permanently killed, showing with even more detail that Adam did the exterminations out of fun more than out of any other thing. Leaving Emily and Sera feeling immensely guilty, seeing how serious the impact really took on sinners and more reason why angels don't deserve to be forgiven so easily.
- He's shown to not care for his exorcists, 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 demon child. Despite this, Adam showed zero empathy and allowed Lute to carry out the act. This is also gets supported when it is revealed through a flashback from Vaggie in Season 2 that she had a friend who was not only abused physically and mentally, but she also got her eye and wings cut out just for not being what they wanted them to be, proving that Adam wanted the exorcists to be ruthless psychopaths and not show any sign of "weakness" (aka, empathy). He also showed no care for the angel Carmilla Carmine killed, only becoming concerned because it meant the sinners could now fight back and it was a blow to his ego as it meant angels weren't as strong as they thought. Furthermore, when Exorcists were killed during the attack on the hotel, Adam showed no sadness to them at all, only showing annoyance because they were getting killed by their own weapons.
- His loyalty to Sera is not genuine; while he follows her orders and even apologizes when she calls his comments "uncalled for", this can easily be because she enables his genocide of sinners and she has the power to punish him. 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, even if it was an impulsive mistake and not out of genuine malice.
- He is shown to not actually care about Heaven as a place or their people, since not only he is portrayed has highly narcissistic and self-centered, but even on his rant before his death shows him how much of an egotist he is, thinking people should be worshiping him as if that was something he was always meant to get from everyone.
- He's extremely racist and disdainful towards demons (mainly sinners), believing they are impossible to rehabilitate and don't deserve to live because of their sins, thus making this the reason he wants to commit genocide against all of them. Not only is this massively hypocritical since he is no better, if not worse than them, but 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, the reason why all the Exorcists are women is likely so Adam could control them, a tactic he failed to use with Lilith during their time in the Garden of Eden, and because a pervert like him would love to have tons of women around him.
- 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. To the point that in Season 2, she tries to change her own name so she has no more ties with him.
- This also explains 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. Which is further shown where all of his exorcists are abused if they are not sadists like him, which is one of them suffered the same punishment has Vaggie got later on, showing that he wants to fully have control over them.
- While he does have a huge number of comedic moments, which even include his death, not only are they only amusing to the audience and don’t detract from his actions nor his villainy, as his crimes are still played for horror and he's treated as a serious threat by the narrative, but 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.
- Additionally, the very few scenes he is played entirely for laughs and not taken too seriously by other characters, such as him bragging about his sex life or insulting Charlie about using dictionary definitions, are scenes where he isn't really doing any heinous crimes or really any crimes at all, and once again are there to highlight his awful attitude and blatant debauchery. Any scene that does feature him either doing or ordering any crimes are played seriously by the narrative and is treated with gravitas by other characters.
- According to Lute, Adam was very neglectful towards his son Abel and didn't like him at all for being "weak"; something that Abel himself confirms, which shows that he does not even care about the members of his own family. What's worse is that Abel is shown to care for him (enough to want one of his guitars to remember him or ask what would he do in "Curtain Call").
- While most angels seen in the series are either good (like Emily, his own son Abel, and Saint Peter) or flawed (like the Cherubs and Sera), Adam, Lute, and the Exorcist army stand out for their sadistic, selfish, and xenophobic behavior. Adam in particular, is a hedonist who places his own pleasure and amusement above everything else. While he claims that his exterminations are for giving sinners retribution as most deserve it, he generally 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.
- Additionally, even Lute is played for sympathy due to the heartbreak she feels over Adam's death, while Adam himself remains unsympathetic.
- While his death at Niffty's hands is portrayed as both comedic (him being randomly stabbed mid-rant by Niffty only for her to devolve into a laughing fit while everyone watches in shock) yet sympathetic (Lute crying over his death and begging him to stay with her), the comedy isn't preventing as it's played for satisfaction with the focus being on Niffty, and neither is the sympathy as the focus shifts more to Lute's grief than to Adam dying, making it clear that he ultimately deserved to die for all the deaths that he caused.
- 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. Additionally, a misogynist like him is ironically killed by a traditional 1950s housewife sinner.
