On the day of the new extermination, the members of the Hazbin Hotel and their allies face off against the Exorcist army, leading to a battle that will determine and forever alter the future of both Hell and Heaven.

Tropes

• 11th-Hour Costume Change: For the final battle against the angels, several characters wear new clothes; Charlie trades her suit for a red and black dress, Vaggie wears a grey bodysuit and ties her hair in a ponytail, Angel Dust and Cherri Bomb wear some striped suits and Sir Pentious decides to wear a 19th century military uniform. Even Adam wears a different tunic for the occasion, featuring more spikes and mainly colored purple.
• 11th-Hour Ranger: Lucifer doesn't come to help fight until after a lot of casualties (specifically Sir Pentious) have happened and his daughter has almost been bested by Adam. Justified as he had personally decided to not get involved in the Exterminations unless his daughter was in danger, and he does manage to put Adam through the wringer at least.
• Aborted Declaration of Love: Sir Pentious tries to work up the nerve to confess to Cherri the night before the battle, but ends up chickening out partway through.
  Sir Pentious: I want to tell you that I...I love...I'd love to wish you good luck in the battle ahead!
• Accidental Hero: Niffty just happens to kill Adam in the process of following her orders to stab any random angel she sees, and is then treated like a hero by 666 News.
• Accidental Pun: During the battle, Husk states in frustration "These fuckin' Angels won't stop coming!" getting a laugh out of Angel Dust. Husk admits he walked into that one.
• Achievements in Ignorance: By making a Heroic Sacrifice, Sir Pentious inadvertently manages to become an Ascended Demon and go to Heaven, which not even he saw coming.
• Affectionate Nickname: Niffty dubs Alastor "King Roach", which the latter finds utterly adorable.
• Air Quotes: Adam uses air quotes when he says "Nice voice" to Alastor, visually indicating his mockery.
• Alas, Poor Villain: Downplayed. Adam's Villainous Breakdown shows him as more pitiful than anything, the cast looking annoyed he won't shut up, but then expressing shock more than anything at Adam being stabbed In the Back by Niffty, Lucifer acting awkward when pointing out he has a blade through his chest, while Vaggie is smiling happily at seeing him die. Adam's death is treated with a slight bit of somberness though thanks to Lute's anguished reaction, cradling his head in her arm as he gives one last content smile towards his friend before dying, and Lute being forced to abandon his body after Lucifer and Charlie tell her to leave, only being able to take his halo as proof of his death.
• Ambiguous Situation:
  • Why Lilith made a deal with Adam and how she's been in Heaven, or wherever she is, is unclear, as is whether or not this is indeed where she's been for the last seven years.
  • What the qualification was that allowed Sir Pentious to ascend to Heaven at the very end is unknown, with even him being confused as to why he's not just dead. Whether it's because he died in Hell via an act of selflessness or something else entirely is unclear.
• Ambiguous Syntax: Played for Laughs. When giving Niffty a role in the oncoming Extermination, Charlie tells her to "stab every angel she can see." Unfortunately, she seems to forget Angel Dust is with the hotel, and has a panic when she has to stop Niffty from stabbing him first.
• An Arm and a Leg: Lute gets her left arm pinned down under fallen rubble, giving Vaggie an opportunity to kill her. Rather than take it, Vaggie opts for the Cruel Mercy of letting Lute live knowing that the "failure" spared her. Lute is so enraged by this, and fanatically committed to the Exorcist's goal of purging sinners, that the second Vaggie's back is turned, Lute yanks on her injured limb until it tears clean off so she can quickly rejoin the fight, managing to make up for the handicap with sheer bloodlust and ferocity.
• And There Was Much Rejoicing: Except for his Psycho Supporter Lute, everyone is happy to see the back of Adam (especially when said back is covered in bloody stab wounds) once they get past the shock that it's actually possible for him to die. Vaggie in particular can't keep the grin off her face while Niffty perforates him.
• Apologetic Attacker: Charlie says sorry to every angel who attacks her. Vaggie asks her to stop.
• Asskicking Leads to Leadership: Zig-zagged. As the one with the most combat experience, Vaggie takes command of the troops, even though she's not the person with the most raw strength: that would be Charlie, who's too pacifistic to be an effective general (at least, until Sir Pentious dies).
• Ax-Crazy: Lute's fanatical enjoyment of killing sinners gets to the point that even Adam tells her to tone it down a little when she gets carried away during a pre-battle Rousing Speech. When Vaggie spares her life as a Cruel Mercy when she becomes pinned underneath debris, she's both so committed to the cause and pissed off at that fact that she doesn't blink at mutilating herself to get free and continue the fight, making up for such a grievous injury with sheer feral ferocity.
• The Bad Guy Wins: From Heaven’s perspective, this is certainly the outcome of the siege. Adam is dead, most of the Exorcists have also been slaughtered (and in exchange for comparatively few Hellish casualties), and Heaven’s suffered its first ever military defeat. Worse, Adam’s actions have shaken their greatest adversary (Lucifer) out of his malaise and he’s now taking an active interest in Heavenly affairs again for the first time in millennia. And then, just to rub salt in the wound, the Princess of Hell gets the last laugh when Sir Pentious ascends and vindicates her belief that Sinners can be redeemed.
• Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: While Charlie asks for Adam to be spared and Lucifer complies, Niffty, who remains as Ax-Crazy as she was since the start of the series, is the one who kills Adam.
• Bargain with Heaven: Lilith apparently made a deal with Adam that is rendered void upon his death; the exact terms are still unknown.
• Bait-and-Switch: The show has placed a lot of focus on Angel Dust's small-steps journey to redemption, with him being the first guest at the hotel and being the focus of Heaven's trial over the potential for sinners to be redeemed, but it's actually Sir Pentious who winds up being the first sinner to become successfully redeemed. Not even he knows what exactly tipped the scales in his favour, with it being implied his Heroic Sacrifice contributed in some manner.
• Bare-Handed Blade Block: The Vaggie vs. Lute fight starts with Lute lunging at Vaggie with her sword and Vaggie catching the tip between her hands before turning it aside.
• Battle Couple: Charlie and Vaggie are constantly fighting side-by-side and working together until they get separated near the climax.
• Better than Sex: When Vox is watching the battle and sees Alastor about to fight Adam, he shouts that he's "so hard right now!" and when it looks like Adam is about to kill Alastor, he screams that "this is better than sex."
• Big Badass Battle Sequence: Nearly a third of this season finale's runtime is taken up by the defense of the Hotel from Adam and his Exorcists. Everybody gets to chip in a little bit and contribute at least one cool moment, and their are several shots of the Cannibals engaging the Exorcists in larger-scale skirmishes.
• The Big Damn Kiss:
  • Charlie and Vaggie finally get a full romantic kiss after a reprise of "More Than Anything", backlit by soft peachy lighting. As their kiss continues, the camera pulls back to show them framed picturesquely by their environment, with dusky colors and shadows surrounding their immediate circle of light.
  • Pentious pulls Cherri into a dip, kisses her, and confesses that he loves her before his Heroic Sacrifice, complete with accidental fireworks in the background courtesy of one of Cherri's dropped bombs.
• Big Finale Crowd Song: "Finale" caps off the season with a big ensemble number sung by Charlie, Lucifer, Alastor, the rest of the denizens of the Hotel and even Vox and Valentino as Hell looks to the future and the gang survey their handiwork, namely a newly-refurbished and even bigger and grander Hazbin Hotel.
  Charlie & Ensemble: We can do this, we'll be better, though redemption may take a while
  Wayward Sinners, clear their ledger
  Alastor: And we're doing it with a smile!
  Charlie: We'll make a difference, wait and see
  Charlie & Vaggie: We're gonna do this, you and me
  Everyone: And then tomorrow it will be a fucking happy day in Hell!
• Big "NO!":
  • Charlie utters one while in shock after Sir Pentious and the Egg Boiz get disintegrated by Adam.
  • Lute lets out one when she sees Adam dying.
• Bittersweet Ending: The latest Extermination ended with Heaven being conclusively defeated for the first time ever, Adam was killed in the battle along with a large number of Exorcists, the Hazbin Hotel has been rebuilt with Lucifer's official backing, Cherri becomes one of the hotel's residents, and Sir Pentious's Heroic Sacrifice was enough for him to become an Ascended Demon, going to Heaven right in front of Emily and Sera, overjoying the former and shocking the latter by proving it is possible for Sinners to be redeemed. However, there's some bad things that happened as well. The rest of the Hotel is unaware that Sir Pentious is in Heaven. Dazzle, a lot of Sinners from Cannibal Town, and all but one of the Egg Boiz were all killed. The Vees, under the assumption that Alastor was killed, are plotting to make their move now that an Evil Power Vacuum is in effect (with Vox in particular heavily implied to be plotting something involving Niffty). Alastor, shaken by his near-death at Adam's hands, is scheming to free himself from his own leash. And worst of all, despite being down an arm, Lute is now in charge of the Exorcists and going to someone who had made a deal with Adam, intending on having them put a stop to Charlie: Lilith.
• Blood Is the New Black: All of the hotel residents are covered in splotches of Exorcist blood by the time the battle is over.
• Bookends:
  • In the pilot, Alastor offered everyone jambalaya after defeating Sir Pentious. After Adam is beaten here, Lucifer offers everyone pancakes in a similar manner.
  • The first song of the season, 'Happy Day In Hell' ends with the lyrics: "Today is gonna be a fucking happy day in hell!", while 'Finale' ends with "Tomorrow will be a fucking happy day in Hell", showing how after everything that has happened Charlie has learned that while change may take time, she has brought genuine hope to her people.
  • The beginning of "Finale" also harkens back to the opening lyrics of "Happy Day in Hell", with Lucifer telling Charlie "you can do this, now I know it" and that she's "changed [his] mind [and] touched their hearts".
