I Love How Hazbin Hotel Consistently Portrays Alastor’s Biggest Strength As Not His Raw Power, But

I love how Hazbin Hotel consistently portrays Alastor’s biggest strength as not his raw power, but his mind. In Ork terms: Hez not Brutal an’ Cunnin’, but Cunnin’ an’ Brutal.

In stayed gone, Alastor doesn’t cause the power outage. Instead, he makes Vox so frustrated he does it himself.

In Husk’s flashback, it’s shown that Alastor didn’t beat him into submission- but forced him into a contract via a deal and a game.

In Scrambled Eggs, he doesn’t discount Frank (the egg boi) and uses him to covertly spy on them instead of using his possibly identifiable shadow magic.

And later he leverages the knowledge gained from Frank to get a deal with Charlie and possibly snap those strings of his.

Sure, he’s absurdly powerful as an overlord- but we’ve met characters far stronger than him. That’s not what makes him a threat. He’s a threat because he’s a cunning manipulator who’s startlingly good at reading people and using their wants and insecurities to his advantage.