- Additionally, Adam is not mourned by anyone in Heaven, apart from Lute.
- Despite the Hellaverse's gigantic heinous standards, Adam easily stands out due to kickstarting the events of the series in the first place by enacting the yearly exterminations, where he would murder thousands, if not millions of sinners for 7 years. Even after his death, his actions continue to haunt and influence the series and its characters, especially since his actions inspired Vox declare war to Heaven and fulfill demons hatred towards them, thus indirectly endangering Heaven and his own kind.
- He also has the unique crime of mass filicide since all sinners he killed are also by default his descendants.
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.
- Throughout the meeting he has with Charlie, he shows little interest in the meeting itself, as he constantly tells jokes, or talks about himself, or even goes so far as to insult Charlie just for being the princess of hell, without showing the slightest importance about anything Charlie wants to say.
- 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, Adam 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 a favor where she would be forced to admit Vox was the strongest Overlord in Hell, which, despite having good results, as it helped Alastor fight him, still nearly led to Vox growing more powerful and being able to wage war against Heaven.
- He attacked the Hazbin Hotel with his Exorcist army on the day of the Extermination, which led to the deaths of some cannibals from the Cannibal Colony, Dazzle, Sir Pentious, all but one of the Egg Boiz and even some exorcists from his own army.
- He fought and and managed to injure 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 without a doubt deserved it due to the crimes he committed both in Hell and life, and was also forced to work there, Adam only tried killing him out of sadism and racism towards sinners, and not out of any disgust or standards.
- 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.
- However, it turns out 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 were completely unaware of this (at least until Emily informed Charlie of this) and emotionally devastated by his death, and not to mention this wasn't even Adam's intention. Even if he found out about this later on, not only he would be proven wrong, but he would also have likely reacted similar if not worse than Lute did when Sir Pentious ascend in Heaven due to how much he hated demons and the idea of redemption.
- He tried to kill Charlie while mocking her for caring about sinners despite having agreed to spare Hellborn demons in his deal with Lucifer, and he would've succeeded in killing her if it wasn't for Lucifer's convenient timing.
- 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 foolishly refused to accept defeat despite that he already lost or show any remorse for his actions and childishly insults his enemies as lesser than him because, excluding Lucifer, Charlie and 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. Despite that he never actually cared about the humanity he claims to give, especially thinking that Demons would actually even worship him after all the pain he put them through, as he childishly rants at them after giving him a taste of his own medicine which in return he didn’t like either.
Season 2[]
- His actions against the hotel and the results of the final battle is what inspire Vox and the Vees plan to villainize Charlie and set up an uprising in Hell to begin a war against Heaven, since they can see that angels, even ones as powerful as Adam, can be killed by demons, thus indirectly setting the events of Season 2 into fruition including endangering his own kind with death.
- Although he is dead, his impact on Lute led to her starting to have hallucinations of Adam that would motivate her into trying to attack Hell, especially the Hotel, to avenge Adam's death, deeming all angels who disagreed with her believes as a traitor.
- His neglect of Abel, has lasting effects on his son's psychological health that are visible to this day.
What Prevents Him from Being Pure Evil?[]
- He genuinely cares for his right hand woman Lute and sees her as a friend, as they are constantly shown hanging out together throughout all of Season 1, including sharing fist bumps and praising her high kill count in the latest Extermination, and he ultimately gives her a honest and comforting smile as she cries over his death. Vivziepop would also clarify that Adam was the only person in Heaven to understand Lute and listen to her, which is why his death affected her as hard as it did.
Trivia[]
- According to Vivziepop, Adam played favorites between his sons (and Abel wasn't the favorite). That implies he possibly cared for Cain, which could also be another prevention for him to keep him from being PE. Although, it could be a minor prevention, as he could simply favorite Cain possibly to Cain due to being a murderer like him. There is also a possibility that it is his third son Seth, as it is also likely Adam disowned Cain and saw him as no different from any other sinner that he's killed. If this turns out to be true, then it could be another prevention.
- Adam is the first Hellaverse character to be approved Near Pure Evil.
External Links[]
- Adam on the Villains Wiki
- Adam on the Hellaverse Wiki
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