  • The pilot ends with a Stinger revealing that Sir Pentious is Not Quite Dead after his Curb-Stomp Battle with Alastor, crawling out of a hole created during the fight. At the end of this episode, Sir Pentious has yet again escaped certain death, this time by ascending to Heaven after Adam obliterated him.
• Bow Chicka Wow Wow: When Lucifer taunts Adam that his wives "didn't seem to hate what [Lucifer] had to offer", he follows it up with a "bow-chicka-wow-wow" while doing Pelvic Thrusts.
• Break the Haughty: Adam spends the majority of the fight extremely arrogant and condescending as usual, at most expressing annoyance. Once Charlie gets enraged following Sir Pentious's sacrifice and Lucifer shows up, he slowly has a Villainous Breakdown as he's subjected to a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown, feeling pain for the first time, his face exposed behind his now broken mask, and refuses to be shown "mercy", ranting about how he's better than them and should be worshiped by them simply for being the Original Man, too distracted to notice Niffty stabbing him In the Back.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: One of the questions on the 666 News crawl near the end of the episode is "When is Season 2 coming out?"
• Brick Joke: Back in "Dad Beats Dad," Lucifer absently noted that the railings outside the hotel on the upper floors were unsteady and could lead to someone falling. Vaggie takes advantage of that lack of proper bracing to collapse the railing on Lute's head.
• Bring It: A villainous example — when Charlie inflicts the first actual injury on Adam, possibly in millennia? His response is to chuckle "okay" and charge her.
• Broken Faceplate:
  • Lute's faceplace is knocked off when Vaggie collapses part of the hotel on her.
  • Lucifer breaks Adam's faceplate in half when he punches him, revealing Adam's face to the audience for the first time. The rest is beaten off after Adam makes the mistake of trying to attack Charlie after Lucifer has arrived.
• Broken Win/Loss Streak: The ending of the Extermination attempt on the Hazbin Hotel sees Hell getting its first victory over the Exorcists. Adam was killed along with a number of Exorcists, Lute lost an arm because of her duel with Vaggie, Lucifer personally intervened in the fight and took a vested interest in his daughter's plan to redeem Sinners thanks to Adam's interference, the victory was broadcast across all of Hell so all the Sinners know that Heaven can be beaten, and Sir Pentious became an Ascended Demon which proves that Charlie's plan can work. A few Sinners also died in the battle against the Exorcists, but by any metric that can be measured, Hell conclusively won the fight for the first time ever.
• Buffy Speak: Lucifer summarizes Adam getting suddenly stabbed In the Back as "You got something sticking out of your... your thing there."
• By the Hair: When Vaggie feebly tries to reach for her spear during her fight with Lute, Lute grabs her by the base of her ponytail as she kneels to taunt her to her face.
• Call-Back:
  • In "Radio Killed the Video Star", Niffty kicked Sir Pentious in the tail and said that he wasn't a "bad boy" after he decided to give the Hotel a legitimate shot. Here, he becomes the first Sinner to be redeemed.
  • Lucifer asking everyone if they're up for pancakes after the Exorcists are defeated echoes Alastor offering everyone jambalaya after he wiped the floor with Sir Pentious in the pilot.
  • Sir Pentious getting sent to Heaven due to how he followed Adam's "guidelines" from "Welcome to Heaven". Act selfless (sacrificed himself to save the Hazbin Hotel), does not steal (He never stole anything and returned the scrap of cloth he snatched from Alastor) and stuck it to the Man (in this case, Adam, the original Man).
  • Sir Pentious saluted Lucifer in "Dad Beat Dad". The Hazbin staff salute a picture of him as part of a Due to the Dead.
  • When Lute tears off her arm pulling herself free of the rubble Vaggie dropped on her, she is shown as a black silhouette on a red background, the same as when she was shown tearing out Vaggie's eye in "Welcome to Heaven".
• The Cameo:
  • Both Carmilla and Rosie are shown smiling as they hear the broadcast about Charlie's victory.
  • Two of the sinners shown from behind watching Katie Killjoy's broadcast about the end of the Extermination are Baxter, a character originally meant to be part of the main cast before his role was filled by Sir Pentious, and Arackniss, Angel Dust's older brother.
• Cannot Spit It Out: Sir Pentious tries to confess his feelings for Cherri during the last night celebration before Extermination Day, but his anxiety once again gets the better of him.
  Pentious: Ms. Bomb?...Cherri...?
  Cherri: Yeah?
  Pentious: I want to tell you that I...I love...I'd love to wish you good luck in the battle ahead!
  Cherri: ...Ok?
  Pentious: You are...have always been a Worthy Opponent...with the most brilliant explosive contraptions I've ever seen...!
  Cherri: Uh...thanks?
  Pentious: Anyway, I guess...PLEASE DON'T DIE TOMORROW, OK BYE!
• Captain Obvious:
  • Lute states the obvious when she observes the shield that Alastor projects around the Hotel to box the Exorcists in, annoying Adam.
    Lute: They appear to have some kind of shield, sir!
    Adam: Oh? Really? I didn't see this giant fucking shield in front of me, you DUMB BITCH! NO SHIT!
  • Lucifer also states the obvious after Niffty stabs Adam through the chest.
    Lucifer: Hey, y-ya got somethin' stickin' outta your... your thing there.
• The Cavalry: Lucifer arrives at the last moment to help Charlie during her battle with Adam, and the two promptly subject him to a serious Curb-Stomp Battle.
• Chekhov's Gag: Early in the episode, Charlie gives Niffty a stiletto dagger and tells her to stab any angel she sees wth it, which is treated as a punchline when she mistakenly tries to stab Angel Dust. After the Extermination is over, Niffty stabs Adam in the back while he's in the middle of his Villainous Breakdown before violently aerating his insides with about twenty more wild stabs, which ultimately kills him. Niffty apparently puts it best in a later interview with 666 News: "Charlie told me to stab, so I did".
• Clothing Damage: A self-inflicted example. Before delivering the final blow to defeat Lute, Vaggie uses her spear to rip off her uniform from her back to let her wings come out.
• Cluster F-Bomb:
  • When Alastor's summoned creatures crawl up on Adam he lets this out.
    Adam: And you're- fuck- fuck you- you red piece of fuck- you mothe- red- fuck! Shut up!
    Alastor: Ha ha ha! Poetry!
  • When Alastor escapes Adam, Vox is incredibly disappointed.
    Vox: No! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Pussy!
• Comical Coffee Cup: When Valentino remarks on Lucifer's verbal blunder, he's seen holding a mug that reads "Pimpin' not Simpin'".
• Continuity Nod:
  • Niffty once again freezes on camera while being interviewed for killing Adam.
  • Velvette's picture of Carmilla with the poop emoji filter from "Scrambled Eggs" is used to represent her on Vox's String Theory board.
  • Lucifer can be seen being less than happy at Alastor's return, still not liking the Radio Demon following "Dad Beat Dad".
• Copycat Mockery: When Adam derides Charlie for risking her life for sinners, she angrily responds, "These sinners are my family!" Adam mockingly repeats her words, making fake sad eyes.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Niffty finishes Adam's Villainous Breakdown by impaling him with an angelic dagger Back Stab, and then goes at him with it like he's a vegetable on a chopping board once he falls over, sending High-Pressure Blood all over the place. It's played entirely for Black Comedy, with nearly the entire cast, including some of Hell's most jaded, battle-hardened demons, reacting in shock and horror at how sudden and gruesome it is (except for Vaggie, who's absolutely delighted, and Vox, though equally shocked, is amused).
• Cruel Mercy:
  • Vaggie spares Lute when she has her at spearpoint and the latter is pinned by her arm under debris, not because Lute deserves to live, but so that she'll be stuck knowing the only reason she's still alive is because a "failure" like Vaggie let her live. Unfortunately for Vaggie, she underestimates Lute's determination and ferocity when she uses this opportunity to tear her own arm off to get loose and comes roaring back for Round 2.
    Lute: Do it, then. Correct your mistake.
    Vaggie: Seriously, you're pathetic, you know that? Ready to die rather than accepting mercy? No, live. Live knowing you only do because I let you, the failure.
  • When a pissed-off Lucifer has smashed Adam into a crater and is giving him a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown, finishing by trying to force-feed him a Holy Hand Grenade, Charlie stops him as Adam is too beaten to be a threat anymore. Lucifer complies just to rub in Adam's inferiority to him even more, furthering his humiliating Villainous Breakdown, but unfortunately for him Niffty is on a stabbing spree for any angelic foe on the ground (dead or alive) and winds up finishing him off In the Back. Multiple times.
    Lucifer: How's mercy taste, you little bitch?
• Curb-Stomp Battle:
  • Sir Pentious charges Adam in his blimp, charging its Wave-Motion Gun in a last-ditch attempt to take him out or die trying. Just before it can fire, Adam vaporizes the blimp and Sir Pentious along with it completely by reflex.
  • Lucifer is easily in control of his fight with Adam, even when he's not taking the Exorcist seriously. When Adam makes the mistake of trying to kill Charlie in front of him, the King of Hell goes full Papa Wolf and gives Adam a much deserved No-Holds-Barred Beatdown.
• Curb-Stomp Cushion:
  • Adam vastly outmatches Alastor in raw power and eventually strikes a significant blow which forces Alastor to flee, but Alastor puts up a good show for a time because of how Unskilled, but Strong the angel is, easily dodging his wild swings and creatively using his powers to strike from unexpected angles. While he's not able to actually hurt Adam, he frustrates him greatly.
  • Charlie isn't able to defeat Adam on her own either, but she is the first person to be able to actually hurt him when she spears him in the shoulder with her trident, drawing golden blood, and hurling him into the wall.
  • Overall, the Exorcists' first half-year Extermination ended with them on the receiving end of this trope from the Hotel. When all was said and done, the Extermination ended in less than an hour; they didn't make it past the Hotel and Adam ended up dead alongside many Exorcists. The most they managed to kill were a bunch of cannibals, and Sir Pentious (who ascended to Heaven immediately after). In the final accounting, knowing the Exorcists annually slaughter thousands of Sinners, this is an unmitigated embarrassment for Heaven's army.
• Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon: The only vitriolic enough insult Lute hurls that manages to freak out even Adam is when she orders the Exorcists to "rip Vaggie's cunt-mouth out her ass".
• Damned by Faint Praise: Katie Killjoy compliments Charlie and her crew for "not being totally fucking useless" after they drive off the Exorcists and stop the Extermination.
• Darkest Hour: Sir Pentious and the Egg Boiz have been killed by Adam, the rest of Charlie's allies have been rounded up by other Exorcists, Vaggie is being pinned down by Lute, and Charlie is now at the mercy of Adam, who's perfectly willing to kill her.
• Deal with the Devil: Or angel, as the case may be. Lute alludes to Lilith cutting a deal with Adam, which is now void because of his death.
• Death by Irony: Adam, an egotistical self-righteous misogynistic angel, dies by Niffty, a female sinner with the lowly role of a janitor.
• Death Equals Redemption: Sir Pentious sacrifices himself in a failed attempt to try to take out Adam with his airship and gets vaporized, and ascends to Heaven at the end of the episode as a Winner because of it.
• Deathly Unmasking:
  • Subverted with Lute, who loses her mask and is left at Vaggie's mercy to die. Vaggie, however, chooses to spare her.
  • Double Subverted with Adam. Lucifer and Charlie try to spare his life despite Lucifer shattering his mask, but Nifty comes by and finishes the job.
• Deflector Shields: Alastor conjures a magical barrier around the hotel to trap a group of Exorcists inside while keeping the main force out. It also sprouts tentacles wielding angelic weapons to strike down the ones outside the shield. Adam eventually destroys it by punching it.
• Demanding Their Head: Adam offers a reward of a million Heavenbux to any Exorcist who brings him Vaggie's head before launching the attack on the Hotel.
• Didn't See That Coming:
  • Everyone is completely caught off-guard when Niffty comes behind Adam and stabs him repeatedly. Vox sums it well.
    Vox: Hoooooooooo-ly shit.
  • After Sir Pentious dies sacrificing himself trying to take out Adam, he later ascends right in front of Sera and Emily in Heaven. Not only is Pentious shocked that he's "alive", but so are Sera and Emily as Charlie is proven right that a Sinner can be redeemed and ascend to heaven. Emily is ecstatic at the revelation while Sera looks baffled.
• Didn't Think This Through: Targeting the Hazbin Hotel to massacre all the Sinners there probably sounded fun and fitting, but Adam utterly fails to consider that he's breaking the long established pact between Heaven and Hell by going after Charlie personally. This frees up Lucifer to intervene, someone leagues more powerful than Adam. This also concentrates all his forces into a single location, which managed to get fortified and armed in time, instead of targeting the rest of Hell that is still Locked Out of the Loop, leading to heavy casualties on his side including himself and the invasion ultimately repelled with a relatively small number of demon casualties.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Niffty of all people is the one who ends up killing Adam without even realizing it, having spent the majority of the battle stabbing Exorcist corpses due to Charlie telling her to stab any Angel she sees, and just started stabbing Adam vigorously in the middle of his ranting. Downplayed in that Adam was already on the brink of defeat, having been worn down by opponents far above his and Niffty's level, but still an impressive kill on her part.
• Died in Your Arms Tonight: A devastated Lute holds Adam's body as he dies, with him giving her one last reassuring smile.
• Disney Death: What seemed to be Sir Pentious being vaporized in a attempt to stop Adam up-close at first glance turned out to be him dying only to ascend to Heaven shortly afterwards for his courage to offer up his life for his friends.
• Distant Duet: "Finale" is a Heroes VS. Villains nonet between the main cast as they rebuild the Hotel, the Vees as they plot to take over Hell, and Alastor as he has a Villainous Breakdown in the ruins of his radio station.
• Don't You Dare Pity Me!: After Adam is beaten senseless by Lucifer and Charlie says he's had enough, Adam drags himself out of the crater he was left in, refusing to accept defeat or the mercy the demons were giving him. He screams that they don't get to be the ones who end things and goes on a rant about how he's the first man and they should all be worshipping him, before finally being killed by Niffty.
• Double Tap: Niffty can be seen repeatedly stabbing fallen Exorcist corpses on the battlefield, though she's probably not intentionally doing it to make sure they're dead.
• Dragon Ascendant: With Adam now dead, Lute has taken command of the Exorcists, reluctantly ordering they return to Heaven after Lucifer and Charlie demand so. She makes clear she is not done with getting rid of the Hazbin Hotel, voiding Adam's deal with Lilith and conscripting her into helping stop her daughter.
• Dramatic Irony:
  • Vox and the Vees are happy to Pass the Popcorn and watch the Hotel get slaughtered by the Exorcists from the comfort and safety of V Tower. They don't understand that this isn't a standard Extermination and that Adam's determined to wipe out Hell's entire Sinner population this time. If the Hotel falls, the Vees and everyone else will be next.
  • Charlie assumes Alastor is dead when he fails to hold Adam off, unaware that he just made a tactical retreat. She learns of his survival when he returns at the very end.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him:
  • Sir Pentious gets killed off in a rather sudden manner when Adam blasts him away while the former and his minions try to hit him with their death ray. Subverted once it's shown that he actually made it to Heaven for his act of valor.
  • Played straighter with Adam, who gets killed off when Niffty stabs him a couple of times after his Villainous Breakdown.
• Due to the Dead:
  • Once the hotel is rebuilt, the staff and guests hold a wake for Sir Pentious as a send-off for his Heroic Sacrifice, saluting an ornate Memorial Photo-style painting of him holding his beloved Egg Boiz while wearing his general's uniform. Even Lucifer joins in.
  • A golden statue of Dazzle is placed in the new Hotel's lobby to serve as a memorial.
• Dynamic Entry: Lucifer's entry into the battle is a fist smashing into Adam's face while he's busy bragging about how he's about to kill Charlie.
• Emasculated Cuckold: The backstory in "Overture" previously established that Lilith had fallen for Lucifer over her husband Adam. So once the ultra-macho Adam realizes just who's entered the final battle, he furiously tries to kill the King of Hell on the spot. An amused Lucifer just rubs this past adultery in Adam’s face, then implies he also seduced Adam's second wife (Eve) at some point (either in the Garden of Eden or after her expulsion). Adam, naturally, doesn’t take this taunt and revelation well.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: This episode shows without a doubt Adam and Lute's friendship was genuine. When Adam dies, Lute is devastated and immediately cradles him with her one arm, while Adam has a warm smile when he looks at her.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Even Adam gets a bit unnerved by Lute's levels of Ax-Crazy behavior towards Vaggie, and tells her to tone it down.
  • Even the sex loving Adam and Vox are weirded out by how Lucifer said he was "going to fuck Adam". Lute and the other Exorcists are noticably weirded out by that statement.
• "Everybody Helps Out" Denouement: A portion of "Finale" is dedicated to showing Lucifer and the Hotel crew rebuilding a bigger and better Hotel from the ashes and rubble of the old one, showing just how close-knit they've become over the course of six months.
• Everything's Better with Sparkles: As Charlie and Vaggie sing "More Than Anything (Reprise)", gold-white dust motes float around them and occasionally shimmer, adding to the romantic atmosphere.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: When attacking Charlie, Adam notes that he's surprised that Charlie is risking her immortal life for Sinners, since Adam himself can't see them as anything but victims to be slaughtered while she sees them as her Found Family (which he mocks).
• Evil Power Vacuum: The Vees believe that the recent chaos may help them expand their power even further, though their celebration about Alastor fleeing is a bit premature. While they didn't actively participate in the siege, their decision to just sit back and enjoy the show yields the greatest dividends from Charlie's victory. Stopping the latest Extermination has left the other Overlords weakened. Even better, their biggest rival Alastor is also (initially) MIA and was left seriously wounded by Adam. The Vees, by contrast, are rested and refreshed with the rest of their power base and resources wholly intact. They are now in a position to advance their schemes and influence in a way that, even with Alastor's prior absence, wasn't possible before now.
• Exact Words: Charlie tells Niffty to stab any angel she sees. After Charlie says this, Niffty zooms in on Angel Dust, brandishing her dagger. Charlie quickly tells Niffty that Angel Dust is off-limits before Niffty can cause any trouble.
• Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: When Adam re-enters the final battle, Charlie and Vaggie don't understand how this is possible; Charlie remarks Alastor was supposed to handle the Exorcist. The words are barely out of her mouth before she draws the obvious conclusion: Alastor did fight Adam and he must have been KIA. Even though Alastor’s still alive and they’re mistaken, regardless they've now lost their heavy hitter and Adam's still on the field.
• Eye Scream: One Egg Boi who isn't wearing safety goggles looks directly at the light of an active welding torch Sir Pentious is using and almost gets himself blinded.
• Face Death with Dignity: Credit where it's due, when Adam is fatally stabbed by Niffty and bleeding out in Lute's arms, never once does he try to beg or plead for his life, just giving Lute an assuring smile before he dies.
• Face Realization: Alastor is horrified after the battle is over when he realizes that he very nearly became a martyr for Charlie's cause due to almost dying protecting the Hotel, something which shakes him enough that he resolves to throw off his own figurative bindings and double down on his manipulative efforts.
• Failed a Spot Check: This is part of what gets Adam killed. Thanks to the distraction of his Villainous Breakdown, both Adam and the surviving Hotel characters completely miss the incoming Niffty until she’s already plunged the angelic dagger into his back.
• Failed Attempt at Drama: After saving Charlie from Adam at the last minute, Lucifer tries to make a Badass Boast about how hurting her was a big mistake on Adam's part, only to say to him that because of it, he's going to "fuck [him]". Everyone stares at him in silence (except Angel and Valentino, who look interested by his claims), and Charlie has to correct him that it's "fuck [him] up".
