/hhg/ talk about ep 4 of helluva boss part 4

from /hhg/ Helluva Hotel general #668, #669, #672, #678
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why the fck didn't lipton use the machine
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this
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Trauma would be my guess.
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you expect this unscrupulous bstard to overlook the obvious solution because of the "trauma"?
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why didn't blitzo just shoot the old fck
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probably because Lipton was already trying to kill hmself
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Yeah, but... They were SENT to KILL him.
Much of the episode's plot could've been avoided if they just did their fcking job,
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Dont try and inject logic or coherency into this show anon, believe me. You'll likely blow a major artery in your brain.
Just remember than IMP is staffed by functional rtrds who only got where they are because their rrded boss/founder banged a high level goetian prince that has a magic teleportation book.
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>Dont try and inject logic or coherency into this show
Remember when we tried to give a logical explanation to vaggies name and vivzie just went
>Lol vagatha
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I have no idea how you could logically explain a name like Vaggie, its just Vagina and Fay rammed together.
I am interested on what /hhg/ came up with though, I must've missed that conversation.
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Stealing this from twatter, but I guess now your appearance in hell is indicative of how you died (because he got crushed by a piano)
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https://twitter.com/Cosmic_Brownee/status/1371158715848593412
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Alzheimers.
He just forgot.
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We suggested her name was Margaret, Maggie corrupted to Vaggie
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i would assume cherubs have more powers than imps, so, if Blitzo tried to kill Lipton, the cherubs would probably desintegrate him
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But they got into a fight later in the episode anyway.
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Eh... They got those piddly little crossbows, and Moxxie and Blitzo did run from them, but... Eh, they seem about evenly matched, except that the cherubs can fly.
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Has anybody talked about the portals? The portals to hell are on the ground and the portals to heaven are in the air. I think it’s a neat touch.
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Portals out of Hell aren't always on the ground, they did open one up on a wall in the first episode. I do notice that Hell portals always seem to require a surface to be opened, but the portal to Heaven that the cherubs open seems to just be floating in mid air. I guess Heaven's tech level(? What the fck do you call it when its magic shit instead of technology?) is higher than Hell's.
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Out of hell, earthside they’re always on the ground...?

No actually huh I’m totally wrong. They opened one in the air to drop the kids body and they had one sideways in the woods in episode one and it wasn’t attached to any surface either no?
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Oh sht you're right I forgot about that sht.
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So mild inference guesses.

>the CHERUB advertisement is heavily implied to have been advertised for the citizens of Heaven to tune into, it would seem hell TV's can pick it up by coincidence of being in close proximity
>heaven makes use of a currency based economic system akin to Earth and Hell, per the CHERUB's "refusal" to accept cash payment for their services
>ergo this would imply that there are jobs and services in Heaven, although the extent this is relevant is not made clear (do you need money to live or can you live a great (after)life of fulfilment and contentedness without needing money, but money gets you extra things?)
>the CHERUB's don't really seem to actually care about the "shitty old man" they were protecting

This is less a inference and more a guess but I would not be surprised if Heaven ends up with a slightly similar hierarchal structure to Heaven in that most 'heaven' born entities are technically ranked below Human born angels (or whatever their heaven based term is going to be called)
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>or whatever their heaven based term is going to be called
Saint ?
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Martyr?
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Probably just soul, since they're good or saved souls.
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How bout spirit?
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Bit too ghost-esque.
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>IMP straight up murders an entire crowd of innocents just to get at one guy
So much for all the BS headcanons about Moxxie being a moral paragon lol
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To quote someone else from a few threads ago:
>Imps almost seem to be biologically hardwired to only be able to fck, fight, and work, acting as a bio engineered slave caste for high demon lords/princes
They're the cannon fodder of Hell. To them, humans are either just "sinners-in-waiting" (or "soon-to-be anarchic asholes who drive down property values and reinvent feudalism with assault weapons"), or not their priority.
The reason why Moxxie had an issue killing a family and children in episode was because he probably wants to become a family man himself. He's visibly distraught at the end of the episode over the police killing the father and the kids, and wanted the guy to go to prison, rather than offing him.
He's empathic, but not moral - he has no qualms killing teens and tweens at Verosika's concert, and Millie's bloodlust turns him on.
This could be because both of them are from the Wrath ring, and are thus drawn towards violence (they start fcking on the rope while fighting the cherubs).
Plus, since sinners only contribute to the overpopulation crisis, he'd prefer that they'd go to Heaven.
Even Blitzo had a minor hang-up on killing a child in the pilot (not for long, though).
In general, they seem to be on the sliding scale between amoral and immoral, with Moxxie having the most empathy, Blitzo at least being aware of moral and social issues (knowing that global warming is bad, questioning if someone literally wants to kill a kid), but is more pragmatic than to let those halt them, while Millie is just bloodthirsty.

tl;dr, IMP is not psychopathic/sociopathic/incapable of empathy, they're immoral. They're hitmen.