"♪ And for those of us with divine ordainment, extermination is entertainment! ♪"*
"Lucifer may be strong, but I'm....petty. I'm going to be the angel on your shoulder for the rest of eternity."
— Zachariah, Supernatural, "Dark Side of the Moon"
When it comes to angels, they can come in a lot of different forms, with some looking like Winged Humanoids, others resembling eldritch horrors, and still others being invisible spirits that act In Mysterious Ways. Regardless, when it comes to morality, angels are generally considered Always Lawful Good, with Fallen Angels being formerly good angels who turned evil and were kicked out of heaven. Additionally, it's usually easy to tell if an angel is fallen or not, as the act of falling usually alters an angel's appearances, a common example being good angels being depicted with white wings while evil ones have black wings.
However, there are some angels who were never good and are visually indistinguishable from the benevolent angels (if there are any). These angels aren't good but scary, benevolent but ruthless, or good but not nice about it. They are, in short, genuinely evil and malevolent. Even if they follow their own alien form of morality, they are overall more bad than good. Sometimes an angel being a villain is a plot twist, while other times it's present from the beginning.
The reason why an angel would be evil without falling can vary. Sometimes it's because God Is Evil, and as a result the angels are evil by extension. Sometimes it's because angels are as morally varied as humans, and are no more inclined to be good than a person is. In a setting with both fallen angels and non-fallen angels it's not uncommon for some fallen angels to be good, or at least not evil, and their reason for falling is either because Heaven is corrupt or because the standards for falling are based less on morality and more on following rules.
In terms of villainy, they are usually self-righteous in their evil, often suffering from Black-and-White Insanity, believing that their actions are good because they are good and that anyone who disagrees with them is an enemy. In terms of how evil they are, some are Hate Sinks who have no redeeming qualities whatsoever, others have some sympathetic qualities even if they are overall villainous, and still others are Anti Villains whose evil actions are motivated by some kind of good intentions rather than selfishness.
In order to qualify for this trope, a character(s) must be an angel/angelic being by the standards of the work in question; Divinely Appearing Demons and other beings that merely resemble angels don't count. Mixed descendants of angels can fall under this trope, as can angels who were once mortals. Anti-Hero and Anti-Villain angels can potentially qualify depending on the context. Of course, in order to qualify for this trope, a character must start and stay on the side of evil — an angel that was once good but became evil counts as a Fallen Angel.
Often overlaps with Light Is Not Good, Order Is Not Good and Unfeeling Heavens. Related to Our Archons Are Different, in that archons are generally villainous figures who are the Gnostic equivalent of angels. See also Benevolent Demon, where demons are good without having made a Heel–Face Turn, which often overlaps with this trope. Compare/Contrast Divinely Appearing Demons for demons that look angelic.
It's entirely possible that an angel described in such terms is the subject of an Unreliable Narrator, particularly if the person describing them is a demonic entity.
Examples:
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Anime & Manga
- Angel Beats!: Kanade Tachibana serves as the main antagonistic force for the Afterlife Battlefront, being an angelic figure constantly opposing the Battlefront and their plans in order to get them to obey school rules (and thus be obliterated). Subverted once it is revealed that Kanade was not divine at all; instead having been a regular lost soul like everyone else. Subverted again once she reveals her true intent was to help everyone pass on into the next world, not to harm them.
- Digimon:
- Digimon Frontier: Lucemon is an angelic child that brought peace to the Digital World but got corrupted by power and was sealed away and that's before he turns into an actual demonic being.
- Digimon Fusion: Slash Angemon is the commander of "Heaven Zone" that rules the place with a totalitarian regime punishing anyone who breaks even the smallest rule, it is later revealed that he was being influenced by the negative energy from the zone that leaked from the place that sealed it.
- Digimon Ghost Game: Clavis Angemon gave sanctuary to some Digimon trapped in the human world in a Pocket Dimension, however some Digimon roamed outside of it and some humans entered his domain leading into conflict with the protagonists until they make him come to reason.
- Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans: The concept of this trope is used in regards to the Mobile Armors as they are named after angels. As autonomous machines, the Mobile Armors were programmed to inflict mass casualties with no emotional attachment whatsoever, enabling them to slaughter whole cities. It was the Mobile Armors who stood at the heart of the Calamity War and led the founders of Gjallarhorn to develop "demons" to fight these angels, the Mobile Suits, the Gundam frames, specifically. During Season 2, Tekkadan encounters the Mobile Armor, Hashmal, who lives up to the Mobile Armor's reputation as it nearly causes havoc upon Chryse city before Tekkadan narrowly manage to destroy it.
- Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt: The Big Bad of Season 2 turns out to be Panty and Stockings uncle, Ramie, along with his two sons, Polyester and Polyurethane. Ramie is the head of Heavens Ethics Department and wants to take it over to force everyone to live up to his impossibly high standards and eliminate all hedonism and debauchery. Unfortunately he also wants to use a Fantastic Nuke to destroy both Earth and Hell for not living up to his standards. After he's defeated, the Anarchy Sisters' dad decides the whole thing was due to Ramie's workaholism causing him to snap and corrupting his sons, since he only treats them as employees, leading them doing anything to earn his approval. He decides to send them on a forced vacation until they're fit to work again.
Comic Books
- Etrigan: Karrien Excalibres is a sociopathic Archangel of War who launches an all-out ethnic cleansing on Hell out of nothing but sheer zealotry and desire to usurp lordship over it to restore order to creation.
- Spawn: Godsend is a sadistic warrior archangel clad in an angelic version of Spawn's symbiote, and forms an alliance with Cogliostro and the Violator to take down Al Simmons. When Spawn confronts him, he even brags about having killed Angela and her allies to enrage him, contemptuously dismissing them as "whore angels".
Fan Fiction
- The Consequences of Hubris:
- Played for Drama; The Anarchy Sisters are Winners who joined Adam's Exorcists. Panty realises that she, her sister Stocking, and Adam are hedonistic jerks but takes this as evidence that they're good people despite their flaws, that the guests at the Hazbin Hotel are deluding themselves into thinking they aren't irredeemable, and that whatever system is responsible for deciding whether humans go to Heaven or Hell after they die knows people better than Princess Charlie does. Then Panty finds out that she and Stocking were grown in a laboratory and their memories of being humans before going to heaven are fake, meaning that Panty and her sister didn't go to Heaven because they were good people in life as she believed. The only reason they exist at all, let alone got into Heaven is because the Big Bad created them and arranged for them to get sent there to use them as Manchurian Agents.
- Played With: When Angel Dust is redeemed and Sera welcomes him to heaven, one of the first things he does is have a massive crashout over the fact that he doesn't feel like he's changed for the better at all from when he was still in hell.
Films — Live-Action
- Constantine (2005): The angel Gabriel started out as something of a guide to Constantine, if a bit condescending, but is in truth a maddened Knight Templar who has come to believe that humanity is unworthy of God's love. Wishing to test their faith, Gabriel works with the demon Mammon, to release him upon the Earth who would then bring pain and horror to humanity, in order to purify them and make them worthy of God's love. Naturally, once Constantine learns of Gabriel's plan, he declares the angel insane.
- Legion: When the former-Archangel Michael arrives at the isolated gas station in the middle of the Mojave Desert, he tells the employees and stranded travelers that God has decided that humanity has become so irreparably wicked that he's sent plagues to cleanse the Earth, and people that die become possessed by angels, who turn into inhuman abominations that hunt down survivors. Leading this purification is the Archangel Gabriel who is also tasked with killing the next Messiah, which coincidentally is being carried by a woman employed at the gas station, to eliminate any vestige of hope of survival and ensure humanity stays wiped out.