• Family of Choice: When Adam expresses disbelief that Charlie would risk her immortal life for sinners, she outright calls the Hotel members her family.
• Fascinating Eyebrow:
  • When Lucifer says he's going to fuck Adam, everyone present stares incredulously at him except for Angel, who smirks and cocks an eyebrow while a duck quacking sound effect plays.
  • Lucifer himself gives a bored one during Adam's angry tirade post-beatdown, unimpressed that he's still Bullying the Dragon.
• Fight Bell Hijinks: When Vaggie and Lute begin fighting, a ringing bell can be heard.
• File Photo Gag: When 666 News reports on Adam getting killed by Niffty, the file photo is an awkward photo of him eating ribs.
• First Injury Reaction: Adam shouts "The fuck?! That hurts!" when Charlie stabs him in the shoulder with her pitchfork.
• Five-Second Foreshadowing:
  • When he has Charlie on the ropes, Adam sadistically tells her that it's 'Time to die', and the eyes, mouth and voice of his mask flicker as he says those words. As it's been confirmed that Lucifer made the deal that the hellborn would be spared from the Extermination and the Exorcists would only go after sinners, this shows that Adam has officially gone back on the deal, and allows Lucifer to pull a Big Damn Heroes moment five seconds afterwards.
  • During Adam's Villainous Breakdown, the camera pans across Charlie and the rest of the surviving cast. Niffty is conspicuously missing from the lineup, setting up her bloody entrance moments later. Similarly, in the moments before Adam topples over, there's no visible attacker behind him. That means whoever stabbed him must be someone very short. No two guesses which member of the cast meets that specific height criteria.
• Foreshadowing: During the celebration the night before Extermination Day, Sir Pentious raises a toast to "being alive today and not dying tomorrow", heralding the fact that he's the only major Hotel occupant who will die in the upcoming battle.
• Formerly Fit: Implied with Adam when Lucifer sizes him up during the final battle. Lucifer taunts Adam has really let himself go since the Garden of Eden days. While Lucifer may just be screwing with him, it's worth noting the Adam of the Storybook Prologue in "Overture" had a moderate Heroic Build. By contrast, Present Day Adam has skinny arms and has only been seen wearing large, loose robes that conveniently hide his figure (robes which none of the other Exorcists favor). Combined with his unhealthy dietary habits throughout the Season, and Lucifer's taunts may actually be right.
• Freeze-Frame Bonus:
  • Alastor's shadow briefly grimaces after Adam strikes a critical hit on him, showing how much the battle has rattled him.
  • When Vox loudly proclaims that watching Alastor get his ass beat is Better than Sex, Valentino can be seen to give him a disapproving, slightly hurt look.
  • As with all other 666 News segments, the news crawl in this episode is totally off its meds if you take a second to pause and read it:
    News Crawl: Holy shit holy fucking shit the Extermination is over? Does this mean they aren't coming back? I'm shitting and cumming rn!!!![...]srs tho? wtff for real? What is this gonna mean? When is season two gonna come out? Crying holyfuck—
  • After Katie Killjoy shoves Tom Trench out under their news desk, he can be seen a little later climbing out from under it, glowering at Katie before the image insert covers his face, at which point he flips the camera the double bird with his still-visible hands in exasperation.
  • When Vox throws a knife at a picture of Alastor, you can see that the photo was ripped and that Vox was actually in it with him.
  • At the very end of the reprise of "Happy Day in Hell" when Velvette takes a selfie with the other Vees, you can see Vox and Valentino making out, confirming their relationship is still sexual which had previously only been mentioned by the creator in interviews.
• Frontline General: Both Charlie and Vaggie are front and center when the war begins, although it's played more straight for Vaggie, who's the one giving commands (alongside Sir Pentious, who's acting as rear support).
• Funny Background Event:
  • As Sir Pentious attempts to confess his feelings to Cherri, Charlie can be seen watching in the background with hearts trailing from her head before Vaggie shoves her out of the shot.
  • When Charlie points out that Alastor was supposed to be handling Adam, Niffty, who was knocked down by one of Adam's attacks, holds up a thumbs up from where she's lying face down on the ground in the background.
• Furry Reminder: Angel makes an offhand comment to Cherri Bomb that he's heard Sir Pentious has two dicks, like actual real-world snakes... something she expresses interest in.
• General Failure: Adam’s obsession with getting even with Charlie causes him to lead his army in swarming the hotel as their first target, which ends up getting a good chunk of the exorcists killed along with himself thanks to how unprepared they all were to fight back against Lucifer Morningstar and his family, not to mention all the sinners who now have the tools needed to fight them back.
• Get Out!: After Adam's death, Lucifer firmly (but politely) orders Lute and the surviving Exorcists to leave Hell.
  Lucifer: Take your little friends, and GO HOME! Please~
• Gone Horribly Right: Even though Lucifer spared Adam at Charlie’s request, he ended up killed by Niffty anyway, simply because she was doing what has been told to her (stabbing angels, who is not Angel Dust, on sight), and Adam was too distracted by his Villainous Breakdown to notice her.
• Greek Chorus: The Vees provide a running commentary on the battle as they watch a broadcast of it from their tower.
• Group Hug:
  • In "Finale", after Charlie's friends lift her spirits, she gathers them all in a group hug. Husk, who is on one end, wraps his wings around the others.
  • When the hotel is completed, the crew gathers together in a loose group hug. Just then, Alastor appears in their midst. Most of the others gather around him, happy for his safe return, with Charlie and Niffty hugging him and Vaggie putting an arm around his back.
• Guest-Star Party Member: Cherri Bomb joins in defending the Hotel despite not being a guest, although she plays it off as relishing the opportunity to go into battle with Angel. She ends up becoming an official guest by the end of the episode.
• Gun Struggle: While fighting Lute, Vaggie grabs a shard from the floor, but Lute grabs her arm and forces the shard toward her own eye. Vaggie manages to roll them over, then Lute kicks her off, ending that particular struggle.
• Happy Dance: A villainous one — Valentino and Vox triumphantly dance together to celebrate Alastor's disappearance and the other Overlords being left weakened in the aftermath of the battle.
• Heh Heh, You Said "X": Angel Dust lets out a laugh when Husk exclaims "These fuckin' Angels won't stop coming!" during the battle. Husk himself admits he walked right into that one.
• Hell Invades Heaven: Inverted; the climax of the season is an invasion of Hell's Hazbin Hotel by forces of Heaven's Exorcists.
• Heroic BSoD: Everyone in the hotel when Adam vaporizes Sir Pentious' blimp.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Sir Pentious tries to take out Adam with a suicide run of his Airship, but Adam vaporizes him and the ship without even realizing what was happening. Pentious then goes to Heaven at the end of the episode, thus confirming him as the first redeemed sinner.
• Hidden Agenda Villain: Whatever game Alastor is playing, he's added a new goal to it after being thrashed by Adam and briefly faking his death: free himself of the "leash" he's shackled to, and make himself stronger so that all will know and fear him.
• Hit Flash: When Lute cuts through Dazzle's wing and when Vaggie slashes the balcony rail to let the rubble behind it fall on Lute, the slashes are shown as flashes of white on a black screen.
• Holding Hands: During "Finale", as Charlie's friends and allies are cheering her up, they extend their hands to her. Charlie takes Angel's and he gives her a hand standing up.
• Hope Spot: Alastor vs. Adam after the Hotel’s shield comes down. Initially, the Radio Demon lives up to his reputation and manages to hold his own with superior fighting skills. For a moment, it looks like he might just be able to beat Adam and they can shut down the Extermination here and now. Then a frustrated Adam falls back on raw power to compensate, completely demolishing Alastor's defenses and nearly killing him. A wounded Alastor's forced to withdraw, leaving Adam still on the field and the defenders without their heavy hitter.
  • Their fight also ends up being one for Vox. He's ecstatic, believing his old rival's met his match and is about to get his ass kicked. When Adam does indeed severely injure Alastor and knock him out of the fight, a jubilant Vox reacts like Sinsmas came early this year. Then, Alastor retreats before Adam can deliver the killing blow. Vox can only respond with impotent, childish rage at being denied this victory-by-proxy (though he's ultimately satisfied that the Radio Demon has at least been left humiliated and weakened).
• Horrifying the Horror: The reactions of demons and sinners alike to Niffty killing Adam and cheerfully stabbing his corpse repeatedly. In Valentino's case, you can clearly tell he's remembering "Welcome to Heaven" and realizing just how much worse his own run-in with Niffty could have been.
• Holy Halo: When he changes to his One-Winged Angel form, the snake and apple on Lucifer's hat migrate to his new horns and form a parody of a halo.
• I Just Want to Be Free: During Alastor's part of "Finale", in a very uncharacteristic moment where we can clearly see just how freaked out his brush with death has made him, Alastor sings about his increased resolve to free himself from the deal on his own soul and once more assert the power he feels he's lost.
  I'm hungry for freedom like never before
  The constraints of my deal surely have a backdoor
  Once I figure out how to un-clip my wings
  GUESS WHO WILL BE PULLING ALL THE STRINGS!? AHAHAHAHA!!!
• I'll Kill You!: Granted, Adam was already trying to kill Lucifer during the final fight. But when Lucifer taunts Adam by reminding him how he seduced Lilith and Eve — and left their husband cuckolded twice — Adam completely loses it and invokes this.
  Adam: I'LL FUCKING END YOU!!!
• I'm Okay!: Niffty is knocked down by one of Adam's attacks and holds up a thumbs up from where she's lying face down on the ground.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Niffty kills Adam by stabbing him through the chest... and then stabs him two dozen times more out of pure bloodlust.
• Improvised Weapon:
  • As Lute slams Vaggie into the floor for the first time, Vaggie grabs a shard from the floor, though she doesn't get a chance to try and use it.
  • After Lute slams Vaggie's face onto a table, Vaggie takes advantage of a brief moment of distraction from Lute to grab Alastor's radio from the table and bash her in the head with it.
