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Animated musical comedy Hazbin Hotel is kinda bizarre about demise. I imply, the present is ready in literal Hell (with the occasional go to to Heaven), and but there’s nonetheless a yearly occasion (referred to as the Extermination) in which demons die by the hands of weapon-wielding angels. So what’s the deal? Do the demons go another place once they die? At San Diego Comedian Con 2025, collection creator Vivienne Medrano, AKA VivziePop, answered that very query.
Medrano was talking at a press spherical desk that occurred simply after the very well-attended Hazbin Hotel/Helluva Boss panel on the San Diego Conference Heart. Popverse was additionally on the roundtable, so we bought to hear her reply to this considerably esoteric lore query. However earlier than she answered, Medrano needed to make clear one thing.
“[The question of death in Hell] iss positively one thing that we probably will discover,” she stated, “So I am unable to definitively reply.”
Nicely if that is not an enormous tease I do not know what is. However high quality, Viv, let’s simply get into these non-spoilery basic explanations – it isn’t like we’re dying to know future plot factors from the Hellaverse creator herself.
“What makes the stakes so excessive,” Medrano says, “Is that there’s primarily a second demise in the present. The closest factor I can reference, despite the fact that it isn’t what I bought it from, is [Disney/Pixar’s] Coco. You’ll be able to simply stop to exist.”
Sure, that is an actual menace that exists in the world of hit animated movie Coco, which offers with a considerably much less demon-infested, far much less raunchy afterlife.
“That actuality may be very scary to me,” continues Medrano, “And in some methods is even scarier than people dying. That is why in Helluva Boss, we deal with demise so trivially. As a result of in this universe, we all know that they will find yourself in both Heaven or Hell, so we do not really feel as unhealthy as people when people die from the IMPs. At the least, I do not”
These IMPs, by the way in which, are the Instant Homicide Professionals, the assassins on the heart of Hazbin Hotel’s sister collection. Did you not know that? God, sustain.
“In Hazbin,” Medrano concludes, “When people die, even when we do it in a comedic means, there is a a lot darker tone to that. As a result of it is a bit of bit extra finite.”
Just a little bit extra finite? What does that imply?? I am simply saying, I hope we discover out quickly -because if there’s such a factor as Purgatory on Earth, it is ready for extra lore from Vivienne Medrano’s Hell.
Hazbin Hotel season 2 comes to Prime Video October 29.