Literature
- High School D×D: Most angels who turn evil become Fallen Angels, though Fallen Angels are Not Always Evil in this story. The Khaos Brigade is a terrorist organization made up of various supernatural beings, including some non-Fallen angels who didn't fall because of a loophole within the divine laws. Once they are exposed, said angels are expelled from heaven and turned to Fallen Angels.
- His Dark Materials: The Kingdom of Heaven is a tyrannical regime that instills repressive ideologies across the multiverse and runs The Underworld as a dismal prison camp merely as mechanisms of control. The Authority (actually merely the first angel), Metatron, and the loyalist angels run it, but a rebel faction is trying to replace it with a Republic of Heaven.
- Neverwhere: The Angel Islington was being kept in London Below as punishment for destroying Atlantis, the idea being that once he had learned his lesson for his overzealous enforcement he would be released, reformed after his time in prison. However, Islington felt that he didn't deserve to be punished, and so he was working to arrange an early release with hired killers Croup and Vandemar, murdering Door's family and leaving enough clues that she would come to see him, whereupon he would use her abilities as an Opener to return to Heaven, his intent to overthrow the throne.
- In Robert Westall's short story "Rachel and the Angel", the angel of the title is constrained by celestial rules, but within those rules its aims are destructive ones: in particular, it plans to destroy Rachel's home village and its inhabitants.
- In the lesbian superhero romance novel Transistor by Molly J Bragg, the antagonist is an archangel who is carrying out the Demiurge's orders to kill all of the nephilim, despite the Demiurge having rescinded that order thousands of years ago.
Live-Action TV
- Constantine: Manny presents himself as an ally to Constantine and appears to be trying to help in a Good Is Impotent sort of way. The finale reveals that he was behind the rising darkness that Constantine had been fighting for the entire series.
- Supernatural: Most angels in the series are bigoted jerks who consider humanity beneath them and are ruthless in executing what they believe is God's will, often acting as antagonists to Sam and Dean. Seasons 4-5 in particular show most of the angels working to bring about the foretold Apocalypse, which would wipe out humans.
Music
- Both Breaking Benjamin and Rufus Wainright have songs titled "Evil Angel". The former is more literally, since it describes an evil winged being, while the latter is more metaphorical.
- The New Wave band Prefab Sprout wrote the song “When the Angels” for their second album, in tribute to the then-recently murdered Marvin Gaye. The song posits that angels are actually chronically cheating humanity of its best artists. One reason, they suggest, is envy:
When the angels take the angel voice away
Jealously they see the sometimes man you'd be
Must get so blasé, knowing you'll never die
Lounging on a cloud, polishing the sky
Mythology & Religion
- The Bible: In the Book of Job, this is what (the) Satan looked like. Instead of being a renegade angel in clear conflict with God, like in the New Testament, he's first introduced as a member of the heavenly court that asks for God's permission to put Job's faith to the test and find out whether he will remain pious or pull a Faith–Heel Turn. And God sanctions his test. Nevertheless, and in spite of the terrifying losses he suffers at the hands of (the) Satan, Job never loses his faith in God and the angel loses his self-imposed bet.
- A number of biblical apocrypha, such as the Books of Enoch and Jubilees, feature angels known as "accusers" (the etymological root of "devil" comes from this word), "destroyers," or "angels of darkness". These angels essentially carry out God's dirty work, visiting temptations, punishments, and destruction on mortals. Critically, although these angels are referred to as "satans", they are not fallen angels who rebelled against God, but seemingly acting in accordance with the darker side of His will, as their actions have the ultimate goal of testing humanity and punishing sinners. Some scholars have speculated that their purpose in the religious tradition is to offload the malice of God's more wrathful actions, allowing Him to remain a benevolent figure.