• In the Back: Adam is ranting about how the Sinners should be grateful to him because he's the first man and thus their progenitor when a blade suddenly pops out of his chest. It turns out it's Niffty, who finally found a living angel to stab.
• Insult Backfire: When Adam angrily says Lucifer is "the most hated being in all of creation", Lucifer says Adam's first wife and second wife liked what he gave them.
• Insult of Endearment: Angel has pictures on his door of Charlie, his fellow residents, and Fat Nuggets. These are labeled, respectively, "that bitch", "these bitches", and "my baby".
• Internal Reveal: The Angels finally learn that their own weapons, angelic steel, can be used to kill them during the battle.
• Irony: Lucifer took the form of a snake and caused the fall of man and was banished to Hell as punishment. Sir Pentious, a snake demon, is the first Sinner to ascend into Heaven after sacrificing himself to save his friends.
• I Should Have Been Better: Charlie blames herself for Sir Pentious' death and the destruction of the hotel. She insists that if she had convinced Heaven to work together with them then they could have avoided all the bloodshed and not let everyone down. Lucifer cheers her up by pointing out her actions created positive changes for Hell and she has the full support of him and her friends in rebuilding.
  Charlie: He did it for us. The ultimate sacrifice.
  He gave me his trust, and look how he paid the price!
  This bloodshed could have been avoided if I'd convinced Heaven to work together!
  I took a hotel and I destroyed it! I know I could have done better! Better, instead of letting you down!
• I Will Tear Your Arms Off: Lute threatens Vaggie with a line like this in their Lancer vs. Dragon fight which also doubles as a Pre-Asskicking One-Liner:
  Lute: Before I take your life, I'm going to tear that other eye out of your face.
• Just Toying with Them: Lucifer doesn't take Adam remotely seriously in their fight, annoying him by transforming into various animals while casually dodging each and every attack Adam throws at him. He then rubs salt in the wound by pointing out how both Lilith and Eve liked what he sold them, infuriating Adam to the point of throwing a Kamehame Hadoken that levels the hotel. Despite this, Lucifer still barely pays attention to Adam until Adam tries to strike Charlie in front of him, resulting in Lucifer losing his shit and subjecting Adam to a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown.
• Karmic Death: Adam, who believed himself to be the greatest thing ever to hit creation and is responsible for the deaths of countless sinners, is killed absent-mindedly by the hotel's sinner janitor during his Villainous Breakdown.
• Killed Off for Real: Adam is stabbed to death in the middle of his Villainous Breakdown by Niffty, who is hailed as a hero in the aftermath for it. Lute also strikes down Dazzle, and over the course of the battle, all but one of the Egg Boiz are killed, as are numerous Cannibals.
• Know When to Fold 'Em:
  • After getting his staff broken in half and getting wounded by Adam, Alastor retreats from the battle to save himself by disappearing into the shadows.
  • With Adam dead and the King of Hell directly intervening, Lute wisely heeds his demand that she and her Exorcists leave Hell at once.
• Lame Comeback: When Alastor's summoned creatures start climbing over Adam during their fight, Alastor berates Adam over his approach to only use as much raw power and brute force as possible when getting into battle against anyone. Adam is too distracted to come up with anything clever in response, just giving a Cluster F-Bomb and then a Big "SHUT UP!".
  Alastor: You lack discipline, control, and worst, you're sloppy.
  Adam: And you're...fuck...fuck you...you red piece of f-too much fucking red...fuck...shut up!
  Alastor: Hahaha! Poetry!
• Lancer vs. Dragon: Vaggie and Lute end up pairing up to fight near the end of the battle, settling their rivalry established when Lute expelled Vaggie from the Exorcists.
• Leave the Two Lovebirds Alone: When Sir Pentious goes to talk to Cherri Bomb the night before the finale battle, the other Hotel residents give him some space.
• Left Stuck After Attack: Lute lunges at Vaggie with her sword but misses, the blade plunging into the wall that was behind Vaggie. Rather than try to pull it out, Lute opts to go after Vaggie with her bare hands.
• Let's Get Dangerous!:
  • After 7 episodes of being a comical Butt-Monkey, Sir Pentious takes control of his blimp and, in the first scene where he's framed as genuinely threatening, attacks Adam head on with his death ray. At which point Adam casually disintergrates him and his blimp with an offhand gesture.
  • After Sir Pentious is killed by Adam, the usually cheerful and kindhearted Charlie transforms into her full demon form out of grief and rage, and is deadly serious during her fight with the Exorcists' leader—stabbing him in the shoulder with her pitchfork, snapping at him to address her by her proper title, and levelling a Death Glare at him the entire time.
  • During their fight, Adam initially doesn’t take Charlie seriously until she manages to stab him with her pitchfork. After getting over his shock at being injured for the very first time in his afterlife, Adam drops his goofball attitude. He gives Charlie his complete and undivided attention, hissing out a gleeful "Okay..." before charging her.
  • When Adam tries to attack Charlie in front of him, the normally laid-back and goofy Lucifer backhands Adam into the ground, transforms into his full demon form, and pummels Adam's face in while furiously berating him and laughing maniacally.
• Life-or-Limb Decision: Downplayed, as her life isn't actually in danger, due to Vaggie choosing deliberately to spare her as Cruel Mercy, but Lute tears off her left arm to free herself from the rubble Vaggie dropped on her and continue fighting. It serves to demonstrate her fanatical commitment to killing sinners more than anything.
• Literal-Minded: Niffty is handed a dagger and told to stab any angel she sees. She immediately looks at Angel Dust and tries to do as ordered, so Charlie has to clarify things. Even then, Niffty doesn't get that the intended targets are living angels, as she goes around stabbing fallen corpses until Adam makes the unfortunate mistake of getting close enough to be a reachable target.
• Loophole Abuse:
  • Implied to be how Lucifer was able to pull a Big Damn Heroes. The deal between him and Heaven about the extermination was that only Sinners could be targeted and that any and all Hellborn were off limits. Adam attacking Charlie violates this deal, freeing Lucifer up to protect his daughter and her friends.
  • In the wake of his near-death at Adam’s hands, Alastor is more determined than ever to find a potential loophole in whatever deal he struck with whoever’s now holding his leash.
• Lousy Lovers Are Losers: If Lucifer's comments and gestures in the final battle are accurate, Lilith and Eve both preferred Lucifer's efforts in bed far more than Adam's. Given his usual temperament, it's no surprise Adam would be a selfish and lousy lover.
• Love Confession:
  • Charlie and Vaggie declare their love for each other during "More Than Anything (Reprise)", which is also the first time the audience sees them doing so.
    Vaggie: You've already done so much, so many lives you've changed, so many souls you've touched
    And in the end, if it's only me you've saved,
    Charlie & Vaggie: There's something that I've been dying to say
    More than anything (×2)
    Need you to know I love you more than anything
    More than anything
  • After trying and failing to confess his feelings to Cherri Bomb the night before the battle, Sir Pentious ends up giving her a Now-or-Never Kiss and love confession before rushing off to take on Adam.
    Sir Pentious: Miss Cherri Bomb, I love you! Remember me!
• Meaningful Background Event: When Alastor is surveying the Hotel residents from the upper floor, Sir Pentious can be seen conversing with Charlie before blushing and Charlie reacts with extreme glee. Pentious probably told her about his crush on Cherri Bomb, which leads directly into the next scene of him trying to confess to her.
• Meeting at Eye Level: Lucifer starts his verse in "Finale" by kneeling down on the ground in the midst of the rubble of the Hazbin Hotel to meet his devastated daughter eye-to-eye and sing about all the good she's helped to accomplish in Hell. He stands up later on, but even then, he has a shot of him gently grabbing his daughter by the chin to turn her downtrodden gaze over to his hopeful gaze.
• Menacing Hand Shot: After Lute kicks Vaggie off of her and into a vase, there's a brief shot of Lute's hilt coming into the foreground and the focus shifting to it.
• Mercy Backfire: After one last attempt on Lucifer and Charlie's life goes wrong, Adam gets pimpslapped into the ground and beaten bloody by a righteously-angry Lucifer; the only reason he isn't incinerated with holy fire is because Charlie talks her father down. Like with Lute, this doesn't pan out, because Adam rises up and growls about how the Sinners should be worshipping him ("All of mankind came from these fucking nuts!"), but can't do anything more because Niffty shoves an angelic knife through his back. And then keeps on stabbing him after he's dead.
• Moment Killer: Charlie's pre-battle Rousing Speech is cut off by Niffty cackling that they're all going to die. The music cuts out and everyone is left staring at her.
  Charlie: And we are—we are going to win! But… in case we don't, I want you all to know... that getting to know you has been the biggest honor of my life. Whatever redemption really means, I know you all tried. I have seen the good in all of you. And it's… I—I'm just… I love you all, so much, and… and live tonight however you want because—
  Niffty: We're all gonna die! [cackles]
• Monochromatic Impact Shot: The shot of Lute tearing her arm off to escape from the hotel's rubble is rendered as her black silhouette against a red backdrop with a cascade of bright golden ichor from her arm.
• Mood Lighting: When Charlie is in despair in front of Angel's door, she's mostly surrounded by cool, shadowed purples and dark reds. As Vaggie lovingly sings to her and lifts her spirits, she pulls Charlie toward the light and the surrounding colors shift to soft, warm golds and pinks.
• Mood Whiplash: Niffty comedically stabbing Adam repeatedly while laughing like a maniac is immediately followed by Lute's horrified reaction and trying to comfort him in his final moments.
• Mythology Gag:
  • Sir Pentious refers to Vaggie as "Vagatha", which was what Vaggie was short for in the pilot. Vaggie corrects him saying it's not her name.
  • When Charlie catches Adam's punch with one hand, said hand heavily resembles the one from an earlier design.
  • Alastor introduces himself to Adam by saying "Pleasure to be meeting you, sir, quite a pleasure" in the exact same way he introduced himself to Charlie in the pilot and how he introduced himself to Lucifer earlier in the season.
