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Moments of Stupidity 3
Surely by now, people get the gist of this so one last quick reminder before I stop doing it - I'm deciding to list characters being stupid throughout Helluva Boss because I'm thinking it's an universe full of idiots and I'll be posting these episode by episode. Now here we go!
Spring Broken -
Blitz when first encountering Verosika, by not opening the door on his way out of the van. It's not often that people legit forget to open the car door before leaving the vehicle
All of the imps of I.M.P. for not knowing that they needed disguises when doing their jobs up in the human world. Yeah, it ultimately doesn't matter whether or not they're disguised - and I think I'll cover that in future Moments of Stupidity posts because, yeah, the fact that disguises don't matter rely on characters being stupid - but here, in this episode, it matters. So how the fuck did Blitz not know that a masquerade needed to be upheld if he's the one who started this business? One would think that, if there's supposed to be consequences for being careless, then Blitz would make sure that he wouldn't be careless and would learn about important facts like a masquerade needs to kept so that he doesn't get fucking caught. How the fuck did Moxxie not know, since it's supposed to be established that he's a brainy assassin and is a stickler for rules? And how did Millie not know, either, since it's probably basic common sense to know about the laws of your society so that you wouldn't get in trouble? (Then again, that one also applies to Blitz and Moxxie, I just needed something for Millie). And they still don't get disguises when they go to the beach. They're just incredibly lucky that a good chunk of humans were already drunk or panicking from the fish monster to really think about imps on the beach or just really stupid themselves
I don't think I'll count in Loona because she sounded like she thought everyone else already knew and thought they were more intelligent than they actually were. Plus, she's more apathetic to anything that's not her phone or her other interests so I'm not counting moments that continue the plot due to apathy. Maybe the most stupid Loona gets here is not thinking about how she could get in trouble for her adoptive dad being so careless and she should have remembered what kind of man Blitz is and should have doublechecked if things were, so to speak, up to code. Loona's had at least 5 years with Blitz so she should have learned a thing or two about him by this episode or even by the first episode of season 1
Okay, so Verosika's gotten the most stupid moments, although her crew and Vortex are in on it, too, despite not thinking or realizing they were. But let's start with Verosika's first and biggest stupid moment, which is starting up an orgy on a public beach. Seriously, it wasn't a private beach or even a nude one. It was an ordinary public beach. As a result, it got the attention of the police and apparently, by the sounds of it, Verosika and her crew had to do sexual favors to avoid getting in trouble. What makes the stupidity even more pronounced is that Verosika, Vortex, and the crew know that they needed disguises, so they gotten them. Unless this episode is legit their very first time in the human world, they should know that humans don't just have sex out in the damn open. Even then, this stupidity is probably still more pronounced because any demon going to the human world probably has to learn about the basics do's and don't's so that they wouldn't get in trouble. They looked like it was a surprise when the police came, too, so it's like, did they not even plan a quick getaway before they got caught? Geez...
Verosika's next moment of stupidity, tossing the demon juice bottle into the ocean. Again, unless it's the very first time it's happened, Verosika should have known better than to toss demon substances where anyone and any creature of the human world could get fucking mutated. And if they get mutated, then it's incredibly obvious evidence that demons have been there. Seriously, if there's anything smart that I.M.P. has always done, especially in regards to their business, it's killing their targets like how any other human would, which makes it harder to pin down on anything demonic should the murders get noticed. A freaking demonic kaiju-sized fish monster that was caused by the Beelzebub juice was even harder to dismiss as anything other than it came from Hell and Verosika should have expected that and so shouldn't just carelessly toss her hellish alcohol
Third moment of stupidity on Verosika's part, trying to blackmail Blitz about the fish monster being killed by Millie. Sure, it was luck that Millie found the bottle but she got prompted by Verosika to turn the blackmail around. It probably wouldn't have ended on a sour note for Verosika if she never tried to blackmail I.M.P. Even without that, I.M.P. likely could have still gotten the cubi in trouble with the police and use that as the blackmail
As for Verosika's crew and also Vortex, they were stupid for the same reasons as Verosika herself when it came to holding an orgy on an ordinary public beach. And they should have told their boss that the way they were going about it was stupid. The fact it still happened the way it did indicated that they never even tried telling Verosika that the execution was stupid
Millie and Moxxie for just going ahead and killing humans without Loona or even Blitz. I mean, they were relying on Loona to find all the targets so I'm assuming they didn't know. Blitz even asked at one point if some random guy was on the list. So Millie and Moxxie are just being fucking random in their kills and it makes it pointless when Moxxie brings up that they're not meant to massacre. yet that's exactly what he and his wife did when they took initiative
Finally, all the fucking humans in this episode. Sure, they were drunk, and that makes it lucky for I.M.P., but would someone really confuse an imp for a possum or a leprechaun? Also, were all the humans on the beach drunk? Is that why all the humans around who saw Moxxie just thought of him as a possum and why the random guy who saw Blitz thought he was a leprechaun? Also, would you be able to confuse an imp for a possum or a leprechaun if you were drunk? I legit don't know how it's like to be drunk so could that happen? (And seriously, it's so stupid, the leprechaun thing. Blitz doesn't even have a single trace of green on him! Possum is already one thing and it already sounds so stupid! But leprechaun? What about Blitz's design that could resemble that?)