#Crimson has nothing to him outside of his conflict with Moxxie. but then Moxxie wasn't even in this episode

[hellaverse-critical-confessions]

I’ve started to think a bit about why I don’t like Crimson as a character and an antagonist- and I think I’ve cracked part of it

Crimson basically has nothing going on, and in the story he basically functions to give bodies for the protags to throw around. He’s just an other shitty dad to give Moxxie trauma. What even are his goals? What does he want? What does he believe in?

Striker is way more interesting as a character and an antagonist because we know his beliefs and goals- he was paid to kill Stolas, and he hates hell royalty because he doesn’t believe they deserve everything that’s been handed to them and such. It’s very simple stuff but it works as a foundation, even if Viv hasn’t been good at writing his character out.

Crimson however, he’s basically nothing. You could say that he is motivated by his business/mafia, but we don’t really see that. He just drops in one episode without any prior set up or acknowledgment to try and marry Moxxie off for money. His motivation could be to try and maintain power by doing whatever it is possible, but again we don’t really *get* that.

In this new episode it just *really* feels like his only purpose is to fill a slot so they don’t have to make a new antagonist, shout a bunch, and have a bunch of henchmen to be killed.

honestly it could be interesting to build off of imps being lower class and not many running their own companies. That idea has kinda been dropped but it could have been worked into making Crimson and Blitz foils to each other or something. Just let Crimson be desperate to rise to some level of power and wealth that he’s willing to do anything to obtain it. Whether that be selling out his son or holding another imp hostage to blackmail a sin- idk there’s potential here!

Potential, yes. And unfortunately squandered one at that.

#confession #excellent points anon #Crimson has nothing to him outside of his conflict with Moxxie. but then Moxxie wasn't even in this episode #we could've had any random kidnapper fill in the role here and nothing would've changed #for the worse anyhow #helluva boss critical #crimson #the more I hear from anons and critical blogs the more I begin to realize that we should just be writing the show ourselves #like there's way more creativity in this community (and in the fandom too) than I keep seeing from canon itself #likely because we actually care about characters and concepts outside of Stolitz