• Neck Lift: Adam lifts Charlie by her neck when he's getting ready to execute her before Lucifer's intervention.
• Negated Moment of Awesome: Sir Pentious' attempt at shooting Adam down has a lot of dramatic buildup, but ends in a rather quick, unimpressive death for him.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!: Vaggie spares Lute as a form of Cruel Mercy, so when Niffty kills Adam, Lute becomes the new leader of the Exorcists. With Adam dead, she threatens to rescind Lilith's deal with Adam unless Lilith does something to stop Charlie and her hotel.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain!: Adam ends up screwing himself over three times during the Extermination.
  • First, him vaporizing Sir Pentious during the latter's Heroic Sacrifice allows Pentious to ascend to Heaven as a Winner, much to Pentious' own shock, proving that redeeming Sinners is possible.
    Adam: Phew! That could have been ugly.
  • Second, him attacking the Hotel in the first place, as targeting Charlie breaks his agreement to only harm sinners, thus giving Lucifer a reason to interfere.
  • Finally, him announcing that he was attacking the Hotel first gave everyone a specific area to gather, whereas a widespread attack like the previous purges would have been harder to defend against.
• Nightmare Face: After being a goofy Bumbling Dad for most of his screentime, Lucifer grows horns and red splotches on his face when Adam tries to hit Charlie in front of him. This shows how Lucifer has finally gotten serious as he beats Adam into the floor and prepares to destroy him with a Holy Hand Grenade before Charlie stops him.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: When Adam triggers Lucifer's paternal rage, Lucifer pummels him in the face with flaming fists, knocking blood from his mouth. By the time Charlie tells Lucifer to stop it, Adam's left lying brokenly on the ground with blood splattered around his head.
• Nonchalant Dodge: Alastor dodges some of Adam's swings by casually leaning or stepping away while bantering.
• Noodle Incident: Angel has apparently "fucked one cannibal poolboy" in the past.
• Not Bad: Katie Killjoy congratulates Charlie and the Hazbin Hotel for "not being totally fuckin' useless for once".
• Not Worth Killing: Vaggie spares Lute to rub her failure in her face. Lute doesn't learn the lesson.
• Nothing Is the Same Anymore: Oh boy, where do we even begin?
  • For the first time, not only is the Extermination in Hell cancelled because of Adam’s death, but a Sinner officially becomes the first Ascended Demon because they made an Heroic Sacrifice, meaning that Charlie’s plan to redeem damned souls actually could work, just not in the way everyone expects, and that Heaven (mostly Sera) must face the consequences of their controversial yearly genocide against Earthborn demons.
  • The Hazbin Hotel is rebuilt into a bigger, greater version of itself thanks to Lucifer, Charlie and her friends, who are no longer viewed as a laughingstock from the citizens of the Pride Ring for trying to seek redemption, but instead hailed as heroes.
• "Not How I'm Dying" Declaration: Alastor fights and is defeated by Adam, with him barely escaping the battle alive. Later in the song "Finale", he expresses his anger that, after spending almost a century building up his reputation, he came so close to dying in what all of Hell would perceive as a Heroic Sacrifice.
  "'Great Alastor, altruist, died for his friends'?
  Sorry to disappoint — that is not where this ends!"
• Now, Let Me Carry You: Charlie loses hope in the hotel, but all of her friends (including notably, her previously unsupportive father) come together to encourage her and help her rally her spirit — after a season of her showing them unconditional support.
• Now-or-Never Kiss: Sir Pentious confesses his feelings for Cherri Bomb and passionately kisses her before he goes to sacrifice himself against Adam.
  Pentious: Ms. Cherri Bomb, I love you! REMEMBER MEEEEEEEEEE!
• Oh, Crap!:
  • The defenders of the Hotel are horrified when Adam breaks Alastor's magic shield, which was keeping the Exorcists from overwhelming them.
  • Alastor is caught off guard when he realizes Adam has broken his staff and he's a sitting duck for the angel. To punctuate this, the radio static in his voice goes away and he can only let out a "Ffffuck".
  • Valentino's expression reeks of this trope after witnessing Niffty shank Adam from behind. He likely realized he got off easy back when Niffty tore off a piece of his fur in "Welcome to Heaven".
  • Sera is clearly aghast when she sees that Sir Pentious has successfully been redeemed and ascended to Heaven, since it means that Charlie was right and that now Sera is directly responsible for instigating, condoning and perpetuating genocide against the sinners unnecessarily, right on the heels of Heaven's army suffering its first ever defeat and Lucifer himself taking a personal interest in affairs with Heaven after years of malaise.
• OOC Is Serious Business:
  • When Adam breaks his microphone-staff, the radio static in Alastor's voice briefly goes away and he can only let out a "Fffuck" before Adam lands a blow on him. Additionally, while he's still smiling after the attack, his shadow briefly frowns before regaining its composure.
  • After limping away to his studio, Alastor has a breakdown, and it's very clear, even though he's smiling, he's shaken by events and, more frighteningly, terrified of who has his soul on a leash.
  • After Adam is stabbed by Niffty, Lute completely drops her stoic demeanor and lets out a scream of anguish. She also calls him by his name, "Adam", rather than "Sir" like she always did prior.
• One-Hit Kill: Adam kills Sir Pentious and the Egg Boiz with a single blast from his Wave-Motion Gun.
• One-Winged Angel:
  • Charlie finally enters her full demonic form, enraged by the apparent death of Sir Pentious. It's implied that she might have an even more monstrous form during her Punch Catch with Adam.
  • Razzle and Dazzle are revealed to have massive, draconic forms that they enter at Charlie's command.
  • Lucifer is shown to possess a demonic form similar to Charlie's when he becomes infuriated by Adam trying to kill Charlie directly in front of him.
• Papa Wolf: Lucifer becomes absolutely enraged when Adam tries to kill Charlie in front of him, in violation of the extermination contract's rule that the Exorcists could only kill Sinners and not Hellborn demons. He transforms into a One-Winged Angel form and nearly beats Adam to death with his bare hands before Charlie tells him Adam has had enough.
  Lucifer: (angrily to Adam) You come at me and MY DAUGHTER?!!! (starts punching Adam in the face many times) DON'T FORGET: YOU'RE IN MY HOUSE, BITCH!!!!
• Pass the Popcorn: Instead of rooting for the Hotel (even though they could be next if the defense fails), Vox is excited to see them hopefully get killed, and uses his Sinister Surveillance to watch "the show". The other Vees apathetically join in, along with the popcorn.
• Pelvic Thrust:
  • Lucifer taunts Adam about Lilith and Eve not hating what he had to offer them, following it up with a couple pelvic thrusts and a Bow Chicka Wow Wow to make the innuendo clear. While his hips don't move much, he makes up for it with accompanying arm thrusts.
  • When Vox sees Alastor about to face off against Adam, he leaps up from the couch and yells that he is "so hard right now", punctuating the statement with pelvic thrusts. To Velvette's dismay, this is done in her direction.
• Pet the Dog: Katie Killjoy actually shows a semblance of respect for Charlie and the crew for forcing the Exorcists to retreat, albeit by calling Charlie and her crew "not totally fucking useless" as she does so. During the fight, Angel Dust also goes out of his way to help an Egg Boi that's cornered by an Exorcist.
• Platonic Declaration of Love: During Charlie's pre-battle speech, she tells everyone that she loves them in case they don't make it.
  Charlie: I want you all to know... that getting to know you has been the biggest honor of my life. Whatever redemption really means, I know you all tried. I have seen the good in all of you. And it's… I—I'm just… I love you all, so much[.]
• Power Glows: Adam and Lucifer have a shining outline when they fight that shows them using angelic power at full force.
• Power Incontinence: Downplayed. After Adam breaks his staff and wounds him, Alastor is shaken enough that his eyes flicker between his typical Red Eyes, Take Warning and the Black Eyes of Crazy of his full demon form, including a brief shot with one normal eye and one transformed eye, before he decides to bail out.
• The Power of Friendship: A brief verse of "Finale" demonstrates that even after the destruction of the first Hazbin Hotel and the loss of Sir Pentious, Charlie has managed to win the day with the help of her Sinner friends whom merely six months ago mocked her as a Wide-Eyed Idealist and are now more than willing to help her pursue her goals.
  Ensemble: We can do this, we can build it, best Hotel that you've ever seen
  Twice the bedrooms, we can fill it
  Lucifer: With more Sinners than you can dream
  Lucifer & Vaggie: It starts with you,
  Lucifer, Vaggie & Angel Dust: You know it's true,
  Everyone: Fulfill your destiny!
  Charlie: [tearing up] So long as I've got all of you with me!
• P.O.V. Cam: When Lute has Vaggie pinned with her own spear, Vaggie looks up and there's a brief shot from her perspective as she notices the precariously settled rubble overhead.
• Pre-Asskicking One-Liner:
  • Alastor gets a couple shots in before he and Adam kick their battle off, though Alastor's bark is worse than his bite in this case.
    Alastor: Adam. First man, next to die.
    Adam: Who the fuck are you?
    Alastor: Alastor. Pleasure to be meeting you. Quite a pleasure. I'm about to end your fucking life!
  • Adam winds up immediately retorting with one of his own:
    Adam: Nice "voice". Don't you know Jazz is for PUSSIES!?
  • Played for Laughs when Lucifer enters the field to fight Adam and announces that he's going to "fuck [him]", leading to everyone around him get confused at what he said to Adam, with Charlie correcting him that the actual expression is "fuck you up".
    Adam: Okay, seriously! How many of you freaks do I have to fight?!
    Lucifer: Oh, I'm the only one that matters. See, you messed up with my daughter, and now I am going to FUCK YOU!
    [Adam, the Hotel members, the Exorcists and the Vees all stare perplexed at what Lucifer said, while Angel Dust and Valentino remark at his line]
    Valentino: Well, this just got interesting.