- In Merkabah mysticism and other hekhalot literature angels as a whole despise mankind, being jealous of them as favoured creations of God and disdaining our putrid mortal bodies. To ascend to the divine "palaces" and obtain divine knowledge one must lead a very strict diet as to not cause flatulence and other bodily functions and try to appease with the less stringent of them. But failure to do so will result in death or at least a horrible trip.
Tabletop Games
- Curse of Strahd: The Abbot of the Abbey of St. Markovia is a deva in disguise, i.e. a low-ranked angel who came to Barovia initially to honor St. Markovia's service. Over a century of careful manipulation, however, Strahd von Zarovich has managed to effectively drive the Abbot insane, so that the latter has simply not noticed his alignment shifting from Lawful Good to Lawful Evil and still believes that the suffering he causes to his wards and neighbors is justified For the Greater Good, i.e. for lifting Strahd's eponymous curse and healing Barovia. Even mechanics-wise, he's basically just a regular deva, except he just happens to be Lawful Evil, something that should otherwise be impossible.
- Dungeons & Dragons:
- Aasimar are mortals descended from or otherwise have some connection to Celestials, and while they usually tend to be good, this is no guarantee. Some Aasimar even take advantage of their kind's reputation for being good because people would usually believe the Aasimar over their victims.
- In the 4th Edition, Angels are servants of the gods and always match the alignment of their god, which means that there are Evil and Chaotic Evil angels.
- Magic: The Gathering:
- The plane of Amonkhet was conquered and its civilization destroyed and rebuilt in ancient times by the malevolent planeswalker Nicol Bolas. To steward over the plane, he created angels, whose sole purpose in the new system was to silence any rebellion. They shut dissenters in sarcophagi and strand them in the desert to starve to death. When Bolas returned, the angels aided his efforts to exterminate all the citizens still left alive so his zombie army could march unimpeded.
- On the plane of Kaldheim, angels, known as valkyries, serve the purpose of judging the worthy dead. They come in two types, who travel in pairs. The black-aligned reapers are the type that fit this trope, as their function in the duo is to reap the cowardly and abandon them to Istfell, a featureless plane of mist. Unlike their white-aligned opposites, the shepherds, they do their job proactively, and they'll slaughter whole villages if they judge their populace to be unworthy.
- On Ravnica, angels are aligned with the Boros Legion or the Orzhov Syndicate. The former are violent extremists and the latter as corrupt as the rest of their Corrupt Church. Tellingly some angels abandoned the Boros to help the gateless.
- Warhammer 40,000: A strange case exists in the form of Angron, Primarch of the World Eaters and currently a Daemon Prince to the Chaos God Khorne, as he has been called "The Red Angel". Tying into the idea of the Emperor's "angels" (Space Marines), Angron's version is instead purely chaotic and bloody. Further, its likely that Angron is called such for appearing as a massive, winged, red figure drenched in blood, constantly consumed by rage, making him an "angel of death" for his enemies, fitting the themes of blood, fury, and apocalyptic destruction.
Video Games
- Bayonetta: The Angels of Paradiso are the main antagonists of the series, in a sort of thematic inversion from the series' spiritual predecessor. As a very strong example of Light Is Not Good, these angels are villainous monsters, with gold plating and marble-white masks concealing horrific faces and alien eyes beneath.
- Darksiders: In this franchise, Angels are part of what is called the First Kingdom and have waged war with the Demons of the Second Kingdom for millennia. While many of the angels seem honorable and dutiful, there are some who are so dedicated to protecting their realm that they have become ruthless and paranoid, heedless of the consequences — all the while maintaining a Holier than Thou attitude. While the angels are more than likely to ally with the protagonists, the Four Horsemen, it's not uncommon for them to learn that an angel's scheme has played a part in the misfortunes of the story.
Ulthane: Angels with ambitions 'ave always fouled up things fer the rest of us.
