stolas is a bad character

from /hhg/ Helluva Hazbin general # 787
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stolas is a bad character
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I've made this argument before, but Helluva Boss is essentially a story where the villains are the protagonists.
>Blitzo
Knowingly and deliberately obnoxious, mean, intrusive, immature person. Has sabotaged a previous relationship and is openly contemptuous and callous about his current one, despite his partner being nothing but openly affectionate toward him. In spite of all this, he keeps coming out on top whenever the consequences of his mistreatment of others rear their ugly heads.
>IMP as a whole
Assassins serving a clientele of the worst the human race has to offer. They carry out hits for people who are DAMNED. Martha's family is an unusual case; the majority of their victims are going to be people like cops who couldn't be bought off, whistleblowers who outed unrepentant pedophiles and rapsts, etc. Imagine someone catching the babysitter diddling their kid, calling the cops on their ass, getting them jailed, and soon enough their life enters a tailspin that takes them straight to the grave, but hey whaddya know there's an afterlife and there's a company in it that will jump up to the living world and kill anyone you have a beef with for cash. Suzy Homemaker who chased off the kiddyfker and saw that they got exactly what they deserved ends up strangled to death with piano wire all because even after literally being damned to Hell for what he did, the only thing Johnny Kiddyfker regrets is getting caught
>Stolas
Betrayed his wife. Continues to betray her at every opportunity. Shows no regret for his actions until it becomes clear that his infidelity is making his daughter miserable. He infantilizes said daughter enough that he thinks a trip to the amusement park, which she expresses disinterest in, will be all it takes to fix things, and doesn't pick up on the fact that he's just making her even more unhappy until she runs away from him.
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Oh this is very much the case, the simple fact is the show has yet to really reinforce this, and has only hinted it at.

At most you got the small hints of it in the first episode, as an example, with Moxxie's moral dilemma over potentially killing innocent Humans, of course that got blown over when their targets were more evil than them.

I don't think the show is going to start off with such an approach, I'd expect it to to possible introduce those concepts in future episodes. Now weather the main characters will just accept they are bastards, or if they may try to change their ways or how they operate, remains to be seen.

Or it'll just be ignored, anything is possible
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I stand by Stella even though I favor Stolas more in terms of character. As Viv said at a convention Q&A, the love is gone. And he doesn't know how to explain that to his daughter, that he doesn't love his wife anymore. Instead of being a mature adult telling her. He fked an Imp (working class) in the bed where Octavia was conceived and where Via was pushed out her mother's canals. Mentally damaging Stella. Stella was confirmed hurt by the cheating. She didn't care for just status. But to double the trouble, Stolas obliterated their reputation by fking an Imp pleb.

I feel like Stolas loves his daughter more than Blitzø and would throw him away for Via. Because his daughter is all that matters to him. I feel like he's immature and didn't handle things properly. I don't think he had any malicious intent to hurt Stella. Or anyone. He just got swept up and turned on. It happens and not he's dealing with the consequences of his actions.
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I would be extreamly impressed if the show gives Stella some character depth beyond 'cold-hearted btch'. I think it would be too easy to let Stolas off the hock for his infidelity, or trying to twist the scenario to somehow justify Stolas's actions while condemning Stellas.
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It would be but I kind of get the sense that Stella is just going to come out of this looking like a one-note badguy. All they've given us thus far is negative

>Octavia wakes up from a nightmare and calls for her parents
>Stella, the blanket-hog btch, to her husband:"You get up"

>Husband cheats on her
>Picks up an unrelated imp and hurls him across the room like a dodgeball
She has every right to be upset, but her poor doormat of a butler didn't do anything wrong, he shouldn't have to pay for Stolas being a dck.