    Charlie: It's fuck you up, Dad.
    Lucifer: ...Wait, what did I say?
• Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Subverted twice with Adam.
  • Adam spouts a line right before nearly killing Alastor that seems like it would set this up, but Alastor manages to escape via dissipating into shadow before Adam can deal a Coup de Grâce to him.
    Adam: I'm gonna wipe that shit-eating grin off your face, because RADIO IS FUCKIN' DEAD!
    [...]
    Alastor: [extremely bloodied] Have to disagree with you there!...Radio's not dead, but it is ending this broadcast.
  • Later, Adam knocks Charlie down and tries to finish her off right her and there, claiming that "it's [her] time to die with [the Sinners]", complete with his mask glitching menacingly at the line, only for Lucifer to appear and abruptly punch him out of the way.
    Adam: This fight was cute n'all, but it's time to die with the rest of them!
    [Adam loses his grasp on Charlie when Lucifer suddenly appears to punch him in the face]
    Adam: Okay, seriously! How many of you freaks do I have to fight?!
• Punch Catch: When Charlie sees Adam attempt a sneak attack on Lucifer, her arm suddenly glows and transforms into a large red-colored talon, and she's able to catch Adam's punch easily, showing that she's hiding a lot more power than even she may be aware of.
• Pyrrhic Victory: Subverted—Charlie feels that the end result was one, with the exorcists driven off but Alastor missing, Sir Pentious and Dazzle dead, and the hotel reduced to a pile of rubble. She blames herself for it having to come to violence, feeling that the carnage could have been avoided if she had done a better job at convincing Heaven to listen to her. But in spite of everything, her dad and her friends encourage her to keep following her dream of redeeming sinners and rebuild the hotel, which they do, even bigger and grander than before. And it turns out Sir Pentious was not rendered Deader than Dead after all, but actually ascended to Heaven.
• Rage Breaking Point: Throughout the season, Charlie has been holding back her full demon powers, and at the beginning of the battle, she still holds back and fights with a shield. But when Adam kills Sir Pentious, who was attempting a Heroic Sacrifice to take him down, Charlie is devastated by his death and immediately goes full demon mode, summoning a trident to fight and transforming Razzle and Dazzle into their true forms.
• Rank Scales with Asskicking: As the leader of the Exorcists, despite it being pointed out that they never had to fight seriously before, Adam has enough raw power to force even someone like Alastor to flee. It takes Lucifer, a far more powerful angel, to stop him.
• Rapid-Fire "No!": When Charlie becomes overwhelmed after Sir Pentious' death.
• Redemption Earns Life: After being killed by Adam in an Heroic Sacrifice, instead of being Deader than Dead, Sir Pentious ascends to Heaven as the first redeemed soul from Hell.
• Removed from the Picture: When Vox throws a knife at a photo of Alastor, part of Vox's own head can be seen at the torn edge, a rare case of the "removed" side of the equation being used instead of the kept side.
• The Reveal:
  • We see Adam's real face under his mask before he dies.
  • Lilith isn't in Hell at all. She's in somewhere that looks like Heaven, and made some sort of bargain with Adam that is now void due to his death.
  • It is possible to redeem Sinners, with Sir Pentious ascending to Heaven after his Heroic Sacrifice.
• Rhetorical Question Blunder: When Sir Pentious grabs Cherri while she's in pitched battle, she asks if he's out of his mind. He swiftly retorts "yes" and deeply kisses her.
• Ridiculously Fast Construction: The Hazbin Hotel crew manage to rebuild the hotel in what seems like a matter of mere hours.
• Rousing Speech: The night before the battle, as everyone prepares to face the overwhelming forces of Heaven, Charlie steps up and gives a speech expressing confidence in their ability to win.
• Save the Villain: Charlie stops her dad from finishing off Adam. However, this trope gets promptly stopped in its tracks when Niffty makes use of Adam's highly damaged condition to stab in him in the back, killing him off.
• Screw the Rules, They Broke Them First!: Adam hurting Charlie means that Heaven broke their deal to leave the hellborn alone during exterminations, which means Lucifer now has free reign to show up and pummel him into oblivion.
• Screw the War, We're Partying: The night before Extermination Day, Charlie lets the Hotel occupants have one last night of debauchery living as they want to live before the big battle, in case they die the following day. Despite that, it's actually pretty subdued and mostly consists of casual drinks between friends.
• Sequel Hook:
  • The Vees, having watched Alastor get injured in the battle, think they now have a chance to push him out for good.
  • Alastor is now determined to break the deal he's been soul-bound to, with the further implication that he schemes to pull off an endgame plan on Hell once he's broken free from the deal.
  • Sir Pentious becomes the first sinner to ascend to Heaven in front of Sera and Emily, who learn that Charlie is right about sinners being redeemable.
  • Lute confronts Charlie's Missing Mom, Lilith on a beach to inform her that Adam is dead, whatever deal she made with him is null and void, and that her daughter is a threat to Heaven, ordering her to act against Charlie and the hotel crew.
• Shipper on Deck: Angel and Charlie both seem to be for Pentious and Cherri, with Angel outright trying to play Wingman. Charlie can be seen in the background of Pentious's first attempt at a love confession looking excited by the interaction before being dragged away by Vaggie, complete with random hearts floating around her.
• Shout-Out: While rebuilding the Hotel, Lucifer wields KeeKee like a Keyblade and uses her to conjure building material out of light.
• Shut Up, Hannibal!: While Adam mocks her for believing that Sinners are redeemable and demeans her as a girl, Charlie quickly strikes back.
  Adam: (mockingly) "These sinners are my family"! Do you even hear yourself? You should've stayed in your place, girlie-
  [Charlie stabs him in the arm with her pitchfork]
  Charlie: That's Princess of Hell to you, pig!
• Sinister Surveillance: Vox and the other Vees use a drone to spy on the Hotel during the preparations and before the battle.
• Sole Survivor: Only one Egg Boi is left alive after the rest of the Egg Bois were either killed by the Exorcists or killed by Adam in the blimp with Sir Pentious.
• Some Kind of Force Field: Alastor surrounds the Hotel with a barrier that splits the Exorcists and makes it easier to deal with those who are inside, as well as sprouting tentacles wielding holy weapons to attack the ones outside. Lute feels like pointing it out to Adam's frustration. The shield breaks when Adam punches it.
• So Proud of You:
  • During Charlie's pre-battle speech, she tells everyone how proud she is of them and their efforts.
    Charlie: I want you all to know... that getting to know you has been the biggest honor of my life. Whatever redemption really means, I know you all tried. I have seen the good in all of you.
  • Husk takes stock of how different Angel Dust has become from the perpetually horny, coke-addled misanthrope with no respect for Husk's personal space he was at the start of the season:
    Husk: Last day of afterlife, and you're not off snorting a line off some hunk's abs?
    Angel: Eh, you've fucked one cannibal poolboy, you've fucked 'em all.
    Husk: [smiling] I guess you have changed.
• Sore Loser: Lute after the Exorcists retreat to Heaven. Instead of taking even a moment to get medical aid for her missing limb, Lute immediately starts doing everything she can to hurt Charlie back by blackmailing her own mother to turn on her daughter.
• Spin to Deflect Stuff: Adam spins his guitar with one hand to shield himself against one of Alastor's Tendrils of Darkness.
• Split Screen: When Lute and Vaggie prepare to face off, the screen divides into two, with the left part focusing on Lute and the right on Vaggie.
• Stab the Picture: As Vox is singing about how the Overlords have been weakened, he tosses a knife at a torn photo of Alastor, with a bit of Vox's head visible on the torn edge.
• Stock Sound Effects:
  • When Vaggie and Lute square off and lunge at each other, a fight bell dings.
  • When Charlie suddenly develops a Red Right Hand to Punch Catch Adam's attack, a puma shriek punctuates red Tainted Veins spreading down her affected arm.
  • When Lucifer faces down Adam and declares his attention to "fuck him", a duck quack is heard to underline just how awkward that sounds. Charlie quickly corrects Lucifer, saying the proper phrase is "fuck him up".
• Strange Minds Think Alike: Angel Dust and Valentino look amused at Lucifer's proclamations to fuck Adam (up).
• Stunned Silence: After Lucifer states how he's going to "fuck you [Adam]" (he meant "fuck you up", but phrased it wrong), everyone reacts in utter silence.
• Stylish Sunhats: Lilith is wearing a sunhat while relaxing on the beach when Lute comes to meet her, giving her an aura of opulence.
• Suddenly Shouting: Inverted. Following Adam's death, Lucifer menacingly gives Lute one last ultimatum to back down her army and get out of his sight...before quickly adding a polite and cheerful "please".
• Superman Stays Out of Gotham: Justified with Lucifer for most of the siege. Even with his daughter at ground zero of the latest Extermination, Lucifer’s hands are tied because of the compact with Heaven. It’s only once Adam attacks Charlie directly and violates the restriction against harming Hellborns that Lucifer can finally openly intervene.
• Sympathy for the Devil: Charlie feels sorry for Adam after Lucifer gives him a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown and is about to kill him. During Adam's breakdown shortly after she shows a look of pity towards him.
  Charlie: Woah, woah dad- he's had enough.
• Tempting Fate: Sir Pentious makes some comments about hoping not to die tomorrow the night before the final battle, where he ends up making a Heroic Sacrifice. He manages to ascend to Heaven in the process, but still.
• Tender Tears: Combined with Tears of Fear, Charlie cries when she’s in front of Angel's door, touched by the friendships made, but also scared about the possibility of losing the battle.
• That Came Out Wrong: After Lucifer arrives to the battle to fight Adam, he tells him "I am going to fuck you", leaving everyone looking shocked and confused at what he said, with Angel and Valentino finding it interesting. Charlie has to correct him that it's "fuck you up".
• They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!: Charlie, who generally disdains her full given name let alone her title, finally demands to be addressed by her title during her final confrontation with Adam.