- Deepwoken: Angels are winged humanoid beings with masks signifying them as minions of Watchers, who are sent into to finish off those not killed by the Watcher's insanity-inducing gaze. They are notorious for having incredible posture and also wield Soulwrought Spears or recolored Iron Spears to attack enemies while keeping their distance.
- Diablo: Although generally more sympathetic than demons, angels are indifferent to humanity at best and actively hateful at worst. When Sanctuary and the Nephalem were discovered, the Angiris Council voted on whether they would exterminate humanity, and sparing them won by only one vote, a vote cast by Tyrael who came to see the good in humanity. Imperius in particular considers humans to be no better than demons and will happily kill them when given the opportunity. By the end of Diablo III: Reaper of Souls, the Player Character decides that neither angels nor demons can be trusted and sets out to help humanity forge its own destiny.
- Disgaea: Hour of Darkness: The Archangel Vulcanus is the Big Bad of the game who plots to overthrow his boss, the Seraph Lamington, and become a god. He believes firmly that angels are always good, and he himself is good despite committing actions such as the aforementioned attempted betrayal, trying to kill Flonne, a fellow angel, and in the final chapter hiring an army of demons to fight the heroes despite claiming that demons are all evil. Notably while Flonne is punished for betraying Celestia by being turned into a Fallen Angel, Lamington considered Vulcanus so evil that he turned Vulcanus into a flower, implying that Lamington, who understood that demons were Not Always Evil, thought Vulcanus was Beyond Redemption despite being a fellow angel.
- Doom Eternal introduces the Maykrs, a species of angel-like beings that reside in the holy realm of Urdak. Before the events of the Doom series took place, the Maykrs made a deal with the demons of Hell: in exchange for a limitless supply of Argent Energy with which to prevent Transfiguration (normally a part of the Maykr life cycle but which has been thrown out of whack by the absence of the Father that would make new Maykrs), the Maykrs would assist the demons in harvesting the life essence and souls of other species and further expand the dominion of Hell.
- In Dwarf Fortress, angels are servants to the setting's Jerkass Gods, are among the most dangerous entities in the game, and will almost certainly kill you if you set foot in their domain. They can only be found in divine vaults, where they guard an artifact containing the true name of a demon, whom their patron god once summoned into the world for the express purpose of causing havoc.
- The Elder Scrolls: The Daedric Prince Meridia is a very unusual combination of this trope with a Fallen Angel, helped by TES's decidedly non-Christian cosmology. Once, she was one of the Magna-Ge, lesser Anuic (Orderly) gods who created the stars when they fled Mundus to avoid being bound in it. Desiring a realm of her own, and apparently consorting with unworthy spirits, she fell into Oblivion, realm of the Daedra. Despite this, she did not become Padomaic (Chaotic) as the Daedra generally are; she alone of the Daedric Princes (save for Jyggalag, Daedric Prince of Order) retains her fundamentally Anuic nature (for better and for worse). She's overwhelmingly a being of light, who loves colour and beauty, and scorns all forms of The Undead. By all accounts, none of this is a facade; she really is a traditionally "holy" angel in most every respect (including consistently being depicted as a beautiful Winged Humanoid). It's just that she also happens to be incredibly vain, valuing zealous worship far more than any abstract moral ideals. To that end, she was the chief deity of the Ayleids, who offered her up human sacrifices, and whom she nearly helped return to reconquer Cyrodiil.
- Final Fantasy VII:
- Though not an angel in the traditional sense, Sephiroth's most famous epithet is the "One-Winged Angel" and as described, he is often seen with a single pitch-black wing. Even his most infamous signature attack, the "Heartless Angel", pretty much reflects his nature. Once regarded as a famous hero and the crown jewel to Shinra's SOLDIER program, after learning of his origins and connection to the entity Jenova, Sephiroth went mad. Now the lives of others mean nothing to Sephiroth, being no more than tools for his plans to assume control over the planet, which he claims as his birthright.