  Adam: You shoulda stayed in your place, girlie.
  Charlie: (stabs Adam with a pitchfork) That's Princess of Hell to you, PIG.
• They Look Just Like Everyone Else!: We finally see Adam without his mask, and he looks like just an average guy despite his mass-murdering tendencies.
• This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!: Adam inflames Lucifer's paternal instincts when the angel tries to punch Charlie in front of him. Lucifer is instantly on top of a helpless Adam and expresses his rage via No-Holds-Barred Beatdown while calling him a bitch.
  Lucifer: [Voice of the Legion] You come after me and my daughter?! Don't forget, you're in my house, bitch! Hahahaha!
  Charlie: Whoa, whoa, Dad. He's had enough.
  Lucifer: [flies out of the crater with Charlie, to Adam] How's mercy taste you little bitch?
• Thou Shalt Not Kill: While Charlie has accepted that killing the Exorcists is necessary in a warzone, she personally doesn't kill anyone. Charlie wields a shield, throws (non-lethal) sparkles on the angels to distract them instead of damaging them, and convinces her father to spare Adam after his beatdown.
• Throw the Dog a Bone: After spending the entire series as a Butt-Monkey, Pentious not only gets to kiss Cherri, his Heroic Sacrifice gets him straight to heaven.
• Title Drop: The episode's title is spoken aloud near the end during "Finale", and comes in the form of Lucifer reassuring his daughter that she and her friends made a difference.
  Lucifer: The stage is wrecked, the crowd is gone, but by God, Charlie! The show, it must go on!
• Trash the Set: The Hazbin Hotel is destroyed by the end of the battle, cleaved in half by a skyscraper-sized beam of holy light. However, it's later rebuilt bigger and better than before.
• Triumphant Reprise: The final song is an uplifting reprise of "Happy Day in Hell" about rebuilding the hotel better than ever.
• Tropical Epilogue: The final scene in the episode shows Lilith lounging on a beach somewhere in Heaven.
• A Truce While We Gawk: After Lucifer arrives to the battle to fight Adam, he tells Adam "I am going to fuck you". The moment he says that, the battle comes to a temporary halt so everyone can react to his statement with shock and confusion. Charlie even has enough time to correct Lucifer, who blankly asks "Wait, what did I say?", and then the fight resumes when Adam attacks him.
• Twirl of Love: At the end of "Finale", Charlie picks up Vaggie in a hug and twirls her around.
• Undignified Death:
  • Sir Pentious appears to be gearing up to a badass moment, firing up his war machine to shoot Adam. Adam simply vaporizes him in an instant.
  • For a millennia-old immortal and powerful Exorcist, Adam's end isn't exactly grandiose. In the end, it's not Charlie, or Alastor, or even Lucifer himself that does Adam in. It's freakin' Niffty (most likely the weakest of the main cast), who stabs him many times In the Back while he's in the middle of a Villainous Breakdown after getting his ass kicked beforehand.
• Ungrateful Bastard:
  • Vaggie spares Lute as a form of Cruel Mercy, but Lute is so driven by her hatred that she rips her own arm off to continue fighting rather than accept any form of mercy.
  • After Charlie convinces her father to spare Adam, Adam has no gratitude for her, and goes on an unhinged rant about how they can't treat him like this.
• Unholy Matrimony: After being hinted in non-canon material, this episode confirms that Valentino and Vox are in a relationship, with them having a romantic dance together during "Finale".
• The Un-Reveal: In his part of "Finale", Alastor confirms Husk's claim back in "Dad Beat Dad" that he's indeed under the soul-binding control of another character, and is desperate to undo it, but who he made a deal with and what exactly are they forcing him to do is still a complete mystery.
• Unskilled, but Strong:
  • Adam's raw power dwarfs everyone else's, sans Lucifer, but he has no skill, and his only strategy is Attack! Attack! Attack!. Alastor is able to hold out for longer than most just by simply dodging and weaving then attacking the openings, and probably could have won if he'd used holy weaponry. Adam only gets the better of him through a Sword Beam that Alastor can't dodge.
  • Despite being one of the most powerful entities in Hell, Charlie's lack of combat experience and Willfully Weak mindset hinder her battles against the Exorcists, putting her on the losing end in her battle against Adam because she doesn't have the same killer mindset. Nonetheless, Charlie's strength is unparalleled and second only to her parents. She demonstrates her might by making Adam bleed and absorbing his full-powered surprise punch without any negative repercussions.
• Use Their Own Weapon Against Them: Lute stabs Vaggie through the hand with her own spear.
• Villain: Exit, Stage Left: Alastor flees after Adam injures him, leaving everyone in a more vulnerable position with no one strong enough to take on Adam until Lucifer arrives.
• Villain Respect: While the other Vees watch in Stunned Silence, Vox lets out an impressed and surprised "Holy shit!" when Niffty viciously stabs Adam, the Leader of the Exorcists, to death.
• Villainous Breakdown: After a pummeling by Lucifer that breaks his mask, Adam is reduced to ranting at how he's not someone to be shown "mercy". This distracts him enough for Niffty to stab him In the Back.
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: For most of the battle, Charlie is an Apologetic Attacker using a Shield Bash to push the attackers back. Then, after some Exorcists go after Vaggie, she's shouting "die motherfuckers" and blasting them with her magic.
• Visual Pun:
  • It's revealed that Adam's guitar doubles as a battle axe.
  • Katie Killjoy breaks her own neck while announcing "breaking news".
• Voice of the Legion: Lucifer, when he starts fighting Adam seriously, until Charlie calms him down. He gets it briefly again when telling Lute to "take your little friends, and GO HOME. Please."
• Wave-Motion Gun:
  • Sir Pentious' Dread Zeppelin is revealed to be equipped with an energy cannon that he tries to use on Adam... only for Adam to reflexively obliterate the blimp just before he can fire it. Adam notes that it could've been bad if he had let it fire.
  • Adam is able to use his Light 'em Up powers to create a column of light so big and powerful it cuts the hotel in half along with the cliff the hotel is situated upon.
• Weak, but Skilled: This is how Alastor lasts for as long as he does against Adam despite the power level disparity between them. While Adam is far more powerful, he also personifies Carmilla's commentary to Vaggie last episode about the sloppiness of the Exorcist fighting style. As an accomplished serial killer, Alastor by contrast is much more surgical and creative with his own fighting technique. However, Alastor’s skills and creativity ultimately can only compensate up to a point; when a frustrated Adam resorts to sheer raw power, all it takes is one lucky shot for things to instantly go downhill for the Radio Demon.
• Wham Episode: The biggest one in the series so far. The Annual Extermination is halted for the first time ever, with Lute losing an arm and Adam being Killed Off for Real in the process. Sir Pentious performs a Heroic Sacrifice and ascends to Heaven right in front of Sera and Emily, definitively proving that it's possible for sinners to be redeemed. Finally, Lilith is revealed to have been hiding out in somewhere that certainly LOOKS like Heaven following a deal with Adam - the details of which are unclear - and at Lute's insistence, may be getting directly involved in the story going forward.
• Wham Line: The final scene of this episode, and the season as a whole, is Lute approaching a blonde-haired woman on a beach that looks like it's in Heaven, tossing Adam's bloody halo at her feet before we get this bombshell:
  Lute: Adam is dead. Your deal is done. And I'M in charge now. Your brat is threatening the very foundation of Heaven. And if you want to stay here, you're going down there and stopping that bitch. You understand me... Lilith?
• Wham Shot:
  • While Alastor is fighting Adam, his microphone breaks when the latter lands a lucky hit, showing that even though he's a strong and strategic fighter, he's still no match for a much more powerful being like the angel Adam.
  • After all is said and done and the Hotel is rebuilt even bigger and better than before, we very abruptly get a scene which completely changes everything previously thought and understood that acts as a gigantic season cliffhanger: Sir Pentious appearing before Emily and Sera as a Winner. Not only is Pentious not Deader than Dead, he managed to get into Heaven.
• The Worf Effect: Alastor has long been established as The Dreaded and a nigh-unstoppable dreadnought amongst the Sinners. Emphasis on Sinners, as Adam, despite a rough start, defeats him without much trouble and wounds him pretty badly, forcing Alastor to flee and establishing Adam as a genuine threat. Adam himself is on the receiving end when Lucifer joins the battle.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: "Finale" starts with Charlie in a Heroic BSoD, with her mourning the death of Sir Pentious and destruction of the Hazbin Hotel, feeling she let everybody down due to her failure to convince Heaven to work with Hell. Lucifer and all of her friends, however, almost immediately lift her spirits by saying she's the first one to try to change anything and she still has the full support of everyone, and they all pitch in to help her rebuild the hotel bigger and better than ever.
• You Fight Like a Cow: Alastor heavily chides Adam's Unskilled, but Strong fighting style during the back-and-forth banter in their one-on-one fight together.
  Adam: Ho ho! You think you're tough shit, huh?
  Alastor: Tougher than you. [laughter] You lack discipline, control, and worst?    YOU'RE SLOPPY.   
• You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: When Adam figures out that the Sinners are fighting back against the Exorcists with their own weapons, he calls it "weak".
• Your Little Dismissive Diminutive:
  • As Vox watches and laughs at the hotel's preparations, he addresses Alastor:
    Vox: Oh, looks like your little hotel didn't work out so well.
  • After the Exorcists are defeated, Lucifer tells Lute: "Take your little friends, and GO HOME!"
• Zerg Rush: Alastor weaponizes this against Adam, raising the Hotel shield right after the initial wave of Exorcists have already passed through the Heaven portal and begun the assault on the Hotel. The shield goes up so fast that the next inbound wave of Exorcists doesn’t realize what's happened and can’t veer off in time, resulting in multiple collusions and deaths from the shield’s angelic steel-augmented defensive countermeasures. Once Adam brings down the shield, however, the Zerg Rush resumes, and it doesn’t take long for the Hotel’s defenders and defenses to be overwhelmed by sheer numbers.