- Similar to Sephiroth himself, Genesis Rhapsodos and Angeal Hewley are both 1st Class SOLDIERS who were experimented on with Jenova Cells, leading them to develop attributes like Sephiroth does. Namely, gaining a single angel-like wing.
- While Genesis's degrading state leads him to develop a single black it slowly becomes more grey as the degradation enters into a more advanced state. Nonetheless, Genesis remains firm in his desire to become a "hero" like Sephiroth but he tends to believe himself entitled to such a reputation. Further, upon learning of his condition, he rebels against Shinra in his efforts to locate a cure, heedless of the consequences his actions have.
- Angeal could be considered a downplayed version of this. Unlike his former friends, Angeal maintained his code of honor and sense of duty but the degradation that comes with being a SOLDIER ultimately wore away at his mental state, ultimately leading him to clash with his protege, Zack Fair. Tellingly, whereas Sephiroth and Genesis developed black wings, Angeal developed a white wing.
- Final Fantasy XIV: The Shadowbringers expansion introduces the Sin Eaters. Created by the Flood of Light, these are creatures of primordial light where many bear an angelic appearance. Despite their bright and holy-like appearance, they are in fact mindless beasts who have plagued the world of The First, a shard of the Source world, that hunt what is left of the realm's people, taking their aether to feed themselves or leave "seeds" of their light behind to turn survivors into sin eaters themselves. Vauthry, ruler of the city of Eulmore and who possessed the ability to control sin eaters, making them docile in his presence, constructed a lie regarding the sin eaters stating that they devour the sinful while carrying the virtuous to paradise (i.e. those who submit to Vauthry's rule). In truth, this is merely a means to justify his "divine" rule and it is revealed that Vauthry himself is a Sin Eater, a powerful Lightwarden whose true appearance is like that of a golden angel but his twisted aims of creating a paradise for himself remain the same.
- Hollow Knight: The creator of the Infection is a moth deity, whose design and color scheme invoke an Angelic Abomination.
- Might & Magic: Heroes VI: In a scheme to save themselves from extinction, the angels managed to incorporate themselves into places of power within the Holy Falcon Empire, convincing their leaders to change their religion from Ylath to the angels' own deity Elrath. After this, they began implanting the souls of dead angels into unwitting human hosts, resurrecting their kin and growing their own influence further. Despite the conspiracy being uncovered, they were too influential and the angels remain in power within the human kingdoms all the way until Dark Messiah of Might and Magic.
- Sennen Sensou Aigis: The angels of Tenkai that follow God's word devoutly obey his command to "purify" the lands of the humans — that being to burn their villages to the ground and Leave No Survivors to rid of the "impure" beings. By contrast, the angels who have chosen to defy God's word and show support for humanity instead have become Fallen Angels. Miruno is an example of an angel who starts off following the word of God, but throughout her debut event starts to realize the weight of her actions, leading to her eventual falling and siding with the Prince's army.
- Shin Megami Tensei: Due to the fact that God Is Evil in this setting, the vast majority of angels in the series tend to be some flavor of evil, with their usual goal being to create a "utopia" where humans are stripped of their free will, which they accomplish through acts such as genocide of all but a select few, mass-brainwashing, and creating harsh laws. That being said, there is nuance in that there is the occasional Token Good Teammates who might decide to make a Heel–Face Turn when their compatriots go too far.
- One of the most notable angels to be considered this trope is Mastema, Angel of Hostility and Prosecution, who, despite technically being on the side of humanity, is a manipulative, deceitful monster in what amounts to a black ops position within the angelic hierarchy who has little issues with Mind Rape, dealing with demons and even commanding them, and hurting the people he's supposed to be helping as long as it's for a higher cause. The problem is that his personal power and standing are far, far higher in his priorities list than anybody else is comfortable with, and the power implied to be his direct patron (which, terrifyingly, is way, way higher on the totem pole than the God of Law) is so above the petty concerns of any single universe that by default his goals are incomprehensible to mortals.
Web Animation
- Helluva Boss:
- C.H.E.R.U.B. are a trio of angels who, on the surface, seem like the Good Counterpart of I.M.P., being dedicated to protecting the still-living loved ones, and even trying to stop Lyle Lipton from trying to commit suicide. However, said good deeds are strongly implied to be done out of a desire to make themselves look good. In addition, despite knowing that Lyle is an evil man who experimented on the poor to produce scientific breakthroughs mainly benefiting the rich, they never once try to reform him.
- Keenie is the worst of C.H.E.R.U.B., as, unlike Collin and Cletus, who try to be civil with I.M.P., Keenie (being a literal Bitch in Sheep's Clothing) has a Hair-Trigger Temper and while her compatriots hate I.M.P. for trying to interfere with them saving Lyle, Keenie hates them simply for being demons, calling them "loathsome beasts".
- Deerie's standards for her fellow angels are so high that she banishes C.H.E.R.U.B., who, while not perfect, are overall dedicated to doing good on Earth, simply because during their fight with I.M.P., they accidently killed a human despite the fact that several other humans died during the battle and C.H.E.R.U.B. was trying to prevent said man from committing suicide. Unlike most examples of this trope, she's superficially polite, which arguably makes her more loathsome because of how fake she comes off as when "apologizing" to C.H.E.R.U.B. when kicking them out of Heaven.
Web Originals
- In The Salvation War, God (Yahweh) is a narcissistic tyrant and angels do his cruel bidding, keeping human souls in Heaven as virtual slaves. When the living humans of Earth find out what's been going on up there and declare war, the angels launch a genocidal war against them, including use of a series of magical WMDs known as the Bowls of Wrath.
Web Videos
- A for Angel
Downplayed with Radiant, or "Ray", her insistence on everyone using their free will to make their own decisions makes her come across as an aloof jerk, to the point that when she and Clementine are assigned to give a human girl advice on a moral dilemma regarding how to make friends, the girl notes that Clementine's advice is something she expected Ray to be saying. Clementine's teacher actually tries to convince Ray's teacher to have Ray attend her class in exchange for Clementine, but Ray's teacher declines claiming their dynamic somehow still works.
- Critical Role: Campaign Four: The death of the Shaper Gods reduced all Celestials to mindless, berserk killing machines. It's yet to be shown whether they can return to their senses, but, given that each one is a Person of Mass Destruction, mortals don't want to test their luck.
Western Animation
- Adventure Time: In “Dungeon”, Finn is being stalked by a demonic cat-creature when a beautiful angelic-looking being comes to his rescue, claiming to be his guardian angel. The being heals him and mends his clothes, then tells him she will take him to the dungeon’s treasure… before revealing a Nightmare Face and threatening to cook and eat him.
- Hazbin Hotel:
- Adam, an Archangel and the first human man, is basically a complete douchebag who doesn't care about the concepts of right and wrong and only conducts the Exterminations of Hell's Sinner population purely for his own entertainment and in a belief of his own superiority.
- Lute, Adam's chief lieutenant however, is an unhinged Blood Knight who takes pleasure in slaughtering demons but unlike her superior, she possesses a Black-and-White Insanity mindset which unnerves Adam, refusing to believe that she and the Exterminations as a whole are wrong. After Adam is killed at the end of season 1 and Sir Pentious' ascension to Heaven was deemed legitimate, she full on loses it.
- Sera, the overall leader of Heaven, is a downplayed case, for while she is kind and wants to protect her subjects, her fear for their safety has led Sera to make some morally questionable decisions such as allowing the annual Exterminations of Hell's Sinner population, fearing a possible uprising. That being said, she quickly realizes that the Exterminations were a horrible mistake early in Season 2 thanks to Sir Pentious managing to become an Ascended Demon and most of her character growth is dedicated to figuring out how to genuinely be better than her many, horrific mistakes.